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2020 Minor League Season Canceled
By Jeff Todd | June 30, 2020 at 4:00pm CDT
4:00pm: Minor League Baseball has formally announced the cancellation of its 2020 season.
12:15pm: The 2020 minor-league season will be canceled, according to a report from Baseball America's J.J. Cooper and Josh Norris. While widely expected, the news comes as a major blow to the minor-league teams and many young players who were hopeful of continuing to chase after a coveted MLB roster spot.
This was already shaping up to be a rough campaign for the minors long before the coronavirus was on anyone's radar. As 2019 came to a close, a tense and rather high-profile battle was already underway regarding MLB's plans for cutting down on the number of minor-league affiliates.
Minor League Baseball's effort to defend its member teams was greatly imperiled by the global pandemic. Public attention, for good reason, has been elsewhere. And minor-league teams have experienced a more-or-less complete halt to revenue.
A resumption of play might have helped. There were times when it seemed plausible, but any hope dissipated over recent weeks. Even as MLB and its players haggled over the terms for a big league resumption, a ramp-up of virus transmission in many parts of the United States served to increase the already great logistical challenges to a MiLB season.
We'll see how the broader picture turns out. For now, it's a rough situation for minors clubs that rely entirely upon in-person gameday revenue (and advertising associated with anticipated spectatorship).
The situation is obviously also detrimental to the players that are now sitting at home without a clear path to playing baseball in 2020. Some limited number of prospects — generally, those with clear paths to the majors — have been invited to participate in MLB summer camps and ongoing training. But those that weren't named to 60-man player pools will have to get creative.
There is a potential indie ball outlet, but that's not likely to provide many opportunities. The Baseball America team has reported that some players are participating in local amateur leagues, though the level of competition will obviously not be up to the typical standard. Fortunately, most MLB teams are committing at least to paying $400 weekly stipends to the minor-leaguers that are left in limbo. That's a help, but hardly a full solution for those players that were not already cut loose from their organizations.
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YankeesJames
Didn't realize this hadn't already been announced. Another loss for the more vulnerable people in baseball.
jorge78
It was never "official" but everyone knew it was coming…..
AstrosWS20
DarkSide830
not exactly a surprise. advantage to the winter leagues.
mlb next, count on it
hockeyjohn
Another step to the death of baseball. Rather than trying to build the game, they are making it harder to enjoy the game live. If they eliminate 40 + minor league teams, fewer people and families will be expose to the game of baseball. Very sad to see how they are killing the game.
this is just about this year. this would be a hard variable to deal with on top of the Majors and was bound to happen.
dugmet
Maybe. Savannah, GA, Sand Gnats relocated a number of years ago to Columbia, SC. Gnats were replaced by a summer college league and the Savannah Bananas. Fewer games, but attendance is pretty much the same per game. Local fans dont care players are not MiLB pros.
SoxRewl
More uniformity in minor leagues can only be a good thing. Right now the wealthier teams can afford more minor league affiliates, which makes the disparity in baseball only wider as they have more opportunity to develop players.
Reducing affiliated minor league teams would also allow for more independent baseball leagues to develop and take their place, so the available baseball won't even be reduced.
Keep buying their Kool-Aid. Each MLB team has one AAA, AA, Advanced A, Low A, and Short season A team. Any variation is with rookie league teams. In 2019 – the Yankees had 9 total minor league teams and the small market Indians had 8 and they shared a 9th team with the Brewers. The Yankees had 3 rookie league teams and 1 foreign rookie league team. The Indians had 2 rookie league teams and 2 (one shared with the Brewers) foreign rookie league team.. There is not enough difference to destroy minor league baseball for some communities.
There are 5 minor league teams and one independent team within 2 and a half hours of Cleveland. I have been to all five minor league parks and have yet to attend an independent game and have little interest to do so.
PalmaBoy
Money has ZERO to do with how many teams ML have at lower levels, ZERO!! They all have AZL and or GCL rookie teams, most have "short season" however it's not like a team can have multiple 2A or 3A teams. Most affiliates have zero to do with ML owners or clubs besides providing complex to play and usual game BS(lights, how dogs etc) most are independently owned and operated.
Cpwalsh@post.com
Problem with this though, is without any MLB affiliation only a small handful of teams will continue. This was an issue even before pandemic. No franchise $$ makes it really tough to pay for equip., facilities and hold fan interest.
ThemanofTruth
You should seriously stop posting.
You should seriously try posting something relevant to the topic at hand.
Vizionaire
send manfraud to north korea in exchange for any americans jailed there!
Nicks Nats
Manfred would ruin North Kores
keysox
Guys a clown. Get him a circus job in Montana. Never to here from in again.
oldleftylong
Put him on a remote island with Gary Bettman.
He could screw up the proverbial 2 car funeral.
14yearoldbaseballfanatic
And now it's official. My smattering hope of anything happening to change the decision is now wiped out.
fivetwos
Shortsightedness and greed can often be found near each other.
if this was about money then it would have been done in the past before there was a pandemic. this is about the virus.
Yes, this season not being played is due to the virus. MLB still plans to eliminate 40 or more minor league teams and reorganize and streamline the minor leagues.. If that happens, many regions of the country will not have baseball. How do you grow the game by eliminating teams and the constant war between the owners and the players.
oh i know that, im just saying that is independent of 2020 being cancelled, which the commenter seems to be suggesting.
Stevil
That was my first thought when talk first surfaced about cutting minor-league affiliates: How does that help the game? It would be counter-productive.
This will be tough to offset, but expansion could help. If they managed to create 4 new teams, there would be a need for 20 minor-league teams. The could take it a step further, though, and show the people that communities matter. Right now, I would imagine most people think that money is the lone focus.
I'd like to see expansion fees waived for at least 2 new teams and ownership/control given to organizations like the NAACP, SNCC, or even the ACLU. Conditionally, of course, so that the franchises couldn't be sold and the organizations must remain not-for-profit. All profit would have to go to community programs and back into the organization. That would be one way to show the people that baseball is indeed America's pastime–and present; grow the game.
Though MLB would miss out on the franchise fees, they'd still benefit from television rights, both for the regular season and expanded postseason, which would be a byproduct of all this.
Cue the snark and criticism. This may not be a perfect solution, but it could lead to something productive both on and off the field, and it was Ian Desmond's post that made me think about a way MLB could be proactive.
2020ball
The owners have clearly shown they value short term profit over long term profit and growing the games brand. Its disappointing but that was their choice.
Sorry I was a bit out of context here.
Minor leagues as we know are toast.
The current situation was a convenient way to get that done per owners.
Most of you know that.
forwhomjoshbelltolls
In a few years, there will only be a handful of minor league baseball or hockey teams left unless their parent leagues subsidize them.
Their business models BARELY worked before, now, they have little chance.
Again, unless MLB and the NHL are willing to lose money in order to maintain the development systems, which they will do if they can think with any sort of long term strategy.
MLB has shown almost no ability to do that. And the NHL has less resources even if they do.
Doesn't look good.
NY_Yankee
That is not true. There are developmental leagues like the OHL, WHL and the QMJHL for hockey ( plus college and overseas leagues like the Swedish elite league and KHL) Plus more and more American kids are choosing hockey. Baseball is a different animal I worry about it's future
True. The CHL and colleges and Euro leagues are free to the NHL. I meant the AHL, ECHL, etc.
Basically, I think you could see a 16 team AHL and the ECHL vanish entirely if the each team isn't willing to eat some cost to maintain their own minor league teams.
Toledo, Ohio has an ECHL franchise and the team is very healthy with many games sold out. I don't see the ECHL vanishing any time soon.
clepto
Maybe because there is nothing to do in Toledo?? Saw it written on a crapper wall once, and its makes sense. "Flush twice, its a long way to Toledo."
Either you eat out, go to jazz bars, eat hot dogs, or go to ECHL, or dodge the constant wind.
I am a New York Islanders fan. They have had for many years a minor league affiliate
In Bridgeport Connecticut and they will be okay.,
What part of model "barely" worked? You ever see a minor league teams financials? All make money! All!! Why do you think some of these minor league teams have expanded seating, built new stadiums etc. anyone who thinks milb teams are broke have no clue what they are talking about!! They ALL make money!! All
I really hope this is a poor attempt at sarcasm, palmboy. If not, you just won stupid comment of the day….even trumping Halo11 and that is extremely tough to do.
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Oh right, I forgot that in baseball they pay the players actual slave wages.
In minor league hockey, where the AHL pays a $65,000 minimum, it's a bit tighter.
I would hardly call $30k for 4 .5 months of work slave wages. Are you just a troll? Good by!
wild bill tetley
forwhom doesn't know what a job is, let alone having a second job in an offseason to earn extra income.
Salaries aren't what you seem to think they are.
https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/report-major-league-baseball-to-raise-minor-league-salaries-in-2021/
They'll go up in 2021, which is almost certainly a prelude to the next CBA negotiations.
I know I wouldn't trade mine for three of yours.
joefriday14
The worst news of the century. No Buffalo Bisons, Asheville Tourists or Olean Oilers. Impossible pressure for the people of America. Please call up Colton Welker to the Rockies so we can at least see him.
slowcurve
Asheville fan or just Rockies? I live in AVL. Bummed no Tourists this year. But I'm playing in a semi-pro bush league, so I'm getting my baseball fix.
tigerdoc616
Sad, but something we all knew. We were just waiting for it to be official.
bkbk
Does anyone know what it would cost for MLB to prop up miLB for one season in total?
shortytallz
18 quadrillion pesos.
Really bad news for the rebuilding clubs especially. A lost seasons slows the development process. But bad news all around.
baseball1010
Rhetorical question. MLB runs baseball from top to bottom. If the top can play and the same owners say the bottom can't will minors leaguers become free agents? Can they go to the National Association and file a grievance? They are not receiving the correct salary only a stipend!
No because all constructs state league can suspend without pay at anytime, while your stuck since no other team can hire you
They need to unionize. Plain and simple.
Ducey
You want to kill something, unionize it.
exactly, instead we should just let owners get away with everything, they always put humane interests before greed
The Players Association does not even care about Minor Leaguers. If they did, they could have unionized long ago.
geotheo
Minor leaguers are just passing through. The better players go to the majors, the lesser players to another career
Nails down the point that players have a wasting asset–youth–that is harder to replace than just money. The pandemic will end up doing what MLB wanted to fo with the minor leagues–cull them. As for the players, lost developmental time, one more year in the minors to delay service time and eventual free agency. Tough situation.
Senioreditor
If I'm a big market team I start my own minor league, roughly 6 teams and let them develop. For the cost of one expensive player they might develop multiple players.
clrrogers
Expected, but still a bummer.
whyhayzee
I think the only place they can reduce the minors is at the low levels. This could mean more players go to college to play baseball. That's likely fine for American players but could be problematic for players from other countries. And that's a big problem area for the draft as well. I like the independent leagues although they have somewhat wiped out the amateur leagues. These are the places where you play for the love of the game and nothing more. The league that I played in was started in 1930 and is gone now. It was great while it lasted.
I do not think it will be as big for foreign players as one might think. Look at Venezuela, it has an oppressive government and the economy is horrible and they still produce quality players. Why? Baseball is a rare opportunity to improve lives of the players and their families, and they will keep it going. For the American kid, there are more opportunities and they might choose a different path then baseball.
kreckert
Within a month, the majors will follow.
22222pete
Maybe someone can organize the best players into a league playing without fans and streaming the games for a fee and with advertising to pay salary and costs. I'd watch that instead of a 60 game MLB schedule. They might make more than they did under the current system
DodgerOK
Feel for the guys pursuing their dreams. They will have to stay motivated and in shape.
driftcat28
Just like that the Pawtucket Red Sox will leave RI for Worcester. So much for a farewell season
I'm not convinced that the MLB season won't be cancelled too.
Vandals Took The Handles
I moved from a large city to a medium-sized one a dozen or so years ago. Was a bit ahead of my time, as we're starting to see flight from big cities to smaller ones to take advantage of quality of life. This can be done for one major reason – technology. What the pandemic is teaching employers is not just that an employee can work productively from home; he/she/it can do it from thousands of miles away (as MLBTR writers do).
Most MiLB franchises have historically lost money. It's why they sign working agreements with MLB teams, that in turn pay money to offset the losses. But technology is, and has been for years now, decentralizing things in our daily lives. If one is captivated with baseball, they can buy the MLB.TV package for just a bit over $100 a year, and watch games to their hearts content not just live, but on demand 24/7/365 as well. There's even an MiLB package. If they want to get out, they can go to any number of sports bars in smaller cities and watch multiple games on large screens, socialize and meet people (often of the opposite sex). Sure, going to a game live can be a nice family outing, but even areas with A and AA teams have recreational type entertainment of the Six Flags type within driving distance, where families can spend a day actually participating in things as opposed to sitting in a seat and watching endless foul balls being hit as they wait for something to happen.
What none of the posts above note is the reality of living in a minor league city. A reality that starts with – if your team has a good player, he'll be promoted off the team during the season. Then there's the reality of local newspapers – technology again. Local newspapers even in MLB cities are dying, as locals get their news via sources they choose on the Internet. The problem is how does the average fan in a minor league area read publicity about players on team, which in turn make fans want to see the players in person. The times I've been to games here, the fans might know about one or two highly regarded players, the rest are just uniforms.
Point being that the future for MiLB is not good. Worse still, many of those players were getting some of their post-high school training playing college baseball. But now that is being curtailed, as college enrollment has been dropping for 4-5 years now due to students and their parents realizing that the majority of college degrees are pretty much worthless in qualifying them for a job, so that the entry-level jobs they're offered are ones they could have gotten out of high school, and not be stuck with tens of thousands of dollars of debt. As enrollment is dropping, other then major colleges, most are cutting back on sports programs – and in general, baseball is cut before basketball, football, and (don't laugh) girls volleyball (Title VIIII strikes).
Calling MLB owners "cheap" is simply a sign that one has no grasp of the situation. MiLB is a product that has not had a great following since MLB started expansion (particularly into the West) in 1960. No one can continue to subsidize a product that people do not want…..unless they're the Federal government and can print money to get cronies (or their relatives) high-paying jobs to administer the program.
HubcapDiamondStarHalo
Thinking, knowledge, and life experiences are so yesterday….all one has to do is make a snide personal comment.
Bet you have a college degree!
Did it come in handy during the recent paper shortage?
bradthebluefish
I really appreciated this post. Personally, I think most people go to minor league games as an excuse to do something. Like, they may want to see the Red Sox game but not pay the cost it would take to go to Fenway Park. Thus, my grandpa loved taking us to the Portland Sea Dogs in Portland, ME. Nearby, cheap, and they have their own Green Monster.
Nobody really cared to know of the players. Only my grandpa knew because of his dedication in looking at baseball stats. At the time, Hanley Ramirez was the star player for the Double-A team.
There's always news stories here and there about local ball clubs. The Portland Sea Dogs got onto Boston news networks because Jacoby Ellsbury and Cris Crawford we're both rehabbing on Sea Dogs at the same time. I almost sent to see a game but at the time I worked weekends and couldn't make it.
There is a short-A ball club near my home in Lowell MA. And honestly, I don't fully understand all the different single-A clubs. You'd think it'd be simpler to have an A, AA, and AAA clubs. Three clubs and that be that. Maybe have a fourth ball club called Pre-A. But why have so many teams? Especially if they all take losses. Well… then reduce the losses.
Baseball should play on the backs of college a bit more. Every other sport gets their talent from college sports, NBA, NFL, and most of the NHL. Perhaps baseball should follow suit.
sufferfortribe
My local team is still putting on a Fourth of July fireworks display. You bring a carload of family, get two parking spaces so chairs and grills can be set up, also getting food from concessions as part of the package.
Cost? Two hundred friggin' dollars. That's insane.
kflorence
And free coronavirus
JoeBrady
A bit pricy. I'd be willing to pay something for good seats for a fireworks show, but $200 seems like a lot.
Sarasotaosfan
MLB would be better in the long run had they cancelled their season and supported a minor league season. There are far more players and communities impacted through this cancellation than those impacted by the major league.
For the folks complaining about the minor league salary structure, this is pretty much the same for anyone trying to eke out a living in off-beat professions. How much do you think lower tier musicians make at the local pub, or people putting on stage productions at the local HS, or writers and artists.
There are certain professions where you are either king or servant, with nothing in between.


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The Great Gambia Heist · The Inner Circle that Helped Jammeh Steal a Billion Dollars
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The Inner Circle that Helped Jammeh Steal a Billion Dollars
by Khadija Sharife and Mark Anderson
Yahya Jammeh was a 29-year-old lieutenant in Gambia's National Army when he directed the bloodless coup d'etat that overthrew Dawda Jawara, ousting the country's first president after nearly 30 years of rule.
Jammeh and a handful of junior lieutenants seized a radio station, the country's only international airport, and State House, the president's official residence. He emerged as the country's leader after becoming head of a transitional government.
Read more about how Gambia's former leader looted nearly a billion dollars from state coffers.
In the two years that followed the 1994 coup, he moved quickly to consolidate his control over Gambia, a poor former British colony nearly surrounded by Senegal that has a strip of Atlantic coastline popular with European holiday makers.
Jammeh banned all political parties and arrested the top brass of the country's army, setting the stage for two decades of rule, although it was often characterized by misrule.
Credit: OCCRP Testimony from Nuha Touray about his work as secretary-general in the Office of the President. (Click to enlarge)
The Office of the President quickly became the country's most important institution. But in classic authoritarian style, Jammeh rotated key officials to prevent any from attaining political power that could challenge his own. Throughout Jammeh's 22-year rule, few held the coveted position of secretary-general at the Office of the President for more than a year or two at a time.
"He turned The Gambia into an informal shop where all power was vested in him, bending the law to his will," said William Gumede, an associate professor at South Africa's Witwatersrand School of Governance.
Jammeh wielded his tight group of officials to eliminate political opponents and further his financial schemes. Some managed to stay in his good graces over time. Gen. Sulayman Badjie, the former head of the armed forces, which included the presidential guard, was so close to Jammeh that he fled the country on the same plane that finally took the ousted president into exile in Equatorial Guinea in 2017.
Others were not so fortunate. Nuha Touray and Njogu Bah, who served as secretaries-general of the president's office, were given important duties but never allowed to rise. Touray lived in fear of death or disappearance. Bah was imprisoned on an abuse of power charge for which he was later acquitted.
Jammeh used a personal army of enforcers, "the Jungulars," to intimidate friends and foes alike, including those in his inner circle. He also commanded a paramilitary youth group, dubbed the "Green Boys," for similar work.
Credit: Rebecca Blackwell/AP Gambia's Yahya Jammeh leaves a central Banjul polling station after casting his vote for president on Sept. 22, 2006.
Incensed by criticism of his government in the country's newspapers in 2004, for example, he sent the Green Boys to the home of Demba Ali Jawo, then head of Gambia's Press Union.
Jawo told OCCRP that the Green Boys left him a note: "We have noticed that you are always happy to go hard on our good President and the work he is doing … I am sure you do not want your bones and flesh to be thrown to dogs and vultures."
Sometimes, Jammeh's threats were followed by deadly action.
Deyda Hydara, co-founder of The Point, one of Gambia's most influential newspapers, angered Jammeh with his weekly column, "Good Morning Mr. President." It highlighted "everything that was wrong with the regime," said Marie Hydara, the publisher's daughter.
In a bid to censor such criticism, Jammeh pushed a draconian media regulation bill through parliament in 2004.
Hydara led a media campaign to fight it in court. Despite his efforts, the bill passed a few days later.
On Dec. 16, 2004, he was fatally shot while returning home from work. No one has ever been charged.
"This media bill he challenged was the last straw," Marie Hydara said. "We, the family, strongly believe that it was the reason he was killed."
Business Inc., the Key to Millions
If Jammeh's political and mercenary network kept him in power, it was his links to the business world that enabled much of his corruption. His office allowed foreign companies to bypass tender procedures, handing them government contracts and opening the country's public purse for pillaging.
Read more about Gambia's Stolen Future: A Plane Instead of Pensions
OCCRP analyzed thousands of documents spanning more than two decades, from 1995 to 2016. They revealed how Jammeh's patronage network diverted, misused, and siphoned public funds from or through the Central Bank of The Gambia, the Social Security and Housing Finance Corp., the Gambia National Petroleum Corp., and other state-owned entities.
Read more about Jammeh's Taiwanese Alliance and the Hezbollah Laundromat.
The confidential documents include directives from Jammeh's office, bank statements, and wire transfers. Other documents provide details about loans, property holdings, lucrative contracts granted to secretive private companies, and the purchase of assets such as planes, cars, and ferries.
OCCRP receives funding from Open Society Foundation.
The records show that Jammeh gave sweetheart deals to foreign businessmen in nearly every sector of the economy, including mining, energy, shipping, construction, timber, and telecommunications. The deals were typically signed without approval from regulatory authorities and bypassed procurement processes. Some suppliers were so embedded in the country's affairs that they could halt the economy by suspending access to basic goods such as fuel.
By far the most influential businessman in Jammeh's inner circle was Mohamed Bazzi, the Lebanese head of the energy and petroleum companies Global Trading Group and Euro African Group. According to the U.S. Treasury Department, he was also a key financier for Hezbollah, the U.S.-sanctioned militant group. For more than a decade, Bazzi appeared to be the architect of many government deals with the private sector.
Read more about the State Company that Fell Prey to the President.
"Bazzi has been implicated in almost every big deal connected to Jammeh," said Jeggan Grey-Johnson, a Gambian activist and communications officer at the Africa regional office of the Open Society Foundation, a pro-democracy and good governance organization. "In many ways, he was Jammeh's consigliere for Gambia's economy and its private sector."
Credit: OCCRP Testimony from Mohamed Bazzi about his Euro African Group's dealings with the Jammeh administration. (Click to enlarge)
Bazzi became a useful middleman who could influence and fix deals across many sectors of the economy. In exchange for this privileged position, he arranged incentives for the president in the form of payments to his personal bank account. Just how much money Bazzi funneled to Jammeh is unclear, but it likely exceeded tens of millions of dollars, according to OCCRP's analysis of bank records and confidential correspondence.
Bazzi's now U.S.-sanctioned companies enjoyed a monopoly over Gambia's fuel sector for more than a decade. Between 2002 and 2016, he arranged exclusive, secretive contracts with government bodies such as the main utilities supplier, the National Water and Electricity Co., for fuel imports. His exclusive control of the process created a monopoly over Gambia's fuel imports in violation of procurement laws.
His Euro African Group, which sourced fuel from French oil giant Total, had the ability to control fuel imports and prices as the country's sole fuel importer. In return, it received a lucrative cut of the action: Euro African Group received $60 million from the state oil company in just three transactions between 2015 and 2017, according to bank records.
Bazzi continued controlling the country's fuel sector as Gambia fell deeper into debt. By 2015, the utility company, for example, owed $65 million to Euro African Group.
Credit: Ian Patrick/Alamy Stock Photo For more than a decade, Mohamed Bazzi's Euro African Group was Gambia's sole fuel importer. The company sourced fuel from French oil giant Total.
Telecoms Targeted in Secret Scheme
Bazzi's companies had a strong foothold in Gambia after securing the fuel monopoly and other lucrative deals. His next apparent effort was to bring in a man with whom he had run a car service business in Lebanon.
The new partner was Ali Charara, another Hezbollah financier. The men appear to have concocted a scheme to take money from, and possibly launder money through, one of the government's most lucrative enterprises. The scheme targeted the state-owned Gambia Telecommunications Co., known as Gamtel, and its subsidiary, known as Gamcel.
Together, Bazzi and Charara offered the president a proposal for the telecom operator's international telephone and internet account, known as International Gateway. The scheme began in 2007 when Charara used one of the companies in his corporate umbrella to buy half the shares of Gamtel and its subsidiary Gamcel from the government for $35 million — a significant discount from their actual worth. Lamin Camara, a former permanent secretary for the Ministry of Communications, cited an audit by the accounting firm PKF that valued Gamtel and Gamcel at $161 million.
On paper, Gamtel controlled the Gateway account and it delivered robust returns, though some of this money never made it to state coffers. The state-owned entity generated $443.9 million in revenue between 2006 and 2014, with more than $150 million going to companies Charara controlled.
Documents reviewed by OCCRP show that over this period, the government received less than $80 million in profits, just 18 percent of what Gateway had generated. The rest was siphoned off in management fees and other costs by private companies, including Charara's TELL International Inc. But Jammeh wasn't satisfied with private companies taking the lion's share of the revenue. In September 2013, his office instructed TELL to divert all future payments intended for Gamtel to a new Gateway account at the central bank, which he controlled.
While the documents don't identify how much Jammeh or Bazzi might have received as a share of these transactions, Bazzi's companies channelled at least $10 million into Jammeh's bank accounts between 2011 and 2013, according to Bazzi's testimony to the Janneh Commission of Inquiry, which is investigating the president's financial dealings.
In front of the commission, Bazzi isn't clear about the purpose of the payments, variously describing them as payments to the president from Charara or as a settlement of a debt. (Charara could not be reached for comment.)
"This was what Mr. Charara was giving the president from his own profit," Bazzi told the commission.
The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned Charara, Bazzi and their companies in part for funding Hezbollah and laundering money through Gambia.
By 2014, the government shifted its contracts from TELL to another telecom company called MGI, which hiked consumer rates by nearly 50 percent – a considerable increase from TELL's 19 percent hike.
An internal report investigating the telecoms industry cited Jammeh's right-hand man, Gen. Badjie, as a person of interest in the MGI case who should be investigated.
MGI, in turn, used another company, Mobicell Blue Ocean Wireless, which had just four employees. (A spokesman for MGI told OCCRP that Mobicell did technical work for MGI "on a case by case basis.")
Ultimately, MGI racked up $47.6 million in operational expenses between 2014 and 2016. For example, the company charged $26 million for projects that were never approved and on which no due diligence was done, and which may never have existed at all. The MGI spokesman disputed that the company had ever been involved in any dubious transactions.
The government's own internal report noted that had the companies been reigned in, Gamtel's income would have quadrupled and prevented "1 billion dalasi in debt" (about $20 million).
To handle the millions flowing into the central bank for his benefit, Jammeh opened yet another account there in mid-2014 that he named after his "Special Vision" development plan for Gambia. The funds from the Gateway account, as well as new streams from MGI totalling $43 million, flowed into this new account. Almost immediately after the account was opened, some of the money was withdrawn. In July 2014, five cash withdrawals totalling $2.6 million were made.
The last withdrawal from the account was made on Jan. 23, 2017 — two days after Jammeh left the country.
In total, private companies had siphoned 82 percent of Gamtel's income ($363.9 million) between 2006 and 2016. The company did not respond to requests for comment.
Credit: Joe Penney/Reuters Workers from Gambia and Guinea load timber onto containers with a Chinese businessman in 2014 in neighboring Guinea-Bissau.
Timber Rights and the Rare Wood Scheme
Bazzi's businesses were not the president's only money-making cabal. Nor was public money the only source of Jammeh's wealth. During his rule, Gambia exported hundreds of millions of dollars worth of rosewood, an endangered timber not found in its own forests.
Jammeh's partnership with two Romanians created a monopoly on timber exports that allowed them to grab control of the illegal rosewood trade, according to invoices and court records obtained by OCCRP.
From 2011, the country became a conduit of valuable wood to China, where a ton of rosewood can be sold for as much as $25,000 and high demand can drive the price of a single carved bed frame to $1 million.
Virtually all of Gambia's exports of rosewood to China came from the forests of Senegal, according to Babacar Salif Gueye, Senegal's former head of forest management. "All of these logs that Gambia re-exports are illegal," he wrote in prepared remarks for a 2015 Chatham House meeting. "Ninety-nine percent of all rosewood logs exported to China originate from Senegalese forests, not Gambian."
Gambia produces little valuable timber, according to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization. Just 3 percent of the country is densely forested, and much of the wood is "crooked, twisted or otherwise damaged," the UN body said.
But Jammeh only had to look to the Casamance region of neighboring Senegal to find vast reserves of the valuable wood. The region is home to the Jola ethnic group, of which Jammeh is a member, and the president has strong ties to the region.
The rosewood made its way out of Casamance and into Gambia, and from there it was exported to China, even though Senegalese law prohibits rosewood logging and the trade is closely scrutinized by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
Along with Jammeh, Senegal's main rebel group, the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance, benefited from the rosewood trade, causing Dakar to classify rosewood as a "conflict timber." The rebel group is estimated to have earned $19.5 million from the illicit timber trade between 2010 and 2014, according to a report by U.S. environmental charity Forest Trends.
In total, $325.5 million of illegal timber went through Gambia's ports from 2010 to 2016. The vast majority of that represented valuable timber heading toward China. Most of that was rosewood that had been illegally smuggled into Gambia from Senegal, according to former Senegalese Minister of Ecology Haidar el Ali.
This was the period when Nicolae and Dragos Buzaianu, who appeared to be uncle and nephew, began doing business in the country. The pair appeared to receive significant assistance from the president, who lifted a log export ban the same year the two Romanians received their monopoly on timber exports.
(To read a profile of Dragos Buzaianu, click here.)
Jammeh and the two men became co-owners of a timber company, WestWood Gambia Ltd. As head of the military and Jammeh's right-hand man, Badjie would allegedly threaten to send soldiers to arrest anyone who challenged WestWood's timber monopoly, according to a call received by the treasurer of Gambia's Forestry Department. Baboucarr Janneh, vice chairman of the Gambia Timber Association, disclosed these threats to the media.
WestWood reported exports of about 5,000 containers of wood in its first six months of operation. The two Buzaianus paid Jammeh $15 million in fees during this period to export timber from Gambia. (They did not respond to multiple requests for comment.)
Trade data from that period shows some $160 million worth of timber was exported to China during their monopoly. The precise type of wood is not declared.
Gambia's Rosewood Exports to China. Credit: Edin Pasovic
Payments and Contracts to Key Associates
Ansumana Jammeh, the president's younger brother, was another central figure in the inner circle. A businessman and diplomat who served as Gambia's ambassador to Qatar, he was accused in an indictment in a Gambian court of receiving $1.5 million in payments from a Lebanese company, Conapro Dena BMS SAL, which falsely claimed to be in a business venture with a Qatari company.
Gambia's government paid at least $4.5 million to Conapro's Lebanese bank account, according to internal correspondence between the parties. Conapro never appeared to deliver on a contract, which involved, in part, the production of food and animal feed. (Conapro would later sue the Gambian government for allegedly failing to fulfill its end of the deal; the case was allegedly settled in Conapro's favor for $4.6 million in 2017.)
Other central figures in the inner circle included Amadou Samba, then-chairman of the board of the Social Security and Housing Finance Corp., who oversaw investments on behalf of government agencies. Government correspondence and corporate data show that these entities awarded substantial public contracts to companies owned or controlled by Bazzi, including Euro African Group, of which Samba was a 45 percent shareholder, and Gamveg Oil, a vegetable oil company that Samba and Bazzi co-owned.
Credit: OCCRP Testimony of Tony Ghattas about APAM (Click to enlarge)
Samba also owned Gamsen Construction, which received non-transparent multi-million dollar contracts to develop public works projects, including the airport, the Supreme Court building, a commemorative arch in Banjul, and a hospital. In his testimony to the Janneh Commission, Samba said the president's office "identified the contractors and dished out the contracts. I was not the only one."
Through an attorney, Samba declined to respond to requests for comment for this story, citing the ongoing investigation into economic crimes during Jammeh's rule.
Another frequent visitor to Jammeh's office, Tony Ghattas, oversaw a number of companies, including Gamico, Gambia Milling Group, and Alhamdulillah Petroleum and Mining Company (APAM), which was previously run by Ansumana Jammeh, the president's younger brother. (Ansumana could not be reached for comment, though some of his testimony is viewable on YouTube.)
These companies continually changed their bank accounts and ownership structures, and were shareholders or managers of deals that benefited from public funds. Some of them were directly under Bazzi's control. Others were owned or controlled by Jammeh, such as APAM, part of the Kanilai Group International — Jammeh's corporate umbrella — which was also a co-owner of WestWood.
"All this … was by instructions from General Badjie," Ghattas told the Commission. "He did not employ me but he has the power. … Everybody knows how. … I am a businessman. I am not ready to be in [the prison] Mile 2 or with the mosquito."
Ghattas and Badjie could not be reached by reporters. Bazzi did not respond to requests for comment.
Credit: GRTS TV/YouTube Mohamed Bazzi testifying in front of the Commission of Inquiry, which is investigating the former president's financial dealings.
Falling Out With a Whimper
The president's inner circle served entirely at his discretion.
Eventually, Jammeh's relationship with Bazzi soured. When $10 million of government fuel bills went unpaid in 2013, Bazzi wrote an obsequious-yet-threatening letter warning of "dire consequences" for the economy if the bill wasn't paid.
Credit: OCCRP Presidential Affairs Minister Njogu Bah's letter to oil businessman Mohamed Bazzi. (Click to enlarge)
On May 7, 2013, Njogu Bah, then the minister for presidential affairs, sent Bazzi a strongly-worded letter scolding him for taking for granted his "special treatment" and "all the other privileges you can think of" provided by Jammeh's administration.
"It begs the question as to who should be grateful to who?" he wrote.
"In any International Court of Law, you can easily be fried without oil since your rude and arrogant letter is full of thinly-veiled threats that only a stupid, ungrateful and dishonest person, blinded by sheer greed would put in writing and address it to a Head of State," Bah wrote.
Bah noted that Bazzi had enjoyed a monopoly on fuel imports, but said those days were over.
"This monopoly will be no more," he wrote. "You will no longer enjoy any new contract with Gambia Government and the one currently with [the utility company] will be cancelled."
Gambia's current government did not respond to requests for comment. The government of Equatorial Guinea did not respond to requests to reach Jammeh, who is known to be living there.
Bazzi's relationship with Jammeh would never recover.
Additional reporting by Attila Biro and Daniela Lepiz.

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Legendary architect Jean-Michel Gathy 7/04/2014
Belgian born architect Jean-Michel Gathy may not be a household name, but if you're a lover of luxury hotels, the chance are you've come across his work somewhere in the world. From the glamorous hammock-style nets over the water at the One & Only Reethi Rah in the Maldives and the luxury tented accommodation at Amanwana in Indonesia, to the iconic infinity swimming pool located on the roof top of Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, his incredible work is stamped across the globe and he opened no less than nine hotels in 2013 (an unprecedented feat in the hotel industry). The coming few years promise some incredible openings that will further showcase the talent of this self-confessed "spoilt child" of the hotel industry, including the Raffles, Bukit Pendawa, Bali, Chamela Bay, Mexico and the new Jumeirah Resort in Bali, all scheduled to open in October 2016. He takes some time out of his unimaginably busy schedule to chat with kodomo.com about traveling with children.
With my parents when I was 4 years old on the west coast of Belgium, where I stayed in a home in the dunes and where my parents allowed us to sleep in the aviary for one night. Of course there were no birds anymore, but there was an old aviary in the garden. We loved that, even if we were taken back to our normal sleeping place come midnight!
About twelve years ago I holidayed in Canada with my wife. We went dog sledging for a few days, with Marmot dogs, and it was a truly extraordinary experience.
I went to Zermatt on a skiing holiday with my son when he was just nine months old. I skied with him on my back and he was laughing all the way down the slopes; I could hear him giggling in my ear. He loved it, and so did I. We weren't going too fast, of course!
Q: How do you find the experience of travelling with children generally?
It's a wonderful, bonding experience. It imposes on us certain restrictions, but that's what it is to be a parent. If you agreed to become a parent, you have to agree that there are certain responsibilities that come with that.
Q. Do you ever travel with your children for work?
No, not normally. I have on a few occasions taken my eldest child to meetings and site visits with me, but he is now 23 years old.
Probably New Zealand, two years ago. We went to Queenstown and visited all of the south island. We did all sorts of activities; we went out on boats and bicycle riding, played frisbee and golfed. We visited the glaciers, and went by boat across lakes. It was a two week trip and it was fantastic. Another favourite holiday of mine was to Kenya. I went there on safari with my twins; this was a surprise 18th birthday present from me to them. We spent two weeks in Kenya, first visiting Malindi on the coast and then we headed inland and enjoyed the most wonderful safari at the Masaii Mara National Park. My kids loved it, and so did I.
This is a tough one, although it would have to be when I went to the Maldives five years ago and it rained for two weeks in a row. We were at a very luxurious resort and it rained for two weeks; it was windy and stormy. What did I do? Well, I spent a lot of time reading, playing chess, monopoly, going to the gym, and playing Ping-Pong.
Ear plugs!
Ensure that they sleep enough; make sure they get as much sleep as you can. Make sure that you time the food intelligently, both before and after the flight. Kids must be rested before they go on the plane, and they must have eaten or be ready to eat. And then we, as parents, must remain very, very patient. I have also always taken books for the kids and card games, and the Nintendo DS for my son.
Also, keep an eye on them. I was once on a flight back from Europe with my twins. It was a long haul flight and we were all trying to sleep. They were moving around their seats, crawling around on the floor. Whilst down there they decided to mix the other passengers' shoes up. I was in trouble when we landed as no one could find their shoes!
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Swarthmore Joins Brief Opposing Supreme Court Challenge to Use of Race in College Admissions
Swarthmore, along with more than 30 other private, highly selective liberal arts institutions, filed an amicus brief [pdf] opposing a Supreme Court challenge to how race is used in college admissions. The case, Fisher v. University of Texas, was filed on behalf of a white student who believes she was denied admission on the basis of race. More than 70 briefs have been filed supporting the university.
"We do not commit to diversifying our institutions out of a charitable impulse to uplift the underserved," said President Valerie Smith in her inaugural address last month. "Certainly opening our institutions to students from underrepresented communities will improve their life choices and inspire others to follow in their footsteps. But these students are not the only ones who will learn from these encounters. The process of change goes both ways. When we commit to diversifying our institutions, we improve our institutions as well."
Reflecting on the importance of the current case, President Smith adds, "A holistic admissions process safeguards the College's ability to provide students with a rich educational experience and to prepare them to serve the needs of a democratic society."
Oral arguments in Fisher began before the Supreme Court on October 10.
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Kingdom Force é uma série de animação em computação gráfica canadense criada por Matthew Fernandes. produzido por Heather Wilson, dirigido por Chad Hicks e Michael Helmer, Os roteiristas são Craig Martin e Matthew Fernandes, O compositor é Lorenzo Castelli. A série foi produzida pela Industrial Brothers e Boat Rocker Studios e é distribuída pela Boat Rocker Studios.

No Brasil foi exibido para o canal Nat Geo Kids.

Enredo
Liderada pelo intrépido lobo Luka, esta equipe de animais heróicos está equipado com veículos de última geração: graças ao seu gigantesco robô de resgate, Alpha Mech, os cinco protagonistas conseguem lutar como uma entidade, neutralizando o desastres ambientais e cuidando de Reinos a que pertencem, combatendo desastres ambientais e cuidando da natureza.

O universo Kingdom Force é, na verdade, composto de 5 reinos distinto: o Reino das Planícies, uma vasta pastagem povoada por felinos, o Reino dos Canyons, um deserto rochoso habitado por texugos, o reino do gelo, localizado ao norte e ocupado por ursos, o reino da selva, a intrincada floresta tropical de macacos, e o Reino da Floresta, o lugar verde e luxuriante onde vivem os lobos. Então há o cidade de Anópolis, verdadeiro triunfo da tecnologia e da arquitetura: aqui, na torre principal, está o coração do Kingdom Force, onde os animais se reúnem para melhorar a vida de todos os habitantes dos Reinos. No último andar do prédio fica a sede, onde os líderes dos 5 Reinos se reúnem para discutir o destino de seu mundo.

Personagens

 Luka (voz por Bobby Knauff) - ele é o líder da equipe Kingdom Force e pertence ao reino da Floresta: um verdadeiro herói sempre pronto para a batalha. Otimista e carismático, ele só quer o melhor para si e para seus companheiros. Seu veículo foi projetado para se mover até mesmo nos terrenos mais acidentados e é capaz de decolar.
 Jabari (voz por Tyler Nathan) - é o membro mais jovem da equipe, ele vem do Reino das Planícies e é um concentrado de energia. Ele é capaz de correr em velocidades muito altas e sua curiosidade irreprimível sempre o mantém ativo. Ele também possui um veículo que é um carro elegante e refinado equipado com propulsores de foguetes.
 TJ (voz por Mark Edwards) - um gênio da engenharia silencioso do Reino dos Canyons. Ele adora gadgets e possui habilidades técnicas incríveis: ele é o mecânico do grupo e está constantemente ocupado modificando e melhorando a tecnologia do Kingdom Force. Seu veículo se encarrega do reparo e é capaz de cavar o solo graças a uma enorme furadeira.
 Dalilah (voz por Julie Sype) - ela é a química do grupo e pertence ao Reino da Selva: extrovertida e cheia de energia, tem coragem de sobra e está sempre pronta para aprender coisas novas e consolar seus companheiros nos momentos mais difíceis. Seu veículo é equipado com sensores poderosos, capazes de detectar a velocidade do vento, calor, ondas eletromagnéticas e identificar quaisquer anomalias naturais que os heróis possam encontrar durante as missões.
 Norvyn (voz por Dwayne Hill) - é o membro mais velho e forte do Kingdom Force. Estóico e um pouco mal-humorado, ele vem do Reino do Gelo e tem um caráter impenetrável. No entanto, sob esta casca de imperturbabilidade, ele esconde uma natureza leal e protetora de "irmão mais velho", sempre pronto para defender seus companheiros de perigos iminentes. O veículo de Norvyn foi projetado para missões subaquáticas e é capaz de submergir na água.

Ligações externas

Programas do Nat Geo Kids
Programas de televisão em língua inglesa
Programas da CBC Television
Lobos fictícios
Guepardos fictícios
Gorilas fictícios
Séries de televisão com personagens antropomórficos
Desenhos animados do Canadá
Desenhos animados da década de 2010
Desenhos animados da década de 2020
Programas de televisão do Canadá que estrearam em 2019
Programas de televisão do Canadá encerrados em 2020
Séries de animação computadorizada

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It's not easy to build tension. Revealing a new piece of information that adds to what we already know rather than toss it out the window is a narrow distinction and can make or break your movie. One twist slightly off-center tonally could collapse the entire house of cards. Fede Alvarez, who brought us the unfortunately overlooked Evil Dead revamp, succeeds mightily in building tension in his latest effort Don't Breathe and sustains it through a seat-squirming, breath-holding second act. Unfortunately, the third act lets go off the reigns a tiny bit to where scary and silly can be more interchangeable. Even still, that third act is filled with more good than bad to prove Alvarez is a man in control of where he wants to lead his audience, even if where he leads us is terrifying.
Alex (Dylan Minnette) is the son of a home security provider in Detroit. He, his crush Rocky (Jane Levy), and her boyfriend Money (Daniel Zovatto), to make some extra cash, use Alex's dad's security connections to break into people's homes and steal their valuables, never having to worry about alarms or locked doors. Rocky's goal is to get out of Detroit and head out to Los Angeles, and to do that, the three embark on one final score for their biggest prize yet, six figures in cash from a blind military vet (Stephen Lang) with a recently deceased daughter. This was not the person they should've robbed.
The cat and mouse game that ensues in this man's house is utter terror. When the slightest noise could mean bullets flying, you in the audience don't even want to make a noise out of fear. Alvarez can milk the suspense for all its worth when Rocky or Alex is standing just a few feet from the man, trying their hardest not to make themselves heard. Lang stoically scanning the room with his ears is frightening, never being able to read what his next move will be. We also early on are treated to a virtuoso one-take that flies us around the entire house, highlighting the geography of every room and the placement of items we'll definitely be seeing later. When we know a character just has to get to the next room undetected to grab something, that trek becomes so daunting.
The strength of the movie comes almost entirely from its tension-building power and its three principal actors. Levy and Minnette have a great chemistry, even if the foundation of their relationship is not really in the material. It's placed on their shoulders to make this friendship work, and they do. Levy, in particular, proves once again why she should be a superstar, as she did in Alvarez's Evil Dead. Lang as the movie's boogeyman is properly scary, and the more we learn about him, the more you dread what could happen.
At a certain point, though, it does get slightly comical that these people can't get out of the house, and the added threat of a dog does not do that any favors. The dog is one obstacle too many and had me thinking, "C'mon… Really?" The biggest instance of where I was snickering instead of holding my breath involved glass slowly breaking. I won't say more than that, to not spoil what happens. The third act does take some big, horrific chances that do work, though, ultimately evening it out.
Regardless of its minor foibles, Don't Breathe passes with flying colors as a pure adrenaline rush of suspense. You never know what will happen next or who will make it out alive. Yeah, the characters aren't the most fleshed out, and the drama is somewhat lacking. It didn't matter. Fede Alvarez with sheer filmmaking prowess makes a thriller Hitchcock would admire.


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Dot Records recording artist Steven Tyler has set his second country single, "Red White And You" for release to radio on January 25th. The single will be available at all digital partners and streaming services on January 22nd.
"Tyler delivers an all American up-tempo country anthem chosen by country radio to kick off the New Year," a press release from his label states.
The song is the follow up to his debut country single "Love Is Your Name" that was released last summer. "Love Is Your Name" peaked at No. 19 on the Billboard Hot Country Charts after its release last May.
Referred to by Rolling Stone as, "one of the greatest singers of all time," Tyler has sold more than 150 million records with his band Aerosmith, but decided to take a break from the band to focus on a country career. Tyler signed to Dot Records, an imprint of mega indie country label, Big Machine Label Group, early last year.
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No word on an exact release date for the album, the label states it will be released in 2016.
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Japan: Something in the wind as mystery illnesses rise
BY TSUYOSHI TAKEDA
ASAHI SHIMBUN SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Residents living near wind turbines are increasingly complaining of headaches, dizziness, insomnia and other ailments, sparking fears that the new energy source could pose a risk to public health.
Although the cause of the problem remains unclear, the Environment Ministry is investigating the possibility that low frequency sounds produced by the turbines are to blame.
The ministry is concerned that reports of ill health could spread as more wind turbines are built near residential areas.
Tsuyoshi Okawa's family fell ill in January 2007 soon after wind turbines began operating at Gumihara wind farm, about 350 meters from their home in Tahara, Aichi Prefecture.
The 40-year-old says they began to lose feeling in parts of their bodies, suffered bouts of dizziness, and were unable to sleep properly. When they spent time away from the house, the symptoms quickly dissipated. But as soon as they returned, they would flare up again. At the family's request, a group of acoustics experts conducted noise level tests and found that low frequency sounds were causing vibrations throughout the house.
Although they advised the Okawa family that those sounds could not adversely affect their health, the family decided to rent an apartment farther away where they could go to sleep each night.
Some local residents have dubbed the ailments "wind turbine diseases."
Low frequency sounds, which measure 100 hertz or less, are difficult for humans to hear. They are typically produced by air-conditioners and factory boilers. For years, people living within the vicinity of such equipment have complained of similar illnesses.
So far, more than 70 people living near wind turbines have reported ill health. They include residents in Ikata, Ehime Prefecture; Higashi-Izu, Shizuoka Prefecture; Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture; and Minami-Awaji, Hyogo Prefecture.
In Toyohashi, where one company already operates a wind turbine, Chubu Electric Power Co. ran into stiff opposition from local residents to its plan to build 13 wind turbines. Residents say the proposed construction site is too close to homes. The electric power company, based in Nagoya, was eventually forced to freeze the plan.
"As there are no safety standards on low frequency sounds, we cannot obtain the understanding of local residents," an official explained.
Full-scale construction of wind turbines in Japan started in the late 1990s and quickly increased, as concern over global warming shifted international attention toward environmentally friendly energy sources. By the end of fiscal 2007, Japan had 1,409 wind turbines.
Initially, they were situated along the coastline in areas such as Hokkaido and Tohoku. As construction increased and remote locations were used up, wind farm operators began to build them near residential areas. Izu Peninsula in Shizuoka Prefecture is the site of a plan to build as many as 80 wind turbines.
"We look for places where sufficient wind blows and no residential areas are located nearby," an official of a wind farm operator said. "But even if we find those places, they are often located in national parks. It is hard to find suitable places."
In response to nationwide concern about the environmental hazard posed by low frequency sounds from factories, stores and houses, the Environment Ministry in 2004 issued a guidebook with advice about how to cope with them.
The ministry is now studying international data showing a potential link between wind turbines and health problems in surrounding areas to determine a plan of action for Japan. It has also started measuring low frequency sounds around some wind farms.
Tomohiro Shishime, who heads the ministry's Office of Odor, Noise and Vibration, said: "From a scientific point of view, the causes of the health problems have not become clear yet. So we can't create (safety) standards (on low frequency sounds) now."
According to Izumi Ushiyama, professor of engineering at the Ashikaga Institute of Technology in Ashikaga, Tochigi Prefecture, complaints about the ill-effects of low frequency sounds are more common in Japan than in the United States or Europe because the country is small and densely populated.
Huge wind turbines also dominate the landscape, obstructing views and making local residents feel boxed in, he said.
"It is important for companies (planning to construct wind turbines) to announce their plans in early stages and obtain proper understanding from local residents," he said, adding, "The government should also tackle the issue positively."(IHT/Asahi: February 6,2009)
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2 thoughts on "Japan: Something in the wind as mystery illnesses rise"
Dianne Kirk on 12/05/2009 at 11:38 said:
How many people must suffer all over the world before the "scientific" (now very low in its credibility – Climategate et al) finally wakes up to this costly and devastating experiment?
johana on 01/12/2011 at 19:19 said:
This article tells of a situation so like the one in the Clear Creek/Cultus/Frogmore Industrial Wind Turbine ZONE that it is eerie.
We, too, have a small community of ~ 140 houses surrounded by 18 Vestas 1.65 MW Industrial Wind Turbines [IWT's]which are all jammed in within 3 km. In a survey done by the Norfolk Victims of IWT's [NVoIWT's], > 70 people signed saying they were affected in the same way that the Japanese residents describe.
We, too, move away, rent apartments many km away from our toxic houses and some are so desperate that they sell their houses at fire sale prices.
These IWT's are a modern global plague.


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Is Our City For Sale? Commissioners, Contracts & Campaign Contributions
January 7, 2014 by Guest Contributor	10 Comments
By: Howard Melamed
Our City Commissioners that are running for reelection have been taking campaign contributions from companies that require them to vote in favor of their contracts. Our city code of ethics allow them to do so, at will, but nonetheless this practice stinks.
Maybe it is easy to go after companies and lobbyist that have business before the city, hitting them up for campaign contributions. Maybe, the lobbyists and other companies think that by contributing to a particular candidate's campaign fund they will have LEGAL influence on the commissioners.
With millions of dollars at stake, anyone can see how it's possible that influence pedaling is going on in this city. Especially when single source contracts are given out for large amounts of money, and election campaigns now costing thousands and thousands of dollars.
There is no doubt that given the fact that our city commissioners make decisions on hundreds of millions of dollars that affect our city, the taxes we pay, and the quality of services we receive, that we need to be assured that there is no possibility of any city commissioner being unduly influenced by campaign contributions.
Accepting contributions from companies or individuals that are doing business and may be doing business with the city is completely legal according to City Attorney John Hearn who specifically responded to our request on this matter.
"Florida Commission on Ethics opinions provide that there is no voting conflict where an elected official votes on an issue which affects a campaign contributor. This would include those campaign contributors who are vendors of the City." – John Hearn, City Attorney
However that does not make it right. As well, it does not mean we cannot hold our commissioners accountable to a higher standard.
No less of an example is Commissioner Tom Powers who has declared his candidacy for Mayor, and has raised almost all of his funds from companies and lobbyists that have or have had business before the city. He has voted on contracts in their favor after either soliciting them directly, or with the knowledge that they have put into his campaign bank account the maximum contributions permissible by law. For the trash contract, Tom Powers received 12 – $500 payments from recycling related companies and lobbyists. He received additional campaign funds from the winner – WastePro.
No one can say that EVERY recycling company gave money to Powers prior to the vote because they believed that he would make a great Mayor for Coral Springs. They contributed because there is the perception that if they didn't, then the ones that gave would have a better chance at getting his vote. This influence got him $6,000 of contributions, plus more coming. Powers NEVER declared before the city commissioners that he received funds from the companies prior to voting, because he did not have to, since this is not contrary to the ethics code of the city. However, in not doing so stinks more than the trash that is being collected. Every commissioner should openly declare ANY conflicts that they may have on any issue that comes before them for their vote since this is the only honorable thing to do if you are holding office.
Regarding the single-sourced contract to Motorola, Powers received contributions ONLY from Motorola affiliated business entities, $2,000 contributed to his campaign before he voted on giving them the contract.
Then there are contributions received from towing companies, the management company that handles the Coral Springs Center for the Performing Arts (that has yet to turn a profit), and two large land developers donating generously before their rezoning issues were voted upon by Powers in their favor. Then there are the car dealerships who no doubt depend on relaxed code enforcement and there is the Broward County Firefighter's Union (correction updated Jan 9), who has been given favorable terms on their recent contract negotiations.
All in all, Tom Powers has received $15,000 or more in campaign contributions from special interest groups out of the $16,000 he has raised to date. Powers has put in a total of $100 of his own money. Any amount a candidate can get from OPM (Other People's Money) reduces the amount the candidate has to put in. A sitting city commissioner of course benefits financially from getting contributions from companies with the perceived notion of favoritism. It is not in the best interests of the citizens that the commissioners are supposed to be representing.
To be fair, Tom Powers is not the only sitting city commission running for office that has taken campaign contributions from companies that need their vote. Young city commissioner Dan Daley has received similar contributions from similar companies. They are smaller amounts, but given the fact that they only needed three of the city commissioners to agree on any issues brought before the city, most of the contributors, no doubt, performed the calculations and gave him a little less.
All of the candidates financial reports are on the city website and offer the evidence to what has been discussed in this article. Make sure you follow the money trail and addresses to really investigate where the money is actually coming from. In some cases, several companies owned by the same person have contributed.
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Everyone has to ask themselves if they are comfortable with city commissioners going after campaign contributions from people and companies doing business with the city. They must hold all candidates responsible for taking this type of money, and consider it when they vote in the upcoming November elections.
I cannot find any reason why this is a good thing for the citizens. In fact, the only thing that I can say is that this city is for sale – for cheap.
Howard Melamed is running for Coral Springs City Commissioner Seat #4, in a nonpartisan election. More information can be found at howardmelamed.com and is the owner and editor of Coralsprings.com, a local website. As a resident of Coral Springs for 23 years, Melamed has written over 200 articles, and has recently published a book titled "the Science of Opportunity" available on Amazon.com. He an expert in cell phone technology and is the CEO of CellAntenna Corporation, a multinational multimillion dollar company that is headquartered in Coral Springs. He has appeared on radio, television and has been quoted in newspapers around the world.
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Interview with Robert N. Brown, September 11, 1985
Project: A. B. "Happy" Chandler: Desegregation of Major League Baseball Oral History Project
Robert N. "Bobby" Brown is a former baseball player for the New York Yankees who later pursued a career in medicine. He returned to baseball some years later as an executive of the Texas Rangers. In this interview, he discusses topics such as his early interests in both baseball and medicine, the 1946 Yankees team, the Mexican League, the players' strike, Baseball Commissioner Happy Chandler, and his reasons for leaving the Yankees to begin a medical career.
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Brown, R.N. (1985, September 11). Interview by W. J. Marshall. A. B. "Happy" Chandler: Desegregation of Major League Baseball Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
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MiniDVD (Mini DVD albo miniDVD) – płyta DVD mająca 8 cm średnicy.

Produkowanie tych płyt, było zapoczątkowane na wzór MiniCD, które również miały 8 cm średnicy i zasłynęły z tego, że głównie były wykorzystywane do nagrywania singli muzycznych. Później zrodziły się MiniDVD, które służyły do nagrywania teledysków.

Większość urządzeń multimedialnych posiadających tzw. tackę, są przystosowane do odczytywania tych nośników, poprzez specjalnie wgłębienie, w którym jesteśmy w stanie umieścić płytkę.

MiniDVD było też wykorzystywane w kamerach cyfrowych, konsoli Nintendo GameCube oraz jako nośnik oprogramowania komputerowego takiego jak sterowniki.

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Q: How to generate a dropdown in Rails 5, what's the idiomatic way? There're many ways to create a drop down in Rails. And it's not clear why there're so many and which one is idiomatic.
I'm using Rails 5x and the built-in form helper.
  <%= form_for(@my_model, :url => some_url(@my_model)) do |f| %>
    <%= f. # ?? f.select ?? f.collection_select ?? or anything else?

What's the idiomatic and recommended way?
Note that I don't want to use an external gem such as simple_form.

A: Select - for basic usage.
For example, in this case you need to add value manually:
<%= f.select(:name, :some_id, [['Emma', 1], ['Oliver', 2]) %>

But if you have model with data for this value, you can use collection_select:
<%= collection_select(:something, :id, User.all, :some_id, :name) %>

Update
Example for your comment:
<%= options_for_select(
  [
    ['Emma', 1, { 'data-attr' => '200ms' }],
    ['Oliver', 2, { 'data-attr' => '400ms' }]
  ], 2 # selected options id
) %>

HTML Result:
<option value="1" data-attr="200ms">Emma</option>
<option value="2" selected="selected" data-attr="400ms">Oliver</option>

A: collection_select is intended to be used when the list of items is an array of ActiveRecord objects. collection_select is built on the top of select so it's a convenient method when you need to display a collection of objects and not an array of strings.
You may refer here for detailed answer.

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