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Q: How to compare two button values in Android First post here so please advise if I do anything wrong :)
I am building an app for college project.
What I have is two buttons in Android Studio. First button creates a random number and the second one I need to compare it to button one and play some audio if they match.
Here is the code for the random number button..
public void random(View view) {
int rando = (int) (Math.random()*6);
if(rando == 1){
        play_s.start();
    }else if (rando == 2){
        play_t.start();
    }else if (rando == 3){
        play_p.start();
    }else if (rando == 4){
        play_i.start();
    }else if (rando == 5){
        play_n.start();
    }else {
        play_a.start();
    }

and here is the code for the two buttons
 <Button
    android:id="@+id/button_s"
    style="?android:attr/buttonStyleSmall"
    android:layout_width="100dp"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="@string/button_s"
    android:padding="16dp"
    android:textColor="@color/White"
    android:background="@layout/nice_button"
    android:textSize="50sp"
    android:layout_below="@+id/imageBtnBack"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" />

<Button
    android:id="@+id/button3"
    style="?android:attr/buttonStyleSmall"
    android:layout_width="150dp"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:onClick="random"
    android:text="Press for letter"
    android:textColor="@color/White"
    android:background="@layout/nice_button"
    android:textSize="20sp"
    android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
    android:layout_alignRight="@+id/button_i"
    android:layout_alignEnd="@+id/button_i" />

So, my question is how can I play some audio if the second button matches the first button??
Thanks in advance..

A: Somewhere you need a list of all your buttons like List<Button> allButtons;, then you can get them later and compare the text displayed on them like so.
public void random(View view) {
    Button clicked = (Button) view;
    String clickedTxt = clicked.getText();

    int rando = (int) (Math.random()*6);
    Button randoButton = allButtons.get(rando);

    if(rando == 1 && clickedTxt.equals("s")) {
        play_s.start();
    }

}

If you want to compare the button you clicked with the content of the random button, then perhaps you want TextUtils.equals(clicked.getText(), randoButton.getText()).

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Brian Harper is an artist, professor, and Founder and Executive Director of Artaxis.org, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that promotes the professional pursuits of artists in the field. He is an Associate Professor of Fine Art and Head of the Ceramics Program at Indiana University Southeast.
CONNECT, Blackburn Gallery, Mary Anderson Art Center, Floyds Knobs, Indiana. Organized by IUS Ceramics.
Curator: Transition Points: Lisa Walcott, Linda Lopez, Terrence Campagna, Mathew McConnell, Barr Gallery, IU Southeast, New Albany, Indiana. August 30th – October 4th, 2012.
2016 Published "Connect and Recall", article in Ceramics Monthly, October 2016 issue, Volume 64, Number 8, pages 24-25.


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Bathtub comics: Comic Books of an extremely unusual nature. Home made in Maine since 2011: Yessah! Terms and conditions: If you read a Bathtub Comic, it is expected that you will like it, and may even yell "WooHOO!" If you cannot yell "WooHOO!", you may substitute other exclamations.
All the Raps by John and John: TMBG Portland Maine Concert 9/9/22
All the raps by John and John: Found Footage TMBG concert, Portland Maine 9/2/22
Ever wonder what a live TMBG concert is like? John and John are constantly fun and funny, but also sweet and obviously care very much about each other and the audience. We happened upon some "found-footage" from the show in Portland Maine this month: my son accidentally left his cell phone on in his pocket! In Act 1, the boys told the audience to get out our phones, turn around, and record a selfie of us with the band playing Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love backwards. This would later be reversed to hear the song "forwards". Jojo accidentally left his phone on after the song and it continued dutifully recording for the next 3 hours: from his pocket! This "found footage" was a chance to document the fun, playful rap the boys do during the whole show: see what you think, but they seem to be enjoying themselves tremendously!
This gives a look maybe, at how they really are in their world.
0:40 JF we might have to do this part of the show twice
JL Yes. Including the raps, and the photography work… (instructions on how to record STILLOOB backwards)
1:15 JF how do you say Judas backwards?"
JL That's a Bob Dylan reference
JF ;that was for you John
JL; and I'm just passing it along
JF so here we go: let the confusion begin.
1:47:16 STILLOOB (sapphire Bullets of pure love backwards)
3:22 JF that was perfect perfect
3:33 man it's so loud in here
6:59 JF so here's another song from our flood album it's based on the parker brothers game. we are 33 years deep and there's been no litigation so I think we're safe.
JL we'll be getting a letter next week
JF little did they know Parker Brothers corporate offices were located in Portland Oregon. In Portland, Maine…
AUDIENCE Booooooooo!
JF check this out: I totally don't live here. You could've said that just as easily as me. I hope I'm below you(?). We're just a bunch of human beings the way God made them up here. You want to take this outside? You go outside we'lll stay in here.
JL it would be a whole new vibe for us to boo the audience. I don't think other bands do that kind of thing. I'm thinking out of the box here.
JF not since limp bizkit. That did not work out well. There used to be an amazing YouTube video of guy and Limp Bizkit challenging a stadium of people to a fight. It's been scrubbed. I actually did a deep dive the last time I thought about it has definitely been scrubbed from YouTube. It was amazing. Like I could invent just TikTok 2 and have it be just that one video of the guy saying you want a piece of this? What's going to happen? they were opening for Metallica it was not going well.
JL I think scrappy Doo was the lead singer.
JF in the middle of him going for vogueness(?), the house sound guy just walks across the stage just very casually just (Flansburgh grabs microphone) cause I think he owned that Mike and he didn't want to lose it. I'm OK back to the music well this song is called Hot Cha
9:35 hot CHA
11:30 pointlessly violent fantasy song that will go unnamed
11:38 JL I'm sorry I got off on the wrong foot here it's gonna be great. its gonna be perfection
JF it's cause we care.
JL I saw those guys; they were not robots. I was disappointed.
12:15 same violent decapitation song started all over again
15:29 Lucky ball and chain
18:19 JF lucky BALL and chain
JL LUCKY ball and chain. Lucky ball AND chain… now how much would you pay?
JF I Guess it's obvious we don't care if you take photographs. There's a lot of places where people ask us if it's ok if they take photographs: it's 2022. They're taking photographs of their lunch. Take all the photographs you want. Take and pick your favorites show your friends. So we've got a couple more songs and we're going to take a 20 minute break during which time lines will form where lines form then they will disperse as the noise begins again. So um, the second set, it's all genesis and yes. (Band plays a little roundabout)
19:25 road movie to Berlin
22:15 horn instrumental intro then Istanbul not Constantinople jam
29:27 END OF FIRST SET
Intermission sounds from Jojo's pocket
SECOND SET
49:10 Video: part of STILLOOB video from act 1 backwards, technical difficulties (You can see my video of the actual backwards recording on YouTube "TMBG teaches the audience to clap backwards Portland Maine 9/2/22" https://youtu.be/grc4-m34S8U )
50:33 JF so our lighting guy Saul told us there's a technical problem with the video there so they only got half of the song. I think it's because our performance was not up to snuff. He's just protecting all of us. So we'll just try again.
JL He just turned off the cameras, he was like "Na Na no good." Anyway back to flood. Remember that album flood? We were so young…
JF we were just taking doses of the brand new theatrical breakthrough drug Pandor
JL you didn't understand that? We'll put out a thing on social media to explain all the jokes
JF I came down with a case of Demeticulitis
JL you guys are with us…you understand us
The first time we played in Japan we were taught saying our usual raps and everyone was like yeah! And then john said something that was really specific like "all right everyone put your hand in the air and scream love" And then we realized they were just smiling you know. They liked us. Meanwhile they didn't know what we were saying.
JF I could tell that the only audience, we toured Germany a lot, and Germans understand puns
JL in English. They understood us in a deep way. In a disturbingly intimate way.
JF you can't blame them for being smart but um here's a song from the flood album
52:48 letterbox
54:17 JF… brief Introduction to the band on acoustic guitar is Mr. Dan Miller he's(?) on the bass kevin (?) and a man needs no spotlight because he's lit from within our drummer Mr. Marty Beller. All right speaking of the flood album, here's another song from the flood album. It's called we want a rock
54:55 we want a rock
58:07 moonbeam Rays
1:01:09 JF got to do some product placement
JL pay some bills. We got a pay some bills
JF ladies and gentlemen last year we had the privilege of putting out our thousandth Album. It's like it's in this shape, we know albums come in a lot of different shapes some of them working some of them just in your imagination this one is actually profoundly physical. It's called book. It's a book of photographs and lyrics the lyrics have been lovingly set by by hand typed into a Selectric typewriter from 1973 by the graphic designer Paul Sair he's a friend of mine and he's crazy. You're just seeing the typed ones here. It's a very cool thing we're very proud of it and that last song is off of this project. And there are approximately 1100 of them left. There's 30 of them at the T-shirt stand right now waiting to be purchased by one person racing out the door right now. With (?) ambitions of starting a pop up store in downtown Portland, because pop-up stores are where it's at. let's get that Gofundme going for a pop-up store in Portland. (Flansburgh is giving away a copy of book to a woman from the audience)
JL will be doing more songs from this new album later in the set after everybody's gone
JF so I'm John I know this was supposed to be a set of like boom boom boom Showbusiness. All right I'm ready when you are
1:03:31 Women and men
1:05:20 dead
1:08:29 Cyclops rock (interesting mixup at 1:10:45…)
1:11:10 JF I feel like my brain exploded at the end of that song. It's like I was screaming on top of a scream
JL I feel like your mouth was open and there was a little flans inside that was screaming
JF I've been hiding that for so long. Now it can be said:There's a tiny screaming Flansburg inside of Flansburg
JL so that was the original lyrics to Georgia girl
"(Sings) there's a tiny Flansburg screaming inside"
JF I understand a little bit of tea. And by tea I mean Microdosing LSD. Is Microdosing a euphemism for dosing?
JL I think you'll have to ask the tiny Flansburg
JF I'm not doing any of that. I don't know anyone who does that. I mean I know people who drink too much, but I don't know anyone who Microdoses . Do you know anyone?
JL a friend of mine did it and he was disappointed that he wasn't tripping. and I said to him but isn't at the point that you're not supposed to trip?
JF I don't know. I took that CBD thing and that was just for a minute. And I was like oh they take the part of pot that doesn't work
JL if Tommy Chong says it's bullshit… It's time to question whether
JF he's got a very loose… he's not there to judge most of the time. Tommy Chong said that?
JL he's against CBC? CBD? There's A children's book called CDB. No one has heard of either of these things. One person has heard of this
JF this song is a long distance dedication to that one person. Here we go here's another song
1:13:45 minimum wage
Audience (on cue) "Yeeeeahhh!"
JF here's another song off the album book. It's the opening track is called synopsis for late comers
1:14:45 synopsis for late comers
JF here's a song with a fresh horn chart from (? Daniel?) on trombone. This is from an album called album raises new and troubling questions which is a collection of songs that were not all recorded together, but altogether raise some new and troubling questions. And it's called authenticity trip
1:17:50 authenticity trip
JF (inaudible)
JL they've had it with us
Audience member: Flansy, we're glad you're feeling better!
JF Yeah I'm super good. It's a it's great to be able to perform. It's great to be able to sit up.
JL everyone's asking how you're feeling. For a guy who broke most of his ribs he's concealing his agony pretty well
Audience member: he looks great!
JF You know it's a complicated thing when you're a, yeah. It's fucked up. I'm trying to think of something lighthearted to say about it
JL it's time to go dark. Things just weren't the same after the accident.
JF let's get back to bitching about apartment living. This song is called we live in a dump
1:21:35 we live in a dump
1:23:23 JL I just want to say flans I'm very glad you that you survived and that you are getting well. It scared the shit out of me personally, and it's a big big relief
JF back! Flans is BACK! I don't want to scold everyone who thinks driving drunk is cool: it ain't. I got hit by a drunk driver and although I would love to talk about it at length it is unfortunately in the courts now so I'm just going to shut the fuck up. But a, just you know don't don't do that kind of stuff, it's a mistake, big miscalculation and a, and a, Wear a seatbelt
JL so here's a song about that it's called someone keeps moving my chair
1:24:21 someone keeps moving my chair
JF right here we're into the homestretch
we want to thank you all for coming out we know you have the choice of They might Be Giants-like bands, And we're glad you have chosen us this evening. We're at the State Theatre and we're still trying to figure out if we've played here before. This song is called birdhouse in your soul
1:27:15 birdhouse in your soul
1:30:44 particle man/Sun Ra - Rocket Number Nine Take Off For The Planet Venus
1:33:49 Dr. worm
JF thank you so much
1:36:37 Audience clap clap clap clap scream scream scream scream etc
ENCORE #1
1:38:21 JF Ladies and gentlemen there are no words, there are only photographs that can describe how we feel right now. Thank you so much for coming out to the show. I'm just trying to make sure my phone doesn't start making sounds through my amplifier. A few more songs to play right now. This next song features Mr. Marty Beller, who appreciates applause for himself more than anyone I know. He's wearing earbuds he can barely hear you. People in the balcony, Mr Marty Beller on the drums. This is a very special song we had ghost written for Marty. It was written by ghosts
JL actual ghosts
JF the song is called Marty Beller mask
1:39:22 encores number one
Marty Beller mask
JF Mr Marty Beller on the drums. True story. ladies and gentlemen we have just one more song prepared for you right now. Any songs we do after that have not been prepared we sincerely want to thank you all for coming out to the show. We want to thank our crew; many of them are brand new.I'm not going to say their names because I won't get to the end. We're glad they're here and they really are helping us out.We want to thank all the local people for doing such a good job today this place is beautiful. We hope you get right back. tell your friends you saw this new band. All right this song is called fingertips
1:42:15 fingertips
1:47:59 audience clap clap clap clap scream scream scream scream etc.
1:50:02 We have to get to North Adams? Massachusetts… (crowd moans) there is a mutual animosity? in audibleJF friendly town: "Alright everybody, we'll see you later…BOO!!!" inaudible. We're from Massachusetts but you know, we're from Eastern Massachusetts
JL and we've spent a lot of time in Maine, I don't know if that counts
JF I spent all my summers in Maine
JL Is that good or bad I don't know
JF I don't think it counts I don't think being a tourist in Maine counts as… even though we have a working familiarity with a lot of things about this place, it doesn't count. Folks we want to thank you individually, so will you bring up the lights for one second while we thank eleven hundred people (Flans pointing and talking to individual people in the crowd) specifically. That lady with the smile right there, I'm pointing right AT you. Hi. Wave back. Thank you for coming to the show (inaudible) everyone in the band is thanking you right now. Are there any lights available for the balcony? Because I cannot see hardly anyone in the balcony. thank you so much for not standing so close to the edge as to terrify the band. Thank you all for coming. We have one more song Marty Beller on the drums(? On the bass, ? on lead guitarin John Linell on the accordion, you in the audience (? on the saxophone,? On the trombone, Mark Loveman Pender on the trumpet)
JL That's Johnny Flansburgh
JF that's me.. And I hope I was clear when I was mumbling, I was not driving the car that hit me. I just wanted to make that clear. It's one of those things when you're in an accident involving a drunk driver people are like "you were driving drunk?"
JL no, you were driving the car that hit you?
JF right. Somebody's tweeting that out right now. All right here we go this song is called Mr. me
1:52:40 Mr. me
1:54:40 audience Clap clap clap clap scream scream scream scream
Intro (they might be Giants, (recorded intro)
1) The Mesopotamians
2) Twisting (Flood)
3) Your Racist Friend (Flood)
4) When will you die
5) Theme from Flood
6) Whistling in the Dark (Flood)
7) The Darlings of Lumberland
9) Stilloob (Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love backward…) (doolF)
10) Man it's so loud in here
11) Hot Cha (Flood)
12) Some violent endulgement fantasy song
13) Road Movie to Berlin (Flood)
14) Istanbul not Constantinople (Flood)
15) Hearing aid (recorded song) (Flood) Like "They Might Be Giants (Alt. Version)," this is a new recording used as an intro on the 2022 Flood tour, to open the second set.
(Stilloob 1st verse played backwards, technical difficulties)
16) Letterbox (Flood)
17) we want a rock (Flood)
18) moonbeam rays
19) women and men (Flood)
20) dead (Flood)
21) Cyclops Rock (Trick Dickie Nixon lyrics)
22) Minimum Wage (audience wins with perfectly on time Heeyah!) (Flood)
23) Synopsis for latecomers
24) authenticity trip
25) we live in a dump
26) someone keeps moving my chair (Flood)
27) Birdhouse in your soul (Flood)
28) Particle Man (Flood) Rocket Number nine takes off for the planet Venus, venus: Sun Ra
(big Band Version)
29) Dr Worm
(1st goodnights)
1st Encore
30) Marty Beller Mask
31) Fingertips
(2nd goodnights)
2nd Encore
32) Mr. Me (Big Band Version)
3rd Goodnights (claiming to need to get to The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, MA, as a reason to have to leave…)
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Christmas in Bangor: a video tribute to those who died in the Dec 5 2021 fire
Christmas in Bangor (A Tribute to Dylan Smith, Andy Lee Allen, and Timmy Tuttle, Jr.)
references and sources for the horribly sad tragedy of Dec 5, 2021
They lived by the river (light: "A good man is hard to find…)
Under I-395
The bridge was their shelter, their home and their safe place
Firewood, needles, MacDonald's and propane
To get through the day… but the day's getting colder
And everything that you remembered of Christmas
Doesn't include a no trespassing order
"You don't need an address, But you can't stay here," (spoken in rhythm)
Good luck and holiday cheer,
signed Bangor"
(refrain humming Hmmmmmm, nmmmmm)
So you found an old building, one with nobody in there
Finally somewhere that is dry for the winter
And now you burned up to the sky
Your flame made a tear in its eye, because…
Ref. (choir) (punk version A.T.S.)
It's Christmas in Bangor
Let's all go to Bangor
From Silver Ridge Township
Skowhegan and Howland
It's Christmas in Bangor, when you're
Homeless in Bangor, better
Buckle up,
it's gonna be a long, cold night
(Punk Instrumental refrain)
Wash the lead out of your eyes
It's going down to 10 tonight
Your cheap tent is whistling "Wipe off your eyes,
Santa Claus ain't coming tonight…"
January thaw, February ice
Cold mud in March, and then stop at the clinic
Then back to the rivers and back to the hill
Dragging your shopping cart from the goodwill
But the Winter is already on its way back again
I used to dream it would snow, (1,2,3,4!) but now it's… (Punk Refrain)
Ref. 2 (Punk Boys)
From Bucksport to Lincoln
From Bradley to Bingham
It's Christmas in Bangor when you're
it's gonna be a long, cold night!
From Dexter to Dover
From Hudson to Houlton
From Hermon to Hampden
From Old Town to Etna
From Moscow to Milo
Fort Kent to Presque Isle
From Belfast to Searsport
From Newburgh to Frankfort
From East Millinocket
From Eastbrook to Eastport
From Greenbush to Guilford
From Brooks to Machias
From Searsmont to Surry
To Mt Desert Island
From Easton and Caribou
Jackman and Jackson
From Otis and Athens
From Deer Isle and Edmunds
From Clifton and Corinth
From Blue Hill and Belfast
From Hartley and Milford
From Waltham and Amherst
From Bradley and Northport
From Lee and from Medway…
For Dylan Smith (Howland and Lincoln), 31; Andy Lee Allen, 56; (Bangor and Silver Ridge Township)
Tim Tuttle, Jr, 28 (Skowhegan)
At Thanksgiving, Bangor City Council decided "to issue trespass orders to people who do not leave a homeless encampment under a highway bridge by Dec. 1. (US News, AP 11/26/21)
On Dec 5th, 3 of those homeless people who were moved out from the bridge encampment died in a fire in an abandoned building exactly 1 mile away; the fire at 196 Union St took the lives of 31 year old Dylan Smith (of Howland and Bangor), 56 year old Andy Lee Allen (of Silver Ridge Township), and 28 year old Timmy Norman Tuttle Jr (of Skowhegan and Bangor).
We made this song as a tribute to Dylan, Andy, and Timmy, and to all the others who do not have a home, and struggle to get by day by day...
we know songs aren't much help, but we felt this need to talk about it and try to say something...
It was recorded, engineered and produced by Jojo; charlie and molly made GarageBand tracks, and sang as well: and featuring the inimitable voice of Perry Boudreau on the spoken lyrics
The news footage is from WABI and WLBZ; most photos are from the Bangor Daily News.
We made the song out of constantly changing images and sounds and tones, the way life must seem surreal and unreliable to the homeless; a jumble of uncertainty, danger, drug addiction and mental illness.
3 homeless men identified as victims of Union Street fire
by Lia Russell
December 5, 2021Updated December 6, 2021
Three homeless men were identified as those who died in a fire early Sunday morning on Union Street in Bangor.
Andrew Allen, 56; Dylan Smith, 31; and Tim Tuttle, 28, died in the fire, according to the Maine Department of Public Safety.
Smith grew up in Howland, and had been homeless since 2013, according to his aunt, Diane Gasch.
Dylan Smith in an undated photograph. He was one of three people who died in a house fire on Union Street in Bangor on Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021. Credit: Courtesy of Diane Gasch
Smith had previously worked in construction and at LaBree's Bakery in Old Town, Gasch said. She had last seen him in May at his mother's home in Howland, though he had most recently lived in Portland and Bangor.
The fire at 194 and 196 Union St. was reported shortly before 5 a.m. The condemned two-story duplex had sat vacant for the past year, according to Shannon Moss, spokesperson for the Maine Department of Public Safety.
The building, without heat or hot water, had been condemned by the city of Bangor since March 2017 but a neighbor said that he had seen eight people living in the house over the past week.
Two people escaped the fire, Moss said. An ambulance transported one to the hospital with minor injuries, while a passerby helped the other person.
The cause of the fire was unclear as of Sunday night but firefighters planned to return to the property on Monday to continue their investigation, Moss said.
The Medical Examiner's Office will perform autopsies.
Andrew "Andy" Lee Allen
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SILVER RIDGE - Andrew "Andy" Lee Allen passed away December 5, 2021.
Andrew is survived by his children, Scott Murray, Margaret "Maggie" Allen and Samuel "Sam" Allen; brothers, John and wife, Barbara, Garry and wife, Lisa, Timothy and wife, Barbie, Thomas and wife, Terrie, Mark and wife, Marilyn, and Anthony and wife, Jackie; sisters-in-law, Tanis and Wanita; sisters, Jean Gross and husband, Jim, Rebecca Allen, Joyce Black, Rosalie Gallant and husband, Gary, June Rush, Joan Thibodeau and husband, Bruce, and Frances Bouchard and husband, Don; and many nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews, cousins and friends. He was predeceased by his parents, John and Margaret; and brothers, David and Bobby.
Born in Bangor, Andy lived in Bradford during his early childhood, and moved to Silver Ridge Twp. with his family in 1975. He lived in Weston, CT, and other Maine towns, but eventually moved back to Silver Ridge Twp. Andy and his twin brother, Anthony, grew up loving the great outdoors, and hunting and fishing both in the "County" and in CT. Andrew dearly loved his children and his big family, who all loved him very much. Andy was soft-spoken, had a big heart, was kind and generous.
All are welcome to join in remembrance of Andrew on Friday, December 10, 2021, 3-5 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. at Bowers Funeral Home, 64 Sherman St., Island Falls. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated Saturday, December 11, 2021, at 11 a.m. at St. Benedict's Catholic Church, 1063 Benedicta Rd., Benedicta, with the Rev. Dominic Savio officiating. Interment will be in the spring. To share condolences and memories, please visit bowersfuneral.com.
OBITUARIES Posted December 11, 2021
Obituary: Timothy Norman Tuttle Jr.
Timothy Norman Tuttle Jr.
BANGOR – Timothy Norman Tuttle Jr. of Bangor passed away suddenly on Dec. 5, 2021. Timothy was born Feb. 9, 1993 at RFGH in Skowhegan Maine; to Timothy Norman Tuttle Sr. and Audrey Marie Trafton.
Timothy attended SAHS and was most recently employed at Skowhegan Tire. Timothy had a love for cars, playing video games and spending time with his family and friends. Timothy had an infectious smile and a kind heart, he will be deeply missed by everyone who was blessed to know him.
Timothy is survived by two daughters: Lillian and Sophia Tuttle of Norridgewock. Parents: Audrey Trafton and step dad Micheal Frost of Hudson; Timothy Tuttle SR of Ellsworth and mother in-law Kelly Rowe of Madison. Grandmother Linda Dwyer. Brother Ryan Tuttle and niece Audrie Tuttle. Aunts and uncles: Margarita Trafton and Jonathan Towle of Dexter, Lisa Brooks of Embden, Rachel and Travis Stymiest of Mercer, Ralph Sproul of Skowhegan. Good friends: Ty Dolphanie of Madison, RoRo Frost II of Dexter and Shawn Memorow. Several cousins and close friends.
He was predeceased by: Nana Francis Tuttle, grandfathers Lewis Tuttle and Clinton Trafton. Uncles: Lewis Tuttle, Cliff Tuttle and Calvin Trafton. Great grandmother Ellen Trafton.
A celebration of life will be held on Jan. 16, at 2 p.m., in Solon, Maine, fire station with services provided by David Ray Sr. from Rickey. A special thanks to Jo Adams for all of her support during this difficult Time.
Any donations can be sent to: Audrey Trafton
208 Lancaster Brooke Road
Glenburn, ME 04401.
Audrey Frost
I miss you bubba 😢 so much... It's been 6 days since you passed and everyday gets harder and harder. I can't believe that you're gone. Mommy loves you Timmy. Fly High my baby boy! 😢😭😭. Until we meet again.
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Anna Wells
I'm really sorry for ur loss Audrey I can only imagine how u feel.. I miss him so much too.. may he rest in paradise ♥ keep ya head up! Stay strong u know that's what Timmy would have wanted ♥
Brenda Sage
I'm sad for your loss Audrey. I don't know you or your son. My 28 year old son died unexpectedly in May 2018. When I read your comment, I remembered that feeling. There are groups on Facebook, such as The Compassionate Friends Network (TCF) Loss of Adult Child which I wish I had found earlier, because for months I felt no one could relate or understand what I was going through. ❤
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Brandon Towers
I knew timmy for a long time im so sorry for your loss this hurts i used to hangout with him amd shawn all the time a great soul he will be greatly missed
Rebecca Day
So sorry to hear the loss of a family member I had never met..So I send my condolences to all family...Rebecca (Trafton) Day
Maggie Trafton
I miss you very much it's been 7 days since you have passed aunty will always remember the good times love you and miss you Timmy until we meet again fly high 😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔
Gloria Cyr Caron
Our deepest sympathies!!! I couldn't imagine! prayers going to the family!💔
EJ Pinkham
Timmy, I don't even know where to start. Here goes... I love and miss you so much with each and every passing day. Some days it does not even seem real that you are forever gone but will never be forgotten. You had the biggest heart and most infectious smile of anyone I've ever known. We had shared so many good times together since I first met you when you were 14 years old. I remember when you bought me my 16 inch low profile tires for my Black Ford focus, and put them on, "once we finally got the wheel spaces in the mail, LOL" You made that car awesome and I loved that car as long as I had it. You hold a very special place in my 💚 and you forever will. Thank you for being there for me even when you didn't know if you should have been, during the hardest time of my life and through my healing process, and believe me I know it wasn't easy, or I didn't help make it any easier but you made it look easier than it was. You really were the better half of my past 3 years and I'll always treasure the memories we made. Audrey, I would just like to say from the bottom of my heart my condolences go out to you and your family for the loss of Timmy, you really should be proud of how great of a son you had and raised. I know words can never express the hurt and pain you must be feeling without him here today but he always talk to me about you and told me how much he loves you. I remember coming with him one day and meeting you after he fixed my car he was so proud and wanted to show you, his love for cars was amazing. But again I wanted to say that I am so sorry for his loss and want you to know if you ever need someone to talk to I'm always here. Timmy may you forever fly high and rest in peace I know a lot of sad people around town that miss you terribly but we know that you're always with us and always will be. Until we meet again rest in peace Timothy and do me a favor say hi to my father and Alan for me and let them know how missed they are. All my love E.J.💙💛💚🧡
Bangor wants people to leave homeless encampment under I-395
by David Marino Jr.
The city is asking homeless residents living under the Interstate 395 bridge to leave by December 1 due to potential dangers that could arise with inclement weather. Credit: Linda Coan O'Kresik / BDN
The city of Bangor is asking more than a dozen people living by the Penobscot River under the Interstate 395 bridge that spans Bangor and Brewer to leave by Dec. 1 and plans to issue trespass orders to those who do not.
The attempt to clear out the encampment is the latest chapter of an ongoing homelessness problem in the city that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated. In a city that serves as the regional hub for eastern Maine's homeless population, the topic dominated the recent City Council election, with residents divided on how best to address the problem.
The city wants people to leave the encampment due to dangers that could arise with the arrival of winter, especially because the cleared-out area beyond the end of the Bangor waterfront footpath is challenging for emergency vehicles to reach.
The Bangor Police Department's community relations officer, Elizabeth Ashe, went to the homeless encampment under the Interstate 395 bridge on Wednesday morning to issue warnings to everyone living there that they need to be out by Dec. 1. Torelin Jager, the city's homeless outreach case worker (background), was with officer Ashe to connect people to services, including potential housing and substance use treatment. Credit: Linda Coan O'Kresik / BDN
Bangor police think the encampment has dwindled to about 12 to 15 people from 30 two weeks ago, Chief Mark Hathaway said, though encampment populations can fluctuate.
"Once snow and ice comes, we won't be able to access that area if anyone needs help," said Assistant City Manager Courtney O'Donnell, who noted that plowing the snow was unrealistic.
Many in the encampment also use the Penobscot River for bathing and to go to the bathroom, O'Donnell said. If someone needed assistance there, it would be difficult for emergency services to reach them, she said.
City staff initially spoke to the people there about relocating by Nov. 19, O'Donnell said, and they seemed ready to do so. But once that date came, many had refused to move. Realizing that they wouldn't move voluntarily, city staff decided to seek the City Council's input, which happened at the council's Monday meeting.
"Unfortunately, many of the folks in that area do not want services," O'Donnell said. "They are not interested in moving. They made that clear."
Officer Elizabeth Ashe talks with Todd Johnson, who lives in a tent at the encampment under the Interstate 395 bridge, about having to leave the area by Dec. 1 due to potential dangers that could arise with inclement weather. Credit: Linda Coan O'Kresik / BDN
Todd Johnson lives in a tent at the encampment. He has been homeless the last few years after he said he was evicted. He used to work as a convenience store clerk, he said Wednesday morning as a Bangor police officer warned those staying there that they needed to leave by Dec. 1.
Johnson said he understood why the city wanted people out of there, with the weather growing colder. He has also seen fighting and a lot of drug use at the site. Still, he said there is a culture of giving around the encampment if you're honest with others.
While he wasn't entirely sure where he would go next, he was thinking of traveling south to Boston.
"Being homeless isn't fun," Johnson said. "People think it's like camping. It's not like camping, not in the wintertime. It's scary out here."
The council on Monday acquiesced to plans to remove those staying at the site, though some councilors, including Angela Okafor and Dina Yacoubagha, asked if the city would connect them with services.
Forcing people who are homeless to move is uncomfortable, but ultimately it's in the best interest of those living in the encampment, City Council Chair Rick Fournier said.
"In my mind, it's all about safety," he said.
The police department's community relations officer, Elizabeth Ashe, traveled to the encampment on Wednesday morning with Torelin Jager, the city's homeless outreach case worker. While Ashe issued warnings to everyone living there that they needed to be out by Dec. 1, Jager was on hand to connect them to services, including potential housing and substance use treatment.
Community Relations Officer Elizabeth Ashe and Torelin Jager, the city's homeless outreach case worker, walk through the homeless encampment under the Interstate 395 bridge on Wednesday morning to let everyone living there know that they need to be out by Dec. 1. Credit: Linda Coan O'Kresik / BDN
Both struck a warm, non-aggressive tone as they went tent to tent.
"Dec. 1 is going to be move-out day," Ashe said to someone in one tent. "I want to make sure you have fair notice."
While those living at the encampment are homeless, Jager said that some housed people travel there. One man who drove in on Wednesday was visiting a friend to check on her. She once lived a promising life, he said, but the last few years had been rough.
Several of the tents were empty Wednesday morning, with their owners appearing to be away.
Like in other encampments, the residents there formed something of a community, Johnson said. They all knew each other and several had decorated their tents. There was a skeleton up for Halloween, for example.
But the area is messy.
Items were strewn about the tents on the dirt road, from empty food containers to propane tanks. One man had a copy of a "Lord of the Rings" book outside his tent.
Used needles and needle caps litter the ground of a homeless encampment under the Interstate 395 bridge. Credit: Linda Coan O'Kresik / BDN
A plethora of needles also littered the area. One person living there had put several inside a two-liter cola bottle. She said she had gathered them to keep others safe.
The city's efforts to clear the waterfront encampment come soon after city staff spent two days cleaning up a homeless encampment on Cleveland Street — located behind the Hope House homeless shelter — in anticipation of the winter months. However, the city has not asked those people to leave.
A Maine city plans to issue trespass orders to people who do not leave a homeless encampment under a highway bridge by Dec. 1.
Nov. 26, 2021, at 2:28 p.m.
Bangor to Issue Trespass Orders at Homeless Camp by Dec. 1
BANGOR, Maine (AP) — A Maine city plans to issue trespass orders to people who do not leave a homeless encampment under a highway bridge by Dec. 1.
More than a dozen people live next to the Penobscot River under the Interstate 395 bridge that goes from Bangor to Brewer, the Bangor Daily News reported. Bangor officials want to clear the encampment and have asked people living there to leave, the paper reported.
City officials said they want the camp cleared in part because of the coming winter. Assistant City Manager Courtney O'Donnell said emergency workers won't be able to access the area when snow and ice arrives.
The issue of how to address the homeless population in Bangor has been a major theme in city politics recently. The executive director of the Bangor Area Homeless Shelter has said there are likely more unsheltered homeless residents in Bangor now than there have ever been.
Bangor cleans up homeless encampment in anticipation of dangerous winter months
City of Bangor employees were cleaning the homeless encampment behind the Hope House in Bangor Tuesday. Credit: Linda Coan O'Kresik / BDN
City of Bangor employees began cleaning up an encampment of homeless residents on Cleveland Street on Tuesday, a step toward helping those residents plan for a safe living situation during the cold winter months.
The employees picked up piles of trash around the encampment — which is located behind the Hope House shelter and contains several tents — in a cleanup that is estimated to cost around $2,000. The city will be back in a week, offering the help of caseworkers who can connect homeless residents with safe places to spend the cold months.
Tuesday's cleanup came a week after an election in which Bangor's lack of affordable housing and its homeless population was the central issue addressed by City Council candidates.
It also happened as the city's homeless population has grown and as the shelter services available to them are changing.
Bangor's Assistant City Manager Courtney O'Donnell. Credit: Linda Coan O'Kresik / BDN
There are about 170 residents living outside in Bangor this fall that the city is aware of by name, Assistant City Manager Courtney O'Donnell said. That's a significant increase from the 30-40 it knew of in previous years.
And come the end of the year, one less source of shelter will be available to them as the Ramada Inn hotel, which has served exclusively as a shelter since last year, prepares to close at the end of December when its federal funding ends.
In an effort to partially offset that loss, the Hope House, run by Penobscot Community Health Care, is expanding to include 43 beds, up from its current 30. But shelter capacity as a whole in Bangor has been reduced during the COVID-19 pandemic so shelters can allow for social distancing.
Most of what workers took from the encampment Tuesday was clearly trash — everything from mattresses to shopping carts to abandoned tents. They made sure not to take personal property. Residents living at the encampment could be seen in and around their camps on Tuesday morning.
Piles of trash litter a homeless encampment in the wooded area behind the Hope House in Bangor. City of Bangor employees from Public Works and Parks and Recreation were on site cleaning the area Tuesday. Credit: Linda Coan O'Kresik
Caseworkers and navigators will continue the work at the site next week, on Nov. 16, making sure that trash has been removed and people living at the encampment have a safe living situation for the winter, O'Donnell said.
No one will be asked to leave the encampments at that time, she said.
However, caseworkers can connect homeless residents to resources to help them find a spot in a shelter or another living situation. Bangor officials often make efforts to reduce the number of residents at encampments as the weather gets colder, knowing that risks become more severe for homeless residents during the winter.
"We're really just helping them to make plans for the winter months, and to clean up the campsites so they're as safe as possible when winter snow and ice is upon us," O'Donnell said.
The city had cleaned up the area behind the Hope House in previous years, though O'Donnell noted it had tried to take a more collaborative approach this year, involving personnel from Penobscot Community Health Care, which runs the Hope House shelter and provides a number of services for homeless residents in the city, and United Way of Eastern Maine.
City of Bangor employees were cleaning the homeless encampment behind the Hope House in Bangor Tuesday. Credit: Linda Coan O'Kresik / BDN
Many city councilors campaigned on establishing more affordable housing in the city before last week's city council election. Reelected Councilor Susan Hawes, for example, said Monday that she would push the city to turn blighted buildings into new affordable housing in her new term.
O'Donnell noted that residents often call and email city officials about the conditions of the encampments, asking if residents are safe and have access to services.
"With the housing market as tight as it is, there is no easy solution to this issue," she said. "We are doing our best as a community to approach this head-on and hopefully reduce the amount of impact it has on our area."
AN OPEN LETTER TO THOSE SADDENED BY SUNDAY'S FATAL FIRE IN BANGOR
Cindy Campbell
Kevin Bennett
Dear community members, who are feeling as devastated by the deaths of three members of the homeless community as I am.
We see them every day, walking the streets with their sacks full of their most precious belongings. Some carry backpacks, while others have trash bags slung over their shoulders. Their clothes are shabby and inadequate against the increasing cold of Maine winters.
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Many of us will turn away when we see these members of the state's homeless population. Silently, we know that we're lucky because many of us realize how quickly we, too, could become homeless. We may say a quiet prayer for them, that they find shelter, that they find a place to be warm that night, that someone is watching out for them. There are warming shelters and overnight beds around the city of Bangor, but there are always those diehards who would rather live on their own terms.
Is that what those five people were doing when they settled into that empty, abandoned house on Union Street? Instead of staying in a shelter, with all the shelter rules, they had found a house. Out of the cold. Neighbors tell us it even had a fireplace that could help them keep warm. It must have felt like a palace.
Of course, I'm guessing here at what they were feeling. No one knows how long they had been staying in that house. It could have been their first night out of the cold when the fire broke out and took their lives. Three souls were lost just because they were trying to stay warm.
We all feel it. The sadness. The loss. The frustration that nothing could have saved them. But there is something that you can do. It won't bring back Tim Tuttle, Dylan Smith, or Andrew Allen, but it may help some other homeless citizens to find their way. You can donate to a shelter. Bangor Area Homeless Shelter or Hope House. Donate to agencies that help in other ways, like Hope for Homeless, the Union Street Brick Church, or the Salvation Army.
It won't solve the problem. But it will help these folks do all they can to provide safe and warm options to Bangor's homeless population. They can't do it alone.
Humbly,
One of the Lucky Ones
Fatal Fire in Bangor
Three homeless people died in a fire at an abandoned apartment building on Union Street in Bangor on Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021.
Gallery Credit: Kevin Bennett
Kevin Bennett Photo
Fatal Fire on Union Street in Bangor
Bangor, Maine-12-06-2021— Members of Bangor's homeless population embrace in front of 196 Union Street in Bangor on Monday morning. Three men lost their lives in a fire at that location on Sunday. The deceased have been identified as 28-year-old Tim Tuttle, 31-year-old Dylan Smith and 56-year-old Andrew Allen.
Bangor, Maine-12-06-2021— Members of Bangor's homeless population leave a memorial on a telephone pole near 196 Union Street in Bangor on Monday morning. Three men lost their lives in a fire at that location on Sunday. The deceased have been identified as 28-year-old Tim Tuttle, 31-year-old Dylan Smith and 56-year-old Andrew Allen.
Bangor, Maine-12-06-2021— A man stops to look at the building at 196 Union Street in Bangor on Monday morning. Three men lost their lives in a fire at that location on Sunday. The deceased have been identified as 28-year-old Tim Tuttle, 31-year-old Dylan Smith and 56-year-old Andrew Allen.
Bangor, Maine-12-06-2021— A sign asking people to sign a petition to give homeless people more rights hangs on a telephone pole near 196 Union Street in Bangor, the site of a triple fatal fire that took the lives of three men. The deceased have been identified as 28-year-old Tim Tuttle, 31-year-old Dylan Smith and 56-year-old Andrew Allen.
Bangor, Maine-12-06-2021— A memorial erected by members of Bangor's homeless population located at a telephone pole near 196 Union Street in Bangor on Monday morning. Three men lost their lives in a fire at that location on Sunday. The deceased have been identified as 28-year-old Tim Tuttle, 31-year-old Dylan Smith and 56-year-old Andrew Allen.
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https://bangordailynews.com/2018/12/19/news/bangor/they-lived-in-a-tent-in-the-snow-until-he-began-to-die/
by Jen Lynds
HOULTON, Maine — A Silver Ridge man who has been convicted of criminal operating under the influence three times and who was arrested again for the same crime along with unlawful possession of scheduled drugs in February was sentenced to jail last month and will be unable to drive any motorized vehicle for three years.
Aroostook County Assistant District Attorney Kurt Kafferlin said late last week that Andrew L. Allen was tried in front of Justice Kevin Cuddy in Aroostook County Superior Court in Houlton on Aug. 7.
According to court documents, Maine State Police received a report that Allen, 46, was operating a vehicle erratically Feb. 8. State Trooper Jillian Monahan pulled Allen over on Silver Ridge Road in Silver Ridge and Allen allowed Monahan to search the vehicle, which he said belonged to his girlfriend. The girlfriend also authorized the search.
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STACYVILLE, Maine — State police have arrested a Sherman man and charged him with burglary and theft in connection with a camp break-in earlier this month.
During the arrest, police said they also uncovered evidence of methamphetamine manufacturing and found an old mortar round that needed to be handled by a bomb squad.
Following an investigation, Trooper Tim Saucier determined that 52-year-old Andrew Allen of Sherman committed a camp burglary reported May 12 on the Silver Ridge Road in Sherman, according to a press release issued Friday by Sgt. Josh Haines of the Maine State Police.
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I suspect there is a perception problem here.
> What problems did you have using jigdo-lite?
It's something you want; not a problem.
Download, unpack, read the readme.; installation done!
Readme file sez "click on runme"; not difficult.
I'm using jigdo-easy; shell script asks for a mirror or a search term. I use "United States", you might use "Canada". Not difficult.
Jigdo-easy keeps asking for hands.com; I didn't feel any need to work around it.
Keeps going to us.cdimage.debian.org, too. No problem here.
This was enough to get  the .jigdo and .template files.
I thought the running totals were adequate.
I don't understand; must be a perceptual problem.
I found it easiest to Google for the missing file and download it to the working directory. Next time I restart Jigdo this file is picked up.
If one download site doesn't work wouldn't you try another? After a few duds, wouldn't you ask around for a known good download site. Doesn't sound difficult.
...I've described what I do. It's easy.
I like rsync - but I think Jigdo is easier. The rsync syntax is difficult. Use jigdo instead.
The instructions in the "Pseudo-Image-Kit" are terse but adequate - this is the "Cygwin" rsync I favor.
This *is* tough - use jigdo instead.
- I had to verify the MD5 sum.
You do need the -b switch ... but it's not difficult.
...but five wget files are not difficult ... are they?


The first amendment is being challenged on all sides – freedom of religion is being tested in the Supreme Court, protests are keeping conservative pundits away from liberal campuses, and the White House is threatening a crackdown on the press. Over thirty tweets bashing the media have been sent out by President Donald Trump since inauguration. Besides condemning mainstream media as "fake news," he also suggested the loosening of libel laws, something he called for on the campaign trail.
But does the president have that authority or influence? First Amendment attorney Floyd Abrams says no – the federal government has no power over libel laws which differ for each state. Abrams, best known for his defense of the New York Times in the Pentagon Papers case, has published his latest book, "The Soul of the First Amendment." He joins Soledad O'Brien to explain the intersection of free speech and the right to protest, the beginnings of the First Amendment, and the case a former president could have against the current one.


A light breakfast of an omelet and a cup of black coffee eaten on the trot: Little did Radio France Internationale correspondent Ahmed Abba know it would be his last meal as a free man. Abba had a 10 a.m. assignment on July 30, 2015 - a security briefing in Maroua, the capital of Cameroon's Far North region, that the governor had convened in response to attacks by the extremist group Boko Haram.
The Far North was reeling from three suicide bombings that month that left at least 34 people dead. Although such attacks occurred almost daily in Boko Haram's base in Northeastern Nigeria, they were rare in neighboring countries. The bombings came a few days before a two-day official visit by Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari to Cameroon to strengthen cooperation in the fight against terrorism. Abba had spent most of the previous day interviewing Nigerian refugees who had fled the extremist group.
As Abba left the governor's security meeting, two police officers arrested him. He was charged under Cameroon's anti-terror law and, after nearly two years in custody, convicted by a military tribunal of "non-denunciation of terrorism" and "laundering of the proceeds of terrorist acts." He was sentenced to 10 years in prison. His lawyer says Abba is appealing the sentence.
The government says that the anti-terror law President Paul Biya enacted in December 2014 is part of its effort to counter Boko Haram, which has carried out kidnappings as well as attacks in Cameroon. However, CPJ found that authorities are using the law against journalists such as Abba who report on the militants, and others who have reported on unrest in Cameroon's English-speaking regions or are critical of Biya's administration.
In addition to detaining journalists, authorities have banned news outlets deemed sympathetic to the Anglophone protesters, shut down internet in regions experiencing unrest, and prevented outside observers, including CPJ, from accessing the country by delaying the visa process. Journalists say that the risk of arrest or closure has led to an atmosphere of fear and self-censorship - an unhealthy climate considering that elections are scheduled for next year.
According to the editor of one English-language publication, the government conflates news coverage of militants or demonstrators with praise, and journalists don't know what they can and cannot report safely, so they err on the side of caution.
Biya, who was appointed prime minister in 1975, assumed the presidency in 1982. He is one of the world's longest-serving elected leaders. The parliament revised the constitution in 2008 to remove presidential term limits.
In addition to the Boko Haram insurgency, his administration for the past year has been grappling with clashes in the Anglophone regions between police and demonstrators, as lawyers, teachers, and other groups went on strike over claims they are being marginalized. The country's language divide and calls for greater autonomy - in some cases, secession - is a hangover from the early days of independence, when regions that were under British colonial rule unified with those governed by France. Residents in the English-speaking region say that not enough official documents are translated clearly into English, and that the predominantly French-speaking government appoints teachers and judges to their region who speak little to no English.
The turmoil in Cameroon, and Biya's increasingly authoritarian response, risk more political instability and humanitarian crises in a region that has already suffered years of war. Cameroon shares a border with Chad, the Republic of Congo, and the Central African Republic, among other countries.
The President's Office did not respond to CPJ's written request for comment.
Cameroon has a diverse media environment, with at least 600 newspapers, 30 radio stations, 20 television stations, and 15 news websites in operation, according to the regulatory National Communication Council. But that does not mean information flows freely.
Cameroon's anti-terror law is a powerful tool of fear, according to opposition parties, the media, trade unions, and civil society and human rights organizations. The law's provisions are criticized as overly broad with easy potential for abuse of political opponents and the right to freedom of expression. The law has a maximum penalty of the death sentence, and allows authorities to detain indefinitely those accused of terrorism. It also provides for prosecution in military court, contravening Article 10 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which guarantees individuals a fair, independent, and public hearing of any criminal charges against them, and the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, which Cameroon ratified in 1989. The African Charter states, "Military courts should not in any circumstances whatsoever have jurisdiction over civilians." Civilians tried by a military tribunal are often denied their rights to a fair trial and appeals process.
The Biya administration wants to avoid a situation like in Nigeria where journalists covered Boko Haram and the government was unable to "control the narrative," Smith said. He noted that journalists wanting to report from the front lines in the fight against Boko Haram need authorization from the ministries of defense and communication and must be embedded.
In addition to Abba, CPJ was aware of at least four other journalists who faced charges under the 2014 anti-terror law for their reporting: Atia Tilarious Azohnwi, political editor of The Sun; Hans Achomba, a documentary filmmaker; and Tim Finnian, publisher and editor of the weekly newspaper, Life Time, were all detained in custody for several months until a presidential decree on August 30, 2017 secured their release. The decree also ended criminal proceedings against Jean-Claude Agbortem of online magazine Camer Veritas, who was on bail on accusations of inciting terrorism. All of them faced trial before a military court and, if convicted, they would have faced the death penalty.
CPJ is investigating several other cases, including Thomas Awah Junior, publisher of the monthly magazine Ahem Messenger, who was arrested on January 2 in Bamenda, and Fonja Hanson, editor of the privately owned Cameroon Report and the chief executive of the Cameroon Broadcasting Service, arrested in Bamenda on July 28, to determine if those arrests are directly related to journalism. Amos Fofung, bureau chief for The Guardian Post, was freed on August 5 without charge, after being detained for nearly six months.
Journalists detained under the anti-terror law face harsh treatment while awaiting trial. According to details shared with CPJ about Abba's March 24 testimony before the military tribunal, and people familiar with his case who spoke with CPJ on condition of anonymity, Abba was detained incommunicado for at least three months after his arrest. Members of the intelligence agency beat him with machetes and sticks, and walked on his back in their boots. He also initially faced the death penalty.
The journalist's lawyer, Charles Tchoungang told the military court that Abba - who CPJ will honor with its 2017 International Press Freedom Award - was beaten by guards who tried to force him to reveal his sources. In his testimony at the tribunal in the Cameroonian capital, Yaoundé, Abba recounted how he was kept handcuffed and at times naked, during questioning and his imprisonment. The journalist said his legs were shackled and when he was transported via plane to the capital, he was muzzled.
Peter Essoka, president of Cameroon's National Communication Council - the media regulator whose members are appointed by Biya - denies that Abba's imprisonment is related to his journalism.
In a statement released when Abba was sentenced in April, RFI director Cécile Mégie said the French government-funded station had provided "irrefutable evidence" that Abba did not condone terrorism in his reporting. When contacted for comment for this report, Mégie directed CPJ to the broadcaster's statement.
France's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the French Embassy in Washington D.C. did not respond to CPJ's emailed request for comment.
The documentary filmmaker Achomba was also treated harshly after his arrest on January 23, his wife, Lilian Shiya, told CPJ. When during questioning police discovered he had worked in South Africa, which has a large Cameroonian diaspora pushing for more autonomy, they accused him of covering riots in the Northwestern region to damage Cameroon's international image.
Shiya said that when she first visited Achomba in custody, his feet were swollen and he could hardly walk. Shiya said her husband later told her that police used batons to beat him on the soles of his feet, walked over his stomach and groin, and threatened to cut off his fingers. "They were making comments about him getting married and told him he would not see me anymore," she told CPJ.
The president's office and the official government spokesperson did not respond to CPJ's requests for comment about the treatment of journalists in custody.
Cameroon's crackdown on the press deepened late last year amid the unrest in the English-speaking regions, CPJ research shows. The National Communication Council handed down a series of penalties on December 6, 2016, including suspensions ranging from one to six months and bans on 14 publishers and their newspapers, one radio station managing director, and 15 journalists from 10 print and online newspapers, radio, and television stations for reports that the council said included "unfounded, offensive, and insinuating allegations."
The same month, the Ministry of Communication wrote to privately owned broadcasters instructing them to stop broadcasting political debates "concerning the current political atmosphere in the Southwest region," according to a copy of the December 1 directive, shared on Twitter.
Authorities briefly suspended broadcast permissions for the privately owned radio stations Radio Hot Cocoa in Bamenda, the capital of the Northwest region, on January 10, and Jakiri community radio station on January 12 for their coverage. Jakiri was suspended after broadcasting a parliamentarian's call to protest the marginalization of Anglophones, according to media reports.
Taka said the station is now taking a more cautious approach. "This is not censorship of any kind, but our attempt to judiciously inform our listeners," Taka said.
On January 20, Essoka, president of National Communication Council, threatened on the state-owned Cameroon Radio and Television (CRTV) to suspend or shut down any media organization disseminating "seditious" content regarding demonstrations for secession or federalism in Anglophone regions, according to press reports. Essoka named the newspapers Le Messager, Cameroon Post, The Guardian Post, The Times Journal, broadcasters Equinoxe TV, Spectrum TV, Canal 2 International, and some community radio stations as allegedly supporting the protests, the reports said.
Mokun Njouny Nelson, director of Foundation FM in Bamenda, said that his station briefly suspended broadcasts itself after the Ministry of Communications' regional representative summoned him for questioning in April. The intelligence service sent the ministry a security report about the weekly magazine program "News Extra" that claimed the station fanned secession sentiments, Nelson said.
Another director of a privately owned radio station told CPJ that management decided to stop broadcasting for a few weeks "as we feared we would be victimized." The station is back on air now, but has stopped discussing socioeconomic issues or anything political for self-preservation, he said.
Authorities have also attempted to target social media - described by the government-run daily The Cameroon Tribune on November 1, 2016 as "fast becoming a threat to peace and a secret instrument of manipulation." In a November 10, 2016 speech to parliament, Cavaye Yeguie Djibril, speaker of the National Assembly, called social media "a new form of terrorism ... as dangerous as a missile," according to media reports.
And in January, Cameroon's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications sent mobile phone users text messages warning that they could face between six months and two years in prison and fines of up to 10 million Central African francs (US$17,900) for sharing information about unrest.
Meanwhile, some journalists who tone down their coverage of sensitive issues to avoid arrest or penalization of their news outlets find that they are squeezed between factions.
A journalist from the privately owned English-language daily The Guardian Post said that the newspaper's editorial line was tempered after the paper's bureau chief Fofung was arrested in February. A warning the same month from the National Communication Council accused the outlet of fueling the Anglophone crisis and threatened to shut it down if it did not immediately stop running articles on secession and federalism. The warning was repeatedly broadcast on the state-run CRTV. The Guardian Post management decided to drop all reports on calls for secession and the country's return to a two-state federation, the journalist, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal, said.
Livelihoods are also at risk. Anjianjei Constantine, who hosted "Talking Point" on the privately owned LTM satellite television station in Douala, told CPJ he was fired in January after refusing to sign a document saying that he would abide by a government directive to not discuss secession or federalism.
Constantine said his boss, Marthe Mouaha, told him that Communication Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary had threatened in a phone call to ban the show and stop a government subsidy to the station. "After the warning from my boss, she decided to personally censor the guests that came on 'Talking Point.' She told me that she can't afford to forfeit her subsidy from the government because of me," Constantine said.
Mouaha did not respond to CPJ's request for comment. The communication minister did not respond to CPJ's emailed request for comment.
Journalists reporting for international outlets on the unrest and prosecutions of alleged protest organizers have also been affected. On December 12, 2016, masked security officers detained Zigoto Tchaya, a local reporter for broadcaster France 24, for one day after he interviewed a barrister and activist based in Bamenda, according to media reports. And on February 1, BBC correspondent Randy Joe Sa'ah was arrested and his equipment seized for recording an impromptu briefing by the defense counsel of a group of activists when their trial before a military tribunal was postponed. The journalist told CPJ he was charged as an "accessory to propagate false information" and released on bail.
More recently, the National Communication Council sought to restrict broadcasting of channels operating outside of Cameroon to English-speaking regions, according to reports. Essoka told journalists in Bamenda in July that cable distributors in the Northwest and Southwest regions airing the signal of the Southern Cameroons Broadcasting Corporation would be sanctioned, without specifying the penalties. Essoka said the South Africa-based channel was out to destabilize Cameroon, reports said.
In a statement to CPJ, Essoka said that the National Communication Council is a regulatory and consultative organ and "has the right to take punitive action toward media organizations." Essoka denied that the council is threatening journalists to prevent critical reporting. "When a complaint is addressed to us, we take time to investigate. We hear both parts to understand the matter," Essoka said. "We try as much as possible to protect the journalists" and do not interfere in the editorial independence of news outlets, he said.
CPJ reached out to state-owned media outlets, including the state broadcaster CRTV and Cameroon Tribune newspaper, for their views on conditions for the press, but no one responded to the requests for interview.
Press associations have tried to push back against the crackdown, with limited success. When a group of journalists attempted to form the Consortium of Journalism Associations in the Southwest region in December 2016, the governor of the English-speaking region, Bernard Okalia Bilai, threatened its leaders with arrest if they didn't close the association, according to media reports and members of the consortium who spoke with CPJ on condition of anonymity.
The consortium had threatened, in a statement, to boycott government press conferences if English-language versions of documents were not made available.
Bilai did not immediately respond to CPJ's call and text messages requesting comment.
Mentan, the former journalism professor, told CPJ that conditions for media freedom in Cameroon are more repressive than the 1990s when many journalists went into exile or were arrested.
Still, some journalists are defiant. Agbortem, the co-founder of online magazine Camer Veritas and an opposition politician who was arrested in his office in Douala on January 25, had published several opinion articles critical of the Cameroon authorities and supportive of the Anglophone protests. He was accused of inciting terrorism and destabilizing the government, but was released on bail on March 3. Agbortem said authorities questioned him about articles in Camer Veritas and social media posts, as well as meetings he allegedly had with opposition politicians.
Agbortem, who had been facing a military tribunal, said that the August 30 presidential decree cleared him of all charges.
Local and international media and rights groups have protested Cameroon's use of the anti-terror law to target critical journalists. The Northwest chapter of the independent Cameroon Association of English Speaking Journalists and the independent Cameroon Journalists' Trade Union called for their colleagues' release earlier in the year. At the World Editors Forum in Durban, South Africa, in June, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers adopted a resolution about the lack of press freedom in Cameroon. And in May, Jovial Rantao, chairman of the African Editors Forum, released a statement condemning Abba's conviction and sentencing.
"The economic environment is suffocating and the administrative control [is] draconian, leaving the media little or no room to thrive. For any media organization whether print or broadcast to survive in Cameroon today, it must toe the government line or die," Odusile said.
However, international bodies such as the European Union, African Union, and U.N., as well as countries partnering with Cameroon in the fight against violent extremism, have been slow to publicly condemn its actions. Cameroon is a partner in a Multinational Joint Task Force to fight Boko Haram, which is supported by the U.K., France, and other EU and AU member states. Yet besides a statement from France's then-foreign minister condemning the treatment of Abba in December 2016 and calling for his release, none have publicly condemned the abuse of power, or made public statements to demand the journalists be released.
The U.N. Security Council also failed to publicly call out Cameroon for its failure to uphold human rights including freedom of expression. Speaking as the then-president of the Security Council, U.K. permanent representative Matthew Rycroft told reporters that the internet shutdown and rights abuses in the Anglophone areas "didn't come up in a formal meeting" with Cameroonian officials during a trip to the country in March, which coincided with the internet shutdown.
"I think that makes sense because we were going there to look at the threat to international peace and security that emanates from Boko Haram and the related issues," he said. Rycroft said that the rights abuses were raised in informal meetings with the Cameroonian government.
Since then, the U.N. has started to apply pressure on Cameroon and offered to mediate in the ongoing unrest. Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed told a delegation from the country's prime minister's office in early August to ensure that justice is granted to all those detained during the unrest, according to The Guardian Post. The U.N. special representative for Central Africa, François Louncény Fall, urged Cameroon in April to release the detainees.
With elections scheduled for next year, and Cameroon due to host the African Cup of Nations soccer tournament in 2019, the stifling of criticism, including through the anti-terror law, are likely to come under increased international scrutiny.


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The Fighting Game Community (FGC) is no stranger to change. In it's short history, the scene saw its roots planted in the arcades, transition over to home consoles, then eventually evolve into a legitimate online presence, which arguably prompted the community's most recent evolution, one which inhabits the world of professional gaming, or what is better known as Esports.
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Date Published On: June 14, 2018
After what could be described as one of the most interesting years in the Fighting Game Community (FGC), 2017 not only delivered great moments and growth, but in hindsight also laid the groundwork for what the FGC in 2018 and beyond may turn into.
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Rally for Economic Justice at General Assembly!
This General Assembly we are protesting outside of Wendy's! Why? To get better wages and working conditions for the farm workers who have supplied Wendy's tomatoes. When asked by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) to sign onto the Fair Food Program, McDonald's, Burger King, Taco Bell, and Subway all said yes. Wendy's responded by moving their business to a new tomato supplier based in Mexico. This new supplier, Bioparques, was prosecuted for slavery in 2013. Workers there have testified that they were trapped in camps without beds, fed on scraps, and beaten when they tried to quit.
Join the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC), Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), CIW, and fellow Unitarian Universalist (UU) youth and young adults at 1 p.m., June 22, at Wendy's Restaurant, 2004 North High St., Columbus, Ohio. Click here to RSVP and reserve a seat on the bus (which is wheelchair-accessible)!
What does it take to turn one of the worst agricultural working environments in the country into one of the best? The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) provides an inspiring example of the power and success that worker-led movements can have with the support of faith, student and consumer allies. In the 1990s, the tomato fields of southern Florida were rife with abuses, wage theft, sexual harassment, and even cases of slavery. Today, the CIW's Fair Food Program guarantees basic rights and dignity for workers in the tomato fields, has increased annual wages from around $10,000 to $17,000 with just a penny more a pound, and includes a robust workplace-monitoring program for promptly addressing any abuses that arise.
Young people have been at the forefront of this movement as part of the Student/Farmworker Alliance. In the 2015 Week of Action against Wendy's, hundreds of students on more than a dozen college campuses organized pickets and delivered letters to managers. We know that these tactics can work based on past success. From 2001-2005, more than 300 universities and high schools were involved in the campaign against Taco Bell, in which restaurants were removed or blocked from starting on 25 campuses. Due to this pressure, Taco Bell became the first major corporation to sign onto the Fair Food Program. Today, students are organizing similar actions against Wendy's.
As a UU young adult, I'm looking forward to taking action at this General Assembly. Let's organize for systemic change in our food system and hold Wendy's accountable!
Shaya French serves as the UU Women's Federation Clara Barton intern. She is involved in organizing around reproductive justice, racial justice, LGBTQ rights and prison abolition with Black and Pink. She lives in the Lucy Stone UU Cooperative in Boston, MA. Shaya graduated from Bard College in May 2015 with coursework focusing on ecology, gender and sexuality, and human rights. While at Bard, Shaya founded the Anti-Racism Collective to engage more white students in racial justice. She grew up in the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Middleboro and attended district youth conferences as well as conferences at Ferry Beach and Star Island.


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