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Ind i Vilmarken er en bog af den amerikanske forfatter Jon Krakauer. Bogen, som blev udgivet første gang i 1996, er dokumentarisk og fortæller den unge mand Christopher McCandless historie. Krakauer skrev oprindeligt en artikel om McCandless i friluftlivsmagasinet Outside, som blev publiceret i januar 1993. Grundet responsen på artiklen skrev Krakauer bogen.

Efter Christopher McCandless tog sin eksamen ved Emory University, stoppede hans kommunikation med familien. Han forærede sine penge til Oxfam og rejste rundt i Amerika som blaffer. McCandless tur endte i Alaska, hvor han levede i omtrent 112 dage, før han til sidst døde af sult. I bogen møder vi en række af de mennesker, McCandless mødte på sin rejse, for eksempel Wayne Westerberg eller Ron Franz. Sidstnævnte var en ældre herre, McCandless stiftede et varmt venskab med. Krakauer fortæller også om sine oplevelser i vildmarken.

Bogens titel er hentet fra et postkort, McCandless skrev til Wayne Westerberg, før han drog ud i Alaskas vildmark:

I 2007 udkom filmen Into the Wild, baseret på Krakauers bog. Filmen er instrueret af Sean Penn, og den har Emile Hirsh i hovedrollen som McCandless og Thure Lindhardt og Signe Egholm Olsen i rollerne som nogle danske back-packere, McCandless mødte.

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An attractive and affordable family neighbourhood in Victoria.
Originally a heavily forested area, street trees are still important to the neighbourhood with its many chestnuts, Garry oaks and flowering fruit trees. After World War One, London Plane trees were planted along Shelbourne Street as a memorial to local soldiers and still grace the street today.
Oaklands is home to Hillside Mall, a major shopping centre for the region. The mall, along with surrounding commercial uses, medical and dental offices, restaurants and neighbourhood convenience stores, form a vital commercial core which is served by high volume traffic and transit routes of Hillside Avenue, Shelbourne and Cook Streets. The community is also home to a growing neighbourhood village, known as Haultain Corners.
Oaklands has other heritage features including a number of residences and structures and the Jewish Cemetery which was established in 1860 and sits atop Fernwood Hill.
Oaklands has two community parks (Oaklands and Hillside), two large neighbourhood parks (Oswald and David Spencer), as well as some smaller neighbourhood parks. Clawthorpe Park is a small but well used park located at the very northern edge of the neighbourhood. Mount Stephens Park is a small, naturalized park consisting of rocky outcrops.
Holly Green is a good example of the local community coming together to implement a naturalization project with the cooperation of the city. Though relatively small, it contains a diversity of native plants and trees.
Oaklands Elementary School, originally opened in 1913 and continues in its role providing education to young children and serving as a resource to local community groups. The landmark Cridge Centre for the Family, BC's oldest registered non-profit society, is located in Oaklands.
Oakland's Sunset Market runs from June to September on Wednesday evenings from 4:30pm to 8:30pm at the Oaklands Community Centre. The Market is a free, weekly community celebration featuring over 50 local food growers and producers, artisans, crafters, and body products, live music, a bi-weekly beer garden, and a space for the community to come together and meet their neighbours.


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"Rumble" at Durango Library KSUT Board of Directors, Ex-Officio, Eddie Box Jr., speaks of his musical background during the panel discussion after the documentary "Rumble: Indians Who Rocked the World" screening at the Durango Public Library, Thursday, Jan. 17. Also on the panel, left to right: Dr. Shelby Tisdale, Director of the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College, Robert L. Ortiz, KSUT Board of Directors Vice-President, Betty Box and Eddie Box Jr.
Panelists, Eddie Box Jr., and his wife Betty, along with Robert L. Ortiz pose together after the screening of "Rumble: Indian Who Rocked the World" at the Durango Public Library.
Southern Ute tribal member, Randolph Scott speaks with Spenser S. Snarr, Adult Services Librarian at the Durango Public Library about the Rumble documentary. The four-member panel spoke of music and the influence it has on their lives.


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Former CIA employee Edward Joseph Snowden announced on June 9 that he is the source of recent leaks to the Guardian and Washington Post exposing systematic police-state surveillance conducted under the Obama administration by the National Security Agency.
Snowden, who is 29 years old and has served as an undercover intelligence employee, referred to the massive surveillance program as an "architecture of oppression" with virtually limitless aims: "They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them."
The leaks have uncovered a government spying program that includes the accumulation of detailed phone records on nearly every individual in the United States, as well as a program of Internet spying spanning the globe involving the close collaboration of major tech companies, including Microsoft and Google.
According to the data released by Snowden, in addition to the collection of data from millions of US citizens on a daily basis, the NSA also snoops on the rest of the world. Employing a program known as Boundless Informant the NSA collected no less than 3 billion pieces of metadata from individuals and businesses across the continent of Europe in the space of just one month. Every European state was subject to surveillance but, on the basis of a color-coded map, it emerges that the continent's biggest economy, Germany, was subject to the most scrutiny by the US program.
The US spying operation has huge international implications. In a commentary on the revelations the British Financial Times expressed its concern about the consequences of the US spying for international diplomacy and business, while the Observer newspaper condemned the hypocrisy of Obama who recently harshly criticized surveillance operations conducted by the Chinese government.
In an interview with the Guardian's Glenn Greenwald (available online here), Snowden detailed the vast spying capabilities assembled by US government agencies: "The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting."
"The NSA specifically targets the communications of everyone… I sitting at my desk certainly had the authority to wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president if I had a personal email."
"I don't want to live a society that does these sort of things," Snowden said. "I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under."
Snowden currently works for Booz Allen Hamilton, a defense contractor in Hawaii, but has fled to Hong Kong. Speaking of his motivation in leaking evidence of a massive dragnet carried out under the Obama administration, Snowden added, "Everyone, everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten—and they're talking about it."
Snowden rejected claims that the spying programs are focused on foreign communications: "The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America…We collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians."
"We hack everyone everywhere," he added.
Asked about the possibility of effective countermeasures against the surveillance, Snowden responded, "You are not even aware of what is possible. The extent of their capabilities is horrifying. We can plant bugs in machines. Once you go on the network, I can identify your machine. You will never be safe whatever protections you put in place."
Snowden said he was motivated by a desire to defend the public against a vast expansion of state power. "Allowing the US government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest," he said. "It's important to send a message to government that people will not be intimidated."
Snowden stated that he lives "a very comfortable life," but is "willing to sacrifice all of that because I can't in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, Internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building."
Snowden made clear that he fears for his safety as a result of his actions: "Yes, I could be rendered by the CIA. I could have people come after me. Or any of the third-party partners. They work closely with a number of other nations. Or they could pay off the Triads [organized crime syndicate in China]. Any of their agents or assets," he said.
Snowden's fears are entirely justified, given the punishment of whistleblowers meted out by the Obama administration. The US military is currently prosecuting Bradley Manning for releasing to WikiLeaks evidence of massive criminality abroad.
Responding to statements by journalist Steve Clemons that he had overheard intelligence officials arguing that the reporter and leaker of the story should be disappeared, Snowden said: "Well, I am a spy and that is how they talk. Whenever we had a debate in the office on how to handle crimes, they do not defend due process—they defend decisive action. They say it is better to kick someone out of a plane than let these people have a day in court. It is an authoritarian mindset in general."
Snowden has announced that he will seek protection from foreign governments: "I intend to ask for asylum from any countries that believe in free speech and oppose the victimization of global privacy," Snowden told the Washington Post.
Obama administration officials have already threatened to arrest and prosecute the leaker of the information on domestic spying. Speaking to NBC, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said, "This is someone who for whatever reason has chosen to violate a sacred trust for this country… I hope we're able to track down whoever is doing this."
In a recent speech, Obama brushed aside media coverage of the surveillance programs as "hype," saying that systematic spying on telephone records and Internet usage amounted to no more than a "modest encroachment" on rights protected by the US Constitution.
Snowden said he "watched as Obama advanced the very policies that I thought would be reined in [with the departure of the Bush administration]," and as a result, "I got hardened."
"What they're doing," Snowden said, poses "an existential threat to democracy."
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Smashwords – About E. Pluribus Unum, author of 'The Meteor Men - Delta Rise', 'The Meteor Men - Tranquility Badlands [Location Four-Seven]', 'The Meteor Men - Lagos High', etc.
To my mind it is almost unimportant who I am in the same way that it doesn't really matter who the guy is that delivers that telegram to you, or the deliveryman who leaves the package at your front door. What matters is that you get your package on time, intact, and unmolested. That is my job.
I put it this way because in a very large sense, I have no choice in the words that I bring to you. What decides the written word is pretty much cut in stone - I merely look to see what is there and report to you what I have found from a certain perspective. The platform that I observe from is built from over a decade of passive research with no goal in mind other than to academically discover that which is the future. To word it a different way, I study only the truths of the past combined with the 'what is' of the present to see what can't be escaped for the 'gonna be'. This leaves no room for fantastical whimsy or personal bias.
This is also what makes the Series events so exciting to write about. I don't sit to the machine with a thought in mind to say a particular thing. I must observe. I must go into this world and carefully pay attention to what these characters are doing and what they do it with. Only then do I get to see what happens next. I am seldom disappointed.
Aside from that know this. I am neither criminal nor fugitive. I adhere to the Laws of the Land [well... for the most part]. I have erroneously been declared as mentally competent and I am not too hard to look at in the mirror [except for first thing in the morning, maybe.] I have led a life that seems to me more exciting than most and I like very much who I am. The messenger.
Vastly outnumbered, the Troopers need every iota of their wit, wile, and wisdom as their task begins to take on a face. From Switzerland to the farthest reach of the Outworld, the enemy proves to be as boundless as they are mysterious in this science fiction gone warped. Come meet the man who has a 'rocket in his pocket and a roll in his soul'. Katamma Reach. Lagos High. Tranquility Badlands.
A century from now, our hero must do battle with a big chunk of Africa as well as the estranged wit of his own unit as he attempts to de-mystify an unusual construction project in this twisted science fiction. In this 'world' Troopers rule and the Lunar surface provides the economic basis for our first colonizations of inner space – the 'Outworld'. Katamma Reach. Lagos High. Tranquility Badlands.
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Q: How to escape string so it can be parsed as Python code to give original string? When generating Python code by a Python script, there is a string in s from which a line of Python code should be generated with the behavior of t = '...', with generation by:
code_t_assign = "t = '{}'".format(s)

The initial s can for example be '\", where proper escaping should then make code like:
t = '\'\\"'

What is the safe way to escape special characters like \ and ' in s to the code line for assign of t can execute?

A: Based on comment from @LukasGraf:
code_t_assign = "t = {}".format(repr(s))

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Is There An "America's Ugliest Town" Contest I Don't Know About?
Jim Burroway
It seems that everyone is looking for their Big Viral Internet Meme in the sun. The problem is, some of those viruses are deadly. A pastor in Newton, North Carolina wants to round up gay people and put them in concentration camps; his flock stands behind him. Another pastor, Curtis Knapp of New Hope Baptist Church in Seneca, Kansas, says that gays should be killed:
They should be put to death. That's what happened in Israel. That's why homosexuality wouldn't have grown in Israel. It tends to limit conversions. It tends to limit people coming out of the closet. — 'Oh, so you're saying we should go out and start killing them, no?' — I'm saying the government should. They won't but they should. [You say], 'oh, I can't believe you, you're horrible. You're a backwards neanderthal of a person.' Is that what you're calling scripture? Is God a neanderthal backwards.. in his morality? Is it his word or not? If it's his word, he commanded it. It's his idea, not mine. And I'm not ashamed of it."
Knapp later claimed that he really didn't mean it, using words to suggest that he really, deep down, did. "We punish pedophilia. We punish incest. We punish polygamy and various things. It's only homosexuality that is lifted out as an exemption," he told CNN.
And then there's the viral video of a four year old boy at the Apostolic Truth Tabernacle in Greensburg, Indiana, singing, "Ain't no homo's gonna make it to heaven." The congregation leapt to its feet in shouts and applause. Someone — a parent probably? — shouted "That's my boy!" They loved it so much that they brought the kid up for an encore. Greensburg is where 14-year-old Billy Lucas killed himself because he was perceived as being gay. The community banded together for a massive cover-up, but Billy's memorial page on Facebook told the real story, leading me to dub Greensburg America's Ugliest Town.
And you know what? It apparently still is, although several other pastors are trying to put their own towns in the running.
Tags: Greensburg IN, Indiana, Newton NC, North Carolina, Seneca, Seneca KS
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Greensburg, Indiana: America's Ugliest Town
Want more reasons to be furious over Billy Lucas' suicide?
Homophobic hate messages were left Thursday on a memorial page set up for Billy Lucas, a Greensburg High School student who killed himself last week after being mercilessly bullied, friends said. Numerous images were uploaded to a Facebook group, giving visitors a taste of the kind of hate Lucas endured, friends said.
The messages chided the teen about defending himself and made attacks on his presumed sexuality, 6News' Joanna Massee reported. Lucas was found hanged in a barn at his grandmother's house last week. Some of the messages attempted to make light of the way Lucas died.
In Greensburg, bullying doesn't end with death. It goes on beyond the grave to torment those left behind. Greensburg, Indiana right now is the ugliest town in America.
Tags: Billy Lucas, Bullying, Greensburg IN, Indiana, Suicide, Youth
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More details from Billy Lucas' last day
Timothy Kincaid
More details have come out about the day that 14-year-old Billy Lucas took life. (WISHTV.com)
His mom last saw him around 8 p.m. that night as he put up the horses. In the police report she says he "was acting strange earlier and called 911…he told the dispatcher he was causing problems for his mom and people should come". She told police she didn't know why he called and told dispatchers there was no problem and not to come.
Billy had been suspended from school that day. Friends say he was fighting back with cuss words against the bullies. They say girls were harassing him in class when he stood up and let the words spew. He was suspended.
Jade Sansing met Billy as he was being harassed a year ago. She tells 24 Hour News 8 of his final days "everything seemed normal, but he did tell me some people were making fun of him and I told him I would help him and I did." Help from Jade is now memories in the Facebook memorial page she created. She says, "I made a Billy Lucas memorial page so I could say my last goodbyes and everyone could know about the bullying." She had to make her last goodbyes on the internet because there was no public funeral for Billy. Jade says the bullies would call Billy "gay and tell him to go kill himself." Karen questions, "You actually heard people tell him go kill yourself?" She answers "yes".
As for the school? They are denying everything.
The coroner and Greensburg school district say there is no evidence bullying led up to the suicide.
There is nothing about this story that doesn't leave me furious and near tears.
Tags: Billy Lucas, Bullying, Greensburg IN, Indiana, Suicide
With a mother like this, who needs bullies?
The mother of Billy Lucas is defending Billy… from assumptions that he was gay. (Fox 59)
The mother of a teen who killed himself after being bullied is speaking out. Annie Lucas told the Greensburg Daily News that billy was not gay and added that he was too young to know what he was.
She says quote:"I know everyone has these assumptions but they're not true. I know he was bullied. It wasn't that he was gay. He was bullied for everything."
She goes on to say, "I don't want this to turn into a gay activist thing. I don't want it to turn into anything."
How many gay kids have heard, "you're not gay, you're too young to know anyway" from a parent that was far more concerned about their own social standing, religious opinion, or selfish plans for their child than they were about the mental health of the kid trying to open up to them?
As we've said from the beginning, we don't know if Billy was gay.
But I do know that the bullying he experienced was primarily over assumptions about his sexual orientation. And I do know that if I were a bullied gay kid with this mother, life just might seem unbearable.
And now Annie Lucas is trying to make his death meaningless.
UPDATE: I believe I neglected to share a detail that may have influenced my thinking on this matter. When reading the various news stories about Billy's suicide, I ran across this comment:
Lucas had a history of fighting with his mother and problems at school.
Although I did not include it in my original commentary, it did impact the extent to which this story touched me. I felt that this poor kid may have had no adults in his corner and I do think that it is likely that his lack of a support network at home or school or anywhere really contributed to his overall feeling of worthlessness.
Indiana kid bullied to death
I'm usually detached enough that this stuff doesn't get to me. But for some reason, Billy Lucas' story has me on the verge of tears. (Fox 59)
He was a teenager who didn't quite fit in. His classmates said Billy Lucas was bullied for being different.
The 15-year-old never told anyone he was gay but students at Greensburg High School thought he was and so they picked on him.
"People would call him 'fag' and stuff like that, just make fun of him because he's different basically," said student Dillen Swango.
Students told Fox59 News it was common knowledge that children bullied Billy and from what they said, it was getting worse. Last Thursday, Billy's mother found him dead inside their barn. He had hung himself.
I am sick of reading this story over and over and over and the only change is the name. But I am even more sick, disgusted, and outraged at hearing "I didn't know" excuses and blame-the-victim justifications from administrators who ignored the abuse – often deliberately.
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This time the 'I Don't Give A Damn Award' goes to Principal Phil Chapple, who had no idea that Lucas was being bullied. Nope, no clue.
But he did say this:
"Sometimes he created that atmosphere around him," Chappel said. "Kind of like a little tornado because he went around doing things that made dust fly, I guess."
So Chappel saw dust fly, but never noticed that kids were threatening Billy every day. Un-huh. And he admits that his problems were because "people found out who he was."
So I guess Chappel's version is that Billy "created that atmosphere" by being "who he was" and "went around doing things" that "made dust fly" but Chappel never noticed any bullying, no sir. In his rush to blame Lucas for his own mistreatment, Chappel didn't even see the internal contradiction in his own story.
So now that the news cameras are on him, what is Chappel doing? Is he contacting GLSEN? Is he instating long-tested anti-bullying programs? Is he letting the teachers know that there will be no tolerance for anti-gay bullying? Is he even acknowledging that this has LONG been a problem at Greensburg High? (Eyewitness News)
school administrators met Monday to discuss forming a committee that would include students and parents to help battle the bullying issues
Chappel's newfound awareness of bullying is total bull. Another previous student – one who survived his own suicide attempt – told school officials about his anti-gay bullying. They did nothing.
I guess Chappel thought that he too "created that atmosphere."
What Are Little Boys Made Of?
In this original BTB Investigation, we unveil the tragic story of Kirk Murphy, a four-year-old boy who was treated for "cross-gender disturbance" in 1970 by a young grad student by the name of George Rekers. This story is a stark reminder that there are severe and damaging consequences when therapists try to ensure that boys will be boys.
Slouching Towards Kampala: Uganda's Deadly Embrace of Hate
When we first reported on three American anti-gay activists traveling to Kampala for a three-day conference, we had no idea that it would be the first report of a long string of events leading to a proposal to institute the death penalty for LGBT people. But that is exactly what happened. In this report, we review our collection of more than 500 posts to tell the story of one nation's embrace of hatred toward gay people. This report will be updated continuously as events continue to unfold. Check here for the latest updates.
Paul Cameron's World
In 2005, the Southern Poverty Law Center wrote that "[Paul] Cameron's 'science' echoes Nazi Germany." What the SPLC didn"t know was Cameron doesn't just "echo" Nazi Germany. He quoted extensively from one of the Final Solution's architects. This puts his fascination with quarantines, mandatory tattoos, and extermination being a "plausible idea" in a whole new and deeply disturbing light.
From the Inside: Focus on the Family's "Love Won Out"
On February 10, I attended an all-day "Love Won Out" ex-gay conference in Phoenix, put on by Focus on the Family and Exodus International. In this series of reports, I talk about what I learned there: the people who go to these conferences, the things that they hear, and what this all means for them, their families and for the rest of us.
Prologue: Why I Went To "Love Won Out"
Part 1: What's Love Got To Do With It?
Part 2: Parents Struggle With "No Exceptions"
Part 3: A Whole New Dialect
Part 4: It Depends On How The Meaning of the Word "Change" Changes
Part 5: A Candid Explanation For "Change"
The Heterosexual Agenda: Exposing The Myths
At last, the truth can now be told.
Using the same research methods employed by most anti-gay political pressure groups, we examine the statistics and the case studies that dispel many of the myths about heterosexuality. Download your copy today!
And don't miss our companion report, How To Write An Anti-Gay Tract In Fifteen Easy Steps.
Testing The Premise: Are Gays A Threat To Our Children?
Anti-gay activists often charge that gay men and women pose a threat to children. In this report, we explore the supposed connection between homosexuality and child sexual abuse, the conclusions reached by the most knowledgeable professionals in the field, and how anti-gay activists continue to ignore their findings. This has tremendous consequences, not just for gay men and women, but more importantly for the safety of all our children.
Straight From The Source: What the "Dutch Study" Really Says About Gay Couples
Anti-gay activists often cite the "Dutch Study" to claim that gay unions last only about 1½ years and that the these men have an average of eight additional partners per year outside of their steady relationship. In this report, we will take you step by step into the study to see whether the claims are true.
The FRC's Briefs Are Showing
Tony Perkins' Family Research Council submitted an Amicus Brief to the Maryland Court of Appeals as that court prepared to consider the issue of gay marriage. We examine just one small section of that brief to reveal the junk science and fraudulent claims of the Family "Research" Council.
Daniel Fetty Doesn't Count
The FBI's annual Hate Crime Statistics aren't as complete as they ought to be, and their report for 2004 was no exception. In fact, their most recent report has quite a few glaring holes. Holes big enough for Daniel Fetty to fall through.
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