I knew someone many years ago who had a wonderful singing voice. She reminded me of the American folk singer Joan Baez; like her, she accompanied herself on the guitar. Everyone who ever heard her, in church or wherever, agreed that she was really used by God. There was only one problem – persuading her to get up and sing was hard work! For some reason I was never quite able to fathom – perhaps she was just too humble – she seemed reluctant to make use of her gift. It was really frustrating.
Gifts are there to be used, not sat on. Jesus told us to "let our light shine" before the world, not to hide it away – as long, of course, as our motive is to give glory to God.
"Well," you could say, "this is no doubt true, but it doesn't really apply to me – I don't have any particular gifts, and certainly my singing wouldn't be a blessing to anybody!" Well, maybe (though the Bible does in fact tell us that we all have various God-given gifts). But this verse from Proverbs alerts us to one potentially massive gift that we all have – the tongue. Virtually all of us can talk.
You could paraphrase Proverbs 10:11 much more matter-of-factly: The way a true Christian speaks does real good to everyone who hears. But that's pretty plodding, and the writer prefers to use the poetic image of the fountain. I'm glad he does. Of course we shouldn't think of some ornamental fountain such as you find in the gardens of a big country house. No, this is a natural spring, clear and cold, invigorating and refreshing, that bubbles up from the ground in a dry, parched country. It's not just nice to look at; it really could be the difference between life and death for some worn out traveller.
Do you see your mouth, your tongue, in this way? Have you ever thought that when you go out to work, or wherever, you can make a big difference to people's lives just by the way you speak? Truly, you can bring light, love, hope and peace to someone in trouble. Or perhaps a word of warning to someone in moral danger. Even a word of rebuke to someone acting wrongly. You could – and I mean this absolutely literally – be used to change someone's life for ever.
Our world is awash with words. Many of them, sadly, are ugly and destructive. Angry. Harsh. Lying. Violent. Crude. Mocking. Critical. Vulgar. This is human nature, just one of the many forms sin takes in our fallen world.
So what a difference it makes when someone comes along who guards his or her mouth, and aims that every word they ever speak should be under the lordship of God's Holy Spirit. Words of truth and kindness, forgiveness and care, sensitivity and love, cheerfulness and good humour. No lies. No lashing out. No inappropriate humour. No snidy sarcasm or smart-alec comments. And why shouldn't that "someone" be you or me?
Jesus' brother James expands on this at length in chapter 3 of his letter in the New Testament. His emphasis is more negative than positive: how hard it is to control the tongue, "a restless evil, full of deadly poison". It's well worth thinking about – why not have a look at it?
But I think Proverbs 10:11 isn't too bad to be going on with. If it changes the way we open our mouths today it will have done some good.
Lord, forgive the often careless and sometimes sinful way I open my mouth. Please help me to grasp my tongue's potential for great good. Please make it a real "fountain of life" today. Amen.
Shortly before Christmas I visited Bangalore in south India with a small party from Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW).
In case you don't know, CSW is a human rights charity which seeks to promote religious freedom for all (primarily but not only Christians) who suffer violations of that right. Our party consisted of five people – two CSW staff plus three volunteers (including me) as observers and support people. Our week was in essence a fact-finding mission in a part of India, Karnataka state, where Christians are having a particularly hard time at the hands of extremist Hindu nationalists.
In due course the visit will be written up as part of a larger report which will go to, among others, the British Parliament, the European Union, the United Nations, and Capitol Hill in Washington. In all probability nothing will change very quickly, but the prayer is that the long slow battle against human rights abuses will receive a significant boost.
Our week was taken up largely with interviews with various key people. Broadly speaking these fell into two groups.
First, there were people working in government, education or the law – in other words, influential people who are seeking to make a difference. Discrimination on the grounds of religion or caste is, strictly speaking, illegal in India, but communal and sectarian tensions have a long history in South Asia (they were in fact encouraged and manipulated by the colonial powers) so that what we are seeing now is the fruit of many years.
Widespread corruption means that many people are suffering unjust and cruel treatment. The legal people we spoke to were aiming, among other things, to make vulnerable groups – Dalits, Christians, Muslims – more aware of the various options open to them when subjected to ill-treatment: sadly, people often feel there is nothing that can be done and simply accept injustice.
The second group we met were Christians who had actually been victims of persecution. The motto of CSW is to be "a voice for the voiceless", and these were precisely the kind of people it is aiming to help. Several people had come to Bangalore on a six or eight hour round trip to meet us, and some of the stories they told us were simply pitiful. One couple had been hounded out of their village and forced to live in a make-shift shelter in some kind of camp. Just before they came to see us their shelter had been demolished by local authorities – in pouring rain – and they were left "with nothing under the sky".
Stories of beatings, disruption of Christian meetings, and denial of basic rights were common. One pastor we met does his pastoral visiting by motor-bike, and it is routinely tampered with while he is with someone. This may seem pretty low-key opposition, but pushing a motor-bike home – for perhaps five or so miles – is no joke.
The extremists involved in this kind of activity have a deep-seated hatred of Christianity and Islam, seeing them as a threat to their culture and way of life. Sadly, it must be acknowledged that some Christian ministries (very possibly from abroad) have been involved in aggressive and insensitive forms of evangelism, rendering this attitude, if not justifiable, at least understandable. It is important to say that CSW is scrupulous in not engaging in evangelistic activity; its only concern is for human rights.
Our news broadcasts here in Britain remind us daily that extremist mindsets are dangerous right across the world and right across the religious and political spectrum. In India extremist Hindu nationalism represents in essence a calculated political position, rather than a strictly religious one, which manipulates religious identities for the sake of its own self-propagation. These attitudes have infiltrated deeply into high-up political circles and also into the police. If Christians do complain of ill-treatment they are likely to be told by the police to "stop worshipping this Jesus, then". If they bring charges against their attackers they are likely to be hit with counter-charges – all completely fabricated – suggesting that they are the ones acting outside the law.
Some of the stories were indeed heart-rending. And yet the church is growing in India, especially among the Dalits (the so-called "Untouchables"). The love of Jesus for all men and women equally is truly good news for these people. Please pray for them: their plight is terrible, yet their faith is radiant. At the beginning of one meeting about a dozen of them nearly raised the roof with their singing of a hymn to Jesus. I personally am not easily moved to tears, but I found it hard for those few minutes. Our Sunday worship was at a church founded by Operation Mobilisation, and it was massively heartening to see these people worshipping God and displaying great joy.
Pray for India. Pray for the political situation: important elections are due in the next few months, and extremist Hindu nationalists could come to power. But most of all pray for your brothers and sisters in Jesus who are suffering for him on a daily basis.
And pray that the work of Christian Solidarity Worldwide and other agencies will be effective in bringing justice and hope.
To find out more about CSW go to the blog archive and click on 2013, October (1). CSW is always happy to arrange a speaker for your church or group.
Regrets… Do you have any? I think you'd be either a very special person or a very foolish one if you were to say No. Don't we all? As we look back on our lives there are bound to be things where we wish we could turn the clock back. Some of our regrets may be fairly trivial – a silly word which caused embarrassment, an opportunity which we missed to do something good, a petty weakness which we have never quite mastered. Trivial perhaps, yet they have left a bad taste in the mouth.
We can of course try to bury them in the past – to pretend those things never happened. But we will not succeed; they will always be there, lurking uglily in our minds, poisoning our consciences and destroying our peace. Otherwise, we have two choices. Which is it to be?
First, we can slump into despair, perhaps into a really destructive bitterness. We can brood, going over and over in our minds our folly and stupidity. Some people, tragically, allow their lives to be ruined by vain regrets. In extreme cases it can even lead to suicide. This can only be a victory for the devil, who loves nothing more than to destroy us.
But there is another way. This is what the Bible calls repentance. We come to God and hold nothing back. We admit our wrongdoing. We recognise that there is nothing we can now do. We humble ourselves. Then, by an act of faith, we receive God's forgiveness. And we discover that along with that forgiveness comes something wonderful – the chance to start all over again.
God loves to forgive, even where we cannot forget. That doesn't mean he doesn't care about the wrong we have done and the hurt we have caused – he does, he cares very much, and he knows that a price has to be paid. But the good news is that that price has been paid – why else did Jesus die on the cross?
I wonder if anyone reading this is living with vain regrets? Can I remind you that our loving God is the master of the second chance, the new beginning? He always has a bright new future for those who are truly sorry. Moses was guilty of murder. David committed adultery. Peter denied Jesus. Paul persecuted the church. But each went on to play a big part in God's purposes. So why shouldn't that be true for you too?
I don't think we ever forget the wrongs we have done and the mistakes we have made. Nor would it be good if we did, especially if they caused pain to others. But repentance is all about that most wonderful gift of God – hope. So – Go forward! Go forward as a forgiven sinner, and let the hope of God fill your heart!
Dear Father, as I look back in my life there is much I feel ashamed of. But thank you that still you love me and want only good for me. I pray for the people I have hurt or damaged – if there is any kind of recompense I can make, then help me to make it. But thank you for a new start. Help me now to go forward, not always looking back, and to live from now on a life of Christlike holiness. Amen!
There's something I like about group photos. You know the sort of thing: a class of children sitting with their teacher, freshly scrubbed and on their best behaviour; a bunch of people attending a conference; a crowd at a wedding, all dressed up to the nines. There they all are, smiling cheesily into the camera. You can't help but smile back.
Well, they didn't have cameras in Paul's day; but wouldn't it be great to see a group photo of the early church in Rome? Can you imagine what it would have been like? The nearest we get to it is the list of names Paul gives us in the last chapter of his letter to them. I've picked out just a few. Please don't worry if you don't know how to pronounce them (neither do I), or if you can't think of anything you know about them. That's the whole point – they are just very ordinary people, most of them otherwise completely unknown to history. Just like us, in fact.
Isn't it good that after all the heavy-duty theology of Romans 1-15 we have this personal glimpse of the "army of ordinary people" who made up the church in the capital of the Roman empire? It alerts us to several important things.
First, the church is people, not buildings. At this point in history there was simply no such thing as a church building. In verse 5 Paul mentions the church that "meets at the house of Priscilla and Aquila". That's the way it was: in order to meet for worship and fellowship the early Christians gathered in homes or hired halls. I sometimes think that the church today would be a lot healthier if it had stayed that way. Buildings can be a curse as well as a blessing: the vast amounts of time and money they gobble up! the superstitious reverence they attract! the wrong image they can give to the non-Christian world!
Second, if the people Paul mentions here make up, say, about a quarter of the whole church – meeting in four or five locations around the city – then the church was really quite small, consisting of about 100 people. Again, much like many churches today. We must resist discouragement if our numbers are small: God can do massive things from truly tiny beginnings.
Third, the church was a community of workers. Do you notice the number of times Paul refers to people "working hard"? Yes, serving Christ and his church is often a matter of sweat and toil, rolled up sleeves and perseverance. The church isn't a social gathering with religious trimmings! Are you a worker in the church of Christ? Is it time you became one?
Fourth, there is a strong sense of affection, indeed, of love. People have "risked their lives" for one another. They are "dear friends"; Rufus's mother, it seems, "has been a mother" to Paul too. They were in the practice of kissing one another in greeting. This isn't a group of relative strangers who shake hands on a Sunday morning, make a few minutes of polite conversation, and then head off home. Oh no: these are brothers and sisters, sharing their very lives with one another.
Fifth, they were a mixed group. There are about 24 mentioned by name, of whom a little less than half were probably women. And we can be sure that there were rich (some had homes big enough to host a meeting) and poor. Different talents, different aptitudes, different personalities. Paul doesn't mention it here (though he certainly does elsewhere) but no doubt there were tensions too, differences of opinion, even personality clashes. Let's not imagine the early church was perfect, any more than yours is today.
Value the church! Value your church, whatever its faults may be! Love one another! Be a worker! Give of yourself and what you have cheerfully and gladly! Above all, remember that you are a saint (verse 2)!
A quick digression… I enjoy reading the slogans people have on their tee-shirts – well, the ones that aren't obscene, anyway. My all-time favourite is one I saw on a young man at the Oval watching the cricket: "Just give me treacle sponge and custard and nobody will get hurt." Ah, I thought, a man after my own heart! I've got a bit bored with the "Keep calm…" ones, though I suppose "Keep calm and make a brew" on my son's favourite mug isn't too bad.
And yet… perhaps, on reflection, I need to think again – for when it comes to the matter of prayer, it strikes me that "Just do it!" pretty much sums up what Jesus is implying here. He takes it for granted.
And when you come to the Lord's Prayer, a few verses later, again, how very low-key and matter of fact it is. It's short – you can say it slowly in about thirty seconds (I've just done it). In church, blink and you miss it. It's terse, down to earth and practical. You might even say it's quite flat and unemotional. Yet we tend to tie ourselves in knots when we try to pray: real prayer, we subconsciously imagine, should be lengthy and passionate, probably loud and repetitive, preferably accompanied by fasting. Otherwise, well, it won't weigh with God, will it?
Please don't get me wrong. Of course there is a place for fasting, for intensity, for long and emotional praying. Of course. The Lord's Prayer isn't there to tell us everything we need to know about prayer, or to be the only prayer we ever pray. Of course not. But recognising its sheer – what word should I use? – its sheer ordinariness could really help to liberate us from a few hang-ups. Why not relax and just get on with it? I suspect that the problem for many of us isn't so much that we don't pray in the right way, but that we don't pray much at all.
O God, please help me to pray day by day, not only when it's a joy, but also when it seems little more than a routine, not only when I'm in the mood, but also when I'm not, not only when my faith is bubbling, but also when my spirits are low. Amen.
It's Saturday afternoon and I'm on the top deck of the 79 bus in Alperton, north-west London. The bus is full – people of all races and colours. I'm one of a handful of whites. We are all minding our own business, hoping the bus will be able to crawl its way at least reasonably quickly through the bottle-neck which is Wembley High Street.
A young black woman comes up the stairs. She starts preaching: in a very loud voice. "Is there anyone here who loves Jesus? Is there anyone here who reads the Bible?" We all, metaphorically at least, pull our coat collars up around our faces: whatever you do, no eye contact.
For the next ten minutes, until we get to my stop, I wrestle with a genuine spiritual, even a moral, dilemma. Am I wrong to keep my head resolutely under the parapet? Should I not give support to a fellow-Christian, however misguided she might be? Worst of all, am I guilty of disloyalty to Jesus? I satisfy myself with the thought that there is no reason why I should be rail-roaded into a discussion which I haven't initiated, which I have not been invited into in an appropriate manner, and which I feel can only do damage to the witness of the church. That's enough for my conscience – I think.
It's a relief to get off the bus – she is still hard at it as I descend the stairs. I walk home mulling over in my mind the big question of cultural sensitivity in presenting the gospel. There's no doubt that that young woman deserves ten out of ten for enthusiasm; but I would only grudgingly give her even one out of ten for wisdom.
Well, I thought that was the end of the matter. But now something quite remarkable happens. I ought to say that this kind of preaching is something which I was completely unfamiliar with, even after more than twenty years in this part of London. I had never even heard of it, never mind encountered it.
But the very next day, Sunday, we head for church, and it so happens that a close minister friend of mine is visiting and is invited to share his story with the congregation. He is from Nigeria, and when asked how he became a Christian he replies that it was through the ministry of – wait for it – "bus evangelism" back home. Yes, this practice that I and the other passengers on the number 79 found so excruciating was how he was brought to faith in Jesus. Even worse follows – apparently he also, in his early days as a Christian, was himself an enthusiastic bus evangelist. I decide I have some serious thinking to do. Is this sequence of events mere coincidence? Or is God saying something to me?
I am left pondering various things.
First, the dilemma I mentioned earlier: was I guilty of being ashamed of Jesus? Or was I right to calm my conscience in the way I did?
Second, the question of cultural sensitivity. I decide that my initial dislike of what that young woman did was justified: even granted the massively multi-religious and multi-racial nature of the London Borough of Brent, it was clear that her intrusion into our privacy was unwelcome to all. 1 Peter 3:15 comes to mind – that bit about evangelising "with gentleness and respect".
Third, can such a sequence of events – I mean now what happened on Sunday morning too – be dismissed as "mere coincidence"?
And fourth, the sense that it's easy to get a bit pompous and high-and-mighty over such a thing, and that God was teaching me, if no-one else, a serious lesson in humility. No, I don't think I can defend that young woman. But if I am completely honest with myself, I have to confess that my attitude towards her was wrong; I was, like Michal in 2 Samuel 6, "despising her in my heart". I think of Bible characters – today they might be dismissed as cranks and weirdos – like Ezekiel and John the Baptist, and recognise that perhaps we should thank God for people who are prepared to violate conventions and step out in ways that may shock. Not look down on them.


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I mean your hands wont make or break your chances of passing as a woman, but it builds to the overall appearance and look. Of course there are short-cuts like wearing gloves but, if you put some effort in it can really go a long way.
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Lay everything out close at hand, just as you would if doing your make-up – you want to have everything together so you can complete the task from start to finish without having to break off to find an item you forgot.
Wash hands with a mild soap in warm water. If nails are dirty then clean with a nailbrush, re-wash hands and then pat dry with a towel.
Cut your longest nails with clippers so that they are all of an even and uniform length.
Refine the length and finish of each nail with the use of a card emery board – try not to use a metal one as they tend to be too rough and so tug on the nail causing unevenness. Using continuous strokes file from the outside of the nail to the center tip until you have the desirable oval shape. Do not file down severely at the sides.
Soak fingers in warm water for 3 minutes to soften the cuticles. At this point if you have the time you can add some lemon juice to the water that helps with the softening an also helps with any discoloration.
Dry your fingers and with the aid of an orange stick carefully push back the skin at the base of the nail back towards the nail bed. You want to expose the lighter half-moon at the base of the nail. You can save time here if every time you shower/bathe you spend a couple of minutes pushing back the skin since the cuticles will be softened.
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Inauguration of the renovation of French Institute headquarters
» "France through the eyes of children"
» The French Institute in Hue organizes "Storytelling with puppets" program
» Photographic exhibition of studying in France opens in Hue
» Institut français de Hué: Connecting young artists with the public
On the afternoon of June 30, the French Institute in Hue held the inauguration ceremony of the renovation of the new headquarters. Attending the ceremony were the French Ambassador to Vietnam Nicolas Warnery and Chairman of Provincial People's Committee Phan Ngoc Tho.
Chairman Phan Ngoc Tho and French Ambassador Nicolas Warnery (third from right) cutting the ribbon to inaugurate the project.
The French Institute in Hue has been remodeled and renovated from February to June this year in order to improve the quality of reception and public service, optimize the space for organizing events and cultural activities as well as create conditions for students to have a more effective learning environment.
The remodeling and refurbishment focused on building green space on the main and the first floor of the building, upgrading multi-function hall - reception, film screenings, seminars and exhibitions spaces, and upgrading classroom system and multimedia library space.
Speaking at the ceremony, Chairman Phan Ngoc Tho emphasized: "The French Institute in Hue is an important foundation for the development of long-term relations between France and Thua Thien Hue in particular and Vietnam in general. This is a destination for people who love French language and culture. With a spacious, beautiful and sophisticated facilities, I hope the French Institute in Hue will continue to develop and be a friendship bridge between the two countries."
As a branch of the French Institute in Vietnam, the French Institute in Hue is a familiar place for the public who love the French language and culture. This is also one of the partners who actively contribute to the language, culture and artistry exchange activities of Hue City.
* On the evening of the same day, the French Institute in Hue also opened the photo exhibition "Public, Private, Secret".
The "Public, Private, Secret" Photo Exhibition introduces the works of two young photographers Joseph Gobin (France) and Nguyen Phuong (Vietnam) through the curated section of the photographer Mai Nguyen Anh.
The exhibition showcases works by Joseph Gobin and Nguyen Phuong
Viewers can admire the cluster of works about the ice tea space by Joseph Gobin. The scene of an unsettled beverage stall on the street which is separated from the bustling life always makes Joseph Gobin curious.
Instead of depicting them from the look of the past or the nostalgia, the ice tea culture in Joseph's photos appears to accompany the transformation of the times. There, to him, is a place that was both closed and open, private and public, characterizes contemporary Vietnamese society, especially in big cities.
Meanwhile, Nguyen Phuong goes deep into exploiting his chaotic thoughts. He felt lost in the urban hustle and bustle, where the pollution is still present but skillfully hidden under the lavish mantle. Pollution is limited not only in human indifference to the environment, expressed by the artist through photography tactics, but also in every human being.
The two sets of photos seem to be different, but when placed side by side, they create a place that is both open, private, and conceal the feelings of each photographer.
The exhibition takes place until July 24.
Also on June 30, the French Institute in Hue organized a variety of activities such as "Astérix le Gaulois" library activities for children, showing 3D animated series of Rubika.
Story and photos: Minh Hien
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Hue University: towards milestones in the university rankings (13/01)
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Book launch and exhibition on the Paris Agreement in Verrières-le-Buisson
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Vietnam ranks 30th among the most powerful countries in the world
Approving cooperation agreement between Thua Thien Hue and Salavan in the period of 2022 - 2026
Two Vietnam's beaches among top 10 most popular beach destinations in the world on TikTok
Hue City: Heading towards the sustainable smart urban development
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July 23, 2013 at 9:15 PM ET by Megan Slack
On his second day in New Delhi, Vice President Biden meets with Indian leaders to discuss the increasingly important bilateral relationship between our two countries.
Vice President Joe Biden meets with Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, at Panchavati, in New Delhi, India, July 23, 2013. (Official White House Photo by David Lienemann)
On his second day in New Delhi, Vice President Biden met with Indian leaders to discuss the increasingly important bilateral relationship between our two countries.
In meetings with Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari and others, Vice President Biden emphasized a range of opportunities for our countries to work more closely together on issues such as economic growth, trade, energy and climate change, security and investments in innovation and education.
In the evening, the Vice President discussed the importance of the U.S.-India relationship at a dinner hosted by Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari.
"We look at the relationship as one that has immense potential for both the United States" and India, Vice President Biden said. "But it also has great potential for the world."
It's no longer a zero-sum game, as it was when I first entered public life. When another nation moves forward in leaps and bounds and creates new wealth, that is not against our interest. It's overwhelmingly in the interest of the United States of America that India grow -- grow at the rates it had been growing and even faster.
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Rival pro teams donate bikes to amateur squad after their bikes are stolen from van at race
Others come to the rescue after Maaslandster International team's bikes are stolen at the Festival Elsy Jacobs
Lauren Murphy riding her borrowed bike at Stage 1 of the 2018 Festival Elsy Jacobs (Photo by Balint Hamvas/Velofocus.com)
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By Owen Rogers
published 29 April 18
Teams, riders and even members of the media came together in Luxembourg on Saturday after an amateur team had all their bikes stolen at the Festival Elsy Jacobs. The Maaslandster International team's bikes were locked in the back of their van overnight at the team hotel when the incident happened in the town of Marienthal.
The team is one of the amateur outfits riding in the 2.1 ranked event in Luxembourg and all the bikes belong to the riders, not the team. However, the parking area before the start of Saturday's 97.7km stage in Steinfort was a hive of activity, with individuals and teams offering to help out.
Race commentator José Been was one of those who gave her bikes: "I brought my bike so I could ride in the mornings before the stage, but when I heard about the team's plight I thought I had to help out," she said.
One of the riders was former British Junior road champion Lauren Murphy, who joined the team just three weeks ago.
"It was a bit of a nightmare this morning," she told Cycling Weekly. "They had broken in and taken every single bike, and all the good wheels we had in there had gone as well, so we are left with just the training wheels. My rollers are still there which I was thankful for.
"It's been brilliant, everyone has tried to muck in and help out because I think everyone realised that if they were in that position they would want someone to help them."
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It's been tough few weeks for Murphy after crashes saw her injure both wrists and break two bike frames. She rode Friday's 2.8km prologue on her alloy training bike, however her eyes lit up when Movistar offered her use of one of their Campagnolo Super Record EPS-equipped Canyon Ultimates.
"It's better than my bike, so it's fair to say I am happy that they have offered to help us and lend us bikes," she laughed. "All the bikes are better than the bikes we brought here ourselves, but I'll need a good warm up to get to know the bike a bit more."
While the loss of the bikes is a disaster for the team and their riders, all six started on borrowed bikes and only one failed to finish the stage, which was won by Luxembourg champion Christine Majerus (Boels-Dolmans).
While Murphy managed to finish 73rd, 1-07 behind the winner, her team mate, Japanese champion Eri Yonamine, guesting with from pro outfit Wiggle-High5, enlivened the race riding off the front on a borrowed Pinarello Dogma, before creating the day's main break.
A full list of bikes is not yet available, however, is thought to amount to tens of thousands of Euros. If you believe you have been offered one of them please contact Luxembourg police or the team on their Facebook page: www.facebook.com/maaslandsterladies.
The team has also set up a GoFundMe page, aiming to raise $50,000 to help the team's riders replace their stolen bikes.
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A Tale of Two Holidays – Constitution and Citizenship Day
How September 17 became two national holidays celebrating America.
By: James Fite | September 17, 2022 | Tags: citizenship day, Constitution, constitution day, history 535 Words
(Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
America celebrates its independence on the Fourth of July. While many think of this as the nation's birthday, the true anniversary of the United States' creation is September 17. On this day in 1787, 39 men signed the document that would become the US Constitution, officially establishing the nation and becoming forever known as the Founding Fathers.
Today, September 17 is celebrated as Constitution Day. It honors the nation's birthday, the signing of the Constitution, and the citizenship of the people – whether native-born or naturalized immigrants.
A Young Holiday, An Old Celebration
September 17 has been officially called Constitution Day since 2004, but the celebration itself goes back much farther. New York City news tycoon William Randolph Hearst suggested in 1939 that we have a holiday to celebrate American citizenship. Hearst reached a lot of people with his newspapers, but he also had political connections. In 1940, Congress named the third Sunday in May "I am an American Day."
Hearst went on to sponsor a short film titled I am an American, which was featured in theaters across the nation. Within five years, the governors of every state in the Union had proclaimed their support of the holiday.
Citizenship Day
Children wave American flags and hold their certificates of citizenship after becoming US citizens. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Several years later, in 1952, a woman from Ohio named Olga T. Weber began petitioning to have the date changed to September 17 so that it would fall on the date when the Constitution was first signed. Her state agreed, and so did the United States Congress in 1953. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the law, making September 17 "Citizenship Day." Weber's hometown, Louisville, was the first place to celebrate the new holiday.
The event celebrated all American citizens born in the country, as well as those who are born overseas but move to the US and take the steps to become an official citizen. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services agency says that on this day, it "encourages Americans to reflect on the rights and responsibilities of citizenship and what it means to be a U.S. citizen."
After many years of Citizenship Day, another idea came along to influence the holiday. After taking a course in constitutional history, Louise Leigh was inspired by what she had learned. She founded a nonprofit organization in 1997 called Constitution Day, Inc.
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The organization worked for several years to make September 17 an official day recognizing the Constitution, as well as citizenship. Her work paid off in 2004 with the support of Senator Robert Byrd. Congress passed a bill that included the creation of "Constitution Day," and the event was officially recognized as a national holiday alongside Citizenship Day.
Today, September 17 is much better known as Constitution Day than Citizenship Day, but the dual holiday still celebrates the same things: the founding of the United States by signing the Constitution and the honor of being a citizen of the land of the free.


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Q: Tight fit in horizontal diagram generated with forest I use the forest package to create a diagram similar to the one below. Is there any chance to reduce the distance between B5 and B6? I would prefer, if B6 and its subtree could be moved up. I have played around with the options l, s, l sep, s sep and fit without success so far. Actually I thought the default value fit=tight should do the job, but it does not...

Source for example diagram:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{forest}

\begin{document}
\begin{forest}
for tree={fit=tight}
[A, grow'=east
[B1,
[B2,
[B3,
[B4,
[B5,
[B6, grow'=east,
[C, grow'=east,
[D1, for tree={grow=north},
[D2,
[D3
]]]
[E1, for tree={grow=south},
[E2
]]]]]]]]]]
\end{forest}
\end{document}

Source for full diagram:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{forest}

% Document
\begin{document}
\begin{forest}
for tree={anchor=center}
[FB, grow'=east
[BJ$_X$
[BJ$_Y$
[BJ$_Z$
[BJ$_X$
[BJ$_Y$
[BJ$_Z$, grow'=east
[F, grow'=east
[LLJ$_X$, for tree={grow=north}
[LLJ$_Z$
[F, grow=east
[FT, for tree={grow=south}, [WMJ$_{ABD}$, [WM$_{ABD}$]]]
[ABD, for tree={grow=north}
[ULJ$_X$
[ULJ$_Y$
[ULJ$_Z$
[F, grow=east
[FT, for tree={grow=south}, [WMJ$_{THO}$, [WM$_{THO}$]]]
[THO, for tree={grow=north}
[F, grow'=east
[F, grow'=east
[LNJ$_X$, [LNJ$_Y$, [LNJ$_Z$, [HEA, for tree={grow=north}, [EP]]]]]
[SJ$_{L,X}$, for tree={grow=south}, [SJ$_{L,Y}$, [SJ$_{L,Z}$, [UPA$_L$, [EJ$_{L,Z}$, [LOA$_L$, [EP]]]]]]]
]
[SJ$_{R,X}$, for tree={grow=south}, [SJ$_{R,Y}$, [SJ$_{R,Z}$, [UPA$_R$, [EJ$_{R,Z}$, [LOA$_R$, [EP]]]]]]]
]]]]]]]]]]
[PEL, for tree={grow=south}
[F, grow=south
[HJ$_{L,X}$, [HJ$_{L,Y}$, [HJ$_{L,Z}$, [THI$_L$, [KJ$_{L,Z}$, [SHA$_L$, [AJ$_{L,X}$, [AJ$_{L,X}$, [AJ$_{L,X}$, [F, grow'=east, [COPJ$_{L,X}$, for tree={grow=north}, [COPJ$_{L,Y}$, [COPJ$_{L,Z}$, [COP$_L$]]]], [FOO$_L$, [EP]]]]]]]]]]]]
[HJ$_{R,X}$, [HJ$_{R,Y}$, [HJ$_{R,Z}$,, [THI$_R$, [KJ$_{R,Z}$, [SHA$_R$, [AJ$_{R,X}$, [AJ$_{R,X}$, [AJ$_{R,X}$, [F, grow'=east, [COPJ$_{R,X}$, for tree={grow=north}, [COPJ$_{R,Y}$, [COPJ$_{R,Z}$, [COP$_R$]]]], [FOO$_R$, [EP]]]]]]]]]]]]
]]]]]]]]]]
\end{forest}
\end{document}

A: To be honest, I'm not sure this is much of an improvement. However, it is a lot clearer what is going on and the code is considerably less cluttered. It is also slightly more compact (both width and height/depth are smaller than in the OP's solution). Whether any of this is of any importance is, of course, another matter.
\documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{forest}
\usetikzlibrary{matrix}
\tikzset{
  fixedBase/.style={draw, circle, fill=black, text=white},
  prismaticJoint/.style={draw},
  revoluteJoint/.style={draw, rounded corners=2mm},
  rigidLink/.style={draw, color=blue, fill=blue, text=white},
  fixedTranslation/.style={draw, fill=gray},
  fixedRotation/.style={draw, fill=gray, rounded corners=2mm},
  springDamperElement/.style={draw, circle, color=blue, fill=blue, text=white},
  fork/.style={draw, circle, color=red, fill=red, text=white},
  endpoint/.style={draw, fill=black, text=white},
}
\newsavebox\treelegend
\setbox0=\hbox{% solution from Steven B. Segletes: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/366710/
  \begin{tikzpicture}
    \matrix [matrix of nodes, column 2/.style={text height=3.5mm, text depth=3.5mm, text width=40mm}]
    {%
      |[fixedBase]| F8 & Fixed base \\
      |[prismaticJoint]| PJ & Prismatic joint \\
      |[revoluteJoint]| RJ & Revolute joint \\
      |[rigidLink]| RL & Rigid link \\
      |[fixedTranslation]| FT & Fixed translation \\
      |[springDamperElement]| SD & Spring-damper element \\
      |[fork]| F & Fork \\
      |[endpoint]| EP & Endpoint \\
    };
  \end{tikzpicture}%
}
\savebox\treelegend{\copy0}
\begin{document}
\begin{forest}
  fork/.style={
    /tikz/fork,
    before computing xy={for children={l'+=8mm}},
  },
  for tree={
    anchor=center
  },
  before computing xy={
    for tree={l'=9mm},
  }
  [FB, fixedBase, grow'=east, anchor=east
    [BJ$_X$, prismaticJoint, for tree={grow=north}
    [BJ$_Y$, prismaticJoint
    [BJ$_Z$, prismaticJoint
    [BJ$_X$, revoluteJoint
    [BJ$_Y$, revoluteJoint
    [BJ$_Z$, revoluteJoint, grow'=east
    [F, fork, grow'=east, before computing xy={for children={l'+=5mm}}
    [LLJ$_X$, revoluteJoint, for tree={grow=north}
            [LLJ$_Z$, revoluteJoint
            [F, fork, grow=east
            [FT, fixedTranslation, for tree={grow=south}
              [WMJ$_{ABD}$, prismaticJoint
                [SD, springDamperElement, before computing xy={l'=0pt, s'=15mm}]
                [EP, endpoint, before computing xy={l=10mm, s'=0pt}]
              ]
            ]
            [ABD, rigidLink, for tree={grow=north}
            [ULJ$_X$, revoluteJoint
            [ULJ$_Y$, revoluteJoint
            [ULJ$_Z$, revoluteJoint
            [F, fork, grow=east
            [FT, fixedTranslation, for tree={grow=south}
              [WMJ$_{THO}$, prismaticJoint
                [SD, springDamperElement, before computing xy={l'=0pt, s'=15mm}]
                [EP, endpoint, before computing xy={l=10mm, s'=0pt}]
              ]
            ]
            [THO, rigidLink, for tree={grow=north}
            [F, fork, grow'=east, before computing xy={for children={l'+=10mm}}
            [F, fork, grow'=east
            [LNJ$_X$, revoluteJoint
              [LNJ$_Y$, revoluteJoint
                [LNJ$_Z$, revoluteJoint
                  [HEA, rigidLink, for tree={grow=north}
                    [EP, endpoint]
                  ]
                ]
              ]
            ]
            [SJ$_{L,X}$, revoluteJoint, for tree={grow=south}
              [SJ$_{L,Y}$, revoluteJoint
                [SJ$_{L,Z}$, revoluteJoint
                  [UPA$_L$, rigidLink
                    [EJ$_{L,Z}$, revoluteJoint
                      [LOA$_L$, rigidLink
                        [EP, endpoint]
                      ]
                    ]
                  ]
                ]
              ]
            ]
          ]
          [SJ$_{R,X}$, revoluteJoint, for tree={grow=south}
            [SJ$_{R,Y}$, revoluteJoint
              [SJ$_{R,Z}$, revoluteJoint
                [UPA$_R$, rigidLink
                  [EJ$_{R,Z}$, revoluteJoint
                    [LOA$_R$, rigidLink
                      [EP, endpoint]
                    ]
                   ]
                 ]
               ]
             ]
           ]
    ]]]]]]]]]
    ]
    [PEL, rigidLink, for tree={grow=south}
      [F, fork, grow=south, before packing={s sep'+=5mm}, before computing xy={for children={l'-=5mm}}
        [HJ$_{L,X}$, revoluteJoint
          [HJ$_{L,Y}$, revoluteJoint
            [HJ$_{L,Z}$, revoluteJoint
              [THI$_L$, rigidLink
                [KJ$_{L,Z}$, revoluteJoint
                  [SHA$_L$, rigidLink
                    [AJ$_{L,X}$, revoluteJoint
                      [AJ$_{L,Y}$, revoluteJoint
                        [AJ$_{L,Z}$, revoluteJoint
                          [F, fork, grow'=east
                            [COPJ$_{L,X}$, prismaticJoint, for tree={grow=north}
                              [COPJ$_{L,Y}$, prismaticJoint
                                [COPJ$_{L,Z}$, prismaticJoint
                                  [EP, endpoint]
                                ]
                              ]
                            ]
                            [FOO$_L$, rigidLink
                              [EP, endpoint]
                            ]
                          ]
                        ]
                      ]
                    ]
                  ]
                ]
              ]
            ]
          ]
        ]
        [HJ$_{R,X}$, revoluteJoint
          [HJ$_{R,Y}$, revoluteJoint
            [HJ$_{R,Z}$, revoluteJoint
              [THI$_R$, rigidLink
                [KJ$_{R,Z}$, revoluteJoint
                  [SHA$_R$, rigidLink
                    [AJ$_{R,X}$, revoluteJoint
                      [AJ$_{R,Y}$, revoluteJoint
                        [AJ$_{R,Z}$, revoluteJoint
                          [F, fork, grow'=east
                            [COPJ$_{R,X}$, prismaticJoint, for tree={grow=north}
                              [COPJ$_{R,Y}$, prismaticJoint
                                [COPJ$_{R,Z}$, prismaticJoint
                                  [EP, endpoint]
                                ]
                              ]
                            ]
                            [FOO$_R$, rigidLink
                              [EP, endpoint]
                            ]
                          ]
                        ]
                      ]
                    ]
                  ]
                ]
              ]
            ]
          ]
        ]
      ]
    ]]]]]]]]
  ]
  \node [anchor=north west] at (current bounding box.north west) {\usebox{\treelegend}};
\end{forest}
\end{document}

A: Ok, thank you Bobyandbob and Tina for providing the initial hint. The option l sep was the key. Here is the code and diagram I finally came up with. I had to use some before computing xy, but I like the result.

\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{forest}

\begin{document}
\forestset{
fixedBase/.style={draw, circle, fill=black, text=white},
prismaticJoint/.style={draw},
revoluteJoint/.style={draw, rounded corners=2mm},
rigidLink/.style={draw, color=blue, fill=blue, text=white},
fixedTranslation/.style={draw, fill=gray},
fixedRotation/.style={draw, fill=gray, rounded corners=2mm},
springDamperElement/.style={draw, circle, color=blue, fill=blue, text=white},
fork/.style={draw, circle, color=red, fill=red, text=white},
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Free Assange? Yes, But That's Not Nearly Enough
June 21, 2022 June 21, 2022 Thomas L. Knapp
On June 17, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel approved the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States to face 18 criminal charges: One count of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion, and 17 counts of violating the Espionage Act of 1917. If convicted on all charges, Assange faces up to 175 years in prison.
His final recourse is an appeal to the High Court of Justice where, if the history of his case is any indication, he'll be told that they're all out of justice and have none for him.
If justice had anything to do with it, previous courts would have thrown out the US extradition request on grounds of both jurisdiction and treaty language. The "crimes" of which Assange is accused were not committed on US soil. And Article 4 of the US-UK extradition treaty forbids extradition for political offenses.
Be clear on this: Assange is a political prisoner, held for and charged with committing … journalism.
He exposed war crimes committed by US government forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as other illegal schemes such as then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's attempts to have UN diplomats' offices bugged.
The US government hates having its crimes exposed and, First Amendment be damned, tries to make examples out of those who dare display its dirty laundry.
While Assange obviously has more skin in the game than anyone else in this particular case, he's not the real target. The real target is the NEXT journalist who catches the US government acting illegally. The goal is to make that journalist think twice before telling you about it.
For that reason, stopping the extradition of Julian Assange isn't enough. Nor should we settle for an acquittal in court or a presidential pardon.
Crimes HAVE been committed, and examples DO need to made of the criminals who committed them.
The US Attorneys who filed the indictment — Tracy Dogerty-McCormick, Kellen S. Dwyer, and Thomas W. Traxler — must be charged with violating 18 US Code Titles 241 (Conspiracy Against Rights) and 242 (Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law). In addition to any prison sentences, they must permanently lose their licenses to practice law and be disqualified for life from further employment by the US government.
The same goes for their assorted co-conspirators, up to and including sitting and former presidents of the United States.
The US Department of Justice must dismiss the indictment, withdraw the extradition request, publicly apologize for its crimes against Assange, and compensate him richly for years of confinement and torture at its behest.
That's the absolute bare minimum. Just as Assange was not their real target, they're not ours. Our target is all the government officials who might, in the future, consider committing this kind of crime again.
Written by Thomas L. Knapp
Tom has worked in journalism — sometimes as an amateur, sometimes professionally — for more than 35 years and has been a full-time libertarian writer, editor, and publisher since 2000. He's the former managing editor of the Henry Hazlitt Foundation, the publisher of Rational Review News Digest (2003-present), former media coordinator and senior news analyst at the Center for a Stateless Society (2009-2015) and also works at Antiwar.com. He lives in north central Florida.
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Have you ever gotten up from your desk, walked over to the office kitchen, reached down to get coffee, only to find an empty coffee pot? If so, you personally know the inspiration behind our next installment in the Quantified Office series.
At our office, we have a large metal carafe for coffee (exactly like the metal ones with a lever on top that you often see at hotels). It lasts for several cups of coffee, but wandering into the kitchen to find the carafe empty is definitely a common frustration.
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Not a bad start for a murderer. Hamlet's eager desire to make sure that his victim is not merely dead but eternally damned is a sin far more grave than Claudius'. He is in more grave need of interior repentance than Claudius.
Interior repentance is the most vital aspect of the sacrament of confession. It is the secret of the soul known only to God. Like the woman who touched Jesus' garments in faith (Mark 5:30), the person who is interiorly repentant—sorry for his sin from his heart and seeking the grace to change—has the forgiving power of God leap from heaven to his heart without fail and without delay. Power goes out from Jesus to forgive sin and into a genuinely penitent heart just as surely as electricity completes a circuit whenever we throw a switch. Indeed, the very ability to make that act of interior repentance is proof that the grace of God has already been at work since such repentance is utterly impossible without the help of the Spirit.
This does not mean, of course, that confession is unnecessary any more than saying that, once a lover works up the gumption to finally admit his love for the Beloved, we can keep the relationship purely abstract and don't have to bother with all that kissing and stuff. Rather, it is to say, as the Church always has, that though we are bound by the sacraments, God is not bound. The fact that a person was unable to have access to the sacrament of confession no more makes his damnation a slam dunk than the Good Thief's (who not only never made a sacramental confession but was never baptized). God can forgive sins apart from the sacrament if he wants to.
But that does not mean we are free to ignore the sacrament. Indeed, it does not even meant that the person who is truly penitent would so much as want to. For all real acts of love absolutely demand to be expressed to the fullest extent possible. Just as wild horses will not keep two young lovers from expressing their love physically in the sacrament of marriage, so wild horses will not keep the truly penitent soul from finding some way to live out his interior repentance to the fullest extent his circumstances allow. Scrooge cannot just get up on Christmas morning and remark quietly that he feels a significant shift in mood about things in general. He must dance a jig, act so giddy as to frighten the housekeeper, and spend his gold buying the prize turkey for the Cratchits.
In other words, any real faith must be made flesh, and the sacrament of reconciliation is the way our Lord established so we can do that.
This need to simply confess can often be so overwhelming that we give vent to it in inappropriate and deeply destructive ways. For instance, many in the generation of perpetual adolescents called the Baby Boomers have, in their narcissistic need to feel eternally young and hip, opted to treat their children as peers instead of as what they are: children. So we get the grotesque spectacle of parents unloading on their kids their "confessions" about their sundry bad relationships, faults and failings with the expectations that the child will pick up the burden, grant absolution and even offer counsel. Such crushing selfishness from parents can and does place an unbearable burden on children who are supposed to be carried by their parents. To be sure, the recognition of one's sinfulness and the impulse to confess it is better than icy pride that refuses to admit all wrongdoing. But only God has shoulders broad enough and a back strong enough to bear the sins of the world. This is part of the reason for the sacrament of reconciliation, also known as "confession" for that very reason.
In confession, through the priest's sacramental absolution, God grants the penitent "pardon and peace." The pricelessness of this gift is only increased by the unworthiness of the person receiving it. All over the world, there are people laboring under the terrible burden of guilt for some terrible thing which they cannot forgive themselves and which they do not believe anyone—not even God—could forgive. How beautiful it is when someone walks into a confessional, bares his soul to God and finds, not a harsh, condemning judge, but a mercy unfathomable to human reason.
In Luke 15:21, the Prodigal Son is the image of the repentant sinner. His confession—"Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son."—sums up everything every penitent has ever had to say to God.
It is tempting to talk at times of a "before" and "after" in conversion so as to represent baptism or absolution, not as grace, but as magic. In such a false reckoning, we can fall into the trap of thinking that after such a dramatic moment, we won't sin anymore. But the reality is that we do still sin, which is why reconciliation is available all our lives. Because of this, conversion is revealed to be an ongoing process, not a one-time shot. To be sure, we are new creatures in baptism. But the outworking of that new creation in our lives is a lifelong process, assisted by the food of the Eucharist and the healing power of Reconciliation and the Anointing of the Sick. It is through these and other Sacramental Streams of Grace that the seed and shoot of our faith is watered and kept alive. If there is anything—anything at all—which burdens your conscience, please do not hesitate to take it to Confession and cast it into to the bottomless ocean of God's mercy. He will never fail to forgive your sins if you confess them and repent. Never. Go and have peace.


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Manuel Bernard Knight, född 20 november 1964 i Atlanta, Georgia, USA, är en föreläsare som var verksam i Sverige i över 20 år och som har blivit intervjuad ett hundratal gånger i svensk media.

I februari 2017 publicerade tidskriften Filter en artikel som visade att flera av de historier som Knight hade berättat om sin bakgrund inte var sanna. Innan Filters publicering hade 70 nyhetsredaktioner och flera myndigheter fått tips sedan augusti 2015.

I och med avslöjandena ifrågasattes även de svenska medier som hade släppt fram uppgifterna utan att kontrollera sanningshalten, och Filters reporter Oskar Sonn Lindell sade att det verkade som om ingen egentligen brydde sig om Knights historia var sann eller inte.

Bakgrund
Knight beskrev sig som en före detta amerikansk specialförbandssoldat som en kort tid var krigsfånge under Kuwaitkriget, att han deltagit i krigen i Grenada och Panama, att han vid invasionen av Kuwait hade belönats med tapperhetsmedalj, att han var psykolog och att han varit världsmästare i karate..

Knight intervjuades 2001 i Sveriges Radios Samtal pågår och medverkade senare i SVT:s program Stina! med Stina Lundberg Dabrowski 2007 och Sveriges Radios Sommar i P1 i 2008. För det senare programmet presenterades Knight felaktigt som psykolog, vilket är en skyddad yrkestitel. Först månader efter ändrades informationen om programmet på SR:s webbplats genom att titeln "psykolog" togs bort, men utan någon notis om att texten hade ändrats.

Knight medverkade i SVT:s Sommarpratarna 2010. Han tilldelades Stora talarpriset för 2011. Knight intervjuades i Elfving möter 2011 och i Morgonpasset i P3 2013.

I februari 2017 hade Knight förekommit i minst 233 artiklar och i talarbranschen spelade det stor roll för Knights trovärdighet att stora redaktioner som Sommar i P1 hade släppt fram honom.

Knight tjänade mycket pengar på att berätta sin historia. 2017 rapporterades att omsättningen hade varit cirka 10 miljoner kronor per år.

Ifrågasättandet
I november 2013 startades en diskussionstråd i forumet Flashback som ifrågasatte Knights historier. I oktober 2015 startade grävargruppen Groundhogs bloggen Manuel Knight News där de började rapportera om Knight.

Oskar Sonn Lindell påbörjade ett reportagearbete efter att ha kommit i kontakt med bloggen Manuel Knight News. Flera redaktioner, bland annat Filter och radioprogrammet Medierna hade fått tips om att Knight borde granskas. Tipsen hade kommit via epost med vad Medierna beskrev som en "besatt och inte speciellt trovärdig ton". Breven innehöll dock handfasta fakta som var kontrollerbara, vilka Lindell utgick ifrån i sitt arbete.

Den 26 januari 2017 rapporterade Lindell i tidskriften Filter att Knights livsberättelse var påhittad och Knight berättade själv i tidskriften att han ljugit och dramatiserat sin berättelse. Till radioprogrammet Medierna sade Knight att grunddragen var sanna, men att han hade överdrivit detaljerna, att han var djupt ångerfull över det han kallade sitt livs tveklöst största misstag.

Fortfarande mer än två veckor efter Filters publicering låg mycket av det felaktiga materialet kvar. Sveriges Radio hade inte uppdaterat texten vid Knights sommarprat på sin webbplats. Det uppdaterades först efter att Medierna hade påbörjat arbetet med sitt reportage men innan Medierna hade sänts hade en text tillkommit som noterade att det som stod inte stämde.

Lindell sade att otaliga redaktioner och journalister haft chansen att upptäcka felaktigheterna eftersom Knights egna historier hade gått isär på flera punkter. Att Knight flera gånger förekommit i stora svenska massmedier utan att sanningshalten i hans bakgrund granskades tillskrevs något som kallas "kaserngårdssyndromet" eller "kaserngårdsprincipen", det vill säga att en civil person som en gång kommit in på ett militärområde inte ifrågasätts, eftersom alla förutsätter att personen blev kontrollerad innan den kom in på området..

Medierna frågade vilket ansvar svenska medier bar eftersom de hade släppt fram uppgifterna utan att kontrollera sanningshalten. Lindell menade att det inte verkade som om någon egentligen brydde sig om Knights historia var sann eller inte och att hans säljbarhet som föreläsare verkade viktigare än att han ljugit för att ta sig dit. De förmedlingar som erbjöd hans föreläsningar nöjde sig med att ändra presentationen av honom när tveksamheter om Knights bakgrund framkom.

Enligt grävargruppen Groundhogs, som driver bloggen Manuel Knight News, skickade de uppgifter om Knight redan i augusti 2015  till 70 nyhetsredaktioner i Sverige, bland annat Sveriges Radio, Sveriges Television, Aftonbladet och Svenska Dagbladet som alla tidigare hade publicerat felaktig information. De kontaktade även offentliga institutioner som hade anlitat Knight, bland annat kommuner, landsting, Domstolsverket, Polisen och Försvarsmakten utan att någon reagerade.

Projektledaren för Stina! och Sommarpratarna fick besked från SVT:s programetikavdelning att han inte behövde göra något åt de felaktiga uppgifterna som sänts i programmen.

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