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HRH The Prince of Wales gives a speech at the High Commissioner's Reception, New Delhi
This diversity is to be celebrated and cherished not only because it is so central to our identities and our sense of belonging...
I cannot tell you how delighted my mehaboobaa and I are to be back in India again, a country that is so very special to us both. I think it is forty-three years ago that I first came to India, so this is my ninth visit and the fourth that we have made together. The last time we were here, four years ago, we were lucky enough to spend nine fascinating days in Delhi and Dehradun; Mumbai , Pune and Kochi. On this occasion our time here, very sadly, is rather more brief, but it was nevertheless tremendously important to us both that, as we look forward to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London in April, we should conclude this Commonwealth Tour in India, home as you are to sixty per cent of the Commonwealth's population.
Over these past ten days, as we have travelled through Singapore – which of course hosted the first ever Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting back in 1971- and Brunei, Malaysia and now India, I have been reminded, once again, of the extraordinary cultural, religious and geographic diversity that enriches the Commonwealth. Encompassing, as it does, one third of the world's population and twenty-one per cent of its landmass, it has always seemed to me that the sheer diversity which exists across and within the fifty-two member countries is one of the Commonwealth's greatest strengths.
This diversity is to be celebrated and cherished not only because it is so central to our identities and our sense of belonging, but also, if I may say so, because it offers us the best hope of addressing the most pressing challenges of our time. A one-size-fits-all approach to globalization simply cannot be the answer and will, I am convinced, lead us into a sterile, monocultural homogeneity that creates ever greater problems whilst simultaneously robbing us of the solutions to address them.
The challenges, I am afraid to say, are already as urgent as they are profound. In so many ways, the Commonwealth is a microcosm of what the world, as a whole, is facing in terms of climate change and resource depletion. As is becoming increasingly evident, water, energy and food insecurity stalk our most vulnerable populations and communities and the relentless destruction of our forests and the overfishing and pollution of our oceans are, I fear, the symptoms of a conventional paradigm which is hard-wired on testing this beautiful and singular planet of ours to destruction.
What gives me hope, however, is the extraordinary wealth of ideas, traditional knowledge and cutting-edge ingenuity on which the 2.3 billion people of the Commonwealth can draw. Just think for a moment of all the great religious traditions, let alone the innate wisdom of the remaining indigenous communities represented in our family of nations,all of which speak of the essential requirement to work in harmony with Nature as our ultimate sustainer. The enlightened concept of Dharma and Dhaama, in the Hindu tradition is a classic example of the source from which we urgently need to draw inspiration in order to ensure that our economy better reflects Nature's own, waste-free economy. In other words what is increasingly being referred to as the Circular Economy. This offers us the best chance we have of rising to the challenge before it is too late. In this sense I have also always thought that the Commonwealth's various professional associations offer a remarkable and, dare I say, perhaps under-utilized resource.
Even more than that, the Commonwealth, built as it is on a firm foundation of shared associations and values, offers us an unparalleled means to build bridges between our countries, and fairer societies within them, so that understanding and aspiration might be the inheritance of the generations that follow us.
Ladies and gentlemen, as I discussed with Prime Minister Modi when he was generous enough to host me for dinner yesterday evening, as the world's largest democracy, India's role in all of this could not be more crucial, nor her contribution to the Commonwealth more essential. In so many areas - such as Prime Minister Modi's impressive and admirable focus on renewable energy – India offers a compelling example for others to follow. The world can learn so much from India today as, indeed, it has done throughout history - and, ladies and gentlemen, as I have done myself throughout my own life.
That is why it gives me the greatest possible pleasure to join you all today in celebrating this uniquely, diverse and dynamic country, at the heart of the Commonwealth – a country which can teach us how to blend the material with the spiritual dimension in order to create the integrated values of the future. And what is more, to celebrate the enduring friendship between India and the United Kingdom. It is the strength and vitality of the ties between our people – not least through the 1.4 million strong British Indian community – which ensure that our relationship continues to evolve and to flourish. It has been my admiration for, and gratitude to, this very special community that led me to set up my British Asian Trust a decade ago, whose work I am so pleased to have been discussing today.
All these bonds between our people are, of course, emblematic of the Commonwealth itself. The challenges we face together and the aspirations we share make it as relevant and as necessary as it has ever been. It offers us all the hope that by working together, and drawing strength from our diversity, we might secure a safer, more prosperous and fairer future for our children and our grandchildren.


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Q: Folland - Real Analysis, Plancherel theorem proof I have a problem in understanding the proof of Plancherel Theorem in Folland - Real Analysis.

Theorem. If $f \in L^1 \cap L^2$, then $\hat{f} \in L^2$; and $\mathcal{F}|(L^1 \cap L^2)$ extend uniquely to a unitary isomorphism on $L^2$.

The proof goes as follows:
First define
$
X := \{f \in L^1: \hat{f} \in L^1\}
$.
It is easy to show that $X \subset L^2$ and $X$ is dense in $L^2$.
At this point, Folland shows that $\mathcal{F}|X$ preserves the $L^2$ inner product. Moreover, it is bijective by the Inversion Theorem ( we  can use it since $f \in L^1$ and $\hat{f} \in L^1$ ) .
$\mathcal{F}|X$  extends by continuity to a unitary isomorphism on $L^2$ (that I call $\mathcal{F}_{ext}) $. It remains to show that this extension agrees with $\mathcal{F}$ on all of $L^1 \cap L^2$.
To do so, take $f\in L^1 \cap L^2$ and consider $g(x) = e^{-\pi|x|^2}$. We have $f*g_t \in L^1$ by Young inequality and $\hat{(f*g_t)} \in L^1$ since $\hat{f}$ is bounded. ( I omitted the details ) .
Therefore $f*g_t \in X$ and we know, by properties of convolutions, that $f*g_t \to f$ in both the $L^1$ and $L^2$ norms.
Therefore, $\mathcal{F}_{ext}(f) = \lim_{t \to 0} \mathcal{F}(f*t_t)$.
It remains to show that:
$$
\lim_{t \to 0} \mathcal{F}(f*t_t) = \hat{f} \mbox{ in } L^2
$$
Folland claims that $\hat{f*g_t} \to \hat{f}$ both uniformly and in $L^2$ norm, so we are done.
However, I don't understand how to prove the convergence in $L^2$. This is what I tried:
$$
\|\hat{f*g_t} - \hat{f} \|_{L^2} = \lim_{t \to 0 } \int |\hat{f}(\xi)e^{-\pi t^2 |\xi|^2} - \hat{f}(\xi)|^2 d\xi = \lim_{t \to 0 } \int  | \hat{f}(\xi)|^2 |e^{-\pi t^2 |\xi|^2}-1|^2 d\xi
$$
Now the integrand converges pointwise to $0$ as $t \to 0$.
I thought of using the Dominated Convergence Theorem to conclude, but I would need $\hat{f} \in L^2$ to use it (right ? ).
If $f$ was in $X$, we would obviously have $\hat{f} \in L^2$ since, by the above, $\mathcal{F}|X$ preserves the $L^2$ norm and $X \subset L^2$.
However, here we are dealing with $f \in L^1 \cap L^2 $. How can I conclude? Thanks for your help.

A: I am writing $f_n$ for $f*g_{1/n}$. The sequence $\{\hat f_n\}$ is Cauchy in $L^2$, since $\{f_n\}$ is Cauchy in $L^2$ (it converges to $f$) and $\|\hat f_n-\hat f_m\|_2=\|f_n-f_m\|_2$. Since $L^2$ is complete, there is $g\in L^2$ so that $\hat f_n\to g$ in $L^2$. Use that $\hat f_n\to\hat f$ uniformly to conclude that $g=\hat f$ a.e.

A: Let $\widetilde{f}(x)=\overline{f(-x)}$ and $\phi=f\ast\widetilde{f}$. Then $\phi\in L^1$, $\phi$ is continuous and $\widehat{\phi}=|\widehat{f}|^2\ge0$. Since $\phi\in L^1$,
$$
\int\phi(x)\,g_t(x)\,dx=\int\widehat{\phi}(\xi)\,\widehat{g_t}(\xi)\,d\xi=\int\widehat{\phi}(\xi)\,g(t\,\xi)\,d\xi.
$$
Since $\phi$ is continuous, the leftmost integral converges to $\phi(0)$ as $t\to0$. Then by Fatou's lemma
$$
\phi(0)=\lim_{t\to0}\int\widehat{\phi}(\xi)\,g(t\,\xi)\,d\xi\ge\int\lim_{t\to0}\widehat{\phi}(\xi)\,g(t\,\xi)\,d\xi=\int\widehat{\phi}(\xi)\,d\xi.
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Industry leaders gather in SF to define luxury in the 21st century
Carolyne Zinko May 25, 2016 Updated: May 25, 2016 6:12 p.m.
Industry leaders gather in SF to define luxury in the...
1of7At a panel titled, "The It Girls: Innovation, Intelligence, Big Investment, the Women Changing the Way We Look at Fashion," Financial Times fashion editor Jo Ellison, at left, interviewed Lisa Green, head of industry, fashion and luxury brands at Google; Lauren Santo Domingo, co-founder, Moda Operandi; Julia Wainwright, founder and chief executive officer at the Real Real; and Emily Weiss, founder and chief executive officer at Glossier.Photo: Financial Times
2of7Levi's President James Curleigh gives the keynote at the first day of the Financial Times Business of Luxury Summit 2016 in San Francisco. The conference was held May 23-24, 2016. Curleigh holds a framed pair of historic Levi's.Photo: Financial Times
3of7The Financial Times Business of Luxury Summit 2016 was held in San Francisco May 23-24, 2016.Photo: Financial Times
4of7Tony Fadell, Nest CEO, spoke at the Financial Times Business of Luxury Summit May 23, 2016, and said technological devices can be considered luxury. Here, he's seen at a Nest press conference at Terra Gallery in San Francisco in 2015.Photo: Santiago Mejia, The Chronicle
5of7Brunello Cucinelli in San Francisco at Neiman Marcus, after speaking at the Financial Times Business of Luxury Summit 2016.Photo: Carolyne Zinko San Francisco Chronicle
6of7Oscar de la Renta Creative Director Peter Copping spoke at the Financial Times Business of Luxury Summit in San Francisco May 24, 2016. Here, he takes a bow after the Oscar de la Renta Bridal Spring 2017 collection was modeled during Fashion Week in New York, Friday, April 15, 2016.Photo: Richard Drew, Associated Press
7of7Denise Bradley Tyson, founder of Inspired Luxe, an ethical jewelry company, (seen at left) attends Financial Times Business of Luxury Summit 2016 in San Francisco May 23-24, 2016.Photo: Financial Times
Is the definition of luxury a matter of semantics? Americans imbue it with concepts of authenticity, freedom, customization and comfort, while Europeans focus to a larger extent on craftsmanship, materials, taste and scarcity.
Words — or more to the point, positioning and spin — matter, especially when it comes to selling luxury in a world in which consumers are spending less, thanks to thrifty habits formed in the recession, and in which Millennials, the audience of the future for high-end retailers, favor shopping digitally over in stores, and acquiring experiences over acquiring more stuff.
Those were the big takeaways from the Financial Times' Business of Luxury conference May 23-24 at the Ritz-Carlton in San Francisco. Previous summits have been held around the world — Shanghai, Monaco, Marrakesh — but the Silicon Valley venue tied in to this year's theme, "New Creative Synergies." Among the 34 panelists were former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin; Oscar de la Renta Creative Director Peter Copping; James Quarles, head of business and brand development at Instagram; and Michael Evans, president of Alibaba Group.
Levi's President James Curleigh, the opening day's keynote speaker, began his address in unique fashion by singing Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A Changin'" as a metaphor about industry shifts. He then described the jeans company as a 150-year-old startup that deserves the luxury label due to its heritage, quality and innovation; its power as an influencer of lifestyle; and its Santa Clara stadium as a center for sports and culture — and as a vehicle for 80,000 fans in the stands to spread Levi's branding through social media hashtags.
Moda Operandi co-founder Lauren Santo Domingo attends the "Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology" Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2016 in New York City.
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Luxury, he said, is not what one pays, but "a state of mind" and "authentic self-expression."
Similarly, Tony Fadell, who worked on the iPod and iPhone at Apple and is co-founder and CEO of Nest, the high-tech home thermostat, told the audience of financial, advertising, marketing, tech and business executives that "You can take any product and make it mundane or luxury depending on the care you put in it."
A luxurious, quality product, he said in conversation with Financial Times editor Lionel Barber, is one that is simple to use, and empowering.
"Instead of creating for the person next to you, empower everyday people to have a superpower they never had before — they say, 'Oh my God, it just did this. It saved me this. It was easy and now I have a power I never knew I had,'" Fadell said. "They keep coming back to your brand because of that experience.
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Others, like Andrea Bonomi of Invest Industrial, Brunello Cucinelli, founder of his eponymous Italian cashmere and knitwear house, and Francesca Bellettini, the chief executive officer of the French fashion house of Saint Laurent, emphasized the importance of rare artisanal skills, exclusive materials and strong and enduring design codes as markers of, if not keys to, luxury brand success.
"What was missing in 2012," said Bellettini, referring to the period before Hedi Slimane worked as creative director from 2012 to 2016, "was a fashion authority and the clarity of the brand. Hedi had incredible vision for the brand. He had a very good understanding of the code of the brand."
Although critics panned Slimane's first collection, department store buyers and ready-to-wear customers flocked to his '70s-inspired looks. Sales more than doubled during Slimane's tenure.
Panelists differed on the definition of luxury, but not on the strategy of turning shopping, whether online or in brick-and-mortar stores, into an "experience."
Storytelling about a brand's heritage online in YouTube videos or on Instagram is one key way to reach Millennials, they said. Another is to make brick-and-mortar stores cozier, or turn them into cultural destinations.
"We knew we could not just open any store," said Daniella Vitale, chief operating officer at Barneys New York, refering to the company's new Chelsea flagship store, with luxe residential touches. "That's the mistake in American retail today. No one wants just another store. They want environment, to be entertained."
Tesla is locating its dealerships in shopping malls, not auto malls, to be innovative. "We use our stores to surprise and delight customers, to draw them in and tell them our story," said Ganesh Srivats, vice president for North America sales. "It's where people ask, 'What is this electric vehicle thing, how does it work, what range can it get me and how does it serve me?' We use malls as a way to draw people into our company and to give them a great educational experience.'
Debra Gunn Downing, marketing director for Orange County's South Coast Plaza, the nation's most successful mall with more than $1.6 billion in sales in 2015, told attendees that an empty space was converted to a private, VIP access area, where clients can sip Champagne, put their feet up, change a baby's diaper or even visit a prayer room. The mall has exhibition space for art and culture as well, and is collaborating with the Nixon library on a series of events with Carnegie Hall, the Getty Museum and a local symphony to commemorate the 37th president's opening of the doors to China in 1972.
Young shopppers, meanwhile, prefer to browse online, and rely on the opinions of friends before purchasing.
"Beauty is being driven more and more by friend-to-friend recommendations," said Emily Weiss, founder of Into the Gloss, a beauty website, and Glossier, a site that sells her own brand of makeup. "Women don't need to drive to a department store, talk to a stranger behind the counter they've never met before about their faces. They can Snapchat. Our goal is the creation of an ecosystem, a closed feedback loop, in which we communicate to her as a friend."
Lauren Santo Domingo, co-founder of Moda Operandi, an online boutique that allows members to pre-order designer collections right off the runway (by watching the show online, clicking and placing a 50 percent deposit on the item) startled some in the audience by noting it takes only minutes to learn whether a designer's collection will be a commercial success.
"We know in seven minutes if something's going to be good," Santo Domingo said. "We'll tell them immediately: 'This off-the-shoulder blouse, we just sold 500.' That might be the biggest order they've done in their entire career."
The times, indeed, are a changing.
Carolyne Zinko is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: czinko@sfchronicle.com
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Q: Changing values in a dataframe's copy is changing the original dataframe itself I am new to python and am absolutely foxed by why the following happens -

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*I start with a dataframe df1

*I make a copy of it and call it df2

*I change a value in the copy (df2)

*That changes the value in df1 also!

Here is a modified version of code I found in another question on stackoverflow (original question is here: Replace single value in a pandas dataframe, when index is not known and values in column are unique):
# Create a dataframe df1
df1 = pd.DataFrame([[5, 2], [3, 4]], columns=('a', 'b'))

#print df1
df1

    a   b
0   5   2
1   3   4

# copy it into df2
df2=df1

#print df2
df2

    a   b
0   5   2
1   3   4

# modify the value in df2 in column b where column a is 3
df2.loc[df2.a == 3, 'b'] = 6

# print df2 to check that the value has changed
df2

   a   b
0  5   2
1  3   6

# BUT changing df2 changed df1 also! Print df1
df1

   a   b
0  5   2
1  3   6

Can someone please explain this? Thanks

A: Try the following code:
df2 = df1.copy()

What you've done is just referenced the object to a different name, while the underlying object is same, which is why changes in df2 were visible in df1.


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Hoke picks U-M, says MSU like any other Big Ten game
Mark Snyder
Finally free to speak his mind, former Michigan football coach Brady Hoke gave some insight on U-M's rivalries tonight, saying Ohio State is unique but facing Michigan State is like the rest of the Big Ten.
The topic arose on his SiriusXM radio show Tuesday night, when a caller asked for his assessment of the game.
After breaking down the Spartans' issues and predicting a U-M victory Saturday in Ann Arbor, Hoke explained his personal approach.
Asked if the Michigan State game is any different than other Big Ten games, such as Michigan-Penn State or Michigan-Wisconsin, Hoke was more honest than he could be as Michigan's coach.
"No," he said on his SiriusXM radio show Tuesday. "Michigan-Notre Dame, I think that's the same. Don't get me wrong, they're both highly intense. The one thing, we played Michigan State four years, three years at their place. I think that does make a difference."
Raised in Kettering, Ohio, outside Dayton, Hoke lived by the Michigan-Ohio State game every year and still feels that way.
The Wolverines usually played Ohio State much tougher than Michigan State during Hoke's four years, which ended last December when he was fired from U-M with a 31-20 overall record.
Hoke had the same record against each team, 1-3, but his teams were far more competitive overall against the Buckeyes and in only one game against the Spartans.
Hoke is the one who began every meeting and ended every huddle with "Beat Ohio" and put a huge sign saying that in the building. He's the one who called the Buckeyes "Ohio" and wanted an Ohio State countdown clock. (A Michigan State one was added as well.)
"They're very similar because they both are rivals," he said. "The ones in state are people who draw a line in the sand and you've got divided households and all that. That one probably is a little bit more you feel in state, obviously. The Ohio (State) game, this is personal a little bit. That game has always meant, for me growing up in the state of Ohio, that game has always been special. The intensity and the energy whether it's in Columbus or Ann Arbor, I think that game has always meant probably a little more to me."
Yet his job now is to be an analyst, and that put him on the spot for this week's Michigan-Michigan State game (ESPN, 3:30 p.m.) and he picked the Wolverines to pull off the home win.
"Michigan State, they're coming into this game limping a little bit from an injury standpoint," he said. "But I did like in just evaluating how Connor Cook played last week, he threw for 357 yards. (Receiver Aaron) Burbridge, matching their receivers will be the first test for Michigan's defensive backs. Now that (U-M) pass rush and the way the front four is playing and the front seven, they're playing awfully hard. I think this is going to be a great game. I think Michigan's going to win the game."
Part of that analysis is knowing the value of running the football in this series; the better rushing team has won 42 of the past 45 games in the rivalry.
"I think Michigan State will have a harder time running the football than Michigan," he said. "If you're Michigan State, you want to put the ball in (U-M quarterback Jake) Rudock's hands. That's where you want to put the ball to see if he can make the plays."
Having been in the rivalry game for four years as the head coach and eight years as an assistant, Hoke understands the dynamic; even as Michigan State is ranked No. 7 at 6-0 and U-M is ranked No. 12 at 5-1, the Wolverines are getting far more respect.
"But I also think this is exactly what Mark Dantonio and Michigan State, they feed off everyone talking about Michigan," he said. "And that's just the way their makeup is. This game is going to be one of the great games of the weekend. And if the team who wins takes care of the ball like you're talking about and they can do a tremendous job getting enough yards on the ground taking some possession time, I think it'll be a great game and that's the team that's going to win."
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Covid-19: Australia records the deadliest day with 19 deaths
August 10, 2020 , 20:08
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Victoria, Australia — Australia records the deadliest day of the coronavirus pandemic amid a second wave of infections in Melbourne.
The capital city of Victoria, Melbourne reports 19 deaths on Monday alone making it the deadliest day of Australia.
The state, Victoria, has seen about two-thirds of Australia's total 314 deaths and approximately 21,400 cases.
However, although the number of infections are still in hundreds, it is seen that the number of daily infections has been dropping in the recent few days. This promps hope that the strict lockdown currently in Australia is working.
Melbourne's second lockdown began over a month ago, but residents have been subject to a night-time curfew and stricter requirements since 3 August.
It is compulsory for everyone to wear masks when outside of their house. While all non-essential businesses have been shut down temporarily due to the pandemic, the people that have to work are required to have a permit if they are outside of their houses.
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I checked GEO last night on my PS4, just to clarify.. It seems when you first load game and connect to their server, its based in USA (100 ping or so), this is not a game server, maybe just EA logon server or something. From then on, when connecting to a new game, it always connects me to a server located in Europe with <20 ping. I presume you could have GEO on, you may have to allow the USA (logon) server first though.
My connections always seem to be under 20 ping, but server is showing in USA (Im in England), so presume they are mis-located. Will see if I ever get a bad server but at moment, not having to use geo filter.
not sure how to do that, I have lots of allowed servers that Ive done for other games, so not sure it would be much use.


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Q: BJT reverse active currents My question is on bipolar junction transistors, NPN with 2 emitters, as used in TTL NAND gates.
When in reverse active mode, and when the 2 emitter are logic high, how is the collector current calculated?
Since there are 2 emitters, should I add 2 currents: 2 * βr * Ib ?

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when in reverse active mode, and 2 emitter are in logic high, how is
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Both emitters are reverse biased and Q1's collector current is wholly sourced via the base resistor with the base-collector region acting as a forward biased diode.


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How Has The Sixth Doctor Influenced the Twelfth?
If you've read the latest edition of Doctor Who Magazine, then you've seen that during the issue's Steven Moffat interview there's a small piece entitled In Defence of Six. In this piece, Moffat describes how (once he turned his tv's colour off) he's re-evaluated the Sixth Doctor as a whole.
"You can see him, and he's really good. He's not at all what you remember him as being, the vulgar, brash Doctor; he's quite kind, he's sweet."
Sounds a bit familiar doesn't it?
"He's cultured, but sort of common too. He's the opera buff who sits in the cheap seats because he enjoys the company. If someone walked in wearing [the Sixth Doctor's] costume, Colin's Doctor would be the first person to take the mickey out of it."
Now, the comparison between the Sixth and Twelfth Doctors is hardly new. From the moment the Twelfth Doctor's first episode Deep Breath had premiered, there was already similarities abound.
They both came after the youngest Doctors at that point in time; both inherited said Doctors' companions which drastically changed their relationships; and even smaller things, like the fact that both Colin Baker and Peter Capaldi had been in Doctor Who before being cast as the Doctor (Baker in Arc of Infinity and Capaldi in The Fires of Pompeii).
The transition in tone between the younger, more "family friendly" Fifth Doctor to the rougher edged Sixth Doctor, mirrors the transition in tone between the Eleventh and Twelfth.
It's interesting to see how these jarring changes in the feel of both the show and the character of the Doctor was received in the '80s compared to now. While some people nowadays were thrown off by the sudden difference, it seems that, as a whole, most people have embraced this ruder incarnation of the Doctor, which was not really the case in the 1980s.
While the commonly believed idea that viewing figures went down in the Sixth Doctor's era was actually a myth (they remained pretty much the same, aside from Season 23), the fact remains that Colin's abrupt Doctor was consistently controversial within the BBC, ultimately leading to a forced regeneration.
So what really was the difference between these two versions of the Time Lord? Essentially, how uncaring and rude the Doctor could and should be wasn't well realised with the Sixth Doctor during his time on the show. Now, that's not a problem with the Sixth Doctor himself. Fans of Big Finish's Sixth Doctor range know that given into the right hands, this incarnation could have a more balanced relationship with his more romantic and brash sides.
It doesn't take an amazing writer to realise that this might not be the best way to make a harsh Doctor that we can also feel sympathetic for:
So, what do you think? Do you feel that the Sixth and Twelfth Doctors are similar? Do you not? Do you like one incarnation but not the other? Let us know!
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Tokyo Olympics: Victory in hockey, Pooja Rani and Sindhu lose
New Delhi, 31 July
The second week of the Tokyo Olympics has now started. The nation's hopes have been raised in the discus throw on the ninth day.
In the women's event, Kamalpreet Kaur has entered the final with a scoreof 64 meters. She finished second in Group B. Apart from this, in hockey also, the women's team won the last match of the group and defeated South Africa by 4-3.
However, in other games, the Indian players disappointed. Atanu Das has to face defeat in the pre-quaterfinal match of Arcjery's singles event. He was defeated 6-4 by Japanese player. Whereas Amit Panghal, the country's biggest hope in boxing, has also been out after losing. The world number one player suffered a loss to a Colombian boxer.
Indian star badminton player PV Sindhu had to face defeat against Tai Tzu Ying of Chinese Taipei in the semi-finals. Tai defeated Sindhu 21-18, 21-12. On the other hand, in boxing, Indian boxer Pooja Rani (75kg) had to face defeat in the quaterfinals. She was defeated 5-0 by Qian of China.
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Why Gisele Bündchen loves Transcendental Meditation
Many people spend their lives playing the "if only" game. "If only I were happily married, kinder to others, more successful, more beautiful, had more money, had more children, (and the list goes on), then I would be happy…"
A SWEET SHARED MOMENT: Gisele, with her little daughter Vivian by her side, enjoying a morning session of yoga and meditation in New York. Photo: Instagram
Well, Gisele Bündchen easily ticks most of the boxes. She has been the highest-paid fashion model in the world since 2004. She is happily married to Tom Brady, the only quarterback in NFL's history to win five Super Bowls, and together they parent three adorable children.
Besides being stunningly beautiful, the supermodel is also kind-hearted, working tirelessly for charitable causes.
Yet, as Bündchen knows, whatever the external circumstances, happiness is still an inside job.
"The only place I found peace, was within," Bündchen admits.
"You have to connect to that place within yourself that knows your essence, knows that you come from love. That, I think, keeps everything joyful.
The experience I've had in my life is that it does not really come from outside, it comes from inside."
Checking in with yourself with the TM technique
To be in touch with that true inner core, Bündchen practices Transcendental Meditation (TM).
"Meditation has been a great tool for me in my life. It helps to quiet my mind and helps me see things more clearly. It brings a sense of peace to my day.
Meditation provides me space to re-balance and re-focus when things are at their busiest," Bundchen recently told People magazine.
"I feel a big difference in my mood when I practice regularly. I love it!"
"It helps us become more aware; it brings wisdom and healing," Bündchen has described the effects of the practice. "I have been meditating since my early 20s and I must say that words do not express enough the significance of its gifts in my life."
Putting on the oxygen mask on yourself first
Nowadays, we all feel time-pressured. So, adding another commitment of 20 minutes twice a day might not sound like the intuitive solution to our problems.
But Bündchen says the speed of modern life is precisely the reason why we need to take time off.
"The busy life we lead today generates a lot of stress. We are overloaded with information and overcommitted to so many tasks in our homes, jobs, causes … I think meditation is a wonderful tool to deal with stress," she admits.
THE RATIONAL ROUTINE: "I practice Transcendental Meditation twice a day. Every morning and lunchtime or evening, for about 20 minutes," Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen says. "I'm not very superstitious. I believe in the power of intention and thought, so always try to focus on the positive side of any situation."
She also shares her tricks for fitting Transcendental Meditation into her busy days.
"I prefer to practice early in the am, before the kids are up. Probably because that is when things are silent," she admits.
"The way I see it is that you have to put the oxygen mask on yourself first before you can put the oxygen mask on the people around you. If I nourish myself in the morning, when the house energy starts revving up, you have so much more to give.
As a mother, you're always giving. It's important to give something to yourself, so you can give from a place of being full, instead of giving from a place of being depleted, which isn't healthy for you or for the family," Bündchen explained to Vogue.
Meditate anywhere – in a taxi, during a Super Bowl match…
To find time for the afternoon meditation sessions, Bündchen gets creative.
"I can practice in most places. Sitting in my bed is probably my favorite though. But on an airplane, in a hotel when traveling or in the passenger seat on the way to work… really anywhere! Meditation is a trip you take inward."
For Bündchen, the chance to meditate while stuck in a traffic jam, turns the otherwise frustrating experience into joy.
"You can be sitting in the taxi there for a while because of all the traffic, so that is an awesome place to meditate because it's like you're running late for something, you can't change the fact that you are stuck behind another thousand cars so just sit there and meditate… just make the whole ride… great."
Recently, when Bündchen was feeling tension mounting watching her husband's team play at the frenzied 2017 Super Bowl final, she meditating right then and there.
Jokingly, she described the immediate effect of it: "I don't want to take responsibility for the score, but it was definitely a very anxious time and since meditation has always been that special tool that I go to when I feel anxious or stressed… You know I couldn't go there and throw the ball… I just had to sit there and watch…
I definitely took a deep breath and closed my eyes for a moment there and had a meditation. And it helped me, it calmed me down. And I have to say, I mean I'm not responsible for anything that happened in the game but it helped calm myself down… I felt better. That's the important part, I felt great."
The healing power of Transcendental Meditation
On May 9th, Bündchen, together with Robin Roberts, co-anchor of "Good Morning America;" Carolyn Rafaelian, founder and CEO of ALEX and ANI; and Joni Kimberlin, philanthropist, filmmaker and activist, received the Women of Vision Humanitarian Award from the David Lynch Foundation.
The awards luncheon in New York City raised funds to provide the stress-reducing Transcendental Meditation technique, at no cost, to 1,000 women and children in the New York City area who are survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
DESERVED AWARD: Gisele Bündchen receives the Women of Vision award from Bob Roth, the executive director of the David Lynch Foundation. Bündchen later tweeted: "Thank you @davidlynchfoundation for the amazing work that you do. Meditation has brought me clarity and peace through my most challenging times. It has helped me to know myself and discover my purpose. I'm so grateful to have been part of today's event and to be surrounded by so many inspiring women!" Photo: justjared.com
In her speech at the even, Bündchen spoke on the powerful impact meditation can have in anyone's life.
"Meditation has brought me clarity and peace through my most challenging times and it has helped me to know myself and to discover my purpose. I pray that meditation will do the same for all of you.
No matter how challenging the lessons of life, we always have a place where we can go to find peace that's within ourselves.
Our lives are sacred and each of us is a small but significant part of the whole with something special to contribute to make the world a better place. May we all remember who we truly are and why we are here on Earth so we can experience the joy of living our life's purpose."
Latoya, Mack, a veteran, artist and sexual abuse survivor, who received the Foundation's Courage Award, confirmed from personal experience the healing power of Transcendental Meditation.
"As a survivor of unimaginable physical and emotional abuse, gender-based violence and as a woman living with a disability as a result of my traumatic experiences, I take pride in knowing my successful journey to heal my broken soul is repeatable, achievable and possible for all women thanks to Transcendental Meditation."
WATCH: On Jimmy Fallon's The Tonight Show, Gisele Bündchen reveals the secret behind Tom Brady's success on the football field
Shine a light on Transcendental Meditation
When Access Hollywood asked Bündchen about share thoughts on something as personal as meditation practice, she responded:
"You shine the light on the idea. A lot of people don't even know it exists and that it is a tool that is possible. Transcendental Meditation I think has made meditation in general very tangible, the way TM has been structured, 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes in the afternoon."
She added, "Practice makes perfect, like with anything you do in life. The more time you put into it, the more benefits you feel. And the only person that can do that work for you is yourself. It's a gift you give yourself."
In the recent Vogue interview, Bündchen also encouraged the readers to give meditation a try, saying, "People have been practicing meditation for thousands of years and the reason is because it's really a wonderful tool to grant you a different access to yourself. It's a different awareness and new level of peace.
Once you learn how to do it, it's yours forever—you can always access that. It's an energy inside of you. It's not something you can lose that's outside of yourself. It's not physical; it's something much deeper than that. The more you practice and the more you reach it, the more amazing it becomes."
A TRUE ICON: Gisele Bündchen has appeared in Vogue and in ads for Victoria's Secret, dated actor Leonardo DiCaprio and married NFL star Tom Brady. Bündchen has also ventured into acting, doing a supporting role in "Taxi" and in "The Devil Wears Prada". Claudia Schiffer and Naomi Campbell have called Gisele Bündchen "the only true remaining supermodel".
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Buckeye Forward Seth Towns Out For Year
Posted byTony Gerdeman February 8, 2022 February 8, 2022
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Ohio State men's basketball coach Chris Holtmann announced on Tuesday that forward Seth Towns will miss the remainder of the season due to a back issue.
"He's going to continue to rehab and will do everything he can to return to full health," Holtmann said. "I'm disappointed for Seth. I know he's had a go of rough injuries. He's a terrific young man and has really worked at this thing."
Towns has missed every game this season due to an ongoing knee injury that both he and Holtmann were hoping would be healed well enough for him to play at some point this year. And while the knee was feeling as good as it has in a long time, it was the back issue that ultimately did Towns in.
"This was something we just got news on in the last 24 hours. Up until that point we assumed that he was going to be able to return at some point," Holtmann said. "The doctors just said, 'Hey, let's just shut you down and focus on rehab.' They evaluated him early this week within the last 24-36 hours and that was the evaluation they made. There was no setback."
Towns' career has been beset by injuries and this back issue is the latest chapter. He has played in just 25 games in his two years as a Buckeye and averaged 3.8 points per game. Expectations were larger for him this season, but it just wasn't to be.
Fortunately for Towns, it doesn't seem to be career-threatening according to Holtmann. As to his future, it will be up to Towns whether or not to continue playing.
"That'll be his decision. This is by no means a career-ending injury for Seth," Holtmann said. "For him, it's disappointing that he didn't get a chance to get out there with his teammates and perform because he worked all summer for that. I'm optimistic that there will be brighter days for him."
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Q: A stub framework for a big form? We are having a huge page having lot of line items ,each Line item has 40+ fields . There is no submit button ,a change in every field triggers a submit to server . We are currently using stubby4J , we end up mocking every combination of request and which  is huge as a file and also the count of files is also huge . The difference between two stub request files are just two parameters , but still we have 40+ parameters in stub request file. We are currently using  stubby4J ,is there a better alternative for our case or even a configuration in stubby4j taht help us ease our pain ?

A: It is a very late reply, but I thought to add my 2 cents anyway:
stubby4j will ignore matching parameters that were not stubbed. Instead of stubbing all 40+ params, maybe consider stubbing the minimal number params required for matching? Also, stubby4j support regex, have you tried that?
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When Galileo Galilei pointed his first telescope to the heavens in 1610, he discovered "congeries of innumerable stars" hidden in the band of light called the Milky Way. Our cosmos grew exponentially that day. Roughly three centuries later, the cosmic bounds exploded once again when astronomers built telescopes big enough to show the Milky Way is just one of many "island universes." Soon they learned the universe was expanding, too, with galaxies retreating from each other at ever-accelerating speeds.
Since then, ever-larger telescopes have shown the observable universe spans an incomprehensible 92 billion light-years across and contains perhaps 2 trillion galaxies. And yet, astronomers are still left wondering how much more universe is out there, beyond what they observe.
"The universe has always been slightly larger than what we can see," says Virginia Trimble of the University of California, Irvine, an astronomer and expert in the field's history.
Building bigger telescopes won't help extend the cosmos anymore. "Telescopes only observe the observable. You can't see back in time further than the age of the universe," explains Nobel Prize-winning cosmologist John Mather of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, who's also chief scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope. "So we are totally limited. We've already seen as far as you could possibly imagine." At the edge, we see the leftover glow from the Big Bang — the so-called cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB). But this isn't some magical edge of the universe. Our cosmos keeps going. We just may never know how far.
In recent decades, cosmologists have tried to solve this mystery by first determining the universe's shape, like the ancient Greek mathematician Eratosthenes calculating Earth's size using simple trigonometry. In theory, our universe can have one of three possible shapes, each one dependent on the curvature of space itself: saddle shaped (negative curvature), spherical (positive curvature) or flat (no curvature).
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This time, the map is covered in Enemy Boostx3 and Defense-50% geo panels. As in similar stages before it, pick up your characters one after another and throw them to the geo symbols to destroy them. Afterwords, your party will be spread out, so focus on bringing them together in whatever formation you prefer, and destroy your enemies.
Many of the enemies here are much lower level than your characters. Destroy them with large AOE attacks, then focus on the higher level enemies.
Near the base panel are Enemy Boostx3 and Attacks+1 Geo Symbols. Before you advance in this map, you will need to destroy them. They are guarded by a few brawlers that are not affected by the Geo Symbols, so it shouldn't be hard.
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June 10, 2016 June 10, 2016 festreviews 2016 movies, movie, Movie Review, UncategorizedDaniel Radcliffe, dave franco, film reviews, jesse eisenberg, Jon M. Chu, Lizzy Caplan, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Caine, morgan freeman, movie review, Now You See Me 2, Woody Harrelson
NOW YOU SEE ME 2 (USA 2016) ***
Directed by Jon M. Chu
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Lizzy Caplan, Dave Franco, Daniel Radcliffe, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman
Review by Gilbert Seah
NOW YOU SEE ME 2, the sequel to the unexpected hit NOW YOU SEE ME has the same 4 horsemen return for another round of magic trickery to astound audiences, whether they love magic or not.
Except for Lizzy Caplan taking over the female role from Isla Fisher, most of the original cast returns. Jesse Eisenberg plays the main role of Daniel "Danny" Atlas, the group leader followed by Woody Harrelson as Chase, Dave Franco as Jack Wilder, Caplan as Lula and Mark Ruffalo as the FBI mole. There are two sets of bad guys here. One is the FBI – a favourite target organization hated by (most) Americans and non-Americas alike. The other is Walter Mabry (Daniel Radcliffe) an unethical magnate that the Horsemen want to expose for unethical tactics, together with his father, Arthur Tresslr (Michael Caine).
Performances are key to a movie like this. It is not surprising for the filmmakers to assemble such an an impressive cast, all of whom inject sufficient seriousness and energy into the venture. But Radcliffe (HARRY POTTER) looks ill at ease at playing a bad guy as does Michael Caine.
The magic tricks performed in the film are especially outlandish. The are also performed really quickly with the solutions provided ever quicker. When the horsemen first appear again in public, they chose the most famous venues in London such as Trafalgar Square. The tricks include making rain disappear and people transported by plane. But the trickery is explained with the solution often so simple. The disappearing rain is accomplished through rain machines and strobe lights.
The best trick on display involves the horsemen forced to flee from their enemy. They leap off a rooftop through a chute and land up in China. If this act appears impossible, the revelation of how this occurs illustrates the power of imagination in a script that writer Ed Solomon constantly impresses. Though the film runs more than 2 hours, it is too long even though one hardly feels it.
Just as magic often uses doubles, the script cleverly adds a component of Merritt's evil twin brother, again played by Harrelson, hamming it out the best he can in two different roles.
The business aspect of the film? NOW YOU SEE ME 2 hopes to pull in some big bucks for the flailing Lionsgate, the studio responsible for HUNGER GAMES and the TWILIGHT films, now in dire need of a big hit after the shares took a plunge last earnings session after a drop in quarterly revenue. But the bottom line is that this film provides just more of the same tricks – nothing more, nothing less. The first film was a surprise hit taking the box-office by storm. Lionsgate has lumped a larger amount of $90 million into the sequel, a sort of 'we need a hit regardless of expense'. The film is up against stiff competition with WARCRAFT and CONJURING 2 both opening this same weekend. Looks like Lionsgate needs some magic on its own.
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I don't really have any fashion rules (except feeling very strongly against the word fashionista)but i do have one item that i can't live without, well infact i don't feel any woman should live without. This item is a grey t-shirt. I know it seems simple, but i really don't know how i would get dressed 5 out of 7 days of the week without it. I have 18 variations of a grey t-shirt and i love each and every one. So surely you can understand my shock, horror and utter dissapointment when friend after friend confessed to me that they do not own a grey t-shirt ajhjhsjkahkd....How is this even real?! I swiftly purchased 3 of Zara's finest and gifted a few pals.
However, one friend in particular needed more than a grey t-shirt. The bestie in question had be hanging on to too items that were either purchased pre millennium, the wrong size or just a tad bit hideous....See shoe below.
So after a complete detox which lasted just under 3 hours and consisted of a few 'i'm keeping those, no you really shouldn't keep those' conversations. We both felt so much better, the pile above was bagged up and shipped off to the nearest charity shop, Rosa could see all of her pretty pieces and finally understood the beauty of the GREY T-SHIRT! Prior to our wardrobe detox we purchased two grey and one white t-shirt... See the gorgeous Rosa, in her white t-shirt below.


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Corporate Identity Evolution of Send Organizational Structure Sen. Management Team Board of Directors Sierra Leone
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Linking Agriculture Natural Resources Management and WASH towards Nutrition Security in Kenema and Pujehun Districts
Linking Agriculture Natural Resources Management and WASH towards Nutrition Security in Kenema and Pujehun Districts (LANN+)
Donor:
German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through Deutsche Welthungerhilfe (WHH)
Project Implementing Partner:
SEND Sierra Leone in partnership with AFFA
Project Location:
Tunkia, Guara and Nomo chiefdoms in Kenema District in Eastern Province; and Barrie Chiefdom in Pejehun District in Southern Province in Sierra Leone.
October 2017 to September 2020
Project Thematic Areas:
Food and nutrition security, natural resources management, access to safe drinking water, and gender equality.
Contact details and contact
Santigie Kamanda Kanu,
Head of Project,
Welthungerhilfe (WHH) Sierra
8 Morigbeh Street, Reservation
Road,
Kenema, Sierra Leone
Joseph Ayamga
SEND Sierra Leone
Road, Kenema,
Sierra Leone,
Project Problem
Food and Nutrition Security indicators in Sierra Leone continue to show alarming figures. 8.6% of the population suffer from severe malnutrition and 41.2% from moderate malnutrition. 45.2% of the women have anemia, 37.9% of the children are< undergrowth and 7.1% are born with too little weight.
The rates of small growth and wasting in Kenema District are among the highest in the country, with 9.5% of the population suffering from severe malnutrition and another 45.6% suffer from moderate malnutrition (WFP Report 2015). The low growth and wasting rates in Kenema are 41.1% and 8.9%, respectively, above the national average.
Moderate and severe malnutrition and food insecurity are widespread in the Kenema District. Access to safe drinking water, food diversity and gender equality are important determinants of food security in order to improve nutritional indicators for children and women. The livelihoods in the intervention areas, i.e. in The Problem remote rural communities, are predominantly subsistent agriculture based on migratory farming. Grown staple foods are rice, cassava and yams combined with smaller areas of market fruits, pulses and vegetables; the latter are largely for marketing. Animal husbandry - small ruminants and poultry play a minor role. Population growth is causing increasing scarcity of land with a concomitant decline in soil fertility and agricultural yields. The slash-and-burn practice reinforces this trend. The dietary diversity of families is very low. The diet focuses on carbohydrates (rice) and saturated fats (palm oil). Culturally, children and women have the least access to food. Non-agricultural income is scarce, in particular for women. In addition, the market integration of remote communities is very inadequate. In rural areas, the provision of basic services in the fields of education, health, agricultural advice and infrastructure is low.
The intervention will work in 60 communities in 3 chiefdoms in Kenema District and one chiefdom in Pujehun District to improve the availability of and access to high quality foodstuffs through sustainable farming practices and improved management of natural resources.
Men, women and children are mobilized, equipped with extended knowledge and consumption of nutrient-rich foods to enable them improve their health and nutrition status.
The project will work with communities to ensure their access to safe drinking water, dialogue on key sanitation issues and find possible solution, improved knowledge and extended health and hygiene practices.
Women will open up new sources of income through the processing of foodstuffs, integration into value chains and the marketing of agricultural/forest products.
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SEND Sierra Leone is a non-governmental organization duly registered in the Republic of Sierra Leone with a vision to contribute to a Sierra Leone where people's rights and well-being are guaranteed. SEND Sierra Leone is part of a West African structure with a headquarters in Ghana and offices in Liberia and Sierra Leone. SEND Sierra Leone's portfolio includes community development, WaSH, health, nutrition, agriculture and women's empowerment. Intervention areas are in the districts of Kailahun, Kenema, Kono, Western Areas Urban, and Rural districts and more recently, the district of Bonthe.
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Printing plates are thin, flat sheets of metal commonly made from aluminum. They are used in printing products like business cards, catalogs, and brochures.
The term "printing plate" is often mentioned in the same breath as offset printing. Offset printing was the standard before the birth of digital printers — and some prefer offset printing to this day. The same is true for us here at PrintRunner as the majority of our products like business cards, brochures, envelopes, and catalogs are printed through offset printing.
Offset printing works by transferring an image onto a metal sheet known as printing plates through a photomechanical or photochemical process. Typically, there is one plate for every color in the design to be printed. Once done, the plates are attached to cylindrical plate holders where ink and water are applied as the paper material passes through.
Offset printing relies on the use of printing plates to transfer your design onto paper.
Colored design files that are scheduled to be printed through offset printing are converted to CMYK format which stands for cyan, magenta, yellow, and key (black). That way you can set four plates to represent each color during printing.
Why Are Printing Plates Blue?
So why are printing plates the color blue? Will that have any effect on my design? No, there's no need to worry as the final product wouldn't be blue unless it's supposed to be. Modern printing presses use something called CTP (computer-to-plate) machines. These use laser technology to etch the designs onto the printing plates. The blue sections dictate where the ink should land as the cylinders make contact with the paper.
Do I Need to Provide My Own Printing Plate to Print?
The burden of producing printing plates fall on the printer. Customers will only need to submit their digital files after making sure they meet all the requirements such as image resolution and correct bleed setup.
Now that you have a better understanding of printing plates and offset printing, maybe it's time to give it a try. Visit PrintRunner and see what online printing can do for you and your business.


Compared with conventional vehicles, designing hybrid electric vehicles includes new features, such as energy management and monitoring of the electrical components. To be able to investigate such issues a simulation platform of a hybrid vehicle, driver, and diagnosis system is developed based on the CAPSim model library. The simulation platform is component based, and is able to handle different powertrain configurations. In this investigation a parallel hybrid is modeled and parameterized to represent a long haulage truck. To be able to easily change a model of a component in the vehicle model, every model of a specific component use the same sets of input and output signals. The vehicle model is based on dynamic equations and in general simple models of the components, since the interplay of the components is of major interest in this investigation. Three model based diagnosis systems are developed and implemented in the platform with a twofolded purpose. The first purpose is to demonstrate the feasibility of the platform. The second purpose is to investigate issues when designing diagnosis systems on vehicle level of a hybrid vehicle powertrain. New features, for example mode switches in the system and a freedom in choosing operating points of the components via the energy management, affect the diagnosis system. The influence of these issues on the performance of the diagnosis system is investigated by design and implementation of three diagnosis systems on a vehicle level. The diagnosis systems are based on three sensor configurations. Two of these consist of several sensors and one system uses few sensors. In one of the systems using information from several sensors, the sensors are placed close to the components that are to be monitored, while the sensors in the other system is based on a different sensor configuration. All three diagnosis systems detect specific faults, here specifically faults in the electrical components in a hybrid vehicle powertrain, but the methodology is generic. It is shown that there is a connection between the design of the energy management and the three diagnosis systems, and that this interplay is of special relevance when models of components are valid only in some operating modes. The diagnosis system based on few sensors is more complex and includes a larger part of the vehicle model than the system based on several sensors placed close to the components to be monitored.