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\section{Introduction}
\label{sec:intro}

The primary motivation for studying high-energy heavy ion collisions is to better understand the hot and dense matter produced in these interactions~\cite{Wit:2018HI}.
Lattice quantum chromodynamics (LQCD) calculations indicate that at sufficiently high temperatures an environment is created for a crossover to occur from hadronic matter to a strongly interacting system of deconfined quarks and gluons~\cite{Karsch:2000ps}. This deconfined medium is called the ``quark-gluon plasma" (QGP)~\cite{Shuryak:1977ut}.
One of the most prominent signatures of QGP formation is that the production of quarkonia, the bound states of a heavy quark and its antiquark, is suppressed with respect to expectations from scaling the yields in proton-proton collisions by the number of binary nucleon-nucleon (NN) collisions. This suppression arises because the quarkonia binding is weakened by color screening caused by the surrounding partons in the medium~\cite{Matsui:1986dk}, and therefore the extent of the quarkonia suppression is expected to be sequentially ordered by the binding energies of the quarkonia states.
In heavy ion collisions, the majority of heavy quarks are produced from hard scattering processes at an early stage and therefore can interact with the QGP throughout its entire evolution.

Because of the binding energy dependence of the screening, the bottomonium states ($\PgUa$, $\PgUb$, $\PgUc$, \PGcb, etc.) are particularly useful probes to understand the space-time evolution of the QGP.
The sequential suppression of the yield of \PGUP{nS} states was first observed by CMS~\cite{Chatrchyan:2012lxa, Khachatryan:2016xxp} at a NN center-of-mass energy $\sqrtsNN = 2.76\TeV$.
More recently, results with improved statistical precision have been reported by both the ALICE Collaboration~\cite{Acharya:2018mni} and CMS Collaboration~\cite{Sirunyan:2017lzi, Sirunyan:2018nsz} at $\sqrtsNN = 5.02\TeV$.
The suppression of the \PgUa meson has also been studied at $\sqrtsNN = 200\GeV$ at RHIC~\cite{Adamczyk:2013poh}.
The available experimental data, spanning from 0.20 to 5.02\TeV, have provided new insight into the thermal properties of the QGP~\cite{HeavyFlavorQuarkoLHC}.

The screening due to the QGP can also result in an azimuthal asymmetry in the observed yields of quarkonia.
In non-central heavy ion collisions, the produced QGP has a lenticular shape in the transverse plane.
Consequently, the average path length for quarkonia traveling through the medium depends on the direction taken with respect to this shape, with a larger suppression in the direction of the longer axis~\cite{He:2015hfa, Borghini:2010hy, Romatschke:2015dha, Jaiswal:2017dxp}.
The anisotropic distribution of particles can be characterized by the magnitudes of the Fourier coefficients ($v_{n}$) of the azimuthal correlation of particles, through the relation
\begin{linenomath}
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:v2}
{\frac{ \rd N } { \rd\phi } } \propto 1 + 2\sum_{n}{v_n} \cos[n( \phi - \Psi_{n})].
\end{equation}
\end{linenomath}
\noindent Here $\phi$ is the angle of the particles and $\Psi_{n}$ is the angle characterizing the symmetry plane of the $n$th harmonic based on the charged particle density distribution~\cite{Voloshin:1994mz}.
By studying the azimuthal distribution of the quarkonia, it is possible to develop a more comprehensive understanding of the dynamics of their production.

Measurements of \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace values have been reported for \PJGy mesons by the ALICE Collaboration~\cite{ALICEJpsi276TeVPbPb,ALICEJpsi502TeVPbPbFullRun2} and the CMS Collaboration~\cite{CMSJpsi276TeVPbPb} at $\sqrtsNN = 5.02\TeV$ and 2.76\TeV, respectively. Significant evidence for an azimuthal asymmetry in the particle yields is found for both experiments.
However, the \PJGy asymmetry can also arise from the late-stage recombination of uncorrelated charm quark pairs inside the QGP,
which acts in the opposite direction as color screening.
The relative contribution of recombination to the inclusive cross section of bottomonium states is expected to be smaller than for charmonium states~\cite{Krouppa:2016jcl, Brambilla:2016wgg, Du:2017qkv,Emerick:2011xu}.
For this reason, the azimuthal anisotropy of bottomonia better reflects the screening that occurs during its passage through the QGP medium.
The ALICE Collaboration has measured the \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace\ for \PgUa mesons at forward rapidity ($2.5 < y < 4$) using 5.02\TeV \ensuremath{\text{PbPb}}\xspace collisions~\cite{Acharya:2019hlv}.

This paper reports on the measurement of \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace coefficients using the scalar product method~\cite{PhysRevC.87.044907, SPRef:2008} for \PgUa and \PgUb mesons at midrapidity ($\abs{y}<2.4$) in \ensuremath{\text{PbPb}}\xspace collisions at $\sqrtsNN = 5.02\TeV$. The data set was collected with the CMS detector in 2018 and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 1.7\nbinv. The \PgU mesons are reconstructed through their \ensuremath{\text{dimuon}}\xspace decay channel.
The \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace values for \PgUa mesons are measured in four transverse momentum (\pt) intervals (0--3, 3--6, 6--10, and 10--50\GeVc) for different centrality classes.
Centrality is defined as the fraction of the total inelastic nucleus-nucleus cross section with 0\% representing the largest overlap of the two colliding Pb nuclei.
For this analysis, events are classified in three centrality intervals (10--30\%, 30--50\%, and 50--90\%), with 10--30\% corresponding to the most central events.  More central (0--10\%) and more peripheral (90--100\%) collisions are excluded because of small eccentricity in the initial geometry and low event selection efficiency, respectively.
Because of their lower production cross section compared to that of \PgUa mesons, the \PgUb mesons are measured in one interval that spans $\abs{y}<2.4$, $0 < \pt < 50 \GeVc$, and centrality 10--90\% .

\section{The CMS Detector}
\label{sec:CMSdet}

The central feature of the CMS apparatus is a superconducting solenoid of 6\unit{m} internal diameter, providing a magnetic field of 3.8\unit{T}. Within the solenoid volume are a silicon pixel and strip tracker, a lead tungstate crystal electromagnetic calorimeter, as well as a brass and scintillator hadron calorimeter, each composed of a barrel and two endcap sections. The Hadronic Forward (HF) calorimeters, located at $ 3 < \abs{\eta} < 5$, extend the pseudorapidity ($\eta$) coverage provided by the barrel and endcap detectors.
The collision centrality is estimated experimentally using the sum of the transverse energy deposited in the HF calorimeters.
Muons are detected in gas-ionization chambers embedded in the steel flux-return yoke outside the solenoid within the pseudorapidity coverage of $\abs{\eta}<2.4$.
 A more detailed description of the CMS detector, together with a definition of the coordinate system used and the relevant kinematic variables, can be found in Ref.~\cite{Chatrchyan:2008zzk}.

\section{Event Selection}
\label{sec:EvtSel}

Events were selected based on several trigger stages.  First, at least two muon candidates reconstructed in the fast hardware-based trigger system are required.  In the high level trigger, Level-2 (L2) muons are identified by requiring fitted tracks in the outer muon spectrometer.  At Level-3 (L3), muons are reconstructed using full tracks from the L2 muon tracks and the inner tracker information, with a minimum of ten high-quality hits in the inner tracker~\cite{Khachatryan:2017trig}.  Finally, events are required to contain at least one L2 muon and another L3 muon, with their invariant mass being greater than 7\GeVcc.
To reject beam-related background processes (beam scraping events and beam-gas collisions), events are required to pass the following conditions: (a) that at least one reconstructed primary vertex exists, (b) that the width of silicon pixel detector clusters is compatible with the vertex position~\cite{CMS:2010za}, and (c) that at least two towers in each of the two HF detectors located on opposite sides of CMS detect energy above 4\GeV.
The primary vertex, which is reconstructed based on two tracks or more, is required to be located within 15\unit{cm} from the central point of the detector along the beam axis.

For high-quality muon identification, a set of offline selection criteria is applied.  This selection requires that the reconstructed muon is matched to a track reconstructed in the inner tracking detector, which has at least six silicon tracker hits, with at least one of these hits occurring in the inner silicon pixel detector array.  In addition, the distance of closest approach of a muon track from the nearest primary vertex must be less than 0.3 and 20\unit{cm} in the transverse and the longitudinal directions, respectively. To assure high efficiency, the individual muons were required to have $\pt^{\mu} > 3.5\GeVc$, with $\abs{\eta^{\mu}} < 2.4$.
Pairs of oppositely charged muons are fitted with a common vertex constraint and used in this analysis if the confidence level of the fit is greater than 1\%.

\section{Analysis}
\label{sec:Ana}

The \PgU meson signals and combinatorial backgrounds for selected \ensuremath{\text{dimuon}}\xspace pairs are separated using fits to the invariant mass ($m_\text{inv}$) distribution.  The range of the studied mass spectrum is 8--14\GeVcc, which covers both \PgUa and \PgUb resonance peaks, as well as the \PgUc mesons.

Acceptance and efficiency correction factors are used as event-by-event weights when the invariant mass distribution and the  average \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace values are computed.
Acceptance is defined as the probability for both the decay muons originated from an \PgU meson to be within $\pt^{\mu} > 3.5\GeVc$, $\abs{\eta^{\mu}} < 2.4$.  It is determined as a function of \pt using \PYTHIA 8.212~\cite{Sjostrand:2014zea} Monte Carlo (MC) generator with tune CP5~\cite{cp5tune}, where \PgU mesons from $^{3}S_{1}$, $^{3}P_{J}$, $^{3}D_{J}$ bottomonium states form via the color-singlet~\cite{Baier:1983va,Gastmans:1986qv} and color-octet~\cite{Cho:1995ce} mechanisms. The MC events are then reweighted to match the \pt spectra to the PbPb data.
The efficiencies for reconstruction, muon identification, and trigger selection are calculated by a full simulation of the  CMS detector using \GEANTfour~\cite{Agostinelli:2002hh}. Each \PgU event is embedded in a \HYDJET 1.9~\cite{Lokhtin:2008xi} PbPb event to reproduce the hydrodynamic background environment.  The average acceptance and efficiency factors are 53.7\% (56.7\%) and 56.9\% (60.0\%) for \PgUa (\PgUb), respectively.
A systematic uncertainty is assigned based on the difference found between the MC results and experimental data.
The MC and experimental data are compared using the tag-and-probe method with single muons obtained from \PJGy meson decays~\cite{Khachatryan:2011mwz, Chatrchyan:2012xi}.  The efficiency ratio of data over simulation is applied as a weight for the derivation of the final \ensuremath{\text{dimuon}}\xspace efficiency.

The $v_{2}$ values of \PgU candidates are determined using the scalar product (SP) method, in a similar way as the one employed to determine the elliptic flow of
prompt $D^{0}$ mesons in PbPb collisions~\cite{Sirunyan:2017plt}.
Using this method, the particle asymmetries associated with different subevents are characterized by $Q$-vectors that are determined for different $\eta$ ranges using either tracker or HF calorimeter data~\cite{PhysRevC.87.044907}.  The $Q$-vectors are given by $Q_{2} = \sum_{k=1}^{M} \omega_{k} \re^{2i\phi_{k}}$, where the sum is over the multiplicity of particles for the tracker or the number of towers for the HF calorimeters, $\phi$ is the azimuthal angle of the particle or the tower, and $\omega$ is the weight given by the \pt of a particle in the tracker or the transverse energy deposited in a tower.  A three subevent method~\cite{Sirunyan:2017plt,PhysRevC.87.044907} is used, employing the tracker, with $\abs{\eta} < 0.75$, and the two HF calorimeters that cover the ranges  $3 < \eta < 5$ (HF+) and $-5 < \eta < -3$ (HF--).
 The $Q$-vector of an \PgU candidate is defined as $Q_{2,\PgU} = \re^{i2\phi}$ where $\phi$ is the azimuthal angle of the candidate.
The \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace coefficient is then given by
\begin{linenomath*}
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:qsp}
{v_2}\left\{ {{\mathrm{SP}}} \right\} \equiv {\frac{\left\langle {{Q_{2,\PgU}}Q_{2A}^*} \right\rangle }  {\sqrt {{\frac{\left\langle {Q_{2A}^{}Q_{2B}^*} \right\rangle \left\langle {Q_{2A}^{}Q_{2C}^*} \right\rangle } {\left\langle {Q_{2B}^{}Q_{2C}^*} \right\rangle }}} }}.
\end{equation}
\end{linenomath*}
Here, $Q_{2A}$ and $Q_{2B}$ correspond to subevents based on the HF detectors, and $Q_{2C}$ is based on the tracker.  The subscripts $A$ and $B$ refer to either HF+ or HF--, depending on the rapidity of the \PgU candidate.
In order to avoid  autocorrelations and to reduce nonflow effects, the $\eta$ gap between \PgU candidates and the subevent detector is required to be at least 3 units.  For this reason, HF+ is selected for A (B) when the \PgU candidate is produced at negative (positive) rapidity.

The $\left\langle \right\rangle$ brackets denote averages over all \PgU candidate events, taking the
real part of the $Q$-vector products. The denominator in Eq.~(\ref{eq:qsp}) is a resolution correction that depends on the particle multiplicity in the HF detector referenced by the A subscript~\cite{PhysRevC.87.044907}. The lower panel of Fig.~\ref{fig:simulFit} shows an example of the resulting \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace distribution as a function of the \PgU candidate invariant mass.
\begin{figure}[htb]
 \centering
   \includegraphics[width=0.49\textwidth]{Figure_001.pdf}
   \caption{Simultaneous fit of the \ensuremath{\text{dimuon}}\xspace invariant mass spectrum and the $\ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace^{\mathrm{Sig+Bkg}}$ distribution, as defined in Eq.~(\ref{eq:v2mass}), for $\pt < 50\GeVc$ and with centrality 10--90\%. The solid (signal + background) and dashed (background only) blue lines show the result of the mass fit, and the solid and dashed red lines show the corresponding results for the binned $\chi^2$ fit to the \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace distribution. }
  \label{fig:simulFit}
\end{figure}
The separation of signal and background is done in two steps.  First, the yields of \PgU signals are extracted from the invariant mass distribution without using the \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace information.  The purpose of this step is to find the best parameters for the probability distribution describing the  \PgU mass peaks. Unbinned log-likelihood fits to the mass distribution are used to obtain the best fit to the data.
The analysis is done using a single rapidity range with $\abs{y}<2.4$ and, thus, uses \PgU candidates obtained in both the barrel and endcap regions of CMS. For this reason,
the signal mass distribution (Sig) for each \PgU meson is formed by the sum of two Crystal Ball (CB) functions~\cite{CrystalBallRef}, to  account for the different mass resolutions of the two regions.    For both CB functions, the mass and the radiative tail parameters are constrained to be equal since these are not sensitive to the detector resolution. The  \PgUa mass is taken as a free parameter of the fit, allowing for a possible scaling error in the momentum calibration for the reconstructed tracks.  The mean ($m_{0}$) and width ($\sigma$) parameters for the excited states (\PgUb and \PgUc) are found by scaling the \PgUa values by the ratio of published masses~\cite{PDG2018}.  Other parameters for the excited states are constrained to be identical to those of the \PgUa mesons.  The normalization parameters \ensuremath{N_{\mathrm{sig,1S}}}\xspace, \ensuremath{N_{\mathrm{sig,2S}}}\xspace and \ensuremath{N_{\mathrm{sig,3S}}}\xspace~are free parameters of the fit.  More details about the parameters for the invariant mass fit can be found in Ref.~\cite{Sirunyan:2018nsz}.

The background mass spectrum (Bkg) is modeled by a function obtained by multiplying a real-valued error function and an exponential function.  The error function is used to reproduce a kinematic enhancement found at low mass, resulting from the single muon \pt threshold.  The exponential component is motivated by the exponentially falling structure of the combinatorial background in the high mass region.  There are four parameters characterizing the shape of background, the $\mu$ and $\sigma$ parameters of the error function, the decay length of the exponential function, and an overall normalization parameter.

In the second step, the invariant mass and \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace distributions are fitted simultaneously using binned $\chi^2$ fits.
The signal function parameters are fixed to the values obtained from the previous step, although the normalizations \ensuremath{N_{\mathrm{sig,1S}}}\xspace, \ensuremath{N_{\mathrm{sig,2S}}}\xspace, and \ensuremath{N_{\mathrm{sig,3S}}}\xspace\ and the background function parameters are left free.
The \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace dependence on $m_\text{inv}$ is taken as
\begin{linenomath}
\label{vnvsmassequation}
\ifthenelse{\boolean{cms@external}}
{
\begin{multline}
  \label{eq:v2mass}
  v_{2}^{\mathrm{Sig+Bkg}}(m_\text{inv}) = \alpha_{1}(m_\text{inv})v_{2}^{\PgUa} + \alpha_{2}(m_\text{inv})v_{2}^{\PgUb}  \\
+ \alpha_{3}(m_\text{inv})v_{2}^{\PgUc} + [ 1-\alpha_{1}(m_\text{inv})  \\
 - \alpha_{2}(m_\text{inv}) - \alpha_{3}(m_\text{inv}) ] v_{2}^{Bkg}(m_\text{inv}),
\end{multline}
}
{
\begin{equation}
  \label{eq:v2mass}
  \begin{aligned}
v_{2}^{\mathrm{Sig+Bkg}}(m_\text{inv}) = \alpha_{1}(m_\text{inv})v_{2}^{\PgUa} + \alpha_{2}(m_\text{inv})v_{2}^{\PgUb} + \alpha_{3}(m_\text{inv})v_{2}^{\PgUc} \\
    + [ 1-\alpha_{1}(m_\text{inv}) - \alpha_{2}(m_\text{inv}) - \alpha_{3}(m_\text{inv}) ] v_{2}^{Bkg}(m_\text{inv}),
  \end{aligned}
\end{equation}
}
\end{linenomath}
where, $v_{2}^{\PgU(iS)}$ ($i= 1, 2, 3$) is the \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace value for the \PGUP{\textit{i}S} mesons and is assumed to be independent of $m_\text{inv}$. The $\alpha_{i}(m_\text{inv})$ coefficients are the fractions that the \PGUP{\textit{i}S} states occupy as a function of invariant mass, as determined from the fit. They are defined as
\begin{linenomath}
\label{vnvsmasseq2}
\ifthenelse{\boolean{cms@external}}
{
\begin{multline}
\alpha_{i}(m_\text{inv}) = \mathrm{Sig}_{\PGUP{\textit{i}S}}(m_\text{inv}) / [ \mathrm{Sig}_{\PgUa}(m_\text{inv})  \\
  + \mathrm{Sig}_{\PgUb}(m_\text{inv}) + \mathrm{Sig}_{\PgUc}(m_\text{inv}) + \text{Bkg}(m_\text{inv}) ].  \\
\end{multline}
}
{
\begin{equation}
\alpha_{i}(m_\text{inv}) = \mathrm{Sig}_{\PGUP{\textit{i}S}}(m_\text{inv}) / [ \mathrm{Sig}_{\PgUa}(m_\text{inv}) + \mathrm{Sig}_{\PgUb}(m_\text{inv}) + \mathrm{Sig}_{\PgUc}(m_\text{inv}) + \text{Bkg}(m_\text{inv}) ].
\end{equation}
}
\end{linenomath}
The background \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace value, $\ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace^{{\text{Bkg}}}(m_\text{inv})$, is modeled as a second-order polynomial function of the invariant mass.
Figure~\ref{fig:simulFit} shows an example  of a simultaneous fit to the mass (upper panel) and \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace distributions (lower panel).

\section{Systematic Uncertainties}
\label{sec:SysUnc}

The systematic uncertainties in this analysis come from various sources, including the modeling of signal and background probability functions, as well as acceptance and efficiency corrections (muon identification and trigger). The uncertainties for the various sources are studied as functions of \pt and centrality. However, within the limits of the evaluation, no clear \pt or centrality trend is found. For the uncertainty associated with the signal, an alternative function is formed by adding one CB and one Gaussian function having equal mass parameters.  The differences in the \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace values from the nominal one are taken as the uncertainties. The difference is typically less than 0.0025 for the \PgUa mesons and is equal to 0.014 for the \PgUb mesons. The uncertainties resulting from holding the final fit parameters constant are studied by releasing each parameter, one by one, and redoing the fit with the additional free parameter.  The largest deviation of the resulting \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace values from the nominal result is taken as the uncertainty. The difference is found typically in the range 0.0006 to 0.005 for the \PgUa mesons and is 0.0093 for the \PgUb mesons. To determine the uncertainty related to the background modeling, the functions for both the invariant mass distribution and $\ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace^{{\text{Bkg}}}(m_\text{inv})$ are varied. For the mass distribution, a fourth-order polynomial is used as an alternative functional behavior. For the $\ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace^{{\text{Bkg}}}(m_\text{inv})$ function, two alternative functions are introduced instead of the nominal second-order polynomial, one as the third-order polynomial and the other as an exponential function.
The uncertainty associated with the choice of the $\ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace^{{\text{Bkg}}}(m_\text{inv})$ function is assigned as the maximum difference found for the two alternative functions used to model the background.
The uncertainty values in the choice of the background modeling functions for the mass and \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace distributions are typically in the range 0.001--0.009 for the \PgUa mesons, and are found to be 0.012 and 0.030, respectively for the \PgUb mesons.

The uncertainty resulting from the acceptance and efficiency corrections is evaluated by comparing the results with and without weighting the simulated \pt spectra. By virtue of the cylindrical symmetry of the detector, the effect of these corrections is minor. An additional systematic uncertainty for the efficiency is assigned based on the tag-and-probe method. The difference of the \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace values with and without applying the tag-and-probe correction is assigned as the uncertainty and is found to be in the range 0.002--0.012. Finally, uncertainties resulting from the hadronic event selection are considered.  The collision event filter is varied, thus allowing for a migration of \PgUa and \PgUb mesons across centrality boundaries. The effect on the measured \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace value is taken as a systematic uncertainty. For \PgUa the differences are typically below 0.0008 and for \PgUb the uncertainty is 0.0067. Individual systematic uncertainties are expected to be uncorrelated and are therefore added in quadrature for the final assigned values.
The absolute systematic uncertainty in the \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace values for the \PgUa meson range in most intervals from 0.002 to 0.015, which is smaller than the statistical uncertainty. The largest uncertainty corresponds to the most peripheral and lowest \pt interval measured, which is dominated by the uncertainty related to the $v_{2}^{{\text{Bkg}}}(m_\text{inv})$ modeling and hadronic event selection. The uncertainty for the \PgUb \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace value, which is obtained for the integrated interval only, is 0.037.

\section{Results}
\label{sec:Res}

The \pt integrated results are shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:resultInt} (\cmsLeft panel) for three centrality intervals.
The \PgUa \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace values are consistent with zero within the statistical uncertainties.
The rightmost points in this figure are the average \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace values in the 10--90\% centrality interval.
They are determined to be $0.007\pm 0.011\stat\pm 0.005\syst$ for \PgUa mesons and $-0.063\pm 0.085\stat\pm 0.037\syst$ for \PgUb mesons.

\begin{figure}[htb!p]
 \centering
      \includegraphics[width=0.49\textwidth]{Figure_002-a.pdf}
      \includegraphics[width=0.49\textwidth]{Figure_002-b.pdf}
   \caption{(\cmsLeft panel) \pt integrated \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace values for \PgUa mesons measured in four centrality classes and for the \PgUb meson in the 10--90\% centrality range. (\cmsRight panel) \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace of \PgUa mesons as a function of \pt in the 10--90\% centrality range compared with model calculations from Du and Rapp~\cite{Du:2017qkv}, Yao~\cite{Yao:2020CoupledQuark,YaoQuarkInsideQGP}, Hong and Lee~\cite{Hong:2019ade, Ke:2018tsh}, Bhaduri et al.~\cite{Bhaduri2020anisotropic}, and Reygers et al.~\cite{Reygers:2019aul}.  All results are for the rapidity range $\abs{y}<2.4$.  The vertical bars denote statistical uncertainties, and the rectangular boxes show the total systematic uncertainties. }
   \label{fig:resultInt}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure*}
 \centering
   \includegraphics[width=0.95\textwidth]{Figure_003.pdf}
   \caption{The \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace coefficients for \PgUa mesons as a function of \pt in three centrality classes: 10--30\% (left panel), 30--50\% (middle panel) and 50--90\% (right panel).
   The rapidity range is $\abs{y}<2.4$.  The vertical lines indicate the  statistical uncertainties and the rectangular boxes show the total systematic uncertainties.
   }
   \label{fig:resultCentBin}
\end{figure*}

\begin{figure}[htbp]
 \centering
   \includegraphics[width=0.49\textwidth]{Figure_004.pdf}
   \caption{The \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace for \PgUa mesons as a function of \pt in the rapidity range $\abs{y}<2.4$ compared with the ALICE results for \PgUa (open circles) and \PJGy (full squares) mesons measured in $2.5<y<4$~\cite{Acharya:2019hlv}. All results are obtained in the range $0 < \pt < 15\GeVc$ and centrality interval 5--60\%. The vertical bars denote statistical uncertainties, and the rectangular boxes show the total systematic uncertainties.}
   \label{fig:result_CompALICE}
\end{figure}

In Fig.~\ref{fig:resultInt} (\cmsRight panel), the \pt dependence of \PgUa meson \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace values is measured for the 10--90\% centrality interval. The \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace values are consistent with zero in the measured \pt range, except for the $6 < \pt < 10\GeVc$ interval that shows a $2.6~\sigma$ deviation from zero.
The result is also compared with theoretical predictions from five different approaches.
The green shaded area (Du, Rapp~\cite{Du:2017qkv}) is a calculation using the kinetic rate equation framework for the time evolution of bottom quarks. In this model, the in-medium effect is applied with a lattice QCD based equation of state.  Note that it is calculated for the centrality interval 20--40\%.  The red line (Yao et al.~\cite{Yao:2020CoupledQuark,YaoQuarkInsideQGP}) is computed from a real-time simulation of heavy quarks using coupled Boltzmann transport equations.  The dissociation and recombination rates are calculated from potential non-relativistic QCD for this model. The dashed violet curve (Hong, Lee~\cite{Hong:2019ade, Ke:2018tsh}) is another kinetic model prediction in which the heavy quark collisional terms are obtained from Bethe-Salpeter amplitude and hard thermal loop resummation.  A diffusion constant $D(2 \pi T)~=~6$, where T is the temperature of the medium, was used.  With this parameter, the nuclear modification factor, which is the ratio of the quarkonium yield in a nucleus-nucleus collision to the corresponding yield in a proton-proton (pp) collision scaled by the number of binary collisions, is consistent with the CMS result in Ref.~\cite{Sirunyan:2018nsz}.
The dashed brown line (Bhaduri et al.~\cite{Bhaduri2020anisotropic}) shows the result of 3+1d quasiparticle anisotropic hydrodynamics framework.  The initial conditions for temperature and shear viscosity to entropy density ratio are tuned to the identified hadron spectra and flow harmonics in 5.02\TeV PbPb data~\cite{BhaduriIdentifiedHadronALICE:2020}.  The gray shaded area (Reygers et al.~\cite{Reygers:2019aul}) is another hydrodynamics calculation based on the blast-wave fits using the data of lighter particles, which was scaled down by a factor of 1/10.  The  \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace values are computed in three centrality intervals (10--20\%, 40--50\%, 60--70\%) and the gray envelope is constructed to minimally cover all results.
Despite their slightly different \pt dependence, all models in the figure derive small \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace values for $\pt < 10 \GeVc$, which is consistent with the experimental result.  For the highest \pt range, however, the kinetic model (Hong, Lee) and the blast-wave model begin to deviate from the observed behavior.
In particular, the blast-wave model predicts a \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace value much larger than found.
In this model, the elliptic flow of \PgUa is expected to sharply rise from $\pt = 9$ \GeVc, following the mass ordering of \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace(\pt) by lighter particles used for the fit~\cite{Reygers:2019aul}.

The \pt differential results for \PgUa mesons in each centrality interval are shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:resultCentBin} and the \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace values are found to be consistent with zero within uncertainties.
A similar result has been obtained by the ALICE Collaboration~\cite{Acharya:2019hlv}, where the measurement was done in a complementary rapidity region ($2.5<y<4$), as shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:result_CompALICE}. The CMS data points in this figure were analyzed using the same \pt range as the ALICE result to allow for a comparison where only the rapidity ranges of the two measurements differ.
The ALICE Collaboration also measured inclusive \PJGy \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace values (also shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:result_CompALICE}) with the same kinematic conditions as their \PgUa results and there find a significant and finite \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace value.
Together, the CMS and ALICE results indicate that the geometry of the medium has little influence on the \PgUa yields~\cite{Du:2017qkv, bhaduri2018anisotropic} and that recombination is not a dominant process in the production of this meson. The results also indicate that the path-length dependence of  \PgUa suppression is small.

The current results support the assumption of a high melting temperature of the \PgUa meson.    Consequently, the dissociation can only take place in the earliest stages of the collision.  This makes the \PgUa meson less  sensitive to the path length than other quarkonia states.

\section{Summary}
\label{sec:Sum}

The \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace coefficients for \PgUa and \PgUb mesons are measured in PbPb collisions at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 5.02\TeV.  Results are reported for the rapidity range $\abs{y}<2.4$, in the transverse momentum interval $0 < \pt < 50\GeVc$, and in three centrality classes of 10--30\%, 30--50\%, and 50--90\% for the \PgUa meson, while the centrality interval 10--90\% is used for the \PgUb meson.  The \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace values are observed to be compatible with zero for the \PgUa meson in the measured kinematic and centrality intervals.
The observation contrasts with the positive \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace values reported for \PJGy mesons, suggesting different medium effects for charmonia and bottomonia.
This confirms, with higher statistical precision and with an extended \pt range, the result from the ALICE experiment measured in a complementary rapidity region.
The measured values of \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace for $\pt < 10 \GeVc$ are consistent with the theoretical predictions based on the kinetic model, the hydrodynamics framework, and the blast-wave model.  For the high \pt region, the  \PgUa result provides an important constraint for models.
The \ensuremath{v_{2}}\xspace value found for \PgUb mesons, which is being reported for the first time, is also consistent with zero.
As there are expected to be differences in the various processes through which the QGP affects \PgUa and \PgUb mesons, these measurements provide new inputs for the study of bottomonia production in heavy ion collisions.

\begin{acknowledgments}
  We congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS institutes for their contributions to the success of the CMS effort. In addition, we gratefully acknowledge the computing centres and personnel of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid for delivering so effectively the computing infrastructure essential to our analyses. Finally, we acknowledge the enduring support for the construction and operation of the LHC and the CMS detector provided by the following funding agencies: BMBWF and FWF (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, FAPERGS, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MoST, and NSFC (China); COLCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES and CSF (Croatia); RPF (Cyprus); SENESCYT (Ecuador); MoER, ERC IUT, PUT and ERDF (Estonia); Academy of Finland, MEC, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRT (Greece); NKFIA (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); MSIP and NRF (Republic of Korea); MES (Latvia); LAS (Lithuania); MOE and UM (Malaysia); BUAP, CINVESTAV, CONACYT, LNS, SEP, and UASLP-FAI (Mexico); MOS (Montenegro); MBIE (New Zealand); PAEC (Pakistan); MSHE and NSC (Poland); FCT (Portugal); JINR (Dubna); MON, RosAtom, RAS, RFBR, and NRC KI (Russia); MESTD (Serbia); SEIDI, CPAN, PCTI, and FEDER (Spain); MOSTR (Sri Lanka); Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); MST (Taipei); ThEPCenter, IPST, STAR, and NSTDA (Thailand); TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (USA).

  \hyphenation{Rachada-pisek} Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie programme and the European Research Council and Horizon 2020 Grant, contract Nos.\ 675440, 752730, and 765710 (European Union); the Leventis Foundation; the A.P.\ Sloan Foundation; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office; the Fonds pour la Formation \`a la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium); the Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium); the F.R.S.-FNRS and FWO (Belgium) under the ``Excellence of Science -- EOS" -- be.h project n.\ 30820817; the Beijing Municipal Science \& Technology Commission, No. Z191100007219010; the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic; the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under Germany's Excellence Strategy -- EXC 2121 ``Quantum Universe" -- 390833306; the Lend\"ulet (``Momentum") Programme and the J\'anos Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the New National Excellence Program \'UNKP, the NKFIA research grants 123842, 123959, 124845, 124850, 125105, 128713, 128786, and 129058 (Hungary); the Council of Science and Industrial Research, India; the HOMING PLUS programme of the Foundation for Polish Science, cofinanced from European Union, Regional Development Fund, the Mobility Plus programme of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the National Science Center (Poland), contracts Harmonia 2014/14/M/ST2/00428, Opus 2014/13/B/ST2/02543, 2014/15/B/ST2/03998, and 2015/19/B/ST2/02861, Sonata-bis 2012/07/E/ST2/01406; the National Priorities Research Program by Qatar National Research Fund; the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, project no. 02.a03.21.0005 (Russia); the Tomsk Polytechnic University Competitiveness Enhancement Program and ``Nauka" Project FSWW-2020-0008 (Russia); the Programa Estatal de Fomento de la Investigaci{\'o}n Cient{\'i}fica y T{\'e}cnica de Excelencia Mar\'{\i}a de Maeztu, grant MDM-2015-0509 and the Programa Severo Ochoa del Principado de Asturias; the Thalis and Aristeia programmes cofinanced by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF; the Rachadapisek Sompot Fund for Postdoctoral Fellowship, Chulalongkorn University and the Chulalongkorn Academic into Its 2nd Century Project Advancement Project (Thailand); the Kavli Foundation; the Nvidia Corporation; the SuperMicro Corporation; the Welch Foundation, contract C-1845; and the Weston Havens Foundation (USA).
\end{acknowledgments}

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This information has been created for parents of children with complex heart conditions to improve their understanding of the support available to enable their children to reach their full potential in the school/education environment.
In September 2014 the process for supporting children with added needs in school was changed. Gradually over the next three years School Action, School Action Plus and Statementing will be replaced with school-based support and/or an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHC Plan). Support with education will no longer be allocated on an hour-by-hour support basis but provided as a budget to be spent on each pupil. The funds will come from either the school's Special Educational Needs budget or from added local authority (LA) funding and in some cases parents, or older pupils, will be able to decide how the money can best be used to support their child's, or their own, education.
As part of the Children and Families Act 2014, in England, the new Special Educational Needs and Disability Code of Practice pulls together support for educational, health and care needs into one process and it begins from age 0 and goes to age 25, where an educational need has been identified.
The participation of children, their parents and young people in decision making.
The early identification of children's and young people's needs and early intervention to support them.
Collaboration between education, health and social care.
High quality provision to meet the needs of children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.
A focus on inclusive practice and removing barriers to learning.
This work is supported by the new guidance for 'Supporting pupils at school with medical conditions', which is also part of the Children and Families Act 2014. Every child with a single ventricle heart condition should have an individual Healthcare Plan regardless of whether or not they fit the criteria for the full Education, Health and Care Plan.
If a child has problems with any of the areas below that affect their ability to learn, they may have a special educational need (SEN). Other children may have SEN without a diagnosis or a disability.
Emotional, mental health and behaviour.
Long-term medical condition or disability.
Who identifies that a child has a special educational need (SEN)?
Teachers, special educational needs co-ordinators (SENCOs), head teachers and governors are responsible for ensuring educational progress.
Healthcare professionals e.g. specialist nurses, cardiologists, community health teams and school nurses are obliged to interact with schools where there is a pupil with a long-term medical condition so that the school understands the impact that a health condition can have in the school environment and what support a child may need to safely manage their health condition in school or within school activities with regard to the progression of their learning.
Community social care provider, e.g. social worker.
When a need is identified, what support is available?
Once the nursery/school or further education provider has identified a special educational need they will work with the pupil and their parents to establish the plan to support each individual child's learning. This process needs to start promptly as it can take some months to move through all of the steps. This will be co-ordinated by the special educational needs co-ordinator (SENCO) and can take a number of different forms.
a special learning programme for your child.
extra help from a teacher or a learning support assistant.
small group working with your child.
support for your child with physical or personal care difficulties, such as eating, getting around school safely, toileting or dressing.
The school must make parents, children and young adults aware of the provision they have identified but this is a school based provision and will not require a full EHC Plan. This support replaces School Action.
Where schools see that more funding is needed to support their plan they are able to seek added support from the local authority. This is again school-based support and does not require a full EHC Plan. This replaces School Action Plus. These actions will be assessed and evaluated by the SENCO.
This will be needed when the child or young person has not made the expected progress despite the school having taken relevant and purposeful action to identify, assess and meet the identified Special Educational Needs. An application for an Education, Health and Care Needs assessment will be made to the local authority. If the assessment finds that significant extra support is needed, it will take the form of an Education, Health and Care Plan, which replaces the current Statement of Special Educational Needs.
The child's parent – see draft application letter.
A young person aged 16 – 25.
A person acting on behalf of a nursery, school or post 16 institution.
A person in charge of a Youth Custodial Establishment 11 – 18.
Other professionals that feel that there is a significant developmental or sensory need, for example a paediatrician or community healthcare worker.
Schools would hope to be able to fulfil their commitment to each child's learning and medical support without having to go down the formal assessment process but in the case of a severe learning or physical disability it might be needed.
They must inform the person who has submitted the request within six weeks if they are going to carry out an EHC Needs assessment. See EHC Plan process flow chart.
If they decide not to assess you will have the right to appeal and the local authority must give you information about how to proceed. See information on Appeals.
What is the 'Our Story' submission?
Parent views on their child's needs, drawn up in consultation with the child or young person.
How the parent thinks the child/young person's needs may be met.
Parents' aspirations for the future.
This should be as brief or as detailed as the child and family wish; however it needs to be concise and relevant. The story, together with the chronology should remove the need for the continual retelling of their situation. This can be submitted as a profile sheet. See Our Story example.
What is the 'My Story' submission?
Young people over the age of 16 will be expected, with support, to submit their own thoughts on their needs and aspirations in the same format as the Our Story above. See My Story example.
There will also be a question about how the budget allocated to support a child or young adult's education will be administered. This is a choice for the family. They can manage the budget themselves or it can be managed by the school or college in partnership with the parents, child and young person. See further budget information below.
The local authority decides whether your child needs a plan having looked at all the information collected from you, your child and professionals working with your child. This is at an EHC Plan meeting.
Parents will be asked to attend this meeting.
The LA will make the decision at the meeting, talk about it with you and then write to you to confirm it. If your child does not need a plan they will also include in that letter information about how to appeal the decision if you are unhappy with it.
What does the EHC Plan offer?
An EHC Plan is a legal document that describes a child or young person's special educational, health and social care needs. It explains the extra help that will be given to meet those needs and how that help will support the child or young person to achieve what they want to in their life. The plan is drawn up by the Local Authority using all of the information that has been submitted to them.
E: Outcomes – how the extra help will benefit your child.
All Councils have to offer personal budgets as part of the new Education, Health and Care Plan process in place since 1 September 2014. There are choices of how that budget can be used.
Direct payments to the parents/carers or young person for them to use in a way that meets the identified support required in the EHC Plan. This will be done in partnership with the school or further education institution.
Or the payment is made directly to the place of education for them to administer to meet the support identified in the EHC Plan.
Personal budgets are about increasing choice and control. If a parent/carer does not want a direct payment, they can still have increased choice and control by having a discussion with the education team about how the money could be spent on their behalf or about how they would like something done slightly differently. This may be as simple as doing an out-of-school activity such as swimming on a different day of the week. Whilst this may be simple to arrange, it may make a significant difference to the family.
The EHC Plan must be reviewed at least once a year. This is a chance for everyone involved in supporting your child to check how well they are progressing and whether anything needs to be changed. At the end of the review the local authority may make changes to the plan, end it or leave it unchanged.
The plan will remain in place until your child leaves education or the local authority decides that your child no longer needs it to help them in their education. If you move to another local authority the plan will be transferred.
Children who currently have a Statement of Special Educational Needs will gradually be reassessed and, where need is still identifiable, transferred over to have an Education, Health and Care Plan. Children transferring from primary to secondary school are one of the priority groups but all children should have been transferred in the next three years.
The Special Education Needs and Disability Tribunal is an independent panel which hears appeals from parent and carers about EHC Plans. See Appeals Process flow chart.
What decisions can you appeal?
Whether your child should have an EHC Plan.
A change to an EHC Plan.
A re-assessment for an EHC Plan.
You can also take claims of disability discrimination against the local authority or a school or college to the tribunal.
However you must consider independent mediation first unless the appeal is about disability discrimination or the school named in your child's EHC Plan.
Mediation is a way to resolve differences. It involves a person (a mediator) who is independent of you and the school, college or the local authority, who helps you to talk constructively about your disagreements.
An assessment for an EHC Plan.
A special educational part of an EHC Plan.
A health or social care part of an EHC Plan.
you must contact an independent mediator before you appeal.
The local authority will tell you about how to get mediation in any letter they write to you about your child's EHC Plan or assessment for a plan.
The Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal is made up of a panel of experts, including a judge and two other members with experience in SEN and disability.
You can appeal to the tribunal if you are a parent or carer of a child aged 0 to 16 or if you are a young person aged 16 to 25.
You need to appeal within two months of receiving a decision about your or your child's plan or assessment for a plan.
Details of your local authority's appeal process can be gained from their website or by ringing the contact number on the decision letters sent to you.
The tribunal will write to you to tell you of its decision and the reasons for that decision.
The tribunal's decision is final. There is no right of appeal unless it has made a decision on a point of law. It it has, it will give you information about the next steps in the letter it sends you with its decision.
If you would like to discuss any of the information above with the Little Hearts Matter team don't hesitate to give us a ring on 0121 455 8982 or email [email protected].


Indeed an apt quote by Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Media founder and CEO.
In the startup world, funding can catapult the startup to success as funding is required at different stages. Indian startup ecosystem is no different. Swinging another pendulum in the favor of startups, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has amended the Foreign Exchange Management (Transfer or Issue of Security by a Person Resident outside India) Regulations, 2000, (hereinafter referred as " The Regulations") with effect from January 10, 2017 so as to allow "startups" to issue convertible notes.
It is worthwhile to note here that in India, an Indian Company can receive foreign investment by issue of equity shares or fully and mandatorily convertible preference shares /debentures. This means that investment in companies generally cannot involve an option for the investor to redeem or demand repayment of monies invested. Further, optionally convertible debentures are considered External Commercial Borrowings (ECBs) and are required to comply with the more stringent ECB Guidelines.
Convertible note is a clear deviation from above existing policy. How? This article will attempt to explain.
1. It is an instrument issued by a startup company.
Accordingly, we have prepared the following diagram that provides a visualization of Startup Company as recognised by definition.
2. It evidences receipt of money initially as debt.
Convertible notes are issued against money received in the nature of loan. Fair enough!!
3. The instrument is repayable at the option of the holder.
Convertible notes are repayable at the option of holder. But usually prepayment is not what angel investors look for. They look for startup to hit success, achieve an exit at a hefty valuation, and ultimately generate a greater return on their capital.
Also, this repayment option feature generally leaves OCDs to be treated as external commercial borrowing in India, which is not the case with convertible note. A marked change indeed!!
4. The note is convertible into equity shares within a period not exceeding 5 years from date of issue of the note, upon occurrence of specified events as per the other terms and conditions agreed to and indicated in the instrument.
The regulation provide for conversion within a period of 5 years. However, conversion is contingent upon occurrence of specified events as per the other terms and conditions agreed to and indicated in the instrument. The regulations are silent about conversion in case the "specified event" does not occur.
I hope the definition is now clear. Let us see an illustrative example for convertible note.
A startup company XYZ granted INR 5,00,000 convertible note to the investors with the condition that this money shall be converted into Series A Preferred Stock at a discount of 20% to the next round of funding, which ought to take place within 36 months. If XYZ is unable to raise the money, it has to return the loan along with interest at 10 percent immediately upon the expiry of the 36th month or any other time that the investors demand.
Twelve months later, XYZ raises Rs 10 lakhs from a venture capital fund that pays INR 5 per share.
We now move on to discuss the regulatory aspects relating to issue of convertible notes.
1. Who are eligible to purchase convertible notes issued by startups?
A person resident outside India is eligible to purchase convertible notes. The FEMA Act defines "person resident outside India' as "a person who is not resident in India".
Citizens of Pakistan or Bangladesh or entities registered in/incorporated in these countries cannot purchase convertible notes in Indian entities.
Convertible notes issued by an Indian startup company may be purchased for an amount of twenty five lakh rupees or more in a single tranche.
Accordingly, the convertible notes will not be treated as public deposits, thereby relieving such startup from stringent provisions relating to public deposits.
Consideration on issue of convertible notes to be received by inward remittance through banking channels or by debit to the NRE / FCNR / Escrow account maintained by the person concerned in accordance with the Foreign Exchange Management (Deposit) Regulations, 2016.
Such escrow account shall be closed immediately after the requirements are completed or within a period of 6 months, whichever is earlier. However, in no case continuance of such escrow account shall be permitted beyond a period of six months.
Convertible notes may be acquired or transferred, by way of sale, from or to, a person resident in or outside India, provided the transfer takes place in accordance with the pricing guidelines as prescribed by RBI. Prior approval from the Government shall be obtained for such transfers in case the startup company is engaged in a sector which requires Government approval.
A startup company engaged in a sector where FDI requires Government approval may issue convertible notes to a non-resident only with approval of the Government. The issue of shares against such convertible notes shall have to be in accordance with the Schedule 1 of the Principal Regulations.
The startup company issuing convertible notes shall be required to furnish reports as prescribed by the Reserve Bank.
Convertible notes allow investors to invest in startups without concerns about their valuations, which are difficult to determine at the inception, as convertible notes are merely an instrument advanced as a loan and converted to equity at a later stage when the startup's business model is more evolved.
The amendment has opened up a new channel for raising funds for Indian Startups. However, it is expected to have limited impact, as it is applicable only to entities defined as 'startups' by the DIPP. Further, clarity is warranted on various aspects such as interest rate restrictions, pricing restrictions, redemption after 5 years etc.
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Young Rock season 2 updates
Nov 29, 2021 - by Marc Middleton
Filming for season two of NBC's "Young Rock" continues in Australia, and now word is that the second season will feature WWE Superstars from The Rock's rookie year in WWE.
The "Young Rock" producers have been casting for Triple H, The Undertaker, Downtown Bruno Lauer (aka Harvey Wippleman), and The Brooklyn Brawler, according to PWInsider. Lauer made a cameo as himself in the first season, but season two will feature a fictionalized version.
There are also plans for a Memphis-themed episode for season two, which will feature a "Superstar" Bill Dundee character. It was previously revealed that season two will feature version of several WWE Hall of Famers and legends, including Jerry Lawler, Tommy Rich, Bam Bam Bigelow, The Rock's grandfather "High Chief" Peter Maivia, Gene Okerlund, Big John Studd, Freddie Blassie, Nikolai Volkoff, The Great Kabuki, and Mr. Fuji, among others.
Producers have also been re-casting several Hall of Famers and legends from the first season, including Ric Flair and Roddy Piper. Flair is being re-casted because actor Matthew Farrelly, who portrayed Flair in season one, is no longer available as he's working for WWE NXT as Grayson Waller, and is living in Orlando, far from filming in Australia, where he's from.
"Young Rock" season two filming is expected to run through January. The ten-episode second season is scheduled to premiere on Tuesday, March 15, but there will be a holiday-themed special episode on Wednesday, December 15 at 8pm ET.
The Christmas special on December 15 is titled "A Christmas Peril" and the synopsis reads like this:
"Christmas Eve, 1982: An unexpected guest shows Dewey that this is the first in a long line of terrible Christmases. In 1987, Rocky and Dwayne take jobs as a mall Santa and elf. In 1993, Dwayne reluctantly spends a disastrous Christmas with Coach O."
Stay tuned for more on "Young Rock" season two.
Armando Estrada remembers one of his favorite moments on the mic, interesting SD stat
Dustin: "greatest night of my life"
2/8/17 NXT Recap: Roode's Celebration; Dillinger/Jose/Strong vs. SAnitY Main Event
2/4/22 WWE SmackDown Viewership
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Gaston Heux, né à Bruxelles en 1879 et mort à Etterbeek en 1951, est un poète, auteur de théâtre et conférencier belge de langue française.

Biographie
Professeur de lettres à l'Athénée royal de Bruxelles il produisit une œuvre poétique au style parnassien.

En son honneur et en l'honneur de son épouse poétesse Mariette, l'Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique décerne un prix quadriennal d'un montant de 75 000 FB (1 800 euros) fondé par leur fils Raymond Heux, destiné à un écrivain de plus de quarante ans pour une œuvre importante ou pour l'ensemble de son œuvre.

Le peintre Lismonde, ancien élève à l'Athénée royal de Bruxelles a fait de lui un portrait désormais conservé aux Musées royaux des beaux-arts de Belgique.

Œuvre
 Les Ailes de gaze, Bruxelles, 1898.
 L'Absent. Drame en un acte et en vers, Bruxelles : F. Donnay, 1900.
 Grégoire Le Roy. Étude; monographie, Bruxelles, 1893.
 L'Initiation douloureuse, Paris, 1924 (prix Beernaert).
 Le Sculpteur Jenny Lorrain, Bruxelles : Savoir et beauté, 1927.
 Symphonies et sérénades, Bruxelles, 1928.
 Petits hommes, 1935.
 L'Angoisse (théâtre), Braine-le-Comte : éditions de La Nervie ; Bruxelles : Impr. scientifique et littéraire.
 La Symphonie de l'égorgeoir, Bruxelles : Editions de la revue Terre Latines, 1936 (avec un portrait de l'auteur).
 La Conscience du quotidien : Les Glas et la vie, Bruxelles : Les Editions gauloises, 1937.
 Le Poète Henri Galoy, Bruxelles : Editions Gauloises, 1937.
 Le Théâtre historique du point de vue idéologique, Bruxelles : Le Thyrse, 1938.
 La Symphonie de l'humanité, Bruxelles : Les Editions Gauloises, 1939.
 Buchenwald, terre d'épouvante, par Maurice Germain-Lucigny Dubois ; Introduction de Gaston Heux, Bruxelles : Editions D.G.L. Copyright by Jeanne de Cœur, 1946.
 Lalla-Rouk, Joue de Tulipe. Poème dramatique, Bruxelles (Etterbeek) : F. La Gravière, 1947.
 Neuf symphonies militantes, Bruxelles : Claircopie, 1950.

Iconographie
Les Musées royaux des beaux-arts de Belgique conservent le portrait du poète Gaston Heux, œuvre du peintre Lismonde daté de 1939.

La Bibliothèque royale de Belgique conserve une médaille à son effigie, œuvre de Jenny Lorrain (1867-1943), frappée en 1930.

Bibliographie
 Almanach de poètes belges, année 1905, Illustrations par Auguste Donnay, Bruxelles : Lacomblez, 1905.
 Eugène De Seyn, "Heux (Gaston), dans : Dictionnaire biographique des sciences, des lettres et des arts en Belgique, Bruxelles, 1936, tome II, p. 566.
 David Scheinert, « Monsieur Heux et la symphonie hébraique », dans : Le Monde Juif,  1951/4 (N° 42), pages 22 à 23 Lire en ligne.

Liens externes
 Musées royaux des beaux-arts de Belgique. Portrait du poète Gaston Heux par Lismonde, 1939.

Notes

Liens internes
 Lismonde
 Jenny Lorrain

Liens externes

 Gaston Heux sur le site de l'Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique
 Prix littéraire Gaston Heux, à l'Académie Royale de langue et de littérature française de Belgique.
 Portrait du poète Gaston Heux, par Lismonde (1939).
 Médaille à l'effigie de Gaston Heux, par Jenny Lorrain.

Poète belge
Dramaturge belge du XXe siècle
Naissance en février 1879
Naissance à Bruxelles au XIXe siècle
Décès en octobre 1951
Décès à Etterbeek
Décès à 72 ans

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"If you're serious about playing guitar to whatever level, you need someone who not only is a fantastic guitarist, but is also right up there with both theory and the latest techniques (eg djent) plus all the other styles that you might want to learn - from Buckley, to Blink, to Bullet for example.
It's tough isn't it !!! Well, I got kinda lucky, Jon's background is music academia so there's no theory matter he can't go stella on, he's been playing guitar since he was just out of diapers so there's no one he can't play (Petrucci anyone.. or maybe Necrophagist !!) . He actually loves teaching people, so he doesn't care if you want to learn toxic by Brittany, or something off toxicity by soad, he'll be chuffed when you can play it. And he's one of the most patient people I've met... always looking how to break something down for you to work your way up and get it down at speed.
He writes and records his own compositions..sequencers anyone ? Oh and he worked in a guitar shop for years, learning all the ins and outs of pedals set ups..you name it : without picking up that unfortunate arrogance, particularly towards beginners, that you have to break through in so many guitar shops !! In essence, he's a nice guy and a genuinely great guitar teacher for anyone old, young, gifted or just plain awful who wants to learn and get better. My own playing has improved more in the last 6 months than in the last 3 years, and that, not only makes lessons something to look forward to, but a small price to pay."


Social Entrepreneurship is something I am extremely passionate about.
It's a term that has gotten a lot of mainstream buzz especially in the last five to ten years. People now dream of being social entrepreneurs!
I was very fortunate to meet Bill Drayton at the Harvard Social Enterprise Conference in March of 2009. I was in the theatre, and there was a man who was talking to a few people, and there seemed to be something special about him, so I went up to talk to him. I had no idea who he was. A few minutes later when he was called to give a speech, I realized who he was. He had a very calm but purposeful presence. He created Askoka, which finds and helps the greatest social entrepreneurs on the planet bring their ideas to reality.
A social entrepreneur is a person who has a passion for helping people, picks one or many social causes, and relentlessly pursues this vision to completion, falling many times but getting back up with restored purpose. Compared to businesses, a social entrepreneurs' main ROI (return on investment) measure is the number of lives which will be positively affected by their solutions. This is the real fuel for their fire.
A social entrepreneur can be anyone who is young, old, female, male, educated, or non-educated, rich or poor. The common defining thread that flows through these types of people is their drive for wanting to solve a social situation, their resourcefullness in getting materials or people to grow their cause (sometimes having to push it alone for a while), their creativity in rethinking a field, and their perseverance no matter how many times they fall. Some social entrepreneurs just fall into this category by chance, some chip away at discovering it, and some have always known this is what they were meant to be.
He had the Tanzanian influence early on, as his family moved there when he was very young so his father could build the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center.
In 1992, he set off to attempt to climb K2, the world's second highest mountain, but fate, and a wrong turn after his team tried to save a climber's life, lead him to the village of Korphe, in the mountains of Northern Pakistan. The villagers took care of him and he forged friendships with them through drinking cups of tea. He saw children learning in the dirt becuase they did not have a school. He promised to come back and build a school for them. That promise has turned into his life long vocation. After enduring many rejections from people in trying to raise money he convinced Jean Hoerni, a Silicon Valley pioneer, to found the Central Asia Institute. The CAI, with Mortenson's leadership, has over the last 16 years, built 131 schools in some of the roughest regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan. His journeys have not been without trials. In 1996 he survived an 8-day kidnapping by the Taliban, escaped fighting between Afghani warlords, and received hate mail and threats from people disagreeing with his building schools for girls in Pakistan. He has received Pakistan's highest civilian award, the Sitara-e-Pakistan in March 2009.
He has written two novels: Three Cups of Tea and Stones into Schools.
All of this may seem impossible to you and me, but this is a person who took it step by step after realizing his calling. He realized what he had to do later on in his life, took the challenge and did all he could to achieve his vision. He is awkwardly shy, an introvert, but has determination that could only be tested with the mountains of Pakistan. He did not know what would happen, but he was determined to do everything he could to build his first school, then his second school, and his 131st school. I believe anything is possible, if we're open to being open to the opportunities that come our way, even opportunities on the side of a remote mountain. ALWAYS BELIEVE!


Numismatics or the study and collection of currency is a fascinating discipline that began many centuries ago. More than just a means of exchanging goods, coins offer us a peek into the lives, art, and history of ancient civilizations. The timeline below shows some key moments in the history of coins!


Kasper Dolberg plays the position Forward, is 21 years old and 186cm tall, weights 75kg.
In the current club Ajax played 3 seasons, during this time he played 116 matches and scored 45 goals.
How many goals has Kasper Dolberg scored this season?
In the current season Kasper Dolberg scored 13 goals.
In the club he scored 13 goals ( Jupiler League, Eredivisie, KNVB Cup, Champions League, Friendlies). Kasper Dolberg this seasons has also noted 2 assists, played 3514 minutes, with 18 times he played game in first line.
Kasper Dolberg shots an average of 0.33 goals per game in club competitions.
Last season his average was 0.32 goals per game, he scored 9 goals in 28 club matches.
In the current season for Ajax Kasper Dolberg gave a total of 66 shots, of which 31 were shots on goal. Passes completed Kasper Dolberg is 80 percent.


The GATE 2017 Exams are going on. Today GATE EC Examination will going to take place in two different shifts from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM and 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM. The morning shift of exam has already over & we are here providing you the GATE 2017 EC Analysis and Questions Asked for morning session. Read on to know GATE 2017 EC Analysis and Questions asked in actual GATE Exam along with the difficulty level, topic and number of questions asked from each subject of Electronics & Communication.
The paper was of moderate level. As compared to previous year this time Electronics & Communication paper was easy. Most of the questions are asked from basic element of electronic devices, rank of matrix, transient state.
Moderate difficulty level. If you have gone through this part then you have easily solved upto 6 questions. It was less time consuming & scoring.
Q1. Three indian and three chinese split into subgroups having atleast one indian. How many subgroups are possible?
Q2. One sitting arrangement type problem was asked.
Q3. One question was based on Pie Chart.
Q1. Microprocessor : 8085 microprocessor with frequency 1.25 Hz was given along with a programme was given & you have to find the now many T- State are there ?
Q2. Microprocessor : A short programme was written 7 you were asked to find the value of accumulator ?
Q3. One Question was based on shift registers & counters. A diagram was given & No. of clock pulses after 1111 state was asked ?
Q4. Control System : Two question were based on system stability.
Q5. Formula based questions are asked from Laplace transform.
Q6. A matrix was given & you have to find out, rank of matrix & Eigen value.
Q7. One question was on integral calculus.
Q8. Some values were given & you have to find Discrete Convolution, DTFT ?
Q9. Electronic devices & circuit : Questions were related to continuity equation and minority carrier decay , relaxation time ?
Q10. Mid band voltage gain problem was asked ?
Q11. Taylor series 1+2x+3/2 x^2 + 7/6 x^3 was given & based on that one numerical was asked ?
Q12. What is Saturation value in opam ?
The GATE paper of afternoon shift was of Moderate level.
Q1. One problem was based on Time & work.
Q2. Direction & Distance (1Qs).
Q2. R-H Criteria. You have to find the value of k ?
Q3. Laplace Transform (1 Qs).
Q4. One question was based on finding the Average power of given function.
Q5. Fourier Transform was given & you have you find y(t) by using final value theorem.
Q7. Current source (1 Numerical) ?
Q8. two different MOSFET are shown in the diagram containing current id1 & id2. Width of first MOSFET is twice the second one & you have to find the transconductance ?
Q9. Uniformly doped P-N junction was given & based on that four different graph are given in the option. You have to find out which one shows the correct characteristics.
Q10. Solar Cell (1 Qs).
Q11. BJT Cascode Connection was given in the diagram & voltage gain was asked?
Q12. Waveguide (1 Qs) based on finding the Cut Off frequency of waveguide.
Q13. EMFT, Diagram was given & you have to find the upper & lower cut off frequency.
Q14. Programmable Logical Array (1Qs).
Q15. Change of order in integration.
How was your GATE Exam Experience? If you have remembered any question & would like to discuss then don't hesitate from commenting below.


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El Paso reaching COVID-19 milestone; Juarez sees spikes on heels of US holidays
Juarez official says extending border travel restrictions would be 'favorable' to reducing rate of infection
by: Julian Resendiz
Posted: Jul 14, 2020 / 11:17 AM GMT-0600 / Updated: Jul 14, 2020 / 11:17 AM GMT-0600
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — El Paso is quickly approaching the 10,000-mark in COVID-19 infections, as the pandemic rages on both sides of the border.
El Paso County reported five additional deaths on Tuesday, bringing the total to 157 during the pandemic. It also recorded 237 new cases for a cumulative count of 9,953, with 3,716 of them reported as active.
The number of patients under intensive care also reached a new peak, with 98. A total of 283 people are hospitalized, 40 on ventilators.
Chihuahua State Health Department Preventive Services Coordinator Dr. Leticia Ruiz
Across the border, Juarez, Mexico reported its first large spike since last week, with 134 new cases and nine additional deaths. Juarez has now recorded 2,255 cases and 575 deaths.
Mexican officials say they've now seen spikes during two consecutive U.S. holidays — Father's Day and the Fourth of July.
Chihuahua State Health Department Preventive Services Coordinator Dr. Leticia Ruiz said mobility remains high on the border. And Health Department Director Arturo Valenzuela said extending international travel restrictions, which U.S. Customs and Border Protection implemented on March 21 and renewed through July 21, would be "favorable."
"The higher the mobility in a community where the infection is present, there is a higher transmission by infected people. Is it favorable to limit border traffic? Definitely. It is favorable to reducing the number of infections," he said.
Both countries are restricting non-essential international travel, which includes U.S. residents not visiting Mexico for leisure and most Mexicans not being allowed into the United States on visas.
Coronavirus infections in "California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas are on the rise. Our perspective, and that of the Ministry of Health, is that it wouldn't be prudent now to reopen because then we're going to provoke a (spike)" in COVID-19 cases, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard told Mexican media late last week.


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'I didn't say snake swallowed N36million' – JAMB Clerk says
by Laila Ijeoma February 14, 2018, 8:23 am 15Comments
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB alleges that a clerk in their Benue State office has blamed a snake for swallowing the sum of N36million. The clerk has however mentioned that he never said that.
The missing money was supposed to be remitted to the agency.
Fabian Benjamin, spokesman of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, told CNN that a staffer confessed to auditors a snake had "swallowed" the missing money.
"She confessed that she had the money, kept it in a vault in the office but a mysterious snake came and swallowed the money. The staff and others in her category that are found culpable have been suspended and will be handed over to appropriate authorities," he added.
The clerk, identified as Philomena Chiesche, denied the allegations, saying the exam board invented the story about the snake. She also accused the exam board of turning her in to authorities, who she claims still haven't questioned her about the missing funds. She mentioned that she is just a clerk serving under senior officers and she is simply being used as a scape goat.
"I did not say any money was swallowed by a snake. Nobody questioned me about that case. I am just a clerk and I serve under directors who are accounting officers. I wonder why they are personalizing the case?"
Nigerians reacted to the story of a snake swallowing a whopping N36million from the JAMB office in Benue and a lot of people have blamed the incident on the corruption that is rampant within the Nigerian state.
Social media erupted at the nature of the allegations. A Twitter account was even opened for the snake and it has since gone viral. The country's anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, has even come out to say there will be no mercy for any money-wallowing snake.
80-year-old man dies during sex with younger lover in hotel
JJC Skillz talks about how he met and proposed to Funke Akindele
Lawmaker's wife dies after taking concoction to increase her breast milk


Italicize figures, letters, signs and words referred to as words. Example: How many j's are there in your brother's name?
Instructions: Italicize those words, figures, letters, or signs which need italics in these sentences.
1. Have you crossed your t's and dotted your i's?
2. I am tired of all your answers being wait.
3. Do not use &'s in place of and's in your paper.
4. Your m's look like w's most of the time.
5. There are three 5's in her phone number.


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High Court Got the Hijab Case Wrong
07 Jun, 2015 by	Rick Jensen
Before defending Abercrombie & Fitch, please know I regard the company as a bottom-feeding, scum-sucking retailer of sex to impressionable prepubescent girls.
They have as much a right to exist as people have the right to ban their children from entering their gates of sordid gluttony.
That said, this lawsuit against Abercrombie & Fitch is absurd.
Samuel Alito, representing the intellectually conservative wing of the Supreme Court, led the majority decision that a woman whose attire does not conform to Abercrombie's "look policy" has the right to try to sue the company for discrimination.
She claims her case is one of religious right being denied because she wasn't hired after wearing her hijab to her interview. She was not told she was being denied employment due to her religion.
Applying for a sales position, she failed to land the job because her headscarf ran afoul of Abercrombie's employee "look policy," which bars hats and promotes the retailer's preppy brand.
Abercrombie's lawyers argued that they were unaware of her religious beliefs because she didn't ask for any religious accommodation.
The majority of justices scoffed at the idea and reversed an appeals ruling favoring Abercrombie. They said it didn't matter whether or not Abercrombie knew she would need an accommodation. It only mattered that her headscarf was a "motivating factor" in their decision not to hire her.
"Motive and knowledge are separate concepts," Justice Antonin Scalia wrote. "[A]n employer who acts with the motive of avoiding accommodation may violate [the law] even if he has no more than an unsubstantiated suspicion that accommodation would be needed."
He's presuming to know the mind of the employer, which, in this case, isn't so outrageous. An Abercrombie manager reportedly had correctly assumed that the woman was Muslim, meaning she would likely wear the hijab on the job.
If a retailer decides their brand needs to be extended to the employees' attire on the job, what is so outrageous about declining to hire someone whose attire does not extend that brand?
If one's religious belief conflicts with the federal government's requirement that restaurant cooks wear hair nets, there is no recourse for that individual. You're not getting the job.
If a restaurant requires their servers to wear propeller beanies on their heads, should a Sikh be awarded a court-ordered cash prize for refusing to replace his turban with the beanie at work?
Another example is Hooters.
The Hooters brand is, indeed, represented by shapely women in skimpy attire.
When a man sued because he wanted to be "a Hooters girl," he lost.
In 2013, Atlantic County Superior Court Judge Nelson Johnson ruled in favor of Atlantic City's Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in a weight-discrimination case brought by 22 cocktail waitresses known as the "Borgata Babes."
The "babes" argued that the casino viewed them as sex objects and were forced to endure frequent weigh-ins and were even suspended when they gained excessive weight, which could not be 7 percent more than their initial weight when they were hired. The court essentially told the cocktail waitresses that they knew what they were getting into by citing the application process for future "babes," which stated that the positions were "part fashion model, part beverage server, part charming host and hostess. All impossibly lovely."
Yes, they were hired as sex objects. They didn't have to apply for the job.
Judge Johnson also cited the fact that the casino's "babes" signed statements agreeing to the 7 percent weight-gain policy.
Imagine a world in which the male cast of "Big Bang Theory" could successfully sue the Chippendales organization for refusing to hire them as muscle-bound exotic dancers.
Imagine their female customers' race to demand refunds if that were the case.
Why is this woman even applying for a job where the company's brand image is one of unconstrained immature sexuality while her personal image is one of religious modesty?
What is her true ambition?
The lawsuit begs such questions.
Liberal Media: From Watch Dog to Lap Dog
Rick Jensen
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May 2, 2019 Gaming Hearts Collection Article, Entertainment, Fun, Game, Gaming, Single Player, Single Player Mode, Technology, Uncategorized, Video Games
Could King of Fighters '94 have worked on the PS1?
There have been so many popular 2D fighting games that people got to see on the PS1 shortly after its release back in '94. We got to see games such as DarkStalkers: The Night Warriors (1994), Marvel Super Heroes (1995), Street Fighter Alpha 2 (1996), Guilty Gear: A Missing Link (1999) and many others which are all seen a classic fighting title for the PS1. However, as far as 2D fighting games are concerned one of the few titles that surprising never appeared on the PS1 back in the 90's was the original King Of Fighters game which started in 1994. In fact, King Of Fighters '94 was never released outside of Japan during the '90s and only appeared in arcade along with the two Neo Geo consoles during that decade. Its quite possible that SNK decided to keep KOF '94 a Japanese exclusive due to the rising popularity of the Street Fighter & Mortal Kombat series in countries like America.
Both the Art of Fighting & Fatal Fury series were not quite as popular as Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat and by the Fall of 1994 Namco had released its very first Tekken game. The landscape of gaming in relation to the fighting genre was changing towards the mid 90's and more people had become attracted to 3D gameplay & graphics during the time. SNK would of had a pretty difficult time competing against companies such as Capcom & Namco in terms of fighting games in America between the '95-'97 time period. While there is almost no question that a PS1 port of King Of Fighters '94 could have worked back in '95 it many not have been as popular as it was on the Neo Geo. King Of Fighters '94 being a Neo Geo exclusive is what added to its appeal and its value would have plummeted if it appeared on the PS1 outside of Japan during the mid 90's.
November 21, 2018 Gaming Hearts Collection 2D gaming, Article, Electronics, Entertainment, Fun, Game, Gaming, Gaming Industry, Gaming Life, Gaming World, Nintendo, Retro Gaming, Single Player, Single Player Mode, Technology, Uncategorized, Video Games
The 28th Anniversary of Super Mario World
Today, is a very special day especially considering the fact that it marks the 28th anniversary of one of the most legendary 16-bit platform games of all time. On November 21st, 1990 Super Mario World first appeared in the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and since then has been considered arguably the best Mario title to have been released in the 90's. Ever since its release Super Mario World has managed to reach over 20 million copies worldwide in relation to sales. Also, when this game was re-released as Super Mario Advance 2 for the Game Boy Advance in late '01 it was also a huge success on the handheld 32-bit console.
On the GBA Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 managed to reach over 5 million units worldwide in relation to sales during the early 00's which was very impressive. Super Mario World had amazing visuals and top notch gameplay and was a title that held its own against the Sonic the Hedgehog trilogy back in the early 90's. Despite, how this game is or will become it will always be considered best selling SNES title of all time.
October 14, 2018 Gaming Hearts Collection 90s, 90s Gaming, Article, Electronics, Entertainment, Fantasy, Fiction, Fun, Game, Gaming, Gaming Industry, Gaming Life, Gaming World, Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Single Player, Single Player Mode, Technology, Uncategorized, Video Games
Should there have been an Actraiser game for the N64?
When we think about popular side scrolling titles for the SNES that were popular in the early 90's that never made to the N64 games such as the Actraiser series comes to mind. The two platform city building simulation titles known as Actraiser 1 & 2 developed by Quintet are seen as underrated classics that deserved re-releases but never received them. In fact, some would argue that Actraiser 1 & 2 were both unique titles among many others from the Super NES that made people want to purchase the console itself. The reason why Quintet never decided to make an Actraiser game for the Nintendo 64 is unknown.
Bit them again it would be pretty hard to picture what an Actraiser game would look like in 3D. Also, Nintendo was starting to lose ground to Sony's PS1 during the console wars towards the mid 90's and having an Actraiser game for the N64 could of been disastrous. An Actraiser game for the PS1 definitely could have worked in theory. However, there were so many big titles on the PS1 during the mid to late 90's such as Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy VII & VIII and Gran Turismo that people in countries such as Japan and America that people were far more interested in during that time period. Bringing back the Actraiser on the Game Boy Advance during the early 00's could have turned heads especially since some popular SNES were ported to the 32 bit console during that time period.
September 25, 2018 Gaming Hearts Collection 00's, 00's Gaming, 2000's, 2000's Gaming, 2D gaming, 90s, 90s Gaming, Article, Electronics, Entertainment, Fantasy, Fiction, Fun, Game, Gaming, Gaming Industry, Gaming Life, Gaming World, Nintendo, Retro Gaming, Role Playing Game, RPG, Single Player, Single Player Mode, Technology, Uncategorized, Video Games
Super Mario RPG (1996) vs Paper Mario (2000) which game had more success?
As many know Super Mario RPG along with Paper Mario are among two of the best Mario based role playing games that Nintendo has ever made. Super Mario RPG was praised for its 3D like visuals along with its storyline which diverted from Bowser being the main antagonist. Instead, we get a new villain named Smithy that players had to stop using playable characters Mario, Bowser, Princess Toadstool, Mallow and Geno. As good as Super Mario RPG was for the Super NES many people would argue that the game should have been saved for the Nintendo 64 especially since the console was released in 1996 as well.
Ever since Super Mario RPG was released for its graphics Super NES back in 1996 many people wanted to see a direct sequel to the game. But unfortunately, between the mid 90's and most of the 00's Nintendo and Square Enix were not on good terms with each other. Its was a real shame that we never got to see a spiritual successor to Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars especially since it managed to sell over 1.4 million copies worldwide and was praised by fans and critics alike.
Despite, the fallout that Nintendo and Square Enix has back in the mid 90's we were still fortunate enough to get another Mario role-playing game for the Nintendo 64. Paper Mario was initially released for the N64 in Japan before appearing in countries like America and Europe during 2001. Paper Mario was developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo and was also a game that was well received by various gaming publications along with fans of the Mario series in general.
Ever since, Paper Mario was released the game has managed to sell over 1.3 million copies worldwide on the Nintendo 64 and is a game that remains a classic to this day. While both Super Mario RPG along with Paper Mario became successful following their respective releases there are some would be more inclined to give the 16 bit SNES Mario game edge over the classic that we got in the early 00's. While Paper Mario was cool Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars was simply the best role playing game to have ever emerged from the Mario series period.
September 6, 2018 September 6, 2018 Gaming Hearts Collection 1990's Gaming, 3D, 3d gaming, 3D Technology, 90s, 90s Gaming, Article, Electronics, Entertainment, Fantasy, Fiction, Fun, Game, Gaming, Gaming Industry, Gaming Life, Gaming World, PlayStation, PS1, PS1 Classics, Retro Gaming, Single Player, Single Player Mode, Technology, Uncategorized, Video Games
Should Namco develop HD remakes of the Tekken trilogy?
When it comes down to PS1 classics that are highly deserving of HD Remakes the Tekken series are among a few titles that instantly comes to mind. While we are getting remakes of Final Fantasy VII, Resident Evil 2 along with Spyro the Dragon trilogy in the future it would be pretty cool to see the Tekken trilogy in HD sometime in the future. As many people know it has been 20 years since Tekken 3 was first released on the PS1 and since then it has managed to be one of my he best selling games for that console in general. Since its release Tekken 3 has managed to sell over 8 million units worldwide on the PS1 surpassing its predecessor Tekken 2 which reached over 5 million in sales.
All first three Tekken games especially the second and third remain to be among the most popular installments within the entire series. While Tekken 7 is believed to be the final installment within the series bringing back the first three games in high definition would definitely draw a lot of attention within the gaming world. If Namco utilized the Unreal Engine 4 in relation to remaking the first three Tekken games they would all look amazing. Also, with retaining the original soundtrack for each game in additional providing HD visuals would provide players with an unforgettable gaming experience.
June 4, 2018 June 4, 2018 Gaming Hearts Collection 1990's Gaming, 2D gaming, 90s, 90s Gaming, Article, Electronics, Entertainment, Fun, Game, Gaming, Gaming Industry, Gaming Life, Gaming World, Nintendo, PS1, PS1 Classics, Single Player, Single Player Mode, Technology, Uncategorized, Video Games
Classic Gaming- Tactics Orge: Let Us Cling Together (1995)
When it comes down to classic 2D JRPG titles from the 90's one of the many titles that comes to mind is Tactics Orge. This JRPG classic was first released exclusively in Japan on the SNES back in 1995. Shortly after its release for the SNES Tactics Orge was eventually ported for the Sega Saturn in '96 and the PS1 during 1998. Tactics Orge: Let Us Cling Together was a pretty unique JRPG which was developed by Quest Corporation back in the mid 90's mainly due to the isometric perspective that the game utilized.
It was pretty interesting seeing an isometric game on the SNES when it first came especially since those were rare on that 16 bit console at the time. In fact some could argue that Tactics Orge was one of the many games that inspired Square Enix in terms of gameplay for Final Fantasy Tactics which was originally released in Japan back in the summer of 1997 before coming to America in 1998. Along with the strategy based gameplay the soundtrack for Tactical Orge: Let Us Cling Together stands out most. There are numerous VGM's such as Avilla Hanya, Fog of Phantom, Air Island, Limitations, Passing Moments and others that are musical masterpieces.
Also, Tactics Orge: Let Us Cling Together has so many cool aspects including its cutscenes along with the game's class system for each character. Another interesting feature that Tactics Orge: Let Us Cling Together was the Warren Report which provided players with all the info they needed to know in relation to Valeria. The alignment of each character along with the level system made Tactics Ogre: Ket Us Cling Together even more exciting especially since those things all depends on how one plays the game. Tactics Orge: Let Us Cling Together was so popular as a JRPG that it was eventually re-released for the PSP back in the early 10's. It would be pretty cool this game was ported for the PlayStation 4 or even the Nintendo Switch sometime in the near future.
June 1, 2018 Gaming Hearts Collection 1990's Gaming, 90s, 90s Gaming, Article, Electronics, Entertainment, Fun, Game, Gaming, Gaming Industry, Gaming Life, Gaming World, Nintendo, Retro Gaming, Sega, Single Player, Single Player Mode, SNES, Technology, Uncategorized, Video Games
SNES vs Sega Genesis which console has more success during the 90's?
We all remember how legendary to the console wars were back in the 90's between the SNES along with the Sega Genesis. Both consoles gave us the 16 bit era of gaming during the early 90's which was one of the most exciting time periods to be a fan of video games. When it comes down to which console was more popular back in the early 90's many people have different preferences between the SNES and the Sega Genesis. However, in terms of which console was more successful in terms of sales many would probably give the slight edge to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
Since it's release back in 1990 the SNES has managed to sell 49 million units throughout the 90's decade. The Sega Genesis has only managed to sell over 30 million worldwide since its release with its best selling game being the original Sonic the Hedgehog game which was released back in 1991. As far as memorable games are concerned some would argue that the SNES has more high profile titles than the Sega Genesis. During the 90's we got to see games such as Super Mario World, Star Fox, Super Mario Kart, Final Fantasy V & VI, The Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past and many others which were greater 16 bit attractions back then. SNES seemed to have way more RPG's such as Chrono Trigger and the Secret of Mana which the Sega Genesis was highly deficient of back in the 90's. Nintendo's partnership with companies such as Square Enix and Konami really helped them out a lot during the console wars against Sega during the early 90's.


Google employees are fed up with the search giant's lack of transparency when it comes to handling sexual harassment and misconduct allegations.
This morning, thousands of Googlers from San Francisco to Dublin are walking out in hopes of bringing real change to the company. The protest follows a New York Times report last week that revealed Google had provided Android co-creator Andy Rubin a $90 million payout package despite credible allegations of sexual misconduct made against him.
An end to forced arbitration in cases of harassment and discrimination.
A commitment to end pay and opportunity inequity.
A publicly disclosed sexual harassment transparency report.
A clear, uniform, globally inclusive process for reporting sexual misconduct safely and anonymously.
Elevate the chief diversity officer to answer directly to the chief executive officer and make recommendations directly to the board of directors. And appoint an employee representative to the board.
Plans of the walkout emerged earlier this week, just days after the bombshell NYT report was released. According to BuzzFeed, some 200 Googlers began staging the protest; the group quickly grew to thousands, including non-U.S. Googlers. Google CEO Sundar Pichai had reportedly condoned the protest in an internal e-mail to employees Tuesday.
Pichai also responded to the NYT report with a letter co-signed by vice president of people operations Eileen Naughton, admitting that 48 people had been terminated at the company for sexual harassment in the past two years alone, including 13 senior employees.
We'll be at the San Francisco protest, which begins at 11:10 a.m. PST. Here's a look at protestors around the globe this morning.


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Q: Qt for Python: What is the usefulness of the Slot() decorator? I use Qt for Python for a while now and find myself often asking: What is the usefulness of the Slot() decorator? If I connect to a signal the documentation says I should decorate my callable function with the Slot() decorator. But is there any computational necessity or advantage in doing so? The following example connects two slots to the "pressed"-signal of a button. Both functions will work perfectly fine.
self.btn.pressed.connect(self.on_btn_pressed1)
self.btn.pressed.connect(self.on_btn_pressed2)

@Slot()
def on_btn_pressed1:
    print("Hello")

def on_btn_pressed2:
    print("World")

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


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