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Panthers Blow Another Lead, Lose to Falcons 31-23
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In what has been an all too familiar refrain this season, the Panthers blew yet another fourth quarter lead Sunday in a 31-23 loss to the Atlanta Falcons. The Panthers led by 16 at halftime and by 6 entering the final quarter, but their offense bogged down, and they were outscored 24-0 in the second half at home.
It's the sixth time this season the Panthers have led or been tied in the fourth quarter only to lose.
"We still have a long ways to go as a football team," coach Ron Rivera said. "We are a young team that has to understand you have to keep going and put the foot down on the accelerator, which we didn't do."
Cam Newton started strong, completing 9 of 14 passes for 147 yards and two touchdowns in the first half as the Panthers built a 23-7 lead. But Newton was intercepted twice in the second half, one of them on a poor decision when he tried to shovel the ball ahead with his non-throwing left hand as he was falling to the ground.
"Both interceptions were my fault and you can't do that," Newton said. "If you expect to win in this league, you have to protect the football. I did a poor job in doing that today. Without those two picks, the team would have had a better chance of winning today."
Matt Ryan seems to have Carolina's number. He's won six of his last seven starts against the Panthers.
Ryan threw for 320 yards, and his four TD passes matched a career high. He threw two of them in the fourth quarter to rookie Julio Jones to lead the Falcons (8-5) back.
The first time the teams met, the Falcons trailed by three points in the fourth quarter but rallied for a 31-17 win Oct. 16.
Jones, who finished with 104 yards receiving, was quiet for most of the game but caught a 17-yard touchdown pass to give the Falcons a 24-23 lead early in the fourth quarter.
Despite their struggles in the second half, the Panthers looked poised to regain the lead, but Newton couldn't hook up with Greg Olsen in the back of the end zone, and the Panthers had to settle for a 36-yard field goal attempt.
Olindo Mare, just as he'd done against Minnesota, pushed a potential go-ahead kick wide left.
"You can't do that; you really can't," Rivera said.
Rivera said he planned to sit down with Mare — who was given a four-year, $12 million contract this offseason — to talk about what's wrong.
"It's the second one he's hooked left, pretty much from almost the same area (on the field)," Rivera said.
The Falcons seized the momentum.
Two plays later, on second-and-11, Jones caught a pass over the middle, broke a tackle and raced 75 yards to the end zone.
Ryan was particularly sharp in the second half, throwing for 232 yards and three scores.
Looking to increase the tempo, the Falcons went to a no-huddle offense quite a bit in the second half and tried to take advantage of a matchup with reserve cornerback Darius Butler on Jones
Both of Jones' touchdown catches came against Butler.
"You know, they were coming at me a few times with Julio," Butler said. "They like that matchup. I made some plays early, and he made some big plays late. You've got to hold up. That's the name of the game. You got to finish it out."
The Panthers were officially eliminated from playoff contention.
A glum Newton called his decision to try a shovel pass to Jonathan Stewart as he was being tackled "terrible."
"I tried to get the ball to Stew and tried to avoid the sack," he said. "I should have just ate the ball and taken the sack."
Earlier this week, Rivera said this was a statement game for his young team. The statement was that their youth still shows.
And the Falcons took advantage.
"This game is about playing 60 minutes," Falcons coach Mike Smith. "They're not 30-minute ballgames, and I think that's what our guys did good today."
NOTES: The Falcons are 21-0 when Ryan has a quarterback rating of 100 or more. … Carolina's Steve Smith became the 35th player in NFL history to reach 10,000 yards receiving for his career on a 16-yard catch in the second quarter. … Travelle Wharton moved from left guard to left tackle for the Panthers to replace Jordan Gross, who sat out with a right ankle injury. Mackenzy Bernadeau started at Wharton's regular spot at left guard. … With starting defensive tackles Sione Fua and Terrell McClain going on injured reserve earlier this week, Frank Kearse and Andre Neblett got the start for the Panthers.
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Meadowlark Holiday Classic 2020
By The Trust Company on November 30, 2020
Video of Meadowlark Holiday Classic 2020
Meadowlark, The Trust Company and New Boston Creative Group have teamed up to produce the 2020 Meadowlark Holiday Classic. This variety show-esque program will be available on YouTube beginning December 5, 2020, and features many area performing groups with surprise appearances from local celebrities. During a holiday season that will be anything but normal, the show's sponsors hope to spread joy.
The Holiday Classic is typically an in-person event The Trust Company, an independent investment firm, has held exclusively for residents of Meadowlark, a person-centered retirement community, for more than 20 years. With the current COVID-19 restrictions and the highest regard for safety, however, all parties knew changes were necessary for the show to go on. Through a partnership with New Boston Creative Group, an integrated marketing company, an online format was developed. The program's new medium boasts many benefits, like opening the door to anyone who would like to (virtually) attend.
"Because of our current situation, going to live shows or events just isn't safe," said Kristin Brighton,
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All elements of the show were pre-recorded (with the highest level of safety precautions) and edited
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Local performers Linda Uthoff, Joe Braun, Jane Boys and Thom Jackson — who have performed at the
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When the Diamonds faced Stratford Town in the Evo-Stik Southern Premier Central game back in February, Ben Heath became the tenth Diamonds player to reach a notable landmark in both his career and in the history of AFC Rushden & Diamonds making 100 appearances for the club.
Ben follows in the footsteps of Sam Brown, the first Diamonds player to achieve this feat, Matt Gearing, Brad Harris, Matt Finlay, Tom Lorraine, Liam Dolman. Richard Bunting, Jack Ashton and Ben Farrell. He made his Diamonds debut at the start of November 2016 in a dramatic Northern Premier Division One South game at Spalding, having only signed for the club the day before that match.
Ben reached this milestone shortly after his 23rd birthday, and he is goalkeeper who joined the club after a spell at Rugby Town, having also played at Step 4 level for Daventry Town. After the dramatic Diamonds debut he continued to impress when deputising for the club's regular stopper Matt Finlay during the 2016/17 season. He assumed first-choice keeper status for the 2017-18 season, and had an impressive campaign as the club conceded only 25 league goals and he recorded 22 clean sheets in the 42 league games.
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You can see Ben's player profile with details of these games here.
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\textit{Research Notes of the \href{https://aas.org}{American Astronomical Society}}
(\href{http://rnaas.aas.org}{RNAAS}) is a publication in the AAS portfolio
(alongside ApJ, AJ, ApJ Supplements, and ApJ Letters) through which authors can
promptly and briefly share materials of interest with the astronomical community
in a form that will be searchable via ADS and permanently archived.

The astronomical community has long faced a challenge in disseminating
information that may not meet the criteria for a traditional journal article.
There have generally been few options available for sharing works in progress,
comments and clarifications, null results, and timely reports of observations
(such as the spectrum of a supernova), as well as results that wouldn't
traditionally merit a full paper (such as the discovery of a single exoplanet
or contributions to the monitoring of variable sources).

Launched in 2017, RNAAS was developed as a supported and long-term
communication channel for results such as these that would otherwise be
difficult to broadly disseminate to the professional community and persistently
archive for future reference.

Submissions to RNAAS should be brief communications - 1,000 words or fewer
\footnote{An easy way to count the number of words in a Research Note is to use
the \texttt{texcount} utility installed with most \latex\ installations. The
call  \texttt{texcount -incbib -v3 rnaas.tex}) gives 57 words in the front
matter and 493 words in the text/references/captions of this template. Another
option is by copying the words into MS/Word, and using ``Word Count'' under the
Tool tab.}, and no more than a single figure (e.g. Figure \ref{fig:1}) or table
(but not both) - and should be written in a style similar to that of a
traditional journal article, including references, where appropriate, but not
including an abstract.

Unlike the other journals in the AAS portfolio, RNAAS publications are not
peer reviewed; they are, however, reviewed by an editor for appropriateness
and format before publication. If accepted, RNAAS submissions are typically
published within 72 hours of manuscript receipt. Each RNAAS article is
issued a DOI and indexed by ADS \citep{2000A&AS..143...41K} to create a
long-term, citable record of work.

Articles can be submitted in \latex\ (preferably with the new "RNAAS"
style option in AASTeX v6.2), MS/Word, or via the direct submission in the
\href{http://www.authorea.com}{Authorea} or
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Authors are expected to follow the AAS's ethics \citep{2006ApJ...652..847K},
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Acknowledge people, facilities, and software here but remember that this counts
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\section{Introduction} \label{sec:intro}

There is a black hole at the center of our Galaxy. Its electromagnetic counterpart -- Sgr A* -- is a non-thermal and variable source. Its overal spectral shape is dominated by synchrotron emission with a cooling break.
Sgr A* shows flaring activity ranging from minutes to hours in radio, millimeter (mm), sub-millimeter (submm), near infrared (NIR), and X-ray frequency ranges. Here we discuss the NIR flaring activity, which is particularly well studied due to regular monitoring of stellar orbits around the Galactic Center in NIR \citep{Genzel10, Morris12, Witzel2018, Gravity2020}.

There is no consensus about the precise mechanism of the flares and about their physical origin. They may be caused by a population of non-thermal electrons \citep{Dodds-Eden2010,2017MNRAS.468.2447P}, magnetic reconnection events \citep{2012AJ....144....1Y,2003ApJ...598..301Y}, or a short term increase of the accretion flow rate into the black hole at the event horizon.

In May 2019, \citet{2019ApJ...882L..27D} [hereafter, Do19] observed an unprecedented bright NIR flare. The flare lasted $\sim 2.5$ hours. During this time the flux of Sgr A*
reached 6 mJy, an increase of $>100$ times its typical quiescent state. It was also at least twice as bright as the brightest flare previously observed. The flare was caught when the flux was already decreasing, therefore the values above are lower limits for the duration and the brightness of the flare. The activity characterized by an unusual number of strong flares continued until at least the end of 2019 \citep{2019ApJ...882L..27D, Gravity2020}. (At the time this work is written no data beyond 2019 is available.) Throughout this paper we call this ``the flaring activity of 2019'', for short.

Do19 suggested that this unusual number of bright flares may be due to the physical changes in the accretion activity of Sgr A* possibly caused by the passage of the S0-2 (S2) star \citep{2019Sci...365..664D,Gravity2018} or the G2-object \citep{2017ApJ...847...80W,Gillessen19drag, Eckart2013}.
In this work we explore whether Sgr A*'s flaring activity of 2019  could have been caused by a temporary increase of accretion rate onto the black hole due to infall of the material left after the passage of G-objects or stars.
We use the timestamp of 2019.36 (corresponding to the extraordinary flare reported by Do19) to derive various delay times between the flaring activity of 2019 and the close flybys.

The paper is organized as follows. In Section \ref{sec:origin} we discuss the mechanisms by which the stars and the G-objects shed material along their orbits and estimate the amount of leftover material. In Section \ref{sec:time}, we estimate the amount of time required for the leftover material to reach the black hole. In Section \ref{sec:disc},
we compare the calculated physical infall time with the observed delay time between the pericenter passages of the S0-2 star and G-objects and the flaring activity of 2019. We then use this comparison to identify which of the recent close passages of G-objects and stars could have caused the flaring and present a schematic description of the process. Through the text we use au as a unit of distance. For conversion from arcsec to au we use the distance to Sgr A* as $8$ kpc. The Schwarzschild radius of a $4 \times 10^6 M_{\odot}$ black hole, like Sgr A*, is $0.1$ au.

\section{The leftover material}\label{sec:origin}

We first consider the star making the closest approach to Sgr A* -- S0-2 star -- and its winds (see also \citealt{Loeb2004}). S0-2 is a $\sim 14 M_{\odot}$ star of type B0-B2.5. A conservative upper limit on the S0-2's mass-loss rate is $< 3 \times 10^{-7} M_{\odot} \, \mathrm{yr}^{-1}$ \citep{Martins08}. The limit is based on a non-detection of Br$\gamma$ ($\mathrm{n}=7 \to 4$) emission from the mass loss material. At larges mass loss rates the Br$\gamma$ emission would be filling the star's Br$\gamma$ absorption profile. The estimate actually constrains the density of the mass loss material $\r \sim \dot{M}/v_\infty,$ where $v_\infty$ is the wind velocity at infinity. \citet{Martins08} set $v_\infty=1000 \, \mathrm{km \, s^{-1}}$ to obtain the quoted limit.

During 4 month of the S0-2's closest flyby of Sgr A* (2 months preceding and 2 months following the pericenter passage) its trajectory lies within about twice its pericenter distance from the black hole -- between $\sim 200$ au and 120 au -- and it would deposit $< 10^{-7} M_{\odot} \simeq 0.03 M_\oplus$ of material. Part of this material infalls into the black hole from the distances on average similar to the distances where the object which shed this material passed by while the rest escapes to much larger distances due to being launched from an object moving with an average velocity of  $\sim 7500 \, \mathrm{km \, s^{-1}}.$

G-objects were discovered in NIR observations and their exact nature and origin are still debated (\citet{Ciurlo20, Stephan2019} and references therein). They have gaseous outer parts and likely have an embedded central object. For our purposes, the existence of the embedded object is not important, because it does not lead to the G-object to be gravitationally bound at the distances we are interested in, and because we are concerned only with the shredding of the gaseous cloud-like component as the object propagates through the background medium of the Galactic Center.

The G-objects shed material in a different way compared to the stars. While the S0-2 produces its wind at a constant rate, G-objects shed material due to the hydrodynamic friction. The density of the accretion flow increases the closer G-objects get to the black hole, and thus G-objects undergo the greatest hydrodynamic drag during their closest approach shedding most material there. It is also important that around the pericenter passage the G-objects are stretched, therefore it has higher contact area with the ambient medium and a lower density, both of which make shedding more effective.

Let us consider the G2 first. We assume that G2's gaseous component has a mass of $\sim 3 M_\oplus$ and radius $\sim 1.8 \times 10^{15} \mathrm{cm}$ \citep{Gillessen19drag}. This implies that G2's density is $\sim 4.5 \times 10^{5} \, \mathrm{cm}^{-3}.$
During $\sim 8$ month of the closest approach, the object stays within a couple of its periapse radii -- within 400 au -- and moves with average velocity is $V_{mean} \sim 6000 \mathrm{km \, s^{-1}}.$
To estimate the amount of shed material we use the results of \citet{Forbes_Lin19}, who studied hydrodynamic shredding of clouds moving in a background medium $10^2$ times less dense than the cloud.\footnote{\citet{Forbes_Lin19} considered multiple clouds moving one after the other and studied the importance of the hydrodynamic shielding. However when the times are as short as $\sim 10 t_{cross}$ and the separation between the clouds is large the shielding is not important, and we can apply the results of the simulations to individual clouds shedding.} The 8 months of the closest approach correspond to $\sim 7 t_{cross},$ where $t_{cross}=r_{G2}/V_{mean},$ during which the G2 would lose $\sim 2 \%$ of its mass, or $\sim 2 \times 10^{-7} M_{\odot} \simeq 0.06 M_\oplus.$ Similarly to the case of the S0-2, only a part of the leftover material infalls into the black hole from the vicinity of the G2's pericenter, the rest escapes to much larger distances.

The properties of the G1 are less constrained than the properties of the G2 (see caption to Table \ref{tab:1} for the references to observations), but they are generally assumed to be similar. The G1 was followed from two years after the periapse. It is estimated that the G1 passed at $\sim 300-400$ au from Sgr A*. It stayed within about twice its periapse distance, i.e. within $\sim 600$ au, for 1.3 years or for $\sim 12 t_{cross}.$ Following \citet{Forbes_Lin19} we estimate that during the passage it lost $\sim 5\%$ of its mass -- $\sim 0.15 M_\oplus \simeq 5 \times 10^{-7} M_{\odot}$ -- due to hydrodynamic shredding.
There are evidence that G1 could have deposited even more material: it was becoming fainter and smaller for the first several years of observations diminishing from 450 au in 2004 to less than 170 au in 2009 \citep{2017ApJ...847...80W,2015ApJ...798..111P}. Whether this diminishing started as the G1 approached close to the pericenter or it was due to other causes well after the passage, i.e. a collision with a cool $10^4$ K disk \citep{2019Natur.570...83M}, we may never know.

To put the these amounts of the leftover material deposited by the close flybys in context, we evaluate the amount of the background accretion flow material around Sgr A*.
We use the value of the accretion flow density at $\sim (2-8) \times 10^{3} \, \mathrm{cm}^{-3}$ at $100-200$ au obtained by \citet{Gillessen19drag} from the drag force on the G2. The simulations produce comparable densities (e.g. \citealt{2020MNRAS.492.3272R}).
The amount of the accretion flow material within $400$ au is then $\sim 3 \times 10^{-6} \, M_{\odot}.$ The leftover material constitutes about 10\% of the background material, which is large enough to expect changes in the accretion flow rate, but small enough for the background material to be able to slow down the leftover material equalizing its orbital momentum with its own and allowing the infall to proceed as a part of the flow.

Not all of the leftover material will be accreted onto Sgr A*. The further the material is deposited from the black hole the smaller the fraction of it that will be accreted. Large fraction of it will likely be blown away by outflows \citep{Blandford.Begelman99}.

The material deposited by other S-stars will be further away from the black hole compared to the S0-2's leftover material.
Therefore, the ability of other S-stars to enhancing the accretion rate onto Sgr A* is diminished the further their pericenter and their trajectory from the black hole.
The stars are losing material at a constant rate during their passages, in contrast to G-objects that tend to deposit the bulk of it at the pericenter. Pericenter passages of S-stars are quite common and happen on average once a year (A. Ghez, private communication), which point at less routine events as a cause of the flaring activity of 2019. These arguments disfavor star passages as a cause of the Sgr A*'s flaring activity of 2019, compared to G-object's flybys.

\section{The infall time}\label{sec:time}

To calculate the infall time of the leftover material we assume that (i) the leftover material joins the accretion flow and is carried inward with it, and (ii) the initial distance for the infall is equal to the pericenter distance of the object depositing it.
The radial inflow velocity of the material can be approximately expressed as
\begin{eqnarray}
	v_R \simeq \a \left( \frac{H}{R} \right)^2 v_\varphi = \a \x \left( \frac{H}{R} \right)^2 v_K,
\end{eqnarray}
where $R$ is the radial coordinate,  $H$ is the scale height of the disk at the radius $R$, $\a$ is a dimensionless $\alpha$-viscosity parameter \citep{Shakura73}, and $\x = v_\vp/v_{K}$ parameterises deviation of the accretion flow's azumithal velocity ($v_\vp$) from the Keplerian velocity $v_K=\sqrt{{GM_{\mathrm{BH}}}/{R}}.$
The infall time from radius $R_{in}$ is
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:in.time}
	\t_{in}(R_{in}, \a \x) &\simeq& \int\limits^{R_{in}}_{0}	\frac{dR}{v_R(R)} =

	\frac{2 R_{in}^{3/2}}{3\a \x \sqrt{GM_{\mathrm{BH}}}}.

\end{eqnarray}
Here we neglected the effects of general relativity as $R_{in} \gg R_g,$ and set $H/R \sim 1$ as Sgr A* accretion is a thick disk accretion.

\section{Discussion}\label{sec:disc}

\begin{deluxetable}{cccccccccc}
\tabletypesize{}
\tablecaption{Recent notable close approaches to Sgr A*.} \label{tab:1}
\tablewidth{0pt}
\tablehead{
\colhead{Obj. } & \colhead{Ref} & \colhead{Peri time} & \colhead{Peri dist, au} & \colhead{$t_{flare} - t_{peri}$} & \colhead{Infall time} & \colhead{Infall time} & \colhead{$t_{in}-\D T$} & \colhead{$\tilde{t}_{in}-\D T$}\\
\colhead{name } & \colhead{} & \colhead{$t_{peri}$} & \colhead{$R_{peri}$, au} & \colhead{$\D T,$ yr} & \colhead{$t_{in},$ yr} & \colhead{$\tilde{t}_{in},$ yr} & \colhead{yr} & \colhead{yr}
}
\startdata
S0-2&   & 2018.38$^{+<0.01}_{-<0.01}$ & 120$^{+<1}_{-<1}$ & 1.0$^{+<0.01}_{-<0.01}$     & 2.8$^{+<0.1}_{-<0.1}$  & 4.6$^{+<0.1}_{-<0.1}$ & 1.8$^{+<0.1}_{-<0.1}$ & 3.6$^{+<0.1}_{-<0.1}$  \\
G1  & P15 & 2001.6$^{+0.1}_{-0.1}$  & 417$^{+239}_{-239}$ & 17.8$^{+0.1}_{-0.1}$  & 18.0$^{+17.5}_{-13.0}$   & 29.9$^{+29.1}_{-21.6}$ & \bf{0.2}$^{+17.5}_{-13.0}$ & 12.1$^{+29.1}_{-21.6}$
\\
G1  & W17 & 2001.3$^{+0.4}_{-0.2}$  & 298$^{+32}_{-24}$ & 18.1$^{+0.2}_{-0.4}$  & 10.9$^{+1.8}_{-1.3}$ & 18.1$^{+3.0}_{-2.1}$ & -7.8$^{+1.8}_{-1.4}$ & \bf{0}$^{+3.0}_{-2.1}$
\\
G2  & W17 & 2014.2$^{+0.03}_{-0.05}$  & 201$^{+13}_{-13}$ & 5.2$^{+0.05}_{-0.03}$   & 6.0$^{+0.6}_{-0.6}$  & 10.0$^{+1.0}_{-1.0}$ & \bf{0.8}$^{+0.6}_{-0.6}$ & 4.8$^{+1.0}_{-1.0}$  \\
G2  & G19 & 2014.49$^{+0.06}_{-0.06}$ & 127.5$^{+2.5}_{-2.5}$ & 4.9$^{+0.06}_{-0.06}$   & 3.1$^{+0.1}_{-0.1}$  & 5.2$^{+0.15}_{-0.15}$ & -1.8$^{+0.1}_{-0.1}$ & \bf{0.3}$^{+0.2}_{-0.2}$
\\
\enddata
\tablecomments{Selected notable flybys by Sgr A*. The table lists each object's name, the time of the pericenter passage ($t_{peri}$), the distance to the pericenter ($R_{peri}$), the delay time ($\D T=t_{flare} - t_{peri}$), which is the time passed since the object's pericenter passage at the time of the extraordinary flare on 2019-05-13 ($t_{flare}$) used here as a time stamp for the flaring activity of 2019, the infall time for the object's leftover material to reach black hole calculated with eq. \ref{eq:in.time025} ($t_{in}$), and the infall times calculated with eq. \ref{eq:in.time2} ($\tilde{t}_{in}$). The last two columns list the differences between in the infall times and the delay times. When this value is close to zero (marked in bold), an association between the object's flyby and the flaring activity of 2019 may be established. The data for the S0-2 is from \citet{2019Sci...365..664D, Gravity2018}, for the G1 -- from  \citet{2015ApJ...798..111P, 2017ApJ...847...80W}, and for the G2 -- from \citet{2017ApJ...847...80W,Gillessen19drag}. For the ease of referencing, in those cases when different references provide substantially different estimates for the pericenter distances and the passage times we list the first letter of the titular author and the year of publication in the second column. The uncertainties listed are the observational uncertainties.
}
\end{deluxetable}

In Table \ref{tab:1} we list the periapce distances ($R_{in}$), the time of the pericenter passages ($t_{peri}$), and the delay times between the pericenter passage of each object and May 13, 2019, the timestamp for the flaring activity of 2019 ($\D T$) for the three most notable recent passers by Sgr A* -- the S0-2 star, G1-, and G2-objects. The G1 and G2 have two entries each corresponding to two independent determinations of their orbital parameters.

From the Table one can see that the G1 and G2 orbital parameters have an interesting property. The material left by the G1 and G2 during their close passage will reach the black hole nearly simultaneously and the time the material reaches the black hole coincides with the flaring activity of 2019. If we adopt $\a \x = 0.025,$ as in \citet{2019Natur.570...83M}, we obtain
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:in.time025}
t_{in}(R_{in}) \simeq \t_{in}(R_{in}, \a \x=0.025)=2.11 \, \mathrm{yr} \, \left( \frac{R_{in}}{100 \mathrm{au}} \right)^{\frac{3}{2}}.
\end{eqnarray}
It follows that $t_{in} \simeq \D T$ for the G1 parameters determined by \citet{2015ApJ...798..111P} and the G2 parameters determined by \citet{2017ApJ...847...80W} (see bold in column 8).
If we adopt a slightly different $\a \x = 0.015:$
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:in.time2}
	\tilde{t}_{in}(R_{in}) = \t_{in}(R_{in}, \a \x=0.015)  \simeq 3.52 \, \mathrm{yr} \, \left( \frac{R_{in}}{100 \mathrm{au}} \right)^{\frac{3}{2}},
\end{eqnarray}
we find that $\tilde{t}_{in} \simeq \D T$ for the infall time for the  G1 parameters determined by \citet{2017ApJ...847...80W} and the G2 parameters determined by \citet{Gillessen19drag} (see bold in column 9). Both choices of $(\a \x)$-parameter are reasonable. Simulations suggest $\a \sim 0.1$ and the sub-Keplerian parameter was estimated by \citet{2019Natur.570...83M} at $\x \sim 1/4.$

One might object that by adjusting the parameter $(\a \x),$ it is easy to obtain virtually any infall time. It is indeed possible to match the delay time and the infall time for any {\it{one}} given $R_{in}.$ Here however we have two independently determined infall times of two independent passage events matching their corresponding delay times. This cannot be obtained with any choice of single parameter $(\a \x)$ for randomly chosen delay times.

We conclude that the likely cause of the May 2019 flare reported by Do19 and the rest of the flaring activity of 2019 is the nearly coincident infall of the leftover material from the passages of the G1 and G2 objects and the continued infall of the tail-end of the shed G1 and G2 material. This temporary increases the mass accretion rate onto Sgr A*, stimulate more frequent production of reconnection events and/or shocks, and enable more energy dissipation, thus increase the probability of producing bright flares.

The following is a schematic of the process. During the passage of the G-objects by Sgr A*, part of their material is stripped by the background accretion flow material, resulting in hydrodynamic shredding. The stripping is particularly effective in the vicinity of their pericenter passage, where the density of the background material is the highest and the G-objects are tidally stretched, thus having a decreased inner density and increased contact surface area. The amount of the leftover material constitutes an approximate $10\%$ increase over the background material. Part of the stripped material escapes to much larger radial distances from Sgr A* before eventually slowing down. We disregard the contribution of this material: the further the material's initial infall radius, the smaller the fraction of it that reaches the black hole due to the expected presence of outflows. The other part of the leftover material efficiently loses its orbital momentum due to interaction with the background accretion flow, and slows down in the vicinity of the pericenter of the G-object. Eventually this material falls toward the  back hole. During the infall the material would fragment and spread, a large portion of it would be blown away by outflows. The part that would reach the black hole would reach it in the form of overdensities. Each would then temporarily increase an accretion flow onto Sgr A*. These overdensities are thus responsible for the increased number of strong flares in 2019 (and possibly later).

The influx of additional material must affect the populations of thermal and non-thermal electrons, causing increased mm flux.
The absence of a rise of mm flux in 2019 would imply that the influx of additional material does not affect the population of electrons, and thus would rule out the population of non-thermal electrons as a cause of the NIR flares. In this case we would conclude that the NIR flares of Sgr A* are likely caused by magnetic reconnection. The observations of mm emission from Sgr A* during the flaring activity exist and we believe should be reported at some point.

The difference between the delay time and the infall times from the S0-2's pericenter is 1.8 years. This mismatch leads us to reject the S0-2 flyby as a cause of the flaring activity of 2019. However since the star is massive, possibly with strong winds and passes the closest to the black hole it may cause some flaring at a later time. We estimate that it should take the S0-2's leftover material about 2.8 years (assuming $\a \x = 0.025$) to reach Sgr A* from the time of the pericenter passage. Thus we should expect moderate increased flaring activity around 2021.2, i.e around March 2021. Alternatively, if the $\a \x = 0.015$ parameters are better for describing the properties of the infall, we expect moderate flaring activity 4.6 years after the pericenter passage, i.e. around 2023.0 or January 2023. Observation of increased flaring activity around either of these dates would allow us to constrain the accretion flow parameters to within $\sim 10^3 R_{s},$ as well as to confirm (or reject) that the S0-2 star can cause elevated flaring activity.

One may speculate that the timing of the G1 and the G2 approaches is a coincidence and that the increased flaring activity of 2019 is unrelated to any flybys. The accretion rate onto Sgr A* is expected to be variable with time \citep{2020MNRAS.492.3272R} on the scale of tens of years. So perhaps the increased activity is just the result of this long term variability. Indeed we cannot rule out this possibility at the moment, but we will within next $\sim 1-2$ years. If the flaring activity of 2019 is the result of the G-objects flybys and of the infall of the material they shed, the flaring activity will cease within the time required for the bulk of the G1's and the G2's leftover material to reach the black hole. If the flaring activity is due to long term accretion flow variations, it will persist for years to come.

Extensive simulations of the infall of the G2 related material and its influence on Sgr A* luminosity were conducted nearly a decade ago, see e.g. \cite{Moscibrodzka2012,Sadowski2013}. Most studies were performed in the context of violent tidal disruption and infall of G2, then considered a cloud, onto the black hole. This did not occur. Over the recent years our knowledge of the G1 and G2 trajectories have much improved as well as more accurate models of the accretion flow around the black hole became available. We hope that the reasoning presented here will inspire a suit of modern numerical studies of G1 and G2 interaction with the accretion flow, their influence on the black hole accretion and their ability to cause Sgr A*'s extraordinary flaring of 2019.

\section*{Acknowledgments}

I am grateful to Tuan Do whose visit to the IAS in autumn 2019 sprung my interest in the flaring activity of 2019 and who prompted me to conduct the original estimations, to Nadia Zakamska for encouragement and support with writing this paper, to Roger Blandford, Charles Gammie, Yuri Levin, Elias Most, Smadar Naoz, Sean Ressler, Scott Tremaine, and the anonymous referee for useful comments and suggestions.
LM's stipend at the Institute for Advanced Study is provided by the Corning Glass Works Foundation.

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What was the first movie to use a cross-cutting technique like The Hours?
The Hours is a very good cross-cutting film because throughout the film it jumps back and forth between three different stories in three different time periods.
Cross-cutting is an editing technique most often used in films to establish action occurring at the same time in two different locations. In a cross-cut, the camera will cut away from one action to another action, which can suggest the simultaneity of these two actions but this is not always the case.
But, wikipedia doesn't give any details about the first usage of the cross-cutting technique in films.
I wonder, What was the first movie with a cross-cutting technique like The Hours?
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It is generally considered that D.W. Griffith (Birth of a Nation, et al) was the inventor of cross-cutting, as he tended to pioneer virtually every other editing technique in the early 20th Century - it is evident in his film A Corner of Wheat from 1909.
However, I have found an earlier example, The Great Train Robbery (1903).
Here is what elements of cinema has to say on the subject:
Also known as cross cutting, parallel editing gained prominence with Edwin S. Porter in his acclaimed movie The Great Train Robbery (1903). In this early picture, cross cutting is used to show what occurs in two different places but not much else. Though Porter didn't use the technique to its full potential, he was responsible for introducing the concept to the American film industry, allowing others to build upon it.
Here's a link to the wiki page on the subject.
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Interesting. I had thought Birth of a Nation was first. You learn something new every day. – Michael Stern Apr 12 '12 at 12:33
Actually, it's been enlightening digging this stuff up - humbling too, as I was taught all this stuff years ago in film school and have subsequently forgotten it all :) – Nobby Apr 12 '12 at 12:45
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Warsaw Radio Release 'Whispers' on 27th October
2017 has been a busy year for  Warsaw Radio. After the release of their much-praised (BBC 6 Music, RTÉ Radio) debut single 'After Eve' earlier in the Spring,  and  UK and Ireland dates including a main stage slot at Beautiful Days Festival alongside The Levellers & The Waterboys, the group arrive with new single  'Whispers' – a track showcasing the group's unique sound foregrounded by singer-songwriter and musician Brían McNamara's baritone vocals and violinist  Nikki Bates' rich string performances.
McNamara moved to Brighton from Limerick in 2013, and it is a small moment in time in the seaside resort town that sparked the creation of the new song. He explains: "Two friends, a guy and a girl were deep in chat about the guy's relationship…. the girl kept repeating to the guy "She doesn't want to be your bore…. just adored"…. from there the song was born". An observant and attentive depiction of young love, each verse is carried by a sturdy rhythm section and descending melodic line before segueing into an almighty chorus in which McNamara passionately calls the song's main lyrical refrain.
With an upcoming debut album with Mercury Award-nominated producer Jag Jago (The Maccabees, Florence + The Machine) and live gig dates this coming October, the future is looking bright for the heartfelt and powerful quintet.
'Whispers' will be released independently on 27th October, and will be available via Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming platforms. W.R will be announcing their 2018 Irish dates in the coming weeks.
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Manager Darrell Clarke said: "I am really pleased to bring Angelo to the club, he is a talented player with a good pedigree.
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The Sanibel Community Association (SCA) operates "The Community House."
The Community House is considered to be "The Heart of the Island", with its rich history as serving islanders as both a gathering place for island activities as well as a rental space for private events.
Built in 1927, The land upon which the SCA sits was donated by one of Sanibel's original residents, Cordie Nutt. Keeping The Community House in service to the community is a Sacred Trust carried on by the board of directors.
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Nintendo Might Have To Make Pre-Order Refunds Easier After Losing Lawsuit
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Last week, following a lengthy appeal process, the Federation of German Consumer Organisations (VZBV) successfully argued that Nintendo's current eShop pre-order return policies are insufficiently flexible, and the console maker may now have to further loosen its heavily criticised digital pre-order refund rules to be consumer-friendly enough to pass legal muster in the EU.
Nintendo's eShop pre-order cancellation policies have been under scrutiny in Europe for years. This latest skirmish saw a judge in Germany overturn a previous Nintendo court victory from last September. The VZBV consumer advocacy group argued the current policy, which only lets customers cancel pre-ordered games up to seven days before launch, isn't fair, as folks can't play the game to test it ahead of release. The judge agreed.
In a summary of the case posted on December 3 and translated by Nintendo Life, the VZBV explained that while Nintendo allows players to download full games after pre-ordering them, these pre-loaded games aren't technically accessible until the release date, which doesn't meet the legal requirements needed to be exempt from the EU's 14-day return policy. That law states that consumers have 14 days to return or request a refund on all products purchased online or over the phone, with a few exceptions. One of those exceptions is on digital items such as movies and games. In that case, once the content has been downloaded, you can't request a refund or return.
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However, the VZBV didn't agree that Nintendo's pre-loaded games qualified for this exception, as according to the group, "Until the release date, the game is worthless for the buyers and the contract of Nintendo is not fulfilled in any way." Now a judge has ruled in the consumer group's favour, and according to the case summary posted by the VZBV, it appears Nintendo has accepted the ruling.
This latest tussle began in January 2020, following years of pressure from German and Norwegian consumer groups. They took Nintendo to court in Germany and alleged that the lack of any sort of pre-order refund policy was illegal. Nintendo eventually won that case but the VZBV appealed, which has now led to the group's new victory against Nintendo this month.
It actually used to be completely impossible to cancel a digital pre-order on the eShop. The ability to refund a pre-order only came about last September, when Nintendo introduced its current 7-day pre-order cancellation policy. Multiple consumer groups in the EU remained unsatisfied, and continued to apply legal pressure against the company.
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As of today, no region's eShop will allow players to cancel pre-orders on games that are fewer than seven days away from release. However, with this new wrinkle in the ongoing legal saga, it's possible the company will be forced to offer a more flexible and fair refund and return policy to its EU customers in the near future. And perhaps such changes will trickle down to other regions, too.
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Pre-order a game > get gold coins > use gold coins to buy another game > cancel pre-order
The Spiffing Brit would love it
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Q: Rotary Switch terminology I am buying a rotary switch, and I have found these terms:
2 x Off/(On)

and
2 x Off/On

Could you please explain me the difference?
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example of a switch with Off/(On) specification

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A: Usually positions in parenthesis are momentary positions.
So a switch that is Off/(On) is a single throw switch that is momentary switch.  It will not stay in the on position, but will spring back to the off position.  A switch that is Off/On will stay in either position.

A: Sounds like the first one's a SPDT spring-loaded single-side-stable OFF-momentary ON switch, while the second one is just a vanilla DPST ON-OFF switch.


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The Aqua Jetty has a purpose-built indoor court and offers year-round indoor netball competitions.
The women's indoor netball competition is played on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings from 6.15pm.
This popular team sport provides a great level of competition in a relaxed, social atmosphere for players and spectators.
Games are made up of four 9 minute quarters, with the first game commencing at 6.15pm.
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MAN v FAT Soccer is for men in Rockingham who want to lose weight in a social and fun environment. The program promotes regular exercise, healthy eating and lifestyle changes with an element of competition.
Players in the 14-week league earn points for their team by kicking goals in the weekly games and losing kilos. The players are supported by a professional weight loss coach and WhatsApp groups help the players to stay focussed.
The program is a result of collaboration between the City of Rockingham, UWA Sports, Healthway and Sports West.
Registrations for season one 2021 are now open. To register, visit the MAN v FAT website. Players can request to be in a team with their friends or be assigned to a team with a vacancy.
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15 Food Giants, Retailers Step Up to Chop Food Loss and Waste by 2030
Libby MacCarthy
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy have recognized 15 U.S. businesses and organizations pledging concrete steps to reduce food loss and waste in their operations 50 percent by 2030, as recommended by the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The inaugural class of U.S. Food Loss and Waste 2030 Champions comprises Ahold USA, Blue Apron, Bon Appétit Management Company, Campbell Soup Company, ConAgra Brands, Delhaize America, General Mills, Kellogg Company, PepsiCo, Sodexo, Unilever, Walmart, Wegman's Food Markets, Weis Markets and YUM! Brands.
"The founding 2030 Champions have shown exceptional leadership in the fight to reduce, recover and recycle food loss and waste," Vilsack said. "The staggering amount of wasted food in the United States has far-reaching impacts on food security, resource conservation and climate change. To help galvanize U.S. efforts to reduce food loss and waste, USDA and EPA announced the first U.S. food loss and waste reduction goal in September 2015. Today, the first 15 Champions are stepping up to do their part to help the nation reach this critical goal."
"Reducing food waste is good for business, it's good for the environment, and it's good for our communities," McCarthy said. "We need leaders in every field and every sector to help us reach our food loss goal. That's why we're excited to work with the 2030 Champions and others across the food retail industry as we work together to ensure that we feed families instead of landfills."
The EPA estimates that in the United States more food reaches landfills and incinerators than any other single material in everyday trash, about 21 percent of the waste stream. Keeping wholesome and nutritious food out of landfills helps communities and the 42 million Americans that live in food insecure households. Reducing food waste also impacts climate change as 20 percent of total U.S. methane emissions come from landfills.
Each 2030 Champion establishes a baseline marking where they are today and will measure and report on their progress toward the goal in a way that makes sense for their organization. There are many ways to look at food loss and waste and definitions vary. 2030 Champions are encouraged to consult the World Resource Institute's Food Loss and Waste Protocol for information on defining and transparently measuring food loss and waste.
For food waste in the U.S., EPA's Advancing Sustainable Materials Management: Facts and Figures provides an estimate of the amount of food going to landfills from residences; commercial establishments like grocery stores and restaurants; institutional sources like school cafeterias; and industrial sources like factory lunchrooms. USDA's Economic Research Service estimates that the amount of food that went uneaten at the retail and consumer levels in the baseline year of 2010 represented 31 percent of the available food supply, about 133 billion pounds of food worth an estimated $161.6 billion.
Cutting food waste in half by 2030 will take a sustained commitment from everyone. Success requires action from the entire food system including the food industry, non-profits, governments and individuals.
"Weis Markets is excited to join USDA/EPA's Food Loss and Waste Champions Program. We see it as an opportunity to participate with like-minded industry peers to share best practices in our collective journeys to reduce and ultimately eliminate the food waste we generate," said R. Kevin Small, VP of Construction & Development at Weis Markets Inc. "Weis Markets has made significant progress rolling out programs such as composting food waste at 70 locations, donating food in our local communities and recycling our cooking and waste oils into energy through anaerobic digestion. Through the Food Loss and Waste Champions Program, we anticipate the alliance will be a valuable tool in reaching our goal of reducing food waste by 50% by 2030. Ultimately, this will enable us to realize our mission and to lessen our environmental impact on the communities we serve."
USDA research estimates that about 90 billion pounds comes from consumers, costing $370 per person every year. USDA's Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion produces a resource, called Let's Talk Trash, which focuses on consumer education, highlighting key data and action steps consumers can take to reduce food waste.
Details on becoming a U.S. Food Loss and Waste 2030 Champion can be found at usda.gov/oce/foodwaste and epa.gov/sustainable-management-food. Businesses not yet in a position to make the 50 percent reduction commitment can participate in the Food Recovery Challenge or the U.S. Food Waste Challenge.
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Did I mention that i've been to the Bundestag? Also that I know a little German? He's standing right over there.
"Did I mention that I've been to the Bundestag?" is a great line to use anytime there's a lull in any conversation.
If there's a lull in a conversation I like to say "who cut the cheese?" I'm rarely invited to social functions.
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I typically enjoy you show, however, tonight you had a guest on It started out with the subject of football and Tim Tebow. Your guest was qauestioned about his football background in high school and college. He stated, he was not Christian enough to be a quarter back. Coupled with the previous subject of Tim Tebow, I take this very offensive. I am offended, and am asking my Christian friends not to watch your program, regardless if it makes a difference. I am speaking outloud. From what I know, he is a fine man, dedicates himself to serving others regardless of their beliefs, he is a great American, and does great things for so many that have little.
ps i AM EXPECTIN A REPLY TO MY COMMENT, IF NOT, WELL, IT IS WHAT IT IS.


Sean Rafferty presents music from Jeremy Denk and the Calidore String Quartet. And we talk to Syrian-Palestinian pianist Ahmad Aeham about his memoir: The Pianist of Yarmouk.
Live music today comes from pianist Jeremy Denk ahead of recitals at Wigmore Hall and Perth later this week. We also hear from the Calidore String Quartet who take part in the Tetbury Chamber Music Festival which runs from the 22nd to the 24th March. And Syrian-Palestinian pianist Aeham Ahmad became known after he dragged his piano in to the rubble of the bombed out streets of his neighbourhood of Yarmouk near Damascus; he joins us in the studio ahead of the publishing of his memoir: The Pianist of Yarmouk.
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