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Mid November arrives amid exhibits, gatherings, and other entertainments in the Week Ahead that focus largely on the Island itself, giving us all a opportunity to get up-close and personal with the place we call home or love to visit. Begin with an Island-centric MV Museum tour, celebrate community with friends and neighbors at the Annual Barnraisers Ball and walk the Island's Main Streets and byways in the Week Ahead!
What do Stan Murphy's portrait of Tony Fisher, a banner from the Holy Ghost Society, and bottles from the Martha's Vineyard Cooperative Dairy have in common?
Town and Island residents are invited to explore the 23 acre parcel of land owned by the Town of Tisbury that stretches from the Overlook down to Lake Tashmoo.
Get ready for the annual Barnraisers Ball, celebrating the community that 'raised the roof' on what was then the 'new' West Tisbury's Agricultural Hall. Live music, potluck, fun for the whole family.
Enjoy an early evening of Island images, stories and music in this unique collaboration by three award-winning artists.
Our knowledgeable guide will lead you down its picturesque paths, through Edgartown's past and into the present.
Objects 35 – 700 years old from the Museum's clay collection: wares of the potter, along with photos and stories of and by their makers; . On-going exhibit through March, 2016.
Join Morning Glory Farm owner Jim Athearn, and learn about the practices of dairy farming from the early days to the present.


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Interview: CBS' Person of Interest Creator Jonathan Nolan (Video)
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On the Saturday, July 14th I was part of a group interview with Jonathan Nolan, creator, executive producer and writer of CBS' Person of Interest at Comic-Con 2012. See what was covered below and check out the video interview.
Interview Topics Covered
What we can expect in season two
How quickly will Finch be rescued
Amy Acker and other guest stars
Difficulties of writing the present day story and the backstory flashbacks and meshing them together
Watch the Interview with Jonathan Nolan, Creator & Executive Producer of CBS' Person of Interest
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Q: mvc 4 web api : partial model is being recieved I have a method in web api which i call from the view:
Web api code:
public CarProperties Post(CarProperties car)
{
   if(car.file!=null)
    {
        var path = Path.Combine(Server.MapPath("~/Images/"), Path.GetFileName(car.file.FileName));
        car.file.SaveAs(path);
    }
   new CarRepository().Save(car); //saves the file to database
   return car;
}

model:
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    public int Id {get; set;}
    public string Name {get; set;}
    public HttpPostedFileBase file {get; set;}
}

View:
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{

   @Html.TextboxFor(model=>model.file, new { type = "file" })
   @Html.TextboxFor(model=>model.Name)
   <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"/>
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}

I get the value of the name in the model but the file is returned as null only.
This same method works if i copy the post method from web api controller to the mvc controller. I cannot understand why it is not working in the web api controller.

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'Canes sign ex-Pen Melichar to one-year deal
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -The Carolina Hurricanes found the physical defenseman they've been looking for.
The Hurricanes signed former Pittsburgh defenseman Josef Melichar on Wednesday to a one-year, $1 million contract. General manager Jim Rutherford said Melichar is "a big, strong and experienced defensive defenseman who will be a shut-down player."
The 29-year-old Melichar spent last season with Linkoping of the Swedish Elite League, finishing with 74 penalty minutes in 50 regular-season games and a team-leading 39 more minutes in the penalty box in 16 playoff games.
Melichar played in 310 games with Pittsburgh from 2000-07. The Penguins' third-round pick in 1997 had his best offensive season in 2005-06, when he had three goals and 12 assists.
Melichar's signing came on the second day of the NHL's free-agency period and 24 hours after the Hurricanes continued to retool their blue line by trading for offensive-minded defenseman Joni Pitkanen in a deal that sent fan-favorite forward Erik Cole to Edmonton.
In announcing the trade, Rutherford said he expected to sign another physical defender - and that turned out to be Melichar.
Carolina's top offseason priority has become its defense after the departure of two key veterans: Glen Wesley retired, and unrestricted free agent Bret Hedican told the team he would not return.
Spotty play on defense also has been one of the reasons the Hurricanes have missed the playoffs in each of the two seasons that followed their Stanley Cup championship in 2006.


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... it be a certain truth, that none can understand [the prophets' and apostles'] writings aright, without the same Spirit by which they were written.
Lord, grant that I may hear and respond the Spirit's prompting in Scripture.
Lord, keep me from glorying in success and despairing in failure, that Your grace and glory may shine through all.
CQOD: 03/17/06 -- Eckhart: loving God "because"
[Jesus:] No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
Lord, You have paid a far higher price for my liberty than I ever shall.
Lord, I was dead and You raised me to life.
I am persuaded that some have scarce any better or more forcible argument to satisfy their own minds that they are in the right in religion than the inclination they find in themselves to hate and persecute them whom they suppose to be in the wrong.
Lord, allow me to see what others tolerate in me and give thanks for Your grace.
And John bore witness: "I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him. I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, 'He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.' And I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God."
If a poet or an artist puts himself into his Productions he is criticized. But that is exactly what God does, he does so in Christ. And precisely that is Christianity. The creation was really only completed when God included himself in it. Before the coming of Christ, God was certainly in the creation, but as an invisible sign, like the watermark in paper. But the creation was completed by the Incarnation because God thereby included himself in it.
Lord, I know You stand beside me.
Lord, You rebuke my idleness.
Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks : so longeth my soul after thee, O God. My soul is athirst for God, yea, even for the living God : when shall I come to appear before the presence of God?
I am desperate for You, O Lord.
Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. For Christ did not please himself, but as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me."
A really patient servant of God is as ready to bear inglorious troubles as those which are honorable. A brave man can easily bear with contempt, slander, and false accusations from an evil world; but to bear such injustice at the hands of good men, of friends and relations, is a great test of patience.
Lord, I fail in patience. Send Your Spirit to instruct me.


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Dale Earnhardt Jr., Hendrick Motorsports, NASCAR - Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports
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NASCAR: Dale Earnhardt Jr. announcement looming
by Asher Fair 1 week ago Follow @asherfair
Dale Earnhardt Jr. has yet to confirm where he will compete in the 2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series season but still has plans to do so.
While he floated the idea of his NASCAR Xfinity Series start at Homestead-Miami Speedway back in mid-June potentially being his 775th and final start across NASCAR's three national series, 15-time Most Popular Driver Award winner Dale Earnhardt Jr. confirmed in October that he is set to return to the Xfinity Series for another race in 2021.
He has competed for JR Motorsports, the team he co-owns, in one Xfinity Series race per season every year since 2018, the year after he retired from a full-time Cup Series career that saw him win 26 races, including two Daytona 500s, over the course of 18 years as a full-time driver.
However, he has not yet confirmed where he will make his 2021 start behind the wheel of the Hellmann's-sponsored #8 Chevrolet. He has, however, effectively narrowed it down.
He had wanted to compete at Martinsville Speedway, but he has confirmed that that won't happen when the series is scheduled to travel there in April.
"It's not going to be Martinsville where I wanted to go," Earnhardt told Beyond the Flag after discussing his new partnership with Nicorette last month.
"Hellmann's and the guys, they need a little bit of time to sort of activate the sponsorship and get their money's worth, and we need to allow them to be able to maximize that. For what we ask of them, they deserve that much from us. And they cannot activate in time to be able to run the first Martinsville race, so that knocks that one off the list, because Martinsville is where I wanted to go."
Martinsville Speedway does host a playoff race in October as well, but he has no interest in competing in that race.
"I do not want to run that last Martinsville race because that's in the middle of the playoffs and I don't want to be any part of that storyline, so I'm going to completely avoid any of those races in the playoffs next year," he added.
He has effectively narrowed it down to three options, although one can be crossed off the list immediately because of timing.
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NASCAR: A.J. Allmendinger to return full-time in 2021
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NASCAR: Dale Earnhardt Jr. knows where he'll compete in 2021
"It's somewhere that I've raced before in the last couple of years…I'm sure some of you guys can kind of guess where it might be, but I'm really looking forward to it because I love being behind the wheel."
He competed at Homestead-Miami Speedway this past season, but it is unlikely that he would run there twice in a row. Additionally, that is only the third race of the season in late February, which would presumably be too soon for Hellmann's given the fact that the Martinsville Speedway race in April was not late enough.
Since his Cup Series retirement, he has made his other two starts in the Xfinity Series at Richmond Raceway in 2018 and Darlington Raceway in 2019. He finished in fourth place in the former and fifth in the latter after initial race winner Denny Hamlin was disqualified, which promoted him from sixth.
With all things considered, including the 2021 schedule itself and when these tracks are scheduled to host races, you can probably deduce where Earnhardt is going to compete in 2021.
Where will Dale Earnhardt Jr. compete in the 2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series season? We should know the definitive answer to that question in the near future.
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COVID-19: Trump Labor Department Urges Employers to Report Workers Who Stay Home Due to Virus Fears
The Labor Department says "general concern" about contracting Covid-19 is not sufficient grounds to refuse work and still receive unemployment benefits, Jake Johnson reports.
With the stated goal of rooting out "waste and fraud" in the unemployment insurance system, President Donald Trump's Department of Labor is openly encouraging ongoing state efforts to help employers report workers who refuse to return to their jobs out of fear of contracting the coronavirus.
In guidance (pdf) issued Monday as several states across the U.S. continue the dangerous process of reopening their economies amid the pandemic, the Labor Department said "states are strongly encouraged to request employers to provide information when workers refuse to return to their jobs for reasons that do not support their continued eligibility for benefits."
"We also strongly encourage states to remind employers and the public about the claimant and employer fraud resources within each state," the guidance reads.
In a statement accompanying the new guidelines, the Labor Department's Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training John Pallasch said "states and localities have an obligation to spot and detect waste and fraud in the unemployment insurance system and report it to the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Inspector General and other appropriate channels."
Under current law, those who refuse "suitable work" are ineligible for unemployment benefits. In a frequently asked questions section on its website, the Labor Department says that "general concern" about contracting Covid-19 is not sufficient grounds to refuse work and still receive unemployment benefits.
Michele Evermore of the National Employment Law Project told CNBC that workers could attempt to "argue that the conditions are no longer safe and try to refuse work" if they believe their employers are not taking sufficient steps to ensure a safe workplace. Despite demands from nurses and other frontline workers, the Labor Department has not issued emergency standards requiring employers to follow the CDC's coronavirus safety guidelines.
Marcia Brown, writing fellow at The American Prospect, reported last week that Ohio and Iowa have set up websites designed to help employers report workers for committing "unemployment fraud" by declining to return to work amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Labor advocates in Texas — which is currently in the process of reopening its economy — have urged the state to continue providing unemployment benefits to those who do not want to return to their jobs out of fear of contracting the virus. In a private call with lawmakers earlier this month that was leaked to the media, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott admitted that reopening the economy "will lead to an increase and spread" of Covid-19.
More than 30 million people in the U.S. have applied for unemployment benefits since mid-March, but — as HuffPost reported last week — some governors are working to cut off the expanded unemployment benefits that were authorized under the CARES Act before many people have even received their first checks.
The CARES Act's expansion of unemployment insurance — an additional $600 per week on top of state benefits — is set to expire at the end of July.
As many workers risk losing their unemployment benefits to stay home out of fear of infection, the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress are working to protect corporations from legal responsibility for employees who contract Covid-19 in the workplace, an effort that has drawn outrage from labor unions and progressive advocacy groups.
Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union, told the Financial Times on Monday that corporations and governments are endangering the lives of workers by pushing them to return to their jobs before it is safe.
"Healthcare workers are concerned that, without PPE and training for the retail and restaurant workers who are going back, we're rushing into another spike," Henry said. "It feels like governments and corporations feel that some lives in this nation are worth sacrificing."
Jake Johnson is a staff writer for Common Dreams. Follow him on Twitter: @johnsonjakep
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The solar farm is completed! The final step of UK Power Networks witnessing the commisioning of the protection relays went smoothly, so we threw the big switch and let the inverters fire up. Here's to a renewable future!
We raised a fantastic £310,000 in the share offer - enough to proceed with the project with only a small loan for the remaining amount we need for the build. Thanks to everyone who has invested to help supply Reach with clean renewable energy!
We've received lower quotes for some of the high voltage work for the solar farm, and for the civil works. This means that we won't have to raise quite as much as we thought in the share offer. We are now aiming to raise £340,000. This should be sufficient to pay for the full build cost, plus a small amount of working capital.
Our stand at Reach Fair was a great success! Many solar smoothies were made and enjoyed, lots of fun had (by young and old) with our solar scaletrix set, and we were able to get the word out to lots of people about the project. Thanks loads to Helen, Hugh, Wookey, Robin, Peter, Kate, Andy and Paul for all their help on the day.
We're nearly halfway to the total we need to make the solar farm a reality - which is great news! It has become clear though that our original timetable for the share offer was a bit too ambitious, so we've extended it until the 31st May. More details on the share offer page.
We've taken a deep breath and paid UK Power Networks a big sum to secure the grid connection for the project - today was the deadline to accept their offer.
The grid connection permission allows us to export up to 200kW from the site.
We've added a third way to buy shares in the solar farm - thanks to the kind folk at Microgenius. In addition to accepting cheques and paper application forms, and bank payments and website applications, you can now go to our page on the Microgenius website and sign up to make payment by Direct Debit. The advantage of using direct debit is that payment will only be taken for shares when we are ready to issue them.
We're delighted to announce that we'll be launching a share offer to raise the funds to build the solar farm on 5th February at 7.30 in Reach Village Centre. All are welcome! We're working on a share offer page for the website, so watch this space - or sign up to the newsletter via the contact page if you would like to get more details by email.
We've received an offer from UK Power Networks to connect up to 200kVA of export power to the electricity network. This is less than we had initially applied for, and means that we will have to scale down the size of the project by a factor of around 50%. It's possible however that we will be able to expand it again in future when the network is upgraded.
We've received a letter from HMRC giving us advance assurance that shares in the Community Solar Farm should be eligible for EIS or SEIS tax reliefs. Eligibility for these tax reliefs will make investment in shares in the farm considerably more attractive for UK tax payers.
Hurray! We finally have planning permission from East Cambs District Council for the site. This is a major hurdle passed - many thanks to everyone who has put in time to make it happen!
It's taken a while, but our planning application is finally available online on the East Cambs Council website. Comments are welcome, and should be submitted directly to the Council.
We'll be giving a short presentation about the Reach Solar Farm project at an event organised by Transition Cambridge. Other local community energy groups will also be there, including Gamlingay wind turbine and Cambridge Community Energy. More details on the transition website. The event will be at Emmanuel United Reformed Church, Cherry Hinton Road, CB1 7AJ, starting at 7.30.
We've now submitted the planning application for the solar farm. As with all planning applications, the documents will be available online through the local Council website (searching for 'community-owned solar' should bring up our application). We've also put copies on our documents page.
We'd welcome letters of support for the planning application - these can make a real difference to how the Council views the application. Comments can be submitted via the Council planning website, or by writing to the planning department at East Cambs District Council, The Grange, Nutholt Lane, Ely, CB7 4EE.
If you have any concerns about the planning application, do please get in touch with us via the contact page - we're very happy to listen and discuss any questions you might have.
We're finally registered as an Industrial and Provident Society for the Benefit of the Community. Our official title is Reach Community Solar Farm Ltd, and our company number is 32300R. You can view our registration certificate and rules.
The archaeological evaluation for the site (which was needed for the planning application) was carried out as a community project. We had a great day getting muddy in the trenches which John Robinson kindly cut for us with his JCB, and found a few Mesolithic and Neolithic flints - but nothing too interesting which might have necessitated further work or prevented the solar farm going ahead.
We are very grateful to everyone who assisted on the day: Jo Riches, Lily and Dylan Steed, Jon and Kathryn Cane, Charles Moseley, Veronica Wood and her sister Yvonne, Graham and Hazel Lingley, Paul and John Robinson, Andy Rankin, Kate Baker - and particularly to Claire, Tom and Sam, our team of professionals from Archaeological Solutions. Archaeological Solutions led the project for us and wrote the report without charge, which was extremely kind of them - thanks!
We've got our website up and running! Apologies that at the moment it is a bit sparse. We'll keep it up to date as things progress.
We're delighted that we have been awarded assistance starting up the Co-operative by the Co-op Enterprise Hub.
We've heard back from the Council after our request for a 'Screening Opinion'. This is a document that outlines the requirements that the Council expect to be met when we submit the planning applicatiom.
The Council have told us that we aren't going to have to submit a full Environmental Impact Assessment with the application. This is good news, as a full EIA is very expensive and time-consuming. However, we will have to undertake an archaeology assessment, and we will have to write a Flood Risk Assessment, as much of the land is low-lying.
We held a meeting in the Village Center to start the project off. About 40 people attended - and we had a very positive response! You can view the presentation we gave here.


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Los Angeles representatives will take leadership roles at 2022 General Convention
by Janet Kawamoto | Jul 28, 2021 | News
[The Episcopal News] The Diocese of Los Angeles will be well-represented on influential committees at the 80th General Convention of The Episcopal Church, meeting next summer (July 5 – 14, 2022) in Baltimore, Maryland.
Seven of Los Angeles' eight deputies, who were elected at the 2019 meeting of Diocesan Convention, have been assigned to the committees that will receive, refine, and present resolutions submitted by bishops, dioceses and deputies; a unusually high level of representation for a single diocese. The eighth L.A. deputy is on the worship committee for the 2022 convention.
House of Deputies President Gay C. Jennings, who is responsible for assigning deputies to committees, announced the new rosters on July 6. A list of committees and brief descriptions of their responsibilities is here.
In addition, three EDLA representatives will serve on the nominating committee for the election of the next presiding bishop, who will be chosen at the 2024 meeting.
Lay Deputy Kathryn Nishibayashi of St. Mary's Church (Mariposa), Los Angeles, chair of the deputation, will serve on the Prayer Book, Liturgy & Music Committee.
Lay Deputy Canon Julie Dean Larsen, member of St. Clement's, San Clemente, will be on the Agencies & Boards Committee.
Lay Deputy Dan Valdez of All Saints' Church, Highland Park (Los Angeles) is vice chair of the Social Justice & U.S. Policy Committee.
Lay Deputy Canon Jim White of All Saints Church, Pasadena, and Holy Spirit Fellowship, Los Angeles, will serve on the Committees & Commissions Committee.
The Rev. Canon Melissa McCarthy, clergy deputy and canon to the ordinary for the diocese, is assigned to the Churchwide Leadership Committee.
The Rev. Nancy Frausto, clergy deputy and assistant rector of St. Luke's Church, Long Beach, is assistant secretary of the Social Justice & U.S. Policy Committee.
The Rev. Rachel Nyback, clergy deputy and rector of St. Cross Church, Hermosa Beach, will be on the Title IV Disciplinary Canons Committee.
The Rev. Yein Kim, clergy deputy and rector of St. Alban's Church, Los Angeles, is a member of the worship planning team for the convention, helping to bring together liturgies for daily services, including the opening and closing celebrations of Eucharist.
The two bishops of the Diocese of Los Angeles also have important roles.
Bishop John Harvey Taylor is vice-chair of the House of Bishops' Social Justice & International Policy Committee, which "receives and proposes resolutions on social justice issues in The Episcopal Church's dioceses beyond the United States, and the international peace and justice work of the Church, including engagement with the Anglican Communion," according to an official listing of committees.
Bishop Suffragan Diane M. Jardine Bruce is secretary of the House of Bishops, elected to the post in 2015 and reelected in 2018 after serving as assistant secretary from 2012 to 2015. She is also an elected trustee of the Church Pension Group (CPG).
Three Southland Episcopalians have been elected as members of the nominating committee for the election of the next presiding bishop: Canon Steven Nishibayashi, member of St. Mary's Church (Mariposa) and secretary of convention for the Diocese of Los Angeles; the Rev. Antonio Gallardo, alternate clergy deputy and priest-in-charge of St. Luke's Church, La Crescenta; and Thomas Diaz, first-time alternate deputy and a staff member at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Nishibayashi, a member of the Episcopal Church's Executive Council, was one of two lay candidates elected on the first ballot, cast electronically on June 8. Gallardo was elected on the fourth clergy ballot. Diaz was elected on the sixth and final ballot. (Full roster of this committee is here.)
General Convention's 80th triennial meeting was originally scheduled for this summer, but church leaders, concerned about the COVID-19 pandemic, postponed it to 2022. The 81st General Convention will be held in 2024 in Louisville, Kentucky, as originally scheduled.
Each General Convention draws some 10,000 people – deputies, bishops, exhibitors, volunteers and visitors, plus delegates to the concurrent Women's Triennial meeting – to its host city for about three days of pre-convention committee work and eight days of hearings and legislative sessions.
Committees will be expected to do considerable work through online means in the six months before the convention meetings in Baltimore, according to President Jennings.
Additional lay alternate deputies from the Diocese of Los Angeles are: Ivan Gutierrez (first alternate); Canon Andy Tomat, treasurer of the diocese; and Alan Herendich.
Other alternate clergy deputies are: the Rev. Fennie Hsin-Fen Chang, vicar of St. Thomas' Church, Hacienda Heights (first alternate); the Rev. Canon Kelli-Grace Kurtz, rector of All Saints' Church, Riverside; and the Rev. Guy Leemhuis, deacon at Holy Faith Church, Inglewood.


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\section{Introduction}
The second-parameter phenomenon is a very intriguing anomaly affecting the
color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of Galactic globular clusters (GCs).
The morphology of the horizontal branch (HB) is observed to be
primarily a function of the metallicity
${\rm [Fe/H]} = \log\, ({\rm Fe/H})_{\rm GC} - \log\, ({\rm Fe/H})_{\sun}$,
the ``first parameter."
However, superimposed on this main trend one finds intrinsic scatter,
caused by cluster-to-cluster variations in some unknown ``second parameter"
(Sandage \& Wallerstein 1960; Sandage \& Wildey 1967; van den Bergh 1967).

The idea that age is the second parameter has been very popular,
but evidence has been mounting suggesting a
much more complex scheme where several parameters may be simultaneously playing
more or less important r\^oles (see Stetson, VandenBerg, \&  Bolte 1996 and
Fusi Pecci \& Bellazzini 1997 for recent reviews). One of the strongest
arguments against age as the ``only"  second parameter
is provided by the remarkable existence of the second-parameter effect within
{\em individual} GCs (Rood et al. 1993), such as NGC 1851, NGC 2808, and
NGC 6229 (Walker 1992b; Ferraro et al. 1990; Borissova et al. 1997). Since
all stars within any individual GC presumably have the same age, a different
second parameter must be responsible for the existence of both red and blue HBs
within the same cluster.

In a recent paper, van den Bergh (1996, hereafter VDB96) has tentatively
proposed that this argument against age as the second parameter
may be incorrect. In his new scenario, the merger between two
GCs of different HB morphologies within dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSph's)
such as Fornax or Sagittarius could lead to bimodal HB types without violating
the idea that age is the second parameter. Thus, the bimodal-HB clusters
could have originated in mergers between second-parameter pairs of GCs in
dSph's that were subsequently accreted by our Galaxy, as envisaged by
Searle \& Zinn (1978).

As noted by VDB96, the merger of two GCs could affect not only the HB
morphology but also other aspects of the CMD. The purpose of this
{\em Letter} is to examine the implications of the merger scenario
for the morphology of the CMD, especially in the red giant branch
(RGB) region. We begin in the following section by presenting CMDs
produced by ``merging" GCs in the Sagittarius and Fornax dSph's and
in the LMC. We argue that these merged CMDs are not consistent with
the tight RGBs observed in Galactic GCs. In Sect. 3 we
discuss the metallicity dispersions that one would expect within
merged clusters. Finally, in Sect. 4 we summarize our results.

\section{Testing the Merger Hypothesis: GCs in Sagittarius, Fornax, and the LMC}

\subsection{GCs in the Sagittarius dSph}

As an example in support of the merger hypothesis, VDB96 has
pointed out that a merger involving the GCs Arp 2 (blue HB) and Terzan 7 (red
HB) would lead to a bimodal HB. These two GCs, along with Terzan 8 and M54
(NGC 6715), are associated with the Sagittarius dSph (Ibata, Gilmore, \&
Irwin 1995; Da Costa \& Armandroff 1995; but see Vel\'azquez \& White 1995).

\begin{figure}[t]
\figurenum{1}
\plotfiddle{mergers_fig1.ps}{4.65in}
{0}{80}{80}{-248}{-235.0}
\caption[]{\small Simulation of a ``merger" between Arp 2 and
   Ter 7 (panel a)
   and between Ter 8 and Ter 7 (panel c) in the Sagittarius dSph.
   Panels b and d are analogous to panels a and b, except that a match
   is forced between the colors of the two RGBs at the HB luminosity
   level. The adopted $M_V({\rm HB}) - {\rm [Fe/H]}$ relations are also
   shown in the upper left-hand corners.}
\end{figure}

In Fig. 1a, we combine the CMDs of Arp 2 and Ter 7 (Buonanno et al. 1995a,b)
to schematically
illustrate the implications of a merger between these two clusters. The
colors and magnitudes were corrected for reddening according to the $E(\bv )$
values provided by Harris (1996), and the distance modulus determined adopting
Walker's (1992a) distance scale. The choice of alternative distance scales
does not change the conclusions of this {\em Letter}.

The most remarkable feature of the CMD shown in Fig. 1a, besides the bimodal
HB, is the clearly bimodal RGB. This is due to the
metallicity difference between these two clusters (e.g.,
Buonanno et al. 1995a,b): Ter 7 has a substantially redder RGB than does
Arp 2, which is $\approx 1$ dex more metal-poor. In fact, inspection of Fig. 1a
reveals that almost the whole combined CMD presents signs of bimodality.
Such a clearly bimodal RGB distribution has never, to the best of our
knowledge, been observed in a GC.

In Fig. 1b, we arbitrarily ``slide" the Ter 7 CMD by 0.20 mag in $\bv$,
so as to match the Arp 2 RGB color at the HB level. The two HBs are also
aligned in brightness. As expected, the RGB bimodality has been substantially
diminished, though not entirely---especially on the upper RGB. The bimodality
in the subgiant branch and in the turnoff and main sequence are even more
evident than in Fig. 1a. Note that, in producing Fig. 1b, we have effectively
assumed that the Ter 7 reddening value listed by Harris (1996),
$E(\bv ) = 0.06$ mag, is too small by 0.2 mag. This, however, can
be safely ruled out (Buonanno et al. 1995b).

In Figs. 1c and 1d, we repeat the above experiment, but replacing Arp 2 with
Ter 8 (Ortolani \& Gratton 1990; Ortolani 1996). The situation is clearly
analogous to the Arp 2 plus Ter 7 case. The HB bimodality is again accompanied
by a very peculiar bimodal RGB.

An experiment involving the cluster M54 has not been possible, due to the
multiple nature of the CMD in the direction of this cluster, caused (at least
in part) by contamination by Sagittarius field stars (Sarajedini \& Layden
1995). However, since this cluster too is more metal-poor than Ter 7,
we predict that a merger between M54 and Ter 7 would also lead
to a bimodal RGB, although the large mass difference between the two clusters
would make Ter 7's contribution to a combined CMD appear little more than a
secondary contamination. It should be interesting to note, at any rate, that
the composite nature of M54's CMD {\em may} be consistent with a merger
event.

\subsection{GCs in the Fornax dSph}

The only other dSph associated with
the Galaxy known to contain GCs is Fornax, which has an anomalously high
specific frequency of GCs (Fusi Pecci 1987). Since Fornax is more
distant, the CMDs for its GCs are not as well defined as in Sagittarius.
Fortunately, however, the new Buonanno et al. (1996, hereafter BCFFPB96)
data allow us to present preliminary simulations of the ``merger" between
pairs of GCs in that remote dSph.

Fig. 1 in BCFFPB96 shows that Cluster 4 is possibly
the only one with a predominantly red HB in Fornax. The
remaining GCs seem to have either intermediate or predominantly blue
HB types (see also Beauchamp et al. 1995). The ``merger" between clusters
1 and 4 in Fornax is illustrated in Fig. 2a. In Fig. 2b, a similar
``merger" experiment involving clusters 3 and 4 is shown. Despite the
relatively poorly defined CMDs, the bimodality in the upper RGBs is
still quite evident.

\begin{figure}[t]
\figurenum{2}
\plotfiddle{mergers_fig2.ps}{4.5in}
{0}{75}{75}{-225}{-135.0}
 \caption[]{\small Same as Fig. 1, but for clusters 1 and 4
   (panel a) and
   clusters 3 and 4 (panel b) in the Fornax dSph. The data were
   obtained from BCFFPB96. As in that study,
   we have restricted the CMD of Cluster 3 (NGC 1049) to stars in
   the core of the cluster, and the CMD of Cluster 4 to an annulus
   around the cluster center (cf. their Figs 1d and 1f, respectively).
            }
\end{figure}

VDB96 argues that Fornax clusters 1 and 2 may have
narrowly missed a merging event in the past. Even though a CMD for
Cluster 2 is not available for a straightforward comparison with
the Cluster 1 CMD of BCFFPB96, the
nominal metallicity difference between the two clusters, $\simeq 0.19$
dex (Buonanno et al. 1985; Dubath, Meylan, \& Mayor 1992),
if real, would again show up as a bimodality in the merger's
RGB, if and when the merger product were finally captured
by the Galaxy.

\subsection{GCs in the LMC}

It has been suggested that some of the ancestral fragments that led to
the formation of the Galaxy in the Searle \& Zinn (1978) scenario were
actually significantly more massive than the dSph's, perhaps resembling
more closely the LMC in this respect (van den Bergh 1993). Indeed, some
of the Galactic GCs may have been stripped from the Magellanic Clouds
(van den Bergh 1994). Thus, we have also examined the Pop. II GCs in
the LMC (Suntzeff et al. 1992) in connection with the VDB96 hypothesis.

Since none of the Pop. II GCs in the LMC has a red HB,
no pair of GCs whose merger would clearly lead to a bimodal HB could
be found. Interestingly, mergers of {\em young} GCs do seem to be
currently taking place in the LMC. However, these
merging GCs were probably formed simultaneously within the same
protocluster cloud, implying that the involved pairs of GCs have
essentially the same ages and chemical composition
(Bhatia et al. 1991; Bica, Clari\'a, \& Dottori 1992; Rodrigues et al. 1994).
An exception seems to be provided by the pair NGC 1938/NGC 1939,
where the difference in age may be higher than 5 Gyr (Bica et al. 1992).
Apart from this case, no sign of bimodality would be currently present
in the corresponding CMDs as a direct result of the mergers, if
these had taken place several Gyr ago. However, we speculate that an
indirect influence {\em might} result due to the
possible impact of the merger on the intracluster distribution in stellar
rotational velocities and mass loss rates.

\section{Metallicity Distributions}

In the previous section, we have found that the mergers of GCs tend to produce
bimodal RGB distributions. The reason for this, as already discussed,
is the difference in metallicity
between the merging GCs. That the RGB color should become redder with
increasing metallicity has been known observationally since Sandage \&
Wallerstein (1960) and Wildey (1961). The effect is also well understood
theoretically (Hoyle \& Schwarzschild 1955). Moreover, the shape of the RGB
also depends strongly on [Fe/H], as recently discussed by
Da Costa \& Armandroff (1990) and Ortolani, Barbuy, \& Bica (1991).

Two questions arise from this: how tightly is the [Fe/H] dispersion
constrained within {\em single} GCs, especially those with bimodal HBs?
And what is the expected dispersion in [Fe/H] in the merger scenario,
given the observed metallicity dispersion of the GC systems in the dSph
galaxies?

As to the first question, it is important to note that current upper limits
on the metallicity dispersions within individual GCs are {\em extremely} tight.
In fact, as stated by Suntzeff (1993), ``0.04 dex is a realistic upper
limit to the average cluster metallicity inhomogeneity."
Part of the reason for this remarkable accuracy is exactly the fact
that the RGB color and shape depend so sensitively on [Fe/H].
As far as the {\em bimodal-HB clusters} are concerned,
NGC 1851 has been studied by Da Costa \& Armandroff (1990). According
to their analysis, the $3\sigma$ upper limit on the internal metallicity
dispersion is 0.07 dex. The CMD study of NGC 2808 by Fusi Pecci \&
Ferraro (1996) similarly implies a $3\sigma$ upper limit of $\approx 0.15$
dex for the dispersion in [Fe/H] within the cluster. For NGC 6229,
Borissova et al. (1997) have estimated that the width of the RGB is
essentially consistent with their measurement errors, implying no
intrinsic dispersion in [Fe/H] within the cluster. In fact, among all
the GCs for which CMDs are available, $\omega$Cen (NGC 5139), M22
(NGC 6656), M92 (NGC 6341), and M54 (in Sagittarius) are the only
cases for which an internal metallicity dispersion has been proven
or suspected (Suntzeff 1993 and references therein; Sarajedini \& Layden
1995).

Using the latest metallicity and CMD data available in the literature,
we have performed a detailed analysis of the [Fe/H] and HB
morphology distributions of the GCs in the Fornax and Sagittarius
dSph's, as well as in the LMC and in the Fusi Pecci et al. (1995)
groups of GCs that may have shared a possible common
origin within a Searle \& Zinn (1978) ``building block" of the Galaxy
(see also Lynden-Bell \& Lynden-Bell 1995). Our results indicate that
{\em a general prediction of the merger
hypothesis is that many mergers involving pairs of globulars
with different metallicities would be expected for every merger
involving a pair of GCs with different HB morphology but
essentially the same metallicity}. By ``different metallicities"
is meant $\Delta {\rm [Fe/H]} > 0.04$ dex (Suntzeff 1993).
Searle (1977) has also pointed out that a merger might lead to an
inhomogeneous, and possibly bimodal, metallicity distribution.
In fact, a bimodal HB would be much more likely to
result from the merger between two GCs of different metallicities than
between two clusters of nearly the same metallicity. This is simply a
consequence of the fact that metallicity is the {\em first} parameter.
At the same time, bimodal RGBs are a much more
natural consequence of the mergers of GCs than are bimodal HBs, since
{\em the impact of even tiny differences in [Fe/H] on stellar
colors are greatly amplified during the RGB phase}.

These conclusions are also supported by an analysis of the GC metallicity
distribution in NGC 147, NGC 185, and (to a lesser extent)
NGC 205---the dSph companions to M31
known to contain GCs (see, e.g., Minniti, Meylan, \& Kissler-Patig 1996);
and by the metallicity distributions in the M31 GC ``groups"
proposed by Ashman \& Bird (1993).

\section{Conclusions}

The above analysis indicates that, in all likelihood, mergers of GCs cannot
have been responsible for the HB bimodality in NGC 1851, NGC 2808, and
NGC 6229, since the size of the metallicity dispersion within these clusters
is very tightly constrained, as opposed to what would be expected in the
merger scenario. Moreover, bimodal RGBs and RGBs which are
substantially wider than those which are usually observed would be much more
frequent in the Galactic GC system as a whole, if mergers of bona-fide old GCs
were responsible for the existence
of bimodal-HB clusters. We suggest that signs of merger events between old GCs
should be searched for primarily in the RGB region of the CMD, where
even small metallicity differences between the merging globulars are expected
to greatly affect the resulting distributions.

\acknowledgments

The author is indebted to Dr. S. Ortolani, who has kindly provided the
new reduced Ter 8 data employed in Fig. 1; and to Dr. M. Bellazzini and
Dr. F. Fusi Pecci for providing their ESO-NTT data for the Fornax GCs prior
to publication. The author is grateful as well to Dr. E. Bica and
Dr. L. Girardi for providing useful information, and to
Dr. A. V. Sweigart for his continuous encouragement and useful discussions.
This research was supported in part by NASA grant NAG5-3028. This work was
performed while the author held a National Research Council--NASA/GSFC Research
Associateship.

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I never saw myself more clearly than in the novels of Dostoyevsky when I was in college. No one has ever spoken more to my sense of myself. And I can see myself in Batman. I relate to Bruce Wayne more than I do to the Black Panther, if we have to go into comic books. I don't want to be glib about it - I understand why a young boy or young girl needing some self-esteem, a young girl seeing Wonder Woman � I get it. But I think we really should not go too far with it, or we risk restricting the self too severely. The self is a multitudinous thing, right?
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Laura Kina and Camilla Fojas of DuPaul University organized the third CMRS conference, "Global Mixed Race," which featured a variety of people telling their own stories, sharing the stories of others, and dissecting theories that surround notions of ethnoracial mixture.* In the opening keynote address, sociologist Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain, co-editor of the book Global Mixed Race, explored the idea of a "mixed experience," where she discussed the commonalities that people of mixed descent share widely across the globe.
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White Album Ensemble - West End Celebration Kick Off Party
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About White Album Ensemble - West End Celebration Kick Off Party
The White Album Ensemble and special guest, Porsche Smith, kick off the three day West End Celebration on Friday, August 17, from 7:30pm to 11pm at Carmel Stone Imports, 1725 Contra Costa Ave., in Sand City. The Kick Off Party is a fundraiser for the West End Celebration and Guitars Not Guns.
The White Album Ensemble
It began as a Luthier's dream, to put together a crack team of top local musicians to perform the Beatles' "White Album" live, in a theatre setting with lights, dance and a full-screen video presentation. After selling out both debut shows and creating a considerable buzz, the vibe persuaded the group to keep on doing more concerts. There is no attempt to be a "look alike" or "tribute" band; this is more like a symphony performing Bach or Mozart.
The White Album Ensemble has spent months in rehearsal, and thorough research to make these performances authentic. They wondered "How would the Beatles have approached this as a live performance?" and made that the virtual standard for decisions about instrumentation and arrangements. As the Beatles post-touring catalog has been explored in depth, the solo careers of Beatles is a treasure trove of great material, so the band now includes a number of those gems.
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Rabbi Hillel Skolnik
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Parashat Vayeitzei
Over the past now twenty months and one day since our daughter Dafna was born, people have often times asked me what has been the biggest change in my life. My mind immediately jumps to the fact that I get less sleep than I used to, spend more money on diapers than I used to and the million other aspects of my life that are now completely different. Yet I find myself giving more or less the same answer to anyone who asks me that loaded question. The biggest difference, I say, is that in one moment we went from being responsible only for ourselves to the next being responsible for another human life. One day she's not there and then there she is and she's looking to you for everything she needs. That feeling of being completely and totally responsible for her has been the biggest change for me these past twenty months and one day and I know that although the change happened in a blink of an eye, I'll always feel responsible for her in a way I could never have comprehended before she was born.
It was with these eyes of a young father that I read through this week's parasha, Parashat Vayeitzei, and quickly noticed that my recognition of the rapid onset of responsibility in my own life is mirrored by the experiences of Yaakov Avinu in this week's parasha. At its outset, Yaakov is seemingly just a young man who is simultaneously running away from his brother and heading off to Charan to find a wife. Even though the Torah describes him as an Ish Tam Yosheiv Ohalim, a "mild man who stayed in the camp", Yaakov's narrative thus far has presented a man who is not afraid to take advantage of an opportunity if it will be to his own benefit. He sold the red stew for the birthright, and participated, albeit at his mother's behest, in the tricking of Isaac. Whether or not this makes him a good person is an interesting question, but not the one I wish to explore today. What interests me more at the moment is the fact that in both of these cases his actions were done because they would bring benefit to the only person in his life that he had any sense of responsibility towards, namely himself.
In this week's parasha, however, everything changes. After falling in love with the first woman he meets, Yaakov then, within the span of only 37 verses, goes from being a single man working toward marrying that woman to having two wives, each with a maidservant, eleven sons and one daughter. One day he has only himself to feed and then 37 verses later he finds himself with 16 mouths to feed. While in reality this process surely took some years, to this reader, it happened very quickly. I could not help but see this as a warp speed transition into adulthood, from no responsibility to massive amounts.
What puzzles me about this entire episode is how Yaakov was able to handle it. How does a mild man who stayed in the camp become a person who is capable of being responsible for so many other people? I know how we handle it when we experience a rapid onset of responsibility into our own lives– we get help from parents, family members, friends and members of our community. If we have a question we pick up the phone and call someone. But what did Yaakov do? There were no phones back then. He couldn't skype with his mother to say that little Reuven has a fever of 101.1 and does she think he should call the doctor. This was a guy who only ever had to worry about his own wellbeing and now finds himself as the head of a large family with everyone looking to him for guidance.
While I have no idea what they did for fevers back then, I do have a thought as to how he handled his new life, but to find it we need to go back to the beginning of this week's parasha, to the famous incident of Yaakov's dream. As the story goes, Yaakov was on his journey toward Charan and as the sun was setting he stopped in a certain place for the night. He took a stone, put it under his head, fell asleep and dreamt of a sulam mutzav artzah v'rosho magia hashamayma, v'hinei malachei elohim olim v'yordim bo – of a ladder set on the ground and its top reached to the sky, and angels of God were going up and down on it. While much has been said about this fascinating dream, and deservedly so, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the angels of God are said to be olim v'yordim bo – going up and coming down on it.
Rashi notices this phrase and comments by specifying Olim Tchila V'achar Chach Yordim that they are going up first and then afterward coming down. Rashi wants to know why the procession of angels is taking place in this surprising order. One would think that if a ladder is going from Earth to the heavens with angels going in both directions, since angels come from the heavens, they would first need to come down and then go up. So why then does the Torah specifically say that the angels are olim v'yordim bofirst going up and then afterward coming down?
The particular answer that Rashi paraphrases is but one of the many answers offered in Breishit Rabba Parashat Samech Chet Piska Yod Bet and these are the words of Breishit Rabbah. Davar Acher Olim V'yordim Bo – another explanation of they were going up and coming down on it – Olim otam shelivu oto v'eretz yisrael, yordim otam shelivu oto v'chutza laaretz. The ones that were going up were the angels who accompanied Yaakov within the land of Canaan, and the angels that were coming down were those who accompanied him while he was outside the land. In other words, the reason that the ladder held angels that were first going up and then coming down is that this was not, as we might have thought, an introduction of angels into Yaakov's life. They had been there already for some time and his dream is actually, as James Kugel called it in his book "The Ladder of Jacob", a changing of the guards. The angels who had been charged with accompanying Yaakov so long as he was within the land of Canaan were about to get a break because Yaakov was leaving the Canaan on his way to Charan. That meant that his "outside of the land" angels were about to be on duty. How were they supposed to get there? They were taking the ladder. But before they could go down, the other angels had to come on back up to heaven.
Professor Kugel would tell you that the problem with this Midrash is that it has geographical issues, namely that the dream was supposed to have taken place in Beit El, otherwise known as Jerusalem. And so how could this changing of the guards from inside Canaan angels to outside Canaan angels happen before Yaakov even made it to the border? Given Professor Kugel's insight, I would like to offer a different spin on the midrash. I do think that there was indeed a changing of the guard of angels but not one contingent on Yaakov's location. Instead, the angels ascending the ladder were the ones charged with the responsibility of accompanying Yaakov through the first stages of his life. And now, precisely as he is about to go and find a wife, he requires new angels because a new phase of his life is about to begin. Even though Yaakov may not know it, he is about to enter into adulthood and these new angels are the ones who will guide him through it.
Furthermore, I think that it was his feeling of God's presence in his life, which he felt through these angels, that helped him survive what can only be described as a rocky entrance into the responsibilities of adulthood. Failing to notice that he spends his first night as a married man with the wrong woman does not exactly qualify Yaakov for the "Most Attentive Husband on a Wedding Night" award, and things do not really get much better. Rachel is barren and becomes bitter toward her fertile sister and as we see throughout Yaakov's life, family dynamic is a real issue. Surely he could have used someone to talk to, someone to sit down with at the end of the day so that he could just blow off some steam and something tells me that Lavan was not an option. I think that of any of our forefathers, Yaakov could have used a friend. And I think that the purpose of his dream as a whole was to remind him that God is always with him in his life and can be that support system that Yaakov lacked. How could he navigate the waters of four wives at one time? How could he handle the remarkably rapid onset of responsibility, going from being single to having four wives and twelve children within the span of 37 verses? He had the angels. But even more than that, he had the right angels for this part of his life.
Of course it was not only with the eyes of a relatively new father that I read the story of Yaakov's entrance into adulthood, but also as a budding rabbi, as a person about to experience once again what it means to go through the rapid onset of responsibility. God willing, come next summer, all of us who are graduating both Rabbinical and Cantorial School will find that one day we are responsible for only our own families and then come the next day we are responsible for the spiritual well being of a synagogue, of patients in a hospital, of students or of those people who look to us for guidance as clergy. There will not be a transition period. The responsibility will simply be there and a new stage of our lives will have begun. And I wonder, how will we deal with it?
It is in that moment, that I am almost jealous of Yaakov for always having those angels as a constant reminder of God's presence in his life, but then I realize that I have it much better than he did. I have a family, so stocked with clergy that it's crazy, full of people who love me and are there for me with whatever I need to remind me of God's presence in my life. I have several communities that welcome me with open arms whenever I find myself in their midsts. I have great friends and wonderful classmates who will be going through the process along with me and who will be there for me just as I will be there for them. And I also have Psalm 91 verse 11. Ki Malachav y'tzaveh lach lishmorcha b'chol drachecha "For God will order His angels to guard you wherever you go." It turns out, God did not send angels to watch over Yaakov just because he was our forefather Yaakov, God sent angels down that ladder because Yaakov was one of God's creatures. And the even better news is that since we are also God's creatures we get the same treatment. We might not have a dream to know when a changing of the guard is taking place, but something tells me that at some point next semester my angels of Rabbinical School are going to head back up into the heavens and the angels of my rabbinate will come down.
So what are we to do when our lives suddenly transition from one stage to another, when we find ourselves with a whole new set of responsibilities? We look to the people in our lives for support and realize that they are the angels that God has sent, the ones who are always right for us. And since the birth of our daughter, Dafna, I take comfort in knowing that not only will these angels always be watching over me, but that they will also always be watching over her.


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Q: Is there a simpler way to compute this antiderivative? I'm trying to compute the antiderivative $$\int \frac{y^2}{\sqrt{r^2 - y^2}} \, dy.$$ It is proving fairly tricky (for me).
Here is Wolfram|Alpha's solution:
$$\int \frac{y^2}{\sqrt{r^2 - y^2}} \, dy = \frac{1}{2} \left( r^2 \arctan \left( \frac{y}{\sqrt{r^2 - y^2}} \right) - y\sqrt{r^2 - y^2} \right).$$
The provided step-by-step explanation is:

*

*Substitute $y = r \sin u$ and $dy = r \cos u \, du$. Then $\sqrt{r^2 - y^2} = \sqrt{r^2 - r^2 \sin^2 u} = r \cos u$ and $u = \arcsin(y/r)$.

*The integral becomes $$\int r^2 \sin^2 u \, du = r^2 \int \sin^2 u \, du.$$

*From here, the antiderivative is pretty commonly known; it can be derived with the double-angle formula for cosine. This becomes $$\frac{1}{2} r^2 u - \frac{1}{4} r^2 \sin(2u).$$

*Use $\cos^2 u = 1 - \sin^2 u$ and $\sin(2u) = 2\sin u\cos u$ to express as $$\frac{1}{2} r^2 u - \frac{1}{4} r^2 \sin(u) \sqrt{1 - \sin^2 u}.$$

*Back-substitute $u = \arcsin(y/r)$ to get $$\frac{1}{2} r^2 \arcsin(y/r) - \frac{1}{2} r y \sqrt{1 - \frac{y^2}{r^2}}.$$

*For positive reals, this is equivalent to $$\frac{1}{2} \left(r^2 \arctan{\frac{y}{\sqrt{r^2 - y^2}}} - y\sqrt{r^2 - y^2}\right).$$

In my opinion, this is a mess, both in derivation and result, and it's not the first time I've seen Wolfram|Alpha overcomplicate an integral.
However, I can't figure out how to solve this myself. I tried $u$-substitution, but the $\Phi(x)$ that might have worked was not injective on the domain so that didn't work
So, is there either or both of

*

*a cleaner solution to this antiderivative? or

*a cleaner method of derivation?

…it would be really nice if it didn't have any trigonometric substitution…

A: I doubt that you can entirely avoid a trig substitution (unless you want to try hyperbolics).  However you can go some of the way using integration by parts: taking
$$u=y\ ,\quad \frac{dv}{dy}=\frac{y}{\sqrt{r^2-y^2}}$$
leads to
$$\int\frac{y^2}{\sqrt{r^2-y^2}}=-y\sqrt{r^2-y^2}+\int \sqrt{r^2-y^2}\,dy$$
and the integral on the right hand side, though still best done with a trig substitution, is a bit easier than the one you started with.

A: In my opinion, the result is not a mess and I shall try to explain. Let us start with $$x=\int \frac{y^2}{\sqrt{r^2 - y^2}} \, dy$$ and make the change of variable $$y=r~\sin(u)$$ So, we arrive to $$x=\frac{r^2}{4} \Big(2 u - \sin(2u)\Big)$$ This gives a parametric formulation of $x$ and $y$ as functions of $u$ and, for many applications, it could be the end of the problem.
The problem is that, if you want an explicit expression of $x$ as a function of $y$, you need to go through the next steps and this is where rather complex expressions appear since $x$ contains $u,\sin(u),\cos(u)$.

A: To a notable extent, whether something is "complicated" is subjective.  The techniques of integration used here are standard, well-known, and not particularly onerous for a first year undergraduate calculus course, or even a high school calculus course.
Moreover, the form of the antiderivative itself strongly suggests that some kind of trigonometric substitution is not only desirable, but inevitable.

A: Or do a trick: $\dfrac{y^2}{\sqrt{r^2-y^2}} = -\sqrt{r^2-y^2} + \dfrac{r^2}{\sqrt{r^2-y^2}}$. At this point, we can take $y = r\cdot \sin\theta$.