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Then Jock Goldman comes over and thinks Moze was using him to make Ned jealous. Ned and Moze say they want to tell Suzie and race each other so they can tell her first. Moze tries everything she can possibly think of, yet none of it works.
He favors Moze as his best student and helps her through confusing times by giving her advice such as finding a talent for Ned's talent show and her feelings for Ned. In the series finale, it is shown that the weasel is actually a female when she has given birth of new weasel babies. She is always seen wearing a drab gray smock, and at one point requires all her students to dress the same way. They are so sweet together and so cute! Crubbs is always keeping an eye on Ned.
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He was part of an organization squad to help Ned get organized. Danielle wished her father with a very sweet caption where she thanked him for holding her hand through thick and thin. In the aforementioned lie-detector test, Jock also reluctantly admitted to Ned, Moze, Cookie and Gordy that he once got the runs after eating bad roast beef. Scoop appears only in two episodes of the first season and one episode of the second season. We are suppose to learn to dance to strengthen our relationship not hurt it.
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The boys, mainly Loomer, have bigger concerns than winning, while the girls band together to win. They strongly dislike Billy Loomer and his friends, and they are insanely obsessed with Ned. Cookie chews gum and pencils as a way to help him overcome his packratting habit. He has a doctorate degree from Harvard University.
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He is usually seen in most of Ned's classes. Plus it also has to be in front of all of Missy's friends! He is one of the show's main antagonists.
Ned's not super cool, and he has no superpowers. Meanwhile, Cookie starts the new semester with a new super cool look and becomes a bully. He appears to be more laid back, if not the most laid back faculty member at Polk. Gordy wears a chipmunk mascot costume and covers it in a musk scent to attract the weasel. Ned loses the guide in the recycling madness, and Moze sneaks into the teacher's lounge to collect recycling.
Ned is a smart boy, but he's also very lazy. He speaks with a Jersey accent and often wears a brown suit, a fedora, and carries around a camera. Then it turns out Suzie knew because Jock told her, she then confesses that she was testing them to see if Ned would make a good boyfriend and if Moze would make a good friend.
So what can an environmentally conscious. She is also usually the one Ned and Cookie come to for favors. Moze does her best to stop talking trash on the volleyball court, dating especially after she tells Ned and Cookie she can quit any bad habit.
After crushing somebody's project, she really wants to become short. Take the pistons and the points. At first, she had a bitter rivalry with Cookie and tended to despise him, but becomes initially interested in him after they accidentally kiss.
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He is, however, witty, well-groomed, camille rowe upbeat and self-aware. She can at times be very obnoxious. So they give Jock Goldman a lie detector test to see if he really likes Moze.
Cookie tries to become overprotective so Loomer won't hurt him. He's known for liking the arts and classical music artists like Mozart and Beethoven, as well as having unusual facial hair that runs round the side of his face. Later on, Moze talks to Chopsaw about it and he tells her the best thing to do is tell Suzie about it. Gordy wants to capture this weasel and has used numerous traps in the series and failed.
Soon after Vanessa says yes, so Cookie must take Lisa and Vanessa to the dance and keep them separated.
For much of the series, he is dating Suzie Crabgrass, but he wants to break up with her so he can date Moze.
She also says that there are numerous Qwerlys.
In the next episode, however, it is forgotten about and she goes back to being a good student. His face is unseen, since the girls cover him completely. This disguise is able to fool everyone except for Ned and Moze, because they knew about it beforehand. Suzie tells them she already knew about the kiss because Jock told her. You just have to get to know each other, find out what you guys have in common.
In the final episode, they begin dating.
To see if he truly likes her, Ned, Cookie and Gordy put Jock through a lie-detector test.
He is shown in many episodes to be dumb and bad at rhyming, and is constantly seen spinning a basketball on his finger.
The same dress, same shoes, same hair.
Meanwhile, Cookie is dancing with both Lisa and Vanessa on different sides. Secrets - Ned and Cookie see Loomer kissing Missy. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Cookie meanwhile is asked by Lisa and says yes.
He also carries around a fanny pack everywhere. They pass and Ned finally gets Suzie. Suzie doesn't know why they look so weird then all of a sudden, government dating sites Ned has to go poop again! He seems to have a large disliking for Ned due to his lazy nature but obvious intelligence.
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Ahearne, Alan and Pisani-Ferry, Jean and Sapir, Andre and Veron, Nicolas. (2006) Global Governance: An Agenda for Europe. Bruegel policy brief 2006/07, December 2006. [Policy Paper]
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Anderson, Stephanie and Williams, John. (2011) The Securitization of Development Policy or the Developmentalization of Security Policy?: Legitimacy, Public Opinion, and the EU External Action Service (EAS). [Conference Proceedings]
Bar Cendón, Antonio. (1997) La légitimité de l’Union européenne après le Conseil européen d’Amsterdam = The Legitimacy of the European Union after the Amsterdam European Council. EIPASCOPE, 1997 (2). pp. 1-4.
Bickerton, Christopher J. (2007) Legitimacy through norms: the political limits of Europe's normative power. In: UNSPECIFIED, Montreal, Canada. (Unpublished)
Blockmans, Steven and Hoevenaars, Judith and Schout, Adriaan and Wiersma, Jan Marinus (2014) From Subsidiarity to Better EU Governance: A Practical Reform Agenda for the EU. CEPS Essay No. 10, 8 April 2014. UNSPECIFIED.
Blockmans, Steven and Russack, Sophia (2019) Representative Democracy in the EU: Recovering Legitimacy. Research Paper. May 2019. [Policy Paper]
Borzel, Tanja A., and Dudziak, Meike, and Hofmann, Tobias, and Panke, Diana, and Sprungk, Carina. (2007) Recalcitrance, Inefficiency, and Support for European Integration: Why Member States Do (not) Comply with European Law. In: UNSPECIFIED, Montreal, Canada. (Unpublished)
Bradanini, Davide. (2009) The Rise of the Competitiveness Discourse- A Neo-Gramscian Analysis. Bruges Political Research Paper No. 19, December 2009. [Policy Paper]
Bursens, Peter and Helsen, Sarah. (2005) "The OMC, a legitimate mode of governance?". In: UNSPECIFIED, Austin, Texas. (Unpublished)
Chang, Michele. (2007) "Creating Legitimacy in EMU". In: UNSPECIFIED, Montreal, Canada. (Unpublished)
Dardanelli, Paolo. (1999) “The European Union Enlargement: A Rational Approach”. In: UNSPECIFIED, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Unpublished)
Davies, Gareth (2015) Democracy and Legitimacy in the Shadow of Purposive Competence. [Conference Proceedings] (Submitted)
Delhousse, Franklin (2013) The European Citizen's Initiative: next big thing or new false good idea? Egmont Paper No. 59, July 2013. [Policy Paper]
Drake, Helen. (1995) "The Commission Presidency of Jacques Delors: A Study in Political Leadership". In: UNSPECIFIED, Charleston, South Carolina. (Unpublished)
Drake, Helen. (1997) "Legitimising European integration: Perspectives and discourses of legitimacy in the European Union". In: UNSPECIFIED, Seattle, WA. (Unpublished)
Etzioni, Amitai. (2008) Closing the Community Deficit in the EU. CEPS Policy Brief No. 169, 9 September 2008. [Policy Paper]
Fabbrini, Sergio (2012) After the Euro Crisis: The President of Europe, A new paradigm for increasing legitimacy and effectiveness in the EU. EuropEos Commentary No. 12, 1 June 2012. [Policy Paper]
Gaffney, John. (1997) "Political rhetoric and European integration". In: UNSPECIFIED, Seattle, WA. (Unpublished)
Glogowski, Pawel and Maurer, Andreas (2013) The European Citizens‘ Initiative – Chances, Constraints and Limits. IHS Political Science Series No. 134, April 2013. [Policy Paper]
Gretschmann, Klaus (1997) Vision or Revision: Managing Europe’s Way to EMU. EIPASCOPE, 1997 (2). pp. 1-4.
Gros, Daniel (2014) Relative direct democratic legitimacy. CEPS Commentary, 26 June 2014. [Policy Paper]
Grosskopf, Anke. (1999) “Can Legitimacy Transfer? A Comparative Study of Public Support for the European Court of Justice and the Bundesverfassungsgericht”. In: UNSPECIFIED, Pittsburgh, PA. (Unpublished)
Hallerberg, Mark. and Marzinotto, Benedicta and Wolff, Guntram B. (2012) On the effectiveness and legitimacy of EU economic policies. Bruegel Policy Brief 2012/04, 9 November 2012. [Policy Paper]
Hodess, Robin. (1997) "Legitimizing Europe? News media and the reporting of European Union politics". In: UNSPECIFIED, Seattle, WA. (Unpublished)
Hurrelmann, Achim. (2007) "Constructions of Multilevel Legitimacy in the European Union: A Study of German and British Media Discourse". In: UNSPECIFIED, Montreal, Canada. (Unpublished)
Höreth, Marcus (2001) The European Commission’s White Paper Governance: A ‘Tool-Kit’ for closing the legitimacy gap of EU policymaking? ZEI Discussion Papers: 2001, C 94. [Discussion Paper]
Höreth, Marcus (1998) The Trilemma of Legitimacy. Multilevel Governance in the EU and the Problem of Democracy. ZEI Discussion Papers: 1998, C 11. [Discussion Paper]
Iral, Hubert. (2003) Between Forces of Inertia and Progress: Co-decision in EU-Legislation. ZEI Discussion Paper: 2003, C 119. [Discussion Paper]
Iral, Hubert. (2004) Im Spannungsfeld zwischen Normalzustand und Legitimationsfragen. Die Wahlen zum Europäischen Parlament 2004 vor dem Hintergrund der EU-Erweiterung und des Verfassungsgebungsprozesses. = The tension between normality and legitimacy questions. The elections to the European Parliament in 2004 against the background of EU enlargement and the constitutional process. ZEI Discussion Paper C. 139, 2004. [Discussion Paper]
Jetzlsperger, Christian. (2003) "Legitimacy through jurisprudence? The impact of the European Court of justice on the legitimacy of the European Union". In: UNSPECIFIED, Nashville, TN. (Unpublished)
Ladrech, Robert. (1997) "Political parties and the problem of legitimacy in the European Union". In: UNSPECIFIED, Seattle, WA. (Unpublished)
Ladrech, Robert. (1995) "Problems and Prospects for Party Politics at the European Level: The Case of Socialist Transnational Party Development". In: UNSPECIFIED, Charleston, South Carolina. (Unpublished)
Magnette, Paul. (2003) Does the process really matter? Some reflections on the “ legitimating effect” of the European Convention. CES Working Paper, no. 102, 2003. [Working Paper]
Mather, Janet. (2003) "Impact of enlargement for the EU's legitimacy and democracy". In: UNSPECIFIED, Nashville, TN. (Unpublished)
Matlary, Janne Haaland. (1993) "Quis Custodiet Custodes? The European Commission's Policy-Making Role and the Problem of Democratic Legitimacy". In: UNSPECIFIED, Washington, DC. (Unpublished)
Mattelaer, Alexander and Severs, Eline (2014) A Crisis of Democratic Legitimacy? It’s about Legitimation, Stupid! European Policy Brief No. 21, March 2014. [Policy Paper]
Matthijs, Matthias M. (2013) The Eurozone crisis and the erosion of democratic legitimacy: Lessons from the gold standard. ACES Cases No. 2013.3. UNSPECIFIED.
Meunier, Sophie. (2003) "Trade policy and political legitimacy in the European Union". In: UNSPECIFIED, Nashville, TN. (Unpublished)
Mittag, Jürgen. (2006) Escaping the Legitimacy-Accountability-Trap? Perspectives of Parliamentary Participation in European Security and Defence Policy. ZEI Discussion Papers C. 161, 2006. [Discussion Paper]
Moravcsik, Andrew, and Sangiovanni, Andrea. (2003) On Democracy and the “Public Interest”: in the European Union. CES Working Paper, no. 93, 2003. [Working Paper]
Moravcsik, Andrew. (2003) In Defense of the “Democratic Deficit”: Reassessing Legitimacy in the European Union. CES Working Paper, no. 92, 2003. [Working Paper]
Moull, David. (2004) Lessons the EU should learn from the formative years of the US: Challenges to EU authority in the areas of legitimacy and interpretive competence and the implications for the conceptualization of the EU. JMWP No. 51.04, September 2004. [Working Paper]
Neuhold, Christine and Schäfer, Günther F. and Haibach, Georg and Türk, Alexander and Larsson, Torbjörn and Maurer, Andreas (2000) Governance by Committee: The Role of Committees in European Policy Making and Policy Implementation. EIPA Research Paper 00/GHA. [Working Paper]
Nuttall, Simon. (1997) "The CFSP at Maastricht: Old friend or new enemy?". In: UNSPECIFIED, Seattle, WA. (Unpublished)
Obholzer, Lukas (2011) A call to members of the European Parliament; take transparency seriously and enact the 'legislative footprint'. CEPS Policy Brief No. 256, October 2011. [Policy Paper]
Panke, Diana (2009) Uploading Domestic Interests to the European Level: Why Some Small States are More Active than Others. In: UNSPECIFIED. (Submitted)
Parker, Melissa Anne (2005) "The Europeanization of Islam: The Role of the Multi-Level Structure of the EU". In: UNSPECIFIED, Austin, Texas. (Unpublished)
Piedrafita, Sonia (2013) EU Democratic Legitimacy and National Parliaments. CEPS Essay No. 7, 25 November 2013. UNSPECIFIED.
Piedrafita, Sonia and Renman, Vilde (2014) The ‘Personalisation’ of the European Elections: A half-hearted attempt to increase turnout and democratic legitimacy? EPIN [Working] Paper No. 37, 11 April 2014. [Working Paper]
Primatarova, Antoinette. (2010) On High Stakes, Stakeholders and Bulgaria's EU Membership. EPIN Working Paper No. 27, 6 April 2010. [Working Paper]
Ridard, Basile (2018) THE EUROPEAN CITIZENS’ INITIATIVE, A SUFFICIENT TOOL TO BRING EUROPE CLOSER TO ITS CITIZENS? Egmont Paper 102, June 2018. [Policy Paper]
Rittberger, Berthold and Schimmelfennig, Frank. (2005) "The Constitutionalization of the European Union: Explaining the Parliamentarization and Institutionalization of Human Rights". In: UNSPECIFIED, Austin, Texas. (Unpublished)
Scharpf, Fritz W. (2006) Problem Solving Effectiveness and Democratic Accountability in the EU. IHS Political Science Series: 2006, No. 107. [Working Paper]
Schmidt, Vivien (2003) The European Union. Democratic Legitimacy in a Regional State? IHS Political Science Series: 2003, No. 91. [Working Paper]
Schmidt, Vivien A. (2004) The European Union: democratic legitimacy in a regional state?. CES Working Paper, no. 112, 2004. [Working Paper]
Schmitter, Philippe C. (2001) What is there to legitimize in the European Union… and how might this be accomplished? IHS Political Science Series: 2001, No. 75. [Working Paper]
Stein, Eric. (1999) Panel statement on "Democracy Without ‘A People’". In: UNSPECIFIED, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Unpublished)
Stolfi, Francesco. (1999) “The Accountability of the European Central Bank: Sketching A Comparative Perspective”. In: UNSPECIFIED, Pittsburgh, PA. (Unpublished)
Timsit, Gerard and Gnes, Matteo and Mathieu, Bertrand and Nihoul, Pierre and Opperman, Thomas and Raulus, Helen and Jacque, Jean Paul. (2010) Normativity, Fundamental Rights and Legal Order in the EU. The Economica Publishing House,Bucharest,Romania, p. 171.
Twist, Kimberly (2006) "The Devil is in the Demos: The Identification of European Citizens with Europe". In: UNSPECIFIED, Pittsburgh, PA. (Unpublished)
Vos, Hendrik and Decock, Jeroen (2003) "Democratic legitimacy in the EU: the Role of National Parliaments". In: UNSPECIFIED, Nashville, Tennessee. (Unpublished)
Wilde, Gabriele. (2010) Am Ende des europaischen Verfassungsprozesses: Mehr Demokratie, Partizipation und Legitimation durch den Reformvertrag?=At the end of the European constitutional process: More democracy, participation and legitimacy through the Lisbon Treaty? TAIF Nr. 5/2010. [Working Paper]
Zalewska, Marta and Gstrein, Oskar (2013) National Parliaments and their Role in European Integration: The EU’s Democratic Deficit in Times of Economic Hardship and Political Insecurity. Bruges Political Research Paper 28/2013. [Policy Paper]
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Ashlee Simpson Daily
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Welcome on Ashlee Simpson Daily ! This website will provide you the latest news about the singer, Ashlee Simpson Ross. She is actually working on her fourth solo album. Hope you will find all the things you are looking for here. Thanks for your visit. xoxo
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At the launch of Tracee Ellis Ross’ Pattern Beauty
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Hello everyone! On Saturday (September 8), Ashlee Simpson Ross and Evan Ross were at the launch of Tracee Ellis Ross’ Pattern Beauty in Los Angeles.
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Who is Ashlee ?
Ashlee Simpson Ross (born on October 3, 1984 in Texas) is an American singer, songwriter and actress. She is known for having played in "7th Heaven" as Cecilia Smith. Then, Ashlee started her singing career and released her first album, "Autobiography" in 2004. It was followed by two others, "I Am Me" in 2005 and "Bittersweet World" in 2008. She also played Roxie Hart (in 2006, 2009 & 2013) in the musical, "Chicago" at the Theater.
In 2018, she made her comeback : She appears with her husband (Evan Ross) every Sundays on 'Ashlee+Evan' on E! Their first EP, 'Ashlee+Evan', has been released on October 12th, 2018 and is composed of six songs : I Do, Paris, Safe Zone, Tonic, I Want You & Home. Ashlee and Evan were on tour on January 2019.
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Stress is usually comprehended as an event affecting mainly the HPA axis and initiating the alarm reaction represented by activation of the adrenal medulla. This means that the levels of related hormones and neurotransmitters are significantly elevated during and after the stress. CRF, following its discovery 30years ago, has been postulated to mediate both hormonal and behavioral responses to stressors. It has been well documented that CRF mRNA was increased after immobilization stress in PVN (Bartanusz et al., 1993, Harbuz and Lightman, 1989, Harbuz et al., 1991, Harbuz et al., 1993, Kiss et al., 1996, Pacak et al., 1996) and amygdala in rats (Kalin et al., 1994, Mamalaki et al., 1992). CRF receptor mRNA expression in rats was also significantly increased after exposure to acute immobilization stress. 120min restraint significantly increased CRF1 receptor and CRF mRNA signals in the PVN examined by in situ hybridization (Imaki et al., 1996). CRF receptor mRNA hybridization in rats became evident 2h after the initiation of acute immobilization, with levels substantially increasing from 2 to 4h, decreasing at 8h and disappearing by 24h (Luo et al., 1994). This is in line with an observation from Bonaz and Rivest (1998) that exposure to a 90-min immobilization stress induced a robust increase in CRF1 receptor mRNA expression in rats, which reached a peak level at 3h after the cessation of immobilization and decreased gradually from 3 to 12h. In contrast to the extensive research on the mRNA expression of CRF and CRF1 receptors after immobilization stress in rats, the expression of CRF and CRF1 receptors in mice has seldom been investigated. Two studies reported an increase in CRH mRNA, not CRF1 mRNA, in the PVN after 2 or 3h restraint in mice by in situ hybridization (Imaki et al., 2003, Makino et al., 2005). By using quantitative real-time RT-PCR, we detected a pronounced increase in CRF mRNA expression in the cortex, hippocampus and hypothalamus after 30-min immobilization and the slight enhancement of the CRF1 mRNA expression in these cell cycle activation regions, which was confirmed by the Western blot analysis for the CRF1 protein levels. The enhancement of the CRF1 receptor diminished in stress30 group mice. This disagreement of our results with previous reports could be explained by the different mRNA detection technique, stress time and type used. We chose 30-min immobilization as the acute stressor in this experiment instead of restraint. The restraint and immobilization stressors differ in the degree of movement restriction. In immobilization, all limbs are taped to a Plexiglas surface and the animals show increased exercise as they want to escape from that inconvenient position. In restraint, the animals are placed into a tube where their movement is impossible. Although there are clear similarities between these types of stressors, the effects on the animals sometimes are different. CCK is another target neurotransmitter in our experiment. A large body of evidence, both in rodents and in human, supports the idea that central cholecystokininergic neurones play a role in the expression and control of anxiety-related behaviors (van Megen et al., 1996). Nevo et al. (1996) showed that a 30-min immobilization produced a marked but transient increase in cortical CCK-like material release in rats, thus providing the direct biochemical evidence in support of the activation of cortical CCK-ergic neurotransmission in relation with immobilization stress and anxiety-related behavior. Later, Giardino et al. (1999) demonstrated that restraint stress alone increased CCK mRNA levels in rats in the hippocampus, whereas no changes were found in the cerebral cortex, amygdaloid complex and thalamus. A study conducted in jerboas by Barakat et al. (2006) indicated that the number of CCK-immunoreactive neurones within the PVN was significantly increased (138%) in stressed animals compared to controls. Similarly, the number of CRH-containing neurones was higher in stressed jerboas (128%) compared to controls. This evidence suggested that in addition to CRF, CCK is another neuropeptide involved in the response to stress, acting by controlling HPA axis activity.
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Somali Pirates, a Suspcious Hijacked Iranian Freighter, and a Cargo of Radioactive Death
Radioactive death? I'm just assuming. Some kind of toxic assets, it seems. Possibly vampires.
See Long War Journal and Former Spook.
The MV Iran Deyanat was brought to Eyl, a sleepy fishing village in northeastern Somalia, and was secured by a larger gang of pirates - 50 onboard and 50 onshore. Within days, pirates who had boarded the ship developed strange health complications, skin burns and loss of hair. Independent sources tell The Long War Journal that a number of pirates have also died. "Yes, some of them have died. I do not know exactly how many but the information that I am getting is that some of them have died," Andrew Mwangura, Director of the East African Seafarers' Assistance Program, said Friday when reached by phone in Mombasa.
News about the illness and the toxic cargo quickly reached Garowe, seat of the government for the autonomous region of Puntland. Angered over the wave of piracy and suspicious about the Iranian ship, authorities dispatched a delegation led by Minister of Minerals and Oil Hassan Allore Osman to investigate the situation on September 4. Osman also confirmed to The Long War Journal that during the six days he negotiated with the pirates members of the syndicate had become sick and died. "That ship is unusual," he said. "It is not carrying a normal shipment."
Whatcha got in the trunk?
Thanks to DrewM.
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At long last kerbside cardboard recycling is to return to South Shropshire. Hurrah!
I am pleased that kerbside collection of cardboard for recycling is coming back to South Shropshire in December. This is long overdue. We have had to endure five years without kerbside collection. Cardboard is a vital resource and we should not be burning it in the Battlefield incinerator. When we resume household collection, we should also see a reduction in fly-tipping. We probably have more household cardboard waste than ever because we rely so much on online services delivered by the Royal Mail or couriers. The first carboard collection in South Shropshire will be on the first recycling collection day on or after 5 December.
Lawyers Kidwells and Ludlow Skip Hire threaten me but I won’t meet their demands (updated)
It’s all getting grumpy out there about Ludlow Skip Hire. At my request, the Environment Agency provided a statement yesterday about rats. In summary, the EA says rats are not coming from the waste site. Last Friday night, just as I popped into the Church Inn for a pint, I found a message on my voicemail. It was someone called Michael from Kidwells press group who do marketing, campaigning, blogging, tweeting “blah, blah, blah” . I’ve never heard of Kidwells press group. I didn’t call back. I don’t take sales calls. I simply don’t need any help blogging, tweeting or getting in the press. And anyone promoting communication who uses the word ‘blah’ doesn’t understand writing. There were four more calls but my mobile is usually set to silent as I spend much of my day and evening in committees or other events. I had one more voicemail but no…
How to opt out of junk mail (and spam and phone calls)
I’ve had a number of enquiries about whether anything can be done about the junk mail that comes through most of out letterboxes. The answer is yes! Just fill out the form below and post it off to the Royal Mail address given. In my experience, this service works except when my usual postie is on holiday. Opt Out Application Update I have started receiving junk mail again! When I challenged Royal Mail they said: “Please note that door to door opt outs only last for 2 years and if you do not renew within the two years, then you will start to receive unaddressed mail.” I said the Royal Mail should issue reminders but they have not responded to that suggestion. Junk mail, spam and cold calling The House of Commons Library has produced a useful note on how to stop junk mail, emails (spam) and telephone cold-calling.
Extra time to clear stinking waste in Ludlow [updated 2 August]
The Environment Agency has given a waste company extra time to clear a waste pile in Ludlow but warns of smells over the next couple of weeks. Ludlow Skip Hire inherited a huge pile of waste when it purchased the site earlier in the year. As the weather got hotter up, the rubbish pile began to stink. People were also getting worried about the fire risk. Councillor Vivienne Parry and myself asked Shropshire Council to contact the Environment Agency to get the problem dealt with. The agency gave the skip hire company five weeks to clear several hundred tonnes of waste on the site, which is only licenced for storing 66 tonnes of waste. The company hasn’t quite made the deadline. It has moved around 500 tonnes of waste wood, soil, and mixed waste. But there is a lot of mixed waste, including domestic waste, remaining. The Environment Agency has…
It’s rubbish and it’s piled high in Ludlow
A huge pile of rubbish in the centre of Ludlow is to be cleared after councillors asked the Environment Agency to take action. Ludlow Skip Hire Ltd recently took over the waste transfer site on Temeside. The site is only licenced for storing 66 tonnes of waste but it has many times that volume at present. Neighbours have complained about the unsightly mess and smell, and they are worried the pile will attract rats. After Viv Parry and I contacted Shropshire Council officers, the Environment Agency was called in. Alison Pearson, Shropshire & Herefordshire Environment Officer for the EA inspected the site last Friday, 9 May. She found that the site is “not in compliance with its environmental permit.” The site operators assured her that the waste pile is a temporary problem. Alison agreed with the operators that she will receive a weekly update on reduction in the waste pile….
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Miss Universe 2018 Philippines' Catriona Gray (R) crowns the new Miss Universe 2019 South Africa's Zozibini Tunzi on stage during the 2019 Miss Universe pageant at the Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, Georgia on December 8, 2019. Photo: AFP
AFP, Atlanta
Miss South Africa was crowned Miss Universe on Sunday in Atlanta after a lavish ceremony filled with glitter and heartfelt speeches about female empowerment.
Zozibini Tunzi, 26, finished first ahead of the Puerto Rican and Mexican finalists in a flashy televised event, hosted by American comic turned TV personality Steve Harvey.
Television personalities Vanessa Lachey and Olivia Culpo served as backstage commentators, and a panel of seven women determined the winner.
Tunzi earned cheers during her closing speech, a new segment of the competition, in which she talked about wanting to empower young women to feel confident.
"I grew up in a world where a woman who looks like me, with my kind of skin and my kind of hair, was never considered to be beautiful," she said.
"I think that it is time that that stops today," she said to thunderous applause.
Tunzi beat more than 90 contestants from around the globe in the 68th instalment of Miss Universe, which was held in Atlanta's Tyler Perry Studios.
The two favorites ahead of the competition, Miss Thailand Paweensuda Saetan-Drouin and Miss Philippines Gazini Ganados, did not make it to the final 10.
The Philippines' Catriona Gray, who presented Tunzi with the crown, took home the Miss Universe crown in 2018.
Although she did not make the finals, Miss Myanmar Swe Zin Htet made waves last week when she came out as the competition's first openly gay contestant.
"I have that platform that, if I say that I'm a lesbian, it will have a big impact on the LGBTQ community back in Burma," Htet told People magazine, using her country's historic name.
Homosexuality is illegal in the southeast Asian country and is punishable by up to life in prison.
In 2018, the competition also featured Miss Spain Angela Ponce, who blazed a trail as Miss Universe's first transgender contestant.
But the pageant has had a controversial past. Multiple contestants have alleged that US President Donald Trump would regularly enter the competitors' changing room while he owned the organization from 1996-2015.
Additionally, Miss Universe continues to host the swimsuit competition, which has drawn criticism for objectifying the contestants, although that part of the pageant was not televised.
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The Augustana Magazine: Fall 2019 ›
Inside the Froiland Science Complex
Froiland Research Fund
The goal of research is to test ideas and answer questions. Here at Augustana, it also provides hands-on learning experiences and preparation for AU students' chosen professions.
In the past, Augustana has been blessed with abundant grant support that funded the undergraduate research experience. The University’s Natural Science Division has been supported through agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA, the Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (BRIN), the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), the Sanford Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR), the Avera Institute for Human Genetics and more.
However, funding from these sources is never guaranteed. The Natural Science Division has a long-term goal of establishing a source of sustainable research funding to grow research activities, regardless of grant funding. The Froiland Research Fund was established to continue to provide transformational opportunities for Augustana students. The Froiland Research Fund will be used to support student stipends, research supplies, research equipment and travel to attend scientific meetings. The ultimate goal is to endow this fund to ensure a robust and dynamic research agenda for the future.
Providing research opportunities is key to science education at AU. Students are challenged to reach their goals so that no matter what they decide to do after Augustana, they have the skills set to be successful. By participating in undergraduate research, Augustana students have strong communication skills, the ability to think critically and to work independently, all of which are important regardless of career choice. Maintaining these opportunities is critical to Augustana's future in offering the best possible undergraduate science education in this region.
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Nite Art returns to uncover art after dark in Melbourne
July 26 - Arts & Entertainment, Events, Exhibitions
From 6.00pm on Thursday 27 July, art lovers and night seekers are invited to explore our unique city through an interconnected network of galleries, museums, artist-run initiatives and undiscovered spaces at Nite Art 201...
Finalists announced for inaugural Martin Kantor Portrait Prize
The Ballarat International Foto Biennale has announced the 28 finalists in the running for the inaugural Martin Kantor Portrait Prize. Presented as part of the 2017 Ballarat International Foto Biennale (BIFB) and with a ...
Lismore Has a Diverse Past
June 26 - Arts & Entertainment, Community, Exhibitions
A new exhibition showcasing the history of the LGBTIQ community in the Northern Rivers, Lismore Has a Diverse Past is now on display at Southern Cross University until 30 June 2017. The history of the lives of LGBTIQ peo...
Marvel: Creating the Cinematic Universe
June 1 - Arts & Entertainment, Exhibitions
Marvel’s super heroes have descended on Queensland in a world-first, large-scale exhibition Marvel: Creating the Cinematic Universe at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) until 3 September 2017. QAGOM...
Max and Olive: The photographic life of Olive Cotton and Max Dupain
May 12 - Arts & Entertainment, Exhibitions
Bringing together a substantial group of works by two of Australia’s famed photographers for the first time, the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery presents Max and Olive: The photographic life of Olive Cotton and Max...
Spectacular photographic works feature in the 2017 Head On Photo Festi...
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From mental illness and motherhood, ISIS and nudists, to the nightlife of Kings Cross in the 1970’s, and rare and unseen images of David Bowie, the Head On Photo Festival returns to Sydney with a stunning array of exhibi...
Christian Thompson: Ritual Intimacy
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The first major survey exhibition of the work of one of Australia’s leading and most intriguing contemporary artists, Monash University Museum of Art presents Christian Thompson: Ritual Intimacy, currently on display unt...
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Documenting the transformation of our nation’s premier drag performers, Dragformation is the striking and fresh photographic exhibition by Photographer Aaron Walker. His images of the diverse drag spectrum are captured w...
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The Diary of Pvt. Arthur P. McCullough
Company D, 81st Illinois Infantry
Entries from May 1-17, 1863
1. The fight which began yesterday at Grand Gulf was renewed this morning near Port Gibson. The Division marched early this morning in the direction of that place. Thought the distance was only eight miles but found it twenty-two. The day was extremely hot. Road dusty and hilly. Not withstanding this distance was made in five and a half hours. The enemy had been driven where our division came up but had formed to meet us in a new position one mile and a half. Ordered to the front as soon as we arrived. Came into the fight so gradually that I found it nothing unusual. First came the hearing of the artillery, next the rattle of the muskets. Soon came to the hospitals where surgeons were sawing and carving. Next met the wounded being carried off the field. Next the ground on which the battle was begun where was laying dead men, dead horses, wreaks of gun carriages, caissons, etc. and finally came under the fire of the enemy’s artillery and sharpshooters and remained under fire until dusk, five hours. Loss in the engagement, Coffey and Dodson missing, Stamps wounded, all belonging to Co. “D”. Slept on our arms at night expecting the fight renewed on the following morning. But during the night the enemy fell back. Was on the road at three o’clock A. M. in pursuit. Moved cautiously often in line of battle with skirmishers deployed. At ten o’clock the advance encountered them at Four Mile Creek where they were driven from after a short skirmish. Col. ________ of the 7th was wounded. In consequence of bridges being destroyed, were detained much on the way. Found a large quantity of bacon left by the enemy. Marched steadily night and day until the 4th when we halted on Big Black River three days. Marched again. Found marches weather hot, roads dusty, rations short, water dear and subjected to other inconveniences.
12. Encountered the enemy today near Raymond. After four hours fighting drove them. Loss in Co. Lt. Young and James Davis wounded. Co. stayed in town all night.
13. Marched to Clinton today. Heavy rain this evening and night. A party was sent out tonight to destroy the railroad and telegraph connecting Jackson and Vicksburg. Slept soundly on the ground in the mud.
14. Marched to Jackson this morning. The advance of the army engaged the enemy at this place early this morning and after four or six hours sharp fighting the rebs fell back. Was not engaged in this but had much rather been than to move through brush and muddy fields all day as the regt. had to do. A heavy rain continued to fall all day. Bivouacked in some brushy timber at night.
15. Marched at daylight in the direction of Vicksburg on the same road we passed over yesterday. Rested an hour at noon in Clinton and moved on to Bolton Station where we halted in line of battle for the night in a creek bottom.
16. Did not move until nine o’clock this morning. Had not gone far when the booming of cannon in front told us the enemy were again opposing our advance. After two and a half hours quick marching our brigade reached the scene of action which proved to be the hottest engagement of the campaign up to this time. The brig. was formed on the right. The 81st on the very extreme. The fight lasted until five o’clock P. M. when the enemy driven at all points begun to retreat which then became a rout. Brigade in pursuit until dusk. In the fight the brigade captured a battery of six guns sustaining a light loss. The regt. drew a force forward with artillery to cover the retreat from the field. The battle was fought on Champion’s plantation near Edward’s Station and twenty miles from Vicksburg. Brig. returned from pursuing and bivouacked on the field.
17. The enemy was attacked again this morning at Big Black River. Went over part of the field with Capt. Ward. The fight of it seemed far more horrible today than it did in the excitement yesterday. Marched at eight o’clock this morning. The fight at the river was over before our Div. came up. It resulted in the defeat of the enemy and capture of a large number of prisoners. Halted at the river while bridges were being constructed. 18. Crossed on pontoons at noon and marched in the direction of Vicksburg. Halted at midnight three miles from the enemy’s works. The night was very cool for the season. Slept without blankets.
Arthur McCullough died of disease in Montgomery, Alabama, on May 22, 1865.
Thanks to Tom McCullough, descendant from California, for providing excerpts from Pvt. McCullough's, diary.
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A Ghost Story: Not that you'd call mermaids in the strictest sense
I've been writing an improvised photo-essay ghost story on social media over the last few days (on facebook and twitter). I was hoping to post the final compiled version here, but I'm having trouble getting the blog to behave with regard to posting the in-line images. Eventually I'll sort that out, but in the meantime it's on my other (personal) website.
Alpennia FAQ Where is Alpennia Anyway?
Worldbuilding:
Where is Alpennia anyway? What are its cultural connections?
Teaser Tuesday: Disasters and Bells
Even in this modern age of broadcast communication and instant messaging, there are places in our lives where simple, loud, public sounds carry essential meaning. Most of the time, we experience them only in “test” mode—checking on their functionality and accustoming us to the particular form of the alert and the expected response. In my own everyday life, there are fire drills at work, the monthly ammonia-release alert siren test, the interruption of tv or radio shows with the Emergency Broadcast System horns and message, "This is a test.
Teaser Tuesday: Doing For
The character trope of the "personal assistant" -- the person in a subordinate position whose job consists of providing support and devalued labor for a character with more pubic agency -- is tricky to portray. Particularly in an intensely class-stratified culture when that role is not typically freely chosen from among other options. Given her family's background and her work history, Roz sees the position of lady's maid as a desirable goal, but that isn't meant to erase the ways in which being a household servant are exploitative, exhausting, and often degrading.
Teaser Tuesday: That's not how the story's supposed to end!
I confess it: I love playing a long game in planting foreshadowing and setting things up. The failure mode is having some readers complain that I stick in random events and people as if they were meaningful and then drop the thread unresolved. You can't take every single reader aside personally and assure them, "Trust me, it's going to be relevant. Just hang on."
Teaser Tuesday: A Parting Gift
Although it's a motif that needs to be used sparingly, I enjoy the times when I can show the same event or interaction from different points of view. In Mother of Souls we see Serafina shopping for a small statue of Saint Mauriz to give Celeste as a parting gift. It's an expensive keepsake: more than Serafina can afford to spend and more valuable than anything else Celeste owns (though this aspect is only hinted at).
Teaser Tuesday: Living Under Threat of Disaster
Between the time between when I established floodtide as a facet of life in Rotenek and now with the book with that title is moving towards publication, the effects of weather fluctuations have become a lot sharper in people's awareness. The massive persistent flooding in the American midwest this year is shocking, but less in the general news than more focused floods due to hurricanes and the like.
Teaser Tuesday: The Shrine of Saint Rota
Since last week's teaser, the editorial revisions on Floodtide have been completed--the quickest and most painfree editing process I've ever experienced! It'll be nice not to have that hanging over me during my upcoming travel to Worldcon.
I'm not going to lie: I love to embed intellectual "Easter eggs" in my stories that may pass under the radar of 90% of my readers and only be fully appreciated by maybe 1%. I never want anyone to feel excluded by those hidden treats, but I do want to reward close attention and familiarity.
Teaser Tuesday: Making Necessity Natural
Several of my teasers have harped on the theme of how to take a plot-essential situation and set it up so that the readers view it as a natural consequence of the setting. In one sense, it can be manipulative, but in another sense, as an author you have a vision of how things have always been. Your task is to communicate that vision in a way that feels effortless.
Setting up those expectations needn't be focused only on the immediate plot requirements. Because everything you write needs to be consistent in some way with the underlying truths of your fictional world as a whole.
The First Cut is the Deepest (Teaser Tuesday)
It isn't that I go into a writing project assuming that I know exactly what needs to go into the story and what would be superfluous, but it would be accurate to say that I don't go about writing entire chapters without a clear purpose to them. So when the editorial feedback (in this case, from my beta readers) comes back pointing out serious issues that can only be fixed by eliminating entire scenes, events, and characters, there's always a twinge involved.
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Imperial Settlers review: Cute civilizations for fans of complexity
On September 4, 2015 by Artem Safarov With 0 Comments - Board Games, Review
Imperial Settlers from the accomplished polish designer Ignacy Trzewiczek is a game that has a lot going for it – high quality cutesy visuals, smart system of modeling an ancient civilization and a rewarding feeling of your plans coming to fruition. The game may seem to have universal appeal, however its true complexity becomes apparent by midway point and threatens to overwhelm the less experienced. It is a good game that knows its audience and doesn’t bother reaching beyond it. Grab a shovel and come along – let’s explore and take a closer look!
Two to four players compete as leaders of ancient civilizations sending settlers to a newly discovered land. Their outposts will grow and (hopefully) prosper as the players expand in search of resources and glory. Each player plays one of the four ancient civilizations presented (brownie points for reversible male/female leader portraits!). A vertical cardboard base forms a foundation from which your settlement will grow as you produce and spend resources (the usual fare of wood, stone, food, people and military).
Each of the four civilization cards is double sided, featuring a male and female leader portrait.
The most important resource in the game and the true meat of Imperial Settlers are the location cards. These represent the different buildings that the players encounter and can be used in different ways – cheaper options (pillaging) allow you to sacrifice the cards while more expensive (building) allow you to add the cards to your empire, reaping long-term benefits.
Most actions in the game require a player to have resources and a game round goes until each players has depleted their resources. At the beginning of the new round every location in the empire produces more resources and the process is repeated for five rounds. Victory points (representing glory) are awarded for building locations and using specific buildings’ abilities – whoever scores most after five rounds is the winner.
There is also a workable solo variant that is rewarding, useful for learning the ropes and can be a fun “light” way to enjoy the game when you have no one to play with.
The game focuses in on building an economic engine – you are trying to use the resources you have to build up more ways to produce resources and then use these resources to produce victory points. There is a great variety of ways on how to go about it, but that’s the crux of the exercise.
Food, stone, wood, gold, swords and people – the resources that will pay for your civilization’s glory!
Note the “great variety”. There is truly a ton of options – each civilization gets a small deck of cards unique to them and can also access universal buildings available to everyone. The game starts of briskly enough as your production means are meek and first couple of turns is about maximizing what you can produce on a tight budget (hint – it’s not a lot). The turns go quickly, however all of that changes once your empire grows to even medium size.
With more options come additional considerations and analysis paralysis is not far behind. This is less noticeable with two players but with higher player counts the down time becomes an issue. It doesn’t help that the cards, while beautifully illustrated, have lots of tiny text. In my experience this led to players “losing” their strategy and having to re-locate the cards they wanted to use, provoking further delays.
An Egyptian civilization in mid-game. The suggested card layout really streamlines the information flow.
This will be much less of an issue for experienced gamers of course. The game’s adorable graphics and breezy start might make it seem like a good lighter option, whereas in reality Imperial Settlers is a decidedly medium offering, tipping slightly towards the heavier end of the spectrum.
With practice games do fit in the advertised 45-90 min playing time, however the game is a pretty intense exercise and does not leave you with the immediate desire to play again. The games tend to not be very social as there is little interaction outside of the occasional raid to take out an opponent’s key building.
The quaint art on the cards will give you something to admire while you’re waiting for your turn.
The impressions of Imperial Settlers will vary greatly based on a player’s comfort with complexity. Experienced gamers thrive on the rich variety of options and are able to make quick decisions to keep games lively. Newer participants in my experience get bogged down by the choices, growing frustrated and not enjoying the game as much.
The game itself is very well-designed – the four factions each have a very unique playing style to it – the Barbarians are able to muster great hordes and threaten their neighbors while the Romans build efficient bureaucracies, obtaining multiple bonuses from related buildings. Seeing your empire grow in front of your eyes is satisfying (even though the table space does become an issue towards the end of the game). The different factions seem to be well-balanced and are all fun to play.
Each civilization’s unique cards have their own specific character and art style.
The game does suffer a bit in that an outcome can be determined in the first couple of turns. If one of the players is able to get a much stronger production going early on – catching up is hard and watching someone rack up the points while you flounder is not pleasant. Because the options available are semi-randomly determined – bad draws can lead to rare frustrating scenarios. Overall though, the luck factor is more enjoyable than bothersome – majority of the time you are in control as long as you can keep track of all your twenty buildings’ abilities.
Imperial Settlers is not for everyone, no matter how approachable it may look. Keep this away from your less experienced friends and the game’s complexity will not turn into a negative. For those who thrive on crafting intricate economic engines for maximum efficiency – Imperial Settlers will offer an engaging, chunky experience that will leave you wanting to play something lighter afterwards.
10х10 – A 2015 updateTokaido review: the joy of the journey
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STAN 31 44 75
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Oscar da Silva scores 21 in Stanford's win over Colorado
STANFORD, Calif. -- Oscar da Silva reset the way he approached the game and that led to a big offensive night.
Da Silva scored 21 points and had seven rebounds and Stanford ended a nine-game losing streak to Colorado with a 75-62 victory over the Buffaloes on Saturday.
"It's a mindset of wanting to win," da Silva said. "Finding a rhythm early helps."
Da Silva, who went scoreless in Thursday's loss to Utah, had 13 points in the first half.
"His mindset is important," Cardinal coach Jerod Haase said. "Getting to the right spot, being aggressive and confident but not to the point he puts too much pressure on himself. He was there. During the shootaround he looked like he was in a good spot."
Daeon Davis scored 12 of his 16 points in the second half for the Cardinal (10-10, 3-5), who had lost five of their previous seven games. Bryce Wills had 12 points and seven rebounds.
"The offense was faster paced in the second half," Davis said. "We were getting transition points and the overall player movement was better. We found open lanes and were looking to get assists."
Tyler Bey scored 17 points to lead the Buffaloes (11-8, 2-5), who have lost three of four. McKinley Wright added 14 points, Lucas Siewart had 13 and Shane Gatling 10.
Stanford used a 17-4 run to pull ahead midway through the second half. Josh Sharma's dunk gave the Cardinal their first lead of the game at 47-46 with 11:11 left to play. Davis followed with a 3-pointer.
The Cardinal offense shifted into another gear in the second half, making 15 of their first 21 shots (71.4 percent) to grab a 68-56 edge with less than four minutes to play. Stanford was 8 of 24 (33.3 percent) in the first half.
"We just didn't guard them in the second half, they shot 72 percent. Nothing changed for us in the second half; we just let our guard up," Wright said. "There's nothing else to it. I honestly can't tell you."
The Buffaloes' offense went the other direction, connecting on 8 of their first 26 shots of the second half after shooting 44.4 percent in the first half.
"In the first half, I couldn't have been happier with the execution defensively of the game plan, our toughness factor and holding them to 37 percent," Colorado coach Tad Boyle said. "In the second half that toughness factor went away."
Colorado built a 31-19 advantage with 4:35 remaining in the first half but the Cardinal chipped away and were within 37-31 at halftime.
Colorado earned its first Pac-12 road victory at Cal on Thursday, improving to 3-5 away from Boulder. The Buffaloes were 1-10 on the road last year. ... Colorado has not swept a Pac-12 road trip in nearly six years, and it's happened just once.
Stanford's Okpala's 23.5 scoring average over his previous four games is the seventh-best among the six major conferences in college basketball during that span. He's reached 20 points or more in 11 games this season which is the most in the Pac-12 and seven more than he achieved last year. ... Sharma is averaging 11.4 points and 8.0 rebounds over his last eight games, after averaging 6.6 and 3.8 in his first 11 contests of the season.
TECHNICALLY SPEAKING
Davis was called for a technical foul for what he explained was "over communication. I was asking about calls," he said with a smile.
Colorado returns home to face Oregon State on Thursday.
Stanford travels to California a week from Sunday.
For more AP college basketball coverage: https://apnews.com/Collegebasketball and http://twitter.com/AP-Top25
Kentucky responds to Calipari's challenge
Sophomore Ashton Hagans says the Wildcats answered Coach Cal's call, displaying discipline to hold off a second-half surge by Arkansas.
Brown knocks down tough 3 for Northern Iowa
Isaiah Brown comes off a screen and knocks down the difficult fading 3-pointer to extend Northern Iowa's lead.
Bronny shows off court vision for Sierra Canyon bucket
Bronny James Jr. zips a pass inside to Shy Odom for a Sierra Canyon lay-in.
2019-2020 Pac-12 Conference Standings
USC 4-1 - 15-3
Stanford 4-1 - 15-3
Oregon 4-2 0.5 15-4
Colorado 3-2 1 14-4
Arizona 3-2 1 13-5
Washington State 3-3 1.5 12-7
Arizona State 2-3 2 11-7
UCLA 2-3 2 9-9
California 2-3 2 8-10
Oregon State 2-4 2.5 12-6
Washington 2-4 2.5 12-7
Utah 1-4 3 10-7
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Monday Memos: Interview with voice actress Lara Jill Miller
Home | Interviews | Monday Memos: Interview with voice actress Lara Jill Miller
Hello people of the internet!!! On today’s ‘Monday Memos’ I am very excited to bring you an interview with voice actress Lara Jill Miller. You may know her best as ‘Kari’ on Digimon, ‘Clifford’ on Clifford’s Puppy Days, ‘Lambie’ on Doc McStuffins, and many other memorable roles. In this interview we talk about Lara’s career as a stage, on-camera, and voice actress, how she feels about reprising her Digimon Adventure Tri (let’s cross our fingers that the movies get a U.S. dub!), what to look out for from her next, and so much more! So now let’s get to the part that y’all came here for…the interview. Ready? Ok, let’s go!!!
Celinda: Hi Lara, first of all I want to thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to do this interview.
Lara: Thank you for asking me, Celinda.
Celinda: So I want to begin by asking you about your role as Amaryllis in the Broadway production of The Music Man, which starred Dick Van Dyke. What was it like to work with such an iconic actor at such an early stage in your career, and how do you think this experience shaped you as an entertainer?
Lara: Dick Van Dyke was amazing. So funny, so talented. I was so thrilled to meet him at my audition for the show, I couldn’t believe I was actually meeting the guy from CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG and MARY POPPINS! I was really little when I met him and I remember shaking his hand and seeing his really long feet in white sneakers, and then looking all the way up to his head, WAYYY up there.
Touring in the show, and then performing on Broadway was a spectacular experience overall. Traveling all over the US for the first time was really exciting. I love performing live and had a lot of experience in the years prior at a local dinner theatre in my hometown. Dancing and singing is a great joy of mine, and that made me realize I was born to do this.
Celinda: That sounds like such a cool experience! So, you’re widely known for your role as Samantha on the 6 seasons of the television show Gimme A Break. When the show ended Samantha was beginning her new life as a college student, and you also later earned a college degree yourself, so there was a very cool life imitating art aspect there. Were there any other similarities between you and Samantha, and how do you think growing up on the set of a sitcom shaped you as a person?
Lara: Well, I’m the youngest of 3 daughters, so there’s that. And I was pretty much a tomboy, but I certainly didn’t wear overalls like my character Samantha, NOR play with WORMS! I loved Nell as much as Samantha did. And well, when I got my braces off and got my hair cut, so did my character on TV!
Growing up on a set really made me – well – grow up. I learned a lot about responsibility, being professional, a great work ethic. And also I became a better performer over the years, comic timing and such. I also learned that when you’re a celebrity, people treat you differently, but that it can all change in an instant, so one should never take anything for granted. I loved and appreciated all the years on the show. Unlike many child stars, I really loved my life and came out unscathed, no drugs, no alcohol, nothing. My parents were wonderful and supportive and not pushy. I learned a lot about ‘show business’ – both parts: the show AND the business!
Celinda: Wow that is such a profound answer, and so true, many people forget about the business part of the industry. Well, a lot of your fans (myself included) might know you best from your role as Kari on Digimon. When it was announced that Digimon was coming back to continue the story of the 8 original characters, the internet went into a frenzy. How does it feel to have fans still get really excited about a project you did 15 years ago?
Lara: Love hearing from you and all the fans! Digimon was my first animated gig. Lots of great memories. And well, yah! It feels GREAT to hear that people love the project and love Kari. If the show comes back to the US for a US dub, I’d love to be the grown up Kari.
Celinda: I think I can speak for all of your fans when I say that we would love to hear you voice adult Kari. So, another voice-over role that a lot of fans know you from is Clifford’s Puppy Days, how did this experience differ from your experiences working on Anime?
Lara: Anime is dubbed after the fact. Clifford’s Puppy Days (and some of my other shows like Juniper Lee, Wubbzy, Curious George, SciGirls, Hugglemonsters, Doc, etc…oh, and also the new Nick show I’m working on…) are original animation. We record first and then they draw the character TO US… We CREATE the roles. And for most of these shows, we record together as a cast. That’s fun.
Celinda: That does sound really fun. One of the many shows that you’re working on at the moment is Doc McStuffins on Disney Junior. This show has been widely praised for it’s educational aspects, how does it feel to know that shows you’ve worked on such as Doc McStuffins and SciGirls are influencing your audience to become more interested in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) subjects?
Lara: I’m so honored and thrilled to be a part of these shows. Doc McStuffins is changing the world! Really! What a concept to be a part of such a big thing, right? I love playing Lambie. And Izzie on SciGirls – what a brilliant show! I hope that with both shows, we make a difference!
Celinda: I’m sure both shows will have a huge positive influence on your audience. So what are some of the major differences between preparing for a recording session for a voice-over project, versus an on-camera job?
Lara: Make-up…or lack thereof! And wardrobe. Although sometimes I like picking out cute outfits to record in… although they must be quiet clothes. You know, mic-worthy.
The thing with animation, we don’t have to memorize lines, but I do read the scripts, and prepare ad libs, etc, ahead of time. Also each week for Doc and Hugglemonsters we have to learn songs, harmonies. There’s a lot of preparation for that.
Celinda: Wow, I never would have thought about a lot of that, particularly the mic-worthy clothes. Lastly are there any upcoming projects that your fans should look out for, and is there anything that you would like to say to any of your fans who are reading this interview?
Lara: Oh yah! There’s a new Nickelodeon show! And… that’s about all I’m allowed to say right now! Go to my FB Page and/or follow me on Twitter for updates. I’m not THAT active on those social media pages, but I’m trying! And I love hearing from fans! The nice ones (which I’m SURE the ones reading this are!) And well, thanks for reading this. I feel very lucky that I get to do what I love to do and that so many people love what I do, too. Thank you for that.
Celinda: Thank you again for taking the time to speak with me Lara.
Lara: Thank YOU Celinda! And thanks again to all your readers for reading this!
Keep up with everything Lara is doing:
Website: larajillmiller.net
Twitter: larajillmiller
Facebook: Lara Jill Miller
Check out these clips to see a couple of the AWESOME characters Lara has voiced! (you can check out more clips on Lara’s official website, which is linked above):
‘Kari’ – Digimon (You can hear Lara’s voice beginning at 0:04)
‘Lambie’ – Doc McStuffins (You can hear Lara’s voice beginning at 1:04)
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New Hope in the US House: Ben McAdams from Utah
I lived in Salt Lake City for four years and first got involved in Democratic Party organizing there, canvassing door-to-door for Eugene McCarthy during his 1968 insurgency against President Lyndon Johnson. I was bit by the bug and never recovered.
So I'm interested in that solidly red state, especially when it shows some blue cracks, which usually open up around the capitol city. The 4th Congressional District stretches south of Salt Lake City through prosperous suburbs but also takes in some deeply conservative enclaves.
As of yesterday, Democrat Ben McAdams is leading incumbent Republican Mia Love by 4,906 votes, with roughly 55,000 mail-in and provisional ballots still left to be counted in Salt Lake County and 72,000 ballots in Utah County (though some -- many? -- of those ballots actually belong to other congressional districts).
The race still hasn't been called.
Ben McAdams is a lawyer who served in the state senate before becoming mayor of Salt Lake County in 2013. He's a Mormon and a moderate, which means he may sometimes be a no vote on abortion rights (though he voted against a state law which would allow medical personnel to refuse to perform abortions on moral grounds and he voted against extending the waiting period for an abortion, so his record is mixed on that subject).
McAdams supports same-sex marriage. After the Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that same-sex couples have the right to marry in the United States, McAdams said, "This decision enshrines what I’ve long believed — that all families should be treated equally under the law."
He's on record opposing the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and has also called on Congress to renew the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) after its funding lapsed in September 2017. For a Utah Democrat, he bravely opposed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, citing the expected $1.5 trillion increase of the national debt over 10 years. He said it clearly favored the "wealthy over the middle class."
Incumbent Republican Mia Love was until Tuesday at least a rising star in the national Republican Party. As an aspiring Utah politician (she had converted to the Mormon church), she was given a prominent speaking slot at the 2012 Republican National Convention, and then she ran for and won the 4th District in 2014, becoming the first black woman Republican in Congress. She was reelected in 2016 while keeping her distance from Donald Trump, who's toxic among some Utah Mormons.
Love ran a relentlessly negative campaign against Ben McAdams, but screaming "liberal liberal liberal" over and over has ceased to work with an educated electorate. And DJT dissed her very publicly on Wednesday, saying he'd never gotten any love from Mia Love, so good riddance to her.
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Labels: 2018 Blue Wave, Ben McAdams, Mia Love, Utah
Brother Doc said...
They are still counting in Utah. Hope he wins.
brotherdoc said...
He won! Man has some real accomplishments to his credit. He will be a welcome add to the Dem House majority. Did you read the article about him spending 3 days and 2 nights as a homeless person in Salt Lake City to get a first hand anonymous look at shelter conditions/areas needing improvement? Very real guy.
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Runner Runner at Bedrock
Runner Runner 6
Pos AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB HBP SB E
Adam C. Eaton OF 5 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Xander Bogaerts SS 4 1 1 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0
Mike Trout OF 5 2 2 0 0 2 4 0 0 0 0
Josh Bell 1B 4 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Eduardo Escobar 3B 4 1 3 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Yasiel Puig OF 5 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
Miguel Cabrera DH 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pedro Severino C 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kevin Newman 2B 5 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
40 5 15 4 1 4 9 0 0 0 0
Slot IP K H BB ER S
Yu Darvish P2 6.0 8 2 1 0 0 W (1-0)
Bullpen* 3.0 4 2 1 0 4
IP Short = 0.3
Bedrock 5
Max Kepler OF 5 2 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0
Kris Bryant OF 3 2 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0
Eugenio Suarez 3B 4 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0
Kolten Wong (B2) DH 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Trevor Story SS 5 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
David Dahl (B1) OF 5 2 2 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0
Rhys Hoskins 1B 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0
Stephen Vogt C 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Luis Arraez 2B 5 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Steven Matz P2 4.0 2 5 1 2 0 L (0-1)
Bullpen 5.0 7 5 1 2 3
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Runner Runner 10.27 -2.13 -1 0 6.29462
Bedrock 12.64167 2.31923 0 0.33 4.58583
BWB Score Formula - Final score is a combination of your batting score and your opponent's pitching score.
Component Batting Scores
Team RR ATB HR Score
Runner Runner 4.77333 11.76667 2
Bedrock 8.25 12.03333 2.5
Component Pitching Scores
Team Starter ER BP * BI K Score Sv Score HBB Score Err Score
Runner Runner 0 0.375 1.175 1 -0.33 0
Bedrock 2 1.92308 0.85385 0.75 0 0
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Support local busnesses: shop "small"
An Archive gift certificate is perfect for a hard-to-shop-for person. While you pick one up, let Michelle Gifford show you the store's large selection of clothing, decor items and wine.
As one of the busiest shopping weekends of the season approaches, consumers are again asked to “shop small” and support their local community by patronizing small, locally owned businesses.
Small Business Saturday November 30, the Saturday after Thanksgiving. The national initiative began in 2010 with a single effort in Roslindale Village, MA. It has since grown into a massive nationwide movement to support small businesses. In 2011, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution in support of the day.
Junior High girls' wrestling meet
Central's Noel Steenhard went 1-1 for the day, including a major decision over a Waverly-Shellrock opponent.
Olivia Stevenson won her first match by fall.
November 19 saw Central host one of the first, if not the first, junior high girls’ wrestling meets in the state. A total of eight girls are out for junior high wrestling at Central. Besides Central, teams from Postville, Fennimore, Waverly-Shellrock Waukon, East Buchanan and MFL-Mar-Mac participated. The Central girls’ finished with these results:
Reese Berns went 2-1. She lost by major decision to Destiny Krum, East Buchanan, 16-8; won by decision against Kalysta Kerner, Waukon 6-4, and won by decision over Ayda Cook, East Buchanan, 8-5.
Alyssa Schmitt went 1-1, winning by fall over Ayda Cook, East Buchanan, in 0:47 seconds but later losing by major decision to Destiny Krum, East Buchanan, 17-7.
Kimberly Suhr went 0-3. She lost by fall to Olivia Marti, Waukon, in 1:30; lost by fall to Kysa Klein, Waverly Shellrock, in 1:59; and lost by fall to Emily Hendrickson-Troester, MFL, in 1:16.
Making holidays brighter for kids
There’s a lot more than stretching and stepping going on at a local fitness class. Several members are also involved in service project designed to brighten the holiday season for kids in need.
The Fit and Flex group, which meets weekday mornings at the Elkader Fitness Center, has embraced projects launched by two of its members. The first is an effort led by Debbie Crane to make kids’ pajamas.
“I went to a garage sale in Cedar Rapids and there was a table with a stack of new flannel on it, probably 15 or 20 yards,” Debbie said. “I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with it but I knew I had to buy it.”
Renovation project is completed
The kitchen and cafeteria - now known as the Commons - have been moved to the main floor. The former kitchen is now a fitness area. Pictured is Central superintendent Nick Trenkamp.
The middle and high school media center moved from the main floor to the second floor. Prior to the $6 million capital project, this part of the school didn't exist.
The $6.8 million renovation project at Central Schools, Elkader, is complete.
Central Superintendent Nick Trenkamp did a final walk-through with contractors last week noting some minor cosmetic work that needed to be addressed. The really “big stuff,” however—like the new middle/high school media center, science classroom, fitness area, commons and other spaces—have been finished for some time.
“We haven’t seen much of a crew in here for a while,” said Trenkamp. “It’s been a long, exhausting process—and I can’t say enough about how the staff and students dealt with the reality of the construction work—but everyone is in agreement that the end results are worth it.”
And it’s not just students and staff who are impressed with the results. Trenkamp has heard from parents, Central alumni and visitors. An open house in late September drew a large crowd and many took time at the end of the tour to share their favorable impressions.
Museum gets ready for holiday season
Cathryn Chancellor hangs ornaments created by area artists on one of several trees at the Carter House Museum.
The calendar might say November 20th but inside the Carter House Museum, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
The museum is being readied for the annual holiday open house Friday, November 22, from 5 to 8 p.m., and each room—plus the Annex—will reflect this year’s theme: Gifts.
“This year’s theme has come together beautifully, and I think our guests will enjoy the house and how each room celebrates a gift—from music to nature, food, friendship, poetry, pets, humor, and community service,” said Carter House board member LaVonne Augustson.
Chef offers extra serving of gratitude
Michael Ellison, far right, owner of Dotzy’s Restaurant and Saloon, Elgin, is shown with some of the veterans who attended his appreciation breakfast last week. They are, back row, left to right: Ralph Clausen, Bob Rothlisberger, Dave Christen, Mark Benson, and Ron Soppe; and front row: Duane Strong and Don Sutter
No immediate member of Michael Ellison’s family has served in the armed forces and yet as Veterans Day approached, Ellison felt compelled to do something to say “thanks” to those who have served. Since feeding people is what he’s does best, Chef Mike, as he’s better known, decided to offer breakfast at his Elgin business, Dotzy’s Restaurant and Saloon. Veterans and their spouses enjoyed a free buffet Monday morning, a time when Chef Mike and his staff are usually recovering from a hectic weekend. Non-veterans were welcomed, as well. They could make a freewill offering, which was given to the Elgin American Legion. “I’ve had friends in the military and I really appreciate those who serve,” Chef Mike said. “I feel a debt to them, and this seemed like a good what to repay a bit of that.” Chef Mike admitted he wanted to do an appreciation breakfast last year, but the thought occurred to him too late. This year, planning started earlier, and he got some help.
New Snow Ordinance for Elkader Residents
Last week’s snowfalls were moderate but we all know bigger storms are coming. And when they do, Elkader residents will have a new snow ordinance to follow.
Approved last April by City Council, the ordinance prohibits parking between 2 and 6 a.m. on public streets whenever snow has accumulated on the paved portion of the road. This part of the ordinance covers snowfalls that are not significant enough for a snow emergency declaration. Motorists will be fined $20 per violation.
A snow emergency adds another layer to the ordinance: For up to 24 hours after an emergency has been declared, parking is prohibited on all streets. If snow removal efforts take less time than that, the parking ban will be lifted. Downtown parking lots will be cleared early so anyone who needs to be downtown will still have a place to park.
The ordinance does not say how much snow must fall before an emergency is declared but “generally this will be reserved for six inches or more.”
Training dogs to serve others
A local kennel is training dogs to work with veterans dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder as well as youngsters with autism. Read their remarkable story in next week's issue of the Clayton County Register.
2019 City Election
As the November 5 city election approaches, Elkader finds itself in a unique position: No one has filed to run for two open positions.
Update given on Keystone Bridge project
The City of Elkader has received two grants to cover the cost of rehabilitating the historic Keystone Bridge.
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Against Empathy
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Effective altruists rely more on reason than emotion.
Compassion that involves feeling for rather than with comes at a cost.
Empathy is a problem when our cognitive response fails.
Lynn E. O'Connor
Jack W. Berry
The cognitive and affective components of empathy cannot be separated.
Leonardo Christov-Moore
Marco Iacoboni
Empathy works to correct errors in judging actions.
Marianne LaFrance
Rational decision making can have disastrous consequences.
Simon Baron-Cohen
The ability to accept suffering is invaluable.
Nomy Arpaly
The success or failure of emotional states is context-dependent.
Elizabeth Bruenig
Empathy might make better doctors.
Christine Montross
To be moved to action by empathy is to lurch blindly toward who knows what.
What we need is not less empathy but more rationality.
Barbara H. Fried
Righteous anger at injustice is the best guide to good action.
Jesse Prinz
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Most people see the benefits of empathy as too obvious to require justification.
Photograph: Samantha Stock
When asked what I am working on, I often say I am writing a book about empathy. People tend to smile and nod, and then I add, “I’m against it.” This usually gets an uncomfortable laugh.
This reaction surprised me at first, but I’ve come to realize that taking a position against empathy is like announcing that you hate kittens—a statement so outlandish it can only be a joke. And so I’ve learned to clarify, to explain that I am not against morality, compassion, kindness, love, being a good neighbor, doing the right thing, and making the world a better place. My claim is actually the opposite: if you want to be good and do good, empathy is a poor guide.
The word “empathy” is used in many ways, but here I am adopting its most common meaning, which corresponds to what eighteenth-century philosophers such as Adam Smith called “sympathy.” It refers to the process of experiencing the world as others do, or at least as you think they do. To empathize with someone is to put yourself in her shoes, to feel her pain. Some researchers also use the term to encompass the more coldblooded process of assessing what other people are thinking, their motivations, their plans, what they believe. This is sometimes called “cognitive,” as opposed to “emotional,” empathy. I will follow this convention here, but we should keep in mind that the two are distinct—they emerge from different brain processes; you can have a lot of one and a little of the other—and that most of the discussion of the moral implications of empathy focuses on its emotional side.
Some degree of emotional empathy is bred in the bone. The sight and sound of another’s suffering is unpleasant for babies and, as soon as they are mobile enough, they try to help, patting and soothing others in distress. This is not uniquely human: the primatologist Frans de Waal notes that chimps will often put their arms around the victim of an attack and pat her or groom her.
Empathy can occur automatically, even involuntarily. Smith describes how “persons of delicate fibres” who notice a beggar’s sores and ulcers “are apt to feel an itching or uneasy sensation in the correspondent part of their own bodies.” John Updike writes, “My grandmother would have choking fits at the kitchen table, and my own throat would feel narrow in sympathy.”
And empathy can be extended through the imagination. In a speech before he became president, Barack Obama stressed how important it is
to see the world through the eyes of those who are different from us—the child who’s hungry, the steelworker who’s been laid off, the family who lost the entire life they built together when the storm came to town. . . . When you think like this—when you choose to broaden your ambit of concern and empathize with the plight of others, whether they are close friends or distant strangers—it becomes harder not to act, harder not to help.
Obama is right about this last part; there is considerable support for what the psychologist C. Daniel Batson calls “the empathy-altruism hypothesis”: when you empathize with others, you are more likely to help them. In general, empathy serves to dissolve the boundaries between one person and another; it is a force against selfishness and indifference.
It is easy to see, then, how empathy can be a moral good, and it has many champions. Obama talks frequently about empathy; witness his recent claim, after his first meeting with Pope Francis, that “it’s the lack of empathy that makes it very easy for us to plunge into wars. It’s the lack of empathy that allows us to ignore the homeless on the streets.” In The Empathetic Civilization (2009) Jeremy Rifkin argues that the only way our species will survive war, environmental degradation, and economic collapse is through the enhancement of “global empathy.” This past June, Bill and Melinda Gates concluded their Stanford commencement address by asking students to nurture and expand their empathetic powers, essential for a better world.
Most people see the benefits of empathy as too obvious to require justification. This is a mistake.
Most people see the benefits of empathy as akin to the evils of racism: too obvious to require justification. I think this is a mistake. I have argued elsewhere that certain features of empathy make it a poor guide to social policy. Empathy is biased; we are more prone to feel empathy for attractive people and for those who look like us or share our ethnic or national background. And empathy is narrow; it connects us to particular individuals, real or imagined, but is insensitive to numerical differences and statistical data. As Mother Teresa put it, “If I look at the mass I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.” Laboratory studies find that we really do care more about the one than about the mass, so long as we have personal information about the one.
In light of these features, our public decisions will be fairer and more moral once we put empathy aside. Our policies are improved when we appreciate that a hundred deaths are worse than one, even if we know the name of the one, and when we acknowledge that the life of someone in a faraway country is worth as much as the life a neighbor, even if our emotions pull us in a different direction. Without empathy, we are better able to grasp the importance of vaccinating children and responding to climate change. These acts impose costs on real people in the here and now for the sake of abstract future benefits, so tackling them may require overriding empathetic responses that favor the comfort and well being of individuals today. We can rethink humanitarian aid and the criminal justice system, choosing to draw on a reasoned, even counter-empathetic, analysis of moral obligation and likely consequences.
But even if you accept this argument, there is a lot more to life than public policy. Consider our everyday interactions with our parents and children, with our partners and friends. Consider also certain special relationships, such as that between doctor and patient or therapist and client. Empathy might not scale up to the policy level, but it seems an unalloyed good when it comes to these intimate relationships—the more the better.
I used to believe this, but I am no longer sure.
One of empathy’s most thoughtful defenders is the psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen. In his 2011 book The Science of Evil, he draws upon psychology and neuroscience to argue that the notion of evil should be replaced with “empathy erosion” and that a high degree of empathy is what makes for good people and good societies.
Individuals differ in their disposition to feel empathy, and Baron-Cohen posits an empathy curve that runs from Level 0, where there is no empathy at all, to Level 6, where one is “continually focused on other people’s feelings . . . . in a constant state of hyperarousal, such that other people are never off their radar.” He sketches one such Level 6 individual:
Hannah is a psychotherapist who has a natural gift for tuning into how others are feeling. As soon as you walk into her living room, she is already reading your face, your gait, your posture. The first thing she asks you is ‘How are you?’ but this is no perfunctory platitude. Her intonation—even before you have taken off your coat—suggests an invitation to confide, to disclose, to share. Even if you just answer with a short phrase, your tone of voice reveals to her your inner emotional state, and she quickly follows up your answer with ‘You sound a bit sad. What’s happened to upset you?’
Before you know it, you are opening up to this wonderful listener, who interjects only to offer sounds of comfort and concern, to mirror how you feel, occasionally offering soothing words to boost you and make you feel valued. Hannah is not doing this because it is her job to do so. She is like this with her clients, her friends, and even people she has only just met. Hannah’s friends feel cared for by her, and her friendships are built around sharing confidences and offering mutual support. She has an unstoppable drive to empathize.
It is easy to see what Baron-Cohen finds so impressive here. Hannah sounds like a good therapist, and it seems as if she would also be a good mother to young children.
But consider what it must be like to be her. Hannah’s concern for other people doesn’t derive from particular appreciation or respect for them; her concern is indiscriminate and applies to strangers as well as friends. She also does not endorse a guiding principle based on compassion and kindness. Rather, Hannah is compelled by hyperarousal—her drive is unstoppable. Her experience is the opposite of selfishness but just as extreme. A selfish person might go through life indifferent to the pleasure and pain of others—ninety-nine for him and one for everyone else—while in Hannah’s case, the feelings of others are always in her head—ninety-nine for everyone else and one for her.
It is no accident that Baron-Cohen chose a woman as his example. In a series of empirical and theoretical articles, psychologists Vicki Helgeson and Heidi Fritz have explored why women are twice as likely as men to experience depression. Their results suggest that this divergence is explained in part by a sex difference in the propensity for “unmitigated communion,” defined as “an excessive concern with others and placing others’ needs before one’s own.” Helgeson and Fritz developed a simple nine-item questionnaire, which asks respondents to indicate whether they agree with statements such as, “For me to be happy, I need others to be happy,” “I can’t say no when someone asks me for help,” and “I often worry about others’ problems.” Women typically score higher than men on this scale; Hannah would, I bet, score high indeed.
Strong inclination toward empathy comes with costs. Individuals scoring high in unmitigated communion report asymmetrical relationships, where they support others but don’t get support themselves. They also are more prone to suffer depression and anxiety. Working from a different literature on “pathological altruism,” Barbara Oakley notes in Cold-Blooded Kindness (2011), “It’s surprising how many diseases and syndromes commonly seen in women seem to be related to women’s generally stronger empathy for and focus on others.”
Empathetic arousal is not the only force that motivates kindness.
The problems that arise here have to do with emotional empathy—feeling another’s pain. This leads to what psychologists call empathetic distress. We can contrast this with non-empathetic compassion—a more distanced love and kindness and concern for others. Such compassion is a psychological plus. Putting aside the obvious point that some degree of caring for others is morally right, kindness and altruism are associated with all sorts of positive physical and psychological outcomes, including a boost in both short-term mood and long-term happiness. If you want to get happy, helping others is an excellent way to do so.
It is worth expanding on the difference between empathy and compassion, because some of empathy’s biggest fans are confused on this point and think that the only force that can motivate kindness is empathetic arousal. But this is mistaken. Imagine that the child of a close friend has drowned. A highly empathetic response would be to feel what your friend feels, to experience, as much as you can, the terrible sorrow and pain. In contrast, compassion involves concern and love for your friend, and the desire and motivation to help, but it need not involve mirroring your friend’s anguish.
Or consider long-distance charity. It is conceivable, I suppose, that someone who hears about the plight of starving children might actually go through the empathetic exercise of imagining what it is like to starve to death. But this empathetic distress surely isn’t necessary for charitable giving. A compassionate person might value others’ lives in the abstract, and, recognizing the misery caused by starvation, be motivated to act accordingly.
Summing up, compassionate helping is good for you and for others. But empathetic distress is destructive of the individual in the long run.
It might also be of little help to other people because experiencing others’ pain is exhausting and leads to burnout. This issue is explored in the Buddhist literature on morality. Consider the life of a bodhisattva, an enlightened person who vows not to pass into Nirvana, choosing instead to stay in the normal cycle of life and death to help the masses. How is a bodhisattva to live? In Consequences of Compassion (2009) Charles Goodman notes the distinction in Buddhists texts between “sentimental compassion,” which corresponds to empathy, and “great compassion,” which involves love for others without empathetic attachment or distress. Sentimental compassion is to be avoided, as it “exhausts the bodhisattva.” Goodman defends great compassion, which is more distanced and reserved and can be sustained indefinitely.
This distinction has some support in the collaborative work of Tania Singer, a psychologist and neuroscientist, and Matthieu Ricard, a Buddhist monk, meditation expert, and former scientist. In a series of studies using fMRI brain scanning, Ricard was asked to engage in various types of compassion meditation directed toward people who are suffering. To the surprise of the investigators, these meditative states did not activate parts of the brain that are normally activated by non-meditators when they think about others’ pain. Ricard described his meditative experience as “a warm positive state associated with a strong prosocial motivation.”
He was then asked to put himself in an empathetic state and was scanned while doing so. Now the appropriate circuits associated with empathetic distress were activated. “The empathic sharing,” Ricard said, “very quickly became intolerable to me and I felt emotionally exhausted, very similar to being burned out.”
One sees a similar contrast in ongoing experiments led by Singer and her colleagues in which people are either given empathy training, which focuses on the capacity to experience the suffering of others, or compassion training, in which subjects are trained to respond to suffering with feelings of warmth and care. According to Singer’s results, among test subjects who underwent empathy training, “negative affect was increased in response to both people in distress and even to people in everyday life situations. . . . these findings underline the belief that engaging in empathic resonance is a highly aversive experience and, as such, can be a risk factor for burnout.” Compassion training—which doesn’t involve empathetic arousal to the perceived distress of others—was more effective, leading to both increased positive emotions and increased altruism.
This brings us to the targets of empathy. As I write this, an older relative of mine who has cancer is going back and forth to hospitals and rehabilitation centers. I’ve watched him interact with doctors and learned what he thinks of them. He values doctors who take the time to listen to him and develop an understanding of his situation; he benefits from this sort of cognitive empathy. But emotional empathy is more complicated. He gets the most from doctors who don’t feel as he does, who are calm when he is anxious, confident when he is uncertain. And he particularly appreciates certain virtues that have little directly to do with empathy, virtues such as competence, honesty, professionalism, and respect.
Leslie Jamison makes a similar point in her new essay collection The Empathy Exams. Jamison was at one time a medical actor—she would fake symptoms for medical students, who would diagnose her as part of their training. She also rated them on their skills. The most important entry on her checklist was number thirty-one: “Voiced empathy for my situation/problem.” But when she discusses her real experiences with doctors, her assessment of empathy is mixed. She met with one doctor who was cold and unsympathetic to her concerns, which caused her pain. But she is grateful to another who kept a reassuring distance and objectivity: “I didn’t need him to be my mother—even for a day—I only needed him to know what he was doing,” she writes. “His calmness didn’t make me feel abandoned, it made me feel secure. . . . I needed to look at him and see the opposite of my fear, not its echo.”
Or consider friendship and love. Hannah’s “soothing words,” her “sounds of comfort and concern” and mirroring of others’ feelings describe how a certain type of therapist treats a client or how a certain type of parent treats an anxious toddler. But this isn’t how friendship usually works. Friendship is rooted in symmetry and equality, shared projects, teasing and jokes and gossip, all of which are absent from a therapeutic relationship. While I might benefit from a friend’s therapy if I were feeling deeply anxious or depressed, I don’t, on the whole, want my friends to treat me like a suffering patient, softly murmuring reassurances when they detect that I’m out of sorts. Hannah’s “You sound a bit sad. What’s happened to upset you?” exemplifies what Jamison means when she says, “Empathy is always perched precariously between gift and invasion.”
Putting aside the extremes, do more empathetic people make better friends and partners? To my knowledge, this has never been studied. Certainly we want our friends to understand us and to care about us. It would be unnerving if someone I love never flinched in the face of my suffering or lit up at my joy. But this is not because I want them to mirror my feelings; rather, it is because if they love me, they should worry about my misfortunes and be pleased when I do well. From a purely selfish standpoint, I might not want their empathetic resonance, particularly when I am feeling down. I would prefer that they greet my panic with calm and my sadness with good cheer. As Cicero said about friendship—but he could just as well have been talking about close relationships in general—it “improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”
When we think about individuals on the other extreme, what Baron-Cohen would describe as empathy Level 0, we naturally think about psychopaths, sociopaths, or antisocial/psychopathic personality types (the terms typically are used synonymously). Psychopaths are identified in poplar culture as the embodiment of evil. The term describes everyone from predatory CEOs to callous politicians to cannibal-killers such as Jeffrey Dahmer and the fictional Hannibal Lecter.
Being a good person is related to more distanced compassion, along with self-control, and a sense of justice.
There is a standard test for psychopathy developed by the psychologist Robert Hare. It is used to make legal decisions about criminal offenders, including whether they should be incarcerated for life, and used as well by experimental psychologists who give the test to undergraduates to explore how their scores relate to, for instance, attitudes toward sexual violence and their style of moral reasoning. If you like this sort of thing, you can take the test online, rating yourself on traits such as “glibness/superficial charm,” “lack of remorse or guilt,” and “promiscuous sexual
behavior.”
The most important item for many people is “callous/lack of empathy.” Many popular treatments of psychopathy, such as Jon Ronson’s 2011 bestseller The Psychopath Test, see a lack of empathy as the core deficit in psychopathy. It is here that cognitive and emotional empathy come apart, because many people diagnosed with psychopathy are excellent at reading others’ minds. This is what enables them to be such masterful manipulators, con men, and seducers. But the emotional part is thought to be absent—they cannot feel other people’s pain—and this is why psychopaths are such terrible people.
This might be the popular picture, but the truth is more complicated. For one thing, as philosopher Jesse Prinz points out, psychopaths suffer from dulling of just about all emotional responses, not just empathy. This overall blunting of feeling—or “shallow affect”—is one of the criteria on the checklist. It was observed by Harvey Cleckley in The Mask of Sanity, his 1941 book that provided the first clinical description of psychopathy:
Vexation, spite, quick and labile flashes of quasi-affection, peevish resentment, shallow moods of self-pity, puerile attitudes of vanity, and absurd and showy poses of indignation are all within his emotional scale and are freely sounded as the circumstances of life play upon him. But mature, wholehearted anger, true or consistent indignation, honest, solid grief, sustaining pride, deep joy, and genuine despair are reactions not likely to be found within this scale.
It is unclear, then, whether an empathy deficit is at the core of psychopathy, or whether it is just one facet of a more general problem. One can explore this by looking at how well scores on the callous/lack of empathy item and certain related items are correlated with future bad behavior. In an extensive review of the literature, psychologist Jennifer Skeem and her colleagues note that these items are weak predictors of violence and criminality. The reason why the psychopath test has any predictive power at all is that it assesses past bad behavior—juvenile delinquency, criminal versatility, parasitic lifestyle, and so on—as well as factors such as lack of inhibition and poor impulse control. To put it another way, you can remove the empathy question from the scale, and it would be about as good at picking out psychopaths.
What about aggressive behavior more generally? Are more aggressive people less empathetic? Even I, a skeptic, would imagine there is some substantive relationship between empathy and aggression, since presumably someone with a great deal of empathy would find it unpleasant to cause pain in others. But a recent review summarizing data from all available studies of the relationship between empathy and aggression reaches a different conclusion. The authors of “The (non)relation between empathy and aggression: Surprising results from a meta-analysis” report that only 1 percent of the variation in aggression is accounted for by empathy. This means that if you want to predict how aggressive a person is, and you have access to an enormous amount of information about that person, including psychiatric interviews, pen-and-paper tests, criminal records, and brain scans, the last thing you would bother to look at would be measures of the person’s empathy.
Finally, one decisive test of the low-empathy-makes-bad-people theory would be to study a group of people who lack empathy but also lack the other traits associated with psychopathy. Such individuals do exist. Baron-Cohen notes that people with Asperger syndrome and autism typically have low cognitive empathy—they struggle to understand the minds of others—and have low emotional empathy as well. (As with psychopaths, there is some controversy about whether they are incapable of empathy or choose not to deploy it.) Despite their empathy deficit, such people show no propensity for exploitation and violence. Indeed, they often have strong moral codes and are more likely to be victims of cruelty than perpetrators.
Am I saying that empathy is irrelevant or a corrosive influence on how we treat those around us? This would be too strong a conclusion. There are many studies that look at individual differences in empathy levels and correlate these levels with real-world behavior, such as willingness to help someone in need. Many of these studies are poorly done. They often measure empathy through self-report, so you don’t know whether you are assessing actual empathy as opposed to the degree to which people see themselves, or want to be seen, as empathetic. Furthermore, people who help others more may assume that they are empathetic, since people often make judgments about themselves by drawing conclusions from their own behavior.
Nonetheless, there is some evidence that being more empathetic influences how likely one is to help in certain circumstances. The relationship is often weak, and not all studies find it. Still, given laboratory findings showing that inducing empathy increases the likelihood of altruistic behaviors, it would be wrong to dismiss empathy’s role in our moral lives.
But we know that a high level of empathy does not make one a good person and that a low level does not make one a bad person. Being a good person likely is more related to distanced feelings of compassion and kindness, along with intelligence, self-control, and a sense of justice. Being a bad person has more to do with a lack of regard for others and an inability to control one’s appetites.
So how much empathy do we really want in ourselves, our children, our friends, and our society? If you want to answer that question, it helps to think about a quite different emotional response—anger.
Empathy and anger share a lot. Both emerge in early childhood and exist in every human culture. Both are present in other primates such as chimpanzees. Both are social. Unlike emotions such as fear and disgust, which are often elicited by experiences and inanimate beings, empathy and anger are mainly geared toward other people. And they are both moral. The identification that comes with empathy can motivate kind behavior toward others; anger is often a response to perceived unfairness, cruelty, and other immoral acts.
Buddhist texts are even more skeptical about anger than they are about empathy. They see it as destructive of the individual and the world at large. This is a valid concern. But if I could determine the emotional life of my child, I wouldn’t leave out the capacity for anger. The emotional force of anger can protect us and those we are close to from exploitation and predation. Someone who could never get angry would be the perfect victim. Anger can also be a prod to moral behavior more generally; many great moral heroes—Martin Luther King, Jr., for instance—have been individuals who let themselves get angry at situations that others were indifferent to.
But I would worry about the irrational, arbitrary, and self-destructive aspects of anger, so I wouldn’t wish that my child possess too much of it. And I would make sure to add plenty of intelligence, concern for others, and self-control. I would want to ensure that anger is modified, shaped, and directed by rational deliberation. It would occasionally spur action, but it would be subservient to the capacities for rationality and compassion. If we were all constituted in this way, if we could all put anger in its place, ours would be a kinder and better world.
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Coleridge Families
What We Organize
Events Diary 2019/20
School ethical sponsorship policy and CSC guidelines 2014
Elizabeth Mackie-Walker November 23, 2019 General
Attendees from the Committee and School:
Elizabeth Mackie (Chair), Peter Salerno (Treasurer), Leon Choueke (Head), Louise Foulkes (Deputy Head), ,Challe Hudson, Mel Solomou, Nora Zeidan, Alan Midgley, Georgia Norton, Kit Bhatti (Treasurer), Andi Voros
Also attended: Wil Roberts, Baydr Yadallee, Almut Gramer-Thornton, Susan Jones, Marielle Drier, Ana Maria Volaric, Enrico De Vita
Apologies: Sarah Wiley, Morinade Akinbobola, Andrew Day, Debby Kuypers, Joanna Shakmin
SUMMARY OF THE YEAR
The aims and ethos of CF as a parent-staff association and registered charity is to work in partnership with the School and Governors towards a whole school community with the key elements being involvement and participation from all and keeping all events accessible to all families. It has as an equal aim fundraising to provide the extras to advance the education of the children by providing facilities at the school that the Local Authority does not normally provide.
On the fundraising side we work in a number of ways. Traditional year group events which run year on year. There are also committee based events like Fireworks which, even in a deluge like the past weekend, was really well attended. We also have events which were new individual initiatives like Movie Night for Year 5. Some events have started as a committee based event, like Fireworks, but now have every year group involved to spread the load. This mixed approach is working well. Key to the traditional events is the class rep system. The reps’ hard work and enthusiasm is essential to making it work.
Movie Night was a new event for last year and worked well for Year 5. The licence lasts for a year so other year groups are encouraged to come forward to run their own night before the licence expires.
Individual donations to Coleridge Families are an important source of income with many donations being requested to be contributed to the Learning Enhancement Fund. In order to ensure all donations comply with the charitable objects the Committee received details from the School each term of the intended purchases from the LEF and then approved transfer of the relevant funds. Transfers are recorded in the CF meeting minutes.
INCLUSION AND THE REPS NETWORK
The committee (Andy Day in particular) have been woking with Louise Foulkes on how to involve the reps more in creating an inclusive community particularly working to involve more marginalised groups.
This year we worked with the school on new CF pages on the School website. We also now put all the CF events on the main school online calendar so people get them when they subscribe to that calendar. CF run a Reception new parents coffee morning and also attend and provide refreshments for all the year group coffee mornings as well. We have also worked with the school on a “top tips for reps” document with inclusion at its heart.
The next major project under this heading would be Cultures of Coleridge in March.
The meeting discussed the importance of the reps network and of keeping that going. A reps meeting with Miss Foulkes is in planning for next term. Thanking volunteers was also of great importance.
WHAT DID CF FUND IN 2018/19?
Playgrounds – £58,500: See further below.
West Halls storage and stage supplies- £4,350: the additional storage on the Halls has now been completed and additional supplies purchased for the school production.
Poetry workshop – £400: this workshop for Y6 was by local poet Paul Lyalls and was extremely successful.
Kids’ Concert Company – £430: this company bring classical music to schools and did an after school concert for all the family enabling classical music to be brought to people who might not otherwise have had that opportunity. This event was very kindly sponsored by a parent
Books workshop at Ally Pally Book Awards and Library books – £165: the book club attended the book awards and various author workshops. We also helped the Library purchase new books.
Gazebos – £570: replacement gazebos were purchased for use at CF events.
SUMMARY OF ACCOUNTS (Peter S)
Pete ran through the accounts explaining the receipts and outgoings and the pre-existing spending plans.
CF raised c.£78,000 in the course of the year including significant amounts from the Summer Fair, Clean Air Coleridge events (see below) donations to the Learning Enhancement Fund, Gift Aid and sponsorship from Martyn Gerrard. Martyn Gerrard is thanked for their ongoing contribution in funds and time and energy.
The Summer Fair raised an impressive £17,500 – well up on last year. There was a slight downwards trend on other events and of course no cycle challenge this year. A further cycle challenge might be a possibility but organizationally it was a massive effort and it wasn’t thought that it should be a yearly event.
The meeting then approved the Accounts.
The meeting accepted the resignations of Kit Bhatti and Morinade Akinbobola as Treasurers and thanked them for the great job they have both done over the years.
The meeting was pleased to welcome Ana Maria Volaric, Marielle Drier and Enrico De Vita to the Treasury team and to the Committee.
PLANS FOR SPENDING 2019-20
West Playground refurbishment
Summer Fair profits 2017, 2018, 2019 and the 2018 Cycle Challenge proceeds are all going to the Playgrounds fund – this amounts to around £75,000 [amendment to £72k in slide 10].
So far CF have spent over £58,000 on:
The Tipping Point project which helped identify the way the children play in the playground and contributed to the overall design of the refurbished playground
New gate, paved area and fence on the West Side
Wildlife area outside the MUGA
Millennium Garden and seats
Area outside the Year 4 door.
MR CHOUEKE’S PLAYGROUNDS UPDATE:
Haringey Council are engaged with the process and their surveys including by their civil engineer are complete and recommendations have been made. A project manager has been appointed and a client brief is being prepared. A major part of the major landscaping works necessary eg on the bank are Haringey’s responsibility. There had been an issue in relation to responsibility for the area between the fence and the pavement as it is designated educational land. However the school were clear that this area remained the responsibility of Parks and Highways and wasn’t to be considered in the school plans. Further details of the works to be done by the Council are expected in February so any work CF funds needs to factor that work in.
LC explained the next areas the school wanted to look at working on with CF are:
snagging on the last phase of work (eg firming up the fence and gate and surface edges).
Allotment beds in the area behind LC’s office on West
Areas for collaborative and creative play
CF have been working on various initiatives with Plastic Free Coleridge (an initiative set up by the children and Laura Bosworth with help from Fran Kellett) including the Y6 coffee cup challenge for the School Play which will be repeated again this year and the new Coleridge water bottles which aim to reduce the amount of single use plastic water bottles on the school site. A group of children is also campaigning for Meat Free Mondays.
CF has been trialing new biodegradeable cups and plates for events and purchased washable plates, bowls and cups for use at the Summer Fair and other events. We have been approached by two parents from Plastic Free Crouch End and will be working with them towards a sustainable events policy.
Clean Air Coleridge: Susan Jones outlined the group’s aims and in particular the fundraising towards a green wall for the East Side. This had involved sponsorship from local businesses and the successful screening of Horrible Histories Rotten Romans along with significant donations by parents. The group was looking at other areas as well as the green wall such as air quality within the classrooms and engaging with Liveable Crouch End to ensure any scheme doesn’t affect the school negatively.
NEW EVENTS FOR 2020
Look out for two new events in March 2020:
An evening with Steve Howe
Comedy night with the Scummy Mummies
Details of both available soon.
CF COMMITTEE
There is always a need for new members on the Committee. All talents are welcome and the Committee are looking in particular for help with administration, managing events, keeping the community updated (in particular via MailChimp and the website) and in the rep network. The Committee meets twice a term and discusses matters in between by email. New volunteers would be welcomed! Anyone should get in touch by email (coleridgefamilies@gmail.com) or in person.
The meeting then closed.
Slides from the meeting are available on the Coleridge Families website at: http://coleridgefamilies.org.uk/agm-2019-presentation/
© 2020 Coleridge Families
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Refugee crisis, compassion and Eastern Europe
Posted on October 6, 2015 by Ida Persson
By Dace Dzenovska, Associate Professor in the Anthropology of Migration
Losing Europeanness
Every crisis dismantles and produces Europeanness anew. Greek Europeanness was recently questioned by the financial ‘core of Europe’ led by Germany because Greece refused to behave like a responsible economic subject. In the context of the current refugee crisis, the now moral ‘core of Europe’—once again led by Germany—is juxtaposed to the failed Europeanness of what has emerged as generic ‘Eastern Europe’.
Several Eastern European member states of the European Union objected to the proposed refugee quotas. There were protests in various cities in Eastern Europe against accepting refugees. There were also counter-protests, counter-arguments, and counter-actions. Nevertheless, the liberally inclined print and online media on both sides of the Atlantic quickly filled with commentaries that accused ‘Eastern Europeans’ of lacking compassion and tried to shame them into moral maturity and, by extension, agreeable politics.[1] Some suggested that Eastern Europe was stuck in the rhetoric of suffering, unable to evolve from recipients to providers of assistance. Others wondered whether Eastern Europeans could see the irony in refusing assistance to those in need when they had received so much assistance during the long 20th century. Had they not learned anything from history? Why were Eastern Europeans so racist and xenophobic?
Disagreeable politics and attitudes were traced to moral failures, which amounted to failed Europeanness. Even those who eschewed moralizing began by securing their own Europeanness by distancing from Eastern Europe’s ‘staggering lack of compassion’.[2] In the midst of a spectacular political failure, the moral goodness of the ‘core of Europe’ was reasserted.[3]
Compassion as a political virtue
Compassion deployed in this fashion is not a ‘private sentiment.’[4] It is a political virtue expected to extend to strangers and to inform liberal politics. In this form—as a political virtue with universal value—it has been widely criticized for its depoliticizing and even repressive effects.[5]
According to Hannah Arendt, the private sentiment of compassion risks turning into pity when brought into the public arena, thus preventing engagement with fellow ‘men’ [sic] as political equals.[6] Compassion as a political virtue—not unlike tolerance as a political virtue—does not posit such equality. Instead, it posits a hierarchical relationship between the subjects and objects of compassion.[7] Public compassion is about both fellow feeling and distancing. It can be extended to strangers (they are almost like us!) and to marginalized group members (they are not really like us!). In the midst of refugee crisis, it has also become part of a civilizational discourse extended towards Eastern Europe.
Political opportunity?
Regardless of what one thinks of the asylum politics of Eastern European member states and of the attitudes of their citizens, attributing such politics and attitudes to collective moral failures is a move that needs to be carefully rethought. It is hardly the case that Eastern Europeans are less human in their capacity for compassion than their Western European counterparts. The difference seems to lie in the fact that they either do not use the sentiment of compassion as a basis for politics or limit its application to a particular nation, race or religion.
And yet, Eastern Europeans are grappling with tensions that define Europe beyond particular nation-states: the tension between liberal politics and national states, the tension between the needs of populations impoverished by austerity measures and the needs of refugees, and the tension between proclamations of ‘European values’ and the on-going ghettoization of marginal Europeans and asylum seekers in cities across Europe.
Eastern European members of the public, government officials, border guards, and journalists have been learning about these tensions, especially asylum politics, through the media, trips to Western Europe, and a variety of training and twinning programmes. For example, Latvian border guards and government officials have worked with their Finnish, Swedish, French and Belgian counterparts to implement border controls and asylum instruments. They were good pupils and learned what Didier Fassin has called the ‘common law of repression’, but to qualify as fully European, they are now called upon to learn the ‘redemptive virtue of compassion’.[8]
Should Eastern Europeans be taught to accept compassion as a political virtue to be extended to suffering subjects beyond their immediate circles of kinship? It seems unlikely that embracing public compassion will resolve Europe’s definitive tensions and the concrete problems that arise from them. Perhaps the difference that has emerged between Eastern and Western Europe in the context of the refugee crisis is a political opportunity to address these tensions without obscuring them by a moralizing discourse.
For examples, see: Lyman 2015; Gross 2015; Simecka & Tallis 2015; Rupnik 2015; Komorovskis 2015; Krastev 2015; Sabet-Parry 2015; Hockenos 2015; Gressel 2015; Roland 2015.
See Krastev 2015.
See Böröcz 2006 for an early critique. See also Dzenovska 2013.
Arendt 1990; Canovan 1992.
For examples see Ticktin 2011; Fassin 2005, 2011; Bornstein 2012. See also Weiss 2015 and Feldman 2013 for counter-arguments.
Arendt 1990.
For critical analysis of the political virtue of tolerance, see Brown 2006 & Dzenovska n.d.
Fassin 2005: 375.
Arendt, Hannah. 1990 [1965]. On Revolution. Penguin Books.
Bornstein, Erika. 2012. Disquieting Gifts: Humanitarianism in New Delhi. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Böröcz, Joseph. 2006. ‘Goodness is Elsewhere: The Rule of European Difference’. Comparative Studies in Society and History 48 (1): 110-137.
Brown, Wendy. 2006. Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Canovan, Margaret. 1992. Hannah Arendt: A Reinterpretation of Her Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dzenovska, Dace. n.d. Complicit Becoming: Tolerance and Europeanization After Socialism. Manuscript in preparation.
Dzenovska, Dace. 2013. ‘Historical Agency and the Coloniality of Power in Postsocialist Europe’. Anthropological Theory 13(4): 394-416.
Fassin, Didier. 2012. Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Fassin, Didier. 2005. ‘Compassion and repression: The moral economy of immigration policies in France’, Cultural Anthropology 20(3): 362-387.
Feldman, Gregory. 2013. ‘The specific intellectual’s pivotal position: action, compassion and thinking in administrative society, an Arendtian view’. Social Anthropology 21(2): 135-154.
Gressel, Gustav. 2015. ‘Understanding Eastern European attitudes on refugees’. European Council on Foreign Relations. September 11.
Gross, Jan T. 2015. ‘Eastern Europe’s Crisis of Shame’. Project Syndicate. September 16.
Hockenos, Paul. 2015. ‘The Stunning Hypocrisy of Mitteleuropa’. Foreign Policy. September 12.
Krastev, Ivan. 2015. ‘Eastern Europe’s Compassion Deficit’. The New York Times. September 8.
Komorovskis, Broņislavs. 2015. ‘Cilvēcības vārdā’. Ir. September 18.
Lyman, Rick. 2015. ‘Eastern block’s resistance to refugees highlights Europe’s cultural and political divisions’. The New York Times. September 12.
Roland, Gerard. 2015. ‘Why the rift between Eastern and Western Europe on the refugee crisis?’ The Berkeley Blog. September 9.
Rupnik, Jacques. 2015. ‘The Other Europe’. Eurozine. September 16.
Sabet-Parry, Rayyan & Karl Ritter. 2015. ‘Scant sympathy for refugees in Europe’s ex-communist East’. The Business Insider. September 11.
Simecka, Michal & Benjamin Tallis. 2015. ‘Fighting the wrong battle: A crisis of liberal democracy, not migration’. openDemocracy. September 16.
Smilov, Daniel. 2015. ‘The argument against compassion: Europe and the refugees’. openDemocracy. September 14.
Ticktin, Miriam. 2011. Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Weiss, Erica. 2015. ‘Provincializing empathy: Humanitarian sentiment and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’. Anthropological Theory 15(3): 275-292.
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