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Welcome to your Daily. Today we look at the EU鈥檚 reach for global sway, why聽populism may wane, black chefs reclaiming their culinary heritage, keeping pillow talk nonpartisan, and a famous library鈥檚 centennial rose.

First, two quick profiles in values-clad professionalism.聽

Amid a new round of temblors near the second-largest U.S. city stands the stabilizing force that is

Lucy Jones, an unshakable CalTech seismologist, has long been a rock star among Angelenos, who hang on her every word about 鈥渇oreshocks鈥� and 鈥減reshocks鈥� and openly appreciate her calm explanations of which fault lines connect to which. A rolling motion? That means the event is 鈥減retty far away.鈥澛�

The catchphrases that have emerged in L.A. 鈥� 鈥淚 trust Lucy,鈥� 鈥淟ucy is my co-pilot鈥� 鈥� say a lot about how greatly Dr. Jones exceeds the expectations of a subject-matter authority. She deploys smarts against fear.聽

And the integrity that makes her the dominant analyst isn鈥檛 limited to cold physics. Speaking about how Southern Californians might best respond to a large-scale quake, she counsels empathy: 鈥淭he most important thing you can do,鈥� she said at a press conference, 鈥渋s help yourself and help your neighbor.鈥� Connected communities recover fastest.

Empathy and connection have also shown up lately at sea. On Saturday, forced its way into the Italian port of Lampedusa, putting ashore 40 imperiled people despite a ban on doing so. (A third ship was redirected .)

The docking may have been inspired by a similar act of mercy in late June by German ship captain Carola Rackete, arrested after landing her 40 African migrants, bumping a police boat in the process.

Captain Rackete weighed lifesaving against legality and declared the migrants鈥� lives 鈥渕ore important than any political game.鈥� July 2 by an Italian judge. His ruling: She had been fulfilling 鈥渉er duty to protect life.鈥�