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DUPLIN COUNTY, NC (WITN) - WITN's Teacher of the Week for January 22 is Terry Smith, a middle school ELA teacher at B.F. Grady Elementary School.

Smith has been in education for over 20 years.

Before jumping into her career, Smith earned a Bachelor and a Master of Arts in English Education from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, attended the Eastern Virginia Writing Project at the College of William and Mary and completed courses at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks.

Smith has had a versatile career, teaching in Alaska, Nebraska and Virginia along with North Carolina due to moving around for her husbands Air Force career. She has taught ELA, social studies/ history and drama over the course of her career.

She says she tries to live and teach by the Golden Rule. Smith says she enjoys learning about and discovering what makes each student unique. She tries to instill confidence, a sense of worth and a love for reading as she teaches.

I always try to treat my students the way that I would want my own children to be treated, and I let them know often that I love them, said Smith.

The person who nominated Smith wrote: I would like to nominate my favorite teacher. Terry Smith at B.F. Grady. She teaches ELA and always enters our class with a smile on her face. Shes very friendly and reads us amazing stories. Shes always inclusive of everyone and she always puts a smile on my face and others around her.

Congratulations, Mrs. Smith!

Every week during the school year WITN will recognize a Teacher of the Week on WITN News at Sunrise. The winner receives a plaque and $100 gift card for school supplies.

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Away. Thats how a handler tells their dog to move to the right of the cattle theyre working.

Come by. That means go to the left of the cattle.

Walk up. Go straight toward them.

Get out. Move away.

Lie down. Well, that ones self-explanatory.

These verbal commands were a common refrain Thursday morning in the National Western Complexs stockyards. The shouts were occasionally interrupted by the chirps of whistles, an alternative way for handlers to send messages to their canine counterparts.

People and pooches from 13 states and Canada competed in Thursdays cattle dog trial. A test of discipline, concentration and patience, the course challenged handlers and their dogs to move a trio of calves through seven different obstacles between barrels, through gates and into and out of pens in eight minutes or less. The clock doesnt stop until the last calfs tail passes through the last gate.

The cattle dog trial is addictive, handler Jan Wagner said after a run in which she and her 10-year-old border collie Zoe earn a perfect score in 6:19. You always think you can do better. Then you get out there and its a whole different ballgame.

RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post

Wagner, a doctor focused on interventional pain management, has been training cattle dogs for about 10 years. Her husband, Bob Wagner, president and CEO of veterinary biotechnology company Gene Check, has been at it for 12 years. The couple lives on a ranch outside Nunn in northern Weld County where they raise Charolais cattle. At the moment the ranch is home to 17 border collies including Zoe. When its time to move the cattle across the propertys rough terrain, the dogs spring into action.

Theyre ranch hands. Theyre essential, Jan said.

Bob is the cattle dog superintendent at for the National Western Stock Show, overseeing the competition with the help of three assistant superintendents, as well as participating. During a handler meeting Thursday morning, Bob laid out what he views as the events golden rule.

Everybody should be happy at the dog trials because its supposed to be fun, he shouted.

Liz Klenk Muehlheim and her family traveled more than 1,200 miles from their home in Bellville, Ohio, to compete in the stock shows dog trials this year.

National Western is one of the most prestigious shows. Its just great to be out in the yards no matter the weather, she said.

They brought three border collies with them: 7-year-old Leo, 5-year-old Nikki and 2-year-old Will. Will was set to compete in the top class, known as the open trials, and the nursery class for dogs no older than 3.

We start them out at about 3 months of age, working with them to develop their instincts with sheep in a small pen, Klenk Muehlheim said. Thats to teach them directions and their stop and lie down commands and just get them to enjoy the experience of working with stock. They love it. Its really an inbred instinct in these dogs.

RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post

A doctor of internal medicine, Klenk Muehlheim was living in Cleveland 15 years ago when she adopted a border collie, Haley, from a rescue shelter. Knowing that the dog was bred for work, she started taking Haley to dog trial training sessions. It was through the cattle dog community that Klenk Muehlheim met her husband, George Muehlheim, who had a working farm where he used Australian shepherds to move sheep.

The couples daughter, 13-year-old Mikka Knapik, isnt competing at National Western this year but plans to in 2021.

I love watching the dogs and just love watching my parents kick but out there, she said.

Fun may come first, but Bob Wagner points out that the National Western dog trials bring out serious competitors. The cattle events, which wrap up Sunday with final rounds in the stockyards, are sanctioned by the National Cattledog Association, which keeps track of dogs performance year round. Dogs competing this year included past national champions, including Zoe who Wagner is proud to say was the nursery class champion when he was her handler. Theres prize money and a belt buckle for the grand champion on the line.

The championship sheep moving trial is scheduled for 9 a.m. Sunday in the Stadium Arena.

George Muehlheim has been working with stock dogs for 20 years and loves coming to the National Western.

This thing has done nothing but get better and better with the years, he said. The competition, the dogs, everything. Youre looking at some of the best in the world.

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Kevan Todd found himself in a whiteout blizzard up Chalk Creek near Coalville leading a team on snowmobiles trying to find a lost person. The visibility became so bad they lost the road, but Todd knew the area well enough to head to a nearby fenceline to follow.

The snow was blowing sideways when Todd sensed something was wrong and abruptly stopped, moments before a helicopter touched down just ahead of them.

I almost ran into a helicopter, Todd recalled with a smile. We play in an uncontrolled environment. You gotta know your (stuff), especially if youre the team leader. You could get someone hurt.

Todd is a 26-year veteran of Summit County Search and Rescue, a team of about 30 volunteers responsible for a territory the size of Delaware.

Summit Countys nearly 2,000 square miles of diverse terrain includes 13,000-foot peaks and wide swaths of wilderness that entice outdoor enthusiasts and solitude-seekers to leave behind the modern world and lose themselves in nature.

But that wilderness will be just as cold, dark and lonely tonight as it was 300 years ago, a Search and Rescue supporter warns. If a hiker or skier really does get lost, its up to Search and Rescue to find them, no matter the time, weather or situation.

Last year, Search and Rescue went into the field on active calls 75 times, about a dozen more than the year before and still more than the year before that. Calls range from transporting medical personnel into the backcountry to assist a hiker with a sprained ankle to rescuing people caught in an avalanche to searching for campers who dont return home when theyre expected.

Including training missions and calls that were canceled before Search and Rescue arrived, the team mobilized 120 times in 2019. The numbers are climbing as apps that can direct people of all skill levels to trailheads become commonplace, and easy-to-use snow machines bring less-experienced riders deep into the wilderness.

The volunteers who respond have day jobs and the responsibilities that come with everyday life. But when they receive a text message from dispatch more then twice a week, on average they drop what theyre doing and prepare to head out into the wilderness for a call that could last two hours or to two days.

It takes a toll on their families, team members said, with unpredictable absences and increased exposure to danger. Searching for people lost in the wilderness is a task that involves risk, exhaustion and at least the possibility of encountering death.

But team members talk about a sense of community and duty to serve that keeps them going. Plus, the work can be fun and there is an adrenaline rush and a sense of accomplishment after a challenging, successful search.

To some, the rationale is no more complicated than the golden rule.

I would hope someone would help my kids if it was them, volunteer Bridgette Blonquist said.

Another team member, Dave Diehl, said when someone is lost or hurt in the backcountry, often their only hope is that someone else is out there looking for them.

We are the hope for these people, Diehl said.

It is not a failure if the team members find someone after they have died, they said; sometimes, the length or nature of the search makes that a virtual certainty.

Lt. Alan Siddoway, Summit County Sheriffs Offices liaison to Search and Rescue, likened a search to a puzzle. He said that there is extensive research done on the behavior of people who have become lost and that searching has become more of a science in recent years.

The Sheriffs Office opens a missing person investigation for every search. Detectives interview family members about the missing person and use that information to try to predict behavior, like whether a person is calm and likely to remain close by, or whether they are likely to panic.

Siddoway said that, while in most every case, SAR is searching for a person the team members havent met, they come to know that person very well in their mind.

He said he often develops close relationships with family members of missing people.

That makes it particularly difficult when it comes time to discontinue a full-time search, as was done a week after 69-year-old hunter Carl Crumrine went missing in the Uintas in October.

When you have to look at a family and say tomorrow at dark all of this equipment is going to go away you feel it. You feel it. And they feel it too, Siddoway said. Its a decision we do not take lightly. Were going to go from 50 persons to three persons there in a couple weeks. It is probably one of the toughest decisions that we have to make in a search-and-rescue situation, just because of all of the factors, the emotion thats tied up in it. We become very vested in these calls.

Those instances, though, are rare. Since 2003, the team has failed to find only three people: Garrett Bardsley, Melvin Heaps and Crumrine.

The names remain top of mind for many Search and Rescue members, the outliers that they cant quite put behind them.

Todd, the longtime member and team leader, said the Bardsley search still haunts him. Bardsley was 12 when he disappeared while fishing with his father in the Uintas in 2004.

Tough to leave the scene knowing there was no closure, Todd said. Melvin Heaps, Carl Crumrine not too many days I dont think about them.

Siddoway said those searches are not over.

In my office, in Kamas, there are binders now in the bookshelf there for Garrett Bardsley and for Melvin Heaps. And those binders will be there basically until I leave, Siddoway said. I can honestly tell you as I talk with SAR members and Bardsley obviously being 15 years removed, some of our older members were personally involved in that theyll still come up in conversation. Melvin, two years ago, often comes up in conversation: You know have we considered this?

He added that he still hears from those in the search-and-rescue community who head up to the search area to train or to try out new pieces of rescue technology.

Todd said everyone on the team has to be a bit crazy, but theres a bond that grows among them. Hes seen many members come and go over the years. Some wash out because of the time commitment, or life changes like moving away or starting a family. Others leave after seeing a dead body for the first time or a particularly gruesome scene.

Todd said there are some calls that stay with him, like using the teams submersible to recover the body of a toddler from 200 feet below the waters surface.

Thats one you put in your hard drive, just bury it, he said.

Those that stick around, though, talk of teammates as family members, and the values one learns during a grueling systematic search.

Blonquists dad was a volunteer, and she grew up watching his example. Siddoway said he introduced his son to the team so he could learn life skills and a team-first attitude. Derek Siddoways seventh anniversary on the team is this month.

I wanted Derek to be involved in it so he could learn some life skills from some very good people, Siddoway said. How to be a member of this world and productive and know that its not just What can you do for me, what do I get out of this? You see that dads done it for a number of years and when the kids come on, they possess the skills and the same attitude of How can I help?

Search and Rescue members said they concentrate on the smaller tasks during a search and attempt to accomplish the work theyve been assigned.

Blonquist explained that requires looking for a clue the size of a fingernail or a scrap of clothing in the midst of a vast forest.

Team members talk about a bond that separates them from the rest of the world. Blonquist said shes reluctant to bring what shes seen back to her family and how much easier it is to talk with team members who have been through it.

Diehl said Siddoway took him aside after hed seen a deceased victim for the first time. Siddoway wanted to see how he was handling the situation and extended an invitation to talk if it would be helpful, Diehl recalled.

Todd said that bond extends beyond Summit County Search and Rescue to the groups theyve worked alongside.

If you walk through this with somebody, you know why hes up there is the same reason Im up there, Todd said.

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DAVOS, Switzerland >> France will delay its tax on big tech firms like Google and Facebook in exchange for the United Statess promise to hold off retaliatory tariffs a potential sign of goodwill in the U.S. and European Unions increasingly tense relations over trade.

After U.S. President Donald Trump threatened the EU with bigger tariffs, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said today he had negotiated a truce with U.S. Treasury chief Steven Mnuchin on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Le Maire said France would delay collection of the digital tax until December, parking the issue until after the next U.S. presidential election where Trump hopes to secure another four-year term.

The 3% tax on the revenues of big internet companies only came into force last July and prompted outrage in the U.S., which launched retaliatory tariffs against French wine, cheese and other products.

The two countries eventually agreed a month later to try to create an international agreement on how to tax digital business by mid-2020, but neither side would back off their punitive taxes. They agreed to on Wednesday in Davos.

Le Maire, Mnuchin and the head of the Paris-based Organization or Economic Co-operation and Development, Jos ngel Gurra, will meet Thursday to work on an international approach to taxes on digital companies.

I absolutely expect we will come to a solution because there is no plan B, Gurra told the Associated Press earlier in Davos.

It remains unclear whether they can find an international agreement, as it would involve dozens of countries with often conflicting views.

Le Maire said France was not in a position to scrap its tax until such an international accord has been reached and insisted that companies reliant on internet business need to pay taxes wherever they are based and wherever they operate.

The French measure is an attempt to get around tax avoidance measures by multinationals, which pay most of their taxes in the EU country they are based in often at very low rates. That effectively means the companies pay next to no tax in countries where they have large operations

Digital companies will pay their fair tax in 2020, Le Maire told reporters in Davos.

At face value, the deal appears to dial down the risk of a wider trade war between the U.S. and the EU, of which France is part of.

However, Trump and Mnuchin both took a noticeably tough line on the EU that stoked concerns that the months ahead could see a new escalation in trade tensions.

Trump, who last week reached an interim trade deal with China easing tensions between the worlds two biggest economies, ratcheted up his criticism of the EU and said its approach to trade was in fact worse than Beijings.

They have trade barriers where you cant trade, he said at a press briefing at the conclusion of his two-day stay in Davos. They have tariffs all over the place. They make it impossible. They are, frankly, more difficult to do business with than China.

Trump said he wanted to get a first trade deal with China before taking on deeper negotiations with the EU.

Trump has used tariffs or the threat of them repeatedly to wrest trade concessions from U.S. trading partners including China, Mexico and Canada. In October, he slapped tariffs worth $7.5 billion on EU goods in October after prevailing in a case over airplane subsidies. He has also repeatedly raised the specter of tariffs on European cars.

The EU Commissions new president, Ursula von der Leyen, who met with Trump in Davos on Tuesday, said the two agreed to move quickly to resolve any trade disputes.

I think that we have a lot in common and lot to work for, she said. There is a golden rule that we first of all negotiate with our American friends.

Even erstwhile allies, such as Britain, could face retaliation from the U.S. if they push ahead with their own digital tax plans. Dozens of governments have enacted or are contemplating such taxes on big tech companies that operate in their countries.

Britain, which is scheduled to leave the EU on Jan. 31 and is keen to strike a trade deal with the U.S. as well as with its former partners in the bloc, has become caught up in the dispute.

Britain is due to impose a 2% levy on the digital business of firms making 500 million pounds ($640 million) a year in global revenues from April.

Britains Treasury chief, Sajid Javid, sought to walk a fine line on the issue.

We plan to go ahead with our digital services tax in April, he said in Davos. It is a proportionate tax and a tax that is deliberately planned as a temporary tax. It will fall away when there is an international agreement.

Mnuchin told the same panel that the two men would have some private conversations about that.

Weve been pretty clear that we think the digital tax is discriminatory in nature, Mnuchin said.

Alluding to plans by dozens of countries contemplating such taxes, he said: If people want to just arbitrarily put taxes on our digital companies, we will consider arbitrarily putting taxes on their car companies.

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(Scott Olson/Getty) Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks while former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders listen at the Democratic presidential primary debate in Des Moines, Iowa.

In January, during the last Democratic debate before the Iowa caucuses, the candidates began the night with an extended conversation about foreign policya topic that had gotten short-shrift on earlier debate stages. The recent killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani at President Trumps orders has escalated the tension between Iran and the United States, putting international affairs into the spotlight for the would-be commanders-in-chief.

In Iowa, Pete Buttigieg touted his military experience; Joe Biden pointed to his time as vice president in the Obama White House. The progressive frontrunners on the stageElizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanderstacked to the left. Sanders reminded viewers he voted against the war in Iraq, and he emphasized international coalitions, echoing a campaign email which said that he would offer voters a different vision for how we exercise American power: one that is not demonstrated by our ability to blow things up, but by our ability to bring countries together. Warren, in the Senate since 2013, took a hard line, recommending to pull combat troops out of the region entirely, which Biden seemed to dismiss as unrealistic.

For all of their success addressing domestic issues in moral terms, Sanders and Warren have often been criticized for not being realistic, and not clearly presenting a practical foreign policy in line with their progressive values. Sanders self-proclaimed democratic socialist domestic agenda and Warrens progressive platform, aimed at regulating Wall Street and corporate power, have garnered the support of millions of Americans, pulling the Democratic Party to the left. They often articulate a vision of economic and social justice, but on issues of foreign policy, they have been less inspiring, ceding crucial ground to moderates claims of realism.

The problem comes down to this: It is difficult for progressives like Sanders and Warren to present a flexible, practical foreign policy approach while adhering to their core values such as wealth equality, fair trade, peace, democracy, and human rights. After all, how can a future President Sanders or President Warren cooperate with corrupt foreign leaders if it means compromising on their moral sensibilities? How can they champion absolute truths in an international arena that demands moral relativism?

The progressive candidates this election year seem to realize how vulnerable they are to charges of hypocrisy, a tough situation that often makes them reluctant to verify firm proposals. Sanders, for one, adamantly opposed the use of U.S. tax dollars to aid the Saudis in their war in Yemen, yet when asked whether he would continue sending aid to Israel in light of their controversial relationship to Palestinians, he refused to take a definitive stance: Im not going to get into the specifics, he told Benjamin Wallace-Wells of The New Yorker last April. But, Sanders cannot avoid the tough decisions that mark the administration of any president, and he cannot define his foreign policy through negation alone. In terms of positive principles and concrete proposals, the Vermont senator remains vague, mentioning military restraint, diplomacy, and some sort of indefinable idealism that he will need to sharpen for the primaries and beyond. Commentators have noted the weakness, calling into doubt Sanders ability to pass the commander-in-chief test, as Foreign Policy magazine put it.

Warrens foreign policy has also faced criticism for being either too progressive or not progressive enough. The democratic socialist magazine Jacobin has made the latter point several times, arguing that while Warren is not on the far right of Democratic politics on war and peace, she also is not a progressivenor a leaderand has failed to use her powerful position on the Senate Armed Services Committee to challenge the status quo. Warren also faces criticism from more moderate pundits who have questioned her plans to drastically reduce the defense budget and end the forever wars in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan. Her domestically driven major announcements on the budget, troops, and trade will pull her foreign policy in a direction at odds with her more considered public utterances, wrote Brookings fellow Thomas Wright for The Atlantic in November.

In writing my book, Spiritual Socialists, I researched the history of another progressive presidential candidate who had to walk a tightrope on foreign policy: Henry A. Wallace, the former vice president for Franklin Roosevelt who ran a failed Progressive Party bid against Harry Truman in 1948. Like Sanders and Warren, Wallace couched his foreign policy agenda in terms of cautious intervention and proactive internationalism in a time of intense global uncertainty. He staunchly defended the viability of moral values as a benchmark of international affairs. Yet he ultimately failed to alleviate voters fears of Soviet aggression with his plan to promote peace and play fair. Sanders and Warren can pull from the Wallace playbook to a certain extent, especially by elevating values and moral considerations to the forefront of foreign policy discussions. But, as they have learned in the 2020 campaign, they must make policy sound more practical than prophetic, a cautionary tale they can glean from Wallaces unsuccessful campaign.

Wallace certainly presented himself as a kind of prophet, a spiritual socialist, who marshaled religious imagery of the coming Kingdom of God throughout his political career. Religious rhetoric, in his case, bolstered his calls for peace and cooperation during the developing Cold War crisis in the 1940s. At times, Warren has done the same, telling CNN last June that her faith animates all that I do. Sanders, however, does not typically express his progressive vision in religious terms, although he has made references to Scripture in the past. In a September 2015 speech given at Virginias Liberty University, the largest evangelical Christian university in the world, Sanders vindicated socialist principles as an extension of Jesus golden rule, reminding his Christian conservative audience of the simple directive given in Matthew 7:12: So in everything, do to others what you would have them to do to you, for this sums up the law and the prophets. It is not very complicated, he said.

The Golden Rule, after all, gets at the heart of what progressives such as Warren, Sanders, and Wallace back in the mid-twentieth-century seem to be saying: Treat other people and countries as we Americans expect to be treated. Respect them as human beings and not enemies, support their national sovereignty and democratic decision-making, deal in fair trade, and offer olive branches before resorting to violence. But, is the Golden Rule a firm enough foundation for a foreign policy, and can it convince voters that progressives can keep the U.S. safe amid complex international threats? Thats exactly what Henry Wallace tried to do.

Wallace, who was replaced as vice president by Harry S. Truman just before Roosevelts fourth inaugural and April 1945 death, peppered his 1948 presidential campaign with religious rhetoric and a call for mutual understanding and cooperation between the U.S., the Soviets, and decolonizing nations. The Progressive Party platform that Wallace ran upon also condemned free market capitalism, racism, and the American aversion to social welfare, all within the candidates particular religious context. Throughout his Progressive Party campaign, Wallace continued to measure policy by the ethics of the Kingdom of God, even as many of his communist followers did not believe in God or moral, democratic politics. While an increasingly anti-communist political climate in the late 1940s and the 1950s branded communism, socialism, or any ism of the left as a threat to the American way of life, Wallace did not change course. For better or worse, he welcomed anyone into his fold who professed at least nominal interest in social revolution, and he did so, in the vein of Warren, without closing the door completely on capitalist enterprise.

Like Bernie Sanders, Wallace was speaking of revolutionnot an insurrection triggered by a violent or hasty contingent from the top-downbut a long-term vision of social cooperation and equality, cultivated from the bottom-up. Unlike Sanders, however, Wallace never shied away from invoking religious justification for his beliefs. Spiritual statesmen, he realized, could never coerce the populous to enact values of Christian love and fellowship. To the contrary, the Kingdom of God had to be made practical, springing from a source of basic need for local welfare, and built upon a voluntary social discipline among Americans who would carry out a revolution in values as living reality. In other words, he wanted democratic socialism practiced as a way of life, and as a religion. I suppose the thing which I am arguing for fundamentally and eventually is a continuous, fluid, open-minded approach to reality, which at the same time is deadly in earnest, Wallace summarized.

Whether he knew it at the time or not, Wallace had pinpointed, in that statement, the crux of a problem that would plague him for the rest of his political career. The emerging Cold War was cold comfort for Wallace, whose pleas for one world of brotherhood and peace amounted to little more than a faint moralizing echo across the vacuum that he accused Harry S. Truman of steadily filling with tough talk and military build-up. Running for president in 1948 as a left-liberal alternative to Truman, Wallace had a hard time translating what he called the cloudy and vague language of Kingdom idealism into practical policy, especially when national security seemed at stake. He discovered that moral absolutism did not dovetail with presidential pragmatism, and he ended up sounding wishy-washy when pressed for tough action. Truman won the campaign because he ran on a platform fitted for his time; Wallace lost because he ran on a platform projected for all time, the long haul of Gods will for the world.

Wallaces peoples revolution, as he described it, would have taken the form of a gradual change in international relations, toward a world in which powerful nations no longer played power politics with the less fortunate. He did not promote an immediate uprising in the vein of Lenin. Neither did he favor the protectorate system of Wilson. Modernity had made the world an interdependent neighborhood or human family and only cooperation among equal partners for the general welfare could secure peace. It seemed pointless to fight and win the war, he argued, if the resulting armistice allowed an international jungle of gangster governments and money-mad imperialists to continue their old tyranny. Wallace included the United States among them. He urged his countrymen to seize the opportunity to set a moral example for the world in terms of race and class relations, education, and economics. We cannot assist in binding the wounds of a war-stricken world and fail to safeguard the health of our own people, he stated in his speech America Tomorrow. In other words, the revolution must begin at home before it could make a global impact.

To some critics, such as fellow democratic socialist Dwight Macdonald, Wallaces vision combined provincialism and internationalism in a bewildering way. He did not understand Wallaces intention of cultivating changes in social behavior and values from the local-level to the international arena or he simply chose to dismiss such plans as nave, especially given Wallaces association with communists. Wallace, however, considered his approach vital and practical. Religion to my mind is the most practical thing in the world, he explained. In so saying I am not talking about church-going, or charity, or any of the other outward manifestations of what is popularly called religion. By religion I mean the force which governs the attitude of men in their inmost hearts toward God and toward their fellow men.

Of course, Wallace lost in 1948, garnering only 8.25 percent of the vote. Given the Cold War climate, and his sidelined position as a third-party candidate, it was much easier for Truman to convince voters to contain the world rather than liberate it. Americans could not or would not take Wallace seriously as a practical politician once his associations with communists became known. However, Wallaces failure to appeal to a wide electorate also stems from his inability to project a concrete democratic socialist framework as international policy. His abstract Golden Rule language sounded rhetorical when many voters wanted realism.

Wallaces career helps illustrate the viability of democratic socialism in national politics; but it also tells us something about the America left and the limits of its religious rhetoric and moral claims in the realm of foreign policy. In policy debates on domestic issues, such as welfare, labor, and civil rights, socialists often gain traction by appealing to the moral and religious sensibilities of the American public. But, values-talk, whether religious or ethical, has its limits, especially when it comes to restructuring foreign affairs. Civil rights activists in the mid-twentieth-century, for instance, had much more success leveraging the Cold War contest toward reforming domestic issues of race and class than it did projecting spiritual values onto foreign policy. The road became much rougher, indeed, when attempting to convince Americans that peace, love, cooperation, and democracy should extend to international relations, especially toward perceived enemies.

Democratic socialists like Wallace insisted that Americans must adhere to a Golden Rule standard by allowing communities abroad to determine their own way forward, toward peace and cooperation, from the bottom up, something that Sanders and Warren currently echo. When asked about the crisis in Venezuela, Warren, for example, stated, Instead of reckless threats of military action or sanctions that hurt those in need, we should be taking real steps to support the Venezuelan people. When faced with these tough choices in the presidency, however, she and Sanders must make moral action practical, and that remains the primary challenge for all progressives and socialists advancing their values in the world.

Vaneesa Cook is a historian, professor, and freelance writer in Wisconsin. Her book Spiritual Socialists: Religion and the American Left, from which this excerpt is adapted, is available through the University of Pennsylvania Press. Follow her @CookVaneesa.

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HOLLY Willoughby is notoriously quiet on her family life yet the telly favourite has let slip one strict parenting rule she abides by.

The mum of three said the stipulation particularly related to middle child Belle, aged eight, every week day of school time.

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Speaking in a Friday episode of ITV show This Morning Holly, 38, told of her golden rule for her only daughter with husband Dan Baldwin.

She said: I've got young children, similar age and my daughter, she's got long hair, she always wants to wear her hair down at school.

I always say to her, 'You can't darling, you have to put it up'.

I always hate it when that dreaded letter comes round and there's head lice in the school and they've all got their heads together."

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Holly also has Harry, 10, and Chester, five, with her TV show producer husband.

She has previously quipped she never wants any of her three children to leave home, if they don't want to.

The host opened up on the worrying notion of an empty nest during a phone in with Vanessa Feltz on This Morning.

in a candid insight into family life she said: "I never want my children to leave, that's a fact.

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"If they want to stay with me forever then that's fine for me."

Yet she conceded when they grew up they would have her full support and be "so proud" to see them go and live their lives.

She added: "It will be tough but by doing that, you will be giving them the best present."

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Stress hormones in our diet may be a missing link between food and wellness.

Does eating food that contains too many stress hormonescortisol in meats, ethylene in plant-based foods, and other related hormonestrigger stress and inflammation in our bodies?

To date, scientists have overlooked the possibility that consuming stress hormones through food may be affecting our health. However, we make the case that food-borne stress hormones may be a missing link in the connection between food and health.

If substantiated, this hypothesis could lead to a fundamental shift in how we eat. Even putting aside personal health concerns, reducing stress hormones in our diet can help us imagine a better world, in a larger sense. We would care more not only about how food affects us, but also about how our consumption habits of animals and plants affects them. There are implications for the economy, too: Localism and sustainable agriculture could flourish as farm-to-fork quality control and alignment of interests become priorities.

Stress hormones are biochemicals produced by the body in response to any form of stress. In animals, the predominant stress hormone is cortisol. In plants, the predominant stress hormone is ethylene. These stress hormones produce a wide variety of well-characterized effects within the body of animals and plants that help them survive. What is far less known are the effects of these stress hormones when they are consumed by a different species.

A recent study of piglets published in the Journal of Animal Science by Purdue University scientist Elizabeth Petrosus found that when pigs are fed stress hormones such as cortisol or norepinephrine, their blood levels of these hormones spike, body temperatures rise and gut biomes shift. This poses some questions. How much cortisol or norepinephrine is lurking in our meat? Are these levels rising due to the stress put on animals by the food system? When we eat foods high in cortisol or norepinephrine, do our cortisol and norepinephrine levels spike? Since we know that long-term use of prednisone, a medicinal form of cortisol, is associated with higher rates of high blood sugar, high blood pressure,and obesity, could stress hormones in our foods be a mechanistic link between modern diets and the growing epidemic of diabetes, hypertension, and obesity?

The same pig study found that, due to negative feedback loops, the pigs eventually exhibited abnormally low blood levels of cortisol and norepinephrine due to overcorrection by the body. This poses some additional questions. Does a diet rich in stress hormones induce habituationa loss of intrinsic capacity to respond to stress (detectable as adrenal insufficiency on ACTH stimulation test or autonomic insufficiency on baroreceptor sensitivity tests)? Since norepinephrine analogues (sympathomimetics) are the active ingredients in all rescue drugs for allergic rhinitis, asthma, and anaphylactic shock, we have made the case that intrinsic adrenal-autonomic insufficiency is a common underlying pathology in these conditions. We believe that baseline blood levels of norepinephrine and related stress hormones, as well as their ability to respond to stress on challenge tests, ought to be better studied in these patients.

We also wonder about the stress hormones (ethylene, etc.) levels in plant-based foods. It has been shown that ethylenea marker of inflammation in our bodiestriggers stress response in some of the same bacteria that are commonly found in our gut. Stressed gut bacteria can activate stress in human hosts. Although generally regarded as safe, direct effects of consumed ethylene on the human body are poorly understood. It is noteworthy that, among other effects, the processing of food increases the levels of ethylene in our food significantly.

A consequence of chronic stress in animals is that they get fatter. A consequence of stress on fruits is they get sweeter. When combined, fatty and sweet ingredients serve as the foundation of all processed desserts. Humanswhen they are stressedcrave foods abundant in fatty and sweet signatures of stressed foods: teens binging on ice cream during exam week or police officers taking breaks at donut shops. It is more than ironic that the word desserts spelled backwards is stressed.

While we await the answers to these health-related questions, we can start thinking about how we can reduce stress hormones in our meats and plant-based foods.

Here are examples of production and preparation practices that could reduce the amount of stress hormones in animal-based foods: (1) allowing them to live without too much chronic stress; (2) allowing them to live in free range, cage-free, wild, and natural environments; (3) reducing infectious, chemical, and environmental stress; (4) feeding them a diet containing low stress hormonesfor example, wild grass versus processed corn (processing increases ethylene levels).

Here are examples of production and preparation practices that could reduce the amount of stress hormones in plant-based foods: (1) growing them in proper soil, season, and environments; (2) managing chemical, pest, infection, and water stress; (3) managing their harvest, transport, production, storage, preparation, and consumption in a way that minimizes ethylene productionkeeping in mind that ethylene production continues to happen after harvest. On a side note, vegetative or immature tissues (e.g broccoli, celery, lettuce, and cabbage) release far less ethylene upon wounding, which could help explain their putative benefits in healthy diets.

Indeed, these practices generally align with most trends in healthy food movements. While it is intuitively appealing to speculate that the reduction of stress hormones might be the Occams razor that connects all of these disparate movements, empirical validation is still needed. One day, the health quotient of a food could be determined by its provenance far more than we now understand.

Imagine being able to eat your way to a better world. In that spirit, at a time when confusion reigns about almost everything going on in the planet, and people are asking us to remember a long list of rules on how to eat, heres a simple rule that is easy to remember. If you stress it, it will stress you; if you treat it well, it will treat you well.

Thats the Golden Rule of food.

Joon Yun and Amanda Yun are Principals of the Yun Family Foundation.

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There are many ways to force a transfer but one golden rule has to be observed. What you must never do is get an owner angry. Once a billionaire owner says, Hes not for sale, you are dead. Deal. Does. Not. Happen.

The agent who is talking to The Athletic represents some of the biggest names in the game. I dont mind a manager or a CEO saying not for sale, he adds, smiling. But if an owner says it, you aint going nowhere because their own credibility is on the line and they dont want to be embarrassed.

Upsetting anybody else is seen as fair game. Part of the game, in fact. Its how transfers very few of which are straightforward get done. If you cant find a solution, you do whatever is necessary to get out, another agent adds. Im not playing, tossing it off in training, bad body language, not putting the effort in. You never get a move by being nice.

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As a seasonal worker in Kings County I've just found out that I have to keep a daily log of my job search activities.

I forgot this is a requirement for continuation of EI benefits.

If I don't satisfy the employment insurance people, I will lose my benefits.

I have been paying into EI, like all workers in Canada, since I entered the workforce as a teenager which means I have been paying into the system for over 34 years.

I have collected EI once in the late 1980s and four or five times in this century.

I find it interesting that the people on the lowest rung of the economic ladder must keep a daily log of their job search efforts, and be ready to provide this information at a moments notice to EI or they can lose their benefits while the people on the top of the economic ladder, senators, MPs and other high government types are not accountable for their activities.

For example, a senator who as a senator makes the rules that the senators operate under or at least has input into those rules, not only doesn't have to abide by those rules but doesn't even have to understand them.

The rules they make they can claim they didn't understand. Closer to home we have the e-gaming mystery. Apparently, no decision maker was involved in this fiasco.

I guess this just proves the old saying about the golden rule, those with the gold make the rules. And the lowest in society get stomped on at the leisure of the upper crust of society.Charles Axworthy,Montague

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(CBS NEWS) Online shoppers waiting for a package to arrive may want to think twice before opening any delivery updates that are texted to them. FedEx and Amazon are warning customers about a new nationwide scam, according to CBS New York correspondent Tom Hanson.

People across the U.S. are receiving text messages that claim to be from FedEx and ask you to set delivery preferences. Its a new example of a growing scam called smishing in which fraudsters send unsolicited messages from well-known companies or reputable sources to try to obtain phone access and personal information from their targets. The scheme is similar to phishing, long a source of scam email, only its powered by the short message service, or SMS, technology used in texting.

Anyone that has a phone number could be a target, said Justin Duino, managing editor of online tech publicationHow-To Geek.

Duino said people who click on the link sent in a smishing attack are directed to a fake Amazon customer satisfaction survey. It then offers a free watch or other gifts as a reward, but requires recipients to enter their credit card information to pay for shipping.

When you dig into it, its asking you to sign up for a trial to the company where theyll charge you almost $100 a month, he said.

A number of Twitter users said they had been targeted by the FedEx smishing scam.

Security experts said they dont know who is behind the scam, while police in several states are warning people not to fall for it.

In atweet from FedEx, the company told customers: We do not send unsolicited texts or emails requesting money, package or personal information. Suspicious messages should be deleted without being opened and reported to abuse@fedex.com.

Duinos advice? If you dont recognize the sender of a text and if you dont trust whoever is sending it to you, dont click on any links. If you do, Id immediately exit out of them, he said.

Although it can be hard to tell the real messages from the fake ones, Duinos golden rule is: Think before you click.

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