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President Donald Trump wants to turn his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, into an official government golf course for U.S. presidents, operated by his family’s company.

Harvey Oyer, a real estate lawyer there, said in a letter to the Palm Beach County commissioners that Trump is offering to “designate” his Trump International Golf Club as a “U.S. Presidential Golf Course.” The course would be “utilized by all past, current, and future United States Presidents and visiting foreign heads of state,” according to a copy of the letter, sent last month and obtained by the Palm Beach Post.

[Photo: Christopher Beckett/NurPhoto/Getty Images]

“Just as Camp David, Windsor Castle, or the Elysée Palace are known worldwide, so too will the Presidential Golf Course in Palm Beach County,” Oyer wrote.

The course, opened in 1999, was Trump’s first. It’s about 5 miles west of Mar-a-Lago, the resort and estate Trump purchased in 1985, and just south of the airport previously known as the Palm Beach International Airport, which Florida Governor Ron DeSantis renamed the President Donald J. Trump International Airport on July 9. The plan to make the course presidential represents the latest effort to expand Trump’s presence and cement his legacy in Palm Beach County. As Trump and his allies work to put his name up across the city in Washington, D.C., similar efforts are occurring in Florida.

Donald Trump (center) at the Trump International Golf Club groundbreaking ceremony, West Palm Beach, Florida, December 5, 1997. [Photo: Davidoff Studios/Getty Images]

Under the proposal, Trump’s family company would provide all access to the golf course and facilities at no cost to the federal government, but the company would continue to operate it.

Turning a normal golf course into a course for U.S. presidents requires security upgrades and improvements, which the letter says Trump International Golf Club already has. The presidential designation could also allow the course to use the presidential seal, although Trump has shown no hesitation in using seal at private golf courses and elsewhere before.

Past presidents have donated property to the government before, the letter notes, such as Dwight Eisenhower donating his farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to the National Park Service and FDR donating land in Hyde Park, New York, where his library was built. But Trump’s proposal represents something different. While the letter frames it as a gift, Trump also stands to benefit.

Trump made nearly $37 million from the golf course last year, according to financial records reviewed by The Washington Post. If the course became a permanent fixture for future presidents, that could generate more revenue for the Trump family company.

Trump’s preoccupation with government golf courses includes a D.C. golf course he wants to remake that’s run by the National Park Service. (It’s where rubble from the White House East Wing was taken after the structure was knocked down last year.) A government course in Palm Beach that his family’s business runs and that he can go to as a former president would be an even closer entwining of Trump’s golf habit and the state, even after he leaves office.

Physicists in Singapore have built an atomic clock so precise that it measures time down to the 19th decimal place.

A machine with this level of accuracy could run for hundreds of billions of years—far longer than the entire age of the universe—without gaining or losing a single second. This leaves the world’s reigning timekeeping superpowers in the dust.

Until now, the ultimate records belonged to elite laboratories in the U.S. and China, which spent years locked in an intense scientific duel using clocks powered by aluminum and deep-frozen calcium (both using ions, which are individual atoms stripped of an electron to give them an electric charge).

But Singapore’s new clock shatters anything else out there by delivering a fourfold leap in accuracy over the best American and Chinese machines, establishing a whole new league of precision, according to the research paper published in Nature.

[Image: Centre for Quantum Technologies] An element with an armor

Atomic clocks quietly run modern civilization. Without their ultra-precise timing, GPS navigation would fail, cellular networks like 5G would desynchronize, and real-time financial markets would descend into chaos. Today, the world’s official time is still governed by cesium atomic clocks, a global standard established in the 1960s.

At their core, these machines work just like a grandfather clock, but instead of counting the mechanical swings of a brass pendulum, they count the natural vibrations of light waves.

An atom is surrounded by orbiting electrons that inhabit distinct energy levels. When exposed to electromagnetic radiation vibrating at an exact frequency, those electrons absorb the energy and jump between levels.

In a standard cesium clock, a microwave beam is tuned until it hits the precise frequency that makes the electrons jump—several billion oscillations every second. The clock’s electronics simply count those waves: When exactly 9,192,631,770 cycles tick by, one official second has passed.

In the early 2000s, physicists realized they could build a much sharper metronome. Instead of using microwaves, they developed optical atomic clocks that bathe atoms in visible laser light. Because laser light waves vibrate hundreds of trillions of times every second—thousands of times faster than microwaves—they divide each second into trillions of tiny slices, tracking the flow of time with vastly finer resolution.

Not all atomic clocks are created equal, however. Even though an atom’s internal jump is fixed by the fundamental laws of physics, the atom itself can be nudged off beat by temperature changes, stray electric charges, or magnetic fields.

That sensitivity sparked an intense race among global superpowers to create the most stable atomic clocks using different elements.

[Image: Centre for Quantum Technologies]

Now an unprecedented level of precision has arrived with a new clock sitting inside a laboratory of Singapore’s Centre for Quantum Technologies. There you will find a massive, vibration-damped steel table crowded with lenses, beam splitters, and mirrors. At its core are two sealed, stainless-steel vacuum chambers resembling miniature deep-sea submersibles, each ringed with circular glass portholes.

Peering through the glass into the pitch-black vacuum, you find four tiny, parallel metal rods pulsing with radio frequency electricity—rapidly alternating electrical currents that act like an invisible tractor beam, a device known as a linear Paul trap.

These rods generate an oscillating electric cage that holds a single, charged atom of lutetium—the key to the new clock design—hovering in midair in the dead center of the chamber, without touching a single physical surface.

Building a clock around a lone atom is usually an engineering nightmare. In an ordinary room, an atom is constantly assaulted by invisible background noise: heat radiating off laboratory walls, stray magnetic forces from electrical wiring, and wandering electric charges.

Most atoms get rattled by these disturbances, which push their internal ticks out of rhythm. Lutetium, however, has an internal structure that acts like built-in noise-canceling armor, the scientists say.

As the Nature study points out, the specific electron jump the researchers track inside lutetium is naturally blind to the ambient thermal warmth of the room, and it shrugs off stray magnetic fields far better than competing designs. Second, lutetium is an exceptionally heavy atom.

While lighter atoms dart and tremble when warmed by room temperatures—blurring their internal tempo—heavy lutetium acts like a solid anchor, sitting virtually motionless and preventing speed-induced timing errors.

[Image: Centre for Quantum Technologies] Noise canceling

To clean up whatever tiny disturbances remained, the researchers engineered a clever method called “hyperfine averaging.” Think of it like a playground seesaw.

Inside lutetium, one electron energy state—the level of energy that electron has, which can go up and down in fixed steps—gets slightly nudged upward by a magnetic field, while a sibling energy state gets pushed downward by the exact same amount.

Aiming directly through the glass windows from outside the chamber are metal microwave horns and a network of laser beams. By firing rapid, timed bursts of microwaves at the hovering atom during the laser measurement, the researchers flipped the electron back and forth between these opposite states.

Because the atom spends equal time leaning up and leaning down, the unwanted magnetic and electrical pushes that could affect it mathematically cancel each other out over the course of every tick, leaving the clock running in pure, uncorrupted rhythm.

The team believed they had developed the most accurate clock in existence, but they needed to test whether that precision held up in the real world.

“There is a humorous saying that ‘a man with a watch knows what time it is, and a man with two watches is never sure,’” joint first author Kyle Arnold says. “It basically tells you that the only way to test the accuracy of a standard is to compare clocks and demonstrate reproducibility.”

To prove their clock was not fooling itself, the researchers built two completely independent lutetium clocks side by side on the same table and locked them into a 200-hour duel. They found that their two-clock test worked flawlessly. The clock’s precision was not a mirage.

Murray Barrett, a principal investigator at the Centre for Quantum Technologies and associate professor of physics at the National University of Singapore, led the study. “In the future, I just don’t see how this clock can be beat,” he says.

Barrett underscores how impervious the device is to external conditions by noting in the press release: “The good properties mean that high accuracy can be achieved even in a wide range of environments. The lutetium clock would be accurate even if you went from the hottest place recorded on Earth in Death Valley to the coldest place in the Antarctic plateau.”

[Image: Centre for Quantum Technologies] Feeling the warping of space-time

Perhaps the most astonishing aspect of the experiment is how directly it interacts with Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Einstein proved that gravity is not just an invisible downward pull; concentrations of mass and energy warp the fabric of space and time.

The closer you are to a massive body like Earth, the stronger gravity is, and the slower time ticks. That means a clock sitting on the floor runs slower than a clock resting on a bookshelf, even if humans cannot perceive the difference without instruments this sensitive.

These machines are so sensitive that they can feel time slowing down across a height difference of barely a fraction of an inch. During testing, the team discovered that a microscopic tilt in their laboratory table caused one clock to tick slightly faster than its twin, simply because one atom was suspended roughly 0.16 inches higher off the ground than the other.

To prove that the two clocks were fundamentally identical, the scientists had to physically measure the vertical height of both trapped ions down to fractions of a hundredth of an inch and mathematically subtract the gravitational warping caused by the Earth beneath them.

If you’re thinking, Why does measuring a fraction of a second matter? that’s fair. But this breakthrough extends far beyond the art of telling time. It gives humanity a brand-new measuring tool for observing reality.

To start, the international organizations that govern global measurement are preparing to officially rewrite the definition of the second around 2030, and this lutetium clock has suddenly leaped forward as a top contender to become the planet’s new master standard.

Beyond the laboratory, these clocks can revolutionize geology. Because their ticking tempo changes with the slightest shift in local gravity, portable versions of the machines could be loaded into trucks and driven across continents to act like subterranean radar.

Geophysicists could use them to detect dense magma chambers creeping beneath active volcanoes, spot tectonic faults warping prior to earthquakes, and measure ocean levels with sub-inch precision—a technique the Nature study terms “chronometric levelling.”

Turned toward the cosmos, interconnected arrays of these clocks could detect the faint, passing ripples of invisible dark matter drifting through our solar system, or test whether the fundamental constants of nature—the unbending baseline rules of physics, such as the speed of light or the charge of an electron—have stayed constant since the dawn of the Big Bang.

To bring that future out of the lab, joint first author Michael Lee explains, “The next step is to take the lab-scale clock and miniaturize it into a transportable system,” with the authors confident that downsizing the hardware will not degrade its performance.

This is far more than just another record-setting atomic clock. By holding a single atom of lutetium in complete stillness, physicists have fashioned an instrument that can eavesdrop on the subtle, cosmic hum of space-time itself.

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The communist leadership is still firmly in charge 90 miles off the coast of Florida.

A recruiter reaches out. They tell you you’re a good candidate for a senior role or board seat. The opportunity is plausible, but edging into the too-good-to-be-true zone. That’s exactly what happened over a year ago to an operations executive who contacted me. I’m an executive and board résumé writer.

They wrote: “I want to confirm you’re the person I’ve been communicating with about the résumé for [X Hospital]. Could you please verify?”

I replied: “No, we have not communicated.”

They followed with: “I’ve been working with a supposed recruiter at [X Hospital] on a position. She asked me to update my résumé and said she’d used you many times. She told me to write to you at [email address] and provided specific wording to use. When I emailed the person posing as you, we had a few back-and-forth emails. I became slightly suspicious and asked to speak on the phone. She never responded after that.”

This executive was smart. They stopped before paying someone who was impersonating me to write their résumé.

Another executive wasn’t as fortunate. They emailed me: “I wanted to verify one point independently. [Jane Doe] originally referred me to you for the Executive Board Advisory profile work. Can you please confirm whether you have a working relationship with Jane?”

I replied: “This is the first time I have heard from you. I don’t know [Jane Doe]. I found one unverified LinkedIn profile for someone with that name in the US. If that’s your person, the lack of profile verification is a red flag.”

By then, they had already paid several hundred dollars to an impersonator.

I’ve shared two versions of the same scam, one involving a supposed internal recruiter and another involving a supposed third-party executive search consultant. Unfortunately both types, and others like them, are proliferating.

I talked with Stacy Donovan Zapar about this. She’s a consultant who recruits and trains recruiters. Her work has made her deeply familiar with candidate and recruiter fraud. Stacy says the recruiter-to-résumé-writer scam works because almost every detail the scammers provide is real. They use real names, websites, headshots, and LinkedIn profile links. They impersonate real people. If you Google them, everything looks legitimate. 

But a Google search or LinkedIn profile check isn’t enough. Here’s how to protect yourself.

What to do when an unknown recruiter contacts you

First, understand that unfamiliar recruiter outreach now requires verification. AI has made it easier for fraudsters to send polished, convincing messages at scale. People targeted by this scam have repeatedly told me the communications were believable.

Next, don’t share information with an unknown recruiter until you’re sure they are who they say they are. Otherwise, you could fall for a phishing scam.

Here are the three major warning signs you have a problem:

1. The recruiter is writing to you from a personal email address rather than a company domain.

2. They want you to send them, or a résumé writer they recommend, money for new career documents. You don’t know them. They initiated contact. They want you to send money.

3. They create urgency to get those documents produced quickly.

The Association of Executive Search Consultants has an even longer list of red flags.

How to verify the recruiter

Ask them to email you from their corporate domain. If they won’t, you have your answer. If they do, compare that domain carefully with the company’s official website and email addresses. Look for misspellings, extra words, and other small but critical differences.

If anything looks off, stop. If the recruiter is fake, the job and the résumé writer aren’t real either.

If you think the recruiter is fake, halt communications with them. This is a situation where it’s OK to ghost someone. Block them and be done. Report the suspected fraud to the FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov and to the FBI at IC3.gov.

And tell other executives about the scam. It works because it looks legitimate. The more people know about it and understand it, the harder the deception becomes.

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