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Reflections of a Rutgers Hillel Student President, 10 Years Later by Rebecca Leibowitz '04
by Andrew Getraer | May 20, 2014 | Hillel | 0 comments
Reflections of a Rutgers Hillel Student President, 10 Years Later
By Rebecca Leibowitz, Class of 2004
Rebecca Leibowitz in 2014
It's early September in the year 2000 and I'm a newly knighted freshwoman at Rutgers College. With the support and patience of my parents, I move into Clothier Hall on College Ave, a building that holds 350 students, at a university consisting of five campuses and serving roughly 40,000 undergraduates. There are people all around me, coming from every US State and from 105 countries, from Albania to Zimbabwe. It's my first time living away from home, and after coming from a high school of less than 200 in my graduating class, I feel immediately lost.
To ease the adjustment, I attend New Student Orientation with my roommate, but it doesn't help. Serendipitously, it's Friday night and we remember that Rutgers Hillel is hosting a Shabbat dinner at Brower Commons. We walk away from the large crowd and, at that moment, make a decision that, while we didn't know it at the time, would change our lives forever.
We have all had moments in our lives where we feel overwhelmed or disconnected. In 2000, my roommate Rebecca Markowitz and I were two Jewish girls from New Jersey, attempting to find our place in a sea of thousands, looking to belong. For both of us, Rutgers Hillel instantaneously became that space for the next four years and beyond.
If Rutgers Hillel had just given me a social community that I could turn to when I felt lost, it would have been enough (dayenu!). Yet, there was so much more to come! At that first Shabbat dinner, I was invited to attend an upcoming event. That event turned into another event, and then another, which then led me to become a part of an event planning committee. This was truly the first time in my life that I felt empowered to flex programmatic and leadership skills in a way where I felt heard, and could see legitimate results of my labor and time. As a Jewish day school and youth group alumna, I had up to this point several experiences that played a significant role in my commitment to Jewish communal life, but it wasn't until I got involved at Rutgers Hillel that I realized that I was actually developing into a Jewish communal leader.
Noam Kutler '04, Rebecca Leibowitz '04,
Stephanie Schwartz '04, and Rebecca Markowitz '04
at the Israel Inspires Gala in June 2004
During my junior year, fellow student Stephanie Schwartz convinced me to run for student president. She may not remember this, but the rationale she gave was that if I didn't run, the election would be uncontested, and that candidates should be challenged. Ironically, the person that I ran against was none other than the person who would become her husband, Noam Kutler. Life can be funny that way.
I credit Rutgers Hillel for opening up my eyes to the world of innovative programming, event planning, public speaking and so much more. These are all muscles I flexed for the first time in my leadership roles at Rutgers Hillel, aka my professional development laboratory.
When I reflect back to my experiences at Rutgers Hillel, I am shocked at how insulated and safe I felt in the community while also strongly feeling the effects of specific world events. I recall being a young sophomore on September 11, 2001. When classes were cancelled in the wake of the tragic events, my immediate instinct was to go to Rutgers Hillel, where I spent the next several days with my college family watching the footage of the planes hitting the towers on the tiny television in 93 College Ave.
Rebecca Leibowitz '04 and Marisa Yammer '04
at the Israel Inspires rally on October 9, 2003
My college years were also years of great challenge for the Jewish community, as the events of the 2000-2005 second intifada created a cycle of violence we had not seen before in our young lifetimes. As a college community, we were confused, helpless, and trying to navigate the hostile opinions about Israel around us. My involvement at Rutgers Hillel gave me the forum to learn more about Israel's politics, and of course, empowered me to react, along with my community. While we understood that we did not have control over events in the Middle East, we did have control over our own education of the situation and advocacy on the college campus.
David Pincus building the Israel Inspires sukkah
in October 2003
And from that desire to make a difference, Israel Inspires was born. Led by Andrew Getraer and Rabbi Esther Reed, my fellow students and I felt a call to action that resulted in more than just a rally, block party, and weekend conference (not to mention the largest sukkah ever to be built on the roof of a Hyatt hotel), but a community of activists who are all still making a difference in the world today.
There have been countless times over the past 10 years, from job interviews to graduate school applications, where I have cited my involvement with Rutgers Hillel and Israel Inspires as a formative leadership experience. Every leadership or professional role I have held since then has been influenced by the management and problem solving skills as well as confidence-building tools that I learned there.
I'm being honored as part of the Israel Inspires Team at the Annual Gala to be held on Tuesday June 17. Even though touch points with my fellow students are not as frequent as I would like, I still feel a camaraderie with this group and it'll be good to catch up with some of them next month. I would love for you to come out to support us and to support the wonderful work of Rutgers Hillel.
Rebecca Leibowitz '04 with the Hillel Leadership Council
in the back parlor of 93 College Avenue in 2001-2002
Rutgers Hillel is proud to honor Rebecca and the Israel Inspires Team '04 at the Annual Gala on Tuesday, June 17th. Rutgers Hillel cultivates the next generation of Jewish leaders. The Israel Inspires Team '04 is a true testament to that.
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Building innovation, a generation at a time
Inside the enterprise: We should remember that today's technology and social media builds on what came before.
by: Stephen Pritchard
What turns an idea into a product, and a product into a success? When it comes to technology, the answer could be technology itself.
There is a long history of new technologies being built on the foundations of the older generation. Large parts of Britain's early rail network were built, literally, on top of filled-in canals. Even today, new cars are delivered by rail, and parts of new Airbus planes are ferried around by boat and truck between the UK, Germany, and France.
But in the world of software and online services, that process is far more rapid. So rapid, in fact, that today's social media brands owe their success largely to the social media networks that went before.
Research carried out by MIT has found that Twitter owes much of its rapid growth to older social networks, and to conventional media. The academics studied Twitter's growth trajectory between 2006 and 2009, looked at data from 16,000 US cities, and looked more deeply at 408 cities with the largest number of Twitter users.
The MIT team found, unsurprisingly, that Twitter grew fastest in cities such as Boston and San Francisco, known for their tech-savvy populations. But the next wave of Twitter users clumped together in towns and cities near to those technology hubs. This, researchers believe, showed that Twitter use was spreading not through some hi-tech jungle telegraph, but by word of mouth.
But the really big boosts to Twitter came from a combination of social media, and conventional media. Researchers correlated the growth in Twitter use to news stories about the site, using data generated by Google News. They found spikes when US actor Ashton Kutcher challenged CNN to see who reached the one million followers milestone first; another spike followed when Oprah Winfrey sent her first Tweet.
The MIT team calculate that Twitter grew four times as fast, as a result of attention from "old media", including newspapers and TV, than it might otherwise have done. And "as recently as 2009, location-based social networks and media attention still held sway over computer-based social networks," said MIT.
Whether that would apply now MIT only studied data to 2009 is another question. Increasingly new web services and social networks spread through services such as Twitter, or Facebook, or BBM. And there are plenty of start ups that are building their technologies quickly (and cheaply) on the previous generation of start ups and innovations: think Amazon Web Services, Google Docs, or even Salesforce.com.
Steam punks and cyber warriors alike should remember that each new innovator builds on the last "next big thing", and each inventor builds on the work done by the previous generation, whether the Brunels and Stephensons, or Tim Berners-Lee's team at CERN.
As we move into 2012, spare a thought for those who made the innovations of 2011 possible. Happy Holidays.
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Guggenheim protesters highlight poor labor practices
By Miles Jaffe
Apr 1, '14 12:45 PM EST
Saadiyat Island, off the coast of Abu Dhabi, has seen $27 billion in investments pour in as the island hopes to become a new beacon of culture in the region
developers behind the island have received international attention for the poor conditions in which migrant laborers work and live. Reports have found that in some cases, the control employers hold over the island's workers, such as withholding their passports to prevent them from returning to their home countries, amounts to forced labor. — Al Jazeera America
Saadiyat Island includes a half-billion-dollar branch of the Louvre Museum designed by Jean Nouvel, a national museum designed by Norman Foster and a variety of luxury resorts, golf clubs, marinas and private villas.
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Jim Beam will use local Super Bowl ad buys in the nation's top three media markets to show off its first new global ad campaign in five years. The effort, called "Raised Right," begins with an ad recalling how the family-run bourbon brand rebuilt itself in the wake of Prohibition.
Another spot takes place in the present day, but still leans into the brand's 224-year heritage. It shows a worker glancing up at portraits of Beam family members dating back seven generations as he decides to stick with the practice of barrel-ageing the bourbon "twice as long as the law requires." Regulations require whiskey to be aged for at least two years in order to be labeled "straight bourbon whiskey." Jim Beam ages for four years.
The ads mark the debut effort for the Beam Suntory-owned brand by Adam & Eve DDB New York, which won the account last year.
"Raised Right" replaces "Make History," which similarly touched on Beam's heritage but had prominently featured Mila Kunis. She became the brand's spokeswoman in 2014. The actress is not shown in the new ads. David Campbell, Beam Suntory's VP for integrated marketing communications, says Kunis is "still a longstanding partner with us and we are looking forward to our future collaborations together." But her appearance in future ads is "still to be determined," he adds.
Still, Beam will get some national recognition during the game, in addition to the local buys, because AB InBev is plugging its Budweiser Copper Lager, a co-branded beer with Jim Beam. The ad is by VaynerMedia. Beam was not involved in the national ad, but "it's a great opportunity to be able to share a space with them," Campbell says.
Beam's new campaign comes as American whiskey continues to experience a multi-year resurgence. Whiskey sales in stores jumped 7 percent in the 52-week period ending Dec. 30 to $2.5 billion, according to IRI. Jim Beam sales surged 12 percent to more than $200 million.
While the "Make History" campaign focused on "quality credentials [and] what goes into crafting a great whiskey," the "Raised Right" platform "has much more flexibility for us to tell a bit more emotional or cultural story…and share our point of view on the world," Campbell says.
He described that POV as providing a "gentle reminder for folks just to treat others like you want to be treated, treat people with honesty decency, respect, to listen to each other."


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Jack Youngblood: Top 10 Must-Know Facts About Football Player
Jack Youngblood (Football Player) was born on the 26th of January, 1950. He was born in 1950s, in Baby Boomers Generation. His birth sign is Aquarius and his life path number is 6. Jack's birth flower is Carnation and birthstone is Garnet. What does this all mean? Let's find out!
Discover all the facts that no one tells you about Jack Youngblood below ↓
NAME: Jack Youngblood
REAL NAME: Herbert Jackson Youngblood III
NICKNAME: Hennessy Carolina, Hennessy, Hennessy Almanzar
PROFESSION: Football Player
BIRTHPLACE: Jacksonville
ETHNICITY: Unknown
SEXUALITY: N/A
1. Bio
Jack Youngblood, best known for being a Football Player, was born in Jacksonville on Thursday, January 26, 1950. Hall of Fame NFL defensive end who played 14 seasons with the Los Angeles Rams.
Family: His parents, Herbert J. and Kay Youngblood, also had two daughters, Paula and Lynn. Jack Youngblood father's name is under review and mother unknown at this time. We will continue to update details on Jack Youngblood's family.
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BROTHER(S): Not available
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Education: Herbert Jackson Youngblood III attended Florida.
Dating: According to CelebsCouples, Jack Youngblood is single .
Net Worth: Online estimates of Jack Youngblood's net worth vary. It's easy to predict his income, but it's much harder to know how much he has spent over the years. CelebsMoney and NetWorthStatus does a good job of breaking most of it down.
2. Jack Youngblood's zodiac sign is Aquarius
Jack Youngblood zodiac sign is a Aquarius. Dates of Aquarius are January 20 - February 18. Aquarius often comes off as an oddball - they have quirky personalities and quietly go about accomplishing their goals in quiet, and unorthodox ways. Many of them are also easy going and their peculiarity alongside their curious nature make them fast friendships. They are intelligent, inventive, humanistic, friendly, altruistic and reformative. Although, they can be emotionally detached, scatterbrained, irresponsible, impersonal
BORN IN THE YEAR OF THE: Tiger
RULING PLANET: Uranus
3. He is currently 71 years old
The American football player has been alive for 26,289 days or 630,957 hours. There were precisely 891 full moons after his birth to this day.
BORN: January 26, 1950
BORN ON: Thursday
GENERATION: Baby Boomers Generation
Jack Youngblood was born on a Thursday. The 'thur' in Thursday is actually derived from the Norse god Thor. People born on Thursdays are generally a fun to be around, which means Thursday's babies get to be the life of the party.
Countdown to Jack Youngblood's next birthday.
Jack Youngblood will be turning 72.
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1531 – Lisbon hit by Earthquake; about 30,000 die.
1564 – The Council of Trent issued its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
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6. The Year of the Tiger
Jack Youngblood was born in the Year of the Tiger. People with Chinese zodiac Tiger are powerful, independent, confident and brave. They have strong sense of errantry, being frank and easy to win others' trust. Their strengths are tolerant, loyal, valiant, courageous, trustworthy, intelligent, and virtuous. But they can also be arrogant, short-tempered, hasty, traitorous. Their lucky numbers are 1, 3, 4, and lucky colors are grey, blue, white, orange.
7. Jack Youngblood's life path number is 6
Life Path Number 6 represent 'The Nurturer'. Those who walk a Life Path with Number 6 gift the world with unconditional love, healing and nurturing. 6 teaches true compassion and empathy. Its energy is that of Mother Gaia. The values are responsibility, family, long-term goals. The challenges are to make your home comfortable for yourself and others.
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Jack Youngblood was born in the middle of Baby Boomers Generation.
9. Jack Youngblood's birthstone is Garnet
Garnet traditionally is a symbol of faith, love and constancy are its attributes. Because of this, it's held that it might prevent nightmares and can provide directional guidance in darkness.
10. Jack Youngblood's birth flower is Carnation
Carnation symbolizes pride, beauty, admiration and gratitude, fascination, distinction, and divine love.
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A man, irritated by the presence of a photographer, solves his dilemma by swallowing him and his camera whole.
James Williamson seems to have been less bitten by the trick-film bug than his contemporaries G.A. Smith , R.W. Paul and W.R. Booth , but he made one of the most striking genre entries in The Big Swallow (1901), which makes imaginative use of an extreme close-up to create one of the seminal images of early British (and world) cinema, as effective in its way as the slashed eyeball of Un Chien Andalou (France, 1929, d. Luis Buñuel/Salvador Dalí), and of just as much appeal to the Surrealist movement.
Fellow South Coast pioneer G.A. Smith had already produced films featuring extreme close-up photography (surviving examples including Grandma's Reading Glass and Spiders on a Web , both 1900), but Williamson took the concept a stage further by featuring a man advancing towards the camera, remaining in more or less perfect focus until his mouth appears to swallow the lens. Williamson then cuts to the photographer apparently disappearing into a black void, and then back to the man who, according to his catalogue, "retires munching him up and expressing great satisfaction".
Although Williamson 's purpose was primarily comic (and doubtless inspired by unwanted attention from increasingly savvy passers-by while filming his actuality shorts), The Big Swallow is also one of the most important early British films in that it was one of the first to deliberately exploit the contrast between the eye of the camera and of the audience watching the final film. The film might have been still more effective if Williamson had omitted the second and third shots altogether, since they detract from the logical purity of the first, ending on a completely blank screen as the swallowed camera is no longer able to function as a surrogate for the audience's point of view.
The swallower of the title is played by Sam Dalton , a professional comedian who appeared in a number of Williamson 's films (including Are You There? and The Magic Extinguisher , both 1901).
*This film is included in the BFI DVD compilation 'Early Cinema: Primitives and Pioneers'. It is also featured in full as part of 'How They Laughed', Paul Merton's interactive guide to early British silent comedy. Note that this material is not limited to users in registered UK libraries and educational establishments: it can be accessed by anyone, anywhere.


I first met this family last year when I took 1 year old photos for their sweet little girl. I was so excited to hear they are expecting again and to photograph a maternity session for them! One of my favorite things about this job is getting to see families grow over the years.


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Q: When and how to prevent a god activity in Android I know this question might not be one which has just one correct answer. But letting me know, that there are several solutions with good reasons for each of them, would already help a lot. So here we go:
I have designed an app which manages persons along with measurement data for each person. The data can be displayed in a chart. Generally this leads to the following tasks:

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*Person: Add

*Person: View

*Person: Edit

*Person: Delete (more an option with a security dialog than a real screen)

*Measurements: View (List)

*Measurement: Add

*Measurement: Delete (again more an option with a security dialog)

*Measurements: Plot (in a large graph view)

The app will run on a phone at first. I have read that an activity is supposed to serve a very limited purpose, so the scenario would lead to one activity for each task.
However, when the app is displayed on a tablet in landscape mode, I can imagine to have three sections on the screen at once:

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*One section in the top right cornern managing persons

*One section below that listing the values for the selected person

*One larger section on the right part of the screen to plot measurements

I often read that I should avoid to create god activities. On the other hand I read that fragments is the way to go, so that each screen can easily be displayed as a subscreen on a tablet, as it is planned here.
I started off with creating the app for mobile phones, so I created one activity, which juggles all fragments (almost one for each task) in a single fragment container.
Is this the way to go, when I want to do it by the book?
I was wondering whether I should create a separate activity for each task. For the phone this makes things easier. But on a tablet I would have to control the fragments from one single activity anyway, correct? So in that case a god activity it needs to be?

A: You are definitely on the right track, but there are some things you may want to look into.
In my opinion Activities should only be used to host Fragments and transfer events between Fragments. Basically, the only logic that you should have in your Activity is handling the navigation. The logic stays in the Fragments (or some other layer, used by your Fragments) and it is not exposed to the Activity at all. In that way there will be no need to duplicate any logic and make some Activity a "God" Activity.

A: Good that you started thinking about it. You should always prevent god activity. Read about MVC, MVP & android architecture patterns which help you avoid creating a god object.

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Small celebrations of wonderful things that capture my imagination!
Here you'll find the beautiful, the quirky, the curious, the bizarre, the amusing and the wow!
Further to my award winning books in my '52 Weekends' series, North Coast Journey is a richly illustrated, magical odyssey through the highlands of Scotland's far north.
The dramatically changing coastline, awesome mountain scenery, scattered cottages in sparsely populated landscape, abundant wildlife and birdlife, and welcoming community hubs make this a very special adventure for people of all ages.
The discoveries I share are diverse. I invite you to travel routes taken by skilled drovers herding hundreds of cattle through wild scenery. Weave your way through ancient landscape to spine tingling settlements and monuments made by our ancestors in prehistory times. Surf some of the finest cold water waves in the world. Visit crofts and castles were you will be made most warmly welcome. Explore at ease through 10 clear stages; each offering the bonus optional detours to yet more fantastic discoveries.
The essence of the book is to slow down, to connect with the north highlands in a meaningful and respectful way.
I invite you to nourish your spirit in nature, to be inspired by driech damp weather and golden sunshine days, to observe mountains express moods of light and shade through veils of mist and drifting cloud. To enjoy the tang of salty sea air as wild wind whips surging white horses and to peer into the ocean mirror as it reflects passing boats and romantic sunsets in the bewitching hush of calm, flat days.
I invite you to feast – on simple pleasures! To connect with local people in diverse communities, to reach dreamy beaches and secluded coves off the beaten track, to saunter footpaths with heart-stopping island views, to be still, to hear bird song, the rhythm of softly lapping waves, the uplifting sound of silence, and so much more!
North Coast Journey is based on my authentic, first-hand experience, my knowledge and extensive research. I am thrilled to share this beautiful, romantic and magical new adventure with you.
Whatever you do, don't rush it!
The glassy wonder of Glasgow Central station is 139 years old today. I love this busy place! I love the city too! There are more images of it on my Facebook page but here is a hidden beauty that some people never notice in the city railway hub.
This beautiful mosaic celebrating Glasgow as The cultural Capital of Europe in 1990 is installed in the station below eye level so you have to seek it out carefully, but it's well worth it.
I especially love the left hand panel that depicts a sunrise over the west of Britain and a return of the light to the land. The mural, commissioned by British Rail, is the inspired work of Jude Burkhauser an artist and curator with a huge passion for Glasgow. She was born in Trenton, New Jersey 10 September 1947 and died 19 September 1998.
If you are visiting the station, take a few special minutes to experience her beautiful work. It feels, to me, a meditation on journeys in life.
The installation was achieved by Fiorino Pallisco (1932-2008) a brilliantly skilled artisan mosaic specialist at DeCecco Ltd. Fiorino was a native of Italy who lived in Scotland and created murals around the world.
So happy birthday to the beautiful station, made ever lovelier by inspired and creative souls!
When hill and mountain snow begins to melt, rivers and burns become torrents. Summer's trickling waterfalls become spectacular cascades. So many reasons to love winter!


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Edward Chorlton OBE has decided to stand down as Chairman of Exeter City AFC with immediate effect following speculation in the press.
Mr Chorlton wishes Exeter City AFC well in the future. He says the Club has a professional Board of Directors, an outstanding manager, a very talented young team, and a group of hard working staff. He thanks them for their support and friendship over the last four and a half years and wishes the club and its dedicated supporters a very successful 2014/15 season.


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Q: How does a modern browser handle scrolling? I'm wondering how a modern browser handles scrolling of a displayed page.
Is the whole page re-rendered after every scroll step, or is there an internal bitmap or possibly even GPU accelerated buffer that is just moved around?
There is a lot of talk about GPU acceleration these days, but what exactly is accelerated: The paiting process of the actual content (images, text, lines...), the compositing of the various elements on the page, or both?

A: Doesn't need to be a particularly modern browser. Windows (the OS) has supported scroll support for quite a while, for all applications. Windows keeps track which part of a window are "valid" and which are "invalid", and asks the program to redraw invalid parts. After scrolling, only a thin edge is invalid and needs redrawing.
(Current versions of Windows use a function called ScrollWindowEx for this)

A: The following links can give some insights.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Features/windows-scrolling
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/AcceleratedScrolling
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gecko:Mouse_Wheel_Scrolling


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Evangelical Group Says It Will 'Cure' HIV At Minnesota Pride Festival
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A Minnesota evangelical group claims its representatives will cure HIV and AIDS at the Twin Cities Pride Festival this weekend.
Trinity Works said it will attend the pride festival Saturday and Sunday and 300 "outreach" workers will carry out "Humility 2014."
The group's founder, Steven Uggen, said he had a vision from god which told him to heal homosexuals with HIV.
"My journey into the heart of God around the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender community started about five years ago," Uggen told a group of worshipers at Bethany Church in late April, according to The Column.
He said that healing those with HIV will allow homosexuals to leave "the lifestyle" and turn to Christ.
"One of the words we got out of this outreach, the Lord really wanted to demonstrate his goodness to this community by releasing healing of HIV and AIDS, so we believe we're going to see people healed of HIV and AIDS and we're just, we're carrying that word of the Lord into this outreach," he told a Robbinsdale church in April.
He instructed followers to tell festival-goers: "Here's what I want you to do: go to your doctor, get tested for HIV or AIDS and when you come back negative, you've got a decision to make whether you're gonna serve the God who just healed you."
"[And] then give them some gospel materials that they can take with them and encourage them to call on us and let us know, and I'm confident that we're going to have people healed of HIV and AIDS that are going to be contacting us," he said.
"This is a strategy that God wants to use, so the very fruit of their sin is what he wants to, like, take away to show them his kindness and his goodness," he added. "I mean it's just totally Jesus. I mean it's like totally his way, so we're excited about that."
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White Men Are Minority of House Democratic Nominees For First Time.
Democrats have nominated a whopping 180 female candidates in House primaries. The party's previous record was 120. Democrats have also nominated at least 133 people of color and 158 first-time candidates to run for the House.
A new analysis by Politico determined that white men are in the minority of House Democratic nominees for the first time. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's accuser is denied an FBI investigation before the hearing on the allegations and Germany's chief of domestic intelligence is removed from his position after being accused of far-right sympathies. This and more news stories, link in Bio.
Republicans Reject Kavanaugh Accuser's Request To Delay Hearing For FBI Investigation.
Germany's Chief of Domestic Intelligence Accused of Far-right Sympathies Removed From Position.
Germany's chief of domestic intelligence, Hans-Georg Maassen, was removed from his position after Chancellor Angela Merkel raised questions about whether Germany's security apparatus was too sympathetic to the far right to monitor its links to neo-Nazi groups effectively.
Hans-Georg Maassen questioned the authenticity of a video showing an immigrant being chased by far-right protesters, directly contradicting the chancellor.
Shrapnel Found in Yemen Ties US Bombs to Civilian Deaths.
A CNN investigation found remnants of a US-made bomb at the scene of an airstrike that left dozens of schoolboys dead. An independent Yemen-based human rights group called Mwatana has given CNN exclusive access to a trove of documents that show fragments of US-manufactured bombs at the scene of a string of other incidents since 2015, when the civil war began.


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Theoretical and Experimental Magnetism Meeting
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire, UK
Theoretical and experimental investigations on strongly correlated electron materials have attracted considerable attention recently, due to the desire to understand both basic many-body interactions as well to investigate the relevance of the materials to possible technological applications. The complexity of the problem of correlations makes the field intrinsically interdisciplinary, requiring an international coordination for the achievement of reliable solutions. For example very recently high quality publications in Nature and PRL on newly discovered Fe-based superconductors obtained from the ISIS spectrometers are results of international collaboration between various experimental and theory groups. In the last six years we had a great success in organizing a theoretical and experimental magnetism meeting, which is becoming a tradition of the UK, European as well as international magnetism communities.
Magnetism at the atomic scale obeys quantum rules. Its origins lie in the strong correlations between unpaired electrons and their localization on atomic sites. The phases and phenomena displayed by quantum dominated magnets have been found to be extremely rich and the exploitation of their potential for fundamental research on quantum many-body phenomena and as a route to discovering new states of matter is a major current research priority in the field of condensed matter physics. Furthermore, quantum magnetism is integral to the superconducting states in the cuprates, many novel phenomena in heavy fermion systems, quantum dots and nanomagnets, and is emerging as an important route for quantum information processing, tools to look at and manipulate such magnetic states.
A central challenge in field of strongly correlated electron systems is to understand, predict, and control the intricate effects of correlations in many body systems. Many materials under current investigation are classed as strongly correlated electron systems, for example, high temperature superconductors (HTSC) [1-3], frustrated and low dimensional magnets [4], quantum magnets, multiferroic manganites [5], quantum phase transitions (QPT) in heavy fermion systems [6-7] and many more. It is generally agreed that the magnetism, quantum criticality and superconductivity in d and f electrons systems are strongly interrelated. One of the most challenging tasks of condensed matter physics today is to understand the mechanism for the high temperature superconductivity in cuprates and breakdown of the Fermi-liquid ground state, so called non-Fermi-liquid behavior (NFL), in many d and f-electron systems at low temperatures. To understand these novel materials with strong interaction effects, a variety of approaches, ranging from phenomenology of experiments to numerical and analytic models, have been applied. The basic concept of theoretical condensed matter physics is about building realistic models of physical processes, often driven by experimental findings, generalising the solutions of those models to make experimental predictions, and transferring the concepts gained into other areas of research. Microscopic measurements such as neutron scattering and muon spin rotations on strongly correlated materials provide vital information on spin dynamics as well as static magnetism. Theories play an important role in understanding known phenomena and in predicting new ones, while experiments play an important role in testing the theoretical predictions as well as finding new phenomena for which new theoretical models need to be developed
Quantum Criticality and non-Fermi liquid behaviour: A quantum phase transition (QPT) is a zero temperature second order phase transition between, usually, magnetic and nonmagnetic states driven by a control parameter such as pressure, magnetic field, or composition/chemical-pressure, which regulates the amplitudes of quantum fluctuations. In a metal near the QPT there are large amplitude fluctuations in the Fermi surface area and a divergence of the quasi-particle mass. It is now generally acknowledged that these quantum fluctuations influence the physical properties of correlated electron systems even at elevated temperatures. This is because of the uncertainty principle; the energy scale of fluctuations introduces a time scale which leads to an intricate coupling of static and dynamic critical behaviour.
Most of the concepts and models developed in this field were successfully applied to systems like CeCu6-xAux, one of the early examples exhibiting a QPT at a critical concentration xc  0.1, where long-range incommensurate antiferromagnetic order vanishes. Microscopically, however, the fate of the conduction electrons, more precisely quasi-particles, at such a QPT is largely unknown. It is in this realm that the standard model of electrons in metals fails completely and one needs new theoretical approach to understand the origin of unusual physical properties of strongly correlated electron systems. At present, there are two theoretical scenarios, neither of which is able to explain in detail the experimental observations: The more traditional Hertz-Millis-Moriya picture assumes that quasi-particles undergo singular scattering at the quantum critical point due to the abundance of low-lying magnetic fluctuations. This leads to a diverging mass for ferromagnets but also for two-dimensional antiferromagnets where singular scattering is possible on the whole Fermi surface. The other, more radical approach postulates a complete breakdown of the quasi-particles at the QCP, emphasizing their composite nature due to 4f electron-conduction electron hybridization. This would imply that the whole Fermi surface collapses, and local physics emerges (local quantum criticality). The QPT concept leads very naturally to one of the key attributes of the normal state physics, namely, that the energy scale governing spin and charge fluctuations is the temperature itself, a property labelled as E/T scaling behaviour of the dynamical susceptibility. This E/T scaling has been observed in HTSC, -Mn, as well as in NFL-heavy fermion systems. But, it is still an open debate whether or not this E/T scaling has any relation with the different possible microscopic origins of QPT/non-Fermi liquid behaviour. We are planning to have theoretical and experimental talks on this subject with a special emphasis on neutron scattering and muon studies.
Molecular Magnets: Molecular magnetism is a new and exciting area of condensed matter research. Molecular magnets are magnetic objects on the nanoscale that consist of highly symmetric clusters of typically 2-30 interacting magnetic ions. Examples are the ferric and chromic wheels (rings of antiferromagnetically interacting iron or chromium ions), more complex wheel-type structures such as the hexadecameric and tetradecameric clusters, and highly frustrated and entangled cubane-type systems. The interest in molecular magnets stems from, among other things, the fact that they can be used to develop and explore concepts of quantum magnetism in the simpler environment of zero-dimensions and with a small number of interacting spins compared to higher dimensional objects with infinite interacting spins normally investigated in condensed matter physics. Because of their intrinsic structural regularity and fundamental magnetic properties, these systems also have been proposed as natural structures to incorporate into nano-devices or as a basis for simple nano-scale magnetic objects, for example molecular motors. During the last several years, many single molecular magnets have been discovered and they are now among the most promising candidates for observing the limits between classical and quantum physics since they have a well-defined structure, spin ground state, and magnetic anisotropy. Despite their apparent simplicity the Hilbert space of these systems is in many cases still too large for exact solutions of the energy levels, hence approximations are required to develop theories and these theories can be readily tested using the results obtained through various experimental techniques, such as bulk laboratory based measurements as well as microscopic information obtained from the magnetic excitations measured using neutron scattering. Unfortunately, not all energy levels are visible to neutron scattering; transitions cannot involve a change in angular momentum larger than 1. However, the ground state of the system can be varied by tuning a magnetic field - a technique which allows many more energy levels to be measured, and quantum chaos to be studied experimentally. We will have review type talks and short presentations on molecular and nano-magnets in the proposed meeting.
Exotic Superconductivity including Fe-based systems: It is generally accepted that the mechanism of superconductivity in strongly correlated electron systems, such as high temperature cuprates (HTSC), heavy fermion superconductors (HFSC), layered cobaltite, the ruthenates, organic superconductors and very recently discovered Fe-based superconductors, is dramatically different than that of predicted by Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theory: according to BCS theory, the electrons team up to form pairs, known as Cooper pairs, due to virtual coupling with phonons at low temperatures. The superconductivity in this new class of strongly correlated systems is named exotic or unconventional or anisotropic superconductivity. This includes superconductivity with exotic pairing states (mixed pairing, singlet and triplet in noncentrosymmetry compounds), low dimensionality, coexistent order parameters (superconductivity and magnetism) and quantum critical points. There is experimental evidence that the phase diagram of HTSC-cuprates, Fe-based superconductors and heavy fermion superconductors has commonality, for example all the phase diagrams show the presence of a pseudogap as well as departure from Fermi liquid behaviour above their superconducting transition temperatures. Furthermore, antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations seem to be an essential component in pairing mechanism in all these systems. On the other hand when a superconductor lacks a crystal inversion center, the parity conservation is violated due to the asymmetric spin-orbit coupling (ASOC), and the pairing symmetry becomes nontrivial as observed in CePt3Si and UIr.
Recently many heavy fermion compounds have been discovered which exhibit coexistence of ferromagnetism and superconductivity: these two physical phenomena were previously thought to be incompatible. Superconductivity in ferromagnets must result from a different type of electron-pairing mechanism. In these materials, electrons with spins pointing in the same direction team up with each other to form Cooper pairs with one unit of spin, resulting in triplet superconductivity. In contrast, conventional superconductivity, also known as s-wave singlet superconductivity, occurs when electrons with opposite spins bind together to form Cooper pairs with zero momentum and spin. Recently, attention has been focused on the layered Sodium Cobalt Oxides NaxCoO2 that exhibit a number of remarkable properties, such as enhanced thermoelectric power (TEP) due to spin entropy and superconductivity with TC=5K. The enhanced TEP of this material makes it potentially important for technological applications and the existence of superconductivity in the hydrated compound raises a very important question about the pairing mechanism in relation to the cuprate, ruthenate and heavy fermion superconductors. A recent neutron scattering study confirms the existence of ferromagnetic correlations within the cobalt layers, but antiferromagnetic correlations perpendicular to the layers.
The mechanism of high temperature and ferromagnetic superconductors remains a challenge to theorists, and there is still no unambiguous theoretical explanation for these phenomena. Neutron scattering measurements on the HTSC compounds have revealed high energy dispersive magnetic excitations, yet it is not clear whether these excitations have any direct relation with the phenomenon of superconductivity. The excitations in YBa2Cu3O6+x and La1.875Ba0.125CuO4 have been attributed to the electronic band structure, but an alternative explanation is that the excitations are due to rigid stripe ordering and liquid-crystalline stripe ordering in La1.875Ba0.125CuO4 and YBa2Cu3O6+x respectively. To understand the mechanism of HTSC a theoretical model has been proposed based on current loops by Varma and there are some experimental evinces to support this model. Further the recent observation of FFLO (Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov) superconductivity in some heavy fermion compounds has attracted considerable attention and it not clear whether real FFL state exists in CeCoIn5 in applied field.
Fe-based superconductors: The recently discovery of superconductivity in fluorine doped RFeAsO (R=rare-earths) family with Tc=25-55K has generated great interest in the condensed matter physics community and there are huge numbers of publications in this topic since its discovery Feb2008. The parent compound is antiferromagnetic and superconductivity is realized by suppressing the magnetic ordering through chemical doping or applying high pressure. Understanding the nature and origin of the magnetic ordering is thus crucial in understanding the interplay between magnetism and superconductivity in the Fe-based superconductors. Further reports reveal that LiFeAs and FeSe are also show superconductivity below 18 K. It is interesting that both hole-doped Ba1-xKxFe2As2 and electron-doped BaFe2-x(Ni;Co)xAs2 exhibit superconductivity. The critical temperatures of the RFeAsO family are exceeded only by the high-Tc cuprates, thus it is natural to ask if both materials share common interactions that are responsible for the origin of the superconductivity. The common feature seen in HTSC, Fe-based systems and HFSC is the observation of spin resonance peak and it has been found that the TC is related with the energy of the resonance peak. In the HTSC-cuprates, while significant changes are observed in the phonon spectrum as a function of doping and temperature, the consensus is that superconductivity does not arise solely from electron-phonon coupling, as they reveal clear presence of dispersive magnetic excitations.
We are planning to have two full sessions on exotic superconductivity with a special emphasis on Fe-based superconductors in the meeting to review the current status of research covering both experimental as well as theoretical aspects on this topic.
Frustrated and Low Dimensional Magnetism: Frustration occurs when interactions are incompatible with the topology of the space in which they act. In the case of magnetism, this occurs for example when nearest-neighbour exchange energies cannot be simultaneously minimized. This strongly reduces the magnetic ordering temperature and may even preclude conventional types of magnetic ordering. As a consequence, highly degenerate and novel ground states are formed, such as spin liquids, spin ices, resonating valence bond states, cooperative paramagnets and other unusual magnetic orderings. It also leads to unconventional low-temperature dynamics due to fluctuations between degenerate states, which can be altered by a magnetic field. Magnetic fields can be used not only to increase or decrease the degree of frustration, but also to tune the effective dimensionality in some cases. The magnetisation process of a frustrated magnet should therefore be accompanied by the appearance of new types of dynamics. Recent successes in the synthesis of novel magnetic materials with pyrochlore (corner-sharing tetrahedra) or Kagomé (corner-sharing triangles) lattices have produced a large number of inorganic and organic compounds with strong geometrical frustration. Some of these systems also have quantum spins, such as spin 1/2 Kagomé lattices, in which there is a very strong theoretical interest. Experimental studies have already produced a series of exciting and puzzling results, including the unique and as yet unexplained phase diagrams of several garnets, spinels and pyrochlores and the development of realistic theoretical models is needed to explain these.
Summary of the last meeting, July 2009:
The most recent Theoretical and Experimental Magnetism Meeting (TEMM09) was held at The Cosener's House in Abingdon, Oxfordshire on 2-3 July 2009. This was the six meeting in this series. This two-day meeting was organised by the Centre for Materials Physics and Chemistry of STFC and by the Magnetism Group of the Institute of Physics and partly funded by ISIS-Excitations Group, CCP9 and IOP neutron scattering group. The meeting attracted 78 registered participants from eight different countries. They included academics, senior researchers, post-doctoral fellows and Ph.D. students. Considering the importance of the new discovery of FeAs-based superconductors a special session was organised on this topic. The important of computational magnetism in condensed matter physics was realised and we had a special full session on this topic. A special talk after dinner on "Discoveries that changed the world: 1932 – 1942 James Chadwick & Lise Meitner" was given by Gerry Lander (Karlsruhe and Grenoble). The meeting presented an excellent opportunity to hear and discuss with leading experts from all over the world about topics such as novel superconductivity, multiferroic materials, low-dimensional, and frustrated magnetism and quantum phase transitions. There were 29 oral presentations, out of which 11 were given by the international speakers, and 11 poster presentations. Presentations were given on both theoretical as well experimental aspects of magnetism with special emphasis on neutron scattering, muon spin rotations and x-ray scattering. Overall, the meeting was a great success, very useful and enjoyable opportunity for experimentalists to have discussions with theoreticians on various aspects of modern magnetism in a friendly environment.
Scope of the proposed meeting in 2011-2013
The meeting will follow the tradition established by the previous meetings at Oxford and Abingdon (2003-2010) having talks on both condensed matter theories and experiments including computational magnetism. The meeting will provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of recent developments in condensed matter theories and experiments, with a special emphasis on Fe-based superconductors and magnetic monopole as well as any newly discovered topics in this subject. Considering that molecular and nano-magnetism is a fast developing area in condensed matter physics at present, one session will be organized to give an overview of the field for the benefit of the graduate students. Presentations will consist of plenary talks, invited talks and contributed talks and there will also be a poster session.
Tentative List of Topics:
Quantum Phase Transitions and non-Fermi-liquid behaviour
Exotic Superconductivity including FeAs-based Superconductors
Molecular and Nano-Magnetism
Orbital and Quadrupolar Ordering
Low-dimension and Frustrated Magnetism
Manganites, Multi Ferroelectricity and Nano-Magnetism
Magnetic Monopole
Computational Magnetism
Molecular Magnets: Molecular magnetism is a new and exciting area of condensed matter research. Molecular magnets are magnetic objects on the nanoscale that consist of highly symmetric clusters of typically 2-30 interacting magnetic ions. Examples are the ferric and chromic wheels (rings of antiferromagnetically interacting iron or chromium ions), more complex wheel-type structures such as the hexadecameric and tetradecameric clusters, and highly frustrated and entangled cubane-type systems. The interest in molecular magnets stems from, among other things, the fact that they can be used to develop and explore concepts of quantum magnetism in the simpler environment of zero-dimensions and with a small number of interacting spins compared to higher dimensional objects with infinite interacting spins normally investigated in condensed matter physics. Because of their intrinsic structural regularity and fundamental magnetic properties, these systems also have been proposed as natural structures to incorporate into nano-devices or as a basis for simple nano-scale magnetic objects, for example molecular motors. During the last several years, many single molecular magnets have been discovered and they are now among the most promising candidates for observing the limits between classical and quantum physics since they have a well-defined structure, spin ground state, and magnetic anisotropy. Despite their apparent simplicity the Hilbert space of these systems is in many cases still too large for exact solutions of the energy levels, hence approximations are required to develop theories and these theories can be readily tested using the results obtained through various experimental techniques, such as bulk laboratory based measurements as well as microscopic information obtained from the magnetic excitations measured using neutron scattering. Unfortunately, not all energy levels are visible to neutron scattering; transitions cannot involve a change in angular momentum larger than 1. However, the ground state of the system can be varied by tuning a magnetic field - a technique which allows many more energy levels to be measured, and quantum chaos to be studied experimentally. We will have review type talks and short presentations on molecular and nano-magnets in the meeting.
The mechanism of high temperature and ferromagnetic superconductors remains a challenge to theorists, and there is still no unambiguous theoretical explanation for these phenomena. Neutron scattering measurements on the HTSC compounds have revealed high energy dispersive magnetic excitations, yet it is not clear whether these excitations have any direct relation with the phenomenon of superconductivity. The excitations in YBa2Cu3O6+x and La1.875Ba0.125CuO4 have been attributed to the electronic band structure, but an alternative explanation is that the excitations are due to rigid stripe ordering and liquid-crystalline stripe ordering in La1.875Ba0.125CuO4 and YBa2Cu3O6+x respectively. To understand the mechanism of HTSC a theoretical model has been proposed based on current loops by Varma and there are some experimental evinces to support this model. Further the recent observation of FFLO (Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov) superconductivity in some heavy fermion compounds has attracted considerable attention and it not clear whether real FFL state exists in CeCoIn5 in applied field.Fe-based superconductors: The recently discovery of superconductivity in fluorine doped RFeAsO (R=rare-earths) family with Tc=25-55K has generated great interest in the condensed matter physics community and there are huge numbers of publications in this topic since its discovery Feb2008. The parent compound is antiferromagnetic and superconductivity is realized by suppressing the magnetic ordering through chemical doping or applying high pressure. Understanding the nature and origin of the magnetic ordering is thus crucial in understanding the interplay between magnetism and superconductivity in the Fe-based superconductors. Further reports reveal that LiFeAs and FeSe are also show superconductivity below 18 K. It is interesting that both hole-doped Ba1-xKxFe2As2 and electron-doped BaFe2-x(Ni;Co)xAs2 exhibit superconductivity. The critical temperatures of the RFeAsO family are exceeded only by the high-Tc cuprates, thus it is natural to ask if both materials share common interactions that are responsible for the origin of the superconductivity. The common feature seen in HTSC, Fe-based systems and HFSC is the observation of spin resonance peak and it has been found that the TC is related with the energy of the resonance peak. In the HTSC-cuprates, while significant changes are observed in the phonon spectrum as a function of doping and temperature, the consensus is that superconductivity does not arise solely from electron-phonon coupling, as they reveal clear presence of dispersive magnetic excitations.
Summary of the last meeting, July 2009:The most recent Theoretical and Experimental Magnetism Meeting (TEMM09) was held at The Cosener's House in Abingdon, Oxfordshire on 2-3 July 2009. This was the six meeting in this series. This two-day meeting was organised by the Centre for Materials Physics and Chemistry of STFC and by the Magnetism Group of the Institute of Physics and partly funded by ISIS-Excitations Group, CCP9 and IOP neutron scattering group. The meeting attracted 78 registered participants from eight different countries. They included academics, senior researchers, post-doctoral fellows and Ph.D. students. Considering the importance of the new discovery of FeAs-based superconductors a special session was organised on this topic. The important of computational magnetism in condensed matter physics was realised and we had a special full session on this topic. A special talk after dinner on "Discoveries that changed the world: 1932 – 1942 James Chadwick & Lise Meitner" was given by Gerry Lander (Karlsruhe and Grenoble). The meeting presented an excellent opportunity to hear and discuss with leading experts from all over the world about topics such as novel superconductivity, multiferroic materials, low-dimensional, and frustrated magnetism and quantum phase transitions. There were 29 oral presentations, out of which 11 were given by the international speakers, and 11 poster presentations. Presentations were given on both theoretical as well experimental aspects of magnetism with special emphasis on neutron scattering, muon spin rotations and x-ray scattering. Overall, the meeting was a great success, very useful and enjoyable opportunity for experimentalists to have discussions with theoreticians on various aspects of modern magnetism in a friendly environment.
Scope of the meeting in 2011-2013
Devashi Adroja ( Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot ) - Organiser
Walter Temmerman ( Daresbury Laboratory ) - Organiser


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Trump lands in Florida: Biden supporters scarce on arrival route to Mar-a-Lago
Tony Doris
WEST PALM BEACH — It didn't take an official recount to determine the most popular politician on the road from Palm Beach International to Mar-a-Lago Wednesday morning.
Dozens lined Southern Boulevard in West Palm Beach to witness Donald Trump's last arrival as President. They waved Trump banners, blared patriotic music, sported MAGA hats and while waiting consoled each other with laments of a stolen election.
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They cheered Air Force One's appearance in the sky, as it made its graceful descent through the clouds, and cheered more loudly a few minutes later, as the caravan rolled by them and the Trumps obliged with waves and smiles through the tinted windows of a black SUV.
Opponents were too few for the Trumps to notice among the crowd, most likely. No more than than a handful made their presence known along the route.
There was one "Loser Loser" placard.
And there was one gentleman waving a Biden Harris flag from a street corner across from most of the throng.
Why was he there?
"To give him one last middle finger before he's gone," said the 20-something man, who declined to give his name. "It'll be my only time seeing him and the last time seeing him, so I'm happy."
He parried off a joking request for a flag pole duel from a Trump banner-waver. Another Trump supporter sought to engage him in a political discussion, without much luck.
Iam Hedendahl, the Trump supporter, said that when he saw the Biden banner he bet himself that the holder was more against Trump than for any position of Biden's he could articulate. "Trump was an unconstitutional president and Biden is a return to the constitution," Hedendahl was told, confirming his premise.
The point might be moot, the Trump supporter accepted, saying that while he believed Trump won the election, he acknowledged that Joe Biden was now "our president."
The crowd, mostly unmasked despite a deadly pandemic in full bloom, dispersed quickly after the motorcade went past and police and sheriff's deputies packed up and rode off.
Sauntering by on the sidewalk was none other than Roger Stone, the political operative whose 40-month prison sentence Trump commuted this summer. Dapper in a blue blazer and also unmasked, he'd been on hand to pay respects. But Stone said he was not off to Mar-a-Lago but to a favorite pizzeria nearby.
At West Palm Gas and U-Haul, at 847 Southern Blvd., co-owner Kelly Walsh said Trump had been good for business. With the many arrivals, departures and protests over the past four years, the station's Food Mart benefited, she said.
On the other hand, she said, "I'd rather see him have four more years."
tdoris@pbpost.com
@TonyDorisPBP
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