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NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump used his image as a successful New York businessman to become a celebrity, a reality television star and eventually the president. Now he will get to revel in one of the most visible symbols of success in the city when he rings the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday as he's also named Time Magazine's Person of the Year. Trump is expected to be on Wall Street to mark the ceremonial start of the day's trading, according to four people with knowledge of his plans. He will also be announced Thursday as Time's 2024 Person of the Year , according to a person familiar with the selection. The people who confirmed the stock exchange appearance and Time award were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. It will be a notable moment of twin recognitions for Trump, a born-and-bred New Yorker who at times has treated the stock market as a measure of public approval and has long-prized signifiers of his success in New York's business world and his appearances on the covers of magazines — especially Time. Trump was named the magazine's Person of the Year in 2016, when he was first elected to the White House. He had already been listed as a finalist for this year's award alongside Vice President Kamala Harris, X owner Elon Musk, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Kate, the Princess of Wales. Time declined to confirm the selection ahead of Thursday morning's announcement. “Time does not comment on its annual choice for Person of the Year prior to publication,” a spokesperson for the magazine said Wednesday. The ringing of the bell is a powerful symbol of U.S. capitalism — and a good New York photo opportunity at that. Despite his decades as a New York businessman, Trump has never done it before. It was unclear whether Trump, a Republican, would meet with New York's embattled mayor, Democrat Eric Adams , who has warmed to Trump and has not ruled out changing his political party. Adams has been charged with federal corruption crimes and accused of selling influence to foreign nationals; he has denied wrongdoing. Trump himself was once a symbol of New York, but he gave up living full-time in his namesake Trump Tower in Manhattan and moved to Florida after leaving the White House. CNN first reported Wednesday Trump’s visit to the stock exchange and Politico reported that Trump was expected to be unveiled as Time's Person of the Year. The stock exchange regularly invites celebrities and business leaders to participate in the ceremonial opening and closing of trading. During Trump’s first term, his wife, Melania Trump, rang the bell to promote her “Be Best” initiative on children’s well-being. Last year, Time CEO Jessica Sibley rang the opening bell to unveil the magazine's 2023 Person of the Year: Taylor Swift . After the Nov. 5 election, the S&P 500 rallied 2.5% for its best day in nearly two years. The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged 1,508 points, or 3.6%, while the Nasdaq composite jumped 3%. All three indexes topped records they had set in recent weeks. The U.S. stock market has historically tended to rise regardless of which party wins the White House, with Democrats scoring bigger average gains since 1945. But Republican control could mean big shifts in the winning and losing industries underneath the surface, and investors are adding to bets built earlier on what the higher tariffs, lower tax rates and lighter regulation that Trump favors will mean. Trump has long courted the business community based on his own status as a wealthy real estate developer who gained additional fame as the star of the TV show “The Apprentice” in which competitors tried to impress him with their business skills. He won the election in part by tapping into Americans' deep anxieties about an economy that seemed unable to meet the needs of the middle class. The larger business community has applauded his promises to reduce corporate taxes and cut regulations. But there are also concerns about his stated plans to impose broad tariffs and possibly target companies that he sees as not aligning with his own political interests. Trump spends the bulk of his time at his Florida home but was in New York for weeks this spring during his hush money trial there. He was convicted, but his lawyers are pushing for the case to be thrown out in light of his election. While he spent hours in a Manhattan courthouse every day during his criminal trial, Trump took his presidential campaign to the streets of the heavily Democratic city, holding a rally in the Bronx and popping up at settings for working-class New Yorkers: a bodega, a construction site and a firehouse. Trump returned to the city in September to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at his Manhattan tower and again in the final stretch of the presidential campaign when he held a rally at Madison Square Garden that drew immediate blowback as speakers made rude and racist insults and incendiary remarks . At the stock exchange, the ringing of the bell has been a tradition since the 1800s. The first guest to do it was a 10-year-old boy named Leonard Ross, in 1956, who won a quiz show answering questions about the stock market. Many times, companies listing on the exchange would ring the bell at 9:30 a.m. to commemorate their initial offerings as trading began. But the appearances have become an important marker of culture and politics -- something that Trump hopes to seize as he’s promised historic levels of economic growth. The anti-apartheid advocate and South African President Nelson Mandela rang the bell, as has Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone with his castmates from the film “The Expendables.” So, too, have the actors Robert Downey Jr. and Jeremy Renner for an “Avengers” movie and the Olympians Michael Phelps and Natalie Coughlin. In 1985, Ronald Reagan became the first sitting U.S. president to ring the bell. “With tax reform and budget control, our economy will be free to expand to its full potential, driving the bears back into permanent hibernation,” Reagan said at the time. “We’re going to turn the bull loose.” The crowd of traders on the floor chanted, “Ronnie! Ronnie! 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Look. Santa’s been around for a while. A spring chicken he isn’t. Plus — as us collaborators know only too well — he has bad habits. It’s not the drugs or the drink. It’s the snacks. You know the way we use the word ‘treats’ to excuse scoffing salted caramel anything? Covers a multitude, that word ‘treats’, with its implication of rarity and its paired implication of somehow having been earned by earlier privation or meritorious effort. The world may not owe you a living, or fame, or fortune, but we still feel entitled to treats and extrapolate from that to the conviction that we must all reward/bribe Santa by setting out a saucer of cookies and a glass of milk. It’s a reprehensible form of cause and effect. Parents spend the year conscientiously refusing ever to link food with their children’s occasional good behaviour. Back in the day, this wasn’t a problem because, once you had the bonding thing nailed, parenting was down to training your kids like dogs: “Homework done? Who’s a good boy, then?” Then enlightenment struck and the instructions to well-behaved offspring to sit and gratefully snaffle a KitKat morphed into as shameful exemplar of your parental inadequacies so vile that you knew, if you stood for election, even a crime gang leader would do better than you. Santa, of course, bypasses all this child development woke stuff. He still operates the canine training model: “Been a good girl? Here’s a whole stocking full of reward for you (insert ear-scratch here)!” Understandably, the dog-training model works both ways. You use it to ensure reasonable pre-teen behaviour in your offspring, then accept that the quid pro quo is that the overweight guy in the red suit gets a few cookies left out for him. We don’t even do the political reproach where Santa is concerned. No parent ever complains: “We never see you except when you want free cookies, and I bet you haven’t declared the carrots for Rudolf to Sipo either.” Santa: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell It’s arguable that the success, over these many generations, of the Santa Claus model of social conditioning is behind the benign Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell approach to Saint Nick himself regnant in the western world. Presenters on radio programmes get more warnings from their producers about not breaching the unspoken rules than if the next guest was the Israeli ambassador. Signs on it, when some bunch of medics this year raised reservations about Santa as a health model, the story died on the vine. Leave the old charmer alone, was the unspoken message, a bit like the consensus around Michael D. Nor will the dire example of the Anglican priest Paul Chamberlain be readily forgotten. This eminent cleric shared his truth with a congregation of 10-year-olds. Let’s not even delineate the shape of his ecclesiastical truth. All anybody needs to know is that it broke the Yuletide Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell rule, and peace on earth plus goodwill to all ceased, right there. His public defrocking, defenestration, and forced pyre-toasting was averted only by him seeing the light and outing himself as a complete eejit. In the litany of public sinning covered by the grandees of many religions, what he’d done might be regarded as down the scale a bit, but it represented a profound failure to read the room. The reverend priest would’ve been a lot better off finding a saucer, a couple of cookies, and a space beside the hearth for their display. The 'Late Late' connection Santa may be all ho ho ho and product placement but, when it comes right down to it, you know you shouldn’t cross him. It’s a bit like Pat Kenny quoting Gay Byrne to the effect that “one for everybody in the audience” was a dreadfully counterproductive move, the negative consequences of which meant that, on any given show, you might have a stunning lineup of guests and topics, but if the Late Late Show audience freebie that particular week wasn’t up to much, it tainted the in-studio appreciation and subsequent recollection of the entire show, turning the presenter into a freebie-shill and the audience into discount Olivers, always asking for more. Perhaps — because those of us who love the programme — perhaps in the distant future, someone as wise as Gay will condemn the Toy Show and its relentlessly greedy brand extension to a full-day festival rather than the 90-minute celebration of the commercially mawkish and precocious that it really is. Of course, the very minute you say anything against the Toy Show, you’re in trouble. I blame my misfortune, this year, on that. Definitely. If I’d never bad-mouthed the Toy Show, I’d be fine. 'Ho ho' turns to 'oh no' Off I flew to spend Christmas in warm climes, and — before exiting the plane in Newark airport — dutifully checked I had phone and wallet. Two hours into a four-hour layover, I realised I’d left my iPad on the flight. “Oh-oh,” I went, in a Santa Claus reversal. Inevitably, the plane had been turned around and was off to Cancún. The customer service guy on the phone said he’d email me a lost property form, which I filled in and filed, before wandering the airport to locate a customer service human in the flesh. This, after an hour and a half, I duly did. Lifted me out of it, she did. Stood there and ate the face off me. I was supposed to check my seat and surroundings for property before I left the plane, she snapped. She effectively refused to help locate my battered little computer with its Sink the Rich sticker because I didn’t obey all the instructions. ‘Customer service’, said her United Airlines label but not her mouth. (The Sink the Rich sticker came for free when I ordered Bernie Sanders’ most recent book.) I got on the second flight facing a future wherein all my colleagues, friends, and relations cast me aside as an incompetent inattentive old fool for losing an iPad that was too good for me in the first place. My inner discourse tends towards the punitive and ageist at the best of times but after my bracing encounter with the customer service woman, it hit rock bottom. I decided to lie or at least not tell on myself. Me? Lose an iPad? Perish the thought. 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By Blake Brittain (Reuters) - A federal jury in Marshall, Texas, on Friday awarded computer memory company Netlist $118 million in damages from Samsung Electronics in a patent lawsuit over technology for improving data processing in high-performance memory products. The verdict follows a $303 million verdict against Samsung for Irvine, California-based Netlist in a related case last year. Netlist also won $445 million from chipmaker Micron in May in a separate lawsuit over some of the same patents. Spokespeople for Samsung and Netlist did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the Friday verdict. The jury also determined that Samsung's infringement was willful, which could lead to a judge increasing the award by up to three times. Netlist sued Samsung in 2022, alleging that the Korean tech giant's memory modules used in cloud computing servers and other data-intensive technology infringed its patents. Netlist said its innovations increase the power efficiency of memory modules and enable users to "derive useful information from vast amounts of data in a shorter period." Samsung denied the allegations, arguing that the patents were invalid and that its technology worked differently than Netlist's inventions. Samsung has also filed a related lawsuit in Delaware federal court accusing Netlist of breaking an obligation to offer fair licenses for technology required to comply with international standards. (Reporting by Blake Brittain in Washington; Editing by Lisa Shumaker and Jonathan Oatis) Copyright 2024 Thomson Reuters .

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NoneTrinity Turner is calm. She is a rare specimen in this day and age of human stress and universal calamity. Nothing ever seems to rattle the freshman point guard at the University of Georgia, who was last year’s Orlando Sentinel Player of the Year. “At all,” said Trinity’s mom Shuwanda Turner. So where does she get this ability to remain even keel at all times? “From her mom,” Shuwanda Turner laughed, but she was also serious. “Calm, cool and collected ... she always knows her purpose. I know my purpose.” Trinity agrees. “Yeah, I get it from my momma,” she smiled. “I don’t know.” Georgia coach Katie Abrahamson-Henderson is amazed at Turner’s natural ability. “She just has it. I can’t explain what it is, but she has it,” said the coach, whom the players call Coach Abe. In her third season at Georgia since coming over from UCF, Abe has been impressed though not surprised. “Whoooo, she just has a lot of charisma, a lot of poise for being a freshman. It’s crazy,” Coach Abe said. “You can’t teach her what she brings us. That is just natural talent. “And the team loves her and that’s what is awesome about it.” She’s already a leader for Coach Abe, who knew she needed to get on Trinity’s good side the first time she saw her. Trinity was a freshman at Dr. Phillips playing against the coach’s daughter Savannah Henderson, who was a senior at Timber Creek back when the coach was at UCF. “I think Trinity had like 25 points against Timber Creek, and Savannah had like 18 and I said, ‘Oh my God, that freshman just killed you,’ ” Coach Abe said of her daughter, who is now a redshirt-sophomore at Georgia and currently sidelined with an injury. “So I’ve been watching and watching her ... I watched her in AAU and high school and we offered her right away.” As the late, great Stuart Scott of ESPN fame always used to say, “Cool as the other side of the pillow.” That’s Trinity Turner. She already has accomplished a lot of firsts in her first month of college basketball during which Georgia has gone 4-2. She scored in double digits in her first three games, the first Georgia freshman to accomplish that in 20 years since Tasha Humphrey in 2004 when she was named the National Freshman of the Year. Turner also scored 28 points in the Bulldogs’ SEC opener, a loss to Texas A&M. That marked the most points scored by a Georgia freshman since Gabby Connally had 37 in 2018. She is averaging 13 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists in her first six games. Her former Dr. Phillips coach Anthony Jones and several of her former Dr. Phillips teammates were on hand Thursday during Georgia’s 60-44 victory over Tulsa on the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association State Farm Showcase at ESPN’s Wide World of Sports. After the game, the players and coach presented Turner with her state championship ring, which was emblazoned with “3PEAT,” on the front. At Dr. Phillips, Turner led the Panthers to three straight state championships and was named the Florida Dairy Farmers Girls Basketball Player of the Year for two straight seasons. “It felt amazing with all my people here, so I just want to thank them for coming out,” Trinity said. “It felt great. There’s no other feeling than coming [back home] playing with a big team like Georgia.” Jones was loving the moment, being able to watch his former pupil excel at the next level. “You can always see her relaxed,” Jones said. “This is so comfortable for her.” Her father, James Turner, a former player at Bethune-Cookman, isn’t surprised either. “She’s been playing up all her life,” Dad said. “So she’s kinda used to being on the big stage.” “It’s not a shocker, but it’s just a blessing to see how far Trinity Turner has come,” Jones added. “We’ve watched her since growing up to now becoming the woman she is, playing the sport she has always dreamed of playing and to play at a high level ... this is just magnificent. “We’re just speechless to see it.” Jones compares her to other Dr. Phillips star point guards. “I’ve been blessed to coach a lot of great guards ... Lexy Brown, daughter of the Boston Celtics’ Dee Brown, and Taryn Griffey, Ken Griffey Jr.’s daughter, but Trinity Turner is definitely blessed,” Jones said. “She is probably the best player to ever come through Dr. Phillips. .... I know I will probably get a bunch of flak from this, but she is definitely high up on that Rushmore of Dr. Phillips guards.” James Turner just sits and watches with a huge smile on his face. “Words can’t explain it,” said Trinity’s father. “It’s just a joy knowing she is in a good position being at Georgia. ... From middle school to high school to college, we’re just thankful she’s able to do her thing.” The Turners are no longer married, buy they sit a few rows apart and admire their daughter. “Oh my goodness, I am ecstatic,” Mom said. “Just watching her play since she was age 3, playing with the bigger girls at all times, and I knew she would be ready for this one day, but seeing her out there on the floor now with the Bulldogs is very exciting for me.” She’ll likely take the SEC by storm this season as the Bulldogs get further into conference play, and then perhaps the bigger stage and the WNBA. “One team at a time, one step at a time,” said her mother. “That’s always been a dream, so we’re very supportive and hopefully we’ll see her on the bigger platform.” “We’re gonna see,” Trinity said. She said the college game is much different than what she was used to, but she hasn’t missed a beat. “It’s way different than high school,” Trinity laughed. “It’s different intensity, different everything ... a different program, so it’s like a changed mindset.” But she was ready for the challenge, as evidenced by her quick adapting to the college game. She runs the floor like a veteran, pushing the ball up the court — always at a breakneck pace — with few mistakes. Thursday was not a good night for Turner, back in her hometown with her family, former coach, former teammates and friends all in attendance. She had hoped to perform to her usual level. Whether it was the pressure to perform or just nerves with everyone there to watch her, or perhaps it was a lingering cold that she was battling, or perhaps a slightly sprained ankle she has been dealing with ... still, no excuses for Turner. “I had way too many turnovers,” Turner said, after coughing up the ball an uncharacteristic six times against Tulsa. She also had a tough night from the field going 3-of-12 with just 7 points but she still managed to play 32 minutes. She was carrying around a box of tissues she kept under her seat on the bench to help with the cold. You could not tell she was ailing from her intensity. Turner is always focused, hellbent to get the job done play by play. She will likely continue to set records as she rolls through her Georgia career, but that’s no concern to Turner. All she wants to do is play the game she loves. “Just stepping up when I need to, it definitely feels good, but I don’t care about all that stuff though,” said Turner, who is eager to get ramped up in SEC play. “I’m excited about that. It’s just a lot of hard work that is going to continue to get done, keep practicing hard.” Georgia will play its second game in the WBCA State Farm Showcase on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. at the ESPN Wide World of Sports. Chris Hays can be found on X @OS_ChrisHays .Man arrested for assault on South Carolina congresswoman

President Biden and first lady Jill Biden brought together researchers, investors and advocates Wednesday for the White House's first ever research conference on women's health. "The National Institutes of Health is using their funding to break down the silos," President Biden said during the event. "For example, we know that heart disease is the leading cause of death for women. But we don't know enough about how menopause may affect heart disease, and that's going to change." The Biden Administration launched an initiative last year to focus on Women's Health Research. And according to the White House, in the last year they "galvanized nearly $1 billion in funding to close gaps in research on women's health. These investments will advance research to improve prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases and conditions." In the spring, President Biden also signed an executive order that directed federal agencies to expand and accelerate research into not just women-specific health issues, but how to prevent, diagnose and treat conditions uniquely for women. "The goal was to fundamentally change and improve how we approach and invest in women's health research," he said. "To pioneer the next generation of scientific research and discoveries that are going to improve care women receive all across the country. Because the fact is the health of our moms and grandmothers, sisters and daughters, friends and colleagues, affects not just women's well-being but the prosperity of the entire nation." RELATED STORY | Who decides health care costs? This group recommends how doctors should be paid The gender gap in medical research extends to both the public and private sectors. A recent report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine found "Despite having a longer life expectancy than men, women spend more years living with a disability and in poor health:" roughly 25% more time than men in poor health. It also found that grant funding from the NIH on women's health research between fiscal years 2013-2023 averaged only about 9 percent of its total research spending. It was not until 1993 that it was required for women and minorities to be included in clinical research funding the National Institutes of Health. Prior to that they had not just been excluded but for a period outright banned. In 1977 the FDA created a guideline that prohibited the inclusion of women of reproductive age from participating in phase 1 and phase II clinical trials following the use of the sedative Thalidomide, which caused birth defects. Today, researchers have found biological discrepancies in areas like heart disease and Alzheimer's, but differences in treatment and risk. "A new future can ring out from this conference," First Lady Jill Biden told attendees. "One that answers the call from women who have been waiting for too long. Let this be the moment that we push harder. The moment that people say change the world of women's health forever." Both the President and First lady emphasized that this is the starting point, not the finish line. And Dr. Biden said she plans to continue to build alliances and push for funding after she laves the White House, as well.