Willy Adames plans to play every day for San Francisco and bring the Giants championshipsSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Willy Adames wasted little time making one thing clear: He wants to play all 162 games for the San Francisco Giants. So when introduced as their new shortstop Thursday, Adames looked to his left and gently put a hand on manager Bob Melvin's right shoulder, smiled and said, “if he lets me.” Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings. Get updates and player profiles ahead of Friday's high school games, plus a recap Saturday with stories, photos, video Frequency: Seasonal Twice a week0tso bet 。

Daily Post Nigeria CAF Awards: Nwabali dropped from final shortlist for Goalkeeper of the Year Home News Politics Metro Entertainment Sport Sport CAF Awards: Nwabali dropped from final shortlist for Goalkeeper of the Year Published on December 12, 2024 By Ifreke Inyang Super Eagles goalkeeper Stanley Nwabali has been excluded from the final three-man shortlist for the Goalkeeper of the Year at the 2024 CAF Awards. This was confirmed in a social media post from the football body on Thursday night. Those who will be competing for the prize are Andre Onana (Cameroon/Manchester United), Ronwen Williams (South Africa/Mamelodi Sundowns) and Yahia Fofana (Cote d’Ivoire/Angers SCO). The winner will be announced at a gala ceremony on Monday, December 16. Nwabali burst onto the continental scene at the Africa Cup of Nations earlier this year. In seven games, he kept four clean sheets and saved two penalty kicks in the semi-final shootout against South Africa. Related Topics: CAF Awards Goalkeeper of the Year Nwabali Don't Miss WAFCON 2026 qualifier: Super Falcons to battle Benin or Sierra Leone for ticket You may like AFCON 2025 Qualifier: Nwabali’s absence affected Super Eagles’ performance against Rwanda – Eguavoen AFCON 2025Q: Eguavoen excuses bereaved Nwabali from Amavubi clash NFF condoles Nwabali on father’s death Transfer: Nwabali names favourite club in South Africa CAF Awards 2024: Nwabali nominated for Goalkeeper of the Year Morocco to host CAF Awards for third consecutive year Advertise About Us Contact Us Privacy-Policy Terms Copyright © Daily Post Media Ltd

Willy Adames plans to play every day for San Francisco and bring the Giants championshipsMaybe the lesson this Christmas season is that even if turnabout is fair play, at some point, enough is enough. Start with the specious lawsuits brought against President-elect Donald Trump, to the great glee of many of his “Never Trump” and Democratic detractors. Some of them, especially Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s March 2023 indictment charging that Trump’s signing off on allegedly false business records in 2017 somehow swindled the electorate in 2016, had an immediate turnabout effect. Michael Barone Within a few weeks, what had looked like a close Republican primary race between Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) became a runaway romp for Trump. Bragg got a Manhattan jury to vote for conviction, but Trump has had the last laugh. But in the meantime, he has filed a couple of antic lawsuits of his own. And, contrary to many observers’ expectations, none has been dismissed. His targets are the political press. But just as flimsy prosecutions such as Bragg’s threatened to limit free speech by a political candidate, Trump’s — how should one put it? — creative lawsuits threaten to limit political speech all around. The first lawsuit is brought against the Des Moines Register’s well-known pollster Ann Selzer, whose Oct. 28-31 poll showed Trump trailing Vice President Kamala Harris by 47% to 44% in a state he had carried 53% to 45% in 2020. The result was all the more startling because Selzer had a record of accurately gauging late shifts of opinion in the state. The instant reaction of many analysts, professional and amateur, was to wonder whether the bottom was falling out of Trump’s campaign in Iowa and nationally. Turns out, it wasn’t. Other polls showed nothing like such a shift from 2020, and Trump carried Iowa 56% to 43%. Selzer’s postelection analysis, as former Washington Post poll analyst David Byler wrote, showed that if she had adjusted her raw results in ways most pollsters do in this post-landline-telephone era, she would have shown Trump ahead. Her methods, which had spotlighted last-minute shifts in Iowa’s first-in-the-nation precinct caucuses, failed in a race in which opinion was more deeply rooted. Trump’s preposterous claim is that Selzer presented fake numbers to harm his campaign. I can’t imagine a jury would agree. More importantly, political campaigns are full of sound and fury, dubious claims and downright lies. Elections are adversary processes, with both sides having a say. Trump’s other creative lawsuit, as Ben Smith reports in Semafor, was brought in 2022 against the Pulitzer Prize Board for defamation, for issuing and refusing to rescind awards to journalists who wrote stories about what Trump calls, picturesquely but accurately, “the Russia, Russia, Russia” collusion hoax. Trump’s lawyers attack the board for issuing awards “particularly when many of the key assertions and premises of the Russia Collusion Hoax that permeated the Awarded Articles had been revealed by the Mueller Report and congressional investigations as false.” That, aside from the eccentric capitalization, is a fair comment. As Smith admits, much reporting on supposed Russia collusion, “with its breathless cable news and social media cheerleading, did not seriously bear out,” and “some of that reporting ... was powered by a delusion.” Smith also admits, at least via hyperlink, that he, as then-editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News, first published the specious and always dubious Steele dossier. Trump has a legitimate grievance against the Democrats who concocted that document and peddled the Russia collusion canard in an effort to force him from office — an enterprise that weakened the credibility of their legitimate criticisms of him for not accepting the result of the 2020 election. It would be desirable for both Democrats and Republicans, and for the press, to return to the norm of recognizing as legitimate the results of elections, however distasteful. Enough turnabout. It would be desirable as well for Trump to drop his creative lawsuits, however gratifying it might be to submit his journalistic tormenters to the ordeal of depositions. As Eli Lake writes in the Free Press, he “should take the win and move on.” It would be desirable, thirdly, for the press to admit error, as Selzer and Smith, perhaps a little less forthrightly, have done. It is better to get into the habit of doing so voluntarily rather than risk lawsuits that may establish restrictions. The Russia collusion hoax did great harm to a duly elected president and, therefore, to the country, and it was always based on a dubious theory and on exceedingly thin, if not nonexistent, evidence. The press owe, not to Trump but to the public, a full accounting. Michael Barone is a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and longtime co-author of The Almanac of American Politics. His new book, “Mental Maps of the Founders: How Geographic Imagination Guided America’s Revolutionary Leaders,” is now available. © 2024, Creators.com

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Deputy Foreign Minister Francois Wu (吳志中) is in Somaliland to attend President-elect Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi’s inauguration. The foreign ministry said in a press release on Wednesday that Wu is serving as special envoy to President Lai Ching-te (賴清德). Wu and his delegation were welcomed in Hargeisa by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Rhoda Jama Elmi, Somaliland’s representative to Taiwan Mohamed Omar Hagi Mohamoud, and members of the transition team. Wu will attend the inauguration ceremony on Thursday to congratulate Abdullahi as the new Somaliland president on behalf of the Taiwan government. The foreign ministry said Wu will also meet with outgoing President Muse Bihi Abdi and other government officials. On the campaign trail, Abdullahi reassured Taiwan that bilateral ties would not change under his presidency. The Taiwan representative office in Somaliland maintains connections with his Waddani Party. Taiwan and Somaliland established strong ties in 2020. The two democracies share the similarity of not being globally recognized as countries, and denied membership from the UN and most international bodies due to political circumstances. The two sides cooperate in public health, information technology, agriculture, and education. Taiwan has supported two key projects in Somaliland, including a road infrastructure project and a medical center. Somaliland declared independence from Somalia in 1991. It has functioned as a de facto sovereign state, but it is not officially recognized by any country.100 % Redress Party Candidate Charles Ward outlines key issues with DCB scheme

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For holiday shoppers eager to add a little zest to their celebrations, Hidden Valley Ranch offers a stocking stuffer that can be shaken, stirred and even dipped. Hidden Valley Ranch is selling Christmas cards with hidden compartments for ranch dressing. / Credit: The Clorox Company Hidden Valley Ranch, a brand owned by The Clorox Company, is giving holiday greetings a flavorful upgrade with its new ‘Hidden’ Hidden Valley Ranch Holiday Card Collection. Designed to stand out from traditional cards, these limited-edition greetings are more than just festive – they come with a hidden serving of ranch dressing tucked inside. The collection, created in partnership with the creative agency FCB, includes a set of eight cards and is available for $18 on Hidden Valley’s online shop. “At Hidden Valley Ranch, we believe in making every moment special,” said CC Ciafone, marketing director at Hidden Valley Ranch. “Our ‘Hidden’ Hidden Valley Ranch Holiday Card Collection is a delightful blend of tradition and taste, perfect for spreading joy and flavor this season.” Seeking more creative campaigns? 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It is this vision—paired with a policy and regulatory environment second to none in Africa—that drew our company, Oath Africa, to establish its headquarters in Rwanda. As President Kagame said last year, “we want the private sector to play a greater role in building a green economy.” Oath Africa is committed to restoring and replenishing Rwanda’s soil to improve agricultural outputs and advance the country’s climate renaissance. Together, we can simultaneously increase agricultural yield and sequester carbon to create a billion-dollar export market. Championing regenerative Agriculture Rwanda is laser-focused on growing its agriculture sector. It is the country’s main source of economic activity with 70 percent of the population working in agriculture. Given its importance, the Rwandan government and its partners, including Bridge2Rwanda, are promoting regenerative agriculture to increase productivity, build an inclusive green economy, and mitigate the risks of climate change. Increasing yield is widely understood to be an imperative: the World Bank, for example, has noted agricultural yields have plateaued or even dropped since 2013 and Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that 1.4 millions of tonnes of soil per year is lost due to soil loss, erosion, and decreasing fertility. That is why the Rwandan government is helping to facilitate a transition to regenerative agriculture, seizing on cutting-edge agronomic practices as the keys to productivity and economic sustainability. It is also a conviction that we share at Oath Africa. Our technology, backed by over 30 years of research and development, will aid in this effort, increasing soil’s water holding capacity and making nutrients more accessible to crops. We wholeheartedly subscribe to the Ministry of Environment’s approach, articulated in its revised Green Growth and Climate Resilience Strategy (GGCRS), that private companies should play a dominant role “in this green transformation journey.” Building a Carbon Market Rwanda is also leading the way to develop a carbon market to reduce greenhouse emissions, catalyze public and private funds, and contribute to the country’s sustainable development. Rwanda's carbon market framework is relatively new, having been launched in December 2023, but is already a step ahead of other African countries. With Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) as the nation’s carbon market regulator, there is unbridled enthusiasm about the potential for high-quality carbon credits. It is already attracting major players in this sector, including Kuwait, Singapore, and Sweden, promising to generate hundreds of millions of dollars and assist Rwanda to fulfill its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). Rwanda’s progress toward a world-class carbon market and its sound policy framework, reaffirmed by the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning recently released Climate and Nature Finance Strategy (CFNS), is another enticement for our company. Indeed, the CFNS is explicit about the “potential for private investment to drive climate and nature-positive outcomes,” through investments in carbon sequestration. Oath Africa’s use of naturally occurring, non-GMO, beneficial soil microbes restore soil’s natural ability to increase fertility, nutrient cycling, and carbon sequestration. In other words, we have the capability, through carbon removal credits, to substantially increase the prosperity of the Rwandan people, especially for millions of smallholder farmers. Promoting Innovation Rwanda’s well-earned reputation as an innovative hub is another reason for optimism. The government has been keen to work with partners to spur development through technology and innovation, launching a drone delivery system with Zipline, developing a space capability with Japan, strengthening ICT with Carnegie Mellon University, and hosting the Global AI Summit on Africa with the World Economic Forum in 2025. These examples underpin Rwanda’s attractiveness as an innovation sandbox, a country where entrepreneurs and technology firms pioneer breakthroughs that deliver benefits for Rwanda and the wider world. In fact, it is part and parcel of Rwanda’s strategy. As ICT Minister Ingabire has said, “it’s not about just creating the solution for Rwanda, it’s also finding ways to scale that solution beyond just Rwanda.” The government’s ethos is consonant with our approach at Oath Africa. 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