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Sam Darnold has played most of his football on either the East or West Coast. After staying home to play his college ball at Southern California, Darnold spent his first three NFL seasons with the New York Jets before stints in Carolina and San Francisco. Now that he's in the Upper Midwest, the veteran quarterback has a much better appreciation of the rivalry between his Minnesota Vikings and the Green Bay Packers. The NFC North foes will battle Sunday afternoon in Minneapolis. "It's the whole entire NFC North, man," Darnold said. "It's an incredible kind of rivalries or bitterness, I guess you could say. It's awesome to be able to run into Packers fans. I'm not going to lie, they're nice and everything, but when you start to talk about football, they're not shy about speaking their mind about who they think the better team is. "It's just fun, man. It makes everything more fun, makes the game more fun. That's the reason we play." Along with the traditional bragging rights between the border rivals, Sunday's matchup also holds significant playoff implications for the Vikings (13-2) and Packers (11-4), though both teams already have clinched a spot in the postseason. Minnesota is tied with the Detroit Lions for the top spot in the division with two games to play, though the Lions hold the tiebreaker by virtue of their 31-29 win at the Vikings in Week 7. Green Bay could end up with the No. 5, 6 or 7 seed as a wild-card team, and Sunday's outcome will go a long way toward determining its playoff positioning. "We're playing for something," said Packers running back Josh Jacobs, who leads Green Bay's ground attack with 1,216 yards and 13 scores. Jacobs ran for 69 yards and a touchdown in the Packers' 34-0 home win over New Orleans on Monday night. Quarterback Jordan Love threw for 182 yards and a score without committing a turnover for Green Bay in its second straight win. Love has passed for 3,135 yards, 24 touchdowns and 11 interceptions over his 13 starts this season, good for a 97.8 passer rating. Jayden Reed has a team-high 52 catches for 803 yards and six touchdowns. Christian Watson is next with 29 catches for 620 yards and two TDs. "What's really cool is you are getting contributions from a lot of different people," Packers coach Matt LaFleur said. "I think that is usually the mark of a good team. "You have to stay healthy and continue to build on what you've done. I love the energy of our group. Our guys show up ready to work, willing to work every day, and we have to continue to push one another to be at our best because this is the time when you need to be playing your best ball." Minnesota is going for its ninth straight win. The Vikings' only other loss besides Detroit came four days later, a 30-20 Thursday night setback at the Los Angeles Rams in Week 8. Darnold has powered Minnesota with 3,776 passing yards, 32 touchdowns and 11 interceptions in 15 starts. He has posted a 105.4 passer rating in his first season with the team. Former Green Bay star Aaron Jones is Minnesota's top running back with 1,046 yards and five TDs. Justin Jefferson is Darnold's top target with 92 receptions for 1,387 yards and 10 touchdowns. No. 2 receiver Jordan Addison has 56 catches for 806 yards and eight scores. Packers top cornerback Jaire Alexander is dealing with a knee injury that could keep him out of Sunday's contest. While he may not match up against one of the league's premier defenders in Alexander, Jefferson remains motivated for the divisional clash. "I love any competition regardless of if it's Green Bay or I'm playing the No. 1 corner in the league," Jefferson said. "I'm always going to prepare to go out there and play my best regardless of who's out there. I always say I love these types of games, the games that you really need, the games that are exciting for everyone to watch." Alexander was limited in Green Bay's practice Thursday, as were safety Javon Bullard (ankle), tackle Andre Dillard (concussion), linebacker Ty'Ron Hopper (ankle) and tight ends Tucker Kraft (hip) and Luke Musgrave (ankle). Guard Elgton Jenkins (knee), linebacker Quay Walker (ankle), safety Evan Williams (quad) and Watson (knee) sat out Thursday's session. The Vikings were fully healthy for Thursday's practice aside from cornerback Fabian Moreau, who has not practiced all week due to a hip injury. This will be the final regular-season meeting between the rivals. Minnesota jumped ahead of host Green Bay 28-0 before holding on 31-29 on Sept. 29. --Field Level Media
By Eyo Charles Nigerian Navy has pledged to make the second edition of the Calabar Table Tennis Challenge a huge success this weekend. The tournament holds at UJ Esuene Stadium Calabar where budding Table tennis stars and veterans are billed to demonstrate their skills. The Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Naval Command, Rear Admiral SA Akinwande who made the pledge, has also assured of Navy’s readiness to collaborate with the Cross River State Tanle Tennis Associstion, organizers of the Challenge, to enable them produce more international champions. Akinwande spoke in his office when the Association, led by its Vice Chairman, Bishop Usen Umoh, visited him over the weekend to brief and invite him to the tournament. He said the Navy is committed to encouraging sports development not only in the State but in Nigeria as a whole. He commended the Association for producing Offiong Edem, the six-time Table Tennis Oympian, and others that have made the state and country proud. Commending Akinwande for his support to the game, Bishop Umoh disclosed that the Navy has bolstered the development of table tennis in the State. He mentioned that the Navy provided the table tennis hall for training since the early eighties. “We’re elated by the Nigerian Navy’s demonstration and shared commitment to promoting sports development in the state. “Your dedication not only inspires our young athletes but also strengthens the bond between the Nigerian Navy and the sporting community. “As an Association, we remain committed to collaborating with the Nigerian Navy in promoting table tennis as a sport through joint initiatives and shared efforts. Join Daily Trust WhatsApp Community For Quick Access To News and Happenings Around You.As Ghana concluded its 2024 general elections, the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development and its fact-checking subsidiary, DUBAWA, have restated their commitment to ensuring transparent, credible, and inclusive elections. Ghana’s former president John Drahami Mahama won a historic comeback election victory on Sunday after the ruling party accepted defeat with voters appearing to punish them for the government’s handling of an economic crisis. According to AFP, following Saturday’s election, New Patriotic Party candidate Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia on Sunday conceded Ghanaians wanted change after he failed to shake off widespread frustration over high costs of living. His defeat ended eight years in power for the NPP under President Nana Akufo-Addo, whose last term was marked by the country’s worst economic turmoil in years, high inflation and a debt default. CJID deployed 19 observers, fact-checkers, and OSINT analysts to monitor and verify information circulating ahead of the and during the December polls. The personnel worked through the organisation’s Media in National Elections initiative and verification campaigns, focusing on countering misinformation and disinformation that could undermine public trust in the electoral outcome. In its earlier two reports, CJID provided insights into citizens’ perceptions of the electoral environment as well as patterns and threats posed by misinformation and disinformation. Related News INEC chair commends Ghana poll, highlights lessons for Nigeria Jonathan leads West Africa Elders Forum to Ghana election Ghana’s deputy finance minister pulls gun on youths in self-defence Additionally, CJID’s Digital Technology, AI, and Information Disorder Analysis Centre identified online trends threatening electoral integrity. In the latest article published by DUBAWA Ghana (“Agyapadie Circus: A Make-Believe Toxic Politico-Ethnic Document for Election”), DUBAWA found evidence of political propaganda spreading on social media ahead of the polls. DUBAWA Ghana also successfully debunked AI-generated deepfake content circulating on social media platforms, further exposing the novel tactics used to manipulate public opinion. To address these challenges, the CJID collaborated closely with the Ghana Fact-checking Coalition, the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, and tech partners, including META and TikTok. Three situation rooms were established in Accra, Tamale, and Kumasi, enabling real-time monitoring, rapid verification, and prompt responses to misleading claims that could sway voters or incite tension. “Our goal is to strengthen trust, encourage informed participation, and ensure a peaceful electoral environment,” said the Director of Programs at CJID, Akintunde Babatunde. “By working together, citizens and institutions can uphold democratic values and safeguard Ghana’s longstanding reputation as one of West Africa’s most stable democracies.”
Prediction: This Spectacular Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock Will Be Worth More Than Palantir by 2030In the hours after former President Jimmy Carter’s death Sunday , Illinois elected officials shared their condolences and reflections on the legacy of the 100-year-old Nobel Peace Prize-recipient’s life. The longest-lived American president died in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, where he and his wife, Rosalynn, who died at 96 in November 2023 , spent most of their lives, the Carter Center said. Jimmy Carter entered hospice care in February 2023. President Joe Biden said he is ordering a state funeral for Carter in Washington. Former President Barack Obama reflected not only on Carter’s legacy as president but on his decency as a person, which Obama said was evident whenever the two spent time together. “He believed some things were more important than reelection — things like integrity, respect, and compassion,” Obama said in a statement. “Because Jimmy Carter believed, as deeply as he believed anything, that we are all created in God’s image. Whenever I had a chance to spend time with President Carter, it was clear that he didn’t just profess these values. He embodied them. And in doing so, he taught all of us what it means to live a life of grace, dignity, justice, and service.” Mayor Brandon Johnson said Carter was a personal inspiration of his as a “man of deep faith in the political arena” whose values continue to show the way forward. “President Jimmy Carter lived the American dream in every way,” Johnson said in a statement. “His legacy of love and his service to God and country are admirable beyond measure. President Carter valiantly fought for human rights and peace across the world during his presidency and beyond.” Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth both stated admiration for his time as a public servant, and Durbin called Carter an “inspiration to those of us who aspire to lead a life of service.” “Jimmy Carter proved that excellence in public service can extend beyond the White House,” Durbin said in a statement Sunday. “I offer my condolences to the entire Carter family, to his friends and former staff members, and to the untold millions of people throughout the world whose lives are better because Jimmy Carter lived.” Rep. Mike Quigley lauded Carter’s time in office, but he said Carter’s most important accomplishments came after his presidency, calling him “the greatest former president our nation has ever known.” “His work, alongside former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, at the Carter Center, with Habitat for Humanity, and his successful two-decade-long effort to eradicate the Guinea worm made him the epitome of a public servant,” Quigley said. “Those of us in elected office should look to President Carter’s example as a model for what we aspire to after leaving office.” Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia remembered Carter as a “giant” of progressive politics who was able to pursue an agenda focused on social and human services for working families through his administration. “His post-presidency, however, was perhaps the most productive era of President Carter’s life,” Garcia said in a statement. “His efforts to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to unwaveringly advance human rights and alleviate human suffering, earned him the Nobel Peace Prize decades after leaving the White House. His steadfast pursuit of truth and peace leaves a powerful legacy to uphold.” They were joined by a chorus of others honoring his legacy, including Gov. JB Pritzker, who said Carter exemplified what it means to live a life full of service. “His towering legacy of compassion for others set a standard that will always be remembered,” Pritzker said in a statement. “Illinois Democrats mourn the passing of President Jimmy Carter, a leader who embodied humility and service,” the Democratic Party of Illinois wrote on social media. “His unwavering dedication to peace and justice will inspire generations. We extend our condolences to the Carter family and honor his extraordinary life.”World leaders watch Notre-Dame reopen with a 'merci'Govt Urged To Collaborate With NGOs To Address Poverty
Jeff Bezos & Elon Musk Beef on X (Twitter) Explained By The internet scene reportedly became tense recently after Amazon Executive Chairman and Tesla CEO indulged in a back-and-forth on . The discussion revolving around the made users on X wonder whether all things are okay between the two business moguls. Here are the details of Bezos and Musk’s alleged online beef. What happened to Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk? Since the historic win by Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential elections, Elon Musk’s Tesla and SpaceX have benefited immensely. However, in a recent post on X (formerly Twitter), the tech giant aimed at Jeff Bezos. He alleged that the Amazon founder had urged people to sell their Tesla and SpaceX shares, predicting that Trump wouldn’t win. Elon Musk , “Just learned tonight at Mar-a-Lago that Jeff Bezos was telling everyone that @realDonaldTrump would lose for sure, so they should sell all their Tesla and SpaceX stock.” However, Bezos took the opportunity to debunk the allegations and to Musk, “Nope. 100% not true.” The Tesla CEO further to Bezos by writing, “Well, then, I stand corrected.” This back-and-forth became one of the key highlights on X as users stormed into the comments giving their opinions on it. Since, Trump’s win with the majority electoral votes in the elections he and Musk have been on a roll. Besides Trump’s victory being beneficial for Tesla and SpaceX’s stock, as per a report by the , Musk has also found himself becoming a part of Trump’s administration. Following his win, Donald Trump named Elon Musk to team up with to head the , also known as DOGE. As shared by Musk on X, in the statement announcing Musk as DOGE head, Trump , “I am pleased to announce that the Great Elon Musk, working in conjunction with American Patriot Vivek Ramaswamy, will lead the Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”).” Ishita Verma is an SEO contributing writer for ComingSoon. She is passionate about delivering authentic content and holds experience in SEO content writing. Apart from her quest to ensure her content is promising, Ishita is an avid Kdrama and anime watcher. Ishita is a bibliophile and also pursues gaming as one of her favorite pastimes. Share article(Excerpted from ‘The Aftermath of War’ by Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Chris Turner; with permission from Seagull Books) The End of the War People had been told to put out flags. They did not. The war ended in indifference and anxiety. Nothing had changed in everyday life. The booming of the radio, the bold type of the newspapers were not able to persuade us. We would have liked some sort of marvel, a sign in the heavens, to prove to us that peace had written itself into things. A puny gun coughed on a boring summer’s afternoon. People went by on the bridges and in the streets with lifeless eyes, busy with their chronic hunger and their own concerns. How are we, with our empty stomachs, to rejoice at the end of this war that just goes on ending and which, after ravaging our land, has gone off to die at the back of beyond, around those islands whose name reminds us of double almonds and family betting games. And what an abstract end. There may, it seems, be turmoil in Japan; the Japanese army is counter-attacking in Manchuria and the emperor and his captains speak of impending revenge; the Chinese are on the verge of civil war. And, in the background, immense emergent powers eye each other with some surprise and a formal coldness, weighing each other up and keeping a respectful distance, like those wrestlers who rapidly stroke each other’s forearms and shoulders before coming to grips. Yet certain men in their offices have decided the war is over. One of them announces it, speaking at a microphone, a piece of paper in his hand. To believe him, we would have had not to have learned to disbelieve the words of men who come to microphones with pieces of paper in their hands. It is not that one dares imagine he is lying. One merely thinks this whole business of war and peace unfolds at a certain level of truth: the truth of historical declarations, military parades and commemorative ceremonies. People look at each other with a vague sense of disappointment: is this all that Peace is? It isn’t Peace. Peace is a beginning. We are living through death throes. For a long time we thought War and Peace were two clearly distinct entities, like Black and White or Hot and Cold. It wasn’t true and today we know it. Between 1934 and 1939, we learned that Peace can end without war breaking out. We are familiar with the exquisite subtleties of armed neutrality, intervention and pre-belligerency. The movement from peace to war in our century is a matter of continuous gradations. On the most optimistic view, we are going to have to go through this process in the opposite direction. Today, 20 August 1945, in this deserted, starving Paris, the War has ended but Peace has not begun. Peace seemed to us like a return. A return of the roaring twenties, a return of French prosperity and greatness. In wartime, people always look forward to the peace of their youth: they confuse youth and peace. It is always a different peace that comes. The one that is vaguely in the air now, beyond the final storms, is an enormous world peace, in which France has only a very small place. The little gun that was coughing the other afternoon confirmed France’s slide—and that of Europe. A verdict delivered at the other end of the earth told us that the time of our shame and pain was at an end. All that remained was to say ‘thank you’. That meant we had to rebuild France, taking account of its new limitations. The veil of illusion that had masked its real level of importance for fifty years had been torn at the very moment of Japanese capitulation. We men of forty have been saying for some time that France has, above all, to resign itself to playing a minor role. But we are so used to seeing it in major ones that we speak of it not as an ageing actress, but as a star who, for some moral reason, would have to agree for a time to pass incognito. However, a more austere younger generation is coming up behind us, a generation better suited to the new tasks, because it has known only a humiliated France. These young people are the men of the Peace. We were the men of a lost battle, of a war that is fizzling out. Will we be stragglers in the coming years; will we be lost souls? This war’s end is also a little bit our own or, at least, it is the end of our youth. We believed, on no evidential basis, that peace was the natural state and substance of the universe, that war was merely a temporary agitation of its surface. Today we recognize our error: the end of the war is quite sim- ply the end of this war. The future has not yet begun: we no longer believe in the end of wars; and we are so used to the sound of arms, so benumbed by our injuries and hunger, that we no longer even quite manage wholly to wish for it. If someone told us tomorrow that a new conflict had broken out, we would say, with a resigned shrug, ‘That’s only to be expected.’ Moreover, among the best of men, I find a silent consent to war, something like a commitment to the full tragedy of the human condition.‘Living in a home that damages health the norm for far too many older people’
Rucker's 27 lead Army past UTSA 78-75Tom Brady suffers embarrassing moment live on Fox as NFL legend's mind goes completely blank READ MORE: Terry Bradshaw shocks fans with Kansas City Chiefs prediction By ERIC BLUM Published: 03:44, 30 December 2024 | Updated: 03:49, 30 December 2024 e-mail View comments There are no re-dos on live television, which Tom Brady found out on Sunday afternoon as his mind went completely blank when trying to present a key figure to build up the Vikings-Packers matchup. Heading into the NFC North clash, Green Bay only had four losses, as Brady pointed out. There was a pair of defeats coming at the hands of the Detroit Lions . Also, the Packers lost their season opener in Brazil to the Eagles. And the fourth loss was... exactly when Brady's mind went black. If Brady had looked out of his broadcast booth and out into the US Bank Stadium crowd, he may have figured out the answer. In Week 4, Minnesota defeated Green Bay at Lambeau Field, before Sunday's rematch which yielded the same result. The Packers are now 11-5 and locked into either the No 6 or 7 seed in the NFC playoffs, meaning a road game is coming in the Wild Card round, and if they make it that far, the Divisional round. Tom Brady's mind went completely blank during the lead-in for Vikings-Packers on Sunday Brady is in his first season as Fox's top football color commentator after signing a lucrative deal Tom Brady with a bit of a slip up during the open of Packers-Vikings... pic.twitter.com/kEjp5Yi0Fi — The Comeback NFL (@TheComebackNFL) December 29, 2024 Brady is in his first season as Fox's top football color commentator, signing a lucrative 10-year, $375million contract back in 2022, which was only enacted this season. Read More BREAKING NEWS Watch the insane moment NFL star produces 'one of the best catches ever' with fans left in disbelief Paired with Kevin Burkhardt, Brady typically gets one of the biggest NFL games every week. It was no exception on Sunday, as Brady called the only weekend matchup containing two teams with double-digit wins. Based on which game gets flexed by the NFL into the Sunday night slot could see Brady calling an all-NFC North matchup for a second straight week with the Vikings and Lions set to face in the final week of the regular season. Brady has shown plenty of improvements in the broadcast booth this season. Maybe Sunday can be considered two steps forward, one step back. Green Bay Packers Minnesota Tom Brady Brazil Share or comment on this article: Tom Brady suffers embarrassing moment live on Fox as NFL legend's mind goes completely blank e-mail Add comment