Mac Jones threw two touchdown passes Sunday and the Jacksonville Jaguars earned a season sweep of the visiting Tennessee Titans with a 20-13 victory. Jones connected on 15 of 22 passes for 174 yards, finding Parker Washington and rookie Bryan Thomas Jr. for scores, as Jacksonville (4-12) left Tennessee (3-13) behind in the AFC South cellar. Cam Little booted field goals of 48 and 44 yards. Mason Rudolph hit 19 of 31 attempts for 193 yards with a touchdown and an interception for the Titans, which dropped their fifth consecutive game. Tyjae Spears rushed for 95 yards on 20 carries, playing in place of Tony Pollard (flu/ankle). Jones' 11-yard scoring strike to Thomas with 7:05 left in the game gave the Jaguars a 20-10 lead but Tennessee responded with Matthew Wright's 28-yard field goal at the 2:02 mark. After getting a three-and-out, the Titans had a chance to force overtime and reached the Jacksonville 26. But Rudolph's fourth-down pass intended for Nick Westbrook-Ikhine was knocked down at the goal line with nine seconds left. The pregame storyline concerned which team could benefit most from a loss. Both entered a game behind the New York Giants for the potential No. 1 overall pick in April's NFL Draft. Jacksonville initiated scoring on the game's opening drive, needing to drive only 38 yards on nine plays to set up Little for his first field goal at the 10:46 mark. The Jaguars got into the end zone for the first time with 8:59 left in the half on Jones' 2-yard touchdown pass to Washington, coming five plays after Rudolph tossed a tipped-ball interception. Little's second field goal upped the margin to 13-0 with 2:02 remaining before Tennessee pieced together a two-minute drive that set up Wright for a 39-yard field goal as time expired, making it 13-3 at halftime. The Titans started the second half with their best drive of the game, chewing up 85 yards and eight minutes before Rudolph hit Nick Vannett with an 8-yard strike to cut the margin to 13-10. --Field Level Media
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Looks like National Conference decided to perform Umrah. Good. But it is not parties that perform a certain worship it is persons that connect to the divine. Umrah is an obligation for an individual not for a party, much less a political party. God in any case knows all, sees all; who are we relaying these pictures and videos to! When light falls on a worshipper it doesn’t illuminate, it fades. But this is not something specifically true for Omar and his team. We see almost all people doing it these days. A selfie with Ka’ba is becoming a profile picture of our journey to Mecca. Well, commenting on individuals is not a nice thing to do. It is not desired and it has a moral side to it. One can never peep into someone’s heart. What is between an individual and his God is only between the individual and his God. Others should shut their mouth. I shut my own. But here the pictures weren’t about an individual, they were nothing less than party postcards. Given the political background, it carries a certain message. It’s akin to drawing on the religious sensibilities of the people back home. National Conference has carried this contradiction in brazen ways, though they might presume it as their mastery over a craft. One the one hand, the National Conference takes pride in it being a secular party that made a Muslim majority state, J&K, join a Hindu majority country, India, at a time when the whole sub-continent was divided on the basis of religious identity. The party still boasts of it being pluralistic in its application of power by carrying along all faiths and regions of the J&K in the government. At a time when Indian politics is completely polarised along religious lines, the National Conference repeatedly talks about the secular recovery of India, and then a place in it for a Muslim majority like J&K. If that is the essential character of the National Conference, the pictures viraled from Mecca don’t fit in the frame. That is one. Two, this time rightwing politics is on the throne. It looks like not just a dust-up on the surface but even underneath the rightwing drills are lifting the earth upside down. The answer to this situation is not to create another communal symbolism. We don’t need to tell the community that we are a party that is embedded in you. What we need is to rise above this strain of politics and work for the principals that are applicable in the larger frame of humanity. We can be rooted in our faith, tied to our community, yet do a politics that transcends parochialism. That is two, but the third one is more important when it comes to National Conference. And that is the political character of this party. In a changed situation where the elections reflected a clear division along religious and regional lines, National Conference needs to revisit its history, and determine what is the political character, and political limits, of this party. When it comes to talking to Delhi or the people outside Kashmir, this party always underlines its ‘secular’ character. It even, at different points of our political journey, wanted to convince the Muslims of Kashmir of the ‘virtues of secularism’. After all that is the only way it could explain its decision to join the Union of India. Where has that landed the Kashmiri Muslims as a political collective is something this party needs to seriously debate over. The pictures sent from Mecca may do little to compensate the damage that National Conference did to the Kashmiri Muslim community, as a political collective, by robbing it of its democratic value. On this, someone like Omar Abdullah needs to think seriously. An even more profound thinking is needed to apply the lessons in a changed situation. One wouldn’t expect it from a person like Omar Abdullah to play such photo-op that can easily be labelled as theatrics. Besides, it has a political undertone and that is not what the Muslims of Kashmir need in the name of political identity. Our problems are rooted in real difficulties and it needs an approach that is equally rooted in reality. We cannot, and should not consolidate our community in the name of a superficial sense-of-identity, but the deeper appreciation of the content-of-community. Tailpiece : Jinnah and the current politics in India cannot sit together. That is like fire and fire. But may be National Conference for a while, in the changed circumstance, can. Jinnah was spotted in his car by a group of Muslims standing by the road side. They started raising slogans, and one of them chanted, Maulana Jinnah . The man accused of communal politics drove back the car, and addressing the pack of people sternly dropped a message: “ Mr. Jinnah, I am plain Mr. Jinnah.” In a politics that was driven by community anxieties, he didn’t want to take any advantage from Muslim symbolism. 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Shares of Viking Therapeutics, Inc. ( NASDAQ:VKTX – Get Free Report ) were up 2% on Thursday . The company traded as high as $54.73 and last traded at $54.51. Approximately 2,571,782 shares were traded during mid-day trading, a decline of 43% from the average daily volume of 4,522,554 shares. The stock had previously closed at $53.42. Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth Several equities research analysts recently weighed in on the company. StockNews.com raised Viking Therapeutics to a “sell” rating in a research report on Tuesday, October 15th. Oppenheimer reaffirmed an “outperform” rating and set a $138.00 price objective on shares of Viking Therapeutics in a report on Wednesday, September 25th. HC Wainwright reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a $102.00 target price on shares of Viking Therapeutics in a report on Tuesday. William Blair restated an “outperform” rating on shares of Viking Therapeutics in a report on Wednesday, November 20th. Finally, Morgan Stanley reiterated an “overweight” rating and issued a $105.00 price objective on shares of Viking Therapeutics in a research note on Thursday, September 12th. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, ten have issued a buy rating and two have issued a strong buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $109.73. Read Our Latest Stock Analysis on VKTX Viking Therapeutics Stock Performance Viking Therapeutics ( NASDAQ:VKTX – Get Free Report ) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, October 23rd. The biotechnology company reported ($0.22) EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of ($0.24) by $0.02. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned ($0.23) earnings per share. Sell-side analysts anticipate that Viking Therapeutics, Inc. will post -0.98 earnings per share for the current fiscal year. Insider Activity at Viking Therapeutics In related news, Director Lawson Macartney sold 2,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Friday, November 8th. The stock was sold at an average price of $68.67, for a total value of $137,340.00. Following the sale, the director now owns 47,965 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $3,293,756.55. The trade was a 4.00 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this hyperlink . Also, Director J Matthew Singleton sold 10,300 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Friday, September 20th. The shares were sold at an average price of $69.50, for a total value of $715,850.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director now owns 9,500 shares in the company, valued at $660,250. This trade represents a 52.02 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here . Insiders have sold a total of 371,117 shares of company stock valued at $27,140,009 over the last quarter. 4.70% of the stock is owned by company insiders. Institutional Trading of Viking Therapeutics Several large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Blue Trust Inc. acquired a new position in shares of Viking Therapeutics in the 3rd quarter worth approximately $26,000. Thurston Springer Miller Herd & Titak Inc. acquired a new position in Viking Therapeutics in the second quarter worth $27,000. GAMMA Investing LLC grew its holdings in shares of Viking Therapeutics by 124.6% during the third quarter. GAMMA Investing LLC now owns 438 shares of the biotechnology company’s stock worth $28,000 after purchasing an additional 243 shares during the last quarter. Gilliland Jeter Wealth Management LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Viking Therapeutics in the third quarter valued at $32,000. Finally, Stone House Investment Management LLC raised its holdings in shares of Viking Therapeutics by 66.7% in the third quarter. Stone House Investment Management LLC now owns 500 shares of the biotechnology company’s stock valued at $32,000 after buying an additional 200 shares during the last quarter. 76.03% of the stock is owned by institutional investors. About Viking Therapeutics ( Get Free Report ) Viking Therapeutics, Inc, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the development of novel therapies for metabolic and endocrine disorders. The company's lead drug candidate is VK2809, an orally available tissue and receptor-subtype selective agonist of the thyroid hormone receptor beta (TRß), which is in Phase IIb clinical trials to treat patients with biopsy-confirmed non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, as well as NAFLD. Featured Stories Receive News & Ratings for Viking Therapeutics Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Viking Therapeutics and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .