San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy will not play Sunday and head coach Kyle Shanahan said the lingering discomfort is a concern. Purdy sat out Friday after he participated in the start of Thursday's practice with the 49ers, then retreated indoors for what Shanahan said was a treatment session. Brandon Allen, 32, will start in Purdy's place, and the 49ers are also without defensive end Nick Bosa (oblique). Shanahan said players believe in Allen, even if he's an unknown. "Outside of here people haven't seen a lot of Brandon. But it's his second year (with the 49ers)," Shanahan said. "Obviously guys want Brock up, but guys are excited to see Brandon play." Shanahan said they are "a little surprised" Purdy experienced tightness and discomfort in his shoulder after an MRI exam on Monday that showed no long-term cause for concern. "The way it responded this week, it's really up in the air for next week," Shanahan said of Purdy. Allen is familiar to Packers head coach Matt LaFleur, who was an assistant coach with the Rams during Allen's two-year run in Los Angeles. Allen broke into the NFL in 2016 with the Jaguars and is 2-7 in nine career starts. He went 1-2 with the Broncos in 2019 and 1-5 in six starts over two years with the Bengals in 2020 and ‘21. Shanahan said Allen's confidence grew throughout the week and he doesn't anticipate a major change in how he calls the offense. Left tackle Trent Williams (ankle) also missed practice for the third consecutive day. Without disclosing the nature of the ailment to Purdy's throwing shoulder, general manager John Lynch confirmed Friday an MRI exam took place to determine the severity of any injury. Allen worked with the first team most of Thursday and Friday with Joshua Dobbs also taking snaps. Lynch described Purdy's status for the 49ers (5-5) this week as "tenuous." "Hopefully, he makes progress, and we can have a shot at this weekend, but we'll see," Lynch said in an interview with KNBR in San Francisco. "I think it's tenuous." When Purdy was on the field this week, he primarily worked on the side in position-specific drills with QB coach Brian Griese. Williams played through an ankle injury last week after being listed as questionable but exited the stadium with an exaggerated limp on Sunday. Run game coordinator Chris Foerster said the 49ers aren't where they want to be at 5-5 because they haven't won close games, not because of injuries. "Seven games left is like an eternity," Foerster said. "So much can happen. Do the math. What was our record last year? It was 12-5. I was on a 13-win team that was nowhere near as good as the team last year." With or without Purdy, Foerster said the challenge for the 49ers is not to give up the ball to a defense that has 19 takeaways. The 49ers have 13 giveaways this season. --Field Level Media

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Outbrain Shareholders Vote to Support Teads AcquisitionOne thing nearly all former presidents have in common is a love of sports. For Donald Trump, the game was golf. For Barack Obama, the sport was basketball. President George W. Bush owned Major League Baseball’s Texas Rangers. For Jimmy Carter, the sport was tennis. At the Jimmy Carter National Historical Park is a clay tennis court. The tennis court was installed during Carter’s childhood on the family farm. The farm and his childhood home later became the location for the park in Plains, Georgia. In his 1975 book “Why Not the Best?” Carter described how he would play against his father as a teenager. “My father ... was an excellent tennis player,” Carter wrote. “I could never beat my father. He had a wicked sliced ball which barely bounded at all on the relatively soft dirt court.” RELATED STORY | Former President Jimmy Carter dies at age 100 Carter was able to upgrade his court when he entered the White House in 1977. The complex had a court installed during President Theodore Roosevelt’s tenure. But during his time in the White House, the use of the tennis courts became political fodder. Staffer James Fallows wrote in The Atlantic that Carter would personally sign off on when the White House tennis court could be used, and by which staffers. “The in-house tennis enthusiasts, of whom I was perhaps the most shameless, dispatched brief notes through his secretary asking to use the court on Tuesday afternoons while he was at a congressional briefing, or a Saturday morning, while he was away,” Fallows wrote. “I always provided spaces where he could check Yes or No; Carter would make his decision and send the note back, initialed J.” Carter was asked by Bill Moyers about whether he personally signed off on the tennis court’s use. Carter told Moyers he delegated the task to a secretary. Carter’s love of tennis came home to Plains in 1977 during his first year in the White House. World Team Tennis staged a match in the small Georgia town, which was attended by Carter’s mother Lillian. The competition was between a team of Soviet Union stars against top Americans playing on the Phoenix Racquets.Gakdeng scores 21 with 12 rebounds, No. 17 UNC women beat Miami 69-60

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JACKSONVILLE -- The 2024 Tennessee Titans (3-13) have been a colossal waste of time. Losing their 13th game of the season in Week 17 only solidified that fact. Somehow, Tennessee is still managing to find new lows in a season filled with them. Titans are arguably the worst team in football this year Sunday's latest humiliation will be a tough one for fans to stomach. "(The losses) all feel terrible, to be honest," said first year coach Brian Callahan. "We still had a tipped ball turnover and that was the difference in the game. We lost the turnover battle 1-0, and that's been the story of the season as the turnovers are putting ourselves in tough spots and that was ultimately the difference. Again, it was one -- needed to find one play somewhere and they found one, the turnover, and found a way to score and we didn't get one.” It was far from the worst game that the Titans have played this season. A 20-13 defeat is a borderline victory for a team that's lost seven games by 10 or more points this year. No, the worst part of Sunday was the fact that a now-four win Jacksonville Jaguars team owes half of those success to...the Tennessee Titans. You don't lose to Jacksonville under normal circumstances, and this team did it TWICE. In doing so, Tennessee guaranteed a second consecutive last place finish in the AFC South. By record, it is the worst division in the NFL this year. The Titans were swept by both the Jaguars and the Indianapolis Colts (7-9) in 2024. Additionally, Tennessee made history on Sunday by becoming the only team in the Super Bowl era to fail to cover the spread in 14 games during a season (2-14 ATS). The Titans secured the worst record against the spread of any team since 1978, when the NFL went to 16 games, according to ESPN.com's David Payne Purdum. Not only are they unwatchable, but they'll cost you money more often than not. So, are they numb to the losing at this point, or just plain bad? "I hope they're not numb to them," Callahan said. "I'm sure not. It sucks. It's terrible. It's no -- there's no joy in this process. There's no fun in this. It's terrible. I feel it every day I walk in to work. I feel out every day I stand up here in front of you guys. Nothing is enjoyable about this, so I don't get numb to any of it and I hope nobody gets numb to it. My job is to try to fix it and do whatever we can to fix whatever problems we got to fix to add whatever players we have to add to make sure we have a better football team moving forward.” Not a job anyone would envy at this point. This article first appeared on A to Z Sports and was syndicated with permission.

MotorTrend Names Mercedes-Benz E-Class 2025 Car of the YearAriana Grande “didn’t understand” any part of her viral “holding space” interview. The 31-year-old pop singer stars as Glinda in the film version of the musical Wicked opposite Cynthia Erivo , and the pair were presented with the mysterious phrase in an interview with journalist Tracy Gilchrist when she tried to describe fans’ reaction to the number Defying Gravity . The interview has gone on to become a social media sensation because of its nonsensical nature. Speaking alongside her co-star in a new interview, she told Variety : “I didn’t know what any part of it meant. I didn’t understand the first sentence, and then I definitely didn’t understand how [Erivo] responded. And I just wanted to be there. Because I knew something big was happening, and I didn’t know how to be there.” In the original clip, Gilchrist remarked, “People are taking the lyrics of Defying Gravity and really holding space with that and feeling power in that,” and Erivo – who plays the role of Elphaba in the unofficial prequel to The Wizard of Oz – admitted she was “surprised” by the comment, and was further confused when the journalist tried to justify her remarks by claiming she would know because she works in “queer media”.

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( MENAFN - EIN Presswire) WILMINGTON, NEW CASTLE, DE, UNITED STATES, December 24, 2024 /EINPresswire / -- According to a recent report published by Allied market Research, titled,“PLM in Discrete manufacturing Market By Component, Deployment Model, Enterprise Size and industry Vertical: Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2021–2028,” The global PLM in discrete manufacturing market size was valued at $19.94 billion in 2020, and is projected to reach $33.24 billion by 2028, growing at a CAGR of 6.8% from 2021 to 2028. Get Research Report Sample Pages : Discrete manufacturing is an industry term used for manufacturing of finished products that are distinct items capable of being easily counted, touched, or seen. Discrete manufacturing and PLM software is primarily designed for managing all information and processes at every step of a product or service lifecycle across globalized supply chains. This includes data from items, parts, products, documents, requirements, engineering change orders, and quality workflows. Discrete manufacturing involves production of parts and systems such as nuts and bolts, brackets, wires, assemblies, and individual products. Furthermore, the key factor that drives the market includes increase in demand of discrete manufacturing and PLM software by various SMEs and adoption of Industrial IoT among manufacturing industries. In addition, rise in digital transformation in various industries across different developing nations positively impacts growth of the market. However, high investment and integration costs hamper the market growth. On the contrary, surge in demand for cloud-based PLM software and emergence of smart factories and smart manufacturing across the globe is expected to offer remunerative opportunities for the expansion of the PLM in discrete manufacturing market during the forecast period. Depending on industry vertical, the automotive & transportation segment dominated the market share in 2020, and is expected to continue this trend in the upcoming years. This is attributed to rise in adoption of cloud-based PLM software by various automotive & transportation industries to improve their business efficiency and to enhance the quality of the product. However, the high-tech & consumer electronics industry is expected to witness highest growth rate during the forecast period, owing to the need to optimize companies overall processes and to enhance performance and functioning of the organization. Procure Complete Research Report Now : /purchase-options Region wise, the PLM in discrete manufacturing market was dominated by North America in 2020, and is expected to retain its position during the forecast period. This is attributed to increase in adoption of advance technologies such as IoT, connected industries, telecommunication technologies (5G, LTE), additive manufacturing, and augmented reality among various industries to improve their supply chain process. However, Asia-Pacific is expected to witness significant growth rate during the forecast period, owing to increase in industrial and infrastructure expansion activities in India and China. The outbreak of COVID-19 is anticipated to have a negative impact on growth of PLM in discrete manufacturing market. This is attributed to closing of supply chain process of various manufacturing industry and reduction in logistics activities across the globe. However, various industries have started adopting PLM to entire business processes efficiently operating and under control, which can be achieved through various features of PLM software such as remote access, digital data exchange, automated reporting, and real-time work floor control. In addition, the pandemic has led to surge in demand for cloud-based PLM software among enterprises. Key Findings Of The Study : By component, the software segment accounted for the largest PLM in discrete manufacturing market share in 2020. Region wise, North America generated highest revenue in 2020. Depending on deployment, the on-premise segment generated the highest revenue in 2020. Inquire Before Buying : The key players profiled in the PLM in discrete manufacturing market analysis are ANSYS, Inc., Arena Solutions, Inc., Autodesk, Inc., Dassault Systèmes, Infor, Oracle Corporation, PTC Inc., SAP SE, Siemens AG, and Synopsys Inc. These players have adopted various strategies to increase their market penetration and strengthen their position in the PLM in discrete manufacturing industry. 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