Bears general manager Ryan Poles was granted a reprieve complete with a second swing at hiring a head coach in Chicago. Poles will interview candidates and select a replacement for Matt Eberflus, who was fired Friday after the Bears' sixth consecutive loss and fourth of the season decided on a final play. "Ryan Poles is the general manager of the Chicago Bears, and he will remain the general manager of the Chicago Bears," president and CEO Kevin Warren said Monday. "Ryan will serve as the point person of our upcoming search for a head football coach. We will closely, we will work together on a daily basis to make sure we have the right person as our head football coach." Warren said the McCaskey family provided "all the resources" to build a championship environment. He confirmed that Thomas Brown, who a month ago was passing game coordinator before replacing Shane Waldron as offensive coordinator, will serve as interim head coach and shift from the press box to the sideline starting this week. Warren did not say whether Brown would automatically receive an interview for the full-time coaching position, which he said "will be the most coveted head coaching job in the National Football League." Poles said consideration will be given to candidates with the plan to develop rookie No. 1 pick Caleb Williams, but there are no set plans to involve the quarterback in the interview process. He said the Bears showed great progress through two seasons but couldn't sustain growth. "At the end of the day, we just came up short too many times," Poles said of firing Eberflus, his pick to be the Bears' head coach in January 2022. Brown promoted wide receivers coach Chris Beatty to interim offensive coordinator on Monday and announced that defensive coordinator Eric Washington will be the defensive play caller, a role Eberflus previously held. Trailing 23-20 on Thanksgiving Day, the Bears were within field-goal range when quarterback Caleb Williams was sacked. With 32 seconds remaining, Eberflus elected not to use his final timeout as Williams heaved an incompletion down the right sideline as time expired. "When you look at the end-of-the-game situations, detailing to finish in some of those moments. We all know a lot of games come down to those critical moments where we weren't able to get over the hump," Poles said. Eberflus said after the game that everything was handled properly and held a press conference via Zoom on Friday voicing confidence he'd have the team ready to play the 49ers this week. But three hours later, he was fired. Warren admitted the franchise could've handled the timing better, but clarified there was no decision on Eberflus' status at the time of his media session. "The decision was made to terminate the employment of head coach Matt Eberflus," Warren said 72 hours later. "We try to do everything in a professional manner. That decision was made on Friday." "Coach Eberflus had his press conference, we had not made a final decision. I think you know me, you know Ryan you know George McCaskey. One thing we stand for is family, integrity, doing it the right way. In retrospect, could we have done it better? Absolutely." Eberflus, 54, went 14-32 in two-plus seasons. The Bears (4-8) travel to San Francisco (5-7) in Week 1. --Field Level Media
Global Beer Packaging Market Expected to Reach $31.3 Billion by 2031: Ball Corporation, Crown Holdings, Inc., Ardagh Group, Owens-Illinois, IncAfter hitting bottom post-pandemic, Bangkok's condo market is set to rebound next year, with projects in outer areas continuing to perform well as existing stock is depleted because of price reductions by developers. Sumitra Wongpakdee, managing director of property researcher Terra Media and Consulting, said the market across all price segments showed signs of recovery, though it is unlikely to reach pre-pandemic levels. "Absorption rates are bottoming out after hitting the low point in 2021–22," she said. "The primary factor driving this trend is the depletion of existing stock, as new supply in all segments has sharply declined." However, growth is expected to be gradual rather than steep as purchasing power remains weak, dampened by high mortgage rejection rates, said Ms Sumitra. The best-performing segment will be the mass market, with prices ranging between 80,000 and 150,000 baht per square metre, she said. This segment had the highest growth in average absorption rates from 2021 to the third quarter of 2024, increasing 7% per year. The absorption rate in the first nine months of 2024 for the mass segment rose to 11.6 units per project per month, up from 10.6 in 2023 and a low of 8.8 in 2022. The luxury segment, with prices of 200,000 baht per sq m and higher, had the second-largest growth rate, rising 6% annually. The absorption rate increased to 3.9 units per project per month in the first three quarters, up from 3.6 in 2023 and 3.0 in 2022, which was the lowest year for this segment. The economy segment, priced at 80,000 baht per sq m and lower, had a 5% annual increase in absorption rates. However, in the first nine months of 2024, the absorption rate dropped to 11.3 units per project per month from 12.8 in 2023, which rose from 10.4 in 2022. The premium segment, ranging between 150,000 and 200,000 baht per sq m, had the slowest growth, with an average absorption rate increase of only 1% per year. The absorption rate rebounded to 4.6 units per project per month in the first nine months of 2024, up from a low of 3.9 last year. This segment declined to 4.6 in 2021 from 6.4 in 2020 after peaking at 9.9 in 2019. "This trend, where the mass market outperforms other segments, will likely continue in 2025," Ms Sumitra said. "The majority of this segment will be in locations far from mass transit, but outer areas have affordable prices amid weak purchasing power." In the first nine months of 2024, new condo supply in the economy segment tallied 13,000 units, compared with 26,000 units in 2023 and 34,000 units in 2022. The lowest level in recent years was 16,000 units in 2021. The mass segment had 14,000 new units launched for the period, compared with 18,000 in 2023 and 20,000 in 2022. This segment expanded from only 8,000 units in 2021. The premium segment had the lowest new supply, with only 600 units launched in the first nine months of 2024, compared with 3,100 units in 2023. However, its low point was in 2020, with only 400 units introduced. "The decline in condo stock this year was driven by limited new supply and steady sales in certain segments," she said. "A key driver was developers' willingness to lower prices to meet revenue targets and maintain cash flow, at the expense of reduced profits."None
Kamala Harris’s team have doubled down on blaming others for their own election loss, pointing their fingers at President Joe Biden in yet another post-mortem interview—this time with The Atlantic . In a series of sit-downs the Harris team has parroted the idea that they did all they could have, much to the dismay of progressives and political strategists who pointed to specific decisions made by Harris and her aides that may have hurt her chances with voters: A failure to rhetorically distance herself from the Biden administration, Harris’ open embrace of Republicans like Liz Cheney, and her decision not to address her previous progressive opinions. The consensus among Kamala Harris’s team seems to be, however, is that no stone was left unturned—and that Biden’s unpopularity doomed Harris from the start. ADVERTISEMENT Kamala Harris’s senior adviser David Plouffe told The Atlantic that Biden’s decision not to drop out earlier was the party’s “cardinal sin.” “Our first week, it was like, ‘Well, we need a biography ad, we need to talk about the border, we need to lay out an economic contrast, we need to get health care in there, abortion,’” Plouffe said. “If you have six, seven, eight months, you storyboard all this stuff, you have a narrative arc. Everything was smashed and collided here.” Plouffe still told the outlet that she might have lost regardless of when she entered the race. “I’m not sure, given the headwinds, any Democrat could have won.” In an interview on Pod Save America last week, Harris’ top aides—including Plouffe—stuck up for their decisions throughout the race. He said that the party needed moderates in order to win in the future, constituencies that Barack Obama courted during his successful campaigns in 2008 in 2012 (which Plouffe worked on as well). Other aides on the podcast included advisers Jen O’Malley Dillon, Quentin Fulks, and Stephanie Cutter. “We were very focused on lifting her up. But to win a race like this, given the political atmospherics, which were quite challenging,” Plouffe said, “We had to raise the risk of a Trump second term.” The Daily Beast Podcast episodes are released every Thursday. Like and download on Spotify , Apple Podcasts , YouTube , or your favorite podcast app. And click here for email updates as each new episode drops.
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Puri: Director General of Police (DGP) YB Khurania on Sunday reviewed the security arrangements for the visit of President Droupadi Murmu to Odisha’s Puri. The DGP had darshan in Jagannath temple and then went to Blue Flag beach, Raj Bhavan, Samang parking and sea beach to take stock of the security arrangements. Later, he held a meeting with senior police officers in the district SP’s office. Speaking to the media after the meeting, Khurania said tight security would be put in place during the President’s visit to Puri on December 4. “Special attention has been given to vehicular traffic from Bhubaneswar to Puri and inside the Pilgrim Town. Parking of vehicles and security of VIPs accompanying the President were also discussed. Total 80 platoons of police force under the supervision of 300 senior officers will be deployed on the President’s route and inside the town,” he said. According to the itinerary, President Murmu will arrive in Bhubaneswar on December 3 by a special Indian Air Force flight and unveil the statue of Pandit Raghunath Murmu at Niladri Vihar in Bhubaneswar in the evening. The following day, she will visit Puri and have darshan of the sibling deities at Jagannath Temple. Thereafter, she will attend the 75th-anniversary celebration of Gopabandhu Ayurveda College and later, witness the Indian Navy’s display of its formidable maritime capabilities and operational strength at Blue Flag beach on the occasion of Navy Day. Khurania said 25 Indian Navy ships along with 40 fighter aircrafts will participate in the military show on the day. Since general public will also attend the show, special attention has been given to the President’s security, he added. : Get real time updates directly on you device, subscribe now. Prev Post
