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Colin O'Malley
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Lions add CB Moseley to secondary, source says
San Francisco 49ers free agent cornerback Emmanuel Moseley reached agreement with the Detroit Lions on a one-year, $6 million deal, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter.Moseley is the second free agent cornerback added by the Lions, following the addition of Cameron Sutton on Monday.Moseley was on his way to the best season of his career before suffering a season-ending ACL tear in his left knee on Oct. 9 against the Carolina Panthers.
Posts for this article (2)Lions add CB Moseley to secondary, source says
San Francisco 49ers free agent cornerback Emmanuel Moseley reached agreement with the Detroit Lions on a one-year, $6 million deal, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter.Moseley is the second free agent cornerback added by the Lions, following the addition of Cameron Sutton on Monday.Moseley was on his way to the best season of his career before suffering a season-ending ACL tear in his left knee on Oct. 9 against the Carolina Panthers.
Posts for this article (2)Source: Niners, C Brendel agree on 4-year deal
The San Francisco 49ers are re-signing center Jake Brendel on a four-year deal, a source told ESPN's Jeremy Fowler.A Pro Bowl alternate, Brendel also drew interest from the New York Jets, according to a source.Brendel, 30, took over as the 49ers' starting center in 2022 and started every game, posting a pass block win rate of 91% and a run block win rate of 72.3%.
Posts for this article (1)How the 49ers creatively fit Javon Hargrave and Sam Darnold under the salary capPosts for this article(1)
It turns out that the 49ers are willing to pay through their ears to add a cornerstone to the D-line, after all.
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But there was technically some truth in Lynch's words. He did mention the 49ers' need to be "creative" and they've certainly come up with "other ways" of fitting Hargrave and other signings - headlined by quarterback Sam Darnold - into a crowded salary-cap situation.
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Marathe managed this heavy backload through the dual-bonus mechanism, which he'd most recently utilized to keep Fred Warner 's initial financial footprint affordable during the cap-constricted 2021 cycle.
Good summary here from @samirkaji. It didn’t have to end this way and the consequences for many in the startup community will be severe.
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1/ So, this AM California state regulators put the bank in receivership under FDIC control. This has created a spiral in the banking industry overall, although it is clear to many of us the issues at Silvergate & SVB are very idiosyncratic.
2) But what is happening at banks in reality is less important than what people perceive to be the case (i.e. widespread solvency/liquidity issues).As such, we've seen well capitalized banks with very different exposure drop in the public markets. FRB was down to 47 today https://t.co/aWz3W0SpJM
3/ But back to SVB. After a town hall yesterday which created panic vs. calm, the bank run began. Prior to the run, SVB's main issue to solve for was lagging NIM/NII due to their securities book. Once the run started, solvency became an issue.
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10/A sale by a strong party would be the best of course. The issue right now for the startup market is several dimensional.
Most GPs are pausing capital calls; some companies expecting wires for new rounds will have to wait. Even longer if the fund has excess cash stuck at SVB
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15/ Heartbreaking, and it could have been avoided, both by different strategic decisions by SVB (and better messaging), but also if the VC community hadn't turned so aggressively against SVB. They would have been ok if the run didn't happen. Prisoners dilemma at work
Excellent thread summarizing how liquidation preferences (yuuuuck says the founder) are currently transitioning from SAFE notes to formal funding rounds. Thx for this @mgorb79
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The idea is simple: if you have a SAFE with a 10% discount and the company is issuing Series A for $1/share, your SAFE won't convert into Series A but instead into Series A-1! And that Series A-1 will be identical in all respects to the Series A, and will be
lumped together with the Series A for all purposes, EXCEPT that instead of a liq pref of $1/share, the Series A-1 will have a liq pref of $0.90/share, to match the effective purchase price. And so on.
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And believe it or not, I've had priced rounds with up to 15 series of preferred (Series A through Series A-14) to take into account all the effective purchase prices resulting from the various caps and discounts on the SAFEs (or combination of SAFEs and convertible notes). This concept is actually
baked right into the YC form of SAFE by the way.
Not good to see Germany so far behind the Eastern European NATO states (and incoming NATO states) when it comes to supporting Ukraine.
INTERVIEW: Germany must show leadership and vision' for UkrainePosts for this article(2)
Scholz's coalition partners, Germany's public and its allies are demanding more but the Chancellor still seems reluctant to give it, he says.
Nowhere was this more evident than in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's apparent dithering over whether Germany would send Ukraine modern Leopard tanks or approve the transfer of tanks help by other countries to Ukraine a situation that frustrated both Ukraine and its allies.
These kinds of decisions were only made possible after months and months of in front of the scenes and behind the scenes pressure and negotiations to get Germany to move the ball forward, Berlin says, adding that Germans should get used to more being expected from their country.
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Germany is the largest economy in Europe, fourth largest in the world and of course the biggest weapons producer in Europe.
Such an amazing story. Breathtaking how bumbling Russia's terror apparatus is up close. I'm very grateful that we have moments in history like this preserved through film making.
It was a fever-dream, a non-stop rollercoaster: David Roher on making Nalvany'Posts for this article(1)
But perhaps no-one could have predicted how world events would make the film, now nominated for best documentary at Oscar and Bafta, even more timely.
We understood the film was of critical importance but couldn't have anticipated just how much the Russian invasion of Ukraine would thrust our film into even greater importance and significance, both for the world and Navalny the man, says Roher from Sundance where he is presenting the film to a live audience after last year's virtual premiere.
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The power struggle between subject and filmmaker, between politician and documentarian, between a man who is gifted at manipulating and controlling news versus me, is the film's metanarrative and a component I'm quite proud of, says Roher.
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As the film follows Navalny and Grozev's investigations into the assassination attempt and its aftermath, there are moments that leave both the protagonists and audience aghast: how Grozev discovers the identities of the Russian agents involved in the poisoning; Navalny's decision to return to Russia rather than remain another politician in exile; and the telephone call in which one of the agents confesses on tape.