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ruce Willis's life changed dramatically in February 2023 when he was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, a rare, progressive disorder that affects language and behavior. Since then, the actor has received extensive specialized care and treatment.
A few weeks ago, his family reported that Bruce had been moved to another home where he is receiving 24-hour care, at the actor's own request. Although he is surrounded by the love of his family, his wife, Emma Heming-Willis, revealed that his illness continues to progress rapidly.
She confessed that Bruce is steadily losing his cognitive abilities, so the family is preparing for the inevitable and ensuring he has a dignified send-off.
"As a society, we don't think about these things. We don't think about care or our care plans, or death. But we really need to, and we shouldn't look at it with so much pessimism," Emma told USA Today.
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2 hours ago, Laxtonto said: Singleton or Johnson, to me, would make a ton more sense than Cam Coleman (or Dallas Wilson) from both a $$ standpoint and to keep the rest of the WR room from freaking out. Bringing in a guy that has a dollar amount that signals he is here to compete and let the best man win is better for retention, much like last year with Mosely, than a huge dollar amount guy that is going to be the de facto WR1a to Wingo's 1b.
Spend the difference between these guys on an additional SEC median equivalent IOL and/or a 2nd string RB. I wouldn't even be opposed to giving the difference to Endries to keep him around to have two receiving TE threats next year.
If Arch progresses as we hope, we should need fewer truly amazing dominant WRs than an OL to give him time.
Would I like all the best players from the portal and a $50M, fuck it why not. Its not my money. Does that make any sense, not really...
I’m not sure Sark knows what to do with depth. I think he would be just fine with a roster of 22 guys for the offense. And leaving the remains 63 or so slots for the defense and special teams.
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The editing function is a pain in the butt in the upgradeWhether or not Tre Wisner is worth $1m to Texas is really one of life's great mysteries, up there with the identity of DB Cooper and Jack the Ripper, and what happened to Jimmy Hoffa. It's a rocket surgery wrapped in an enigma. No one could ever know if he's worth that much. Only idiots on Surly would suggest that paying him $1m would be an over-pay.
Ehh, in Philly he’s worth $50.
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1 hour ago, deech said: I would have expected that a decent amount of tampering has been going on for the last year culminating in these transfer portal shenanigans. I mean two years in a row we've seen people enter portal, sign with another team when it officially opens, and not visit a single school. So I would hope that we locked up 2-3 need players/positions and have done a good job of tampering them to Texas already.
I would think with the expanded SEC rosters that Texas would take a collection of roster fill-in types that are just looking for a new opportunity as opposed to seeking maximum salary.
I don't see it that way. Players see what other guys are getting and they see that the squeaky wheel gets the grease so they aren't waiting patiently for fair offers. They get an agent to explore their worth and feel that if worst comes to worst that they can go back to their original team. This is happening everywhere and most teams are flush with money from the revenue sharing. And so we have the majority of starters renegotiating and many entering the portal.
Tre is exploring his options and if he gets an offer for $750K then he should probably take it. If not, I would be willing to bet that Texas despite its policy on its players entering the portal would be willing to take him back at $500K and I'ld also bet that this would hurt Tre's feelings and he would rather end up somewhere else for that same amount. After all he was already offered $750K from Texas recently. Either way, he won't be back at Texas and there will be hard feelings from Tre's end. And personally, I don't give a shit. He would be making more than NFL starters were making back in 1990 as a below average SEC back.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62n922dnw7o

Russia's losses in Ukraine rise faster than ever as US pushes for peace deal
16 hours ago
Olga IvshinaBBC News Russian
ANDREY BORODULIN/AFP via Getty Images A burial site of Russian soldiers killed during the country's war in Ukraine, in the rural Volga region of Kostroma, 300kms from the Russian capital of Moscow.ANDREY BORODULIN/AFP via Getty Images
BBC News Russian counts Moscow's war losses using official reports, newspapers, social media, and new memorials and graves
Over the past 10 months, Russian losses in the war with Ukraine have been growing faster than any time since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022, BBC analysis suggests.
As peace efforts intensified in 2025 under pressure from US President Donald Trump's administration, 40% more obituaries of soldiers were published in Russian sources compared with the previous year.
Overall, the BBC has confirmed the names of almost 160,000 people killed fighting on Russia's side in Ukraine.
BBC News Russian has been counting Russian war losses together with independent outlet Mediazona and a group of volunteers since February 2022. We keep a list of named individuals whose deaths we were able to confirm using official reports, newspapers, social media, and new memorials and graves.
The real death toll is believed to be much higher, and military experts we have consulted believe our analysis of cemeteries, war memorials and obituaries might represent 45-65% of the total.
That would put the number of Russian deaths at between 243,000 and 352,000.
The number of obituaries for any given period is a preliminary estimate of the confirmed losses, as some need additional verification and will eventually be discarded. But it can indicate how the intensity of fighting is changing over time.
2025 starts with a relatively low number of published obituaries in January, compared with the previous months. Then the number rises in February, when Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin talked directly for the first time about ending the war in Ukraine.
The next peak in August coincides with the two presidents meeting each other in Alaska, a diplomatic coup for Putin that was widely seen as an end to his international isolation.
In October, when a planned second Russia-US summit was eventually shelved, and then in November, when the US presented a 28-point peace proposal, an average of 322 obituaries were published per day - twice the average in 2024.
It is difficult to put increased Russian losses down to any one factor, but the Kremlin sees territorial gains as a way of influencing negotiations with the US in its favour: Putin aide Yuri Ushakov stressed recently that "recent successes" had had a positive impact.
Murat Mukashev was among those who gambled on a quick peace deal, and it cost him his life.
Mukashev was an activist who had never supported Putin's policies.
Over the years, he had taken part in demonstrations against police violence and torture, and joined rallies for LGBT rights and the release of Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin's main opponent who died in prison in 2024.
He had repeatedly condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine on social media from 2022. Then, in early 2024, Mukashev was detained near his home in Moscow and charged with large-scale drug dealing.
While his case was being tried he was offered a contract with the defence ministry, according to his friends and family.
They saw the heavy charges levelled against him as a typical ploy to get people to sign up. A 2024 law allows the accused a way out of a criminal conviction if they join up - an attractive option in a country with an acquittal rate of less than 1%.
Mukashev refused the offer, and the court sentenced him to 10 years in a high-security penal colony.
Murat Mukashev A young man holds a placard saying "stop the killers if they wear shoulder straps" as police escort him towards the cameraMurat Mukashev
Mukashev was never a Putin supporter and had protested against the war and police violence
In prison in November 2024, he changed his mind. Friends said he was encouraged by Trump's promises to end the war quickly and decided he needed to sign up as soon as possible to secure his release before a peace deal was reached.
"He saw this as a chance to be released instead of being imprisoned for 10 years of strict regime," reads a statement from his support group.
There was no explanation of how he reconciled taking part in the war with his reluctance to kill.
On June 11 2025, Mukashev died fighting as part of an assault squad in the Kharkiv region of north-eastern Ukraine.
Like him, the majority of Russians killed at the front in 2025 had nothing to do with the military at the start of the full-scale war, BBC figures show.
But since the bloody battle for the city of Avdiivka in October 2023, there has been a steady increase in casualties among so-called "volunteers" - those who have voluntarily signed a contract since the start of the invasion.
They now appear to form the majority of Russia's new recruits, as opposed to professional soldiers who joined the army before the invasion or those mobilised for military service afterwards.
A year ago 15% of Russian military deaths were volunteers, but in 2025 it was one in three.
Local governments, under pressure to maintain a constant flow of new recruits, advertise hefty pay-outs, meet people who have large debts and campaign in universities and colleges.
This means that the Kremlin has been able to compensate for heavy losses at the front while avoiding the politically risky move of a large-scale mandatory mobilisation.
By October, 336,000 people had signed up for the military this year, according to National Security Council deputy chief Dmitry Medvedev - well over 30,000 a month.
Nato Secretary-General Mark Rutte has since said that 25,000 Russian soldiers are being killed every month. If both are right, Russia is still recruiting more soldiers than it is losing.
Based on obituaries and relatives' accounts, most of those who signed up to fight did so voluntarily; but there are reports of pressure and coercion, especially on regular conscripts and those charged with criminal offences.
Some recruits mistakenly believe that after they have signed up for a year they can return to their old life with money in their pockets.
A new recruit can earn up to 10m roubles (£95,000; $128,000) in a year. In reality all contracts signed with the defence ministry since September 2022 are automatically renewed until the war is over.
According to Nato, the total number of Russian dead and wounded in the war is 1.1 million, and one official has estimated there have been 250,000 fatalities.
This is in line with the BBC's calculations, although our list does not include those killed serving in the militia of two occupied regions in eastern Ukraine, which we estimate to be between 21,000 and 23,500 fighters.
Ukraine has also sustained heavy losses.
Last February, President Volodymyr Zelensky put the number of battlefield deaths at 46,000 and 380,000 others wounded.
Tens of thousands more were either missing in action or held captive, he added.
Based on other estimates and cross-referencing data, we believe the number of Ukrainians killed by now is as high as 140,000.
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4 hours ago, SarksJuggs said: Yeah I’d rather pay more for the 6’3 specimen than take a discount for the 5’9 white kid from San Jose State.
Hey I don’t know if you are talking about football or dating, cuz I married the 5’9er who went to San Jose State and it worked out pretty well for me. You know it, you know the story. Now tell the whole damn world it is Spartan territory.
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2 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said: I don’t get only taking up to 3 interior linemen, that makes no sense considering how bad the interior is from a starter and depth perspective.
Yeah, but besides the problems with the starters and the depth on the interior offensive line, I think we are in great shape.
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1 hour ago, satyanash said: More realistically, we should have been in the playoffs this year but for a wasted offseason where the coaches identified and strengthened none of our glaring O-line and RB room weaknesses. In other words, the same thing we're worried could very well repeat itself this year.
But hey, if you want to place the blame at the feet of the committee after watching Connor Stroh stumble around for 60 minutes against a dismal 4-8 Florida squad, instead of questioning the multiple poor coaching decisions that led to such a situation, that's your prerogative.
October 10, how prescient.
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6 minutes ago, BlackCat said: I think there’s a chance he was just being nice and basically saying I’m not telling you shit
Yeah, cool story. I spent the last week with a big money donor (whose name I won't divulge) and he didn't tell me anything. In fact, he barely talked to me except to say "fuck off".
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4 hours ago, Tylerocks said: Grayson Sheena (UT grad) is Wisner's agent, fwiw
I knew a Gregg Sheena who graduated from UT. Grayson is probably his kid. I should have kicked Gregg in the nads when I knew him.
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/27/russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-1402
A blaze ignited by a Ukrainian drone attack at Russia’s Azov Sea port of Temryuk has been extinguished, a local task force said. Temryuk port handles LPG, oil products and petrochemicals, as well as grain and other bulk food commodities.
Russia’s Defence Ministry claimed that during the past week its forces had downed seven British-made Storm Shadow missiles, Russian news agencies reported.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Russia of using ordinary apartment blocks on the territory of its ally Belarus to attack Ukrainian targets and circumvent Kyiv’s defences. “It is unfortunate that Belarus is surrendering its sovereignty in favour of Russia’s aggressive ambitions,” Zelenskyy said.
Poland deployed fighter jets to intercept a Russian reconnaissance aircraft flying near its airspace over the Baltic Sea and said dozens of aerial objects – believed to be balloons used by smugglers – approached its airspace from Belarus overnight, warning that the separate incidents during the holiday season may signal a provocation by Moscow.
Moscow is likely stationing new nuclear-capable hypersonic ballistic missiles at a former airbase in eastern Belarus, a development that could bolster Russia’s ability to hit European targets, two United States researchers have found by studying satellite imagery, according to an exclusive Reuters news agency report.
The American researchers said reviews of the Planet Labs imagery revealed a hurried construction project that took place between August 4 and 12 and showed features consistent with those of a Russian strategic missile base, the report added.
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Jethro Tull founding member dies aged 82
2 hours agoNeve Gordon-Farleigh
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Mick Abrahams starred on Jethro Tull's debut album, This Way, released in 1968Mick Abrahams, a founding member of rock band Jethro Tull, has died at the age of 82.
Posting on the band's official website, lead singer Ian Anderson said he was sorry to hear of the death of the "strong vocalist and experienced, powerful and lyrical guitarist".
He said Luton-born Abrahams had "endured worsening ill health for the last 15 years, leaving him finally unable to perform".
Anderson said Abrahams was "vitally important" to the band's early line-up and developed his musical ideas into a "tour de force display of his instrumental talents for the rest of his performing days".
Jethro Tull were formed "out of the ashes" of The John Evan Band and McGregor's Engine, the blues band Abrahams formed with Clive Bunker in the Luton/Dunstable area, said Anderson.
Abrahams played on Tull's first album, This Was, but left shortly after it was finished, and went on to found another successful band, Blodwyn Pig.
After pursuing a solo career between 1971 and 2017, he retired from performing following a stroke.
Anderson described him as a "homebody" who "liked to gig around the home counties".
He said: "We all offer our condolences to Mick's family and close friends, who can feel justifiably proud of his achievements and musical legacy."

Русский корабль - иди нахуй
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Don't know if this link will work - if it doesn't then I can post the whole interview. https://archive.is/PMdm1
The woman Putin tried – and failed – to break
Adrian Blomfield - Senior Foreign Correspondent
Maia Sandu is the Telegraph’s World Leader of the Year after defying the Kremlin to turn Moldova into Europe’s front line of democracy
In 2025, Vladimir Putin went to extraordinary lengths to crush Maia Sandu, Moldova’s president. In this David-and-Goliath struggle, there should have been only one winner.
Moldova is a poor country of just 2.4 million people, battered by an economic crisis sparked by the Ukraine war. The Kremlin funnelled a fortune into a campaign to unseat Sandu’s party in a parliamentary election that was arguably the world’s most consequential democratic contest of the year. Russia flooded the country with disinformation, fabricating claims that she was so devoted to “Western degeneracy” that she bought Sir Elton John’s sperm to give birth to a gay child.
Yet against the odds, Sandu prevailed, preventing her country from becoming an agent of Russian influence that would have threatened Ukraine and the rest of Europe. It is not hard to see why Moldovans kept the faith. Unlike her boorish, corruption-tainted predecessors, she is scrupulously abstemious, living in a small flat and flying with budget airlines on official business.
For her modesty, resolve and giant-slaying courage, she is a deserved inaugural winner of the title, Telegraph World Leader of the Year.
Below is an excerpt from the article:
Had she stumbled in this year’s poll, her role would have been reduced to symbolic meaninglessness, with a hostile pro-Russian government stripping her of meaningful power and threatening Moldova’s democratic future.
The consequences for Ukraine would have been grave, further isolating it among former Soviet states. Western intelligence suggests the Kremlin hoped a friendly government in Chisinau would permit it to deploy 10,000 troops to reinforce the Russian garrison in separatist Transnistria, a Moscow-backed region that broke away from Moldova and shares a long border with Ukraine. Such a move would have imperilled Odesa, Ukraine’s largest port and maritime lifeline.
“If Russia’s proxies had won, it would have meant that Russia would have run the country,” Ms Sandu says.
But the Russian subversion campaign, she insists, was not just about knocking Moldova off its pro-European path or even opening a back door to Ukraine. Putin’s ultimate aim, she believes, was to turn Moldova into a hybrid warfare laboratory, rehearsing tactics that would then be deployed to interfere in and manipulate elections across Europe, from Hungary to Britain.
“Moldova is one of the very few countries which has experienced the full range of Russia’s hybrid attack methods,” she says. “But the target is not Moldova. Moldova is just the testing ground. The target is Europe, and Europe should learn from us, from countries which are on the front line of the fight for democracy. Democracy on the continent is in danger.”