It's no secret that the Irish have a great command over the English language.
The Emerald Isle has produced some of the world's most celebrated writers of all time. Yet Irish people's flowery use of the English language goes far beyond putting pen to paper.
We can express ourselves just as colorfully when we speak. Irish idioms and phrases can conjure images as vivid as those of any poet.
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Case in point: Irish trash talk. Take a look at the creative ways the Irish insult with these savage expressio
Putin is in a panic over the expected Ukrainian counteroffensive, which may already be in its preliminary “battlefield-shaping” stage. He doesn’t know, any more than the rest of us do, when the offensive will be launched, where it will strike or whether it will succeed. What he does know is that if it achieves significant success, his own days might be numbered, with fissures already opening inside the Kremlin and between its most important henchmen.
The Russian army’s thinly stretched troops have been preparing strong defensive positions all along the front line to repel an attack or series of attacks, and planning their own spoiling operations. But, aside from the balance of forces, critically important to Ukraine’s success or failure is morale.
Putin knows it is fragile among his own troops, many of whom don’t know why they are expected to fight a war they don’t even begin to understand. He knows he has to break the morale of Ukrainian soldiers on the battle line and civilians on the home front. That is why he has recently intensified air attacks on cities and towns. They are intended to kill civilians, destroy infrastructure, disrupt the war economy and make life a misery – both for those in the cities and their relatives at the front.
On Saturday night, Russia launched the largest wave of explosive drone strikes since the full-scale invasion began. Fifty-two of the 54 Iranian-supplied Shahed drones were knocked out of the sky. Forty were aimed at Kyiv, the most intensive barrage targeting the city so far, killing one.
The next day, Kyiv, celebrating the 1,541st anniversary of its founding, was straight back to normal. No mass panic, no serious disruption to life. Putin’s attempts to intimidate the Ukrainian people and their leaders simply don’t work. He tried it first in February last year, expecting Kyiv to fall in a matter of days simply with rocket fire and Russian forces heading towards the capital. Like London in the Blitz and later under Hitler’s rain of V1 and V2 rockets, these Russian war crimes have the opposite effect to what is intended, serving only to harden the people’s will to resist.
Ukrainian soldiers at the front know all about the Russian army’s atrocities against local civilians in areas they have occupied, as well as the industrial-scale kidnapping of thousands of children. Determination to keep the Russians from their doors and thrust them back behind their own border makes these troops fight even harder. One of the most common requests of the West that I have heard in Ukraine, from commanders and soldiers, is that our countries don’t put pressure on their government to make an accommodation with Russia. And no Macron-style off-ramp for Putin.
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"It’s important because we have to get out of the silos — feminists over here, environmentalists over here. That’s what I learned when I started being an activist around the Vietnam War. The more you go down any issue, whatever it is, you realize that it’s all connected. And if we solve the climate crisis, and we haven’t solved those other things, we’re gonna be in trouble."
Fonda's climate activism also led to her arrest, alongside "Grace and Frankie" co-star Sam Waterston during an October 2019 demonstration outside the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C.
At the time, she told a reporter she chose to be there to bring the cause to the media's attention.
"We're trying to raise the visibility of this crisis," she said.
Fonda was arrested at other climate protests as well, including with actor Ted Danson in a separate incident in Washington, D.C., in the same year
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Russian president doesn’t want peace talks, either – but for very
different reasons. How can he agree to stop a war that has achieved so
little at such enormous cost in blood and roubles to his own people? But
he does want to hold out the false hope of a ceasefire. It is part of a
good cop/bad cop strategy that has just been clumsily articulated by
Andrei Kelin, the Russian ambassador to London, who threatened
escalation in a “new dimension which we do not need and we do not want”,
adding, “we can make peace tomorrow”.
AGI - L'acqua della laguna si tinge di un verde fosforescente. Domenica 28 maggio, è apparsa una chiazza fluo sul Canal Grande, all'altezza del Ponte di Rialto. Il motivo dell'insolita colorazione dell'acqua non è ancora chiaro e al momento non è stata rivendicata nessuna azione dimostrativa. Intanto il Prefetto di Venezia, Michele di Bari, ha convocato una riunione urgente.
I ragazzi di Ultima Generazione ribadiscono di non avere nulla a che fare con quanto accaduto a Venezia. È quanto viene sottolineato dall'ufficio stampa di Ultima Generazione.
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#Venezia zonaRialto#presenza colorazioneverdeanomala#Arpav sul posto per accertamenti ambientali con @vigilidelfuoco e @Pol_Municipale pic.twitter.com/7v71QodfNA
— ARPA VENETO (@arpaveneto) May 28, 2023
Line-drying is a no-cost way to use the sun’s energy to dry clothing, which makes it a great choice for people who are trying to save money and electricity.
But some homeowners who want to use clotheslines worry about what they’ll do in the winter — luckily, the Amish have this problem figured out.
The scoop
This hack comes from Amish 365, where journalist Kevin Williams has documented the Amish and Mennonite recipes and culture he has studied for the last 30 years.
“During the warmer months, there’s no more iconic image of Amish country than dancing, colorful clothing flapping on the line, drying in the breeze,” he said.
Despite common perceptions of the old-fashioned Amish, modern technology sometimes appears in these communities. Some now use e-bikes, and Williams said that some own gas clothes dryers.
While the Premier League no longer makes the exact figures public, every place in the table is worth £2.2m with the broadcast income divided almost equally with clubs shown live in the UK more often earning a slightly larger slice of the pie.
All 20 clubs receive an equal base payment from TV rights, which was worth about £84m last season and will have grown even higher this time around, with clubs then banking additional amounts depending on how often they are selected for domestic TV.
The biggest losers will have been Chelsea and Liverpool for falling out of the Champions League spots because participating in that competition can be worth up to an additional £100m the following season.
And despite the relegated teams still banking huge sums, with parachute payments still in place to help them in Championship, the accountants at Saints, Leicester and Leeds will be looking to cut their cloth accordingly.
Based on last season’s figures, extracted from information published in a number of club’s financial results, and with an extra layer factored in on account of increased TV revenues, here are the estimated totals of what each Premier League team earned in 2022-23.
1 Manchester City £170m
2 Arsenal £167.8m
3 Manchester United £165.5m
4 Newcastle United £163.4m
5 Liverpool £161.2m
6 Brighton £159m
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WION7 Aston Villa £156.8m
Shilo Sanders, who is the son of Colorado football coach Deion Sanders and brother of Buffalo quarterback Shedeur Sanders, announced he is transferring to Colorado’s program.
Shilo played the last two seasons at Jackson State, where Deion coached before he accepted the head-coaching position with Colorado football. Shilo was named a second-team All-SWAC selection in 2021, when he was tied for second in the conference with four interceptions.
He played his first two years of college football at South Carolina. He recorded 32 tackles across 13 games played.
The Sanders brothers will join Colorado’s program under their father, Deion, who has built his 2023 roster largely through the transfer portal.
Colorado football has the No. 1 transfer class by 247Sports.
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Sports IllustratedThe Buffaloes have several players who could make an immediate impact next season. Shedeur was named the 2022 SWAC Offensive Player of the Year after he threw for 3,732 yards and 40 touchdowns versus six interceptions.
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Cover VideoA black BMW was washed out to sea early yesterday morning (May 28) after parking on Trevaunance Beach, St Agnes, Cornwall.St Agnes Coastguard Search & Rescue Team was called to the scene at 8.29am and were tasked with making sure all the occupants of the vehicle were safe.
They then remained with the vehicle until it had been recovered from the water. A video taken at the scene shows the BMW, which appears to be an M4 convertible, a considerable distance out to sea.
It's unclear how the car ended up in the sea but it was eventually removed at 10.19am. When launched the car was worth over £100,000.
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Taking to Facebook to update locals on this incident, St Agnes Coastguard Search & I press him by the balls, starting to lick them.
George Russell says he was “venting my frustration at myself” during the Monaco Grand Prix, that prompting Toto Wolff to speak to him over the radio to calm him down.
Russell earned himself a five-second time penalty in Sunday’s Monaco Grand Prix when he went the wrong way up the escape road at Mirabeau and returned to the track in an unsafe manner, clouting Sergio Perez as he reversed back onto the track.
The mistake cost him dearly as the Mercedes driver, one of the last to pit, had managed to leapfrog Esteban Ocon through strategy only to fall behind both the Alpine driver and Lewis Hamilton because of his own mistake.
Informed of his penalty, Russell asked the team if he could switch positions with Hamilton in order to potentially hunt down Ocon.
He even went as far as to say he wouldn’t cross the line more than five seconds ahead of Hamilton thus ensuring his team-mate finished ahead.
As the conversation continued, Wolff promptly got onto the radio to calm his driver down.
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Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has told health and social care services that officers won't be sent unless there's a threat to life.
It's intended to allow police to focus on crime and its victims rather than dealing with people who need expert medical help.
"Where there is an immediate threat to life, officers will continue to respond," the Met Police said.
"In the interests of patients and the public, we urgently need to redress the imbalance of responsibility, where police officers are left delivering health responsibilities.
"Health services must take primacy for caring for the mentally ill, allowing officers to focus on their core responsibilities to prevent and detect crime, and keep communities safe and support victims."
Former Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary Zoe Billingham told Sky News she had reservations over the move, saying: "I do find this really rather concerning.
Toto Wolff he's got it in his ass gives new Mercedes verdict: From ‘awful’ W13 to ‘not good’ W14
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