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Looking on the melancholy side, The coronavirus pandemic has had a lot of dark sides since 2019, which may have made most of our lives depressing, especially with 3 lockdowns in the UK in some areas. With rise in unemployment and employees being furloughed, some working from home, online learning, disruption in exams for 2 whole years, healthcare systems are overloaded with stress, restrictions from going out, non-essential stores closed. Certainly all this is an unexpected turn but we have b...

A costume inspired by legend will carry the hopes of Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne when Michael Holden competes next week in the national finals of the Junk Kouture competition, in which second level students give free reign to their imagination in creating fashion out of rubbish. Michael delved into his interest in mythology to find a theme for his Junk Kouture entry, his fathers leather workshop provided most of the materials and teacher Brenda Ní Fhrighil guided the project to completion. Last...

Adobe Stock For many on the M&A integration front lines who are tasked with getting product synergies from combined assets of different firms, data model integration often appears high on the post-merger/acquisition grail quest. The same sentiment would likely echo from customers, at least those who have gone through a vendor consolidation in the past. But, in fact, data model integration is only Stage 3 (out of 5 stages) of post-acquisition technology integration — it’s the mid-p...

The 25 Best Documentaries on Netflix, According to Critics On 1/25/21 at 7:00 PM EST Documentaries entertain, inform and educate their audience. They can call viewers to action to change the world. They can also raise awareness of issues you may not have given much thought to. They bring out the armchair detective in us, pique our curiosity, and make us hungry to learn more (anyone else keep a Google tab open when watching something captivating?). There are hundreds of documentary films and ser...

Some people judge a movie by its content while others measure it by its box office. Others go a little further and weigh it by its quotability. This is where bad movies can shine and stand next to classics.  You might forget some scenes from the movie but line upon line of entertainment is on the tip of your tongue. That ability to get us to say a piece of dialogue over and over just hits differently. Let’s take a look at some of them.  Comedies stand out as easy targets. A good one can b...

GRAHAM BELL, was expected to be natural on the latest series of ITVs Dancing on Ice. The former Olympic skier had to pull out of the show abruptly after a nasty accident - what happened?

During this months-long pandemic, I have found a moment now and then to reflect. I do not mean at all to negate the suffering everywhere, the financial and emotional burdens overwhelming so many because of shuttered workplaces, vanished jobs, missed rent or mortgage payments, threatening homelessness. It would be insensitive to ignore the suffering and only to praise the small joys of solitude. We are immersed in sadness and loss. The writers in this space have offered many examples of coping, ...

Saturday's papers lead with Boris Johnson's warning that the UK Covid-19 variant may be more deadly.

Alex Navarros Top 11-ish Games of 2020 Thank you to @nomchonks on Twitter for this strange, but wonderful image. Alex Navarro is an editor for Giant Bomb, and doesnt especially feel like writing a jokey bio this year. Hes @alex_navarro on Twitter. Trying to care about video games in 2020 felt like trying to eat a nice breakfast in the middle of a bombing campaign. Games are, reflexively, the thing I tend to ensconce myself in when things are not going well, but to say that things were not "goin...

Published January 22. 2021 8:30AM  Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times Get the weekly rundown Email* Submit Sacha Baron Cohen was all set to play radical activist Abbie Hoffman in 2007. Steven Spielberg planned to direct the Aaron Sorkin script of "The Trial of the Chicago 7," but the writers strike, among other things, scuttled that version of the project. Cohen moved on to make the comedy "Brüno," and all of his research about Hoffman ended up becoming unexpectedly us...