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News.com.au- Roxy Jacenkos daughter Pixie Curtis has announced shes semi-retiring in preparation to start high school. Jacenko explained that the decision wasnt made lightly and it was made together as a family. Allow me to vent a little bit here. And pose a question to all you parents out there. What the hell have your kids done for you lately? Can you even get them to take the trash out?...

And how can we be happy? These questions are integral to the human experience, but their answers can be elusive. We can apply several perspectives to approach them, through philosophy or psychology, for instance. We can also use our personal view of our feelings and goals as we navigate through life. But can we bring a scientific approach to happiness? Meik Wiking, CEO of theHappiness Research Institutein Copenhagen, believes we can....

SPOILERS - - - Here are this match’s questions… Check out previous matches of The Dozen: Trivia Competition… HOLY SHIT. FIRST EVER MATCH WITH ALL 30 POINTS SCORED! 10-Big Screamin Honkers (3-3-0) def.5-The Baddies (3-1-0)—-M215:Balls def. Experts (11-10)$PAM216:Yak def. Frankettes (11-9)$PAM217:Yak def. Balls (14-12)$PAM218:Minihane def. FLUX (12-8)M219:XYZ def. Honkers (16-9)M220:urMom def. Family (8-7)^^M221:Experts def. Macro (12-9)M222:Chicago def. Ponies (12-11)M223:Ziti def....

Time refused to move at a pace I deemed acceptable. Yes, I looked that up during this week off, that’s how crazy I was going. I apologize for nothing. It’s nut cutting time. Welcome to the Celts stretch run, a 23 game sprint with a whole lot on the line. That shit is for December and January, not February/March/April. If you remember, after the break last season the Celts finished an NBA best 17-5....

The worst contract in recent baseball memory just ended. Chris Davis was making $23 million a year from 2018 until last year. In those five seasons, he managed to hit .169 with 28 home runs in 249 games. In actuality, he chose the Bobby Bonilla route and it’s even worse than that. So with Chris Davis off the MLB books, which is the worst contract for 2023? So the players won’t be penalized for having contracts with many years left....

Since Wembanyama only turned 19 last month, he may not be finished growing. Now that it’s becoming clearer which NBA franchises are in the running for the No. Nobody has drawn this much buzz entering the NBA Draft since LeBron James in 2003. Even The King wasn’t considered a top-10 player in his first season as a pro. In fact, he was part of a legendary draft class featuring Carmelo Anthony and Dwyane Wade....

Welcome to the NBA Casual Papers. And once they realize their error, suavely fix it by switching over to the Heat game. Hand up, as much as I love basketball, I’ve been a certified casual in recent years. But it’s not my fault. There’s a lot this league needs to fix andI diagnosed it all last week. But that’s a blog for another day. Here are answers to all the questions you gotta know....

Big business opportunities are brewing in the cosmos. Commercial planes, by comparison, rarely fly at altitudes much higher than 14km. 40% off TNW Conference! The lower altitude alone has numerous attractions. The pandemic highlighted the need for high-speed connectivity. Investments have surged as the use cases have expanded. As a result, the number of projects in low-Earth Orbit is increasing rapidly. LEO satellite systems have emerged as a powerful way to provide that high-speed, low-latency connection....

Predictive policing has exposed a new group of future criminals: MEPs. A new testing systems has spotlighted five EU politicians as at risk of committing future crimes. The project is the brainchild ofFair Trials, a criminal justice watchdog. Proponents argue that the approach can be more accurate, objective, and effective than traditional policing. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Indeed, the technology is increasingly popular inEurope. In Italy, for instance, a tool known as Dalia has analysedethnicity datato profile and predict future criminality....

PGA Tour can’t stop won’t stop. The Florida Swing kicks off with a trip to Palm Beach Gardens at PGA National. Much like Riviera last week, this is one of the more underrated stops on Tour. PGA National is a challenge every single year and the leaderboards reflect that. But it gets lost in the shuffle of a lot of great tournaments this time of year. Unfortunately given where it is on the schedule, this field is weak comparative to the tournaments around it....

The first inaugural PLL Championship Series gets underway tonight down in Washington DC. “What in the actual frick is the Championship Series? “you may be asking yourself right now. Well I’ll tell ya. The tournament consists of a 3-game round robin, semifinals, and a championship. You know, how tournaments often work. But what makes the Championship Series different than just your ordinary playoffs? 5v5 lacrosse + a goalie. No long poles for defensemen....

As you’re free to imagine, this little stunt certainly got their attention. 40% off TNW Conference! In fact, over 50% of their engineering and product design team are still based in Groningen today. The story of HackerOnes founders is the typical tech fairytale come true. Some who visited fell in love with the city and moved permanently. Working across time zones requires everyone to become good at written and asynchronous communication....

Told everyone his teeth were made of wood, when they clearly were his real teeth. Dick was smaller than he claimed. Things like busting and pooping. And if were being honest, he was probably the first to hit his wife. It was the year 1800 after all. John Quincy Adams (Quincy, Massachusetts)John Adams son. Was born in Quincy, Massachusetts. Named after his birthplace. The internet doesn’t say where John Quincy Adams was conceived, but I bet it was in Quincy....