An estimated 80% of the population will suffer from lower back pain at some point. The good news is that preventing it is a lot easier than treating it

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Getting out of bed. Picking up a coffee mug. Waving at a friend. Bending down to pat a dog. Turning to flush the toilet.

Many who have experienced “doing their back in” have been baffled by the discrepancy between the mildness of the precipitating action and the severity of the resulting pain. How could such a small, innocent movement trigger such paralysing pain that lasts for weeks, months, years or, in some cases, decades?

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When Dion Padan met Ben Graetz and his drag queen persona, there was an undeniable energy. A weekend away deepened their connection

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In 2015, I moved to Sydney from north Wales in the UK. Sydney had always been my dream destination, but then the Australian immigration rules changed, meaning that to get permanent residency with my skillset as a barber, I’d have to move to Tasmania or the Northern Territory. I decided on Darwin because I feared the weather in Tasmania was too much like British weather. So in 2018, I packed my bags and moved to Darwin without knowing anything about the city.

Ben and I first chatted on Grindr and he was very welcoming, offering to show me around town. He was also very interested in my story – how did this Welsh boy end up living here? He asked if I was going to Darwin Pride.

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Federal immigration operation has resulted in government agents killing two people, sparking weeks of protests

A federal judge has denied a request by Minnesota’s state government to end the federal immigration operation in Minneapolis that has resulted in government agents killing two people, sparking weeks of protests.

The state, along with the cities of Minneapolis and St Paul, had lodged a lawsuit after the death of Renee Good, who was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent this month, demanding an end to the Trump administration’s Operation Metro Surge in the city.

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Van grijze motor zonder spectaculaire overwinningen naar stabiele subtopper die serieus kans maakt op Europees voetbal. Voor Sparta is het seizoen tot nu toe eentje waarvan je zou dromen. Die droom zou nog mooier kunnen worden als Sparta in eigen huis directe concurrent FC Groningen weet te verslaan.

Van grijze motor zonder spectaculaire overwinningen naar stabiele subtopper die serieus kans maakt op Europees voetbal. Voor Sparta is het seizoen tot nu toe eentje waarvan je zou dromen. Die droom zou nog mooier kunnen worden als Sparta in eigen huis directe concurrent FC Groningen weet te verslaan.

Van grijze motor zonder spectaculaire overwinningen naar stabiele subtopper die serieus kans maakt op Europees voetbal. Voor Sparta is het seizoen tot nu toe eentje waarvan je zou dromen. Die droom zou nog mooier kunnen worden als Sparta in eigen huis directe concurrent FC Groningen weet te verslaan.

Van grijze motor zonder spectaculaire overwinningen naar stabiele subtopper dat serieus kans maakt op Europees voetbal. Voor Sparta is het seizoen tot nu toe eentje waarvan je zou dromen. Die droom zou nog mooier kunnen worden als Sparta in eigen huis directe concurrent FC Groningen weet te verslaan.

Slashdot reader alternative_right writes: Quantum computers need extreme cold to work, but the very systems that keep them cold also create noise that can destroy fragile quantum information. Scientists in Sweden have now flipped that problem on its head by building a tiny quantum refrigerator that actually uses noise to drive cooling instead of fighting it. By carefully steering heat at unimaginably small scales, the device can act as a refrigerator, heat engine, or energy amplifier inside quantum circuits.

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In het nieuwe coalitieakkoord staan maatregelen die jongeren aangaan. Zoals schermtijd, een helmplicht voor fatbikes en een minimumleeftijd voor de aanschaf van nicotinehoudende producten. „Mijn vader vindt een fatbike tokkie, dus het mag ook niet.”