'Large-scale' street brawl leaves two teenagers in hospital with knife wounds
Two teenagers are in hospital with knife injuries after a “large-scale” street fight involving 30 young people erupted in Southend, Essex. Source link
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How to recognize when you’re reacting from childhood wounds
NICOLE LEPERA: I’m Dr. Nicole LePera, the holistic psychologist, founder of Self-Healer’s Circle, a virtual membership community where individuals join together to take healing into their own hands. New York Times best-selling author, my new book, “Out, Reparenting the Inner Child.” Today on Big Think, we talk about the six archetypes of childhood trauma, what our inner child really is and how it impacts our daily life, and then we explore the process of reparenting and how that it can create lasting transformation. But before we talk about our inner child and how it impacts us today, we need to understand the early impact of trauma, what trauma really is and how you might have experienced it yourself. Chapter 1, the six archetypes of childhood trauma. Across different backgrounds and different life experiences, I came to see that present-day struggles really weren’t about the present day. Whatever was keeping us stuck, whether it was the anxiety, the conflict, or the self-doubt, these were strategies that were actually formed at a time before we even understood what …
Gunman kills tourist and wounds 6 others on Mexico’s Teotihuacán pyramid
MEXICO CITY — A gunman opened fire Monday from a pyramid in the famed Mexican archaeological site of Teotihuacán, killing a female Canadian tourist and wounding six others. At least seven other people were injured as tourists scrambled to escape the gunfire. The shooter later took his own life, officials said. The injured included six U.S. citizens, one of them a 61-year-old woman, as well as a 6-year-old boy from Colombia and two other Colombian nationals. Two Brazilians, one Russian and one Canadian were also injured. At least six of the injured suffered gunshot wounds, authorities said, while others apparently were hurt in falls while trying to escape. There was no immediate breakdown on the conditions of the injured, all of whom were being treated in area hospitals, authorities said. Various Mexican media outlets, citing police sources, identified the assailant as a 27-year-old Mexico City resident who had expressed admiration for Hitler and for the perpetrators of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Colorado. Monday’s attack occurred on April 20, Hitler’s birthday, and also the anniversary …
Iran leader Mojtaba Khamenei has ‘severe and disfiguring wounds’ | World | News
Mojtaba Khamenei (Image: Getty) Iran’s new Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei is suffering from “severe and disfiguring wounds”, it has been reported. Three people close to his inner circle have told the Reuters news agency that Mojtaba Khamenei is still recovering from severe facial and leg injuries sustained in the airstrike which killed his father and Iran‘s former Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei. All three sources told the agency Khamenei’s face was disfigured in the attack on the supreme leader’s compound in Tehran. They also said he suffered a significant injury to either one or both of his legs. He remains sharp mentally, according to Reuters. Khamenei, 56, has not appeared on TV, in photos or on the radio since the airstrike on February 28, in which his wife and other family members were also killed. READ MORE: Trump loading warships ‘with the best weapons ever’ if Iran talks collapse READ MORE: Heathrow makes major announcement as 8 new flight destinations added A source said to be familiar with US intelligence told Reuters Khamenei was believed to have …
Neanderthals may have treated wounds with antibiotic sticky tar
Viscous tar made from birch bark can be used as both an adhesive and antibiotic Tjaark Siemssen, CC-BY 4.0 Neanderthals may have used tar made from tree bark as an antiseptic to treat wounds. Modern-day experiments with birch tar show that it has antibiotic properties, regardless of how it is made, hinting that Neanderthals could have discovered its medicinal uses. The finding adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting that Neanderthals used medicinal plants to treat injuries and diseases. “Birch tar as a substance has been known for quite a while from the late Pleistocene, specifically from Neanderthal sites across Europe,” says Tjaark Siemssen at the University of Oxford. “It’s pretty clear that it’s been used as an adhesive,” says Siemssen, for instance, to attach sharpened stone heads onto wooden spears. However, he says that may not have been its only use. In some Indigenous communities in recent centuries, birch tar has been applied as a medicinal ointment. Among the Mi’kmaq communities of eastern Canada, it is called maskwio’mi and is used as a …
Honey as a superfood: can it really heal wounds, fight superbugs and provide sweet relief for coughs? | Donna Lu
Humans have been consuming honey for thousands of years. The ancient Egyptians and Greeks used it as a sweetener, but also a treatment for burns. Hippocrates, often referred to as the “father of medicine”, championed the sticky stuff – mistakenly – for purposes as varied as contraception and baldness. Today, honey is often described as a superfood with a laundry list of promised benefits: a treatment for coughs, an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory, a potential solution to combat drug-resistant superbugs. Antiviral has previously debunked claims about hay fever and honey, finding there is little evidence that raw honey can reduce symptoms of allergic rhinitis. When it comes to the substance’s claimed benefits, what sticks and what’s just unfounded buzz? What are the benefits of honey? Honey produced by the western honeybee, Apis mellifera, contains predominantly sugar – about 80%. That level of sugar does not leave enough water for bacteria to survive in, says Liz Harry, an emeritus professor at the University of Technology Sydney. “It basically never goes off,” says Dr Kenya Fernandes of the …
Russian strike on Kyiv region kills 4 and wounds 15 : NPR
Firefighters put out the fire at a residential neighbourhood following a Russia missile and drone attack, in Brovary, close to Kyiv, Ukraine, on Saturday. Efrem Lukatsky/AP hide caption toggle caption Efrem Lukatsky/AP KYIV, Ukraine — A combined missile and drone attack on the Kyiv region killed at least four people and wounded at least 15 overnight into Saturday, an official said, after the U.S. postponed Russia-Ukraine talks due to the war with Iran. The attack hit four districts, damaging residential buildings, educational institutions, enterprises and critical infrastructure, the head of the regional administration, Mykola Kalashnyk, wrote in a social media post. He said three of the wounded were critical. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the main target of the strikes was the energy infrastructure of the Kyiv region. He said Russia launched around 430 drones and 68 missiles. Russia’s Defense Ministry on Saturday said the nighttime strikes targeted energy and industrial facilities serving Ukraine’s armed forces, as well as military airfields. Russia hopes to gain from the Iran war The U.S. has postponed its sponsored …
Morocco’s old colonial wounds reopened by tribute to French army auxiliaries
Goumiers, Moroccan tribal auxiliary soldiers who fought for the French army, march in Kenitra, north of Rabat, Morocco, in September 1949. AFP The new addition was the smallest French military burial plot in Morocco: 15 graves of Moroccan goumiers, 20th-century Moroccan auxiliary soldiers, whose bodies had been laid to rest there, in Alnif, an isolated town in Morocco’s High Atlas region, east of Marrakech, nearly a century ago. The unknown soldiers buried there had died in 1933, likely during the battles of Bougafer, a steep rise in the Djebel Saghro mountain range where the French army and its local goumier auxiliaries faced off against the Ait Atta tribe of the Amazigh ethnic minority, during the French campaign dubbed the “pacification” war. By the end of this nearly 30-year war (1907-1934), France had subdued the last pockets of resistance to its conquest of Morocco. The bodies of some Moroccan civilians who worked for the French army were also buried near the goumiers, along with some Alnif residents. The cemetery and its 72 graves were closed in …
How Childhood and Its Wounds Help Us Know Ourselves
In an ideal psychological atmosphere, our parents and others are models of sane, healthy behavior. Spiritually, they help us form appropriate values and act with integrity. They imbue us with a sense of neighborliness toward others. They foster a beneficent worldview. We come to see ourselves as important participants in the vast evolutionary project of stewardship for this so often imperiled earth. We then feel called to be blissful saints. Thus, psychological development, a spiritual journey, and a saintly style can happen in us simultaneously. When we focus on our psychological development, we realize the impact of our parenting, both positive and negative. Some of us have come from healthy childhoods. Some of us have come from wounded childhoods in which we were not nurtured, or in which we were neglected or abused. Yet, in an integrated view of sanity, spirituality, and sanctity, we do not overlook the presence of a higher power in our lives that is fatherly and motherly, brotherly and sisterly. We feel cared about, guided, and supported in our holy desire …
Suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque on Islamabad’s outskirts kills at least 31 and wounds scores
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A suicide bomber targeted a Shiite mosque on the outskirts of Islamabad during Friday prayers, killing 31 people and wounding at least 169 others, officials said, a rare bombing in Pakistan’s capital as its Western-allied government struggles to rein in a surge in militant attacks across the country. Television footage and social media images showed police and residents transporting the wounded to nearby hospitals. Some of the wounded in the attack on the sprawling mosque of Khadija Al-Kubra were reported to be in critical condition. Rescuers and witnesses described a harrowing scene, with bodies and wounded lying on the mosque’s carpeted floor. Hussain Shah said he was praying in the mosque courtyard when he heard a sudden, loud explosion. “I immediately thought that some big attack had happened,” he said. He then went into the mosque to utter chaos — many of the wounded were screaming and crying out for help. Shah said he counted around 30 bodies inside the mosque, while the number of the wounded appeared to be significantly higher. …