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Tower of London’s “queen” raven Merlina missing

    Merlina, who joined the flock in 2007, has not been seen for several weeks.

    The Tower usually has six ravens at any time and, according to legend, if they ever leave then both the fortress and the kingdom will fall. There are currently seven in residence.

    A spokesman said Merlina’s “continued absence indicates to us that she may have sadly passed away”.

    He added: “Merlina was our undisputed ruler of the roost, queen of the Tower ravens. She will be greatly missed by her fellow ravens, the ravenmaster, and all of us in the Tower community.”

    Ravenmaster Christopher Skaife said he would be taking some time to mourn Merlina, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

    “I know so many of you lovely folk will be saddened by this news,” he said in a social media statement. “None more than me. Please excuse my absence for a few days.”

    Tower staff added that they had no immediate plans to replace Merlina. Charles II is believed to have been the first monarch to officially decree that the birds must be kept at the Tower at all times.

    When numbers fell to just a single raven guard, Winston Churchill ordered that the flock — known as an “unkindness” — was increased to at least six.

    In 2018 the Tower launched a raven breeding programme after Historic Royal Palaces warned it was becoming “increasingly difficult” to source the birds.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-55651104

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All of me

John Legend

‘Cause all of me
Loves all of you
Love your curves and all your edges
All your perfect imperfections
Give your all to me
I’ll give my all to you
You’re my end and my beginning
Even when I lose I’m winning
‘Cause I give you all of me
And you give me all of you 

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[1]  Greenpeace _____ against environmental degradation
since 1971 when a small boat of volunteers and journalists
_____ into the U.S. atomic test zone of Amchitka, Alaska.
Our focus has been on the most crucial worldwide threats
[5] to our planet’s biodiversity and environment. It’s also our
responsibility to expose environmental criminals, and to
challenge governments and corporations when they fail to act
appropriately in order to protect our environment and our
future.
Fonte:www.greenpeace.org

Syrian children in state of “toxic stress”, Save the Children says

  Millions of Syrian children could be living in a state of “toxic stress” due to prolonged exposure to the horrors of war, aid group Save the Children says.

  The damage to an entire generation of children could soon become irreversible without immediate help, it adds.

  The stress of war has led to increased bedwetting, self-harm, suicide attempts and aggressive behaviour among many children, according to a new report.

  The findings are based on hundreds of interviews in Syria.

  Save the Children says its study is the largest of its kind into the mental health and well-being of Syria’s children amid the war, which began in 2011 and has left more than 300,000 people dead.

  Save the Children spoke to more than 450 people in seven of Syria 14 governorates as part of its study, including children of varying ages, parents, caregivers, social workers, aid workers and teachers.

  It found:

  • Almost all children and 84% of adults said that bombing and shelling was the number one cause of psychological stress for children

  • Two-thirds of children have either lost a loved one, had their house bombed or shelled, or been injured as a result of the war, according to adults interviewed (some had suffered more than one of these traumatic events)

  • 71% of interviewees said that children were increasingly suffering from frequent bedwetting and “involuntary urination” - symptoms of toxic stress and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

  • 48% of adults said they had seen children who had lost their ability to speak or begun to suffer from speech impediments since the war began

  • Nearly half of those interviewed said children “regularly or always have feelings of grief or extreme sadness”

  Hisham (not his real name) is a school teacher from the eastern city of Deir al-Zour, which is partially held by IS and partially by the government.

  He, his wife and five children have now fled to the al-Hol refugee camp.

  When the war first started, he said, children in Deir al-Zour found the sounds of shelling entertaining, like a game, until their relatives and people they know started dying.

  Soon, they were spending all their time on the streets “because there was nothing to keep them occupied”, including schools.

  His oldest child is nine, but “doesn’t even know how to add one plus one”.

BBC - 7 March 2017