内容摘要：It’s a high-risk mission, as scrapping the “cepo” could unleash years of pent-up demand for U.S. dollars and spark a currency run as companies try to send their long-trapped profits home.

It’s a high-risk mission, as scrapping the “cepo” could unleash years of pent-up demand for U.S. dollars and spark a currency run as companies try to send their long-trapped profits home.

, however, don’t follow calendars. They grow, bloom, fruit and go dormant on their own schedules, dictated by the weather. The settlers knew this, so they watched one specific tree — Amelanchier — for cues: When its white flowers were in bloom, it meant the soil was soft enough to dig graves.Preachers then went from settlement to settlement to perform funeral services, earning the harbinger tree its common name: serviceberry. Or so the story goes.

(True or not, it’s the more interesting of the two bits of lore about the tree, which is also sometimes called shadbush or shadblow because its blooms coincide with the shad fish’s migratory season.)Because it’s one of the earliest spring bloomers, the serviceberry is an important food source forand mammals, including humans, who can make them into jams, jellies and even serviceberry wine.

There are more than 20 species of the, which is sadly underused if you ask me. Here are four favorites.

An early-blooming, 15-to-25-foot-tall woody shrub or multi-stemmed tree native to Eastern North America. Its delicate white flowers bloom in April before leaves appear, and small, edible red berries, which mature to purple, appear in June. In fall, the tree’s foliage turns a brilliant orange-red, and its gray bark provides lovely winter interest, giving it true four-season appeal. Plant it in part sun or shade in moist, well-draining soil. It does not tolerate salt or drought well. Hardy in

This 2007 image provided by Bugwood.org shows an Amelanchier laevis Allegheny serviceberry tree. (Richard Webb/Bugwood.org via AP). Human rights experts say it would likely violate international law.

The Interior Ministry statement said hundreds more Palestinians from Gaza had been flown to a third country “since the beginning of the process,” mainly to Germany, Romania and United Arab Emirates.Dozens or Palestinians lined up outside a United Nations warehouse in northern Gaza on Tuesday to receive food parcels from the agency’s rapidly dwindling supplies, as Israel has imposed a total blockade on Gaza for the past month.

Nageya Gaballah, a displaced woman living in a tent with 10 family members, said she wouldn’t be able to secure essentials if it weren’t for aid and vouchers distributed by UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees. She lost her job as a cleaning staffer at the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza last month and her husband is unemployed.At the warehouse in Jabaliya, UNRWA distributed flour bags and food parcels with cooking oil, canned tuna, beans, hummus, salt, sugar and yeast.