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Adaptation to rapid anthropogenic climate change may be a new challenge, but
individuals, societies, and economies have adaptedin various ways and
with various degrees of successto changed and variable environmental conditions
throughout history. These experiences in adaptive behavior provide information
on the processes, constraints, and consequences of adaptations.
Knowledge of the processes by which individuals or communities actually adapt
to changes in conditions over time comes largely from analog and other empirical
analyses (Wigley et al., 1981; Glantz, 1996; Meyer et al., 1998;
Tol et al., 1998; Smit et al., 1999; Yohe and Dowlatabadi, 1999;
Bryant et al., 2000). These studies indicate that autonomous adaptations
tend to be incremental and ad hoc, to take multiple forms, to be in response
to multiple stimuli (usually involving a particular catalyst and rarely climate
alone), and to be constrained by economic, social, technological, institutional,
and political conditions.
Conceptual models of adaptation processes describe sequential relationships
and feedback involving climatic and nonclimatic stimuli, system sensitivities
and impacts, tactical and strategic adaptations, and net or residual impacts.
They also indicate conditions that constrain or facilitate various kinds of
adaptation (e.g., Carter, 1996; Smit et al., 1996; UNEP, 1998; Schneider
et al., 2000). Spatial analogs have been used to gain insight into adaptation,
by transferring experience from existing climatic regions to places where such
climate may be found in the future. The contributions and limits of spatial
analogs are known (Schneider, 1997; Rayner and Malone, 1998). Some ecological
and paleoecological studies reconstruct species or community dynamics over hundreds
and thousands of years (e.g., MacDonald et al., 1993).
Temporal analog or case studies document adaptive responses to climatic stimuli
in resource-based economic sectors and communities over periods of several decades
(e.g., Glantz, 1988; Olsthoorn et al., 1996; Changnon et al.,
1997). Other empirical analyses have examined adaptive behavior in key sectors
such as agriculture in light of climatic variability and extremes over even
shorter time periods (e.g., Appendi and Liverman, 1996; Smit et al.,
1997; Bryant et al., 2000).
These direct empirical analyses of adaptation processes tend to start with
the system of interest, then assess its sensitivity and adaptability to climate
and other stimuli. This analytical strategy is consistent with vulnerability
assessment (Downing et al., 1996; Adger, 1999; Handmer et al.,
1999; Kelly and Adger, 1999), the "adjoint approach" (Parry, 1986),
and "shift-in-risk" perspectives (Warrick et al., 1986). These
studies have yielded some important insights about adaptation.
For systems such as agriculture, forestry, water resources, and coastal zone
settlements, the key climatic stimuli are not average conditions but variability
and extremes. A direct climatic condition prompts adaptation less often than
the economic and social effects or implications of the climatic stimuli that
are fundamental in triggering adaptive responses. Nonclimatic conditions are
important in moderating and sometimes overwhelming the influence of climate
stimuli in the decisionmaking of resource users. Decisions on adaptation are
rarely made in response to climate stimuli alone. These findings are important
for predicting autonomous adaptations and for improving adaptation assumptions
in impact models.
In estimating future adaptations and developing adaptation policies (see Section
18.4), it is helpful to understand factors and circumstances that hinder
or promote adaptation. As Rayner and Malone (1998) conclude, the consequences
of a climate event are not direct functions of its physical characteristics;
they also are functions of "the ways in which a society has organized its relation
to its resource base, its relations with other societies, and the relations
among its members." To understand vulnerability in archeological, historical,
and contemporary contexts, Rayner and Malone (1998) identify the most promising
research strategy:
explicitly to focus attention on the process of adaptationor,
on the other hand, of failure to adaptthat partly condition the impact
of the climatic stress in particular societies
cases in which societies
appear to have been seriously damaged by, or even totally succumbed to, climatic
stress should not be taken to demonstrate the determining influence of climate.
It is essential to consider ways in which these societies might have coped
better, and to focus on the political, cultural, and socioeconomic factors
which inhibited them from doing so" (Ingram et al., 1981).
explicitly to focus attention on the process of adaptationor,
on the other hand, of failure to adaptthat partly condition the impact
of the climatic stress in particular societies
cases in which societies
appear to have been seriously damaged by, or even totally succumbed to, climatic
stress should not be taken to demonstrate the determining influence of climate.
It is essential to consider ways in which these societies might have coped
better, and to focus on the political, cultural, and socioeconomic factors
which inhibited them from doing so" (Ingram et al., 1981).
Following this approach, McGovern's (1991) reexamination of the extinction
of Greenland settlements found that the stress imposed by climate shifts was
indeed severe but was within the theoretical ability of the colonies to have
coped, by means that were available to them. Why they failed to employ those
adaptive means emerges as the key question, still incompletely answered, in
explaining the collapse: "It did get cold and they did die out, but why?"
(McGovern, 1991). Intervening between the physical events and the social consequences
is the adaptive capacity and hence vulnerability of the society and its different
groups and individual members.
As assessments of climate impacts (commonly measured as "costs" that
include damages and benefits) increasingly have incorporated expected adaptations,
and particularly as impact models and "integrated assessment" models
have shown the potential of adaptation to offset initial impact costs, interest
has grown in calculating the costs of autonomous adaptations. Whether climate
change or another climate stimulus is expected to have problematic or "dangerous"
impacts depends on the adaptations and their costs (Leary, 1999). Climate change
impact cost studies that assume adaptation also should include the "adjustment
of costs" of these adaptations (Reilly, 1998).
Tol and Fankhauser (1997) provide a comprehensive summary of analyses of the
costs of autonomous, mainly (but not exclusively) reactive adaptations, undertaken
privately (i.e., not adaptation policies of government). A common basis for
evaluating impact costs is to sum adaptation costs and residual damage costs
(Fankhauser, 1996; Rothman et al., 1998). Procedures for defining and
calculating such adaptation costs are subject to ongoing debate. Tol and Fankhauser
(1997) note that most approaches consider equilibrium adaptation costs but ignore
transition costs. Hurd et al. (1997) include market and nonmarket adaptation
in their assessment of impact costs. Most research to date on adaptation "costs"
is limited to particular economic measures of well-being (Brown, 1998). Any
comprehensive assessment of adaptation costs (including benefits) would consider
not only economic criteria but also social welfare and equity.
Cost estimation for autonomous adaptations is not only important for impact
assessment; it also is a necessary ingredient in the "base case,"
"reference scenario," or "do-nothing option" for evaluations
of policy initiatives, with respect to both adaptation and mitigation (Rayner
and Malone, 1998; Leary, 1999; Smit et al., 2000).
Research in many sectors and regions indicates an impressive human capacity
to adapt to long-term mean climate conditions but less success in adapting to
extremes and to year-to-year variations in climatic conditions. Climate change
will be experienced via conditions that vary from year to year, as well as for
ecosystems (Sprengers et al., 1994) and human systems (Downing et al., 1996);
these variations are important for adaptation. Thus, although human settlements
and agricultural systems, for example, have adapted to be viable in a huge variety
of climatic zones around the world, those settlements and systems often are
vulnerable (with limited adaptive capacity) to temporal deviations from normal
conditions (particularly extremes). As a result, adaptations designed to address
changed mean conditions may or may not be helpful in coping with the variability
that is inherent in climate change.
All socioeconomic systems (especially climate-dependent systems such as agriculture,
pastoralism, forestry, water resources, and human health) are continually in
a state of flux in response to changing circumstances, including climatic conditions.
The evidence shows that there is considerable potential for adaptation to reduce
the impacts of climate change and to realize new opportunities. In China's
Yantze Valley, 18th-century regional expansions and contractions on the double-cropping
system for rice represented adaptive responses to the frequency of production
successes and failures associated with climatic variations (Smit and Cai, 1996).
Adaptation options occur generally in socioeconomic sectors and systems in which
the turnover of capital investment and operating costs is shorter and less often
where long-term investment is required (Yohe et al., 1996; Sohngen and Mendelsohn,
Although an impressive variety of adaptation initiatives have been undertaken
across sectors and regions, the responses are not universally or equally available
(Rayner and Malone, 1998). For example, the viability of crop insurance depends
heavily on the degree of information, organization, and subsidy available to
support it. Similarly, the option of changing location in the face of hazard
depends on the resources and mobility of the affected part and on the availability
and conditions in potential destination areas (McGregor, 1993). Many response
strategies have become less available; many others have become more available.
Individual cultivator response to climate risk in India has long relied on a
diverse mix of strategies, from land use to outside employment (sometimes requiring
temporary migration) to reciprocal obligations for support; many of these strategies
have been undermined by changes such as population pressure and government policy,
without being fully replaced by othersillustrating the oft-remarked vulnerability
of regions and populations in transition (Gadgil et al., 1988; Johda, 1989).
In areas of China, many historical adaptations in agriculture (e.g., relocating
production or employing irrigation) are no longer available as population pressures
increase on limited land and water resources (Fang and Liu, 1992; Cai and Smit,
1996). In Kenya, effective smallholder response to drought has shifted from
traditional planting strategies to employment diversification (Downing et al.,
Not only is there rarely only one adaptation option available to decisionmakers
(Burton and Cohen, 1993) but also "rarely do people choose the best responsesthe
ones among those available that would most effectively reduce lossesoften
because of an established preference for, or aversion to, certain options"
(Rayner and Malone, 1998). In some cases there is limited knowledge of risks
or alternative adaptation strategies. In other cases, adoption of adaptive measures
is constrained by other priorities, limited resources, or economic or institutional
barriers (Eele, 1996; Bryant et al., 2000; de Loë and Kreutzwiser, 2000).
Recurrent vulnerabilities, in many cases with increasing damages, illustrate
less-than-perfect adaptation of systems to climatic variations and risks. There
is some evidence that the costs of adaptations to climate conditions are growing
(Burton, 1997; Etkin, 1998). There is strong evidence of a sharp increase in
damage costs of extreme climatic or weather events (Berz, 1999; Bruce, 1999).
Growing adaptation costs reflect, at least in part, increases in populations
and/or improvements in standards of living, with more disposable income being
used to improve levels of comfort, health, and safety in the short run. It is
not clear whether the expansion in adaptations is likely to be effective and
sustainable in the long run. In any event, although adaptations to changed and
variable climatic conditions are undertaken, they are not necessarily effective
or without costs.
Many adaptations to reduce vulnerability to climate change risks also reduce
vulnerability to current climate variability, extremes, and hazards (El Shaer
et al., 1996; Rayner and Malone, 1998). Measures that are likely to reduce current
sensitivity of climate variations in Africa also are likely to reduce the threat
of adverse impacts of climate change (Ominde and Juna, 1991):
" Most analysts in the less-developed countries believe that the urgent
need, in the face of both climate variation and prospective climate change,
is to identify policies which reduce recurrent vulnerability and increase
resilience. Prescriptions for reducing vulnerability span drought-proofing
the economy, stimulating economic diversification, adjusting land and water
uses, providing social support for dependent populations, and providing financial
instruments that spread the risk of adverse consequences form individual to
society and over longer periods. For the near term, development strategies
should ensure that livelihoods are resilient to a wide range of perturbations."
(Rayner and Malone, 1998)
" Most analysts in the less-developed countries believe that the urgent
need, in the face of both climate variation and prospective climate change,
is to identify policies which reduce recurrent vulnerability and increase
resilience. Prescriptions for reducing vulnerability span drought-proofing
the economy, stimulating economic diversification, adjusting land and water
uses, providing social support for dependent populations, and providing financial
instruments that spread the risk of adverse consequences form individual to
society and over longer periods. For the near term, development strategies
should ensure that livelihoods are resilient to a wide range of perturbations."
(Rayner and Malone, 1998)
Examples of current adaptation strategies in agriculture with clear applications
to climate change are given by Easterling (1996) and Smit et al. (1997), including
moisture-conserving practices, hybrid selection, and crop substitution. In the
water resources sector, Stakhiv (1996) shows how current management practices
represent useful adaptive strategies for climate change. Some analysts go further
to point out that certain adaptations to climate change not only address current
hazards but may be additionally beneficial for other reasons (e.g., "no
regrets" or "win-win" strategies) (Carter, 1996).
Societal responses to large environmental challenges tend to be incremental
and ad hoc rather than fundamental (Rayner and Malone, 1998). In all of the
climate analog cases examined by Glantz (1988), "Ad hoc responses were
favored over long term planned responses. As a result, there has been a tendency
to muddle through.' This has not necessarily been an inappropriate
response, but it is probably more costly in the long term than putting a long-term
strategy together in order to cope with climate-related environmental change."
In each case, moreover, action was not taken without a catalyst or trigger that
dramatically indicated the seriousness of a threat (Glantz, 1988). Other studies
also indicate the ad hoc nature of adaptations and the importance of a catalyst
(Wilhite et al., 1986; Glantz, 1992; Kasperson et al., 1995). These findings
suggest that problems that demand early or long-term attention often fail to
receive it, and the most efficient responses are not taken. That the earlier
action would have been more efficacious, however, presupposes that the best
strategy was evident to the decisionmakers and that premature responses closing
off useful options would not have been taken instead (Rayner and Malone, 1998).
There is little evidence that efficient and effective adaptations to climate
change risks will be undertaken autonomously.
A consistent lesson from adaptation research is that climate is not the singular
driving force of human affairs that is sometimes assumedbut neither is
it a trivial factor. Climate is an important resource for human activities and
an important hazard. Climate change is a source of significant stresses (and
perhaps significant opportunities) for societies, yet it has always been only
one factor among many. The consequences of a shift in climate are not calculable
from the physical dimensions of the shift alone; they require attention to human
dimensions through which they are experienced (Rayner and Malone, 1998; Bryant
et al., 2000). The significance of climate change for regions depends fundamentally
on the ability and likelihood of those regions to adapt.
To what degree are societies likely to adapt autonomously to avoid climate
change damages? Some studies show faith in market mechanisms and suggest considerable
capacity of human systems to adapt autonomously (Ausabel, 1991b; Mendelsohn
et al., 1996; Yohe et al., 1996; Mendelsohn, 1998; Mendelsohn and Neumann, 1999).
Other studies highlight the constraints on "optimal" autonomous adaptation,
such as limited information and access to resources, adaptation costs, and residual
damages; these studies emphasize the need for planned, especially anticipatory,
adaptations undertaken or facilitated by public agencies (Smith et al., 1996;
Reilly, 1998; Tol, 1998a; Fankhauser et al., 1999; Bryant et al., 2000; Schneider
et al., 2000)
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Wedding Party in the PRC
We were pleasantly surprised last month to hear that we would be hosting a wedding party food sort in our Product Rescue Center. With a total of 65 wedding party volunteers and everyone coming in from different parts of the country, you can just imagine how that looked!
The parents of the bride were the first to arrive, followed by her favorite uncle to make sure everything was in order for her prior to her arrival, and it was. The PRC staff waited with anticipation for the bride to come. All of us were excited to be a part of their wedding weekend festivities.
As we waited, we noticed a woman walking up holding, from what we could see, a couple boxes of donated product. Chuck walked out to assist her as Don continued to greet the rest of the guests. As the young lady got closer, I couldn't help but notice how happy and glowing she was. As she greeted all of us with a tremendous smile, we knew she was the bride, Aviva Berman. The groom, Ezra Billinkoff, was looking very blissful and happy as well--he also had three to four donated boxes.
With a total of 9,982 lbs sorted, which is about 8,318 meals, the Berman-Billinkoff Wedding Party had a very memorable time in the PRC. As always, our staff, which consists of Norm, Cathy, Don, and Chuck, stepped up to customize their experience from the beginning until the end. The couple ended their sort dancing to Here and Now by Luther Vandross.
"We would like to thank the Atlanta Community Food Bank for enabling us to get our smaller community of family and friends together to give back to Atlanta," said Aviva. "It was a wonderful opportunity to spend time together and act for those in need. Thank you for giving us this amazing opportunity and a wonderful start to the wedding weekend!"
We loved having them here and wish them nothing but happiness in their lives together!
Best Wishes,
Jacqueline D. Wesley, Product Rescue Center Group Lead Supervisor

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Fresh Finds: Scenes from a Turkish Produce Market
Despite the frigid temperature and recent snowfall, the January produce market in Ankara, Turkey was bursting with fresh citrus, giant cabbages, and just baked bread. And just in case the photos don't do the goods justice, it was one of the most pristine markets I've visited. And don't even get me started on the pomegranates!
Every vegetable and piece of fruit had been cleaned of all unsightly outer leaves and dirt and sat in the displays ready to eat. In Ankara, Turkey's capital city, folks don't seem to need much visual reassurance that the produce in this market comes from the ground. Purveyors were proud of their bounty and sliced open squash, pomegranates, and tangerines to show them off and offer a taste. The prices were nothing to blink at, either. Juicy, fat pomegranates were 2.5 Turkish lira per kilo, or less than a dollar per pound. Gorgeous bright green skinny peppers were piled high next to persimmons and neatly trimmed bunches of leeks longer than my arm.
Housed in a covered but open air structure, the market in the Umitkoy/Cayyolu district of Ankara houses plenty of fresh produce, fish, and bread ranging from thick pita to homemade phyllo dough. Shoppers included business men and housewives, carrying on discussions with the purveyors about the freshness of the produce. Keeping with Turkish tradition, a man with a tray walked from stall to stall distributing glass tea cups filled with black tea to each of the vendors. Just lovely!
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ISP: Crawford County deputy injured by self-inflicted gunshot
ISP: Crawford County deputy injured by self-inflicted gunshot
CRAWFORD COUNTY, Ind. —
A Crawford County deputy was taken to University Hospital early Friday morning after he was found shot inside his English home.
Indiana State Police said Deputy Jesse Belcher, 26, shot himself in the head with a hand gun.
Police said Belcher finished his shift around 10 p.m. and went home. Sometime between 1:30 and 2 a.m., Belcher called another deputy, spoke for a few minutes and then hung up, according to ISP. That deputy became concerned about Belcher and tried to call him back, but got no response.
When Belcher didn't respond, two deputies went to Belcher's house and found he had shot himself, police said.
Belcher was taken to University Hospital in Louisville.
There's no word on his condition.


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3 shot after argument at Cleveland motorcycle club
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CLEVELAND (AP) — An argument at a motorcycle club in Cleveland's east side ended with three people left shot in the foot or leg.
Cleveland police officers were called to the Boogie Down Motorcycle Club around 2:40 a.m. and found a large crowd gathered around a 40-year-old man who had been shot in the leg.
The Plain Dealer reports (http://bit.ly/Skr3qy) that the man said he heard two men arguing outside the club and then gunshots.
Shortly after he was taken to a nearby hospital, a 21-year-old man and a 23-year-old man showed up at separate hospitals.
One had been shot in the middle toe and the other had been shot in the foot.
They both were shot at the motorcycle club.
Police say witnesses were uncooperative and they have no suspect information.


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It has long been gospel among retailers that tobacco pulls so much business into stores, with smokers also picking up water, gum or a bag of chips, that dumping it would be a sales killer.
However, with pressure from anti-smoking forces growing, tobacco use waning and now a national drugstore chain jettisoning cigarettes for good, is this calculus starting to crack?
It's probably too early to say, but major retailers will be paying close attention to the sales numbers after CVS Caremark pulls tobacco from its shelves by October. If the old retail rules governing tobacco have not changed outright, they are at least coming up for review.
Since the nation's second-largest drugstore chain announced it would dump tobacco just over two months ago, its shares have hit new all-time highs 10 times.
That's not to say that the CVS case is unique.
CVS Caremark Corp. is part of a booming industry. In that same stretch since early February, shares of rivals Walgreen Co. and Rite Aid Corp. have surged as well.
And most of last year's $126 billion in revenue at CVS came from its pharmacy benefits management business. That sets it apart because it doesn't depend so much, like other drugstores, on tobacco to draw customers through the door.
But when CVS Caremark Corp. announced it was going cold turkey, it caught almost everyone by surprise.
The retailer will be giving up $2 billion in annual revenue a year, it estimates. About a half billion of that would come from non-tobacco products, the additional items that smokers pick up when they come in to buy smokes.
The response from Wall Street? Something between a yawn and a shrug. CVS stock is up about 11 percent since the announcement. That's quite a run for a company that just announced it was giving up $2 billion in revenue annually, and during a period in which all major U.S. indexes have been under pressure.
Yet while CVS is not the first major retailer to give up tobacco, most industry analysts do not see the flood gates opening.
Target Corp. gave up tobacco in 1996, citing a "commitment to the health and well-being of our communities," and no one followed it through the anti-tobacco exit door.
Each retailer has to weigh the bottom line against the message, but that has been going on for some time now, said Craig R. Johnson, president of retail consultant Customer Growth Partners.
"This isn't just a bolt out of the blue," Johnson said. "They've done the plusses and minuses, and they haven't decided to do it."
Some have chosen the opposite path. Discounters like Family Dollar have actually started selling tobacco in the past few years.
Just last month Walgreen CEO Greg Wasson, when asked by an industry analyst if tobacco had become a long-term liability given the CVS decision, signaled that the nation's largest drugstore would not be following suit.
Instead, the CEO said that Walgreen, which still sells tobacco, will focus on helping people quit.
Yet there are at least two forces adding weight to the no-tobacco side of the scale: one internal, one external.
Internally, the cigarette business has become tougher in the face of tax hikes, smoking bans, health concerns and social stigma. Plus, the number of U.S. adults who smoke dropped below 20 percent between 2005 and 2012, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The drugstores and major retailers angling to grab a bigger slice of the health care spending pie as the American population ages are looking at margins as well.
Cigarettes probably generate a profit margin of 3 percent to 7 percent. Generic drugs, in contrast, can fetch margins of 20 percent or more, said Burt P. Flickinger III, managing director of the retail and consumer brands consultant Strategic Resource Group.
The question of whether retailers and drugstores can sell both health and tobacco raises the issue of those external forces that have been building for some time.
The presence of tobacco behind checkout counters creates an image problem for an industry that says it puts a priority on helping provide healthier lifestyle options for customers.
There is a push to hold retailers to their word on that score.
In the wake of the CVS announcement, attorneys general from 28 states wrote to executives at the nation's largest retailers, including Walgreen, Rite Aid, Wal-Mart, Kroger and Safeway, urging them to follow the CVS lead.
"Pharmacies and drug stores, which increasingly market themselves as a source for community health care, send a mixed message by continuing to sell deadly tobacco products," said New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
Which retailers can afford to kick the habit, if any, may play out over the next year as CVS posts sales numbers. Investors won't get their first look at a full CVS quarter without tobacco revenue until February 2015.
"Retail is notorious for copycat marketing, meaning if somebody is successful at doing this, others will follow quickly," said Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst at market researcher NPD Group.
AP Tobacco Writer Michael Felberbaum contributed to this report from Richmond, Va.


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March 13. 2013 10:49PM
First responders honored for safely ending Middleton standoff
By JOHN QUINN
Union Leader Correspondent
MIDDLETON - For a short time, a homeless man who stole his brother's AK-47 before taking a hostage attracted the focus of the region to a small lakeside community on Jan. 31.
During a brief ceremony Wednesday night, town officials presented 51 awards - including two for valor - recognizing the efforts of all who responded to the town as Richard Penney, 35, who previously lived in Middleton, held authorities at bay outside a Lakeshore Drive home for three hours.
"The town of Middleton extends its deepest gratitude," Selectman Todd Lapierre said.
Penney, who remains in jail, faces five felonies - including robbery, two counts of theft by unauthorized taking, kidnapping and criminal threatening with a deadly weapon - following the incident.
N.H. Attorney General Michael Delaney, who read a letter from Gov. Maggie Hassan, expressed his appreciation about the quick coordination, coolness under pressure and committment to resolve this situation peacefully.
"The events of January 31 could have ended differently and tragically," Delaney read during the ceremony.
Police from around the area, including officers from Farmington, Milton, New Durham and Wolfeboro, members of Strafford County Sheriff's Department and New Hampshire State Police came to the town's aid.


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Tree chronicles Worcester woman's life
Tree chronicles Worcester woman's life
May. 25, 2014
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Josephine Rutkauskas, who will be 87 in early June, wants you to know about the sprig of blue spruce she planted in her yard when Jack Kennedy was in the White House.
But before she explains why, she'd rather you not call her Josephine. Her nickname is "Dodo." Yes, like the clumsy, flightless bird that went extinct and whose name became a synonym for a silly or stupid person.
Don't worry. She won't be offended.
"If I didn't like it, I wouldn't go by that name all these years. There's no such thing as a dumb bird," Rutkauskas said.
Anyway, back to that day in the early 1960s when, with a table spoon, she scooped out a small hole in her Quinsigamond Village yard and planted a roughly 4-inch-long evergreen sprig.
Which grew as a spruce tree, yes, but also a kind of living yardstick with which to measure a long, mostly happy life.
When her children started school, allowing Rutkauskas to go to work as a baker at a Vernon Hill junior high that's now an elementary school, the spruce was waist tall.
When her kids moved away as adults, it towered over her diminutive frame.
She was on high alert every December in those years, fearing somebody might creep into her yard with a bow saw and poach the pleasingly conical spruce for use as a Christmas tree.
When her husband, William "Sam" Rutkauskas, got sick with terminal cancer in the late '90s, a tree bandit would have needed a flatbed truck and small crane to make off with her spruce.
Today, it's as tall as her roof, maybe 25 feet in height or so.
Rutkauskas remains impressively spry for a woman her age. She bustles around the house easily as "The Price is Right" blares from an unseen television in another room.
The wooden steps of her back deck barely slow her down as she leads visitors out to see her tree.
She smiles a lot. She laughs a lot, at her jokes and yours.
Oh, you want to take her picture? She just put some lipstick on earlier, so sure, go ahead.
The sprig from which her tree grew had been a giveaway, part of an Arbor Day promotion put on by what was then a new burger joint in the Webster Square area called McDonald's.
Nicole DiNoia, a regional spokeswoman for McDonald's based in Boston, said the restaurant on Main Street opened in 1961 and was Worcester's first McDonald's.
DiNoia couldn't unearth any specific information on the Arbor Day tree giveaway in Worcester, but said she was able to confirm that such promotions were held during that period. There's no way to know how many trees resulted.
Rutkauskas said she has a clear memory of planting the spruce the same day as she got it. The McDonald's hadn't been open long at the time, she said, so the tree giveaway likely was in 1961.
She didn't really expect the feeble little clipping to take root, but thought she'd give it a shot since it was free.
"Every day I looked at it and gave it a little sip of water. When I saw it was taking, that it was really going to grow, I watered it every third day or something," she recalled.
Sometimes she marvels at how fast it grew into a sturdy tree that would look at home in a Colorado forest.
Then she remembers that her spruce has had half a century to fill a corner of her side yard on Millbury Street.
The tree grew at a normal pace for its species.
The only speedy thing was the passing of time.
"You know, when you got kids, they're going to school. Then they're graduating. Then this and that, and the time goes by so fast, you don't realize it," Rutkauskas said.
"Before you know it, the kids are gone and the tree is still here, and it's a big one, you know."


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I do not know how many days I did not fast in the past when I was with my family, because we were living in a village and no one knew anything about the rulings on fasting. I did not fast during those days, and I do not know how many days I did not fast. I paid some money for those days, and then I found out from one of the sisters that I have to make up those days, but I do not know how many days there are. What should I do?.
The Muslim has to learn the rulings of Islam that he needs to know, whether they are matters of 'aqeedah (belief) and usool al-deen, or practical matters such as purity (tahaarah) and prayer. If he is wealthy then he has to learn the rulings on zakaah. If he is a businessman then he has to learn the rulings on financial transactions, and so on. When the month of Ramadaan is approaching, the Muslim who is accountable has to learn the rulings of fasting even if he is unable to fast, so that he may learn what he has to do instead of fasting.
So what you and your family have to do is to repent to Allaah and pray for forgiveness for your failure to ask and seek knowledge concerning this matter.
It is not permissible to give money, even for those who are unable to fast such as the elderly and chronically sick, because what they must do if they do not fast in Ramadaan is to feed one poor person for each day. Giving money instead of food for the days when they did not fast is not sufficient.
Based on this, we hope that the money you gave will count as charity for which you will be rewarded on the Day of Resurrection.
What you have to do is to make up those days when you did not fast. You can try to work them out until you reach the number which you are certain of. If you cannot do that then do what you think is most likely. If you think it most likely that the number is thirty days, for example, then you have to fast these days.
"Allaah burdens not a person beyond his scope"
[al-Baqarah 2:286]
You do not have to fast them one after another, rather it is permissible for you to fast them separately, according to what you are able to do. But you have to hasten to fast them and do not delay them again.
You should start by making up the Ramadaan of the last year first, so that the next Ramadaan will not come before you have observed these fasts.
Some of the scholars stated that as well as fasting you have to feed one poor person for each day, to make up for delaying the fast. But the more correct view is that you have to fast only, especially if you are poor. But if you can feed others as well as fast, that is good.
See also the answers to questions no. 39742, 26212, 47942, 40695.
All of this is based on the assumption that you did not fast for a legitimate reason, such as menstruation. But if you had no legitimate excuse for breaking the fast, then you do not have to make up the fast, rather you have to repent to Allaah and pray for His forgiveness, and compensate for these days by observing naafil fasts and doing good deeds.
We have also discussed this matter and the fatwas of the scholars in the answer to question no. 50067.
And Allaah knows best.


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|April 1, 2012
|Seattle Mariners released RHP Aaron Heilman.
|January 10, 2012
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This new report shows that while agricultural banks continue improving along with the broader economy in the wake of the Wall Street financial crisis, they continue to face increased stress from excessive regulation.
Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) July 02, 2014
The Independent Community Bankers of America® (ICBA) today highlighted new findings that commercial banks continue meeting the credit needs of agricultural borrowers and that community banks are doing the lion's share of the banking sector's ag lending. Nevertheless, the recent University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign farmdocDaily report finds community banks face stiff headwinds, including mounting compliance costs due to regulatory burdens and weak loan and economic growth.
"This new report shows that while agricultural banks continue improving along with the broader economy in the wake of the Wall Street financial crisis, they continue to face increased stress from excessive regulation," ICBA President and CEO Camden R. Fine said. "These higher compliance costs represent a larger share of operating costs for smaller lenders, fueling the drive to greater mergers and acquisitions. While community bank credit is plentiful for farmers and ranchers, new regulations and competition from tax-exempt credit unions and Farm Credit System (FCS) institutions are inhibiting further growth in banks' agricultural lending, as would proposals to expand the lending parameters of these institutions."
The report found that community banks with $10 billion or less in total assets accounted for nearly 80 percent of all agricultural lending from the banking sector in 2013. It also found that agricultural loans at commercial banks have increased 30 percent from 2007 to 2013. However, banks face the lowest loan-to-deposit ratios in 30 years, a dilemma that threatens future community bank profitability. The report also reveals a decline of more than 800 community banks under $100 million in assets since 2007.
The report also indicates challenges to bank profits, which are occurring at the same time that credit unions and FCS lenders are using their taxpayer-funded subsidies and funding advantages to cherry pick community banks' strongest and most profitable customers. In addition, these tax-advantaged institutions are seeking new powers in an effort to siphon non-farm loans away from banks' portfolios. This activity increases risks to the community banking industry, leading to fewer lenders and less credit availability for rural America.
As a result, ICBA continues urging Congress to oppose credit union and FCS efforts to expand their mission and lending authorities, either through new laws or new regulations. Restricting credit unions and FCS institutions to their historical missions is essential to ensuring a level playing field that does not unduly harm community banks and the agricultural and other borrowers and communities they serve.
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War for the Planet of the Apes
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Reviewed By Richard G (Santa Fe, NM) Reviewed for a 1992 Subaru SVX —11/15/2008 9:15 AM
The Coverking fit perfectly over my 1992 SVX, which was a surprise considering the Subaru model has not been produced since 1997. I was very pleased that Coverking manufactured a car cover for the SVX. Time will tell how well the Coverking will protect the SVX from some of the harshness of northern New Mexico's climate -- the intense sun, the dry air, wind and the cold, dry winters. So far, so good.


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Robin Hirsch, the impesario behind the Cornelia Street Café.
The accidental jazz den
By Rick Marx
From one room with a toaster oven in 1979, the Cornelia Street Café has graduated to a full-fledged Village fixture, replete with restaurant, bar and a performing space that hosts 700 concerts a year. For jazz lovers, music is the main draw, and the cafés monthly calendar of events reflects a refined menu of sophisticated and eclectic talent. In one week, its possible to see the flautist Jeremy Steig, the multi-saxman George Garzone and avant garde ensemble Big Bang with poet Carletta Joy Walker.
The lineup is definitely diverse, but not exactly what owner Robin Hirsch, 62, had in mind when he opened the café. My dream was to have the next Fantasticks, but it didnt happen that way.
Heres how it did: Hirsch was raised in England by parents who were refugees from Nazi Germany. I had a very proper English education with very unlikely parentage, because my parents spoke the same language as the enemy, he says. I went to Oxford, taught in England, got Fulbright and a Ph.D., wrote about avant garde American theater, came to New York in 1969, and immersed myself in avant garde theater as director and performer.
Soon after, he started the café with an actor friend and a visual artist. Because the three of us were all artists, says Hirsch, artists tend to congregate here.
From the start, he saw the venue as opportunity for patrons to develop new work.One of the first of the cafés waitresses, Carolyn Mas, had a whole bunch of songwriter friends who were desperate for a place to try out new material, says Hirsch. During that period, the talent on any night could range from the ridiculous to the sublime.
As often as not the waitress or bartender would be cringing because they couldnt bear to hear what was going on, and other times you couldnt believe it, says Hirsch, referring to the times people like Suzanne Vega, The Roches, or Steve Forbert performed.
From the one room with a toaster oven, the café expanded to the place next door, and then the backroom and the basement. The room was christened with an appearance by former senator and presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy, who, says Hirsch, is a very substantial poet.
Word got out, and people were hanging from the rafters, he says. I thought, how will we squeeze them in the basement with the pipes and no lighting, a sink gurgling, a guitar amp and a microphone?
But the crowds kept coming, and not necessarily for poetry. One of the things that has emerged is the constant of jazz, says Hirsch. The downstairs has become a kind of quintessential jazz cellar. It lends itself to the intimacy of a certain kind of jazz performance, just as it lends itself to one-person shows and chamber music, which was designed to be listened in intimate circumstances.
For two years, the program has been curated by Brooklyn-based, Danish trumpeter Poul Weis, 40, who also leads a quintet and a sextet in the room and around town. My background from Denmark is a classical one, but I see myself as very eclectic, says Weis. I have a very broad taste, but definitely my heart is in acoustic jazz.
Arturo OFarrill, for example, the director of Lincoln Centers Afro-Jazz Orchestra, leads a quintet about once a month. And Jeremy Steig, one of the most important jazz flautists well known for his recordings and duets with Eddie Gomez, recently played with his own quartet. My former manager, Judy Joyce, was married to Jeremy, Hirsch says as an aside. George Garzone, a saxophone monster who has a foot in Boston and a foot in New York, is also a longtime friend of Hirschs who plays regularly at the café.
What I wanted to do was to continue what I thought works in the room, says Weis. I look for things you dont hear elsewhere. Its always been an artists café, a place for artists to express themselves without limits. Ive tried to find those who rarely perform other places or havent performed for a while, and try to give them another chance. Most of the music is jazz with some kind of an edge to it, but theres always a lyrical side.
Some of Weiss personal recommendations at the café include OFarrill; jazz trumpet great John McNeil; saxophonist Tony Malaby; the Chris Lightcap Quintet; trumpeter Ron Horton; the wonderful drummer Allison Miller; and pianist Ben Waltzers trio.
We reinvent the wheel twice a night, says Hirsch of his clubs schedule. I encourage recidivism, but Im not always successful, so every single night were starting essentially from scratch. It keeps you on your toes.
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Acequia culture feels under the gun
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue's feature story.
Nicasio Romero lives in the village of El Ancon, Spanish for the elbow, or riverbend, about 30 miles from the Pecos River, between Santa Fe and Las Vegas. In 1986, he helped found the New Mexico Acequia Association. An artist and scholar, he has traveled the world looking at water-efficient desert irrigation systems. Romero has been an advocate of instream-flow rights in a culture that rejects the idea as an attempt by environmentalists to steal its historic water rights.
Nicasio Romero: "It's no accident that the acequia system has been operating continuously and effectively for 300-400 hundred years. It is a political and cultural system. It's the thread that holds the community together.
"Every year at the annual meeting, we set dates for the irrigation season, when ditches will be clean and functioning. The annual meeting is the one time when people are allowed to say anything they want about the acequia. They can be really energetic. It forces people to come together.
"Every two years, the mayordomo and commissioners are elected by majority vote. It's a democratic system - one person, one vote. It allows the guy with one acre to be just as important as the guy with 30 acres.
"The commissioners set policy and the mayordomo carries it out day to day. If there's a bad storm and a ditch breaks, the mayordomo calls people together to fix it. During a drought, he can tell people to stop watering. Gardens get first priority, then orchards and planted fields.
"The acequias have senior water rights. Seventy to 80 percent of the surface water in New Mexico is controlled by acequias. But I see a day when the acequias' water rights are challenged. We're in competition with recreation, municipalities, high tech.
"We're trying to find solutions without getting into the courts. We're trying to come up with water banking and leasing arrangements, so that people who want to produce (farm) but don't have the water can get matched up with people who have the water but don't have the time or the health to produce. There's no reason acequias couldn't lease water in the short term to growing areas or cities.
"Instream flow is the most sensitive issue right now. New Mexico is the only state without instream flow legislation. The reason is the acequias. I used to be one of those guys who said, "No way, man, I'm against instream flow, period." If we don't address this issue, we're just burying our heads in the sand. We don't have the luxury anymore to sit back and say, "I have the water right and I can do anything with it." The Endangered Species Act can kick in and take that power away from you.
"We're trying to teach young people to protect the water, to have reverence and respect for the water, but they're removed spiritually from it, lost in a throwaway culture. Kids are exposed to mass dominant culture and they think that is what they should aspire to. It's literally tearing families apart. Most people would rather stay in the country, but when they're confronted with the enormous pressure to conform to the dominant culture's idea of the good life, they move to the cities.
"We know we're racing against time. Change is inevitable, but I can't do anything about the forests in Brazil. I can do something about the acequias."


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MILTON, Mass. – In their first regular season game on Massachusetts soil men's lacrosse (1-2) was handed a 12-6 loss by the Colonels of Curry College (6-1) Wednesday afternoon at Walter M. Katz Field.
The host Colonels used a strong second half to pull away from the Beacons, who at the intermission trailed their opponent by a mere two goals. On the day it was freshman attackman Donny Delpha (Walpole, Mass.) that led the Beacons as he notched his second collegiate hat trick in the first three games of his career.
He was also solid in the center circle as he finished the day 5-for-8 on face offs. Eric Collins (Somerville, Mass.) was the other multi-goal scorer for UMass Boston as he totaled two goals in the contest. He also finished third on the team in ground balls with three. Delpha posted a game-high five groundballs, with Patrick McGoff (Charlestown, Mass.) finishing just one behind his teammate.
As a squad the Beacons were nearly perfect on their 38 clear attempts as they completed 36 of transition plays. They were also 1-for-4 on man-up opportunities and finished the day with 27 groundballs.
Between the pipes senior goalie Anthony Fitti (Havertown, Pa.) totaled six saves in the contest including two huge stops late in the second and third quarters.
For Curry their sixth win of the season was fueled by a five goal showing from Connor Arnold. John Castellano also came off the bench to record two goals and three assists. Joseph Natale was the Colonel's top playmaker with four assists.
Michael Hibbard totaled 16 saves in 54 minutes of action to improve to 6-1 on the year. Timothy McGonagle closed out the final six minutes and made one save.
The Beacons got on the scoreboard at the 10:49 mark of the opening quarter as Collins drove home an unassisted goal to tie the game at 1-1. From there Curry would fire off three unanswered scores to take a 4-1 lead.
UMass Boston would score a pair of their own to keep it just a one score game with the first goal coming Ryan FitzGerald (Abington, Mass.) and the second from Delpha. Domenic Fichera (Scituate, Mass.) assisted both goals. Curry managed to net one more goal before the halftime break to extend their lead to 5-3.
After the break, Delpha cut the Colonels lead down to one at the 13:48 mark of the third quarter. However flurry from Curry would be the deciding factor in Wednesday's contest as they scored four straight goals to make it 9-4. Collins and Delpha would each get one more goal in the final quarter, while Curry netted three more to secure the 12-6 win.
Men's lacrosse returns to action on Saturday when they travel to Clark University for a 7 p.m. game.


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Pa. man in court on charges he videoed burning boy
Pa. man in court on charges he videoed burning boy
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CHICORA, Pa. (AP) — A defense lawyer said Tuesday he may ask for bail reduction for the western Pennsylvania man accused of throwing nail polish on his girlfriend's 7-year-old son then recording him after he was set on fire.
Attorney Gerald Cassady said he may ask that bond be lowered for Edward Myers, whose preliminary hearing Tuesday was delayed while prosecutors seek to interview another possible witness.
Myers is in jail on $250,000 bond, which he has been unable to make. His next court appearance is scheduled for Aug. 13.
Cassady said Myers is "shocked" and has trouble believing he's in jail.
"We wish the young man a speedy recovery," Cassady said of the injured boy.
The 36-year-old Saxonburg man is facing felony assault and other charges related to the alleged May 25 attack. He's pleaded not guilty. He declined to comment before his court appearance Tuesday, about 30 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.
Police said Myers threw nail polish on the boy then did nothing to help him after he was set on fire, either by Myers or other boys at the home in Saxonburg. The boy suffered third-degree burns on his face and chest and had welts on his forehead from being shot with a plastic pellet gun. Myers' 15-year-old son is facing juvenile charges in the incident.
The criminal complaint said police seized several cellphones during the investigation, but Cassady said he hasn't seen any videos of the alleged attack yet. According to the complaint, the boy said it "seemed like hours" before his mother returned home and took him to the hospital. Myers allegedly telephoned the boy's mother after the incident but didn't tell her that her son was injured.


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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – Coker College's Sydney Weatherford has been named the Conference Carolinas Softball Player of the Week.
Weatherford, a junior from Scranton, S.C., led the Cobras to a pair of victories over St. Andrews University last week. She went 4-fot-7 in the doubleheader with a homer, seven RBIs, three runs and a steal.
Through six games this season, Weatherford, a center fielder, is hitting .389 with a home run, eight RBIs, four runs and one steal.
Weatherford is an education major with an elementary education concentration. She is the daughter of Joey and Deanna Weatherford.
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YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar's army fired artillery shells into the heart of a town used by ethnic Kachin guerrillas as their headquarters on Monday, killing three civilians and wounding four others in the latest escalation of the conflict, the rebels said.
The deaths, which included a 15-year-old boy, were the first war casualties reported in the town of Laiza since the two sides resumed fighting in mid-2011 after nearly two decades of peace.
Laiza, located on Myanmar's northeastern border with China, has been attacked with artillery several times since last month, when the military launched an unprecedented wave of helicopter and jet fighter assaults on rebel positions in nearby hills.
Artillery rockets have hit Laiza twice in recent weeks, according to rebel officials, but the earlier strikes caused no casualties and no significant damage.
A member of the rebel Kachin Independence Army, who declined to be identified because he is not the group's official spokesman, said three shells struck the town center early Monday. One fell near four men who were warming themselves beside a bonfire, killing one on the spot, while another landed on a house, killing a 15-year-old boy, said the rebel, who visited both impact sites.
He said two children were among those wounded in the attack.
There was no immediate government comment.
The Kachin, like Myanmar's other ethnic minorities, have long sought greater autonomy from the central government. They are the only major ethnic rebel group that has not reached a truce with President Thein Sein's administration, which came to power nearly two years ago after almost five decades of military rule and has embarked on a wave of widely praised political and economic reforms.
A long-held truce broke down in June 2011 after the rebels refused to abandon a strategic base near a hydropower plant the government was building in a joint venture with a Chinese company. Since then, around 100,000 Kachin have fled their homes, and many are in camps near Laiza.
Last month, sporadic skirmishes escalated when the rebels rejected a government demand that they allow supply convoys to reach an army base. The Kachin had been attacking army units headed there, saying they were transporting ammunition that could be used to try to take Laiza.
The government denies it has designs on the frontier town, but has seized at least one of the guerrillas' hilltop posts by the road.
Over the weekend, rebels said they shot down a government helicopter, but the army denied the claim, saying the chopper went down because of engine failure. The crash killed at least three people on board.
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Bethany Hodges and her mother, Dawn Teer, received their bachelor degrees on the same stage, just minutes from each other, at the Jack Stephens Center on the University of Arkansas at Little Rock campus.
High school and college graduations are held every May, but this year one Stuttgart mother and daughter were able to experience a rare occasion — graduating college together.
Bethany Hodges and her mother, Dawn Teer, received their bachelor degrees on the same stage, just minutes from each other, at the Jack Stephens Center on the University of Arkansas at Little Rock campus.
Both mother and daughter are graduates of Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas (PCCUA) with Associate of Arts degrees and now Bachelor of Arts degrees from UALR.
"I, for the most part, drove back and forth," Teer said. "Bethany took nearly all of her classes at UALR online."
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"It was very cool to graduate with Bethany," Teer said. "It is something for us to always talk about."
Teer, who began her college quest in her 40s, never thought she would complete her bachelor's degree at a higher education institution and the day to do so was exciting for her in many ways.
Teer stopped attending college when she got married and started a family several years ago. It was a decision her father, who died unexpectedly at 53 of a massive heart attack, predicted she would later regret.
When Teer's youngest son graduated from high school in 2006, she decided that it was time to honor her father's wishes and complete her education that she had begun several years ago.
"I know where he is and I know he is watching," Teer said. "This one was for him."
Teer and Hodges have other things in common besides graduating at PCCUA, because both minored in business management.
"I am probably going to stop with my bachelor's degree," Teer said. "Bethany has said she may go for her master's degree."
Hodges added that maybe in the future, she may consider trying to pursue a master's degree in business of some kind, but definitely not in the Fall of 2013.


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Freshman left-hander Jack Wynkoop hurled 5 1/3 scoreless innings in his first career start and seventh-ranked South Carolina defeated Furman 5-2 on Tuesday.
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Dracaena cinnabari
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Dracaena cinnabari Balf.f.
Common Name(s):
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Vulnerable B2ab(iii) ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
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|Miller, A.
|Abuzinada, A.H. & AL-Eisawi, D.M.H. (Arabian Plants Red List Authority)
This flagship species is fairly widespread but has a fragmented distribution with different subpopulations showing varying degrees of vigour: in the granite Haggeher mountains (particularly in the centre and western parts) Dracaena cinnabari is abundant at higher altitudes with populations showing good age structure and active regeneration (particularly in sheltered gullies and in the dense woodland amongst the granite pinnacles); on the limestone plateaus adjacent to the Haggeher (e.g., Firmihin) the woodland has a good age structure but shows no sign of regeneration; on certain outlying sites on the eastern limestone plateau (e.g., Hamadero) there are no signs of regeneration except in places inaccessible to livestock - these woodlands appear in good health but consist almost entirely of mature trees; finally over large areas the tree is absent except for small relict populations (Iksha) or as isolated individuals (Qatariyah).
It is likely that D. cinnabari was, in the past, widely distributed over large parts of Soqotra. What then could account for its decline? Information from local informants and the historic record suggests that there has been no change in traditional land management practices until very recently, and, as regards Dracaena specifically: (i) the harvesting of Dracaena resin has lessened over recent years as the market for it has declined, and (ii) the use of the growing leaflets for cordage has almost died out with the introduction of nylon rope. However, it is true that during severe droughts, leaflets are removed and cracked open as fodder for goats. Nevertheless, it must be noted that this feed causes scour in goats, and so can only be fed in very small quanitities. The same goes for the fruit which are gathered in the summer and fed to goats but especially to cattle. However, once more, large quantities of the berries make both ill, so they must be fed in very small quanities (typically 5–8 berries for a goat, for instance). A starving goat will indeed nibble at the softer, younger leaflets of a young plant if it can find absolutely nothing else to eat, this is not a common occurrence. It would therefore be an over-simplification to blame the decline on over-grazing. It seems likely that grazing is only a factor preventing regeneration when populations are already under stress. Regeneration is also particularly problematic in relict populations which lack the dense under-storey of shrubs, which provide a protective nursery for young plants in healthy Dracaena woodland. Herders who feed their cattle on Dracaena fruit report observing seeds sprouting in feed areas; however, these young seedlings have not been observed surviving the subsequent dry season
Islanders have observed that in areas where Dracaena is failing to regenerate younger trees are not branching out to form the typical umbrella-shaped canopy, but are producing taller trunks instead. The exception to this is the high Haggeher mountains, where what are seen as 'normal' young trees are still common. They offer various possible explanations for this. The trees do best in the areas affected by the mists, low cloud and, in particular, the constant drizzle of the monsoon. Indeed, they regard the trees as constituting a natural indicator of this micro-climate. Oral history reports that the extent of this area has decreased over past generations, and this is one reason for the trees fialing to flourish. Oral history also reports that in earlier times the crowns were frequently completely covered in flowering spikes, whereas now it is more common for only part, or one side, of the crown to have flowering spikes, and these are less productive. Another contributing factor is believed to be the increased feeding of livestock with the flowers and fruit. This is due to increased livestock numbers, the high cost of supplementary cereal feeds, and the pressure of the years of drought in the 1970s and 1980s. This sometimes resulted in the complete stripping of the fruiting stalks from trees. Herders say that if too few fructescences are left on a tree year after year, the tree begins to die back.
The best Dracaena woodland occurs in Rokeb di Firmihin and the northern end of the Igalis plateaus which run from behind the Haggeher mountains down to the southern escarpment. After the Haggeher mountains themselves, these are the areas most affected by the monsoon clouds and mists. Islanders also say that the best trees occur in areas where the terrain consist of solid rock pavement with extensive cracks, down which water and soil flows after rains, providing moisture and nourishment for the roots of the trees. It is not difficult to produce seedlings from seed: cattle herders even in the drier areas have observed that when they feed the ripe fruit to their cows many seeds sprout later in the rains and cloud of the winter season. However, as soon as the cloud lifts and sun comes out, they are burned off, or, if the seed has sprouted in areas of herbage, they are grazed down along with the grasses and herbs.
It seems likely that a major cause of the decline in extent and quality of Dracaena woodland is the very gradual drying of the Archipelago. No direct palaeoclimatic data is available from Soqotra, however, there is strong circumstantial evidence that the islands have been drying over the last few hundred years. Local expertise describes Dracaena as occurring only in those high plateaux regions affected by the mists and cloud of the monsoon season (a period when the rest of the archipelago suffers strong and dessicating winds). Oral history and traditional reports that not only has the extent of this cloud/mist coverage diminished over the years, but also its duration and continuity: what used to be a predictable 4–5 months of cloud and drizzle in the area (resulting in the total evacuation of both people and livestock from the region down to the lower hills) has become instead patchy and discontinuous.
Other potential threats to the long-term survival of Dracaena cinnabari are the over-exploitation of Dragon's Blood - a resin obtained from the bark of the tree. At present there is little demand for the resin but an increase in demand could lead to rapid over-collecting. The almost complete eradication of the closely related Dracaena draco on the Canary Islands has been linked to over-exploitation of the trees for Dragon's Blood in the Middle Ages (Lucas and Synge 1978). Another threat is from the use of the trunks to make traditional beehives. There was recently a case when over 20 trees were felled to make beehives for export to the mainland. This incident was generally condemned on the island but illustrates how a breakdown in traditional practices poses a very real threat to species on the islands.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|Endemic to Soqotra. Altitude of 500 to 1,550 m.
Dracaena cinnabari (the Dragon's Blood tree) is perhaps the most famous and distinctive plant on Soqtora. It is a major component of the landscape and is important not only as a flagship species (a rallying point for conservation awareness) but also as an indicator species (a species which flags changes in biotic and abiotic conditions) and as an umbrella species (a species which, if protected, will bring other species under that protection). It comes into flower in February and takes five months from flower fully ripe fruit.
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Native:Yemen (Socotra)
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|Common and often abundant on the granite of the Haggeher mountains and adjacent limestone plateaus (for instance at Diksam, Reyged, Rewgid and Firmihin). There are also important outliers at Homhil and Hamaderoh and Igliso in the east. Over much of the eastern and southern limestone plateaus it is less common occuring as small relict populations or as isolated trees. It is completely absent from the western end of the island and sparsely distributed or even absent from large areas of the eastern Haggeher. This pattern of distribution (with the exception of the eastern Haggeher and high areas in the western limestone) closely matches areas receiving frequent low cloud, rain and drizzle during the monsoon.
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|Habitat and Ecology:
|Most commonly found in in evergreen and semi-deciduous woodland.
|Major Threat(s):
|Of its various uses it is most famously known as a commercial source of dragon's blood. Current exploitation is small-scale but there is potential for more harmful exploitation to take place.
|Miller, A. 2004. Dracaena cinnabari. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T30428A9548491. . Downloaded on 25 September 2018.
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