Send e-mail for the 200 dpi image. J. Cannon UGA CAES One of the surest signs that fall is upon us is the appearance of pumpkins for sale along the roadside. If the pumpkins are ready for harvest, the frost upon them can’t be far behind. The search for the perfect pumpkin has become almost as important as scouring the woods for the perfect Christmas tree. Pumpkins come in many shapes and sizes, and people’s preferences vary. The miniature has become popular among those who dabble in decorative design. The giant is a challenge for the competitive at heart. The pie pumpkin, usually 3 to 6 pounds, is the culinary choice. And the jack-o’-lantern types are a cut above for those who like to carve. So where do we find the one that will satisfy our own holiday desires? Linus waited in the pumpkin patch each year for the great pumpkin. This course of action may only lead, however, to frustration and frostbite. BIG ORANGE ORBS just wait to be picked out and carved for Halloween. These pumpkins are grown for jack-o’-lanterns, but pie and ornamental varieties are also widely available. Most pumpkins you’ll find in Georgia weren’t grown here, though, said a University of Georgia horticulturist. Some produce markets or specialty farms may allow you to pick your own from the field. Those, you’ll know, are Georgia-grown treats. The best pumpkin may only be an afternoon’s drive away. Or it could be waiting at the local supermarket. Many roadside markets, produce stands and local grocers offer pumpkins. A growing number of farms, too, offer hayrides to the field and let customers select their own pumpkins. This is akin to the stroll in the forest looking for the right Christmas tree or the Thanksgiving morning turkey hunt for the day’s main course. Just don’t expect to always find a locally grown pumpkin. Georgia farmers grow only about 600 acres of them each year, although that figure has been rising slightly. Most of the pumpkins grown in Georgia are in the northern third of the state, although there are a few south Georgia growers. Plant viruses and insect pressure make growing pumpkins in south Georgia hard to do. Many of the pumpkins sold in Georgia were grown up north and in the Midwest. Some come from states such as Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Michigan and North Carolina. Don’t give up hope, though, for just the right local pumpkin. Your chances of finding it are better if you search local markets and on-farm sales outlets. Then, of course, there’s always the challenge of growing your own. This is often not possible. But if you have a big yard and don’t mind filling some of it with vines, give it a whirl. For harvest near Halloween or Thanksgiving, don’t plant pumpkins until early to late June, depending on the variety. Never plant until danger of frost has passed. Pumpkin varieties vary in size and color. To grow your own, start by selecting the right variety for your use. It takes proper care throughout the season to grow the long-awaited Big Orange Orb you will cherish until it’s ladled into the pie crust or melts into the compost pile. If you decide to grow your own, consult the county Extension Service office for details. Don’t expect to break the world record (more than 1,000 pounds). It’s virtually impossible to grow competitively large pumpkins in the Georgia climate. Limit your competition to local and state fairs. How do you pick the proper pumpkin? Choose one with a hard rind and a dull color. Declining vines indicate a ripe pumpkin, too. Pick pumpkins before frost and leave at least 3 to 4 inches of stem on the fruit. One caution: Southern-grown pumpkins usually can’t be stored as long as those grown in other areas. The pumpkin is a true American vegetable. It originated in the Americas and still holds a fond place in our hearts. Whether in the backyard or in uncharted fields, our search for the perfect pumpkin will always be a yearly delight. read more

At the close of the fiscal year, September 20, 2011, SBA loans in New England totaled 4,543 loans worth $1.1 Billion, with SBA Vermont loan volume closing at 307 loans for more than $60 million. Spurred in part by unprecedented loan volume in the year’s first quarter, small business loans backed by the US Small Business Administration nationwide in FY2011 reached the highest mark in the agency’s history, supporting over $30 billion, continuing the rebound begun in 2009 and returning to healthy pre-recession levels in the final three quarters of the year.‘SBA-backed lending continued the upward trend we saw last year,’ SBA Administrator Karen Mills said.  ‘Due to the Small Business Jobs Act and a return to pre-recession lending levels, over 61,000 small businesses had access to capital.  Small businesses are the backbone of the economy and SBA has been there to help them rebound through difficult times over the past few years.  First through the Recovery Act and then through the Small Business Jobs Act and new SBA lending programs, SBA has provided small businesses with the tools they need so they can grow and create jobs.  As SBA lending levels continue to indicate a rebound in small business lending, we will work through new programs to fill the gaps created in the marketplace.’ During the fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30, SBA loan approvals supported $30.5 billion (61,689 loans) in lending to small businesses and start-ups through its two largest loan programs, compared to $22.6 billion (60,771 loans) in FY 2010 and $17.9 billion (50,830 loans) in FY2009. The FY2011 total is the highest volume fiscal year in the agency’s history, surpassing the $28.5 billion mark established in FY2007.  The first quarter of the year, at over $12 billion supported, was the most active single quarter ever for SBA-backed loans, with more than four times the dollar volume of the same quarter in 2009 ‘ the first three months of the recession ‘ and more than double the volume of any quarter over the past four years. The unprecedented quarter was prompted by the enhancements provided under the Small Business Jobs Act, which were in effect.  The loan enhancements allowed SBA to raise the guarantee on its 7(a) loans to 90 percent and waive fees on both its 7(a) and 504 loans.The totals for FY2011 include 53,706 loans $19.63 billion under the agency’s largest loan program, the 7(a) General Business Loan program, and 7,983 loans for a total approval of $4.84 billion, supporting $10.34 billion in small business lending under the 504 Certified Development Company loan program.  The ‘supported’ amount for 504 loans includes the SBA share and third party loans that are made by commercial lenders as part of the funding package. Those numbers compare with 7(a) totals for FY 2010 of 52,938 loans for $12.46 billion, and 504 program totals of 7,833 loans for a total supported dollar amount of $9.97 billion.While SBA lending has returned to pre-recession lending levels, there continue to be gaps in the marketplace and small businesses that need access to capital.  To help fill these gaps, SBA created two new lending programs in FY2011: Community Advantage and Small Loan Advantage.  The Advantage lending programs provide steamlined applications for loans under $250,000 with the standard 7(a) guarantee in order to incentive lenders to make smaller-dollar loans.  The smaller-dollar loans often go to underserved communities.  Additionally, Community Advantage increases the points of access for small businesses by allowing ‘mission focused’ lenders, such as CDFIs and microlending intermediaries, the ability to make 7(a) loans.In FY2011, SBA has added 30 new lenders to the 7(a) lending program through the Community Advantage program.The total for 2011 also included approximately $5.8 billion in loans to more than 16,000 start-up small businesses, the most since FY2008. read more

Sign up for our COVID-19 newsletter to stay up-to-date on the latest coronavirus news throughout New York When Gen. George Washington made his victory lap of Long Island in April 1790, he sounded almost like any annoyed commuter today.“Uneven ground and none of it of the first quality,” he wrote in his journal, “but intermixed in places with pebble stone.” He complained that “the weather was so dull & at times Rainy that we lost much of the pleasures of the ride.”But overall, Washington took it in stride. For one thing, his country was at peace. He started his tour in New Utrecht, dining “at the house of a Mr. Barre…the man was obliging but little else recommended it.”The next day he watered his horses in Hempstead before stopping for dinner at the Zebulon Ketcham house in Copiague and spending the night at Squire Isaac Thompson’s home, Sagtikos Manor, in West Bay Shore. The next morning, Washington “halted awhile” at Samuel Green’s place in West Sayville before dining at Hart’s Tavern in Patchogue. He headed to Setauket the next day and spent the night at a “tolerably” decent tavern owned by Austin Roe, who had played a key role in his Revolutionary War intelligence network known as the Culper Spy Ring.Setting out early the following morning, he fed his horses at “a decent house” owned by “Widow Blydenburgh” in Smithtown before dining at “a tolerably good” house owned by “a Widow Platt” in Huntington and stopping for the night in Oyster Bay at Daniel Young’s homestead.For his last day on Long Island Washington got up at 6 a.m., and later had breakfast in Roslyn at Hendrick Onderdonk’s spread, getting a tour of his grist and paper mills (making a sheet by hand, family legend has it). For dinner he stopped in Flushing before riding to Brooklyn, where he took the ferry back to Manhattan as the sun was setting. Not bad for a 58-year-old Virginia gentleman who’d become president the year before.And what a far cry from those anxious days the general had faced in July 1776, when things looked a lot more dire—and crossing the East River was a dangerous move in the face of enemy fire.Back then, Washington could do nothing to stop Vice Admiral Richard “Black Dick” Howe from sailing the British war fleet into the Lower Hudson and anchoring off Staten Island, where his brother, Lord William Howe, amassed some 32,000 soldiers. Facing them from Brooklyn Heights were some 4,000 “rebel” troops commanded by Nathanael Greene, whom Washington considered his best units. On paper the Americans numbered 20,000 men but most of them were sick, poorly trained and badly equipped.On Aug. 22, Admiral Howe ferried his brother’s troops across the Narrows to Long Island. Greene was so ill that Washington had to replace him right before the battle. He put New Hampshire’s John Sullivan in charge first, but Sullivan didn’t prove up to the task so Washington appointed Connecticut’s Israel Putnam, who hardly knew the terrain. Greene, whose legacy today is Fort Greene in Brooklyn, had known the lay of the land very well, since he had been furiously building fortifications between Red Hook and Wallabout Bay, the future home of the Brooklyn Naval Yard.Putnam’s ignorance of Brooklyn proved costly indeed. There were four passes to defend but he protected only three, and so with help from local Tories—and Queens was full of them—the British moved their troops through the Jamaica Pass on the night of Aug. 26, roughly close to where the Jackie Robinson Parkway runs into Jamaica Avenue today.When dawn came, the Americans were quickly outflanked. “Our men fought with more than Roman virtue,” wrote an American soldier later, but the rout was a disaster. Washington would have lost his army had it not been for Mordecai Gist’s 250 Marylanders, who valiantly held the line in the Gowanus marsh, prompting the general, who was watching from afar to turn to Putnam and say, “Good God, what brave fellows I must this day lose.”As historians have written since, just when all hope looked lost for the Americans, the wind changed in the Battle of Long Island, preventing Admiral Howe from sailing up the East River and wreaking havoc. Instead, under cover of night and fog, Washington was able to evacuate 9,000 men and material before the British knew they were gone.Not that Washington was in the clear. There would be the harsh winter at Valley Forge, the demoralizing defeat at the Brandywine River in Chad’s Ford, Penn., when yet again, Tory sympathizers were able to lead the British army to a crossing that Washington didn’t know about, and many other arduous battles.But somehow he always came through. His horse was shot out from under him three times in the French and Indian War and later in the same conflict he even found himself caught in the crossfire of his own troops as dusk was falling and he was yelling, “Cease fire!” at the top of his lungs. So Washington never lost faith that he’d find a way to prevail.Behind Enemy LinesWith his enemy firmly ensconced in New York, Washington craved reliable intelligence so he could know what they were up to. In September 1776, Nathan Hale, who had volunteered to spy for the cause, was caught in Huntington. Before the British hung him in Manhattan, the 21-year-old American uttered his famous last words: “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”In mid-1778, Washington assigned Benjamin Tallmadge, a young Long Island cavalry officer from Setauket, the difficult task of creating a spy ring. Tallmadge entrusted Abraham Woodhull, a farmer whom he’d known since childhood, and Caleb Brewster, who commanded whaleboats that harassed British and Tory shipping on the Sound. Tallmadge used the code name “John Bolton,” Woodhull adopted the name “Samuel Culper.”Besides aliases, Washington’s covert network used dead drops, invisible ink, secret signals and relayed coded messages published in newspapers about British activities in occupied New York City.For more than a century the identity of “Samuel Culper Jr.” remained a mystery—Washington didn’t even know some of his top spies’ identities—until Long Island historian Morton Pennypacker matched “Culper Jr.’s” letters to Washington with the handwriting of an obscure Oyster Bay merchant named Robert Townsend. He announced his discovery at a meeting of the New York State Historical Society on Sept. 27, 1930.A modern-day guide dressed in Colonial-era garb points the way into the Raynham Hall Museum in Oyster Bay. (Photo courtesy Raynham Hall)Townsend had taken his greatest secret to his grave in 1838. But his historic house remains today: Raynham Hall Museum in Oyster Bay. Townsend led his double life while British officers occupied his home. It still “has a very strong presence in the paranormal community as one of the most haunted houses in Long Island,” says a museum official.Certainly something intense was happening in that very crowded house when Townsend was alive. A British colonel staying there was courting Townsend’s sister while he was still engaged to a woman back in England.Townsend was “an extremely complex man,” observes Alexander Rose, author of Washington’s Spies, a book about the Culper Ring that AMC is turning into a pilot for a potential dramatic series. “His immediate family were Loyalist, and so it must have been very difficult for him to break with them and spy for Washington. His reasons were partly religious, partly patriotic, partly self-interested, and partly because he was annoyed about the practical aspects of British military occupation.”Washington never knew that Townsend was the man who frequented the coffeehouses and saloons in Manhattan in his disguise as a Tory merchant working for his father’s Oyster Bay business and overheard British officers discussing their war plans.But the general certainly valued the information the Culper Ring brought him as he later wrote to Tallmadge in two letters now in Stony Brook University’s prized collection of special archives. Currently, The Three Village Historical Society has an exhibit devoted to the spy ring.Every time people visit the Montauk Lighthouse they can also thank George Washington’s foresight, because he pressed Congress to appropriate the money for it in 1793 but never saw it completed.As we honor America’s independence this July, let’s not forget Washington’s orders to his troops in New York, supposedly delivered before the Battle of Long Island began, when he spelled out in no uncertain terms what was at stake:“The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of a brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer, or to die…. Liberty, property, life, and honor are all at stake; upon your courage and conduct rest the hopes of our bleeding and insulted country. Our wives, children, and parents expect safety from us alone, and they have every reason to believe that Heaven will crown with success so just a cause.”The general trusted that Providence would smile on him, as it had so many times before, and though the outcome he sought in 1776 took many years to achieve, he was lucky it did—as we are today. read more

continue reading » Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Monday introduced legislation – the Access to Credit for Small Businesses Impacted by the COVID-19 Crisis Act of 2020 – to provide credit unions with relief under the member business lending (MBL) cap. NAFCU has been working closely with Wyden on the bill, which is similar to legislation introduced in the House, to achieve this relief for the industry in the next coronavirus relief package.“We appreciate Senator Ron Wyden for working with NAFCU to introduce legislation that would provide credit unions with relief from the MBL cap as they help small businesses recover from the economic impacts of the pandemic,” said NAFCU President and CEO Dan Berger. “The MBL cap unnecessarily limits credit unions’ ability to serve small businesses in their communities, and the coronavirus pandemic will only exacerbate the need for small business lending. Senator Wyden’s bill, along with similar, bipartisan proposals in the House, offers a smart, proactive solution that will help our economy get from crisis to recovery by allowing credit unions to provide greater service to many of our nation’s smallest businesses faced with tough economic challenges ahead. We urge Congress to include this reform in upcoming relief packages.”Wyden’s bill mirrors legislation introduced last week by Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., and would allow credit unions with CAMEL rating of 1 or 2 to exempt from their MBL cap loans made within the year from when the national emergency that was declared on March 13, 2020, expires to small businesses to aid in their recovery of the coronavirus pandemic. Both bills would also extend changes to the NCUA’s Central Liquidity Facility (CLF) made by the CARES Act through 2021. ShareShareSharePrintMailGooglePinterestDiggRedditStumbleuponDeliciousBufferTumblr read more

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Indonesia has received US$3 million in aid from the United States to help battle the COVID-19 outbreak, Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi says.The donation was handed over through the World Health Organization (WHO), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), USAID’s Infectious Disease Detection and Surveillance project, Johns Hopkins University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).“Other forms of assistance given by the US are laboratories, risk communication surveillance as well as medical supplies such as protective gear and reagents,” Retno said following a teleconference with foreign ministers from ASEAN countries and US Secretary of State Mark Pompeo on Thursday. Topics : Overall, the US has donated a total of $35.3 million to help ASEAN countries handling the pandemic, she said as quoted by kompas.com.Since COVID-19 started spreading to Southeast Asia in January, more than 33,000 people have been infected in the region, with 1,240 known fatalities in the affected countries.Read also: ASEAN leaders support COVID-19 response fundIndonesia recorded 7,775 COVID-19 cases as of Thursday, as the archipelago continued to lead with the highest death toll from the disease among ASEAN countries with 647 fatalities.The US, meanwhile, has recorded the largest number of positive COVID-19 cases in the world with more than 850,000 infections and more than 47,000 deaths.Retno went on to say that Pompeo was looking forward to increasing collaboration between ASEAN and the US, both in addressing the COVID-19 health crisis and the post-pandemic economic crisis. (aly) read more

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For all the Latest Sports News News, Cricket News News, Download News Nation Android and iOS Mobile Apps. Virat Kohli registered his 50th ODI fifty.Sachin Tendulkar has most fifties with 96.This was Kohli’s 89th 50+ score in ODIs. New Delhi: Virat Kohli has shown time and time again that he is one of the greatest batsman in ODIs thanks to the sheer amount of numbers and big scores that he has amassed in his 11-year playing career. His run-scoring capacity has prompted many analysts to state that he could become the leading run-getter in ODIs, surpassing Sachin Tendulkar’s mark of 18426 runs. The Indian skipper has always achieved some special milestones against Australia and in the second ODI at Nagpur, he secured yet another feather in his cap. Kohli nudged a back of a length delivery from Nathan Coulter-Nile to deep backward square leg and notched up his 50th half-century in ODIs to revive India after a poor start.Prior to the Nagpur ODI, Kohli was facing a situation called ‘nervous 40s’. In four out of five ODIs against Australia and New Zealand, Kohli was out in the 40s, managing scores of 46,45,43 and 44 in the previous ODI in Hyderabad. However, in this match at Nagpur, Kohli displayed his brilliance as he revived India following Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan’s cheap dismissals. highlights Kohli started off with a bang by hammering Coulter-Nile for two boundaries in the fourth over. After a great start, Kohli rotated the strike and continued to maintain a good rate of scoring. Despite losing wickets at regular intervals, Kohli found the boundary by steering a flatter delivery to the third man fence. The Indian skipper was given good company by Vijay Shankar and he grew in confidence, hammering Adam Zampa, the bowler who has dismissed him four times for two boundaries, one to deep square leg and another to deep extra cover. In the process, Kohli registered his 89th fifty-plus score in ODIs, in addition to 39 centuries. Sachin Tendulkar has the most with 145 scores of fifty-plus and it includes a world record 49 centuries and a massive 96 ODI fifties. Kohli became the 24th batsmen to hit 50+ fifties in ODIs.The Indian skipper will be aiming to build upon his score and register his 40th century as Kohl aims to shatter records in the coming games.  India are currently leading the five-match ODI series 1-0 after victory in Hyderabad. read more

Lucas Clark: There is no two ways about it, this weekend’s matchup between the No. 10 Oregon Ducks and the No. 5 USC Trojans will be the game of the year in the Pac-10 Conference. Both teams feature a talented and versatile offense, which is backed up by two outstanding defenses.I think we will have a pretty good idea of how the game unfolds by the end of the first few series, in that if the young Duck offensive line cannot create holes for the speedy Oregon running backs then first-year head coach Chip Kelly will have to turn to the passing game.It’s noisy again · Quarterback Matt Barkley will try to rebound from his two-interception performance last week against Oregon State. – Brandon Hui | Daily TrojanThe Ducks proved they could move the ball through the air against UW last weekend, but the USC secondary is much more talented.Josh Jovanelly: There is no doubt that Saturday’s game decides the Pac-10. Going into the season, most people circled this game thinking it would be exactly that, but after Oregon lost to Boise State in its first game, everybody seemed to write the Ducks off — much too early obviously.Oregon’s inexperienced offensive line is definitely the key as Clark said. USC has the size and the speed up front to stop the Duck rushing attack, but the Trojans have had difficulty in the past with the spread rushing offenses.A few weeks ago, I would have been more confident in USC’s secondary, but after Notre Dame and Oregon State racked up tons of passing yards against the Trojans, USC’s secondary may be more suspect than you think.LC: You’re right, Oregon was definitely written off too early, but after the performance in Boise, as well as the aftermath, it was probably deserved.But the one consistent unit throughout the entire season has been the Duck defense. As a unit it’s suffered more injuries than most teams go through in an entire season, yet it has still managed to allow only three touchdowns in four conference games and held one of the nation’s top running backs in Cal’s Jahvid Best to 52 yards rushing.Middle linebacker Casey Matthews is having a monster year up the middle and it should be an interesting matchup with him and some of the USC backs like Joe McKnight.JJ: Oregon’s defense has indeed been impressive, especially recently, but it did give up 36 to Purdue and 24 to Utah earlier in the year.USC’s offense has been clicking recently. Quarterback Matt Barkley seems to be hitting his stride and the coaching staff is more willing to let him stretch the field to receivers Damian Williams and Ronald Johnson. But Barkley has thrown too many interceptions, something the Ducks can take advantage of.The key to stopping USC is stopping the rush. Matthews will have his hands full with McKnight and running back Allen Bradford, who can provide the power that McKnight lacks. But if the Ducks can slow McKnight and Bradford and force Barkley into bad throws, things could get interesting.LC: I see Barkley as being the X-factor. I haven’t been completely sold on him so far this season, but his numbers and the fact that he is still only a freshman partially makes up for it. He leads the Pac-10 in passing yards per game with 256.7, but like Jovanelly said, he has had some trouble throwing interceptions.His efficiency rating of 148.7 is more than impressive, while Oregon quarterback Jeremiah Masoli has improved game by game. Granted, he has only thrown five touchdown passes, but his legs are what make him so dangerous at the position. His seven touchdowns on the ground leads the team and as redshirt freshman LaMichael James gets better so does the Duck offense as a whole.JJ: A lot of hype has surrounded Barkley and some of it has been a little over the top. He wasn’t putting up the numbers early on in the season, but his poise under pressure is what has set him apart. If ever a true freshman was ready to play in the hostile Autzen Stadium environment, Barkley is that guy, only because he played so calmly against raucous crowds at Ohio State and Notre Dame.But if Masoli gets going on the ground, USC could be in trouble. USC coach Pete Carroll’s defenses typically struggle against mobile quarterbacks. That’s why Jake Locker had so much success in Washington’s upset of the Trojans.Masoli looked good last week against Washington and was especially impressive against Cal. He will be the key for the Ducks. read more

The USC women’s tennis team hopes to bounce back after back-to-back losses from two tough Pac-10 foes, No. 5 California and No. 4 UCLA.Today the No. 12 Women of Troy (7-4) will take on the unranked Oregon Ducks in a conference match in Eugene, Ore.Oregon (5-7) enters the week after a pair of 4-3 losses to Purdue and Indiana, in addition to a 4-1 loss at Ohio State last week. Oregon has no nationally-ranked players or doubles team.USC is 13-0 all-time against the Ducks after a 7-0 win last season at Marks Stadium.USC features four singles players ranked in the top 100 of the most recent ITA poll, including the No. 3 overall player in the nation, junior Maria Sanchez. The junior is 8-1 for the season in duals at the top singles spot and is coming off a dominant 5-7, 6-3, 6-1 win over UCLA’s No. 5 ranked Yasmin Schnack on Wednesday.“No matter who our competition is, we always want to win,” Sanchez said. “We have to just go out there prepared for a tough match, and hopefully we can get some momentum going after our two recent losses.”USC will play its first Pac-10 match of the season today at 1:30 p.m. in Eugene, Ore. read more