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Although the bluebirds are happy to take the live mealworms I put out, they are both excellent hunters, skilled at bringing back these big larva to feed their babies.
God from eternity, decrees or permits all things that come to pass, and perpetually upholds, directs and governs all creatures and all events; yet so as not in any wise to be the author or approver of sin nor to destroy the free agency and responsibility of intelligent creatures
James Boyce
Mark Water, The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations (Alresford, Hampshire: John Hunt Publishers Ltd, 2000), 845.
I stopped by Abby's nest this past Monday and was happy to finally see that there were what I thought was 2 chicks .
At this young age they spend most of their time laying low, so I'd never get more than a glimpse of one popping up for a second or two before disappearing again.
On Tuesday I stopped back when I had more time to observe.
John showed back up with lunch, flew into the nest for a minute, and then took back off to sit on a pole and make sure the fish was no longer flapping, before bringing it back to the kids.
When I was checking the series of shots I took as he was flying off with the fish, this was the very last shot in the series....and the only one that revealed that there are actually not two, but THREE chicks!! Triplets! How cool!
"Password 32" of VRC-30 "Providers" NF-32 from NAS North Island practicing approaches at NAF El Centro
two juvenile bald eagles wait on the banks of a salmon stream for mom to bring home the catch of the day
Lackland AFB (TX), 28 January 1987.
54-0593 in its original camouflage and AFRes titles. The Provider is still preserved at Lackland AFB but has been resprayed in a glossy scheme.
I can't find much information about this airframe, except that it flew with 310th SOS at Phan Rang AB in Vietnam.
Lackland AFB is part of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC) and has an impressive collection of vintage aircraft.
Homelessness Mounting Among Kids, Families
Catherine Komp
January 29, 2007
Described as America’s "dirty little secret" by social-service providers, an estimated one million young people experience homelessness each year. Many are unaccompanied teenagers, sleeping in parks, abandoned buildings or "couch surfing" at friends’ houses. Others are younger children, often in the care of a single parent, who double-up in relatives’ homes or in crowded shelters. The even-less fortunate live in cars, tents and under freeway overpasses.
Children and families are the fastest growing segments of the homeless population, according to advocates, who say this serious social problem driven by poverty and a scarcity of affordable housing is not widely recognized by the public.
"The reason why this isn’t a priority for people is because people don’t see children on the streets. It’s not visible, it’s not shown," said Dr. Ralph Nunez, president of the New York-based Homes for the Homeless, a group providing housing, training and employment to homeless people.
Homelessness not only affects the present family unit, Nunez said, but will "have an impact on the next generation of these young children as they begin to age into this nomadic lifestyle."
Nunez joins hundreds of national and local advocates across the country trying to amplify public dialogue about child and family homelessness, while also providing much-needed services to this growing population. The problem has become so pervasive, Nunez predicts it will take decades to address.
‘Throw-Away Kids’ and ‘Runaways’
In and out of foster care, shelters and group homes since she was a toddler, Krystal Compagna was without stable housing for most of her life. Fleeing abusive parents with drug and alcohol addictions, she spent four years as a homeless teenager on the streets of Las Vegas.
During the day, Compagna went to school and to her job at the mall. At night, she stayed at friends’ houses until their parents got suspicious, and then resorted to sleeping on porches, her school’s bleachers, and even walking all night if there was nowhere else to go.
"At first I was scared, but you get used to it," Compagna, now 20, told The NewStandard. "Would you rather try to sneak back into your house and get your ass beat basically, or would you rather take your chances and hide out on the street and try to stay warm?"
According to a July 2006 report published by the Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth (NPHY) and local service providers, there are about 383 unaccompanied homeless people between ages 12 and 20 on any given day in the Las Vegas area.
Precise nationwide figures are harder to come by. The US Conference of Mayors, which releases an annual survey on hunger and homelessness, estimated that 2 percent of the homeless population in the 23 cities participating in 2006 were unaccompanied youth. The US Conference of Mayors represents leaders of cities with 30,000 people or more.
Researchers who study homelessness emphasize the difficulty of documenting any homeless population with precision. Limitations include the difficulty of locating people with no permanent address and different definitions of homelessness. Some federal agencies, for example, do not count people who are living temporarily in hotels or with family or friends. Many researchers say their studies, while generating valuable information for service providers and government, are likely an under-representation of the problem.
Compagna, who now works at the NPHY and rents her own apartment, was a so-called "throw-away kid" – a term used by service providers and the federal government to describe young people abandoned or pushed out of the home by their parents. The federal government does not produce an independent count of such people, but rather combines that population with runaways. According to the most recent federal statistics, in 1999 there were an estimated 1.68 million in the overall category.
Groups that work with this population say some end up on the streets to escape physical, emotional or sexual abuse. Others might be asked to leave home by an impoverished family to reduce the strain on younger children.
Another contributing factor to child homelessness is homophobia in the family. According to data gathered by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute, a sizable portion of homeless young people identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT). Homeless LGBT youth often face additional hardship – discrimination in the shelter system, in group homes and in foster care, according to the report.
Once on the street, young people of all sexual orientations face challenges beyond finding enough to eat and a place to sleep. NPHY’s director of community relations, Larry Lovelett, said they contend with police, thieves and sexual predators.
Lovelett, who has done extensive street outreach and mentoring of homeless young people, said some turn to "survival sex" to pay for food or a room for the night. Lovelett said his organization is hearing more stories from homeless youth who say they have been targeted by people working in illegal pornography.
"Cut and dry, they’re just being exploited," said Lovelett. "It’s something that we need to address and really go after it aggressively."
Homeless Families
Last year, Richmond, Virginia resident Crystal Bowman decided to move with two of her children into a shelter rather than continue staying in a house without heat. She said her landlord only provided a wood stove and a kerosene heater, which was insufficient to heat the entire house. When the "ice cold" house became unbearable, and she and her son got sick, Bowman went to a Salvation Army facility where they slept in a large room with about 45 others.
"It was a big adjustment, and it was hard, too," said Bowman, a single mother of eight who had struggled with drug addiction for two decades before committing to sobriety in 2004.
"[I had] low esteem; I was sad," Bowman said of her time in the shelter, adding that it was difficult for both her and her children to adjust to the new environment, rules and isolation from family and friends.
The family spent seven months in two different shelters before Bowman won a coveted spot in a transitional-housing program. She currently works at H&R Block and will find out in March if she will regain custody of two of her other children, and she thanks the shelter workers for helping her get this far.
Researchers studying homeless families across the country find that Bowman’s experiences are common. In 1999, the Institute for Children and Poverty, which is affiliated with Homes for the Homeless, surveyed 2,000 homeless families in cities across the country, from Los Angeles to Baltimore. The report found that single mothers headed the overwhelming majority of the homeless families, most raising two or more children. More than three-quarters were children of color, and more than half were in grades one through six.
The detailed survey looked at numerous layers of homelessness including conditions in shelters, the physical and emotional health of homeless children, and the impact of homelessness on education. Life on the streets and in shelters played a large role in contributing to children’s illnesses, according to the report, which found that homeless children suffered more asthma and gastrointestinal disorders and were more likely to be hospitalized.
Homeless children are also prone to developmental delays, interruptions in their schooling and low test scores, and often have to repeat grades, the researchers found.
Barbara Duffield, policy director for the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth, said the ongoing psychological trauma associated with being homeless often has a heavy impact on children.
"Most of them are living in extreme poverty," said Duffield, "But that poverty is exacerbated by a lot of loss – loss of housing, loss of neighborhood, loss of friends, family, possessions."
The US Department of Education definition of homeless families includes those that are doubling up temporarily or living in motels.
Mary Herrington, who works with hundreds of homeless families in the Richmond-area public school system, said many parents do not realize that their children are entitled to certain benefits under the 1986 federal McKinney Vento Homeless Assistance Act. That law requires schools to provide homeless children with free transportation to school and with free lunch. It also gives them the right to stay in the same school regardless of where the family is staying, requires states to eliminate barriers to school enrollment, and prohibits the segregation of homeless children in most districts.
Despite the Education Department’s broad definition of homelessness, Herrington told TNS that there are "hundreds of kids out there that we just aren’t able to track."
"Most of the time, the parents themselves – unless they are aware of what we’re defining as homelessness – don’t even define themselves as homeless," said Herrington. "They’ll go, ‘We’re not homeless, we’re living with my cousin. We’re living with my nephew or my son.’"
Families often hide "doubling up" in public housing because government restrictions prohibit more than one family per unit in most cases. If housing authorities find out, said Herrington, both families could end up homeless.
Herrington said the more than 1,000 homeless families she and her co-workers have documented in the Richmond-area is only "the tip of the iceberg."
According to a 23-city survey released in December by the US Conference of Mayors, requests for shelter by homeless families increased 5 percent in 2006. But even the temporary refuge of shelters is unavailable to many; the survey found more than one-quarter of families’ requests for emergency shelter were unmet in 2006.
N710CF - G-1159A Gulfstream III - Calspan Aerospace Corp.
at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)
with add. sticker "Calspan Airborne Testbed" and some visible modifications
c/n 448 - built in 1984 - operated by Calspan since 2011
Not many Gulfstream's with the original RR Spey-engines still active.
Calspan is an independent provider of testing and technology development services, solutions, and systems in the aerospace, defense, and automotive industries based at Buffalo, NY/ Niagara Falls Intl Airport (KIAG)
Taken back in September of 2000, here's "Scotia Provider" part way through a hull repainting. We had visited the tidal power station at the causeway and were heading down toward the "French Shore" when we noticed activity at the haul out in Annapolis Royal. The lighting was very good, the setting sun being just about ready to slip below the long ridge of North Mountain.
"Scotia Provider", a carvel-planked wooden fishing vessel, was built at the A.F.Theriault & Son yard in Meteghan River, Nova Scotia in 1979. She was a bit over 18 meters in length powered by a 520 single prop diesel engine. Although a vessel having the same name sank 150 miles off Cape Cod on July 20, 2015 (crew rescued with no losses), a recent directory of fishing vessels shows "Scotia Provider" still "active", so the lost vessel might have been a different one with the same name.
The original Ektachrome 100 slide image was taken with a Nikon F3HP, Vivitar 90-180mm Series 1 lens. The slide was copied using a Nikon D3500 camera, 55mm f/3.5 Micro Nikkor lens fitted with a Nikon 4T closeup lens, with a Soligor 1.6x achromatic closeup lens on the 4T. Lighting was provided by a 5000K LED bulb in a desk lamp.
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Three Fairchild Providers photographed in Thailand last month C123B LA4-6/05 555 in the RTAF Museum in Bangkok, C123K's on the road to U-tapao L4k-10/18 698 in promotional livery at the CAT excavator facility and L4k-8/16 289 looking very smart as a coffee bar "Coffee 123" at a Caltex garage.
Preparing for a show in February 2008. this will be one of my paintings. About a 16x20 on felt board done with pastel chalk.
Docked at Pittenweem, Fife, Kircaldy registered trawlers KY19 'Provider' and KY360 'St Adrian'.
KY198 'Just Reward' is seen in the background here.
Lakeshore Park, Newark, CA. The parent provided each chick with its own fish. One chick managed to swallow the fish after a bit of juggling. The other chick ultimately regurgitated the fish (seen here), at which point the parent ate it, perhaps to feed back to the chick at a later time.
The Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
Day three was a charm....for the last three days Connie and I have been watching this Osprey nest, hoping to get a decent shot of the male bringing home the sushi. Finally, with good light and perfect weather I managed to get the shot I wanted. There are three young in the nest and would imagine within a couple of weeks they will fledge.
Photo taken at the River Bend Park near Jupiter, Florida: May 10, 2011
Stopped by my healthcare provider to get my TB test read...they were having an on-site Farmer's Market, so I picked a basket of Red Meds!
*The Goodness of the strawberries provide the health care
Stay Healthy & Thrive!
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Rohöltanker (Crude Oil Tanker)
Aufnahme: 2020-03-12
Baujahr: 2011 | DWT: 74548t | Breite: 32m
First time I'd seen Ocean Provider in Burghead, think it's a fairly new boat to the Wick register but usually fishes out of Helmsdale across the firth. It was previously registered as LN4, Kings Lynn, but operated out of the Tyne. Don't know where it was built or who by.
A United States Navy C-2 Greyhound from the VRC-30 Provider's performs a low pass at the El Centro 2015 airshow.
And now a few extra photos to round us out for tonight... first, some news that isn't really retail-related at all (barring the Horn Lake Target photo I pulled from my archives to throw up here with it) but that is exciting for me nonetheless: DeSoto County is finally rolling out curbside recycling services for its unincorporated residents!! Here's an article on that from the DeSoto Times-Tribune; that piece mentions that securing the contract took “'hours and hours,'” but getting recycling for the county has really been something the local officials have been going after for years upon years now (full disclosure: I am a resident of the unincorporated county). Sounds like we'll be switching providers – again – to make this a reality, but I'm just glad this has finally come to fruition. I've been waiting for this for a long time. (I even briefly considered trying to figure out how to work with the appropriate government peoples to get this done for my honors college volunteer hours, that's how much I've been eagerly awaiting this outcome.) The cities of Hernando, Southaven, Olive Branch, and Horn Lake all offer curbside recycling alongside regular trash pickup for all of their residents; only unincorporated DeSoto County has never gotten this treatment – until now! Additionally, this move also makes DeSoto County the first county in all of Mississippi to offer curbside recycling services to 100% of its residents.
I forget how I got into recycling in the first place, but for years now I've been trying to have us diligently recycle things as best we can without the benefit of curbside pickup, including taking newspapers to the bin behind the high school, plastic bags to Walmart, and bottles and cans (plastic, glass, and aluminum), to Target (as I mentioned at this photo, which would've been a much better background for this description had I not already uploaded it, lol). Seriously – we're a pretty regular sight strolling into Target with our three or four plastic bags' worth of recyclables XD And happy as I am to be able to help the environment by taking all that stuff in to Target and recycling it, it will be considerably more convenient just to store all of our recyclables in one bin at home and take them to the curb each week: so thanks again, DeSoto County!
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These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
Fairchild C-123K Provider N22968 Thunder Pig USAF 54-0664 AH 664
Photo taken at EAA Airventure Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin USA July 2023
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Ocean Provider in Burghead this morning. This one usually fishes out of Helmsdale across the other side of the Moray Firth so it was nice to see even if it was raining.
In honor of Father's Day ... to all of the dads out there ... I wanted to highlight one o the many "providers" out there in the natural world.
So here's an image of a mature great horned owl, I believe to be the male of a mated pair, with 2 babies. Like our own dads, they are providers for their young, not only provider food for them to eat and grow up, but also for protection and teaching of skills that will help in the survival of their young. These dads are ever vigilent and help out with the mom as she raises her young as well.
Many say that the great horned owls represent wisdom (right? the "wise old owl"). I know that my own dad was both provider and teacher to me ... and I miss him dearly. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't feel his presence. I'm sure on this day, many of you can relate.
To all of the dads out there, whether it be of a biological nature or a role they willingly accepted along the way ... whether to our own babies or our fur-babies or feathered babies or whatever ... Thanks for all that you do. :-)
Happy Father's Day! Thanks for stopping by to view.
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