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Like many birds, cuckoos eat insects, spiders, worms, and caterpillars. However, there are some caterpillars that absorb toxins from the plants they eat, becoming toxic themselves. Most birds have learned to avoid these critters, but not the cuckoo. They don't let something as trifling as deadly poison keep them from their tasty meal. They simply bite the caterpillar's head off, and then shake the body to expel the toxins before swallowing it down. Many of these caterpillars are covered with barbed hairs, but that's no problem for the cuckoo either. They periodically shed their stomach lining, embedded barbed hairs and all, and regurgitates it as a pellet.
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I still have snow shots from our little bit of snow - not remarkable but fun for those of us in the South who don't get a lot of snow!
Get out, explore and absorb nature!
A fiery sunset in Imperial Beach, California.
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I was only going to take a small bite...but before I know it, the whole piece was slowly absorbed into my mouth then my stomach.
Larry absorbs the evening news with Sally perched on his lap.
.....meanwhile, he's decided to see what happens if he tries to grow a beard.
This would have made more sense to me in motion...meaning video, getting the spiral spinning and clouds flying by...
Big thanks to Sky, not the regular "what to do" activity oon a sunday at 1am...
No award groups please
The use of this photo is allowed only with written authorization of Svante Oldenburg
Schiff saugt Sand auf,
Verteiler arbeiten sichtbar am Strand !
Ship absorbs sand,
Distributors work visibly on the beach!
schauen fotografieren zeigen und teilen !
Europe, Germany, Berlin, Mitte, Hamburger Bahnhof, People, Corridor (slightly cut from all sides)
Shot in the greenlit main corridor of the Hamburger Bahnhof, to me it's one of the most inspiring contemporary art museums of Western Europe.
The Hamburger Bahnhof was designed by in 1847 by Friedrich Neuhaus and Ferdinand Wilhelm Holz in classicist style as the terminus of the Berlin-Hamburger Bahn. It was in commission for only 37 years - it closed in 1884. The reason: the railway traffic to Hamburg was taken over by the neighbouring Lehrter Bahnhof. After that the Königliches Bau- und Verkehrsmuseum found a home in the former station. The building was extended between 1906 and1916 and was heavily damaged during WW2. Between the end of the war and the1991 Wende, the building stood empty. From 1987 –to 1992 it was used as a venue for different exhibitions. After a renovation/modernization/ extension (1992-1996) designed by Josef Paul Kleihues, it reopened as the Museum für Gegenwart.
This is number 6 of the Hamburger Bahnhof album and 86 of the Berlin album.
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40 years ago PacMan captured our imaginations. Today's games are infinitely more intricate and next level absorbing. Having gaming so available at any time has it's problems - I think something has been lost when you don't need to scrounge coins and walk to the shops to play.
and out of this profusion of dazzling light came the autumnal tints :-)
Henry David Thoreau, Oct. 12, 1852
beautyberry, j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, Raleigh, north carolina
I am dreaming of the sea and the peace in my mind while I hear the waves.
I imagine I gaze at the sky with the wind touching my face.
It's funny that today was a cold rainy day that felt like October and yet my mind was filled with blue.
Stay strong,stay positive and above all,be safe.
Manufacturer: Société des engrenages Citroën / Automobiles André Citroën SA, Paris - France
Type: B14 Torpédo 4 Places
Engine: 1583cc straight-4
Power: 22 bhp / 2.300 rpm
Speed: 80 km/h
Production time: 1926 - 1928
Production outlet: 119,467
Curb weight: 1030 kg
Special:
- The B14 represented at the October 1926 IAA Paris, as an entirely new model unrelated to its predecessors and fitted with a very lightweight chassis which was subsequently reinforced to make it more rigid.
- This car has a three-speed sliding manual non-synchromesh gearbox + reverse, shaft drive, a Solex sidedraft carburettor, a 25 liter fuel tank and rear wheel drive.
- The chassis with steel body has a 113 inch wheelbase, worm & roller steering, live front axle, single quarter elliptical leaf spring front suspension, twin quarter elliptical leaf spring with shock absorbers rear suspension, beam rear axle, steel disc wheels with 13x45 Michelin Superconfort tires and foot operated drum brakes all around.
- The B14 Series was available as this Torpédo 4 Places, as Conduite Interieure, as Coupé, as Coupé de Ville, as Landaulet, as Normande, as Taxi and as Cabriolet.
The great mystery of existence is that it veils God by what is none other than Him. As Ibn 'Arabi said, "Glory be unto Him who hides Himself by that which is none other than He." This truth is explicitly stated in the Quran, where it is mentioned, "He [God) is the First and the Last, and the Outward and the Inward and He knows infinitely all things" (57:3).
It is not difficult for a person of faith to understand that God is the Alpha and Omega of all reality, that all things come from Him and return to Him. As we know, Christ also spoke of himself as the alpha and the omega. It is also not difficult to understand that God is the Inward, the inner reality of all things. But how can God be the Outward?
This is the most difficult aspect of the relation between God and creation to understand. Once a fairly advanced Sufi went to a great master and told him that he could understand that God is the First and the Last as well as the Inward. But he asked the master, "How can God be the Outward?" The master put him in a spiritual retreat (khalwah) and told him to invoke the Divine Name Allah until this truth became manifested and clear to him. The disciple followed the instructions. After some two weeks in which he continuously invoked God's Supreme Name, suddenly the walls of the room in which he was holding the spiritual retreat began to invoke Allah and he heard the invocation all around him. As he wrote later, he then understood what it meant to assert that God is also the Outward. The moral of this story is that the in-depth understanding of the truth that God veils Himself by what is none other than God can come only from spiritual realization.
The Sufis also speak of creation not only as an act in the past but also as a continuous process. This is what is called the renewal of creation at every instant.
At every moment the universe is absorbed into the Principle and recreated. The relation of the world with God is therefore not based solely on a temporal event called creation "at the beginning." That "beginning" is also the ever-renewed present moment.
Although from one point of view creation is old, from another it is fresh and new. God's act of existentiation is ever present, and in fact existence is not so much a state as an act, as the existentiating command of God, "Be!" This doctrine is of great significance not only for cosmology but also for the spiritual life.
In the same way that each breath we take rejuvenates and makes possible the continuation of our life, the Divine Breath is renewed at every moment, making possible our and the cosmos's continuous existence in what appears to us as duration.
This duration is, however, nothing but the repetition of the "now" within which creation is renewed. In a deeper sense, every tree that we observe in the garden comes freshly from God's creative act.
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The Garden of Truth by Seyyed Hossein Nasr