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Managed to let them go for 2 weeks and had nails close to the tips of my fingers. But then relapsed into a manic & stressed nail biting frenzy.
Girl biting on a pencil.
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Taken in Feb 2011, this photo is of Ciara biting her nails, not sure whether shes contemplating or simply getting annoyed at me taking lots of photos of her.
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St Martin’s Church in Zillis, Canton Graubünden, CH
The earliest preserved, figuratively painted wooden ceiling in Europe can be seen above the nave of St Martin's Church in Zillis. Today only three other painted ceilings from the Middle Ages remain: they are located in Hildesheim (St Michael's), in Peterborough Cathedral and in Dadesjo (Sweden). The Swedish church in Sodra Rada was destroyed by fire in 2001.
The ceiling paintings in Zillis demonstrate such a rich variety of form and contents as is only found in great works of art.
And so today the ceiling serves to illustrate the Gospel, Sunday for Sunday, from spring to autumn. In winter the parishioners do without heating in the church for the sake of the paintings and hold their services in the parish hall. Only funeral services and the school Christmas celebrations on Christmas Eve take place in the moderately heated church during the cold season.
St Martin's Church is situated below the historic centre of Zillis. At first, the church possibly stood directly above the wide bed of the Hinterrhein River. Zillis is one of the two settlements nestling at the bottom of the Schams Valley (Romansh: Val Schons), an inner-Alpine valley basin, through which a route has traversed the Alps at least since the Roman era. It used to link Bregenz with Milan, Lake Constance with Lakes Como and Maggiore. The Schams is the secondhighest section of the Hinterrhein Valley. It lies directly south of the Viamala Gorge, which on the northern side of the Alpine ridge represented the main obstacle on the route from Chur over the Splugen Pass to Chiavenna, resp. over the San Bernardino Pass to Bellinzona and Locarno. Throughout all the centuries Zillis occupied a very peripheral position on the inner border of the Alps, but was always on a route connecting the major settlements flanking the Alpine ridge.
THE PAINTED CEILING
THE CONCEPT OF THE PAINTED CEILING
The Zillis ceiling comprises 153 painted panels. They are slotted into longitudinal battens, which until 1938 were attached to the ceiling beams by long nails. Cross-battens are inserted between the painted panels as a connecting link, forming a regular grid. Doubled longitudinal and cross-battens accentuate the junctions of the grid, creating the shape of the cross.
The ceiling is enhanced by a meander frieze which was created at the same time; the greater part of the frieze was restored in 1938-1940. In the frieze we see female busts, representing the Classical sybils, whose prophesies were taken fro(ll late Antiquity onwards as a reference to the Advent of Christ.
The 153 panels are arranged as on a medieval map of the world. There is a border representing the ocean surrounding the Continent, on which the Life of Christ and the legend of St Martin are portrayed.
The border
At the edges of the ceiling, resp. on the borders of the world, swim mythical fish-tailed creatures; there are even some manned boats and music-making sirens on a continuous band of wavy lines, which represent the sea in a simplified and abstract form. Only the angels sounding their horns in the corners, marked as the south wind Auster and the north wind Aquilo, stand on firm land.
The inner cycle
On the interior fields, i.e. the Continent, the Life of Christ is depicted on 98 panels. One half describes Christ's childhood and youth, the other half recounts his miracles, his teaching and Passion. The individual scenes frequently continue over several successive panels. Each half has seven rows with seven panels. The last row of the interior panels is dedicated to the church patron St Martin.
The choir is the best place from which to view the first half of the cycle portraying the Life of Christ. Since the 1940 rearrangement the visitor has been able to «read» the pictures like a text from this vantage point, in rows running from left to right. The cycle begins with a gallery of Christ's ancestors, the Kings of the Old Testament, and the personifications of Synagogue and Ecclesia. The story of Christ's Life begins with the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin, followed by Joseph's Dream, the Visitation and the four panels on the Nativity.
15 panels describe the Journey of the Three Magi. This is followed by the Purification and the the Presentation of the Infant Jesus in the Temple, the Flight into Egypt and the Massacre of the Innocents in Bethlehem, the Miracle of the Clay Pigeons, the 72-year-old Jesus in the Temple and the Sermons of St John the Baptist.
The second part of the Christological cycle begins with the Baptism of Christ and the Temptation by the Devil. These are followed by cases of miraculous Healings: in addition to the Wedding Feast in Cana and the Raising of Lazarus, we see the Healing of physically and mentally sick persons. The mentally disturbed were considered to be possessed by demons. After the miracles follow the Teachings of Jesus, the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor, the Entry into Jerusalem and the Expulsion of the Moneychangers from the Temple, the Last Supper, the MOunt of Olives, the Betrayal by Judas, Christ before Pilate, the Mocking of Christ and the Crowning with Thorns.
The cycle then breaks off. There is no consensus among researchers on whether this was, in fact, the original end of the cycle or if the Crucifixion and the Rising from the Dead were formerly depicted on the north wall of the nave or in the former Romanesque choir.
The last seven panels of the interior fields describe episodes from the life of St Martin, commencing with the Sharing of the Cloak, probably the best-known element of the legend. This is followed by the Consecration and the Miracle of the Raising from the Dead. The conclusion comprises three panels on St Martin's Encounter with a King who pretended to be Jesus but turned out to be the Devil.
As mentioned above, the panels were rearranged on the ceiling in 1940, the 1938 sequence having been described by experts as «absurd» und «unsystematic». An attempt to reconstruct the original order, based on the sequence of the pictures before 1938, gives the following results: the panels were arranged to be read by following the rows in an S-shaped order. In the centre of the ceiling there was the depiction of Christ's Baptism; in front of this, the scenes with St John the Baptist; behind, the four panels on the Temptation of Christ by the Devil.
During the Reformation the sequence of the panels was probably altered. In the cycle depicting the Life of St Martin, the consecration scene was removed from the central axis. The sermons of St John the Baptist and the Temptation of Christ by the Devil disappeared from the central row and were replaced by the cases of miraculous healing and depictions of Christ's teachings. From the 16th century until 1938 the Expulsion of the Moneychangers from the Temple, as a symbol of one of the Reformation's main tenets, was set in the centre of the ceiling replacing Christ's Baptism.
My friend wanted to move -- the mosquitoes were biting -- but I told him he'd just have to tough it out.
Nikon D5100 -- Nikon 18-55mm
26mm
F16@1/30th
I had to retouch the security light and the house out of the shoreline.
(DSC_9390 copy)
© Don Brown 2013
Bonus, biting bit...
Soo.. When I was taking a nice shot (my prvious post) of the River Avon at Stratford-upon-Avon, I felt my foot being attacked by this wayward fellow! - I think he just wanted my attention ( and probably food! )
#swan #bite# foot #travel #stratforduponavon #avon
this is to serve as a reminder for me to stop biting them. and when they eventually grow again, i'll look back and be shocked.
p.s. please leave comments.
Lesson learned. Don't stand in the Colorado River in Austin Texas hoping to see the bats take off from under the bridge.
القاتل فى لندن - مظاهرة ضد زيارة سيسي
But in Egypt it would be no laughing matter. Egypt's rulers are rarely allowed to be called into ridicule especially if they also head the military.
During 2012 and early 2013 Egyptian comic Bassem Youssef was widely acclaimed for his biting satirical humour at the expensve of the then Muslim Brotherhood president Mohammed Morsi.
However after Morsi was toppled in what some claim was a coup and others argue was a popular uprising, Bassem assumed he could continue to satirize Egypt's new rulers including the most powerful man in the country - General Abdel Fattah-El Sisi but he was immediately denounced in the media as a traitor and a foreign agent.
Now in Egypt if you want to retain your job and keep out of prison you must praise the president. and the climate of fear ,in which no one dares speak, becomes worse day by day.
But why a depiction of Sisi as Mickey Mouse ? Because just the previous month an Egyptian Facebook user, Amr Nohan, had been sentenced to three years in prison for photoshopping a picture of Sisi and adding the mickey mouse ears.
The idea and design of the placard used in the demonstration was a British woman's who was also among the protesters.
But unfortunately repression in Egypt is much much wider than arrests for trying to poke fun at your president.
Sisi's regime has been responsible for the death of hundreds of protesters on the streets, hundreds of disappearances and death sentences, a clampdown on the press and media, trade unions and universities and allowing key Mubarak figures to return to politics and big business.
After disbanding parliament, Sisi's regime decreed that the government could delegate business and construction projects to the military without any tender process and subsequently the Egyptian army has been awarded contracts worth billions of dollars.
Meanwhile anyone who speaks out, whether Islamist or secular, is at risk of arrest or being "disappeared" and currently it is estimated that the country has approximately 40,000 political prisoners.
This is what Human RIghts Watch conclude in their latest country report -
"Egypt’s human rights crisis, the most serious in the country’s modern history, continued unabated throughout 2014. The government consolidated control through constriction of basic freedoms and a stifling campaign of arrests targeting political opponents. Former Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who took office in June, has overseen a reversal of the human rights gains that followed the 2011 uprising. Security forces and an increasingly politicized judiciary—apparently unnerved by rising armed group attacks—invoked national security to muzzle nearly all dissent."
Find out more
About Amr Nohan and his 3 year sentence for attaching "Mickey Mouse" ears to a Sisi photo -
advox.globalvoices.org/2015/10/14/egyptian-facebook-user-...
About Human Rights in Egypt .
www.amnesty.org/en/countries/middle-east-and-north-africa...
www.hrw.org/world-report/2015/country-chapters/egypt
How to help/Join a campaign -
I watched this Wasp Spider wrap a Soldier beetle with silk before biting it and injecting it with a paralysing venom. As soon as the beetle was stuck in the silky strands of the web, the spider moved with lightning speed. The strands of silk emerging from the spider can clearly be seen. After wrapping the beetle into a cacoon , it suspended it onto a long silk strand at the base of the Webb. The Thistledown, which had been caught in the webb ,was later removed by the spider. These Spiders are quite spectacular creatures.
Lone fisherman on the lake.
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For better or worse, phones are replacing tablets and desktop monitors. In the "Dog days" of Christmas (extra days when routines are disrupted and little happens) I have combined ideas.
Stamp sets became for a time collectors items and more recently a way of celebrating local flora and fauna. No more. Denmark has ceased delivering hard copy mail. The rest of us will follow in time. I have revived the celebration of my local fauna for myself with a dead art: stamps. The second theme is based on Rutherford's quip - "There are two Sciences: Physics and Stamp-collecting." This is stamp-collecting. Sets of things for enjoyment, not for pins on boards, not for description, and not so much for naming. Selections made for what I see as a pleasing array. I can identify to genus and occasionally species but these are stamps, uncluttered for the moment by Latin tags. I am using them as my Phone Lockscreen wallpapers, recalling where and when the images were taken, most within 50 meters of the house.
Forcipomyia sp. (TBC)
Subfamily: Forcipomyiinae
Family Ceratopogonidae
Order: Diptera
According to the Australian Faunal Directory, there are 21 described Australian species in the genus Forcipomyia and there are at over 1100 described species globally. The real number of species is likely to be considerably higher.
The genus of Forcipomyia are blood feeders and the subgenus Lasiohelea suck vertebrate blood. Some species are ectoparasites of other insects. Other species in the genus are essential pollinators of the cacao tree (Theobroma cacao). Members of this genus also pollinate a number of other plants, for example, rubber, avocado, mango, celery, elderberry.
The family are known in Australia just as midges and quite commonly as the "little bastards". However, despite the annoyance they cause at barbeques, they are relatively harmless and are not known as vectors of human disease in Australia. In the Americas, they spread Oropouche virus (Central/South America) and Mansonella ozzardi (a filarial parasite). They are known to transmit several viruses, parasites, and nematodes in livestock and other animals. These infections of livestock can be serious and include bluetongue virus and Epizootic hemorrhagic virus.
Males antennae typically have long hair, while females have short hair. This individual appears to be a female, though it seems to have lost one of its antennae. It is very small with a body length of about 1.3mm.
Typically, females deposit their eggs in manure, damp soil and decaying vegetation where the larvae feed on microorganisms. The larvae of this genus are notable for having secretory setae that exude a sticky liquid. This liquid appears to be hygroscopic and helps the larvae maintain a moist environment around it. The secretions also have antibacterial properties and may have repellent qualities to deter ants.
This particular individual was found in our house and was attracted to the light of a computer monitor.
2026-04-04-12.35.42 ZS PMax Cropped
Driving, biting sleet and a cyclist just getting on with it.
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Spring has really arrived in China. Flowers are blossoming everywhere, and this is a great time for photography.
I recently discovered Weinan has a photography club, I joined up and today was the first time going along to shoot with fellow members. It was good fun, and I got some good shots.
More from this shoot soon.
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