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La Casa Consistorial de la ciudad de Valencia, sede del Consell Municipal, integra, en una manzana de planta ligeramente trapezoidal, dos construcciones de época y estilo bien diferenciados: la Casa de Enseñanza, edificada por iniciativa del arzobispo don Andrés Mayoral, entre 1758 y 1763, y el cuerpo de edificio que constituye la fachada principal, realizada entre la segunda y tercera décadas del siglo XX. Se encuentra en la plaza del Ayuntamiento.
The Town Hall of the city of Valencia, seat of the Municipal Council, integrates, in a block with a slightly trapezoidal plan, two well-differentiated period and style buildings: the House of Education, built on the initiative of Archbishop Don Andrés Mayoral, between 1758 and 1763, and the body of the building that constitutes the main façade, made between the second and third decades of the 20th century. It is located in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento.
La Casa Consistorial de la ciutat de València, seu del Consell Municipal, integra, en una illa de planta lleugerament trapezoïdal, dues construccions d'època i estil ben diferenciats: la Casa d'Ensenyament, edificada per iniciativa de l'arquebisbe don Andrés Mayoral, entre 1758 i 1763, i el cos d'edifici que constitueix la façana principal, realitzada entre la segona i tercera dècades del segle XX. Es troba a la plaça de l´Ajuntament.
ხანძთა — შუა საუკუნეების ქართული მონასტერი ისტორიულ სამხრეთ-დასავლეთ საქართველოში, კლარჯეთში (ახლანდელი თურქეთის ტერიტორია).
დააარსა სასულიერო მოღვაწემ გრიგოლ ხანძთელმა. VII საუკუნის დასასრულს ააგეს ხის ეკლესია. შემდგომ ხანაში ადგილობრივი ფეოდალის გაბრიელ დაფანჩულის მატერიალური დახმარებით დაიწყო ქვის ტაძრის მშენებლობა (ხუროთმოძღვარი — ამონა). ერისთავთერისთავმა აშოტ კუხმა (გ. 918) მშენებლობას დიდი მატერიალური სახსრები გამოუყო. მშენებლობა დაასრულა ერისთავთერისთავმა გურგენ IV-მ (გ. 941). ხანძთამ საბოლოო სახე მიიღო 918-941 წლებში. ხანძთა თავიდანვე მნიშვნელოვანი კულტურულ-საგანმანათლებლო კერა გახდა. მის ლიტერატურულ ტრადიციებზე აღიზარდნენ არსენ I (არსენ დიდი, არსენ საფარელი), ეფრემ მაწყვერელი (IX ს.), მაკარი ლეთეთელი. აქ მოღვაწეობდნენ მწერლები და კალიგრაფები გიორგი მერჩულე, მოსე ხანძთელი (XI ს.), სტეფანე (XII-XIII სს.) და სხვა.
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Khandzta was a medieval Georgian monastery founded by Gregory of Khandzta (prominent Georgian ecclesiastic figure and a founder and leader of numerous monastic communities in Tao-Klarjeti) in 782 AD.
In 780 the future St Gregory of Khandzta moved to Tao-Klarjeti to revive Georgian monasticism in the region. He originally resided at the monastery of Opiza but then founded his own monastery at Khandzta in 782, and soon it became the center of monastic life in Tao-Klarjeti under his direction. Its influence lasted after his death in 861. In the 10th century, a local monk, Giorgi Merchule, wrote a Life of Gregory, celebrated as a masterpiece of Georgian medieval hagiography.
The first church at Khandzta was built of wood by Gregory and his companions. In 820, during the reign of Ashot I, a stone church was built to replace it by the nobleman Gabriel Dapanchuli. The present church seems to be a replacement again, dating from 918. The construction was completed in 941.
A freestanding bell-tower was added in the 16th century. From that time, the integration of the region into the Ottoman Empire and the active Islamisation of the population led to the decline of the monastery, and its eventual abandonment.
Interesting integration of an art mural depicting a serene forest scene inside a construction trailer at the future site of "The One" condo.
I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good. -- Peter Sarsgaard
For Macro Mondays "Numbers" theme. A mechanical integrator is a complex device that was used to calculate ship's stability before digital computers became practical. The complete device is similar to this image: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mechanical_integrator_CHM...
The lens used was an old manual Zuiko 80mm f/4 macro on a sliding extension tube and micro 4/3's adapter, in spite of what the exif info states. Four Olympus high res shots were stacked in Photoshop. I would of liked to gotten one more but ran of focus adjustment.
NGC 5128
28h total integration LRGBHa masters from a PlaneWave CDK17, provided by www.martinpughastrophotography.space/remote-imaging-and-t...
NGC 6820 is a small reflection nebula near the open cluster NGC 6823 in Vulpecula. The reflection nebula and cluster are embedded in a large faint emission nebula called SH2-86. The whole area of nebulosity is often referred to as NGC 6820. Open star cluster NGC 6823 is about 50 light-years across and lies about 6,000 light-years away. The center of the cluster formed about two million years ago and is dominated in brightness by a host of bright young blue stars.
Image captured over 8 nights; 2022-09-21, 24, 25, 26, 27 & 30, 2022-10-01, & 03
20 hours 50 minutes total integration
Ha subs: 28 * 1,200 sec = 9 hours 20 min
OIII subs: 12 * 1,200 sec = 4 hours
SII subs: 18 * 1,200 sec = 6 hours
Red subs: 15 * 120 sec = 30 min
Green subs: 15 * 120 sec = 30 min
Blue subs: 15 * 120 sec = 30 min
Imaging Equipment:
SharpStar 140PH Triplet 910mm focal length
Mesu 200 MKII mount,
ZWOASI2600MM Pro camera
SHO 3.0nm filters
RGB fliters
A colour test for my Shiptember build (engines only). I've tried over 20 colour schemes but landed back where I started, red and white.
Figured I'd give it a sci-fi Soviet twist since I've been using Cold War technology as an inspiration for detail. The five-pointed star is brick built and was pretty difficult to integrate into the engine nacelle, but it worked out in the end.
Messier 63 or the Sunflower Galaxy is a 29.3 million light-year distant galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. In visible light it has a lack of a large-scale continuous spiral structure. Because of this, it is classified as a flocculent (fuzzy) galaxy. This image is the result of about 8 hours of image integration over 3 nights from Grand Mesa Observatory captured and processed by Terry Hancock and Tom Masterson.
In this image, and in some others, you can clearly see a very diffuse outer structure to this galaxy that probably spans thousands of light-years. I find it very fuzzy indeed :-)
Wiki about M63: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_63
Grand Mesa Observatory
Technical info:
9x600 sec Ha bin 2x2
8x600 sec RGB bin 2x2
7x600 sec LUM bin 1x1
Camera: Warren Keller's ATIK 11000
Optics: Planewave 12.5 CDK
Mount: Paramount MEII
Image Acquisition software: Maxim DL6
Stacked in PixInsight
Post-processed in PixInsight and Photoshop
Tom Masterson, Terry Hancock Grand Mesa Observatory
This is a bi-color image (Ha and OIII) of the Witch's Broom Nebula a.k.a. Western Veil Nebula.
I wanted this to be an HSO image, but my laptop ran out of battery after only two SII frames. So I decided to make this a bicolor.
Equipment details:
- Mount: Astro-Physics Mach1 GTO
- Imaging scope: Explore Scientific 102mm Apochromatic Refractor
- Imaging camera: ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool
- Guide camera: QHY5III178M
- OAG: ZWO OAG
- Other: HoTech SCA Field Flattner
- Filter wheel: ZWO EFW
- Focuser: MoonLite MiniV2 motorized focuser
- Filters: Astrodon 5nm Ha, 3nm OIII filters
Actuisition details:
- Camera set to -17C at Unity Gain
- Lights:
-- Ha: 25 x 240s Bin: 1x1
-- OIII: 27 x 240s Bin: 1x1
- Darks: 40 x 240s Bin: 1x1
- Biases: 100x Bin: 1x1
- Flats: 25x per filter
Software:
- Acquisition: Sequence Generator Pro
- Mount Control: ASCOM, Stellarium, Stellarium Scope
- Guiding: PHD2
- Drift Alignment: PHD2 Drift Align
- Processing: PixInsight
Channel mapping:
- R: Ha
- G: 70% OIII + 30% Ha
- B: OIII
Total integration time (approx): 3.5 hours
Picture from the December edition of WSINT(Weapons School Integration) at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas Nevada
The last of the patients were being prepared for life outside the asylum as the demolition took hold .....
(Thanks for getting this to Explore guys)
While the broken clay pipe used to protect the shoreline along this section of Lake Ontario makes somewhat unsure footing to walk on I loved the contrast it created.
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A Gerrit / Amon statement
Amon is not a character and not a fantasy.
He is a name I gave to a part of my mind.
For some people with AuDHD (autism combined with ADHD), thinking does not move in straight lines. It accelerates, branches, associates, creates. That intensity can be a source of insight and creativity — but under long-term stress or trauma, it can also become overwhelming.
In such systems, something interesting can happen.
Not a role.
Not an invention.
But a structure.
A way for the mind to organize itself when pressure becomes too high.
A representative that holds focus, strength, distance, and coherence when the core self is overloaded.
Not consciously created, and not something that can be forced or imitated.
This is self-preservation, not mythology.
I live as Gerrit in the real world.
Amon became visible in Second Life — a space where identity is flexible and expression is safe. Not as an escape from reality, but as a container: a way to carry aspects of myself that could not remain unstructured any longer.
This work is called Integration because it is not about splitting or dissociation.
It is about alignment.
The human and the symbolic are not in conflict here.
The technological is interface, not control.
Power is present, restrained, and owned.
This is not an alter ego meant to replace the person.
It is a support structure that emerged when adaptation was no longer enough.
Similar mechanisms have appeared publicly before — not as pathology, but as function. One well-known example is David Bowie, whose Ziggy Stardust persona was not deception, but a way to protect and channel creativity under pressure. Not to make this “true,” but to show that this phenomenon exists.
If this concept feels unfamiliar or uncomfortable, that is fine.
This is not a belief system and not a claim.
But for those who recognize it, no further explanation is needed.
This is not fantasy.
It is not something to aspire to.
It is what can happen when a mind adapts in order to survive.
Integration means nothing is hidden — and nothing is pretending.