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Shapley, Elizabeth C.

May 8, 1937 — February 18, 2016

Elizabeth Cecile Shapley was born in San Antonio, Texas, on May 8, 1937 to Walter E. and Violet (Smith) Eckermann. She graduated from Edison High School (1955) and Howard Payne University (1959). She began her teaching career in Midland, Texas, where she met Robert Allen Shapley. They married on June 18, 1960, living in Midland and Corpus Christi before relocating to Houston, their home for over fifty years.

Bob and Betty were married for 55 years and have 3 children and 8 grandchildren. Together with Bob, Betty attended and was very active at Tallowood Baptist Church, where they loved serving together in numerous ministries at Tallowood, including mission trips to Mexico, Panama, Guatemala and Alaska. She was a dedicated and gifted teacher who invested in the lives of her students. Her love of reading and storytelling led her to pursue her M.S. in Library Science in 1992 and she finished her career as a librarian in Aldine ISD.

Betty was a devoted daughter and sister, a faithful and loving wife, a cherished mother and grandmother, and a loyal friend whose life was guided by her faith in her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Betty is survived by her husband Bob, daughter and son-in-law, Patricia and James De La Cruz, son and daughter-in-law, Rob and Laird Shapley, and daughter and son-in-law Alicia and Allen Williams, and grandchildren Nathan De La Cruz, Andrew De La Cruz, Jacob De La Cruz, David De La Cruz, Caleb De La Cruz, Abby Williams, Alex Williams and Harrison Shapley.

A Memorial Service will be held Monday, March 28th at 10:00 AM at

Tallowood Baptist Church, 555 Tallowood Rd. Houston, TX 77024

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Bob, my deepest sympathy to you and the family. Sure had some great times together in Kendalia. I will let everyone know in the old Edison group that gathered once a year, starting with Dorothy Jackson

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Mark Thompson – Everything

Today I have the pleasure of talking with Mark Thompson, mastermind of Dispersed Ashes, a particular creature that we already met on our webzine, so let’s get more info on it.

Welcome on Aristocrazia Webzine, Mark. We are at the beginning of 2013, so how was your 2012?

Mark: Thank you for having me! 2012 was an interesting year for me with the release of the new album and the cementing of the relationship with Naturmacht Productions / Rain Without End Records. Over the course of the year my work developed in unexpected ways, and as the new year continues I am excited to explore these new avenues in greater depth.

You are a complete artist, you love music, you are a well known photographer and painter, how did you decide to create Dispersed Ashes?

Dispersed Ashes came about through necessity. The main body of my creative output is as a visual artist — primarily as a painter — but in 2009 I began having ideas that needed to be developed in another field. Despite my first steps being somewhat tentative, it quickly became evident that picking up a guitar allowed me to explore those ideas. I think of DA as a facet of my work rather than as a separate entity, and have found that there is significant crosstalk between my visual and musical compositions. In some ways they strengthen each other, allowing me to draw on sources of inspiration that usually only belong to their separate practices.

How did you meet this kind of music and which are the albums that made you love this music?

As a teenager I began listening to the early goth bands, but found myself wanting to find music that was darker and more intense. I started listening to things like the Misfits, and Alien Sex Fiend, and then Metallica entered my life! This was at the end of the Eighties, and suddenly there was Morbid Angel’s “Altars Of Madness”, Obituary’s “Cause Of Death”, and Darkthrone’s “Soulside Journey”. At that point I was hooked. Over the years, my interest in metal has been reignited by various albums, including Cult Of Luna’s “The Beyond”, pretty much everything that Neurosis have put out, and the first Tyranny album “Bleak Vistae”, amongst many others.

How do you create one of your works? Which are the steps that lead you to create the musical and visual concept that then will evolve into the album?

The writing process for me is quite constant, so I don’t set out to write around a particular concept or with an album in mind. That said, there are always certain ideas and questions that I am attempting to tackle in my work, and as the songs began to form themselves for “The Nature of Things”, a thread linking them seemed to automatically be there. Dispersed Ashes is still a relatively young project, so perhaps as it evolves the process may change. For now, keeping the writing as organic as I can seems to allow me the greatest freedom to push in as many directions as I can. The lyrical content of the songs was perhaps the deciding factor for the visual aspects of the album. They tap into how I try to understand memory and experience, what I take forward and what is left behind. By using a set of faded photographs I took whilst in Alaska several years ago, I sought to reconnect a little with my past, and they certainly seemed to be the most appropriate visual metaphor.

Which are the main differences between “An Arithmetic Of Souls” and “The Nature Of Things”? Can we consider the latter as the evolution of the first?

The main difference between the first and second album is one of confidence. As Dispersed Ashes has evolved I have started to find it easier to let the songs breathe a little more. Like most young bands, I initially drowned everything in waves of reverb, but as I have gained a little in experience I wish to reveal a lot more… Rolling back the gain on the guitars to allow the dynamics to be more present and to capitalize on the human aspects — string noise, etc. — the more analogue parts of writing/recording. That said, “The Nature Of Things” is a logical extension of “An Arithmetic Of Souls”, and I don’t wish to treat the song writing process in too clinical a way; thinking of each album as a separate project. I prefer to think of it as a continuing and ever evolving process.

I noticed that in both the albums the drumms are low, dilated and static solutions that leave enough space for the atmosphere, did you make this choice to emphasize the wall of sound created by guitars and vocals?

Like all musicians I tend to write for my dominant instrument, so the songs are necessarily guitar and melody driven. Allowing the music a little space to breathe rather than swamping it with a barrage of drums, feels somehow more appropriate to what I’m doing at the moment. The songs are a long way from being rhythmic exercises, and as you suggested, I hope to focus more on the atmosphere and feel of the work. As I move forward however, I foresee the percussion parts coming a little more forward.

Where did you get inspiration for the artworks of your albums?

My choice of imagery so far has been concerned with either the ephemeral or with decay and change. Thus far I have kept a certain distance between my visual work and the images I use for Dispersed Ashes covers. I have worked together with a few bands to made the cover art for their albums, Agalloch’s “Marrow Of The Spirit” being the most notable, and it has seemed like too easy a solution to just use my own work for a DA cover. I think that may change as I plan the next album – the two strands of my creative life are inevitably getting closer together.

One of the features of Dispersed Ashes is the simplicity of the songs, sometimes people underrated the power of simple solution. Is simplicity something important in your everyday life choices too?

I agree that simplicity is generally underrated. If I think about my favourite pieces of music or my preferences across the arts generally, I find that they usually have deceptively simple or concise themes and yet somehow manage to say more. It’s as though they hold up a mirror and allow one to experience oneself in relation to the work. I do seek simplicity in my daily life, and in many ways I consider myself lucky to be able, for the most part, to achieve it. Living and working as an artist certainly has its complications, but my time is generally my own and in that sense I am able to minimize distractions and keep the level of focus I require.

What makes a difference in the art world today? People talk about a flattening of ideals and ideas, do you agree or is it just another excuse to give importance to the media ideas that impose stereotypes?

The art world is generally a reflection or commentary on the current state of the world, and it appears to be quite an anxious place. The global financial crisis hit it very hard and in some ways is reshaping it. The flattening of ideas/ideals… Well, I think there is always the temptation with contemporary art to take a very short-term view of it, seeing the cold cynical irony and inflated prices of recent years as being indicative of the state of art generally. I think the complete picture is fortunately more complex, with all manner of artists doing all manner of things away from the media gaze. Sure it isn’t news worthy, but that may be its saving grace. If there is a problem of ideas/ideals I feel it is the concept of artist as celebrity. We are not pop stars… And debasing ourselves for public entertainment as such isn’t, to my mind, a good way forward. Still, things inevitably change, so we will see what comes next.

So there is a news about Disney forbidding a metal band to play, I’m talking about Exodus. Which is the problem with this “unconventional” musical world? Why people thinks that it is anti-cultural?

I think metal deals with an area of the human experience that is the antithesis of Disney ideals. In that respect it is little wonder that such a clash should occur. We seem to live in the grip of a cult of happiness in which “negative” emotions or darker themes are seen as unhealthy and frightening. Disney apparently embodies a world view that is very fragile, and is becoming increasingly right wing in its attempt to censor music. Should metal bands be playing at Disney world alongside Mickey Mouse? Probably not. Should Disney censor bands from playing at the House Of Blues in Florida merely because it owns the building? Again, probably not. Perhaps they should rename the venue too considering the negative themes that are also present in the blues — can’t have the kids listening to songs about making deals with the devil, now can we?

Will Dispersed Ashes always be a studio project? Did you ever think about making a live show connecting all of your artistic works (music and visual art)?

I can’t really imagine how a Dispersed Ashes concert could be achieved. I don’t have aspirations to perform live personally and I would have to essentially employ session musicians to back me. I think for the time being I am happy with keeping it confined to the studio. In a similar vein, I am not sure that combining my visual and musical outputs could be made to work. I’m trying to imagine the collectors of my paintings getting to grips with the more aggressive parts of Dispersed Ashes, and frankly I can‘t picture it! I think it is also possible to over present something, if you see what I mean.

Which are your project for the future? Do you already have some new stuff ready?

I have numerous things planned for the next year or so, including several exhibitions of my paintings in Europe and America. Musically, I already have the raw material for the next Dispersed Ashes album… I am letting it develop at its own pace, but I‘m quite excited by the changes and new elements that are creeping in. I will be uploading excerpts from new tracks to the DA Facebook page as they are completed.

Thanks for the time spent with us, the last message for our readers is up to you.

Mostly I wish to thank you and Aristocrazia for supporting Dispersed Ashes in this way — it is appreciated. I would also like to thank Naturmacht Productions for their vision, and frankly their bravery to put an album so genre unspecific as “The Nature Of Things” out into the world.

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Executive Summary: Toward a Realistic and Effective Comprehensive Nuclear Agreement

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Negotiators from the United States and its P5+1 partners (China, France, Germany, Russia, and the United Kingdom) and their Iranian counterparts aim to negotiate a “comprehensive solution that would ensure Iran’s nuclear programme will be exclusively peaceful” and to settle the long-running international dispute over Iran’s nuclear capabilities and compliance with its nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) safeguards obligations not to pursue nuclear weapons.

For the United States and its negotiating partners, an effective agreement should

  • establish verifiable limits on Iran’s program that, taken together, increase the time it would take for Iran to break out of the NPT and build nuclear weapons,
  • increase the ability of the international community to promptly detect and effectively disrupt any breakout attempt, and
  • decrease Iran’s incentives to pursue nuclear weapons in the future.

The framework and timetable for reaching a comprehensive deal was spelled out in their interim accord known as the Joint Plan of Action, which was concluded by the two sides in November 2013 and went into effect January 20, 2014.

This six-month-long agreement essentially freezes the growth of Iran’s nuclear capacity and increases international oversight of Iran’s nuclear activities, which has helped provide the time and trust necessary for negotiations on a comprehensive agreement.

Elements of a Comprehensive Deal

The two sides agreed in November that a comprehensive agreement would include several key elements.

  • Agreed limits on the size and scope of Iran’s uranium-enrichment program commensurate with its “practical needs” for a civil nuclear program.
  • Steps to reduce the proliferation potential of Iran’s Arak heavy-water reactor project.
  • More-extensive international monitoring and verification mechanisms, particularly at undeclared nuclear sites, to improve detection and deterrence of possible nuclear weapons-related activity in the future.
  • A resolution of the multiyear investigation by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of past Iranian experiments with possible military dimensions.
  • Additional steps to address other issues cited in past UN Security Council resolutions relating to Iran’s nuclear program, which include Iranian ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons.
  • Civilian nuclear energy assistance and cooperation for Iran.
  • The removal of sanctions imposed on Iran by the UN Security Council, the United States, and the European Union relating to its nuclear program.

Like the interim agreement, a comprehensive agreement would likely require that each side undertake reciprocal, step-for-step measures in stages. Whereas the interim agreement calls for actions to be taken within six to 12 months, the implementation steps for a comprehensive agreement would be measured in years.

A comprehensive agreement will set forth deadlines for the completion or initiation of certain actions by each side. Some provisions would be temporary and time limited, while other actions, such as more-extensive IAEA monitoring under the terms of an additional protocol to guard against the development of a secret nuclear weapons program, would be indefinite in duration.

The two sides appear to have made progress in several areas, but differences on some major issues must still be bridged, and time is running short.

It is possible that the negotiators will not be able to conclude a final, comprehensive agreement by their target date of July 20. By mutual consent, the two sides could agree to extend the interim agreement for as much as six months while they seek to reach agreement on any remaining issues.

Defining Iran’s Uranium-Enrichment Capacity

The most challenging issue appears to be how to negotiate a “mutually defined enrichment programme” with “agreed limits on the scope and level of enrichment, activities, capacity…and stocks of uranium” that are “consistent with practical needs.”

Since 2005, Iran increased its centrifuge capacity from 300 first-generation IR-1 machines at one site to about 19,000 installed, first-generation IR-1 machines at two sites. Today, about 10,200 are operating. About 1,000 advanced IR-2M centrifuges are installed at the Natanz enrichment plant, but are not operational.

Iran’s operating IR-1 machines could allow Tehran to enrich natural uranium stock into a sufficient quantity of highly enriched uranium (HEU) (25 kilograms in gaseous form) for one nuclear bomb in about six months, although such an effort would be detected first.

Taking into account Iran’s current stockpile of low-enriched uranium (LEU) (8,784 kilograms), Iran could use these operating centrifuges to produce enough HEU for one bomb in two to three months.

It is extremely unlikely that Iran would invite further sanctions or a military attack in order to produce enough fissile material for just one nuclear weapon, which is not an effective deterrent. If Iran tried to build a militarily significant nuclear arsenal, it would take considerably more than a year to amass enough material for additional weapons, convert the HEU gas to metal form, assemble and perhaps test a nuclear device, and mate the bombs with an effective means of delivery.

One critical goal for the P5+1 is to increase the time it would take to produce enough fissile material for an arsenal and enhance inspections and monitoring to ensure that any such effort could be detected and disrupted.

An agreement that significantly reduces Iran’s present-day enrichment capacity and its enriched uranium stocks would increase that time even further and still would provide Iran with more than sufficient capacity for its nuclear fuel needs, which are very limited for the next decade or more.

Yet, Iranian officials insist that Iran’s nuclear fuel needs will increase over the course of the next 10 to 15 years or more and say they cannot depend on foreign suppliers, given the unreliability of foreign suppliers in the past. It is estimated that Iran would need about 100,000 operational IR-1 centrifuges by 2021 to provide fuel for its Bushehr reactor if the current fuel supply contract with Russia is not renewed. Iran says it has plans for other power and research reactors.

To reach a comprehensive agreement, the two sides must find a formula that limits Iran’s uranium-enrichment capacity at the Natanz site in a way that precludes an Iranian dash to produce enough HEU for weapons without being detected and disrupted but allows for Iran’s practical civilian needs, which are very minimal for the next several years but could increase over time.

Iran and the P5+1 should be able to agree to several straightforward steps, such as

  • limiting uranium enrichment to levels of less than 5 percent;
  • keeping Iran’s LEU stockpile to a minimum (less than 1,000 kilograms or so); and
  • halting production-scale work at the smaller Fordow enrichment plant and convert it to a research-only facility.

Some independent analysts and some Israeli officials argue that Iran should mothball the underground Fordow plant, which is less vulnerable to an airstrike. Iran strongly opposes such an outcome.

Negotiators have other options available that could help square the circle on uranium-enrichment capacity and address the concerns of each side.

  • A comprehensive agreement could allow for appropriate increases in Iran’s uranium-enrichment capacity in the later stages of the deal. Such adjustments could be conditioned on Iran providing sufficient information to the IAEA to show that any past experiments with possible military dimensions have been discontinued and demonstrating that it cannot obtain foreign nuclear fuel supplies for the new nuclear power reactors that it builds.
  • Iran could agree to phase out, remove, and store under IAEA seal its less efficient, first-generation centrifuges and, over a period of years, replace them with a smaller number of more-efficient centrifuges. During the transition period, the total operating enrichment capacity would be held below agreed limits, ideally less than Iran’s current capacity. Iran could agree not to assemble the more efficient centrifuges until there is a demonstrable need for commercial-scale enrichment. This would increase the time it would take Iran to operate the machines, providing added insurance against rapid breakout scenarios.
  • To reduce Iran’s rationale for greater enrichment capacity to fuel future reactors, a comprehensive agreement could commit the P5+1 to provide fuel supply guarantees to Iran for any such needs.

Reducing the Proliferation Potential of the Arak Reactor

Another major issue that the two sides must resolve through a comprehensive agreement is the reduction of the proliferation risks posed by Iran’s effort to build a 40-megawatt thermal (MWt) heavy-water reactor at Arak. The reactor, as currently envisioned, is ideally suited to produce enough plutonium in its spent fuel for as many as two nuclear weapons annually.

The Arak reactor is a longer-term proliferation threat. The reactor, which is more than a year away from completion, would have to operate for approximately one year before spent fuel could be removed. The spent fuel would have to cool for several months, and then the plutonium would have to be chemically separated using a facility that Iran is not believed to have.

It appears that the two sides can probably come to terms on reducing the Arak reactor’s plutonium-production potential. According to statements made by the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran is open to technical modifications of the reactor that would reduce its plutonium output. Members of the P5+1 indicate they would support this approach in principle. These design modifications include decreasing the power of the reactor from 40 MWt to 10 MWt and using low-enriched (3.5 percent) reactor fuel instead of natural uranium fuel.

These modifications would reduce the Arak facility’s annual output of unseparated plutonium-239 from about eight kilograms to less than one kilogram. The two sides would have to agree on how to ensure that the modifications are difficult to reverse.

The two sides should be able to agree, as they did in the November interim agreement, that Iran would not build a reprocessing facility to extract the weapons-grade plutonium from the reactor’s spent fuel.

As an additional safeguard, Iran and the P5+1 could agree to ship the spent fuel produced by the Arak facility out of Iran to prevent any covert reprocessing. Russia would be a likely destination because it is taking the spent fuel from the Bushehr reactor.

Resolving Concerns About Possible Weapons-Related Experiments

Another issue that must be addressed in order to build confidence in the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program involves activities having possible military dimensions that Iran is believed to have conducted prior to 2004 and perhaps afterward.

Until this year, Tehran has not cooperated with IAEA efforts over the past several years to comprehensively verify Iran’s claims about the peaceful nature of its nuclear program, adding to suspicions about the purpose of Iran’s nuclear program.

Iran and the IAEA reached a framework agreement in November 2013 for moving forward to resolve the outstanding concerns. Although some initial progress has been achieved, the IAEA investigation will continue beyond July 20 and probably into 2015.

A comprehensive deal can play a role in facilitating Iranian cooperation and a prompt conclusion to the agency’s investigation. A comprehensive deal could,

  • clarify that the information that Iran provides to the IAEA will be used only for the IAEA’s determination of whether Iran’s nuclear program is entirely peaceful;
  • be conditioned on the IAEA determination that questions surrounding the possible military dimensions of Iran’s nuclear program have been addressed to the extent possible; and
  • clarify that international sanctions may be reimposed if Tehran fails to complete the IAEA’s requested actions in a timely manner.

These measures should provide sufficient incentives for Iran to follow through on closing its file with the IAEA.

Securing More-Extensive International Inspection Authority

If Iran were to pursue nuclear weapons development in the future, it would most likely try to do so by means of a secret program carried out at undisclosed facilities rather than its declared facilities under international monitoring.

The two sides agree that a comprehensive agreement should include requirements for more-timely notification of Iranian nuclear activities to the IAEA under Iran’s current comprehensive safeguards agreement with the IAEA and more-extensive IAEA inspection authority to guard against a secret weapons program under the terms of an additional protocol.

An additional protocol would allow the IAEA to conduct inspections of nondeclared sites without prior notification, which is a strong deterrent against any clandestine nuclear weapons work. In the first phase of a comprehensive agreement, Iran will likely be required to implement an additional protocol. At a later point, Iran would commit to ratify it. Once approved by the Iranian parliament, the duration of the additional protocol would be indefinite.

In addition, the P5+1 will seek more inspection measures for an extended period of time to provide still more confidence to the international community that Iran’s nuclear program is being used for entirely peaceful purposes, including ongoing monitoring of Iran’s centrifuge manufacturing facilities and support infrastructure.

Phasing Out Sanctions Against Iran

To secure a comprehensive agreement, the P5+1 will need to agree to phase out the tough, multilateral nuclear sanctions regime now in place, including the international oil and financial sanctions that are devastating Iran’s economy.

Iran will likely insist that, with each of the successive steps that it undertakes as part of a comprehensive agreement, there will be commensurate actions to suspend and then lift sanctions.

The step-for-step approach of a possible comprehensive agreement will require a new UN Security Council resolution on Iran’s nuclear program and positive, follow-up actions by the EU states and approval by the U.S. Congress of legislation that unwinds U.S. nuclear-related sanctions that impact other nations’ affairs with Iran.

Addressing Other Issues in UN Security Council Resolutions

The November 24 agreement stipulates that a comprehensive deal must address other issues in the existing UN Security Council resolutions. This includes Security Council Resolution 1929 (2010), which required Iran to halt all ballistic missile activity that could be used to deliver nuclear weapons.

The missile issue is certainly relevant to the issue of Iran’s future nuclear weapons potential, but it must be handled very carefully. Attempts by the P5+1 or the U.S. Congress to impose specific, binding limits on Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities at this point could jeopardize chances to conclude an agreement that establishes verifiable limits on Iran’s ability to produce material for nuclear weapons. Without Iran’s ability to produce nuclear weapons, its ballistic missiles pose much less of a threat to its neighbors.

Therefore, the most effective way to address the potential threat of nuclear-armed Iranian ballistic missiles is to conclude a robust deal between Iran and the P5+1 to prevent Iran from being able to build nuclear weapons.

Assessing the Outcome of the Negotiations

An agreement between the P5+1 and Iran should not be evaluated on the basis of any single feature. Instead, it must be assessed on the basis of its overall impact, especially the extent to which it limits Iran’s nuclear weapons-related capabilities, improves transparency about the program, and enhances the ability of the international community to promptly detect and disrupt any dash toward nuclear weapons.

Neither side can expect that they will achieve everything they seek. Inevitably, there will be critics of any agreement that emerges from the talks who will argue that the deal falls short of their expectations of what they consider to the requirements of any agreement.

In the final analysis, serious policymakers in Washington, Tehran, and other capitals who have responsibility for approving actions necessary to implement an agreement must consider whether their country is better served by an agreement than without one. They must consider that, without a comprehensive diplomatic solution,

  • there would be no verifiable limits on Iran’s uranium-enrichment capacity and Iran would likely deploy additional and increasingly efficient centrifuges;
  • Iran’s enriched uranium stockpiles would grow, not shrink;
  • the time it would take Iran to produce enough fissile material for nuclear weapons would decrease rather than increase;
  • IAEA inspections of Iranian facilities would likely continue but not be expanded to cover undeclared sites and activities, which is the most likely pathway to build nuclear weapons if Iran chose to do so; and
  • sanctions would remain in effect and some might be strengthened but sanctions alone cannot halt Iran’s nuclear progress and, over time, the willingness of international allies to help implement those sanctions could erode.

Although Iran would still have to overcome significant hurdles if it were to try to build nuclear weapons, this unpleasant scenario would likely increase the possibility of a military confrontation over time.

Yet, any use of military force against Iran’s nuclear sites by Israel or the United States and a coalition of the willing would only delay Iran’s nuclear program a few years at best and, at worst, would lead to a wider conflict and could very likely prompt Iran’s leadership to openly pursue nuclear weapons in order to deter any further attacks.

A ‘Win-Win’ Deal to Guard Against a Nuclear-Armed Iran

The P5+1 and Iran have a historic opportunity to negotiate a long-term, final-phase agreement that guards against a nuclear-armed Iran and helps avoid a future military confrontation over its nuclear program.

Both sides must focus on realistic and achievable goals that meet their own core requirements and offer solutions that respect the bottom-line needs of the other side.

If either side pushes to include unrealistic requirements or fails to follow through on the commitments established by the agreement, the chances for a negotiated resolution will decrease, and the chances of a military conflict and a nuclear-armed Iran will increase.

An effective, comprehensive nuclear agreement is the best option on the table to help resolve the long-running dispute over Iran’s nuclear ambitions.—KELSEY DAVENPORT, DARYL G. KIMBALL, and GREG THIELMANN

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I recently obtained a Baofeng UV5R from a friend who bought it as his first radio. He gave it to me because he became frustrated with battery charging issues, the latest being that the battery would not take a charge for more than a few minutes at a time.

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The Hawaiian fish hook is known as Makau, and commonly symbolises a respect and connection with the ocean.  It's a symbol of energy, strength, prosperity, abundance and good luck.

Our fish hook sculpture is entirely hand-made from mild steel.  Minimalist in style, it balances on a solid textured block and is polished to shine.

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Arts Leader Profile: Meet Mario Ernesto Sánchez, Founder and Producing Artistic Director of Teatro Avante and the International Hispanic Theatre Festival of Miami

Posted By Josie Gulliksen
August 20, 2019 at 7:47 PM

Having founded Teatro Avante 40 years ago, Mario Ernesto Sánchez continues to make an indelible mark on Miami’s cultural community. Part of his contribution comes from the long-running International Hispanic Theatre Festival, which he established in 1986.

As an actor, director, producer and playwright, Mario has worked in all facets of theater. He co-authored and directed “Harbor of Broken Glass” and has worked with world-renowned actors in leading roles in domestic and foreign plays, more than 40 films and television series, and in the Florida Grand Opera production of “Die Fledermaus”. Complementing his local work, his productions have represented the United States at venues in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. He has been an honored guest at festivals and other events around the world.

Along with serving on several local, regional, national and international artistic advisory boards, Mario Ernesto’s accolades number many over the years. He was awarded the Ollantay Award by the Latin American Center for Theatrical Creation and Experimentation in Madrid. For his contributions to the development of Hispanic theater in the Americas, he received both the Federico García Lorca award in Fuente Vaqueros, Spain and the Kusillo award from FITAZ (International Theater Festival of La Paz) in Bolivia. He also won The George Abbott Award part of the Carbonell Awards and the FIT de Cádiz – Atahualpa del Cioppo award. One of his most recent awards was the Legacy Award in Los Angeles in 2014, for his contribution to the arts. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts Trust (PACT).

Mario Ernesto shares his story of life in the theater from the early days to now in this interview with Artburst Miami.

Artburst: Tell us about your path to becoming founder of Teatro Avante?

Sánchez: Since kindergarten, I have always wanted to become an actor. As a “Pedro Pan,” my parents sent me to Miami all alone when I was very young in 1962, where I was placed temporarily at Camp Matecumbe, then sent to Helena, MT. In Montana I attended Cathedral High School and was able to take some drama classes – something I couldn’t do in Cuba because it wasn’t deemed an “honorable profession.” In 1964, I moved to San Antonio, TX, where I continued in drama classes but was unable to get cast in a play. This was the year that my parents finally arrived from Cuba; in 1968 we moved back to Miami with the entire family. I immediately joined a zarzuela company just to be on a stage, because I am not a singer. Thereafter I realized that Miami’s Hispanic artistic community was only presenting commercial theatre, vaudevilles, and political satires. I tried to change that path but when I realized it was impossible, I opened my own theatre company RAS Community Theatre, now called Teatro Avante. I founded our non-profit company to preserve our Hispanic culture in the United States, by presenting non-commercial theatre to new audiences.

Scene from “Millones de Segundos” written by Diego Casado Rubio, part of the International Hispanic Theatre Festival. Photo by Juan Borraspardo.

Artburst: What do you think makes a vibrant community and what role do the arts play?

Sánchez: The arts play a major/important role in a vibrant community, in a city that wants to become a Metropolis, and in a world desperate to return to its senses. The arts make us sensible human beings, a fact confirmed in various studies that prove the arts improve our well-being, fill occupational voids, reduce depression, stress and anxiety, and increase positive emotions.

A vibrant community is not only a building block of our fast-paced, increasingly urban world, but also builds connectedness and resilience and is inspiring. And in “inspiring” is where the arts play a very major role.

In the world’s most livable cities, arts and culture blend with businesses, shopping, and entertainment districts to create desirable places to live, work and play. This is certainly true in Miami, where arts and culture are always competing with all the perks our city has to offer, like an inexpensive beautiful ocean.

Artburst: What excites you about Miami?

Sánchez: I was born in Havana, Cuba, but I have lived in Miami most of my life. Through the years it has become my home. But as an “islander” where the ocean was so prominent in my childhood, what best excites me about Miami is also the ocean. But there are other very unique qualities about Miami that excite me as well.

Residents in Miami come from all parts of the world; Hispanic or Latino (of any race) make up 70% of Miami’s population. I don’t think there is a city in the world with Miami’s make-up: Cuban, Colombian, Haitian, Nicaraguan, Puerto Rican, American, Dominican, German, Italian, Honduran, Mexican, Venezuelan, Irish, Peruvian, English, Jamaican, Argentine and Russian. It’s very exciting to live in such a diversified community.

Artburst: What is something awesome you’re currently working on?

Sánchez: I try to work on something awesome all the time, that’s what keeps me going, and theatre is always exciting. Right after the 34th edition of the International Hispanic Theatre Festival of Miami, and after cleaning, returning, regrouping, reviewing, planning for next year and completing all final reports, we begin working on our tours. Currently, we have been invited to Atlanta, Medellin (Colombia) and other places that have expressed an interest in our work. We must also rehearse the new play that premiered this year for a comeback in Miami at the Miami-Dade County Auditorium at the beginning of 2020.

But my best “something awesome” currently happening around me is to see my three grandchildren (Annelise, Luciana & Giancarlo) grow healthy and happy.

Artburst: From your perspective, how can you leverage the arts to build a more connected community?

Sánchez: In our case it becomes much more difficult to leverage the arts to build a more connected community because of the language. We produce and present in Spanish but always with supertitles in English (since 1995), because we feel that theatre must be inclusive, most especially in our diversified community. Also, supertitles help the hearing-impaired. However, we have failed in attracting a non-Spanish speaking audience to our shows. This major effort is something we will continue to work on. I don’t feel that, at least in theatre, our three major communities, Hispanic, African-American and Anglo, are connected at all. There seems to be a distinct lack of interest in attending shows that do not belong to your community. And I think this is a major task we must all work on and tackle the best way we know how because…the diverse and multicultural life we live here in Miami is beautiful!

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Miami New Drama: From Fervor to Fascism

Posted By Mia Leonin
December 7, 2017 at 5:52 PM

What do you say when your 12-year-old tells you she’s afraid Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States? You would like to say it’s impossible that a xenophobic misogynist, who has never held political office, has a chance of being the next president. When she adds that Trump seems like the kind of person “who makes nice people say mean things,” you realize that hers is a euphemistic, but fairly accurate description of how fascism turns people against one another.

Like a young person’s questions, good theater has the potential to upend our complacency and see the world from a new angle. Miami New Drama’s production of A Special Day, which had a brief run last weekend, did just that. It reminded us that fanaticism, especially in its early days, can seem benign, especially when it hides behind the façade of patriotic fervor. This chilling truth is carefully rendered, but abundantly clear in a story about a dissatisfied housewife, Antonietta, and her homosexual neighbor, Gabriel. The intimate relationship that unfolds between the two is complex and moving, and despite their differences, a true friendship forms against a backdrop of cruelty and prejudice.

It is Rome in 1938 and Hitler is visiting Mussolini. Historically, this became a pivotal moment in German-Italian solidarity, an alliance that in many ways sealed the spread of fascism throughout Europe. Based on Una Giornata Particolare by Ettore Scola and Ruggero Maccari, and adapted by Gigliola Fantoni, A Special Day was adapted and translated to English by Danya Taymor, Ana Graham, and Antonio Vega. Mexican actors Graham and Vega direct and perform the roles of Antonietta and Gabriel respectively.

When Antonietta’s bird flies to Gabriel’s window and she rings his bell, a literal and metaphorical door opens, inviting each character to confront a more complex vision of self. For Antonietta, who once fainted when Mussolini galloped by on a horse, that means facing her unhappiness and sense of inferiority as a woman married to a fascist, controlling husband. Gabriel, an outcast, who has already been kicked out of his job as a radio announcer for being “subversive,” must open up to Anonietta and risk the possibility of rejection.

From the outset, the actors break through the fourth wall. They change into their costumes on stage and address the audience from the point of view of performers, saying, “Let’s all imagine we are Italian.” The set’s black walls serve as enormous chalkboards, where the actor’s draw the set’s props as they perform. A window is drawn and then opened. The actors sketch out a birdcage, a telephone, and even smoke emanating from an imaginary cigarette as the story unfolds.

Graham and Vega possess impeccable timing and coordination. They are also adept at creating the voices of noisy children, a gossipy porter, and numerous sound effects. This inventive staging provides much needed levity to the play’s heavy themes.

Miami New Drama debuted last winter here in Miami with the acclaimed The Golem of Havana at the Colony Theatre, and this is the second outing. Artistic director, Michel Hausmann, explained this show’s relevance: “Precisely because of the current political climate we decided to produce this show now. Trump won in Florida, and he won big. His rhetoric scares us, and we feel a duty as artist to be a part of both the national and local conversation.”

What are our answers to our children’s important questions – silence? Theater? Activism? Graham and Vega strip away their characters’ defenses with humor and nuance. Theater may not be the answer to the world’s problems; however, A Special Day reminds us that history is made up of moments, and moments are opportunities to exist as fully in our humanity as possible – or to ignore it.

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Every Chinese New Year, AsianInvestor makes 10 predictions about developments that will affect global financial markets and the portfolios of Asian investors, especially asset owners. Today we focus on consolidation in the asset management industry.

Will we see at least two mega-mergers in the investment industry this lunar year (deals that form asset managers with at least $1.5 trillion under management)?

Answer: Yes

It seems an accepted consensus that scale confers major benefits on the investment industry – as in other sectors – and that more mergers of asset managers are thus inevitable in today’s markets.

As recently as five years ago, assets under management of perhaps $1 trillion were seen as a sufficient size to mark out a firm as a truly global player with investment capabilities covering the waterfront.

That is probably the bare minimum these days. BlackRock seems likely to hit the $10 trillion mark within months rather than years.

There are various drivers of this trend, including inexorably falling fees as passive investment strategies continue to attract capital; clients’ rising demand for managers able to satisfy most, if not all, of their needs in one place; and the increasing necessity and cost of technology for investing and providing services.

“[Asset management] firms that are not prepared to spend 10%-15% of revenues to invest in and maintain technology resources will soon find themselves in the proverbial Stone Age,” said investment bank Piper Sandler in a report published in November.

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Moreover, consolidation has been gaining pace among not only fund houses but also their institutional investor clients and indeed service providers to the industry.

Witness the proliferating mergers of pension pools in markets such as Australia and the UK in recent years, and the concentration of investment assets with ever fewer and larger investment consultancies (most recently with the Aon-Willis Towers Watson deal) and technology platform providers.

Even huge institutions recognise that joining forces can further improve their access to transactions, boost bargaining power and reduce investing costs. Witness the real asset-focused tie-up between Dutch and Korean pension fund giants APG and NPS last year.

In short, more M&A is on the way in the asset management industry. How will that pan out in the coming lunar year?

AsianInvestor expects to see at least two more so-called mega-mergers unveiled in the coming year – ones that will form fund houses with $1.5 trillion. After all, the trends mentioned above are well-established and if anything look to be accelerating.

Some potential buyers may have held back in the past year as a result of the Covid-related uncertainty, but Morgan Stanley's acquisition of Eaton Vance announced late last year indicates that big transactions remained feasible.

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There’s widespread sentiment that asset managers with the cash to make purchases will come out of this latest crisis very strong and that the environment is favourable for potential buyers.

As one senior lawyer told AsianInvestor last week: “The perception is that there are relative bargains to be had and the window is closing [to get them].”

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February 07, 2020
It was another hot year in Florida for digital transformation at the ARC Forum. As operators reflected on what has been working and what remains to be done, there was a lot of talk about topics such as IT/OT convergence, the need for a step change in thinking and how to manage digital transformation as an organizational initiative, not just a technological one. Here are just a few of the key highlights and takeaways from the small set of sessions I was able to attend.

IT + OT = Goldmine

At Tuesday’s opening keynote, two Dow executives shared how they work closely together to better serve their customers and allow their organization to work faster. Chief Digital Officer Melanie Kalmar and SVP Operations, Manufacturing and Engineering Peter Holicki explained that in recent years, Dow has shifted its mindset from being a chemical company that does digital to being a digital organization that does material science.

They noted that Dow collects 20 billion data points every day from automation, yet little of that data is used outside of specific operations functions. That data could be an untapped goldmine.

Both Melanie and Peter emphasized that organizations are morphing—data analysts and security experts now sit in manufacturing, alongside the operators. To be more agile, leaders need to introduce new skills and deploy them in different places than they have in the past. Organizational lines are breaking down and teams will need to be more aggressive in collaborating. Peter joked that in a few years, no one will be able to tell him and Melanie apart.

Melanie reinforced that success will not happen without alignment at the top, like the trust she and Peter have developed. In addition, she said, “you have to keep communicating, keep alignment through the entire organization.”

The opportunity for IT and OT teams to work together to create value was echoed throughout the day.  For example, in situations where you can’t get the expert close to the machine to review potential maintenance issues, you can get the data to the expert remotely to analyze and recommend action. Sten Tham, Reliability Operations Area and Exception Based Surveillance (EBS) Lead of Hess Corporation also noted that exception-based surveillance requires OT/IT and people working together in concert.

A Step Change in Optimization

Jim Beilstein, VP Advanced Manufacturing for OwensCorning, warned that organizations need to step up factory automation to prepare for the 40% of workers who are ready to retire. Apostolos Georgiou, Program Leader and Senior Advisor at ExxonMobil talked about how to push operations further from automated to autonomous. Where the former focuses on the need to program, measure, control and record, the latter includes the need to understand (modes, clusters, states), evaluate (benchmark), self-learn (best-achieved operation), self-optimize and self-organize (Big Data).

Another step change can come from the ability to test and scale. Jaclyn Arnold, Hexagon PPM’s VP, Owner Operator was part of a panel that discussed how using digital twins can tie together physical and digital worlds. We are beyond needing to prove the academic value of the digital twin as a strategic tool to optimize operating performance.  Taking on a digital twin project will not have significant value unless you are ready to have a real and scalable real-life situation. Success also depends on having data clean and ready and finding a partner who can help lead the process.

A few industry leaders looked ahead and shared thoughts on 2030. Don Bartusiak, Chief Engineer, Process Control for ExxonMobil Research and Engineering, pointed out that giving equipment experts visibility into the whole enterprise, rather than looking at assets one by one, enables more strategic decisions. Billy Bardin, Dow’s Global Operations Technology Director, emphasized the need to move from plant-based optimization to value chain optimization.

Don joked that while it’s time for a step change in OT now, in 2030 there will still be plants working on replacing their control systems from the 1980s.

Overcoming Resistance

Billy Bardin suggested bringing your procurement team into new technology reviews early on. “The activation barrier to changing a strategic supplier is quite high,” he explained. Getting procurement involved allows them to understand the value of making a change; they can also help secure good pricing for proof of concept.

Billy also noted that we can often become enamored with the technology and tools, but that isn’t the best approach. He noted that it important to think about what you want to accomplish – whether it is productivity, sustainability, reliability or other goals—which is what should drive the introduction of any new technology.

When it comes to the users, Michael Carroll, VP Innovation at Georgia-Pacific, noted that change takes time. “We see people on the shop floor that are hungry for change. They are looking for a segue in their livelihood.… Organizations, however, need to give people time to adjust to change. That is often not part of the plan.”

Bruce Taylor, Director of Digital Transformation for Sinclair Oil, echoed the need to focus on people when implementing newer technologies such as APM. He noted that “physical APM” is tightly linked to “human asset performance” which means there is a need to address leadership, vision, transparency and culture for success.

Ricky Eckhart, IT/OT Enterprise Architect of ExxonMobil noted “Technology is great until it isn’t.” His point was that not every new technology is ready for prime time. It’s critical to make sure it is thoroughly production-tested before overcommitting. To gain acceptance and trust of workers it is important to focus first on quick wins with demonstrable business value. He then spoke to the need to create empathy with key resistors to understand their positions, noting that they bring expertise and perspectives which should be listened to. He also spoke to the need to have a community of suppliers and experts as external resources. AspenTech’s Mike Brooks echoed many of these sentiments in a panel discussion where he noted that “technology by itself will not move the needle.”

Finally, rethinking hiring and talent management will be crucial along the way. Georgia-Pacific VP Innovation Michael Carroll shared that his company has changed the way they hire: “We learned not to hire on what has to be - it wasn't working - and we weren't retaining. Hire instead for what can be.”

Attending conferences such as the ARC Forum really highlights the speed of change that capital-intensive industries are trying to achieve and the avalanche of possible technologies that operators need to consider. While all the potential of new technology is exciting, OT and IT leaders will have to balance the drive for speed and agility with the bottom line need for reliability and safety.

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Gemini Capricorn
Gemini-Capricorn: similarities and differences
by Richard Pellard
English translation by Julien Rouger

The interpretation examples that we are suggesting are very far from being exhaustive: they only show and outline a general frame describing the problematics of both Signs. They should therefore not be taken literally. Each being brings indeed its own responses, more or less original, to the issues raised by a Sign. Through combining logic, observation and imagination, you will be able to develop a thousand other possible meanings, a thousand other variations on the same theme.

It’s possible that your Sun Sign is not dominant in your birth chart. One can for instance be born under the Aries Sign while the most valorized Sign is actually Taurus. In this case, it will probably be difficult for you to recognize yourself in the interpretations that are offered to you below. You will have to refer to the interpretations corresponding to your actual dominant Sign in order to relate to these. To find out which Signs are dominant in your birth chart, please feel free to visit our website and get your free mini-astrological portrait with our software Astrosoft.

Gemini-Capricorn synastry

Gemini and Capricorn in the photoperiodic zodiac

Gemini Capricorn

Adapted Gemini and Capricorn

Excitation strength Inhibition strength

Difference Gemini-Capricorn: Excitation strength versus Inhibition strength

Excitation strengthExpending Excitation strength for Gemini: the libertarian. The natural Excitation strength made some progress since the Aries phase: Excitation became widespread; the energy lost its initial brutality through spreading. Multiple interests, all-around exploratory curiosity, greater sensitivity to the abstract, to the appearances, to the infinite facets of the outside world. Broad openness, immense receptiveness, listening to all perspectives, varied initiatives.

Inhibition strengthEliminating Inhibition strength for Capricorn: the impassive. Nighttime, still dominant, is from now on decreasing: of all the things one acquired, one only preserves what is strictly necessary. One therefore radically loses interest in the outside world and its stimulations, one stays cool, stone-faced, unmoved; one distances oneself from anything secondary, relative, factual. One tunes out the world in order to exclusively dedicate oneself to what one reckons to be the essential, the absolute, the most important. Power of oblivion and detachment; elimination, boycott, impassiveness.

Excitation quickness Inhibition slowness

Difference Gemini-Capricorn: Excitation quickness versus Inhibition slowness

Excitation quicknessExcitation quickness for Gemini: the chameleon. The Excitation quickness reaches its climax: brisk, flexible, free-flowing reactions, hyper-adaptability to the variety of stimuli from the outside world. One flits from one thing to another, comfortable with change, movement, diversity, transformations. Versatility, jack-of-all-trades, liking for what’s multicolor or polyphonic, great tactic subtlety. Everything stimulates, galvanizes, interests, anything triggers enthusiastic reactions. Optimal convertibility, multi-faceted unpredictable behaviour.

Inhibition slownessInhibition slowness for Capricorn: the Sphinx. Defence reactions are slow, persistent, persevering: shielding, bunker, systematic refusal. Habits and monolithic principles keep the heart of hearts safe from the fluctuations of beings, things and situations. Endurance, tenacity, patience, hermetism, sense of strategy, extreme rigor, abstemiousness, method, soundness, dryness. Development of an intuition that focuses on abstract structures.

Sense of syntheses

Similarity Gemini-Capricorn: Sense of syntheses

Sense of synthesesSense of syntheses for Gemini: the one-man band. Excitation reduces Inhibition to the bare bones. The refusal or the active surpassing of antagonisms allows everything and everyone to meet freely. The most heterogeneous elements mingle naturally, each of these being fully autonomous while connected to the others by an overall dynamics that combines apparently irreducible dualities. Humanism is instinctive, universalism is spontaneous. The contradictions that emerge from opposing viewpoints can even out from the moment everyone respects the basic freedom of the other.

Sense of synthesesSense of syntheses for Capricorn: the legist. Quest for the fundamental matrix, the invisible framework, the absolute structure. Everything must fit within a very high architectural, mechanical or metaphysical precision and cohesion. The perfect puzzle, without any gaps between the elements. The inner principles of functioning of the society, of the cosmos or of the individual. Need to be fundamentally oneself, properly built, well-ordered, each facet of the being in its place, rigorously fitted to and articulated with the others. Abstract humanism: may each one be a humble and tight-fitting cog of the Whole, and everything will be fine. Integrity, respect for the necessary Order, strict compliance to the rules.

Gemini-Capricorn synastry

Gemini Capricorn

Unadapted Gemini and Capricorn

Inhibition weakness Excitation weakness

Difference Gemini-Capricorn: Inhibition weakness versus Excitation weakness

Inhibition weaknessEliminating Inhibition weakness for Gemini: the exhibitionist. It’s like for Aries, but one step up: the lack of restraint and control is almost total, radical, general; unrestrained, inconsiderate, scattered over anything pointless, anecdotal, ephemeral. Like a feather in the wind: no center, no interiority, no depth. Lacking in foresight, thoughtless, whimsical, futile, over-suggestible, it’s a naive puppet at the mercy of stronger and more determined wills.

Excitation weaknessExpending Excitation weakness for Capricorn: the disillusioned. No spontaneity, no vital impulse, no healthy animal aggressivity, no initiative: one can’t take action or assert oneself openly. Tiredness, asthenia, prostration, staying in the background, depreciating self-criticism, feeling of powerlessness, general lack of interest, inability to respond opportunely to external stimulations, pathological indifference, repression of affect, expressionlessness, incommunicability.

Unadapted Inhibition slowness Unadapted Excitation quickness

Difference Gemini-Capricorn: Unadapted Inhibition slowness versus Unadapted Excitation quickness

Unadapted Inhibition slownessUnadapted Inhibition slowness for Gemini: the intellectualist. Like for Aries, there are two possibilities. Either the brake can’t be pulled, and in this case the Gemini is an absolute weather vane, pathologically nervous, suffering from extreme distraction and instability. Or the brake can’t be released, which can lead the Gemini to intellectualist imaginary constructs that disregard the reality of the physical world; unless he takes refuge into an absolute indifference, possibly supported by a philosophy of failure and nothingness. Incommunicable, unverifiable abstract hermetism.

Unadapted Excitation quicknessUnadapted Excitation quickness for Capricorn: the maniac. Difficulties to operate the accelerator, to start up. In the event of an impossible startup, it’s an absolute stagnation, a total inactivity that hides an intense inner febricity that can’t or won’t manifest itself. In the event of an inadvertent startup, one gets excited for very little, one gets exhilarated by fantasy perfunctory attempts at action: tiresome teasing, mischiefs, short attacks of nervousness, of volatile and temperamental mood, after which one slips back into a disillusioned prostration.

Ultraparadoxical phase

Similarity Gemini-Capricorn: Ultraparadoxical phase

Ultraparadoxical phaseUltraparadoxical phase for Gemini: the misunderstanding. The loss of the sense of antagonisms leads to an inversion of the Excitation-Inhibition system: what is normally inhibiting becomes stimulating, hence a lure for what’s harmful, dangerous, immoral, taboo, etc. Absurdity becomes sensible, “you” becomes “I” (active and spontaneous identification to the others, impersonation, parody, mime, splitting). Taste for blatant illogicalities, preposterous speculations. At best he succeeds, diplomat of the ephemeral, in blending the most opposing viewpoints into a fragile and fleeting alliance. At worst that’s a constant split, incredible stunts to justify every contradiction.

Ultraparadoxical phaseUltraparadoxical phase for Capricorn: the totalitarian. What’s normally stimulating becomes inhibiting: hostile reactions are triggered by going out, opening up, or approaching the unfamiliar. One isn’t excited by novelty, one is left cold by the best news. Caricatural composure, unmovable habits in the situations where a vigorous and immediate reaction would be preferable. Greed unadapated to the actual needs: the more disregard one has for what one doesn’t own, the more one craves for it. One becomes totally identified with the Law, the Rule, the Sacred, the Ethics, the Transcendent Cause; hence the risks of merciless fanaticism, of ice-cold passions where the individual completely forgets oneself in the service of an absolute for which he’s capable of sacrificing everything, including whatever and whoever is just minding one’s own business.

Gemini-Capricorn synastry
This article was brought to you by Richard Pellard
English translation by Julien Rouger

See also:

▶ Gemini in natural astrology
▶ The Gemini on video

▶ Aries-Gemini: similarities and differences
▶ Taurus-Gemini: similarities and differences
▶ Gemini-Cancer: similarities and differences
▶ Gemini-Leo: similarities and differences
▶ Gemini-Virgo: similarities and differences
▶ Gemini-Libra: similarities and differences
▶ Gemini-Scorpio: similarities and differences
▶ Gemini-Sagittarius: similarities and differences
▶ Gemini-Aquarius: similarities and differences
▶ Gemini-Pisces: similarities and differences

▶ Capricorn in natural astrology
▶ The Capricorn on video

▶ Aries-Capricorn: similarities and differences
▶ Taurus-Capricorn: similarities and differences
▶ Cancer-Capricorn: similarities and differences
▶ Leo-Capricorn: similarities and differences
▶ Virgo-Capricorn: similarities and differences
▶ Libra-Capricorn: similarities and differences
▶ Scorpio-Capricorn: similarities and differences
▶ Sagittarius-Capricorn: similarities and differences
▶ Capricorn-Aquarius: similarities and differences
▶ Capricorn-Pisces: similarities and differences

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Looking for a little adventure? These activities will give you an adrenaline rush!

Up at the O2

See a different side of the city with an exhilarating 90-minute climb over the O2! Although you’ll enjoy great views from the top, it’s the challenge and achievement of reaching the top that you won’t forget, plus you’ll have a fabulous family photo to remember it by.

Dodge at Somerset House

Get hearts racing with a thrilling dodgem ride! Relive your childhood and see the little ones have fun at Somerset House’s spectacular courtyard. As well as dodgems, enjoy the art installation taking over the courtyard and delicious food and drink by Jimmy Garcia.

Tower Bridge Walkway

As well as learning about the fascinating history of Tower Bridge, brave the glass floors of the high-level walkways, giving you panoramic views of the city 42 metres above the river.

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Return to the theatre…

Trips to the theatre were one of the activities we missed most during lockdown, so take your pick of these live shows for an unforgettable family day out.

A classic West End musical

What could be better for your first visit back to the theatre? You can’t beat a musical in the West End. From The Lion King to Back To The Future, take your pick from Visit London’s round-up of the ten very best musicals.

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

If your children are a little too young to sit still for a long show, this is the show for you, based on Britain’s best-loved picture book by Judith Kerr.

Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre: Dragons and Mystical Beasts

The most scenic theatre experience, the iconic Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre has been running since 1932 in the beautiful surroundings of this Royal Park. This summer sees the arrival of ‘Dragons and Mystical Beasts’, a show perfect for entertaining the kids!

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Stay active outdoors…

During the last year, we’ve all spent more time in the great outdoors, so keep up that healthy lifestyle with our al fresco activity suggestions.

Visit a London Lido

Enjoy a day by the pool without leaving London. Whether you’re heading south for a splash at Brockwell Lido, jumping in at Hampton Pool or enjoying views of London after a swim at Parliament Hill Lido, London has many outdoor pools that make for a perfect day in the sun.

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Offering white water rafting, horse riding and much more, Lee Valley is the ultimate location for those looking for adventure. Let the little ones burn some energy with their choice of sport.

Go Ape!

Go Ape’s Treetop Adventure at Battersea Park is perfect for little explorers with intricate crossings, wobbly bridges and great zip wire rides. If you’d like to get involved too, head for heights in their Treetop Challenge.

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Learn something new…

It’s been quite some time since we were able to experience London’s museums, so escape the sun for a few hours and teach the kids something new with one of these interesting educational experiences.

Churchill War Rooms

Visit the underground headquarters that sheltered Churchill and his wartime government during the Blitz, just a hop, skip and a jump away from The Athenaeum!

Tower of London

London’s most famous fortress, palace and prison, take a tour of the Tower of London and get up close to the Crown Jewels.

Science Museum: Our Future Planet

As well as looking back at the history of London, think about the future with this free exhibition that explores the technologies being developed to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and help us fight climate change.

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