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By: Felicity Aston
Starting is the tough bit. A number of years ago I sat down and thought about what issues were important to me. What did I really care about? I had been doing a lot of travelling and I had become aware through that travel that as a woman I was fortunate to have grown up and to live in a society in which I was free to make my own choices. The more I saw of the world, the more I realised that the majority of women on this planet don’t have that simple freedom.
The thought made me unhappy but I wasn’t sure how I, an individual, could have any impact on such a global issue. I wasn’t a policymaker, I had no experience in development, education or anything that seemed relevant.
It was a while before I began to look at it from a different perspective. I focused on what I was good at and tried to think of ways in which I could use my particular skills to address the issue I was passionate about.
What I was good at was organising expeditions. For the previous ten years I had been taking part in, and then leading, ski expeditions to the Arctic having already spent three years living and working on an Antarctic research station as a meteorologist. Through those experiences I knew that skiing to the South Pole had become more than just an adventurous journey, it was (and is) a widely understood metaphor for overcoming obstacles to achieve a goal.
I wanted to put together an international team of women with the ambitious aim of skiing together to the South Pole. The expedition would be a positive statement about what women are achieving today. The team would not be experienced explorers but women with whom anyone following the expedition could identify with. We were wives, mothers and professionals, ranging in age from 19 to 43. Many team members had never slept in a tent or put on skis before joining the expedition. One had never seen snow.
I believed in the idea but I didn’t have any clue how I was going to make it real. I was an individual with no support from a big organisation, no funding and no particular credibility. At the time, the world was in financial meltdown. It couldn’t have been a worse year to look for sponsorship and support. Everyone with experience I spoke to gave me lots of very good reasons why now was not a good time, why I was not the right person, why my idea was sure to end in failure. And yet the response from women around the world couldn’t have been more positive.
I received dozens of emails from people I had never met who had heard about my project telling me how important this idea was to them and the impact is was having on their own motivation, ambitions, determination and views. I couldn’t give in.
Starting was the hard bit. I began with a laptop and a makeshift desk in my spare room. I started with a website announcing my plans and then began talking to anyone and everyone who might be able to offer advice or support. Despite the bad timing and the lack of resources my theory was that if I plugged away for long enough, eventually I would find the solution to any obstacle. I was right.
Moving forward, even if only in very small steps seemed to generate the momentum to keep making progress.
It took two years, but on December 29th, 2009, I stood at the South Pole with 6 women from 6 Commonwealth nations having skied more than 900km from the coast of Antarctica in the previous 38 days.
We were, and still are, the largest and most international team of women ever to ski to the South Pole.
Five years on and I still receive emails from men and women who have been given courage in one way or another by the story of the expedition. Those emails makes every moment I spent in the planning more than worthwhile.
I don’t think there is ever the perfect time or the perfect set of circumstances in which to start a project. If we delay until everything is in place, we could be delaying forever. Starting is the hardest part but it is also the most important. Whatever your idea, I urge you, make a start on it today!
About Felicity:
Felicity Aston is a Polar Explorer, Scientist, Author and Speaker. In 2012 she became the first woman in the world to ski solo across Antarctica. She regularly speaks to schools, businesses and audiences around the world about her expeditions and the lessons she has learnt along the way.
Video Clip from Newsies Courtesy of Disney
“This play is so…Disney…” my friend Steve Cabral turned and said to me as we attended opening night as the musical theatre season kicked off at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, CA.
And the truth is, it is very Disney. After all, they’re the producers and the movie the play was from, albeit an initial flop, is now a Disney cult classic.
The play, and movie, is the energetic Newsies now playing until April 19 and continuing on a national tour.
And while Cabral was thinking of the feel of the play, I was thinking of the substance. I’m part journalist, old school journalist, you know, pre-blogger. I know the importance of names like Hearst and Pulitzer, and I was once a paper boy, up before dawn, getting papers ready for my route.
Courtesy Disney Theatrical
You see, as a paper boy, each month I was billed for the papers I delivered; the amount that it took to fulfill my route. I billed the people on my route directly. I paid for the papers, and kept the difference.
That’s pretty much how it was for the “newsies” of turn of the century. Each morning, they would show up, pay .50 cents, and get 100 papers. Until Pulitzer and the others decided to raise it to .60 cents for the same amount. This meant they had to sell more to make the same and they didn’t like it. So, they organized, and revolted, and with the help of a little newspaper coverage, got the most powerful publishers in the world to listen.
A tale of that Davey vs. Goliath warrants a musical, and Newsies is that musical. The movie was directed and choreographed by Kenny Ortega in 1992. 20 years later, the stage musical has music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman, and a book by Harvey Fierstein. The musical premiered at the Paper Mill Playhouse in 2011 and made its Broadway debut in 2012.
Courtesy Disney Theatrical Dan DeLuca and Stephanie Styles
Our lead is Jack Kelly and 20-something newsie that ends up being the leader of the rag-tag group of ruffians. He’s played by they handsome Dan DeLuca who brought the crowed to their feet with his singing, dancing and exuberant delivery of the reluctant hero. Stephanie Styles as Katherine Pulitzer adds a plucky energy, one that the audience can’t help but love from her first number Watch What Happens to the rousing 11 o’clock number Once And For All.
But what resounded so strongly about Newsies at this time of changing media is just that: the play is about media changing, about papers having to make do and how people suffer when major shifts in media entities happen. In 2015 as newsrooms disappear and there’s even a newspaper death watch website the play is a reminder that as the last century saw major changes, changes that crippled some and drove others completely out of publishing, this century has seen the same. In fact, newspapers in 2015 feel part of a bygone era; one of more responsible journalism, and a centralized important source for information.
Comic, lively, downright hysterical at times, Newsies is a great time for young and old alike. It’s an evening of theatre for a date, for an anniversary, or for the kids. It’s the raucousness of Angela Grovey’s “Medda Larkin” breaking the third wall and playing with the audience or the eternal tingle of what happens when boy-meets-girl-boy-loses-girl-boy-gets-girl-in-the-end all set to music. It’s big dance numbers, pull-all-the-stops Broadway and it succeeds in part because Disney has this down to a science; the science of entertaining. It’s a great kickoff to musical theatre season in Los Angeles and a rousing night of theatre for the entire family.
You can find the official Playbill here and to hear music from the the national tour on SoundCloud just click!
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Perhaps you’ve been there: You meet someone who strikes your fancy. You chat. But you can’t place his or her age.
Wong Fu Productions’ “How Old Is She?!” hilariously peeks at one dude’s dilemma when he approaches a woman at a cafe. Maybe if he drops just one more pop culture reference, he’ll figure it out.
Or not.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Teenage Jewish diarist Anne Frank likely died of typhus in a Nazi concentration camp about a month earlier than previously thought, the Amsterdam museum that honors her memory said Tuesday on the 70th anniversary of the officially recognized date of her death.
Anne likely died, aged 15, at Bergen-Belsen camp in February 1945, said Erika Prins, a researcher at the Anne Frank House museum. Frank’s diary about hiding from the Nazis in the occupied Netherlands during World War II was published after the war. It became an international best-seller and made her an enduring symbol of Holocaust victims.
The new date of her death changes little about the tragic lives of Anne and her sister Margot, who went into hiding with their family in an Amsterdam canal house but were eventually betrayed, sent to Nazi concentration camps and died in the Holocaust along with millions of other Jews.
“It was horrible. It was terrible. And it still is,” Prins said.
But she said the new date lays to rest the idea that the sisters could have been rescued if they had lived just a little longer.
“When you say they died at the end of March, it gives you a feeling that they died just before liberation. So maybe if they’d lived two more weeks …,” Prins said, her voice trailing off. “Well, that’s not true anymore.”
Allied forces liberated the Nazis’ Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on April 15, 1945.
The earlier March 31 date of Anne’s death was set by Dutch authorities after the war, based on accounts suggesting she and her sister died sometime in March. At the time, Dutch officials did not have the resources to establish an exact date.
The new research studied existing eyewitness accounts, documents and archives, including at least one new interview. Witness accounts said Anne and her sister already showed signs of typhus in early February. Researchers cited Dutch health authorities as saying most typhus deaths happen around 12 days after the first symptoms.
“In view of this, the date of their death is more likely to be sometime in February. The exact date is unknown,” the researchers said.
In the words of one witness, Rachel van Amerongen, who knew the Frank sisters and was cited by researchers, “one day they simply weren’t there anymore.”
Just like a fierce tube of red lipstick, a great pair of sunglasses have the power to transform your entire look by simply slipping them on your face.
We’ve noticed that more and more of our favorite celebrities and street style stars are wearing such amazing sunnies that we hardly notice their clothes. No shade.
It’s amazing what a big impression such a small accessory can make. And thanks to designers like Karen Walker and Linda Farrow and trendy e-commerce sites like ASOS, there is no shortage of head-turning frames to covet.
We’ve rounded up a selection of stunners that will stylishly serve you well this spring and summer. Take a look and let us know which ones catch your eye in the comment section below.
Mirrored
These reflective lenses will definitely draw stares and not just because the admirers can see themselves in your gaze. Thanks to a variety of colors and shapes, mirrored shades are one of the most versatile eyewear trends.
1. Illesteva “Leonard” sunglasses, $177; 2. Ray-Ban sunglasses, $200; 3. TOMS “Booker” sunglasses, $139; 4. Oakley “Frogskins” sunglasses, $100; 5. Westward Leaning “Voyager 1” sunglasses, $195; 6. SUNSKI “Originals” sunglasses, $48
Round
By now you’ve probably got the memo that the ’70s are back! But if you’re not quite ready to go full-on Foxy Brown, in bell bottoms and fringe, then a round pair of sunglasses are enough to give you retro chic look.
1. Wildfox “Granny” sunglasses, $179; 2. 3.1 Phillip Lim “70” sunglasses, $297; 3. Karen Walker “Orbit” sunglasses, $349; 4. Chandler x Selma Optique, $225; 5. Forever21 sunglasses, $6; 6. Quay “Coco” sunglasses, $50
Flat Tops
Opt for this geometric frame if your face is on the rounder side. The juxtaposition of the severe line and rounded bottom will help elongate your face. And since they are similar to the classic wayfarers, you’re almost guaranteed to look cool!
1. Jeepers Peepers sunglasses, $43; 2. ASOS “Flatbrow Clubmaster” sunglasses, $22; 3. Stella McCartney sunglasses, $119; 4. Sunday Somewhere “MVP” sunglasses, $260; 5. 3.1 Phillip Lim “Flat-Top” aviators, $270; 6. RVS “Leisure” sunglasses, $375
Colorblock
Sometimes two hues are better than one. Colorblocked shades are the easiest way to add dimension and a whole lot of fun to your ensemble — whether you go the high contrast route in black-and-white or more punchy in teal-and-white.
1. ASOS “Half Frame” cat eye sunglasses, $22; 2. Mykita x Maison Margiela sunglasses, Price upon request; 3. Warby Parker “Winston” sunglasses, $95; 4. No Photos sunglasses, $41; 5. Tory Burch sunglasses, $195; 6. Karen Walker “Creeper” sunglasses, $329
The Showstoppers
These sunnies hardly need an explanation. Their eye-catching designs speak louder than words.
1. Le Specs “Hi-Brow” sunglasses, $90; 2. BonLook “Keiko” sunglasses, $69; 3. Grey Ant “Sail” sunglasses, $270; 4. Le Specs “Neo Noir” sunglasses, $56; 5. Quay “OMG Pinch Me” sunglasses, $45; 6. Khaleda Rajab + Fahad Almarzouq sunglasses, $339
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