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ISSUE 06 / MARCH 2017<br />
STARS CLAP INC<br />
2017<br />
SPRING<br />
TREND<br />
GUIDE<br />
DIY BAG<br />
YOU WONT<br />
BELIEVE<br />
HENRIETTA<br />
LACKS<br />
WOMANS HISTORY<br />
THAT CONTINUES<br />
TO SHAPE THE<br />
FUTURE OF<br />
BIOMEDICINE<br />
BECOME<br />
A HAPPIER<br />
PERSON
I N F L U E N T I A L W O M
E N S P E A K<br />
W O R D S F O R O U R Y O U T H T O L I V E B Y<br />
S P O K E N B Y S O M E O F T H E M O S T<br />
I N F L U E N T I A L W O M E N . . .<br />
“The most difficult thing is the decision to<br />
act, the rest is merely tenacity.” - Amelia<br />
Earhart<br />
“Step out of the history that is holding you<br />
back. Step into the new story you are willing to<br />
create.” - Oprah Winfrey<br />
“We do not need magic to change the world,<br />
we carry all the power we need inside<br />
ourselves already: we have the power to<br />
imagine better.” - J.K. Rowling<br />
“There are two kinds of people, those who do<br />
the work and those who take the credit. Try to<br />
be in the first group; there is less competition<br />
there.” - Indira Gandhi<br />
“Everyone shines, given the<br />
right lighting.” - Susan Cain<br />
“Knowing what must be done does<br />
away with fear.” - Rosa Parks
The Immortal<br />
Woman...<br />
Polio. Cancer. Cloning.<br />
Scientists researching<br />
these and many other<br />
areas have one thing in<br />
common: the human cells<br />
they use in their tests all<br />
come from a young<br />
African-American woman<br />
named Henrietta Lacks.<br />
HENRIETTA LACKS<br />
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Henrietta Lacks was born Loretta Pleasant<br />
on August 1, 1920, in Roanoke, Virginia, to<br />
Eliza and Johnny Pleasant. Her family is<br />
uncertain how her name changed from<br />
Loretta to Henrietta, but she was<br />
nicknamed Hennie. When Lacks was four<br />
years old in 1924, her mother died giving<br />
birth to her tenth child.Unable to care for<br />
the children alone after his wife's death,<br />
Lacks' father moved the family to Clover,<br />
Virginia, where the children were<br />
distributed among relatives. Lacks ended<br />
up with her grandfather, Tommy Lacks, in a<br />
two-story log cabin that was once the<br />
slave quarters on the plantation that had<br />
been owned by Henrietta's white greatgrandfather<br />
and great-uncle. She shared a<br />
room with her nine-year-old cousin and<br />
future husband, David "Day" Lacks (1915–<br />
2002).<br />
Like most members of her family living in<br />
Clover, Lacks worked as a tobacco farmer<br />
starting from an early age. In 1935, when<br />
Lacks was 14 years old, she gave birth to a<br />
son, Lawrence Lacks. In 1939, her daughter<br />
Elsie Lacks (1939–1955) was born. Both<br />
children were fathered by Day Lacks. On<br />
April 10, 1941, Day and Henrietta Lacks<br />
were married in Halifax County, Virginia.<br />
Later that year, their cousin, convinced the<br />
couple to leave the tobacco farm in<br />
Virginia and move to Maryland.
The HeLa cell line is an immortal cell line,<br />
its cells will and can grow indefinitely.<br />
Living in Maryland, Henrietta<br />
and Day Lacks had three more<br />
children. Lacks gave birth to<br />
her last child at the Johns<br />
Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore<br />
in November 1950, four and a<br />
half months before she was<br />
diagnosed with cervical<br />
cancer.<br />
On January 29, 1951, Lacks<br />
went to Johns Hopkins, the<br />
only hospital in the area that<br />
treated black patients, because<br />
she felt a "knot" in her womb.<br />
There, her doctor, Howard W.<br />
Jones, took a biopsy of the<br />
mass on Lacks's cervix for<br />
laboratory testing. Soon after,<br />
Lacks was told that she had a<br />
malignant epidermoid<br />
carcinoma of the cervix.<br />
Lacks was treated with radium<br />
tube inserts as an inpatient and<br />
discharged a few days later<br />
with instructions to return for<br />
X-ray treatments as a followup.<br />
During her treatments, two<br />
samples were taken from<br />
Lacks's cervix without her<br />
permission or knowledge; one<br />
sample was of healthy tissue<br />
and the other was cancerous.<br />
These samples were given to<br />
George Otto Gey, a physician<br />
and cancer researcher at Johns<br />
Hopkins.<br />
The cells from the cancerous sample eventually<br />
became known as the HeLa immortal cell line, a<br />
commonly used cell line in contemporary biomedical<br />
research to this day.<br />
On August 8, 1951, Lacks, who was only 31 years old,<br />
went to Johns Hopkins for a routine treatment<br />
session and asked to be admitted due to continued<br />
severe abdominal pain. She received blood<br />
transfusions and remained at the hospital until her<br />
death on October 4, 1951. A partial autopsy showed<br />
that the cancer had metastasized throughout her<br />
entire body.<br />
The headstone of Henrietta Lacks contains an<br />
epitaph written by her grandchildren that reads:<br />
Henrietta Lacks, August 1, 1920 - October 4, 1951<br />
In loving memory of a phenomenal woman,<br />
wife and mother who touched the lives of many.<br />
Here lies Henrietta Lacks (HeLa). Her immortal<br />
cells will continue to help mankind forever.<br />
Eternal Love and Admiration, From Your Family<br />
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INTERNATIONAL REA<br />
TO ME DAY<br />
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child to inspire a village."— Emma Mactaggart, The<br />
Child Writes Fund<br />
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Tell<br />
By Lisa Baxter<br />
A story of courage that helps<br />
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Sudsy and Wooly discover their human is<br />
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D<br />
Literacy<br />
is a gateway skill for us<br />
all. If you can’t read you get left<br />
behind in so many ways. This has<br />
a major impact on your<br />
opportunities in life. Reading and<br />
writing create social connections<br />
and this creates opportunity for<br />
all; this is key to every person’s<br />
future success.<br />
We can all help others improve<br />
their literacy skills and truly enjoy<br />
reading a wonderful book.We<br />
want to encourage children<br />
especially, by dedicating a special<br />
day to reading together all Around<br />
the world. We want to change the<br />
dynamics and empower children<br />
to ask for more support, not just<br />
from their family but also from<br />
their community.<br />
Held on March 19th every year,<br />
International Read To Me Day<br />
provides a wonderful opportunity<br />
to have a conversation<br />
revolving around reading. By<br />
including community members,<br />
family members, and youth, we<br />
have an opportunity to become<br />
enlightened as to the possible<br />
barriers youth and community<br />
members may have in developing<br />
improved reading habits; perhaps<br />
a lack of resources, time,<br />
inadequate educational support or<br />
geographic isolation play a factor.<br />
International Read To Me Day not<br />
only provides a platform to discuss<br />
risk factors and solutions in the<br />
battle to improve literacy it also<br />
offers an excellent opportunity to<br />
spend quality time with others<br />
experiencing an adventure only a<br />
good book can provide.<br />
Read to someone today!<br />
Wishing on A Star<br />
BY LADEA SANDERS<br />
Dedicated to raising awareness of youth<br />
homelessness in America.<br />
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Deja's Great Start<br />
BY LADEA SANDERS<br />
Deja loves to read and with this<br />
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5S T E P S T O<br />
B E I N G A<br />
H A P P I E R<br />
P E R S O N<br />
"Happiness is like a butterfly: the<br />
more you chase it, the more it will<br />
elude you, but if you turn your<br />
attention to other things, it will come<br />
and sit softly on your shoulder."-<br />
Henry David Thoreau<br />
Everyone tends to head towards a<br />
happy life without worries and<br />
problems, but it isn’t always that<br />
easy. People define happiness in<br />
different ways. For some it’s health<br />
and well-being, for others it’s being<br />
famous with a bag full of money. For<br />
others its love. One thing is certain –<br />
it’s easier to notice someone else’s<br />
happiness than it is to notice your<br />
own, and it's the opposite with<br />
problems – our own seem to be much<br />
larger than other people's.<br />
Today we present 5 tips that will help<br />
you become a happy person and<br />
share it with the world.<br />
1MAKE TIME FOR<br />
YOU<br />
Having 'me' time is essential for<br />
positive mental health. Spending<br />
time doing things that inspire you<br />
makes you happy.<br />
Whether it's baking, walking the dog,<br />
salsa dancing, practising meditation,<br />
or swinging with childish abandon,<br />
self-activity inspires a positive<br />
attitude
2<br />
NURTURE YOUR<br />
RELATIONSHIPS<br />
A lot of our personal happiness comes<br />
from moments and feelings we get while<br />
interacting with others so make sure to<br />
make time to nurture positive<br />
relationships, you have in your life, and<br />
maybe even develop a couple of new<br />
ones.<br />
4<br />
ENJOY THE MOMENT<br />
So many of us are second guessing what's<br />
going to happen that we fail to experience<br />
what's happening right now and consequently<br />
end up missing out. Take a breath and look at how amazing<br />
your life is right now. Enjoy every moment you are given in<br />
life and truly appreciate the small things as if they were<br />
major events, because they usually end up being quite<br />
amazing and memorable.<br />
3<br />
LEARN A NEW SKILL<br />
Identify your personal strengths for a positivity<br />
boost! Noting how skilled we are in certain areas of<br />
our lives can remind us of just how talented we are<br />
and make us feel great. Trying a new activity, facing<br />
a fear or joining a new interest group can feel scary, but the<br />
rewards are worth it. People who take risks tend to be happier<br />
and more successful than those who don't.<br />
5GIVE TO OTHERS<br />
Giving can often make you happier. It is no secret<br />
that altruism can help us to feel good about<br />
ourselves, and this is now backed up by MRI scans which<br />
show this “warm-glow effect” in the reward centres of the<br />
brain. Experiments have been conducted in which a group<br />
of people are given money, and half of them are required to<br />
spend it on themselves while half are required to spend it on<br />
other people. Contrary to their own expectations, the half<br />
who spent the money on others consistently get more<br />
pleasure out of the experience than their non-altruistic<br />
colleagues.
SPRING FORWA
RD FASHION<br />
LOGO TEES<br />
Think back to the time when repping the logo of your<br />
favorite brand was all the rage. Then also think back to<br />
when that trend quickly faded and visible brand names<br />
became not only obsolete but also uncool. Well, we have<br />
news for you—this once cliché trend is officially back.<br />
Whether it's your favorite brand, designer, tv show,<br />
band or socially conscience statement, Logo Tees are<br />
being churned out in masses. From Gucci T-shirts to the<br />
ever-evolving statement tees this trend has already<br />
blown up and will only get bigger as we navigate our way<br />
through spring 2017.
BLUE THE C<br />
DENIM FOR<br />
DAYS<br />
An american staple<br />
transending the<br />
generations, denim, our<br />
favorite blue, is still<br />
standing strong with the<br />
spring fashion trends.<br />
With leggings, jackets and<br />
his and hers denim, it's no<br />
wonder you will see it<br />
everywhere this Spring!
OLOR OF THE SEASON<br />
INSTANT STYLE<br />
Whether its a romantic picnic in the<br />
park or a business lunch with the<br />
executives at your firm you will<br />
always be stylish in blue. The color is<br />
calming and flattering for every skin<br />
tone, making it a classic go to when<br />
you want to stand out from the<br />
typical.
THE CLASSIC BUTTON DOWN<br />
The classic mens button down<br />
business shirt has been re-<br />
invented for him and for her.<br />
New colors, patterns and<br />
designs have made it the<br />
hottest basic for years but in<br />
2017 it's on a whole new level.
CLASSICS FAVORITES<br />
RE-INVENTED<br />
PAJAMA'S FOR WORK<br />
Believe it or not, in large cut shapes and<br />
fabrics like silk or fine linen,<br />
accompanied by long coats (aka<br />
matching robes), In 2017 pajamas<br />
become an item of high fashion<br />
that you can wear to<br />
go to work or out<br />
to dinner. Just<br />
skip the slippers<br />
and opt for heels<br />
and designer dress<br />
shoes.
DID YOU KNOW<br />
About 100 billion plastic bags are<br />
used annually in the US alone and<br />
only about 2% of them are<br />
recycled? Check it out at www.<br />
droptheplasticbag.org.<br />
We can all do small things to help<br />
save our earth. Using reusable bags<br />
or totes is a very easy way to do<br />
your part. It is a great alternative to<br />
buying reusable bags or taking<br />
merchandise home in plastic bags<br />
from stores and much more<br />
fashionable! They are durable, can<br />
be washed and will last a long time.<br />
Everyone at some time or another<br />
has probably had an old t-shirt that<br />
they didn't need or like anymore.<br />
This is a way to improve that<br />
favorite old tee so instead of<br />
tossing it make it into a reusable<br />
tote in about 10 minutes.<br />
All you will need is an old t-shirt<br />
and a pair of scissors.<br />
EASY NO-SEW TOTE<br />
1<br />
CUT<br />
SLEEVES OFF OF SHIRT<br />
You can use a short or a long sleeved t-shirt. It won't matter since<br />
you will be cutting the sleeves off anyway. if you use an old tank<br />
top you can skip this step all together. Lay your t-shirt out on a flat<br />
work surface. Using a sharp pair of scissors cut the sleeves off of<br />
your t-shirt.
"This is a great project for kids and youth groups<br />
to do- give the bags to the homeless shelters."<br />
2<br />
CUT<br />
NECK OUT OF SHIRT<br />
You can use a large bowl and draw around it on your fabric to get a<br />
nice rounded scoop shape or just eyeball it and cut the scoop. I just<br />
eyeballed it. Again if you have a scooped or v- neckline you can skip<br />
this step too.<br />
3<br />
CUT SLITS AND TIE KNOTS<br />
At the bottom of the shirt cut slits about every inch through<br />
both layers (length will depend on the size of the shirt so<br />
you will have to make the call) long enough that you<br />
will be able to tie them twice. Remember the shirt will<br />
stretchwith weight so try to make sure your tote isn't<br />
going to hang to your feet with filled with goodies!<br />
4<br />
TIE<br />
IT UP!<br />
Keep the slits lined up and starting with one end tie the aligning front<br />
and back pieces together in double knots until you have done the<br />
entire row.
March 21,2017<br />
N a t i o n a l<br />
S i n g l e P a r e n t s<br />
D a y<br />
W<br />
e all know of a family member, friend, neighbor, co-worker or someone who is<br />
a single parent. Support and appreciate them. Make March 21, a special day for<br />
the single parents that you know. March 21st is the day set aside to observe<br />
National Single Parent Day. This day was created to honor and recognize the<br />
hard work, devotion and sacrifices of single parenting. Raising children can be<br />
challenging, and even more so for single parents. This day was created for you.<br />
In 1984 an article was written by Janice Moglen with the hope that Single Parent Day<br />
may one day gain the recognition many associate with Mother’s Day and Father’s Day.<br />
She collaborated with the organization, Parents Without Partners, and began to<br />
petition to have states declare recognition of Single Parent Day. It is the belief that the<br />
day, March 21, was chosen to coincide with the inception of Parents Without Partners,<br />
which began on March 21, 1957. Proclamation 5166 was presented to, and signed, by<br />
President Ronald Reagan declaring March 21st, 1984 as National Single Parent Day.<br />
.
CELEBRATE<br />
NEIGHBOR<br />
DAY EVERYDAY<br />
Being on bad terms with<br />
your neighbor can make<br />
your life frustrating, day<br />
after day. But taking the<br />
time to establish good<br />
terms with your<br />
neighbors has numerous<br />
benefits. The community<br />
will be friendlier, the<br />
neighbourhood safer,<br />
and the area a nicer and<br />
more comfortable place<br />
to live.<br />
What's a good<br />
neighbor?<br />
By definition a neighbor is<br />
someone who lives close by you,<br />
but "close" is a relative term. For<br />
the citydweller, the neighbor is<br />
probably someone in the next<br />
apartment, but for the urban<br />
family, the neighbor is a bit<br />
further away. And for those who<br />
live out in rural areas, the<br />
neighbor may live a mile or two<br />
away. But what is a good<br />
neighbor? A good neighbor is<br />
friendly and considerate,<br />
compassionate and kind. Most<br />
importantly good neighbors<br />
reach out to connect to each<br />
other.<br />
Here are a few keys to building<br />
good neighbor relationships that<br />
will lead to stronger<br />
communities.<br />
1<br />
INTRODUCE<br />
YOURSELF<br />
Often new residents move into<br />
our neighborhoods or we haven't<br />
had the time to meet those who<br />
have been there awhile. Spend a<br />
little time each week to<br />
introduce yourself. We all know<br />
how stressful and often scary, it<br />
can be to move, especially for<br />
children, and we have all<br />
experienced moments of<br />
isolation or lonliness, so say<br />
hello, offer a friendly gift and<br />
share info about the local area.<br />
Introducing yourself in a polite,<br />
kind way will definitely be<br />
appreciated and ease the stress<br />
being new to an area or feeling<br />
forgotten by others can bring..<br />
2<br />
COMMUNICATE<br />
REGULARLY<br />
Now that you have met your<br />
neighbors, touch base with them<br />
regularly and get to know them<br />
and their family. Keep them in<br />
the loop of your community or<br />
neighborhood. Keep the<br />
channels of communication<br />
open by including them in<br />
events, parties, clean-ups or<br />
anything else that impacts your<br />
community. Good neighbors<br />
should feel comfortable bonding<br />
with each other for the good of<br />
their neighborhood.<br />
HELP EACH<br />
OTHER.<br />
3 You don't have to be friends, you<br />
don't even have to knoow<br />
someone, to recognize that they<br />
need help and offer a small bit of<br />
kindness. Maybe its shoveling<br />
snow off the steps and sidewalk,<br />
offering to take a child to school,<br />
or someone to an appointment,<br />
or just checking in to make sure<br />
they are ok, helping others not<br />
only makes them feel better but<br />
helps you feel better about<br />
yourself as well. Knowing<br />
someone cares is the key to<br />
strong, safe communities and<br />
neighborhoods<br />
MARCH<br />
26TH<br />
2017
COMMUNITY<br />
A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR<br />
When I was a kid, we took a plate<br />
of food to our neighbors in need, we<br />
welcomed new neighbors with<br />
cookies and we borrowed sugar<br />
from next door if we ran out. We<br />
ran freely around the neighborhood<br />
until the street lights came on and<br />
Mom always knew we were safe<br />
because everyone looked out for<br />
each other. The elders policed our<br />
neighborhoods from the front porch<br />
and the back yard as our aunties<br />
and uncles and parents and<br />
grandparents sat in the evening over<br />
a glass of tea or lemonade and<br />
recalled the stories of how the<br />
neighborhood had been “when they<br />
was coming up” and discussed their<br />
joys and struggles of the day, and<br />
kept us all in line in a quickness for<br />
disrespecting ourselves, each other<br />
or our community. Saturday was<br />
spent with the men in the<br />
community helping the guy down<br />
the street get his car running before<br />
work Monday morning and the<br />
women cooking dinner and making<br />
enough that everyone had a plate.<br />
Sunday was for church and BBQ's<br />
that traveled from neighbors house<br />
to neighbors house each week, as<br />
we ran around catching firefly's and<br />
throwing baseballs, not catching<br />
attitudes and shooting bullets.<br />
Everyone knew each other, trusted<br />
each other and worked together to<br />
ensure the well being of the entire<br />
neighborhood.<br />
Fast forward to 2016. We have<br />
cell phones and facebook to<br />
make it easier to communicate<br />
all across the world, at any time<br />
day or night. The internet made<br />
it possible to learn and<br />
experience things some of us<br />
may have never had the<br />
opportunity to see, but with<br />
such amazing developments we<br />
have stopped developing our<br />
community and started<br />
developing social media<br />
networks. We get on line and<br />
talk about our relationships, our<br />
joys and our struggles, often<br />
with people we have never met<br />
and likely never will, yet we<br />
wont reach out to the person<br />
in our community we see<br />
everyday, we dont even hive<br />
time to make a phone call but<br />
we can tweet and text. We feel<br />
lonely, or sad, have a beautiful<br />
moment or great success and<br />
share it with no expectation of<br />
human contact on our timeline,<br />
and wonder why our younger<br />
generations lack emotion,<br />
empathy and love. We have<br />
become so consumed with our<br />
networks, we have lost our<br />
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communities. For most I believe<br />
its just easier to view life,<br />
rather than to experience it. Its<br />
not easy to live up to others<br />
expectations, or feel the pain<br />
when they dont live up to<br />
yours. You dont have to deal<br />
with emotions, you dont have<br />
to even be you. You can post<br />
the happiest pictures and cry<br />
all day, whos going to know.<br />
Sounds great to a lot of<br />
people; complete and total<br />
anoniminity and individual<br />
expression but at the end of<br />
the day you have to ask<br />
yourself who even cares..... we<br />
have all just become a picture<br />
on the screen. Instead of<br />
expanding our hearts and mind<br />
with all the access we have to<br />
others in the world we have<br />
narrowed our hearts with fear<br />
and anxiety of actual human<br />
contact and we have lost our<br />
sense of community, of caring<br />
about others and them caring<br />
about us, in fact we have<br />
come so far from the true<br />
definition of community that<br />
the United Nations has<br />
formulated a formal definition<br />
of community development as “a<br />
process where community members<br />
come together to take collective<br />
action and generate solutions to<br />
common problems.” and Community<br />
Builders as “a broad term given to<br />
civic leaders, activists, involved<br />
citizens and professionals that take<br />
action to improve various aspects of<br />
the community , in an effort to build<br />
stronger bonds, character and<br />
citizenship which in turn builds a<br />
stronger and more resilient<br />
sustainable local community.” When I<br />
was growing up that was called<br />
family,a neighbor, a friend, and we<br />
didn't require a government definition<br />
to remind us to be kind and care<br />
about one another. Its just my<br />
opinion and I'm sure it doesn't mean<br />
much to most, but if we want to live<br />
in world full of caring, considerate,<br />
loving people, with respect for each<br />
other, we have to start teaching<br />
each other how to be those things<br />
again, one COMMUNITY at a time.<br />
Each One Teach One Until You<br />
Reach One.
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