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PATRICK'S DAY to all of you :) <div class='call_to_action'> <!-- gallery teaser --><a href="/inspired-Gamestomper-Grandpa-course-7567342?page=0,0,0">View Slideshow ›</a><!-- /gallery teaser --> </div> <hr class=space> http://intelligence-and-fun.buzzsugar.com/inspired-Gamestomper-Grandpa-course-7567342#comment Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:01:57 -0800 Iveenia http://intelligence-and-fun.buzzsugar.com/inspired-Gamestomper-Grandpa-course-7567342 http://whats-in-a-name.tressugar.com/Kadence-Clover-Hawk-1753872 <a href="http://whats-in-a-name.tressugar.com/Kadence-Clover-Hawk-1753872"><img width=119 height=160 src='http://media.onsugar.com/files/upl1/2/21097/27_2008/tony hawk.large.jpg'></div></a><p><SPAN class="inline left"><a href="/node/1753865" rel="nofollow"></a></SPAN></p> <p>Skater Tony Hawk, 40, and wife Lhotse Merriam Hawk, 35, have welcomed their first child together, a baby girl. Kadence Clover Hawk was born Monday, June 30th in La Jolla, CA. 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The cell lines they need are “immortal”-they can grow indefinitely, be frozen for decades, divided into different batches and shared among scientists. </p> <p><b>In 1951, a scientist at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, created the first immortal human cell line with a tissue sample taken from a young black woman with cervical cancer. Those cells, called HeLa cells, quickly became invaluable to medical research-though their donor remained a mystery for decades.</b> In her new book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, journalist Rebecca Skloot tracks down the story of the source of the amazing HeLa cells, Henrietta Lacks, and documents the cell line's impact on both modern medicine and the Lacks family.</p> <p><b>Who was Henrietta Lacks?</b></p> <p>She was a black tobacco farmer from southern Virginia who got cervical cancer when she was 30. A doctor at Johns Hopkins took a piece of her tumor without telling her and sent it down the hall to scientists there who had been trying to grow tissues in culture for decades without success. No one knows why, but her cells never died.</p> <p><b>Why are her cells so important?</b></p> <p>Henrietta’s cells were the first immortal human cells ever grown in culture. They were essential to developing the polio vaccine. They went up in the first space missions to see what would happen to cells in zero gravity. Many scientific landmarks since then have used her cells, including cloning, gene mapping and in vitro fertilization.</p> <p><b>There has been a lot of confusion over the years about the source of HeLa cells. Why?</b></p> <p>When the cells were taken, they were given the code name HeLa, for the first two letters in Henrietta and Lacks. Today, anonymizing samples is a very important part of doing research on cells. But that wasn’t something doctors worried about much in the 1950s, so they weren’t terribly careful about her identity. When some members of the press got close to finding Henrietta’s family, the researcher who’d grown the cells made up a pseudonym-Helen Lane-to throw the media off track. Other pseudonyms, like Helen Larsen, eventually showed up, too. Her real name didn’t really leak out into the world until the 1970s.</p> <p><b>How did you first get interested in this story?</b></p> <p>I first learned about Henrietta in 1988. I was 16 and a student in a community college biology class. Everybody learns about these cells in basic biology, but what was unique about my situation was that my teacher actually knew Henrietta’s real name and that she was black. But that’s all he knew. The moment I heard about her, I became obsessed: Did she have any kids? What do they think about part of their mother being alive all these years after she died? Years later, when I started being interested in writing, one of the first stories I imagined myself writing was hers. But it wasn’t until I went to grad school that I thought about trying to track down her family.</p> <p></p> <p><b>How did you win the trust of Henrietta’s family?</b></p> <p>Part of it was that I just wouldn’t go away and was determined to tell the story. It took almost a year even to convince Henrietta’s daughter, Deborah, to talk to me. I knew she was desperate to learn about her mother. So when I started doing my own research, I’d tell her everything I found. I went down to Clover, Virginia, where Henrietta was raised, and tracked down her cousins, then called Deborah and left these stories about Henrietta on her voice mail. Because part of what I was trying to convey to her was I wasn’t hiding anything, that we could learn about her mother together. After a year, finally she said, fine, let’s do this thing.</p> <p><b>When did her family find out about Henrietta’s cells?</b></p> <p>Twenty-five years after Henrietta died, a scientist discovered that many cell cultures thought to be from other tissue types, including breast and prostate cells, were in fact HeLa cells. It turned out that HeLa cells could float on dust particles in the air and travel on unwashed hands and contaminate other cultures. It became an enormous controversy. In the midst of that, one group of scientists tracked down Henrietta’s relatives to take some samples with hopes that they could use the family’s DNA to make a map of Henrietta’s genes so they could tell which cell cultures were HeLa and which weren’t, to begin straightening out the contamination problem.</p> <p>So a postdoc called Henrietta’s husband one day. But he had a third-grade education and didn’t even know what a cell was. The way he understood the phone call was: “We’ve got your wife. She’s alive in a laboratory. We’ve been doing research on her for the last 25 years. And now we have to test your kids to see if they have cancer.” Which wasn’t what the researcher said at all. The scientists didn’t know that the family didn’t understand. From that point on, though, the family got sucked into this world of research they didn’t understand, and the cells, in a sense, took over their lives.</p> <p><b>How did they do that?</b></p> <p>This was most true for Henrietta’s daughter. Deborah never knew her mother; she was an infant when Henrietta died. She had always wanted to know who her mother was but no one ever talked about Henrietta. So when Deborah found out that this part of her mother was still alive she became desperate to understand what that meant: Did it hurt her mother when scientists injected her cells with viruses and toxins? Had scientists cloned her mother? And could those cells help scientists tell her about her mother, like what her favorite color was and if she liked to dance.</p> <p>Deborah’s brothers, though, didn’t think much about the cells until they found out there was money involved. HeLa cells were the first human biological materials ever bought and sold, which helped launch a multi-billion-dollar industry. When Deborah’s brothers found out that people were selling vials of their mother’s cells, and that the family didn’t get any of the resulting money, they got very angry. Henrietta’s family has lived in poverty most of their lives, and many of them can’t afford health insurance. One of her sons was homeless and living on the streets of Baltimore. So the family launched a campaign to get some of what they felt they were owed financially. It consumed their lives in that way.</p> <p><b>What are the lessons from this book?</b></p> <p>For scientists, one of the lessons is that there are human beings behind every biological sample used in the laboratory. So much of science today revolves around using human biological tissue of some kind. For scientists, cells are often just like tubes or fruit flies-they’re just inanimate tools that are always there in the lab. The people behind those samples often have their own thoughts and feelings about what should happen to their tissues, but they’re usually left out of the equation.</p> <p><b>And for the rest of us? </b></p> <p>The story of HeLa cells and what happened with Henrietta has often been held up as an example of a racist white scientist doing something malicious to a black woman. But that’s not accurate. The real story is much more subtle and complicated. What is very true about science is that there are human beings behind it and sometimes even with the best of intentions things go wrong.</p> <p>One of the things I don’t want people to take from the story is the idea that tissue culture is bad. So much of medicine today depends on tissue culture. HIV tests, many basic drugs, all of our vaccines-we would have none of that if it wasn’t for scientists collecting cells from people and growing them. And the need for these cells is going to get greater, not less. Instead of saying we don’t want that to happen, we just need to look at how it can happen in a way that everyone is OK with.</p> <p>Read more: <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Henrietta-Lacks-Immortal-Cells.html#ixzz0eLbip3ci" title="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Henrietta-Lacks-Immortal-Cells.html#ixzz0eLbip3ci" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Henrietta-Lacks-Immortal-Ce...</a><br /> .<br /> </p> http://intelligence-and-fun.buzzsugar.com/Henrietta-Lacks-Immortal-Cells-7249325#comment Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:25:36 -0800 PinkNC http://intelligence-and-fun.buzzsugar.com/Henrietta-Lacks-Immortal-Cells-7249325 http://citizen-40.tressugar.com/Henrietta-Lacks-Immortal-Cells-7249197 <a href="http://citizen-40.tressugar.com/Henrietta-Lacks-Immortal-Cells-7249197"><img width=160 height=86 src='http://media.onsugar.com/files/2010/02/05/1/304/3040631/203567b490a8f651_Henrietta-David-Lacks-1945-388.large.jpg'></div></a><p></p> <p><b>Henrietta Lacks' cells were essential in developing the polio vaccine and were used in scientific landmarks such as cloning, gene mapping and in vitro fertilization.</b></p> <p><b>Henrietta Lacks’ ‘Immortal’ Cells </b></p> <p>*Journalist Rebecca Skloot’s new book investigates how a poor black tobacco farmer had a groundbreaking impact on modern medicine *</p> <p>Medical researchers use laboratory-grown human cells to learn the intricacies of how cells work and test theories about the causes and treatment of diseases. The cell lines they need are “immortal”-they can grow indefinitely, be frozen for decades, divided into different batches and shared among scientists. </p> <p><b>In 1951, a scientist at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, created the first immortal human cell line with a tissue sample taken from a young black woman with cervical cancer. Those cells, called HeLa cells, quickly became invaluable to medical research-though their donor remained a mystery for decades.</b> In her new book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, journalist Rebecca Skloot tracks down the story of the source of the amazing HeLa cells, Henrietta Lacks, and documents the cell line's impact on both modern medicine and the Lacks family.</p> <p><b>Who was Henrietta Lacks?</b></p> <p>She was a black tobacco farmer from southern Virginia who got cervical cancer when she was 30. A doctor at Johns Hopkins took a piece of her tumor without telling her and sent it down the hall to scientists there who had been trying to grow tissues in culture for decades without success. No one knows why, but her cells never died.</p> <p><b>Why are her cells so important?</b></p> <p>Henrietta’s cells were the first immortal human cells ever grown in culture. They were essential to developing the polio vaccine. They went up in the first space missions to see what would happen to cells in zero gravity. Many scientific landmarks since then have used her cells, including cloning, gene mapping and in vitro fertilization.</p> <p><b>There has been a lot of confusion over the years about the source of HeLa cells. Why?</b></p> <p>When the cells were taken, they were given the code name HeLa, for the first two letters in Henrietta and Lacks. Today, anonymizing samples is a very important part of doing research on cells. But that wasn’t something doctors worried about much in the 1950s, so they weren’t terribly careful about her identity. When some members of the press got close to finding Henrietta’s family, the researcher who’d grown the cells made up a pseudonym-Helen Lane-to throw the media off track. Other pseudonyms, like Helen Larsen, eventually showed up, too. Her real name didn’t really leak out into the world until the 1970s.</p> <p><b>How did you first get interested in this story?</b></p> <p>I first learned about Henrietta in 1988. I was 16 and a student in a community college biology class. Everybody learns about these cells in basic biology, but what was unique about my situation was that my teacher actually knew Henrietta’s real name and that she was black. But that’s all he knew. The moment I heard about her, I became obsessed: Did she have any kids? What do they think about part of their mother being alive all these years after she died? Years later, when I started being interested in writing, one of the first stories I imagined myself writing was hers. But it wasn’t until I went to grad school that I thought about trying to track down her family.</p> <p></p> <p><b>How did you win the trust of Henrietta’s family?</b></p> <p>Part of it was that I just wouldn’t go away and was determined to tell the story. It took almost a year even to convince Henrietta’s daughter, Deborah, to talk to me. I knew she was desperate to learn about her mother. So when I started doing my own research, I’d tell her everything I found. I went down to Clover, Virginia, where Henrietta was raised, and tracked down her cousins, then called Deborah and left these stories about Henrietta on her voice mail. Because part of what I was trying to convey to her was I wasn’t hiding anything, that we could learn about her mother together. After a year, finally she said, fine, let’s do this thing.</p> <p><b>When did her family find out about Henrietta’s cells?</b></p> <p>Twenty-five years after Henrietta died, a scientist discovered that many cell cultures thought to be from other tissue types, including breast and prostate cells, were in fact HeLa cells. It turned out that HeLa cells could float on dust particles in the air and travel on unwashed hands and contaminate other cultures. It became an enormous controversy. In the midst of that, one group of scientists tracked down Henrietta’s relatives to take some samples with hopes that they could use the family’s DNA to make a map of Henrietta’s genes so they could tell which cell cultures were HeLa and which weren’t, to begin straightening out the contamination problem.</p> <p>So a postdoc called Henrietta’s husband one day. But he had a third-grade education and didn’t even know what a cell was. The way he understood the phone call was: “We’ve got your wife. She’s alive in a laboratory. We’ve been doing research on her for the last 25 years. And now we have to test your kids to see if they have cancer.” Which wasn’t what the researcher said at all. The scientists didn’t know that the family didn’t understand. From that point on, though, the family got sucked into this world of research they didn’t understand, and the cells, in a sense, took over their lives.</p> <p><b>How did they do that?</b></p> <p>This was most true for Henrietta’s daughter. Deborah never knew her mother; she was an infant when Henrietta died. She had always wanted to know who her mother was but no one ever talked about Henrietta. So when Deborah found out that this part of her mother was still alive she became desperate to understand what that meant: Did it hurt her mother when scientists injected her cells with viruses and toxins? Had scientists cloned her mother? And could those cells help scientists tell her about her mother, like what her favorite color was and if she liked to dance.</p> <p>Deborah’s brothers, though, didn’t think much about the cells until they found out there was money involved. HeLa cells were the first human biological materials ever bought and sold, which helped launch a multi-billion-dollar industry. When Deborah’s brothers found out that people were selling vials of their mother’s cells, and that the family didn’t get any of the resulting money, they got very angry. Henrietta’s family has lived in poverty most of their lives, and many of them can’t afford health insurance. One of her sons was homeless and living on the streets of Baltimore. So the family launched a campaign to get some of what they felt they were owed financially. It consumed their lives in that way.</p> <p><b>What are the lessons from this book?</b></p> <p>For scientists, one of the lessons is that there are human beings behind every biological sample used in the laboratory. So much of science today revolves around using human biological tissue of some kind. For scientists, cells are often just like tubes or fruit flies-they’re just inanimate tools that are always there in the lab. The people behind those samples often have their own thoughts and feelings about what should happen to their tissues, but they’re usually left out of the equation.</p> <p><b>And for the rest of us? </b></p> <p>The story of HeLa cells and what happened with Henrietta has often been held up as an example of a racist white scientist doing something malicious to a black woman. But that’s not accurate. The real story is much more subtle and complicated. 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Instead of saying we don’t want that to happen, we just need to look at how it can happen in a way that everyone is OK with.</p> <p>Read more: <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Henrietta-Lacks-Immortal-Cells.html#ixzz0eLbip3ci" title="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Henrietta-Lacks-Immortal-Cells.html#ixzz0eLbip3ci" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Henrietta-Lacks-Immortal-Ce...</a><br /> .<br /> </p> http://citizen-40.tressugar.com/Henrietta-Lacks-Immortal-Cells-7249197#comment Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:06:07 -0800 PinkNC http://citizen-40.tressugar.com/Henrietta-Lacks-Immortal-Cells-7249197 http://style-ish.fabsugar.com/White-Clover-3584849 <a href="http://style-ish.fabsugar.com/White-Clover-3584849"><img width=160 height=147 src='http://media.onsugar.com/files/ed3/192/1922398/47_2009/spread_Vx2xl9.large.jpg'></div></a><link rel="stylesheet" href="http://media.onsugar.com/v273/static/css/sugar-layout.css" type="text/css" media="all"><div class="renderedspread" style="position: relative;"> <div class='text' style="width:100px; 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So, if you are looking for some candles as presents or just would like to buy some candles, check this site out.<br />  <br /> <br />  <br /> <a href="http://www.aromasfromheaven.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.aromasfromheaven.org</a><br />  <br />  <br /> 16 oz candle is $14.00 Below are the scents they come in.<br />  <br /> Almond / Amaretto / Amber Romance / Ambrosia / Angel Whisper's / Angel Wing's / Apple / Apple Blossom / Apple Cinnamon / Apple Fritter / Apple Pie / Apples &amp; Berries / Apples &amp; Clove / Apples &amp; Oak / Apricot / Apricot Freesia / Aroma Therapy / Autumn Afternoon / Autumn Leaves / Baby Magic / Baby Powder / Banana / Banana Nut Bread / Bayberry / Bedazzled / Bergamont / Berries Jubilee / Berry Cobbler / Beulah Land / Birthday Cake / Blackberry / Blackberry Cheesecake / Blackberry Tea / Black Cherry / Black Raspberry Vanilla / Blue Lagoon / Blueberry / Blueberry Cheesecake / Blueberry Cream / Blueberry Muffin / Bounce / Brown Sugar / Brown Sugar &amp; Fig / Brown Sugar &amp; Spice / Bubble Gum / Buttercream Frosting / Butterfly Kisses / Buttermilk Pancakes / Butternut Cookies / Butterscotch / Butterscotch Candy / Buttery Toffee / Buttery Vanilla / Calm / Candy Cane / Candy Corn / Cantaloupe / Cappuccino / Caribbean Cool / Carmel Apple / Carmel Toffee / Carnation / Carrot Cake / Cedar / Chamomile / Chamomile &amp; Lavender / Chanel #5 / Cherry / Cherry Almond / Cherry Blossom / Cherry Cheesecake / Cherry Cream / Cherry Jubilee / Cherry Vanilla / China Rain / Chocolate / Chocolate Cake / Chocolate Chip Cookie / Chocolate Covered Cherry / Chocolate Mint / Chocolate Mint Cookie / Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup / Christmas Clove / Christmas Cookie / Christmas Essence / Christmas Eve / Christmas Spice / Christmas Splendor / Christmas Tree / Christmas Wreath / Cinnamon / Cinnamon Bun / Cinnamon Candy / Cinnamon &amp; Cedar / Cinnamon &amp; Clove / Cinnamon Crunch / Cinnamon Pear / Cinnamon Rose / Cinnamon Spice / Cinnamon Styx / Citrus Blast / Clean Cotton / Clove / Coconut / Coconut Cream / Coconut Lime / Coconut Lime Verbina / Coffee / Coffee Cake / Concord Grape / Cookie Jar / Cool Water / Cotton Blossom / Cotton Candy Red / Cotton Candy Blue / Cotton Cany Vanilla / Country Berry Hot Cakes / Country Clothesline / Country Fresh / Country Spice / Cranberry / Cranberry Ice / Cranberry Orange / Cranberry Plum Cranberry Spice / Creme Brulee / Cucumber &amp; 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Lilly / Sweet Pea &amp; Patchouli / Tangerine Dreams / Tea Rose / Toasted Marshmellow / Tootsie Roll / Tropical Fruit / Tulips / Vanilla / Vanilla Bean / Vanilla Cinnamon / Vanilla Clove / Vanilla Cookie / Vanilla Jasmine / Vanilla Hazelnut / Vanilla Heather / Vanilla Ice / Vanilla Lace / Vanilla Lavender / Vanilla Patchouli / Vanilla Pumpkin / Vanilla Sandalwood / Vanilla Spice / Verbina / Very Sexy / Violets / Warm Summer Day / Warm Vanilla Sugar / Watermelon / Wedding Cake / White Eucalyptus / White Diamonds / White Linen / White Tea / White Tea &amp; Ginger / Wild Berries / Winter Pear / Wisteria<br />  <br />  <br /> There are other sizes and soy candles available, plus oil for oil burners. Check the site out, they have some awesome stuff.<br />  </p> http://intelligence-and-fun.buzzsugar.com/AROMAS-FROM-HEAVEN-6534922#comment Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:30:41 -0800 Monique Marie http://intelligence-and-fun.buzzsugar.com/AROMAS-FROM-HEAVEN-6534922 http://liberal-sugar.tressugar.com/Charlie-Brandts-White-House-carpenter-turned-beekeeper-6051137 <a href="http://liberal-sugar.tressugar.com/Charlie-Brandts-White-House-carpenter-turned-beekeeper-6051137"><img width=160 height=105 src='http://media.onsugar.com/files/cm2/195/1950914/45_2009/aa3b6df8f61197e2_bees-final-a.large.jpg'></div></a><p></p> <p>A new type of visitor came to the National Mall this year, flitting past monuments and museums in favor of trees, flowers and plants. But this wasn’t just some horticultural tour; no, this was work. Each day they were abuzz, gathering and pollinating before returning home to modest quarters with tremendous security near Lafayette Park.</p> <p>Meet the White House honeybee. </p> <p>Numbering more than 65,000 at one point, the bees produced a bumper crop of honey this year, the first time honey has ever been made on White House grounds. The hive, located on the South Lawn, is a key part of First Lady Michelle Obama’s organic kitchen garden project.</p> <p>Basswood and cherry trees helped create a unique taste for White House honey.</p> <p>The total haul was 134 pounds of honey, or roughly 11 gallons. Charlie Brandts, the White House beekeeper, couldn’t be more pleased. “I figured they would make 30 or so pounds of honey,” he said. “They surprised me.”</p> <p>That access to the National Mall is one reason. “It’s just an abundance of blooms,” Mr. Brandts said, noting the local flowers, plants and trees were ripe with bee-attracting nectar. “The Ellipse and monument grounds are just a great source of clover. It’s like having a huge pasture.”</p> <p>A White House carpenter for the past 25 years, Mr. Brandts started beekeeping in the backyard of his Maryland home three years ago.</p> <p>The natural honey his hives produced drew the attention of White House chefs, who introduced him to Sam Kass, the Chicago chef who followed the Obamas from their hometown to the White House. Mr. Kass wondered whether beehives could be part of the White House garden.</p> <p>Mr. Brandts secured the hive with straps one afternoon this summer. “I said ‘I think it would be very doable,’ ” Mr. Brandt said, recalling the conversation. “It was that simple. It just gets complicated after that.”</p> <p>For one, the beehive sits in the flight path of Marine One, President Obama’s helicopter. “We don’t worry about just the lid blowing off, we worry about the hive blowing over,” Mr. Brandts said.</p> <p>Mr. Brandts lent the White House bee swarms from his own backyard, setting up the new hive in late March. The bees –which travel as far as three miles from the hive– started bringing in nectar in April.</p> <p>“These bees on the South Grounds are such sweet bees,” Mr. Brandts said. “I don’t know if it’s because they are down there by themselves or they are just the best bees.” </p> <p>In June, Mr. Brandts collected 42 pounds of honey in the first extraction. (Since he uses a handheld smoker to placate the bees, he alerts the Secret Service beforehand.) At first, the bees produced a mild, delicately flavored honey lightly tan in color. The Mall’s cherry trees, which bloomed in early April, provided some nectar for that first batch. Clover, black locust and basswood could also be detected. As the summer progressed, the honey’s color darkened, with the fifth and final extraction revealing honey almost chestnut in color.</p> <p>“We really only got two pounds of that, it’s a rarity,” Mr. Brandts said, noting that one flower on the grounds could have had an influence. “The whole fountain had red salvia planted around it, and it was always covered with bees. I suspect it was from that.”</p> <p> To extract the honey, Mr. Brandts first had to carve off the beeswax cover.Now that the weather has cooled, the bees’ production has slowed, and Mr. Brandts hopes to keep them alive, however, sleepily, through the winter. </p> <p>As for the abundance of honey, the White House has kept some for both the residence and for official events. During a Halloween party hosted by the White House on Saturday night, trick-or-treaters received a honey-sweetened shortbread cookie. And at Latin American concert last month, the menu included desserts made with honey.</p> <p>In addition, spouses of world leaders received special jars of the honey as one of the gifts from Mrs. Obama at the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh earlier this fall. Miriam’s Kitchen, a local food bank which serves meals to the homeless, has received honey along with produce from the garden.</p> <p>“It doesn’t take a lot to make a difference,” said Steve Badt, kitchen operations director at Miriam’s Kitchen, where they have made fruit smoothies finished with a drizzle of White House honey. “Each blenderful gets a tablespoon or so. It’s a nice little touch, just like tea.”</p> <p><a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/white-house-abuzz-with-first-honey/?pagemode=print" title="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/white-house-abuzz-with-first-honey/?pagemode=print" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/white-house-abuzz-with-fir...</a></p> http://liberal-sugar.tressugar.com/Charlie-Brandts-White-House-carpenter-turned-beekeeper-6051137#comment Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:10:47 -0800 stephley http://liberal-sugar.tressugar.com/Charlie-Brandts-White-House-carpenter-turned-beekeeper-6051137 http://pets-group2.petsugar.com/Clover-1706884 <a href="http://pets-group2.petsugar.com/Clover-1706884"><img width=160 height=120 src='http://media.onsugar.com/files/upl1/30/302350/24_2008/clover.large.gif'></div></a> http://pets-group2.petsugar.com/Clover-1706884#comment Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:39:22 -0700 MAC upaholic http://pets-group2.petsugar.com/Clover-1706884 http://pets-group2.petsugar.com/Crimson-Clover-1706742 <a href="http://pets-group2.petsugar.com/Crimson-Clover-1706742"><img width=160 height=132 src='http://media.onsugar.com/files/upl1/30/302350/24_2008/crimmy and clover.large.gif'></div></a> http://pets-group2.petsugar.com/Crimson-Clover-1706742#comment Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:12:03 -0700 MAC upaholic http://pets-group2.petsugar.com/Crimson-Clover-1706742 http://pets-group2.petsugar.com/Clover-728586 <a href="http://pets-group2.petsugar.com/Clover-728586"><img width=160 height=120 src='http://media.onsugar.com/files/users/10/109879/43_2007/125491_1110267719.large.jpg'></div></a> http://pets-group2.petsugar.com/Clover-728586#comment Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:43:59 -0700 Iheartdessert http://pets-group2.petsugar.com/Clover-728586