Hartford: Weather and Much More From Answers.com

Hartford: Weather and Much More From Answers.com: "South End

This neighborhood is home to the area of Franklin Avenue, known as Little Italy. Although many Italians have moved just over the border to Wethersfield, Newington, and Rocky Hill, there is still a major Italian presence in the city. There are numerous Italian bakeries along Franklin Avenue. In the past few decades, there has been white flight from the South End, with many Puerto Rican families moving into the neighborhood but nevertheless there are many local favorites (restaurants, bakeries and stores) that draw people back into the South End."

Hartford: Weather and Much More From Answers.com

Hartford: Weather and Much More From Answers.com: "North End

The neighborhood is a conglomeration of formerly distinct neighborhoods that have been collapsed into a largely impoverished zone. Generally identified as consisting of the vast area north of Albany Avenue leading up to the Bloomfield and Windsor borders, the North End has been wracked by decades of policies such as redlining and racist city planning that transformed a once multi-cultural area of African-American, Jewish, and European immigrants into an underdeveloped zone of housing projects and slums that is nearly entirely African-American and poor. This began in the 1950s with the construction of I-84, which cut off North End from the rest of the city, followed by a high concentration of government-financed housing projects that caused the flight of the working and middle class to the suburbs.

Although many of the housing projects have been demolished in 1990s and 2000s, and were replaced with HUD home constructions designed to increase the proportion of working families in the North End, the area still suffers from underdevelopment and crime. Many of the North End's parks, such as Keney Park, are considered among the city's most dangerous. The schools are among the most segregated and underperforming in the country, with populations of impoverished and African-American students extending into the 90th percentile. Mortality rates in the North End are comparable to those of the South Bronx in New York City."

No Day at the Beach - New York Times

Thanksd to Sandy for this NY Times article on beaches and sun@!

No Day at the Beach - New York Times: "What makes ultraviolet light such a disagreeable portion of the sun's electromagnetic spectrum? It's a very shortwave form of light, which allows it to penetrate through soft, unprotected surfaces in search of entertainment. Upon infiltrating your skin cells, the light waves start exciting the resident molecules, loosening oxygen atoms and other reactive particles from their normal molecular moorings and sending them ricocheting through the cell. This is not a good thing. You no more want large numbers of reactive particles, or free radicals, wandering your cells than Crate & Barrel wants a nursery school in the stemware department. Free radicals smear, crack or break everything they touch. They punch holes in DNA and in the enzymes designed to repair DNA. Uncorrected genetic mutations pile up, and the seeds of cancerous growth are planted. To make matters worse, sunlight disrupts immune cells in the skin, and those cells in turn release chemical signals that suppress other key soldiers of the immune system, T cells. And T cells happen to be the body's best line of defense against cancer."

No Day at the Beach - New York Times

No Day at the Beach - New York Times: "THE SUN Granted, it is a very helpful astronomical object, and our skin needs a certain amount to synthesize Vitamin D, an essential nutrient. But that requisite exposure time is far shorter than most people realize. 'Twenty minutes of sun a week is all it takes,' said Dr. Diane Madfes, a spokeswoman for the American Academy of Dermatology, 'which you can get in your regular routine.' In other words, there is absolutely no dietary justification for going to the beach."

Char-Marie.com & Classical Healing

Connecticut acupuncturist, Char Marie, writes a beautiful description of how Traditional Chinese Medicine and Healing are so valuable on so many levels.

Yes, as you can see from the World Health Organization, there is of course a legitimate science behind it. Western doctors have known that for a long time.

Char Marie is a special kind of acupuncturist however. She truly cares about people, your state of wellbeing, and not just treating symptoms. She gets to the root causes of a problem, and helps people adjust to a healthier lifestyle.

Char Marie does even more than that however. She respects the love and magic that allows ordinary busy people truly live, and love again. Her ability to remind people how to laugh is just one of many of her talents.

While she is more than happy to help with small ailments and health maintenance, she studies and specializes in more serious ailments and dis-ease such as the rampant cancer affecting many of us in today's society.

Visit her site, do some reading, and see her as soon as you can!

From Char-Marie.com:

Welcome: "People commonly mention the World Health Organization's recommendation of acupuncture as an effective treatment for more than 40 clinical conditions, and also the NIH which has a complete office of complementary and alternative medicine (NCCAM http://nccam.nih.gov/) because they are important factors in demonstrating the effectiveness of acupuncture in a modern health care setting. This is one part of the ancient arts of healing. The science.

What makes Chinese medicine really effective though is its unique approach to each person, and each life as individual, and that it truly does treat 'the whole person,' naturally. That part of Chinese Medicine you cannot really study, because it is an art. It is experiential, and each person will have their own unique healing and wellness journey, because no two lives are the same."

Amazon.com: Why People Don't Heal and How They Can: Books: Caroline Myss

I read this and had to wonder why I insist on slowly learning life's lessons when I could quickly make great leaps and bounds. Perhaps this book has answers.

Amazon.com: Why People Don't Heal and How They Can: Books: Caroline Myss: "Myss first noticed this phenomenon in the late 1980s, and began to analyze why so many people seemed to choose to carry such painful problems so proudly through life, to define themselves by the awful things that had happened to them. She offers a program to use 'symbolic power'--a deep, spiritual insight that surpasses any conjured by the conscious mind--to craft a genuine conclusion to the illness or injury."

Panera Bread? // Wi-Fi Locations

Panera Bread? // Wi-Fi Locations: "Panera Bread locations within 50 miles of your search criteria are listed below, with closest locations listed first. If you didn't find what you were looking for, you can try your search again.

Bristol
1214 Farmington Avenue
Bristol, CT 06010

Tel: (860) 585-2501
Fax: (860) 585-2502 approximate distance: 1.92 miles
map | directions


This location offers free Wi-Fi

This location now serving Crispani™"

The Official Home of Rare Okinawan Slimming Tea

The Official Home of Rare Okinawan Slimming Tea: "The average Okinawan drinks at least 2 cups of tea daily. Interestingly, this isn't just any kind of tea.

Unlike your run-of-the-mill green and black teas, the tea blends popular throughout Okinawa are extraordinarily rare and unusually rich in powerful, health-promoting nutrients, including catechins, antioxidants and epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG)."