 he remains as excited about the Trail of Tears ride as he was when it was started 20 years ago and has no plans of stopping the annual event. “I’m hoping it will keep bringing people here to honor our ancestors,” he says. “We need to continue the education process and keep tourism alive and well in our state.”Agree! I had one friend in school was often ill with colds and stuff. We shared many classes together so we would next to each other as we worked well, I cannot tell amount of times I have caught her cold which then makes me ill. The only time I was “allowed” off was when I was in hospital after an asthma attack and even then, it was come back as soon as possible. Anyone who has had an asthma attack knows that it can take a few weeks to get back to normal but obviously I had to go back as soon as I could walk up the stairs. 

I think a lot of people and society in general need to learn that it’s okay to a few days for our own well-being.While it’s long been known that coffee and sweets go well together, it’s not long been understood why. For many, it’s simply a tradition to stop in at the local coffee shop and grab a coffee and a sweet treat.
However, according to recent studies at the University of Barcelona, they’ve discovered that there is a neural substrate that is activated when coffee is consumed along with some form of sugar.
According to the study, the two substances of coffee and sugar work together to improve the cognitive performance in the brain by helping to increase the way that the brain works and functions.
This, in turn, helps to support the thought that there is a synergistic effect that works together whereby one of the substances helps by boosting the effects of the other.
Ideally, those who consume both caffeine and sugar at the same time, change how their brains function. They reduce activity in one region while boosting it in another region.
The overall result is that the cognitive portion of the brain is boosted and those who are consuming both sugar and caffeine can enjoy a boosted cognitive portion of their brains.
Studies were done in double-blind random designs, and those who were being tested had no idea if the beverage they consumed had caffeine or was caffeine free. Nor did they know if the product they ate had sugar or a sugar substitute.
According to the research, there was a direct improvement in attention spans, declarative memory, and the subjects had no altercations in their subjective states.
Thus, it was concluded that the combination of caffeine and glucose benefited the subjects in a myriad of ways including cognitive tasks, sequential reactions, and attention spans as well as verbal memory.
Now you can understand why your body is craving sugar when you’re out to coffee. It’s a natural reaction of your brain to want to improve its cognitive ability and focus more on its ability to improve memory and cognitive ability.
It sounds like some of the coffee shops had it right all along. They knew that selling sweet treats alongside the coffee they serve would go far in helping their customers feel better about themselves and the world around them.
It didn’t take any great scientific study to show this; it was all observation. Now that you know all of this you can plan ahead to enjoy your favorite sweet treat when you go out for coffee next time. Coffee and sweet treats do indeed go together so give yourself permission to enjoy some each afternoon and see how your memory improves. You may be surprised at how great it works.Palm Coast Man Faces Felony Child Abuse Charge in Strangling Grandson Over Power Bill
FlaglerLive | August 29, 2017
Four months ago Kelvin Martinez, a resident of Webster Lane in Palm Coast, was sentenced to 10 days at the county jail, 100 hours of community service and a year’s probation after being found guilty of drunk driving in Flagler Beach in November, his second drunk-driving conviction in five years.
On Monday, he was charged with child abuse and domestic battery by strangulation after allegedly striking and strangling his 14-year-old grandson during an argument over the grandson leaving his computer on during the day. Martinez faces two third-degree felony charges and is being held at the Flagler County jail on no bond, with a third charge–probation violation.
The 14-year-old told a Flagler County Sheriff’s deputy that when he got home from school, he noticed his computer had been unplugged. He approached Martinez, 55, to tell him that a computer can be damaged when its power is turned off abruptly. Martinez, he says, began yelling at him about letting electronics run constantly in the house, and running up power bills. The boy yelled back. At that point, according to the boy, Martinez “smacked” him and caused him to fall, according to Martinez’s arrest report.
The fight allegedly got worse, with Martinez allegedly striking the boy with a closed fist above the eye, climbing on top of him and strangling him to the point of keeping him from breathing. The boy told deputies he then in turn put his hand around his grandfather’s throat and began striking him before being able to escape and retreat behind a couch in the living room until Martinez went into his bedroom. The boy then picked up a knife from the kitchen and ran across the street to call 911, and about that time is when Martinez left the house and drove to work at Daytona State College. (Martinez’s April DUI sentence revoked his driver’s license for five years. It’s not clear if he has a dispensation for driving to work, though the sentence specifies, “no vehicle during probation.”)
The boy lives at his grandfather’s home with his grandmother and father, who that day was out of town, but returned immediately on being informed of the incident. Meanwhile, a deputy contacted the Department of Children and Families “and requested an immediate response due to the extent of the injuries” to the boy, which also required the response of Flagler County Rescue 21, whose paramedics treated the boy, though he was not hospitalized.
When a deputy made contact with Martinez at Daytona State College, Martinez confirmed the series of exchanges that led to the fight, but said the boy started swinging at him and struck him above the left eye enough to make a mark and continued to swing, at which point Martinez says he took him down, though he denied at any point striking or choking him. Once the boy calmed down, Martinez says, he left the house and went to work. The deputy concluded that based on the extent of visible injuries on the boy’s neck and face, Martinez was deemed the primary aggressor and charged accordingly.
Martinez has a no-contact order with the boy, which would normally require him not to be at the residence when the boy is there, once Martinez is released from jail. His felony arraignment before Circuit Judge Dennis Craig is scheduled for Sept. 25.
People in palm coast suck. I remember going over to my sister inlaws house and was using the computer and her daughter came out of bedroom every time I walked away from the computer and turned it off. In my house we leave it on day and night. I had to be some sort of control issue. Just really bizarre to say the least🤢
I know I get violent after seeing my FPL bill.
To blame an entire city for a couple of jackass’s yours included is wrong
Bizarre that you read this article about one horrible human being and use it to condemn the people of Palm Coast.
It costs about $32 a year to run a laptop so about $3 dollars a month if you leave it on all day and night. I am sure that lawyer bill and loss of a job is going to be worth that outburst.
This is exactly what I was JUST thinking as well!! SMDH!!
@Woody… well hopefully for all of us you have made your self righteous way outta Palm Coast and outta our state as well since it’s so, so bad for you.. pretty sad that’s the only thing you have to say when it has NOTHING to do with the location of this or any other incident.. LOL
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