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By Leon Fooksman

Published November 25, 2024 at 9:38 AM

Last updated November 25, 2024 at 9:38 AM

CORAL SPRINGS, FL - This Black Friday, Office Evolution Coral Springs is offering a deal for professionals, entrepreneurs, and remote workers.

From Nov. 25 through Dec. 2, business owners can take advantage of a “buy one hour, get one hour free” promotion on all meeting room and day office reservations.

Located at 3301 University Drive, Office Evolution Coral Springs offers a range of flexible office solutions, including private offices, coworking spaces, and virtual office services.

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The center also hosts events and networking groups, including Coral Springs Coconut Creek Regional Chamber of Commerce’s regular "Coffee and Contacts" meetings.

This limited-time offer provides access to premium office spaces in a convenient Coral Springs location.

Don’t miss out on this exclusive Black Friday deal!

Visit Office Evolution Coral Springs for more information.

Located in the heart of Coral Springs, Office Evolution offers flexible memberships to meet your needs and all the amenities and services to inspire your best work.

• Private offices • Meeting rooms for rent as needed • Co-working shared workspaces and hot desks • Professional business address and phone answering

Office Evolution Coral Springs offers a fully stocked cafe with unlimited free coffee and tea, staffed reception, and a friendly, inviting atmosphere to inspire your work.

Let Office Evolution Coral Springs help build your business or practice throughout South Florida, including Delray Beach, Boca Raton, Deerfield Beach, Coconut Creek, Margate, Parkland, Pompano Beach and Fort Lauderdale.

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By Luis F. Perez

Published November 17, 2024 at 2:32 PM

MARGATE, FL - As HCA Florida Northwest Hospital in Margate marks its 40th year, hospital officials are celebrating the anniversary with a community event while looking forward to future expansions and new services.

“It's an anniversary that we're very proud of, just to see our continued growth in services, our people and our core programs.,” hospital CEO Kenneth Jones told TAPinto Coral Springs last week. “Healthcare has continued to evolve, and we've evolved with the healthcare system and with the community. Our goal for the next 40 years is to continue to meet the needs of the community.”

The 289-bed hospital at 2801 N State Road 7, previously known as Northwest Medical Center, employs more than 1,000 people and has more than 800 staff physicians. Its name changed in 2022 to reflect its corporate ownership.

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Over the years, hospital leaders have expanded services and facilities serving northern Broward and southern Palm Beach County.

More recently, it added a $75 million tower in 2018, expanded an operating room in 2019, and launched a graduate medical education program in 2020, officials said.

And, in the past four years, HCA Florida Northwest has introduced more advanced technology, including a new CT machine, surgical robots, and upgraded MRI, telemetry and ultrasound equipment.

The hospital also has earned recognition for a slew of programs, including heart care, gallbladder and spinal surgery and maternity services, officials said.

Jones said his staff plans to build on these award-winning programs.

“One of the areas that we're focused is launching a new high-intensity, hybrid suite, which is an integrated operating room to treat vascular and cardiovascular patients,” he said.

The new program, recently approved, is slated to launch next year.

In addition, the hospital is developing an advanced stroke program to manage more complex cases, he said.

Future plans include expanding graduate medical education programs, adding operating rooms and opening new facilities in Lighthouse Point in 2025 and Boca Raton in 2026, where the hospital’s first free-standing emergency room will debut.

Further down the line, the hospital plans to redevelop a medical office building adjacent to its campus, Jones said.

“We want to add two stories of inpatient beds to support our medical surgical capacity and our women's service line,” he said.

Jones emphasized the hospital’s foundational focus on its people.

“It's our colleagues, it's our physicians and our patients,” he said. “Creating an environment and cultivating a culture where our people, our patients and our physicians thrive, feel engaged and are recognized and feel supported — those were tenets 40 years ago and will be tenets 40 years from now and beyond.”

For now, to mark the milestone, the hospital is hosting a family night out from 5 to 7 p.m. on Dec. 5 at the Promenade at Coconut Creek. The event, postponed twice due to hurricanes, will feature entertainment, music, performances and special offers.

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When world-famous paranormal investigator Bill Slevin spoke during our interview about ghosts and demons, the recording device on my computer started to skip around. Listening back on our conversation, portions became fuzzy, especially as he spoke about exorcisms. The hair stood up on my neck, but the Coral Springs resident was such a compelling storyteller that it was hard to stop chatting.

Slevin has been investigating these unknown forces for 35 years but has experienced paranormal events his whole life. Growing up in the 1970s and '80s, nobody talked about supernatural things. "I never knew what an empath was. I just knew I would go places and feel weird things," he recalls. As an empath, he felt other people's emotions and sometimes carried them with him. As a kid, he was also into horror movies and was never scared — except when he saw The Exorcist.

He was curious about paranormal experiences and started to research everything he could about them. He went on to get his PhD in parapsychology and metaphysical humanistic science and has studied quantum physics and mechanics.

The first of his more than 1,000 residential haunting jobs was in 1989. A friend brought him in on a frightening investigation. "Demons are very rare; it's not like TV," he says. "It happened to be a rare demonic case. The guy with me got full-on attacked. That team never did this again, but it gave me a million questions." He realized this was his calling. "I really wanted to know what was real and what was not," Slevin says.

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He and his team at the nonprofit Paranormal Existence Research Society (PERS) are based out of Coral Springs, with teams in other Florida cities, Georgia, Nebraska, the UK, Italy, and Greece. They don't charge people for their work — it's all free — but if someone out of state wants to work with them, they will let them pay for travel. "We don't feel it's ethical [to charge] because it's not 100 percent science." His team is a diverse group of talents and includes a Peruvian shaman, hypnotherapist, licensed psychologist, mediums, and psychics.

"We're a mix of intuition and science," he says. "We help these people no matter what." That includes people who are suffering from mental illness or substance use issues. Slevin works a day job as an IT director for a psychiatric drug and alcohol treatment facility, which has provided him with the knowledge to identify when clients are suffering from these issues and not an actual haunting.

When they first get asked to investigate, the team interviews the clients. If they take the case, they go to the homes at night using a combination of his empath abilities and certain devices. "Being IT and paranormal — a very bad mix," he jokes. "I have a ridiculous amount of equipment." They experiment with audio and video tools and observe environmental cues with a healthy amount of skepticism. They first assess to see if there are natural causes for the experiences of the clients, like animals in the walls, and they determine if it's a case of the paranormal.

"Everything is energy. When you die, your energy doesn't die. Energy can't be destroyed or created," he says. The most common thing his team finds is residual hauntings, in which a person leaves behind energy. He remembers a haunting incident in New Jersey when a client in an old house said that every day at 7 p.m., they heard footsteps up the stairs. The team heard them but couldn't connect with a spirit. It was likely, he says, a "footprint" left by someone who passed that walked there daily. The solution? To cleanse the area is something his team teaches people to do for themselves. "Anybody can wave sage around the house, and it's not going to do anything. It's your intention [that matters]," and even then, energy can return.

To cleanse or protect themselves and their clients, they respect the religious and spiritual beliefs of the people they're helping. If someone is Jewish, for instance, they won't come in waving crucifixes. Unless, that is, if they suspect it's a demonic entity, then they'll use everything in their arsenal to protect themselves.

It's usually not anything that sinister. Even funky energy from living clients can cause hauntings. "Sometimes people can watch five hours of Ghost Adventures, and now they're panicked, and they can actually manifest stuff to the house. It might not be real." He says parapsychology studies have shown that "a lot of Poltergeist activity is caused by teenagers. That their energy shift is so strong, especially females, that it can actually make things move," he says. "It's not going to pick up a couch and throw it across the room."

In South Florida, you may not have very old houses, but there are a lot of Indigenous American burial grounds. He used to bring new members of his team to Belgrade, Florida, where there was a 280-acre abandoned prison in the middle of a sugarcane field. "Because you can say you're into this, but when you're in an abandoned prison at two o'clock in the morning, there's a lot of activity in that place," he says. There's now a warehouse built in that spot. "If they'd built houses there, I'd be going door to door to drop off my card."

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Slevin educates the public about issues related to the supernatural. He's the director and manager of the Warren Legacy Foundation for Paranormal Research, founded by Lorraine Warren and Chris McKinnell, the grandson of Ed and Lorraine Warren, who investigated the Amityville haunting. He speaks as a celebrity guest at conferences and has appeared on TV, radio, podcasts, magazines, and newspapers. He's been on the cover of American Paranormal magazine five times.

He also spoke about demonology on the Travel Channel documentary The Devil's Academy, which also streams on Discovery+ and Max. It explores a possible mass possession at the Miami Aerospace Academy High School in 1970. Students ripped doors off the hinges, one girl levitated, and another boy jumped out of the second-floor window unscathed, landing face-first on the concrete and then threw the security guard across the parking lot. The interviewing process unnerved him because when the producers asked specific demonology questions, he didn't want to share any misinformation with the public. He says they're very real but very rare.

Slevin will speak at upcoming events at the Coconut Grove and Coral Springs libraries. At his library shows, you can hear more of Slevin's spooky stories, learn about haunted places in South Florida, and see evidence that the paranormal is actually quite normal.

Bill Slevin. 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday, October 26, Coconut Grove Branch Library, 2875 McFarlane Rd., Coconut Grove; and 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, November 9, Northwest Regional Library, 3151 N. University Dr., Coral Springs; billslevin.com. Admission is free.

A South Florida man was arrested Wednesday and charged with a plot to “reboot” the U.S. government by planting a bomb at the New York Stock Exchange this week and detonating it with a remote-controlled device, according to the FBI.

Harun Abdul-Malik Yener, 30, of Coral Springs, was charged with attempt to use an explosive device to damage or destroy a building used in interstate commerce.

The FBI began investigating Yener in February based on a tip that he was storing “bombmaking schematics” in a storage unit. They found bomb-making sketches, many watches with timers, electronic circuit boards and other electronics that could be used for building explosive devices, according to the FBI. He had also searched online for things related to bomb-making since 2017, according to the FBI.

Yener also told undercover FBI agents that he wanted to detonate the bomb the week before Thanksgiving and that the stock exchange in lower Manhattan would be a popular site to target.

“The Stock Exchange, we want to hit that, because it will wake people up,” he told undercover FBI agents, according to court documents.

Yener, who was described as "unhoused,” wanted to bomb the stock exchange in order to “reboot” the U.S. government, explaining that it would be “like a small nuke went off,” killing everyone inside the building, according to court documents.

In the last month, he had rewired two-way radios so that they could work as remote triggers for an explosive device and planned to wear a disguise when planting the explosives, according to court documents.

Yener had his first court appearance Wednesday afternoon and will be detained while he awaits a trial.

He was known to post videos on a YouTube channel about making explosives and fireworks from household items, and had a history of making threats, according to court documents. He was fired last year from a restaurant in Coconut Creek, Florida, after his former supervisor said he threatened to “go Parkland shooter in this place.”

He was also part of a small group that tried to join the far-right anti-government group the “ Boogaloo Bois ” and extremist group the Proud Boys but was denied membership because he said he wanted “to pursue martyrdom,” according to court documents.

The news was first reported by the website CourtWatch.

Calls to telephone numbers listed for Harun Abdul-Malik Yener in public records rang unanswered and a lawyer was not listed in court records.

CORAL SPRINGS, FL (AZFamily/AP) — A Florida man was arrested Wednesday and charged in a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange this week, according to the FBI.

Harun Abdul-Malik Yener, 30, of Coral Springs, Florida, was charged with attempt to use an explosive device to damage or destroy a building used in interstate commerce.

The FBI began investigating Yener in February based on a tip that he was storing “bombmaking schematics” in a storage unit.

Bombmaking sketches, many watches with timers, electronic circuit boards and other electronics that could be used for building explosive devices were found at the unit, according to the FBI.

The FBI also says he had also searched online for things related to bombmaking since 2017

Yener also told undercover FBI agents that he wanted to detonate the bomb the week before Thanksgiving and that the stock exchange in Lower Manhattan would be a popular target.

“There is one place that would be hella easy… the stock exchange, that would be a great hit. Tons of people would support it. They would see it and think dude, this guy makes sense, they are [profanity] robbing us. So that’s perfect,” he allegedly told an undercover operative last month, according to CBS News.

According to the network, FBI agents said Yener’s “motivation for bombing the NYSE was to attain a ‘reboot’ and/or ‘reset’ of the United States government.”

investigators say Yener made audio recordings of the demands and reasons behind the attack.

At one point, he allegedly said, “I feel like Bin Laden.”

Yener had his first court appearance Wednesday afternoon and will be detained while he awaits a trial.

The news was first reported by the website CourtWatch. Calls to telephone numbers listed for Harun Abdul-Malik Yener in public records rang unanswered and a lawyer was not listed in court records.

According to WCBS archives, The FBI arrested two men for an alleged terror plot targeting New York City in September 2020.

At the time, Authorities said the suspects were planning attacks at multiple sites, including Trump Tower and the NYSE.

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