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The Future of Wellness

Regenerative medicine sounds like a concept that could only exist in science fiction films, but American Stem Cell Centers of Excellence proves otherwise. The center provides comprehensive stem cell treatment and other treatments that use the power of the body’s own healing potential. The center provides regenerative medicine solutions that allow the body’s healing potential

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Indelible Images

Photo above by Eduardo Schneider

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Chill Out

Above Chillbo Baggins: $54.90; chillbo.com   Outdoors 2. Nanopresso and case: $79.70; wacaco.com 3. Penn Rampage boat casting rod: $49.95-$99.95; pennfishing.com 4. Sustain Supply co. Essential2 bag: $99; sustain.com 5. Yeti CAMINO CARRYALL 35 $149.99; yeti.com Gadgets 1. Blast Motion: Blast Golf: $149.95; blastmotion.com, bestbuy.com 2. Smartphone-powered VR Headset by VR Kix $29.95; thegrommet.com 3. Oco 1 Home Monitoring Camera:

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Parkland Lifestyle

Click here to read the special April issue of Parkland Lifestyle.

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Parkland Strong

In the wake of February’s shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the Coconut Creek community showed their support for the students with public displays of solidarity and remembrance. Photos submitted by Camille Edwards of Coconut Creek High, Krystal Langley of Winston Park Elementary, Erika Valbuena of Tradewinds Elementary and Judy Steiner of Coconut Creek

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“Changes” by Maria Arango

Compelled to put brush to canvas following the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, South Florida artist Maria Arango struggled to come up with a concept that would reflect the loss and sadness surrounding the tragedy. Nothing clicked—that is, until she saw so many high school students standing strong, challenging the political establishment and creating a

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A Time to Honor

So much has happened since that Feb. 14 afternoon at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. There were candlelight vigils all over South Florida. Funerals for the 17 victims. Early interviews with impassioned students and grieving parents that suggested something about this shooting wouldn’t disappear so quickly off the front pages, at least not without a

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Show of Support

In the 20 months since a 29-year-old man staged the deadliest act of violence against the American LGBT community, activists in a support group for survivors of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando had tried in vain to move the state legislative needle on any issue related to assault weapons. On Feb. 12, members of

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Life Is Like a Roller Coaster

Editor’s note: Two weeks before he was killed in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Alex Schachter composed the following free-verse poem, an assignment for a literary fair. His father, Max, recited the poem toward the end of the CNN town hall at the BB&T Center in Sunrise; his brother, Ryan, read the

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Candid Camera

It had been exactly one week since a gunman had shot and killed 17 students and teachers (and wounded 17 others) at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. But this wasn’t the night to grieve. This was the night to vent. And demand action. The survivors and parents who took the stage at BB&T Center in

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Strength in Numbers

By Grace Solomon   We awoke that morning to a day that felt like any other. We hurried through our morning ritual, a routine of tooth-brushing, cereal-pouring, lunch-making and other usual tasks that eventually led us out the front door and on the road to school. For some, it would be for the last time.

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A Mile in Their Shoes

Students throughout the tri-county region refused to wait for the National School Walkout in March to make their voices heard in the aftermath of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. In the week following the Feb. 14 attack, high school students from Hialeah Senior High, Western High in Davie, Cypress Bay in

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