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Okeechoobee, Florida, USA, 03/17/2017 /SubmitPressRelease123/

Detox of South Florida is proud to be giving back to the future of America.

College is truly the first time that students are on their own. With that new found freedom, comes increased stress to perform in the classroom. As well as peer pressure to fit in with their new friends. Many students are often encountering drugs and alcohol for the first time. If a student begins to experiment with drugs or alcohol at a young age, it can have permanent side affects later in life. Addiction is so prevalent in fact, that reportedly 70% of employers have had to deal with employees that have an addiction of some sort. So what starts off as fun in school can quickly turn into an addiction.

To help combat the rise of addiction, Detox of South Florida recently launched their scholarship program which will offer 1 student a scholarship program of $1,500. The winner will be picked on March 31, 2018. In an effort to give back to students and to bring awareness to the epidemic which is alcohol and drug addiction, Detox of South Florida CEO, Dr. Vik Tarugu generously instated this scholarship program. Click here to learn more.

Dr. Tarugu had this to say about the scholarship, “We are firmly committed to helping bring awarness to the epidemic of alcohol and drug addiction to the next generation. As students prepare for college, they need to be aware of the dangers of consuming street drugs, prescription drugs as well as consuming alcohol. We are hoping that applicants, while doing research and submitting an application for our scholarship, will see the dangers of addiction, and make a commitment to refrain from consuming drugs, and waiting til they are of a legal drinking age to consume alcohol.”

The pressures to perform in the classroom can lead some students to becoming reliant on prescription drugs like Adderall, which they often obtain illegally from a friend or a drug dealer. Prescription drug abuse is among the fastest growing in the addiction categories.

South Florida in particular is being hit very hard with addiction. Click here to see how Florida’s population has grown tremendously. Along with that increased population size has come with it an increased demand for drugs. From prescription drugs, like fentanyl to street drugs like heroin and cocaine, South Florida has a fast growing need for awareness and prevention in the addiction prevention and treatment services

Detox of South Florida is looking forward to bringing increased awareness of how consuming chemicals can alter your lifestyle negatively now, but far into the future as well. If you are

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At Bionical, we believe that building relationships is one of the greatest factors in moving a business forward. When we began our search for a Head of Recruitment Strategy, we knew we needed to find an individual with an ability to attract the best talent in the industry who are focused on improving the lives of patients. It goes beyond the resume – it’s about the people, what they believe in, and what motivates them to succeed in their roles. When Wendy Wolf, President of Bionical Commercial Services, introduced Lori Danek to the Bionical team the match was a perfect fit.

Armed with over sixteen years of pharmaceutical and CSO recruitment experience, Lori quickly became a part of the Bionical team at the company’s U.S. headquarters in Hillsborough, NJ. The timing of her joining comes at a great period of growth for Bionical with our expanding services to the pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device partners. Lori’s experience in CSO recruitment of sales teams, clinical educator teams, call center representatives, management roles as well as Direct Recruitment support for positions of all levels for our clients is unparalleled in the industry.

Wendy said, “Lori’s experience is a key asset to our growing Bionical team. We are absolutely thrilled to have her on board as Lori will play an important role in providing resources at all levels to help our clients and, ultimately, the patients they serve.”

Planning ahead for even more dynamic growth, Lori is focused on expanding the Recruitment Strategy within Bionical and establishing her team as a market leader. Her goal is to create lasting partnerships with our employees, our clients, and their customers, as we believe this type of harmony delivers the highest performing teams in the industry.

About Bionical

Bionical provides high quality solutions to pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and public health companies in the global healthcare industry.

With a mission to improve health outcomes, the services offered at Bionical accelerate product and treatment development and enhance communication and engagement with healthcare professionals and patients. Bionical’s services span the product lifecycle and include comparator supply for clinical trials, contract research support, clinical educator services, field sales teams, call center support, recruitment, digital and educational platforms.

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There has long been a debate about whether addiction is a choice or a disease. Some people feel that the addicted have made poor choices, and that it is a matter of willpower to break their dependence. Others feel that addiction is a disease that affects the brain, and that without professional help from addiction treatment experts it’s very hard to stop.

This post will look at arguments on both sides of the debate and then you can make your own decision whether addiction is a choice or a disease.

For additional information on the subject of addiction-choice or illness read Recovering From Addiction Is More Than Increasing One’s Willpower

The Disease Model of Addiction

Believing that addiction is a disease is not a new concept. In fact, Dr. Benjamin Rush said the condition is a disease that must be treated by a physician over two centuries ago in 1784. That school of thought didn’t really catch on until much later though, in the 1930s, when Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith founded Alcoholics Anonymous. While the AA forefathers didn’t have the medical knowledge or technology to completely understand what doctors do today, their literature presented alcoholism as a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. Today, most medical professionals agree with the disease model of addiction.

Believers of the disease model of addiction focus on the changes that occur in the brain of chemically dependent individuals. They believe that once the changes in the brain take place, choice is basically no longer an option for the alcoholic or addict. Once your body becomes addicted and dependent on a substance you cannot just choose to stop using.

How Drugs and Alcohol Change the Brain

When people satisfy their basic human needs like hunger, thirst, and sex, they feel pleasure. Typically, those feelings of pleasure are the result of the release of certain “feel good” chemicals in the brain. Addictive substances affect the brain much the same way. They cause high levels of the same chemical to be released.

When this happens over a period of time, the brain’s chemistry is changed. The areas of the brain that are involved in reward, motivation, and memory are the most affected. When that happens, the individual may need the drugs or alcohol to feel normal. The person may also begin to have intense cravings for the drug or alcohol, even though they have suffered negative consequences due to their use. The addict will prefer the substance to other healthy pleasures and will eventually lose interest in normal daily activities. They may even stop caring about their own well-being, as well as the well-being of loved ones.

These changes in the brain don’t go away when the addict or alcoholic stops using, they can remain for a long period of time. That can make the addict vulnerable to triggers, which increases the possibility of relapse.

Is Addiction in Our Genes?

Those who accept the disease model of addiction believe that addiction, like other chronic diseases, is a result of several factors both biological and environmental. Studies show that about 10 percent of the U.S. population are genetically predisposed to addiction and alcoholism.

Does that mean that everyone in that 10 percent will become addicts? No. Just as those who are predisposed to diabetes can often avoid it by making healthy diet and fitness choices, so can those genetically predisposed to addiction by not using drugs or alcohol.

The Choice Model of Addiction

On the other side of the debate are the people who believe that addiction is a choice. They make their argument by pointing to reports and research that drinking alcohol or using drugs is a behavior, and that as such, it is therefore a choice. Many of those in the choice camp refer to studies that have been done that show that drinking habits can be modified – by choice – at least to a certain degree.

Some experts on this side of the debate point out that any persistent change in behavior will cause changes in the central nervous system. They make the argument that, for example, the brains of readers will be different than the brains of non-readers. This is how they counter the changes-in-the-brain argument of the disease model believers.

Many argue that believing that addiction is a disease is not only incorrect, but it’s simply unhealthy. They point out that as humans, we always have a choice. Additionally, they believe that if there really was no choice in the matter, then no one would recover from addiction. But people do recover, and that happens by choice.

Choice or Disease – Does it Really Matter?

Each individual has to make their own decision whether addiction or alcoholism is a choice or a disease. Perhaps you believe that it is a disease that can be triggered by a choice. If the potential addict never makes the choice to drink or use drugs, they will never become dependent on the substance. But if they do make the choice to use or drink, then they lose the power to continue to make the choice. In other words, once the switch is flipped, they can no longer un-flip it themselves.

Whatever your thoughts are on the problem of addiction, it is important for you to encourage anyone you know who is struggling with drugs or alcohol to seek help. While the people who believe it’s a choice because some people can stop on their own make a point, the fact is that most people cannot stop on their own – they need professional help to begin their recovery.

If you or a loved one have a problem with drugs or alcohol, now is not the time to weigh in on this debate. Now is the time to seek treatment and work toward getting clean and sober. A new and different life awaits you on the other side of active addiction, and getting help from addiction treatment experts is the first step to getting there.

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Gratitude may seem like a small thing, but it can be a huge factor in the success of your recovery from addiction, reports Summit Behavioral Health a NJ addiction treatment center. Consider the last time you felt truly grateful. Didn’t it make you feel happy? Content? Like everything was right with the world? How long has it been since you have felt that way?

Often times, it is the lack of gratitude and a discontentment with the general state of your life that makes way for addiction. And failing to develop and practice gratitude in your recovery can quickly place you on the path to relapse. You will likely work a lot on gratitude in rehab, but it needs to be a continual practice as you make your way in recovery after treatment.

There are some amazing benefits that are derived from gratitude in general:

Improved self-esteem – When you are grateful for things in your life you feel better about yourself.
Makes you feel successful – Feeling thankful for all that you have, rather than disappointed for what you don’t have, has a way of making you feel successful in your life.
It’s good for your heart – Studies have shown that heart-related illnesses are fewer in people who have higher levels of gratitude.
Increases resilience – When you practice gratitude, you are able to bounce back quicker from setbacks.
Fewer conflicts with others – When you are grateful, you tend to be less concerned with having your way and being right. This promotes much more harmony with others.
Increased circle of friends – People who are grateful are more pleasant to be around, thus they usually have a larger circle of friends.
Why You Need Gratitude in Recovery

Gratitude is much more than simply being thankful for something. It’s a state of mind that involves the body, mind, and spirit. It’s a way of thinking about life – a mindset. Once you have created the mindset of gratitude, and you live it, your outlook on life can change for the better in an instant.

Harvard Health reports, “Gratitude helps people feel more positive emotions, relish good experiences, improve their health, deal with adversity, and build strong relationships.” Those are all aspects that are vital to recovery.

People who are in recovery have likely suffered through many struggles leading up to going to treatment. They will need those positive emotions, good experiences, better health, improved ability to handle diversity, and stronger relationships to stay on the path of recovery.

Some of the other benefits of developing a mindset of gratitude in recovery are:

It promotes better health – Practicing gratitude can lower blood pressure, relieve stress, boost your immune system, and make you less likely to have aches and pains.
It encourages you to help others – People who live in gratitude are more likely to be compassionate, understanding, and helpful to others.
It builds stronger relationships – Gratitude facilitates a deeper appreciation for others, which strengthens relationships with friends and family.
It provides contentment – Gratitude can reduce depression and anxiety, and provide you with a sense of contentment and joy.

One study shows that people who take the time to keep gratitude journals have 23 percent lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol. It also states that practicing gratitude daily can reduce the effects of aging on the brain.

Psychology Today reports that spending 15 minutes in the evening writing in a gratitude journal before bed helped people fall asleep faster and sleep longer than people who did not keep a gratitude journal.

Gratitude causes you to have a happier, more positive outlook, reduces stress, encourages you to make better choices regarding your physical and mental health, and helps you sleep better – these are all things that will aid your recovery from addiction.

The Importance of Having Gratitude in Recovery

When you are grateful in your recovery, it’s less likely that you will relapse back into active addiction. Gratitude helps motivate you to do what you need to in order to guard your sobriety. It’s when you stop being grateful, taking your recovery for granted, that you begin the downward spiral toward relapse. A grateful outlook will help you face challenges and struggles as they come up, without sinking into negative thinking and backsliding.

Gratitude is also important because it reminds you that it’s not all about you. One of the biggest problems for people with addictions is that they are self-centered or self-absorbed. They spend their time thinking about their own needs and wants, never considering the needs and wants of others. Once they get sober, that thinking may be slow to go away. They may continue to be self-absorbed even as they begin their recovery. When you feel grateful, there is a deeper sense of satisfaction for all that you have in your life, and you have less reason to be selfish and self-centered. Gratitude opens the door for you to pay attention to what others need too.

Finding Help for Addiction

Gratitude is just one of the tools that addiction treatment employs to help you improve your life. There are many others that are every bit as important to your recovery. If you choose to go to treatment for your addiction you will learn about coping and life skills, relapse prevention, addiction education, forgiveness, honesty, and a whole host of other things that will enhance your recovery.

You will be able to participate in therapy – individual and group – and receive psychiatric care, if needed. Most importantly, you will have the support and care of addiction professionals, and the understanding and support of your peers.

If you are struggling with drugs or alcohol, now is the time to seek help from an addiction treatment center that provides a continuum of care. You will be grateful you did.

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Sometimes called “life flights,” medical helicopters and fixed wing aircraft are instrumental in getting critically ill patients to hospitals faster than an ambulance on the ground. They also regularly transport organs across the country for doctors to use in life-saving organ transplants. In addition, they serve patients in rural areas, where access to medical facilities is often limited. These dedicated air crews save lives every day. Tragically, these flights are subject to the same risks as those encountered by other aircraft.

Recently, four people lost their lives in a medical aircraft accident in Nevada. According to a Fox News report, the airplane experienced mechanical problems shortly after it took off, causing it to lose power and altitude. It crash-landed in a commercial parking lot near a retirement community, causing several parked vehicles to catch on fire. The four casualties include one patient and three crew members. There were no survivors.

Sadly, this accident comes within months of an eerily similar crash involving a medical flight. In July 2016, a medical transport plane crashed in northern California, also resulting in four fatalities and no survivors. A CNN report said the pilot reported smoke on board the aircraft five minutes before losing communication with air traffic controllers on the ground.

FAA Rules for Medical Helicopter Safety

“Although medical aircraft accidents are comparatively rare,” says New York City aviation accident lawyer Jonathan C. Reiter, “they are nevertheless devastating when they happen. Individuals who have lost a loved one in these crashes are often left wondering how such an accident could have happened.”

In 2014, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) created new rules in an effort to improve helicopter safety, including flights involving medical helicopters. Under the new rule, all helicopters operating in the U.S. are now required to:

Employ stricter flight procedures in inclement weather.
Use enhanced protocols for flights in challenging weather, including flying at night and landing in remote areas.
By 2017, use the most advanced on-board technology and equipment for avoiding terrain and obstacles.
By 2018, be equipped with flight data monitoring systems.

Additionally, the new rule specifically requires air ambulance helicopter pilots to install Helicopter Terrain Awareness and Warning Systems, establish operations control centers if they operate 10 or more helicopters, use pre-flight risk-analysis programs, make sure pilots hold an instrument rating, and provide safety briefings for medical crew.

The FAA has stated that 125 fatalities occurring on air ambulance helicopters between 1991 and 2010 could have been avoided had the current rules for medical flights been in place sooner.

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Recovery from addiction is an everyday practice that can be overwhelming at times. Even those who have been successful at remaining clean and sober for a long period of time sometimes feel doubt and fear, and that can be a dangerous place for people in addiction recovery. When emotions are overwhelming it can quickly cause a downward spiral that ends in relapse.

To learn about how holistic activities can help you practice self-care read: What is the Role of Holistic Activities in Recovery?

If you went to rehab, you probably learned about the importance of practicing self-care in recovery. It was likely talked about a lot. That’s because as a person in recovery, dealing with emotions that you used to try to numb or escape from, self-care plays a huge part in avoiding the end of that downward spiral.

Self-care in recovery involves taking care of your mind, body, and soul. It is a self-nurturing that can help you deal with life on life’s terms, and keep you from making the wrong choices when you feel strong emotions or become overwhelmed.

The following is a list of things that you can do to take care of yourself, physically, psychologically, and spiritually in recovery.

Get enough sleep. Everything feels worse and more intense than it is when you’re tired. Try to get a good night’s sleep every night, and talk to your doctor if you have trouble falling or staying asleep. Take naps when you can, they often act as a reset when you need one.
Eat when you are hungry. Don’t allow yourself to get overly hungry. That will lead to grumpiness and discontentment. Do your best to eat regularly throughout the day – but be mindful to eat healthy foods that make you feel satisfied and energized.
Get some exercise. Physical activity is not only good for your body, it helps ward off depression too. Even if you were not an exerciser before you got sober, you will find that increasing your physical activity, even a small amount, improves your mood.
Keep your doctor appointments. Don’t miss appointments with your doctor, psychiatrist, or your therapist.
Take your medication. If you are prescribed medication, for psychological, psychiatric, or medical issues, be sure to take it and to not run out between refills.
Take a bath. Sometimes a long soak in a bubble bath can help calm down overwhelming feelings.
Get outside. Spend some time outdoors – go to the park, or for a walk around the block, somewhere that stimulates your senses with a beautiful view, the smell of pine trees, or the touch of a gentle breeze.
Talk about your feelings. Reach out to someone who understands, like a loved one, supportive friend, sponsor, or therapist when you are feeling overwhelmed. Sometimes just talking about what you are feeling takes the power away from it.
Shut-down negative self-talk. Pay attention to the thoughts that you are having and consciously shut-down the negative self-talk. This isn’t always easy, but if you imagine that you are hearing someone say those things about someone you love instead of yourself, it might make it easier to quiet them down.
Practice acceptance. Identify things that are upsetting to you that you have no control over, and try to let go of the negative feelings associated with them.
A lot. Get together with someone who makes you laugh. They say that laughter is the best medicine for a reason.
Do something creative. If you already have a creative interest in something, work on it. If you don’t, try something new. Being creative and focusing on an activity gets you out of your own head and lowers stress and anxiety.
Just write. Whether it’s narrating your day, writing about your feelings, writing poetry, or writing about your dreams and goals, expressing things on paper can be very calming.
Read a book or watch your favorite movie. While you don’t want to make avoidance a habit, a little bit of healthy distraction now and then can help you reset your internal stress-o-meter.
Spend time with friends and family. This works if you have supportive friends and family. If the opposite is true, ignore this one.
Tell yourself the truth. When negative thoughts and feelings begin, tell yourself the truth about them. Not everything that we think is necessarily true, so be objective and be honest with yourself.
Don’t over schedule yourself. It’s alright to say no, or to not accept every invitation. If you lead a busy life, be sure to build some downtime into your schedule. Relaxation is an important part of self-care.
Pray or meditate. Set aside some time to pray or meditate each day. Even if you aren’t spiritually inclined, a short period of quiet time can do wonders for your peace of mind.
Go to meetings or support groups. Enjoy the fellowship at 12-step meetings or other recovery-related support groups. It’s always good to be around people who you know understand you.
Attend worship or religious services. If you belong to a church, or would like to, attend services. Focusing on your spiritual needs can provide comfort, lessen anxiety, and help you to be mindful.

Self-care is vital to recovery. At first it may seem like you’re being selfish with your time, but in reality, if you don’t take care of yourself first, you will not have anything left over to offer anyone else. There is a huge difference in being the self-centered person you were when you were using or drinking and taking care of yourself first so you can offer your very best to your loved ones. Take time each day to do the things for yourself that you would do for someone you loved who is in recovery. Not only will it help you stay sober, it will help you be present for your relationships and it will help you stay firmly planted in your addiction recovery.

Reach out to us if you feel the need for support from caring experts who know how to develop a self-care plan and understand about addiction recovery.

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Most people use escalators without a second thought. The popular people movers are just about everywhere — in office buildings, shopping malls, and even some apartment buildings.

Like any other type of machinery, however, escalators can cause serious injuries when they malfunction. Shortly before the 2016 holidays, shoppers in a Brooklyn mall were injured when an escalator allegedly started up without warning after being stopped.

According to one report, witnesses said people were walking down the escalator while it was not functional when it suddenly started up and began moving at a faster than normal pace. One witness described the escalator’s motion as “catapulting” people into one another. Five people sustained minor injuries, but two people involved in the accident were taken to the hospital in serious condition.

Deadly Escalator Accidents

Although escalators may seem harmless, they pose serious safety risks. According to the director of the Centre for Information Leadership at City University London, escalator design hasn’t even really changed all that much since the first escalator was patented in 1892.

Over the years, there have been a number of serious and deadly accidents, including amputations, strangulations from clothing being caught in the gap between the stairs and the platform, and injuries caused by escalators moving erratically and tossing people off.  

In 2015, an escalator accident in China made headlines when a mother died after a floor panel in front of an escalator collapsed, pulling her body into the treads. Video footage shows her saving her small child from falling seconds before she was killed.

New York City catastrophic personal injury accident lawyer Jonathan C. Reiter explains, “These types of horrific escalator accidents don’t just happen in the developing world. Serious escalator accidents happen right here in the United States. When building owners and managers fail to service and maintain the escalators in their buildings, people can get seriously hurt and even killed.”

Escalator Accidents Number in the Thousands

A hidden camera investigation conducted in the U.S. in 2010 revealed several serious and potentially deadly escalator defects at a variety of locations around New York City, including a movie theater escalator with steps that had gaping holes in them.

In that report, safety experts pointed out that there are no federal regulations for escalator safety. Instead, it’s up to state and local governments to set their own rules and enforce them.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates that 11,000 people in the U.S. were injured on escalators in 2008.

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Arbitration is a way to resolve a legal dispute instead of a trial. It’s a private trial, not a public one in court and the problem is the ground rules by which these arbitrations take place can essentially take legal rights away from Florida nursing home residents and their families. Boca nursing home negligence lawyer Joe Osborne says if possible don’t sign an agreement with a nursing home mandating that legal disputes be resolved through arbitration.

In this process an arbitrator (usually a lawyer or retired judge), or panel of arbitrators, acts as the judge and jury in the case. Both sides present evidence and make legal arguments in a private setting, not in a public courtroom. Many nursing homes have in their contracts language that at least tries to prevent residents and their families from filing civil lawsuits over injuries and wrongful death claims. If you need to quickly find a nursing home for a loved one it may be difficult, if not impossible, to “shop around” for a good facility that doesn’t require arbitration.

In many cases it’s the nursing home that sets up the rules for the arbitration. They decide who the arbitrators are and as a result an arbitrator may be tempted to decide in the nursing home’s favor in order to get more arbitration cases. The rules may also restrict what evidence can be used and generally it’s very difficult to appeal an arbitration ruling.

In late 2016 the Obama administration issued a rule stating that if a facility wanted to use Medicare or Medicaid funds it couldn’t force residents to resolve disputes through arbitration. That rule was challenged by the nursing home industry and prevented from going into effect. Whether the rule will be defended in court, changed or removed by the “business friendly” Trump administration is unknown. What is known is that many families aren’t taking this lying down.

Whether an arbitration clause is valid and enforceable or not under the law depends on its language and the circumstances of each case. The Florida Supreme Court in September ruled that a contract with a forced arbitration clause signed by the nursing home resident wasn’t binding on his family, who sued his nursing home due to his death.

Late last year the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal of a Kentucky decision that a nursing home’s mandatory arbitration clause was invalid against the daughters of their deceased parents who were residents. The daughters signed contracts with arbitration language in it but the Kentucky Supreme Court found residents have a “God given right” to go to court and the parents didn’t authorize the daughters to sign the forced arbitration agreement on their behalf. The issues to be decided will be whether arbitration-friendly federal law supersedes Kentucky state law.

The story of one family fighting for its right to sue a negligent nursing home is in a recent edition of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Though the death of 89 year old Gerald Seeger occurred in Minnesota, these situations happen all over the country, including Florida, all the time.

Seeger had a history of hernias. Before his death Seeger suffered for hours, vomiting and telling staff of pain in his badly swollen abdomen. Staff didn’t call for an ambulance but his daughter Joan Maurer did but it was too late. State investigators found the nursing home failed to provide medical attention in a timely manner.

Staff ignored, or were ignorant of, a physician’s instructions to notify medical professionals immediately if Seeger had any pain or tenderness in the groin area. He complained of stomach pain and vomited but staff didn’t promptly report it to a nurse, state investigators found. A lawsuit filed by the family is being challenged by the nursing home because of a mandatory arbitration clause.

If a family member living in an assisted living facility or nursing home in Miami-Dade, Broward or Palm Beach Counties and is the victim of negligence, neglect or abuse, contact Boca Raton nursing home neglect lawyer Joe Osborne at (561) 800-4011 or fill out this online contact form. We can talk about the situation, how the law could apply in your case and the best legal options to protect your rights and obtain compensation for your loved one’s injuries.

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Illumination Research, a global consumer insights and strategy firm has hired Andrea Martin as an Insight Strategist. Andrea brings 20+ years of industry experience in client side market research, advertising and design.

Coming from her prior role as the internal moderator for Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products, Andrea has worked across multiple categories and brands such as Home Cleaning, a vast array of Paper Products, and Personal Hygiene solutions. Having also spent previous years as a senior design manager, her experience both in front of and behind the mirror makes her highly skilled at delivering insightful results for marketing/advertising campaigns, packaging and product development, concept development, upstream ideation and instore shelving and merchandising.

In her new role at Illumination, Andrea will partner with a range of new and existing clients to provide expertise in leading qualitative research and tapping into authentic, in-the-moment consumer insights.

“I am so excited to join the incredible Illumination team with their innovative and agile approach to research design coupled with their industry-leading methodologies and tools. I am looking forward to helping our clients grow their businesses by gaining insightful consumer understandings and ideas and turning those into actionable results.”

According to Illumination CEO, Karri Bass, “We are thrilled to add Andrea to our team.  Her client-side experience leading and moderating research for one of the world’s top consumer products companies will be extremely beneficial in her work with Illumination’s global clients. Andrea combines extensive consumer insights expertise with strong leadership and interpersonal skills, which make her a highly effective research moderator and business strategist.”

Andrea has her BA in Visual Arts from Eckerd College. She also completed the Principles of Market Research program at the University of Georgia and moderator training at the RIVA Institute.

Illumination is a global consumer and shopper insights firm, offering a diverse portfolio of Qualitative and Quantitative research capabilities. The company’s clients include many of the world’s largest manufacturers and retailers, including Procter and Gamble, Nestle, Abbott, and Kroger. Illumination leverages its industry-leading agile research tools along with a full suite of established methods to help its clients uncover and apply rich insights to grow their business. Illumination continues on a strong path of growth, building on significant global expansion in recent years. For more information about Illumination Research, please visit www.illumination-research.com or www.illumination-research.com/speedsuite. Contact us at 513.774.9531 or info@illumination-research.com

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Since 1939, LaGuardia Airport—which was known as the New York Municipal Airport when it first opened—has served as one of the busiest airports in the world. Along with JFK International and Newark Liberty International, it is part of the biggest airport system in the U.S. and the second-largest in the world with respect to passenger traffic.

However, LaGuardia has seen its fair share of accidents and near-misses. Most recently, a plane skidded off the runway in late October 2016. The incident perhaps drew more attention than it might have ordinarily, as the flight happened to include Vice President-elect Mike Pence. Shortly after the incident, several news outlets referenced LaGuardia’s unfortunate history of “ugly” accidents.

LaGuardia’s History of Crashes and Near-Misses

Fortunately, no one was hurt in the October incident, however, the plane tore up the concrete runway as it skidded into a patch of grass. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) credited an “Engineered Material Arresting System” as helping the plane to stop, preventing serious injuries. The system in question allows the concrete to deliberately crush apart when a plane begins skidding.

A similar skidding accident occurred just last year, when a Delta flight slid off the runway on an icy day in March. In that case, about two dozen passengers were hurt.

In 2013, a plane’s landing gear collapsed during landing, causing the plane to veer onto the grass, injuring 16 people on board.

Perhaps most notably, the “Miracle on the Hudson” landing in 2009 occurred after the U.S. Airways flight took off from LaGuardia, striking geese that disabled both engines just minutes after lift-off.

Tragically, LaGuardia has also seen several fatal aviation accidents. In 1992, problems with de-icing caused a plane to crash into Flushing Bay just after take-off. The crash resulted in 27 fatalities.

In 1989, another accident during lift-off killed two passengers and caused 15 injuries after the plane ran off the end of the runway and crashed into Bowery Bay.

Short Runways at LaGuardia

Live in New York City long enough—or fly in and out of the city a few times—and you are likely to hear about LaGuardia’s infamously “short runways.” At 7,001 feet and 7,003 feet, LaGuardia’s runways are shorter than most runways at other major U.S. airports. According to a Wall Street Journal report, many aviation experts recommend runways be at least 6,000 feet long for “small commercial aircraft” and 10,000 feet for “nearly any commercial aircraft.”

Although LaGuardia’s runways are well within the suggested length for “small commercial aircraft,” they fall far short of the runways at JFK and Newark, which are 14,000 feet and 11,000 feet, respectively.

As explained by New York City aviation accident lawyer Jonathan C. Reiter, “It’s important for anyone hurt in an airline accident to contact an aviation accident lawyer right away. These are complicated cases that require in-depth analysis and a thorough investigation.”   

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