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Soliant Health, a leading specialty healthcare staffing provider and part of Adecco Group, announced today that its Bilingual Therapies unit will be hosting the 14th annual Bilingual Symposium in New Orleans, LA from July 17-20, 2014.

The Bilingual Symposium unites practicing bilingual and monolingual speech-language pathologists (SLPs) in a three-day event that explores topics surrounding language diversity in schools. As the only American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA)-approved CE provider conference of its kind, it focuses solely on how bilingual and monolingual SLPs can better serve the needs of bilingual children.

The Symposium features multiple sessions conducted by renowned speech-language professionals in small and interactive learning spaces. This years agenda will feature sessions in the following language diversity topics:

Keynote: Cultural Sensitivity and Practice: Aiming for the Right Balance Cultural Considerations in Dysphagia Practice: Getting the Right Mix "Informal Assessment for Bilingual Clients and Use of Systematic Analysis of Language Transcripts (SALT) Common Core State Standards (CCSS): Instructional Practice Implications for English Learners Bilingual Development in Children on the Autism Spectrum from Minority-Language Families: Current Research and Implications for Clinical Practice Workshop: The Role of Bilingual Clinicians in Educating Related Professionals and Families

Aside from informational sessions and networking opportunities with fellow SLPs, the Bilingual Symposium also provides up to 1.1 ASHA CEUs for each attendee. The event will be hosted at the luxurious Hilton St. Charles hotel located in the heart of New Orleans. Registrations are now being accepted at the Bilingual Symposium website until June 1, 2014.

Bilingual Therapies is a leading provider of bilingual speech-language pathology, offering bilingual speech therapists to schools in diverse communities across North America. For more information about Bilingual Therapies and the Bilingual Symposium, please visit http://ift.tt/1nMa3n5.

About Soliant Health Soliant Health, an Adecco Group company, is a leading provider of specialized healthcare staffing services to hospitals and healthcare providers. By supplying traveling healthcare professionals on both temporary and direct hire assignments, Soliant Health delivers comprehensive healthcare staffing services to leading facilities across the United States. Soliant's teams of professionals are qualified to fill physician, nursing, therapy, pharmacy, clinical research, imaging, and other healthcare positions. For more information about Soliant Health, please visit http://www.soliant.com.

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Shailene Woodley gets happy and high in this cute new shot from the May 2014 issue of Natural Health, on stands NOW.

The 22-year-old actress opened up about her passion for nature, her healthy eating habits, and not taking anything for granted. Check it:

On her love for all things natural: "There's one defining moment that I'll never forget: It was an incredibly windy day and I was walking through the quad of my public high school, which is surrounded by pine trees. There were hundreds of pine needles swirling around in the air, and I looked down and scattered across this huge grassy expanse was all of the trash left over from lunch- plastic bags, soda cans, that kind of thing. And something just clicked when I saw the juxtaposition of the ignorance on the ground against the beauty and freedom in the sky. That's when I knew I wanted to dedicate my life to this, because there's something really wrong here."

On eating right: "I listen to my body. I've gotten to the point where I'm really tuned in to what it needs. Sometimes I can go weeks at a time without eating meat because all my body wants is vegetables and rice and not much protein. Then I'll go through other times where for months on end I just need red meat or chicken or eggs right now. Our bodies are constantly changing, so if you were to eat a certain way forever, I don't see how that could possibly be right for you."

On how The Fault In Our Stars changed her: "I find myself living in two worlds sometimes-being this person who can walk a red carpet in a huge, fancy-ass ball gown, high heels and crazy amounts of makeup, but also being the girl at a hippie festival in the middle of the forest with war paint on my face, dancing around with hairy armpits. I exist so well in both, and I used to feel like I had to choose one or the other. I struggled with that up until doing The Fault in Our Stars. I have one life to live, and it could end any minute, so I'm going to appreciate every single moment. I'm going to own my day before my day owns me. Show up the way you expect others and the world to show up for you, and that's all there is to it. Life is too fleeting, too unpredictable and too unfair to focus on anything else."

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Samsung is known for loading its phones up with custom apps like S Health, S Note, S Voice, ChatON and more. But do Galaxy owners actually use these apps? That's what research firm Strategy Analytics set out to determine.

Based on data from more than 250 Galaxy S III and Galaxy S 4 owners that was gathered in March 2014, Strategy Analytics reports that users don't spend much time with Samsung's custom apps. Galaxy S III owners spent around 6.2 minutes in ChatON, Group Play, S Memo, S Voice, Samsung Apps, Samsung Hub and Samsung Link during the month of March, while Galaxy S 4 owners used the same apps for approximately 9.3 minutes.

The report also measured how much time Galaxy S III and S 4 users spent in accessing Google Play, Google Search and YouTube. The Galaxy S III owners spent approximately 217.6 minutes in those three apps, while Galaxy S 4 folk used them for around 228.9 minutes.

It's no surprise that many of Samsung's own apps don't get much use from consumers, as Galaxy owners likely either have alternatives to apps like ChatON that they prefer or they just don't know about other preloaded apps. Meanwhile, Google apps like Search and YouTube get heavy usage because most everyone knows what they are and are accustomed to using them on their computer.

Did your smartphone or tablet come preloaded with any bloatware? If so, do you ever use any of those preloaded apps?

Via Wall Street Journal, Strategy Analytics

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Sebastian the Ibis had lost his mojo and gotten "weak in the beak," as depicted in "A Stronger U" video that University of Miami events planner Edyna Garcia conceived for her alma mater.

Garcia's motive: to spur more UM employees to register for the 25,600-entrant Mercedes-Benz Miami Corporate Run at 6:45 p.m. Thursday on Biscayne Boulevard.

"Sebastian is getting negative feedback that he has lost his spunk and just not cheering like he used to," Garcia said of the Hurricanes mascot depicted in the video. "He's sitting in the locker room hearing voices and seeing negative press clippings. But he starts working out to transform himself."

Not only does UM's good-natured mascot get in shape, he ultimately appears in front of the school's Herbert Wellness Center with a super hero's cape and takes off into the sky.

UM's participation in the Miami Corporate Run has also soared, going from 449 employees three years ago to 1,038 Thursday in the 5K run that encourages corporate camaraderie and physical fitness. And if team captain Garcia and UM maintenance mechanic and Corporate Run aficionado David Siqueiros have their way, the Canes' entries will keep skyrocketing until Miami's team surpasses Baptist Health South Florida.

"Next year we're going to beat them," vowed Siqueiros, who on his own has recruited more than 160 employees to sign up for this year's event and help make UM the second-biggest company (of about 850 total) represented Thursday. "What's cool about our team is you get people from different departments coming together and networking. While we're training and walking around UM, we're getting a vibe about our campus and seeing buildings being built. We have a better connection and understanding about the university and each other."

Bring on the competition, says Baptist Health captain leah Holzwarth, 46, corporate director for Wellness Advantage, the employee wellness program.

"We have our own zip code," Holzwarth boasted of Baptist Healths' massive area inside Bayfront Park, where 1,867 Corporate Run participants mostly from the company's six hospitals and various outpatient facilities will party and feast under two giant tents. "We'll give [UM] a couple years to try to catch up but I'm not going to be stressed out about it. We've got this. Let them give it a good go."

Baptist Health's Corporate Run participation numbers have been decreasing in the past couple years, down from what Holzwarth said in 2012 was a one-time high of 3,500, at that point spiked by employees' opportunities "to get a little extra money in the paycheck at the end of the year" through a wellness incentive program.

Like UM, Baptist Health still gives employee incentives for meeting certain health standards.

Both employers subsidize a portion of the $40 race fee, provide racers with specially designed company T-shirts and throw a post-race party at Bayfront with lots of food.

"The energy of all these people doing something active together is so positive," Holzwarth said of downtown Miami overflowing with upbeat folks. "It's amazing."

Baptist Health has walking, running, swimming and cycling training groups. It also has a traveling trophy for the entity within the company that has the most Corporate Run participants.

UM has its Well Canes fitness program, and also has a traveling trophy for the most involved department. UHealth Sports Medicine representatives will be on site to treat minor injuries to racers.

"I typically would have never walked together with co-workers," said UM advancement department administrative assistant Manuela Arrebola, who trains for the event three times a week with her peers. "We've gotten to know each other on a personal level and it has brought us closer. Now we have more to talk about than just work."

Thursday's 5K, produced by TeamFootWorks in Miami, is the final event of a three-race series. Registration is closed, with the race drawing its biggest field since it started in 1985 as the Manufacturers Hanover Corporate Challenge.

Bayfront Park is stuffed with 486 tents – "by far the most we've ever had," race co-director Laurie Huseby said. "We've got to make sure everyone gets across the start line before the first runner finishes.

"If you lose your race number you're not getting another one, because we just don't have any left."

Her husband, co-director Hans Huseby, is just elated that the race continues to thrive.

"It reaffirms what we've been saying for years – the Mercedes-Benz Corporate Run can do wonderful things for your employees: camaraderie, team spirit, better health for the individual and team," he said.

"A little bit of fitness goes a long way."

CORPORATE RUN DETOURS START 2 P.M.

The actual race time is 6:45 p.m. to 8:45 p.m., but detours and lane closures in downtown Miami will begin at 2 p.m. to prepare for the 25,000-plus expected participants who will begin arriving at 4 p.m. As the last participants pass and the Miami Police Department deems it safe, most streets will re-open to traffic between 7:30 p.m. and 8:45 p.m. Participants are encouraged to take advantage of Metrorail and Metromover.



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A new study from Strategy Analytics highlights what you almost certainly already know, that no one actually uses the crappy bloatware apps that Samsung puts on its phones. This shouldn't be a surprise at all. But I actually wanted to highlight a different issue I'd noticed recently: which is that not only do people not use the bloatware apps, by making them both default and unintstallable, Samsung pretty guarantees that everyone hates those apps.

Now, I can imagine the execs at various app developers who got all excited when they had a chance to become a default app on a Samsung flagship phone like the S3, S4 or S5. After all, Samsung sells a ton of these phones. So if Samsung approaches you and offers to make you a default, it's got to be hard to say no. Because what they're offering is to put your app in front of many millions of potential users. And given the big hurdle of getting people to even download free apps, that must seem like a huge victory.

Until you realize that everyone hates unnecessary and unwanted bloatware. Beyond the study above showing that no one uses those apps, I recently looked at the Google Play Store reviews of many of the Samsung choices for bloatware. And pretty consistently, the large majority or reviews are about how they don't know why the app is on their phone and they're pissed that they can't delete it. Take, for example, Blurb Checkout, part of Samsung's near-totally-useless "book-making app." People absolutely loathe it almost entirely because it's a bloatware default app. Out of over 22,000 reviews, it has over 16,000 one star reviews. And nearly all of the reviews look like the "highlighted" ones on the page:


Or how about the Lumen Toolbar? Frankly, I have no idea what it does, but it's there. The aggregate reviews on this aren't quite as bad as Blurb above, and there do appear to be some people who really do like this toolbar. But the reviews are still filled with angry rants:


I'm sure HP thought it was a great way to jumpstart its mobile printing efforts by having its HP Print Service Plugin installed as default bloatware on Samsung (and, apparently, on Nexus) devices. Until everyone started yelling about how they want that crap off their phone.


And, of course, none of this even touches on Samsung's own apps, in which it has weak copies of much better apps out there, such as S Health, S Memo and S Voice -- all of which are stuck on your phone, even though there are much better and much more functional alternatives available in the Play Store and elsewhere. The thing is, all of these apps could be the greatest possible apps in the world, but by making them part of preinstalled bloatware and making it so you can't uninstall them, it's pretty much guaranteeing that people will hate on these apps, making it even worse than just not using them -- they're actively harming the reputations of those apps for folks who might actually like them.

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Samsung is known for loading its phones up with custom apps like S Health, S Note, S Voice, ChatON and more. But do Galaxy owners actually use these apps? That's what research firm Strategy Analytics set out to determine.

Based on data from more than 250 Galaxy S III and Galaxy S 4 owners that was gathered in March 2014, Strategy Analytics reports that users don't spend much time with Samsung's custom apps. Galaxy S III owners spent around 6.2 minutes in ChatON, Group Play, S Memo, S Voice, Samsung Apps, Samsung Hub and Samsung Link during the month of March, while Galaxy S 4 owners used the same apps for approximately 9.3 minutes.

The report also measured how much time Galaxy S III and S 4 users spent in accessing Google Play, Google Search and YouTube. The Galaxy S III owners spent approximately 217.6 minutes in those three apps, while Galaxy S 4 folk used them for around 228.9 minutes.

It's no surprise that many of Samsung's own apps don't get much use from consumers. Galaxy owners likely either have alternatives to apps like ChatON that they prefer or they just don't know about other preloaded apps. Meanwhile, Google apps like Search and YouTube get heavy usage because most everyone knows what they are and are accustomed to using them on their computer.

Did your smartphone or tablet come preloaded with any bloatware? If so, do you ever use any of those preloaded apps?





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MONTE CARLO - Having a game that combines unconventional shotmaking and graceful, almost balletic, footwork, Alexandr Dolgopolov is one of the most watchable players on the ATP Tour and the best Ukrainian player in a generation.

His breakthrough came with a run to the 2011 Australian Open quarterfinals. He reached No. 13 in the world the next year, and this year has beaten Rafael Nadal and Stanislas Wawrinka and is ranked No. 22. His accomplishments seem even more impressive given that Dolgopolov suffers from the genetic disorder Gilbert's syndrome.

"You can't really manage it," he said of Gilbert's, in which the liver does not properly process bilirubin, a substance produced by the breakdown of red blood cells. "Now and then, it just hits me and I have to go to the hospital for a week or two. It's something I've had to live with."

Gilbert's varies in severity and many sufferers, estimated as 5 percent of the population, do not even realize they have it. At its worst, it can result in extreme fatigue, difficulty concentrating, loss of appetite and weight loss.



"You feel weak, you sleep too much, and even then, you still feel constantly exhausted," said Dolgopolov, 25, who lost to Guillermo García-López in the second round Wednesday of the Monte Carlo Open. "The whole time, all you want to do is sleep. And then on the court, after a few rallies, you're really tired, so it's tough to play. You can play just one or two points and then you need to relax to get your energy back. It's nothing deadly and it occurs just a few times a year, but it's tough to play at a high level with that going on."

Dolgopolov first learned he had the condition when he was 12. He was already one of the brightest talents in his country, but initially, it looked as if Gilbert's would curtail his career before it had begun.

"Some of the doctors were saying, 'Oh, you can't do sports with this,' " he said. "I didn't want to even hear it. The first time they told me I needed to go to the hospital, I had a national tournament coming up, quite an important one, and I said, I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to play."

The condition would flare up without warning, and Dolgopolov struggled to manage it until he linked up with the veteran Australian coach Jack Reader in 2010.

"When we started together, it was a scary situation for him," Reader said, noting that he first saw Dolgopolov's struggles in Australia, where they practiced at 7 a.m. to avoid afternoon temperatures that approached 110 degrees. "He suddenly said, 'I feel really bad Jack,' and we went to a doctor, got a blood test, and he flew straight home."

Reader soon realized that the condition was aggravated by stress, long flights and extreme heat, all of which can contribute to dehydration. He began to carefully plan Dolgopolov's schedule. He also overhauled his diet.

Dolgopolov has always been known for the repertory of shots he uses at crucial moments. Andy Roddick once described him as "aggressive to the point of psychosis," but his approach was as much a result of managing his health as obeying his natural instincts.

"We worked out this method where he'd just try to play and he didn't really put out till it was an important point at the end of a set or something," Reader said. "If Alex tried to play a regular solid game of just rallying and wearing someone down, he wouldn't get too far. But in a silly kind of way, it almost helped his tennis career because he played freely, which is how he should be playing. The talent he has, he can pull off some crazy stuff."

WAWRINKA TO FACE FEDERER IN FINAL Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka will play in the first all-Swiss final in 14 years as both won straightforward semifinals at the Monte Carlo Masters in Monte Carlo on Saturday.

Federer, who has never won the title in Monte Carlo, beat the defending champion Novak Djokovic, 7-5, 6-2, as Djokovic played with a right wrist injury. "I just rest now," Djokovic said. "I cannot play tennis for some time. How long, I don't know. It's really not in my hands anymore."

Federer, who has lost three finals in Monte Carlo to Rafael Nadal, will be making his first title bid here since 2008.

Wawrinka, the Australian Open winner, defeated David Ferrer, 6-1, 7-6 (3), a day after Ferrer had stunned Nadal, an eight-time champion.

The last all-Swiss ATP final was in Marseille in 2000, when Marc Rosset beat Federer. (AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE)

ITALY ON THE ROPES The Czech Republic took a commanding 2-0 lead over the defending champion Italy in their Fed Cup semifinal in Ostrava, Czech Republic, as Lucie Safarova and Petra Kvitova won the opening singles matches in straight sets. The Czech Republic is one win away from the final against Australia or Germany. The reverse singles and doubles are planned for Sunday. (AP)

GERMANY LEADS AUSTRALIA Germany took hold of its Fed Cup semifinal, winning both the opening day singles to lead Australia, 2-0, in Brisbane, Australia.

Germany needs only one more victory from Sunday's two reverse singles and the doubles to reach its first Fed Cup final since 1992. (AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE)

SPAIN AND POLAND TIED Agnieszka Radwanska beat Silvia Soler-Espinosa to give Poland the first point of its Fed Cup World Group playoff against Spain. But Radwanska's sister, Urszula, lost to Maria-Teresa Torro-Flor. With the series at 1-1, the return singles and doubles match will decide the tie Sunday. (AP)

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