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Google Drive client comes to Chrome OS and iOS, available today
Windows, Mac and Android users are no longer alone in their access to Google Drive's online repository. Now iOS and Chrome OS users can install a client and pull down their data and docs (though, the promised Linux client was nowhere to be seen at IO). The iOS app has all the features that make Drive drive great on Android, including OCR and picture recognition. As part of the demo, Clay Bavor, Director of Product Management for Google Apps, showed off the apps ability to decipher and index text from receipts he had taken a picture of. Perhaps more impressive though, was his ability to simply type "pyramids" and have his vacation snapshots pop up. There was no metadata attached to the images identifying them as the pyramids in Egypt, Google was able to recognize the landmarks by analyzing the photos.
Obviously, Drive and seamless integration with it is key to Chrome OS's success. Now the browser-based OS finally has a native Drive client allowing you to quickly sync and access your data on the lightweight Linux machines. The ability to sync files with Chrome OS is great, but more importantly, an update to the web service has now made offline editing available -- perhaps the most requested feature. Now with offline access ironed out and all the major desktop and mobile OSes under it's belt Drive may actually be ready to challenge peripheral competitors like Dropbox.
Check out our full coverage of Google I/O 2012's developer conference at our event hub!
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Land deals in India to drop 25%: C&W
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Hit by a demand slump in the residential sector, India is likely to witness around 25% decline in land deals to around Rs 15,000 crore, realty consultant Cushman & Wakefield today said.
The firm also said most of the land purchases would be done by regional smaller players instead of big developers.
?The market sentiment is very negative. This year we may see land deals worth Rs 15,000 crore happening across various locations in the country,? Cushman & Wakefield (C&W) Executive Managing Director (South Asia) Sanjay Dutt told PTI on the sidelines of CII realty summit here.
According to C&W, India had seen land deals worth Rs 20,000 crore in 2011, he added.
Dutt said out of the expected transactions, Rs 7000-8000 crore have already taken place.
When asked about the locations, he said: ?NCR and Mumbai will alone account for 60-70%of the total deals, along with some top tier I cities. Some tier II cities will also witness some deals.?
Most of the land purchases will be done by regional smaller players instead of big developers, he added.
He further said organised players like Godrej, Mahindras and L&T will continue to purchase land as and when required.
Talking about the demand, Dutt said sales of housing units have fallen by about 30%across the country in the last one year.
?Some places in Mumbai and NCR prices have gone up tremendously in the last two years. This has led to slowdown in demand,? Dutt said.
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L.A. metal recyclers charged in mishandling of toxic waste
Los Angeles city prosecutors Wednesday took the unusual step of filing criminal charges against the owners of three metal recycling businesses, accusing them of illegally handling hazardous waste and allowing toxic chemicals to be released into storm water.
"These facilities pose a significant threat to human health and the environment," said Patty Bilgin, who heads the Los Angeles city attorney's environmental justice unit. "These are toxic chemicals. We don't know where they are going."
The conditions inspectors found in some of the facilities were "inherently dangerous," Bilgin said. Among other things, the criminal complaint said there were puddles of oil on the ground and stacks of refrigerators and radiators ? which had not been properly drained of hazardous chemicals ? mixed in with scrap metal.
Prosecutors charged Jong Uk Byun, who owns Central Metal on South Alameda Street, with eight misdemeanor counts, including one related to runoff of water contaminated with copper, lead and zinc.
Geovedy and Waihner Cifuentes, owner and manager of CDL Scrap Metal on Mateo Street downtown, were charged with nine counts, including mishandling hazardous waste, illegally discharging polluted water and operating without a permit.
Don Monroe, the owner of C&M Metals on 24th Street, faces 13 similar counts.
If convicted, each business owner could face hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines and up to a year in jail, prosecutors said.
Waihner Cifuentes said he was taken by surprise. "I did not know. I have not received anything," he said.
He added that after inspectors visited his property earlier this year, "I did everything they told me.... We have everything in order here."
A person answering the phone at Central Metal said "nobody is aware of this" and had no further comment.
Monroe of C&M Metals said the charges "come as a shock" because he thought he had done his best to comply with what regulators asked.
The city attorney's office filed the charges after numerous agencies, including the Los Angeles County Fire Department's hazardous materials division and the regional water board, conducted inspections in February.
Recycling scrap metal ? much of it shipped to factories in Asia ? is a booming business in Central and South Los Angeles, and many environmental groups complain that some outfits violate environmental laws with impunity.
Councilwoman Jan Perry, a mayoral candidate who represents the area where two of the businesses operate, said she hopes the charges send a "loud and clear" message "to any company that chooses to profit before community health that we are watching and will not take these actions lightly."
Liz Crosson, executive director of Santa Monica Baykeeper, an environmental group that has sued several metal recycling operations for violating the federal Clean Water Act, also welcomed the action.
"It's important that polluters be held accountable," she said. "Contributing pollutants like toxic metals to our waterways is a criminal action. "
Her group earlier this month filed a federal lawsuit against C&M Metals accusing it of allowing water contaminated with toxic metal to drain into Ballona Creek.
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Samsung Galaxy S III for T-Mobile review
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If three's a crowd, the Samsung Galaxy S III party in the US is about to get pretty stuffy. Having already reviewed AT&T and Sprint's variants -- not to mention the original I9300 before them -- we're now ready to put a third iteration through its paces, this time from the country's fourth-largest carrier, T-Mobile.
Of course, the phone itself needs no grand introduction, as it's fast become the new darling of the smartphone world. And rightfully so, in many respects: it's the first high-end device to launch on all four major mobile operators in the US (a feat in and of itself), and it's done so with minimal carrier branding, hardware changes or bloatware levies. It is, in essence, an unadulterated handset. The reason this piece of news is so wondrous is that it opens up your ability to choose your phone service based on the network, not on the actual phone each individual carrier offers.
Sadly, the big tradeoff here is the loss of an Exynos quad-core processor in exchange for a Snapdragon S4 dual-core chipset and additional RAM. Join us as we take a deeper look at the T-Mobile Galaxy S III. Is it the best phone on the network? Is it worth shelling out $280 (with a two-year contract) for the 16GB model or $330 for 32GB? How well does it perform? This and more answers await you in our full review below.
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Chevron Faces Asset Seizure In Brazil Over $18 Billion Ecuador Judgment, Says Amazon Defense Coalition
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BRASILIA, Brazil, June 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Villagers from Ecuador's rainforest who won a landmark court judgment against Chevron for causing massive environmental and health damage filed suit Wednesday to seize the oil giant's assets in Brazil to generate funds to remove cancer-causing toxins and oil sludge from their ancestral homelands.
The legal action, made necessary by Chevron's refusal to comply with an $18 billion court judgment in Ecuador that was affirmed on appeal, is the second filing to force the company to pay for the clean-up of a disaster that decimated indigenous groups and caused an outbreak of cancer and other oil-related diseases that have killed or threaten to kill thousands of men, women, and children, according to various court findings in Ecuador. See here.
The villagers took their first step toward enforcing the judgment in Canada, where they filed a suit May 30th intended ultimately to garnish various revenue streams and assets held by Chevron through two subsidiaries in that country. In Brazil, they are asking the country's highest civil court to recognize the Ecuadorian judgment so seizure actions can take place.
Filed in the Superior Tribunal of Justice in Brazil's capital of Brasilia, the suit targets Chevron operations that produce a daily average of 33,000 barrels of crude oil and 13 million cubic feet of natural gas. Brazil, which has the sixth largest economy in the world, is considered a major strategic play for Chevron's long-term growth.
See the official complaint in Portuguese here and the unofficial English translation here.
Noted Brazilian litigator Sergio Bermudes represents the Ecuador rainforest communities. Bermudes founded his own law firm in 1969 and has successfully represented clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies such as Citigroup to political prisoners jailed during his country's military dictatorship in the 1970s. See here.
"I am honored to have been chosen by the indigenous peoples of Ecuador to help correct a gross violation of fundamental human rights visited upon them by Chevron," said Bermudes. "After reviewing the lengthy trial record, I have no doubt the Ecuador judgment will be enforced in Brazil."
Bermudes added: "After an eight-year trial, Chevron's extreme recklessness and the grave damage it caused to the environment in Ecuador will not be reviewed by Brazilian courts. The Superior Tribunal of Justice will only analyze whether the Ecuador decision meets the requirements of Brazilian law for enforcement of foreign judgments."
Brazil and Ecuador are signatories to a treaty that facilitates reciprocal enforcement of judgments among countries in Latin America, potentially streamlining the enforcement process and limiting the ability of a defendant to re-litigate issues already decided by the court that conducted the trial. Brazil allows interest to run on a foreign judgment during the pendency of the enforcement process, potentially adding substantial costs to Chevron should it adopt its traditional strategy of trying to delay the proceedings.
Brazil has one of the largest proven oil reserves in the world and produces 2.3 million barrels daily. The country is Chevron's second largest production market in Latin America and one of the top ten markets in the world for the oil giant's capital spending. Chevron announced in 2011 that it planned to invest an additional $3 billion in Brazil by 2014.
Chevron already faces $22 billion in possible civil and criminal penalties in Brazil related to an offshore spill and related cover-up last November in the Frade field, a $3.6 billion deep water oil project that is one of Chevron's biggest capital investments in the world. The Frade field is majority-owned and operated by Chevron, and has an estimated 300 million barrels in reserve.
Chevron also has two other significant offshore oil projects in development in the country, a large lubricant manufacturing plant, an industrial greases plant, and other smaller properties.
Pablo Fajardo, the 39-year-old lead lawyer for the Ecuadorians and the recipient of both the CNN "Hero" Award and the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize (considered the "Nobel" of the environment), has said the Ecuador rainforest communities intend to file actions in a small number of countries to collect the entire amount of the judgment.
"We fought for almost two decades in court to win a legitimate judgment against a large American oil company that continues to treat Ecuador and its people as second-class citizens," said Fajardo, who grew up in poverty working in Ecuador's oil fields.
"While Chevron might think it can ignore court orders in Ecuador, it will be impossible for Chevron to ignore court orders in countries like Brazil and Canada where it maintains substantial assets," he added.
The judgment in Ecuador resulted from an eight-year trial that produced more than 64,000 soil and water samples that pointed to extensive contamination at hundreds of Chevron oil production sites in a large swath of Ecuador's Amazon, known as the Oriente. The area was once one of the most bio-diverse ecosystems on earth.
Fajardo said that during the trial Chevron proposed that the Ecuador court use an arbitrary clean-up standard roughly 100 times more lax than required by law in the U.S., leading to charges it was discriminating against Ecuadorians. The company also threatened one judge with a criminal prosecution, tried to bribe another judge, lied about its scientific sampling results, and reportedly offered $1 billion to Ecuador's government to quash the case. See here. (A video that explains Chevron's substandard operational practices in Ecuador and efforts to corrupt the trial can be seen here.)
Representatives of the affected communities, who meet every two months in the rainforest in a body called the Assembly of the Affected Ones (Asamblea de Afectados), praised the filing of the action in Brazil. Citizens of Ecuador have suffered from high rates of cancer, spontaneous miscarriages, and oil-related diseases due to Chevron's substandard production practices. See here, here, and here.
"The time has come to use the force of law to make Chevron clean up its pollution," said Luis Yanza, a rainforest community leader who has been battling Chevron over the issue since the early 1990s. "No company, even one as rich and powerful as Chevron, is above the law."
The filing of the second enforcement action also comes at a time when Chevron shareholders are rebelling against company management over the risk posed by the Ecuador court judgment.
Last month, Chevron CEO John Watson suffered a stunning reprimand when investors holding over 38% of the company's shares (representing $73 billion worth of stock) voted for a resolution that directly challenged his authority because of the Ecuador case. Recently, 40 institutional shareholders representing $570 billion under management - including the New York state pension fund - urged the company to settle the Ecuador litigation.
Contact: Karen Hinton at 703-798-3109 or karen@hintoncommunications.com ?
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40,000 Arizona student athletes receive concussion tests from Mayo Clinic
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. More than 40,000 student athletes in Arizona have taken advantage of computerized baseline concussion evaluations offered by Mayo Clinic in the program's first year. That amounts to nearly 40 percent of the state's roughly 100,000 high school athletes. Baseline concussion evaluations measure how the brain is working before injury, and are mandatory tests for professional and college athletes.
Mayo covers the cost of the cognitive evaluations for all high school and junior high school-aged interscholastic and club athletes in the state. The program was made possible through the support of benefactors and Mayo Clinic.
The test takes 8? minutes to complete, and athletes or their parents can share the results with health care providers of their choice. After a concussion, the test can be repeated to determine if there has been a change in the cognitive capabilities of the athlete and, once symptoms have resolved, the test can be repeated to determine whether the athlete has returned to pre-injury baseline. The results of this test, combined with a thorough neurological evaluation, ensure that the health care provider can make an informed and objective determination on when and whether the athlete can safely resume normal activities and in the case of student athletes, when they can return to their sport.
"The diagnosis of concussion, assessment of its severity and knowing when an athlete can return to physical activity, competition, work or school is not always clear," says Mayo neurologist David Dodick, M.D., at Mayo Clinic in Arizona and president of the American Headache Society. "Having a baseline concussion assessment for each athlete will assist in a physician's ability to identify and quantify a change in brain function, and determine if and when the athlete has returned to his or her baseline."
After a concussion, if an athlete continues to play or returns to play too early, there is a significant risk of experiencing another concussion. Dr. Dodick adds.
"Repeat concussions may take longer to resolve and come with a risk of permanent neurological damage or, rarely, death," he says. Children, adolescents and female athletes appear to be at a higher risk for concussions, and may also take longer to recover.
While the importance of baseline testing is clear, the results should be used with a comprehensive neurological evaluation. Although the majority of concussions resolve relatively quickly, some athletes may experience symptoms that may persist for months or longer. The medical care and rehabilitation of these athletes is best achieved by a multidisciplinary team of health professionals with expertise in the evaluation and management of concussions.
Providing this baseline assessment also highlights the importance of safeguarding the brain health of young athletes.
"We are pleased that so many parents, coaches, trainers and students have seen the importance of baseline testing and have opted for this free testing," Dr. Dodick says. "But there is still a long way to go; hopefully, this initiative will be a significant step toward having all youth and adults throughout our state who are involved in competitive or recreational sporting activities establish a baseline."
The baseline concussion testing initiative began soon after the passage of Arizona Senate Bill 1521, which requires that high school athletes who have sustained a concussion be ineligible to return to play until a licensed health care provider has cleared them to return. The law also requires schools to educate coaches, students and parents about the dangers of concussions.
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For more information, or to obtain access to take the computerized concussion test, student athletes, parents, coaches, athletic trainers and school athletic directors in Arizona can email concussion@mayo.edu or visit online.
About Mayo Clinic
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Mayo Clinic
Testing available to students at no cost
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. More than 40,000 student athletes in Arizona have taken advantage of computerized baseline concussion evaluations offered by Mayo Clinic in the program's first year. That amounts to nearly 40 percent of the state's roughly 100,000 high school athletes. Baseline concussion evaluations measure how the brain is working before injury, and are mandatory tests for professional and college athletes.
Mayo covers the cost of the cognitive evaluations for all high school and junior high school-aged interscholastic and club athletes in the state. The program was made possible through the support of benefactors and Mayo Clinic.
The test takes 8? minutes to complete, and athletes or their parents can share the results with health care providers of their choice. After a concussion, the test can be repeated to determine if there has been a change in the cognitive capabilities of the athlete and, once symptoms have resolved, the test can be repeated to determine whether the athlete has returned to pre-injury baseline. The results of this test, combined with a thorough neurological evaluation, ensure that the health care provider can make an informed and objective determination on when and whether the athlete can safely resume normal activities and in the case of student athletes, when they can return to their sport.
"The diagnosis of concussion, assessment of its severity and knowing when an athlete can return to physical activity, competition, work or school is not always clear," says Mayo neurologist David Dodick, M.D., at Mayo Clinic in Arizona and president of the American Headache Society. "Having a baseline concussion assessment for each athlete will assist in a physician's ability to identify and quantify a change in brain function, and determine if and when the athlete has returned to his or her baseline."
After a concussion, if an athlete continues to play or returns to play too early, there is a significant risk of experiencing another concussion. Dr. Dodick adds.
"Repeat concussions may take longer to resolve and come with a risk of permanent neurological damage or, rarely, death," he says. Children, adolescents and female athletes appear to be at a higher risk for concussions, and may also take longer to recover.
While the importance of baseline testing is clear, the results should be used with a comprehensive neurological evaluation. Although the majority of concussions resolve relatively quickly, some athletes may experience symptoms that may persist for months or longer. The medical care and rehabilitation of these athletes is best achieved by a multidisciplinary team of health professionals with expertise in the evaluation and management of concussions.
Providing this baseline assessment also highlights the importance of safeguarding the brain health of young athletes.
"We are pleased that so many parents, coaches, trainers and students have seen the importance of baseline testing and have opted for this free testing," Dr. Dodick says. "But there is still a long way to go; hopefully, this initiative will be a significant step toward having all youth and adults throughout our state who are involved in competitive or recreational sporting activities establish a baseline."
The baseline concussion testing initiative began soon after the passage of Arizona Senate Bill 1521, which requires that high school athletes who have sustained a concussion be ineligible to return to play until a licensed health care provider has cleared them to return. The law also requires schools to educate coaches, students and parents about the dangers of concussions.
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For more information, or to obtain access to take the computerized concussion test, student athletes, parents, coaches, athletic trainers and school athletic directors in Arizona can email concussion@mayo.edu or visit online.
About Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit worldwide leader in medical care, research and education for people from all walks of life. For more information, visit www.mayoclinic.org/about/ and www.mayoclinic.org/news.
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