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Google has added support for 18 new languages to its Google Drive web app suite. Besides Drive itself, this includes Google Docs, Sheets and Slides. The newly supported languages are Afrikaans, Amharic, Basque, Chinese (Hong Kong), Estonian, French (Canada), Galician, Icelandic, Khmer, Lao, Malaysian, Nepali, Persian, Sinhalese, Spanish (Latin America), Swahili, Urdu and Zulu With these 18 languages, Google Drive now supports 65 languages in total SEE ALSO: Google Offers 15GB Unified Storage Across Gmail, Drive, Google+ To switch to a different language in Drive, users must click the gear icon in the upper-right corner, select "settings" and choose a new language under "general." To change the language in Google Drive for mobile, they must open their device's language settings Read more...More about Language, Tech, Apps Software, and Google Drive

AstraZeneca and Bristol-Myers Squibb Announce Top Line Results for SAVOR-TIMI-53 Cardiovascular Outcomes Trial of Onglyza ® (saxagliptin) PRINCETON, N.J. & WILMINGTON, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYS: BMY) and AstraZeneca (NYS: AZN) today announced top line results of the Phase 4 SAVOR-TIMI-53 (Saxagliptin Assessment of Vascular Outcomes Recorded in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus) clinical trial of Onglyza® (saxagliptin). In this study of adult patients with type 2 diabetes with either a history of established cardiovascular disease or multiple risk factors, Onglyza met the primary safety objective of non-inferiority, and did not meet the primary efficacy objective of superiority, for a composite endpoint of cardiovascular death, non-fatal myocardial infarction or non-fatal ischaemic stroke, when added to a patient's current standard of care (with or without other anti-diabetic therapies), as compared to placebo. These preliminary SAVOR-TIMI-53 data are being analyzed and the study results will be submitted to the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) for potential presentation at the ESC Congress in September. About Onglyza ® (saxagliptin) Onglyza is indicated as an adjunct to diet and exercise to improve glycemic (blood sugar) control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus in multiple clinical settings. Onglyza should not be used for the treatment of patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus or diabetic ketoacidosis (increased levels of ketones in the blood or urine), as it would not be effective in these settings. Onglyza has not been studied in patients with a history of pancreatitis. Onglyza is contraindicated in patients with a history of a serious hypersensitivity reaction to Onglyza (e.g., anaphylaxis, angioedema or exfoliative skin conditions). There have been post-marketing reports of acute pancreatitis and serious hypersensitivity reactions in patients taking Onglyza. If pancreatitis or a serious hypersensitivity reaction is suspected, promptly discontinue Onglyza and institute appropriate medical treatment. It is unknown whether patients with a history of pancreatitis are at an increased risk for development of pancreatitis while using Onglyza. When Onglyza was used in combination with a sulfonylurea or with insulin (two medications known to cause hypoglycemia), the incidence of confirmed hypoglycemia was increased over that of placebo used in combination with a sulfonylurea or with insulin. Therefore, a lower dose of the insulin secretagogue or insulin may be required to minimize the risk of hypoglycemia when used in combination with Onglyza. As of June 2013, Onglyza has been submitted for regulatory review in 95 countries and is approved in 86 countries including those in the European Union, the United States, Canada, Mexico, India, Brazil and China. Indication and Limitations of Use for ONGLYZA ® (saxagliptin) ONGLYZA is indicated as an adjunct to diet and exercise to improve glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus in multiple clinical settings. ONGLYZA should not be used for the treatment of type 1 diabetes mellitus or diabetic ketoacidosis. ONGLYZA has not been studied in patients with a history of pancreatitis. Important Safety Information for ONGLYZA Contraindications History of a serious hypersensitivity reaction to ONGLYZA (eg, anaphylaxis, angioedema, or exfoliative skin conditions) Warnings and Precautions Pancreatitis: There have been postmarketing reports of acute pancreatitis in patients taking ONGLYZA. After initiating ONGLYZA, observe patients carefully for signs and symptoms of pancreatitis. If pancreatitis is suspected, promptly discontinue ONGLYZA and initiate appropriate management. It

I don't think you could have explained this game to a civilian. You were in too deep. Try explaining a Padres/Giants game in June to a normal person. The baseball gods consulted with a focus group on meaningless to come up with the idea of a Padres/Giants game in June. This game shouldn't have riled you up at all. So let's count the ways why it absolutely did rile us all up. Let's itemize exactly why a Brandon Belt double play in the eighth would have made us drink in an empty bathtub until it was time to go to work tomorrow. 1. Matt Cain In the sixth inning, it looked like Cain was going to pitch a one-hitter. He gave up a hit to the leadoff hitter, but then he settled down. His breaking stuff was (with some notable exceptions) fantastic. He was pumping first-pitch strikes in all game, and the Padres never settled in. Then there were home runs, lead changes, and when the dust settled, Matt Cain was screwed out of a win again. This would have been his 300th career win if his bullpen didn't hate him every season of his career. There would have been a plaque and a ballpark giveaway. There would have been a cake in the shape of 300 wins. It would have been magical. Instead, Cain was cained. The worst. 2. Brandon Crawford On a day when Marco Scutaro came back from the malleted abyss, Brandon Crawford left the game with sprained fingers on his throwing hand. The Giants are the aliens from Toy Story, waiting for the claw to grab them. Also, the claw is razor sharp and it pulls them up by their hands, with blood shooting everywhere. If another Giants player is going to go down, can't they at least placate the masses with a win? (Crawford's day-to-day, by the way. Bruce Bochy said they were hopeful for Thursday.) 3. Jesus Guzman Jesus Guzman is the shitty guitarist who was kicked out of the band for being shitty, and now he's back with his shitty new band and acting like he's in Black Sabbath. Except he's shitty. He stinks like 2009 -- the smell of 1-0 losses, failure, and burnt possums. I wasn't supremely offended by his histrionics after the home run, but annoyed enough that a loss on that home run would have felt even worse. 4. Home runs The Giants allow a lot of them now, which isn't cool. Cain even gave up a home run to Logan Forsythe, who is a timber magnate from Canada, not a baseball player. The Giants had to grind hits together, as usual, and the Padres kept cheating by hitting the ball over the fence where no one even had a chance to catch them. Rather unsporting. And definitely annoying. 5. Bullpen On the same day of the Zack Wheeler game, this was the game that guaranteed several prospects were going to be scattered into the wind as a sacrifice to the great bullpen revamping of July. The bullpen was bad again, and Jeremy Affeldt allowed an eighth-inning, two-run homer for the second time in his last six appearances. 6. Padres It was the Padres. You can't explain the Padres to someone who doesn't care about baseball. You: Look at it. Them: Okay. It's a piece of brown construction paper. You: /turns on a Vampire Weekend song Them: Okay. I don't mind these guys. They're alright. … several hours later … Them: Please god turn it off. You: That's the Padres. I don't know why losing a close game to the Padres is so awful. But it is. And that's why a loss would have felt so awful tonight. That's why Brandon Belt is to be feted, and why Juan Perez is going to have his face carved on Sign Hill. It wasn't just a June Padres/Giants game. Alright, it was, but that can't express just how annoying it was. Track I is an instrumental. It starts with an oscillating Minimoog run, ascending and descending, back and forth, until the drums kick in. Track II is 14:01, and it's broken up into several movements or "suites." It starts with Juan Perez being bitten by a mechanical owl, who carries Perez to his maker. The maker creates a new arm for Perez out of fire and palladium. Track III is 9:48 and ab

Canada's housing market is finally showing signs of cooling down, after a long property boom beginning in 1999, which had only a short and minor contraction in 2008/9. Since March 1999, house prices in Canada have risen by 133%; whilst in the U.S., house prices have only risen by 48% in the same period. Canadian house prices continue to rise, and in May were 2.0% higher than a year earlier, down from 5.8% from the previous year. However, more worryingly, the volume of home sales has fallen by 9.0% in the year to May. (click to enlarge) A report released last week from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an international economic organisation of broadly rich countries, ranked Canada as having the third most overvalued housing market. However, Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the OECD, and Jim Flaherty, Canada's finance minister, disagree with the view that there is a

Netflix has announced that it will begin operating in The Netherlands later this year, further expanding its European footprint. The Netherlands, Netflix’s seventh European country, is a relatively small market for the streaming video service, but in keeping with Netflix’s more cautious approach to moving into new countries after its aggressive international expansion last year lost money. After breaking into several international markets, including the UK, Ireland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland, in 2012, Netflix said in January that it would dramatically decrease the rate of its overseas expansion in 2013. During the past six months, Netflix has not launched in any new countries. In its first-quarter earnings report this April, Netflix said that it expects a profit of up to $149 million from its U.S. streaming business in the second quarter, but losses of up to $81 million from its international streaming in 40 countries. The company’s U.S. business is also given a boost by its DVD-by-mail segment, which will contribute additional profits of up to $112 million. Netflix now has 7.1 million international users in Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia and parts of Latin America and the Caribbean. The streaming video company currently has 29.2 million streaming subscribers in the U.S. The company did not give any details about its catalog or pricing, but it did say that users in The Netherlands will get access to Hollywood-produced, local and global TV series and films, including Netflix Original Series “House of Cards” and “Arrested Development” on their mobile devices, PCs and game consoles. A site for The Netherlands is now open for notification sign-ups.

La décennie précédente nous a permis d'assister à un retour en force - une renaissance, diront certains - du conservatisme dans le monde occidental. Dans plusieurs pays, différents partis se revendiquant plus ou moins ouvertement de cette idéologie ont été portés au pouvoir ou s'en sont approchés. C'est notamment le cas en France avec le Front national, aux États-Unis avec le Parti républicain et en Allemagne avec l'Union chrétienne-démocrate. Cette irrésistible ascension n'a évidemment pas épargné le Canada qui, avec l'élection de 2006, a porté au pouvoir le Parti conservateur de Stephen Harper. Depuis lors, son gouvernement a remporté deux élections générales, dont celle de 2011 qui lui donna un premier mandat majoritaire. Très rapidement, les Canadiens ont pu constater un important changement de culture politique par rapport à ce à quoi ils avaient été habitués avec le Parti libéral du Canada. Plusieurs, notamment au Québec, s'en sont trouvés grandement déstabilisés. Afin de mieux comprendre de quoi il en retourne, je propose que nous retournions aux sources de l'idéologie conservatrice pour mieux en saisir l'essence.Il faut d'abord savoir que le libéralisme et le conservatisme reposent sur des postulats fondamentaux généralement opposés, il ne faut donc pas se surprendre que le passage de l'un vers l'autre opère en politique des transformations assez radicales. Le Canada dont les conservateurs ont hérité est un Canada profondément marqué par la culture politique des libéraux, ces derniers ayant été au pouvoir pendant plus des deux tiers du temps depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale. La pensée libérale s'y est donc confortablement installée, modelant par le fait même un Canada à l'image de ses valeurs. À ce titre, le rapatriement de la Constitution en 1982 par les libéraux de Pierre Elliott Trudeau constitue un moment fondateur dans la définition du Canada moderne. La Charte canadienne des droits et libertés viendra ainsi enchâsser une série de principes et de valeurs qui positionnent clairement le Canada dans le giron de l'idéologie libérale.More...

Toronto events on June 17th, 2013 DANCE | Luminato Presents: Evening Illuminations - A Conversation with Mark Morris The Luminato Festival continues its Evening Illuminations series tonight with a special live conversation with Mark Morris. Morris is an American choreographer and director who began his career as a dancer, and has received a Leonard Bernstein Lifetime Achievement Award, a New York City Mayor's Award for Arts & Culture, and many other accolades. He has collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma, and created many works for different ballet companies, most notably the San Francisco Ballet. He will discuss the different productions he is bringing to Luminato this year: L'Allegro il Penseroso ed il Moderato, and L'Allegro Movement Project with an old colleague from early in his career, Gerard Mortier. TIFF Bell Lightbox (350 King Street West) $20 CULTURE | Soirée Québec The Bureau du Québec à Toronto presents Soirée Québec, tonight at Roy Thomson Hall. This event celebrates Québec's National Day, and will feature a performance of the modern circus troupe Flip FabriQue's show Attrape Moi. Flip FabriQue is a young performance group made up of international calibre talent, with members who have worked previously with Cirque du Soleil and Cirque Éloize. There will also be over twenty exhibitors, providing samples of amazing culinary delights, as well as promoting and educating attendees about Québec's landmarks and tourist attractions. Roy Thomson Hall (60 Simcoe Street) 7PM $8 FILM | Female Eye Film Festival The Female Eye Film Festival begins its five day run tonight. This is an Ontario festival showcasing the work of female directors, and celebrating independent cinema created through the "female eye" since 2001. Over the course of five days, the festival will showcase films from a wide spectrum of genres, and include a question and answer segment with the directors at the conclusion of every screening. There will also be artist talks, a photography exhibit, and award ceremony, and both opening and closing night galas. Tonight's opening night and reception takes places at the WARC Gallery. The festival runs until June 23rd. WARC Gallery (401 Richmond Street West, Suite #122) 7PM BOOKS & LIT | Book launch for Lisa Moore's novel Caught Newfoundland author, Lisa Moore, launches her new novel, Caught this evening at Ben McNally Books. Moore's first novel, Alligator, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, as was her earlier short story collection, Open. Moore is known for incorporating Newfoundland in to her work. Caught is an adventure story, and is being compared by critics to the tradition of the earliest narratives, such as The Odyssey, with the hero in this case being a young Newfoundland drug dealer, on the run and traveling to find an ex-partner. Ben McNally Books (366 Bay Street) 6PM Also Of Note Method Man & Redman How High Tour Sound Academy Ontario Craft Beer Week Have an event you'd like to plug? Submit your own listing to the blogTO Toronto events calendar or contact us directly. Lead image from Mighty Fine, screening at the Female Eye Film Festival

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You heard it right. One of the most favorite sport car series, Lancer Evolution, is going to end. Mitsubishi, so far has launched 10 generations of Lancer Evolution. Initially decided to be sold only in Japan, this car made record sales in every international market. With each generation the car got better and still better. The latest of the series is Evo X (X is Roman number for 10). Mitsubishi has decided that now, no cars will be launched by it, under the tag of “Evo”. The cars coming ahead will be hybrids of the present Lancer. Mitsubishi came to existence in the year 1870. Presently, it is a group of several Japanese companies which have discrete business to carry. The logo of Mitsubishi, which is three red rhombus, literally means “Three Diamonds”. It began initially as a shipping firm and now after more than 100 years, it is active in an array of professional fields including shipping, mining, electronics, automotives, etc. All these companies linked together, and involved with different areas of specialization, has given Mitsubishi a world wide area of market. The industries meet once every month to discuss new proposals and analyze the monthly performance. Mitsubishi first launched Evolution Lancer in the year 1992. It was termed as Evo and with each generation more sophisticated versions entered the market. It was a sports car that had to conquer the Japanese market. But in the year 1998, it got an entry into the UK market through some fruitful dealership. Looking at the success it got there, Mitsubishi started designing market specific Evo cars. Each model had the 4- wheel drive and a turbo charged two liter engine. The tenth generation Evo X was launched in the domestic market in 2007 and in the year 2008 it reached USA, Canada and UK. It had brilliant framework with all aluminium body. The wheels were made of alloy with a diameter of 16 inches. Outmost care was taken regarding the driver’s and passenger’s safety. There is a six transmission, dual clutch gear. Though brilliant in every way and with a huge market, Mitsubishi has announced termination of the Evo series. Mitsubishi now plans to work on cars with fully electric motor or at least hybrids. It will be launching 8 of such cars by 2015. It plans to make a sports car that goes one step ahead of the outstanding Evolution series.