Mark Zuckerberg ?Likes' SF LGBT Pride As Tech Companies Publicly Celebrate Equal Rights [Pictures]

Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook employees celebrated the San Francisco LGBT pride parade from a decorated trolley today, as tech companies across the country very visibly supported equal rights. According to the Wall Street Journal, Facebook had over 700 employees at pride. Here are some of our favorite photos of tech companies celebrating equal rights at Pride?

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Blackhawks parade photos: Celebrating one goal!

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Acute Migraines More Apt to Turn Chronic With Poor Treatment ...

Study compared patients to see who made the jump to frequent headaches within year

WebMD News from HealthDay

By Robert Preidt

HealthDay Reporter

FRIDAY, June 28 (HealthDay News) -- People who receive inadequate treatment for acute migraine headaches are more likely to develop chronic migraines, according to a new study.

Researchers looked at data from more than 4,600 people with episodic migraines (14 or fewer migraine days per month) and found that 48 percent of them received poor or very poor treatment.

These patients were more likely to progress to having chronic migraines (15 or more migraine days a month) than those who received better treatment, according to the study, which was presented this week at the International Headache Congress meeting in Boston.

Within a year, about 8 percent of patients who received very poor treatment progressed to chronic migraine, compared with 4.4 percent of those who received poor treatment, 2.9 percent of those who received moderate treatment and 2.5 percent of those who received the best treatment.

Migraines are debilitating headaches involving intense pulsing or throbbing pain, and often nausea, vomiting and hypersensitivity to light and sound.

The study was conducted by a team from the Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in New York City, and Vedanta Research, in Chapel Hill, N.C.

Because this study was presented at a medical meeting, the data and conclusions should be viewed as preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.

"These findings are exciting as they provide clinical targets for intervention. When we discover factors that increase the risk of progression, health care providers can focus their efforts in those areas to improve care and outcomes," study co-author Dawn Buse said in an International Headache Congress news release.

"In this case, we have found several factors in acute migraine treatment which may likely improve outcomes, including using medications that work quickly and maintain pain-free results, which allows and empowers people who live with migraines the freedom and confidence to make plans and fully engage in their lives," Buse said.

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30 sent to hospitals in Las Vegas as record heat parks over West, Southwest

In Los Angeles, heat-related power failures snarled traffic, and in Death Valley, where temperatures hit triple digits, the forecast is could bring a record 129 degrees. NBC's Gabe Gutierrez reports.

By M. Alex Johnson, staff writer, NBC News

Thirty people were taken to hospitals for heat-related injuries and illnesses Friday at a music festival in Las Vegas, authorities said, as a wave of life-threatening blistering temperatures blazed across the West.

Clark County fire personnel treated about 200 people for heat-related nausea, vomiting and fatigue Friday afternoon and evening at the Vans Warped Tour, an eclectic outdoor music festival at the Silverton Casino off the famous Strip.

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Most were given water and taken to shaded areas, but 30 had to be taken to hospitals for further treatment, the fire department said.

The high temperature officially hit 117 degrees at Las Vegas-McCarran International Airport ? equaling the airport's record ? on the same day thousands of people streamed to the casino site for the festival.

Records are similarly expected to be broken across the West and the Southwest through the weekend and into next week, the National Weather Service said, thanks to a high pressure "dome" parked over the sprawling region.

Death Valley, Calif., could even top 130 degrees Saturday through Monday, just below the world record high of 134 recorded there on July 10, 1913, The Weather Channel said.

Temperatures in Phoenix are expected to soar between 115 and 120 degrees. In western parts of Arizona, temperatures could reach 125.

Officials in Arizona warned residents to take precautions.

"If you get dizzy or lightheaded, those are some signs of dehydration. If you become confused, that's a real warning sign," Dr. Kevin Reilly of the University of Arizona Department of Emergency Medicine told NBC station KVOA of Tucson.

In Las Vegas, meanwhile, the National Weather Service warned of the potential for a "life-threatening heat event." Temperatures were expected to match those of a July 2005 heat wave when 17 people died in the Las Vegas Valley.

The extreme weather is expected to reach Reno, Nev., reach across Utah and stretch into Wyoming and Idaho, where forecasters are predicting potentially lethal hot spells. Triple-digit temperatures were forecast during Idaho's Special Olympics in Boise.

Matt York / AP

Runners take advantage of lower temperatures at sunrise Thursday in Mesa, Ariz. Excessive heat warnings will continue for much of the Desert Southwest as building high pressure triggers major warming in eastern California, Nevada and Arizona.

Organizers urged coaches to prepare their athletes.

"The basic stuff, wearing breathable, appropriate clothes, staying in the shade as much as possible, staying hydrated is obviously a big thing," Matt Caropino, director of sports and training for Special Olympics Idaho, told NBC station KTVB. "We've put in place some misters that we're going to have at our outdoor venues."

The National Weather Service advised people to keep tabs on signs of potentially lethal heat stroke.

"Heat stroke symptoms include an increase in body temperature, which leads to deliriousness, unconsciousness and red, dry skin," it said in a report. "Death can occur when body temperatures reach or exceed 106-107 degrees."

Los Angeles was forecast to peak between the upper 80s and the lower 90s Saturday as inland communities like Burbank edge toward the low 100s. Palm Springs, Calif., no stranger to steamy summers, may peak at 120 degrees, NBC station KMIR reported. Sweltering heat also is expected for the state's Central Valley, according to The Weather Channel.

While the west remains hot and dry, the east is getting lots of rain that has resulted in flash flooding. Some of the worst flooding was in upstate New York where whole neighborhoods remain under water. ?The Weather Channel's Mike Seidel reports.

Commercial airlines were also monitoring conditions because excessive heat can throw flights off course. The atmosphere becomes less dense in extremely high heat humidity, meaning there's less lift for airplanes ? calculations that have to be made individually for every type of aircraft.

Triple-digit heat forced several airlines to bring operations to a halt after Phoenix climbed to 122 degrees in June 1990.

Daniel Arkin of NBC News contributed to this report.

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Oppressive heat hits West as storms soak East

This story was originally published on Fri Jun 28, 2013 8:50 AM EDT

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Doink the Clown passes away

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China's Cash Crunch: This Isn't The Country's Lehman Moment, But It Signals A Change Of Momentum

The Economist

MANY commentators, including this newspaper, like to compare China?s economy with America?s, the world?s biggest, which it is on course to rival in size if not in sophistication. Recently, however, parallels between the two economies have started to look more ominous. China suddenly seems to be exactly five years behind America. After several years of excessive credit, much of it in the shadows of the banking system, China?s financial institutions stopped lending to each other this month; on June 20th interbank interest rates briefly soared to 25%. The crunch seemed horribly reminiscent of America?s financial crisis in 2008, from which it has yet to recover in full.

Two questions emerge from this. Is China?s economy in as much trouble as America?s was in 2008? And have the authorities done the right thing? The answer to both is: not really. A lot depends on China now pushing through reforms.

The pros and cons of already owning your bad banks

China?s economy certainly has some worrying excesses. Credit has been rising much faster than GDP, and property prices, especially in coastal cities, have been soaring. That is often a sign of trouble. Sharp rises in lending, accompanied by property booms, set the stage for America?s crisis in 2008 and many others like it. In those cases, when rash investments turned sour banks went bust, lending stalled and confidence evaporated. Governments had to step in, recapitalising some banks and urging others to resume lending.

Yet China?s situation is different in important ways. It has an extraordinarily high savings rate. Unlike America in 2008, the country as a whole is living well within its means. Its banks are subject to pretty stringent rules: their loans cannot exceed 75% of their deposits, and, unlike many countries, China is already implementing the global prescriptions on bank capital known as Basel 3. And the state already owns the biggest banks. That has its drawbacks (too many loans have gone to state-favoured firms), but a bonus is that, when those loans turn bad, the state does not need to nationalise anything: it can tell the banks to keep lending while it decides how to allocate the losses and when. In effect, China?s state can serve as a bankruptcy judge for the economy, keeping creditors in check, spreading the pain in an orderly fashion and, above all, preserving the value of the economy as a going concern.

China?s cash crunch also came about for a different reason. In 2008 America?s interbank market froze because banks refused to lend to each other. China?s froze last week because the central bank itself refused to lend. Despite the need of some banks for cash as the end of the quarter approached, the central bank sat on its hands, allowing rates to spike and signalling its determination to restrain the reckless growth of credit.

Letting interbank rates spike is a brutally effective, if crude, way to punish overstretched lenders; it may also have sent a useful message to profligate local governments. But it risks punishing everyone else, too (see?article). As a result of the central bank?s abstention, rumours swirled about bank defaults and ATMs running out of cash. On June 24th China?s stockmarkets suffered their worst day in years; the Shanghai composite index fell by 5.3%. The central bank?s inaction threatened to endanger the confidence that makes banking possible. Fortunately, the authorities eventually woke up to the danger, moving to calm the markets on June 25th.

The priorities now should be to start cleaning up the financial system and rebalancing the economy. Letting banks raise interest rates on deposits would help them attract funds that are now disappearing into the shadow banking system. Introducing deposit insurance would also help distinguish protected deposits from unprotected, shadowy alternatives.

The government also needs to cool some overheated industries and liberate others. It should suppress speculative demand for housing by imposing an annual property tax on the market value of homes, broadening a pilot tax in Chongqing and Shanghai. And it should do more to encourage private investment in industries, from railways to telecoms, that are now dominated by state-owned enterprises. That would free China?s banks to lend to other sources.

Such reforms will take time to work and will slow the economy in the short term. Growth may run at only 6% next year, according to Dragonomics, a research firm?a sharp reduction from the double-digit rate that China has become accustomed to, and significantly below the government?s target for this year of 7.5%. That may cause a flurry of anxiety in Beijing. Yet the alternative is more wasteful lending and unproductive spending. China is a resilient economy that has grown its way out of problems in the past. But if it lets bubbles expand, then comparisons with America may become more apposite.

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We speak to writer, broadcaster and creative writing teacher Sian ...

Sian Prior is a writer, broadcaster and creative writing teacher whose essays have been published in Fairfax and Meanjin. She is currently working on her first non-fiction book.

We spoke to her about the benefits of freelancing, the importance of having something at stake in your writing, and how reader correspondence made her adjust her views on former prime minister Julia Gillard.

What was the first piece of writing you had published?

The first few articles I had published were in the Melbourne University magazine Farrago. I wrote some profiles and arts reviews and also a personal column that was published anonymously because I was embarrassed about the subject matter. An editor picked that one up and published it in a high school textbook ? the first time I was paid for my writing. Priceless encouragement. (And no I won?t tell you what it was about.)

What?s the best part of your job?

Variety. I have a low boredom threshold and being a freelancer in a range of areas (writing, teaching, broadcasting, singing, editing, event hosting, etc.) means that if I get tired of one thing, there?s always something else I can do until I feel refreshed.

What?s the worst part of your job?

Insecurity of income ? although I have got better at tolerating that uncertainty over the years. It?s worth it at the moment for the freedom.

What?s been the most significant moment in your writing career so far?

Being contacted by an editor who said she might be interested in the book I?m currently writing (the first one I actually believe I?ll finish). It?s been a painful process and it was good to be offered hope that all that work might see the light of day.

What?s the best (or worst) advice you?ve received about writing?

American essayist Ander Monson has some insightful things to say about writing. In his essay ?Voir Dire? he wrote, ?How often is something actually at stake in essays, in memoirs, in most of the non fiction I read?? How often is there actual risk involved??? Whenever I feel anxious about being too self-revealing in my writing I remind myself of those questions.

What?s the most surprising thing you?ve ever heard or read about yourself or your work?

I once received some very negative emails in response to a critical column I wrote about the former Prime Minister Julia Gillard. I was shocked but those correspondents were right. I?ve now written a piece about how my thinking changed after receiving those emails. Writing is so ridiculously self-reflexive sometimes, isn?t it?

If you weren?t writing, what do you think you?d be doing instead?

More music. More more more more more music. When I?m not rehearsing or performing music I feel like a limb is missing.

There?s much debate on whether creative writing can be taught ? what?s your view?

As a long-time teacher of creative writing I am entirely biased. You can definitely have an influence on the quality of someone?s writing by encouraging them to develop new skills and to be more self-critical with their own writing. The RMIT writing courses (where I teach) have helped to produce some breathtakingly good published writers.

What?s your advice for someone wanting to be a writer?

Take risks with your writing. Show your writing to others and take their criticisms seriously. Write every day.

Do you buy your books online, in a physical bookshop, or both?

Both. I am doing a PhD and I buy most of my academic texts online (still hard copies) but I buy my novels in independent bookshops like Readings. I don?t yet own an e-reader (always a late adopter).

If you could go out to dinner with any fictional character, who would it be and why? And what would you talk about?

Can I pass on this one? I?m happy for imaginary people to stay within the pages of a book. I?d prefer to have dinner with some flesh and blood writers. New Zealand writer Lloyd Jones, maybe. He seems like a compassionate bloke. We could talk about the fact that he has the same name as my maternal grandfather.

What?s the book that?s had the most significant impact on your life or work ? and why?

I am a passionate devotee of Margaret Atwood?s writing, both fiction and non fiction. I envy the deft way she mixes humour and political critique with suspenseful narratives. I find it hard to imagine the literary landscape of the 20th century without her books. As the weather gets weirder and weirder (with climate change) I think often about her book Oryx and Crake. If only we could clone and transplant her imagination into the minds of the world?s political leaders.

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Sian Prior is a writer, broadcaster, musician and creative writing teacher. Her essays have been published by Fairfax and in Meanjin, and she is currently working on her first non-fiction book. Sian blogs and does performing arts reviews at sianprior.com.

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