China's 120000 students calmly deal with the earthquake-stricken area "Life Dakao"

China's 120000 students calmly deal with the earthquake-stricken area "Life Dakao" July 3, the test center in Sichuan County schools, board candidates are entering the examination room. On that day, areas of concern-Gan 120000 earthquake-stricken area candidates smoothly into the college entrance examination examination room, the examination is July 3, 4 , 5. Of these, about 78 percent of the candidates in the local activities of the board examination, 15 per cent of the candidates in the local seismic identification of qualified classroom take the exam, candidates rarely part to different places to take the test. Xinhua News Agency Chinese »English translation

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What does a passionate blogger do once she reaches the 1500 post milestone? Create her own blog, of course! I am happy to announce that as of today, I am taking the solo blogging plunge. My new blogging home is at http://blog.insiderchatter.com/
ZDNet editor in chief Dan Farber marked my one year Digital Markets anniversary last month by noting I have “covered the waterfront on emerging trends and the people at the heart of the business Internet,” and I will continue doing so at my new blogging home: My very own InsiderChatter.com
I thank all my loyal Digital Markets readers and invite you to read me going forward at InsiderChatter.com
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I read the New York Times’ take on how the stress of blogging and how it can kill you with great interest: I was interviewed for it. But I pretty much knew I wouldn’t make the final story as my take was different than Matt Richtel’s.
Now this isn’t Matt’s fault by any means: He was up front about the premise of his story: The stress of blogging can kill you. The story was straightforward “three makes a trend” journalism. Journalists joke that three of anything makes a trend. If you get three examples of anything you instantly have a story and a premise for an analysis. That’s what the editors want. And oh yeah it has to fit in a designated space. Double bonus if it tops Techmeme.
I was having the conversation with Matt to talk about Russell Shaw and put him in touch with Ellen, Russell’s girlfriend, and Dana Blankenhorn, a ZDNet blogger and long-time friend of Russell’s.
When I talked to Matt the theme of the story was clear, but I had doubts about the premise. I played devil’s advocate and outlined my day, which didn’t exactly dovetail with the primary example of the guy who is in his Brooklyn studio blogging until he passes out at his computer. If that person weren’t blogging my guess is he’d pass out playing Xbox or something else.
And that brings me to my point with Matt. Yes, blogging is stressful. Yes, it can be insane. But is it any worse than being a corporate lawyer? How many of those folks dropped in the last six months? How about mortgage brokers? Hedge fund traders? FBI agents? Any job where you gnash your teeth together? We write for a living, yap all day and don’t have to wear suits. You could do worse than blogging.
Let’s put a little perspective on this blogging thing. You could be getting shot at in Iraq. You could be a single mom working three jobs to stay afloat (Happy Birthday mom). You could work in a coal mine. You could be in a life and death battle with Leukemia. You could be doing any one of thousands of high-stress jobs. Sure, the Web has a lot of stress but let’s get real: If you’re stressed out over 5,000 RSS feeds chances are good you’d be stressed by any profession you chose.
The point I was trying to make was that nothing (certainly the deaths of Russell and Marc Orchant and Om’s heart attack) exist in a vacuum. You have to take care of yourself.
Matt’s money question was this: Give me the anatomy of your day? I told him it varies, but I said the first thing I do in the morning is work out. To do this gig you need stamina and that means you need to be in some sort of shape. I’d like to think I could still play a half of rugby although the reality is very different (I retired a few years ago when I ran out of neoprene braces to hold me together). But that’s only part of the reason I work out. The other parts: I think better. It’s my Prozac. And working out literally holds me together (I have a screw in my shoulder, two screws in my knee, a reconstructed ACL on its last legs and a neck that would have been fused if it weren’t for acupuncture). That’s what I get for playing collision sports. I’m in perpetual physical therapy.
After a workout, I may get a blog in before feeding my daughter (assuming I’m working at home). Most days all of this occurs before 7 a.m. EDT. Then I blog and blog and work in management stuff in the middle.
Clearly, this answer wasn’t going to work for Matt’s story–there was a smidge of balance even if I have to get up at 4:30 a.m. for it. The correct answer would have been: “I can’t sleep at night because I’m worried that another blog will have a story first. I keep my eyes open with toothpicks so I can keep blogging through weekends even though no one other than the other 300 psycho bloggers are reading me (check your weekend traffic logs folks). I did admit to checking headlines when I get up to pee at night.
I had pointed out that blogging is similar to being a wire service writer–it’s not for everybody but it uniquely suits some people. Am I balanced? Not quite, but I do acknowledge the goal. Like any job there are plusses and minuses. I noted that I happened to like the pace and said it’s not the stress per se as much as how you handle it. Bottom line: You can’t pin two deaths and a heart attack solely on blogging.
Of course all of those points would have exceeded the Times’ word count

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Hello to you from the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Veronica De La Cruz, thank you so much for checking in with us. Let's take a look at what is happening NOW IN THE NEWS.
Congressional Democrats could soon give their first glimpse of how they will handle the Iraq issue when they take power next year. General John Abizaid, the top US commander in the Middle East, is one of several top Bush advisers testifying on Capitol Hill today. He appeared this morning before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Later this afternoon, he testifies at a House hearing. Democrats are expected to press Abizaid about the need to begin pulling troops out of Iraq.
Iraq's minister of higher education is reportedly boycotting his position until all hostages taken in a mass kidnapping are released. According to Reuters News Service, the minister says about 100 people were abducted when dozens of armed gunmen stormed a Baghdad research institute yesterday. And he says only about two dozen have been released. Police in Baghdad say as many as 50 people have been freed.
People on the Pacific coast are breathing a little easier right now after an expected tsunami turned out to be a little more than a baby-wave. Japanese officials were predicting a 6-foot-tall or higher tsunami after a magnitude 8.1 earthquake struck the northernmost island of Hokkaido. But the first wave measured only 16 inches. Aftershocks of the quake could still strike and may trigger more tsunamis. But meteorologists expect those waves to pose little danger.
No charges will be filed against two Los Angeles police officers caught punching a suspect on tape. Legal authorities say the suspect was resisting arrest. They say the officers were doing what they had to, to get him into handcuffs. L.A. Police Chief William Bratton will now decide whether the violent arrest violated any department policy.
Delta Airlines isn’t even out of bankruptcy court yet and there is already an offer to buy it out. US Airways has made an 8-billion-dollar cash and stock offer to buy Delta once it emerges from bankruptcy. If the deal goes through, it will create one of the biggest airlines in the world.
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NEW YORK - The family of an unarmed man killed in a hail of police gunfire on his wedding day pledged Saturday to continue its fight to have someone held accountable for his death, a day after a judge acquitted three officers in the slaying.
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"I'm still praying for justice, because it's not over. It's far from over. It's just starting," Sean Bell's fiancee, Nicole Paultre Bell, told supporters at a rally in Manhattan's Harlem neighborhood. "Every protest, every march, every rally, I'm going to be right up front."
If history is a guide, the family may indeed still have a chance at extracting some measure of retribution, but it would very likely come at the expense of the city and not the officers who pulled the trigger. Bell, 23, was killed and two friends wounded in a 50-shot barrage outside a Queens strip club hours before his wedding.
Legal experts said Bell's family faces an uphill fight in their attempt to have the officers charged with federal civil rights violations and might have to settle for battling them in civil court, where the city, not the officers, would be responsible for paying off any multimillion-dollar verdict.
Peter J. Neufeld, an attorney who represented police torture victim Abner Louima, said he believed the chances that the U.S. attorney's office would bring federal charges in the case were "close to zero," judging by Justice Department decisions in past police shootings.
While federal prosecutors have been willing to prosecute police officers for civil rights violations before, most famously in the case of Los Angeles brutality victim Rodney King, they have hesitated to take on cases in which officers have had to make a quick decision whether to open fire on a person they perceived to be dangerous.
No civil rights charges were brought in the 1999 case of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed African immigrant shot to death in the vestibule of a Bronx apartment building by officers who mistook his wallet for a gun. They also were not brought in the case of Eleanor Bumpurs, a mentally ill, 66-year-old black woman who was killed by two shotgun blasts fired by a police officer evicting her from her apartment in the Bronx in 1984.
"The split-second nature of the decision to shoot," Neufeld said, makes it difficult for prosecutors to argue that the officers knowingly acted to deprive someone of a constitutional right.
Bell's family and the two survivors of the shooting may have better luck, though, with their lawsuit against the city. His companions that night were Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield.
New York has a long history of multimillion-dollar payouts as a result of lawsuits brought by the families of people slain or beaten by police, including many settlements in cases where the officers were acquitted of criminal responsibility.
Even if the case goes to trial in civil court, Bell's family is in a good position for a victory, said Bob Conason, an attorney who helped Diallo's mother wrest a $3 million settlement from the city.
"This certainly doesn't kill the civil case," Conason said of Friday's acquittal.
"Yes, they will have to try the case over again," he said, but the standard for proving that the officers used excessive force is much lower in a civil court. "We had the exact same thing in Diallo, and we were not that concerned about winning the civil case," even after the initial verdicts of not guilty, Conason said.
An exoneration in a criminal investigation also wasn't an obstacle for the families of Patrick Dorismond, an unarmed black security guard whose family won a $2.25 million settlement from the city after his shooting by a narcotics detective in 2000, or for relatives of Timothy Stansbury, who settled for $2 million after the 19-year-old was shot by a startled officer on a Brooklyn rooftop in 2004. Grand juries had declined to indict in either case.
That doesn't mean that the road to victory will be easy for the Bell family, even in civil court.
The long trial of detectives Michael Oliver, Gescard Isnora and Marc Cooper produced some moments damaging to the family's claim that the officers had no cause to fear for their safety.
Judge Arthur Cooperman noted in his written decision on the case that some of the prosecution witnesses who had given the most damning account of the officers' conduct had changed their stories regarding the circumstances of the shooting, which he said "had the effect of eviscerating" their credibility.
While not mentioning him by name, the judge also appeared to refer to Guzman as he described a witness with a criminal history and a poor demeanor on the witness stand. Guzman had been combative as he was cross-examined about the shooting and has served jail time. The police detectives said they decided to confront Bell's party as they left the strip club because they believed Guzman was going to his car to retrieve a gun after an earlier argument.
Yet, even considering those factors, Conason said it might be in the city's best interest to settle, rather than risk polarizing citizens by defending the detectives' conduct in court.
"I would hope they figure, 'Enough of this. It's not good for the city. It's not good for the department,'" Conason said. The Rev. Al Sharpton said he would meet with members of Congress in an attempt to elicit their help getting the Justice Department involved in the case.
Regardless of what the city decides to do, Bell's family and his friends say they aren't going to give up.
"We got a long fight. We still here. We still in it," Guzman said.