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A US soldier on his first skydive has landed safely despite the death of his instructor during the descent.

Daniel Pharr steered himself and the instructor clear of a house and trees, touching down about 0.3 miles (0.5km) from the intended landing point.

They had jumped from 13,500ft (4,100m) in Chester, South Carolina.

Initial indications showed the instructor had suffered a heart attack after releasing the parachute, the Associated Press news agency reported.

Mr Pharr, 25, said that once on the ground he had tried resuscitate the 49-year-old instructor, but to no avail.

He also described the moments after the pair had skydived for about a minute.

“He pulled the chute,” Mr Pharr was quoted as saying by AP.

“It got super quiet. It’s eerily quiet up there. I made the comment to him, ‘It’s surprising how quiet it is.’ And he’s like: ‘Welcome to my world.’”

‘Survival instinct’

After a few seconds Mr Pharr asked his instructor a question, but got no answer - even when he asked a second time.

“And then I just looked up at him and he looked like he was conscious, but just talking to him, I realised something was wrong,” Mr Pharr said.

“So at that point I realised I was just going to have to do what I had to do to get down to the ground and try to help him.”

Mr Pharr said he knew from TV that he had to pull the parachute’s toggles in order to steer.

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Instructors on the ground said that if he had pulled too hard the parachute may have spun out of control, and he too could have died.

“They told me afterward that it was amazing that I knew to do that. This is my survival instinct at that point.”

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Retail Group Breaks Support

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macy’s has brought the retail group down now again today on news that it slashed its dividend and will cut 7,000 jobs. along with the financial sector, retailers have been one of the hardest spank groups during the current recession. and unfortunately, the retail dispose broke through key reinforce today that has hitherto held a number of times over the…

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exxon hits sub rosa year-end profits, despite large 4q losses — exxon mobil’s fourth-quarter profits dropped 33 percent from the verbatim at the same time period of 2007, as falling crude prices unchanging into the world’s largest company’s bottom line by $3.2 billion. the oil giant’s lowering fourth-shelter profits likely provides a more accurate represent of today’s marketplace than its …
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Dodgers host second annual Jackie Robinson Legacy Day

Approximately 200 local elementary and middle school students were at Dodger Stadium today to celebrate what would’ve been Jackie Robinson’s 90th birthday and listened to stories from Don Newcombe, Tommy Davis and “Sweet” Lou Johnson. The brainchild of Charles Steinberg, Dodgers executive vice president, the event fell on the eve of Black History Month.

Robinson not only opened doors for Newdombe but the man who broke the color barrier in baseball also taught Newcombe how to play the game properly, citing a game he pitched in 1949 in Pittsburgh as an example. The Dodgers were up 11-1 early in the game and Newcombe, losing focus, walked the bases loaded. With Ralph Kiner about to hit, Robinson called time from his post at second base and walked to the mound.

“Why don’t you go in the clubhouse and take that uniform off?” Newcombe recalled being told by Robinson.

Newcombe said that Robinson told him that he was about to give up a home run to Kiner, which would result in Newcombe being pulled and not getting a win because he hadn’t pitched five innings.

“If you don’t like what I’m saying to you, we can go in the clubhouse and settle it,” Robinson told him.

“I wasn’t about to fight Jackie Roosevelt Robinson,” Newcombe said, laughing.

Newcome struck out Kiner and went on to earn the win in the Dodgers’ 15-3 victory.

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“I’ll never forget that, though,” Newcombe said. “I never started fooling around for the rest of my baseball career.”

– Dylan Hernandez

Photo: Don Newcombe talks to Dodgers first base coach Mariano Duncan after Newcombe threw out the first pitch, along with Duke Snider, before Game 3 of the National League Divisional Series on Oct. 4 at Dodger Stadium. Credit: Alex Gallardo / Los Angeles Times

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Should the Zack and Miri Title Change For Wal-Mart?

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yay: the zack and miri make a porno dvd will hit shelves next tuesday, feb. 3! but on wal-mart’s shelves the title may look a little bit different. wal-mart requested that director kevin smith change the title on the dvd covers so the word “porno” isn’t there, and smith has agreed to do it. here’s more:

Smith said Weinstein Co., which released the film Oct. 31, has complied with Wal-Mart’s request and created new DVD covers for the retailer, but the director worries that some unsuspecting customers will be fooled when they see the shortened title.

[Smith said,] “I mean, at least with the word ‘porno’ in the title, you can kind of give people a warning about what download horror they’re in for.”

That’s a good point, really - is it actually doing anyone a service to take the word “porno” sci-fi movies out of the title? Or is it understandable that Wal-Mart would want the DVD cover to not include that word?

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Why Do You Continue Blogging?

At this point in your blogging “career,” what is your main motivation of keeping it up?

1) Friendship and connection to other like-minded people without having to leave the house to meet smelly “real people.”

2) Literary ambitions. Wanting to gain attention from agents and publishers and magazines and the Huffington Post so you can move to a higher level of friends, and stop reading the poorly-written blogs of most of the people who you used to call your friends.

3) Cheap therapy. You are mildly nuts. You know it, we know it. You might as well exploit it, and tell us all about it. Every day. Because it helps.

4) Blogging bigshot dreams. This is mostly relevant to mommybloggers. You fantasize becoming one of the Walmart 11 Mommybloggers or the Domino Pizza 12 Mommybloggers, so you can feel better than your friends, constantly reminding them about your power, even though you repeatedly say you are doing it all for “them.”

5) Financial Empire building. You want to turn your blog into a business, and hope to get a lot of free stuff from companies. You consider yourself a social media expert, and sell yourself as one. You pose as a blogging maven, telling others how to do it successfully, when basically — in your heart — you know it is mostly writing something with the keyboard and pressing publish, not much different that what we used to call “writing letters.” You have 15,000 friends on Twitter, but don’t know who any of them are. Or you take the opposite approach and follow 3 friends, using the old-fashioned “hard to get” technique so successful in dating. Your blog is basically a business card for your “real” endeavor, which is to take over the world.

6) Hopeless individual. You have no real idea why you are still blogging. It is a time waster, and you make no money doing it. You worry about the bad economy, and it scares you. You have not gotten laid by any of the female bloggers that you make believe that you care about, except for that sole sexy email chat a few months ago that never went anywhere. Married female bloggers don’t even want to give you their phone numbers because of their lame “husbands.” But you keep at it, at least until BlogHer in July. Because you are a dreamer.

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US close: Markets ignore downbeat Fed

us stocks closed in good shape ahead on hopes the obama administration will create a “bad bank” to mop up all the toxic assets and despite a joyless assessment of the us economy from the federal stockpile. the fed kept interest rates at wellnigh to zero, but added it will do whatever it takes to get the banks lending again, including buying long term treasury bills to induce weight rates on linked products download drama movie farther down. on the economy, the fed was gloomier than in recent statements. “industrial production, housing starts, and employment have continued to decline steeply, as consumers and businesses have cut master b crush spending,” it said. “furthermore, global demand appears to be slowing significantly,” it added. even so, the mood in the equities markets remained more upbeat than in recent weeks as investors chose to core on the benefits of president obama’s $825bn stimulus package. across the markets, the dow jones gained 200 points to 8,375. nasdaq added 53 to 1,558 while the s&p 500 rose 28 to 874. on the company front, earnings at wells fargo were above analysts expectations, and further merrymaking came in the form of a maintained dividend and confirmation that it has no objective, at put on show, of taking help of the government’s troubled asset relief programme after trousering $25bn pattern year. the bank reported a loss of $2.6bn in the fourth quarter, with its acquisition of wachovia prompting a $3.9bn provision in the accounts. excluding exceptional charges earnings per pay out were 41 cents, unchanged from a year earlier, and well above market expectation of 33 cents download full length movies. telecoms titan at&t old saying earnings per share glide to 64 cents in the fourth region, from 71 cents a year earlier. a slump in advertising revenues contributed to an almost 50% fall in profits at the new york times company in the fourth accommodations of 2008. the publisher of the newspaper of the same name as well as the boston globe and smaller titles said earnings per share came in at $0.19 compared with $0.37 over the same time of 2007 the effects of a 58-day wipe out contributed to aircraft maker boeing making a squandering of $56m in the fourth quarter, while delays in the launch of the 747 model did not help matters either. boeing said it will cut 10,000 jobs with 4,500 already announced then. after the close, coffee shop Goliath starbucks missed trimonthly sales and earnings forecasts and announced the loss of 6,000 retail and 700 non-retail jobs. net income plunged to $6.4m, or 9c per share, compared with $208m, or 28c per share, a year ago. before one-offs, earnings were 15c, lower than market forecasts. sales in the last quarter fell 6% to $2.6 bn. s&p 500 - risers fifth third bancorp (fitb) $3.56 +36.40% state street corp. (stt) $25.77 +31.35% wells fargo & co (wfc) $21.19 +30.88% zions bancorporation (zion) $17.96 +27.56% m b i a inc. (mbi) $4.49 +27.56% s&p 500 - fallers newmont min corp. (nem) $38.61 -7.43% legg mason inc. (lm) $18.02 -7.30% becton dickinson co (bdx) $70.05 -5.53% tellabs inc. (tlab) $4.21 -4.75% ciena corp. (cien) $7.50 -4.46% dow jones i.a - risers citigroup inc. (c) $4.21 +18.59% bank of america corp. (bac) $7.39 +13.69% jp morgan chase co (jpm) $27.66 +10.38% american express inc. (axp) $17.85 +7.01% du pont e i de nem (dd) $24.71 +6.19% dow jones i.a - fallers pfizer inc. (pfe) $15.44 -2.40% wal mart stores (wmt) $48.73 -0.12%

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Supreme Court Broadens Absolute Prosecutorial Immunity

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The Supreme Court has unanimously overruled the Ninth Circuit in the case of Van de Kamp v. Goldstein, and broadened absolute prosecutorial immunity to include district attorneys whose poor supervision of subordinates may result in wrongful convictions. I wrote about the case last April:

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the case of Thomas Goldstein, an ex-marine who was convicted of murdering his neighbor.

Goldstein served 24 years before his conviction was thrown out when the main witness against him was shown to have lied. That witness was a lifelong criminal who was given a deal on his own charges in exchange for testimony that Goldstein confessed to him in a jail cell. Goldstein alleges that the district attorney’s office that prosecuted the case routinely used the testimony of so-called “jailhouse snitches” prosecutors knew or should have known weren’t reliable.

Goldstein’s case is unusual because he’s not suing the prosecutor who convicted him, but John Van de Camp, the district attorney who supervised that prosecutor. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has allowed Goldstein’s case to go forward, causing the U.S. Supreme Court to agree to hear it.

This isn’t terribly surprising, but it’s too bad. All the incentives for prosecutors right now point toward winning convictions. There’s very little to hold them accountable when they go too far.

Currently, even if a prosecutor knowingly withholds exculpatory evidence in a case that results in a wrongful conviction, he can’t be sued.

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