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      <title><![CDATA[Skydiving club invites UF students to tandem jumps]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Skydive Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1280507152" delta="5 weeks ago"><![CDATA[7/30/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Some University of Florida students won't be spending the weekend at the beach or in the library. Instead, they will be jumping out of planes. Students will have the opportunity to skydive this weekend with the Falling Gators skydive club and a Skydive Palatka professional for a discounted price of $153, down from $185.The special is open to UF and Santa Fe students and faculty from today through Sunday.Julia Loeb, ...]]></text>
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    <bigarticle id="13217">
      <title><![CDATA[Broken ankle kept him from taking fatal leap from plane that killed two skydivers]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Skydive Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1280506282" delta="5 weeks ago"><![CDATA[7/30/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Only a broken ankle kept Bill Ware from jumping out of a plane with two senior skydivers who died over the weekend. Ware had been skydiving with 70-year-old Theodore Wilson and 75-year-old George Flynn for more than a decade."We enjoyed every last jump, no matter how we did it," Ware, 57, said tearfully yesterday. "They were both loving it all the time, every second."Wilson, an accountant from New Rochelle, Westchester ...]]></text>
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    <article id="12588">
      <title><![CDATA[Skydivers on pace to beat world record]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Skydive Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1278613596" delta="8 weeks ago"><![CDATA[7/8/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[HARBOR SPRINGS -A brother and sister team in Harbor Springs are en route to setting the world record for tandem skydives in a single day at the Harbor Springs Airport. Luther Kurtz, 33, and his sister Angela Bishop, 26, made their first jump at 638 p.m. Tuesday, in what they hope will result in at least enough tandem jumps to break the Guinness Book of World Records mark 103 jumps ...]]></text>
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    <article id="12587">
      <title><![CDATA[Educators take a literal leap of faith]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Skydive Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1278612797" delta="8 weeks ago"><![CDATA[7/8/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[MIDDLETOWN - A number of local educators plan to raise awareness of their profession by lowering from a plane - very, very quickly. So far, four school officials have agreed to make tandem skydives for the MidFirst Ohio Challenge hot air balloon festival, said Ann Mort, the festival's publicist. The officials confirmed are Middletown City Schools Superintendent Greg Rasmussen; school board member and former Middletown Fire Chief John Sauter; new ...]]></text>
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    <article id="12377">
      <title><![CDATA[Skydiving was passion for man killed while practicing a stunt]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Skydive Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1276301111" delta="12 weeks ago"><![CDATA[6/11/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[She and her husband, Russell Elliott, might have been working in the yard or cleaning out the basement of their Kansas City, Kan., home. But she'd often catch him gazing upward or out the window, thinking about the clear skies or perfect winds instead. Skydiving was supposed to be a hobby for Russ, she said, but it really wasn't. It was his passion.On Saturday, the 40-year-old veteran jumper and instructor ...]]></text>
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    <article id="12084">
      <title><![CDATA[Eighty-eight year-old from Presteigne completes skydive for charity]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Skydive Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1273863684" delta="16 weeks ago"><![CDATA[5/14/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[AN EIGHTY-eight year-old daredevil has taken the plunge from 13,000 feet for charity. Jack Dixon, who was born and raised in Presteigne, helped a charity which is looking to find a cure for diabetes. He even managed to avoid the volcanic ash cloud to take part in the skydive which has seen him raise more than £1,000 for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). “The jump went fine,” he said. ...]]></text>
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    <article id="11831">
      <title><![CDATA[Friends prepare for charity skydive in memory of Berkeley boy]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Skydive Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1273081231" delta="17 weeks ago"><![CDATA[5/5/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[ FIVE friends are getting ready to dive from the skies to raise money in memory of a young Berkeley boy who died of meningitis. The men are hoping their daring parachute jump will not only help raise money for Meningitis UK, but that it will bring more awareness of the disease, which can kill in minutes. 'What matters most is that we raise awareness,' said Bryan White, a member ...]]></text>
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    <article id="11830">
      <title><![CDATA[Man pops the question during skydive]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Skydive Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1273081099" delta="17 weeks ago"><![CDATA[5/5/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[MIDDLETOWN - Kristen King got engaged Monday, May 3, while falling 120 mph. King, 28, of Cincinnati flew up to 12,500 feet in a plane with her boyfriend Lance Webel, 31, and sky-diving instructors from Team Fastrax, thinking the adventure was part of a getaway vacation Webel had been talking about for weeks.But shortly after she jumped out of the plane with Fastrax instructor David Strobel, she saw a 12-foot ...]]></text>
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    <article id="11381">
      <title><![CDATA[Skydiver Killed After Parachute Fails During Landing Segment Of Flight]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Skydive Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1270770575" delta="21 weeks ago"><![CDATA[4/8/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[March 26, 2010 - On Thursday at 11:10 AM, the Port Aransas Police Department received a call reference a skydiver that had landed on and through a condominium roof located at 604 Beach Access Road 1-A in Port Aransas, TX. Port Aransas Police, Port Aransas EMS, and Port Aransas Fire Department personnel responded to that location and upon arrival observed the victim still alive in the attic suffering from massive ...]]></text>
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    <article id="11359">
      <title><![CDATA[Skydriver aims to jump from 120,000 feet, break the coun barrier]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Skydive Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1270665761" delta="21 weeks ago"><![CDATA[4/7/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[If youre planning to jump out of a plane at 120,000 feet and break the sound barrier, you need a really fancy suit. Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner has been working with a company that makes space suits for astronauts in an effort to pull off a record-setting jump with the Red Bull Stratos project that he hopes will also lead to safer flight suits for future astronauts.Baumgartner, the Red Bull ...]]></text>
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    <article id="10730">
      <title><![CDATA['Divine intervention' as woman survives 3,000ft skydive fall]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Skydive Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1268689768" delta="24 weeks ago"><![CDATA[3/15/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Lareece Butler plummeted to the ground when her parachute became entangled during a skydive. The mother-of-one had leapt from a plane with a parachute which opened automatically but suffered problems within seconds of exiting the aircraft. Her boyfriend watched from the ground as she spiralled towards the earth before crashing into a field in South Africa on Saturday. Joos Vos, the skydive manager, said the novice jumper was lucky to ...]]></text>
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    <article id="9900">
      <title><![CDATA[Rare lawsuit against skydive center begins]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Skydive Network Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1264107692" delta="32 weeks ago"><![CDATA[1/21/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[STOCKTON - If an experienced skydiver signs a form releasing a drop zone from liability - and the jump, inherently laden with danger, goes horribly wrong - can the owner of the facility still be at fault? That is the central question of an unusual civil trial that began Thursday in a Stockton courtroom, where a Southern California man is suing a popular Lodi-area drop zone for negligence after a ...]]></text>
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