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Speaker blinded in car crash inspires

Spinnaker Feb 2, 2011
Mark Engel survives a car crash at eighteen and lives on, though blinded, to inspire others.
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State, nation and world news Feb. 2, 2011

Spinnaker Feb 2, 2011
Check out some of the latest stories to hit the news in this week's edition of state, nation and world news.
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When musical worlds collide

Spinnaker Feb 1, 2011
Music that reaches the people: A UNF jazz professor releases her 11th album in February. She speaks of her career, inspirations and how she balances it all with being a professional musician and a professor.
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Camels edge out Ospreys

Spinnaker Jan 30, 2011
The UNF men’s basketball team lost its second game in row, dropping a 76-66 decision to Campbell University, Saturday night inside the UNF Arena.
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Ospreys down Camels in Double OT

Spinnaker Jan 29, 2011
It took two overtimes but the UNF women’s basketball team outlasted the Campbell Camels, 65-63, inside the UNF Arena, Jan. 29, in the second meeting between the two teams this season.
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Editorial: FCC, Obama cave in to corporate interests

Spinnaker Jan 28, 2011

The Internet is one of the last great frontiers: it’s expansive, rife with resources and best of all, minimally regulated. But now corporations can control what pops on your monitor and how fast it...

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Gotta shake that always-connected vibe

Spinnaker Jan 28, 2011

I find myself in a familiar situation: music croons through my computer’s speakers, texts and calls signal my cell phone to vibrate and multiple tabs take refuge in my Internet browser. The other...

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It's just a bit of banter

Spinnaker Jan 28, 2011

by Adam O'Neill Ricky Gervais. He is, as we say in England, “Like marmite.” Marmite is a spread used on toast or a sandwich and is quite incomparable to anything else you’ve ever tasted. It is...

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1/19 Editorial: Keep the 'N' in 'Finn'

Spinnaker Jan 28, 2011

One doesn’t need to read far into “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” to realize author Mark Twain took word choice seriously -- he says as much in the author’s note. It seems, however, that...

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Why can’t we all just get along?

Spinnaker Jan 28, 2011

Ah, love. One minute it’s dropping in for an unexpected visit, the next it’s throwing things as it storms out the door. But your ex makes the best coffee, and nobody else truly shares your love...

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Sports Alert: UNF women downs JU

Spinnaker Jan 27, 2011

The UNF women's basketball team has now defeated the JU Dolphins three times in a row. Thursday night's victory marks the Ospreys' fifth conference win in 6 games, and has moved their record to 5-5, in A-Sun. The...

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JU squeaks past Ospreys in OT

Spinnaker Jan 27, 2011
It took extra basketball to decide 2011’s first edition of the “River City Rumble,” but In front of a white-out crowd at the UNF Arena, the UNF men’s basketball team dropped a heartbreaking, 63-62 loss to the cross-town rival JU Dolphins. Junior forward Delwan Graham connected on a pair of free throws with seven tenths of a second remaining in overtime that gave the Dolphins the one-point edge they needed. UNF had taken the lead when junior guard Jimmy Williams connected on one of two free throws with 13 seconds remaining.
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