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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
FAQ/Move List by CMullins
Version: 1.0 | Updated: 11/30/99 | Printable Version
|----------------------------------------------| | JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE: | | HERITAGE FOR THE FUTURE | | | | ~Jojo no Kimyouna Bouken: Miraihe no Isan~ | | | | game published by Capcom on 9/25/99 | | 6th game on the CPS3 Platform | | ARCADE BASED FAQ | | | | FAQ written by C. Blake Mullins | | email at email@example.com | | | | version 1.0 | |----------------------------------------------| Last Updated 11/30/99 THIS FAQ is NOT ENDORSED BY CAPCOM or LUCKY LAND COMMUNICATIONS! For more information regarding the Capcom Play System 3(CPS3), please see the following URL, to my critically acclaimed CPS3 FAQ: http://members.aol.com/CMull11217/private/cps3faq.txt Or, go to GAMEFAQs(www.gamefaqs.com)for always updated versions of my FAQs. Now, please enjoy this FAQ! :) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Frequently Asked Questions 20 Questions answered 2. Character and Move List Kakyouin Noriaki Muhammed Abdul Jotaro Kujo Jean Pierre Polnareff Joseph Joestar Iggy ~the lovable pooch~ D'Bo Midler Alessi Chaka Khan Vanilla Ice Dio Mariah Hol Horse Pet Shop? *where's Death 13?* Anubis Polnareff 3. Storyline 4. Acknowledgments and Version History This FAQ, is written with the assumption that you know how a fighting type game works, and/or a fan of the anime. If so, then press on! :) ------------------------------ 1. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS 20 Questions Answered ----Why did you write this FAQ? I figure, since I want to purchase this arcade game, why not write a FAQ on it? Since there are no detailed FAQs on this game(or for the original Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, no less), I wanted to be the first. But, I underwent some trials and tribulations uncovering all the truths. ----What trials and tribulations did you have to go through to write this? It is a CLEAR MISNOMER that the internet has EVERYTHING. I ended up searching for hours on end, and translating countless Japanese characters to figure out names of special moves, character names, and such. I got no help, no leads; therefore, I had to do everything myself. Even when I asked for help, I got none. I have written other FAQs as well(Neo-Geo System FAQ, among others), but I guess that to others, that gives grounds for someone to be "conceited". Any matter, it's that demeanor that gives the internet a bad name, and something which I detest. ----What is this game? Is it the same as Jojo's Bizarre Adventure? Well, let me elaborate for a minute on this question. Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and this game are different, in that this game has 16 characters, and sub quest games; while the original has 10 characters and only one sub quest game. Besides new cover artwork, not much else is different. The sequel was made, mainly because the PlayStation and Dreamcast includes these characters(5 extra characters) in their versions of "Jojo". ----How come your character names are different than in other FAQs? Because my character names are the real ones from the anime, NOT just taken from the arcade game. That's how I do it, for added realism. And the move names are from the English version of the first Jojo, translations of the second one, and Capcom's recommendation for move names. ----What is the "Stand" system? Since this game CLOSELY follows the 3rd chapter of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, the stand system follows the anime. Your "Stand" is essentially an extension of yourself; if your stand dies, then YOU die.(well, in the anime...see later in this section for the answer) You activate your Stand, and it attacks as if you were attacking your opponent. You can deactivate it as well. Your stand can get attacked as well as you, remember that. Remember Street Fighter's infamous GUARD CRUSH? Well, if your stand dies, you get GUARD CRUSHED, menaing that your opponent can attack you for an instant without any chance of you blocking the attack. Your stand will then start to heal. A lot easier than if the game were 100% true to form of the anime...:) ----Uh-oh, more power bars at the bottom of the screen again.... But, they're not bad, aren't they? Well, these work differently; you can power them up to 9 levels, not 3 like the other Capcom games out there. You know the rule; do a special move and press TWO attack buttons instead of one to do a SUPER COMBO(which is not really a "combo" in itself, but most gamers don't care anyways). ----What is the CHALLENGE mode? Basically, it's a "survival" mode, where instead of regaining your Stand meter and your life meter getting refilled after each match, you pick ONE meter to refill. It can get tough on a higher difficulty setting, believe me. ----Is this game worth it, over the original? If you own the arcade version, and want to upgrade to the "updated" version, in my opinion it is worth it, because of the extra characters. Anime-based games are very character-driven, unlike a Street Fighter or Fatal Fury. So, a minor update to Fatal Fury I wouldn't necessarily go for, but to Jojo I would, since fans of the fighter will LOVE the extra characters because(more than likely) they are anime fans, and anime fans like new characters, new identities. I'm glad people can branch out to richer types of anime, other than Dragon Ball Z and its many iterations. ----Would you recommend this game, other than SF3: 3rd Strike? That is such an unfair pairing, since they are two completely different types of fighting games. SF3: 3rd Strike is getting back some of the tightness of Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo, but for all practical purposes, it is a flashy, yet standard type fighting game. Most fighting game players will immediately take to it in an arcade. Jojo, is a completely different story. With Jojo, because of its innovative, and true to form Stand system, and original characters, is a winner in my book. However, because it's so different, most see different as "bad", without digging in real deep. Rather than spend a while at Jojo, to appreciate its uniqueness, most will get tired of it and play something else. That is, unless your arcade demographic constitutes anime fans abound, then I would get Jojo for your arcade no matter what. All in all, I prefer Jojo, but in an arcade setting, unless you have lots of anime fans, I'd go for SF3: 3rd Strike for money making. ----Is this the last CPS3 Game? Most people thought Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike was the last CPS3 game, however, Capcom decided to release the update to Jojo's Bizarre Adventure in Japan, as the 6th game released on the CPS3. Will this be the last CPS3 game? I personally don't think so, as this system has a lot of promise. Just look at those graphics! :) ----Well, the PSX and DC versions have the extra characters..... But this FAQ of mine is for the ARCADE VERSION. I own no video game systems; I own many arcade cabinets, and am a high volume seller of Neo-Geo MVS Carts. I go for the arcade version whenever I can. Even though the arcade version of this game costs about $1000 as of 11/27/99, and the DC will cost $50; the arcade is the one I'll take, for reasoning of rapid load time and the right to use it in the arcade, having that arcade feel. I may come across "cold", but that's how the arcade realm works. No matter how many different "story" modes or extra characters one can throw in; give me the arcade version any day of the week! ----I'll bet there are some things changed for America, right? Since this game is not released in America as of 11/28/99, this is not necessary. However, in the event that it is released, I will tell you just what would be changed. Basically, very few things would have to be changed: Vanilla Ice-->Vanilla Iced Chaka Khan-->Chaca Muhammed Abdul-->Avdol Kage Dio-->Shadow Dio Waka-Joseph-->Young Joseph And, the blood rate may be toned down, as Capcom likes to do. ----Who is Hirohiko Araki? Well, you can thank him for bringing this anime series into existence; without his ingenuity and intelligence for art's sake; we would not be discussing Jojo's Bizarre Adventure right now, would we? He's the main artist and director for the anime "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure". And remember, last names are before first names, so the name is Araki Hirohiko. ----Can you find this game for me? Sure I can! If you prepay me in full for $1300, I can get one for you in a week. Remember though, that this will not come out in America, and the price will rapidly depreciate(why I'm trying to hold out buying this as long as I can). If you want arcade games or Neo carts, email me at firstname.lastname@example.com, and I can help you out. ----What other FAQs have you written? I have written various FAQs, all listed below, and the ones which I am in the process of making: FAQs I have made, and coming soon: NEO-GEO ------- Neo-Geo System FAQ--110kb <maintained for 2 1/2 years> Chibimaruko Chan Deluxe Quiz Quiz Daisousasen: The Last Count Down Quiz Daisousasen Part 2: Quiz Meintantei Neo & Geo Quiz King of Fighters <COMING SOON> Aero Fighters 3 Art of Fighting 3: The Path of the Warrior Breakers Revenge Choutetsu Brikin'ger: Iron Clad Oshidashi Zintrick Pair Pair Wars HYPER NEO-GEO 64 ---------------- Hyper Neo-Geo 64 System FAQ <COMING SOON> Beast Busters: Second Nightmare Samurai Shodown: Warrior's Rage CAPCOM CPS2 ----------- CPS2 System FAQ--28kb <COMING SOON> Darkstalkers: Jedah's Damnation Giga Wing Marvel Super Heroes VS Street Fighter CAPCOM CPS3 ----------- CPS3 System FAQ--17kb Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future <this FAQ> OTHERS ------ Sega ST-V System FAQ Sega NAOMI System FAQ Taito F3 System FAQ Taito G-NET System FAQ Mahjong Hot Gimmick "Kairakuten" by Psikyo Silicon Graphics Workstation and Server FAQ--90kb IBM AS/400 and RS/6000 FAQ--107kb ----What's Capcom's address so I can tell them to bring out this game out in the USA? Well, to be honest, I don't know if that will work real well, but you can try... Their address is below: Capcom Coin-Op Incorporated 475 Oakmead Parkway Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Phone #: (408)774-0500 Fax #: (408)522-5331 They do welcome and respect your comments, so talk with respect and maturity when you call or write them, please! :) ----Where does "Jojo" in Jojo's Bizarre Adventure come from? Jojo comes from two letters in the first name and two letters in the last name, of each of the main people in each of the 5 chapters of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. See, look at the coincidence below: <JOnathan JOestar, JOseph JOestar, JOtaro KuJO, JOsuke Higashikata, GIOrno GIOrvanna> *I got the above from a website, I am indebted for this information, whose is it? :)* ----Tell me more about the story... I will, down in the "STORYLINE" section. :) ----Why are there a lack of Jojo sites out there? Because most people are infatuated with other types of anime, such as Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z(I know the difference), Pocket Monsters, Digimon, Yugi-Oh Dual Monsters, Rurouni Kenshin, Tenchi Muyo, etc. The more flashy-type anime, but where realism is at an all-time low. That's where the mainstream is at, but if they will just branch out into other types of anime, maybe people will like Jojo a little better. ----What about the codes to access the secret characters? Well, to access Young Joseph and Shadow Dio, beat the game with Joseph and Dio, respectively. There are other rumored characters in the Dreamcast version, but to my knowledge, only the above two exist in the true arcade version. --------------------------- 2. CHARACTER AND MOVE LIST In this section, I give the listing of all characters, and each of their moves and names. I will also give my recommendations and uses for each move, how they work against your opponent and such...below, is my legend for the move list: *as for YOU facing to the right* UP, DOWN, FORWARD, BACKWARD, Dn-fd, Up-fd, Dn-bd, Up-bd --Direction FOR SPECIFIC directions QCB, QCF --Quarter circle back/forward, from down to left or right HCB, HCF --Half circle back/forward, from left or right to inverted direction 360 degrees --move joystick in one full circle(or from right to up, 270 usually works as a 360) LP, MP, FP, any P STAND, START --infamous button layout, START Taunts as usual, STAND button activates the STAND LP is weak attack, MP is medium, FP is fierce Here are some basic moves, to utilize in time of need: FORWARD x2 within a second --the infamous DASH...everyone should know this LP+ MP+ FP --DODGE an attack, but only if you aren't using your stand currently while guarding attack, LP+ MP+ FP --ADVANCE GUARD..I could never get the hang of this..:( any P, followed by any P --RECOVERY in AIR...to not take damage from being THROWN while guarding attack, DOWN, FORWARD, Dn-Fd + any P --GUARD CANCEL, very important, to stop over- aggressive attackers QCF + STAND --APPARITION ATTACK, kind of like a team hit in the corner in SNK's King of Fighters UP, in air, then UP --DOUBLE JUMP, reach heights almost as high as you can in Way of the Warrior for 3DO :) QCB + STAND, then input special moves while holding STAND, and release STAND --called a TANDEM ATTACK; can be quite cumbersome to pull off concerning the holding of the STAND button FORWARD + A, then A --STAND RELEASE for Kakyouin Noriaki, Muhammed Abdul, Alessi, and Jean Pierre Polnareff *I refuse to give "Easy" commands, as I feel playing a game on "Easy" and utilizing special moves with one button defeats the purpose of playing a wonderful, technical fighter. Only Normal mode moves here. Same with Stand Combos, as that other FAQs have those, and are not needed here.* **Any moves with two asterisks on each side are the FINAL moves, which are very powerful super combos. KAKYOUIN NORIAKI ---------------- Stand: Heirophant Green <Special Moves> --EMERALD SPLASHDOWN-- QCF + any P midair performable move, useful to a certain extent --WRAP SNAKE-- BACK, HCB + any P not too useful --BIRD OF WONDER-- QCB + any P feint by holding down button <Super Combos> --EMERALD DIASMA-- QCF+ any two P midair performable move, angle can be different each time you use it --REACH OF THE DECCAN(ARM OF INDIA)-- QCB+ any two P you move the arm, very interesting, yet I didn't care for the move so much **--HEIROPHANT FINISH--** FORWARD, DOWN, Dn-Fd+ any two P in stand mode only, very destructive, my super combo of choice MUHAMMED ABDUL -------------- Stand: Magician's Red <Special Moves> --HURRICANE CROSSFIRE-- QCF+ any P I'm indifferent when it comes to this move --FIRE'S SHIELD-- DOWN, FORWARD, Dn-Fd+ any P pretty damn useful, I like it --BLAZING DETECTORS-- QCB+ any P following opponent by holding any P --FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX-- in midair, QCF+ P hard to hit opponent, can be left open for some dangerous moves --HADES' SWARM-- HCB+ any P <Super Combos> --NAPALM BOMB-- QCF+ any two P good super combo, easy to do --TYPHOON CROSSFIRE-- QCB+ any two P updated Hurricane Crossfire, decent move **--ANKH'S HARD HEAT--** DOWN, FORWARD, Dn-FD+ any two P feint by holding down buttons very powerful, but I prefer the napalm bomb JOTARO KUJO ----------- Stand: Star Platinum <Special Moves> --BRING 'EM ON-- QCF+ any P press P repeatedly for more hits --BRING 'EM ON SUCCESSION-- QCB+ any P --STAR FINGER-- FORWARD, DOWN, Dn-Fd+ any P control and feint by holding button very good attack <Super Combos> --COME TO THE LIGHT?-- *I have no idea what this is..* QCF+ any two P --STAR BREAKERS-- QCB+ any two P feint by holding button, release for control over move **--THE WORLD--** FORWARD, MP, LP, FORWARD, STAND what a combo move, I hate this finisher, takes 3 combo levels JEAN PIERRE POLNAREFF --------------------- Stand: Silver Chariot <Special Moves> --DART ARRAY-- charge BACK->FORWARD + any P good move, also try pressing any P repeatedly after doing this move --SHOOTING STARS-- charge DOWN->UP + any P I don't care for this move, easily missed or screwed up --SKEW NEEDLE-- QCB+ any P feint and control by holding button <Super Moves> --ARMOR TAKEOFF-- QCF+ any two P --LAST SHOT-- QCB+ any two P decent move **--PIECE OF MY SOUL--* HCB+ any two P needs 3 combo levels, but what an awesome move! I love this move! JOSEPH JOESTAR -------------- Stand: Hermit Purple <Special Moves> --SUNLIGHT OVERDRIVE-- QCF+ any P decent move, be careful of anti- air attacks --BEAT RIPPLE-- 360 degrees+ any P --STRATEGY ACTION PLAN-- QCB+ any P adds damage to any attack, great move, IMO... --TURQUOISE OVERDRIVE-- QCF+ any P stand-less attack --HERMIT WEB-- QCF+ any P ONLY in STAND mode follow up with rapid P, to get desired results <Super Combos> --TEACHER'S LESSON-- QCF+ nay two P **--OPAQUE OVERDRIVE--** 360 degrees x2 + any P DEVASTATING move, whenever I pull this one off, I get a sense of pride IGGY ---- Stand: The Fool <Special Moves> --SAND CRASH-- charge BACK->FORWARD + any P --SAND ATTACK-- charge DOWN->UP + any P --SAND CLUTCH-- HCB+ any P good move, I like it, but I have a feeling not many others do --SAND MAGIC-- DOWN, FORWARD, Dn-Fd+ P or inverted motion --FLOAT-- hold UP while jumping pretty useful <Super Combo> --BIG SAND WAVE-- QCF+ any two P pretty potent move, I might add D'BO ---- Stand: Ebony Devil <Special Moves> --PIRANHA DIVE-- QCF+ any P mid-air performable --PROPELLER CUT-- DOWN + any P simple move that gets a lot of damage --HOPPING HUNTER-- QCB+ any P press P after attack for more hits very good move <Super Combos> --JUNK CARNIVAL-- QCF+ any two P feint and control attack by holding button down --ROLL CRASHER-- QCB+ any two P great move, can leave you open **--TORMENT SACRIFICE--** FORWARD, DOWN, Dn-Fd + any P pretty powerful, my pick for best move MIDLER ------ Stand: High Priestess --HARPOON SHOT-- QCF+ any P --MOTOR CEPHAL-- QCB+ any P --MAGICAL MOTOR SPIKE-- FORWARD, DOWN, Dn-Fd + any P I don't get this move, or its purpose on Midler..:( <Super Combos> --MEGA HARPOON SHOT-- QCF+ any two P --CEPHAL DESTRUCTION-- QCB+ any two P good move, pretty powerful combo --DINNER TIME!-- FORWARD, DOWN, Dn-Fd+ any two P ALESSI ------ Stand: Sethan <Special Moves> --BEE'S NEST-- HCF+ any P feint with STAND button --UNCHAINED NATURE-- HCB+ any P <Super Combos> --HOPELESSNESS-- QCF+ any two P --SEERS OF TRUTH-- QCB+ any two P good move, but I personally don't care much for Alessi :( CHAKA KHAN ---------- Stand: Anubis, the sword <Special Moves> --KILL THE DEMON-- QCF+ any P performed up to 3 times in a row --RETURN SWALLOW-- FORWARD, DOWN, Dn-Fd + any P --OMINOUS VOICE-- QCB+ any P easily Guard Canceled against, so watch out <Super Combos> --BLOODY FLOWER-- QCF+ any two P only performed in stand mode --THE PEERLESS BLADE-- QCF+ any two P only performed without stand excellent move, does good damage --ONE LAST SWING-- QCB+ any two P utilizes 2 combo levels, dangerous for opponent :) VANILLA ICE ----------- Stand: Cream <Special Moves> --DARK SPACE-- QCF+ any P excellent move, you can change direction, takes decent damage, great move --SPATIAL EXISTENTIALISM-- BACK, DOWN, Dn-Bk + any P weird name, eh? I have seen this move in the anime, and translates to something like that...:) --CREAM!-- QCB+ any P excellent move, for an excellent character, even if he's a little feminine --BLOW FLY-- charge DOWN->UP + any P <Super Combos> --CIRCLE LOCUST-- FORWARD, DOWN, Dn-Fd + any two P --MADNESS SORROW-- DOWN, Dn-Bk, DOWN + any two P requires two combo levels, very hard for me to pull this move off --WHERE'S THE LOVE?-- QCF+ any two P DIO --- Stand: The World <Special Moves> --MURDER MURDER-- QCF+ any P press attack repeatedly for more hits --MURDER!!-- QCB+ any P this move IS different from above --THE WORLD-- FORWARD, DOWN, Dn-Fd + any P only performable without Stand --WONDER!-- FORWARD, DOWN, Dn-Fd + any P only performable with Stand <Super Combos> --CHECKMATE-- QCF+ any two P --ROAD ROLLER-- QCB+ any two P **--BLOODY SUMMONING--** MP, LP, FORWARD, LP, FP in a combo, ultra devestating, an awesome move, but makes Dio too powerful MARIAH ------ Stand: Bast <Special Moves> --COTTON'S REVENGE-- QCF+ any P midair performable --APPARITION?-- QCB+ any P pretty good move, I think Mariah has some good moves, this is the best --WITCH'S FOLLY-- FORWARD, DOWN, Dn-Fd + any P <Super Combos> --APPARITION DELUXE-- QCB+ any two P **--APOCALYPSE NOW--** QCF+ any two P exquisite move, wonderful to pull off on an unsuspecting opponent HOL HORSE --------- Stand: The Emperor(a shotgun) <Special Moves> --RIDING SHOTGUN-- QCF+ any P midair performable --DILLINGER'S SPECIAL-- QCB+ any P --STRETCH SHOT-- FORWARD, DOWN, Dn-Fd + any P performable in midair <Super Combos> --SHOT IN THE DARK-- QCF+ any two P midair performable --WOODEN NICKELS-- QCB+ any two P --WILD WEST-- BACK, DOWN, Dn-Bk + any two P hard to pull off sometimes, but well worth it PET SHOP? --------- Stand: Horus <Special Moves> --THE FALCON-- QCF+ any P midair performable --HAWK FURY-- hold A, release good move to perform, but Pet Shop? I'd rather have Death 13... --WING FAULT-- QCB+ any P --WINGED DEAFENING??-- HCB+ any P ONLY used in mid-air I don't know the name for this move <Super Combos> --KAMIKAZE KILL-- QCF+ any two P midair performable --WINGS OF FLIGHT-- QCB+ any two P midair performable ANUBIS POLNAREFF ---------------- Stand: Anubis <Special Moves> --ANUBIS RAGE-- QCF+ any P midair performable --SAND OF THE ANTLION?-- QCB+ any P easily Guard Canceled against --CLEMENT POWER-- FORWARD, DOWN, Dn-Fd + any P --DUAL SWORDEDGE-- FORWARD, DOWN, Dn-Fd + STAND <Super Combos> --HELL'S RAGE-- QCF+ any two P --SATANIC EXODUS-- QCB+ any two P ------------- 3. STORYLINE Following, is a summary of the 3rd chapter(one of 5 chapters that this game is based on) of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, and where the characters interact with the story as such. Please read this, as you'll want to follow where the story takes you. Read on, and enjoy! *this is meant if you understand about the lineage of Jojo and its 1st and 2nd chapters* Jojo is different from other anime, in that each character from each chapter are blood related, the anime emphasizes the human mind, forces that transforms spiritual power, and has an extreme sense of realism. In 1989, Joseph Joestar(Jonathan Joestar's son) and his friend Muhammed Abdul traveled to Japan with Joestart's daughter Holly. Holly married a rock star, but Joseph sensed an awakening of an awesome power, the STAND. The STAND is a projection , an extension basically of oneself. Dio awoke, and Holly had awesome power, but she couldn't control it; it was literally eating her alive. They had approximately 30 days to save Holly's life from Dio. Holly's son, Jotaro Kujo, had these awesome powers as well. The crew met up with two ex-villains, Kakyouin Noriaki, and Jean Pierre Polnareff. Formerly under Dio's control, they, with the help of the lovable pooch Iggy, they reach Dio, only to discover that Dio's Stand is invincible. Abdul and Iggy die saving Polnareff from Vanilla Ice, Dio's final henchman, while Kakyouin killed himself when learning the power of Dio's stand. Since Jotaro's stand was the same type as Dio's, he could walk through time when Dio tries to stop time. Jotaro learned to freeze time for an instant, and shattered Dio's body with his attacks. Therefore, that ended the blood-stained feud which started 100 years ago. *Chaka Khan, D'bo, Midler, Alessi, Mariah, Hol Horse, Anubis Polnareff, Pet Shop are side-story characters, and not crucial to the story.* --------------- 4. OTHER STUFF I would like to acknowledge the following people that have helped me make this FAQ possible: Jeff Veasey --for his work on GameFAQs, and his Jojo FAQ to check on Capcom USA --for being cordial with me and my arcade sales G. Gordon Liddy --for being a true American, a true patriot... read all his books, and learned a lot Below, is the version history: PAST UPDATES ------------ v.1.0: This is the first version, enjoy! (11/30/99) FUTURE UPDATES -------------- v.1.1: Updated move names for characters...more background on story? I need them, if anyone has them, it is much appreciated! Thanks for reading this FAQ, and if there is anything else I should add, feel free to email me at firstname.lastname@example.com. |------------------------------------------------| | JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE: by C. Blake Mullins | | HERITAGE FOR THE FUTURE version 1.0 END | |------------------------------------------------|


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Snow accumulations already above the winter average
Does anyone remember a time when it rarely snowed in this area during the winter? A few winters were bad, but during others parts of New Jersey saw about six inches of snow in total.
Admittedly we got conditioned for this last winter. NJ.com reports that according to the state's climatologist, the past month has been the snowiest start to New Jersey's winter in 62 years. Wednesday's storm was the seventh time that at least 2 inches have fallen in parts of the state, climatologist Dave Robinson said.
Robinson additionally estimated that Wednesday's snow put New Jerseyans over the state average for the winter, which stands at a little over 24 inches.
According to the Asbury Park Press, the area is at about 52.5 inches so far this winter, or roughly twice the normal amount of snow for an entire winter based on snowfall counts over the last 30 years. And NorthJersey.com adds this blast was the state's 11th snowfall and the third time that more than six inches accumulated.I never thought I could miss Al Gore and global warming.
Commuters have encountered delays, cancelations and roadblocks since last night. As of 9 a.m., State Police reported dozens of exits and lanes blocked by disabled vehicles along Interstates 295, 676, 280, 78 and 195, said State Police spokesman Lt. Stephen Jones. Jones said he slept last night on his office floor, unable to get home until about 11 p.m.
According to the Courier Post, PSE&G and Atlantic City Electric are reporting thousands of customers have been left without power in the region following the snowfall. Most of the power outages were in Medford, Cherry Hill and Voorhees, according to PSE&G. Repairs are underway but could take longer than usual, the company said.
The National Weather Service reported 15.5 inches of snow in East Rutherford and 12.5 inches in Paramus as of 4 a.m. In Passaic County, Clifton saw 19 inches by the early morning.
Some 1,900 plows and salt spreaders are working on the aftereffects of this storm. Most schools are closed and state government offices will open at noon Thursday. According to the Trentonian, Atlantic and parts of Cape May counties dodged the heaviest accumulations.
Snow accumulation totals in inches according to NJ.com:
Atlantic County:
Galloway 3
Atlantic City 2.9
Pleasantville 2.9
Burlington County
Mount Holly 11.8
Essex County
Newark Liberty International Airport 18.9
Bloomfield 16.5
Belleville 15.6
West Orange 14.2
Verona 14
Cedar Grove 13.2
Hudson County
Jersey City 16
Harrison 15
Hunterdon County
Frenchtown 17.9
Flemington 13.5
Mercer County
Ewing 15.2
Highstown 12.5
Princeton 10.5
Middlesex County
Edison 15
Milltown 14
Cheesequake 13.3
North Brunswick 13.1
Woodbridge 12
Monmouth County
Holmdel 13.5
Morris County
Morristown 14
Hanover 13
Ocean County
Barnegat 4
Somerset County
Hillsborough 14.2
Bridgewater 13.2
Franklin 11
Sussex County
Wantage 4
Union County
Roselle 17.9
Union 17
Elizabeth 14.6
Clark 12
Warren County
Stewartsville 15.5
Phillipsburg 11
South Jersey snowfall totals according to the Courier Post:
Gibbstown - 17.2
National Park - 15.1
Swedesboro - 14
Somerdale - 12.8
Sicklerville - 12
Lindenwold - 11
Maple Shade - 14
Mount Laurel - 13.1
Mount Holly - 12.6
Moorestown - 11.5
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The world grows stranger every day not that that's a shock to fans of The Twilight Zone. The seminal television drama not only injected existential angst into the age of Leave It to Beaver, but it cast a long shadow over popular culture that hasn't faded. This year marks the program's fiftieth anniversary; to celebrate, Theater Company of Lafayette is reviving Return to the Twilight Zone, its stage reenactment of three of the original episodes as well as between-act trivia contests and mock commercials.
My earliest memories of The Twilight Zone are watching Sunday reruns in the late 60s and early 70s with my dad, remembers Ian Gerber, one of Return's directors and the actor portraying TZ's iconic creator and host, Rod Serling. I know that started my lifelong interest in fantasy and horror. To get to play Rod and be involved with these stories feels like an honor.
Return to the Twilight Zone opens tonight at 7:30 p.m. and runs Fridays and Saturdays with Sunday matinees on October 25 and November 1 through November 7 at the Mary Miller Theater (300 East Simpson Street in Lafayette). For tickets, $10 to $15, and info, call 720-209-2154 or visit www.tclstage.org.
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MAY 19, 2006--New professional development offerings including a conference and two pre-conference workshops for teachers focuses on the latest information in physical education and health practices and is offered July 24-26 by the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.
The UW-River Falls outreach and graduate studies office and the health and human performance department is sponsoring the conference and workshops, which are tailored for elementary and secondary physical education and health education professionals.
The keynote speaker for the conference on July 26 is Rick Schupbach from the PE4Life Institute in Grundy Center, Iowa. He will present "The Way It Should Be: Health and Physical Education in the 21st Century" and discuss how a nationally recognized physical education program has expanded beyond the classroom to energize and educate its students as well as the greater community. In addition, morning and afternoon breakout sessions will offer tracks specific to elementary, secondary and health education areas. The conference fee for July 26 is $60 with a $10 discount for WAHPERD members.
Two pre-conference workshops focus on timely topics associated with physical education and health education. On July 24, Karen Kedrowski and Monica Owsicheki of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction will present a workshop on 21 st century nutrition education. Fee for July 24 is $60.
On July 25, John Kading of WAHPRED will present an exploration of Fitnessgram, an online, evidence-based fitness program that helps schools perform quality fitness and activity assessments. Fee for July 25 is $80.
Graduate credits are available for some of the conference activities. Fore more information or to register, contact UW-RF outreach and graduate studies at 715-425-3256, 1-800-2228-5607 or send an e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com. A conference brochure is available on the Web site at www.uwrf.edu/ogs/cp/cp-index.php/cp-noncredit/10.
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SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Taiwan Synthetic Rubber Corp (TSRC) may cut the operating rate of its 100,000 tonne/year styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) plant by more than 20 percentage points in October if escalating feedstock butadiene (BD) costs continue to erode its margins, a company source said.
"The rising feedstock BD costs have eroded our margins. If the SBR 1502 prices do not go up to $2,000/tonne, we will cut the operating rate of the SBR plant to 70-80% capacity in October," the source added.
The SBR plant at Kaohsiung in Taiwan is currently running at 95-100% capacity, according to the source.
Feedstock BD prices have increased by 24% since mid-August to $1,400-1,450/tonne (€1,036-1,073/tonne) CFR (cost & freight) northeast (NE) Asia in the week ended 20 September and are expected to continue to go up in the near term, industry sources said.
However, non-oil grade 1502 SBR prices have only increased by about 8% in the past month to $1,850-1,900/tonne CFR NE Asia on 25 September, ICIS data showed.
"We have no margins, they are negative as the feedstock butadiene costs are going up sharply and quickly but our customers are unwilling to accept higher SBR prices," the source said.
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Overall, Broadwell said that the arts program at Willsboro is "something we are very proud of."
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- 3 pound(s) pork shoulder roast
- 2 green sweet peppers cut into thin strips
- 1 medium onion thinly sliced
- 2 tablespoon(s) quick-cooking tapioca
- 1-1 1/2 cup(s) bbq sauce - regular or sweet honey
- 2 tablespoon(s) chili powder
- Coleslaw (optional)
- Potatoes (optional) cooked & cubed
- 1. In slow cooker combine sweet pepper and onion strips. Sprinkle tapioca over peppers & onions. Trim fat from roast. If necessary, cut roast to fit into cooker. Place roast over vegetables.
- 2. In a medium bowl combine barbecue sauce and chili powder. Pour the sauce over the meat.
- 3. Cover; cook on low-heat setting for 11-12 hours or on high-heat setting for 6 hours.
- 4. Remove roast from cooker; thinly slice or shred the meat. Skim the fat from sauce. Return sauce and meat to cooker; cover. Turn cooker to high and cook 15 to 30 minutes more to heat through.
- 5. Serve with coleslaw or serve over potatoes
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In a Class of His Own: The Man Who Named the Natural World
By Michael McCarthy
Happy anniversary: the man who gave us the key to the natural world was born 300 years ago today. Carl Linnaeus, who created the system of scientific names that we still use for all living things, began life in a turf-roofed farmstead in southern Sweden on 23 May, 1707.
If Hamlet is the world's most famous Dane, Linnaeus is the world's most famous Swede, surpassing in renown even the warrior- king Gustavus Adolphus, Strindberg, Ingmar Bergman and Abba. His face has decorated Swedish banknotes since 1894. Yet his tercentenary is being celebrated in Britain as much as in the country of his birth. Since shortly after his death, Linnaeus's library, letters, papers and specimens, which make up one of the world's great scientific treasure-troves, have been in the care of the Linnean Society of London, at Burlington House, in Piccadilly.
The King of Sweden has just visited them. The Emperor of Japan (a keen marine biologist) is about to do so. Amid many celebratory meetings and gatherings in Britain, a recent issue of Nature, the world's leading scientific journal, was given over to Linnaeus's legacy, and an exquisite Swedish garden is being devoted to his memory in this week's Chelsea Flower Show. These are timely reminders of an immense achievement.
It's those two words of Latin, the first beginning with a capital letter and the second without, printed in italics and impossible to remember for most of us, that you sometimes see following the ordinary English name of a plant, a fish, a mammal, an insect, a bird. Take the emblematic bird of the Tower of London, for instance. The raven: Corvus corax. Unnecessary, you might think, a waste of time. Why not just call it a raven and have done with it? Until you remember that in France, a raven is a grand corbeau. In the Netherlands, it's a raaf. In Germany, it's a kolkrabe, while in Linnaeus's own Sweden it's a korp, never mind what it's called as you travel across Eurasia through Finland and Russia to Japan and Korea and China. Yet a biologist from any one of them can talk about a raven to a biologist from any other, and know they are referring to the same organism, because they both accept that this member of the crow family, for which they each have a different common name, is also universally known, scientifically, as Corvus corax, the name that Carl Linnaeus bestowed upon it two-and-a-half centuries ago.
Just how important this is starts to dawn on you when you realise how great is the variety of life on Earth. There are about 10,000 bird species in the world, and about half that number of mammals. There are more than 400,000 species of plants that have so far been described, and much more than a million species of insects, with perhaps another two to three million still to be discovered. And as with species, so with languages. The Earth is a Tower of Babel, with more than 6,000 languages spoken across the globe. Alright, some may only be spoken by a single tribe. But more than 300 languages are spoken in London alone. Three hundred different words for those big black crows at The Tower? Imagine.
Even if you restricted the official naming of living things to just a dozen of the world's major tongues – let's say English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hindi and Bengali – the linguistic barrier to dealing with the wonderful but bewildering extent of the planet's biodiversity would be instantly insuperable. But what Linnaeus's system of scientific names has enabled human society to do is to get a hold on biodiversity and impose order on it. It has given us a framework for exploring and understanding the teeming life of the world, and we have never needed it more than now, when so much of it is increasingly threatened with extinction.
It works for two reasons. Firstly, it's in an international language. You might think Latin is dead, but in biodiversity, it's very much alive, and it offers a worldwide level playing field, without any taint of cultural imperialism. If you believe that scientific names should be in English because English is taking over everything else, try telling that to a botanist from Brazil. You'll get a dusty answer.
Secondly (and this is its brilliance) it consists of just two words, which enable the subject to be designated precisely, and in the most succinct way possible.
The first is known as the generic name, and represents the genus, or grouping of species the creature belongs to. With the raven, Corvus (the Latin word for crow) signifies the genus, which groups together black crows. The second word is known as the specific name, and marks out, within the genus, the individual species. So corax (the Greek word for raven) designates the biggest of the black crows. And by extension, in Britain we also have Corvus corone , the carrion crow; Corvus frugilegus, the rook, and Corvus monedu-la, the jackdaw. (Linnaeus named all those as well, by the way, and if you're interested, corone is Greek for crow, frugilegus is Latin for "fruit-gatherer", and mon-edula is Latin for "little money bird", perhaps from the fact that jackdaws will steal bright coins.)
The system is formally known as binomial nomenclature – "two- name naming". Linnaeus hit upon the trick while carrying out a massive and ambitious survey of all known plants, for although he eventually applied it to birds and creatures of every type, he was first and foremost a botanist – and he was one of his-tory's most eminent.
From the earliest times plants were considered the most important area of nature to know formally, because they constituted the whole basis of medicine; they provided the only drugs. But, although people had been giving plants names for thousands of years, everybody's names were different; nothing was standardised. For a millennium after the Roman Empire fell, the only serious way of thinking about plants was to consult the treatise of a first- century Greek doctor, Dioscorides, who described (in Latin) about 500 plants in terms of their medical properties – and accept what he said.
Two developments at the start of the 16th century changed all that. One was the European Renaissance – the revival of learning; the other was the discovery of the New World of the Americas. The first set loose a radical spirit of free enquiry. It prompted learned men to put Dioscorides aside and look at plants for themselves for the first time (instead of just at their medical properties) and, in so doing, to think hard about how they were constructed, how they worked, and how they were related.
The second unleashed a torrent of new plant species on Europe. Europeans had always known vines and olives and wheat; now, suddenly, they were presented with tomatoes and potatoes and tobacco, and a seemingly endless stream of other novelties. A Jesuit who accompanied Pizarro on the conquest of Peru was famously quoted as saying that the vegetable productions of the New World were so different from that of the Old that there must have been two Gardens of Eden.
Throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, Europe's plantsmen (they weren't called botanists yet) worked tirelessly at trying to bring order to a flood of new and unfamiliar species that grew and grew, for collectors were now bringing back rarities from China, Japan, India and southern Africa as well as from the Americas. The plantsmen used Latin, of course, then the undisputed international language of science and of learning; and they increasingly tended to tag each species not with a name, but a long Latin descriptive phrase ("A blue-green cabbage with a hairy stem and jagged leaves"). The trouble was that my descriptive phrase was-n't necessarily the same as your descriptive phrase for the same plant. It was almost certainly slightly different, and there was no central authority to standardise matters. Confusion reigned.
This was the situation when Linnaeus was born in a homestead at Rashult in the province of Smaland in southern Sweden; the son of the local pastor, Nils Nicolaus Linnaeus. He was intended for the church himself, but rejected that for a career in botany (as plant science had now been named by the English naturalist John Ray), getting his start at Uppsala, Sweden's (and indeed Northern Europe's) oldest university.
The student Linnaeus was befriended at Uppsala by the theologian and naturalist Olof Celsius (after whom the temperature scale is named), who appointed him demonstrator in botany in 1730. Linnaeus made an enterprising trip to Lapland in northern Sweden, writing a book about its flora, spent three years in Dutch universities, came back to marry his sweetheart Sara Moraeaus, practised medicine in Stockholm (specialising in treating venereal diseases) and took up a chair back in Uppsala in 1741, where he remained, and did the work that secured him his place in history.
The essential fact about Linnaeus is not that he was a very good botanist (although he was) nor that he was enormously productive (he was that too) but that he possessed a quite overweening intellectual ambition. Not a few historical figures have wanted to conquer the whole world; but Carl Linnaeus, the boy from the Swedish backwoods, wanted from an early age to order it intellectually. One of the great surprises of history is that he ended up doing so.
Maybe you need ego for real success in science. Although he inspired genuine devotion in his students, some of Linnaeus's pronouncements were singularly lacking in modesty. ("I have fundamentally reorganised the whole field of Natural History, raising it to the height it has now attained," he wrote when he was famous. "I doubt whether anyone today could hope, without my help and guidance, to make any advance in this field.") And he started early. In 1735, for example, he published in the Netherlands a classification of the whole of the known natural world entitled Systema Naturae ("The System of Nature").
At just 28. Aspirational or what? It's a huge but thin book, a massive set of diagrams, really, and you can gaze on it – Linnaeus's own copy – in the Linnean Society's temperature-controlled strongroom in Burlington House. You might think that the Swedes would cut up rough, like the Greeks with the Elgin Marbles, about their nation's greatest intellectual treasures being located now in London rather than Uppsala or Stockholm, but they never have. They know Linnaeus's library, papers and specimens are very well looked after where they are, and perfectly easy of access; and, also, they were bought fair and square from Linnaeus's widow, Sara. Linnaeus died in 1778; his son, who had succeeded him as Professor at Uppsala, died only five years later, and Sara instructed the family lawyer to sell the collections. They were bought in 1784 (for [pound]1,088 5s 0d) by James Edward Smith, a wealthy young Briton passionately interested in natural history, and became the rock on which the Linnean Society of London was founded, by Smith and a group of fellow enthusiasts, in 1788.
Throughout the 19th century it was one of Britain's leading scientific societies (and it was at a historic meeting of the Linnean on July 1, 1858, that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection was given its first public airing).
In the society's strongroom you can see all Linnaeus's books, all his letters, all his preserved specimens from butterflies to fishes, and you can also see something else: his mind working towards his great idea.
I am in the strongroom with Sandy Knapp, a leading botanist from the Natural History Museum, who is the Linnean Society's botanical secretary, and she is talking to me about two related plants in which she has a particular interest – the tomato and the potato. Both belong to the genus Solanum (the nightshades), on which Sandy – calling someone so enthusiastic "Dr Knapp" seems inappropriate – is one of the world experts.
She takes down another big book, Linnaeus's 1737 catalogue of all the plants in the garden of George Clifford, an English merchant living in Holland, and finds the solanums, and points out the tomato. At that point Linnaeus calls it Solanum caule inermi annuo, foliis pinnatis incisis (nightshade with a smooth annual stem with incised pinnate [on opposite sides of the stalk] leaves). Then she finds the potato. Linnaeus calls that Solanum caule inermi annuo, foliis pinnatis, pinnis intergris (nightshade with a smooth annual stem with pinnate leaves, and leaflets entire). In each case, he gives for reference four or five further descriptive Latin phrases, some similar, some not, that other botanists have used for each plant. So what on earth do you call them? Sixteen years later, Linnaeus had found the answer. Dr Knapp takes down another book: it is Species Plantarum, his massive 1753 catalogue of all known plants. (It is his personal copy, covered in his tiny, precise scrawl. I find it enthralling.)
She finds the solanums once again, and the tomato, and the potato. There are the Latin descriptive phrases once more (slightly altered now). But there, on the margin of the page, next to each one, is also a single word in italics. Linnaeus called these his "trivial names". It was a piece of shorthand for quick and easy reference, and it changed the world. Next to the phrase for tomato, there is the single word lycopersicum (it means "wolf peach"). And next to the phrase for potato there is the word tuberosum (which means "tuber-like"). And in that moment, the scientific name for the tomato became Solanum lycopersicum, and the name for the potato became Solanum tuberosum, and they have remained so to this day.
They could be easily remembered. Compared to the long phrases that had gone before, they were almost catchy. But they were still precise. Linnaeus had had the crucial insight that names could be scientifically accurate without lengthy description ; they merely needed to designate their subject.
The botanical world saw the point and adopted the system virtually immediately. Five years later, in another book, Linnaeus applied it to creatures. Dr Knapp gets that one down from the shelf too (it is the much-expanded tenth edition of Systema Naturae), and there, at the beginning, is the entry for man, Homo, and at the side, for the first time in 1758, the adjective we are all too familiar with now: sapiens, meaning wise. ("I wonder if he was being ironic," Sandy wryly muses.) From Homo sapiens down, every organism was from then on given a Linnaean-style name.
The great namer himself was one of those lucky scientists whose achievements are fully recognised in their own lifetimes. He was fted across Europe by figures such as Rousseau and Goethe, and in 1761 he was ennobled by the King of Sweden, becoming Carl von Linne.
To his particular gratification, he was even commemorated in the name of a plant. It is the twinflower, Linnaea borealis, a small, delicate, pale-pink double bell, found in northern Britain, but particularly a plant of Lapland. Linnaeus adopted it as his symbol – he is seen holding one in his portrait on the Linnean Society's staircase – but he did not, of course, name it personally. Naming a species after yourself is considered extremely bad form, even today. He persuaded a leading Dutch botanist who had been one of his teachers, Jan Frederik Gronovius, to name it for him.
The species that Linnaeus did name himself are followed, when their scientific names are written out in full, with the letter "L". (Raven: Corvus corax L.) There are close on 10,000 of them, more than 7,000 of which belong to plants (the first full catalogue of the plant names is being published today, by Knapp's Natural History Museum colleague Dr Charlie Jarvis, after 25 years' work).
So one can hardly say that Linnaeus is forgotten. But perhaps it is the case that his naming system is now so much a part of our intellectual currency that we take it for granted, and forget what an advance it was. I would compare it to another huge intellectual leap forward by Western society: the adoption of Arabic numerals, which made complex mathematics and technology possible.
Carl Linnaeus's binomial nomenclature enabled humankind to order and comprehend the wonderful variety of life on Earth, and now, when we are destroying so much of that life, we should celebrate him more than ever.


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Combative style cuts both ways for Sen. Williams
I'm going out on a limb with a prediction that this year's race for governor will have a lot of sizzle.
As for substance, we'll just have to see.
That the race will be a sizzler is guaranteed, thanks to the presence of the Republican Party standard-bearer, state Sen. President David Williams.
He isn't called the "Bully from Burkesville" for nothing.
It will be interesting to see how his Democratic Party opponent, incumbent Steve Beshear, a generally mild-mannered personality, will react to the "aggressive" campaign Williams has vowed to wage.
However, the real heat could be generated in an almost-certain firefight between Williams and the editorialists of the state's largest newspaper, The Courier-Journal of Louisville.
A case in point is a letter from Williams in the Community Forum of Thursday's edition of the C-J.
The letter takes issue with a C-J editorial of the prior Sunday in which the newspaper said a "vile" Williams television ad "promotes William's 'bold' leadership and tells how he'll crack teachers' unions in Louisville and send children to neighborhood schools."
Williams took fiery exception to the editorial that also opined, "What Williams pictures for Louisville is essentially an all-white world."
The opening paragraph in Williams' response:
"I was appalled -- but not surprised -- at Sunday's editorial attacking my position on neighborhood schools. This newspaper supports a failed busing system and the teachers' union that puts its collective bargaining agreement ahead of a quality education for every child. Unlike Gov. Steve Beshear, I don't take my policy cues from this editorial board, which enrages the out-of-touch elites who sit on it."
There was more fire from Williams:
"Outside of the shameful-yet-predictable use of the race card against a Republican who dares to stand up for common sense, the most outrageous comment referenced '35 years of accomplishment' in Jefferson County's public schools.
"Only Beshear's editorial board masters could judge the last 35 years in the Jefferson County school system successful. The absurdity of the student assignment plan is illustrated by the WAVE-3 television report of a 6-year-old girl forced to spend over two hours on a school bus when there are two schools within a mile of her house...."
(You can read the entire Williams letter as well as the C-J editorial that provoked it at www.courier-journal.com/opinion. That website also carries the "vile ad" that prompted the C-J editorial.)
Say what you want about Williams, but you have to admit that he seldom, if ever, leaves any doubt about where he stands on an issue, like it or not.
To even his detractors, however, Williams is recognized as a smart and crafty legislator.
His potential Achilles heel, and one that may haunt him in November, is that he also comes off at times as a bit of, well, a smart aleck.
C-J editorialists (and some legislators) might argue that I'm more than a bit generous in that assessment.
Stay tuned.
Contact Ron Jenkins at firstname.lastname@example.com


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No: Proposal is an elitist vision for the system
At a time when California's budget woes demonstrate a broken political system, it is surely unwise to promote ideas that can only further split the UC system from the state government on which its existence depends. The blindness of the UCSD faculty who signed the Scull letter to political reality is hardly unique in American higher education, but it presages important debates to come: What is the proper role for the UC system in the 21st Century? How can the state maximize social and economic value from essentially elitist institutions? If the state can ever escape its budget woes, there will be time for such debates. In the meantime, UCSD shouldn't go out of its way to bite the hand that feeds it. For now they're just taking away your money; depending on how angry they get, they might take away your independence.
Shea was a University of Califonia San Diego employee from 1997 until 2008, spending seven of those years raising funds for the university. He is now a fundraiser for Dartmouth College.


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A study from Deloitte & Touche shows that old media is faring well, even among the youngest audiences, despite competition from online forms. For example, 46% of media users visit television-related Web sites, and nearly 75% of consumers enjoy print magazines despite having online access to the same content.
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