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X and Zero are partners once again, doing their job as Maverick Hunters. By now the Hunters have their own headquarters, apparently headed by Dr. Cain. The two Hunters discover that the attacks and raids by the Maverick robots are getting worse. Plus, more robots are going Maverick by the minute—even ones that had apparently been stable! Things really heat up, though, when the robotic scientist Dr. Doppler goes Maverick along with the others. Are the rumors of a deadly robot virus true? And if so, what would the world do if X and Zero were to fall to the virus too?

This game adds some nifty features to the X series, although for some reason the music and play control kinda went down a little for this one. Mega Man X3 is also much more difficult than the other two, although with some practice it’s not too bad.

One nice thing to see is that Zero is now a player character (try pressing L or R on the subscreen; it’s too bad the game is still only one player!) although his usefulness is limited to simply being a spare energy meter.
He cannot use any of X’s weapons or new enhancements (although his Beam Saber attack is well animated and thus a must-see), and he also cannot go through gates (which means he can’t fight bosses—well, except one). This means that he will be better than X at first, but as soon as X gets all of his enhancements, Zero is greatly inferior. In fact, if you want a challenge, try taking Zero into Doppler’s fortress! (You’ll find that because Zero is bigger and slower and is lacking an air-dash, he is much more difficult to play.)

Remember that Zero has only one life. (Yes, X has infinite continues, but Zero can’t even carry a single solitary 1-Up.) If you cause Zero to die, he will not appear again for the rest of the game. Also, because there are three gates in every stage (through which Zero is not allowed to pass), and because you can only use Zero once per stage, Capcom effectively prevents you from using him for more than a third of any given level.

Each stage of the game has two enclosed rooms (again, the majority of which Zero can’t enter). Some contain mini-bosses, but most are usually empty. After defeating two Mavericks, however, Doppler will deploy Bit and Byte. You will first meet Bit in the empty rooms, and after defeating another three Mavericks, Byte will start appearing, barring your way. Also, after the first two Mavericks, the paths to Vile will open up, though this is one fight you can avoid if you know where not to go. See the Tricks section below if you want to take the side trip.

X starts the game with the ground dash and an X-Buster that can obtain three levels of power (typical to most Mega Man games). However, I’ve found that a turbo controller is far superior to charging up. Try putting the fire button on turbo, and you’ll defeat most of the minor robots with just a quick spray from X’s arm cannon, whereas to charge up you’d first have to wait around. If you have turbo, take this advice and use it, for it really helps.

Oh, and other interesting note: Most major bosses in this game change their fighting style when their energy reaches the halfway mark. So remember this if you’ve found a nice pattern of attack—the bosses’ new attacks are usually more deadly (and harder to avoid) than the initial ones!

PC Version

I haven’t played the PC version, so I can’t comment much on it. However, Satoshi Kunsai reports a bug regarding the game which may affect only certain systems. It seems that if you do a minimal install, you may get glitchy graphics in Dr. Doppler’s lab. If this happens to you, try a normal or full install instead, and that should fix the problem.

Play Control: 4
The play control is basically the same. Zero is a tad sluggish though.
Graphics: 4
About the same high quality as the previous games.
Animation: 4
Nothing much has changed.
Music: 2
Mostly horrible. The tunes are repetitious and the instruments grate on your ears. You’re almost better off playing the game with the volume turned off. However the ending tunes are pretty nice, and a couple of the other songs aren’t bad.
Sound Effects: 4
Essentially unchanged.
Plot: 3
Nothing terribly good or bad. Zero pops in to help you which is cool. Enemies keep repeating their speeches every time you die to them which is not so cool.
Difficulty: 3 (normal to hard)
While generally not a terribly difficult game, some of the bosses will leave a mark.
Replay Value: 3
I go back to this one even less than the previous two games. However the new enhancements and Zero add some entertainment value.
Polish: 3
Nothing overly caught my eye, although they added some nifty things such as Zero and the Beam Saber.
Overall: 79%
There is nothing really wrong with the game, but some of the bosses make you want to tear your hair out, and I still like the first title better.

+ Plus:
You can skip the Maverick intro screen that plays after you select a stage (press fire).
- Minus:
The music.
It’s hard to suggest an order, because if you go in an order that allows you to fight the Mavericks with the right weapons, you won’t be able to get most of the items without major backtracking. And if you pick stages because of their items, you won’t have the right weapon to defeat the Maverick. So I actually suggest visiting some stages early to get their item(s), then killing yourself off (at the hands of the Maverick is usually a good place!). Good stages to do this with include Blizzard Buffalo’s (get the air-dash and Sub-Tank), and eventually Blast Hornet’s (to get the Ride Armor). Remember that in this game every stage has three important items. Each stage has a Heart tank, a capsule from Dr. Light (four normal and four super (the pink ones)), and either a Sub-Tank or a Ride Armor. (You have to get the main Ride Armor unit from Blast Hornet’s stage before any of the other units will activate.) Keep this in mind as you explore stages. Until you get the helmet, it’s a good idea to write down what you found where so you’ll know what you still need to get. Or you can use my list below (in the Items section).

Also, the pattern of “Use this weapon on this robot then use that robot’s weapon on the next robot” goes in a complete loop. So it doesn’t really matter who you beat can always go on from there to the next robot.

Here is one of the easier ways. (I’d ended up starting with Neon Tiger the first time I played and he’s fairly easy to defeat without extra weapons, but I’ve since found that Toxic Seahorse is easier.)

A lot of teleportation seen throughout the X series is pretty hilarious because the character splits in two. (Why? Who knows.) When X teleports into a stage, he teleports like normal. But bosses and teleporting hatches do the weird split-screen effect. Anyway, the layout of these hatches is also very odd, but at least unique. After every battle X will land on a strange object. Shoot it for power-ups. If you alternate shooting it from either side, it will usually yield more power-ups before being destroyed. (Hit this power-up pillar with the Beam Saber for a guaranteed 1-Up.)

Counter-clockwise: Buffalo, Hornet, Catfish, Beetle, Rhino, Crawfish, Tiger, Seahorse
Centipede (Neon Tiger’s stage):
You gotta hit the head. Either powered-up X-Buster shots or rapid-fire will do the job.
Octopus (Toxic Seahorse’s stage):
This guy is a piece of cake with a turbo controller. The tentacles below it are harmless, so ignore them. You want to hit the main unit.
Tank (Tunnel Rhino’s stage):
If this thing is being nice to you, all it’ll do is charge, which you can easily dodge by climbing up the wall. If it’s being not-so-nice, it will literally go to pieces and attack from high and low. Hopefully it’ll be nice and you can cream it easily.
C4 Wheel (Blast Hornet’s stage):
Stay left-center of the screen, jumping it when it rolls toward you and pumping it with plasma shots. If it starts into its bounce-around-the-room routine, it is difficult to dodge, but by that point you should have it near death anyway.
Bit (anybody’s stage):
This guy is fast but he has a flaw. When he dashes across the screen he tries to go at whatever level you are on. Lesson: Don’t stay on the ground! When he jumps and hits the peak of his leap, jump. He will soar right over X’s head. After a few tries you will get the hang of the pattern, and Bit will have to admit defeat. (Finish him off with the Frost Shield to destroy him for good. Zajber reports the Triad Thunder will also work.)
Byte (anybody’s stage):
Now this guy can be a major pain. Ray Splasher or the Tornado Fang seemed to work best, although it’s almost easier to put your turbo button on auto so you have your hands free to jump and dash. Climbing the wall and air-dashing over him is about the only way to avoid contact, although his reverse-polarity magnet makes this more than difficult. There is a pattern to it, though, and if you get your timing down, you’ll have him. The key is to stand by a wall and continuously push into it while Byte is tossing the anti-magnet. (The magnet won’t directly hurt you, so you don’t have to worry about coming into contact with it.) Pause for one full second, then make one jump onto the wall and immediately jump off and use a horizontal air-dash to soar over Byte. You’ll find this pattern is on a steady “one, two, three” count. If you get the timing down, you probably won’t need any Sub-Tanks, but try to have as many full ones as possible to be safe! (Hit him with the Ray Splasher for the last hit, and Byte will be destroyed instead of fleeing.)
Vile 1st time (his own stage and/or Doppler’s fortress):
When Vile is in his Ride Armor, he’s actually fairly easy to avoid. Climb the wall, wait until he is close to it (but don’t give him time to slam the wall!), then jump and do an air-dash over him, firing all the time. Remember that he will dash to your location, so you can control where he goes by careful maneuvering.
Vile 2nd time (his own stage and/or Doppler’s fortress):
Once you get Vile on the ground, use the Ray Splasher (for its range) and stay near the center of the screen. His fire wave can be jumped (though it’s difficult) or dodged by climbing a wall and air-dashing before the fire reaches you. His bullets will converge on your current location—so move! (Hit Vile’s second form with the Ray Splasher for the final blow to destroy him.)
Ceiling Crusher (Doppler’s fortress):
If Zero is still operable he will hold up the spiked ceiling here; otherwise you’ll have to race it. For best results, use a turbo controller. The robot should go down in a matter of seconds. (If you aren’t quick enough the ceiling will finish it off for you. Then you just have to get out of the room before it finishes you off!)
Bit and Byte 2nd time (Doppler’s fortress):
Talk about remodeling! Looks like someone got out some crazy glue. Anyway, I found that the Parasitic Bomb seemed to be the best choice, though the Ray Splasher will also take decent damage. An air-dash is about the only way to avoid his fists. Also, remember that with a double air-dash you can actually jump over him and stand behind him! He will change his attack if you do, and personally I think this attack is harder to avoid, but you might want to give it a try and decide for yourself.
Elephant (Doppler’s fortress):
If you’ve destroyed both Bit and Byte already, you will get this terror instead of the Bit/Byte combo. This machine stays on the wall and does some really nasty stuff. The Ray Splasher, the Frost Shield, the Tornado Fang, and the Spinning Blade seemed to do the best damage. Try not to hit the creature’s trunk because if you destroy the trunk, the elephant will hit you with something even worse...
Bug (Doppler’s fortress):
This only appears if you have destroyed Vile. Since he is a mini-boss, he has no energy meter, which means you can’t really tell if a weapon is doing good damage. Therefore, I recommend simply using a turbo controller. Dash when he swoops to avoid getting your energy sucked dry. (Since he swoops to your location, you can actually control which colors he absorbs; however, I have yet to find a way you can use this to your advantage.)
Squid (Doppler’s fortress):
Again, you’ll get this thing instead of Vile if you destroy Vile before coming here. Actually I think it might be easier to just fight Vile here, instead of Vile before and this guy (and the bug!) now. (Unless you want the Beam Saber, in which case you need the bug to appear and hence must destroy Vile.) Anyway, stand underneath it and use the Triad Thunder.
Doppler (fortress):
Use a turbo controller, powered-up X-Buster shots, or the Acid Burst. Try not to hit him when he puts up that green force field, for your shots will give him energy instead of taking it. He will attempt to use the shield the moment you fire, so instead of firing directly at him, wait him out until he goes on to doing something else. You can dodge his fire-dash the same way you dodge Bit. All in all, this is a pretty easy battle. Too bad it’s not the final battle....
Yes, Sigma is back (you expected otherwise?). If you have the super boots, the easiest way to defeat him is to stay on the wall over his head—almost none of his attacks reach there. When he switches to the other side of the room, climb to the top of the wall and double-Air-Dash your way over. You can hit him while on the wall using Spinning Blades—they boomerang. You just have to slide down the wall a bit. If you can’t get onto the wall over his head, you’ll have to just fight him toe-to-toe. Either way, unless he’s firing you have to hit him in the head or else his shield will block your shots.
Kaiser Sigma:
Only powered-up X-Buster shots will harm him (the Hyper Cannon is a nice thing to have here), and you have to hit his tiny head. However, aim high—at the red things poking up from his shoulders—or your shots will bounce off. Remember that Sigma follows a very repetitious pattern. Use it to your advantage. First climb the left wall to gain the height needed to hit his head, and when he starts flying left, drop down, dash under him, and climb the right wall. Repeat. With some luck and a few Sub-Tanks, you should get him. (Note: To hit Kaiser Sigma with the Beam Saber, you must climb a wall to its very top, jump off, turn around, and fire immediately. (X cannot fire the Beam Saber while holding onto a wall.) This may take you several tries.)
Sigma Virus:
Yes, there’s more! Once you defeat his Kaiser body, Sigma will flood the tunnel with lava. You must climb the wall and race the lava while dodging a wire-frame head. However, the lava does not kill you instantly, and if you have all the armor enhancements and there are at least seven or so energy units left in X’s energy meter, you can actually just sit in the lava and ride it up the shaft without dying. (Though you’re better off attempting to climb the walls....) However you do it, make it up this tunnel and you beat the game (finally).

Note: like the other games, if you die to any of these three last bosses, you have to start over again with the first Sigma. However, if you have the Super Helmet enhancement, you don’t have to worry about using your Sub-Tanks. When you reach that vertical tunnel that leads to Sigma, stand there without hitting any buttons and X’s helmet will refill his energy meter and all of his Sub-Tanks! This takes a while (especially if you have four empty Sub-Tanks) but it’s much easier and more reliable than trying to destroy robots for power-ups.

All of the following passwords give you all the items except for any of the super capsules (so that you can pick one at your leisure or, even better, grab the one out of the Doppler fortress). However, there are several other things that change the storyline. Depending on what weapons you use, sometimes Bit and Byte will be destroyed the first time you beat them, and sometimes they will flee. (If you defeat only one, this changes the conversation with the Bit/Byte combo when you meet up with him/them in the fortress, though it will not change the actual battle. Only if you defeat them both do you fight a different boss.) Also, depending on whether you’ve defeated Vile, you also fight different bosses in Doppler’s fortress. And depending on whether or not you have killed off Zero, you will get a different ending!

8 3 1 7 | 1 1 5 3 | 6 7 7 2 | 3 7 2 7 Vile defeated: No
Bit defeated: No
Byte defeated: Yes
Zero defeated: No

7 3 7 7 | 5 1 6 3 | 6 4 6 2 | 7 8 4 1 Vile defeated: Yes
Bit defeated: No
Byte defeated: No
Zero defeated: No

3 3 1 7 | 1 3 5 3 | 6 7 7 2 | 3 8 2 1 Vile defeated: Yes
Bit defeated: Yes
Byte defeated: Yes
Zero defeated: No

1 4 5 4 | 3 5 3 5 | 6 1 6 2 | 7 1 6 2 Vile defeated: Yes
Byte defeated: No
Bit defeated: No
Zero defeated: Yes
(Enter this password and charge up X’s Buster for a pleasant surprise)

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Here’s a lowdown of what items you find where. Remember that you can only take one of the items from the four pink capsules (and that you need the matching normal enhancement before you can get the super). My advice: take none of them, and you’ll receive them all when you go to Doppler’s fortress. If you really want one early, though, your best bet is the Super Helmet, which refills not only your life meter, but (surprise!) also any Sub-Tanks you might have. Second best are the Super Boots, which allow you to air-dash twice with each jump, which can be a lifesaver in a lot of situations. Or the Hyper Cannon, which is like a permanently-charged X-Buster. (Its energy meter gets refilled as you take damage—but only from certain robots.) The Super Armor doesn’t provide anything new and thus gets put last on my list.

Toxic Seahorse
  • Heart Tank: Climb up the wall before the first gate. (The wall with the green water falling down it.)
  • Kangaroo robot changer: You need the Frog Ride Armor. (Any others will short out when you take them into the water.) Use the Ride Armor to reach the giant fans to the right of the underwater area (you can destroy them if you want), then jump up to the surface. Head left, jumping across the water (and air-dashing over the turtle shells if necessary), to reach the K part. Alternately try destroying the fans and charging up the Frost Shield while underwater.
  • Super Boots: This pink capsule is only accessible with the Frog Ride Armor. Go past the fans and to the surface again, and head right.
Tunnel Rhino
  • Heart Tank: Use a powered-up Triad Thunder blast to knock down one of the boulders you come to (the ones that are strapped to the ceiling and that reflect all your shots).
  • Sub-Tank: This one’s a piece of cake. It’s right out in plain view at the top of a tunnel, as long as you go far enough to the right.
  • Helmet: This is behind the other boulder. Since you need both the X-Buster enhancement as well as the Triad Thunder weapon, don’t count on getting it right away!
Volt Catfish
  • Heart Tank: You need the air-dash to get this’s over a bed of spikes. Ride the second lift all the way up instead of jumping off at the first tunnel you come to.
  • Sub-Tank: You’ll need a Ride Armor to snag this item. Head right from the Ride Armor platform, and simply fall down the tunnel. Your Ride Armor will crash right through the floor when it reaches the bottom.
  • Armor: You will find a spike-lined vertical tunnel with a strange device at the bottom. To get the device to lift you to the capsule, use a powered-up Gravity Well to reverse gravity.
Crush Crawfish
  • Heart Tank: It’s through a wall on the right side of the vertical tunnel where the mace robot falls through. You need a Ride Armor to break in.
  • Hawk robot changer: Use a powered-up Triad Thunder shot to blast through the small gray platform near the beginning of the stage. It’s a few blocks to the right of the Ride Armor platform.
  • Super Armor: There is a tunnel in the floor that looks like a bottomless pit, but is actually more of the level. Drop down in a Ride Armor, and use the Ride Armor to bust the wall down there.
Neon Tiger
  • Heart Tank: Climb the wall at the end of the stage (before going through the gates that lead to the Maverick).
  • Sub-Tank: It’s on the right side of the big room full of mace robots and insects. You can either use the air-dash or hitch a ride on one of the insects.
  • “Dust Buster:” (Well, that’s what his new arm cannon looks like!) You need the Tornado Fang to drill through a wall. Look for a wall with cracks (your normal arm cannon shots will bounce off. This is usually a big clue that the wall can be broken).
Gravity Beetle
  • Heart Tank: This is behind some blocks that cannot be broken. However, after some time, they will go away. I think the trigger is defeating Blast Hornet.
  • Frog robot changer: The air-dash is about the only way to reach it. It’s high on the left wall once you climb outside.
  • Hyper Cannon: This is the super enhancement for the Dust Buster (uh, I mean, X-Buster). Get it by utilizing a Ride Armor to break through some blocks. (Again, your shots will bounce off.)
Blast Hornet
  • Heart Tank: It’s to the right of the huge open area. You need the air-dash.
  • Chimera Ride Armor (N): This is the critical piece, for you need this one before you can use any of the others. However, you need the Tornado Fang to get there. When you are crossing the garages, blast all the blocks and a hole will be produced in one of the ledges. Drop down and break into one of the garages to find the Ride Armor.
  • Super Helmet: You have to do a dash-jump with a Ride Armor (preferably not the Frog one!) over a big pit. You’ll know the area when you see it.
Blizzard Buffalo
  • Heart Tank: You need a Ride Armor to break through the big blue ice blocks. The manual shows a picture of this. A reader reports you can also use the Tornado Fang.
  • Sub-Tank: You need the air-dash to get this. It’s on the left side of the room where you find the air-dash.
  • Air Dash Boots: When you get to where snow is falling, stay up! If you can do this, you can make a big dash-jump off the third platform, and grab onto the ledge protruding from the wall. Jump up and head into the tunnel.
Locations of Vile:

Using the X-Buster

Without any enhancements, X can obtain three levels of power. With the X-Buster upgrade, his cannons can reach five levels. Normal, white (one small super shot), yellow (one large super shot), pink (two-handed small shots), and red (two-handed with fully-powered shots). If you get Zero’s Beam Saber, X can no longer obtain the red level. Instead he goes to a green level which is (finally) a triple shot! The first two shots are identical to the pink level (small super shots), and the third is the Beam Saber. (Note: If you get the Beam Saber when you don’t have the X-Buster enhancement, you’ll still have your normal level of charge, but you’ll end up with the green level charge after firing off your super-shot. X doesn’t shoot the Saber in this case, however; he only slashes with it. Thanks to Danny for pointing this out to me.)

The 9th Capsule (otherwise known as the Golden Armor)

This capsule will give you all of the super enhancements (who says you can’t have it all?), but only if you have not chosen one of the pink capsules’ enhancements previously.

I have found that while you need to possess all of the other items in the game (besides the pink capsule enhancements) and have a full energy meter for the capsule to appear, you do not need full Sub-Tanks. The key is that you must have a full energy meter before getting too close to the location of the super capsule. And I’m not sure where the trigger is. So to get the capsule 100% of the time, don’t bother filling up your Sub-Tanks but do attempt to get to the capsule’s location with full energy. One way to do this is to use the Ride Armor so that it absorbs any damage you might take. Basically this means that the moment you reach the Ride Armor platform, you should have a full energy meter. This isn’t as difficult as it sounds; however, you only get one free energy capsule, so if you are low on energy from fighting the ceiling crusher, use a Sub-Tank to fill yourself up, use Zero to avoid taking more damage, or kill yourself off and come back with a full meter.

Partway through the first station of Doppler’s fortress you will find a wide open room (and the screen will scroll over automatically as you enter). If you want to hop into a Ride Armor, do a dash-jump across the wide room to the wall on the opposite side. You’ll probably hit the enemy there, but don’t worry about it; just concern yourself with not falling off! Climb up, over the enemy, and head up and right to the Ride Armor platform. (There is an energy capsule up there to power you back up.) Choose a Ride Armor (doesn’t matter which one) and head down, then right. After a short walk you will come to a pit in the floor, and across the pit a machine is dropping spiked balls. If you must, wait for a lull in the spike balls, then jump out of the Ride Armor and start sliding down the left wall of the shaft in the floor. The screen will scroll down, and eventually you will drop into a hidden passage. The capsule is just to your left.

X with Zero’s Beam Saber

Screenshot from Pixelboy

Procyon Lotor gets credit for finding this one. It turns out there is one door through which Zero can pass: the one that leads to the battle with the “bug”—the mini-boss of the second station of Doppler’s fortress. If you have Zero defeat this bug, it will fall on him and explode, seriously damaging him. X will teleport in, and since Zero is too damaged to fight, he will pass off his Beam Saber to X. (This means, of course, that in order to get the Saber you must forfeit Zero—and this means you’ll end up with what I consider to be the worst of the two possible endings.) The Beam Saber is a powerful weapon, however; it will axe away half of the energy meter of any of the bosses—including Sigma and Kaiser Sigma!

This game has two endings depending on whether you’ve killed off Zero or not. If Zero is still around, he will save X from Sigma. (An anti-virus on a Beam Saber? This I gotta see...) If Zero has been destroyed, Dr. Doppler will come to X’s rescue, blowing himself up and taking Sigma with him. Either way, the fortress still blows sky high, and the words you get are still the same. The game still mentions how “X must destroy Zero” even if Zero has already been destroyed. (’Course, someone will rebuild him; that’s a given...) Anyway, like its predecessors, this game’s ending shows X (and Zero if he’s around) standing on the cliff watching the fortress go up in smoke. Then he or they are running on the highway, under the credits and stuff.

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BlackBerry and Porsche unveil P’9981

BlackBerry and Porsche unveil P’9981We first spied this bizarre futuristic slab of smartphone back in September, when I asked: What the hell is this BlackBerry phone? At the time it wasn’t clear if it was a prototype or some sort of elaborate hoax.

Fast forward to last week, and we discovered that the silver beauty/monstrosity (delete as appropriate) is in fact the result of a collaboration between RIM and Porsche, essentially a really pretentious BlackBerry Bold Touch.

The design is – predictably – super fancy, including a “forged stainless steel frame, hand-wrapped leather back cover, sculpted QWERTY keyboard, and crystal clear touch display.” Lah-di-dah.

There’s also “an exclusive Porsche Design UI and a bespoke Wikitude World Browser augmented reality app experience”, and – get this – “premium, exclusive PINs that help easily identify another P'9981 smartphone user.” Incredible.

"Since 1972 Porsche Design has presented milestone products with iconic style, and the P'9981 smartphone from BlackBerry will be our next landmark," said Dr. Juergen Gessler, CEO Porsche Design Group, who’s presumably worth a few bob.

"The pure and distinctive design, coupled with authentic materials and an emphasis on the manufacturing process, perfectly match our philosophy and complement the Porsche Design product assortment."

You want one, don’t you? Well, as you might expect, the Porsche Design P'9981 will be released in limited quantity with a suitably sickening price tag. How does $2,000 sound?

via: Engadget

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JanSt / MOD  Oct. 28, 2011 at 11:16

Design grows on me. Not the price. Criminal.

matt101101 / MOD  Oct. 28, 2011 at 11:43

$2000 dollars for a Bold 9900...might as well only sell it in OPEC nations, I can't see Phones 4 U selling many...

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After browsing every type of organizer available, I ended up using these shower caddy organizers for each of my kids because they had great pockets and a wipeable surface in case they get dirty or muddy. I also slipped a plastic cup for each to hold pencils/pens so it would make it easier for them to grab. In each one, I have an umbrella, snacks (that can withstand the hot car),  a water, a couple of Big Fat Notebooks (strategically chosen for the subjects we need to work on!!), and packages of tissues.

I had planned to hang them from the backs of the seats, but the width was too deep on our car. I actually think it will be easier to have them on the floor and they can also be moved to the center when they are being used.

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Backpacks can also pile up on the floor so I got these hooks to give these guys a home. It can also be a great place to hang a jacket, hat, or purse. Our backpacks often get dirty and thrown on the floor so I am hoping it helps with that too!

Now that the kids are in better shape, I wanted to work on some problem areas for me. My biggest issue is carrying around gym equipment so I wanted to make that an organizing priority.

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In my gym equipment stash I have two pairs of shoes (one for dance class and one for cardio), a spare pair of socks, yoga socks, tissues, water, facial cleansing wipes, hair ties, travel brush, and a towel. These are things that I am always forgetting and that I sometimes end up having to buy at the gym.

All of these fit perfectly in this container.

Again, plastic, wipeable, AND breathable.

Not that my feet sweat AT ALL, but I wanted you to know for you. It’s okay. It happens to a lot of people.

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My yoga mat takes up valuable space and I hate that it is always rolling around in our trunk. Again, using those utility hooks to keep it in place along with my hot yoga towel and umbrella.

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To finish up the tour, I wanted to show you just a couple of other things that are helping.

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removable hook for hanging the trash bag- we will see how long this holds!

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tiny totes for random things- one has receipts and pens, one has snacks for me, one has a mini first aid kit (for a legit one check here!), and the last one has tissues.

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utilizing the gaps for my phone to save space in my drink holder (similar idea here!)

It’s not perfect, but I’m pretty proud. I feel like I *might* be able to be that mom this year AND my kids will be learning between activities too. High fives all around, friends!

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I can’t wait to give someone this whole collection. We are so excited to share this with you! The books included in this giveaway are:

Everything You Need to Ace Math . . . covers everything to get you over any math hump: fractions, decimals, and how to multiply and divide them; ratios, proportions, and percentages; geometry; statistics and probability; expressions and equations; and the coordinate plane and functions.

Everything You Need to Ace Science . . . takes readers from scientific investigation and the engineering design process to the Periodic Table; forces and motion; forms of energy; outer space and the solar system; to earth sciences, biology, body systems, ecology, and more.

Everything You Need to Ace American History . . . covers Native Americans to the war in Iraq. There are units on Colonial America; the Revolutionary War and the founding of a new nation; Jefferson and the expansion west; the Civil War and Reconstruction; and all of the notable events of the 20th century—World Wars, the Depression, the Civil Rights movement, and much more.

Everything You Need to Ace World History . . . kicks off with the Paleolithic Era and  transports the reader to ancient civilizations—in Egypt, Greece, India, China, Africa, Rome; the middle ages across the world; the Renaissance; the age of exploration and colonialization, revolution and imperialism, and the modern world and the wars and movements that shaped it.

Everything You Need to Ace English Language Arts . . . covers everything to get you your best marks: grammar, including parts of speech, active and passive verbs, Greek and Latin roots and affixes; nuances in word meanings; textual analysis, authorship, structure, and other skills for reading fiction and nonfiction; and writing arguments, informative texts, and narratives.

One (1) lucky winner will receive:

  • Copies of all 5 titles in the Big Fat Notebooks series
  • Branded school supplies including highlighter/pen combos, a notepad, and jigsaw sticky notes.

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The MomAdvice Hangout- Join Me!

Just popping in quickly before the holidays to let you know that I set up a private Facebook group called the MomAdvice Hangout to gab with you all on Facebook.  It’s not a place of promotion, unless I happen to have something useful from the site to share, but just a spot to ask questions and get to know one another. I have missed the commenting on the blog a lot and totally get how busy everyone is. I am feeling that too SO MUCH. I thought we could give the group a trial run and see how things go!

I’d love for you to join me over there and chat with you!

Happiest of holidays! xo

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WERA is one of, if not the largest and longest-running amateur and semi-professional road racing series in North America. In a typical season WERA organizes eight to ten national championship races and sanctions more than 30 race events across six regions. One of WERA's significant contributions to moto-racing in the U.S. is the variety of competition classes and experiences available to riders of all skills. Briefly known as the Eastern Racing Association before expanding to sanction both "western" and "eastern" races, WERA traces its official beginning to 1974. Since then, tens of thousands of racers have learned basic race craft in WERA racing schools and gone on to compete at the novice and expert levels. WERA has supported the beginnings of many national and international championship riders from the U.S.
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The number of race classes and sub-categories validate WERA's declaration, "If you ride it, we race it." In the National and the Sportsman (regional) Championship series, 10 competition classes exist, with rules defining dozens of machine configurations eligible to race in each class (e.g., displacement, no. of cylinders, valves per cylinder, 4-stroke vs. 2-stroke, etc.). These classes also frame the Endurance and the Vintage championship series. Separate classifications for Novice and Expert racers for each competition class add up to a vast number of opportunities for competitors and an equal challenge for scorekeepers to track!
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Going solo is typical for an amateur racer in the first season: rider, tuner, mechanic, driver, pit crew and food services rolled into one.
Competing solo doesn’t mean being alone. The paddock camaraderie, even in a highly competitive series, leads to friendships and improves the depth and quality of the whole series. A new rider will receive the advice, a helping hand, tools, and maybe even the loan of parts to keep them racing through those first race weekends.
Most racers who persevere through the first season or a second year will usually find connection with other riders of like mind and similar experience. Mutual support might simply be setting up trailers next to each other in the paddock area, or eventually combining forces to create an unofficial team with shared logistics - and aspirations.
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Race prep is not limited to the machine.
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It is said that the length of an amateur racer’s career is determined by the size of their credit line. To take some of the sting out of the heavy cost of racing, motorcycle and accessory manufacturers pay contingency money or free product based on a rider’s race results (a rider competing in multiple race classes can easily chew up two sets of tires in a single race weekend - at $300 to $400 a pair). Racers must apply to suppliers before each season to qualify for contingency payouts. To make sure they get credit for contingency money, race officials meet the rider on the pit lane after each race to record the rider’s finishing place and their sponsors to validate contingency claims.
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WERA runs both sprint races (typically 6 to 12 laps) and endurance events ranging from 4 to 24 hours. Many endurance teams specialize in the long events. But some endurance event teams are made up of sprint racers who have enough shared interest and trust in one another’s race craft to put one of their bikes on the track for the team. Four racers with several years of experience in the sprint series discuss track strategy for entering an upcoming 4-hour endurance race at Grattan Raceway in Michigan.
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

I hope 2010 was good on you and 2011 will be even better. Until the snow comes, if it ever does, we invite you to look over a summary of our 2010 rides, edited together in a 3 min video. Music by Moonlit Saylor.

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After spending most of our high school years wishing we could snap our fingers and turn our class' reigning queen bee into a newt (what, like you didn't?), there's something terribly seductive and fun about the idea that somewhere, somehow, a gifted young witch could magically manipulate her own high school experience into, y'know, not sucking.

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

Accept my LoveValentine’s Day, otherwise known as Saint Valentine’s Day, occurs on 14 February every year. Originally a Christian feast day to honour Saint Valentinus, it is nowadays regarded as a day of romance across the world. Valentine’s Day cards were first exchanged during the nineteenth century and their designs and uses have changed considerably over time, as can be seen from some of the range of items we have in our collection.

the Power of LoveMany of our early cards were sent in quite robust packaging, such as a strong card box with a lid, rather than just an envelope. The image to the right shows one of the earliest commercial boxed cards, made by B. Sulman during the the 1860s.

Unlike modern cards, which commonly fold along a central seam and have to be opened to reveal a notes of love, the earliest cards in our collection are just two-sided, with a pre-scribed sentiment on the front. They must have left much to assume on the part of the recipient. Sometimes, longer messages are enclosed in an oval frame and surrounded by decorative floral patterns and lace trimmings.

A few our cards include an intricate and delicate image in a central frame above a short, printed note below. Occasionally, the message may be oddly obscured by other parts of the card or lacework and can only be read after lifting the loose layers.

Handwritten MessageThere is rarely much information about either the sender or the recipient. Many of our cards have nothing written upon them. Some include just a brief handwritten note, with either a to or a for and the name of an individual.

Have Pity and Name the DaySome do include a longer, handwritten personal note that gives away a few details of the sender. Sometimes the cards were sent between friends and sometimes they were exchanged between members of the same sex.

Several of our cards reveal more, on closer inspection. The example on the bottom left hides a simple paper mechanism that creates a pop-up effect when triggered. Others feature more complex designs that once could simulate movement but, unfortunately, they have become too fragile or loose to operate anymore.

Accept My Love is part of Tracing Traditions, a project funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund and delivered by the Museums Association

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802.16s: a superior option for the Industrial Internet of Things.

There are dozens of wireless technology options for the Internet of Things (IoT), but only a few offer the broad coverage, increased security, and superior reliability that the industrial sector requires. The recently published standard from the IEEE designated 802.16s may be just the technology that some mission-critical users are demanding.

You may remember the 802.16 designation by its trade name, WiMAX. This broadband wireless metropolitan area network (MAN) technology was at one time competing with LTE for 4G cell phone adoption. It was implemented by Sprint but soon gave way to LTE as the dominant 4G technology. Yet, WiMAX is still around in various forms as it offers features and benefits that make it suitable for some essential applications.

This new standard was developed primarily for electric utilities with input from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), the Utilities Technology Council (UTC), and the WiMAX Forum. One application is advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) backhaul that handles smart meter traffic from remote concentrators back to a central office. Electric substation data acquisition is another use. The standard also works with SCADA systems.

A Full Spectrum 802.16s network consists of a BS1000 basestation and two or more Cobalt remote radio nodes. Typical specs are basestation transmitter power up to 20 watts and a receiver sensitivity as low as −107 dBm. The system handles Ethernet, IP, or other networking formats.

The standard also addresses other serious applications such as oil and gas pipelines, water and gas utilities, nuclear facilities, rail transportation, environmental monitoring, military, and homeland security. Aside from its superior benefits of security and reliability, the standard permits the network to be fully disconnected and separated from the public internet.

The 802.16s standard is based essentially upon the specifications of the older WiMAX 802.16e version. It uses OFDMA and time division duplexing (TDD) that does not require the paired spectrum of FDD LTE. It is designed to work at lower data rates using channel bandwidths from 100 kHz to 1.25 MHz. Modulation can be BPSK, QPSK, 16QAM, or 64QAM, but an adaptive modulation and coding scheme lets the system optimize the throughput depending upon local conditions. Encryption is the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). Other features include a longer frame size to increase throughput, as well as a way to adjust the asymmetrical downlink (DL) to uplink (UL) ratio to optimize throughput for some common asymmetrical industrial applications.

While the original 802.16 standard was designed to be used in the 2 to 66 GHz range, the 802.16s version is adjusted to work at much lower frequencies since utilities and other industrial users do not typically have access to more the widely used broadband spectrum. But the utilities and other industries do have allocations for their own licensed spectrum. Some examples are 217-218 MHz, 406 MHz, 901 MHz, 1.4 GHz, or 3.65 GHz. The upper A block of the 700 MHz spectrum is also available.

The utilities simply wanted their own standard and did not want to rely upon standard cellular IoT carriers for their critical infrastructure. This new standard puts the utility in control. While the initial capital expenditure is high, the operating expenditure is lower. Furthermore, the utility controls the spectrum, security, reliability, and pace of upgrade, as well as the maintenance and repair.

One company making 802.16s gear is Full Spectrum, using its patented software-defined radio (SDR) technology. The firm’s FullMAX radios work on all licensed frequencies below 1 GHz, featuring high transmit power and software-configurable channel sizes from 50 kHz to 5 MHz. Otherwise, the radios are based upon the 802.16e standard with OFDMA. A typical FullMAX network uses the BS1000 basestation and FS4500 outdoor or Cobalt-Plus remote radios (see photos).

The 802.16s standard is clearly an alternative to the current choices for longer-range industrial IoT wireless technologies. Licensed spectrum is available if you need that extra security and reliability.

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“The Girl Who Swam To Atlantis” is well written story of a twelve-year-old losing the naivety and insecurities of childhood as she struggles to find her mother, succeed as a competitive swimmer and win the confidence of her father who wants to send her back to a boarding school.

Gabriella lives a sheltered life until the summer of 1957 when she spends the summer from boarding school with her father, a rigid Marine general at a base in North Carolina.  Her mother is away until, the young girl is told, “she’s ready to come home.”

p; Hawkins, a black NCO and house steward for the general, befriends the pre-teen and helps her develop greater self confidence and swimming skills in the river bordering her home, but that relationship with Hawkins is frowned upon by some neighbors. During the course of that summer, Gabriella begins to recognize and question the racial bias that exists among some of the families living in the officers housing area. She also becomes obsessed with the murder of Emmett Till who was lynched in Mississippi two years earlier. Thinking of the bravery displayed by young Emmett when he faced his killers motivates her to go to extra lengths to prove her worth to the general who seems to only tolerate her.

Gabriella struggles to understand what has happened to her missing mother who her father repeated says ‘has some problems,’ but will nott explain what those problems were. Without her father’s or Hawkins’s knowledge, she sets out on the river to find her mother.

Ideal for teens, “The Girl Who Swam To Atlantis” will delight anyone who enjoys a heartwarming story of a self-willed girl who doesn’t shirk from challenges and treasures the value of friendship and family love.

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Nearly everything important in twelve-year-old Gabriella's life that summer of 1957 can be traced to the river. On the North Carolina military base where she lives, she meets the African-American Marine Hawkins by the river's brown-green water. Hawkins, a servant in the kitchen of her father's quarters, becomes her swim coach and a person she can talk with--even about the tragedy of the youth Emmett Till. The fourteen-year-old was lynched two years earlier, his body thrown into Mississippi's Tallahatchie river. But this river, her river, isn't a place of death. Emmett's spirit is alive in its waters. It's a place of magic.

At the river Hawkins helps her find her strength and her place in the world. Emmett helps her find her heart.

Emmett had been murdered for whistling at a white woman. Could her friendship with Hawkins endanger the tough Marine? It doesn't seem possible. Until a sudden storm on the river changes Gabriella's life--forever.


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Bobby Shmurda and 12 members of his GS9 crew were arraigned on a slew of charges, including murder, attempted murder, assault, attempted assault, drug trafficking and weapons possession in New York City on Thursday.  The rapper, who is being held on two million dollar bail, has pleaded not guilty to charges of drug trafficking, gun possession, conspiracy and reckless endangerment.

“There is nowhere in the Western world where he can go without being recognized,” Shmurda’s defense attorney Howard Greenburg told WABC-TV. “And you’re telling me he has to take time out of his busy life as an entertainer and do what is alleged in this indictment? It’s a bunch of BS, and you can quote me.”

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Have you noticed how our society is moving away from “literary thought” and speeding towards “media guided thinking”? Our thoughts no longer get charged from something we read in the morning newspaper, a magazine, or a book that we could curl up with… no, our thoughts have become a jumbled smush of micro minutes (often Nano1 seconds) fluttering from one topic to another. Why is this?

The always-on world has become a set of handcuffs. I’m feeling deep concern about the loss of times to just “think” being replaced by reacting to the latest bit of information that the tone on my PDA is alerting me to. We are often too busy to take time to pause and even consider what is important.

Not only do we not think, the experiences that we are having right now are often not valued. Our world has become an always-on world. Our lack of focused attention has moved us to worry about what we’re missing, what else is going on simultaneously with what just might be more important than what we’re doing right now. Therefore, what we’re doing now is devalued because it might in time prove out to be not as important as something else that we could have done, so we’re caught not appreciating the moment because of what else might be happening.

Take a look at this three-minute clip of Renny Gleeson2 (found on TED), he talks about the ‘always-on world’ and the way we've learned to handle the constant thirst for the information flow that we are addicted to:

While I don't approve of some of Reeny's language, seen and heard in this clip, I don't think we can afford to miss the message being presented.... We as a society are addicted to the 'connected' need-more-information-now-streaming. We're 'always-on' and we don't have time for anything else, but to tragically grasp for more bytes of information to satiate our addiction.

A famous King of old once wrote: “I will remember the works of the Lord. Yes, I will remember the amazing things you did long ago! I will think about all you have done; I will reflect upon your deeds!3” Are we to advanced to stop and consider? There is much to learn from what has happened – can we still take time to ponder? That same King took time to ponder and then exclaimed: “O God, your deeds are extraordinary!4

I think it is time for us to unbuckle ourselves from all the 'speed' in the 'always-on' streaming and take some time to meditate as part of our Sojourn. When that famous King did that, he exclaimed, “May the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart be pleasing to you, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.5

Along the way of My Sojourn, I've found the words of the song, 'Listen to our hearts' by Steven Curtis Chapman & Geoff Moore to go deeper and reflect thoughts in my heart - away from the busy 'always-on' world around me. Be extravagant, take some time, and listen to the words....

1. Nano: The root comes from the Greek for dwarf. The prefix was formally adopted in the late 1940s to mean one-billionth (10-9) part, as in a nanometer. The construction had been floating around since the early part of the 20th century. Nano along now carries the connotation of the very small, typically on the nanometer scale. A bond between two carbon atoms is about 1/10 of a nanometer.
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Security has been beefed up in and around Benin, the capital of Edo, ahead of President Muhammadu Buhari two-days official visit to the state.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the President who commences the visit on Monday, is expected to inaugurate a number of projects executed by Gov. Adams Oshiomhole, who is vacating office by Nov. 12.

Men and officers of Police, Army, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), have taken up strategic positions in the areas the President is expected to pass through and the project sites in the capital city.

The presidential visit created traffic challenges in the City on Monday morning, especially Airport road and Siloko road, a road constructed by the current administration which the President is also expected to inaugurate during the visit.

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Central Precinct officers responded to a physical altercation Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. involving several persons outside the Music City Central bus station at 400 Charlotte Pike in downtown Nashville.

When officers arrived and attempted to break up the altercation, Patricia Hill, 18, allegedly struck Central Precinct Officer Joshua Reece in the face and continued to struggle with him until she was taken into custody. Officer Reece was transported to a hospital where he was treated and released for eye and knee injuries.  Hill is charged with assault, resisting arrest, and disorderly conduct.  She is jailed in lieu of $4,500 bond.

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As a new school year begins for students across the country, we remember the struggle for equality in public education that culminated in President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. In The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession, journalist Dana Goldstein outlines the complicated history of public education and the teaching profession. Goldstein praises teachers for the impact they have on young Americans and the role they take in shaping minds and giving students the tools they need to remedy the injustices they will see as they grow up.

In the excerpt below, Goldstein details how President Johnson developed a progressive philosophy on education as a young teacher in southern Texas.

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In the mid-1950s and early 1960s, desegregation was moving so slowly that no one could say for sure how Brown might ultimately affect the education of black children, or the employment of black teachers. A decade after the ruling, over 90 percent of southern black students still attended all-black schools. Of the 333,000 black children who had been integrated, 80 percent lived in border states, not in Deep South strongholds of massive resistance. In Mississippi, not a single black child had been allowed to enroll in a white school. Why? Except in a few high-proﬁle cases, such as President Eisenhower’s use of federal troops to integrate Little Rock Central High School, neither the courts nor the executive branch stepped in when white schools turned away black students, when local banks denied credit to black parents who petitioned for their children to attend white schools, or when employers ﬁred those black parents in retaliation.

All that changed in 1964. President Johnson’s enormous popularity in the wake of the Kennedy assassination, as well as his peerless legislative maneuvering, allowed him to establish an unprecedented role for the federal government in local public education. Previous efforts to expand Washington’s inﬂuence over local schools had brought limited results. The launch of the Soviet Union’s Sputnik satellite in 1957 prompted Congress to pass the National Defense Education Act (NDEA), which provided several hundred million dollars to prepare high-achieving students for careers in the sciences, math, engineering, and foreign languages. The law did not address educational inequalities driven by race and class. John F. Kennedy ran for president in 1960 promising to pass a comprehensive federal education aid package, a liberal dream dating back to Reconstruction. But Kennedy’s efforts were stymied when ﬁghts broke out on Capitol Hill between lobbyists representing Catholic bishops, who wanted funding for parochial schools, and those representing teachers unions, who opposed aid to religious schools and prioritized higher pay for teachers. Then, during the frustrated decade after Brown, desegregation was the law, but not the reality.

When Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Department of Justice could ﬁnally sue schools that resisted or delayed integration. The following year, the Voting Rights Act allowed many southern black parents to register to vote for the ﬁrst time. That meant black citizens could threaten to unseat politicians and school board members who opposed integration. By 1972, less than 10 percent of black students in the South attended an all-black school. Though true school integration would prove relatively ﬂeeting in many neighborhoods, it had, at least temporarily, been achieved.

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The most lasting Great Society change for the nation’s schools came through the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the precursor to the Bush-era No Child Left Behind. The 1965 law, initially funded at the massive level of $1.2 billion per year, united the Left and center around a new role for Washington as a standard setter for state education agencies and local schools. While the NDEA had targeted funding toward the best and brightest students, ESEA was all about “compensatory education” for the 19 percent of low-income public school students falling behind in poor, largely black and Hispanic schools. Federal aid would now be offered or withheld depending on whether local policy makers followed national directives, such as supplying low-income schools with up-to-date textbooks, establishing school libraries, and pulling at-risk students out of class for supplemental tutoring. States that offered their low-income students more state-level funding would be rewarded with more money from the federal government. Johnson portrayed this expansion of the federal bureaucracy in stirring, soaring rhetoric. He signed ESEA in his hometown of Johnson City, Texas, with his own elementary school teacher at his side. “By passing this bill, we bridge the gap between helplessness and hope for more than 5 million educationally deprived children,” he said. “And we rekindle the revolution—the revolution of the spirit against the tyranny of ignorance. As a son of a tenant farmer, I know that education is the only valid passport from poverty. As a former teacher—and, I hope, a future one—I have great expectations of what this law will mean for all of our young people.” Those sky-high expectations placed on educators—as revolutionary foot soldiers in the War on Poverty— are still with us today.

To illustrate the transformative power of education, the president wove a careful political mythology around his own nine months working as a teacher in a low-income public elementary school. As a twenty-year-old college dropout in 1928, Johnson followed a girlfriend to south Texas, where the couple planned to earn a little money by teaching school. Johnson found work in the dusty cattle village of Cotulla, home to three thousand residents. He had attended subpar schools in central Texas Hill Country, but he was appalled by the even worse conditions at the segregated Welhausen School, where he taught the children of Mexican American laborers. The school had no extracurricular activities, no lunchtime, and no athletic equipment. The students and their parents struggled with basic English and lived in homes without indoor plumbing or electricity. Johnson wrote to his mother to ask her to send 250 tubes of toothpaste. Because he was male, he was quickly appointed principal. He instituted an “English only” rule on school grounds, founded a debate team that competed against nearby schools, assigned classic poems for students to recite from memory, and required teachers to stay after school to tutor children who needed extra help. His students would remember him as a strict disciplinarian who spanked children who spoke Spanish or talked back to their teachers. But by most reports, Johnson was an inspiring educator nonetheless. He began each school day by telling the story of “the little baby in the cradle”—a poor Mexican American child who sometimes grew up to be a teacher, sometimes a doctor, and sometimes even the president of the United States.

Johnson has been accused, in the words of historian Irwin Unger, of viewing education as “a magic cure for social failure and economic inequality.” But Johnson’s political messages about the children he knew in Cotulla were in fact quite complex. Rather than paint schools and teachers as saviors who could overcome the challenges of poverty (to borrow the phrasing of so many contemporary school reformers), Johnson described his teaching years with considerable humility. He recalled students who came to school hungry and who wordlessly understood that they were despised by whites for their brown skin and foreignness. In a March 1965 speech to Congress on “the American promise,” he portrayed himself as a young teacher walking home from work exhausted and lost in thought, simply “wishing there was more I could do”:

But all I knew was to teach them the little that I knew, hoping that it might help them against the hardships that lay ahead. Somehow you never forget what poverty and hatred can do when you see its scars on the hopeful face of a young child. I never thought then, in 1928, that I would be standing here in 1965. It never even occurred to me in my fondest dreams that I might have the chance to help the sons and daughters of those students and to help people like them all over this country.

As a mere classroom teacher, Johnson implied, he could not fully address the social challenges his students faced. To do more for them he would need to advance not only an education program, but also a broad agenda to negate the disadvantages of poverty and racism. There would be expanded access to food stamps, affordable housing, and afterschool and summer programs. There would be a federally funded preschool program for the poorest children, called Head Start. Johnson framed this agenda in nearly religious terms. “I want to be the president who helped to end hatred among his fellow men and who promoted love among the people of all races and all regions and all parties,” he told Congress. “I want to be the president who helped to end war among the brothers of this earth.” While there remains a consensus that income and educational opportunity are deeply linked, never again would a national school reform agenda be accompanied by so aggressive an antipoverty push.

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From the book The Teacher Wars by Dana Goldstein. Copyright © 2014 by Dana Goldstein. Published by arrangement with Doubleday, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC

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