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The Pujols Departure Makes Like Easier for Matheny
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No manager—especially one who's brand new and has never done it before—wants to have to come to an agreement on the clubhouse power structure upon walking in the door.
Mike Matheny, whom Albert Pujols was said to like and respect when the two were teammates with the Cardinals, was going to be in just such a situation taking over for Tony LaRussa as the Cardinals new manager. Pujols was said to prefer Jose Oquendo as the new manager. Undoubtedly that will be referenced as part of the list of reasons why Pujols left; this is twisting the issue away from what really was the motivating factor—money—into something other.
If the Cardinals had given Pujols a similar contract as what the Angels gave him, he would've stayed. They didn't and he didn't.
Already we're hearing whispers from the netherworld of rumor and innuendo that may or may not be accurate.
"I thought Albert didn't seem happy."
"There was something off."
This is just the beginning as an explanation is sought.
Here's the answer: the Angels paid him a lot more money than the Cardinals were going to.
This affects Matheny because he doesn't have to cater to anyone in that clubhouse; that's immensely valuable to a new manager. The only player on the current Cardinals roster that he played with as a teammate is Chris Carpenter.
That's not a small thing.
Joe Girardi walked into a similar situation with the Yankees when he took over for Joe Torre, was managing a large segment of contemporaries and former teammates. What made it worse was dealing with a bunch of bratty superstars who'd grown accustomed to Torre and the known rift between Girardi and Jorge Posada that was never adequately repaired.
Matheny has a clean slate.
It's doubtful any of the remaining stars—Matt Holliday, Lance Berkman, Carpenter, Adam Wainwright, Yadier Molina—are going to give him a problem; nor do they have the cachet that Pujols had to try and exert their will over a rookie manager. Pujols isn't the type to bully and take over the room as a Josh Beckett would, but that doesn't mean he'd be a perfectly good soldier if the two disagreed about something, anything.
Is it easier to run a team on the field without a weapon like Pujols? Of course not. The Cardinals just lost the best player of this generation and one of the best players ever, but to think they can't function without him is absurd; the Cardinals will absolutely be better off in the long run without that gigantic contract for a player reaching his mid-to-late-30s clogging up their payroll. That they wouldn't have the DH position to stash him when he can't play the field anymore and the contract and his stature would make him untradeable would make the situation exponentially worse.
Right now it's remarkably simple for them: they move Berkman to first base and find a right fielder. They'll have a ton of cash left over to keep Wainwright and Molina and possibly lock up David Freese through his arbitration years and have the foundation for a good team without that one Hall of Famer stalking the middle of the lineup and paying him $25 million a year during his inevitable decline.
The Cardinals didn't want to lose Pujols, but the fallout will be muted by the World Series they just won and that they're going to acquire a name player to fill the gaping hole in the lineup.
There are outfielders available and Carlos Beltran on a 3-year contract is a perfect addition; the offense won't be diminished all that much and with Wainwright returning, the pitching will be the strength of the team.
Much like the Stephen Strasburg injury where, I'm convinced, there were numerous people within the Nationals organization who were somewhat relieved that he got hurt and there was no one to hold accountable for it, there will be people with the Cardinals who aren't all that bothered to see Pujols go. They'll never admit it publicly, but it's the truth.There was going to be a transition from LaRussa to Matheny and now it's made much easier without Pujols to run interference on what the new manager wants to do.
The Cardinals will survive.
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Teacher Testing Increases
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Congressional Republicans have called for regular testing of teachers across the nation, although they stopped short of proposing that the tests be mandatory. The proposal is part of a broad education bill announced by Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R. Miss.) and other Republican leaders in Washington on January 20. Under the testing plan, states could use money they now receive from the Federal Government to assess elementary and secondary school teachers. The money also could be used to reward good teachers with merit pay.
In December, Senate Banking Chairman Alfonse D'Amato (R. NY) called for performance evaluations of public school teachers every five years. In his response to President Clinton's weekly radio address, D'Amato also proposed that teachers be tested for competency in the subjects they teach.
Meanwhile, accompanying the increased focus on student testing in the schools, some states are rushing to test prospective and currently employed teachers. Unfortunately, there is no evidence to support the claim that standardized tests predict who will be a good teacher.
North Carolina's Board of Education is implementing a new basic skills competency test for teachers at low-performing schools. Under North Carolina's ABCs plan, school performance on state achievement tests is measured annually against past performance. "Low-performing" schools are those that fail to meet the state's expected growth rate for student achievement and have more than half of their students performing below grade level.
Teachers at the state s bottom 15 schools on this index will have to take the test next spring. Beginning in 1999-2000 the test will be required of all teachers at schools designated "low-performing."
Next year, the state plans to require teachers to take content-knowledge exams in addition to the basic skills test, according to the state s Department of Public Instruction. Some recent graduates of schools of education will be exempted because they have already taken similar exams.
Teachers will get three chances to pass the basic skills test, but those who fail three times will be fired. This "competency" test is the same one that is currently administered to teachers in California. Results there make it clear that the test will lead to the dismissal of a disproportionate number of minority teachers (see Examiner, ?????).
A federal judge has rejected a request by Alabama's State Board of Education to alter a 1985 settlement in which the state agreed to create a new testing system for aspiring schoolteachers that would ensure white and black applicants passed at about the same rate (see Examiner, Spring 1987). Alabama officials wanted the order modified so that the state could give new applicants the NTE (formerly, the National Teachers Exam) or an equivalent test.
Under a 1995 state law, new college graduates who wish to teach in Alabama must pass the examination starting in 2001. Studies of earlier versions of the NTE showed passage rates of 40 to 50 percent for African Americans and Latinos compared to rates of 80 percent for white teacher candidates (Examiner, Winter 1989).
In his ruling, Judge Myron Thompson noted that state officials had never tried to develop a test that would meet the terms of the 1985 settlement, which called for creating a test that would guarantee the failure rate of black applicants to be no more than five percentage points higher than that of white applicants. The agreement was part of the settlement of a lawsuit filed by black applicants who charged that a test given by Alabama in the early 1980s was biased. State officials plan to appeal the ruling.
Education Commissioner Richard Mills has proposed a plan under which teaching candidates would be required to take three standardized tests, rather than the current two, before receiving their initi licenses. In addition to the Liberal Arts and Science Test (LAST), which is already under attack in a federal court suit charging racial bias, and the Assessment of Teaching Skills-Written (ATS-W), teaching candidates would have to take a predominantly multiple-choice Content Specialty Test (CST).
Newly licensed teachers would then have nine years to prepare for the next certificate level (advanced professional), two years more than is allowed under the current model. To attain that certificate, teachers would be required to pass an Advanced Content Specialty Test and an Advanced Assessment of Teaching Skills. The latter would be conducted by a principal and two external peers and would include portfolio assessment, teaching observations, diagnostic sessions and career growth plans. In order to keep their licenses, teachers would have to be regularly evaluated by a similar panel.
The State Board of Regents will vote on Commissioner Mills plan in March 1998.

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Artículo Is society's obsession with big dicks harming men? Culture
Is society's obsession with big dicks harming men?
Mainsream culture dictates that bigger equals better; that the size of a man's penis foreshadows both his sexual ability and self-worth. We need penis diversity - now.
04 Septiembre 2018 16:43
By Eloise Edgington
Millennia ago, a tiny penis was a sought-after look. In ancient Greece, a small, flaccid penis was a sign of being a logical and rational man, who was in control of his desires. That's why you'll find tiny marble penises proudly on display in museums around the world. Rather than filling onlookers with admiration, like those of the Greek heroes and gods did, the typical response to a small penis these days is to laugh and snigger. And in the case of bringing a potential significant other home after a date, a small penis is usually less funny and often considered a hindrance to pleasure.
'Nowadays it's all about big dicks', my male colleague puts it bluntly. 'You're the most alpha male depending on your dick size. [As if it determines] how strong you are. 'It's very basic, heteronormative, patriarchal masculinity. And in the end it shows how fragile masculinity is, because everything is based around a piece of meat.'
Big penises are put on a pedestal, and small ones are rendered to the bottom of the pile. 'We have lots of jokes that we tell about small penises. It's totally socially appropriate for someone to make a comment about small penises,' says Dr. Alicia Walker, a sociologist at Missouri State University, who this summer made international headlines when she launched a study about how penis size affects men
Is there a correlation between the size of a man's penis and his level of self-esteem? And how does this consequently affect his behaviour? Will he be less likely to approach partners? Use condoms? How does this affect how he perceives his own attractiveness? 'A link has already been established between lower self-esteem and men who perceive themselves to be small. Is it possible that our social worship of size has created the circumstances that link higher self-esteem or confidence, with being more well-endowed?'
Dr. Walker completed 30 phone interviews over the space of a week-and-a-half and collected a wide range of survey data. 'In terms of preliminary findings, I did find that men who believe themselves to be small do struggle with things like condom use, approaching new potential partners, men who are avoiding physicals, for example, because they don't want anyone to see them naked other than their partner. Some men were convinced that no-one was ever going to love them as a result,' she explains.
However, after conducting her preliminary research she was forced to close her study and destroy all the data she had collected. The media attention it had received had provoked a number of men to get in touch with Dr. Walker to complain about what she was doing. Her objective had been misunderstood; many thought she was trying to perpetuate the belief that the size of your dick determines your character, rather than expose the damage caused by society's attitudes surrounding size.
Penis size worship is everywhere: underwear adverts; penis enlargement adverts; porn. Such unrealistic body standards create the well-observed notion that penises must fulfill certain criteria. Penis diversity is virtually non-existent. 'Unfortunately, porn is so prolific, that people internalise what they're seeing as that being the average,' says Dr. Walker. 'A lot of these men, in terms of what the actual averages are, are not small at all, but they believe themselves to be small, and that's what matters: how do they see themselves?'
Representations of sex in the mainstream media place much importance on penetration being the key to satisfaction. Women who reach orgasm solely from penetration are, in fact, in the minority, yet this is constantly fed to us as the 'right way' to have sex. 'I don't think any kind of sex, be it anal, vaginal, oral, straight, queer, lesbian, has to be focused on a phallus. There's so much else you can do,' my male colleague tells me.
Pornography is a huge platform supplying the notion that big equals better. The male porn star is almost always well-endowed. The lack of diversity in mainstream porn has been widely criticised for its problematic representation of sex, the objectification of women, and only casting women who fit a certain 'type'. And while there is an ever-growing feminist porn movement which sets out to champion diversity, do we still have a lot further to go before there is equal penis representation?
Sylvan, a porn performer and director who has drifted between working in the mainstream and alternative porn industry, says there is a social perception that to work in porn you have to have a big dick. But, contrary to popular opinion, 'it will open doors for you but it's not the main thing'. He adds: 'There are people who don't have huge dicks who work very well in porn... in alternative porn, it's not only women giving pleasure to men, and it's not focused only on penetration, so it's not that important. It takes pressure off you. If you have problem there, they will change the position of the camera.'
Size worship and shaming also permeates language; we even refer to someone's bravery by referencing the size of their balls. A man who buys an expensive car will become the butt of jokes about him making up for 'something else'. In 2018, the internet is all over Big Dick Energy (BDE), and while the term isn't directly referring to the size of someone's dick, the name itself can still be seen as problematic. Dr. Walker argues that the concept of BDE, although an effort to try and dispel toxic masculinity, still feeds into this idea that male genitalia foreshadows social position and self-worth.
Visibility of all body types is no doubt essential to changing the way we think not just about size, but all of our differences. Whether they be physical or straddle social and cultural lines, differences should be normalised and, most importantly, accepted. Dr. Walker's study could have opened up an important conversation about male body-shaming but it was cut short. 'For every person who was upset and sent hate mail, there were 30-50 positive responses saying, "What you're doing is really important, people don't talk about this enough". So many men said, "I don't have anyone I can talk to about this, I can't talk to my friends about this because they're just going to make fun of me".'
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