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Partially because people like Nossel and the media are completely uninterested in the topic, even when the workplace in question is a university: If Nossel wrote an oped in the New York Times when Columbia prohibited its workers from speaking Spanish, I must have missed it.
But more important, there’s no explosion because abridgments of speech at work are so lethally effective.
Workers are silenced, that is the end of the story.
We never hear about it.
At one point in her op-ed, Nossel does give a nod to the status of speech in the workplace.
Here’s what she says: Who would trade their [universities’ and colleges’] free-range spirit for the dreary sameness of a corporate office, with its federally sanctioned posters on what constitutes unlawful discrimination?
That’s where Nossel sees the threat to freedom of speech at work: in the “dreary sameness” roused by government efforts to inform workers of their rights against discrimination.
There’s a suspicion on the left that freedom of speech is little more than a rationalization for racism or indifference to racism.
I try to fight that suspicion all the time.
But when the head of PEN America writes sentences like these, it makes that job infinitely harder.
Whatever one thinks about the current controversy over free speech at Yale and the University of Missouri, if the head of PEN America is going to leverage her pen on behalf of freedom of speech on the pages of the New York Times, she would well do to consider where the real threats to such speech lie.
Poland will sign ACTA despite massive protests, Global Voices Online reports, citing Polish Minister of Administration and Digitisation Michal Boni.
Unfortunately, it appears that the Polish minister does not shy away from telling his citizens blatant lies, in order to get the controversial ACTA agreement signed.
According to Global Voices, Mr. Boni said in a radio interview in Polish that it was ”impossible not to sign the agreement, because it was too late: Poland joined the negotiation process in 2008 and all the other European countries have already signed it”.
If Mr. Boni did in fact say this (I don’t speak Polish, so I cannot verify independently), it is an outright lie.
Not a single one of the 27 EU Member States has signed the agreement yet.
Poland is the first country scheduled to do so, tomorrow on January 26.
The European Council of Ministers has taken a decision that it wants the EU to sign the agreement, but that is a completely different thing.
ACTA is a so called ”mixed agreement”, that has to be signed by both the EU and each of the member states.
On the national level, no member state has taken the formal decision to sign the agreement yet.
Global Voices further reports that Mr. Boni said that Poland ”should attach a clause to the treaty that would show how we interpret these articles”.
If it is true that he said this, it is also a direct lie.
There is no way of attaching any further clauses to the ACTA agreement.
The negotiations have been concluded, and the only thing left for the EU and the individual member states to do now is to say either ”yes” or ”no”.
Being a minister in the Polish government, Mr. Boni would of course know this.
It is apparent that the game of telling EU citizens whatever lies may be necessary to get the ACTA agreement signed has begun.
Poland is only the first of 27 EU member states.
Do not get surprised if the story repeats itself in your own country in the coming months.
ST. LOUIS — Peter Chiarelli knew this was going to happen.
The Team North America co-general manager said as much back in February.
“It’s a cross between pro scouting and amateur scouting,” he said of trying to pick the Under-24 team for this fall’s World Cup of Hockey.
“These players change way more than 25- or 26-year-olds.
An older player can have a lull in his game, but you know what you’re going to get.
These guys, their swings are huge.” Case in point: Chiarelli politely dismissed Auston Matthews’ chances of making this team back in March.
“He’s got an uphill road,” he said then.
Now, how can they not include Matthews, who looked very much at home playing for Team USA at the world championships?
Meanwhile, Jonathan Drouin was on his self-imposed holdout from the Tampa Bay Lightning back when they named the first 16 players for Team North America.
Today he has 12 playoff points, the second-most of any player eligible for the U-24 team.
The U-24 player who has the most points?
Robby Fabbri, another player who was barely on Chiarelli and Bowman’s radar three months ago.
General managers will flesh out their World Cup rosters on Friday, May 27 adding seven players apiece.
Watch it live on Sportsnet at 6 p.m.
ET and world-wide at sportsnet.ca here.
Here’s our projected Team North America roster, by position: GOAL Already named: Matt Murray (PIT), Connor Hellebuyck (WPG), John Gibson (ANA).
The three goalies were all named in March, but Murray’s playoff performance has changed everything.
Remember, when the format was first devised, Chiarelli and Bowman petitioned organizers for some relief in goal, because they were afraid they wouldn’t have a U-24 goalie that could allow their team to compete.
Now?
They’ve got to be feeling mighty good about Murray, who was barely up from the AHL when he was named to the squad in March.
DEFENCE Already named: Morgan Rielly (TOR), Aaron Ekblad (FLA), Ryan Murray (CBJ), Seth Jones (CBJ).
Rielly and Murray are lefties, while Ekblad and Jones are right-handed shots.
Lefty Shayne Gostisbehere became a force for Philadelphia this season, while righty Colton Parayko (St. Louis) will make a perfect partner for him, with his ability to stay at home and defend, as well as unleash a cannon of a one-timer when asked to.
They’ll both be added this week.
“At the beginning of the season my only goal was to make this team (the Blues), then let things unfold,” said Parayko.
“It would be extremely exciting.
They’re world-class players.
It’s going to be a cool tournament.” We’ll make Winnipeg’s Jacob Trouba the final pick, an all-around defenceman who can adopt whichever role he is asked to play.
Honourable mentions to Noah Hanifin (Carolina) and Cody Ceci (Ottawa), who were both in the conversation.
FORWARDS Already named: Dylan Larkin (DET), Connor McDavid (EDM), Nathan MacKinnon (COL), Johnny Gaudreau (CGY), Sean Monahan (CGY), Jack Eichel (BUF), Brandon Saad (CBJ), Sean Couturier (PHI), J.T.
Miller (NYR).
The problem at forward with Team North America is the glut of lefties.
This team will likely have only three right-handed shots up front in MacKinnon, Eichel and Winnipeg’s Mark Scheifele, all centres who will be pushed to the wing for this tournament.
Saad will also see duty on the right side, a spot he is accustomed to.
If McDavid is the No.
1 centre, Monahan the No.
2 and Couturier the No.
4, that leaves a third-line centre spot.
We’ll fill that spot with Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, who gets the nod here as the only player other than Couturier with 300 NHL games under his belt.
Experience is precious here, especially considering McDavid has played just 45 games in the NHL, and Matthews has yet to play his first.
Drouin has played himself onto this team and will play the left side (unless the coaching staff feels he can handle playing on his wrong wing), and Scheifele’s strong world championships puts him on this roster as well.
That leaves one final spot for a utility forward, and although Fabbri has likely earned it, we’ll give it to Auston Matthews.
If this team is going to be about young guns and the NHL’s stars of the future, then it would pretty tough to show up at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto having excluded the player we expect the Maple Leafs to draft No.
1 overall in June.
TEAM NORTH AMERICA LINEUP * Denotes late addition Line 1: Dylan Larkin Connor McDavid Nathan MacKinnon Line 2: Johnny Gaudreau Sean Monahan Jack Eichel Line 3: Jonathan Drouin Ryan Nugent-Hopkins Brandon Saad Line 4: J.T.
Miller Sean Couturier *Mark Scheifele Extra: Auston Matthews (?)
1st Pair: Morgan Rielly Aaron Ekblad 2nd Pair: Ryan Murray Seth Jones 3rd Pair: Shayne Gostisbehere Colton Parayko Extra: Jacob Trouba Starter: Matt Murray Backup: John Gibson Reserve: Connor Hellebuyck
On a third-down in 11-on-11 scrimmage, he zoomed past starting left tackle Jake Matthews and sacked quarterback Matt Ryan.
Well, he tagged him down, since they don’t tackle to the ground anymore in NFL practices.
But that’s a practice sack and the Falcons are hoping their first-round pick, who has recovered from offseason shoulder surgery, has plenty of real sacks in his 6-foot, 2-inch and 250-pound frame.
“It feels great,” McKinley said after the morning practice.
“I’m back to football, back to what I love doing.” McKinley was selected 26th overall in the 2017 draft.
He had surgery to repair a torn labrum and glenoid socket in his right shoulder on March 6.
He was cleared before training camp, but Falcons coach Dan Quinn wanted to ease him back into practice by letting McKinley participate in individual drills.
“It was our first chance getting some reps for Takk Mckinley,” Quinn said.
“He was on the plan that (Adrian) Clayborn did last week.
He did the individual and then some team.
He worked some team today.” McKinley won over the fans with a passionate speech on draft night about how he wanted to honor his grand mother who helped to raise him.
He was so emotional that he let loose with a few expletives.
McKinley was much more composed after his first practice, i in which he was able to showcase his skills in team and one-on-one drills.
“Just being back on the field,” Quinn said.
“For him, it was good to be back with the guys, his teammates and getting in the huddle and playing.
He hasn’t done that for awhile.” After practice, McKinley had a long session with defensive line coach Bryant Young.
“We are just getting started with him,” Quinn said.
“We are anxious to put the work in over the next month.” While out and not allowed to attend OTAs or minicamp because of the NFL academic rules for schools on the quarter system, McKinley picked up the defensive scheme during his Facetime sessions with Young.
“Between him and Bryant Young, they did a good job together,” Quinn said.
“They had to put the work in.
That was his way to show I’m committed and I’m in….. although there was some frustration about (not) playing , (he) could still do (his) part from a scheme standpoint…I have to commend him for putting in the work over the summer to get ready.” McKinley admitted that he had some butterflies in his stomach.
“I was nervous,” McKinley said.
“It was my first time in pads since November.
To be able to go out there and play football again, felt real good.” It wasn’t a perfect first practice.
“The biggest thing is to play fast,” McKinley said.

Partially because people like Nossel and the media are completely uninterested in the topic, even when the workplace in question is a university: If Nossel wrote an oped in the New York Times when Columbia prohibited its workers from speaking Spanish, I must have missed it.

But more important, there’s no explosion because abridgments of speech at work are so lethally effective.

Workers are silenced, that is the end of the story.

We never hear about it.

At one point in her op-ed, Nossel does give a nod to the status of speech in the workplace.

Here’s what she says: Who would trade their [universities’ and colleges’] free-range spirit for the dreary sameness of a corporate office, with its federally sanctioned posters on what constitutes unlawful discrimination?

That’s where Nossel sees the threat to freedom of speech at work: in the “dreary sameness” roused by government efforts to inform workers of their rights against discrimination.

There’s a suspicion on the left that freedom of speech is little more than a rationalization for racism or indifference to racism.

I try to fight that suspicion all the time.

But when the head of PEN America writes sentences like these, it makes that job infinitely harder.

Whatever one thinks about the current controversy over free speech at Yale and the University of Missouri, if the head of PEN America is going to leverage her pen on behalf of freedom of speech on the pages of the New York Times, she would well do to consider where the real threats to such speech lie.

Poland will sign ACTA despite massive protests, Global Voices Online reports, citing Polish Minister of Administration and Digitisation Michal Boni.

Unfortunately, it appears that the Polish minister does not shy away from telling his citizens blatant lies, in order to get the controversial ACTA agreement signed.

According to Global Voices, Mr. Boni said in a radio interview in Polish that it was ”impossible not to sign the agreement, because it was too late: Poland joined the negotiation process in 2008 and all the other European countries have already signed it”.

If Mr. Boni did in fact say this (I don’t speak Polish, so I cannot verify independently), it is an outright lie.

Not a single one of the 27 EU Member States has signed the agreement yet.

Poland is the first country scheduled to do so, tomorrow on January 26.

The European Council of Ministers has taken a decision that it wants the EU to sign the agreement, but that is a completely different thing.

ACTA is a so called ”mixed agreement”, that has to be signed by both the EU and each of the member states.

On the national level, no member state has taken the formal decision to sign the agreement yet.

Global Voices further reports that Mr. Boni said that Poland ”should attach a clause to the treaty that would show how we interpret these articles”.

If it is true that he said this, it is also a direct lie.

There is no way of attaching any further clauses to the ACTA agreement.

The negotiations have been concluded, and the only thing left for the EU and the individual member states to do now is to say either ”yes” or ”no”.

Being a minister in the Polish government, Mr. Boni would of course know this.

It is apparent that the game of telling EU citizens whatever lies may be necessary to get the ACTA agreement signed has begun.

Poland is only the first of 27 EU member states.

Do not get surprised if the story repeats itself in your own country in the coming months.

ST. LOUIS — Peter Chiarelli knew this was going to happen.

The Team North America co-general manager said as much back in February.

“It’s a cross between pro scouting and amateur scouting,” he said of trying to pick the Under-24 team for this fall’s World Cup of Hockey.

“These players change way more than 25- or 26-year-olds.

An older player can have a lull in his game, but you know what you’re going to get.

These guys, their swings are huge.” Case in point: Chiarelli politely dismissed Auston Matthews’ chances of making this team back in March.

“He’s got an uphill road,” he said then.

Now, how can they not include Matthews, who looked very much at home playing for Team USA at the world championships?

Meanwhile, Jonathan Drouin was on his self-imposed holdout from the Tampa Bay Lightning back when they named the first 16 players for Team North America.

Today he has 12 playoff points, the second-most of any player eligible for the U-24 team.

The U-24 player who has the most points?

Robby Fabbri, another player who was barely on Chiarelli and Bowman’s radar three months ago.

General managers will flesh out their World Cup rosters on Friday, May 27 adding seven players apiece.

Watch it live on Sportsnet at 6 p.m.

ET and world-wide at sportsnet.ca here.

Here’s our projected Team North America roster, by position: GOAL Already named: Matt Murray (PIT), Connor Hellebuyck (WPG), John Gibson (ANA).

The three goalies were all named in March, but Murray’s playoff performance has changed everything.

Remember, when the format was first devised, Chiarelli and Bowman petitioned organizers for some relief in goal, because they were afraid they wouldn’t have a U-24 goalie that could allow their team to compete.

Now?

They’ve got to be feeling mighty good about Murray, who was barely up from the AHL when he was named to the squad in March.

DEFENCE Already named: Morgan Rielly (TOR), Aaron Ekblad (FLA), Ryan Murray (CBJ), Seth Jones (CBJ).

Rielly and Murray are lefties, while Ekblad and Jones are right-handed shots.

Lefty Shayne Gostisbehere became a force for Philadelphia this season, while righty Colton Parayko (St. Louis) will make a perfect partner for him, with his ability to stay at home and defend, as well as unleash a cannon of a one-timer when asked to.

They’ll both be added this week.

“At the beginning of the season my only goal was to make this team (the Blues), then let things unfold,” said Parayko.

“It would be extremely exciting.

They’re world-class players.

It’s going to be a cool tournament.” We’ll make Winnipeg’s Jacob Trouba the final pick, an all-around defenceman who can adopt whichever role he is asked to play.

Honourable mentions to Noah Hanifin (Carolina) and Cody Ceci (Ottawa), who were both in the conversation.

FORWARDS Already named: Dylan Larkin (DET), Connor McDavid (EDM), Nathan MacKinnon (COL), Johnny Gaudreau (CGY), Sean Monahan (CGY), Jack Eichel (BUF), Brandon Saad (CBJ), Sean Couturier (PHI), J.T.

Miller (NYR).

The problem at forward with Team North America is the glut of lefties.

This team will likely have only three right-handed shots up front in MacKinnon, Eichel and Winnipeg’s Mark Scheifele, all centres who will be pushed to the wing for this tournament.

Saad will also see duty on the right side, a spot he is accustomed to.

If McDavid is the No.

1 centre, Monahan the No.

2 and Couturier the No.

4, that leaves a third-line centre spot.

We’ll fill that spot with Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, who gets the nod here as the only player other than Couturier with 300 NHL games under his belt.

Experience is precious here, especially considering McDavid has played just 45 games in the NHL, and Matthews has yet to play his first.

Drouin has played himself onto this team and will play the left side (unless the coaching staff feels he can handle playing on his wrong wing), and Scheifele’s strong world championships puts him on this roster as well.

That leaves one final spot for a utility forward, and although Fabbri has likely earned it, we’ll give it to Auston Matthews.

If this team is going to be about young guns and the NHL’s stars of the future, then it would pretty tough to show up at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto having excluded the player we expect the Maple Leafs to draft No.

1 overall in June.

TEAM NORTH AMERICA LINEUP * Denotes late addition Line 1: Dylan Larkin Connor McDavid Nathan MacKinnon Line 2: Johnny Gaudreau Sean Monahan Jack Eichel Line 3: *Jonathan Drouin *Ryan Nugent-Hopkins Brandon Saad Line 4: J.T.

Miller Sean Couturier *Mark Scheifele Extra: Auston Matthews (?)

1st Pair: Morgan Rielly Aaron Ekblad 2nd Pair: Ryan Murray Seth Jones 3rd Pair: *Shayne Gostisbehere *Colton Parayko Extra: Jacob Trouba Starter: Matt Murray Backup: John Gibson Reserve: Connor Hellebuyck

On a third-down in 11-on-11 scrimmage, he zoomed past starting left tackle Jake Matthews and sacked quarterback Matt Ryan.

Well, he tagged him down, since they don’t tackle to the ground anymore in NFL practices.

But that’s a practice sack and the Falcons are hoping their first-round pick, who has recovered from offseason shoulder surgery, has plenty of real sacks in his 6-foot, 2-inch and 250-pound frame.

“It feels great,” McKinley said after the morning practice.

“I’m back to football, back to what I love doing.” McKinley was selected 26th overall in the 2017 draft.

He had surgery to repair a torn labrum and glenoid socket in his right shoulder on March 6.

He was cleared before training camp, but Falcons coach Dan Quinn wanted to ease him back into practice by letting McKinley participate in individual drills.

“It was our first chance getting some reps for Takk Mckinley,” Quinn said.

“He was on the plan that (Adrian) Clayborn did last week.

He did the individual and then some team.

He worked some team today.” McKinley won over the fans with a passionate speech on draft night about how he wanted to honor his grand mother who helped to raise him.

He was so emotional that he let loose with a few expletives.

McKinley was much more composed after his first practice, i in which he was able to showcase his skills in team and one-on-one drills.

“Just being back on the field,” Quinn said.

“For him, it was good to be back with the guys, his teammates and getting in the huddle and playing.

He hasn’t done that for awhile.” After practice, McKinley had a long session with defensive line coach Bryant Young.

“We are just getting started with him,” Quinn said.

“We are anxious to put the work in over the next month.” While out and not allowed to attend OTAs or minicamp because of the NFL academic rules for schools on the quarter system, McKinley picked up the defensive scheme during his Facetime sessions with Young.

“Between him and Bryant Young, they did a good job together,” Quinn said.

“They had to put the work in.

That was his way to show I’m committed and I’m in….. although there was some frustration about (not) playing , (he) could still do (his) part from a scheme standpoint…I have to commend him for putting in the work over the summer to get ready.” McKinley admitted that he had some butterflies in his stomach.

“I was nervous,” McKinley said.

“It was my first time in pads since November.

To be able to go out there and play football again, felt real good.” It wasn’t a perfect first practice.

“The biggest thing is to play fast,” McKinley said.