Hello, I am Aruna Adil, leading the NMI city software team and we will be doing this project analytics for group learning environment, we call it ANGLE. The idea is given by Avinash sir, we are three people in our team, Abhinaya, Deepesh and myself. Abhinaya and Deepesh are experts in software development and we require eight interns for this project. So the plan of the presentation is first I will talk about background, then the objective and then the brief description of the project. So these days technologies which facilitates virtual group formation and collaboration is becoming extremely popular like Facebook, Potsap, Skype, Hangouts and using these people can communicate with each other from any physical location, they do not have to be in one location. And also there are so many learning management tools like Moodle, edX, Coursera and lots of study materials are also available online. So with these tools what we want to do is we want to use all these group interaction and collaboration technology to enhance the learning. So we want to formalize the virtual groups into unified learning environment so that all group members benefit from increased knowledge sharing. The setup will be this one example. So here will be a teacher and the students are different locations. So the teacher can use the LMS to put his notes, he can take quiz and assignments he can upload and then there are students they can have a communication with teacher using chat, group discussion forum, video conferencing. So the examples can be like it can be used in the class to form different groups, speaking different languages, speaking learners group to guide them in the learning like suppose some students who do not understand the particular language then separate group can be formed and the TAs can be assigned and they can explain them in that language. It can be used by private tutors to form a virtual tutoring group and use collaborative resources to guide his or her student. The learners themselves can form their own specialized learning group to support people interested in a particular topic. But putting all these tools in one place is not enough so we can generate the analytics so all these tools we are using so that the teacher can understand better that what he is teaching whether the students are able to understand or not. We will maintain the records of participation and the performance using collaborative tools and the teachers will be having the access to these collaboration tools and the analytics. The interns what they will learn is they will have that experience on integration with various existing tools, software life cycle, Java design patterns, programming languages like Java, JSP, struts, JDBC, scripting language, JavaScript, Ajax, JSON, jQuery, bootstrap framework, HTML5, CSS3, database MySQL, end-to-end software testing at the end teamwork also. So the proposed modules what we want to develop is we want to have a platform with the following features to facilitate the complete learning and teaching experience so we will have a communication LMS tools, then group creation and then monitoring. So communication LMS tools so we will use different tools which are already developed and open source for the group, individual chat, video conference, discussion forum, emails to support the various types of communications and we will use LMS tools first we will try with Moodle and if the time permit then we will integrate with EDX for delivery of learning resources and materials and these all will be open source. Group creation we will be creating groups in which the teacher will be able to form different groups and subgroups of the students, schedule different activities, assignments, quizzes for different groups and subgroups, send, get notifications for different activities and the students or learners can participate in different activities for the course, get notification for different activities, view reports, grades and assessments and you can give feedback for the teacher and monitoring. So this is the main part we will be putting a lot of time in that this is the like we will be developing full analytics for the mentor or teacher we will have that full details of the participation in group discussion forum, chats, video conference and then we will give detailed analysis of that and then the students performance also. Retail analytics for all the tools we will be creating and this will be available only to mentors and the students can see analysis of their performance only. So sample matrix for discussion forum for quizzes and assignment this can be changed and video group chat hope you have understood a little bit of this project thank you.


So welcome everybody to my talk on new spell version 3 Also talked about new spell last year and this should give me give an update and also gonna have some space for your input because we're here at a meeting with all experts and Let's see how this works So these are the things I like to talk about give a introduction on new spell how it works the technologies We use the dependencies on spell checking in general in operating system What's upcoming so in short new spell is a spell checker. It's a Free open software. It consists of a library and a command line tool and it's written in the C++ 17 our team consists of Dimitri from Macedonia and myself from the Netherlands and Gonna go quite rapid through this Spell checking is not trivially trivial Some people think I just a long list of words you check if the words in the list and then you know if it's spelled correctly or not Usually for some languages those lists would be endless. So all sides sorts of mechanisms have been devised in order to do spell checking to support conjugations complex morphologies compounds and so on Please have a seat So for more on the history of spell checking you can check some talks I gave in at Fosdam earlier The specific goals of new spell are to be a drop-in replacement for browser's office suits and All kind of application that you spell checking It supports the my spell and unspell library dictionary format The big differences with the other Existing spell checkers is it's much faster Maintainable as has less dependencies. It's more portable. We as you can see later on put it on compiled on many different platforms and Also opens the door for more optimizations and functionality in spell checking in the future where other spell checkers have sort of Walked into a dead end at the moment It supports many character encodings complex worded compounding affixing rich morphology Etc. Etc. Also discussed last time and Like before we had now another grant from Mozilla for which we were very thankful. Otherwise We couldn't have had the resources to develop this Spell checking library to where it came now we had two projects and We're in the sort of two-third of the the second project. We had a version three out recently and Since last Friday yesterday. We have packages for Debian and Ubuntu So now it really starts to count and it's usable because people don't have to Compile it on the system because install the package has started using it We did a lot of testing compared to home spell The differences are negligible negligible and the speed at the moment It's three times faster, but it highly depends on which language you're using and Soon on our website will be a complete overview updated overview of those speed-ups and performances So a little dive into Spell checking won't spend too much time on that unless you have specific questions on that This is sort of what it entails and to give some examples that You find along the way which you don't think about normally is that certain languages? For example something simple like going to uppercase or lowercase is not trivial at all So you can see for example for Greek that you can go uppercase that way, but if you go back From capital to this one. Well, you know, it can be only one But it depends where it's in the word Another example is the capital I with a dot above for Turkish or The ligature I J Dutch or sharp as German These are things if you would go back and forth going uppercase and lowercase, which you do a lot by the way in Spell checking you might end up in a in a other words You don't assume you're ending up at so with previous spell checkers, it was usually implemented with specific exceptions and disinformation is Contained in the Unicode library the ICU library. So we use that instead of all specific kind of exceptions for supporting all different kind of languages and Leap I few library is pretty big has pretty wide support on these specifics and It saves a lot. It makes a The spell checker are much more efficient. We don't have to make all these separate exceptions inside. We just rely on this So the actual dependencies the library has is lip ICU and lip boost and nothing else. So it's pretty independent so after spell checking you won't have suggestions and suggestions are generated in many many different ways the ones with a star are added new in the version three the other ones we already had and Some people ask it. How do these suggestions get generated? Well, you can see There are all these different kind of ways of finding suggestions. They all got Stacked in a pile and returned to the user like these are suggestions with which you can fix your error Was not yet in there though you can force it for certain languages to push a suggestion all the way to the top to have that as a first Suggestion because you know, that's probably what the user wants but in the future we can Generate all the suggestions and sort them for example by word frequency and Probably all of you had one time suggestions from the spell checker. And then you think what is that? so we try to Make the world a little bit more boring by putting the most likely spelling suggestions at the top If you want to use this library, it's very straightforward The API is compatible with how unspelled as that These are some helper methods to see what kind of dick tricks dictionaries you got installed on your system you can get the pass of the specific dictionaries you can load one and Then you're all set to do some spell checking which is even more boring very easy to just pass the word in you get a boolean out and If you have a vector of strengths, you can have it filled with suggestions So if you're afraid of Implementing spell checking in your software don't be just have it go with you can see it's it's not rocket science The rocket science is inside the library itself so as I said, it's pretty Widely ported because we have not that many dependencies and the dependencies are on very standard libraries Which are available for most? platforms so at the moment We have these compilers which it all works for and that is sort of like maybe 99% of the world's Computers that can work with that Very shortly. These are the tools we use not very Important on if you want to use our library unless you want to become part of the team, which you're welcome So the things we changed in the version 3 was we upgraded to C++ 17 We use CMake to build the library and the command line tool The API is easier as you saw before how to set up spell checking You don't have to tell which character encoding or locale you're using it defaults to utf-8 The compounding and suggestions have been improved. It's now three times as fast compared to unspelled we made an enchanted integration Debbie and a bundle packages and the Firefox integration is coming up But these things look all really nice But we have to be maybe realistic and maybe you can help with this is that if you have Debbie in packages How long you think you're away from getting included in a distribution release? years If you have a Firefox build, how long you think it will take before it's out there? months Yeah, and chant integration. It's already a package in Ubuntu. So it just needs to be updated So that's like maybe only one release further down the road But if you happen to be in a position where you can speed things up and Debbie in the boom to packaging Please help us out then some stuff which is new and I Really like to have your input on is I I made a short overview of packages which depend on spell checking So you might know spell checking started with spell then with I spell then we had a spell My spell hun spell new spell We have also some specific spell checkers for Hebrew Turkish and Finnish, but I left that a little bit out of scope in this thing so How many of you work on software packages like? Packed stuff or developed software which is packaged in Ubuntu fedora redhead Debian doesn't matter Okay So how many packages you think are depending on spell checking libraries? long list so I With these criteria sort of made an overview So on G spell you have these things depending where they where they get their spell checking and Jeep spell itself might get it in another place So this is like fairly reasonable overview Enchant is a well-known spell check Abstraction you can get spell checking it will see if you got a spell or hun spell or whatever install do the spell checking there and get it back But you see also other spell checking Modules or libraries are using enchant so and get This sort of like to focus on like these are all spell checking software packages and these are all actual end users directly of enchant Yeah, so it's a concatenation of spell checking abstractions wrappers So we got ice spell which is a fairly old one and you would be amazed how many packages are depending on ice spell like IPv6 toolkit why not then we got the python 3 support for enchant which Caterers too much more packages than enchant caters itself I'll just go through it and then we'll have a small discussion on this So hun spell is at the moment the the best stable released spell checker And as you can see enchant uses it chromium. This is a Hebrew spell checker ice spell depends on it I don't know why Screamers Thunderbird So we saw GTK spell It took me half an hour to make up Was one less beer for me yesterday And you can see see really old spell checker Packages using this stuff and it's you find everything in here So it's like almost pulling out my hair is like So it gets worse. We also have a spell okay So, oh That's an empty. Yeah, here it is So for example XML copy editor. Anybody knows this application You can use expats. You can go to XML create XML so on it also supports spell checking with a spell. There is a Change to use hun spell Try hunting it for three or four years to get that into the final release and they say I should be there. It's still not there so This is not only a story on the new spell Release and integration and usage into spell check into software packages But actually for a lot of stuff and it makes me that I made these kind of overviews also for fonts That it can be so many packages depending on just one or two other packages Which if you pull them in this sort of pull in the whole Christmas tree of dependencies and You're stuck with it for years and years and years So on one side, I'm curious like what kind of suggestions you have for of course the new spell spell checking library What's gonna make your writings much faster better? how we can improve that but also Maybe a short discussion or questions in general on how to deal with this Jungle of dependencies That's my reaction to when I see this Anybody try to get packages released and run into this problem as well. Yes there, please Age and still so is it you need it? Okay, yeah, so the reply was that you can better do it your own roll it your own way then Wait for So So the suggestion was to become friends with Debian package mails So I spent the last two days in the Debian mini camp here at Potsdam And I handed out lots of stickers and so on maybe I maybe I should have bought more beers, but the The people were very helpful to get me to get the packages properly So we have a boon to a Debian packages They built they installed they run and it's everything is super to the detail in the last latest versions I'm very happy with their support. So then I milled some of them So can you get that in unstable because I'm giving a talk about it? No But okay, I understand that there has to be checks and reviews and so on and let's take time And that's just the way it is. I respect that Because it also ensures that there's quality software in the releases No, it's not it should go because it's a new package it should go to new and then it should go to unstable and So get getting it into releases it will it will land there finally That's not so much my problem my problem or my worry my worry is more that If you work with software, please Use the latest version of whatever libraries you're using and try to to Relax some of the dependencies because this is so much so much Anyways Yeah, I had to upload the slides and then you have to type in how many pages as well So at the moment we support the Ubuntu 1910 and Debian 10 there is a build for free BSD We like to build from these other platforms if you have interest, please contact us and We help you try to help us or the other way around At the moment is C++ and see bindings via the the API But we like to have language bindings for Python Java and so on so Ruby whatever Some people told me that there are excellent Ways of generating language bindings. I like to into that and they have like many different ways of doing it and You can also hint us like try this one to generate it We will do the work just point us in the right direction, please So That's sort of in short what new spell does what we were up to last year and The shock and awe of the dependencies Three we came across. Yes No, C and C++. Yeah, and if you run into a problem just The question was do I use do we offer plain C bindings or C++ binding we offer both C++ and C and If you're running through a problem Trying to link or use or library. Let us know why an issue Thanks for your attention here in this also afternoon unless there are more questions So there are nine the question was what language do we support and what's the process of adding new languages? The languages we support are the ones which are also supported by hun spell So these are already existing. We just use these I'm myself involved in updating the Dutch language support you can Read the documentation and start building language port for excuse me a language which hasn't isn't existing yet If you have questions also contact us As an exercise I I don't understand it why I implemented a Klingon spellchecker Just to see you how that would go about starting from zero and Klingon for those who don't know you can write it in Latin characters, but also in Klingon unicode characters So it was a good test to do spell checking on completely weird unicode characters, which are way down and it still works so These 90 languages sort of reach about 200 countries or regions around the world Because like many languages are spoken in more countries You have any specific language in mind maybe Like L fish Also, like how much time it would need so if you now come up Yeah It depends how much information you have on that language so for that Klingon I had a I found a database in which Conjugations were also available and that helped making the affix file but start with the word lists and then see if you can Add language rules in order to shorten the word links or extend the coverage of compounds and so on Yeah So the question is how does the integration go with firefox and liver office That's just an API as I showed it's it's a shared library or you can link it statically It's just a few calls You make and it's the same calls you make with hun spell So if you're going to migrate it's meant as a drop-in replacement So you don't have to rebuild restructure your program in order to use it. The second question is how to Enrich the dictionaries with word lists. That's a good question all spell checkers support personal dictionaries for maybe your your name or The street you live in virtually is a lot which may not be in the dictionary for your country, but That's our actually how I got involved. I'm moved from one Installation to another installation and I was moving along my personal dictionary all the time and it grew and it grew That's like, yeah, but these words should be in the dictionary So just and you have to look up who is responsible for that contact that person and Just send the list of words like please include these for English. It's a website called skull Maybe you're familiar with on our Wiki in GitHub. There's a whole list of all the languages which are supported including the contact information So you can go there you can send an email or go to the website They have their rules in order to include a word or not and otherwise you have to keep it in your personal dictionary And as you saw the whole dependency Challenge is also another challenge with personal dictionaries because you have a personal dictionary for all languages You use in Firefox in LibreOffice in Aspel in Enchant in Hunspell So have a look around on your system How many personal dictionaries you have and how much they differ and they also use different formats so See if you can contribute words to those upstream dictionaries and make them smaller Lastly I also want to thank my colleague who couldn't be here Dimitri. Yeah, there's a lot of the the art in complex world word work excuse me and the Dutch formulation open Tal who sponsored the stickers which are available here at our false damn stand So if you didn't have any stickers yet come by our stand tomorrow And get some stickers Thanks for your attention


This video is a recap of our in-depth review on our website. Click the link in the upper right corner to see Microsoft Surface 5's current price, some comparisons and more cool stuff. Or if you're short on time, just stick around here. There's a MacBook 13 that runs Windows. Well, not exactly, but we've got something pretty close. The Surface Laptop 5 has a 13.5 inch model, which is very portable and comes with what Microsoft hopes to be enough uniqueness to stand out against the ruthless competition. The Surface Laptop is definitely well built, utilizing metal for its entire construction. You do get to have some say in the appearance, as there are four color variants, along with an option for an Alcantara base, which feels very much like suede. Here we've got the Platinum model, however, you do have Sage, Black, and Sandstone. Despite the thin profile of the machine, at 14.5 millimeters, we'd say that durability is good, overall. Weight isn't a problem too at 1.28 kilograms and the device isn't a burden to carry around at all. Its lid opens easily with one hand, showing off the Alcantara base, the keyboard, and the touchpad. The material feels good and doesn't get plastered with fingerprints, which is great. The keyboard could have done with some more key travel, however, it's still plenty clicky, which is a total savior. The touchpad is smooth and snappy as well. Going to the sides, we don't have the widest input output coverage, however, you have to subdue your expectations with a smaller machine. You get one Thunderbolt 4 port, a full-sized 5 gigabit USB port, and an audio jack. Everything is done through the magnetic surface connect port, which minimizes the risk of damage if the device is yanked with force while being quicker to plug in and out. Hiding behind the Gorilla Glass 3 cover and some chunky bezels is a 13.5-inch pixel-sense display with a resolution of 2256x1504 pixels, which comes to an aspect ratio of 3 to 2. The panel gets up to 409 nits of brightness and has a decent contrast ratio of 1290 to 1. It covers 90% of the sRGB gamut, which makes is good enough to be used for design and color-grading. The color accuracy is close to being excellent, but even with our design and gaming profile, we got the Delta E value down to 2.3, close enough to the 2.0 standard. There's also some screen flickering below 104 nits of brightness, however, the pulsations are at a high enough frequency to not be tiring to your eyes. Our healthguard profile eliminates it while keeping the colors accurate. We'll leave links to our profiles in the description below. The Surface Laptop 5 doesn't have room on the base for the speakers, so they're mounted on the bottom. Nevertheless, they do deliver quality audio with high enough volume and no frequency deviations across the range. Only 2 per 100 people watching this video are subscribers. If you decide to just start following us, we'll be able to reinvest more in our laboratory thus making even more helpful videos for you. Thank you, you're awesome! With a higher resolution screen, battery life's always a bit of a concern, as more pixels require more power. The laptop manages to squeeze out 8 hours and 25 minutes of web browsing, or 8 hours and 56 minutes of video playback from its 47.4 Wh unit, which is alright, considering the capacity. The CPU options include the Core i5-1235U and Core i7-1255U, which are pretty well known at this point. Compared to the previous Surface Laptop 4 with Tiger Lake processors, this one is a massive upgrade, with a lot more power, while having similar if not better efficiency. However, having the hardware is one thing, keeping it well running is another, which is where the cooling comes in. With that said, we're pretty impressed with how the laptop is handling the Core i5-1235U, boosting to 3.35 GHz and going as high as 44 Wh in the stress test. The high speeds and wattage last for about a minute, after which the CPU comfortably runs at 2.24 GHz with a TDP of 22 Wh. It's also reflected on the outside, as the base has a hotspot of 46°C, which is a bit on the high side. The RAM is soldered onto the motherboard, so you get only 1 M.2 slot for storage expansion, but accessing it isn't an easy task at all. The Surface Laptop 5 is an exquisite machine with a great design. It's portable enough and has uncharacteristically good performance for its size, which is definitely great. The display and battery life are good too, however, you do sacrifice upgradeability for all of the aforementioned. If that's enough for you, go ahead and order it, but not before going over to our website, where we have the most in-depth review possible, with all kinds of tests and benchmarks. You can check it out down below.


A big issue facing this country is gun violence. According to the Gun Violence Archive, over 28,000 people have died from gun violence since January 1st of 2023. There have been over 400 mass shootings. We definitely have a problem. After the mass shooting by white supremacists in Northwest Jacks this weekend, I've been thinking a lot about how do we unpack that tragedy. Over the next couple weeks, we're going to talk about history, white supremacy and other issues related to it, but today we are focusing on guns. Here to talk you through with me is Eric Friday, a Jacksonville-based trial attorney specializing in family and constitutional law with expertise in areas of firearms law and Second Amendment rights. He's both lead counsel and a registered lobbyist for Florida Carry Incorporated and joins us now in the studio. Eric, how are you? Thanks for having me. Well let's just set a little bit of a baseline here in the conversation. What is it that you believe about guns and the Second Amendment and how it affects society so to speak? Well, number one, we made a decision a long time ago in this country that the right to bear arms is a right that all citizens have. We've not always lived up to that, but I believe that that is the ultimate right that we have. It is the right that protects every other right we have.  We had the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box. And that is as true today as it was when he said that. We started this country over the premise that the British soldiers marched to Lexington and Concord to seize the arms of the colonists, and we said no. And I see no reason to change that position today. All right. We're going to dive into that. And if you want to join the conversation, call 549-2937. You can tweet us at FCC on air. First goes connected, wjct.org, and you can find us on Facebook. So when I hear the Second Amendment and when people talk about the Second Amendment, sometimes I hear it spoken about in almost a religious zeal. People believe that the Second Amendment is the number one right that we have in the United States of America, and therefore everything else kind of falls under it. And I guess the question that I have is if it is the number one right, it feels like in many ways that we are being held hostage to the Second Amendment. If we are having like well over, we're in August, we're getting ready to hit September right now. And like I said, according to the Gun Violence Archive, over 400 mass shootings, that's a pretty big number. Well, there's a saying, figures lie and liars figure. To come up with 400 mass shootings, we have to include things like gang violence, which is a very disparate and definite separate thing from active killer situations. The solutions that we need for active killers like the Dollar General situation versus what we need to address gang violence are two very different things. The same solutions do not work for both, unless maybe your solution is that some people want to. I was about to say that we restrict, heavily restrict firearms. And the problem with that solution is this country is again, premised on we the people having that right, both for self-defense and to maintain a society where our government cannot become out of control. When you say it's a right that the Second Amendment gives that a right, it makes that a right. I'm wondering, let's just run down some other concepts here, right? Like, do you think housing is a right? There's no right to housing, no, sir. I mean, I would refresh. There's nothing in the Constitution that makes housing a right. I mean, I would argue that in the Constitution, it says life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Correct. Everybody has a right to try and obtain housing. Everybody has a right to their industry and to be rewarded for their labor. No, you can't. The concept of rights does not entitle you to take something from someone else. And when you talk about a right to housing or a right to medical care, I think you run into that situation of, well, that compels somebody else's labor to help you. You just said, hold on, repeat that for me because I want to make sure I get this right. You said a right should not impede on somebody else. It should not compel somebody else to act for you. Right. So, because if the idea that a right is that like, because earlier you said, if a right does not basically, doesn't affect somebody else, but if you take my life with your right, you have definitely taken something from me. Having a right to bear arms does not give me a right to take anybody's life unless by their own actions, they forfeit their life. And it is the entire concept of self-defense, which is one of the penultimate rights of human beings to protect their own life from violence by others. How do you feel about automatic, not automatic weapons, but how do you feel about assault rifles? Well, I believe the very term you use, again, is a made-up term by an industry that wants to profit from and engage in a deprivation of civil rights from those who need those civil rights. Okay. So then let's do this, let's take it a different way.  When I'm a store owner and a group of people is coming in to do me violence, I want the fastest-firing, most effective method of self-defense that I can obtain, and I want it in my possession for my use. So I do not believe in bans on any of these types of firearms. In this, our president likes to say that the Second Amendment doesn't guarantee you're right to own a cannon. Actually, it does. The Constitution, well, I'm going to explain that. The Constitution presumes the private ownership of warships, the letter of Mark provision in the Constitution. It presumes that private citizens would own ships capable of taking down other countries' naval vessels or shipping for purposes of aiding the war effort. So it does protect the right to own a cannon. It also protects the right to own better guns than the military does because the colonists themselves typically had better firearms than what was being issued to the general soldiers at the time because the American barrels were already starting to get rifled barrels, whereas the British were still using smoothbore muskets. So going by this logic that was laid out in the Constitution in the Second Amendment, which was very much about protecting democracy from the idea of if a dictator or somebody comes along, you want to have arms to fight against that. When I hear that type of language, all I can think about is January and the fact that we had a lot of people come to the capital and attempt to thwart democracy. And yes, like some of those people had guns, nobody fired, not that I know of, but still, like that's the type of action that that you're talking about when you say like that we have guns to, you know, overthrow if a dictator comes in into question. I mean, some people would call Joe Biden a dictator. I mean, obviously, like, I don't think that that's a fair assessment of him. But I'm just saying that, like, going by that logic, that would say that it's legal and fine for the type of things that we saw in January 6th. Well, I would say that, you know, Thomas Jefferson gave us a very good dissertation on when do we get there? I mean, like I just have I have when people go back to the founding fathers and they talk about what they say, like, when you say Thomas Jefferson, I think Thomas Jefferson enslaved his children. So for me, like listening to Thomas Jefferson as like an authority on any kind of morality just goes out the window. OK, so let's let's talk about why we have any gun control in Florida. The whole reason we have gun control in Florida is because approximately 500 black citizens prevented a lynching on July 4th, 1892, based on a conflict between a white man and a black man on the docks right down here where the landing used to be. It was a conflict. They got into a fight. The black gentleman killed the white man and he ended up in the Duval County Jail and a lynch mob formed. 500 armed blacks gathered on the street corners of Jacksonville and prevented that lynching. Ida B. Wells wrote about it and said that a Winchester repeater deserved a place of honor in every Afro-American home. And that would be the assault rifle at the time. And the next various next session, the Florida legislature passed a law to say that the Winchester repeater required a special license and guess who could get licenses and guess who couldn't get license. Sure. And like here's what I'll say is that like you don't have to go that far back to find when gun laws came into play because of African-Americans. You can go to California and look at Ronald Reagan and what he did in the state of California in in in an acting gun laws. So yeah, guns and race have always been tied together and gun laws have always not always, but gun laws have been put in place when black people show that they were willing to use to meet violence with violence. So yes, those gun laws have definitely been in place. I would argue that when black people have used weapons or have had weapons, they don't get the same protections that white people have regardless of the gun laws. You can look at like the gentleman who was pulled over, Belando Castile, he was a legal gun owner.  I do not represent the NRA. Let's just be really clear about this. I'm just I'm just I'm just saying that like if we're going to if we're going to dive deeper into the idea of race that it's never been an equal playing field and that yes, those gun laws came from racist foundations, but half the laws in America came from racist foundations. And when we look at like gun laws and how they apply to today, it doesn't mean that we should throw it away because it has a racist foundation. It means that maybe we should look at like how look at how to move it into today's the way we see the world today and change and shift and make those guns or make those laws in a way that it serves the people. And I would say that like with the numbers that we're seeing, there's something broken there. And it may not be the laws, it may be something else, but I'm just saying there's something broken there. Well, I can fix a lot of the problems we have today. You know, the divisiveness in this country, we need to start licensing radio broadcasters and TV broadcasters and make sure that we background check those people really good to make sure they can't use the airwaves to foment into foment insurrection or to create distrust between various groups. I can end, I could help get rid of our crime problem in Jacksonville overnight. Just tell Sheriff Waters that the Sixth Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, those are all suspended Sheriff. Sheriff Waters go out and do whatever you need to do, whatever action you feel you need to take to shut down crime in the city. He can do it. So, you would compare me on the microphone to somebody walking around with a loaded weapon and not having a license for it. I would compare the general concept of times change, but we have a right to free speech and just because the technology improves, doesn't mean we start restricting that right. Sure. You and I can keep going back and forth for a while, but I want to bring some listeners in. Sure. So, we're going to go to Susan and Frueco. Susan, how are you this morning? Good, thank you. Very good. Thank you. And thank you for taking my call. When I first started listening, I feel like it's a very good conversation because you're both listening to each other. But it started on a premise that I just wonder if there's another way to look at it. And that's the premise of right. And is right a demand or is it a gift? Susan, are you there? Well, we're just going to take that first question from Susan and I would say that a right is not a gift. I think that a right is what basically like what the consultation says and forgive me if I mess this up, but something along the lines of like that all human beings are given inalienable rights, right? Like that at birth. Well, the declaration, yeah, it says that. But the founding fathers were big on the concept of natural rights. And that is that there are certain rights that are inherent to us as human beings, as beings with free will and with brains. That did not extend to black people. I just feel like when we talk about the founding fathers, I think that you for me, right? You constantly have to put in the question of race because when we talk about history, people do not want to bring it in. And it's it's vastly important. Well, I would answer that with there were founding. There were members of the founding fathers who were abolitionists. There were members of the founding fathers who believed that that right needed to extend. But in a compromise and some unfortunate compromises or or fortunate compromises, depending on your view, they they compromise what they needed to do at the time to get a country created that could withstand and stand up to the some of the worst abuses of history. Some of the things that monarchs are doing around the world. And I believe we've we certainly haven't achieved what the ideals were. I would agree with that. I would just I think that what they wanted to set up was they wanted to set up a world where they were not victimized by what monarchs were doing around the rest of the world. But they absolutely did that to the poor, to the people that they enslaved and not just the people they enslaved, but also to poor people who were not landowners who were who could not, you know, control anything in this country. And so like there are some great, high minded ideals that the founding fathers put forward. I will not argue that point. Great ideals that a lot of them, the vast majority of them did not actually follow. And so when we talk about issues like the Second Amendment, to me like I cannot take race out of that.  And I would argue that guns in this country, like the birth of it, the whole issue around guns in this country, comes from race. Because you had guns in the South to make sure that the population that you were enslaving stayed docile and did what you wanted them to do. That was undeniably, that was one of the uses of firearms in the South. Yeah, that and hunting and trapping and all of that stuff. And defense of your family from the Native population that at the time there was, you know, with the Native American wars. I think it is more important for us to try and achieve the ideal of being judged on the content of character rather than the color of skin. That that ideal is a higher ideal than ideals that restrict rights, that take away or impair the natural right of self-defense. Because if we don't have a right to our life, to protect our life and our families from violence, we have no rights. And going to the thing that brought us here today, this was less than six minutes that this thing occurred from 108 to 113. And I don't have the seconds. And he had a weapon. He had an AR-15. An AR-15, which is considered an assault rifle. I know you don't like that terminology, but it's considered a assault rifle. By some people who want to use that term, it's considered what they call an assault rifle. I don't know what that term is, except for it's a rifle that functions just like my hunting rifle, but it's different in color. Yeah, but your hunting rifle doesn't shoot off that many bullets a minute. Sure does. It does. As fast as I can pull the triggers. How fast that bolt cycles? But correct me if I'm wrong, with the AR-15, when you pull the trigger, several bullets come out. Not unless that gun was manufactured before 1986. You have a special tax stamp from the ATF to get it. No, the rifle that this gentleman used was a semi-automatic AR-15. It did not have automatic fat capabilities. They just don't. Okay, okay, okay, okay. I stand corrected. So continue what you were saying, though. So the, I'm sorry, I completely lost my train of thought. That's okay. Why don't we go to the folks? Because we got a lot of callers. We got Rob from Jewelington Creek. Rob, how are you doing this morning? I'm in and really appreciate the conversation. I appreciate the time I've been waiting for this topic to come back up again, because I've been wanting to ask a question. And my question is okay, fine. Supreme Court, especially after Heller, says we're allowed to rock around with pretty much any type of gun that we want, and what have you. That's what we live in. What about the ammunition? Is there anything that we can do to limit the type of ammunition, the strength of the ammunition? Just because you can walk around with an imitation M4, do you have to have the same type? Do we have to sell the same type of ammunition? But the military uses that just devours people's bodies when they go in. Can't we somehow nullify or make the ammunition a little bit weaker so that when you get hit with one of these shots from one of these rifles, it doesn't explode on the end, where the outshot isn't as big as the endshot or is bigger than the endshot. And I'll take my comments off the air. Thanks, Rob. I appreciate it. Eric, I think you're against that, right? That's kind of a fallacy. I mean, it's something that people have heard in the news and people have heard that these are some kind of special bullets or something. They're not. If I brought in here the shot that I, what I hunt with, which is a .30-06, versus the round that a AR-15 shoots on the standard, which is a .223. Basically, it's a .22 versus a .30, in terms of how many points of an inch it is. So it's a much bigger round with much more powder behind it. It travels with much more impact when it hits a deer, for example. So that's number one, is we already have a ban on things like armor-piercing ammunition, okay? That's not legal. At the same time, do I want the proper ammunition to defend myself and my family with, based on the circumstances? Yes. What I use as a home defense gun might vary, depending on what I use in my vehicle, but depending on what type of, you know, situation I might find myself in. So I think there's a fallacy that we have some special ammunition that's out there at the military. We're using military-grade ammunition. Military-grade ammunition is made by the lowest bidder. Yeah. My target ammo is much more expensive. Let me ask you, we don't have a lot of time, and I want to bring you back on to, like, Talk to. Longer about this, but just from your point of view, what could have been done to stop what happened this last Saturday? One option is armed citizens have, they're their own first responders. When seconds count, the police are minutes away. It's not because our police aren't doing the best they can.  If you study these people, these active killers, okay, that's the term I use for them, active killers, if you study them, most of them are after a score. They're after doing a better job than the last guy did. What deters them is knowing the risk of an armed response. That is the biggest thing that deters them. So, therefore, you don't have to have everybody with guns. You just have to have the fear that there's likely to be guns there is the big point. Yeah. Eric Friday is a lawyer and a lobbyist for Florida Carry Incorporated. He joined us to talk about gun violence. We did not have enough time to get a little bit deeper, but I'm going to have him back, and everybody that's calling you, you will have your chance to talk to him. I promise. Thank you so much, Mr. Friday, for coming in. Absolutely. Love doing it.


All students should have the same opportunity to be successful throughout their college years. Yet, when DFWI, or Course Completion Rates, are reviewed by race and income, the gaps are stark. Course Gateway is here to help academic decision makers find equitable solutions to help all students. Course Gateway is a free tool built to help academic leaders make informed decisions about digital learning products, maximizing students' learning, and increasing completion rates in the gateway courses that are required for degree completion. Course Gateway is fast and easy to use, allowing users to quickly search for and read courseware reviews and compare courseware products. Each courseware product is fully reviewed by members of an independent product advisory board, selected for their depth of experience across a diverse set of institutional settings, focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Course Gateway can help your institution maintain strong retention and graduation rates. Course Gateway is comprehensive. Our platform covers 12 disciplines associated with the 20 highest enrollment introductory level undergraduate courses in the United States. And best of all, it's free. So together, we can help remove the barriers to success. Start your search and be a Difference Maker today.


How can we cope and support others doing it tough? How can we maintain a positive attitude? How many ways can you skin a cat? There's an Australian saying how many ways can you skin a cat? There's many ways we can support each other and but you know what I think There's a there's an aspect of when somebody's doing it tough you reach out and you connect with that person But I think what we're missing more at this time is somebody that is connecting with me all the time consistently over time When I'm doing it well that way when When I need it I trust that person because they were consistent as a friend So what we lacking is consistency. You want to be useful to someone? Be consistent and keeping in touch with that person over time Don't be lazy with you with your WhatsApp. I see a lot of people that are really lazy with their wats Have you send them a message? They never even answer that message What do you think is gonna happen if they get in a tough situation if they haven't answered my previous messages? How am I gonna know about it to begin with but You know, so so build that relationship over time Keep in touch with people send them little memes send them little jokes anything that lets them know that you're thinking of them Then the day when they're running to trouble and you're contacting them. It won't feel weird That's the first thing you need to do. This works in workplaces, too.  That's the number one thing now in a practical level somebody's doing it up Is it a man or is it a woman? It's very important mental health. It's not done the same in both genders Is it a man or is it a woman? I don't want to get into this discussion. What's a woman or what's a man? That's not what we're doing here, but is it a man or is it a woman? Are they processing things in a more feminine way? Do they love to talk about their problems or are they processing things in more in a Male way in which we don't like to talk about our problems. We just want to know someone's got our back One is a more talkative way one is a more physical way That's that's also who is talking to who is is the friend that is doing it tough. Is it a male and you're a woman a Different rules if it's a male to a male different rules If it's a male to a woman different rules Right and the actual fact that we encourage if there's a male in trouble You get another male to talk to that that person If it's a female that is in trouble get another female to talk to that person if possible If you're men approaching a man, can you invite the guy out and about Movement is very important for talking between men Very important. It's not the length of the conversation it's the Messages that are being sent in that conversation So can you invite them to say like golf golf paddle paddle? Can you go for a walk? Can you go for a run? Can you go together to a gym? Can you do something physical together if somebody's anxious and you know they're in trouble? Go and lift some weight with them Lifting weight is fantastic for anxiety. It's very hard to be anxious if you're lifting a 50 pound weight Very very hard somehow it leaves you But so that's a good beginning, you know get movement get exercise get something physical especially for men for women Invite them out or out for a coffee for a meal, you know and and start a conversation If it's a if it's a sensitive matter Then try to raise it in an indirect way, but you know women are usually pretty good at that anyway raising things in an indirect way so I hope that's That's useful excellent Hi, I'm emi golding director of psychology for the workplace mental health institute We hope you liked the video if you did make sure to give it a thumbs up We have more and more videos being released each week So when you subscribe you'll get a notification letting you know when a new one's just being published so make sure to hit that subscribe button and Don't miss out on this vital information for yourself your colleagues and your loved ones


The future of science and all the ways that science impacts our lives is in the hands of voters. We believe the more you understand the science, the better our collective decision making will be. Each and every election.


We need the arm-shoulder separation, and that arm-shoulder separation is going to help assist with the shoulder-hip separation. That's why the discus is tough. Nice and easy again. The pulling chain reaction system. Day after our Arizona camp, I'm definitely a little tired, but nine camps to go. So today, this morning, got one of our camp attendees, an online member. They're from Colorado. They're not leaving until tomorrow, so they wanted to book a training session. Heat is in full force now. It is June. The switch flipped, and so what we wanted to do is get it in this morning. So it's 8.30. It's already in the mid-80s. I think low 80s, mid-80s. So we want to get it out of the way. Then Tyson Jones is back home and getting ready for World University Games in Italy. So his dad are going to come after this. We're going to do a little training session. And then it's packing all day and getting ready for trips to Houston and San Antonio. So we leave in the morning. We are going to go through some cool things. Meet Prep with an athlete from Colorado, and again, online members. So they're already familiar with the system, just a two days at camp. And what we're going to be doing is just kind of like seeing what we can fine-tune. So this is a different type of practice in the sense that we're not going to be trying to make any kind of major changes. I want to think of maybe some small cues, any way that I can help them out. They can just add that little extra bit of confidence and adjustment right before a meet. Kind of an important note.  So even though they just did a camp, it's different in the sense of its progression and its learning. And now we'll take her throw and what she's been doing as style patterns and whatnot. And we'll just see what kind of tweaks we might be able to be useful and help her get that extra distance and hopefully another PR. So here we go. Check it out. Right now it's, now we can come through. You know, this is dropping. You see that? See how I'm changing the timeline? Now you're loading. You feel that? Yeah. Okay. So that's the chest drop. Remember the right hip on top of the right foot. We talk about there's a T here. So there's the T at this point. Wait, is this why the transition is tricky?  We need the arm-shoulder separation. And that arm-shoulder separation is going to help assist with the shoulder-hip separation. I want you to get this foot down and you're going to see that. So when I get the heel and the foot flat on the inside here, that puts the discus here, and it helps me wind up. See how they lock this leg? Yeah. To the shoulder. Yeah, I felt it higher. So it stayed back better. Yeah, it did. Yeah. It looks better. It's a subtle thing, but it makes a huge difference. All right. So we did a morning session today with the Wyricks from Colorado who came to the camp. Again, good session. We'll put up some footage. Hopefully you guys saw it. Meet situation. Figured out a couple of small things. I'm that extra set of eyes that looks at something a little fresh. And so that's one thing I've always enjoyed when I work with people. And it's a dad coach. And they've done a great job of 39-foot PR as a junior, which is a solid PR for sure. They've been using the throwing chain reaction system for a couple of years, come to two camps. This way right now. This, get this shoulder here. So I'm feeling this. Hold your strings, but your hips aren't. They're too far back. It's too long of a path. Too upright. Okay. So you're lying. Yeah, I want to see you more like this. Okay. Right? So you would be sitting here, and you're here. Okay. And that to make me. We're focusing on Tyson Jones. And again, for him, he's one of the guys who really came through my system as the way it is today with the six pillars. And so he's home and his college coach suggested he come and connect. But we're kind of doing some tune up stuff. So it's really simple for him to jump right back into the system. And right now we've already seen some really good adjustments just on some simple things. So he's already throwing some pretty good throws. I have a feeling in a few weeks a couple of little adjustments will just kind of tune him back. I think they did a lot of good stuff and he had a good freshman year, but he's getting ready to go to World University. So first practice back, such an intuitive athlete. It makes me look like 10 times better coach because good athletes tend to do that. But the system, plugging him right back in, it's like clicking in his head. He knows where he's at. Immediately seeing an increase, which is fun. And then, like he said, later day, busy day. Got to get ready for Houston and San Antonio. Thank you.