The death toll from the brutal assault on Gaza has crossed 21,000 as Israeli attacks on the south of the territory continue. What is the latest from this besieged enclave? Argentine trade unions are taking to the streets on Wednesday against the policies of the newly elected Javier Mille government. What are the demands of the unions? This is the Daily Debrief. These are your stories for the day and before we go any further, if you're watching this on YouTube, please hit that subscribe button. The brutal Israeli assault on Gaza continues at the death toll crossed 21,000. Graphic visuals on social media indicate that Palestinian men are facing inhuman treatment at the hands of Israeli forces. However, even now the international community fails to hold Israel to account. Meanwhile, across the region, from Iraq to Yemen, there have been military actions against Israel and in solidarity with the Palestinian people. We go to Abdul for the details. Abdul, thank you so much for joining us. So maybe first could you take us through what is happening right now with the Israeli assault, both the air assault and the ground assault. We know that now it is also taking place in the south of Gaza as well. So, Prashant, in the last 24 hours, there has the number of people killed in Gaza has increased by at least 300 to 400 people and taking the total number of Palestinians killed in Gaza to 21,000 plus. It also means that the number of people Palestinians injured has crossed 55,000. And this basically displays how brutal the Israeli assault is. In the last 24 hours, the Israeli ground offensive in Khan units in particular has increased in southern Gaza. A large number of territories have been evacuated. And it seems that the more and more Palestinians are forced to kind of flee out of their whatever homes were remaining. In fact, there were ground offensives in Jabalia refugee camp, which basically has completely led to the destruction of the entire refugee camp. And it is literally nowhere in Gaza, which is safe. And that basically confirms to the larger Israeli scheme, which has been reported in media from time to time again, that Israel is basically forcing and trying to force most of the Palestinians out of Gaza into Egypt. Which of course, different human rights organizations have claimed that this basically amounts to not only kind of war crimes. It is also basically amounts to complete violation of all established norms in the international law. There are also reports coming that the humanitarian situation inside Gaza, particularly in southern Gaza, has basically deteriorated further. Basically whatever hospitals were functioning before the offensive started in Gaza, most of them have shut and only eight hospitals and small clinics are operational. This is happening at a time when the United Nations Security Council had passed a resolution. Basically, which of course, I've had nothing else to say apart from the fact that it basically emphasized the greater delivery of aid into Gaza. But since there is no halt in the bombing in the ground offensive, it is difficult, as aid agencies have reported, difficult to basically deliver aid inside the Gaza strip. This basically means that overall situation, both for the people who are injured, wounded, and the common Palestinians in Gaza who have been forced out of their homes, the overall situation in terms of delivery of basic essentials like food, medicine, shelter, fuel is completely disrupted and the humanitarian situation in Gaza has become completely out of control. Also, the last point that in the last few days, the communication system inside Gaza was completely disrupted. According to the Palestinian Telecom Department, there is an attempt to revive the communication as if on Wednesday, but it has not completely worked out yet and the work is still going on. Also, taking a look at the regional dimensions here, we have seen yesterday that there has been further escalation in the United States, bombing on early Tuesday, there are certain sites in Iraq as well claiming that it is in response to attacks on bases. We know what is happening in the Babel Mandir region as far as Yemen is concerned. So maybe could you take us to the regional aspect as well? Well, Prashant, before I come to the regional aspect, I should definitely mention that there are reports coming from Gaza which basically shows complete collapse of any understanding of human rights. There are videos circulating on the social media or on the news channels which shows that large number of Palestinian detainees have been stripped naked and forced to sit in open blindfolded, their hands tied behind their back in the stadiums, in the open grounds. Some of the people who were released later have claimed that they have been tortured and drugged to confess that they are Hamas operatives despite the fact that none of them had anything to do with Hamas. So all of this is happening inside Gaza and of course this has a wider repercussion both regional as well as global given the fact that there are international laws established to prevent such kind of torture of prisoners of war. So that is one thing of course. As far as the regional aspect is concerned, of course, in the last few days the Israelis have attacked southern Lebanon, increased their attacks on southern Lebanon and it looks like that their situation, the situation there is not, is going to be as bad as what is there in some parts of Gaza. The large number of homes, houses have been destroyed, civilian infrastructure has been attacked and of course whatever small retaliation which Hezbollah is doing is not enough to deter Israeli aggression. You rightly pointed out that there are US carried out strikes against multiple targets inside Iraq on Tuesday claiming that this is in retaliation to Iraqi militias attacking their bases both in Iraq, in Erbil and in Syria in which three US soldiers were injured, one of them was seriously wounded. This basically shows that the US bases as per the latest report have been attacked since October 7 more than 100 times. It shows the popular anger in the region and the anger among the militias that the US is supporting the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Apart from that, of course the Houthis have continued to attack the ships in the Red Sea despite the fact that the US has announced so-called Operation Prosperity Garjan which basically is a coalition of all the NATO and some of the countries in other parts of the world but the fact is because of the pressure exerted by the Houthis, most of the shipping companies have not resumed their operation yet and the ships to Israel are not of course moving. Also most of the NATO countries have been reluctant to completely cooperate with US in his maritime alliance despite their names being announced. So this is the overall situation when it comes to the regional and global aspects of the war in Gaza which is going on by the Israelis. Thank you so much Abdel for that update. Argentina is quickly becoming a front line state in the battle between the people and a particularly unhinged version of neoliberal capitalism. In the short time since Javier Mille has come to power, a flurry of policies have been announced by his government which will affect most sections of the people but especially workers. On Wednesday, Argentine workers and trade unions are taking to the streets against these anti-people policies. To get more details, we go to Zoe Alexandra. Zoe, thank you so much for joining us. So widely anticipated that trade unions people's movements would take to the streets following the announcements made by Mille's governments quite shocking actually. So what are the kind of demands that these movements are making? What are the kind of agitations that we might anticipate? Yes, all major trade unions in Argentina are on the streets today as part of a massive mobilization to reject the austerity measures of the government of far-right libertarian Javier Mille. Specifically these trade unions such as the Association of State Workers and the General Confederation of Work, the CGT, have called this mobilization because the decree that Javier Mille issued last week essentially says that workers who have been working for less than a year do not get their contracts renewed. And this according to trade unions corresponds to at least 7,000 workers. And so that means that next year 7,000 workers are losing their jobs, state jobs because of the austerity measure of Javier Mille. They're also of course raising their voices about the other measures that were mentioned in the decree of Mille as we spoke about in People's Dispatch on this show and others. This would drastically devalue again the Argentine peso. It has other impacts of course in reducing subsidies for transportation, for basic services in the country. And it's really seen as the first major hit to the working class in Argentina to organize movements of course to trade unions and to workers in general who are preparing again for very, very difficult months ahead in Argentina. Javier Mille has said it himself, these are not going to be easy months, it's going to be hard, a lot of economic pain, tidying again the most basic of services, the areas where the Argentine people were able to manage such as with transportation and with some of their services like electricity and gas that will soon become untenable for many, many people. Many people will find that they're unable to keep up with their payments, that they're unable to really survive on a month to month basis, which they were already struggling to do as we know that they're 40% of the population in poverty. So today's mobilization, again, momentous, we've already seen how movements in Argentina, how trade unions are building day by day this resistance, which is going to be permanent throughout the presidency of Javier Mille. Javier Mille became famous for a lot of the ridiculous things he said, the crazy slogans against the left, some of the more wild things in his past, his outbursts, but at the end of the day, he is a person who corresponds to a political project that believes that, first of all, human rights don't exist, that social justice is a threat to the people. All of these fundamental ideas which are in contradiction with the possibility for people to live with dignity in the country, and especially as we've said in a situation of severe economic downturn. Right, 2022 been quite a complicated year for Argentina, of course, the major election, the kind of results that came out really shocked people, and it looks like it's going to be a long struggle ahead for the people. So maybe could you do a roundup as we are ending this year? Could you do a roundup of how the year has been for this country? Well, of course, as we just said, it ended with the victory of Javier Mille in the December presidential elections, but it has been a pretty tumultuous year in Argentina. We know that just one year ago, Argentina was celebrating the victory in the World Cup, a moment of jubilation of joy. I think many people thought that that wave of joy would continue, that this would increase support for the government on Puerto Fernandez. This didn't happen. This is, of course, alongside as we entered the year of 2023, the Lawfare campaign against Cristina Fernandez, the Kitchener, intensified. A lot of the year was spent sort of waiting and seeing about what was going to happen in the presidential election. So as Javier Mille was rising in popularity, there was, of course, this legal battle regarding Cristina Fernandez and her possibility of actually participating in these elections. There are many back and forth regarding that. Legal decisions barring her participation. Finally, in the end, she was not able to participate, and this was seen as a huge setback, of course, for popular movements, given that she was the only viable candidate who would be able to garner the support and the votes needed to defeat the center right and the far right in Argentina. We know that August, for example, saw the primary elections in the country where the threat of Javier Mille actually became serious, where people actually took it into account that this is not just some crazy guy who talks about how human rights are bad, but this is actually someone who could arrive to power. A lot of people are underestimating him, and the appeal that he has in Argentine society amongst young and working class people who have seen their situation deteriorate drastically, not only under Mauricio Macri, but that continue to deteriorate under Alberto Fernández. And then, of course, the last four months of the year was this very, very intense electoral dispute with Sergio Massa actually coming in first in the first round of the elections, but then really being unable to beat this right-wing coalition of Javier Mille supported by the center right with Patricio Bulverich and Mauricio Macri. So very difficult year, and people are already going into the new year with a lot of struggle, a lot of mobilization. Last week we saw the first protest against Javier Mille on December 24th, which is Christmas Eve. Social movements held once again their Christmas, no Christmas with hunger, and so that means they have a huge, huge serving of food and activities for working class people in the country who don't have enough to really have their own homes. A very important celebration, but also a moment to recommit people to the struggle. And as I said today, Wednesday, December 27th, massive mobilizations organized by the country's trade unions. This will be the first of many protests. I think we can look at the four years of Mauricio Macri's presidency to get a sense of what does it look like when the Argentine movements really join together, unite, and are able to really fight determined struggles against these austerity measures. I think we're going to see a lot. It's not just going to be Javier Mille pushing through these decrees, but there's going to be a lot of pushback on the streets and by the people. Thank you so much, Zoe, for talking to us. That's all we have in today's episode. 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Happy Father's Day birdwatchers. We're out here in the woods late on Saturday night, because we're searching for all the best early Prime deals on RV gear. Now Prime Day doesn't start officially until tomorrow, and then it runs for two days. But historically, Amazon has great deals even before then, so we've been scouring our gear lists of our tried-and-true gear to see where we're finding the deepest discounts so you don't have to. Don't forget to follow us on Creativity RV on Instagram and Facebook, because every few hours over the course of the weekend, we will be updating these deals and others that pop up. Everything that we're going to show you now can be found through one link, and that's at the Creativity RV Amazon store. Yes, we are an affiliate with Amazon. What that means is the price stays the same for you when you do your shopping, but Creativity RV gets a very small percentage of what you buy, and it helps keep this channel going so we appreciate it. Everything I'm going to show you is tried and true and actually with us here on the road, including item number one, which is the Ventrue dash cam. Right now, this is 15% off, which makes it $169.99. This is actually the dash cam that I use all the time on the road. It actually has a suction cup that works. So you put this into the car, you turn this little lever, and there's the dash cam. Now, a lot of you have seen footage from this camera, because we use it all the time. It not only has a camera that goes out towards the road, but it also has a camera that goes back into the car with a microphone. So something happens on either side of you. It can catch that. And also it's got night vision and a motion sensor. I was super excited. This next one was on sale. I was hoping it would be. A lot of you asked me how I cut my hair on the road. Now, you're only as good as your hairdresser, right? So I'm sure that this could be better, but I have not gone to a real hairdresser really in a long time because I found this kit. This is what's great about this. I have a really thick hair like Rosanna Rosanna Danahare.  It has thinning scissors.  It actually just takes the weight out of your hair and, you know, a good pair of cutting scissors. But then if you have short hair like I do, I did not know what this was when I took it out of the box. This thing is genius. I don't know if you can see it. It's a comb up here, but a razor down there. And actually what you do is you just comb your hair and it takes off any straggling layers. So if you're not going to blend in your layers, it does it for you. And I'm going to do it without even looking right now. I hope you guys can see this. It just trimmed up the back of my hair. Voila! And get this 25% off, which makes the whole kit only $14.99. I love the next thing also. This is a two-in-one bug zapper. So you'll see here that it's a little lantern, which you can just use for light, or you can just have the bug zapper on, which looks like this. It doesn't show up great on camera, but look, if I put this right up in there, you would see how many bugs are in here. It catches a ton of those little mats and flies and mosquitoes and mobs at night in an RV. You know they like to get in here. You can try and stop them, but sometimes it's hard to. And this thing doesn't make a big zapping noise when it gets them. And you can rinse it out and it's cheap. This bug zapper is 17% off right now, making it $24.95 and worth every penny. I was super excited to find out that this was on sale also. This is the Jackery Explorer 1500. Now we've been keeping a close eye on this, and here's what you have to know. There are different sizes of Jackery's. This is the second to biggest one. It's a Mac Daddy. This one is $100 off on the Jackery website, so I'll put the link for that below. But if you're looking for the $500, which is smaller than this, here's a picture of it right here. This is actually $100 off on Amazon so far during the prime sales, which makes it double what's off on the Jackery site. So if you're looking for the $500, go to Amazon. If you're looking for any size from the $240 up to the $2000, accept the $500, go to Jackery. That link will be below. The next thing that's on sale, you gotta have if you have a regular RV toilet, and that is an RV toilet treatment puck. This is one that came right out of my bathroom. It's 28% off, making it $1625 for a box of these. The next thing on the list is a box of fuses. Now here's a picture of a fuse, one that's regular and one that's blown. I recommend having a box of these in different sizes. I have one outside in my toolbox. I didn't even know what I needed these for when I first went on the road, and fuses seem like something that electricians dealt with and not me. Totally wrong. When you're out on the road, you have to have a box of these. They're cheap and it is a must-have because you're out by yourself in the middle of nowhere. If you're boondocking and all of a sudden something won't work, maybe it's the TV or maybe the slide won't go in. You go over to your fuse panel and you can see which one is blown, and it's like taking an SD card out of a slot and putting another SD card back in. It's that easy, but if you don't have one of these and you're by yourself in the middle of nowhere, you're screwed. 100 of these fuses is 15% off, making it $1189. Okay, this is another one I was super excited is on sale. This is our tire pressure reader and filler. You might know it's important to check your tire pressure on the road. You do not want to blow out. That's another thing that would suck, especially if you're in the middle of nowhere and if you're not, it's dangerous anyway. This is actually my third machine to do this and the only one that I like and the only one that I've recommended. And I'll tell you, before this one, we would fill our tires up and then we'd have to wait for the machine to rest to be able to do the next one and the readings weren't always right. This tire inflator is 33% off, making it $5088. Here's one of my favorite things and it's 46% off. These are little rechargeable lanterns. I know that you probably can't see the lights because we've got lights out in the room here, but basically here's the deal. I've got one set at random and one set to red, but you can hang these if you want to. I hang them over my bed and see this little metal part on the bottom. If you press it, the light goes off. It just charges with a USB. It charges super fast. By the way, I meant to tell you that that bug zapper is also rechargeable by USB, which means you can do it on your jackery. Like I said, this lamp is 46% off, making it $1399. The next must-have that's on sale right now on Amazon is a massive first aid kit. This one is 70% off, making it $2495. And I know what you're thinking. It's massive. I don't need that. Where am I going to fit that? Listen, I was going with the little baby ones, which are about 10 bucks. For $4 more, I got a lot more in this pack. And I'll tell you, we have used it. We have had injuries that those little ones don't cover. You want to have more in this department, not less. I recommend having a big one like this one for 25 bucks. It's worth it. The next thing on my list is a trash can. Now, you can get a trash can anywhere. Why is this on my RV gear list?  And I searched and searched and searched and finally found this one. This is six inches wide.  And I'll tell you what, when somebody was new in the RV, he got a little bit too aggressive, my lovely assistant, with the trash can and broke a hinge off of it. And we immediately ordered another one. We actually truly love this trash can. The next thing that I want to tell you about that's on sale is an electric kettle. Now, you can get these made all kinds of different configurations. I just happened to like this one because it pours really cool. I had a smaller one that actually was foldable, that was silicone, that was electric. And it took too much power. And then I had another one that was just a regular kettle that went on my propane stove to heat up water for my coffee. And I was using a ton of propane to get that thing to actually boil the water. This thing takes 1200 Watts. It's a normal appliance. So you have to plug it in, like in your jackery. And 1200 Watts is a lot if you're using it for half an hour, but this thing boils water in two to three minutes. If you need something like this right now, it's 34% off, making it $26.95. The next must have that's on sale right now is a necklight. Now look, you guys have seen me talk about this thing for four years. This is the one that I've had for four years. And these things are cheap. You put them around your neck and you can basically coil them in any position. And then they've got these lights, see? So you can put this above your bed to read a book, or you can keep it by your front door like we do. So when you have to run outside and check something or do something at night, it's right there and it's USB rechargeable. We have used this thing so much that it did start to fray a little bit right here, but we just put some duct tape on it. And it has kept working like a champ. It still takes a charge and works great. This necklight is 15% off, making it $12.74. If you guys have watched our channel lately, you know that I've got some killer plants growing inside of an arrow garden. Here's some pictures of what my three arrow gardens look like when I first started growing plants in them and one of what my tomatoes look like right now. These things are great because they don't take a lot of power or water, but continuously give us food here in the RV. We grow a ton of lettuce and herbs and tomatoes and we use them almost every day. And right now they're 20% off, making them $1.99 worth it for me because it saves me trips to the store. But if you have less space than I do or you want something a little bit smaller, the smaller unit that only holds three is also on sale. This is called the arrow garden sprout. It is 31% off, making it $69.34. My tried and true wissy wipes are 25% off right now. You guys have seen me talk about these before. It just looks like a little puck. I keep some under my sink and I also keep one in my car because all you have to do is run some water on it. Lovely assistant. Look at this. You just put a little water on them and they're super, super strong. So here's what I do. I use these for cleaning.  A few of you have asked me what these cool lights are on Instagram. These are solar fairy lights that I've used all kinds of ways. Here you can see a picture of one that I had in my bedroom in my last rig. All I did was command strip the solar portion of this into the window.  But now what I do is I just take a used jar, like an old pasta jar, and I put the solar component on the top of the lid, screw it in, keep it outside during the day and at night it gives us these beautiful lanterns. These are 20% off, making them $11.19. I can't tell you how many people have asked me where I keep my cat litter box. Well we have a couple now. We have one in the truck because we have a fifth wheel and he rides in there with us and we have one inside of our rig. And in both places we use the same thing and believe me I've tried everything. And that is a pet mate, top entry litter box. Here's why I found that it worked for us. It is so tall and thin that it actually fits up in the wheel well of the passenger seat, like this picture you see here, or in the back seat, which is where we keep it now. The boy has no dignity with this picture, but I'll tell you he's an old cat. He never did top entry litter boxes until I got him this one and he acclimated just fine. It also traps a lot of the litter so it doesn't go all over the house. The top of this litter box is only 15 inches wide so if you have a skinny space you can fit it in, that might work for you. Right now it's 14% off, making it $30.02. The next thing on the list was a Christmas present. Thanks mom, but honestly I didn't think I needed when she first gave it to me. We've all used our GPS in the car and gone to the wrong place and found out that Google Maps is just better. This thing goes right into the car cup holder in your car and locks in place and then it will hold your tablet or your phone right here. You can turn it around so it will sit right there where you can see it while you're driving. I have to say I love it and I didn't think I would. It's 27% off right now, making it $18.35. The next thing I want to tell you about are these LED lights above our slide that change colors because they're a whopping 47% off. Here's a video of what mine looked like right after they were installed. These were actually Christmas present from Doug. This comes with 100 feet of these lights and they're really skinny and they come with a sticky backing. So you can put them wherever you want. We put them on all of our slides and then they come with a remote control. So you can get this soft white light or blue light or pink light or you can mix it like I like to, like you're inside of an aquarium or you can have a kitchen dance party because these things will actually change to the music or your voice. At 47% off they're $31.99. This thing is a must-have RV kitchen gadget for me. It's just a little silicone spatula but listen, you need these especially if you're boondocking because see how one side of this thing is square and the other side is round.   If you don't do this when you finish eating you use so much more water when you're boondocking. The same set that I have which has four of these in different sizes is on sale right now. They're 33% off making them $10.78. Let me use my spatula to point out the next item tink which are camco leveling blocks. This is another thing that I didn't really understand why people all have these big plastic blocks underneath their tires or underneath their jacks that come down to either stabilize or level out their rigs and I learned real fast. Without these blocks two things can happen. You'll sink into the ground if one side is softer than the other like if it is just rained or if you keep them under your jacks like we do it stops the jacks from hyperextending. A 10 pack of these right now is 36% off making them $27.99. This is one of the best deals of the day at 40% off. This is an Everdry dehumidifier. See these little crystals right here in the front how they're kind of a dark green color. Well they start out being orange and it's full of these little pellets that actually absorb the moisture in the air and moisture in an RV is death. It'll start to warp your walls things will be falling down and it kills your resale value. Instead of buying one of those expensive dehumidifiers that have to be plugged in I just have two or three of these around the rig and those orange crystals absorb all the liquid and they turn to green and when they do all you do is find a power source. I like to do it outside if I can like if I'm in an RV park and there's a power tower or I plug it into the bathroom um and run the fan to make sure the moisture is being taken out of the room or I do it outside on the jackery. Any way that you do it just know that when you're drying out the crystals by plugging it in that moisture is going back out into the air so you don't want to do it in a closed room but these things really work. It's 40% off making it $14.97. I had to include this because it's on sale and it's one of my favorite things. This is a tub of towels. We discovered these when we were renovating the RV. I don't know what they put in these cleaning wipes.  The next thing I want to tell you about will give you so much more counter space in your van or your RV or your schoolie and that is a heavy-duty folding bracket here's a picture of ours installed in our new rig you can see all we did was take a big piece of wood attach it to the bracket it hangs down on the side of our countertop and then when we want to use it it pops right up into place it's 20% off right now making it $23.99. The next thing I want to tell you about is micellar water oops this is water that has a molecular structure that actually attaches to dirt so instead of wasting a bunch of water when you're boondocking to I don't know wash your face or bathe you can use micellar water I use it every day to wash my face with a washcloth a single bottle of this on Amazon is on sale more than the three pack right now it's 29% off for this making it $6.39. The next thing I want to tell you about is a camco sidewinder now this is another one of those things when I started I thought was a stupid piece of gear and I didn't know why people spend the money on it this thing basically supports your hose so it goes at a right angle like a gutter you don't have one of these and you're going to be at a park for any extended period of time stuff gets stuck in the hose because it's not going downhill and if you're going to do any winter camping at all this is a must have because without it you get a poop cycle it's 34% off making it $34.69 and finally I've put my book work from home while you roam the ultimate guide to jobs that can be done from anywhere on sale it is 50% off through the prime day weekend making it $2.99 my other book be a no man change your life has been $2.99 for a while and you don't need an e-reader to read either one of these books you just need the free Kindle app and then you can read it on your phone your tablet or your computer I don't know about you guys but it's hot even at night here and I'm under a bunch of lights so I'm going to get going and keep an eye on all these deals for you so remember head over to creativity RV on Instagram or creativity RV on Facebook links below and check in every few hours we're going to tell you what massive deals pop up throughout prime day so you don't have to keep an eye on it yourself next Sunday our new travel series starts which we're really happy to share with you guys so we'll see you then until then have happy travels and be free


Shemaitz, CNO Gilday here with my wife Linda. During Hispanic Heritage Month, we celebrate the achievements of Hispanic Americans and recognize their countless contributions to our Navy and to our nation. Hispanic Americans are part of the very fabric of our Navy and are a vital component of every command, whether it's sea, or on shore, as an active reserve for civilian sailor. Throughout our Navy's nearly 245-year history, generations of Hispanic Americans have played a vital role in making our Navy and our nation strong. And today, they are our largest minority group in our Navy with approximately 60,000 active and reserved sailors who serve throughout the fleet. Hispanic sailors have a proud tradition and heritage of service, and their stories represent a steadfast commitment to the Navy's core values of honor, courage, and commitment. Hispanic Americans like Admiral David Ferrigan, rear Admiral Cristina Alvarado, and McPawn Joe Campa have left an indelible mark on our Navy and exemplify the innovative spirit of our sailors. Well said, Linda. Thank you, shipmates, and we'll see you in the fleet.


I think it's coming along for it there. Yeah, it's coming along slow, but gradually improving each and every day. Really have no timetable, but the biggest thing is to make shot come back. Really 100% so I can help this team win more games. It seems like you and Jay-on and David. All three of you have a hard time being healthy at the same time, it seems like. Yeah, it's one of those weird years, man. Normally this doesn't happen, but it's one of those things where you kind of just got to live with it at the end of the day too. My biggest thing is trying to get back on the field as fast as possible. But at the same time, making sure that I'm healthy and that I can help the team win. What's the part of what you got to cost us? Do you ever feel good moving on? Yeah, it's really gonna be on a call on the doctors and the people that are making those decisions. Really for me right now is just to put into work as much as I can to get back on the field as fast as possible. Some of the things that you're doing to be able to mentally, physically to be able to get out there and kind of pick up where you left off? Really right now, man, staying engaged in the game, being in all the meetings, being in all the things that I would normally do if I was healthy. And really that's keeping me in the game and keeping me up to date with all the things that's going on and coaches and the players and everything. They've been treating me really good as far as my ankle checking in on me, making sure that I'm good and you can't ask for much more than that. That's the type of team I'm playing for and for me right now is just to make sure that I'm healthy so I can help these guys. A lot of hamstring injuries on this team this year, you've had one in the past, at least one. What's that like to deal with and recover from? Is it a particularly annoying one? I mean, it's one of those things that happens around the league, man. And it's pretty common. It can be a little frustrating, but at the same time, it's more on just making sure that you do all the little things to make sure that you try to prevent from any other further injuries as far as the hamstring. Hamstrings or ligament tears, which they can keep you out for a half or long. But it's more about just making sure you do all the little things and allowing time really to do its work. There are a lot of patience on the comeback there where you might feel like you're ready, but you've got to get up more than you think. Yeah, it's really one of those things where I'm just really listening to the doctors. The doctors really have to say so on anything. And for me, all I got to do right now is just put as much work as I can. I'm a little eager to get back out there as fast as I can. I sit there on the couch and watch the game. I've seen all my guys eat out there. It's a beautiful sight to see. It's actually been a while since I've actually sat down and watched the game. And it's probably the craziest thing I've seen. Just seeing those guys out there having fun, man.  I'm just trying to play 50-some games in a row. How hard was that? In the ball, it's how they tell you you can't go. I'm a little mad because I didn't want to break that streak. But that's the name of the game, man. You got to learn how to deal with adversity, whether it's injuries or anything else. And the things that you do and the work that you put in up to that point when it's time to play, that'll help you out with a better smooth transition. All the struggles this defense had last year, how satisfied is it for Sean? You know, they're saying that it's a pretty impressive performance. It's going to work for you guys. Don't necessarily have to score more than 30-35 points. That must be a big change. Yeah, I mean, even from last year, you know, we were still kind of new to each other. Still trying to learn, you know, what we were good at, what we were not good at, and the things that, you know, that we can really excel at. And now that, you know, things are all coming together, man. Now you've seen it now on Sundays. And, you know, it's definitely beautiful to see how it has transitioned from last year and all the improvement that we have had on defense. And now you see guys just out there not thinking about nothing. We're just out there to really just try to dominate. So, you know, I expect to keep continuing to do that and see guys doing that.  Rich, I want to speak to Jeff Simmons in particular to start on it. Really get a lot of national love, especially after what happened on Sunday. What's it been like?  Now, what's it been like to kind of see the emergence and kind of maybe, you know, have lived up to it? Yeah. Oh, no, man, it's a beautiful thing, you know, to do works hard. He puts in work and, you know, things like that don't happen by luck. You know, they happen for a reason. That's the reason why he's having so much success, you know. By him just, you know, really playing his role, the best that he's doing.  You know, really just kudos to not only him, but also the whole defense, man. I mean, a lot of guys out there playing at a high level.   They're getting the national, that national type attention. And, you know, it's a beautiful thing to see that now happening.


I could really see almost any woman pulling this off. Hey, what's up guys, it's Josh here today. I want to do a quick little review on Abercrombie and Fitch first instinct for her. A lot of the first instinct line, actually all of the first instinct line has been unusually cheap online compared to other Abercrombie and Fitch fragrances. They're usually a lot more. I've tried all the first instinct line because they've been so cheap and I've liked Abercrombie fragrances and I've been hyping them. Pretty much since the beginning, I think I was one of the first people to make a video on the original Abercrombie and Fitch first instinct for him. A lot of people started searching for first instinct after it kinda got popular and I never really put my nose on this one. This one's very affordable, very cheap and I was interested to see if it kind of had any of the similarities to the other first instinct DNAs or is it likable or does it do its own thing? Super, super cheap, super affordable. After I kind of do a little bit more assessing, I'm gonna give this away. We'll see you after I do a little bit more testing. The notes for this one are Tonka Bean, Butterfly Orchid, Amber, Passion Fruit, Magnolia, Orange Blossom, Grapefruit. So this one's definitely more youthful than mature but at the same time, I could really see almost any woman pulling this off. To me, I like women's fragrances. They are sweet or flowery or likable. That's just kind of what I like in women's fragrances. A lot of women nowadays, they kind of want a little bit more of a bold fragrance, a little bit more mature, respectable kind of fragrance and I don't mind those fragrances at all but typically when I'm smelling a female fragrance, I want it to be likable, fruity or sweet and this is kind of what it covers on all bases. So I was wondering what note in here kind of gave it that female smell because it has a definite female style smell and I think it is the Butterfly Orchid in there but besides that, it's a very likable smell. The production on this one is pretty solid but for female fragrances, I would say it's kind of average but as far as men's fragrances, this is slightly above average. So let's jump into the pros and the cons here. The pros is that it's very cheap, very, very cheap. I think I got this for about $20, super affordable, 3.4 ounce as well. It's got a great presentation. I really just enjoyed the presentation overall. That doesn't really have anything to do with the juice. If I do like the presentation, I do want to note it. It has a very, very good sprayer. It seems to put out more juice than the other first instincts. It has a very likable smell and it is very versatile.  This is so likable and so nice. Maybe you wouldn't want something like that. You'd want something a little more serious. Just about for anybody, I really, really enjoyed this fragrance. It is more youthful than mature. I said that before, but it's just really solid. I could see almost anybody pulling this off. So the cons, it has average longevity, I think for female fragrances. I would say this is slightly above average for men's style fragrance just because it's got this fruity, fresh style smell that usually goes away a little bit quicker on average for this style fragrance. But I would say it's right down the middle. I kind of had to put that as a negative. People were saying that on fragrance because it's not overly unique and complex. And besides that, I have nothing really bad to say about it. It doesn't have the longest longevity and projection and it's not overly unique and complex. It is just kind of right down the middle, but I kind of like it for that. If I were to give it a smell rating, I'd give it a 7.5 to an 8. 7.5 seems low, 8 seems a little high just because I haven't done enough testing on female fragrances. And the smell rating, I kind of incorporate how unique a fragrance is to my personal smell rating. So I give it a 7.5 to an 8. For likability, I would give it a solid 8.5. I think that's a strong suit, very, very solid. And longevity and projection, I'd give it a 7.5 because I did spray this compared to other men's fragrances. And something like Jaguar Paste, this definitely lasted a lot longer. I don't think it has super long projection, but when I was getting relatively close to my skin, this lasted for a long time. I would say probably about around 12 hours on skin. Granted, it's not projecting super hard, but it's definitely noticeable. At the lowest, I would say this is average. And again, if this was a men's fragrance, I would say it's above average. So anyways, guys and girls, let me know what you think of Abercrombie and Fidget's first instinct for her. Have you tried it? Have you not tried it? I'll be very interested to see down below. We're on the road, 25,000 subscribers, and I couldn't do without any of you guys's help. You guys are the best. I'm having a great day out here. Hopefully, I'm having a great day at home. See you all in the next video. Peace. Passion fruit, Magnolia.


Accountability means that you understand what your responsibilities are, that you meet those responsibilities, that you are responsible to the people who depend on you every day. Accountability means doing what you say you're going to do and following through on it. Accountability is a personal experience. You are accountable for your daily activity. You are accountable for how you present yourself. You are accountable for what type of service you provide. Accountability is very important because it's what makes a city work to establish fairness and honesty to the customer and to other employees. To me, accountability means just giving it your best. I have taken responsibility for what you do, whether it's right or wrong. To be aware of my deadlines and if I'm asked to do something, keep my word. When I think of accountability in my department, I work internally on equipment for internal departments and they service the city of Fort Worth, whether it be police department fire, teeping debris, water department. So when we complete a task, we're accountable for everything we work on. Accountability is basically doing exactly what you say you're going to do, especially within customer service. It is so important and vital to make sure that you follow up with the customer when you indicate that you're going to follow up with them.   So I think it's important to be, hold yourself accountable for the actions and the results. We're making Fort Worth the best managed city by implementing a management plan across the board that all of our employees and citizens can refer to and hold us accountable for the things that are in our management plan. Thank you.


Some people have told me that DD saw the doctors today and that it was good news. He's clear to resume baseball activities. Is that what you're hearing? Yeah, he's he got good news. Clear to go. So he'll be he might be down there as we speak actually doing his tea and toss and he'll hit in the cage today. We're not hitting on on the field today, but he should be able to get all his work in today and and hopefully everything goes well. And but yeah, we're feeling very optimistic about where he's at. So this took a turn, obviously, and you said for the last couple of days, it could be 5050. So the good 50 ended up being that the shot hit the right spot and there's a good chance he could play Wednesday in the wild card game. Yeah, I mean, that's that's certainly the hope. Again, we got to now get through these days where we really ramp up his baseball activities, but we are feeling like we're moving in a positive direction.


Hello everyone, welcome to the module on organic reactions. In this lecture, we shall look at what are called as addition reactions, oxidation and reduction reactions. But before we get there, let us just quickly recap what we had learnt in the previous class. In the previous lecture, we had looked at different kinds of elimination reactions, that is E1 mechanism, E2 mechanism, E1 Cb mechanism and we had also said looked at something called as Zaf's rule. So in the, we had said that in E1 mechanism, a carbocation is involved. So just to make it clear, I shall write down that. So in E1 mechanism, a carbocation was involved and E2 mechanism was almost neutral and E1 Cb involved a carbion, right? So this was positively charged and this is pretty much zero and this was a negatively charged species which is involved. And we had said that the E1 mechanism takes place, it is a unimolecular mechanism and typically the alkyl halide or the compound bearing the leaving group is very, very important in the sense whether the carbon is tertiary, secondary or primary dictates whether the given mechanism goes by an E1 or E2. And in the case of E2, we had said that the stereochemistry of the hydrogen on the beta carbon is important or in other words, antiperiplanar arrangement is necessary for elimination in the E2 mechanism is what we had said. And finally, coming to E1 Cb, here we had seen that on the hydrogen on the beta carbon gets abstracted by a base to give rise to a carbion and this carbion on the beta carbon is stabilized by some groups which are present on the beta carbon that is the reason why this carbion forms in the first place. And then this carbion further undergoes reaction to kick out the leaving group and form an alkene or a double bond. And we had also seen examples in which not an alkyl halide but if an alcohol is present by adding a mild acid and heating the reaction mixture, one could obtain an elimination reaction or elimination products. And here we had come across what is called as Zerzap's rule where we had said that among one or more alkene possibilities, the one with the highest substituents is the major product or in other words, alkene which is highly substituted will be the major product. And this is primarily because if you look at the substitution on an alkene, if there are more carbon-carbon bonds that means the stability of the compound is far more compared to CCH bonds or the compounds containing CCH bonds. So because of this thermodynamic driving force, the double bond with the maximum number of substituents will be the major product in the elimination reaction. And this is what was termed as Zerzap's rule, alright. So now what we shall do is we shall go ahead and look at what are called as addition reactions and oxidation as well as reduction reactions. So to begin with addition reactions, I am sure you all remember this reaction which we spoke a couple of class ago where what we said is that there is a double bond, a cyclohexene to which HBr gets added that is both hydrogen and bromine gets added across the double bond to give rise to this product, bromocyclohexene, right. And one can think of many such examples where if you take an alkene and subjected to conditions of hydrogen gas or palladium and carbon catalyst, one would get the corresponding alkene. Here again across this double bond, two hydrogens are added and similarly if we take the alkene and add an HBr, the both hydrogen and the bromine adds across the C triple bond C to give rise to an alkene which is shown here. So in essence what we are trying to do in an addition reaction is we are actually trying to break a pi bond and add or form two new sigma bonds. So just to illustrate that I will show you in this reactions what kind of bonds are broken and what bonds are being formed. So if you take the first example you have a pi bond here which is gets broken between these two carbons and we have these two new sigma bonds that is CCH and the CBr which are being formed. So and this is a typical feature of addition reactions and one can see this in many kinds of addition reactions. So if you now look at this hydrogen here again you have a double bond or an unsaturated bond and if you now look at this you have two CH2's here or two hydrogens and here again you have two hydrogens. So among them you have formed two new CH bonds compared to the reactant. Similarly one can also look at the last example as well. So in essence in an addition reaction we break one or more pi bonds and form two or more sigma bonds in the product. So this is what one would typically call an addition reaction and these classifications are not exactly or strictly sharp. By that I mean if you look at this second reaction or this particular reaction people also call this as a reduction. So the reactions what we are looking at might be classified a same reaction might be classified under one or more heads but the principle remains the same that is in this case a pi bond is broken and more than two or more than two of the sigma bonds are being formed and such reactions we call them as addition reactions. And if you now take this argument further one can look at two different kinds of examples and let us first begin by looking at reactions in which there is a possibility of one or more product and where the products are constitutional isomers of each other. I hope you remember from your lectures on stereo chemistry what do you mean by constitutional isomers and stereo isomers. So let us take one of the examples where again we have a double bond which is shown here or an alkene to which an HBr can be added. So the hydrogen can be added on the first carbon or on the second carbon as well and that leads us to two different kinds of products in shown in either blue or gray color. And similarly if you take the same alkene and subject to an acidic conditions you can get what is called as a hydration reaction or addition of an OH bond and a hydrogen across this double bond to give rise to this alcohols. Again two kinds of alcohols are in principle possible. And finally if you take again an alkene and try to add an HI across it you can again get two kinds of products which are again now constitutional isomers of one another. That is an important thing which I want you to note. Let us see how these isomers are possible. I will show you for the first example and the principle remains the same for others as well. So if you take this the starting material that is you have a double bond and a hydrogen and an ethyl group. So you have an HBr so even H and Br. So this is typically a polarized H plus Br minus and this double bond goes and takes away takes this. That could lead to two possibilities one is so if I call this one and if I call this two hydrogen can go to the carbon one and that would leave with this carbocation or you could also have another scenario which is you can have hydrogen gets transferred to the second carbon and you can have this one too. So you can have these two possibilities. So if you now look at the stability of the carbocation I am sure you will agree that this is a far more stable or more stable carbocation and this is a less stable carbocation. As a result once this forms then the attack by the OH minus or the Br minus becomes facile and that would lead to the major product that is these the blue ones in this case. Whereas if you look at the other possibility which is shown here which is the constitutional isomer these are typically what is called as a minor product or they are formed in very less quantity. So just to make it more clearer so these are all minor products whereas all of these are major products. The ones shown in blue are the major products the ones shown in grey are minor products and I hope you see the reason for that because that stems from the stability of the carbocation or the intermediate. So this now beautifully shows you how a simple addition reaction can give rise to two constitutional isomers and the stability of the product is now dictated by the stability of the intermediate. Similarly the addition reactions can also lead to stereo isomers in principle but many of the times the reactions go to exclusively one of the stereo isomers and we shall look at a couple of examples of such case. So here you see a reaction where a cyclohexene derivative reacts with the BS3 peroxide and a base to give rise to the corresponding addition product where across the double bond an OH and a hydrogen is added and what you see is that you can get both the diastereomers of the product however exclusively the one in blue is observed and that is because the reasons that is because the sterical arguments in which the the reactant the other reactant goes and approaches to give rise to the product and similarly if you now take an alkyne which is shown here and add a bromine you can get two kinds of the brominated products that is 1, 2 dibromo compound where the 1, 2 compound is either in the trans configuration or it is also can be in the cis. So between the cis and the trans the trans is exclusively observed because the bromine and the alkyne initially forms a 3-membered ring and this is opened by attack from the backside to give rise to the trans product. So that is why you exclusively obtain the trans product in this reaction and no or very little of the bromine of the cis isomer is observed. So I hope you can see that addition reactions simple addition reactions can be useful to prepare exclusively a single stereo isomer or even a pair of constitutional isomers with different stabilities right. So now we shall go ahead and look at what are oxidation and reduction reactions in organic chemistry and how to understand them and few examples of such reactions alright. So if you now start looking at oxidation and reduction reactions in organic reactions. So there are there is a simple thumb rule which is used to understand whether a reaction is undergoing oxidation or reduction. So let us first look at the rule and then we shall look at some of the oxidation or reduction reactions. So the rule uses calculating the formal oxidation state of the carbon and once you calculate the formal oxidation of state of the carbon then based on the change in the oxidation state of carbon you can conclude whether the reaction is undergoing oxidation or reduction. This is very similar or analogous to what one would encounter in organic chemistry where if you say iron goes from plus 2 to plus 3 or plus 2 to plus 1 you would call them as oxidation or reduction respectively right. Similarly here we shall first look at the rules by which the oxidation state of the carbon is being ascertained and once we ascertain that then we can decide whether the reaction we are looking at is an oxidation or a reduction reaction. So the first rule is that if the carbon is bonded to another carbon atom then we assume the contribution of the next carbon atom as being 0. Let us say if you are interested in looking at a carbon bonded to another carbon atom like in this particular case this if you want to look at this carbon atom you see that it is bonded to another carbon atom. Since the electron activity is the same for 2 carbon atoms we give this the contribution of the next carbon atom on the alpha position we give it as a 0 value right and now if you go to a carbon hydrogen bond then we give an oxidation state of carbon we assign it as minus 1. So the reason is or the so if we now take a C H okay so the carbon is more electronegative compared to hydrogen so as a result we give a minus charge to the carbon if it is attached to a hydrogen and if there are more than one hydrogen then we multiply this by the number of hydrogen present and if you now go to other atoms that is carbon bonded to other more electronegative atoms that is oxygen, nitrogen or other atoms then we give a formal oxidation state of carbon as plus 1 that is if I have a CO bond CO or then this carbon this particular carbon we can give it as plus 1 because it is now bonded to more electronegative atom which is oxygen in this case. So these are the rules which one would use to calculate the overall oxidation state of a given carbon atom and once we have that then we can ascertain whether it given reaction is an oxidation or a reduction reaction right. So now let us go ahead and take a few examples to see how this actually works. So here is a sequence of reactions which is drawn or shown in front of you where we have an alcohol which gets converted into an aldehyde by using what is called as PCC. PCC is nothing but a pridinium chlorochromate a reagent which is used to selectively oxidize alcohols primary alcohols to the corresponding aldehydes and then if you take that aldehyde and treat it with a potassium permanganate or a chromate you would get the corresponding carboxylic acid. So now let us do this exercise to see whether this is an oxidation reaction or a reduction reaction. So for that we would be interested in looking at this particular carbon atom that is this atom. So I will start writing out the all the contributions. So now it is connected to one carbon atom on this side. So the one contribution is first is 0 and it has 2 hydrogens. So then I would write that as minus 2 and it is connected to one oxygen so I would give it as plus 1. So this will be in total minus 1 right oxidation state of this particular carbon. Similarly if I look at the oxidation state of this carbon so 1 is 0 because it is connected to carbon on this side and connected to hydrogen on the other side minus 1 and it is connected to oxygen since it is a double mode I will multiply it by 2 and I am going to write it as plus 2 because oxygen is more electronective than carbon and this would give me a plus 1. And if I now come down and try to do the same exercise for this what I see is it is connected to again a carbon atom I will put it as 0 and this is connected to one oxygen so plus 1 and this is again connected to 2 or via double bond to an oxygen. So I would write it as plus 2 and this would go to plus 3. So here you see that the change in oxidation is from minus 1 to plus 1 to plus 3 right. So now since you are going from minus 1 to plus 3 or you are going to more positive state of oxidation you would call this typically as an oxidation reaction right. So thus we can call this as an oxidation reaction. And similarly let us take another example where we have a cyclohexene derivative and let us try and do the same exercise with this and see what comes out of this. And here I will be interested in looking at this particular carbon and if we now take this particular carbon it is again attached to one carbon on this side this carbon so I shall put 0 as the value and one other substituent is an oxygen so plus 1 and it is again attached to a C double bond O that means plus 2 so this would give rise to a plus 3. And if I come to the middle product which is an aldehyde so I am going to again look at this so I have a attached to carbon so I will put this as 0 and attachment to a one of the hydrogens minus 1 C double bond O plus 2 and this would give me a plus 1. Finally if we come to alcohol this carbon is now attached to one carbon which is 0 to hydrogens minus 2 and plus 1 because it is connected to one oxygen atom. So this would give me a minus 1. So if you now look at overall what is happening you are going from a positive oxidation state and it is getting reduced to minus 1 you are going from plus 3 to minus 1 that means you are undergoing a reduction reaction in the classical sense which one would use for inorganic complexes. So this I would call it a reduction reaction and in all this while you might have already noticed that I had written something called as a dibal or I have written something called as lithium aluminum hydride. So these are specific reagents which one uses to carry out a specific transformation that is reduction from an ester to an aldehyde or an aldehyde to a corresponding primary alcohol. Similarly on the top scheme you see that PCC is used for a selective conversion of the alcohols primary alcohols to the corresponding aldehydes and it only stops the oxidation state at the aldehyde it does not lead to the over oxidized product that is carboxylic acid. And there are n number of such reagents which one can use to perform these oxidation reduction or any kinds of transformation selectively. So with this I will leave you with what are called as oxidation reduction ladders and this is something which I have taken from the website called master organic chemistry which is very beautifully explained for a beginner and what you observe here is that here a primary alkane is shown here and on the right hand side is shown as the oxidation and on the left hand side is the reduction and you see the oxidation state of the carbon going from minus 3 in the alkane to a minus 1 in primary alcohol and goes to plus 1 in the aldehydes and plus 3 in carboxylic acids. This is something which we saw and if you come from the other side you undergo a reduction that is exactly what is shown here and one can do the same exercise even for secondary alcohols that is going from alkane if you go to secondary alcohol and then to ketones and then to esters one can do the same exercise and then you see this beautiful charts or ladder diagrams which give you the relationship between oxidation and reduction and one can also see that here there are again some of the reagents for oxidation reduction which are mentioned here that is sodium borohydride, lithium aluminum hydride which are reagents which are known to transfer what is called as an hydride to accomplish this reduction reactions and then you have oxidants such as again PCC that is pridinium chlorochromate and H2CRO4 that is the chromium salt and the same kind of examples can be used to carry out the other transformations as well. So I hope that this has given you some idea of what do we mean by addition and oxidation and reduction reactions and this also I hope you have given an idea about some kind of reagents or specific reagents which are available for transforming an alcohol to say an ester or to corresponding primary alcohol to aldehyde or aldehyde to carboxylic acid. So there are various reagents around in the literature and based on the transformation which one is interested you can choose the appropriate reagent and carry out the transformation. So I will just put this thing whatever we discussed in a nutshell that is we started out by saying that organic reactions are important because the word which we live in is a molecular word and that hinges critically on the molecules which one can make and in order to make the molecules one must understand the chemistry which is happening behind it. So in that perspective we started looking at different kinds of organic transformations and we had looked at substitution reactions where one can transform benzene into various kinds of derivatives it could be either a chlorobenzene or a nitrobenzene or any other kind of benzene and similarly we had seen substitution in aliphatic systems where a leaving group could be replaced with an incoming nucleophile via different kinds of mechanisms to give rise to substituted product and then we had seen what are called as elimination reactions where a leaving group leaves to give rise to a double bond. And finally in this lecture we looked at oxidation reduction and addition reactions. So these are some of the tools which a synthetic organic chemist would use in a day to day lab to prepare a molecule or a drug of interest and invariably the synthetic transformation would involve more than one step at a time that is one has to carry out a series of transformation to arrive at a particular molecule of interest and that molecule is what is going to be ultimately used in any of the devices or drugs. So I hope this has given you some flavor of organic transformations and their relevance in the day to day life. With this I shall stop here and thank you for listening to me.


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