on the Farbland event schedule page. Hello, and welcome to this talk by Cyber Law. He will tell us about how you can join anonymous to hack offensively. Oh, wait, no, it's going to be about the cybercrime by anonymous and by offensive hacking or hackbacks, both by black hats or our government, maybe are not such a good idea. Cyber Law, would you like to tell us more about this? Yes, with pleasure. Thank you for this introduction. I hope you can see the slide, which what is this about cybercrime by anonymous is what I use as a name. So legal, ethical and taking the questions all around cyber war. And that is what we will have to deal with for the next 20, 25 minutes. And I should tell you in advance that it is going to be a legalese talk, but I have tried to shorten things, but there will be quite a lot of text on the slide. So please be warned. And also a hint, this talk being named anonymous will have two sections. The first one is going to be about anonymous and the declaration of war against the Russian Federation. And the second section will be asking or picking up the question whether Germany, whether it will be legitimate for the German state to start hackbacks in cyberspace. Is there a legal justification for that? And what are the political arguments that are being brought forward? But let's get going with the first slide. The anonymous group has declared cyber war, as they called it. And I've collected a few quotes that went through the web in the last few days and weeks, various papers reported about this. And I found that was quite interesting. We have headlines such as anonymous is back, how the cyber war against Russia goes, hacker collective attacks the Kremlin, how does the IT campaign work, hacker as a warring party, Ukraine war, anonymous published sensitive data of 120,000 Russian soldiers, hacktivism in war between digital blockades and cyber war, anonymous hacks the largest Russian bank and Moscow stock exchange. And in fact, in various social networks, there was not that much response, but shortly after the war of aggression against Ukraine started, these things went through the roof. And even the conservative paper really went wild. And I thought, well, this is obviously something that people respond to. There's a lot of interest and lots of thumbs up to anonymous declaring a cyber war. So the first impression was, well, that is quite a good idea. And of course, there is this war of aggression in contravention of international law. So how can we defend against that? So many people thought that was a positive thing. And what we are going to delve into is, is this actually a war and what are the consequences to the actions by anonymous? If you look at the, look through it to an legal and ethical lens. And if we talk about cyber war, the first question you have to ask what actually is cyber war exactly. And legally you can distinguish between two different issues. First, there are cyber attacks by Russia against Ukraine and in contrast, Ukraine hacking against Russia. And you have to say from the start, from an international law point of view, mere cyber attacks do not make a cyber war. It's not a state of war. And the question has to be, how does international law judge this and what are the constitutional framework? Because Germany isn't devoid of any rules and not acting in an empty space, not even when cyber actions are concerned. You have to ask, which is going to be the second section, who is actually responsible in Germany? Whose role would it be to conduct such a hackback? What are the government structures and how can authorities prepare and actually act in a constitutional manner? And firstly, cyber attacks, whether by states or from civilian infrastructure, on states or on civilian infrastructure, cannot be called a state of war, not from the point of view of international law. And there are two central aspects here that international law uses to define war. And a few years ago, there was a position paper that was published by the scientific service of the German parliament, the Bundestag, where they broke it down into lay person's terms. And if you look at the conditions that are set in that paper, you can easily say that for a conventional war, two things are required. First, you have to have an armed struggle, the entry into a state of war, for example, through a declaration of war. And the question, of course, you have to ask, and that anonymous has to ask, how do you judge the involvement of civilian actors that get involved in this fight, be it in conventional ways or in a cyber way? And at what point does a cyber attack, which isn't yet a war as we've just seen, when does that pass the threshold into a armed conflict and international law? It's not a lot of fun to deal with for many people. There's a lot of vague terms here, and the more parties are involved in a certain state of things, the more difficult it is to reach a consensus. And that is something that to a large extent applies to international law as well. But what people do agree on is that for cyber warfare, international law effectively can be applied. And it can be applied just as much as in attacks with conventional weapons. And that's where things get interesting from a legal point of view, because from the international law perspective, if we compare cyber attacks with an attack conducted by conventional methods, an armed attack, you have to be able to draw some kind of comparison. And there are various perspectives that I have alluded to already. You have to consider these perspectives and depending which perspective you take, you might reach different conclusions. Looking at the attack on Russia against Ukraine, Russia against Ukraine, of course, it's clear that this is in convention of international law and it's in a war of aggression. And we have seen Ukraine counterattacking in cyberspace, so that is cyber war then per definition because Ukraine is in an armed conflict with the Russian Federation, which is also supported by cyber actions. So when a state is attacked in this way, of course, it is the right of that state to defend itself, which is called the right to self-defense in international law, which applies to Ukraine, and more concrete, these measures, there is a talent manual which contains rules for a war and cyber war, the talent manual, and going back to anonymous away from Ukraine, you have to first ask ourselves what is anonymous actually. It's a hacker collective, loosely organized. There is no clear hierarchy, no responsibilities. And ultimately you have to say that these are more or less private people who act on their own behalf, on their own motivation. And of course, anonymous is not a subject of international law. It cannot be a party in the conflict and therefore it cannot issue a declaration of war. They cannot act as an independent third party that says we are now as an independent institution enter into the state of war. Another problem that is based on the fact that this is a hacker collective is that these people are acting without identification. They are free combatants in the digital space, which means that it is very, very hard to relate actions to individuals. And that is something that is necessary from a legal point of view to judge who can be related to which warring party or none such party at all. And in a conventional war, the state of things is that as soon as you enter into the conflict you lose your rights as a civilian. And that could be more or less applicable in cyberspace as well. But even if you follow the call by Ukraine that was published, they asked for people to join their IT army entering a recruitment process almost. That doesn't automatically lead to an international law justification because this was a one-sided call. And again, the problem is I'm not going to register with Ukraine, I'm not going to work for the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense. So ultimately the question of definitions are not really affected by that. And the problem that not many people really see is when I act individually as a natural person I am responsible for my actions and also legally from a point of view of criminal law and every state has cyber crime laws these days that deal with these actions, including Germany. So manipulation of data, computer sabotage, these are crimes defined in law trying to retain access that is not permitted. These are all crimes from the cyber area and you are not freed from that responsibility once you get involved. You could say, okay, anonymous issues, a symbolic declaration of war and hacker collectives and individuals are becoming active. People that try to attack everything that's Russian in a sense and trying to reach some kind of results because all that would help. You could say that is sensible to act in solidarity with Ukraine that of course does make sense. And of course you are fighting against a authoritarian injustice regime that is committing crimes of war, war crimes. And of course these are not just laws against crimes in terms of international law but also from a human ethical point of view it's completely unjustifiable what is being done. It's a war of aggression against the Ukrainian state against civilians in particular. And you can say of course that you have entered into politics of 1,000 small intrusions, pinpricks and everything you have to take into account when you ask yourself whether hackbacks, digital attacks are something you can perform. And the problem that has already been seen in my previous slides is that private people are getting involved into actions of war and these 1,000 pinpricks might even strengthen the Russian military and Russian propaganda machinery. They are being given arguments for their illegal actions and or justifications. And if attacks on critical infrastructure in Ukraine might occur or in Russia the civilian population might suffer. They might be immediately affected and these are not people that are immediately involved in this conflict. So that might lead to a situation where there is even more solidarity within the country which is the kind of deep problem that we see already. There's a huge fake news machinery in action in Russia and they explicitly try to raise a political mood that is directly against the West and Putin of course will be strengthened in their fight against the evil West. So you have to ask yourself I think from an ethical point of view, of course you could say everyone can be part of saving the world but looking at this from the other side it is a kind of individual justice with my own judgment, my own sense of justice, my own... This is not something that you would normally authorize yourself to do. If I don't like someone I'm not immediately going to try and hack them or something or expose them and that is something that should be considered here as well and not least Russia and Ukraine. These are the main conflict parties of course but it's quite likely that other foreign powers will get involved with secret service operations which they might use under the cover of that war and that of course is also going to be supported by this lack of attribution. That is my idea about the anonymous issue. I want to take this a notch further. As I said, we have two parts of this presentation. The first will be about the anonymous cyber war and then cyber war in Germany or how would Germany be involved in a cyber war because this has a long history towards the years ago. A position paper was published by the German government that was about concrete plannings of a hackback to prepare and execute a cyber war and this was given to the parliament to decide upon and it kind of disappeared and not a lot happened in the last three years but now it's gotten quite a lot of attention again because we're asking ourselves how can Germany act in this current situation and with a threat level rising constantly? Is there something we have to do? Do we have to support certain powers? And should we have the ability to fight back in a cyber war? And if you use a go, it was very unclear how to do that whether to include secret services for example and the German office for information security made it clear that the Bundeswehr, the German army would be the entity that would have to be active there and that is important to know whether the German army would become involved here and what stipulations would be put upon the German army and when defensive action becomes necessary in terms of an aggression from outside. So if the German army becomes involved then it would be a kind of military violence when there's aggression from outside and if there's a concrete attack, we need very strict rules because the German army's main task is to become active in catastrophes and give help or for example in 1998 we had quite a bad train disaster in Germany where the German army was also tasked with evacuating people who were injured. And also keeping IT systems up to date is also a very important task in ensuring that Germany can defend itself against cyber attacks. The problem here is of course you could say you define a low threshold but the problem is that Germany isn't acting in free space basically also not in the cyberspace. So if we lower the threshold of what is considered aggression we are legally responsible and our German army can't just take offensive action in the cyber realm. And there's certain politicians in Germany who are saying that we need possibilities to defend ourselves in the cyber realm and to prevent attacks and that means that we have to raise the discussion about the hack back again. And of course that poses the questions do we automatically have a cyber war? And according to Ms. Faeser's current proposal I think a change in the constitution is planned but this isn't very concrete. It just means that the federal government needs more competencies in order to be able to hack back or to defend Germany against incoming cyber attacks and that takes us back to the German army. And we also have a domestic politics facet to this whole debate. If we give more competencies to the federal government and we had that discussion when we introduced new security laws before that cyber defense was considered a state competency and many people are getting the feeling that the federal government is already taking too much responsibility or taking on too many tasks or powers. So the whole topic has gone beyond the technical side and has moved into the political realm. How to deal with zero day exploits and whether states are able or should be able to use security gaps. This is a question that has been raised again and again and should be raised in terms of anonymous as well. So how do we do cyber warfare? Even if we commit to respecting the constitution and have the German army strictly respect the constitution that's not possible in a cyber realm because not everything is black and white. So if we just say let's hack back or let's take counter offense that's not very easy and the question raises itself whether this would be sustainable in the long term. You can always buy hardware or software. Our current new government in Germany has taken a very clear position there. But the question still raises itself how should the concrete law look like. And of course Germany has a responsibility in international law. If you look at hackbacks at Ms. Pazer's statement the debate since 2019, then you can only say starting the hackback debate again is a political rhetorical device and doesn't have much sense behind it. So that takes me to my conclusion. Hackback cyber war digital society sounds good is bad. Of course people are really moved by what is happening but still you have to think how do you legitimize counter offensive action and what are the consequences on all of the stakeholders and especially for anonymous. There hasn't been very clear communication of these factors and the actual war and the actual events that determine this war actually aren't happening in the cyber realm. So this politics of pinpricks that we mentioned has its inherent risks. So if you get involved you really have to consider whether this is something you can legitimize and the problem with anonymous is everyone's responsible. If the whole ominous entity or organization is responsible no one's responsible basically. What concerns Germany as I said this ongoing discussion since 2019 has pretty much stagnated and hasn't really made progress. I haven't seen any concrete law initiatives. So legally and technically we have no definitions, no clear concepts, no certainty in terms of the constitutional how to do to anchor that in the constitution and my appeal would be that maybe we should concentrate more on passive cyber defense instead of active cyber offense. That was it from my side and I'm looking forward to the discussion. Thank you very much for this fascinating talk. So there's a lot of questions actually in the pad. Of course, as one might have imagined. Let me ask a personal question. You talked a lot about why it's not a good idea to hack actively but as peace loving beings in CCC what can we do to make a positive change? Well, I said it in my final statement that cyber offense as promoted by Faser and Anonymous is not what I favor but it's rather passive cyber defense. So what can people do personally to lower the set as I showed how can I support critical infrastructure, critical cybersecurity infrastructure, data protection? There was our points that you could start with and last but not least, we all have limited time and there's enough possibilities to get active in helping refugees and they need every helping hand they can get right now. So if you want to wage war against Russia this is where you can start peacefully and passively. Yeah, of course, we promoted being active in that manner. Thanks a lot of people asking legal questions. So what does it mean for me as a German hacker? If I for example carried out the DOF attack, is that a criminal offense? Do I need to be afraid to be prosecuted?  Well, a DDOS attack is basically nothing. But you have to think about who is the victim and I don't know the Russian legal system or I think laws in terms of cyber security or data security. I do assume that Russia does have certain regulations on that, on secret information for example and how to protect that, of course, this would be prosecuted by Russia but in Germany, I don't think it'll be prosecuted. So if German offenders are concerned we do have a cyber criminal law in Germany. This is nothing new and we have laws in terms of sabotage, acts or data breaches. But we don't only have criminal law, we also have civil law in Germany. So for example, if a service faces interruptions a company can't work anymore. In Germany, this has happened in the past with hacker attacks and of course there are civil law clauses that apply and where companies might be entitled to compensation. So if you find the perpetrators, of course, this can be prosecuted either criminally or at the same time civilly as well. There's also the question, is it a criminal offense to use the or to operate to our notes in order to create web access for Russians? Well, as I said, I can't give a consultation in terms of law but I don't think that this would be a problem. I don't know the Russian law but here this is not really relevant. Yeah, maybe it's for Russian hacker refugees if you support them or take action there. Yeah, that's a whole completely different area. So something I was wondering personally, especially when it comes to attacks on Russian civilian infrastructure, if you really do tangible damage, substantial damage that takes away people's basic needs like access to water or if you make a trained rail, I don't think this is possible by cyber means but let's just assume, could people in Germany be prosecuted through international law? I don't think we have precedence there. So of course those offenses that are regulated in international law, but from the judicial position, I think this wouldn't be problematic because there's not a, there are no extradition contracts for example, but you have to ask yourself can you morally support that personally? Because there's not always only a legal perspective but also a personal moral perspective so you have to ask yourself, is that morally justifiable for myself personally? And this is the decisive question that you have to pose here and I think the law really takes the second place here only. Let me look at those questions on Twitter, it doesn't look like it. Mastodon is a fantastic, decentralized alternative to Twitter so do use it if you haven't heard of it before but it looks like no, there aren't any questions on Mastodon either so I'll answer all the questions so I'll answer all the questions, fantastic. Yeah, you left us speechless basically. All right, anyway, I heard that you don't have that much time and you don't have time for a wake-up room, so. You'll be happy not to be overwhelmed with questions right now. Thank you very much for your fantastic.


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Basically let me introduce, I am Akshay, he is Pranav, we will cut short according to surf. So basically what we are here to do, what we are here to do is optimization, we are working on the optimization toolbox. So what our exact job was here, let me brief you through with what we have done. So our job was to make a solver in Sylab, make a function in Sylab which will solve mixed integer linear programming and mixed integer non-linear programming problems. So what mixed integer linear programming stands for is. So there is a linear equation and in this equation we have some constraints where there will be some constraints which will be given by a matrix A and we will give a matrix B, there will be some equality constraints, we will give bounds on each variable and now what different in our program, what different in our functions is we have to restrict some of the variables to be integers and not real numbers or not non-integers. So if we want to restrict some numbers to be integers, we have to provide that data input differently. So basically mixed integer linear programming solves this equation and for the objective function we have to find a maximum or a minimum value, that is what our program for integer linear programming does. So basically what CBC does is, so we have linked a library named CBC, CBC library is for mixed integer linear programming. Now we will show you the analogous function in MATLAB for the same is integer linear programming int lintprog. What we have implemented is CBC int lintprog for Sylab. Now we have tested the function, we have used the function and we have found similar results for different, so this is one problem which we have coded. So this is a .m file which we have ran on MATLAB. So this is directly from the MATLAB's main site. So this is the function f which we need to minimize. So integer constraint 2 states that the variable x2 has to be integer and constraint to those conditions that minus x1 minus 2x2 should be less than 14, less than equal to 14, minus 4x1 minus x2 should be less than equal to 33, 2x1 plus x2 should be less than equal to 20. So these are the conditions and with the given conditions the constraint is integer constraint of second variable should be integer. So when we ran the file on MATLAB we got this output. So this is the output which we got on MATLAB. So we can see that the second number is an integer according to this and the function value or the minimum value which we had to find was 59. Now for the same we have written a .sei code and now we will show you how our function works. So basically this is the code, same thing, same function, same integer constraints a, b and we will pass some extra parameters. If we don't want to pass parameters we can put our list, maybe something of that sort and then after that we run the function so we get the same output, we can see. So we have calculated everything apart from the points, apart from the value we have also tried to calculate relative gap, absolute gap, number of nodes used, number of visible points, number of iterations, constant violation and the message that optimal solution is found. So it's at 6.5 and 7 and the function value is 59. So it is same to what we get in MATLAB. So we have provided in this function, we have overloaded this function. So basically our job was to take input from CILAP, do error checks on it, convert it to the format which the C++ library can understand. How many such functions you have tested? Sir we have three. No, no, no, not you have three, go back, you exact something, no? Yes. Yes, so okay.  Yes. Your specification is that CBC integer whatever that linear program should be equal to MATLAB integer linear program function. Yes. It should behave the same way. Yes. That is your specification. Yes. Correct? Yes. This particular thing has been tested with how many inputs? So we have used around 24 error checks if we give integer constraints to be a non-variable negative number. How many test cases have you run which show exactly same result on this and this? Sir around 10 or 14. Okay fine, 10 or 14. In which way did you generate the 10 or 14? Sir we found, so these examples are very specific, so we need to find these examples from a website which has mixed integer linear programming problems. So for error checks we can put random data, for error checks we can put garbage values and we can, for proper examples we have used a site, we have found examples online, we have ran it on both the systems and we have checked it for 10. So that is working example? Yes. Okay, error code, 10 by 10 to 14 includes error? No sir, error codes are written, so we have checked error codes on our own. So we are not counting error checks in our 10 to 14. The integer int whatever that MATLAB that also produces the same errors? Yes sir. Not exactly the same message but our system will tell you. Why not exactly the same message? Copyright issue by MATLAB, we cannot actually... Error message there is no copyright. What do you mean? You are wrong. I cannot say you are wrong because MATLAB says you are wrong. Sir we can say this error has been found but we cannot copy the same message that MATLAB wrote. That is exactly what I say, you are wrong is MATLAB message. Does that stop everybody from saying you are wrong? Sir, we cannot argue with MATLAB. No, there is no question of arguing with MATLAB. If MATLAB wants to skylab, then they have to screw to them that you are wrong is my copyright. Nobody else in the world can say you are wrong. There is no such copyright for error message, please. Okay. Cannot have a copyright for error message. Sir, but there is no issue in changing the message. It doesn't matter. You show me, otherwise the message will have to say you are supposed to reproduce That is copyright violation. Copyright violation by copying their copyright. And then you say error message I cannot give. Sir, we are not copying their function. We are trying to replicate what they have done. So we have open source libraries. What is that? Same input, same output. Okay. Except error message I will not give. What is this nonsense? We have run a error script. Right. So it says something. I agree.  Next column. Yes. So this function runs fine. So also what interesting thing about this function is we have provided. All right. So there was just a MPS file which is available. So we can run the MPS file as well. We have overloaded the function in Sylab. So, okay. Not an issue. Have you done anything more than A? Yes, sir. We have also included one more library, Bohnman. Bohnman is for mixed integer non-linear programming. So now what non-linear programming is in this mixed integer quadratic programming. So this is the equation where this is the Haitian. This is the function. These are the constraints again. And again, for integer constraint, we have passed this thing. So this is a completely different library. And now we have written a function in QPIP op. So there's no analogous function in MATLAB. So MATLAB doesn't solve these kind of problems. So this is something very interesting. And we will... Don't MATLAB in writing that when you solve it, you cannot give my error message. And then write to a wrong. And MATLAB cannot say a word. So but in development, it's okay to stay away from issues, right? No, that's okay. Okay. So... You've done something which MATLAB doesn't have and you have copyrighted it. So this function... They have to say that they owe it to you. So MATLAB cannot technically claim copyright on us because we are open source. No. But when they write that function, they have to say that the functionality has been derived from Akshay Mitraani. All right. So this is again... A library has been linked. We have done the same thing for this. We have linked it with Sylab. We take input, push the arguments to C++ code, generate necessary error messages if there are any, or return the output if it's optimal, return the messages how it has been solved and with all the constraints and everything. So we can show you and we can run more examples if you want to. So also for this function, if there are advanced users who use Bornmin for their regular purposes, they can add a .opt file which is an additional feature. So they can give extra commands, extra advanced user-specific commands. So it's building the library. It's generating help. So we have generated help and proper documentation for how you can call the function, what are the exact routines for calling the function. So this is for int QPIP opt. We are not giving any integer constraints right now. Status is zero. That means it's optimal solution, function value, where it is found, show the help. So all right. So this is basically what optimization toolbox is for. Optimization toolbox does this thing and... Yes. Only one thing is that he told, really this is a point to be noted that we have copied the function. No, we haven't. So what I'm saying, the functionality has been copied. So I may have expected that your functionality may be having something different taste than the MATLAB. Maybe the sequence of the variable passing is different. Maybe the output has got one more parameter available, so that it becomes the indigenous silab identity, rather than saying that we have the same functionality rather than like MATLAB. So the philosophy of MATLAB is that we want to make people switch from MATLAB to silab. We know all this thing. So we are talking something different. We are not here to compare silab MATLAB. But I'm saying that what he has raised the issue that the functionality is similarly putting, we may have put some plus. And then we may have got the better thing than the MATLAB. We should not say that we have similar. We have said we have better. The integer linear programming is not MATLAB's copyright. It is a pure mathematics. And the result is going to be same. Two plus two is going to be four. Either it is a MATLAB silab or whosoever on the earth, two plus two is going to four. Two plus two is five. I can say you are wrong. You may not be equal to four. So this is what our exact work was. So if anybody wants to check out the work, they can go to our GitHub link and they can contact us later on if they want to know more. Thank you.


Hello everybody, Hooded Cobra Commander 788 here, and I'm back with another Vintage GI Joe toy review. And this time, to give us a little break from summer, I'm going to look at GI Joe's Arctic Trooper snow job. Before we get started, I want to remind everybody to smash that subscribe button. And if you liked this video, give this video a thumbs up. If you don't like this video, give it a thumbs down. If you're watching this video from any website other than YouTube, I would greatly appreciate it if you take a little trip over to the Hooded Cobra Commander 788 YouTube channel and go ahead and subscribe. I've got a lot of great new GI Joe toy reviews coming up, and you don't want to miss them. This is snow job. He was released in 1983. He was also sold in 1984 and 1985. He was discontinued in 1986 when he was replaced by iceberg. Let's get this out of the way up front. The name snow job, it really just sounds awful, doesn't it? I mean, there's just no way to say it without sounding dirty. Let's take a look at snow job's accessories, and he came with a lot of accessories. Let's first look at his weapon. The car refers to this as an XMLR3A laser rifle. This laser rifle is significant in the GI Joe universe because the cartoon used this rifle as the standard laser rifle for all of the GI Joe team. As I've mentioned before, I was not a big fan of the GI Joe cartoon, and one of the reasons was because of the excessive use of science fiction weapons, and this guy right here was the main culprit. I don't understand why you give a laser rifle to an arctic trooper, but it doesn't make sense for more than one reason. This XMLR3A laser rifle is supposed to be an updated version of the XMLR1A laser rifle that came with flash. Of course it looks nothing like the original rifle that came with flash, and a flash of course was the laser rifle trooper. So by giving snow job an updated laser rifle, he effectively makes flash redundant. Again, I'm not a big fan of the excessive use of science fiction weapons in GI Joe, and this is entirely a fantasy weapon. This is entirely a science fiction weapon, but I also don't like how the universe that the toys are supposed to occupy is not internally consistent. I mean, this really doesn't make any sense. I don't know why this weapon would be appropriate for an arctic trooper. The most prominent accessories that Snow Job came with were his skis. His skis connected to his backpack. The skis had pegs that fit into the holes on the bottom of the action figure's feet, and the backpack also had holes, so you'd peg in the skis. I'm taking these off very carefully, and I have to warn you two things about these skis. They are subject to yellowing, as really is all of the plastic that's light colored on GI Joe action figures. You see a lot of snow job action figures that have a lot of yellowing. This one fortunately is still pretty white, but you do see a lot of them where the white plastic has turned yellow. And on these skis and the backpack, as the plastic turns yellow, it also has a tendency to become very brittle. So be very careful with these, they can break very easily. As you can see, it's a very thin piece of plastic, and that will easily snap on you. To connect the skis to his feet, you just put the peg in the foothole on the bottom of the foot, one on each side, one for each foot, and then he was ready to ski into an arctic combat zone. Other accessories that he came with that complimented his skis were the ski poles. The ski poles also connect to the backpack in these slots. As you can see, these ski poles are very, very thin. They're somewhat bendable, but they can break, so be careful with those. The ski poles fit in his hands easily enough, but be careful when placing them in his hands. They are a little bit thick, and they can strain the thumbs a little bit. And again, they are very, very thin pieces of plastic, and you don't want to end up breaking the ski poles. Snowjob's final accessory was his backpack. The backpack had a peg, and it fit in the hole in the back of the action figure, like any other G.I. Joe backpack. As you can see, there are some sculpted-on pockets there, holes for the foot pegs on the skis, and slots for the ski poles. As I mentioned before, these backpacks are subject to yellowing, and can become very brittle as they become yellow. In fact, one time I had one of these notches here where the ski pole goes in, really just snap off with really no effort at all. I was just trying to put the ski pole in the backpack and applied very little pressure, but that's all it took, and it just sheared right off. So do exercise extra caution with these white accessories. They do tend to become very, very fragile. I think one very obvious missed opportunity on the backpack or on the rifle is that Snowjob has no way of holding his rifle when he is holding his ski poles. The backpack can hold all of the accessories except for the rifle. So if they had made a slot for the rifle, or if they had just put a strap on the rifle so that he could sling the rifle over his shoulder, then he would be able to carry all of his accessories all the time. Let's take a look at Snowjob's articulation. He had the typical articulation for 1983 G.I. Joe action figures, which means that he could turn his head from left to right. Later versions of G.I. Joe action figures had a ball joint in the neck, so they could also look up and down, but in 1983 they could just turn their head side to side like that. The figure was held together with a rubber O-ring that looped around inside of it, which allowed him to move at the torso a little bit. His arm at the shoulder could swing up like that, and it could rotate all the way around. He had a hinge at the elbow that could move his arm up about 90 degrees, and he had a swivel at the bicep, which they referred to as swivel arm battle grip, so his arm could swivel all the way around, and this allowed the figures to hold their weapons with a two-handed grip. He could move his legs apart about so far. He could move his legs at the hip about 90 degrees, and he could bend at the knee about 90 degrees. Let's look at the sculpt of Snowjob. He is wearing winter gear. He's got some sculpted-on pockets on his chest and arms, some very nice detailing on his gloves. He's wearing black goggles and a fur-lined hood, and as you can see he has a very prominent red beard. The figure is mostly white, offset with a little bit of black and brown, just to keep it from being boring. Now this white plastic, as I said before, is subject to yellowing. There are some tricks to reducing the yellow in some of the plastic that has already yellowed, but I haven't had a lot of success with those, so I can't vouch for them. As I mentioned in a previous video, Snowjob really stood out on the shelves, and I really had to get him when I saw him. I mean, he was a white GI Joe figure. He seemed very special. He was unique. But after I got the action figure as a kid, I really didn't play with him all that much, and that's mainly because, well, I live in Oklahoma, and in the winter we do get some snow, but we don't really get a lot of snow. So there really wasn't a lot of opportunity to play with an Arctic trooper outside. This entire mold of Snowjob was reused in the year 2000 to create a new character called Whiteout, who looked exactly like Snowjob, except he had a brown beard instead of a red beard. Overall, I would say this is an undeniably good-looking action figure, but it does have some bad points. Bad points, of course, being the yellowing of the white plastic, the very brittle accessories, and the lack of a strap on his rifle so that he can't hold his rifle when he is holding his ski poles. Even though Snowjob did not come with a vehicle, I think most collectors would agree that he is perfectly paired with the 1983 Polar Battle Bear, the first GI Joe Polar vehicle, and it just fits perfectly with Snowjob. It's almost like he was meant to drive this thing. In the comic book, he did drive this vehicle and he appears on the box art for the Polar Battle Bear. Since they go so well together, I always display Snowjob driving the ski mobile. But even this obvious pairing has a downside in that the Polar Battle Bear did not have any place to store Snowjob's accessories. So you can't wear his backpack while he's driving and there's no place to store the backpack and the skis and the ski poles and the rifle. So you just have to set those aside somewhere when he's driving the ski mobile. Let's take a look at the file card. These file cards were printed on the back of the card on which the figure was packaged. There's a little bit of the front of the card there. And you were encouraged to cut these out because it contained a short biography of the character represented by this action figure. Up here at the top it says Arctic Trooper, code name Snowjob. His file name is Harlan W. Moore, primary military specialty Arctic ski patrol, secondary military specialty rifle instructor. His birthplace is Rutland, Vermont and his grade is E6 Sergeant. This middle section here says, Snowjob was a major Olympic biathlon contender. Now weirdly, I think the word biathlon is misspelled on the card. A biathlon is an Olympic event that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting, which I guess is perfect for the character of Snowjob. He enlisted initially for the special training and support privileges that the Army gives to Olympic champions. However, to the consternation of Army PR Flaks, Snowjob volunteered and was accepted into the GI Joe team. Qualified expert, all NATO long range sniper rifles and the XMLR 3A laser rifle. The file card makes Snowjob out to be an expert marksman and he may be considered GI Joe's first sniper. But if that's the case, then why not give him a sniper rifle, maybe something with a big scope rather than this science fiction weapon laser rifle? There's a quote down here at the bottom of the card. It says, submitted by rock and roll.   So the file card paints Snowjob as a con artist and a jock and generally not a very likable guy. The personality depicted in the file card came through in the comic books sometimes, but not a lot. So that's my review of the 1983 Snowjob and his file card. I hope you enjoyed this video. If you did, go ahead and give it a thumbs up. If you didn't, go ahead and give it a thumbs down. But whatever you do, don't forget to subscribe. I've got a lot of great new videos coming up. You won't want to miss them. And I've got some ideas for a few special things that you definitely want to be subscribed for. Thanks for watching and I'll catch you all later. ["Snowjob Theme Song"]


First I would start saying that as periodic I'm super nervous, so I don't know if it's excited excitement or what it is But I will try to do my best, okay? Okay, I will just start by saying Well that energy is key for MSF operations not only to provide to use biomedical equipment like oxygen concentrators, but also IT equipment or to store vaccines and drugs for example And now that we are moving on to more and more complex Operations, it's basic to ensure a reliable energy supply No and to provide as you can see there Technically, socially, environmentally and economically responsible energy solutions Adapted to contacts and needs and in order to offer the best setup to our operations But always by taking into consideration the three priorities that it's like Ensuring the safety of the people the protection of devices and the continuity of service And this is what we call the energy vision that is like a common vision or a common desire desired energy scenario But taking into consideration the challenges the operational challenges that we are facing right now And we can see this better in a The OCB energy vision Energy is essential for our projects Lights heating cooling Biomed water supply and IT equipment are all energy dependent Without them we couldn't provide an effective service to our beneficiaries at the logistics department We are constantly working to ensure that the electrical systems in our projects are safe and reliable for our patients and our staff However, we think there is the potential to expand our idea of electricity to include other energy sources The energy vision project is the first step in the transition towards appropriate energy concepts We have mapped the energy realities globally within our projects and Seeing that our operations are increasingly demanding Last longer and require growing amounts of energy to power not just our hospitals But also our offices Guest houses and warehouses Which also add to our carbon footprint We have asked each other how we approach energy challenges and needs and have seen the potential to create new and better solutions with broad interdisciplinary collaborations Together with the MSF Sweden innovation unit a roadmap has been formulated We are proposing future activities for how to better supply our field staff with the tools knowledge and equipment To deliver the best energy service possible to our beneficiaries So what are you waiting for join us on this journey today the energy vision team This was my strategy not to speak that much So what did we do with this with this energy vision? How did we apply it so we apply this vision in a practical case that it's the case that I'm going to present today It's the Kenema Pediatric Hospital So I would talk first like about the general energy vision on one hand and on the other hand about the Kenema Pediatric Hospital And how did we put a theory into into practice? So just to give you a little bit of background of the Kenema project or the Kenema Pediatric Hospital Is it a 140 beds hospital? With three main objectives that I use to reduce modern child mortality Provide safe quality health care in in Alasa and in K area, sorry and contribute to the development of competencies of our health It's a hospital that is going to be built when it's being built, but it's going to be built in three construction phases One of the first phase is the pediatric care. It's now been a build it Until at the end of this year then the second phase We will tackle the obstetrics care and neonatology and third phase, third, fourth and fifth phase and extension depending on the on the activities So now we are in the first phase until until the end of this year So how did we apply the energy vision or the vision that we saw in the In the video to the Kenema project? Well first what we wanted to do is just to know where are we in terms of energy within within MSF No, I mean, what is the MSF energy picture in order to after? evaluate and develop a Sustainable or more appropriate energy solutions So we took the data from the MSF operational central Brussels that it takes the 26% of MSF field operations And we did a research and we where we use a quantitative and qualitative methods Quantitative methods we use internal databases. We use several questionnaires And we use it in the field and qualitative. We did some interviews. We did also for five workshops And external literature review, etc. etc. No, and we work not only with the lock department But with several other departments within the organization So we in these in this process it was key the the collaboration or the participation the active participation of the Kenema Let's say the Kenema team or the what we call the Kenema unit because it gave us the opportunity to put directly Theory into into practice at the same time, no So what were the results what was the the energy picture picture that we that we found out Well, we saw based on the data of MSF ocb operational central Brussels, sorry that We are an organization that are very diesel dependent almost 80 percent of our energy needs are covered by by diesel And that means that over fuel consumption. It's it's five thousand Liters per year and we spend almost five million euros per year just in fuel consumption If we translate this to CO2 emissions, we see that the numbers are quite high And if these numbers doesn't say you anything We can see that this is equivalent to going one thousand times around the world with a Toyota Land Cruiser that is a MSF Normal vehicle, so I think it's within that are numbers that are quite astonishing, let's see With this what did we do with this this data? I it was very useful in order to design the Kenema energy strategy First we evaluate what were the what was the start install power that we have in the that we were going to have in the In the hospital and the average energy energy consumption and based on that We decided to go instead of a traditional MSF Energy setting that is centralized and using generators present it As we were dealing with a long-term solution because the hospital is Forcing to be we are planning to have it up for 10 years. Let's say We design a semi decentralized solution using generators, but also using solar panels solar photovoltaic solar panels So that give us a more diversity of the energy sources a more robust system Let's say and also it's not so field-dependent And for doing that also we took into consideration the what we call the energy system perspective So we don't we didn't put all all our focus in the energy supply We took into consideration all the all the steps of the all the yes All the processes of the energy chain from generation to consumption That means we study the demand side manager management the energy efficiency possibilities of energy storage and several power sources Finally what we decide what we design is we would have like five Five energy supply technologies that is a mistake here. This is the same but it's five So we have we would have Four generators three plus one Then then we will have generators and PV panels the possibility to have batteries energy storage The possibility also to have city power now. We don't have city power on in the Onside, but maybe it would come in two three years. We don't know so we would we have this possibility And also we do consideration to use solar water heaters for for heating the water for the laundry For example, that is very energy consuming With this what we have is We would have a return on investment of six years Being the total investment for the three construction phases or the three plus two constructs Construction phases of two point five five million euros just for the energy side But with this we would see that once we recover the investment We can have a running cost reduction in four years of two millions So we could even build another hybrid system And of course if we see the CO2 reduction if we compare it if we would you have the the business as usual MSF energy setting That's we generators. We have a CO2 reduction in 10 years of 75 percent Well, just to to finish a little bit We saw that for the energy vision gave us the framework or the conditions to to achieve innovative solutions to energy related challenges We put this into into place in the Kenema's energy setting and This gave us also the opportunity to improve the the current energy settings that we are facing in within the organization And what is more important? I would say also is to to have a stronger link between the final services and the energy systems Not to put only the focus on technology, but in everything that is beyond that Now what we have to do the next steps is to develop a proper follow-up strategy for the implementation And also for the operation and to see how are we going to capitalize all these lessons learned and we can Replicate and disseminate all the lessons that we would have But of course we need we have a lot of challenges to face First of all, I would say that is this short-term versus long-term vision We saw that even if the project was foreseen is foreseen for 10 years They recover the investment we will recover it in six-year moralize and this is a quite long term for MSF Even more than one year. So we need to this is a big challenge that we need to face That is linked also to a mindset change We need to go from a we are moving on from an electricity to an energy perspective So not just focusing on the energy supply, but on all that is beyond and from products to services now that That is based on the energy system perspective And finally one thing because this is even if it's not a new technology is quite new for MSF We need to find a specific expertise not only to design but also to do the operation on maintenance know of the of the energy systems I would like to finalize to finish this just Thank you and all the people that was involved in the in both projects the John Pearson from the innovation unit Also the team from the so from the Swedish innovation unit sorry all the team from the Kenema unit And I would like to say even if it's not here. Thank you for them The energy team that I was participating in that and especially one member that It was part of both project that is Augustine. So thank you very much


to exercise their judgment the trees must have a reasonable health and visibility and individual collective or wider impact other factors may be considered such as importance to nature conservation or responses to climate change but only if the trees achieve the basic qualifying factors the trees contribute positively to the street scene and are hard to miss when travelling in either direction along dogged lane due to their stature and position within the front garden dogged lane is a busy seedcast road and on a main through village roads in full born therefore the trees appear in the backdrop of many people's daily lives the trees have no other significant cultural factors beyond ecosystem services provided by all large urban trees but I would note that the beach is a copper beach and therefore has purple foliage during the summer months making it pop in the landscape arguably giving it more visual immunity it's visual immunity more weight the proposal is to serve a provisional TPO on those with an interest in the land and invite those parties an opportunity submit objections, comments or representations the responses will be considered and aid the decision to amend confirm or not confirm the order should the decision be taken to confirm the order it will return to the planning committee to request that the order be confirmed I recommend that the committee approves the issuing of a non-emergency provisional TPO thank you thank you very much and we have local member councillor dr Clare Dawn thank you for allowing me to speak first I support this as Miriam has pointed out this is an important part of full borne village it's the approach to the village one of the main approach roads from Borsham from the A11 and coming in the other direction from the city through full borne and she also points out full borne is a well-treated village trees are very important to the village to the residents and play an important part in the village design guide so I fully support this provisional pre-order and as Miriam explains it gives chance for local people to comment on and to take views on the order thank you very much I would think we would just go straight to the vote and so the vote be on the recommendation that the committee approves the issuing of a provisional TPO by affirmation thank you very much agenda item 11 page 111 the tree preservation order 0008 from 1989 on New Road Hazling Field and the proposal is to revoke a tree preservation order which is no longer current the recommendation is to revoke the order and the application brought to the committee because it's required under the council scheme of delegation Miriam so Miriam as I understand it you explained it to us in the last planning committee you're doing a thorough review and audit of all of their orders and where those that have what you're doing is sort of a clean out at the moment is that right? that is correct yes a sort of comprehensive review has not been undertaken for about well ever but certain parishes have been had a review over the years these tends to have been the more urban areas so the smaller villages sometimes haven't had their TPO's reviewed so at the moment yes we're just going through and seeing if they're fit for purpose and also if they're actually not necessary anymore because the trees have gone for whatever reason good so this is not helping us do an audit of where we are of our trees at the same time so thank you very much do you want to give us a summary of this one? yes so this tree this you can see here here we are in Haslingfield on one of the main roads this TPO is from 1989 the tree was felled in 2002 with permission granted on the 25th of June 2002 the tree was a sycamore and it was in decline and it had become structurally unsafe there are no outstanding conditions or other items or etc say that I recommend that we prove to revoke the order thank you can I just ask if it was with permission why didn't it get revoked at that time was that just part of the things we are clearing up right now what tends to happen is you the permissions generally last two years even though the tree was in a dangerous condition it wouldn't necessarily mean that it would come out immediately and historically you would probably do the revoking once a year but it's kind of that function that process that will get missed it's very busy in the office and I would say before computerisation it was a lot more tricky job so this is why we are trying to sort out some of these processes now and hopefully going forward will be a little bit more set up through computerisation that we can clean these up as we go along great thank you very much okay members you know what you are going to so the recommendation is on page 112 that we approve the revocation of the TPO agenda item 12 which is TPO 006 from 1983 44 High Street Coton the proposal is to revoke a tree preservation order which is no longer current the recommendation to revoke the order and the application again brought to the committee because it is required under the council scheme of delegation Miriam this isn't Ash Tree so the tree in question was removed in 1984 with approval with approval sorry bear with me there we go with approval on appeal to the departments of the environment and transport dated 30 July 1984 there are no outstanding conditions etc which would need to be discharged committee so do we by affirmation recommend that this is revoked great good thank you and we go now to agenda item 13 TPO 0019 from 1989 17 Woodhall Lane Bolsham the proposal is to revoke a TPO which is no longer current recommendation to revoke the order Miriam yes there is no tree present on the 2003 aerial photography south camps district council does have some historical records in relation to this TPO but nothing which refers to the removal of the tree the tree was still present in 1990 and is mentioned in planning application building planning applications it is not known when this tree was removed or why due to the amount of time which is elapsed since the trees lost no further inquiries have been made so the tree has been lost at some point between 1990 and 2003 it's a cold case cold case yes committee do by affirmation no councillor Dr Tim Hawkins thank you chair through you in cases like this where there is no record of permission to fill the tree I know it's been a while but surely we can still trace we done it and is there any what are the consequences of somebody doing something like this taking the tree down without permission so we did mention this at the last committee meeting didn't we what we want to do is make sure that we are not encouraging this because you just revoke the TPO once it's been removed but we also discussed the fact when something is so historic is that the right use of the time to go back and do the who done it on that one what we're doing now is Miriam do you think there is both the possibility of finding out who done it and a good use of your time to find out who done it if it's this historic case I think it would be very difficult to identify who took the tree out unless there was some local knowledge and even then someone might deny it there is kind of a limitation on the enforcement process to three years so it would have had to have been undertaken in the last three years so as it wasn't on the 2003 aerial photography there is no chance of taking this forward or inquiring why that was so I think what we do is what about the work that you do with your team but what we want to do is be able to encourage enforcement within the time that there is of that three years time now we want to make sure that we're not encouraging the practice that something gets cut down prior to permission being given or something like that or whatever nefarious reasons I think you referred to nefarious reasons in our last planning committee and I would like to say I'll go quickly just two points one on the who done it question this is a general query maybe rather than one specific to this case but could we not just look at the land ownership records and if the land is in the same ownership now continuously since 1990 maybe we could do something there and then secondly just a point of clarification really for the future as much as anything on it happening for three years from us finding out and if it's three years from us finding out is it the case then I take it that those aerial photography are deemed to be us knowing that it's gone because if it's three years from us finding out that the tree is gone then if we've only recently found out and that photograph doesn't count we could still do something Miriam, yes the three years is from it happening we actually have a very very short time period of about six months from when we become aware of it so it is an even tighter time frame than the three years so um I also take a little bit of with the new environment bill what I understand in terms of the we've been given in one of our briefings on the biodiversity net gain is that everybody should know that the baseline is from when the environment bill was presented to Parliament it's not from when it's approved finally as a bill so everything that already exists you know that is the baseline it's not from when the bill is is finally presented so you know and you will have so everybody would be would have to make up for anything that they removed at the moment but what we have to do is be vigilant that everybody is looking out for the trees and hedros and biodiversity that's there and we've just got to make sure that you've got enough resources as well Miriam to be able to do your job but I think probably we're better served to be looking at cases that we can follow up within the statutory limitations around now rather than some of the historical ones but we've taken point of that note and count for Heather Williams I was just going to say that I think we're all dissatisfied with the situation where somebody has obviously removed a tree and not let us know and it was had a TPO I think one of the things was referenced about when the sort of countdown three years start Councillor Richard Williams has identified and been addressed I would also say that it's a 13, potentially 13 year period potentially people won't even still be alive because when you look back I mean I was too so I think I think that it's frustrating I think that we should definitely be acting out on the future but I think we would potentially struggle unless of course it is one family so I think we could do an initial check as was recommended but trying to match it back would potentially be quite difficult and what I think is to recognise the huge effort that's been undertaken right now to get us in a situation where we have a proper understanding and audit of what we've got in digitalised process to make this absolutely possible and I would recommend we don't do it any kind of who done it research on this particular case and that we move to the vote did that speak for? Yes it's just exploring what options were really to sort of hopefully act as a deterrent going further but yes just to say thank you to Maryam for the work that she's doing obviously now that we have a new planning software that we can use to recall stuff like this where now catching up on lots of things that have been missed over time so thank you Members I'm going to take a straight to the vote and that is that we recommend approval of the revocation of this TPO by information thank you very much and thank you very much Maryam for that section we move to a gender item 14 which is the enforcement report hello Will Hello good afternoon Jack Good afternoon is it yes it is so Will thank you very much do you have anything you'd like to highlight for us Yes it's just interesting of the discussion about TPO trees so I thought I was just coming on to that clarified from the enforcement perspective of what we can do but we can't do it is correct that it is three years from destruction of the tree and we do have six months to act on when we become aware of the removal of the tree before we have to lay summons at court if we don't lay summons within that time we cannot take any further action on it obviously we are restricted in staffing and obviously there are a number of TPO trees so we are on removal of trees one thing that we are looking at doing very shortly is sending tree surgeons that we use and link to all of our mapping portals so that they can check themselves whether the trees are at the TPO door within a conservation area so that they should be aware that they do need consent as a reminder That's very good, thank you and then just a couple of verbal updates on the crowd aid site at Linton a meeting was held by Stephen Kelly and several other people at the site on the 4th of August where discussions are continuing with the flood and drainage matters enforcement are still being copied into everything so we are ready to take action should we be required at any point once we are formally instructed and then another case I'm going to be adding on to the next committee is Cottage Nursery Cardinals Green in Horsheath a current update at the moment for that is we're trying to arrange a joint site visit due to numerous complications at the site to various departments in the local authority and that's the enforcement update Good, any questions? Thank you very much, yes Cats are Dr Timmy Hawkins Thank you Jeff through you a couple of things if I can just step back on the TPO issue I wonder if you mentioned the three surgeons being able to have access to the information what about when properties change hands is there a way of indicating to when the search is done that there's a TPO on the tree within the cutilage of that property because that will alert the new owners because sometimes owners don't know that there's a TPO on the tree I think it varies obviously when people buy properties they are aware of the restrictions on their properties whether they read that or not is a matter for themselves but obviously the TPO or within conservation areas is flagged up in the local searches when people are buying properties so they are aware of that but only in conservation areas not in other areas Are you only planning commission obviously for conservation areas or if there is a direct TPO on that property All right, thank you The second thing is what's happened with Burwish Manor I mean this was the same statement we had in the last report it's like it's just at a standstill It's not at a standstill I know it has been I spoke to John Shudlow yesterday he's got a number of prosecutions that he's going through at the moment that we are trying to get through and I have impressed upon him to prioritise it where I can say apologies it is in hand Councillor Williams Thank you Through yourself chair just on the Whitehall Farm House in Arrington there were some issues that I know the applicant had in submitting their application Do we know how long it's going to take to validate it because obviously that's been going on quite some time and the other I do feel since the sort of changed in May and it's right on planning committee so I feel duty bound to say Smithy Fenn we haven't had a report on that for a significant amount of time and it used to be a standing item that we got updated on What's going on with that Thank you I'll go to Smithy Fenn first obviously we have instructed an outside company to carry out a review of all the enforcement matters with the site and we are currently waiting for review so that we can consider what action we will be taking and I am aware that that will be made available to members once we have it Smithy Fenn's site The site So just before you go on to the other site which is the Arrington site I'll just say obviously said that's still an outstanding issue that we do need to keep up to date with the site I would suggest that we have Smithy Fenn back on there and the other one was about it says in here about planning applications and submitted but not yet validated do we have any update on that because obviously this is it's taken us a long time to just get the application in I'll trace all of the planning officer to see what we need to overcome to get the application validated I'll update you as soon as possible on that one and I will get Smithy Fenn added for the next planning committee for you Thank you very much Councillor Tumi Hawkins Thank you Geoff I'm not sure when this was put together but as far as I know the validation queue is very short these days less than a week That's correct Councillor Hawkins it might be that the application is invalid rather than waiting to be validated in which case it might be that further information is part of the application but I'm sure Mr Holloway can check that or ask someone to check that for us and report back Thank you Thank you very much my question actually relates to the the overall picture from the numbers in appendix 1 and appendix 2 I just wanted to ask if we can keep a record of cases where informal action is taken and if so could that information be provided to the committee my reasoning being here is we get a record of the formal actions in which there are a number but not that many when you look at the number of actual reports it's huge and I'm just wondering if something is happening in the middle there that we're not quite capturing and whether we could get some information on that Yes councillor it was something that I have mentioned previously that if there are already more information points that you want me to produce I'm more than happy to be able to do that as you correctly say we do have remedial cases where things are resolved without any formal enforcement action which are good results from our offices and might say minor resolutions and also when we decide something that's not expedient as well that might also be something that you wish to have put forward more than happy to email me to detail what you want to be added or if any of the councillors would and then I can look to amend it accordingly Thank you that's very helpful I'll do that Thank you very much councillor Thank you I'm referring to appendix 2 again regarding the notices served in June 21 I'm actually looking at the stop notice part of that it says there have been zero served year to date in 2021 albeit in the report there was one served on the crowded site in Linton so I think I just wanted to make sure that that hadn't been missed or if that number should be one at a minimum Was it a temporary stop notice? Yeah it was a temporary stop notice Oh no sorry you're right I should have read properly my apologies Now I'll start on council for kick That's one to you Will That's alright You're ahead See you next month Good thank you very much Will We now move to agenda item 15 Appeals Yeah thanks chair Just one that I think members may well have already spotted themselves but land north east of Ramparton Road Coffinham Which was recommended for approval by officers and refused by the committee has been dismissed at appeal The reasons for the appeal being dismissed on the size of the buildings being out of keeping with the local area significantly out of scale also impacts on the key vista view towards all saints church So that's just one for noting but now the comments to make chair happy to try and answer any questions Well yes I think that would be just important to perhaps understand that a bit more Chris do anybody have any questions about that Just a clarification Was that the plan the application where there was the neighbourhood plan that we relied on with the protected view I think that's actually very helpful to know that that's been held by the inspector Yes it was I'll circulate the peer decision if that's helpful I thought that had already happened but perhaps not so I'll do that So I think that's good good news isn't it Very very good news Thank you My questions on relation to page 131 18th October is the provisional date given Are we pretty sure every piece of paper that needs to go out has gone out on that whether it's from us or them obviously because that seems to have been holding things up and the other one is I did ask last time but to my knowledge I've not had a response about land at and to the rear of 1332 which I believe we were updated on as potential challenges were and it's on non-determination that they've will we be essentially giving the view of what we would have done had we done it in time we've done that previously before something's gone to informal hearings so then at least if I was looking at it knows whether we would have approved it or not I do think that's quite quite important on those non-determination cases Through you chair, yes that's correct we will be setting out those views as part of that appeal, I've expressed the case also about that after the last meeting so apologies if I didn't update you on that with regard to Mill Lane Saarston yes the obviously we had a hearing date which was agreed but then had to be delayed because that hadn't displayed a site notice that wasn't what the council was doing as far as I'm aware those provisional dates are still provisional unless Mr Reid has more up to date information Unfortunately the date of that provisional the chamber is booked so we're seeing if another then you can be found or whether it has to be rearranged yes again our feedback to the case officer the concern that a thorough check is made that all paperwork is in order for the appeal So when you say my understanding is the formal hearings have sometimes been here at the council so you're referring to our chamber in which case I don't know what is currently booked for that day but given that we've been waiting for this for an extremely long time perhaps as chair of the planning committee chair you could write to whatever chair is on that meeting explaining the situation and maybe our chamber could become available or council I'm happy to have a discussion to move for council if that actually when was this first done I don't know It was scheduled for May I think originally that the appeals have been in for quite some time you're correct I understand it wasn't our fault but I'm just saying it's a case that we really need to come to some form of conclusion not sure what's being shown sorry what I'm saying is I'm happy to speak with others about making sure we have some facility here for it to go ahead if needed or can we hire somewhere else I just think it's important that we rip this plaster off really Through you chair I think we're no point and take it back and discuss with the team that's working on it as to how they're getting with finding alternative venues I think an alternative venue on the same day is obviously the preferred outcome but happy to find that out first and then perhaps come back to the point you raised but obviously the chair's decision was there so if you can let us know if that's possible we should at least explore it good and then what I'd just like to end of that agenda item is the request of Chris Carter is to add an update Chris on things that we were expecting to come back in terms of updates Thank you chair, just very briefly just to be noted that for what of each new town east the ROW application and Bourne airfield the resolution of the committee in both cases required an update report to be brought back on the section 1.6 negotiations one of those was due this month I can confirm that they'll both be coming next month in September I'm pleased to say that negotiations have gone well in both cases and we're moving towards completion of section 1.6 agreements that was a requirement of those resolutions just wanted to let the committee know that they would be coming in September for your understanding Thank you Just the 18th October isn't it for council? We're not going to sort it here I don't think we've got the agenda but what we'll do is we've noted this this is the previous point so we've noted that for some reason they will check what's happening with this room and explore as the possibility to hold for you on the announcement of section 1.6 it's really really important I want to make sure that when we do ask things to come back they do come back it's really good to know that the negotiations are going well and it's fine that this comes back to us in September because what we want is a good result coming back to us Thank you council head audience Thank you Chairman Just on the one sort of any other business is the planning advisory I'm sorry we originally were the implementation group but obviously we've not met for some time I think it's February and then the meeting had to be cancelled most recently Do we have any dates I'll take that away in five minutes because we're going to be at six months soon I'll go back and I think what happened on the last one was not enough people were available for the dates being put forward but I will make sure that we have a schedule of the next meetings Good Thank you everybody It's quarter to two and I think we have a record in that all of the decisions were by affirmation there was agreement in the room and good debate so thank you everybody


Living in Los Angeles, I'm finding that there are a lot of people who are chronically ill or who experience weird health symptoms. And the way they interpret these is not through the lens of biomedical thinking, but it's more through the lens of spiritual and new age thinking. And I thought I would talk about this in this video today because it brings up a very important question that people have to think about, which is that what people have asked me is, am I spiritually ascending or am I just sick? And that is a great question. Hey guys, Dr. Alex Hein, licensed acupuncturist and doctor of Chinese medicine. Before we jump into this video, there are two very important links right below it. The first is if you'd like to become a patient of mine locally in Los Angeles or virtually via telemedicine, you can contact my private practice right below this video. And the second is for a free PDF, a free handout, which is on four daily rituals that could potentially help you add years to your life with traditional Chinese medicine. So those are right below this video here. Now let's talk about this idea of am I sick or am I spiritually ascending? I myself have experienced really severe insomnia and anxiety to the point at which most people, I would say probably 99% of people would have been on antidepressants and benzodiazepines or Xanax for a very long time. And the reason I didn't go to those was not because I'm anti-conventional medicine or anti-pharmaceutical, it's because I had seen many people do that and I had seen that it may have saved them in the short run, but in the long run it handicapped them because now years later, there was no healing that had occurred and it kind of flatlined their healing journey. But for me, I mean, I had severe, severe, severe insomnia, sleeping only a few hours a day I could sleep. And there wasn't anything I could track it back to in my life. I was doing every method of healing, Chinese medicine, any other quack, weird, new agey, more fetch thing someone recommended to try and heal, I did it. I did all of it because I wanted to be alive. You know, I mean, you could only sleep so few hours in a day for a duration of time before you begin to get really scared that something bad is going to happen or that you will do it to yourself. And during this time, I entertained every possible theory of healing. Like I said, the material was, all right, this is just something biochemical. This is anxiety, depression and insomnia, right? This is HPA access dysfunction, whatever it is. And then on the more spiritual side, I went psychological, biological, physical, spiritual, everything. And one question that came to mind was, in particular, because of one very weird and alarming symptom I had, is this, is there a silver lining here that this is like a spiritual awakening, like shaman sickness. If you look through indigenous cultures, the shaman awakening, if they survive this initiation, is intensely painful. They often are close to death. And it's considered an essential part in traditional cultures of the shaman entering into this new role as the healer and the physician of their society and their civilization. Now one of the most alarming symptoms I developed after a certain period of time was this feeling of my whole body tremoring or trembling all the time.  And yet I wasn't doing anything or even drinking coffee to induce that. So it got to the point where one day I'd woken up and I thought the train was going by near my apartment because the bed was shaking, but it turned out it was literally just within my body. There is no physical tremor you can observe. And that feeling of tremoring or trembling, vibrating, buzzing went on for years, years I had that to the point where anytime I wasn't sleeping well again, the trembling or tremoring would come back. So in my mind, after ruling out nervous system causes, I was like, okay, this is either a sign of severe sleep deprivation and nervous system problems or a spiritual awakening. I hope I would like to believe it is right that I'm not dying, but that I'm something is getting better. And it's interesting because something that is very challenging is that anytime human beings do not understand something, it can be easily attributed to mysticism or spirituality. And my point of sharing that is that I do not believe that that was a sign of ascending or becoming ultra spiritual or becoming a shaman or becoming a healer. I think that most illness still has physiological causes and that most of these weird symptoms are just symptoms that people have been misdiagnosed. They are evasive or the symptoms are they come and go, they're recalcitrant, they're difficult to heal. And so when things evade all common explanations, the tendency is to ascribe it to God or to mysterious beings. You know, to me, this is the equivalent of ancient people thinking that thunder and lightning were these gods doing this instead of the intersection of pressure, temperature and electricity. I think many people in my field come into Chinese medicine because they have preexisting beliefs about spirituality and new age beliefs. And that may be them projecting those beliefs onto Chinese medicine and not Chinese medicine itself. So here are three suggestions I can give if you are someone who's really struggling with health problems. You know, in my opinion, most of these symptoms are not spiritual awakenings. Sorry, just my opinion, right? Just my opinion. And the reason for that is if you start with that assumption, it may prevent you from treating something that needs to be treated. Three things that I think are worth considering here. The first is to begin with what's obvious, right? This is Akam's razor principle. Akam's razor basically, let me give you a simple example. If you're constipated, the most obvious explanation is probably the right one for most people. If you're constipated, you probably haven't been eating well. That's it. And then there's an option B, C, D, E, F, and then they're less likely.  But the biggest chunk is going to be probably haven't been eating well in the last seven days. So start with what you know, because if you go to these far out, ungrounded explanations, you know, it's always zebras before unicorns, right? You always start with maybe the original one to start with what is most common most of the time. And then only secondarily, it's a zebra and only tertiaryly, if I can use that word, it's a unicorn. But start with what you know, because having been chronically ill myself, all I wanted was to feel better. I don't care if it was a New Age explanation, I don't care if it was a drug explanation, I just wanted to feel better. So begin with what you know to be true, entertain that first. The second thing is don't take advice from people who don't practice clinical medicine. Just my opinion, that'll probably offend half the people in my field. Don't take medical advice from an astrologer. Sorry. Like taking medical advice from someone who literally treats illnesses day in and day out, and they can give you some clear clinical feedback, and there are repercussions for their treatments and the actions or the lack of response to their treatments. See people who actually practice clinical medicine. And then the last is once you have your foundation of what you know works, then begin entertaining these other far out or less conventional theories and options.  And then from there, you know, do these little forays out to try other methods and see if it works, see if it helps, be a skeptic, and try within your own body to see if it helps you. Alright guys, sorry to rain on somebody's parade here, but I don't think most symptoms are a spiritual awakening. I'm very confident of that actually. I've seen many, many people who believe their symptoms were spiritual awakenings, treated them, and sure enough, they got better. And a final primer here is that, or a final note, PS, is that there's one of our most famous physicians in Chinese medicine, a guy named Zhang Zhongjing, lived in the Han dynasty close to 2,000 years ago. And a famous quote he had in one of his, in his text in the Shanghang Lunar Reviews in the Jingwei, he said that he was describing a gynecological disorder of a woman, and was describing these wild mood swings and this spontaneous crying as if possessed by ghosts. And he said, this is not due to possession by ghosts or spirits, but is a gynecological or hormonal related disorder. And I think some people still would like to believe that the things we cannot understand must be mystical or new age. And in my opinion, that is not true. They just, the symptoms or the expression of it exists, but we may not understand how or why it exists. All right guys, I'll leave you with that for today. Again, before you go, the link below this video is to contact me to become a patient locally in Los Angeles, virtually via telemedicine. And there's also a free download for you, five daily rituals that potentially help you add years to your life with traditional Chinese medicine. And I will catch you guys in the next video.