Thank you, Terry. And thanks for the presentation. Can you take that down? We've got a couple of people who've indicated that they want to speak. And I noticed that they are present in the participants. The first person who asked whether they could put a question was Andrew Martin. I think, Ryan, we need to just unmute you, Mr. Martin. I think, is that right? Or are you able to, I think your, your bike's open. So, yes, please. Okay, can I go ahead? Yes, please. Okay. Well, thank you very much, chair. My question is, why is there so little support for great green belt from the council and councillors. And there is so much rhetoric about doubling nature and biodiversity net gain. Let me explain the reason for my question. There are many people concerned about kneecap and the double AP, which is seen by many as a lose lose situation for Cambridge. The first lose starts with a new North Cambridge station. I plan to see this as a way of satisfying the housing requirements and extending business sites, but it has gone to extreme where it resulted in a Hong Kong style ghetto, which is not typical of Cambridge design. There'll be a lack of open space, although you have increased it, it's not to the is only a fairly small amount. There will be no recreational facilities, no secondary schools and land hungry primary schools will be in cramped conditions. In fact, visitors to the site are being discouraged. There will be an unbalanced demographic due to the high proportion of flat dwellers. There will also be a huge increase in traffic movement as people living there will not necessarily work there and people who work there may not live there. There will be no large supermarkets in the area. So, they will require residents to drive to purchase their weekly shopping. The second lose is a more important one is the relocation of the wastewater plant. The outcome of this is a result of the councils voting for it without due regard for its destination. This is now in the hands of the DCO process, but it will be the result initialized by the two councils who then organize the government hif grant to pay for the relocation. The shocking decision of Anglian water, a private company, which is only accountable to itself and the wishes of its shareholders to choose honey hill, a significant green belt site. Anglian water has totally ignored all of the results of the consultation process. This will result in an industrial site, industrial site larger than Wembley Stadium. Yes, larger than Wembley Stadium. Wembley Stadium is 18 hectares. The new site is 22 hectares. Mr. Martin, obviously, we've got a number of people who've asked questions in the Q&A and in order to get through, can I ask you just, I appreciate the statements that you're making, but could you get to your question, please? Yeah, yeah. I'm basically saying, well, I've already asked that. I'm basically saying there will be a problem and my main problem is about the green belt. So I'm talking about how much interference there will be by destroying the green belt at honey hill and the various different things that will change the nature of that area. So going back to my question, it is, in our campaign to save honey hill, we have written to many councillors, all councillors, asking for their viewpoint. So I'll ask my question again. Why is there little support for green belt from the council and councillors when there is so much rhetoric about doubling nature and bias of the steed net gain? Basically, you seem to ignore honey hill. It's green belt. You talk about open space and green, green belt, but you don't even mention it. It's just gone out of the window and not being discussed. So I want to know from councillors and the council what they think about green belt and why they think it's a good idea to destroy honey hill. Thank you. Okay, thank you for your question. I think obviously it's a very wide ranging question in terms of and your comments. I think probably from my perspective, it might just make clearly this is part of a wider spatial strategy. And I just wonder whether or not someone from the planning service can just it very briefly because I'm conscious of other questions that explain the basis of the approach to the spatial strategy that the councils have put forward at this moment in time as part of the process. And then, and then I'll ask Catherine Martin, I think has also got a question as well. Although, again, please, if we can think about keeping it brief. Would you like me to come in first on on that one. Yeah. Good evening. I'm Caroline hunts. I'm strategy and economy manager in the shape planning service. So in terms of why the focus on Northeast Cambridge as a location for development in the great Cambridge local plan. We looked at a whole range of issues as we were preparing the plan in terms of the constraints that that existing in and around Cambridge, the, the pressure there is for for economic development in this area. It's been a very positive very successful area in terms of economic growth, and that therefore requires housing to support those jobs and where possible those homes to be close to those jobs to. So we, we've looked a whole range of issues, including the desire to reduce need to travel and the priority of focusing on Brownfield land for development. And the whole suite of evidence that we've looked at which covers everything from the forecast level of growth through to the importance of biodiversity which the councils do see as a really important issue. The transport implications of various different spatial strategies everything from within the urban area as it is the case at North East Cambridge land on the edge of Cambridge in the green belt which is the case with. You know we've had a number of sites that forward to us on the edge of Cambridge in in the green belt. New settlements around further new settlements around Cambridge or growth, growth around villages and we looked at over 600 sites in total that were put to us. What came out really clearly from our residents particularly from a transport and movement point of view is that North East Cambridge is the most sustainable location for development because it means that people have to travel less. You've got already got the the public transport from Cambridge station from the busway with more proposals still to come with just a trail coming in so on. So from a from a planning point of view it is a very sustainable location for development. Now we have been really clear that, and this is a site that's been looked at over, you know, in planning terms in many over many years. It hasn't been possible to look at this site for development in the past because of the constraint of the wall street and works, and the plan is therefore predicated on that relocation taking place it's not requiring that relocation to take place. So, yes, we understand that the relocation requires it's like a green belt location and the councils will consider those proposals as I think we'll go through the process as statute consultee and that. But picking up on one of the questions in the in the in the chat which I think is related to this is our other sites considered if you if it if it wasn't North East Cambridge, well the answer that is, we consider 600. There are no easy answers to meeting development needs in this area. So we would have to look at whether and where the most sustainable alternative location would be, which could be on the edge of Cambridge for example another green belt locations or around villages. Thank you. That's all I was going to say thank you for that I'm conscious of Catherine Martin has also asked asked if she can ask a question so so Catherine over to you please and then I'll turn to the Q&A. Just taking my question. James Littlewood has pointed to the lack of open space in the NEC, which will lead to overcrowding at Milton Country Park. You've identified area six as a strategic open space to the northeast of of NEC. How will this land be paid for, and how will this space be used by the public do you envisage it as another country park or how do you see it developing and what guarantees you have that this land will be developed as a country park or whatever you see it as. Thank you. Thank you Catherine. Who's able to answer the question. I'll attempt to answer the question. Absolutely. That's okay. Yes, so, yes, I'm aware of Cambridge PPF and the comments that they've made about overcrowding at Milton Country Park. And we're aware of that as well we know that Milton Country Park is a well used and well loved site within this area and lots of people go there from, you know, Water Beach and Cambridge and other places as well. In terms of what we're what we're looking at in terms of the local plan and these new strategic open spaces. That's something that we obviously published for the first time, only a couple of months ago as part of the first proposal's local plan. And what we're doing now is we're actually working up how those sites could actually come forward because there are a number of large open spaces that we've identified. Each, each one of those will have its own constraints they'll have their own sort of land ownership things that will constraints and stuff that will need to take on board. So they will have different kind of functions, you know, habitats and things that will need to will need to consider. Now, how we actually deliver those spaces. That's something again that we're looking at at the moment, you know, there is definitely scope that they'll be funded they could be funded through development contributions. But exactly how in terms of the mechanism is at the section 106 is a seal levy or something like that. That's something again that we're looking at in more detail. So I can't give you a really definitive answer at the moment because we're still at such an early stage of the, of the local plan process. But yes, the intention is that these will be areas that can be used by the public. You know, they, you know, there will be areas where maybe they'll be more habitats that the areas that we've more public use. So I've said, you know, each one will be different in its own right. And so it's kind of just on the spotless space in terms of what the local plan will say about those as we go out to console consultation on the next version of the local plan. Thank you. Thank you, Terry. And I'm conscious of trying to make sure that we, we have plenty of time for that for the questions got another 15 minutes. I'll read out some of the questions that we've received in the Q&A chat. First, first round of questions. Mr. Martin made a number of points, but there are questions here about have the needs of homeowners changed during the plan period particular reference to COVID. And then actually one of the more recent questions that has just popped into the chat. Also on the, on the topic of COVID talks about expectations in terms of people's movement and whether these will be commuter homes or whether they'll be genuine homes. Terry, are you able to comment on that? Yes, so COVID was what was really interesting is that we consulted on the draft plan during the kind of, I think it was between the first and second lockdown. So it was really interesting. So, you know, it was really at the forefront of people's minds. One of the things that people were really keen on was just the availability of open space in the local area. Hello. Sorry, my son. So the availability of open space on their doorstep, which was really important. So they didn't have to travel miles in their car or whatever to actually just find some green space. And again, it was about the informal space. It was where they could walk their dog.  So that was something that we really took on board as we started to develop the plan further. So the question about homes, obviously, you know, as a planning authority, we have no necessarily control over, you know, who buys homes. Exactly. But what we are doing is making sure that we develop our plans to make sure it meets local housing needs. So we're doing studies on that as part of the local plan and that's feeding into this. So the sort of the types of homes, for example, like the some of the smaller units, we know that working with colleagues in housing, that there's an acute shortage of smaller units that sort of help the council housing register. So that's again something that we're working up with our housing colleagues to make sure that we're providing the right housing in a really sustainable location on the edge of Cambridge close to facilities and jobs. Thank you, Terry. There are a couple of questions relating to Milton Country Park. One is around the delivery of the, I think, referencing the sporting lakes proposals. And the second is the issue about how Milton Country Park is is supported in many respects by people driving to it and paying the parking charges. Do you want to kind of place because we had we have had representations about Milton Country Park? Caroline or Terry, I don't know whether you just want to comment about the potential in future for Milton Country Park to be to receive support from development at any city. Yeah, so we've actually been engaging with Milton Country Park for a number of years now before this forum was set up, we actually had a community liaison forum and Milton Country Park were actually put on on that forum and we, you know, we've done a really good relationship with them as part of that. Now, at the moment, the planning permission for the sports like proposal has lapsed so there's no there's no definitive proposal on the table at the moment for the sports like extension. So in terms of how in terms of the plan making process, we can't specifically say where the any offsite contributions from northeast Cambridge would go if there isn't a firm proposal in place so we can't say X amount of money is going to go towards Milton Country Park because at the moment there is no proposal. So that's something that we'll need to keep keep in mind as we undertake the health check on the air action plan but also as the plan continues to go through the examination process, and then later on through any plan reviews as well so that's something that we're really mindful of. The infrastructure delivery plan that we've done undertaken for northeast Cambridge identifies that that that developer contributions towards strategic open space offsite so places such as Milton Country Park or the area that I showed in my presentation between Cambridge and North Stowe and Water Beach is for over a million pounds to go towards offsite green open spaces. Now that's in addition to the 69 million pounds that we anticipate will be on site green and blue infrastructure. So if you consider what amount of money going towards green and blue infrastructure and like I said over a million at least a million, if not more towards offsite enhancements. Thank you Terry. There's a there was a question about accommodations for cycling, particularly in terms of routes across and over the river can you, can you just comment on on the extent to which I'm just looking for the comment in the chat Yeah, what new cycle connections are you considering to cross the river. So, as part of the spatial framework where we aren't we aren't proposing any additional connections over the river. Obviously the Chisholm Bridge has just has just recently gone in and opened which is great. What we're really keen to do is make sure that we have a really good network within North East Cambridge for walking and cycling and we provide all the necessarily segregated segregated routes and things to make sure that walking and cycling is the kind of the obvious choice for people when they're moving in and around North East Cambridge. Now, one of the things that we are keen to do is have a bridge over the railway line that goes into the area known as Chest and Fen, which is just the top end of Fen Road. And then that will then provide a link to the to the to the river top half, which will then enable people to go north up towards Water Beach and then south towards the Chisholm Trail and the city. So we're not providing any new bridges in addition to what there are but we are improving connectivity towards the river in that direction. Thank you Terry. We've had a question about when we can when can we have a date on on when we predict whether we will need a secondary school or not. Or is that or is that an expectation that residents will move when they they've children that that are older do you just want to clarify the position in terms of the education engagement. So we've, we've been working really closely with colleagues at the Council, both in terms of the demographics team that generate the population forecast and also the education team there as well. North East Cambridge would only actually generate around 1.4 forms per entry in terms of secondary school provision and I think I believe the minimum is kind of around four or five forms of entry in order to in order to actually require a new school. So, so based on that the numbers aren't there in terms of secondary school pupil yields. So therefore, the county have recommended that we go with offsite contributions to improve the existing schools within the existing communities. Thanks Terry. There's a question about the mix of housing proposed for any see how many one bedroom and two bedroom flats and houses and so on I don't know whether you can provide a breakdown on that. I don't have the percentages with me but we can provide that afterwards in the written responses, but it is, it's fair to say that it's predominantly flatted. And I believe that the majority that the largest proportion of those are two bedroom units. We can give a detailed breakdown, but it is that the numbers are actually in the area of action plan itself, but I can we can provide that. Thank you. And I'm sorry I'm trying to manage. I'm trying to look at different screens but I've got a raised hand from someone who identifies themselves as Anthony. Anthony you able to ask your question. Yes, it's Anthony Carpenter here can you hear me. Hello yes we can Anthony welcome. Thank you. My question is about the Milton Road garage site which is just south of the busway and just west of Milton Road and it's just within the southern boundary of the site and you've got about 75 homes I think. It's not allocated for there, but the area of footprints about this is actually larger than that for Parkside pool. And I've had a number of conversations with counselors saying that this would be an ideal spot for either an indoor swimming pool or a Lido because it would serve two of your most economically deprived wards in Cambridge, which is Chesterton and King's hedges, and it would serve the North Cambridge Academy and it would serve Cambridge regional college as well as the Northeast Cambridge site. Furthermore, you've got all of the public transport and the active transport access North Cambridge railway station all of the villages along the busway and furthermore your indoor sports facilities strategy from 2015. So on that side I read these documents said that Parkside pool, the main use pool at the moment is already well over capacity at the moment in particular in peak times, and also Cambridge University also recently announced that they are not prioritizing their hybrid swimming pool. So therefore I urge you again, if Anglianwater decide to go ahead with ministerial approval for their move to wherever they're going to move to, to look at that Milton Road garage site as one where you can build a swimming pool. And finally, in the consultations that you do please ask the children please ask the primary school secondary schools and CRC whether they think it would be a suitable site for a swimming pool because ultimately they will be the ones it's their future they're the ones are going to be doing it. Thank you. Thank you, Anthony. I don't know whether Terry you want to comment we have. I think you touched on the issue about pool pool provision. I suspect there is something Anthony to come back to in terms of thinking around pool provision across the growth plan in the local plan as well but it's a, you know, I think the point's well made, and certainly we can take that consideration away. I'm conscious that I've got about six more minutes to try and cover some questions one of one of the threads that a couple of people have highlighted it is around. I think Caroline you covered this question about why the loss of the of the green belt is being tolerated. I'm just looking for the precise wording but why, why the loss of the green belt is being envisaged for the relocation process. By the assumptions made around that northeast Cambridge I don't know whether there's anything that you can add to clarify I think it probably needs a longer answer in in response but is there anything you can say now and I'll just see up another question. I think there would be lots to say and I'm just trying to think how to how to address that in a in a succinct way. Yes, the, the opportunity that's provided by this area in North East Cambridge is is one that is not replicated anywhere else in or around Cambridge because of the existing and proposed public transport opportunities the proximity to the science park and so on. It really does provide an opportunity to provide homes close to jobs help reduce travel and get people out of their out of their cars. Caroline can you just I'm conscious of time and sorry to interrupt but I'm conscious there's also a question though about how the carbon footprint is calculated to draw that conclusion that you've just that you've just outlined can you can you just comment on that. So the. As we look at the local plan we look at the sites that are within our plan but we also look in combination with other projects so as the local plan and the reaction plan progressed we will look at the carbon impacts from arising from both the development proposals but also other proposals such as water treatment works do just want to mention though that the development control order process itself will need to look at the carbon impact not only of the new proposed works but also the the the in the use of and definition of the the current the current site and that is something that the planning inspector have made clear in this greenie opinion that they expect to be covered through the development control order process so that that will be that will be picked up. Thank you Caroline to respond to the one where someone's come back on something I said earlier about whether we looked at downsizing onsite or would you rather. I think it's probably I'm keen to try and in the in the three minutes that we've got left a number of people have asked about infrastructure and both the phasing an update of existing infrastructure and also the imposition on on communities, not just in the city but also in in Milton particularly. I don't know whether someone can comment about. I think there was a concern that investment or contributions would only be dispersed towards Cambridge when there were there were some concerns about Milton and and also the phasing of that infrastructure I don't know Terry whether you can answer or Caroline around the infrastructure program or information that underpins the. Well it's very much looking at North East Cambridge as as an entity across both district areas and as we move forward to the local plan to we're looking at Greater Cambridge as as one planning unit through through the plan so section 106 agreement would and contributions would absolutely look at the most appropriate places for provision to be made and it wouldn't be limited by the administrative boundary between Cambridge and South camps. In terms of the phasing and provision of infrastructure clearly that's a really important issue. And that's something that the infrastructure every plan does seek to look at as and as the proposals will come forward in more detail would absolutely need to be looked at and we are mindful that that is a particular issue in an area where there's a number of different landownerships and developments will come forward at different times so that's one of the reasons and significance of the AP and trying to look at this in a very much a holistic way to make sure it comes forward in a. In a in a way that brings all the infrastructure that's needed for the site but also bring benefits we hope to surrounding community. Thank you Caroline. I mean unfortunately, I don't think we're going to some really really good questions in the in the Q&A section, which I don't think we're going to be able to do justice to buy. And more in, there's a question about the availability of the slides, they will be along with the recording available I'm sure for for people to peruse. There will be, there will be answers to all of the questions that haven't been able to be answered live as I said at the start on the, on the web page for the forum in due course we're going to do that. I think, I think we aim to do that as soon as we possibly can, but to make sure that we've got comprehensive answers for those people that have that have raised them. Terry thank you for your presentation I think it's 645 and I'm doing my very best to keep people on time. We have


Long-term evolution advanced is known as advanced over LTE because of some very interesting and smart improvements which were made on top of LTE. That is, there are certain radio level improvements which were incorporated which resulted directly into increased data rates. Let's look at these in this module. The LTE advanced is basically an extension or an advancement of the LTE. The primary goal was to meet the IMT advanced requirement set by the ITUR that is radio. The most important thing was that LTE advanced could not be decoupled or disassociated with LTE because backward compatibility had to be maintained. What it means is that if we have LTE user equipment and if the network is LTE advanced the network is supposed to provide LTE network services to LTE only user equipment. If the user equipment happens to be LTE advanced then the LTE advanced network can provide all the value-added features that LTE only user equipment could not get. Now let's look at the improvements. First and foremost is a significant improvement in the overall management of the spectrum. The flexibility that is demonstrated by LTE advanced to make use of the wide band available in the 800 to 900 megahertz spectrum, 1800 to 1900 megahertz spectrum the ISM band, the 2.1 gigahertz band, 2.4 gigahertz and 5 gigahertz ISM bands. It means the spectrum is available. How this spectrum can be utilized in the most efficient and flexible manner is the highlight of the LTE advanced radio. The second one is carrier aggregation. Carrier aggregation, we are going to look at it in more detail in due course. It means to cherry pick, to hand pick available frequencies, available bands in different frequency spectra. This is achieved through very interesting radio design but this is again a very interesting advancement in the radio side. Then another advancement that improved LTEA in terms of coverage and data rate is the incorporation of different kinds of deployments such as the macro cells which is typical of the 3G radio access network. It is the native or the basic deployment strategy. Then there are relay nodes. Relay nodes actually do not form another cell but extend the coverage of the cell. Then reducing the coverage down to a few hundred meters even tens of meters in the Pico and Femto cells. So these are some advanced incorporations on the radio side because you know that if we reduce the size of the cell and keep the transmitted power high we can achieve higher data rates. Then better network coverage and frequency reuse or spectral efficiency at the edges of the cell because most of the inter cell interference is pronounced at the at their overlapping edges. For that using certain frequencies which are not interfering at runtime is interesting highlight also known as the interference management in a very robust manner. Then using MIMO systems to have a higher data rate. Incidentally basic MIMO and OFDM was already available in 3G RAN such as HSPA but more massive MIMO such as 2x4 4x4 RAN incorporated in LTEA.


And we're back with the breakfast and plus TV Africa will look at our second conversation here.  Well according to the federal government they are expected to set a price which emitters like you and I will pay for each tonne of greenhouse gas emissions. Nigerians government is set to introduce that carbon tax policy and budgetary system for the country in line with the approval of energy transition plan as part of Climate Change Act. President Mohammad Buhari had recently approved the energy transition plan to be driven by the National Council on Climate Change that's the NCC in accordance with the Climate Change Act of 2021. So a carbon tax or tax on greenhouse gases would come in two broad forms the emission tax which is based on the quantity and entity produces and a tax on goods or services that are generally gas you know green gas intensive such as the carbon tax on gasoline. Now under that arrangement the federal government is expected to set a price which emitters would have to pay we talked about that a tonne of greenhouse gas emission. Now apart from that the tax would help to generate revenue for the government which will encourage consumers to take steps to switch fields, adopt new technologies and reduce emission to avoid paying the tax. So while the NCCC had sought and obtained the approval to initiate key deliverable content in Climate Change Act including establishing a carbon budget for the country according to them carbon budgets is now going to provide allowance for every entity whether the government or private sector in terms of how much emission one is allowed to you know put out there exceeding dose emission could also attract penalties and this is you know some of the approvals or deliverables that have been sorted out. We have Maja Kudumi who is very passionate about the environment he joins our conversation this morning. Maja Kudumi is good to have you join us good morning. So I'd like to share your thoughts on you know this development by the Nigerian government I'd like you to juxtapose that with our capacity to renewable energy how far we fend with that. We have tremendous amount of potentials for the for the renewables absolutely no doubt about that I mean we're talking about abundant sunshine, great wind, tidal waves, we've got it but the constraint is the lack of economic incentive because right now it's not very profitable it's far more profitable to be using the fossil fuels but the reality has you know dawned, it's set in, there's no ambiguity about it. It's as simple as you know two plus two equals four and if you're denying that then you know you need help. So the reality has set in that we can no longer continue poisoning the atmosphere the way we are if we want to have a reasonable kind of life in the future because climate change is a powerful force and we're seeing it manifesting all over the world now in Nigeria we've been fairly lucky despite some of the terrible floods that we've been having we've been fairly lucky it hasn't impacted us as badly as it has in other countries but if we continue this way it certainly will. So it's a very very laudable decision in terms of transiting to renewables no we're not doing enough the time has come this is unprecedented humanity has never ever faced this type of situation before in the history of humanity this is unprecedented where the whole world has been threatened by a particular situation. So I like us to talk about this I mean just as Kofi comes in now it's very valid we understand you know the challenges of the our environment climate change and the impact we're feeling it and everybody feels it every other time. So I'd like to ask you if you think that the introduction of taxes on I mean we're going to be taxing ourselves for emitting carbon into the society when we don't have what it's it takes for us to not use you know physical and what policy environment does it make sense I'm just trying to ask if this is rational have we put in place the necessary facilities what we need to transit? Yeah that's a very insightful observation of the situation on ground it doesn't take long to be honest it doesn't take long I mean I personally tried to introduce solar panels for rural areas decades ago but there was so much resistance it doesn't take long but you see the situation is it is so dire and you know your opening statement was that you know we are understanding the negative impacts we're having on the environment well I wish this was the case we're not it's like the situation is like you're in your studio right now God forbid and there's a small fire starts in the ceiling you can smell the smoke and everything and you're just ignoring it and say oh well it's okay we're not ready to put fire extinguisher we're not ready to do it no this is the situation and it's not my knowledge you know I am just listening to the scientists to 90 over 95 percent of scientists are telling us that we are on a headlong rush to an unstoppable circumstance which will bring catastrophic consequences to humanity if we don't stop poisoning the atmosphere again if I bring a generator into that your studio which is a closed environment and you will not allow me to turn it on because you know what's gonna happen now the millions and millions of tons maybe we need to put it at this point if we're saying that we don't need to poison the environment do we have alternative is that simple what alternative we made available I mean if you look at China the the greatest in terms of a meeting carbon into the system and they're also part of the renew they're committed to renewable energy you can say part of the energy that they're consuming now some a certain percentage is from you know renewable sources are we there yet what renewable sources do we have as a country I mean how you know can we be having this conversations when developed claims are having it yeah you know you're absolutely right it's obviously there's a little bit of time for a transition we are you know the world globally we have about eight years maybe 12 years to transit and then it's going to be too late to reverse the process so we've got a few years and what we're looking at now is natural gas as the transition energy even though that's also can be quite dangerous because natural gas is also a very very strong greenhouse gas if it leaks and if it's used irresponsibly which it has been done or transmitted is responsibly then you get leakages so we we have the natural gas as an immediate an immediate transition because a lot of diesel generators can even be converted to natural gas and then within years within just a few years you're talking of China there's other countries in the world that have the technology would borrow the technology we have the capacity to develop solar cells here we have the capacity to have a win win farms in the higher areas which will generate the electricity waves will generate the electricity the problem that we that we don't have is the mindset is the mindset the leadership need to come to the table with a mindset that they are here to serve the people to be so advanced to the civil society and to do the best that they can to protect the people from hardship protect the people from danger protect the people from sickness ailments all kinds of problems that come with this fossil fuel it's in mindset the caring they're going to come with it with an attitude of love for the people that they're leading and once that happens you will see the changes of our transition to clean energy happening very very quickly so it's down to the leaders express some love give us some love that's for magic for me when I look at this this you know news of a green a climate tax I laugh I laugh it's it's one of the most laughable things I've had in the year 2023 and I'm the way I'm laughing about it I may keep laughing to 2024 because as far as we are in this country the government that that that is saying they want to do a common tax they're the biggest polluters in the country government the federal government Nigeria is the biggest polluter in the country I don't if you agree that you're an environmental activist for many years Nigeria's government is the biggest player in the oil and gas industry should we talk about the the the oil exploration activities and the emission of gas greenhouse gases because of that should we talk about the the impact on the environment I mean I lived and worked in Port Harcourt for many years you know as a journalist so we did some advocacy on the suit you know and government was complicit you know in all ramifications and that's why they kept looking the other way and that's what they've done nothing about it that's number one we look at the refineries they run the biggest refineries in the country okay number one number two if you look at even the those who use who you generating sets we are using generating sets because they failed to provide electricity for us so they are the biggest culprit so what are they talking about when they say they want to tax people you know for carbon emissions that is laughable what do you say to this please yeah when you see you know I'm also guilty of this as well when I see a child behaving foolishly I love you know because it's just a natural reaction to laugh at foolishness and I agree with you entirely that the two just don't add up very well because here we are driven by the use of this fossil fuel fossil fuel it's our mainstay of our economy which it shouldn't because it's not sustainable agriculture is far more sustainable the fossil fuel runs out and also the totally irresponsible use of the revenues from the fossil fuel look at Norway which also had fossil fuel as a mainstay of the economy they have the biggest sovereign world fund in the world because again the government who understood something about the implications of being leaders the implications of getting the reactions to your actions which are inviolable by the way the government of Norway invested so much of the money that they made from fossil fuel into different businesses and investments all around the world we haven't done that unfortunately our leaders are guilty of a lot of anomalies they're guilty of a lot of things that are now beginning to impact very very negatively on the people but it's not too late to change and once the pollution in those areas that you are at you know my heart goes out to you because as a journalist you must have seen some horrendous things you know young children die prematurely in droves because of the atmosphere is polluted the water is polluted because of the irresponsible extraction of this product no no no no no it's not acceptable and the suit how can the suit have gone on for so long so when you're faced with leadership that will allow this to continue it gives cause for extreme anxiety and the best therapy for anxiety is to laugh so I don't blame you for laughing at them but it's doable all we need is to have people in position who understand the implications of action the getting reaction okay final question for you should such a tax I mean it which is not a bad idea if the the the sincere about it which we know it's debatable but should such a tax just be about the collection of money should there be an aspect of using the tax to further the aim of making Nigeria carbon neutral or at least getting to getting close to that because they have something called effluent a lot of states in the country today have what we call effluent discharge tax is a tax you know method or charge to companies businesses organizations for the harm they do to an environment so it's something they already called effluent discharge tax I'll use reverse data example they give you a demand notice and then they say pay this amount of money to the government but they meant if you look at the laws to the you know the laws that came off should of them the various environmental protection agencies of the states they're meant to use this effluent research to reduce the effect on the harmful impact on the environment but they don't do it you know so I have done some investigations to see in yes but that these monies are shared amongst government cronies it does they don't reinvest the money to the environment so what lessons can we learn from that for this carbon tax excellent observation and very important question it's totally inextricable now the thing is about this tax if it's ready mainly at the large corporate sectors that would be a little bit more amenable a bit better but also also the the oil and gas sector you know they are making tremendous amounts of profit especially over the last year you know the major oil companies have made unprecedented profits so you know they also should be taxed because they are the source of this pollution which again let's emphasize this pollution is causing a very terrible situation that is emanating on humanity that has been expressed from Nigeria all the way through Africa all the way around the world it's a common problem that humanity is facing and we should demand of the leaders we should demand of them that any money that is raised will be used to number one help us to adapt to the effects that the pollution is already causing that's the especially the climate change and also help us to mitigate and by mitigating it means moving away from using poison as one of the great young activists said you know you cannot drink oil you cannot eat coal you cannot breathe so called natural gas what good will money do you on a dead planet and we're killing off the environment killing off the planet and the implications for those who are lying this to happen is very horrendous they should listen to scripture the scriptures tell us God is not more so we shall read so let's hope to be so the right seat well thank you so much decimal magic for doing for being part of the show we do appreciate your time yes indeed that's a magic magic could have me tonight on a violent rentalist environmentalist is also chairman of a leaky state urban forest and animal shelter initiative a radio show host right here in legacy also green are on 99.3 Niger in 4.5 mercy it's an interesting time we'll watch what this policy is all actually the end of the day it's not to talk about we have to go thanks for joining us follows on social media plus TV Africa and on YouTube we are plus TV Africa and plus TV Africa lifestyle also checked out a website is usually updated with a lot of news up to the minute use on our website my name is Kofi Bartels now I am messy but what we join the newsroom at 9 o'clock for the news brief please with us good morning


at Barclays December 21st of last year and there he was in attendance with his daughter Gianna talking to Kyrie Irving and you know look at his daughter just listening to the conversation that Kobe is having with Kyrie there and Kyrie when he found out the news as Kenny Atkinson told you you know left the building and it was very difficult and it's not for anybody when you hear devastating news like this to go work they're not only working they're performing right and on a stage in front of people and it's hard and you know we don't want to put words in Kenny's mouth but it seems like there was probably a lot of guys in that that locker room and I'm sure the Knicks felt the same way did not want to play this game tonight so that's there's so many different things that factor into it and we're not excusing wins and losses that has nothing to do with it but I think emotionally you know you can tell what Kenny was saying it was a little it was tough to get his team prepared to play for this game and I'm sure Mike Miller with the Knicks had the same issue. Well we talked about this a lot too.


Welcome to SiliconANGLE.tv, the Cube. We are here live in Santa Clara, Silicon Valley in California. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE.com and we are here live to bring you extensive coverage of Cassandra Summit 12, where Cassandra Community is going to explore technical tracks and all the future of NoSQL, which is the new hotness. The big debate has been structured databases, unstructured database, the database wars, database confusion, the bottom line with cloud, mobile and social. You're seeing a huge surge in pressure from database vendors to capture that unstructured data and put in the structures. Again, I'm John Furrier with SiliconANGLE.com. I'm joined by my co-host for this show, Jeff Kelly from wikibond.org, the best analyst in the business for big data. Jeff, welcome to Cube 2. We were just at the Hadoop Summit. We were, not too long ago. The big data world is ours to our oyster where we feed on all this great knowledge and want to share that with the world. Cube is our flagship telecast. We extract a signal from the noises, share that with you. Jeff, just my commentary right now on the Cassandra marketplace. And we've talked about this at Hortonworks Hadoop Summit, where we had Jeffrey Moran talking about crossing the chasm. We actually had Billy, Billy the CEO of DataStacks on theCUBE at Hortonworks Hadoop Summit. And we talked about this database war or this database vendor contest, like NASCAR. It's like they're all in position, they're jockeying, Hadoop's out front, huge momentum with Hadoop. You've got Couch, you've got Mongo, you've got Cassandra, and that someone's going to have to slingshot and make a move. But it's not a winner-take-all game, is it? Not necessarily, I mean, there are different use cases that apply to different NoSQL databases. So it's not necessarily a winner-take-all situation, but I definitely agree there's going to be a couple winners and a lot of losers. So it really matters in terms of community involvement, community momentum, and kind of, you know, the community as supporting these open source projects is really important. One of the things that we've been noticing in the Big Data trend here, folks, is that we've been on the ground with theCUBE at SiliconANGLE.tv with Wikibon research team with SiliconANGLE. We've been at Hadoop World, the original. We've been at all the Hadoop World, all the Hadoop summits, now we're at the Cassandra Summit, and we'll be doing the big, covering the big data like a blanket on SiliconANGLE.com. And for research, go to Wikibon.org. So one thing that's really clear is that we are in a inflection point as a marketplace, Jeff, where you're seeing this massive shift with mobile computing and cloud really energizing the application marketplace, which leads to the kinds of conversations to go back in tech history. Microsoft, Intel, Wintel created that revolution in computing, and recently VMware hired a new CEO, Pat Gelsinger, a friend of theCUBE from EMC, now the CEO of VMware. And you see Cloud Foundry, you see the hypervisor in the enterprise, you see the consumerization of IT, all that infrastructure is in position with converged infrastructure to explode out and leverage on mobile computing, and that application growth is putting a lot of pressure on the database market. And you're seeing NoSQL being a big part of that, but the marketplace we've heard from data scientists to programming is that specialism and specialists' software is moving to general purpose. What's your take on that, and talk about your research or some of your findings when you talk to vendors, obviously NoSQL, it's hard to use HBase and Cassandra, very difficult some say, they're trying to be easier. What's your take on the whole specialism to general purpose databases, and how does that affect the application market? Well, certainly as you say, a lot of the NoSQL databases platforms out there are difficult to use, and what we're seeing from vendors like DataStacks and others is essentially trying to put this wrapper around NoSQL databases to make them easier to use, and in some cases, it's bringing in SQL-like capabilities, kind of on top, to kind of mask some of the complexity. For instance, we're seeing a company called Hedapt, which is out in Cambridge, Mass, where I'm at, and they're doing some interesting things where they're building a platform, essentially where they integrate natively SQL into a Hadoop environment, and essentially abstract away the complexity so that the user doesn't necessarily know which processing model is being used. So we're seeing methods like that, which you could call that more generalization, making some other big data platforms more general. They're doing some interesting work there. Of course, DataStacks, with their enterprise product, kind of combining Hadoop, Cassandra, and Solar to make it more applicable across use cases. So we're seeing- Well, you see, you mentioned Hedapt, which is a startup in Massachusetts. Well, we have some other startups that we've been running into, OneWired Magazine-profiled, Squirrel application, I've got the name of the company, it's called Squirrel. Squirrel, and they're working on an open source project called Accumulo. Accumulo. So that's cell-level data. Right, they essentially took the guys from Squirrel when they were internal at the NSA. They needed to, obviously they needed some big data capabilities. So they looked at Google Bigtable, decided it wasn't secure enough, so they kind of re-engineered it to include cell-level security from the ground up natively. And now they've spun out of the NSA, and they're starting Squirrel, kind of a soft launch this week, I believe, and essentially what they're kind of positioning Accumulo as a competitor to Cassandra HBase. Another no-SQL database, but with better security, they say, better performance, scalability, you don't lose as much data when you scale at rapid ingest rates. So we're seeing all these different no-SQL databases come out, they're all kind of attacking a similar problem, but they're all doing it in kind of different ways, and there are definitely subtle, different use cases among each one, so it's not necessarily a winner-take-all, but they're probably not in enough room for all the different vendors we're seeing right now. You mentioned use cases. Folks, we are going to drill down on the use cases here. We're going to have Jonathan Ellis, the CTO co-founder of Datastax on, to really get down and talk about some of the real use cases and get in the weeds with the tech and really address some of the criticisms, and yet the opportunity that Cassandra brings to the table. Cassandra has been in the, I would say, the shadows relative to Hadoop in terms of on the height meter, so we want to explore that. Obviously, in their keynote, Jonathan and Billy, the CEO of Datastax, pointed out that just in production alone, Datastax ecosystem, the Cassandra ecosystem, has really grown over the past year. We want to drill on what's going on in the production environments, but really what's going on is that the big data world is really about, there are a variety of tools and use cases, so the diversity of use cases is so wide that brings up the, there isn't going to be one winner. We have CatSandra, we have HBase, we've got Mongo, we have different approaches, Jeff, and we're going to explore that. We're also going to have Eddie Slattery, the big data evangelist from Splunk. Splunk has been really, been giving a lot of kudos with their analytics, and this is an area that Cassandra has suffered in the forums and in Quora around the analytics. Splunk has stepped up to take that role. Also, we're going to have Adrian Cockcroft, who's going to do a killer demo. He'll be coming on theCUBE right after his demo, where he's going to be spinning up, in real time, 48 node cluster on Amazon. CTO of Netflix. CTO of Netflix. And they've been in the press lately around the crash of the storm on the East Coast, the quote, power generators. I really want to ask Adrian, really, is it a one cloud fits all? Is it a one database fits all? I want to talk about those use cases, so. And Cassandra fits into that equation with this kind of being able to distribute geographically and kind of prevent potentially those kind of downtime events. And just my overall take on the Cassandra community right now is that it's not a dying community by far. It's really robust. It's a packed house. It's on the keynote. Absolutely jam packed. This community is active. And they're, I don't want to say a chip on their shoulder, Jeff, but they definitely have seen Hadoop take the limelight. And we're seeing companies like Hortonworks within Apache kicking some serious butt out there. H Catalog recently announced they announced a new data platform. Cloudera's been kind of quiet lately. I mean, we've seen them. They've been on theCUBE. Cloudera as well. So obviously we love Hadoop. We love open source. We love open source and scale out. What's your take before we get into the guests today? What are you expecting to hear today? And what are you looking for? Well, I think you nailed it earlier. Use cases. I think what it boils down to is what is Cassandra good for? What are the use cases it's supporting today and what use cases will it support tomorrow? And let's focus on the right tool for the right job I think is important. So there's a lot of, especially in the press, there's a lot of talk about who's going to win. Is it going to be Hadoop? Is it going to be another platform? Well, I don't think it's going to be just one. There are different horses for courses as they say. So what I really want to drill down to today. Horses for horses or horses for courses? Horses for courses. Horses for horses. Horses for horses. That's Dave Vellante's horse analogy. And it's a good one, isn't it? So we'll definitely want to drill down into that to use cases, talk about a little bit about some of those challenges that the community faces in terms of, you can see you read right questions. It was a great post on core that I read that really liked, which was AlphaGeek said, hey, you know, it's not about the tools, it's about the brain of the developer. And any developer with chops will look at a problem and not try to force a stack into the solution. And that there's a variety of different stacks you can take into solving a problem. So that brings up the whole personality. So one of the things I'm looking for in this CUBE event today is to find out what is the personality of the Cassandra community? What are these, who are these folks? What are they into? What's their, what's the demographic? What's the psychographic? What's their mindset? What use cases are they pivoting on? What are they doubling down on? And also, what's the feeling around, the other databases, Mongo, Couch, HBase? We know Billy Bossworth slammed HBase in his keynote. He basically implied that it's difficult to use. I had that on social cam, Mark Hopkins. If you grab my social cam feed, I got the Billy's slam on HBase. We want to drill down on that today as well too. So a lot of great stuff coming on all day today here inside SiliconANGLE.com is the CUBE with Wikibon's Jeff Kelly. I'm John Furrier. This is our flagship telecast. We go out to the events and extract a signal from the noise. We write back with our guests and our next guest is going to be Jonathan Ellis, the CTO co-founder of Datastacks. We'll go in and we'll talk about what's going on with Cassandra, within Apache and within some of the key tech aspects of.


Russian border breach. Freedom of Russia-Legion declares intent to reach Moscow. Fighters of the Freedom of Russia-Legion consider their main mission to be March on Moscow, aimed at liberating the Russian Federation from the president of Vladimir Putin, according to Newsweek. In a comment to the material, one of the volunteers of the Freedom of Russia-Legion, Alexei Baranovsky, with the call sign Lutik, stated that the fighters intended to eventually carry out a march on Moscow for liberation of Russia from Putin. We may not be able to pull it off now, but that is our overarching mission, he said. Baranovsky noted that the operation of the rebels to break through the Russian border is related to the so-called presidential election in the Russian Federation. We may not be able to stop the federal election, but we can disrupt the regional votes, so we are doing what we can by bringing this air of freedom to at least some parts of the country, he explained. According to Baranovsky, insurgent formations want to activate the frightened internal opposition in Russia, as citizens of Russia. We decided that we also want to take part in this election, and this is our way of getting our voices heard. We are voting for an armed resistance to the Putin regime, for an uprising, a revolution, he said, calling on all Russians to join volunteers in the fight against the dictator. On March the 12th, the Russian Volunteer Corps, together with the Freedom of Russian-Legion and the Siberian Battalion, broke through the border with Russia and took control of several settlements, including in the Belgorod and Kursk regions. In addition, according to RBC Ukraine, Russians complained about drone attacks for two nights in a row. Putin commented on the events in the Belgorod and Kursk regions, blaming Ukraine for this. Putin linked the border breakthrough by volunteers with alleged failures on the front and plans to disrupt the expression of the will of citizens in the so-called presidential election in the Russian Federation. Russian volunteers announced strikes on Russian military positions in Belgorod and Kursk. Residents of these cities were urged to evacuate. Polish troops would never leave Ukraine. Russia is technically prepared for nuclear war. Putin, any attempt to send Polish troops into Ukraine, could end in a long-term occupation. Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned in an extensive interview with Russia One TV broadcaster and Ria Novosti. If Polish troops enter the territory of Ukraine in order to, as they say, secure the Ukrainian-Belorussian border, for example, or in some other places to free up Ukrainian rear military units to participate in hostilities on the front line, then I think that Polish troops will never leave, Putin said, according to excerpts from the interview. The deployment of NATO troops to Ukraine amid the conflict with Russia is not unthinkable. Polish Foreign Minister Radislav Sikorsky claimed last week. He was commenting on a statement by French President Emmanuel Macron, who said late last month that he cannot exclude the possibility of soldiers from the US-led military bloc being sent to aid Kiev. Putin believes that Polish officials dream of returning those lands that they consider historically their own and which were taken from them by Joseph Stalin and transferred to Ukraine. They certainly want them back, so if official Polish units enter there, they are unlikely to leave, he claimed. Putin said that Russia is technically prepared for nuclear war and if the US sends troops to Ukraine, it will be seen as a significant escalation of the war. From a military technical point of view, we are ready, of course, said the 71-year-old Putin in response to a question about whether the country is truly prepared for nuclear war. Putin said that the US understands that if they deploy troops to Ukrainian territory, Russia will consider this a step toward intervention. In the US, there are enough experts in Russian-American relations and in the field of strategic deterrence, so I don't think everything is rushing headlong here, but we are ready for this, Putin said. 300 000 NATO troops are ready to enter Poland to fight Russia. NATO is ready at a high level to send 300 000 soldiers to Poland. This was said by the Deputy Chief of the Polish General Staff, Karol Dajmanowski. American soldiers have been stationed in Poland for a long time, several thousand of them. They train with us regularly. Remember that the United States and other allies also support us in other areas, in the air, at sea, in space, and in cyber security, he said. Asked whether it is possible that the number of American troops in Poland will increase to 100 000, he said that this is a realistic scenario. This is an assumption of NATO's latest plans which were approved at the political level at the last summit in Vilnius. Until now, there were 40 000 soldiers at NATO headquarters, now there are 300 000. Dajmanowski said he added that the soldiers will arrive in the country under threat even before the war starts. According to him, there are various ready-made scenarios to adequately respond to aggression. NATO maintains eight battle groups across Eastern Europe aimed at acting as an initial frontline defence in the event of a Russian invasion. Four are in the Baltic States and Poland and these were supplemented by the creation of four more in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia after the attack on Ukraine. Germany said this month it would contribute a brigade of troops to defend Lithuania, where the country leads a 1000-member battle group, although it emerged that the bulk of the extra 3500 Berlin intends to contribute would be based on its own soil ready to move far the east if needed.