Good evening. Welcome to the farming podcast brought to you by Private Property. My name is Mbali Nwoko, the farmer and the host of the Private Property Farming podcast that comes through to your screens every Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8pm. Please follow us on all our social media channels, which is Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram. It's quite endless. And if you're looking for content as well, we've got a fantastic YouTube channel where you can catch all the farming podcast episodes that we've had. I think we're approaching a year now, so it's been quite phenomenal being part of this journey, educating you at home and connecting and meeting lots of farmers throughout South Africa in various geographic regions, locations, doing phenomenal things on the ground, supporting and also uplifting their communities that they work for. I think if you've been following this podcast, you will definitely see the growth that we've had in the past couple of months. Today, we have a farmer that is not new to the farming podcast. We've had her before. And in our previous conversation, we spoke about how to start a family farm cooperative or being in an agri-cooperative that benefits pros and cons, what to look out for, what you need to do as a member of a cooperative, the responsibilities, and how do you hold other farm members accountable? Farming can be very, very gruesome at some times and you always have to manage your business throughout the different seasons. And so if you have aspirations of joining a cooperative, please catch our episode with Ipil and Khwadi on YouTube and you will get all the advice and tips that she's given us on the pros and cons and how to start a family cooperative, how you could grow one, and what type of commodities you could choose. But today, we have her onto the show because she has just started her new farming enterprise. She has not left the family farm per se. She's still helping out a bit but we are going to talk about her new farming journey and she'll tell us all about that. So if you have any questions for Ipil and Khwadi today, please feel free to drop a comment, like, share this video. We love engagement and it's always great to also see and hear different questions that you, the audience, has for our guests this evening. So last thing, like, share, comment and please do engage with us during our conversation this evening with Ipileng. But let's bring her onto the show. Ipileng, good evening and thank you for coming back to the Farming podcast. How are you doing? Good evening everyone. Hi Bali. It's such an honour to be part of this show once again. Being part of this show again, it shows that there is something that I'm doing right. So it's such an honour to be here again. Absolutely. Don't doubt yourself. The fact that you're in farming is just amazing. And being a female in a very male dominated industry and very, very tough space to be in. I mean, we're both farmers and we know the challenges that we deal with on a daily basis on the ground. So, you know, you don't need to come into the podcast to know that you're doing amazing work. You are already doing phenomenal work. But, you know, we had you onto the show previously talking about cooperatives. Today, it's all about you, the CEO, the farmer, the female farmer, starting a new enterprise. Tell us about it. When did you start? When did you decide to break away maybe from the family operations and start your farming business? And what commodity are you trading? Okay. Thank you once again. Ipilenguaji, we've seen her. She's a young farmer from Breds in the Northwest province. And I grew up with the family background where both parents are farmers. And like Bali has said, that I've been featured on the show sharing about cooperatives farming on the previous season. So currently, you will see that most of the time I spent most of the time within the crawl in a family business actually I was dealing with the nutrition of animal. All the animals in the farm, it was my duty to make sure that they are well-fed. So, along that journey, I've just realized that, you know, there is a gap in the livestock production. You will realize that most of the imaging farmers, they just farm livestock and then they want to buy feed. They buy feed. Then I identified the gap that there is a gap that needs to be filled where I need to produce the feed. So initially, when I went and looked for the farm, I wanted to plant feed so that I can supply the livestock farmers. So now, you know, in farming, you need to plan. You need to know how you generate cash. It's not going to be easy to venture into that journey like if you get the money, you just start with feeding. So I've decided to start with a vegetable farming because if you can look around the Breds climates in our distant vegetation. So I've decided that I'm going to start with vegetables and generating that income so that I can be able to venture into planting the beans. Right. So for anybody who didn't catch that, because you did break away a little bit or we just were disconnected a little bit. So you were working in the family farm, which is a livestock farm. And now you've moved on to vegetables as a means or ways of diversification. And the capital that you're looking to generate in vegetables is to start your own feeding business because a lot of the farmers go into the industry wanting to farm livestock, but, you know, are shocked or surprised at the high prices that feed goes for at this point in time. So what type of vegetables are you farming and how many hectares? Did you have to go out and find new land or was your family farm big enough for you to start your horticulture production? I had to go out and, you know, experience and get the opportunity to learn how to access the right, you know, most of the farmers, they will be saying we need, we are struggling to get the land. So I needed, I didn't want to sit comfortable in a family farm where everything just comes easy. Remember in farming we learn everything. So I had to go out anybody, apply for the land, apply for the lease. And fortunately I managed to get the lease from one of the farmers in breves. He allocated me 10 hectares and I managed to start farming the cleavage and spinach on that land. Wow, that is amazing. You know, this is the private property podcast. How did you find this farmer who was leasing the land? Did you have to find them online, maybe on the private property site, or was it just purely word of mouth? Look, you know, there are people with farms and they are not utilizing those farms. So I took a bold step and approached this guy and look, I'm a young farmer and I can see that you put the land. Can you give me at least the 10 hectares or however that we can agree upon so that I can be able to produce, then you can sit down and negotiate how I'm going to pay my hands.  It's on another level. So maybe break down those negotiation strategies, you know, because I've personally had people come to tell me that, you know, how do they determine between themselves and the landlord the fee or rate per hectare for renting? And it's always such a tricky one because land in various provinces fetch different prices per hectare. So maybe unpack that negotiation stage. I mean, what are some of the things that you've learned during that process? And what else could you advise to someone maybe who's just starting out on that negotiation journey? Okay, throughout this negotiation journey, sometimes it depends on the person who are approaching. Because this guy, he was not utilizing the land, he had no idea about agriculture. And then he was looking forward to learning through myself. So what happened with sat down and involved, I normally tell people that, you know, in agriculture, we need lawyers, we need financial assistance, we need so many professions within the industry. So now here's the little girl she's negotiating about the land. It's a very sensitive issue that you need to be sure that you put the contract on the table, you agree on setting 10. So there are some of my friends who are leasing and they are paying the way you're saying a per hectare, they are supposed to be paying this match. So with me, it was much better because I had the opportunity to say, look, as a palpate to your family, I'll be able to take two of your daughters, bring them on board and go with them through each and every step about agriculture so that tomorrow when I'm able to get my own farm, this one, they may be able to utilize this farm. So we've agreed upon the every 30% profits on the farm, it's for the family. And again, I am wanting, I'm facilitating his daughters. So I'm happy to say that his daughters now, all of them, they are doing the final way in the agriculture, college in Portugal. So we are moving. Wow, Ibileng, that is such an innovative way to secure land. I must say I'm quite impressed and I think, you know, you thought, you thought forward in such a way to say, how do I not only farm here, but create value and impact for young agri students. And I mean, we all know how the employment in our sector is, you know, a lot of our youth is unemployed with degrees with, you know, theoretical knowledge and expertise. And so I must commend you for that strategy, you know, because typically a person would go for rental per hectare. So giving back a certain percentage of that, and also roping in and teaching and providing skills and adding value to the landlord's daughters is such a commendable thing that you did. So let's move on to the next step. You've secured the 10 hectares, you said you're planting spinach and cabbage. Why specifically spinach and cabbage? And, you know, how difficult or easy was it moving from livestock and migrating into, you know, these cash crops and how's your market journey been? Have you started harvesting? Just tell us about why spinach and cabbage and what you did after securing that 10 hectares? Okay, look, livestock and horticulture do two different things. And you realize that now you've been doing well in the livestock, you know, the health of vaccinations and everything that includes the health of animals.  Do you have enough water? Do you have water rights? You know, when I got that farm, I had the problem of the water rights, which is something that we really don't bring into our conversation, because most of the farmers we are looking at the borehole, just, but reality is that when you farm, there are certain things such as water rights that you need to put in the conversation where the government needs to make sure that the procedure of getting the water rights is no longer the long one, because even today, I have still applied the license for my water rights, and I haven't received the license. That means I won't be able to use them, the water from the dead. So those are some of the challenges that we are learning throughout farming each and every day. So now, here's the young lady, I had to prepare a borehole so that I can be able to water my plants. Remember, plants are very sensitive. So now, when we are talking about women's land, these are some of the issues that we need to bring on the table that really guys, it's really hard as a young woman, you are working hard to invest in the land, and there are people out there who are taking advantage of you. You know, even today, if I have to tell you that the borehole that I had to make in that farm, somebody had to run away with the money without delivery. So those are some of the things that are really taking us back. But the reality, I'm buying water even today, every week I make sure I buy water so that I can water my plants. And in reality, if you can look at that journey, people are going through a lot. And if I was relaxed in a family business, I would be saying no, my dad has got to water rice, we don't have a problem with the land, the production, we have commercial on the livestock. So everything just can, but I'm glad that I took this bold step and say I need to learn, I don't need to relax, I need to learn what is happening out there, how other people are dealing with such issues. But so far, I've managed to have our first harvest, though, even if I did not make profit, but I know that it's all about learning with them. Now I know that this is where I went wrong. This is what I'm supposed to focus on. And during the harvesting season, this is what, you know, basically in farming, we work with the calendar, with the season, and especially in horticulture, you guys are waiting. Indeed, horticulture is quite intensive. Yeah, it's very, very intensive, as opposed to livestock farming. But, you know, you've mentioned so many critical elements. It's about, you know, when you start any farming operation or your farming business, there's a lot of learning that has to go into place. And if you're a young person as well, you know, going to new territory, not having enough experience, there are people, unfortunately, that will take advantage of your lack of knowledge in that specific commodity, and in your case, in horticultural vegetable farmings. And again, water license, you know, how you have to comply with government laws and regulations. All of these things, these are stumbling blocks and challenges that can deter anyone from even deciding to pursue farming, because, you know, you pass one hurdle, then you're met with another and another and another. So I did ask, why is it that you decided to farm spinach and cabbage specifically? I'm glad you started your first harvest. So take us through that marketing thinking, right? Why is it you decided on spinach and cabbage? Is it a crop that not a lot of people are farming in your area? And maybe is it high demand? Or do you feel that, okay, these are the most in demand crops that, you know, anybody can buy, whether it's formal formalized or established businesses, right through to the informal traders. And how many hectares of that 10, 10 hectares are you producing the spinach and cabbage? Okay, on it's five hectares for cabbage, five hectares for spinach. And, you know, I know I believe in, you know, in the informal market, you know, from a family business, you will realize that we have the market, we are supplying bullets with meat and we are relaxed. We know basically that we are sure of the market. But when you get to the spinach, you know, we have us, and then instead of taking the spinach to the market and decided that, you know what, I'm just going to stay on the street and sell and get 100% profit. There's nobody who's going to determine the price. I'm going to determine the price of self. So I've been getting 100% profit from selling the spinach and cabbage.  Like you said, also, water is very, very critical. I mean, we're approaching the very, very hot months where Brits is going to be blazing hot. So who's guiding you through that crop rotation process, growing a successful crop to sell to your market at the end of the day? Okay. In my profile, you'll realize that in the office of the premier in facilitating youth among the mentoring program for youth in the Northwest province. So basically, we do have WhatsApp groups. You know, these WhatsApp groups, they are very, very important. Don't undermine them because at the end of the day, we meet each other. We are trying to make a daily change within this WhatsApp groups. So whenever I'm experiencing a testing program, a problem, I'm able to stay look, this is what I'm going through, guys, can you help me with those people? They respond immediately. They respond immediately. So there's an opportunity in the market, those guys just share the crisis loop. Because today, the market is doing well. Let's go and take our products there. So yeah, through the network, we are able to assist one another. Yeah. And for someone listening to you, because I like the word that you keep using comfort, coming from an established family farm, you're comfortable in just operating in that environment. Now, you went out and branched out and went on your own, learned so many things, overcome certain hurdles. And for a person who maybe doesn't come from a family farm background, but is pretty much on their own, meaning they're the first to go into the agribusiness sector or into the farming sector, rather, and starting out maybe in vegetables.  Looking at the seeds, your seedlings, maybe if you're using seedlings, fertilizers, boreholes, you know, how much should one be looking at in terms of maybe putting it in the kitty and say, this is my budget to get the basics right before I start planting. Maybe it just could be an average figure just to start off with. Okay. Depending on the amount of land that you want to use, but the borehole costs up to 90,000, 90,000 just for the borehole. This is how much I spend. And then about land preparations when you lease, when you rent out those farming implements, remember, all you need to prepare the land. They'll be telling you 10,000, 10,000 to prepare the land, just to prepare. And then you still need fertilizers and pest control. So just to let's say 140,000. And still you are not sure if you are going to make the profit. Wow, that is very true. If you're just catching us this evening, we're speaking to a farmer in the Northwest based in Brits, Ipilenguari, and we're speaking about her new venture that she's just started recently a few months ago. She comes from a very established family farm supplying beef to a well known retailer. And she took a bold chance to say, hey, I'm going to find my own land, be on my own and start a horticulture business. And she's currently farming vegetables, spinach and cabbage to be precise. And I know you're probably looking at the title here to say, leaving a family farm to start her own empire. And indeed she's pretty much walked us through her journey of how difficult it's been starting operation. So I think for anybody watching this evening, just note that starting a business and growing it into something that is not worthy that clients could speak about and be happy about what you're producing does take a lot of work and it takes guts to succeed in that space.  How's it been also training these young female graduates that you've onboarded and provide skill on how to farm? How's it been just being the CEO of your business navigating a new business, which is a new commodity that you're learning, at the same time trying to educate, train and uplift the youth that you're mentoring your business. How are you managing all of that? Well, because I'm one person I believe in working collectively. I do once in a while go to the high, I believe in the value chain starting from the high school. I do go to the high schools and talk to agriculture learners, adopt some of them, take them to the farm, show them that this is what we do in the agriculture sector. There are a lot of opportunities that you can do. And I'm happy, you know, I think three years ago I started this initiative of coming back to the community, going to the high schools, sharing with those learners that look, there's so much opportunities in the agriculture. Now, some of them are still at the college and some of them after completing their agricultural studies, they don't know where to go. They'll be asking you in your DMs, keep it in, I need to come and volunteer. You know, I want to tell them, don't give up. Most of the things they've started with volunteering.  So with the agricultural qualifications and you sit back at home and watch other people doing agriculture, it's not going to work for you. Just go out. There's nobody who's going to come and help you if you don't help yourself. So even some of the agricultural intent and those who are unemployed graduates, they do come and volunteer in the farm. And then obviously we see how we can assist them because, you know, life is so tough to work without getting anything. But one thing that I always tell them is to work hard, to work hard. Somebody out there will be looking at us. And at some point, I'm quite confident that if I can keep the funding from the government or any private sector, I can be able to employ more and more and more youth, more especially women. You can see how pipe and you've got a lot of young people, women who are working hard day by day. We are looking up to you.  So it's upon us farmers to make sure that this industry is doing well. And we produce the most important thing. It's business. It's not like it's a business. We want to make money and we want to expand to other African continents, other African countries and say, let's work together as a group. You know, in Africa, Africa is rich. Africa, there is potential. There is so much skills that can be developed. There's so much production that can be done in Africa. We can even export to other countries. So if South African youth and Zimbabwe and Botswana, we are working together, this is going to be so much in Africa. Absolutely. I like the fact that you mentioned that this is business. Farming is business. And talking about business, having left the operations at the farm within the livestock farm, has your family supported you in this new venture? And how have they supported you? Well, I was struggling with text compliances. Then my dad used to come and say, you know, baby, this is how we do things.  You want to be a sticky old. It's your responsibility to make sure that at the end of the month, you must be able to pay your employees. Never ever miss a day, the day of paying your employees and your tech. Make sure that you can complain about the text and text, the text everywhere, but make sure that you pay for yourself. So they are very supportive. All my initiatives that I do, my sisters and my brothers, they do come and see how they can assist me in growing. Even you saw our event, the one of the, I was telling my sister that you must come and support. So you are strong about, you know, some people will think that IPLN is doing well. And it's not because of me or my identity. Behind me, there are a lot of people who are more especially. Wow. That's great to hear. And to know that your family is 100% besides you. And I agree with that. As farmers, you need to have a network, you know, of individuals that you could obviously contact at any given point in time, more especially when you're experiencing challenges. So what's next for your farm operations? We're going into a new season right now, warmer season, summer season. What's next on your farm operations? And where do you see yourself in the next three to five years? Okay, agro processing. You know, everybody's talking about agro processing. Now we are talking about technology now. We are coming smart. I need to see myself on the next generation being one of those successful agro processing ladies processing, sending our products in Africa in other countries. And I've got so much. But look, I used to respond to that question with passion. I used to say, look, I want to see myself exporting sending my product in other countries. But right now, we've got crisis in South Africa. There's a lot of unemployment. So now most of my plans, they have to be within home. You cannot improve other countries or other continent while at home, there is a huge gap of unemployment. So right now, with our business models, we are trying to see how we are going to create enough employment in the agriculture sector. Indeed, charity does begin at home. And I like that approach. You know, it's about uplifting the communities that we serve and that support us at the end of the day to sum up this conversation, which has been very, very thoughtful and enlightening, as well as inspiring to learn and hear about your story. Because it is woman's month after all, and you're a young female farmer in the sector, what final words or would you give to young females or just women in the agri space and not necessarily farmers, but people that are working in maybe government offices who are facilitating policies that are favorable to farmers, maybe women in the banks who are running small portfolios or large portfolios in the bank industry where agribusiness or agriculture is concerned to science, you name it. So what advice would you give to women in the agricultural sector since it is woman's month? Okay, now I think COVID-19 came at a time where it made us aware that we have the potential. You know, with so much job losses, we have seen a lot of people showing interest in the agriculture space. So what I want to tell them is that it's possible that you can invest in the agriculture sector. You need to start small, you learn, allow yourself to make mistakes, correct them, don't give up, and you use those mistakes to change and so that you can grow. So let's go back to our roots, start small, don't want 500 licks without knowing how you're going to utilize, make your researches, do your business plan, ask people, the most important thing is to ask people with experience to help you. Thank you so much. Oh, thank you so much, Ipilenguari, you're such a gem that was Ipilenguari Livestock, oh, actually now Horticulture Farmer based in Northwest. She was previously on the show talking about cooperatives and she touched on her family farm that is a livestock farm. But this episode was all about her new business, her new venture which she started farming, cabbages as well as spinach in the Brits area. So I like some of the highlights for me is that I like her approach in finding and seeking land and also negotiating for this farm lease that she's farming on. And she shared some gems pretty much on the average or startup costs that you could look at spending for your seeds, for your seedlings, your fertilizers, your borehole as well. And so I hope that when you're watching this episode, if you missed it or if you've watched it tonight and joined us this evening, but didn't ask questions because you were really, really glued to the screen and listening to every single word that Ipilenguari said. I hope you really learned a lot because she touched on some very, very important points and factors that not only as woman but just as new entrance in the farming space face, water license regulations, challenges of having to find the right suppliers, credible suppliers that could actually deliver a job at the end of the day, even after you've paid them and also trying to identify ways to market your product and also lift the community. And that's what you will hear in this episode tonight. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you and please catch us on Thursday at eight o'clock. And you can catch the repeat of this episode on our YouTube channel. That is it from us. Take care and good night. Thank you.


Hey guys! Just a little bit of an update for you. Apologies there's no supernatural video. Obviously because we have finished season five, but I will have a video kind of talking about my speculations of season six and onwards coming up very very soon. Also there's probably not going to be a movie review today. It has been a busy, busy week for me, but now I'm on a Christmas hiatus and I've got a little bit of time pertaining to Christmas and family duties of course to work on a few video ideas that I've had. One in particular I'm actually hoping works. I'm possibly thinking a little bit ahead of myself in terms of the challenges I have with it. It's not a thing that I've kind of really made before. I'm probably just not only going to be a one-off, but I wanted to try something. But either way I hope you guys are enjoying the Christmas season. I hope you guys are getting ready for Christmas because it's coming up. It's really really close. The other reason why I've been a little bit quiet is because the last three weeks I've been getting back to a new Netflix show that I'm working on. I can't tell you anything about it, but once we get to the point of when I can, I certainly will tell you about it. For instance, the previous project that I just finished working on, I can give you this much detail. If I'm correct, I will come out in January, the end of January. So keep an eye out for that on Netflix. But in the meantime, hope you guys are safe. Hope you guys are having fun. Hope you guys are getting ready for the Christmas season and looking forward to seeing family and friends as safe as one can. Looking forward to 2022 and all the experiences and challenges and rewards that will come from that year. Without further ado, I'm going to give you a very, very, very short preview of the thing that I plan to give you guys on Christmas day. Take the shot! Take the shot! Jesus Christ, that's Jason Bourne. In the meantime, if you're interested in actually checking out something that does have me in it for a very small brief second, I would suggest checking out the Rockin' and Reagan Awards hosted by Victor Lucas. This is a guy who used to run a show called Electronic Playground back from the early 90s all the way up until the mid-2010s. And he still continues the show independently now. Vic is the guy who introduced me to video games, aside from my dad, and he's probably one of my favorite game critics. And I always like to give support to his channel whenever I can. He did an end of 2021 awards season with a bunch of previous hosts and other figures in the gaming industry. And he also let people who are supporters of his page also contribute. There you go, where you will find me in it. Yeah, it's a cool little conversation about all the video games that came out and all the awards that he gives out to his best shooters, best racers, all that stuff. So I would definitely suggest you guys check it out. Link is in the description below. So again, apologies for the delays, apologies for no videos this week, but I promise I've got some coming.


Live from Las Vegas, Nevada, extracting the signal from the noise. It's theCUBE covering Informatica World 2015. Brought to you by Informatica World. Now, here's John Furrier and Jeff Frick. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are live in Las Vegas. This is theCUBE's Silicon Angles flagship program. We go out to the events and extract a simple noise. We are on the ground for Informatica World 2015. I'm John Furrier, my co-host. Jeff Frick, our next guest, John Myers, Managing Research Director and Enterprise Management Associates, EMA. Welcome back to theCUBE. Thank you very much. It's been a while. It's been a while, but great to see you. So, you're analyzing, you're looking at the data, you're looking at the vendors, you're looking at all the horses on the track. What's going on with Informatica? They're looking good. I mean, they're going to go private, so we kind of saw that announcement, which is not necessarily a bad thing. We were commenting on the intro. I mean, Dell's taking his company private. You know, it's private. I think it's a good move.  What's your take on Informatica? Well, on that piece, I think that, you know, there's kind of a Faustian bargain if you get into the public equity markets. And I like the direction that some companies are taking by going private. It allows them more freedom, if you will, to do some of the things that they want to do. And without the pressure of, I'd say, a quarterly, you know, every quarter having to meet a revenue target. And you got the shorts out there.  So until we see what the structure's going to be, I don't know where Informatica will be, but I think it'll provide them with the opportunity to do some things they may not have been able to do as a publicly traded, you know, quarterly reporting company. Let's talk about their business. What do you think of their business prospects, their current business? Obviously, they're in a great business. They're a billion-dollar company, but data warehouse intelligence is transforming. It's not going away. It's like saying storage is going away. It's like, data's not, it's only growing. So what's your, what's the health of the business and your angle? You know, in terms of Informatica, I really like what they're doing from the perspective of taking something that might have been historically a plumbing business, if you will, more of a utility-based, and they're raising it up a level to being, integrating more between business and IT. If you look at what they've been doing with, Springbok now Rev, you look at what they've been doing with the MDM suite, looking at what they're doing with SecuritSource. They're taking some of those analytical concepts that we've seen for quite some time and applying it to these domains of data management. You know, if you saw it in the keynotes where they had that screen that showed here are the levels of data. Here's the information that's secured in your environment. Here's the stuff that's at risk. It's no longer down in the bowels of some report on an individual system. It's been raised up to a look at your entire organization and where you're at risk, whether it be PCI, PII, things of that nature. So I like that, that they're taking a... What's the customer needs? Because obviously the customers, I mean, I agree by the way, 100%, I think that's a great strategy. I mean, move it up where it's more relevant at an application and or level. But what's the drivers from the customer standpoint? What's driving them? So when customers, you know, if they're trying to do security on all these new systems, you know, we've talked a bit about big data cloud, this, that, you know, if you try to get into all those different data types, those different data platforms, and do whether it be master data management or security or whatnot, at the individual point level, as I like to talk, I steal a line from a few good men, you'll go blind on paperwork trying to do all those things. But when you raise it up a level, customers and their IT departments are now able to say, I can instead of focusing on the tactical implementations, I can look at it from a service perspective and keep it all in that fashion. So I overworked IT departments, organizations that are needing to make better use of their resources, whether it be head, head count or capital expenditures. I think this gives them a great opportunity to move up as opposed to being caught in the weeds of the implementation. One of the things that Sohae talked about is the different types of analytics from the traditional BI all the way up through with Duke. I wonder if you could speak to how, having to deal in a world with all of those. I think you outlined six, data warehouse, analytics databases, in-memory databases, cloud analytics service, open source of Duke and agile BI. For the enterprise, they've got stuff they've had before, they've got stuff the boss will tell them they need to put in. How are they dealing with that? Well, I think that there's a couple of things that work there. One, at EMA, we don't necessarily look at analytics on Hadoop being different than analytics that we would have done on our DBMS.  You still have that. When you get into the realm of big data on Hadoop or no SQL, you're starting to add a whole lot of detail into what you can do. So previously, in what you might have called traditional analytics, we were doing aggregates. Now, we kind of have loosened that constraint and we can look at all of the individual transactions or interactions of a particular customer. And I think that what Informatica has talked about is saying, no matter where the data is coming from, make it available so that you can put it into a predictive modeling engine, put it into a particular model, things of that nature. And as we get into more and more of an iterative analytical approach, being able to see results much more quickly. So if I'm a data scientist or I'm somebody who's exploring as a senior business analyst, I don't want to have to go and say, all right, I need to learn how to do Hadoop and I need to learn how to do Mongo and I need to learn to do these things. I need to say, bring me the information I need for customer, for product and for transactions, bring that into my model and then execute the model, not worry about where does it live. And I think that was one of the things that Sohabe talked about, is that make it agnostic to the analyst or the data scientist and then enable them to do it much faster, much more iteratively. And the other thing that I think is interesting, we talk a lot about schema on write, versus schema on read. And Sohabe talked about self-adjusting schema, self-adjusting schematic data mappings. Kind of a hybrid of the two. Pretty interesting concept. Well, I come from, I grew up in the telecommunications industry and if you look at, say, call detail record, whether it be voice, data, text, there's a lot of information on that record. Some of it applies to billing, some of it applies to network, some of it applies to the marketing department and each of those groups is going to want different components and being able to say, let's not throw the whole thing at them, but give them the components that they need on an as needed basis, makes a lot of sense. So I got to ask you about best practices. So as customers are out there using some of the data as they move up from the bowels and the plumbing, what are some good use cases that you've seen with customers on the cutting edge?  So you got a lot of dynamics in the enterprise. What are some best practices that you've seen? Well, I think that one of the best practices that I've seen that's been backed up by our research that we've done over the last couple of years is that organizations aren't just dealing with a single data set. We talk, you know, that's why I say it doesn't really matter if it's on Hadoop or if it's on an RDBMS or it's on a Mongo or a Cassandra. You've got data and you need to be able to pull these things together. The next piece is understanding how to provide the context to the data. Our data warehouses have oftentimes gotten a bad reputation as being old, stodgy, kind of calcified things of that nature, but they have some of the best sources of information on customer products and transaction that we have. What we need to do is provide the context of the information we now have from big data sources and make that work. Some organizations are moving or saying let's purify the transaction layer from Hadoop and move that to the data warehouse. Some organizations are saying let's replicate our gold-plated data from the EDW in. Some of the best practices are how do you manage where that information is going to be and how you're going to use it. So I've got to ask the research question. You've got to be doing the research. You're talking to customers. We love the term engagement. I mean, IBM uses the term systems of engagement, systems of record, which is a great way to kind of get your mind around record, stored, engagement, active data. So the data's changed. You've got passive data. You've got activity. You've got social data. What does your research tell you from a customer standpoint? What does engagement data mean?  Is it like retail? Is it omnichannel? I might take a slightly different approach to that. What we're seeing in our research is that organizations are doing workloads, whether they be analytical or operational, that relate to increasing revenues, lowering costs. So top-line revenue, bottom-line margin, those are the things that organizations are focused on. How those things engage, if I'm looking at, say, social data, if I can start to mine information that says these are the people using my products, how do we engage with them and engage with them better? That is where organizations are going to go, but it needs to be tied to revenues or costs. And then you mentioned earlier this context is really a big part of that. I mean, contextual relevance is really the key. Well, it's one thing to know all the clicks that came through your website are how many places that GPS locations that a mobile app has passed by, et cetera. But if you don't understand that your store was sitting in front of somebody as they were using a mobile app as they go by, you lose the context of what you're trying to do or understand that these transactions were made by someone who's traditionally a bricks-and-mortar customer, they're starting to move to our online group. How do we optimize the experience and how do we make it work? You know, if you think about it, it's interesting this engagement, age of engagement productivity is the old way, engagement's the new way because you bring in engagement data activity. You get persona, first party, you get relevance, you get context, and other cool things. And ultimately what you get to is you get to the holy grail of what is, for the data business is, the entire enterprise is connected. So if everyone's connected, the thesis should be, it should be 100% accountability for everything. If you can measure everything. 100% for everything, that's big. If you can measure everything. But I don't think we can measure everything. We used to talk in terms of the 360 degree view of the customer inside of our firewall. And then we came in, now we have social data, we have Facebook information or things of that nature that now give us an even broader 360 degree view or maybe deeper. But I don't think we can measure everything. I don't think we're quite there yet in terms of processing power and storage and things of that nature. But you raise an excellent point, that if we can measure all these components, we'll have great accountability. But I think there's also that ingenuity or that imagination where what are the things we should be measuring? Is it, should we be measuring click through? If you look at the EvolutionSafe for an online application, we started at what was purchased, then we saw what was abandoned in the shopping cart. Now we're looking at what are people looking at as they are putting items into or out of the shopping cart. And now we're looking at where are they doing those activities as they're looking at it, so showcasing at a physical store. So we keep making those leaps, whereas before someone wanted to say, why would I want to know the geographic location of that mobile app? If you go, well, if they're sitting in the middle of one of your competitor's stores, now you've raised the attention of the marketing guys. So geospatial, again, I've raised that over the top question. I mean, to kind of make the highlight, okay, if this is possible down the road, it changes the management styles of the executives. And you've got geospatial data, you've got virtual geospatial data. So if that's the case, what's the management practices that are transformed? So it's a selection of the data. So do I look at first, do I look at the customer service data, look at the abandoned shopping cart, customer satisfaction, manufacturing? I don't know if we're changing the practices. I think that the patterns that successful businesses have used to disrupt industries and to find opportunities are still going to be what we're going to use. However, what we're going to see change are the physical implementations of those. We used to think about a location of being at a point of sale system associated with a purchase. Now we're thinking about location in terms of where is the physical GPS of the object. So I think that those executives who are imaginative in what they want to do and how they want to achieve it are going to be the ones who are going to go, let me look deeper into the data or into more dimensions of the data. But every business is different. I mean, again, I talked about it, I came from a telco business. If you're selling data plans versus if you're selling something else on a prepaid, you have the same types of data. The question is how do you use it to meet your business plan? The other kind of markers on that journey that you talked about a lot is predictive versus prescriptive. From your experience out in the field and the research you've done, who are the people that are furthest along on really the prescriptive or are we still got a ways to go there? Well, I think that when we look at the analytics, there's a lot of education that needs to be done. I hate to say it, when I got my MBA training I learned how to do linear regressions on Minitab. I probably wouldn't be allowed in a statistical classroom these days, but we have a lot of management types that maybe still think in terms of, okay, I've been presented with a Nave Bayes model and they go, well tell me how it matches to the coefficients of a linear regression. You're like, no, it doesn't do that. So we have to first let people understand what these models are doing, get them appreciative of where they are. They don't need to get down into the math, if you will. But I think we're seeing a lot of organizations that are asking that next question. Not who are my top 10 customers, but who will be my top 10 customers or what are the attributes that my top 10 customers have so that we can look for patterns that allow us to do that. Again, I see that being the more proactive organizations, organizations that are, say, manufacturing or logistics trying to project out where they're going to see their lines going for people that are doing sales. How do they view what you might call the leading indicators of economic data and how does that impact their business? So I think that's where they're going to go. I think we're still going to see a lot of descriptive, but in terms of predictive, people are growing into it and they're going to start using it once they understand or break free of is this a linear regression? It's a combination of operational discipline and mindset, right? That's what you're basically saying, it's like they're getting their arms around how to use it and then how to think about it. EMA did a research study in the fall where we asked about data-driven organizations and how deep people want to drive that. One of the impediments wasn't how do people use business intelligence but it was how do they make decisions with analytics? So they're going beyond charts and graphs to how do I utilize data from advanced analytical models to be better. Talk about the horses on the track the different vendors, you got Informatica doing well you got other companies out there in this landscape we're in now what's in your opinion and your research, what are customers looking for and what do the successful vendors need to look like, what do they need to do to be successful, what kinds of business models, what kinds of products on the consumption side pricing we heard Debbie talk about cloud, friendly. So organizations are looking for time to not just heartbeat or implementation but time to value. So organizations that can enable them to make it from not just spinning something up in the cloud, anybody can swipe a credit card and get an environment up and running but how long does it take for that environment to start providing value to your organization whether it be analytics operational data or master metadata things we've talked about. So they need to be they need to talk not in times of time to provisioning but time to value organizations also need to be understanding of how do we mix the different data sources and the different data locations you've talked about cloud, I've talked about Hadoop they need to look at data as a resource not, okay we'll set you up with your on-premises structure data and we'll take care of that and we'll be really good. A frictionless resource too and that would essentially move around a lot. Yes, and so if we spin up a new cloud environment or we start to, a company that we acquired has salesforce.com instead of an in-house CRM system they need to be able to say how do we link these together without saying alright get rid of the Salesforce implementation to go to this other one they need to be mindful of mixing both on-prem and then cloud implementations and not just cloud but private and public cloud resources. And the pattern recognition that we all like to go through and successful startups, okay because the startups are out there right so what's the hot startups and what's the disruptors look like I mean Informatica is potentially being disrupted and or they're disrupting now they're going to go private they'll be a disruptor, that's the hope right but underneath that you get a lot of venture-back startups what's your take on the startup community? You know the startups that are out there the ones that I'm most impressed with are the ones that are taking a much more business-oriented or analytical view towards data so I've seen this in some of the data wrangling organizations some of the people who are not taking an approach that hey this is, we're going to give you a command line and you're going to be going with data at a very technical level the ones that are successful are the ones that are raising it up and saying we're going to give you a pallet or a canvas if you will you bring the data sources on you kind of show us how you want to do those types of things, you want to do data quality we'll give you an automatic histogram that says these are the data attributes that are in there. One good example is if you expect it to be a gender column and you open it up and go I have 57 different values in here you might go I have an issue with data quality. There are certain groups that I think Social Security has got up to 13 different identifications for gender but they all have very specific reasons so you might say okay this makes sense but having to do a profile of a column on the command line that's not where organizations are going, they're trying to say let's get our business analysts involved to say they know what's inside of these data sources and go yeah that one doesn't make sense or I shouldn't see values greater than 15 digits in a phone number even for an international plan, things of that nature so letting the people who have an idea of what the business value is that's where the disruptive start-ups are going towards and saying let's give those tools to people. Creativity is the key in there, right? Definitely people not be locked in to some syntax or database structure. Alright John Myers thanks for joining us on the Cube analysis here, breaking it down from great insight and marketplace, Informatica with the hot trends are, it's the Cube extracting the sales from the noise, sharing that with you we'll be right back after this short break.


We've determined that if a graph has genus g, then v plus f minus e is some constant value. Today we call the value the Euler characteristic. For genus zero graphs, v plus f minus e is two. For genus one graphs, v plus f minus e is zero. So what about genus g graphs?  A full proof is somewhat technical. However, we can present a sketch of the proof.  We know that f of zero is two, and so the question is how does f change as g changes? So let's begin with a graph that is embedded on a k-handled sphere. If the graph is embedded on a k-handled sphere, then there must be an n-cycle around the base of each handle. And that's the technical part. We can smush that cycle until it just fits over the handle. And just a note, we say that it's around the base of the handle in quotes because technically speaking there's nothing inside the cycle. Or if you really want to get into it, what's inside the cycle is actually the handle. So now we'll cut the handle, and in doing so we'll actually produce two copies of the cycle, one that's still on the sphere, and one that's on the handle. And now we'll retract the handle, kind of absorbing it into the rest of the sphere. And we get a new graph. Now note that three things have occurred. We've reduced the number of handles by one, we've increased the number of edges by n, the number of edges in the cycle, and we've also increased the number of vertices by n, the number of edges in the cycle, which equals the number of vertices. And the fourth of the three things we've done is we've increased the number of faces by 2. And what this means is decreasing g by 1 will increase the quantity by 2. And since f of 0 is 2, it follows that f of g is 2 minus 2g. Now that we have an extension of Euler's formula, we can use it in other contexts. For example, for a simple connected planar graph, we found that E is less than or equal to 3b minus 6. By essentially the same logic, we find that a connected genus g graph will satisfy, and this might help us to do things like find a lower bound on the genus of an arbitrary graph. For k10, for example, we have 10 vertices and 10 choose to 45 edges. And so we can substitute these into our formula and find. And since the genus has to be a whole number, we know that the lower bound of the genus of k10 is 4. One of the other immediate consequences of Euler's formula is that for planar graphs, we proved that the minimum degree had to be less than 6. And we can do the same analysis for graphs with genus g. So I suppose g is a connected genus g graph where the minimum degree is k. Again, by the handshake here, the sum of the degrees is twice the number of edges. And if our minimum degree is k, we have. If we substitute this into our formula relating the edges and the vertices, we find. So let's prove that if g is a connected graph with genus 1, the minimum degree is less than or equal to 6. So if g equals 1, we know. So any graph that can be embedded on a torus must have a vertex of degrees 6 or less. Now, because this minimum degree depends on the number of vertices, it can get a little tricky. So for example, let's see if we could find a genus 2 graph where the minimum degree is 8. Our formula relates the minimum degree to the number of vertices. So if we substitute the minimum degree, we can find a corresponding value of v. So we'll substitute our minimum degree into our formula and find. And so we find that if a genus 2 graph has 6 or fewer vertices, the minimum degree is actually less than or equal to 5. Remember, even though you can do the algebra, the variables actually mean something. And in this case, we're talking about graphs with 6 or fewer vertices. So it's impossible for any vertex to have a degree greater than 5. And so the minimum has to be less. What if we had more than 6 vertices? If v is greater than 6, then since v has to be a whole number, v is greater than or equal to 7. And so we have. And since our minimum degree has to be a whole number, the degree is less than or equal to 7. So if g has more vertices, the minimum degree is less than or equal to 7. And so no genus 2 graph can have a minimum degree of 8. This leads to some interesting possibilities. Suppose we want to characterize the genus 2 graphs with minimum degree 7. Now, if we want our minimum degree to be 7, we have. And so in order to have a minimum degree of 7, the graph can have at most 12 vertices. And also in order to have the degree 7, the graph must have at least 8 vertices. So a necessary condition for a genus 2 graph to have minimum degree 7 is for the number of vertices to be somewhere between 8 and 12. And because the number of edges in a simple graph is determined by the number of vertices, this means that it's sometimes possible to prove theorems that are true for most graphs. For example, most genus 2 graphs have minimum degree less than or equal to 6. In fact, while it's necessary for the genus 2 graph with minimum degree 7 to have between 8 and 12 vertices, we don't know if it's sufficient. And in fact, it's possible that no genus 2 graph has minimum degree 7. And since there are only a finite number of genus 2 graphs with between 8 and 12 vertices, we can in principle check them out. We won't, that's actually a research project, but we could. So for example, we want to prove that for most graphs of genus 4, the minimum degree is less than or equal to 7. So if our genus is 4, then our minimum degree satisfies. Now in order for the minimum degree to be greater than 7, we have to have that minimum degree to be 8 or more. And so we find. So if the number of vertices is greater than 18, the minimum degree has to be less than or equal to 7. And with 8 or fewer vertices, the minimum degree also has to be less than or equal to 7. So the only genus 4 graphs where the minimum degree is greater than 7 are those where the number of vertices is between 9 and 18.


I went to Boston Marathon twice. First year I was there as a volunteer, and the second year I was there cheering for my friends. But this year I'll be there as a real runner, run for Italy. And last year I was there but not near the finish line. Most of my friends finished the marathon within three hours. So actually we already left there before the bomb explosion. And when I heard that sound news, I'm so, so, so, so shocked. Not a lot of text message and a call from my friends checking out me. Are you okay? Are you there? So after that I heard one of the Chinese students was missing during the explosion. So shocked. Personally I didn't know Lin Zulu, but we share a lot of seminars. We have a lot of common friends and also both of us are Chinese girls. Only a child in the family, all the way along from China to US, seeking for advanced education. So this year I don't run for myself, I run for the whole Chinese student community. I run the marathon for Lin Zulu. She came along the way from China to US, but she didn't finish her dream. So I want to finish that for her.


Penguin Random House Audio presents The Sentinel, a Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child and Andrew Child. Red for You, by Scott Brick. For Kara and Sarah, with thanks. CHAPTER ONE Rusty Rutherford emerged from his apartment on a Monday morning, exactly one week after he got fired. He spent the first few days after the axe fell with his blinds drawn, working through his stockpile of frozen pizzas and waiting for the phone to ring. Significant weaknesses, the dismissal letter said, profound failure of leadership, basic and fundamental errors. It was unbelievable, such a distortion of the truth, and so unfair. They were actually trying to pin the town's recent problems on him. It was a mistake, plain and simple, which meant it was certain to be corrected, and soon. The hours crawled past, his phone stayed silent, and his personal email silted up with nothing more than spam. He resisted for another full day, then grabbed his old laptop and powered it up. He didn't own a gun or a knife. He didn't know how to repel from a helicopter or parachute from a plane, but still. Someone had to pay. Maybe his real-life enemies were going to get away with it, this time. But not the villains in the video games a developer buddy had sent him. He had shied away from playing them before. The violence felt too extreme, too unnecessary. It didn't feel that way anymore. His days of showing mercy were over, unless his phone stayed silent. Twenty-four hours later he had a slew of new high scores and a mild case of dehydration. But not much else had changed. He closed the computer and slumped back on his couch. He stayed there for the best part of another day, picking at random from a stack of Blu-rays he didn't remember buying and silently begging the universe to send him back to work. He would be different, he swore, easier to get along with, more patient, diplomatic, empathetic even. He would buy donuts for everyone in the office, twice a month, three times if that would seal the deal. His phone stayed silent. He didn't often drink, but what else was there left to do? The credits began to roll at the end of another disc. He couldn't stomach another movie so he retreated to the kitchen, retrieved an unopened bottle of Jim Beam from the back of a cabinet, returned to the living room, and put a scratchy old Elmore James L.P. on the turntable. He wound up asleep, face down on the floor after. He wasn't sure.


They're always Going through your stuff They're always checking what you're doing where you're going Who you're seeing They have to know all of this stuff And they know that you're not going to tell them everything Because they always overreact There's always a problem Or they criticize you They put you down So you try to hide these things to make it more peaceful To make it better for you Maybe even to make it better for them, but no They have to go through your stuff When you're out They're going through your cupboards and drawers even Looking in your underwear drawer Seeing if there's something hidden in there Or if you put your phone down for a minute Maybe you go to the bathroom and then they just pick it up They're looking for your messages Looking for your social media And it's no different If they discard you or You decide to move on That doesn't mean they're just going to leave you alone Now they're still going to be spying on you. They still have to see what you're doing It may make it a bit more difficult for them, but They will be more covert So they will be spying on your social media And yeah, you may block them, but They will create fake accounts Or they will get someone else to spy on you And that doesn't just have to be on social media that can be in person They will get their flying monkeys to watch you And that could be family members or mutual friends that you have It could be anyone they will get them to monitor you To see where you're going Who you're seeing And this is really part of the sickness But they still do that even when You've moved on and they're meant to have moved on It's like they just can't leave things alone And the reason for that is because they see you as an object They see you as their property As something that belongs to them They don't see you as an independent separate person No They see you as an extension of them and they're very envious and jealous They always feel like someone or something is taking you away from them And they decide to take you away They desire to Lock you in a cell and throw away the key That's what they desire for you So anything you do that is outside of them Anything that they can't relate to Anything that makes them feel irrelevant. They don't like that. They want to sabotage it. They want to take it away destroy it They want to do something with it They can't just let it be natural They can't just let things play out organically No, because they always got to have that control They have to control things they have to put their own spin on it That's just how it is And that's never gonna change What you can really do is try and protect yourself and Yeah, just Make use of the security and privacy features on social media So then they can't spine your stuff They can't see what you're up to where you go in Who you're talking to Because that's what they're gonna be doing And yeah, they will tell you that they've moved on. They don't care about you anymore Expulsion I guarantee it. They're on there. They're watching you They made a fake account. So you don't know it's them Or maybe they're using someone else's account and it may have me someone that you know Very sneaky. So be careful Anyway, I said I was gonna do a video by the pool area So here I am Got some nice views here It's a really nice pool I haven't been in it yet. I haven't had time but I'm looking forward to going in there soon.  They've been in there They were looking for your stuff and you can test them if you're still with them What you can do is Just put things in certain places Things in your cupboards and drawers and Watch if they've moved out of place That's how you know they're going for your stuff so be aware of that and And Yeah, you just got to think if they were doing all of that when you were with them It's not just gonna stop Just because you've left or they discarded you Doesn't work that way They're still gonna be spying and they're spying on you because Remember they're very competitive They're always comparing themselves to other people other situations Remember when Maybe you'd go out to a restaurant with them and they're always on their phones They're always on Facebook Twitter Instagram Always looking at other people's lives Seeing what other people are doing Seeing if they have a better life Better relationship Better car house clothes, whatever Than they do always comparing all the time and You may also remember they were always comparing themselves to you It was always a competition They were always trying to be better than you And it's the same thing Even when you leave or they leave It's the same thing again. They're still competing with you So they're spying on you to see if you're doing better without them To see if you've found someone better But what they really like to see is that You're in pain and you're suffering They want to see you down and out miserable Bored nothing to do They want to see you posting things about them Oh, they'd love to see you Posting stuff about narcissists on your Facebook or your Instagram They'd love to see that But that doesn't mean that you can't do that. It's just Be careful who is watching that stuff Because if they're seeing it Trust me, they're getting off on it They're enjoying it They love to see you in pain. So yeah, this is Just to make you aware But they will be spying on you So you need to keep your personal information Away from them So they can't see it. I mean, it's easier said than done because if a narcissist really wants to Gain access to something They're gonna find a way to do it So even even if you block them And you make your account private They're gonna find a way around that They are so yeah, you do need to be careful with what you're posting and Yeah, you can Leave something for them, you know, they're gonna be watching so give them something to look at Give them something that's gonna make them a sick And see what they think of that because they do it When you go on their social media, it's always these pictures of them with their new supply And they look so happy They look like they're living their best lives But if you've watched my videos, you know by now that it's all fake.  That's all it is Yeah, this is the Addiction The obsession of the narcissist This is what they do and they can't stop it They can't help themselves They always feel like they're missing out on something it's like they have this craving They just have to see They've got to see what you're doing Where you're going Who you're with They got to see that Because otherwise it plays in their mind They get very anxious They become restless And here's the thing even if you do post stuff That's meant to push them away It just makes them even more obsessed Then they're just thinking about you even more normal people If they don't like something they don't keep going back to it, but narcissists they will tell you how much they don't agree with you But then they're always there It's like just when you think you got rid of them Then they play this peek-a-boo game. They just pop up out of nowhere But a normal person If they don't like something then they're not gonna keep returning to it They're gonna stay away from it But these types of people will keep coming back They will keep stalking you In person and on social media Yeah, that's another thing as well is Yes, they will stalk you in person They will show up at your home They will show up at your work They will just Be wherever they think you're gonna be They will be there. I honestly think they don't care Whether they get a positive reaction or a negative one Even if you're really angry at them And they can just see it on your face that you don't want them to be there you don't want to talk to them I Think in in their minds that actually Makes them happy in a way When they see you resisting them it tells them they have power They see it as though you're just reacting to something they're doing So they like that the best thing you can do is just completely ignore them Don't even give them a reaction Don't even tell them. I don't want to talk to you. I don't want to see you Don't even say that Just forget them Just act like they don't exist Then they'll get the message But that doesn't mean they're gonna stop spying on you They're still gonna be there 112 live viewers Please hit that thumbs up button Let's get this message out there People need to know that the narcissist is spying on them and they're not just spying When you're with them When you're living in the same home No, they're spying even after you've left or after They've left you and You know, there's really no depth No limits to what they will go to some of them will put tracking devices on your car on your phone So that they can see where you're going And they can see Who you're messaging on your phone They can see your social media your phone calls They can see all that stuff Once they've put these tracking and monitoring devices On your car your phone your computer They can see everything And it's just part of the addiction It's part of their obsession And this becomes a game It's like a form of entertainment for them You know, like big brother People used to watch that all day And it's the same thing with the narcissist Some of them will even put surveillance cameras in your home And it will be exactly like big brother They'll be watching you from the walls or from the ceiling And they'll see you in your home First thing in the morning They'll see you brushing your teeth Getting ready for work And then When you go out They'll be tracking you on Your car, your phone They'll be seeing if you make any phone calls, messages And Then they'll be waiting for you then to come home at night They'll be watching on the little surveillance camera Watching you walk through the door Watching you cook your dinner Or maybe you get take away And then they'll see you Going in the shower They might be watching you use the toilet I don't know if I'm laughing But it's not really a joke I mean, you know, this is real This is actually Something that happens in real life It's not a joke They may be watching you use the toilet Have a shower at night Maybe you're having a bath They'll be watching that Watching you Scrubbing your body Playing with your Your rubber duck in the bath Washing your hair They'll be watching all of that If they have put surveillance cameras In your home Which many of them Well, I shouldn't say many of them But some of them do I know for a fact that some of them do that And Yeah, but even if they're not doing that It's even just The spyware On your computer or phone Or the tracking devices on your car Even that is very extreme And illegal too It's against the law Or even Stalking your social media Following you in person Or getting other people to follow you Even that in the UK It's punishable By up to 14 years in prison That's how serious this is It's a very serious crime One of the worst And yet This is what they do And in their sick minds They think it's okay They think it's alright for them to do that They always find a way to justify it And that's why they seem so irrational Sometimes in arguments It's like you can't get through to them Nothing you say gets through They never seem to understand you Because they're going off with their own programming Their own system Of what they want to do What benefits them What entertains them And makes them feel more comfortable Yeah I've done a few videos on gang stalking And it's real They get their flying monkeys to gang stalk you It starts off With maybe just family members Or mutual friends They're going around watching you And then it can spread into the community So then before you know it You've got large numbers of people Following you around You might just go to a cafe In your local town And then you notice people are treating you differently They're acting strange around you They're deliberately Having these directed conversations So that you can hear it And maybe they'll mention your name Or they'll repeat certain things Like they'll always cough Around you And they do it loud enough so You can hear it And it irritates you Yeah, they do all of these crazy things Because they're crazy people Normal people don't behave like that They don't get obsessed They don't do Obsessive things Rituals They don't do stuff like that So you should already know that if you're dealing with someone Who's spying on you Whoever they are, it doesn't matter I mean, I can understand if it's like If it's on one or two occasions They're spying you out of curiosity Or just to see if What the narcissist is to say and is true That I can understand But when it gets Into extreme stalking That's when you should know that something is wrong If it's something that's happening Once a day Or even once a week It's crazy No one is going to make you that important Whether they're going to be spying on you consistently I mean, you could argue that They think you're doing something wrong And that's why they have to monitor you Every day of your life But what are you doing that's so different From everyone else What do you do in your home In your car Throughout the day What are you doing that's so bad I'm sure whatever you're doing Other people are doing that too And probably some people Are doing worse things That's if you're doing something bad But anything is bad to a narcissist If it doesn't follow their narrative Their course of events They don't like you doing anything They just don't want to see you living your life at all That's why they try to isolate you They wanted to keep you by yourself If they could They would lock you up And throw away the key So that nothing and no one can get to you Because then they feel more comfortable Remember these are very envious And jealous people They don't want you to have nothing They don't want you to have a life outside of them So they are very jealous And I'm sure you remember when you were with them Any time that someone came up and talked to you Maybe they just gave you a compliment Remember how they reacted to it They couldn't stand it They got so mad Or maybe they went on and tried to talk to someone And complimented them They tried to make you jealous I've always said however they're trying to make you feel That's how they feel inside So don't identify with it Don't take it on as though it's An emotion that belongs to you There's nothing to do with you This is their problem And you can see it in everything they do Everything they say It's like they have this addiction They have a serious problem that they cannot control They can't control themselves So they try to control you And if they can't control you Then they just self destruct And you will see that If they really lose control of you And you manage to get away They will go crazy They will lose their minds I've said that in many of my videos They cannot control themselves So they try to control you And if they can't control you They will lose their minds They will self destruct They really is that simple Let's take another look at this view here It's really beautiful I know some new people have just joined So I'm just showing you where I am Makes me happy when I Stay at a nice place Let's come down to this side Got more views down here It's just never ending views Wherever you go Don't look down It's a long way down This is only the 35th floor There's about 50 floors in this one But yeah Be very careful with what you're doing Online And not just online Wherever really I mean You never know They could have put the spyware On your phone, on your computer Tracking devices on your car Surveillance cameras in your home Anything There's no limits to what you do And I'm not trying to scare you You just need to know that They're crazy when they lose control of you That's it They're not just going to let you go And that's what you need to understand I mean in a normal A normal breakup People do understand Okay, this person doesn't want to talk to me Great place for a massage Overlooking view They can't let things go Because they see their property They see Of them That's really it Now some of you may have thought The spyware on me The stalking me The warm me That means they care That means they love me They miss me No That's not what it is at all If they cared They wouldn't be doing that They do it because They're very jealous They feel like they miss it out on something Or they just see you as an object That's why It's not It's not that they They love you or miss you If they did They wouldn't go that way in all behavior Normal people don't do that You can see the The sky train Just coming past down there Over the roads I've never actually been on one of those Has anyone here been On a sky train Let me know if you have Let me know if it was fun Maybe I'll give it a go Maybe if I can get a signal on there I'll do a video too Yeah, as you can see I'm just I'm just out here living my life Living my dreams This is what I always wanted to do Travel, I'm doing it And Are people spying on me? Are they stalking me? Yes, I'm sure they are I'm sure There's people watching this video Right now They won't talk to me openly Directly But they're just spying Behind the scenes Because that's what they do in it They don't want to talk to you directly No You know if you Call them up on the phone You message them on social media If you try to arrange A Friendly meeting in person They don't want to know They don't want to do that then No But they will Go behind the scenes And stalk you And become fixated on you I mean that's The weirdest thing about it I mean I guess The reason I can think of Of why they do that Is because They don't want you to know How important You are to them That's the only Large relancer If they're doing that If they Reject your Proposals or requests To Talk on the phone In person But then they're going And watching you Behind your back Monitoring you It's because They don't want you to know How important you are to them They don't want you to know How jealous they are And These kinds of people are very Boring to be around anyway So that's another reason They don't want to talk Directly Because they know you're just going to get bored of them So that's where they have to Go and stalk and spy It's very creepy When people do that I mean you may think Maybe they Lack the social skills But I mean that's not really You know this isn't that you've Been around for a certain amount of time And they were able to talk to you then So that's not really A justification for them It may be in some situations I mean Yeah a lot of times People will spy and stalk Because they physically Cannot Come to you and Talk in person or on the phone They haven't developed The social skills For them to But if we're talking about Relationships here That's a completely different story Unless You were dealing with someone Who doesn't have the confidence Then That would make sense for you As well But other than that They don't want you to know What you are to them Remember they're always trying to Invalidate you They're always trying to be better than you They're always just trying You ain't shit So of course if you try and talk to them On the phone Try and meet them Without your awareness To make you feel like you don't matter You're not important They've moved on They don't care about you They think How they want you to think The opposite of how they really think They never give you the truth There's always something else They give you These reasons Why they're doing what they're doing But then that's not really Why they're doing it And you can pick up on that sometimes Because If that was the real reason Why they're doing it To other things That would make more of a difference Rather than stalking you Something to think about It's like they're just trying to find ways To cover up Their obsession To try and act like it's something else It's not what you think I mean that's That's creepy again It's when you know that someone Is watching you And then they're trying to make you think No, no, no I'm not watching you, it's just It's something else I'm just watching to see if you're okay To see if you need any help Or you got it wrong I'm not watching you at all I mean that's what really makes it creepy It's that there's like this Whole other side of them That they're trying to hide from you Something that's kind of Using you for Something But yeah, I just Forget about them now If you're always thinking about it all the time You'll get paranoid You'll panic and wonder If they're watching you If they're following you In your car If you've got cameras in your home All of these things They will drive you insane And at some point When you do start to catch up And you You know that they are doing those things Then they will just use it To make you panic To scare you Because that's another way that they Gain power over you So that you're always paranoid Wondering if they're there Wondering if they can see you A normal person If they were in that position Where they're tracking you In your car Monitoring your devices Watching you in your home I know a person if they're doing that And someone finds out about it They would probably be Really ashamed of themselves They would probably be embarrassed But then what normal person would do that anyway And that's why narcissists When they do that and you catch them It's like Yeah, I got you They feel powerful They love it So that's the type That you're dealing with You just got to try to not think about it too much Don't let it get to you Just continue To do what you normally do You can take measures To protect yourself to some extent But don't Don't let it dominate your life Because it will just drive you crazy in the end You can't control everything You can't control what they do Unless you have evidence And you want to get the police into it You can try and do that But otherwise You just There's not much you can do Small steps to protect yourself And that's that really 147 live viewers Please give this video a thumbs up Right now If the video Resonates with you And your situation Let's get this message out there I think it will help a lot of people Because Especially now With more advanced technology There are more people Getting into this There's more people Spying on their exes And it's just not right I mean it's one thing to look at The social media But then to go and do it in person To actually Research And go and spend your money On these tracking devices I mean that's when you know There's something wrong with someone Normal people don't do that Yeah that's all I got to say For this video Almost 50 minutes on here But I've dedicated Of my day Just for you As always I've loved every minute of it I enjoy helping you And I hope that you enjoy Me talking to you And giving you this information If you do as always Please hit that thumbs up button Right now So you can show Show me How Effective This video has been for you How much it has helped And Yeah we can just keep helping each 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