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This show, Dare to Dream, has been nominated for two People's Choice Podcast Awards as well as a Webby Award. We're consistently ranked in all of self-improvement in the top podcasts in the USA country as well as other countries. We are currently trending also in Belarus, in Uruguay and St. Lucia and so grateful to all of you for feeling the message and this number one transformation conversation. Today's show is a conversation on meditation for daily stress. We're going to be talking about an incredibly unique way certainly that I've never heard about of looking at the possibilities around meditation, a new way of meditation that does not require effort nor breath exercise. My guest today is Michel Pascal, who is a transformation and spiritual multi-dimensional artist, meditation teacher, singer, composer, photographer, film director and author. He's even co-authored a book with Adali Lama. All of what he does is dedicated to supporting underserved populations, including LA's hardened population of parolees. He's an author of 20 books on spirituality, including meditation for daily stress, 10 practices for immediate well-being. He is the director of We Are Never Alone Film, one of the solutions of the Never Alone movement for the suicide prevention and mental health. And as a singer, Pascal has performed his medicine voice concerts several times at Carnegie Hall in New York City, where he will again perform this year's Christmas concert. He has been singing with famous musicians like Myron McKinley, music director of Earth, Wind and Fire, Verdeen White, co-founder of Earth, Wind and Fire, Paul Pesco, Mark Ledford, who is the vocalist of the Pat Metheny group and many more. To find out more about Michelle Pascal, go to MichellePascal.tv. It's M-I-C-H-E-L-P-A-S-C-A-L.tv. And with that, I welcome Michelle to Dear to Dream. Hi, it's great to have you. Thank you so much, Debbie. So happy to be with you and to all the people who love your show. I have to say that you really appreciate, I think, God was either laughing or ordained something just because you are going to be on the show today. So this morning, we found out that our city is going to be digging up all our driveways up and down the entire block. So they've got these massive machines, jackhammers and cranes digging and the noise has been beyond. All of a sudden, just today, right? And on top of it, we have three dogs. We're all working from home. And we've got three dogs. So the dogs think this is a five-star alarm that there are people outside who could be a threat so they're all barking. And I sat here this morning knowing you were coming on the show thinking, this is so bad. I think I have to reach out to Michelle's people and I need to reschedule. And all of a sudden, it dawned on me. How hilarious. Michelle teaches like your premise of meditation is the ability to meditate, the importance of meditating in the midst of chaos. And so you brought the chaos just for the show to see what's possible. How is that possible? Your question is very important because if I ask what means meditation to you or when I ask the question in America, everyone replied, oh, this is meditation. So when you compare this cliche and if you want to know what is the etymology of meditation, this is that I learned in my monastery, for example. What is the Tibetan etymology of the word meditation? It doesn't mean that all the cliche, et cetera. No, meditation, it means exactly I train my mind in my daily life. And we can adapt today and we can say I train my mind in my daily stressful life. So this is the authenticity of meditation, how to calm my mind in the chaos, not far from the chaos of my life because as you know, the world is in a huge chaos. So it's a world phenomenon. So how can we be quiet? How can we train our mind in the stressful situation? This is the authenticity of meditation. Let's develop more. If you go to calm your mind in a quiet place, this is beautiful. This is a sort of relaxation.  After one or two days, you lose your tongue, you are stressed again, you lose the benefit of the holidays. This is the same if you go far from your stress to be quiet in a quiet place. It's easy and you don't progress. But when you go back to your stressful life, you are stressed again. I remember one day I was in a mountain view at Google in California and one of the big managers said to me, Michel, we have a question. We pay a lot of beautiful yoga studio, amazing swimming pool, fitness for our employers. They love that, but when they go back to the desk, to the office, they are stressed again. How can you explain that? And I say to this manager at Google, your question is your answer.  Poof, it's a sort of depression. So it means that you create an up and down. So a sort of roller coaster like that.  Oh my gosh, I am so stressed. So to think like that about meditation, this is a long perception of meditation. Meditation in an authentic Tibetan Buddhist way doesn't mean at all that. And what I say to you, maybe it's not my opinion. It would say my Rinpoche, it was what say his Rinpoche, it is what say all the Tibetan masters since 3,000 years. So this is the reason why we need to calm our mind in the chaos of our life. Your situation this morning, it is a perfect example. Now my question me was how can we calm the mind in the chaos, but with no effort? Yes, I say no effort. This is a main question because you know, we live in a world very, very difficult. So when we ask to someone to calm the mind in the chaos, this is very difficult. For example, I will share with you many times what the prisoners of Los Angeles, they say to me. They say, Michelle, if you say to us as a prisoner, take a deep breath, be focused on your breath, be mindful. They say if you say that to us, you are not respectful. You don't realize our life is difficult. Just you copy paste an old map in our world. And I replied to the prisoners, this is exactly this new approach of meditation that I developed with you today. I mean, our world has changed. If we have no money problem or not too much, if we have time, if we have not a lot of problem in our life, for sure we can train our mind by ourselves. Me, I come from a family very violent. So I was born in Paris, raised in Paris, and my family was very, very violent. So when I was a child, I was scared and I was under my bed. And I was unable to calm my mind by myself. So close my home, there is a church and I start to go at the church. And just when I enter in the church, I felt the peace, the calming energy. And when I was a child, I realized there is no life without peace. And I realized that I was not able to calm me by myself, but I must be tuned on a calming vibration with no effort. When you are a child, Debbie, my daddy punched me two, three times per week during 15 years. You cannot say, oh, I must meditate. That makes no sense. But I realized when I was a child, that just the fact I enter in this simple church and I don't talk about religion. I don't talk about God. I love the church when the church was empty. But I felt peace. And in one second, I was like that. So this experience was my first experience with meditation, my first experience with peace. And this is that I have developed year after year. So with the prisoners of LA, for example, I never ask any effort. Again, everyone has his own way of meditation. You know, there are different approaches. And every approach is good. Every approach is good. Just me, I was interested for my case at the beginning when we are unable to meditate. I am unable to be concentrated. When you are abused during 15 years, you are unable to make an effort. And so I give my life every day to population under deserved. I teach for the kids, gang members, for police officers, for firemen, for doctors, also for celebrities. Celebrity is unable to be concentrated. It's not possible. So the most important for me was how to calm our mind without effort, no effort, no concentration. In meditation, many times, experts ask to us what we are unable to do, to be focused. I'm sorry, I cannot be focused on my breath. I have too much problem in my life. I cannot. This is exactly the angle of our new approach of meditation. Thank you for sharing about your upbringing. That's very profound because it just shows you really intimately understand what it's like to be in that state at a young age. And it's very true about the world we live in right now it's so interesting. So I want to go back to this idea. This is why I was initially attracted to you. So funny, how connected you and I are between the people we know intimately in the transformation world and then as it turns out, you work with my brother and sister-in-law. And I didn't know any of this before I started to notice you and see here is Michelle Pascal. He is meditating in New York City Times Square, like the cacophony there alone. And you kept bringing up all these examples of when to meditate. There was a great also an Instagram folks get get his beyond his Instagram because you'll get the greatest little videos. There was a great video of you being a very calm and peaceful space and you could feel it emanating through the video and you had these two tall husky fellows being very chaotic and talking at you and you just maintained your energy of peace. And so this is what you show. I've never heard this before. This is so brilliant. And so here God left God brought in all these crazy machines outside to be digging on this day and the dogs yelling and I found peace as soon as I recognize the hilarity in that and you coming on. I had peace and I said it is so perfect and beautiful. Thank you. And then I also had gratitude and said, oh, and thank you that the city cares so much about where I live that they are completely redoing. We don't even have potholes and they're completely redoing and beautifying the streets. So I had all this gratitude and so naturally it has gotten quiet outside. Honestly, just the moment we began just to go back about what you say to me. You say it's very new in Tibetan Buddhism. It's not new at all. What it's new for you is the authenticity, but sorry to say that what I repeat to you today to calm the mind in a stressful situation. This is what said all the Tibetan master since 3,000 years ago. It's not my opinion. Just I repeat to you the teachings that I have received from my Rinpoche from his Rinpoche like a lineage. So authenticity seems new in America. I was surprised when I came from Nepal to LA because everyone say, oh, Michelle, it's very new to meditate in the stress for me. It was not new and since 3,000 years, it's not you. It's what's repeat every Tibetan master every day. What is new? This is the authenticity of the teaching for sure. It's new because the cliche of meditation. It's when you are in a lotus position in a resort with a matcha tea on the beach whenever. So of course, it's not meditation. It's blah, blah, it's blah, blah. It's blah, blah, it's something not efficient. I invite you to go in a resort to try to imitate a monk.  So it's a blah, blah, it's blah, blah. So the thing is to calm the mind into stressful situation. This is the awakening. The awakening, it is not to be in a levitation space. No, the awakening. It's when we are in Times Square, for example, with your brother, David, I guide the meditation for David with David in Times Square a few weeks ago. And when you feel the peace in the middle of the chaos, really, David, I invite you to live this experience. It's a revelation for your life. You say, yes, we can. I can be quiet. I can be like a mountain in the middle of the storm. Make the experience to be quiet in a conflict, for example. What an awakening. I train Uber drivers, for example. What do we do? We go at the rush hour on the freeway. So the Uber driver drives, and I am close to him or to her, to guide meditation to upgrade the concentration of the driver. And after one or two times, the brain of the Uber driver has understood. The brain understands, I will be quiet in the traffic. So we change the perception of the traffic. We change the perception of Times Square. We change the perception of a jail. All is in our mind. So when we realize that this is the awakening, the miracle of our life. Wow, I viscerally, I just had this huge feeling physically when you talked about what you did in Times Square. And yesterday, I had a very interesting experience. I was running late to get to an appointment, and I was feeling a lot of stress getting there and embarrassment because I was going to be late. And I really acknowledged to myself, I do this. I do this periodically, not everywhere in my life, but I do this enough that it creates stress. So it's self-created stress. I was hearkening back to what it was like for me growing up. Very, very, very chaotic household. A lot of fear, a lot of anger, a lot of misplaced responsibility, some level of insanity for sure. And that this was my way of recapitulating that experience, that chaos within myself and the way I was manifesting it was by choosing on some level to be late and then all the subsequent things that happened. So I got so clear. First of all, I forgave myself with acknowledging that. And then I got so clear how much I wanted to release it. And so in hearing what you're saying, I can realize that this induced calm everywhere holds a lot of possibilities. So I'd like you to go into that for people who are in gangs who have addiction, who are in prisons or have experiences like what I just described or otherwise where the stress comes or through work or through family, et cetera. How can we set ourselves up? What is the technique for us to go there? First, again, let's go back to the authenticity. As my Rinpoche, C'est pas d'enjer Rinpoche, c'est to me. And as Chattral Rinpoche, c'est d'Ingokinse Rinpoche, Dujon Rinpoche, Kahlu Rinpoche. So all the Tibetan masters, they explain many times that meditation, it's more than a technique. It's a transmission of energy. So because how does it work? Again, we cannot calm the mind by yourself. So we need to be tuned now. We need to be guided by a meditation teacher. But this teacher must be very quiet. So when I guide a meditation in Times Square, for example, for David, your brother, or when I guide a meditation for lifers, you know, prisoners incarcerated for life, immediately when we start to guide a meditation, oof, the person release the tension. Oof, the hoof, this is the key. Because we know in neuroscience, when we put electrodes on the brain, we know at the moment you release your tension, you upgrade the serotonin, the hormone of the well-being. And like that, you become addicted to the serotonin. Every emotion, it's an addiction, a neurochemical addiction. So when you have the oof, you release, you feel all the serotonin in your body.  So oof, you release. At the moment you have this hoof, you become addicted to the piece. And I will say it's a sort of cognitive re-education.  So at the moment, for example, David comes with me in Times Square, and I guide for one of our practice, meditate like a mountain. David immediately feel more quiet.  And as he said to me, now every time I go to Times Square, I have another perception of Times Square. This is the same for a prisoner. So the same for an Uber driver, the same for every people. So like that, we re-educate the neurochemical system of the person. And I can share with you, David, probably one of the most exceptional result of America that we have on the prisoners at Amity Foundation in Danton, LA. Amity is one of the biggest foundation for the reinsertion of the prisoner. So we have a prisoner, parolees and lifers. Since five years, we have zero suicide. Since five years, we develop this program. There is zero suicide. And prisoners, this is the population, the most affected, of course, by trauma, depression, addiction, suicide. They are extremely affected by that. We have zero suicide. So this result is absolutely incredible. It means that the program at Amity works. And I will say to you that it's crazy to realize that the prisoners, the homeless, the poorest people of Los Angeles today are the pioneers of a new spiritual time. They are pioneers, they prove that it works. So I develop also the program for the US Army, for the VA in San Diego. I will go at John Obskins University in Baltimore. They ask me to come to explain the result of the zero suicide. And how is it possible? Of course, I mean, it's a holistic, therapeutic approach at Amity. We have yoga, nutrition, coaching, motivation. It's a fantastic program. But our meditation, this is one of the favorite activities of the prisoners. So this is the reason why also with David and Tamara, we decided to create Mental Health. Mental Health, it's a program by video, very broadcast, that we will share to the internal TV of jail or shelters or hospital in many, you know, prisons they have internal TV. So we will share, we will offer many, many videos to the prisoner, to woman abused in shelters, to doctor in hospital everywhere in many countries in English and in Spanish, in Guatemala, Salvador, Nicaragua, London also, because we want to expand this amazing result that we have. You know, probably the crime in Los Angeles since COVID plus 400%, 400%. Homeless plus 26%. It's a suicide, as you know. This is the biggest taboo of America, the second causality of death from 10 years old to 34 years old. So in the difficulty of our world, the result, the hope comes from the poorest people of Los Angeles, the prisoners, the homeless. They are our heroes. They are our spiritual teacher because again, it is a thing to study depression, to make data, to make research. It's beautiful, but it's another thing when we have zero suicide on the population, the most affected by depression. You likened meditation to shamanism and talked about how it was related to Tibetan shamanism. Can you go into that a little bit more? Because I talk a lot about shamanism and that world on this show. And so that came as a great surprise to hear you mention that. I have the blessing since 23, 24 years to work with my friend Navarro Apache, my friend Shumash in California and in Buddhism. So my school is Nygma Pa. Nygma comes from Padman Sambhava, but Nygma comes also from Bun. Bun tradition was before the story of the Dalai Lama. This is the Tibetan shamanism. So when you compare Tibetan shamanism and Navarro tradition, Shumash tradition, Inuit tradition, there is a lot of correspondents, how to use the stones, how to use the element. It's shamanism before was a universal language. Of course, when we come from a monastic life, when we have to cross huge, this is my case. I pronounce my walls and I took refuge in Buddhism in a lineage. The teaching that we receive, for example, about shamanism is very different than the usual information that we have about shamanism in our world. To give an example, very concrete, in an authentic shamanic way, like in Bun tradition, no Rinpoche, no Rinpoche will say, I am a healer. No, no, no Rinpoche. In LA, when I came in LA, as I said to you, I was surprised everyone say I am a healer. And I am a healer, I am a shaman. Me, I say nothing, but I know and I remember what teach me my Rinpoche.  Because the person, if the person say that, the person develop a spiritual ego. So the person can have capacities, but the person develop a spiritual ego. So it means that the person develop perturbation in the magnetic fields around him or herself. So this is the reason why in an authentic Tibetan shamanic way, Bun tradition, no Rinpoche will say, I am a healer, I am a shaman. The fake say, I am a shaman. The authentic never say that. You have the same for Navarro and Apache. I remember one day, my friend Navarro, they brought me in Flagstaff at the post office. And they say, Michel, take a look. There is an old map. He stamped on envelope. He was a little old guy with glasses and he stamped envelope. They say to me, Michel, this guy is the most important authority of the Navarro people. And you cannot imagine a simple old guy with his little glasses stamped. No. But in Flagstaff, you have a lot of people. Oh, I am a shaman. I am a healer. So just we could develop more. It's not a conference. I could develop more. I do that in a retreat. But just for example, when we talk about shamanism, it's like when we talk about reincarnation or when we talk about meditation, when you compare the authenticity of the teaching and poverty that we have in America, the difference is huge, huge. If we talk about reincarnation, for example, you will be surprised. The word reincarnation doesn't exist in Tibetan. No. The word reincarnation was created by the Jesuit priests when they came to observe the Tibetan people. And they wrote all Tibetan people. They believe in reincarnation. First, in Buddhism, there is no belief system. First, there is no belief. When the Jesuit priests say they believe, there is no belief system. Second, the word reincarnation doesn't exist. We cannot translate the concept. The only way to talk about that is to talk about science, to talk about physicality, the continuity of the energy. And every energy has a memory. So the teaching of reincarnation, for example, is extremely complex, fascinating. It's like a science. So it's the same in Tibetan shamanism. It's an incredible science. But the difficulty that we have in our world, it's very difficult to have access to the authenticity in spirituality. It's very, very difficult. First in shamanism, the fake, they talk a lot for sure. But the authentic, they refuse to talk. They protect the acknowledge. They don't want to talk. I remember in my monastery in Kathmandu, many American people came the Saturday morning. The monastery was open to the public. And they said to the abode of my monastery, oh, I know my reincarnation. I was a prince. I was an amazing doctor, an amazing artist. And just the abode many times say, it's funny, Michel. Listen. They never say I was homeless. I was a prisoner. I was a terrible person. No, no. They project, they project, they project all the time. So I remember, just he said to the abode, if you know your reincarnation is good, just he replied that because he didn't want to develop the nectar of the teaching. When we are in a retreat in Hawaii, we have time to develop. So if you are interested by authentic shamanism, because you must know this is the same teaching in Tibetan, for example, with the lava stone that we can find in Hawaii. The teaching about how to use stones or how to meditate like a mountain, for example, or how to meditate with a fire energy, et cetera. This teaching is very, very fascinating. So when we are in a retreat, I have time for that. It's beautiful. Just the idea of meditating like a mountain has really a profound effect just to hear, to step into that energy.  You're called a transformational meditation singer and only one of a handful in the whole world. So you've got this voice that offers these guided visualizations and they create a really deep healing experience. You've performed these cosmic medieval melodies at Carnegie Hall. I'm going to talk a little bit about your vocal gift. I'm going to talk a little bit about Michael Bernard Beckwith with Deepak Chopra at his event and other impressive musical people like Earth Wind and Fire. And I've heard your recordings and senior videos. It definitely is a gift from God. Can you talk a little bit about your vocal gift? Where did that come from and how did you discover it?  So for me to sing when I was so young, eight years, nine years, was the idea to create my monastery, my inner monastery. To sing in Navarro tradition, to sing means to pray. So this is the same word. In Navarro language, the medicine means to sing is to pray, same word. We shift the vibration inside of us and after I start to sing on stage, I was nine years old and in France, I became a professional singer at 16. And when I was around 27, 28, I have the blessing that Mark Letford, the famous vocalist of Pat Metinie, listened me and he said, oh, Michel, come with me in New York. So Mark presented to me with a lot of exceptional musicians, exceptional jazzmen, and I start to sing like that in New York. And today, as you know, I have the blessing to sing with Myron McKinlay, the music director of Earth, Wind and Fire. Myron is my music director and we perform at Carnegie Hall every year together. And it will be the case again this year. But I can sing for you now. Of course. Of course, of course. To sing is to pray. Let's pray together. Let's pray. Oh, that's divine. Thank you. Of course. For agreeing even before the question came out of my mouth. I will sing for you. Oh, Manny Padmeum. Oh, Manny Padmeum in Tibetan. It's an amazing prayer. It means may all I can say today, may all I can do today, full of love, full of love in any situation. And I would say, especially when life is difficult, it's like, you know, the prayer of Saint Francis, Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Oh, Manny Padmeum, it's the brother, sister, prior of Saint Francis. Deeply moved. Thank you. Deeply. Martin moving and beautiful. Thank you for that gift. Are you ever nervous before performing with big people and huge venues? Because you are like a mountain. No, because to be nervous, it's an addiction. There is no sense to be nervous of what.  Nothing exists. All is a mental projection to be worried about. Instead of to lose our energy to be worried, we need to offer our energy to let God sing through us. This is different. And when we are afraid, it's because we feed our ego. Oh, what people do we do? People will love the show. We love me. Oh, we are.  When we go to sing, just we open our hand. And that's it. So nervous about what we did. We understand that we are okay. There is no problem. There is no fear. There is no panic. All these emotions are mental poison. It's a mental poison.   Every emotion, it's an addiction.   And what else do you sing? What do you sing with earth wind and fire? It's funny because so I compose most of my music. But for Christmas Eve, for example, I sing a lot of cover of Christmas, a lot of very beautiful melody like smile from Charlie Chaplin. But I try to create a new style of cover to use my voice as an instrument. And it's very important to realize that when we sing, it must be unforgettable. Each note must be unforgettable. To sing it's a responsibility. Two days ago, I was giving a concert at Amity Foundation with the prisoners. Or we can give a concert at Carnegie Hall. This is the same. But as a joke, at the end of the show, we finish by September. I make a cover of September with my own McKinley. And it was amazing to see all the prisoners jumping, dancing. We create a new version of September with my own. Because when the prisoners saw my own, they say please play September. So my own start and I start to sing. And we create a new version of September. Very special, very special version. I don't hear you, Debbie. Are these things videotaped when you perform? Yes, we have filmed the concert with a one or two simple camera. We will edit and I will post some extract of that. Yes, for sure. But when I give retreat in Hawaii, or I give retreat as you know in Los Angeles, in Malibu, I give retreat at Cera Monastery. So Cera Monastery becomes my place in LA where people, I can meet people and we can have a retreat day in a monastery. It's beautiful, it's a Franciscan monastery. So they are very open to everyone. You know, Franciscan means hospitality, means to be kind. And I love in the library, in the shop, they sell a lot of Buddhist books. It's beautiful to see how Franciscan priests are very open to everyone. And but for sure, when we spend a day in a monastery, I develop the practice of the mountain. So the practice of the mountain, maybe you will be surprised, but it comes from the time of Jesus. Yes, it was what we name in Orthodox tradition, the meditation of Jesus. So I explain based on historical proof what we name Ezekasm in Orthodox Christianity. Ezekasm was a way of meditation created from the time of Jesus. And the first practice, this is to meditate like a mountain. So this is very shamanic because to meditate like a mountain means to be more grounded, to be reconnected to the earth element. When we are stressed, we feel alone. When we calm the mind, when we are like a mountain, we never feel alone. We don't feel alone. We are reconnected to the elements. We are reconnected to the people of the stones. You know in shamanism, we don't say the stones. We say the people of the stone, or the people of the trees, the people of the flowers.  So with an energy, with a story, with a character, etc. So when we meditate like a mountain, this is very, very ancient. So I take time in a retreat to explain the origin of this meditation. And after we practice in the monastery, facing the mountain of Malibu with the ocean, it's incredibly beautiful. And we practice like a mountain. And after, I give a concert in the beautiful chapel of the monastery. So I sing some Ave Maria, or some Omani Padmeum, a capella. And this church is incredibly beautiful. At 360 degrees, you have the view on the ocean. It is so, so beautiful. And when is this, when is Malibu? The next retreat is Holy Soldout except July 18. July 18, we have two seats left, two, three seats left, I think. So you can contact me on my Instagram, Michelle meditates, and I will connect you to my team and they can take care of you, of course. I know that some other things you talk about, and they're in your books too, should people want to dive into the books.   Of course. It's a special visualization that we do when we meditate like a kiss, to breathe in our heart, all our love and to send our kiss, to send our good energy to someone that we love. But also to some people that we don't love. And also to send our love to a flower, to a child who suffers, to a star in the sky, to the universe. It's an incredible practice with no expectation. When we start to make a practice with an expectation, we stay at our ego. Oh, I want to be a healer. I want to help you. I want to save you. No, no, no. An authentic practice has no expectation. It's like when we say we become like a rose, gives her perfume without reason. That's it. Michelle, this is Dare to Dream. What are you next dare to dream? What are your future dreams and goals? For me, this question doesn't exist. Because every second is a dream. When I say it's a dream, I will reply to you through neuroscience. You know that when I see you through this computer, at the first perception, my brain doesn't know it is a computer. Two milliseconds after, my brain recognizes it's a computer. So everything that I can see when I see you, it's a mental projection.  And as we explained in the Tibetan shamanic tradition, the yoga of dream that I teach in Hawaii, all what we see is a dream. There is no difference between to dream and to be wake up. This is the same way in the brain.  So my hope is just to be present now with you. To be kind with you. To try to take care of every person who will watch your show. This is my only dream. To be more alive. This is my dream. Guru Rinpoche, you've said your Tibetan lineage, Buddhist lineage. It goes all the way back to the eighth century. Can you elaborate on that? Padman Sambhava has what we name in Buddhism, the realization. The realization means he was in a parking. It's a little town in Nepal. And in a small cave around the eighth, ninth century, suddenly he realized what I just explained to you. What science proved today. He realized at the eighth century that nothing exists. All is a perpetual mental projection. So when you start to realize that, wow, it changed your life. So after from Nepal, he came to Tibet. He has a lot of disciple, disciple, disciple. And my Rinpoche was also the last descendant of Marpa. Marpa, if you know Buddhism, was the first disciple of the Buddha who wrote the Sutra. So Rinpoche was his last descendant. And I met Rinpoche in Paris. He was my Rinpoche in France. And I have the blessing to be close to him during 13, 15 years, something like that. And he passed away, but he's present in my heart every second. There is no one minute in my life. I don't feel his presence. Thank you so much for coming on the show today. It's really good. And here's to more in the future. And for folks who would like to follow Michelle Pascal, if you would like to go to his Instagram and you can follow him there and see all his offerings and great videos. It's Michelle meditates, M I C H E L meditates. And his website is Michelle Pascal, P A S C A L dot TV. I end today's show with this quote from the Dalai Lama. If every eight-year-old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation. Subscribe to this number one transformation conversation, dear to dream. My guest next week is Scarlett Raven. She's back on the show for a third time. She's a listener favorite. 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In the first session this morning, the presentations by Michael and Alan described the new EU governance system, mainly in institutional, administrative and political terms. I want to look at some of the economic implications of the new system, but in the knowledge that it's still a work in progress, it's a waypoint on the road to a deeper or more complete economic and monetary union. From an economic perspective, which is much narrower than perspective we adopted this morning, I see three important aspects that need to be considered. From an internal or domestic perspective we need to understand how the new system is likely to affect the development of the economy in an era when some crucial aspects of our hitherto national policymaking come to resemble regional policymaking within a federal system. Secondly, from an external perspective we need to explore how these new rules may play out in the larger EU member states and how top-down fiscal and macroeconomic policy is likely to evolve for the EU as a whole. And finally, we need to explore implications of the new economic environment for the effectiveness of future Irish development policy. Now taking the internal perspective, we need to distinguish two separate but interrelated elements of the new system. First, there's the issue of what must be done to meet any mandatory EU obligations in terms of maintaining sound domestic public finances. Such obligations expressed as quantitative targets for government borrowing and for the level of government debt tended to be treated previously as stern guidelines but will now be mandatory. And second, there are the broader economic development exhortations and goals set out in the new procedures, many of which are only partially or indirectly under government control. Examples of policy goals contained, for example, in Europe, the Europe 2020 strategy include creating more employment, increasing investment in R&D, sustainable energy, addressing poverty and social exclusion, fostering competitiveness. There's a tendency to bundle these two components together. For example, in the most recent EC policy guidelines, there's an injunction to pursue what they call differentiated growth-friendly fiscal consolidation. In other words, governments need to obey the new fiscal rules, but to do so in a way that impinges least on wider economic growth. Here the term wider economic growth refers to the international spillovers of fiscal adjustments made in one state for the economies of other states. In the case of Ireland, spillover consequences for the rest of the EU are fairly negligible, but the same cannot be said for adjustments made in larger states like Germany and France, the matter to which I'll return. The onerous terms of the recent crisis-driven process of restoring fiscal stability in Ireland were dictated by European institutions and the IMF as a qualifying condition for access to a financial aid package. Upsent the European institutions and the likely alternative would have been a process dictated by markets with minimal IMF-type transitional financial assistance and with even more draconian actions required by domestic policymakers. However, it may be useful to step back from the recent crisis and to consider some local historical background to the new system. Also, we need to distinguish between periods of fiscal crisis and instability on the one hand and periods of fiscal normality imbalance on the other. When it comes to creating and then dealing with serious fiscal crisis, Ireland has previous form. Policymaking during the years from 1982 to 89 was dominated by a long-drawn-out adjustment process needed to address the destabilizing consequences of the large fiscal simulations of 7781. Unfortunately for Irish policymakers, the early years of adjustment took place during the OPEC II global recession, which further exacerbated the challenge. Now, there can be internal debates how any adjustment should be carried out, particularly in terms of its likely distributional consequences. But the necessity for adjustment during the earlier 82-89 period was as unquestionable as it was during the more recent 2008-13 period. The mainly internally imposed conditions of the 82-89 adjustment were implicit and evolutionary. The externally imposed conditions of the recent adjustment were explicit and formalized. In other words, during times of serious fiscal crisis, domestic policymakers always lose either explicitly or implicitly large elements of policy autonomy that they could exercise under more normal conditions. The Irish public finances have recently been brought under control, but they're still very strained. So the new EU policy rules will oblige Irish policymakers to continue to move in the direction of fiscal balance over the next few years. If strong global growth resumes, this process is likely to be fairly rapid and perhaps relatively painless. However, if global growth remains low, the need for further adjustments will constrain or even prevent any major efforts to design domestic fiscal policies to reduce unemployment and restore levels of social protection to their pre-crisis position. But the requirement to restore balance to the public finances when facing into a crisis may not be a serious constraint in terms of boosting sustainable growth. After the experiences of the Keynesian stimulations of the late 1970s, we now understand that much of the benefit of a demand-side fiscal stimulus leak out of a small open economy as increased imports. Stable public finances are a necessary condition for any resumption of sustainable growth. Even in the presence of binding constraints on the overall fiscal balance, the distributional outcomes that emerge from working within such constraints will continue to be driven by local political choices. In such circumstances, domestic policymakers need to ensure that acceptable and sustainable distribution choices are made. Here history also provides lessons suggesting that step changes and progress are still possible even during regimes of tight fiscal constraints. For example, the switch from tariff protection to export-led growth that took place during the 1960s had a dramatic effect on the performance of the economy, yet was implemented under a regime of strict fiscal balance. The prerequisites for the dramatic leaping growth that took place during the 1990s, the real Celtic tiger, as distinct from the Celtic bubble, were put in place at a time when the public finances were also under severe pressure. Economic policy in Ireland has always been at its most effective when targeted at improving the competitiveness of the private productive sector, where competitiveness is used in its widest definition and not just in terms of lower wage costs. Increased growth generates the extra resources that permit improvements in the provision of social services and facilitate further public investment in infrastructure, human capital and R&D. Turning to the external perspective, here are some troubling questions about the adequacy and completeness of the new economic governance procedures that arise. The fact that the monetary union was originally established in the absence of a complete fiscal union meant that whereas the Eurozone could operate a unified monetary policy in response to external shocks, it was unable to operate a unified fiscal policy. To the extent that one can talk of EU fiscal policy at all, it only exists as the summation of all the disparate policies operating in the separate member states. Here the difference between fiscal policy operating at the level of the Eurozone as a whole and fiscal policy at the level of a small open economy like Ireland is crucial. Compared to Ireland, the EU economy is relatively closed. At the level of the EU as a whole, the leakages out of any fiscal stimulus would be far less than say the leakages out of a purely Irish fiscal stimulus. Unfortunately, in recent years, when the interest rates set by the ECB were effectively zero but the Eurozone economy still stagnated, there were no easy ways of engineering any EU-wide fiscal stimulus. Furthermore, the dominant economy, Germany, as well as other northern member states were extremely reluctant to act unilaterally as national locomotives of demand-side stimulus in wider EU growth. The German interpretation of the crisis within the Eurozone was primarily one of national budgetary policy failures of individual countries and not one of deficient demand within the wider EU. The fact that the new procedures currently being implemented deal only with the early stages of the formation of any deeper economic and monetary union is a consequence of the absence of agreement among the member states as to how far along this road they wish to travel. The German view is of particular importance since the German economy plays a dominant role within the Eurozone. Chancellor Merkel's statement at the June 2012 European Council was uncompromising in this respect, and I quote, it is not the aim of these governments to establish a fiscal union but rather a stability union would have you to establishing central budgetary control including the right to intervene in national budgets. The compromise that has emerged places great attention on the instruments of budgetary policy supervision, the six and the two-pack as well as the fiscal treaty, but there has been a reluctance to tackle the larger question of fiscal capacity at the EU level. The stability union created by the new procedures is designed to prevent future asymmetric, i.e. country-specific shocks, arising from within member states as a result of poor internal economic governance and from fiscal instability in particular. Symmetric shocks, shocks that affect all EU member states at the same time, will continue to be handled by monetary policy measures even in circumstances where symmetric shocks at the EU level have asymmetric consequences across the individual member states due to the heterogeneity of national economic structures. Although the size and relative closure of the economy of the EU as a whole would suggest a supportive role for EU-level fiscal policy, there will be no mechanism and no funds to permit the implementation of any such counter-cyclical actions. Policy coordination measures that are part of the new economic governance procedures are designed more to enhance longer-term competitiveness and growth rather than to address serious cyclical downturns. What are the likely implications for Irish economic policy? If the binding elements of the new economic governance procedures operate successfully and prevent future within-country policy areas, errors of the kind that have led to the recent crisis, the looser economic policy coordination guidelines leave local policy makers with a considerable degree of discretion. In such a world, Irish interests and objectives converge with the interests and objectives of other advanced, export-oriented EU member states and in particular Germany. The German emphasis on the need for greater efficiency in labour and product markets and greater external competitiveness in the context of a social market economy sits well with long-term Irish policy aims and objectives. Ireland's role in the continuing discussion on the future governance of the Eurozone would be enhanced if it built on the commonalities between its own self-interest and the self-interest of other advanced member states. Whatever about the political implications and acceptability of facing such constraints, in narrow and strictly economic terms, they do not represent any additional significant loss of economic sovereignty. Embracing them with enthusiasm seems to represent the best means to put the Irish economy in a strong position to benefit from whatever movements may be made in the future towards a deeper fiscal and monetary union. And finally, turning to Irish enterprise strategy in a more interconnected EU, although the main focus of the new procedures is on fiscal stability, this is merely a necessary condition for development and prosperity and certainly not a sufficient condition. The German economy is strong, not merely because it enjoys enviable financial and fiscal stability, which it does. Its trend comes from the competitiveness and dynamism of its enterprise sector, particularly in the range of small and medium-sized companies of its middle stand, which are highly innovative, export-oriented and provide a large number of jobs and are extremely productive. The great success of Irish industrial strategy in attracting foreign-owned high technology manufacturing and tradeable services is obvious. And it was the presence of the mainly foreign-owned modern enterprise brace that supported activity in the economy through the years of austerity when domestic demand was very weak. The absence of such a production base made this task very difficult for Portugal and almost impossible for Greece. But the dangers of relying excessively on the attraction of a low rate of corporation tax are very obvious. The advent of increased foreign direct investment in internationally traded market services during the last decade has generated considerable concern in the larger EU economies, who fear erosion of their tax bases. Ireland may very well retain its low rate of corporation tax, but the benefits as a key attractor of inward investment may be attenuated by actions taken by other states. Fresh thinking is needed if we are to build a stronger indigenous enterprise sector a task that is more complex than the more transparent process for attracting inward investment. Any outsider reading the extensive Irish enterprise strategy documentation would be left with the belief that trade was all-knowing and regarded its main task as pushing advice out to a fairly passive private sector. The very strength of the two main Irish development agencies, IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland, has made it difficult for non-government organizations such as Ibeck and the ICTU to research and promote much by way of independent work on longer term enterprise strategy. Unlike the situation in Germany where the equivalent organizations are heavily engaged in independent work on maintaining the competitiveness and strength of German enterprises, employers organizations and trade unions in Ireland over the past few decades have tended to operate within the defined terms of reference of a social partnership with a focus more on defending the distributional interests of their constituencies. This view of the role of the state is served as well. Viewed from inside actual businesses, the state's efforts at formulating strategic policy can sometimes appear to be biased towards multinational corporations in the more fashionable sectors and technologies rather than towards the domestic SME sector. For example, the kinds of inter-firm and product market linkages that come automatically as part of the deal with foreign multinational companies have to be painfully built from scratch in the SME-dominated indigenous sector. It's not until one moves to the regional and local level of individual enterprises and people that you begin to understand how small innovative firms can start to survive and thrive in regions. The methods that entrepreneurs use to grow their businesses and how they often manage to turn what initially looked like locational disadvantages into gateways to opportunities. The famous German middle stand or regional groups of dynamic innovative SMEs are at the heart of German competitiveness, but we find no similar process in Irish enterprise. With the right support, this cohort of Irish enterprises has the potential to play an even greater role in our economy. Not just nationally but also regionally where they are crucial for job education and growth. To an extent SMEs have been under-acknowledged and undervalued and a strong regional enterprise strategy is required if we are to harness the growth potential of this sector in the future. In terms of enterprise strategy it is what goes on inside firms that really matters in terms of new firm creation, survival, growth, diversification, partnering, internationalization. German policy makers both in the public and private sectors talk of little else and place regional policy enterprise policy in international competitiveness at the center of their economic discourse and strategy. The German reluctance to embrace prematurely a deep and genuine economic and monetary union opting instead for a stability union needs to be interpreted in this light and Irish policymakers need to draw the appropriate conclusions. The danger is that the public authorities and the social partners in Ireland could look to the post crisis era as an opportunity to restore the status quo ante in terms of clawing back lost increases in income rather than as an opportunity to build a stronger more dynamic and competitive economy within the constraints of more stable management of the public finances. In adapting to the new reforms in European economic governance it is vital that Ireland takes the necessary steps to support economic growth and innovation.


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Either way, I'm having a good time if you guys are wondering.  I'm just a video monkey, right? Booga booga! Make wheel of mud video monkey! Booga booga! Huge stuff happened those since last episode. So let's get into it prime time wide receiver got a power up Why the hell they dropped that this late in the season and not when he came out? I don't know but cool. So I got basically a plus one at every attribute for that next up. Oh my god I'm literally the prestige God prime time corner also gets a 99 draft passed along with Darius sleigh This is a golden ticket. These are golden ticket corners 99 99 98 99.  I think he gets way too much hate But I have no idea why he gets so many good cards this year He did not have a stellar year play pretty solid He was injured for the start and they've given him so many upgrades like I got another golden ticket safety basically so Awesome next up. I did change my abilities a little bit. We haven't seen night train lane at free safety Yes, we're gonna see that today's episode. I gave Anthony Walker deflator I gave Jamal Adams deflator and forcer and then I took edge threat off of TJ Wa so many people online are running secure protector It's kind of nullifying Aaron Donald TJ Wa so my edge is gonna be a little less dominant But I have a lot more hit sticking power right now I have Jamal Adams and Anthony Walker who are going to hopefully continue to cough up a lot of fumbles Honestly, the only reason we won our last Super Bowl was because deflator Jamal Adams was ruining everybody's day So I'm just gonna keep doing that plus even more with enforcer in today's episode. I'd love to build on the offensive line I'd love another wide receiver pullback wouldn't even be that bad. I use those more than I thought I would all right boys You know the rules. Let's get this real spinning see how we can add to the squad and we'll go from there That's how it works. You're 95 jackpot. Hey, they've granted me too much power here though.  I kind of want a real free safety I haven't used night train lane at free safety yet, and I feel like he might actually be pretty good So maybe I shouldn't jump the gun. Yeah, let's not let's see.  We have to fill. I feel like the rest of my positions can honest to God get the job done Let's get a left tackle, bro. I'm not trying to get screamer. Let's get a 95 overall left tackle I'm 1000% going with the brick of Shaw Ferguson because you can't tell me that's not the most savage name You've ever heard in your whole life. In fact, I wish my parents had named me to brick a shock However, I think I might be too white for that.  All right, so we're giving him secure protector and I'll have to move around some abilities up front But I know we can make it work. We needed that. All right So the break is up Ferguson is and I'll move around those abilities after the second wheel spin our second wheel spin being being being serious redox 96 to 97 All right, so it's not any serious redox usually I'd have Siri pick well whoa usually I'd have Alexa pick But I do not have an Alexa right now I have Siri so we go time remaining and then our girl here is gonna pick our options are oh my god Our options are Kalil Mack Mark Lewinsky CJ Ham JC Treader Lake and Thomas and Trent Brown night train lane Jam and Davis Darren Waller Cal Fuller all incredible options other than night train lane you suck So we have Siri pick one through ten one is Clomack ten is Trent Brown It goes left to right reads just like a book. So seven is Darren Waller. Hey Siri pick a number one through ten Darn it is that a Darn it that might actually have been really good Why am I saying darn it? That might have been good.  We're two and two We are out of two straight win streak, which is awesome We did start out really ugly at the side of the season for a 90 defense and 88 offense and 89 overall Let's hop into this game. All this life is a challenger. The challenger has proven So clutch on all these past games. So let's see if we can keep it up right here It's gonna be oh So long fake spike first down though It has been a while the fake spike play is not great But you can scramble out of it if they don't have QB spies slash insane adressures or you can throw the tight end right up the middle So it's possible. I just have to get a first down. That's all sorry I missed that top three, but it looks like he's got golden ticket RG three and as for the right I just got illegal contact Oh It's too early in this game for me to be frustrated. I wonder how we're gonna get that challenge though. It's gonna be fun This is a screen pass maybe. Oh Oh, I was so what are you doing? Playboy Cardi? Playboy Cardi is so high right now.  What's happening? I'm bringing I trailing down. This is a run This is triple option. No, it's not. It's not. I lied. It was a joke. I'm joking. It was a prank. Oh What is going on? There we go Darius way. I'm blitzing eight and von Bell is over the top Ah, this is bad. Oh Comparising position get there Golden ticket rubber woods is really good. He has a lot of golden tickets on this team Okay, first in ten. We got to try out something new here cuz Let's just go with an inside run. I might get blown up. I don't care third and five Play action here.  Oh Julio Dustin dust on what a corner out for Julio Jones third and five. We got this we got this we got this we got this To regret doing that you are going to regret so much doing that third and three Jamal Adams you get up a little faster. That's a touchdown by the way and very well could be a Sanders touchdown here See how this looks. Oh, no, geez The pressure is getting to me so fast. Did he did he really? No, it's been so long. Let's kill it. They're in ten.  Big time big time big time big time. We're gonna go Dalvin on the misdirection here I have no idea if this is gonna work or not. Well, it's not like I ever know if a place gonna work Okay, Dalvin, I'm gonna go with the draw see if I can hopefully get his users to back up get a couple blocks That's five yards.  I haven't put any thought to it really Oh my god, is that like that dude is running so slow, but it's a touchdown Reggie Wayne 84 overall playboy card You will regret griefing on me. You will regret pitching that ball back Jamal Adams is lit up What ability is that? Universal coverage.  Please submit the tackle. I thought that was an interception No way bad ball. No runtime. Oh That's big this big moments like that that we need but that's okay.  Oh that post in the middle is kind of open. He wants a playmaker That's two should be interceptions, but that's fine fourth and 10. That's a deep field goal You can probably hit that with focus kick you cannot hit that with focus kicker or he just doesn't want it But the defense so far. Oh, no, not the time not the not the time, bro.  Am I gonna not be able to Have to do it Jamal Adams. I got to get my fake spike hers down. I have to get it Jamal Adams is having a really good time right now universal coverage still act Then it's three throws three interceptions Let's just get some yards and then go for the fake spike. Yeah, I don't really care how many yards we get Burrows step up. Oh perfect. That's perfect. All right our pretend it Oh, no, we pretend like we're spiking it and then I have to audible. How do I audible? Fake spike one. Can I hot route?  I don't know how to do this. It's not like I run this all the time you guys. I Just got a flag for running fake spike fake spike two has slant routes These are probably the most realistic for a first down. Yeah, I can't hot route anybody. It just wigs the game out All right, so we're gonna look for Julio.  It's third and two.   I think I have one attempted throw to Julio over the middle here, right? That was a psychopath laugh by the way But hey, it's 21 to 7 it was 1 7 to 0 and he wants pitched it back on me when he got the ball Ben Roth is burger coming out with the onside kick early And I think they're gonna get it. Oh, no, it's too early. All right. I'm gonna hit him with this Okay, guys. Yeah, you remember when I said nobody wants to block you to have you clowny. I'm gonna be honest I wasn't paying attention. We just see 15 yards though. Let's get a nasty 15-year pick up right here to Dalvin Cook I like going there. That's okay. Let's keep out of the end zone. We'll matter. We have been quite good at that Wow, Mr. Mall Adams has literally had his X vector lit up like dammit of the whole game.  I am not on the right guy, but it doesn't matter five. Why baby? It's third one He wants something small. Oh, he's got a big one though You did not I can't believe he came down with that.  I'm impressed. All right That's fine Can we get there do it? He's catching everything. Oh, this is bad, bro I got to be on that trailing in case he runs this Okay, he does it. I Got the middle. I don't have the middle. He just scored I'm low key so happy that I went for that touchdown instead of just the field goal be 14 17 I'd be a lot more worried right now.  Let's clamp. God. They're taking hits like no other Let's try to blitz. We got to get on the QV, bro. He's got so much time to just think I Came in so hot. Let's go We're hitting so hard third and seven big big big stuff. He has not ran the ball a single time I don't think I don't think he's running the ball once. I don't think he scrambled.  Yeah, he got that could be another run though All right, that's a stop.  You're kidding.  Oh, what what fourth and goal you running that ball? Somebody you're shitting me. You did not bro. Yeah, I'm so that perfectly. I'm gonna go put this game away now So now Matt you got a game to put away. He has no inside stuff. I can definitely run the ball Which I don't know why I just realized that first and ten. He should probably know I'm doing the exact same He doesn't care Excellent run by Dalvin. We're putting this game away. Thank God. I went for that touchdown Literally, thank God. I'm just put both here on conservative. I'm gonna keep shooting these inside zone gaps. That was a good play.  That was Sketchy business bro sketchy sketchy business Hold that puppy down. Why are you not using your timeouts? This guy is so high playboy. Cardi is in his room So high right now. Oh, he's just barely ice. It feels weird. He didn't use his timeouts. He didn't feel so weird What a weird W. I don't know normally I wouldn't be that excited about a win like that since that guy clearly didn't understand time clock management He did have an insanely good team. He had golden tickets everywhere. Joe burrow with two interceptions two touchdowns Not his best game ten seventy six average seven point six.  I get one pack from the store I would love a right tackle.  Did I mean Clon is eating what I'm saying a left guard a left guard as well Both would be nice. Let's see this all the legends fantasy pack cast for us. Literally any right tackle I have a bronze in like I'll take a gold. No, no, no No, no That's unfortunate. Oh, that's left guard. Never mind left guard sweet. I'll get another backup guard I do have a bronze left guarded. So I guess we'll do that Eric Ebron who menu aura an Easter player Adam Shaheen. I Think I want Omen Yorah. I do and I'll take Adam Shaheen and we're gonna back Michael Vick Yo, that's it. Wait, that's it. I was looking at it trying to think if I could use this Do I use him over Anthony Walker?   I want a half back Michael Vick That's hilarious. I would way rather have that and then that Eddie George We pulled will be my fullback that kind of works and then I did get a left guard which was James Daniels, so now we just need a right tackle and we're in business I did get to see a man Yorah who can go right here too. So yeah overall not bad Yeah, I mean DeMarcus. Where's kind of the pick there? It is like I know that but I don't know. This is cooler Namdi a Samoa. That's the name Namdi a Samoa. That's crazy to me, bro. I really thought it was awesome Oh, I'm so sorry that I'm a bomb, you know that chain light is not bad for you Either 91 overall as we leave off today. Not bad. We need a right tackle, but we're kind of making it work That was a frustrating game. That was hard But it looked like it was an easy dub and then all of a sudden it's hard Reggie Wayne got a touchdown I'll see you boys in next episode. Thanks. Watch us always. Peace out


Wait, no change for today. You wouldn't shoot a flake, not the truth. Make sure you're not laying in the throne as the vehicles coming up to the L.O.A. There's some of them. That's what's down there, man. What's the point? Go up to the high dog. That's what's going to be fine. That's what's going to be fine. There we go. You don't go to the high dog, that's fine. The dog has it.  Hey, push all the way down. Disregard one second. Go, go, go.  And Avergan specifically is waiting for targets to pop in the day. The person's ready for hunting. Yeah, so if I'm not mistaken. The significance of this exercise is that it's demonstrating United States resolve to NATO in the future of NATO force posture in Europe. So about a year ago, last summer in Madrid, NATO leaders got together and they decided that we were going to expand the NATO battle groups. At the time there were four and there were four more standing up. They decided they were going to expand those battle groups to brigade-sized elements from battalions. This is part of an effort to demonstrate proof of concept for how we can do that. Initial proof of concept is going to be to do that on a rotational or temporary basis. And then eventually they want to expand them to brigade-sized permanently. So we are currently now in the Mowapiski, Poland. And we are exercising the Griffin Shock exercise where the U.S. Secondary Cavalry is attached under the HQM&D Northeast. We have Quatermills National Division Northeast. You know, we are first time we are interacting with the U.S. Brigade-sized unit. So this is the first one. Another significant thing is that we have an embedded U.S., U.S. personnel into our HQ where they are coaching, mentoring and teaching us how to provide the divisional deep fire. And this is a really unique one for the first time it happens in our HQ history. Because our neighborhood is not safe due to the obvious reasons and due to those unpredicted neighbors. So that's why the expansion of the EFP battle groups and this such similar kind of exercise shows our willingness to the society or not even the willingness, our commitment to the society because the society is investing into us as a military to stand in case of aggression by the close neighbors.


Hello folks, this is Dr. Don and I want to take a few minutes to help you make your decision about the technology you're going to use in business 233. This is homework number two and I just opened it. I hadn't looked at it in a while and I was interested to see how often you had to use technology or needed to use technology to help you answer the questions there. This first question is about a dot plot and you can blow it up to get a better look at the dot plot, but they don't actually require you to make a dot plot in this particular problem. So stat crunch wouldn't help you very much. If they gave you the data, it would help you answer these questions, but again, they're just asking you to analyze this dot plot, but let's move on. The second question, you're given a lot of data here and it says use a stem and leaf plot. So that means you've got to build a stem and leaf plot. Now you could just, if you know about stem and leaf plots, inspect the data and then manually, mentally construct a stem and leaf plot, but stat crunch will help you do it very, very quickly. But here, all you need to do is to open up stat crunch and get this data into stat crunch so you don't have to key it in and these little rectangles that you'll see around data hover over that and it says click to copy the table, click on that and then I'm going to click on open in stat crunch. And so it's keyed all that data directly into stat crunch. And that's one of the things I mentioned about the TI. The TI, there are some ways you can get a couple of cables and connect your TI and then run a little program and then manually move the data out of here into a CSV table and from the CSV table into your TI, yada, yada, yada. This is a whole lot easier to get your data into stat crunch. Once you're there, there's very few things that we use a lot in stat crunch. More than likely, the procedure you're going to need is going to be under the data tab, the stat tab, in this case the graph tab. And we want a stem and leaf and we get this dialog, we're going to select our data was in that column, make it move over into the right side and I'm going to leave everything else default for right now and click on compute. And we get a stem and leaf and the way that stat crunch shows a stem and leaf is a little bit different from the way that Larson is showing here and what stat crunch does, it breaks down the stems from zero to five and five through nine. And so this is nine zero and then there's no leaf on the second half of nine. Then that's 10, zero, three, there's 11, we've got zero, zero, one and then eight and if we look over there, there's zero, zero, one, eight. Here's 12, there's zero, zero, three, four, five, there's 12, three, four, five and so on. So there's a little bit different format there and it depends on how many stems that you have whether or not stat crunch shows it this way or just shows one value. But that's how fast you can answer that question. Let's move on. The next one says we need to create a dot plot and again, we're given data. So we just click on open and stat crunch. The data is there. We go to graph, look for dot plot, we're going to select that variable, click compute and there's our dot plot and if we look around our dot plot there, let's blow them up so we can see that one a little bit better and compare these two dot plots and yeah, our dot plot 55, 60 matches that one. So I would say that is the right answer. So that's how fast you can answer that question. We go on to the next problem. This one is in pie charts. They're not going to make us key in the data. If they did, you could very easily plot it and tell which of these to use. But let's move on to the next question. Here we've got data again, pretty complex table. They want us to construct a scatter diagram. So here we click on open and stat crunch. Sometimes it's a little slow. Okay, it opened up there and we've got two columns, one's labels tar and one's label co. I don't know what tar and carbon oxide and tar. This is some cigarettes. So we want to, it says use tar for the horizontal or x-axis, carbon monoxide for the y-axis. So we go to stat and we want scatter plot, our x-axis, the horizontal, they want tar, and our y-axis, the vertical they want co, and I'm going to click on compute and we've got a nice scatter diagram there that we need to compare. Again, let's just blow that one up so we can see a little more detail there. Yeah, that matches the one that we have there. So that problem was pretty easily solved. Let's go to the last problem. Here it says data on indoor movie theaters listed by Rofri Chir. Use the data to construct a time series graph. What is the trend? And we're going to click on this little icon which will open up the table and then there's our table and then there's our icon that we want to copy to stat crunch. So we've got our data in here, I'm going to close this table. So we've got the, once we want to compare and we want a time series graph. Well, how do we do that? Stat, looking for time series, we don't have that but we can start with a scatter plot which is similar to the one we just done. We'll select our y-axis as the x-axis, horizontal axis as the year, and the y-variable as number of indoor theaters, and now we're going to close in on display. Instead of points as time, we want a line. So we click on compute and we've got our line graph and it shows a pattern here which again, if I blow that one up, they look very similar. So how are you going to do that with a TI that fast? You can't even do it that fast with Excel unless you're very, very good at Excel. So this is another reason, again, to consider learning to use stat crunch. And I will add a video showing the basic, basic basics of stat crunch. All you need to know, hope this helps.