News on Youtube Mar 28 2018

what you about to hear right now is my talk that I gave to students at the

Liverpool John Moores University just a few days ago it was it was talked with

lots of passion and that comes from experience and it comes from a deep care

of how those young people live their life and how you know we as

entrepreneurs sort of have some responsibility to show them the way and

perhaps you know push them in places so this talk was a hundred percent from my

heart it was it was you know few things that I said that make people think and

and few people also they don't acknowledge that by thanking me at the

end of that talk I'm sure you're gonna enjoy this one so there is me talking at

Liverpool John Moores University I wonder why always people go to the

very top and sit in the in the last row there's a lot nicer here I don't know

why anyhow my name is Michael hello and we'll talk for 15 minutes which is ultra

short about what I think and maybe you don't agree with some of it what we'll

see about that this is me in my best picture ever I

don't think that any picture ever taken of me is gonna be as good as this so I'm

going to stick to that wherever you're gonna go on mens finest website or any

of my stuff you're gonna see this picture so this is real this is picture

different okay first of all and yes I don't know about whether whether you can

compete with me and I'll tell you why because and I'm an immigrant I'm polish

and I arrived to UK in 2006 with no language skills I couldn't speak any

English I couldn't do anything but what I had is and I had this desire and

hunger that I want to do something with my life so

from washing pots and been serving and being a waiter to them sort of going to

the University graduating getting a proper job to then starting my own

business and I feel as if I'm just getting started so if you are for

instance sitting here in this lecture of thinking okay I you know you want to

start a business but you don't know what you want to do or you want to and do

something you've life but you know 100% sure what well I mean you've 20 what 21

22 23 and you you just have to start doing something so think about that that there

is a lot more people and there aren't more motivated than you are

and they're going to be ahead of you if you're not going to do anything and I

also think this which is awkward sitting here because if you have got it you've

got it if you haven't got it you haven't got it now there is nothing wrong with

being an entrepreneur in a business in a way that I don't know whether you follow

any of the of the sort of gurus marketing gurus that are popping around

but there's one guy called Gary Vaynerchuk and he says that number two

number five number 16 in Facebook earns a lot more than number one in any other

companies that you can think of meaning you don't have to be number one so don't

have to start your own business maybe you also could be as good as or even

better just being number two or number three and any other businesses and have

you ever started any businesses I mean if you have then this is a time to say

yes I have or I am or I'm thinking about one and what's your business has anyone

got any business ideas or running businesses or a business I can't believe

they're in room with 60 people there is not a single business

come on whose ideas come on ideas come on give me idea okay okay and how is

<Brewing a beer at home or small location>

that going where's that it's just an idea right now or is it okay and you

and you sell it? and it okay have you tried to sell it?

would you be sort of open to go to someone and say I brew this beer it's

local I made it and I'm the best literally and you know do you want to

buy one of me would that make sense to you if you do

<Yes but I am not the best>

that yeah but yeah that's marketing right okay

so um so how many beers are gonna sell next week how many bottle of beers how

many litres of beer do you think you can sell next week okay okay because this is

all about what what Dave was saying before as well it's all about money

right if you cannot make money you haven't got a business you know it's

it's a business I mean being in the business of giving things away it's a

tricky business you know I it's it's very hard to sustain that but if you I

bet if you go and ask your friend and that you just brewed the best beer ever

you know give me a quid for that I would give you one if you bring me right now

beer because I'm thirsty right so you know it's just opportunity of sort of

making sure that you go and speak to someone has someone is there ask them

the question because they most likely going to give you some money you've got

something that I haven't got I'm 35 I'm old I'm finished and so you've got

something that I haven't got which is this Dave were saying about this as well

about assets you know you haven't got money to start a business we've got

something I haven't got and and this is so valuable like if you come to me and

say I would like to do this few for free for money doesn't really matter but that

takes burden from me and puts you know something on your shoulder not on mine I

can focus on some and else like yes because you've got

this and I haven't got that so I need to manage my time very carefully because

you know I'm old Paula that you saw her before she's my assistant and quick

story about Paula she's very shy so I'll keep it brief and I managed to convince

her to quit University and to start working for me and the reason for that

is that and I think I can give her a lot more than university can and there's

nothing wrong with saying that at the university because you need to figure

out what you want to do and I mean look what she does all day she's just walking

around filming stuff and putting stuff on Instagram that's not a job is it

surely well it is actually because I need that because I need that for my

marketing I need that for intsa stories I need that for at for YouTube

channel forever as we do so if you've got that skill well of sudden you're not

working right are you working no no yes that's awkward

again and right so that's Paula's profile so she is all over Instagram and the

reason why I'm showing you this is that the way have found her was through

Instagram so I was searching and looking for an assistant and I come

across her profile through networks of friends and I said this is action nice

profile I like this so if you thinking of of running a business maybe you

should start with business of yourself so she promoted herself first she made

her profile looked so nice and so good that I thought well ok I think I

would like my profit to look like this and that brings me onto this very

important message which is you need to be an expert in something meaning and if

you'd come to me and say I'm doing the best insta stories because that's

Instagram is is hot right now and and I would like to do maybe 10 15 insta

stories for you and you let me know what's happening oh yes yes can you do

that for me and then you know I can pay for that if you good enough and there is

this literally from this morning we were figuring out this

called stories ants or whatever right and this app and I've been searching on

internet very quickly to see who can help me design best insta stories ever

and I couldn't find anyone who would advertise themselves as this story's ads

expert and I thought surely there must be someone younger than me in their

twenties who are on the phone all the time they would like to make some money

they would like to help the business they would like to get an access to me

and and would like to use this to create some stories for me like that it's just

no-brainer and another one another app that we

tested recently for the business was this lumen five or whatever again I was

searching for talent online to say okay who is an expert in lumen five I

couldn't find anyone I'm saying this is just there must be there must be someone

who wants my money like I want to give you my money to create some social media

videos for me so things like that this is the video

that video was created in like 20 minutes by me so I bet you can create

that video in five and how do I because that's let's get practical here because

if you haven't started a business maybe you can be better it's sort of posting

your skills this is site called upwork have you heard of that site have you

ever seen this this is this site where you post a job or post a skill so for

instance this is my three jobs that I'm searching for right now so what was web

researchers I was looking for another one was copywriter and only one was

graphic designer man where's my money I want to give that money to someone who

can who's got that little skills and I cannot find anyone back in if you are

very good at copywriting or you very good at web research you know you're

very good at graphics you're very good at video you're very good at audio

editing you're very good at anything maybe it's worth posting some stuff on

sites like upwork to to get noticed and also to be able to sort of talk to

businesses and help them and we can get those skills any of those skills there's

two places you should go to one is Lynda.com I don't nobody heard if you have

not heard you should leave and the other place is udemy.com there are two

places where you can actually learn skills so for instance if I'm looking

for graphic designer and you're into graphic design you go on udemy you're

good to Lynda and you sort of learn a skill either how to graphic design on

Adobe Illustrator or something like that you paid 12 quid for a course you sit

that course for two weeks it's online you've got a certificate at the end you

come to me and say I'm the best graphic designer in Liverpool I want to design

this for you yeah can I pay you now it's it's so simple it's so simple and there

are so many businesses actually or that need your help how many how many

butchers how many bakeries how many other people other businesses you know

that that are not online that are not present online that I haven't got any

marketing in place that you can help them with the newly acquired skill

if you want so and yeah being expert in something so that's me and so my name is

Michael and my company's called mens finest and we make luxury accessories

for men and also made to measure suits and shirts and things like that

and so yes if you've got any skill and you want to you know join the team be a

freelancer and you know work for free Paula actually started working from the

you know for free because you know I said like we need help we need this we

need that and she said that's fine let's just organize a project

let me just manage that project for you and and yeah and right now she's working

for me so and that's how you get a job good stuff hopefully does it make sense

to you maybe hmm okay I mean how come you not thinking or

you've super shy I don't know but how come you're not thinking about starting

your own business if you're doing this like this is a my mind the wrong room

we took it the wrong way like what's going on like you know what how come

you're not thinking about doing a business you have to start thinking

about this and now because you've got time when you're 35 you have not got time

good stuff thank you

For more infomation >> My most important public talk so far || Liverpool John Moores University - Duration: 13:27.

-------------------------------------------

Public expresses disappointment when city delegation meeting moves behind closed doors - Duration: 1:51.

For more infomation >> Public expresses disappointment when city delegation meeting moves behind closed doors - Duration: 1:51.

-------------------------------------------

NordVPN: Secure Public Wi-Fi - Duration: 0:07.

Unsafe public Wi-Fi?

Not anymore.

NordVPN from $2.75 a month.

For more infomation >> NordVPN: Secure Public Wi-Fi - Duration: 0:07.

-------------------------------------------

Non-profit collecting donations for police officers can't explain how they spend public money - Duration: 6:36.

For more infomation >> Non-profit collecting donations for police officers can't explain how they spend public money - Duration: 6:36.

-------------------------------------------

Lewis and Clark County officials encourage public to register for RAVE Alert - Duration: 1:05.

For more infomation >> Lewis and Clark County officials encourage public to register for RAVE Alert - Duration: 1:05.

-------------------------------------------

Teaching Teens the Value of Public Service | AARP - Duration: 2:52.

[Music]

I believe in giving back to the community.

I believe in different cultures

and different generations

coming together working side by side.

[AARP] [Dr. Mike Weaver]

[WECCAAN]

[2017 WINNER OF THE ANDRUS AWARD

FOR INTERGENERATIONAL EXCELLENCE]

My name is Mike Weaver

and I'm the lead volunteer for WECCAAN.

WECCAAN is an intergenerational,

intercultural activity, where we go

and work in local communities.

I do it because I know there's a need for it,

young people need it, older adults need it

to interact with young people,

the community needs it,

needs the hands-on volunteer work.

[Music]

We travel to different cities around the US

and we learn about the city while also giving back.

We're at Andrew & Walter Young Family YMCA

right here in Atlanta.

James is here, giving us a great tutorial on aquaponics.

[Music]

Okay, welcome to our Aquaponic Greenhouse.

Come in.

Today is going to be both educational

as well as rolling up our sleeves.

I love Dr. Mike.

I love his spirit, I love

what he does in the community.

I'm just so grateful

when Dr. Mike comes with different groups,

to just see the community

engaged in what we're trying to do here.

He is a valuable resource in the community.

So, we've got a slim blade for somebody who wants to do

a round on outside of the greenhouse.

I know we want to pull up some weeds,

so if somebody wants to tackle that.

[Music]

Just volunteering man, helping out the community.

This is right in my backyard.

And whenever Dr. Mike calls, I come, you know.

You always think you're giving someone else

your time or your resources, but really,

it's something that's being given to you.

It's a balm to the soul to be able to give

and to be able to help out.

This is what we do.

So far, we've had 423 volunteers

and we've given 2080 hours to local community.

This past summer, I went to Miami

with WECCAAN and Dr. Mike.

We volunteered at a farm,

that was made for special needs children.

My role was planting and chopping the beet juice.

When we take the teenagers to the different cities,

we make sure they're visiting college campuses

as a part of it, because who's to say

what these teenagers would become one day,

possibly returning to those very institutions.

If there's one thing that I would want

all the volunteers to learn and the young people

in particular, it would be to work,

also to know how to work with one another

and to trust their gut.

Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays once said,

'It is better to aim high and miss

than to aim low and achieve.'

And, that's what I strive for.

[Music]

For more infomation >> Teaching Teens the Value of Public Service | AARP - Duration: 2:52.

-------------------------------------------

Jordan Peterson: The Left's new public enemy No. 1 - Duration: 4:53.

For more infomation >> Jordan Peterson: The Left's new public enemy No. 1 - Duration: 4:53.

-------------------------------------------

IPO Secrets Revealed | What IS an Initial Public Offering? - Duration: 6:51.

For more infomation >> IPO Secrets Revealed | What IS an Initial Public Offering? - Duration: 6:51.

-------------------------------------------

Heart Shaker - Twice (트와이스) Dance Practice in Public by LightN!N - Duration: 2:57.

For more infomation >> Heart Shaker - Twice (트와이스) Dance Practice in Public by LightN!N - Duration: 2:57.

-------------------------------------------

Lewis and Clark County asks public to register for mass alert system - Duration: 1:08.

For more infomation >> Lewis and Clark County asks public to register for mass alert system - Duration: 1:08.

-------------------------------------------

Justice Department Will Offer Grants for Panic Buttons in Public, But Not Private, Schools - Duration: 1:58.

For more infomation >> Justice Department Will Offer Grants for Panic Buttons in Public, But Not Private, Schools - Duration: 1:58.

-------------------------------------------

Juneau is finalist for Seattle Public Schools Superintendent - Duration: 0:44.

For more infomation >> Juneau is finalist for Seattle Public Schools Superintendent - Duration: 0:44.

-------------------------------------------

Les dermatologues cachent cela au public ! Dites adieu aux rides, taches, taches de rousseur... - Duration: 5:02.

For more infomation >> Les dermatologues cachent cela au public ! Dites adieu aux rides, taches, taches de rousseur... - Duration: 5:02.

-------------------------------------------

Corps says water seeping through 17th St. Canal; public not at risk - Duration: 1:49.

For more infomation >> Corps says water seeping through 17th St. Canal; public not at risk - Duration: 1:49.

-------------------------------------------

Justice Department Will Offer Grants for Panic Buttons in Public, But Not Private, Schools - Duration: 1:57.

For more infomation >> Justice Department Will Offer Grants for Panic Buttons in Public, But Not Private, Schools - Duration: 1:57.

-------------------------------------------

Hard Won Joy: Building Public Works - Duration: 9:25.

Public Works is the Public Theater's attempt to make the boundary between

artist and audience permeable. The idea is to create ambitious works of

participatory theater in collaboration with community partner organizations

from all over the city, meaning that Public Works invites New

York to come on stage and perform at the Delacorte theater.

[Applause]

To me, the perfect Public Works participant is someone who never

imagined themselves on the stage at all. The core idea is to embody the fact that

everybody is an artist. It's part of what makes you a human being, and we need to

change the theater from being a commodity back into a set of

relationships among people which is what it really is.

Hi, I'm Genesis and I'm from the Bronx.

Hi, my name is Shannon and I live in Harlem...And I live in Queens, New York.

My name is Gia, and my home is Brooklyn, New York, and here with you guys.

It was an opportunity for me to do something that I didn't do as a younger

person. I had no idea that I'd be doing this at this age.

Every summer, we host auditions and then rehearsals for a show in the park. But

the summer show is a slice of a very big cake of our programming. It's really, if

anything, the cherry on top. Public Works offers free theater classes

at each of our partner sites that are facilitated by master teaching artists.

These classes are crafted around the goals and the interests of each of our

communities. The groups come from such different places

Brooklyn, the Bronx, Long Island. You have the military involved, you have kids choruses

involved.

We engage with our community 365 days of the year. So that by the time

we're all gathered at the first potluck for the first rehearsal of the summer

show, it's like a family reunion.

We got very excited about the idea of

having the program being much more than any one show because that word

partnership is so, it is the truest description of what it is

that we're looking for. We're looking for an organization that sees within its own

vision for itself, a way that theater arts could complement what they're

already doing. So it's sort of like where can our set of tools and interests meet

yours?

It's an ongoing thing that we have with The Public Theater. Getting people

involved if they have never read Shakespeare, exposing them to Shakespeare.

How great is that?

We'll take my brother in Arden and put him to the sword.

There are people who have been doing the adult Shakespeare

class for four or five years. And guess what, they're deeply trained

Shakespearean actors now. So I think what I've seen is the depth that you get when

you work with a community overtime.

I grew up being part of Public Works.

I started when I was 14. I see myself now as a different person than I was before.

I'm more confident in myself, and I'm more open, and it's allowing me to say

yes and taking different opportunities.

Oh my poor Rosalind, whether wilt thou go? Wilt thou change fathers, I will give thee mine.

I charge thee be not thy more greived

than I am.

I have more cause!

Thou has not, cousin! Know thou...

The Public Works has done a series of Shakespeare plays and one

adaptation of Homer, and those plays all have themes of finding out who you are

by traveling, by understanding yourself as part of a larger community.

We're often interested in either like a hero's journey or this idea of a hard-won joy

and through struggle, and through overcoming obstacles and difficulty, joy

can be found.

I was arrested on some uncurricular

activities. Had I known about this earlier, I don't know where I'll be

right now. It gave me a whole different outlook on

life period, you know?

We really have built what feels like an

amazing family. I'm not originally from New York and don't have family here.

Through Public Works, I have gained nieces, nephews, cousins, brothers, sisters,

and even grandparents. And in the rehearsal room, that's when those

relationships really start being built.

[Rain]

So this year during our first day of tech rehearsal,

we experienced a lot of rain and that was really a first.

That particular moment I have to say, I've been doing this work for a really long

time, close to 20 years, and I felt like the community held me up in that moment.

You know, it's like I have two and a half days of tech and one of them is being

rained out, how are we possibly going to be able to direct the show? So all that

chatter was going on in my head and then I would look up, and the community is in

ponchos dancing full commitment under the rain. To me, it was like they taught me,

they held me.

People often say that, "Oh,

this is so amazing what Public Works does for the community," and I try to

explain to them it's really a reciprocal relationship. We may extend

the invitation, but it's the community that takes it to a whole other level.

When we did the first Public Works performance, the plan we had was that we

would do one of the pageants every two years. About 24 hours after the first

pageant closed, I said we are not waiting two years to do this again. We're doing

it next year. And now what we've started to do is

increase the number of performances, we're increasing the number of

community-based organizations we work with, we are now looking at even greater

expansion. We now have sister theaters in London and Dallas and Seattle and in

Detroit.

When we started in Dallas, our aspiration was can this work, will this

work, is this possible. We quickly discovered, and by quickly I mean 18

months later, yes it's possible and not only is it possible,

it is our mission alive.

There's a really brilliant community program that's been run for

years at the National, but what we've not done, what's new is the idea of putting

it bang in the middle, on the biggest stage that we have, really celebrating

and acknowledging the impact that this work can have on our organization and

most crucially on our broader community.

[Singing]

A beautiful thing about Public Works is

that it takes on the shape of the city that it's happening in. That's how it's

designed and how it should be. What we've seen is that the principles of rigorous

art making and community building, those principles holding hands, that's

something that could work anywhere in the world.

It's the New York you want to be in,

the diversity of the people on stage, the sense of celebration, the

affirmation of life: it's what the theater should be.

It's just an incredible experience

that we could actually come together as a family, you know.

I could never imagine doing this with my parents.

You're around just like a

whole bunch of loving people, doing a show about love, you know. It just feels

good. I don't even know if there is, is there a better word than good? Great.

A better word than great? Amazing, excellent. Yeah she's my thesaurus.

To be on that stage with that source of energy, all the wonderful people around you

and then to feel it come back from all the New Yorkers that are sitting in

those seats, it's like none other theatrical experience I've ever seen

or been apart of.

Every year, I see all of Public Works' performances. Those are the

only nights of my year where I am guaranteed joy, and it's because I'm

watching human spirits soar in collaboration with each other.

I feel like every day I go into the Public Works room and genuinely get my faith

restored in humanity. I feel like that's a phrase that can be said a lot, but

no matter on my worst day, on my most hopeless cynical day, Public Works lifts

me up and reminds me what's good about the world.

Love makes magic real.

[Applause]

For more infomation >> Hard Won Joy: Building Public Works - Duration: 9:25.

-------------------------------------------

Rep Darrin Camilleri opposes Public School wording on ballots for Millage Dollars - Duration: 2:20.

I rise today in opposition to House bill 5626. This bill would eliminate

transparency for where voters' regional enhancement millage

dollars would go. Instead of listing every school district that would receive

funding the ballot would only be required to say, "public schools." For over

a decade, we have listed all of the schools receiving funding from regional

enhancement millages. And for over a decade there have been ballots that

include a long list of districts -- sometimes over 30 names long in Wayne

County -- that would receive funding. Until 5 weeks ago, no one seemed to be very

concerned about the amount of space that this took up on our ballots. So the

question we're asking today is, "Why now?" The answer goes back to five weeks ago

when something happened that fundamentally changed education funding

in our state. Something that makes this bill about so much more than saving

space. You see, five weeks ago, a law was signed allowing mostly for-profit

charter schools and cyber schools to access these regional enhancement

millage dollars. So why would we now choose to take that information off the

ballot about where those tax dollars are going? The answer is simple: to hide the

fact that they're going to for-profit companies that care more about padding

their pockets than educating our kids. This is not a question of saving space.

This is a question of transparency and frankly, telling the truth. Because as

written, this bill would defraud the people of Michigan by withholding

information about their tax dollars and where they're being used. Taxpayers have

the right to know exactly how their hard-earned money would be spent. They

have the right to know if instead of going to their children's schooling,

their money is going to for-profit charter executives. They have the right

to know that the traditional public schools that their children, families, and

communities depend on will now lose out on millions of dollars every year. This

bill is a legislative cover-up for a law that has angered people across this state.

It is covering up a mistake by lying to the public. It's just spineless and it's

not the way our democracy should operate. The taxpayers of Michigan deserve better.

Our democracy deserves better. And our kids deserve better.

I urge a no vote on House Bill 5626.