The Nation of Immigrants begins today. I'm Jay Fidel. This is Tank Tech. It's a Monday morning at 10 with our old friend Cheng Wang and Alexander Marawa. Thank you, gentlemen, for joining us for this discussion. We're going to talk about the new Chinese-American reader. And we're going to talk about this show going forward, what we're doing today and what you have in mind for the future. This is America. This is America. May I say it again? Give me your tired, huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Very important. So Cheng, can you tell us the scope of the new show and of this particular episode? Thank you so much, Jay. Of course, good morning and a happy new year, Jay. Happy new year, Alexander. It's great to be back on the show. And we renamed our show from the middle way to a Nation of Immigrants. So this year, Alexander, Russell, and I will invite some interesting immigrants come to the show. And I believe Jay will have hundreds of questions for those immigrants. We want those immigrants to share their life stories, their immigration adventure, and their knowledge and expertise. And most importantly, how do they contribute to the United States? So this show will be a show featuring immigration stories, diversity, and inclusion, and knowledge. So that today is an opener or preview. We're going to talk about what the show will look like. And then we're going to also comment on some recent news, some anti-Asian comments from a law professor and from a congressional candidate. But also, we will talk about a little book we just published for New Immigrants for Chinese Americans. It's called The New Chinese American Reader. And we want to share with you why we think it's important for new immigrants to understand America, to understand US history, law, and culture. So can you also introduce, or shall I say, reintroduce Alexander Morava? We need to know him yet again. Alexander is our frequent guest on this show. He's a law professor. And he's an international counsel. And he has multiple hats. He's a dual citizen of the United States and Austria. He received his legal education in Salzburg, Vienna, and Washington, DC with an SJD, what we call a real doctor in law, SJD, from American University of Washington College of Law. And Alexander has been working with me for many years on multiple projects. We're co-teaching different classes. He's a world traveler and also a renowned lecturer in law, has been lectured in the United States, in Paulo, Brazil, Vienna, and China as well. So welcome back, Alexander. Good. I have to tell you that my family is an immigrant family too. Oh. So I know a few things about this. It wasn't my personal experience, but certainly it was theirs and their parents. And of course, I come from New York, which is, may I say, a city of immigrants. I mean, it's a melting pot. So let's talk about the common denominators we are likely to find in this examination. I'll throw some thoughts at you. Number one is an immigrant who comes to the United States, generally speaking, not always, but generally speaking, is going to be motivated to assimilate. He's going to be motivated to get his kids into school. He's going to be motivated to have them learn the language. He's going to be motivated not to let the baggage of the old country hold them back. He is not going to tell them all that much about the trials and tribulations that he and his immediate family had in coming to this country. He wants them to be American as soon as possible, step off the boat, and get started in living the American dream, which motivates him and them, his kids, to do better than the next person, to be competitive in school, to be competitive in business. And you find that over and over again. But I'd like to know your thoughts, Alexander, about that. Is that a true fact? Is that your situation? Is it the situation of immigrants that you know? Am I right to say that there's a special motivating feature about immigrants in general? I couldn't agree more, Jaya. I think there's multiple different motivations, really. One very basic motivation is to live. That's the refugee. Refugees, if they wouldn't be able to live here, they wouldn't be able to live in many cases at all. So that's a very primal instinct to come and be safe. But I think this refugee population as well very quickly turns into enthusiastic immigrants. And they bring a lot as well. Many times those refugees themselves, and we don't think that way, but many times they're highly trained, highly qualified individuals, who then run into major problems, including reintegration into the workforce. And this experience in my wife's history as well, where a family member who was a trained lawyer never got to actually practice in his discipline and ended up doing the thing that Asians many times do, namely run a laundry shop. Of course, not an easy solution, but a solution that these immigrants are willing to embrace if there's no other option. I think they bring enthusiasm also to do stuff that we sometimes don't want to do, to contribute to society by doing that. But this really, really strong intention, strong will to become better, to become not just like everybody else, but to show that they have qualifications that at least equal hours, if not surpassed them, is really, really driven. I always think that when we view migrants specifically, we say those are lazy people and when I escape different situations that they could change where they're coming from. My impression generally is, and I've worked in the field of immigration refugees for literally decades now in different continents, that is most of the times not true. Many times it also is true, we shouldn't deny that too, it's also not every immigrant is a future superstar, we have to be aware of that as well. But the vast majority of people who migrate to another country, including this one here, are extremely eager to show that they can excel and to bring in what they have to offer. At the same time, Alexander, every immigrant, I'm looking for common denominators finds resistance. Although my family wound up in New York, a lot of Jewish families from Eastern Europe wound up in all over the country. And credit goes to them because they entered into communities that didn't really know about immigrants that weren't particularly friendly and they had to work especially hard to get by that. But what about that? I mean, would you say in this country, I mean, I don't necessarily mean in recent years, we can talk about that in a minute, but in this country in general, in our lifetimes, there's been resistance to immigrants. There's been, I don't wanna call it racism, anti-immigrantism in this country and every immigrant has to deal with that. So did your family, can you tell your family's story, please? And can you talk about that as a part of it? Chairman, my family's story is kind of not so interesting. My wife's family's story is much more interesting. I'm Caucasian, Austrian, still dual citizen who ultimately ended up in the US for professional reasons. I had an immigrant family before that who came to Brooklyn, New York and Queens, New York, the usual place in the 1950s after World War. Immigrants, German speaking immigrants from what is now, former U.S. Laugia really a part of what was then U.S. Laugia. My wife's story is much more interesting. Her family, she has 19 aunts and uncles. They all hopped on the board, a ship in Vietnam at some point in the 1970s, late 1970s to flee. One of the siblings was chosen to stay behind and be sort of the fallback option in a way. And then they made it to Malaysia and other initial ports of entry and then were reallocated to countries of destination by non-profit organizations, basically faith-based actually in most of their cases. Half of them ended up in Canada and half of them ended up in the United States and still are. My wife's story is a little unusual because ultimately she became a Canadian citizen. She still is a very proud Canadian citizen and then ultimately immigrated to the United States as well with me for professional reasons. So there is in these stories, and this is just one example, you can see millions of them. I think none of these stories are identical but there is common denominators, common factors to all of them. I think if you look at this family specific, the making things better motivation is very, very strong. The willingness to work is very, very present. And the willingness not to rely on the government but rather to contribute to society is very present. Yeah. Well, our country under Trump, we have realized that there are those in this country that don't care for immigrants. They feel that immigrants are gonna replace them in some way. It's a supremacy thing but it's also deeply ingrained and I thought we got by that myself. I thought we got by that but we didn't get by that, it's still around. And I was watching, Chang, I was watching a program about Angela Merkel the other day. She's a physicist and she's very tolerant and very inviting and she personally accepted a million migrants from the Middle East into Germany. It was a very nice thing she did, a very humanitarian thing. And she paid a price politically and some people think that the increase in migrants over her tenure actually activated the right wing of Germany. But the odd thing is that under Angela Merkel, Germany became a welcoming country. And it's so interesting that as the United States may be suffering as a welcoming country, Germany became a more welcoming country. And one wonders if the United States continues, for example, to engage in anti-Semitism, which I care about, then the odd and ironic high irony is that Germany would be a place at least under Angela Merkel, it would have been a place for Jews to return to. How do you like that, Alexander? Is that high irony? Anyway, I wanna know about the resistance that you've experienced, Chang. There have been Chinese exclusion, legislation in this country, there have been people to win recently, anti-Asian sentiments in various places around the country. And how does a Chinese immigrant find that? And how does he deal with that? Let me answer your question by providing you with three quotes. I found it very interesting. I would like to share with you and the audience. The first is from a University of Pennsylvania law professor. And it's a female law professor and she just blatantly published an article and argued that this country, United States, will be better off with less Asian immigrants. As you can imagine, the dean was not very happy about it, and the article was quite controversial, but she is pretty insistent on her stance. So that's what, that's pretty recent. And then the second quote I want to share with you is a very interesting quote is because it involved my favorite immigrant author, or my favorite author of all time, Viet Thanh Nguyen. So there was a congressional candidate and who tweeted that a multi-third world refugee cannot assimilate into our society, prove me wrong. Viet Thanh Nguyen and answered third world refugee here from Vietnam, she was from Vietnam. I have a PhD in English and I won a police surprise in fiction. What have you done? So that's your second interesting quote I want to share with you to see that there is obviously, there is a strong anti-immigrant and anti-Asian Pacific immigrants, you know, Americans, there's a trend there. And there are some very smart people joining that camp now we have a law professor, we have congressional candidate. On the other hand, the last quote I want to share with you is Andrew Yang, the Democratic presidential candidate. And in early 2020, he published an article and I quote, we Asian Americans need to embrace and show our Americanness in ways we never have before. So basically he argued that the Asian Americans are not American enough. So we need to be more American. So he gave some examples, you can judge on that whether or not those are truly what American are supposed to do. So help our neighbors donate gear, vote, wear red, white and the blue, volunteer, fund aid organizations and do everything our power to accelerate the end of this crisis, the pandemic, obviously. I think this article you can imagine was a huge backlash and a very controversial. I kind of disagree with almost everything he says, you know, on many, many topics, but I do understand why he said that. He said that because the immigrants, we bring diversity to this country, but fundamentally we need to understand the country we are in. We need to understand the history, politics, law and the culture of everything, try to be more intellectually curious about what's around us. Don't live in every power and close yourself in isolated self-quarantine kind of situation but be open minded and be susceptible to something ready to go beyond your comfort zone. That's why if I can argue for Andrew Yang to defend him in any way, I don't want to, but I would say that probably he had some good intention. So that finally I want to say that in the booklet we published for Chinese Americans. And so we started, if you look at the table of contents, we started with a citizen almanac. So everything as a new immigrants, you need to know about American politics, a law and the history. Then we have these translated all the naturalization questions, 100 naturalization questions into Chinese language for these new immigrants. And then the third section is more than 100 books, 100 journals, 100 websites, 100 TV and films to understand American history. And from Mactoon and to everything, you know, earning the hymen way.  And then the next section is understand Asian American history. So you then we want to read a Vietnam news, police are winning novel sympathizer and many very good peer as bug on China and the Chinese American history in the United States. And finally, we devoted one section on Chinese Exclusion Act. Never forget Chinese as an ethnic group was the only, the first and the only ethnic minority group being identified by federal law to be discriminated against. Later, many years later, the law was repealed. Then 10 years ago, the Congress, the House of Representatives Senate issued an apology. But there's always, there's a strong sentiment there, you know, because we are so easy to identify. Look at you, look at me, look at the Dr. Morava. You two look not alike, but you two, you can easily, even three of us put together on a screen, we said to pick one different from the others. I think I will be the first one to be picked up as a different. So this, but so long story short, and the part of my long speech is we understand the need to understand more about the history of this country and including the immigrant history. That's why we want to encourage our fellow Chinese Americans, Asian Americans and other European Americans to learn more about the United States, to learn, to understand the spirit and the soul of this country. So Alexander, you know, at the end of the day, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress. And a lot of other legislation was, you know, not particularly friendly to immigrants over the years. And even now the immigration law hasn't been reformed in decades, several decades. And so if you say, if you conclude, and I think we do, that immigrants, this is a nation of immigrants and with the vitality, the intensity of immigrants, immigrant people and cultures and the like, this nation could be greater yet, greater still. Those things made this nation great in the first place, but it could be greater still.  So my question to you is, if we conclude together that bringing immigrants in, making them equal partners in the society and the economy will be better for the country, how do we do that in the face of, let me call it the base, who opposes, who wants isolationism? How do we do that? We've got to get there because, you know, in my view, that's our future. Isn't it true? It is our future. How do we get there? Well, it certainly is our past and it's also the past of what you call the base. I mean, there's very few people living in this country that are originals, right? They live in reservations and some in assimilated situations, native Americans, everybody else is basically an immigrant. Everybody else would fall in the category of others when it comes to the original historical backgrounds which young shouldn't feel too bad. I think he's one of us. I think there's still hope. I'm trying to say that there's two ways of going about it. One is the very formal way, the other one is the personal way. I believe many people who are anti-immigrant don't know a single immigrant. I think there's, they probably have excluded from their social circles and even from their distant social circles, all those who look different, active and don't match their own particular understandings. Apart from going to a restaurant or a service provider where they encounter individuals who are the others and that encounter is limited enough so that they can tolerate. But I don't think they have friends that are different necessarily. They have probably not even as many colleagues that are different. They seclude themselves in a way. So we shouldn't blame them for that. We should say, try it. Try to get past your comfort zones a little bit, right? Personal interaction is probably the best source for getting people out of their hard shell of me better you not, right? Getting into the understanding and maybe somebody else also has qualities to bring. Then from the bigger political scheme and I know Congress adopts laws and Congress is not necessarily devises body of humans getting together to make decisions like that. But that's what it is. It's democracy, right? Democracy has representation of just about everybody including in those bodies. Once we sort out for people to understand that immigration really has basically two and a half components, one is protection as refugees, right? Where we have an obligation which is set out in the law and the United States has laws saying that in accordance with international law. There are some people who are being persecuted and are at risk of very, very severe suffering if they are not protected against that. So we need to take them in and protect them. They might not bring much beyond that with them. Many times they do, but they might not other than we have to protect them. That's an obligation. And I think if you tackle this from the moral point of view or from the faith-based point of view, I think everybody can agree that that protection is actually something good and acceptable, right? We need to screen, we need to make sure the protection is afforded to those who actually need the protection. And we also need to exclude those who wanna jump on the bandwagon and not actually need that protection. A little bit in the same category, false family reunification. I mean, if you have people who come here legitimately integrating to society, they also have the interest of protecting their family abroad and having them come to join them at some point in time. That's a conditional process. And that also I think if you ask people very large would probably be understood as something that is good and decent and the right thing to do. And then the other aspect is where we under international law as a government have the right to select regular immigration. We can say who comes and who doesn't, right? We can pick the ones who actually we know, we understand we hope will contribute to society. If you go back to what we now have in international human rights, we're dealing in many, many cases with international migration and the prediction levels here. The first thing that these human rights judges say at the very beginning of their judgements is every state retains the right to admit or not admit people to become new residents or citizens, right? So we have a large part where we can really and Congress can do that in a wise fashion or not so wise, we can make those rules and we can have people follow those rules. And we also have the right to prevent immigration that is illegal and possibly dangerous to our community, right? Is a discussion that is usually done on a very emotional level, very, very personal and very, very superficially. What about easing up Alexander? I mean, for example, you say that we wouldn't be sure they're productive citizens. So unless they are, we reserve the right to exclude them. And then you have the migrant issue as Germany has been very open about it. And I remember talking to a young woman here in Hawaii who was in school and she was Swedish from Sweden. And I said, what do you think about the migrants? This is like five years ago. What do you think about the migrants? She said, I'm so ticked off at my country, Sweden. Why can't we be as open as Germany? Some really interesting comment. But why can't the US be more open? Why does the US have to have this struggle with the migrants on the southern border? Why can't all countries move to the kind of standard where unless this person is a threat, we're gonna let them in. We're gonna balance out the populations of the world. We're gonna let it flow freely. Life in this planet would be so much better if we did that. Do you agree? Only partly. I mean, I'm ultimately still a lawyer and I do love some rules. I'm not a population geographer, but I do believe if we open all the floodgates, then we probably have a depopulation in certain areas and a massive overpopulation. Whereas if we just move freely, that might be a dangerous experiment in many ways. And to be honest, the European Union tried that. They have free migration, basically for employment studies and many times personal choices as well. And that didn't always work out so well in that people trans across the internal border, but it's an internal border now from one part of the EU to the other and then started offering their services for dumping prices and cost friction that wasn't so helpful as well. So even in a fairly integrated system, just tearing down all national borders is very risky. And I think people believe sometimes that immigration advocates who I would belong to, it's certainly a group that I will support, are advocating for those tearing down the boundaries. We're not. I think we're definitely, at least most of us are definitely speaking for an orderly process of immigration because that's the only way of having an orderly process of democracy ultimately that doesn't lead to the kind of friction and infighting and ultimately conflict. Like Janet- We have that, we have the control, but we also, we have the friction. Let me go to you, Chang, it's a question of a meeting to ask you for this entire discussion. And that is the media. And I say the media, I include the entertainment media because year after year, back when immigrants were painted as caricatures, not only Asians, but other groups too. They were classified as scapegoats. They were painted as caricatures and there were negative caricatures. And so the media seems to be changing. The media seems to be showing multiracial families, multiracial cultures, multiracial stories. I mean, if you just watch television for a while, it's extraordinary how many different groups are living in the same household are involved in the same social experiences. They say, well, gee whiz, is that really happening? And the answer is, well, maybe not as much as the media would portray it. However, the media seems to me to be a leading, a leadership factor here. If they say that we all get along, if they say that immigrants are to be accepted in your business or your home, then maybe people will do that. Maybe it has a positive effect. What are your thoughts about this? Well, I mostly agree with what you have said, but don't forget the multi-viewed network is still Fox News. And there's some ladies on the Fox News, I believe her name is Laura Ingram and she commented before, they look at what our country has become. Nobody want these people here, as she referred to immigrants. The Supreme Court of the United States have decided that diversity in education is a compelling state interest. So the international students here, international scholars here and the immigrants are here. Some of them are not actively participant in the community affairs. Some of them are just focused on their own study and work, but most of them are thrilled to be here. And I love a few quotes about the United States. One of my favorite quotes is, United States is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. Every single immigrant, every single international student I encountered, they are happy, at least relatively happy. And because the United States have this ability to make almost everybody happy for where they are and what they have. And I cherish that. And I want to keep saying this kind of thing, but I also sense a strong need for immigrant to be not really more Americanist, but to contribute more and to understand, to learn more. And don't think that simply to be here, we are contributing to the diversity. No, no, not that simple. We are here, we still need to work, to learn and constantly learning, to learn more about our neighbor, to learn more about the United States. And to learn more about the Chinese Curitin Act, to be more effectively a responsible member of this community. Well, and to be part of this great fantastic experiment. An experiment that is noble, but also facile. An experiment that changes while you watch. It must be very exciting for somebody who comes from what amounts to a static community where there's not much mobility, to a community where mobility is everything or at least theoretically everything, and to be part of that. So we're out of time, but I like to get your final thoughts about this new show we're doing A Nation of Immigrants about the book and about the common denominators and what you see, this is a long final statement, and what you see going forward here in terms of the guests and discussions you will have. Alexander, you first. I think that the book is a marvelous little example of something that needs to happen, namely information, as much information as possible for everybody who is involved. We should write a second book explaining to non-Chinese immigrants what Chinese immigrants are and what their background is. Maybe that would be helpful too, but we need at least 170 million copies of that to spread them more. The discussions I think will be fascinating simply because we, with our legal background, look at everything through that lens to a certain extent. We'll bring guests who absolutely look at it through a different lens, namely the practical, I have experienced this kind of lens, and your questions will probably trigger them to give us insights that would otherwise not be explored. I mean, every story will be very fascinating in itself, but the thoughts of those experienced immigrants, if you want to call it that, about what the future should bring, will be really enlightening to the audience. So I'm looking forward to every single contribution. Yeah, same here. Give me your tired, huddled masses. So your final comments, Chang, how do you see all of this? Where's the kernel of it for you and where do you want to take it? Thank you, Gage. Thank you, Alexander. And we are very excited about this new show and the new format, which will bring immigrants, prominent immigrants, interesting immigrants to this show and at the top of their life stories and a cultural diversity they can contribute to the United States. A little preview, a little teaser here, two weeks from now, January 24th, the honorable Judge Tony Liang, the first Asian American judge in the state of Minnesota, form a previously a state court judge, now a federal magistrate judge, will be our special guest and to share his life stories and his immigration adventure and his legal career. Four weeks from now on February 7th, we have Mr. David Maida, the director of elections in the state of Minnesota, a Japanese American to share his life stories with us.  And we very much look forward to this very exciting in the conversation with you, Jay.  We want it all. Thank you so much, Chang, Alexander, you take care. Talk to you. Thank you, I've been here. Hello.


The newly built Nikud Wellness Centre is now open to the residents of Nikud and surrounding communities and is classified as a centre of excellence for chronic diseases. Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs Jenny Daniel says the opening of this facility will demonstrate the ministry's goal of strengthening the primary health care services in St. Lucia. In addition to the new modern structure and functional designs, the ministry has also taken the steps to enhance and strengthen our services and delivery of care to patients in the following manner. One, the establishment of a dental clinic for the very first time at the Nikud Wellness Centre and more broadly within the entire Region 4 of the health sector. Two, the introduction of new biomedical equipment including the following. An AED machine which is used to treat cardiac arrests. An ECG or EKG machine which is used to monitor the electrical activity of the heart. A urine analyser, nebuliser, otoscope and ophthalmoscope to name a few. The introduction of this new equipment is consistent with the ministry's strategic objective to enhance the treatment and management of chronic diseases thereby reducing the pressure placed on our national hospitals. Minister for Health, the Honourable Moser Jabatis says providing quality healthcare to the people of St. Lucia is the number one priority of the government. Primary care, as the nurses will tell you, means that we want to ensure that the services here conserve the people who do not necessarily require secondary care at our hospitals. I wish to thank the whole bank. It also means, more importantly, that knowledge and skills which are required to prevent illness in the first place will be available here. We will go one step further to develop centres of excellence all around St. Lucia and it is my dream that our various wellness centres will become centres of excellence for various aspects of healthcare. Prime Minister of St. Lucia, the Honourable Philip G. Pierre says his government will continue to invest in the people of St. Lucia and provide healthcare services. I'm extremely pleased because I know the importance of health and health services to the people of St. Lucia. And once we decide that we're going to take care of our health and think of our health, it can be simple. It just takes a little bit of discipline and a little bit of sacrifice. Again, I'm very happy that we are here. I hope you use the health facility to the best of your ability. It was a long term coming. Parliamentary representative for Maygood North, the Honourable Jeremiah Norbert welcomed the opening of the facility and called on residents to maximise the primary healthcare services offered. I just want to thank everyone who played their part in bringing this project to life and ensuring that today we have a Maygood Wellness Centre that we are proud of. One that we can call our own, one that are going to take away the problems of I knew we had problems with comfort, with ease, with access at the old centre and I'm happy that we shall no longer have these problems at this facility, at this health institution. So thank you to everyone. The new Maygood Wellness Centre offers primary healthcare services including dental care, health education, chronic non-comicable diseases, screening and management to name a few. The construction of the facility was funded by the Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project DVRP in the tune of EC $6.1 million. Reporting from the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs, I am Finnell Neptune.


A senior Ukrainian official said on June 7 local and national authorities were in the process of transporting drinking water via railways and cars to Kursan as he inspected flooded areas. Visiting the city of Kursan on the Dniepro River, Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubriakov said over 80 settlements had been affected by a disaster which Ukraine and Russia blame on each other. Although it denies blowing up the dam, Moscow has engaged in a campaign of airstrikes against Ukraine's energy system in which Kiev says infrastructure of other dams has been damaged. Blaming the dam's collapse on Russia, Kubriakov said, they did this on purpose to stop our offensive in this very area at this very moment. Tens of thousands of their soldiers that were holding the front line along the bank here can be relocated to other front line sections.


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So this guy he's in pretty rough shape as well and he sold for 295 So I felt like 190 Was a little low for my item And this is the only one I can find even on worth point that is from the men from mars series Now this one is brand new with the original tag. I do believe Yes, original tag and it's in mint condition and went for 275, but that was in 2016 and prices have come up Here it is in poor condition or not as good of condition I mean this one's meant with the tag and it went for 295 in 2022 So I would compare the condition of mine to the condition of this one So I countered at 275 dollars And I felt like that was very fair and they countered at 235 and I was like, you know what? I'm just going to take it. I'm just going to take the offer. So I took an offer of 235 dollars for this brooch. All right. Now, let me show you something really cool This sold May 29th of 2022. You guys know how people sell ephemera? Well, look here. This is a ad flyer And you can see right here I don't even know. I don't see that other one that says men from mars, but this one is definitely mine This guy is crusty and he was two Dollars back in the day. How cool is this? How cool is that? I just love it. So this is by men from mars by martha sleeper So I don't even know if that other one was actually from the men from mars series I don't know if there were only four if this is just a flyer for the four that were out at the time I don't know. But anyway, is that not cool? Super cool.  I do know this is men from mars because look it's got the tag on it and it says martha sleeper And it says men from mars and you can see it's got the same Marking as mine and that's all the photos. There are unfortunately But isn't that cool? So this one is cassidy fit And it's by martha sleeper right there. How cool is that? Super cool, right? Okay, so now you've learned about that now. I'm going to show you how I discovered Another bolo. Are you ready? So I kind of went in and I was like, I'm just going to research marsha I'm sorry martha sleeper on Ebay, so I looked into it and these are just some of the other things that sell for big money But she specializes in bakelite and there's mine But look at this brooch. Okay, remember this you guys remember it 350 best offer on january 4th of 2024 Just remember it. All right Here is This owl. All right Do you see it? Do you see the hole? Do you see the shape? Okay, remember it But just kind of look here at some of her items her main.  I my my wheels are turned in now that i'm seeing The prices on those I want to see what's active right now. So we are still under highest first So this one's at 525 All right, let's see if there's any others here I'm just looking looking looking martha sleeper's what I have in Because sometimes you can source on the other platforms This one's got four bids right now. So they're doing an auction on that one Okay, so that looks like it the rest of it is whatever this stuff is Um, okay, so we looked there now. Let's go over here. I'm on worth point. Look you guys the bird brooch In 2018 it says $1,800 now. I can't verify that this was actually paid for This guy is a dough boy pin soldier dough boy. It says Um, these are all Bakelite. Here's the birds again 1695 and 2013 I just can't believe the value would go down so much So here is where worth point comes in handy if the people that sold these over here Let me find it again Let's see right here 350 And they took a best offer 157. I mean, that's all the market They they put it on an auction But if they would have looked on worth point I mean, they knew it was martha sleeper if they would have looked at worth point They would have seen These sold prices I mean, that's the same one, right Let me see. Is that the same one? Okay, actually look It looks like the birds are facing a different direction. So I don't know if that matters Let's see that other one that was 350 now. These are facing this way, but there's only three So maybe there's some that are different Okay, so let's go back to researching I'm researching with you guys right now Uh, so we've got these are some of the ones to look for. Okay. Here's a three one. That looks like the one 1035 But lots 862 on this one, but it looks like they're all a little different probably because they're all custom made, right? 325 on that or 725 on that one Let me see. Let's type in birds and get more specific here All right. So here we go. There's 21 So here are your prices 862 725 550 495 468 and 2022 440 and 2023 200 and 2023 So, yeah, I'm going to say these people sold these major and they have kind of brought the price down but see this was 2011 133 And then back up here is 157. So the dates are all kind of mixed up Wow, that is incredible. All right, so let's look here Um, I typed in Martha's sleeper necklace and this one is the highest priced. It's called uh matches with cigarettes $1,800 this one is a school days $850 799 for another school days. How many of you would have looked at this twice? I mean you might have because it's pretty cool, but Wow, this one's nautical and This one is a mixture of pins another school days 500 range on these. So definitely be on the lookout. Also keep in mind The little charms because you may find one of these charms that is not connected To the necklace and you could sell that as a replacement All right, look at that one. That's on um, like a rope or whatever 395 Okay, so let's go on To my video and I found the video where I got the owls and I'm just gonna play this for you guys Those If you want to see the whole video and how the lamp turned out, this is the video you want to go to It's called crafting with vintage owl brooches Big money bolo how to pack and ship do it yourself brooch collection Did I use them all or did I save some for my whatnot show? Oh, I may have saved a few for my whatnot show. Do you guys want to see what I have left? So here is just a small preview of some of the owls that I will eventually be bringing to whatnot I don't know when um, this one here is like a little trinket. So I couldn't really use that on the lamp This one is also a trinket. It's so beautiful. This one was awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Now this guy right here Look how fun he is. He's uh, he has a hole So you could probably put a chain through it and wear it as a necklace And you know, I thought it was like newer, but the pin definitely looks older and the pin is built into the owl Does anybody know who this owl is? It's pretty cool I kind of think he's adorable I might have to make another lamp. That's what I felt like leaving somebody. Oh, is it poo? Really? Well, it's definitely um, it's not signed or anything, but it's definitely old Maybe there was a sticker on it at one time Or maybe it was signed on the necklace. Maybe I hooked to a necklace I don't know you guys might want to google inside Why is potato chip out? I don't know. I didn't I didn't look any of these up. So all right, we're gonna run it It is pretty awesome 10 second sun death. We're running. Who wants the owl? Who who wants it? Let's see. Thank you for your bids. Thank you and lisa got it. Thank you lisa. Thank you so much You guys give lisa a follow. She has a beautiful jewelry. I have bought from her on multiple occasions for $12 Um, I just messaged lisa and I said do you still have this owl? So this is lisa's source over on whatnot. She may have known what it was. She's pretty good with jewelry But maybe not she may have resold it on whatnot I have no idea. But anyway, go give lisa source a follow. You can see it below. She does jewelry She's got a dvd show coming up. It looks like um amazon fulfillment And i'm not sure they all have the same thumbnail. So jewelry starts two dollars, but she's fantastic. All right, so let's look at on worth point You guys and if you don't have worth point, this is where worth point is worth it. Okay Um, it's just a great great tool. It's kind of pricey. I tell you guys that all the time I do have videos that show you how it has paid off for me having worth point because I waited a long time to get it And there uh, if you just type in worth point bolo buddies, I can give you other examples besides this But this was what I saw when I was researching this guy. All right I came across this and i'm like, I know that that shape because I remember thinking This looks like a disney character. You know what I mean? But right here you see the hole remember how I said, oh, it has a hole in it And it is the exact same mold but mine is painted So this one says it sold in november 27th of 2023 for 350 dollars Now and it says painted butterscotch Let's scroll down and look the eyes. I mean, it's yeah, okay. So we're going to scroll down until we see another one Martha sleeper bakelite owl. Now this one is painted and looks more like mine disney series it says sold for 225 We're going to keep scrolling and this is kind of the same owl but a different mold or a different shape And she must have used some sort of mold and then painted them. I would say This one looks more like mine. It sold for 195 like the colors the white Where she painted it 150 on this one in 2005 Here's the same mold as mine 2021 150 127 50 so Oh, look at this one Prices are kind of all over the place, but anywhere from 100 to 350 dollars I would say that this owl is probably worth. I would probably price it on the high end Okay, let's see if there's anything available as far as owls go on ebay right now It looks like you've got three and none of them look like the one I sold so if I was lisa source I would put this on ebay and price it really high and you can see here this one. Okay, let's see what this actually sold for Let's type in the title exactly And you guys I talked about worth point before I do have a referral link down below So, um, if you guys use my referral links, I always appreciate that. Thank you so much in advance. I know a lot of you do I'm going to type this in so it looks like they took a best offer of 285 Okay, so terra peak is a free research tool on ebay, but it does not go back as far But you can see best offers what the best offer was for so 285 on that one All right, you guys what do you think? Oh Crazy, right? I had no idea and a lot of times in my grab and sell videos like I'm doing on tanglings It's unsearched. I I'm not looking stuff up. So you can get some deals Uh, I as you know, don't know a lot about jewelry if you watch any of my whatnot shows you're gonna see Definitely not a jewelry expert. I do try to learn and I've learned a lot from selling on whatnot, but um come over Hang out at one of my shows Again, like I said, even if you don't buy just come hang out in the chat. It's like a live show. It's an untangling. It's super fun Um I'm Bolo buddies all one word lowercase over there And if you're not on whatnot, you can use my referral link down below to get $15 to shop So I hope to see you in a future whatnot show and go follow lisa source also All right, you guys thank you so much for being here and thanks for watching


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Welcome to NTN Nightly, I am Gen. Norvel. This edition, Stop Stories. Actile to advance in bridging the digital divide under the chairmanship of Hon. Stevenson King. 23% of St. Lucia's population is now vaccinated against COVID-19, as vaccination sites expand. And the Schwozell-Sultibus Constituency Council mandated to pursue development in conjunction with residents. Eastern Caribbean Telecommunications Authority Actile on 28 October 2021 held its 42nd meeting of the Council of Ministers. The incoming chairmen is St. Lucia's senior minister and minister for infrastructure, ports, transport, physical development and urban renewal Hon. Stevenson King. Minister King on Thursday 4th November provided an overview of the major outcomes of the 42nd meeting of the Council of Ministers. They include the deliberation and approval of the budget to fund the work of Actile and the National Telecommunications Regulatory Commission's NTRCs in all five member states. Actile has recommended the new EC bill to member states and to date, the Federation of St. Kits and Nevis has passed the EC Act, though it is not yet enforced. In the other member states, the EC bill is under active consideration at the level of Cabinet of Ministers. In St. Lucia, the Department of Telecommunications in the Ministry of Infrastructure, Ports, Transport, Physical Development and Urban Renewal is in communication with the Attorney General's chambers to prepare the EC bill for a formal presentation to be made to the Cabinet of Ministers for Hon. Transmission to the Parliament of St. Lucia. Once the Cabinet of Ministers has given its approval, it is expected that the EC bill will be prepared for presentation. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the world into a state of increased reliance on data, mobile devices and computers to facilitate remote work and online learning, among other tasks. The pandemic also exposed the inequity and accessibility to broadband services by consumers in the ECTEL member states. Something that ECTEL has taken note of and will be working to address. As schools moved to online classes learning, it became clear that there was a substantial digital divide among students across the ECTEL member states. For some students, broadband was not available where they lived, or broadband was not affordable, or the quality of service was not acceptable. In response, a number of Universal Service Fund projects have been implemented to provide broadband access to students affected by the pandemic. These include build out of a fiber network to serve customers with no access to fixed broadband service on the east coast in the Commonwealth of Dominica, providing devices and subsidized access to mobile broadband to 1,800 students, and fixed broadband to 700 households with students in St. Kitts and Nevis. 3. Providing access, rather, providing 4,000 electronic devices and 4,000 Mi-Fi's to students in St. Lucia. And finally, connecting more than 340 homes with broadband and providing 1,000 students with a tablet and internet access in St. Vincent and the Glenadines. The chairman noted that the revelations have made ECTEL's role as a regional regulatory body for electronic communications, even more significant as the 21-year-old Telecommunications Act and regulations are no longer fit for purpose in this new paradigm. He also highlighted the entity's achievements thus far. Over the past 21 years, sector regulation has delivered several wins to consumers, including increased fixed and mobile broadband penetration, significant reductions in calling rates, increased fixed broadband speeds, introduction of new technologies such as 4G, and more recently, increased customer choice with the introduction of mobile number portability in 2019. The electronic communications sector has also contributed significantly to economic growth in the five ECTEL member states. In the past five years, service providers have invested an average of $136 million annually across the ECTEL member states while providing full employment for more than 780 people. The chairmanship is rotated annually, offering each member state the opportunity to serve as ECTEL's head of the Council of Ministers. ECTEL is made up of three components, a Council of Ministers, a regional directorate, and a National Telecommunications Regulatory Commission in each of its five member states, namely the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Neves, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The Ministry, through its national vaccination program, has introduced a Pfizer booster dose, particularly for the most at-risk population group, that is people 65 years and older, those living with underlined medical conditions and frontline workers. Assistant Principal Nursing Officer and Immunization Manager, Tekha Shabatist, says the booster shot is critical with the advent of the Delta variant. St. Lucia has confirmed 31 cases of the Delta variant. What exactly is a booster and why is it highly recommended for at-risk groups? It is an additional dose administered to a vaccinated population that has completed a primary vaccination series. The purpose of the booster is to increase the body's immune response to COVID-19, especially in the wake of the Delta variant. The COVID-19 vaccine booster dose will help extend the protection you gained from your first two doses and give you longer-term protection against getting seriously ill from COVID-19. People 65 years and older should get a booster. The risk of severe illness from COVID-19 increases with age and can also increase for adults of any age with underlying medical conditions. While the booster dose is recommended for the highest population, any person who had their two doses and require a booster dose can come forward for the booster dose. Vaccine uptake has been steady with the ministry, now facilitating greater public access to vaccination sites. As of Tuesday, November 2, 2021, administer the total of 51,539 first doses, 43,265 second doses and 336 booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. 23.3% of the population being fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The vaccination uptake trend knows the highest uptake in the 24 to 49 years age group, followed by those 50 years and older. We continue to encourage younger persons to get vaccinated because COVID-19 can affect anyone regardless of age. As part of the review national plan, the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs has undertaken a two-week accelerated COVID-19 vaccination drive, which commenced on Monday, October 25, 2021, making COVID-19 vaccines more available and accessible to the public. Both the AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines are available at wellness centers and vaccination sites. The Ministry of Health is urging also inclusions to take this personal responsibility to protect themselves and loved ones. Meanwhile, while downward trends in COVID-19 cases and deaths continue across much of the Americas for the eighth consecutive week, however Pan American Health Organization's Assistant Director Jabas Barbosa wants that progress in our region is not a reason to become complacent or discontinue the public health measures that keep us safe. The Assistant Director reported that thanks to strong immunization systems in the region, 1.2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered and 46% of the overall population are now fully vaccinated. At least 32 countries in the region have already reached the WHO's target of 40% vaccination coverage by the end of 2021 and several more are on track. However, many continue to face delays and coverage in Haiti, Nicaragua, Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Guatemala remains below 20%. Barbados continues to report its highest number of COVID-related infections and deaths since the start of the pandemic and there are concerning sources of hospital capacity in the Dominican Republic and Trinidad and Tobago. The progress in our region is not a reason to become complacent or discontinue the public health measures that help keep us safe. Quite the opposite. The declining cases and deaths shows that our approach is working and it is critical for all of us to stay the course until everyone is vaccinated and protected from the virus. To address vaccine inequity, allocations of vaccines from COVAX are expected to accelerate in the coming weeks. The COVAX facility, with the support of PAHO's Revolving Fund, has already delivered 64.3 million doses to the region. The Choiselle Salty Bus Constituency Council has been mandated to pursue development in conjunction with residents. The Choiselle Constituency Council saw the installment of new councillors to the local governing body. The council formally named the Choiselle Village Council, now holds the responsibility of governing and the development of the Choiselle Village and Salty Bus Community. Parliamentary representative for Choiselle Salty Bus addressing the new install councillors urged them to approach their positions on the council with due seriousness and preparedness by familiarizing themselves with the Constituency Council Act. It should never, never just be warming a seat, never be warming a seat at council meetings and collecting a stipend. You must have the passion to put your community first and to have an intimate awareness of where vulnerability exists. And when I speak of vulnerability, I do not only speak of residents, but I also speak of residents, T and C. A priority for all councillors and the council should always be to unite Choiselleians. Permanent secretary in the Department of Housing and Local Government, Dr. Kadeleine Ambrose, encouraged councillors to engage in consultation with the various sectors in the constituency as they work towards the development of Choiselle Salty Bus. Choiselle Salty Bus, a constituency renowned for its culture, heritage, resources, and in particular the outstanding and unique craft which is produced right here. Once tapped into, will fulfill its optimum potential. We urge you additionally to create opportunities that will unify the various communities. Embrace the farmers. Choiselle is known for its sweet potatoes, among other agricultural produce. Embrace the fishers. Embrace the crafters. They are all part of the network that will work collectively towards the success of this constituency. John Previl was installed as chairperson of the constituency council and Filomena Lafe as deputy chair. From the Government Information Service, Hilmadi Mark reporting. This is Ntia Knightley. Primus Hutchingson is up next. Stay with us. The Department of Finance has introduced the Electronic Government Procurement System, EGP. The EGP system has many benefits for stakeholders involved in government procurement. Government seeks to adopt a strategic approach to its purchasing process. Electronic Government Procurement improves efficiency of procurement and enhances data capture. The EGP is innovative and will automate the sequence from notification, receiving and evaluation of submissions to final contract award. Its improves communication between vendors and government agencies. Provides greater transparency and builds confidence in the vendor community through increased access to information. To participate, vendors, suppliers and contractors must register on the Electronic Government Procurement Platform. EGP. Improving efficiency and transparency in the acquisition of goods, works and services. Welcome back. We join Primus Hutchingson for the Ntia Nouvelle Aquéole. Thank you very much, General. Thank you, Madam. The Department of Business, Business and Information. This is a government. This is GIS. This is the National Television of the Ntia Nouvelle Aquéole. This is Primus Hutchingson. The Ministry of Business, Business and Information has made a clear transformation. When the public informed me that the second phase of the construction of the Ntia Nouvelle Aquéole, I had started. The second phase of the construction of the Ntia Nouvelle Aquéole is to build the Ntia Nouvelle Aquéole as a foundation. To do this, I have placed various needs and materials to finish the construction of the Ntia Nouvelle Aquéole. The construction of the Ntia Nouvelle Aquéole was completed in October 2020. The total finish was more than 40%. The project for the Ntia Nouvelle Aquéole was to address the situation in Goudelou. I had devalued the country and particularly the Ntia Nouvelle Aquéole. The financial agreement was made by the Japanese government and the Japanese International Cooperation Agency. I have been working in the U.S. government for years to support the project and to consult companies that have led the construction of the Ntia Nouvelle Aquéole. I have been working in the construction of the Ntia Nouvelle Aquéole for more than 20 months to start the first mass construction of the Ntia Nouvelle Aquéole in 2021. on my official message is that the government should keep working to advise and maintain sure that the north-east of Germany additionally knows熊er, so that it can generate a better return, to improve the cost of construction, to discipline the south-east of Germany, so that the south-west of Germany Grow, I have found advice to preserve the forest in the country. The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, and the Development Committee on Alfred Prospect, have called for this. According to the Minister of Forestry, farmers are not able to understand how life is and the more you continue to destroy the forest, the more you can reduce the amount of water. They do this mainly because there is no need to pay attention to the climate change that the forest is. The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry have agreed to continue to destroy the forest and the next time it is destroyed, they will be destroyed. If we continue to do this, with the same advice as before, we are going to destroy it. Fisheries and Forestry are not allowed to be destroyed. The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Forestry for us to develop the forest, to make it easier for us to live in the forest. We have to plant it on the other side of the river because we have to make climate change in the forest to make it easier for us to live in the forest to make it easier for us to live in the forest. So, I would like to say to all the black women and all the people here to protect the forest, protect the forest, because this is the future. If we continue and the Ministry of Forestry and make the largest citizens in the Zepartis region, we will have a new protocol for November 2020. I would like to say to the Minister, to start with these diverse men and women on the side of the Client Assembly to protect the forest. To protect the forest with a license to protect the forest, to protect the forest, as you said, to protect the forest, as you said, to protect the forest. But we have to encourage the people who are vaccinated to come to business. Because again, we don't want COVID-19 here if not for all of us in this community. Because we have to encourage the people who come down to vaccinate, and encourage them to invite the people who are vaccinated to come to the forest. If you go to a restaurant with a person who is vaccinated, people who are vaccinated will open the restaurant with food and drinks. If you don't have these conditions, you can grab and go. You can say, if you go to a restaurant with a person who is vaccinated, you can go to a restaurant with a person who is vaccinated to eat this. Also, we have a hotel with people who are vaccinated to come to the BNB. People who are vaccinated will leave the hotel or will leave the restaurant to be established. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. This is the end of this news. Please continue to come to the program. Thank you so much for watching. I have a lot of invitations. But I don't want to continue. Because this is the end of this news. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Merci, uphill primers. That brings us to the end of NTN 9th Lee. Join us next time at 7pm with a repeat at 7am. You can also catch up with us anytime on the St Lucia Government Facebook page or YouTube channel. I am Channel Novel.