Good morning. Prior to Jamaica deciding to create a national land agency, the National Land Policy, which was published in July 1996, referred to effective land management and administration institutions. Shortly thereafter, the government took the decision to merge the four land administration departments dealing with land titles, survey and mapping, land valuation and estate management. The push for more effective institutions was also as a result of Jamaicans demanding more from the government in terms of performance, transparency, and accountability. So the pre-enlightened status, there are four government-funded departments with individual heads reporting to a permanent secretary with two different ministries. We all had contact with each other, but we did not rely on each other. We didn't really know each other. We had different goals, different procedures, and our staff had different office cultures. We all had statutory responsibilities and operated in our own silos. We received our budgets from the Ministry of Finance, and it was difficult to plan as it varied from year to year. We had minimal control in hiring staff, and there are no formal standards for our customers. So in merging the four departments, the government decided to use the executive agency model of governance. This includes a delegation of authority to the heads of departments, focus on performance measurement, outputs rather than inputs, managerially autonomous agencies, and the provision of quality services, especially related to customer service. The transition started in just about 2000, and it went for about 18 months. So what did we do? We created a new structure. We prepared new job descriptions. We advertised all the posts in the agency, and we interviewed all staff coming into the agency. There was no automatic transfer of staff. If the staff was unsuccessful in their applications for the agency, or if they did not want to work in a new agency, they were redeployed to other government departments, or they were retired on the grounds of reorganization. And this was important because the terms and conditions of employment were changing from a government, a real government institution. So in the end, approximately 25% of the staff were redeployed or retired. During the transition, we also gave a lot of attention to communicating with the staff during the transition by way of general staff meetings, newsletters, focus groups with our customers because we needed our customers to understand what we were trying to do. During the transition, the CEO was also appointed. And so approximately six months before the agency started, I started work. So a lot of the matters I was able to influence from the very beginning. We commenced operations in April 2001, and under this new governance structure, the CEO reports to the minister and not the permanent secretary. The CEO and all directors and managers of the agency are on three-year employment contracts. The Executive Agencies Act was introduced several months after we started, and this is what gave power to the CEO to manage the operations of the agency. Although the individual legislations for the different core areas of title surveys, et cetera, are still standing, because those govern their statutory responsibilities. So in terms of our structure, I'm just going to mention two things. The advisory board. This board is appointed by the minister, and their role is to advise the CEO on the strategic and business responsibilities. They are not an executive board, they are not an management board. It's currently chaired by an attorney at law and we have other stakeholders, the value is represented on it, the land surveyors, a businessman, and a finance person. Information technology is also a very important part of our operations, in that it gives us the ability to improve service delivery. We buy software services, and we design and build some internally. The CEO receives a delegation of authority instrument from the minister of finance. This sets out my obligations and duties, and I'm the accounting officer for the agency. I have full HR responsibility, but if there's an appeal, for example, if somebody is dismissed, then that is dealt with by the services commissions. The issue of accountability was now brought sharply into focus for us. All the executive agencies are monitored by a wide range of government agencies. We have to do several reports quarterly, annually. We are set targets for each year, or we set targets along with the ministry, and if we want to give an incentive payment to our staff at the end of the year, then we must meet at least 80% of those targets. In our 16 years of operations, we have never failed. 100% of the revenue earned by the agency is from the fees provided, and these are kept, totally kept by the agency. Each year, we have to give the minister of finance or projections for revenue. If we earn more than those projections, we keep 50%, and 50% is given to the minister of finance. In some cases, we can apply to keep the full amount over our budget. The 90% of the fees are actually earned by the land registry, which we call the title's office. We also enhanced our revenues by creating new services, and this was as a result of the merged databases. We also divest lands for government by sale or lease. We don't keep those monies, but we keep 5% of those monies as a sort of service charge for that management. In 2003, we undertook a major business process review to change operations of the land registry from a totally manual system to an automated system. This also resulted in improving the linkages between our surveys and our title areas. All titles have now been scanned, also the majority of our supporting documents, and these are all available online. The documents are electronically signed, so that helps to improve the turnaround times for the process. We now have approximately 600,000 titles in the registry, plus the original documents, which includes transfers, mortgage documents, birth, marriage, death certificates, so we still have to maintain hard copies of those documents, even though we have them all online. So as you can imagine, storage is a major asset issue. There's a document tracking system, which allows persons to go online to see how long it will take for their documents to be completed and when it will be completed, because we found that people kept on calling the office. We have online forms, where they can go online and complete the forms, print them and present them to our office along with their supporting documentation. We offer a subscription service for something called Property Watch, where we can warn you if there is some kind of activity against your property. And most importantly, we designed a fee calculator, so you don't have to call us to find out how much should you pay. You don't need to come online or be in the office to find out how much you should pay, so that helped a lot with our customer service. I've highlighted just three services and tracked their delivery times, and you'll see that it's pre-2001, as of December 2016 and in 2008, nine, about eight years after the agency started. Generally, there has been a marked improvement in turnaround time of the services provided. Some matters we can do in 24 hours, some matters, and that's at an additional cost, and some matters we do for two days, in two days, but at no additional cost. In November 2001, when we were going through the major changes of creating the agency and putting it in place, the customer service index, which was measured by an outside person, was 2.9 out of 10. When we looked at it again in March 2005, it had increased to 8.1 out of 10. The merger allowed us to create new services because of the huge amount of data no available in one place. So, Elan Jamaica Service is an online service, it's a paid service, where you can look at your title or the supporting documents or the plans, and you can print them at your leisure. Whereas the IMAP Jamaica is a free service and it's really maps, so you can look at the maps to search by street name, community names, coordinates, et cetera. We're currently working on having those two services mobile enabled. The agency has other achievements as a result of the merger, and one of those things is the map products that we can now produce. So we have, we can map anything, anything you want us to map, we will do it. We offer services to our developers that if you're doing a subdivision, we will do the splinter titles for you within 40 days. And this is a paid additional service. If not, it takes on average 150 days with the in and out of the documents. If we don't achieve the 40-day turnaround time, we pay about the expedition fee, but you still have to pay the normal fee. In 2010, we established a VRS reference network, Elan-wide, to improve the accuracy of our service, and this will ultimately help us to build our cadastral map of Jamaica. We established regional centers outside of Kingston because people don't want to come into the city all the time. So it appears we are doing something right because we have received several awards. One of them in 2008 was the Prime Minister's Award for Best Customer Service Agency, and in 2010 for the most innovative and creative public sector agency. But we did not go through these changes without learning some important things. Business process review is an important part of the change. It makes no sense to computerize or to digitize things that are manual processes which are out of date. So we have to keep on reworking to improve performance. Communication is extremely important. You have to ensure that the staff is on the same page with you, and we can't forget the customers. So newsletters, focus group meetings, meetings with unions, and you need to manage their expectations because everybody wants everything at day one. We also have to bear in mind that things will get worse before they get better. Be prepared for the brand new computer software you have invested in to not work quite the way it should on the first day that you open to the public. So delivery times for services will decrease, but it is important to just keep focusing and keep talking to the customers and telling them it will work. After we worked through all these issues with the delegated authority that the CEO know has, I need to tell you that autonomy is great. We can now plan, we can now save, we can become the masters of our own destiny and that is really important. It has helped us to grow as an agency and it has helped us to challenge ourselves to have new products and services. So we now have several services from which we earn revenue. Next steps, more change. The agency has received funding from the World Bank to carry out some studies towards the introduction of electronic titling, which it is expected will further reduce turnaround times and give some increased security to our title data. This of course will necessitate legislative changes to the Registration of Titles Act. We found that the traditional separation of agencies may have had administrative convenience, but it led to duplication of functions, a loss in the value of information and longer turnaround times to produce services. By combining the four departments, the agency combined the data sets, reworked some processes, created new products and services and drastically reduced the turnaround times for providing the services. We regularly have focus group meetings with our customers and review our business processes with a view to reducing turnaround times. And just as a side note, our customers, the most difficult ones, we try to ensure that they are on the focus group meeting so that they are a part of the process. We realize that the need to provide quality service to our customers will continue to drive the process of improvement. Or our motto, one agency, one goal. This was as a result of the need to let the staff understand that we're no longer working in silos, we're all working together for one goal. I thank you.


I'd like to add another layer onto the incredible points that were mentioned, and this comes from a place of many conversations that I've had with teenagers and adolescents and young adults over the past, I would say, seven years. One thing that I would say that having a tranquil and serene home comes down to is having emotionally regulated parents. And this is a very large area that, you know, parents from the previous generation didn't have the luxury of really investing in. And this is a conversation that I have with many adolescents, is providing the perspective of the parent who is coming to the United States from another country, not speaking the language of this country. And there are many unknowns of being in this country. And of course, naturally, all of this change comes with a lot of stress, right, and a lot of anxiety and a lot of turbulence, I guess you could say. And so navigating all of these changes and trying to make a home for the family, right, mother and the father, coming together and trying to make a home for the family, while also trying to maintain balance and stability within their marriage, which is a whole other thing, right, on its own. And then trying to parent children in a country that you're not very familiar with and that you're not necessarily aligned with the values within the culture of this country, right, in some sense. And when I speak about values, I'm really speaking about moral standards, right, morality. Dr. Russell Barkley is a well-known, he's a renowned researcher on ADHD. And there are many theories about ADHD that I'm not even going to get into because there are way too many factors to consider. But he states that a really big problem with parenting and raising children in order to have a tranquil home that starts with being a couple and then it transcends into a home that has children perhaps, but not every couple will have children. That's another thing. Another thing to consider is he talks about this concept of parents being shepherds and not engineers. And where we go wrong as parents is when we try to play the role of engineers and we don't realize that we are just shepherds. And this is very critical to understand because all that we can do as parents is provide the pasture within which our children will graze, essentially. We get to decide how we live our lives. We get to decide where we go, who to let into our homes, which is a sacred space. We get to decide how we talk to one another and how we engage with each other. We get to decide how we regulate ourselves as parents because emotions are at times for children, we call them big feelings. But guess what? Adults also have big feelings and adults also have tantrums. And sometimes those tantrums are very ugly. If the parent never learned through modeling from their own parents how to regulate their own selves and how to remain calm and how to remain composed and how to not take out my frustrations, my stress, my worries, the things that I'm concerned about on my children. Because someone within that family has to be the adult. But what happens is a lot of the adolescents that you'll meet have become parentified children. They are the ones who feel like they are running the household. Because the parent is not acting like an adult in the sense of emotional regulation. They don't know how to fully regulate their nervous system, right? Because there's the mind and then there's the nervous system. And if there's been a lot of pain that an adult has gone through, that is as a result of Ibtila Edd, as a result of like C. D. Feridou was saying, trials and hardships and difficulties. But you never really processed those events that have happened to you. You don't really know how to make sense of them. You don't know why, you know, Allah has decreed this for you, right? And you may never know that's not our job to understand or negotiate, right? The terms of our existence. We didn't create ourselves. But people need to make meaning out of what happens to them. Narrative development is a huge aspect of what I do. Helping people come to terms with the pain that they have experienced. And a lot of the time it's pain that they have experienced at home. Not from strangers outside of their family. It's pain that they have experienced as a result of not being seen. Like C. Feridou was saying, not being heard, their needs are not being met. Because also, I think the parents love their children. However, they don't know how to express that love in a way that is perhaps healthy because they never learned how to honor their own needs. So here is the parent, you know, stressed out under a lot of pressure, you know, having to meet a lot of demands. And on top of that, I have to maintain a relationship with my spouse. And then on top of that, I have to take care of these children and make sure they're fed, taken care of, nurtured. Everything else is, you know, provided for them. And some things got to give because that is a lot of pressure. And here in the U.S., we don't necessarily always have a village, right? Unless you create a village for yourself and your family. And Dr. Leonard Sacks talks about this in his books. And I really encourage every parent to read his books because his values are very aligned with our values.  Because we have similar values. And if my child goes out of line, my child may not necessarily want to listen to me as a parent, but maybe my friend, who's a family friend, can step in and have a relationship with the child and advise the child lovingly. However, there has to be a receptivity, right, for the advice. So having this conception in our minds of how to be parents and what it means to be parents, just like every prophet was a shepherd first, before prophecy. Because a lot of things happen when you're a shepherd. Your flock isn't necessarily going to want to listen and abide by your instructions. However, you have to learn how to be gentle. You have to learn patience. And when we talk about sabir, we think that sabir means just patience. But actually it's a compounded word that means a lot of different things. It means endurance, it means perseverance, it means steadfastness, right? Amongst several other things. And when you bring all of those together, patience is just one portion of what sabir means. But you learn sabir. And essentially what you're actually learning is how to regulate yourself when things don't go my way. Because they are individuals of their own. I can't control them. My job is not to control them whenever there is control or coercion. You're going to find them going in the opposite direction. So a lot of people will say, I don't want to be at home. I would rather actually be somewhere else. And that is the most heartbreaking thing is because we want our children to be at home with us. We want them to listen to our stories, our narratives. We don't want other narratives infiltrating their minds because one of the main things that I research is post-modernism. This is what my dissertation is on and how it leads towards states of fragility and not resilience. And there are many traces of post-modernism everywhere around us, right? And post-modernism, if you'd like to have an idea of what it is, Foucault, right, who was a French theorist, if you want to call him that. One of his statements is that he says, you know, my job is not to be right or wrong. I'm not concerned with being right or wrong. So there's no criterion. But my job is to be interesting. So as human beings, we just need to be interesting. But we're not concerned with being right or wrong. And we're not concerned with authority. So religion, leaders, we're not concerned with them, right? And what they have to say. So overthrowing, overthrowing the patriarchy, right? Dismantling all of the dominant discourse that exists in our society that serve as anchors, right, that relate to gender, that relate to how you feel about things and how you view the world. It dismantles all of that. So what you're actually doing is I'm removing all of the anchors for our teenagers. And this becomes an extremely dangerous playing field. And then the parents come in and the parents are trying to control. They're not realizing that I just need to be a shepherd and provide the pastor and control the environment, but let them be who they are, honor who they are, who Allah SWT has created them to be, instead of constantly trying to change them by projecting my own needs onto the child and wanting them to be something other than what they are, what they're meant to be. Now, there's a research study done by a fellow ant eater, UCI ant eater that I went to UCI with, Dr. Arthman now, and he led a research study for Yaqeen Institute that talked about why adolescents are leaving Islam. And the main thing that he talked about were that there are soft doubts and there are hard doubts. Everyone has soft doubts. At some point in your life, you've doubted things about the faith and you've gotten responses for them. That made sense to you. That infused you with a sense of purpose and meaning. That kept you steadfast. That was your why. You understand your why. You're connected to it. You know why you do what you do. However, with postmodernism and modernity in general, you're not really connected to your why. You actually don't know why you're doing, why you're praying. A lot of people say, well, it doesn't, I don't really feel anything, right? Same thing with fasting. They don't understand the purpose behind it. So in addition to understanding this concept that we as parents are shepherds, another thing that we have to understand is that societal, the current of society is based on this notion that it's short-term gain, right, and long-term loss. That what we focus on as a society is short-term gain. So whatever feels good, do it, right? Whatever impulses you feel act upon them. Be who you are. You do you. All of these different messages that are all over social media, and this is exactly what is entering their mind and starting to mess with their thoughts, right? Well, maybe I just need to be who I am. So if I'm having certain feelings, I should just listen to those feelings without understanding nefs-e-shaitan and nefs-e-rahman and the role that both play in dictating the direction that you take in life. So really understanding this concept that parents are shepherds, emotional regulation, right? We have to be able to regulate our own emotions. And this is something that's very often done in counseling, right? Psycho-spiritual counseling. I'm not talking about secular counseling, which can be very different. And something that if I'm composed and I can control myself, I am modeling for my child how to control themselves in the tidal waves of life when they hit. Because they will hit, it's inevitable. But if they viewed me and learned from me through observational learning, like Albert Bandura talks about, he talks about observational learning. Children learn by watching you. For the first decade of their life, all they really have is you. They have no choice. So if all they're seeing is a dysregulated nervous system and adult who, when they get upset, they yell at them. They force them to do things they don't want to do and they're not being heard. So like Hussai was saying, they also are leaders in a sense. We have to listen to them, but we're shepherds. We are guiding them. I'm providing the lanes on the road so that they don't swerve in the wrong direction and go too far, that will lead them astray. I'm there to like nurture them back and bring them back lovingly, right? Because I'm able to, again, stay composed. And I'm aligned with my values and my principles. I act from a place of principle, not based on how I feel and what I want to do or not do. So I think this is really key in just keeping in mind that our faith is about long-term gain and perhaps in this dunya short-term loss. And we have to be able to explain this.   You might lose some opportunities, but were they actually beneficial opportunities in the long-term? You may lose some popularity and fame. You may not be in the spotlight, but that's not what we desire anyways, right? Because if we're people of principle, it's about what Allah thinks of us.  It's like a filtration system to seek out long-term gain. With Ramadan coming, teaching your child everything that you're going to gain at the end of this month, experientially, and having many conversations with them about what it is that they're gaining. And this is connecting them to their why, right? And with that, I will stop here so that we can hear from this issue.


Hello everybody. Um, welcome to the second recording of this video and to my page. Um, I kind of played for like half an hour and it wasn't recording game sound. I didn't notice. So... Trollin' in my- First of all, I'd like to just say thank you to everybody who has been- Hello. How long have you guys been in here? My cats have been in my room this whole time and I did not know until I saw them right next to me. Okay. Hello everybody. Hello all the new people that are coming to my channel. Um, I started off with 145 subscribers and I now have 160 which might not sound like a lot, but it's really exciting to me. Um, also the last video that I made, the Phasmophobia video, has almost a thousand views now. And... I have never tasted success like that. Um, although I did have a video that I made a long time ago with my friends where I did the Sachiko Ever After charm from Corpse Party. And for some reason that video has 20,000 views and a bunch of roleplayers in my comment section. Haha. But I don't really count that because I don't really know why that has 20,000 views. I recorded it on my phone and sent it straight to YouTube so there was no editing involved in that or like skills so like... Anyways, for today's video I'm gonna be playing this mod pack called HorrorCraft which you can download off of the Twitch mod packs from Minecraft. I believe it's made by Dragon Slayer, Demon Slayer. But I actually, as I said before, I already played it. Um, I was having a lot of trouble with it though and it wasn't really that interesting. I'm gonna have to find a light source that doesn't involve torches because they burn out after a certain period of time and then I can never get them lit anyways. So they're kind of useless. What am I named in this world? Pee pee poo poo. I did find out how to drink water in my first playthrough so that was very cool. Love that spawning in water that I can't get out of. Okay so it's not scary at all in the daytime but then when it comes to night, everything wants to kill you. The real Minecraft experience. Mining wood. This is quality content. See gotta love those natural sounds of Minecraft. Okay so I entered one of those last time. If you've never played this mod pack before which you probably have or haven't, I don't know, I don't know you guys might. Oh this is different than the last one I entered. I'm not gonna flip switch it, I will come back to this. And who are you? Friend? Pheasant. Can I get chicken out of you? Let me make a sword first. Ah yes. I can kill things much faster now. Alright come here. I need a sheep bat. I need a bed. As soon as it hits night time I need a bed. Honestly it's very pretty and very pleasant when it's not night time and there's things trying to kill you. Ah yes lava! Okay perfect. We already found our light source. Perfect noise that I don't like. How about that?  This is so pretty. Wow. That is quite beautiful.  Why do they sound like that? Honestly this is my most successful run so far. This is the fastest I've ever gone. Oh that's cool. That's cool. I died so fast. I didn't even have to wait till night time.  Oh god. Okay. Okay. Straight to the water, straight to the water, straight to the water. Go!   As far as I know the zombies at night they can also like break through doors. But that's okay. You're my friend. I'm gonna name you um Albert. I should make a chest. Or should I? I'll leave this for now because I'm gonna use this wood. Excuse me lamb.   I can push you off. Go. Yes! Okay this is going great. This is going extremely swimmingly. The first time I could not get through night time and I kept dying. So this is pretty great. Oh. Hi. Are you a dog? Or are you evil? There's two of you. Okay this looks a lot like a hyena.  Oh what the heck? That's unsettling. A coyote. Ah so you will hurt me if I come near you. I say as I get extremely close to it. Hello friend.  Go ahead. I know you want to. I know you want to come here and attack me. Albert is that you? They kind of do a lot of damage.  I was worried. I was worried that you had fallen out and started swimming in the ocean. And I was not going to be very happy with you. See here we go.   That's right. Get hydrated. This is a reminder to all my subscribers and watchers. Hydrate.  Oh you're made out of obsidian. I hope this doesn't change anything. Drops obsidian. Wow so I could probably make another portal if there's another here.  And that is not good so I will go home. Oh please don't let me have this swim all the way back. Oh my god. Ooh I better run before it gets too dark.  Oh I don't need you. Oh my god there's so much coal here. This is great. This is wonderful. I mean I know coal is like the easiest thing to find but like wow. I'm literally living here. I should keep my house lit for a while as long as I have a lot of cobblestone to heat up. Since I can't use torches since they don't stay for that long. And I don't even have a flint and I can't mine downward because I don't have enough torches to see. I wonder if the pumpkins in this game work the same as the pumpkins in the regular game. Like you could just put them on and then the mobs don't see you. At least that's what my brother told me. I don't know if that's actually real or not. But I'm going to go steal some anyways and find out. I'll steal a couple. Maybe I'll set a farm. Ah yes low visibility. I've already gone through so much meat.  I'm very sorry. This time I'm actually going to go hunting. Maybe I can get something out of all the mobs that try to kill me. I would like some lava close by so I can see what I'm killing. And for that I need a bucket. Okay let's see if I can mine kill down. This is my dumbest decision. Woo. Awesome I can't see. Okay I'm going to have to go home. Oh god I can't see it's my time. Oh god. Oh god. Oh no. Oh no I can't see. Oh my god.   Oh these are evil at night. Alright what am I walking? That is a wolf. That is nice. I really wish I could see. Okay let's see. Mod options. Night. Midnight. Disable. I cannot do that. It's amazing how many mods there are that I just can't disable. What am I jumping on?    Oh am I inside? I am.  Oh I'm so smart. We'll see I was going to show you guys night time but then that happened and I couldn't see. I really wish I could disable some of the mods on here. That would be nice. Hey brothers. Cheating. I get the sense that you are not a bird. Oh my god. A terra? And hopefully night time will never come.      May you never get past. Alright my time. Hopefully I find iron. Lava. Iron? Iron perhaps? Iron. Okay this is great. This is wonderful. This is something. Now I can make a bucket. Now I have light with me everywhere I go. Alright.   I have a c- No my god.  Can I place it? What does it do? Better animals plus. I will not know. I'm just going to put it right in front of my- House. And maybe you motherfuckers. Yeah. You right here will know.   So you're recording now? Yeah I'm actually recording. It's about to be night time. And I can't grab this bucket of lava. Oh I can. But it's going to bring the source right here. Oh. Is it? Oh no there's another source right here.  I'm going to put this by the house. There we go. Now I can see the demons that are coming after me.  Get wrecked. And you. I don't like the way you're looking at me. Alright so this time I'm not going to go to bed until you guys can- Oh. Oh. Oh. You got past my border. Oh my god. They just opened my door. So with like the the nether portal. Awesome. Anyways. But with these ones you just step in it and it's like hey poof. Did I get drunk off this? Alright kids let's get lit in Minecraft. Oh god this is horrible. This is making me crazy. Oh no. How long does this last? That's what it's making me do. Oh god. I look away I do not see it. Don't- Note to self don't break those. Well I need to go find another portal.  Yeah so it is only if you break them then. Okay that's good to know. But I have light sources now. Hello friend. Let me ride you. I cannot ride you. I think this is much prettier. Now imagine this but with shaders on. That would be magical. Please don't be an attempt at the time I get that. I will not be able to see.  What is that? Just remember all the stuff that I had at the beginning of this video. How swimming really well in this game. Remember how at the beginning of this video. I said I didn't need a chest and how it wouldn't help. And then I didn't make a chest and now I don't have any items. Yes I love dying. He wants to crawl in the bed so I can see it in the- Let me touch. Alright everybody. Well that's the end of that. I don't feel like playing this again. I've been recording for like an hour, an hour and a half. And before that like half an hour. I think my phone ran out of space actually. So I hope you guys enjoyed this. If you guys want to play it I'll leave a description of the- Of the game in the description below. The whole name and the whoever made it and stuff. You can download it off of Twitch. If you have Minecraft and just download the Minecraft mod. Anyways. I'd like to thank you guys again for coming here. And for subscribing. And for watching. And for commenting. And anyways. Appreciate it guys. And I hope you guys enjoy it. Bye guys. See you.


Welcome back to Investory Intel. I'm joined again today by Dan Blundell, who is with NanoOne Technologies. Dan, you guys have had a very, very exciting past month, you know, announcements from Lithium around your cathode stuff, but personally what I want to hear about is your Cobalt free battery announcement. What is a solid state battery? So a solid state battery gets rid of the liquid electrolyte in a lithium ion battery, which is the flammable part of a battery actually, and replaces it with glass or a ceramic material between the two electrodes. And it allows the manufacturer to put a very ultra-thin lithium anion on it, so it actually halves the size of the battery, makes it safer, costs come down, and energy density goes up. So it's a very attractive architecture for batteries. Very much next generation, we're not going to see them probably for two to five years in the marketplace, but we're really thrilled to be involved with it. Well, it sounds like with what's going on in the Cobalt market, there's going to be a lot of interest in anything where you can eliminate that from the process. What do you think? Well, I absolutely think so. We're working on both Cobalt containing materials and Cobalt free materials. Our Cobalt free high voltage spinels are particularly applicable to solid state batteries, so it's a natural fit there. Now, is this primarily going to be an automotive application, or would there be other places that that battery could be used as well? Anywhere where the energy density, and that would be portable electronics, anything where the density and the weight and the thickness of the battery has consumer value. So that would be in electric vehicles, consumer electronics, tools, everything like that. So direct competitor to the lithium ion space? Well, it's still a lithium ion battery, actually, so the cathode materials are pretty much the same. You're still inserting lithium ions back and forth in the battery, so it's still considered a lithium ion battery, it's just that you're replacing that liquid component with a solid component. Dan, the stock had an incredible January. Have investors already missed the boat, or is there more to come? Absolutely not. They definitely haven't missed the boat. I think what we saw was the investment community recognizing the value that we've already put in, and we've got a lot on the go here, and I think there's lots more to come. Some of the partners we're working with, some of the agreements we're working on will certainly bring value to the table. Dan, I understand that you've actually agreed to be a speaker again at the Buds batteries and blockchain event on May the 3rd and 4th at the King Edward. Any preview of what we should look forward to? First of all, May the 4th be with you. But yeah, we've got a lot on the go, and I think there's going to be a lot to talk about, a lot of relevant stuff, whether it be next-gen batteries or cathode manufacturing today or working within the lithium supply chain, a lot of relevant material here. Well, it's great, it's exciting. Thank you for coming back in, and we'll look forward to the update at the conference. Excellent, thank you.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jasper's Case Breaks.com coming at you with a eight box full case break of 2020 top five star baseball. Pick your team, number 14. Big thanks to all of these people who are here, no diamond backs in this. Big thanks to everyone here, spending a bit of your Saturday with us, I appreciate that. Getting into the action. There's Sarah, last bond mojo, Texas Ranger. Thanks to her and thanks everybody for making this break happen. Says five star, he doesn't say 2020 five star, better be 2020. It's the only five star case we have, so. Please God be 2020 five star baseball. It is, it's 2025 five star baseball. Yeah, that's exactly what box wars are. Rex has got it. There's a description of it inside the item description. All right, there it is. 2020 tops five star baseball, two autographs per box, guaranteed. Not on average. We got a redemption on the back here. We're gonna use this blank card here to slow play the hits a little bit. There we go. Right out of the gate is Rookie Otto, Sean Murphy. That's for John McCall and the Oakland A's. The redemption, you are due to receive a five star golden grab. That's one of the case hits. Green parallel, to 99 maybe? Of, oh they'll show the teams now. New, New York, New York Mets, New York Yankees. C, C, Sabathia, New York Yankees. That's nice. Wade Valentine with the Bronx bombers. Oh, I don't have to write on the redemptions anymore. Just poor Sabathia. There you go. Yankees were one of the last three teams. Nobody wanted them until Wade was like, you know what, no one wants them, I'll snap them up. Well, we just have to do one less. Well, no, I'm not taking spots out of there, Randy. We're only giving away spots there. We have to do three different breaks of that. It used to be four, but now it's three. Yeah, C.C. should be able to sign. He's got a little time, right? So instead of, yeah, so Randy, instead of doing four one box breaks, now we have to do three one box breaks. One fewer. There's Patrick Corbin, Nationals. T.J. Leonard with the Nats. Oh yeah, why am I not watching? Someone said that this, this, oh there it is. Someone said that ETN kid went like 70 yards or something like that. All right, and we've got some orange here, like Clemson, Clemson orange. Rookie and Matt Tice. Three out of five. See where my thumb is right there. Three out of five, Matt Tice. Richard Ferretis and the Angels. Richard. All aboard the Big Head Express. Woo-hoo. All right, we got Randy Otto Zorania. Wow. What a time to get him. Rookie Otto for the Rays, John. John G. with Tampa Bay. He has been swinging a hot stick. He's been playing really well in the playoffs for the Rays. Thomas is a Yankees guy. He does not like Randy Otto Zorania at all. All right, there it is for John. And we've got these pentamorous penmanships right here robbing you out. That's pretty cool. That is 10 out of 15 for the Royals, for the Brewers, John Rubner with the Brew Crew. It's pretty sharp. There's the number down there. Bottom left-hand corner, kind of hard to see. There it is. All right, we got Jake Rogers. Rookie autograph for the Tigers. That'll be for Barry Roberts. And back here is the other case hit. Silver signatures, my nemesis, Raleigh Fingers. 14 out of 25. Silver ink autograph going to John McCall and the Oakland A's. Nice one, John. Halfway through this full case break, four boxes to go. Good luck. This is figure T number 14. All right, next one is Jorge Soler. That's for Kansas City. Kansas City Royals, Michael Craig. And we have Will Smith. The Fresh Prince of Bel Air for the Dodgers. He had five hits the other night. That's pretty amazing. Josh Canaan with my Dodgers. In fact, the Dodgers will be facing the Braves who have a Will Smith in their bullpen. There's a great chance that Will Smith will face Will Smith. While Will Smith is watching at Will Smith, the rapper actor extraordinaire could be watching at home, watching Will Smith face off against Will Smith. Smith stepping into a box against Smith. And that will bring in Will Smith for commentary. All right, next one. All right, there's Jalen Davis, rookie autograph for the Giants. We talked about this before, Rex says, but isn't it weird that back in the day so many players went by their nicknames? Yeah, where's the, what happened to the nickname? The nickname's gone. Like people used to be called like lefty and catfish. And you gotta bring the nickname back. Steve Locke with the Giants, my rivals. And, ooh, five-tool phenom, 16 out of 25. The Melville Meteor, Mike Trout. Who went trout, Richard Ferretis went trout fishing and catches this beauty right here. We will not catch and release this one. This is this one we're keeping. Is there a nickname on there? Just says five-tool phenom on there. I thought it was a Melville Meteor. No, no, no. I was saying he's the Melville Meteor. Look at that. Blasting 500, 454-foot home runs. Unleashing throws from center field. Clocked at 98.6 miles per hour. Man, barreling up the ball too. 66 barrels on that. 29.2 feet per second. Sprint speed, 35th in the big leagues. There you go, Richard. That is very nice. Five-star was just marinating. It was marinating. If we popped those open a week ago, probably wouldn't be a Mike Trout in there. The five-star? No, I'm just saying, like, in life. Like, this case was in, like, a warehouse, just sitting there. Just sitting there and, like, and then, like, some guy at the warehouse grabbed that case and be like, I guess this is the one we're shipping to Jaspies. I'm just saying it was, I mean, cause five-star came out a while ago, right? Yeah. Robelle Garcia, White Sox, Josh Kanan. Shytown. We've got a blue, a blue Dodger, Dustin May. Five out of 25. That's some good show hair right there. Thomas, when you're in the show, you think you could get some Dustin May hair going? With your flow? Tryin', tryin'. That's, that's, that's a lot of work. There you go. Dustin May, some good show hair right there. He might be, that might be a big name to look out for during the playoffs. Josh Kanan with the Dodgers. Five out of 25 on that one. And the final box. Wow, Al Canone wants more. He's got, he's got the Dustin May. He's like, I need some more, some last box magic. All right, let's see what's in that last box. Good luck. There's Mike Soroka for the Braves. Atlanta, going to Matt Medlin. Should be a good series, Braves Dodgers. And the last one here, Mitch Garver. Nice one for the twins, Steve Locke. There you go. Nice break overall, ladies and gentlemen. Strong stuff. Thanks everybody for getting in. We've got the Trout, the Dustin May, the Will Smith, the CeCe Sabathia from earlier. I mean, there's the, there's the Trout again. Man, I love Five Star. There's the Dustin May. Excellent break. Thanks everyone for getting in. Really appreciate it. There's the Silver Signature, Raleigh Fingers, the Yount. Right? Randy Arrozirania was in the mix there. There's the CeCe. And we started off with Sean Murphy. Awesome stuff. That was Picker Team 14 in the books. I'm Joe for jaspeaskasebrakes.com. I'll see you next time for the next break. Bye-bye.


Throw or not to throw? I'm talking about the entry side arm. The left arm for the righties, the right arm for the lefties. So the question is, do we throw it hard? Do we open it a much? Do we keep it back? What's the real answer? Man, come on. Find out in this video, check it out. Eric Johnson, and in today's YouTube video, what we're gonna discuss is opening the left arm into the throw the correct way. We will talk about the window. Knock, knock. So in today's video, what we're gonna discuss, we mentioned that we're gonna be talking about the entry arm, right? So for the majority of throwers are right-handed, but we're gonna refer to it in terms of the entry arm, balance arm, okay? So one of the key things is, what do we do? When we're in the discus, where does that arm open up? So if we look at somebody like Daniel Stahl, or let's take a peek at Reggie Jagers of the US, let's look at Frederick Dakers. I thought it was Docker, somebody said Dakers. I don't know, he's a stud, okay? So we can agree on that. So in this video, again, we wanna talk about how the position of left arm. Now, one of the key things is, you gotta remember that it's designed to generate momentum, and it's designed to create a counterbalance. So the longer it is, and in the discus and in the shot put, they're different. So people that are coaching the same, that's something we just don't agree with. Implement sitting on top of me, heavier object, smaller circle, how can the technique be the same? So you would either be eating up too much circle in the shot put, or you would be utilizing too little circle in the discus. So for mechanical reasons, implement and everything else, proximity to the body, they can't be the same. So what in this video we're gonna talk about is the path of the left arm in the discus. Now this is something I said while back that I was gonna be updating. So I've had a few people that we've had some debates with and that I think I agree with them more than I disagree. So here's what we're gonna do. When we set up our throw and we're working here, we like to teach how the arm is gonna be opening and it's going to be moving aggressively. Now one of the things is we talk about the path of that arm. That path has to be long so that it's pulling me into the throw. So here's an example that if I open it too much, you can see it does assist in rotation and that's part of its function. But there's a point of if I spin in place, I'm not creating my linear motion across the circle. So one of the things that we wanna make sure that we're doing is we understand that that path is moving aggressively out open and it's pulling the throw in. I think one of the best examples of that currently in the world is Daniel Stahl. Daniel Stahl a few weeks back had a monster series in Doha where the shortest throw was 69 meters, 50. Huge, huge throws, great series and the average of the series was 70 meters. So we're averaging about 230 feet for the entire six throws. Huge, huge, huge. One of the things is in what makes him so dynamic is he's big, he's fast, he's strong and he's technically just fun to watch. So watch the left arm. Stahl what he does is you see him as he comes here, the left arm is really reaching long and as he comes this way, what gives is an appearance of the connection and that's because of the long entry path. So the arm is reaching here, it's moving and you'll see Stahl pulling into the circle. He does that extremely well. So one of the things you'll see is as we look at Stahl what's so great about that arm is that it's opening. So as he goes long and again in our system we refer to our pillar one, our pillar two and then as he comes in here and he's keeping everything level you're gonna see him pulling in. Once he's facing six o'clock you'll notice the connection of the balance arm and the sweep leg, the direction it's facing three. You'll see Stahl that he doesn't have a big rewrap but you'll notice the position of his shoulders. He's starting to create separation and you'll notice that once we get to the middle of the throw, pillar four where we're transitioning from the left leg to the right you're gonna start to see how the lower body is very stacked and very much moving ahead of the upper body. But then what Stahl does extremely well at that point is he comes down, he's gonna get that heel, everything comes around and you're gonna see that hip driving into the thing and you see that incredible separation. If you haven't checked out our video on separation check that one out now. What we talk about in one of the trickiest things in our system we teach that there's a window. So if we get too, too much throw or if we're just here trying to throw or if we're holding too far back that's not positive either because if you'll notice if I'm sitting here and I hold the arm it's gonna make me move into the throw but you're gonna notice watch the difference. I'm gonna do everything the same speed. You're gonna see me kind of slow. Now watch me open the arm. See how much faster and easier it is for me to rotate. So two rotational, over rotation, under rotation. What do we need? We need to find the sweet spot and understanding how that left arm is a very huge part of that movement which we refer to as our pillar three. Dropping in and applying speed and your left arm is a huge component to do that correctly.  What you wanna find is that sweet spot that's gonna be leading to that ideal position so that the lower body and everything's moving ahead. So again, Peter Malachowski of Poland, Robert Harding of Germany. So if we look at Peter Malachowski and Robert Harding what we're gonna see is look at them on their windups different but similar and we have a video coming up on style versus mechanics so stay tuned for that. So you're gonna see how they come out so they come out and they go to their pillar two and they're both moving around and look at the path of the left arm when you're looking one of the key variables that I look at is when they're both when they're all facing six o'clock and they're on their entry so when they're in this position you're gonna notice where the left arm is which you'll see with a lot of young throwers that left arm opens a little too much and it's coming out of the window and the window again we refer to a lot in our system of how do we hit those key spot in each pillar? We have a window of execution we wanna stay in that. So now if you look at Goozdias and Stahl very similar techniques in fact they both look very similar but look at the positions and look at the position of left arm and that left arm is that's what sets up a big monster pillar three. So at any rate hopefully this gives you a little insight into how that works. We don't wanna be too open. We don't wanna be too back. We wanna find that spot where we're feeling this type of emotion and you're gonna see how you're gonna do that and you're gonna notice that with all your top throwers all these guys that are throwing massive distances and very consistently hitting those distances you're gonna see that type of moving pattern and that's the key to understand because it's about balance and creating speed and power and balance and acceleration into the middle of the ring. So as we refer to as pillar one to three and then four, five, six is gonna be very dynamic and that's what you want for those big throws. 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