I'm Rusty Komori and this is Beyond the Lines on Think Tech, Hawaii. I was the head coach of the Punahou Boys varsity tennis team for 22 years, and we were fortunate to win 22 consecutive state championships. This show is based on my books Beyond the Lines and Beyond the Game, and it's about leadership, character, and creating a superior culture of excellence. My special guest today is the highly respected principal of Mid-Pacific Institute. He is Dr. Dwayne Priester, and today we are going beyond education. A.D., welcome to Beyond the Lines. Hey, thank you for having me. It's a pleasure and an honor. D., I so much enjoy our lunches and talks together. I mean, you're all about building that superior culture of excellence, but before we talk about the culture, can you share a bit about your background? Sure. Rather than citing my resume, I'll give you a quick reader's digest version of who I am, where I came from. So originally from North Carolina, and from North Carolina, lived and worked in Arizona for about seven, seven and a half years, then moved to the Big Island of Hawaii, where I was at Hawaii Preparatory Academy for three years, and then migrated to Oahu, where I've been here the last 16 years. My wife is a native of Hawaii, and she always makes sure that I let everyone know that she's a proud Lillihuah graduate. And I've been serving kids for over almost 30 years now, so it's a pleasure to continually do this job and strive for excellence, as you mentioned earlier. Now, D., tell me about Mid-Pacific.  Sure. So we are this amazing school that's tucked away here in Manoa. And there are a number of quality programs. We are known for our School of the Arts. We have a well-known baseball program recently, and we'll probably talk a little bit about this later, but our girls just won their back-to-back state title in air riflery. We have a robust athletics program. We also are known for our Mid-Pacific baccalaureate, international baccalaureate program. We are extremely proud of the work that we do, the fact that we have maintained that sense of humility while continuing to strive for excellence. Now, D., why is Mid-Pacific school thriving? I think one of the things that really make us unique is our ability to pivot. We have our fingers always on the pulse of change. We are research-driven in everything that we do, both academically as well as the social side of school. And based on those changes, the changing heartbeat, we are willing to make those necessary adjustments for the sake of our students. So a number of our parents really appreciate the work that we are doing and the fact that we are constantly focused on the future while embracing the wonderful things in our past. Now, you and I are all about character development, and I want to know how you guys are really focusing on the character development of your students. It's a great question. So I believe it begins from the top down. I continually talk to my students, to the faculty, about the things that are important. And I use this word integrity quite a bit in the things that we talk about. And I remind my students that integrity is what, it's the amazing things that you do even when people are not looking. It's that sense of always being forthright, being focused on taking care of one another, building a strong sense of community, and really just always focused on doing what is right. And that's the thing that I emphasize. We see that message moving down from the administration into the ranks of the faculty, and it's something that we encourage in our students, we encourage them to do on a daily basis, to always live with a sense of integrity. And because that is so much a part of who we are as an institution, we see it walking out in the lives of our students. In fact, I often quote to my students to school motto, the honor of my school is mine. And that simply means we encourage them to remember wherever they are, whatever they are doing, they are reflecting an institution. And it is their responsibility to remember that they are part of something much greater than themselves. I like that motto, Dee, and what kind of qualities do you expect your mid-Pacific graduates to possess? So it's that sense of honor, and remembering who they are, where they come from, and always recognizing that whatever they do and whatever they say, they represent a generation of people that have come before them. And whenever they step out to be good model citizens in the world, to remember that they're always being watched because we expect them to be mid-Pacific wherever they are and whatever they are doing. And Dee, you mentioned about your girls varsity air rifle re-team. I mean, they won back-to-back ILH championships. I mean, the whole school and the alumni must be so proud of them, right? Very proud. It's really interesting to watch students as they begin the season and watch who they develop into as the season comes to an end. That sense of pride, that sense of focus, that sense of dedication, knowing that each time they step into that competitive environment, that they are giving a part of themselves, most of all, that they are representing the institution, that they attend. Now, Dee, when I was coaching at Punahou, I know that the mid-Pacific tennis teams are always really good. I mean, they're strong, they're very competitive. Yes. But all of your sports teams are consistently competitive. Why is that? There seems to be this spirit, this thread that it runs through all of our athletic programs and it's simply be the best that you can be. We may not have the fastest, we may not have the strongest and we may not have the biggest. However, we do have that sense of we are one team, we are focused on excellence and it's about stepping out and giving the best that you can 100% of the time. That sense of being a quality competitor makes us winners when we step on the field, whether or not our number is the largest in the win column, we are still winners and that attitude allows us to thrive in that competitive environment. What are some of the goals of your administration and leadership? I mean, every year, obviously we've went through the pandemic, we've survived the pandemic. What are some of the goals that you guys are trying to achieve as leaders? I would say it's that sense of let's be better today than we were yesterday and let's learn to compete with ourselves or compete against ourselves. So oftentimes I've heard coaches telling the students whether it be on the track field or on the baseball field or on the tennis courts or air riflery, be a better version of yourself than you were yesterday and always think about your score the day before and strive for a higher score tomorrow. Not necessarily because we wanna be better than that person but because we are striving for excellence and that again is a thread that runs throughout our community. Now, D, what kind of improvements do you guys have in plans now to really help improve the campus? So currently we're looking at our facilities, we're looking at expanding some of our buildings. Right now we're focused on building extensions to our middle school program, expanding our arts. We're also looking at where we can improve some of the facilities that we have on campus so that we can continue to provide a quality education for our students. Well, that's exciting. When I was with you on campus the other month, you have such a nice campus and I think the plans to improve those things are just gonna make it even greater. And D, as principal, what are some of the challenges that you deal with? You know, I would say right now, and I'll speak to our past two years, we are still overcoming the pandemic. This really shook schools to its core. It forced us to pivot as educators to really think in different ways that we provide instruction for students. And it challenged us as educators to be better at our craft and to evolve. And that challenge is still before us today because even the students as they've transitioned back to campus have different expectations. And for us as educators, we have to really challenge ourselves to meet the expectations of our students. Oftentimes we see education as sort of the stagnant business where we've done what we've done for many years and we rarely put our fingers on the pulse of change for our students, but we're paying attention to that. We're asking them what they need and we're being responsive to those calls. Now D, let's share with me more insights about what the teachers really have to deal with because the pandemic didn't just affect students and the parents and their families, but like you said, the teachers had to adjust and adapt and to really try to give the best quality instruction that they could give under those circumstances of the pandemic, right? For sure. As I reflect back in 2020, we ended the semester on, excuse me, off campus in Zoom. We went away for spring break and we said, we're gonna extend spring break by a week. We extended spring break through the entire semester and then into the fall semester and into the spring semester. We were forced to really level up in about a five day period of time. Our teachers went away giving instruction inside the classroom and we returned in a virtual environment. That meant that our teachers had to adjust the way that they delivered instruction to create opportunities for students to continue to learn and thrive in that virtual environment. We were learning on the fly and we often use the expression we were building the plane while we were flying it. And that meant that we really had to be on top of our game. We had to be forward focused, not necessarily thinking about what we've always done but what we need to do to be responsive to the changes that were at hand.  Building the plane as you're flying it. I mean, I really commend all teachers to what they have to do to really adapt and adjust during the pandemic. And D, you and I have some great talks. I mean, we really have some great back and forth conversations about leadership but I wanna ask you, what are some things that stood out to you in my books? It's interesting because I'm currently re-reading the book beyond the game with a couple of the leaders on campus. The thing that stood out most, I'm pretty sure it's chapter three on choices. And chapter three choices, there's a statement that you make about sort of not living in those first three minutes of the day. We are oftentimes confronted with a situation. And I often hear educators or leaders say, I had a bad morning and that affected my entire day. I ask them to consider this, use those first three or four minutes not to have a negative impact on your day but think about the whole of your purpose for that particular day and learn from that. If those first three or four minutes were not the best experience, what can we learn from that? How can we pivot? How can we grow? That's what I asked them to think about. So in that chapter on choices, it really does completely change our frame of mind as we deal with our day, the students that we have to encounter and even for the leaders, the teachers that we have to work with because fundamentally it comes down to one thing, choice. I like that you mentioned choices there because yeah, I want everybody to know that to not let a bad three minutes affect the rest of your day because that might affect your students, it might affect your loved ones, it might affect your friends, but greatness is a choice, resiliency is a choice, positivity is a choice. Some people feel like they're so complacent, they're stuck in a situation. I'm trying to have them understand that they can make a choice to be unstuck, to improve themselves. And D, what are some ways, because I know that you encourage creative ideas and new possibilities. I mean, tell me about that.  Sure. I fundamentally believe that failure is not a bad word. We have stigmatized in education and there's really a change of foot in education, but we've stigmatized the word failure as the end of the road. I challenge the teachers to think of it as the beginning of something new. I frequently encourage them to try something new in your classroom. Don't be afraid to break out of what has always been done. And because I encourage teachers to fail, when things don't always go as expected, my first question is, okay, you tried it, it didn't work. What now? What are you gonna do different? What are you going to learn from? What direction are you going to move in now? So I tend to treat failure as an opportunity to try something new, to go in a different direction and don't stay down, get up and move forward. That is what I want my teachers. That is what I want my students to embrace. It is an opportunity for forward motion. I completely agree with you. It's so good to try new things because if you don't try it, that might lead to regret about not even trying, right? So, and D, Ryan Tanaka, I mean, his dad is a graduate of Mid-Pacific Institute and Ryan did a big book donation to Mid-Pacific and he's a highly respected business leader and community leader. How is his book donation helping your faculty and students? So currently we have our leadership reading through the book. Right now we're looking at beyond the game and it's really important for us the leaders, us as leaders to be on the same page. So when we're having conversations about how we deal with different circumstances that confront us on a daily basis, how do we respond to that? So to your question, Ryan's book has, it's really been beneficial because we've been able to have a common book read for our leadership and it allows us to have common conversations about leadership and how we move forward together, not individually. I believe that when the leaders are on the same page there's a positive impact on the lives of teachers and ultimately the lives of our students. So thank you, Ryan. We appreciate that greatly because it's allowing us to go through that common book read. And as I mentioned just a little while ago, we're currently reading through the book right now. So we're having those discussions and the reason that chapter three is stuck in my mind is because we were dealing with a difficult situation last week and I encourage them to remember in chapter three, it's choice. How do we deal with situations? Do we make the choice to live in it and see the negative or do we make the choice to dust ourselves off and move forward? Well, Dee, hopefully I can get more generous donors to donate my books, hopefully to your entire school someday. That would be great just to really have everyone strive for that superior culture of excellence that you and I talk about a ton. And Dee, I wanna know if you can share about your incredible international baccalaureate program. Sure. So I'm happy to say that Mid-Pacific was the first school in the state of Hawaii to have an international baccalaureate program. The IB program is a rigorous program that was originally developed for students of diplomats and expats who were outside of the United States. They knew that their students would be applying for colleges not only in the United States but in other countries. The beauty of the international baccalaureate program, it has international recognition. In fact, it is considered one of the most rigorous programs that's offered to elementary, middle, and high school students. And for many of our students who are applying to universities outside of the United States, they know that because they are taking part in this curriculum, they can gain access to institutions across the globe. In fact, a number of our students go on to universities in Switzerland, go on to universities in Japan, across Europe and Africa, because of the IB program that they've gone through here at Mid-Pacific. Wow, that's really impressive. And when I looked into it, I thought, wow, I wanna know more about this program. And I mean, wouldn't you think every school should have a program like that? I do believe programs like this would benefit all schools because the beauty of the IB program is it's so far-reaching. It really is a well-developed curriculum. It is focused on getting students to think about their learning. We have a class called, we have a class that's really focused on helping students thinking about their thinking. It's called the theory of knowledge, helping them understand what they're learning and why they're learning it and how to apply it. The theory of knowledge class is really focused on challenging our students to be deep thinkers, to address novel problems and to see the world in a much broader way. Theory of knowledge right there and theory of thinking, I mean, that's so important just to have a greater understanding of themself and others, how others think and process things. And D, I wanna ask you about leadership. You've been such a successful leader for decades. What are some things that you feel the greatest leaders do? You know, after doing this for so long, more than 25 years, I fundamentally believe one of the greatest characteristics of a leader is recognizing that their greatest responsibility is to be a servant. If we don't understand the importance of serving those that we are responsible for, then we never reach our full potential as a leader. I also believe that it's important to understand the importance of us breathing, our breathing life into people, being responsive to their needs, having the ability to change when necessary and not always being focused on what is always being done, looking at the good of the past, but always having a hand fully grasping the future of change.  Are you still inspired today as you were decades ago and what or who inspires you? And I'm not saying it's just because you're in the room but the conversations that we have, I learn from those conversations. I'm continually asking questions about how would you handle this situation? What would you do differently? What's your advice? I'm not afraid to ask for advice. I'm a huge fan of Simon Sinek as well. Anyone that's, and anyone that's always energetic and focused on what the future has to offer, thinking about where we're going. But, and I mentioned this earlier, not being afraid to look into the past and think, this worked well. There are things that I can carry forward with me. So that's what I'm always focused on. Oh, that's great.  My grandfather used to say to me all the time, if you're ever going to be king, you have to crown yourself. And as I've gotten older and I replay that statement in my head all the time, it's really about not letting the challenges of the current situation keep me down, but always moving forward. And to recognize that the strength that I possess comes from within. It's just a matter of tapping into that strength and running with it. And understanding also that there are those around us that can support us. And I'm not afraid to ask questions, to build meaningful relationships because I see my growth as dependent on others also. C.D, that's why you're a great leader because the greatest leaders are always learning, which makes them even greater than they were. And D, I want to ask you personally or professionally, what's a big adversity you faced and overcame? I would say the thing that most recent two things. One, we were in the middle of this pandemic and we had two choices. One, when we fold or we move forward, I chose to move forward. And it was a challenge at times because all of this was new. Everything that we were dealing with, the tools that were in our bag, we had to reach deep into that bag and pull those tools out and apply them. We also knew that the playbook that we were operating from was, it was a playbook that dealt with the past. So we had to create new plays in that book. The other thing is taking over the middle and high school. Historically, I was a middle school principal and just as the pandemic was hitting, I took over two divisions. So I'm bringing two divisions together during this process of learning how to educate online and how to work with teachers online and how to work with students online and how to interact with parents and community members online. So those were two challenges. But again, I reached deep into that tool bag and I pulled those tools out and I applied what I did in the past in the sense that how do you address problems? How do you lean into those problems? How do you solve those problems? How do you ask for help? Those are the things that I applied. Those were the challenges that I faced. So through all these years, D, what do you feel is the best advice you ever received? Probably the best advice that I received is the same thing that I tell my students even when I was a coach, be a better version of yourself today than you were yesterday. Don't compete against others, compete against yourself and always, always approach things with an optimistic perspective. Understand that challenge is an opportunity for growth and for learning and being better. And when I take all of those and put them together, I become a better version of myself than I was yesterday. D, I wanna ask you one more question before we wrap up. What do you feel is your purpose in life? To give. I'm an advocate for leaders who are servants. And when I say to give, I go back to this, if you are not a quality servant, you will not be a quality leader.  Thank you. And D, I just wanna thank you for being on the show and please keep up the great work. I will, thank you. And thank you for watching Beyond the Lines on Think Tech Hawaii. For more information, please visit RustyKomori.com and my books are available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. I hope that Principal D and I will inspire you to create your own superior culture of excellence and to find your greatness and help others find theirs. Aloha. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn and donate to us at thinktechhawaii.com. Mahalo.


Good morning. My name is Dereva Hilewi. I'm speaking to Sayilas Litzwa. We are talking about the financial implications of COVID-19 to the Sub-Saharan Africa. It is estimated that about 17 million Kenyans are using their last savings, which could be depleted by 6th of August. Yes, and now we are looking at something different now from what we've talked about, the increase of the salaries, the decrease, the lockdown should we go on lockdown? How are we faring? Now, to finish up, we are looking about the loans and mobile money. We are speaking about that. Mshuari, you borrowed the, the, it was the thala you had until the president said to see the CRB because we have borrowed so much. And actually this is the lot where the youths are. So out of this 40% of the respondents have taken out a loan to cover expenses because of coronavirus, majority are here. We are going to, we are going to see this more and more of it, because one youths are unemployed. Many people have lost their job, okay? Now when you have nothing to feed on, what do you resolve to do? You borrow. You borrow? And the country is borrowing? And the country is borrowing? As an individual borrowing. Yes, so now you're going to live in a cycle of debts, okay? Now we'll get people have numbers, different phone numbers for the sake of... Nafuliza. Nafuliza for the sake of borrowing, you see? So this is a challenge that we are going to see as a country. And you see, as a country we don't need to subject our people to such a measures, okay? We need to have institutions in place that are going to cater for the needs of our people. I'm not saying that we should give free things to our people, but no. Let us have a room where our people would be able to get employment, okay? For them to get revenue, for them to feed their children, for them to pay their rents and other things, and any other bill that will come. Because even if you fail to pay your rent, will you be able to secure your health bill? No. So let us have health as a basic thing under the top priority to our nation, okay? So that we can have healthy nation by healthy people to drive the industries in place. But without such a things, such a mechanisms, then we lose it. So for the country to have good economy, okay? Let us put the right measures in place. Let the governors play their role, they are supposed to play their role in the counties. Let the national government play its role. Let us work together, okay? Bring our minds together, not for a lockdown. But on how we are going to improve the economy and the livelihoods of our people. Because once we improve them, then the economy will grow, will be at a safer place. So it does not kill our economy by locking down our nation. Then on the issue to do with the loans, let us also try to discipline ourselves on this matters to do with the loan. Because it's all about discipline. When we borrow too much, the little you get, you end up paying the debts. Now you are in a very bigger problem than you were before. So let us have financial discipline. Let us know how we can manage with the little we have as we await on these other measures that are going to be taken.  Instead of now concentrating on what you had projected, now you are now going back to pay 100 plus the interest on the loan. Now you remain with a few questions. Now your projections will now stall because of poor financial management. So let us try to restrain ourselves from much borrowing that will harm even our own economy and individual economy. You see, as much as we look at the nation as an economy, but ask yourself, where are you economically? How stable are you economically? Before you look at the nation, the nation is a larger perspective. A nation is you and me. Because before I state my economic position, or before I state the nation's economic position, let us evaluate myself. Where is my economic position? Have I borrowed too much that I cannot even move a next step? Have I borrowed too much that I cannot even do a development that will be income generating? So these are some of the things that we need to look into and manage ourselves very well. All right. Finally, as we finish, before we went on that break, you were speaking about the priorities the government should be having. And according to the GeoPol survey that was done recently, the opinion on what government's priority should be, we have the informal versus formal economy where the informal are saying 57% this is a formal work as they say, government should prioritize protecting its people and the other one reopening the economy is on the formal economy. So the informal world, hey, bana, tulinde. Like I'm speaking the juakali wana sama gavai tulinde and then when you come now to the people in the offices, they say bana fungua, fungua economy. So there's a tassul and I think even this is what is, the president is caught in this too, whether to open the economy or to protect its people. Right now even as the president meets with the governors, what should be in his mind protecting the people which are the majority or opening the economy will maybe to an extent, I know you will disagree. Yes, totally. Okay, in the majority. Now, I want to state this and I started by saying what I expect from the president, the governors meeting, I expect them to tell a nation that we've managed to for protecting the people is not by locking down and I repeat that several times. Protecting the people is ensuring the health system is up and running. Even if you lock down and the health system is not up and running, you are not helping Kenyans. Protecting the people is ensuring the health system is up and running. Empower the community health worker who is in that small village. Okay, they said, Kagwa said we can manage, we can have home best care. Home best care does not need my wife or my son or my friend. It needs a community health worker. Okay, who understands one or two things on this thing of COVID so that we can manage it together. So if this community health worker is empowered, the health system itself is empowered. We have institutions, we have fully furnished hospitals equipped with drugs, with machines and any other things that needs medical care. Then we are protecting our people. But locking down is punishing our people. Let us not concentrate on locking down. Let the president come out and address this nation and tell the nation we have achieved this and this in the health sector. And in the event the governor will not have achieved ABCD, should we go on a lock down? Let us have what you call accountability. Let us have accountability. Let us not, and I keep on saying let us not lock this country. Let the governor come and tell us in my county this is what I've managed to do and I need these and these days to ensure this is attained as far as COVID is concerned. But the numbers are surging. The numbers are surging. The numbers are surging because the health worker is not empowered. That is one thing. But if this person is empowered, if each and every county will empower their health worker, then the numbers will go down. We can only talk of a flat curve when we are able to manage the situation. But we cannot talk of a flat curve when you are not managing the situation. And locking down is not solving this problem. I'm telling the truth. We went on a curfew. We went on a cessation. It did solve anything. Let us be realistic. But I think even the problem is not even the health workers being empowered. I think it is even what the ministry has been calling for. Personal responsibility. Has that been so? The personal responsibilities have been so in some areas. But in some areas they have not been so. I mentioned earlier on the responsibility starts with myself. I remember I said that when I look at the economy of the nation, first of all let me look at myself. Where am I economically? Because it also matters a lot. Now when we talk of health, where am I myself? Am I taking into keen observation the measures that have been aligned by the ministry of health? Am I adhering to those regulations? If not, then let me go and interrogate myself. And take the measures. And that's why I even questioned the leaders who have been hovering around having meetings with the citizens and the publics. And if and you see there's a day we even questioned here. A police call early in a place so the church service the police officers stormed the place and arrested these individuals. A political rally went on with no issues the attendees left the place to their home but the people at the church left their place to the cells. So are we really doing justice? So it is our own responsibility. Let us not tell our people to sit at home and yet we are hovering around in one area to another from one area to another spreading this thing. And yet when a pastor decides to copy or emulate what we are doing And pastors are leaders again? They are leaders. You go and arrest them. Alright, let's finish it right there hoping the president when he comes out to speak he will have full reports we are not sure whether he will be speaking to the nation this day after meeting the governor maybe they will sit with the governor and hear what they have and then we will hear later but anyhow we will get the information how the meeting went how governors are ready for the account how much ready are we as a nation we are done here I will be living with a segment of health remember even as we fight COVID-19 there are other health conditions that needs to be looked into we have other chronic conditions that needs to be looked into like the cancers, the diabetes the TB we have so much that needs to be looked into and the ministry of health has been calling on new members of the public to go to hospitals if you are unwell we have this hospital paranoia but we need not to we need to go to hospitals being checked and if things are wrong we will be treated there is negligence on the side of the doctors when you go there they force you to test for COVID before they cheat you or before they take care of you on this other disease they are also afraid as much as they are afraid I don't object they are affected yes but also let us take care of this other let us not kill our people out of ignorance no it is very sad again personal responsibility and even taking care of the next person to you SIRAS has been my guest this morning we were looking into the financial implications of COVID-19 to the economy and the Sub-Saharan Africa and we have seen where Kenya is we don't need the lockdown if I may quote SIRAS here said we don't need lockdown all we need is a strategy and management by our leaders to tell us where we are what we need to go for a lockdown my name is Dereva Hilewi good morning thank you again for being part of us this 27th of July 2020 time for politics and current affairs actually I was thinking I am not going to do any politics but something is pressing me up to speak about politics since it has been order of the week actually throughout this weekend the name of the president has been invoked by many people some are saying there is an agreement others are saying there is no agreement others are talking about the system how important the system is how important the system isn't the people are the system and others believe indeed the government of the day is the system but we will talk about that briefly about our conversation this morning is on the financial implication of COVID-19 in the Sub-Saharan Africa where an estimated 17 million Kenyans are operating on the last cash resets to be depleted by August 1 which is 3 days from now or maybe 4 according to the latest report released by Geopol titled financial impact of COVID-19 my guest this morning is Silas Ritz he is a political analyst and something you didn't know about him he is an accountant actually I was asking him why hasn't he applied for this job of the auditor genu in our country I don't know what it takes to be the auditor genu maybe I don't know share your comments on Facebook and Instagram on Twitter my name is good morning and welcome to the program Silas how are you I'm very fine over the weekend people have been believing the system will work for them and I had one of them say this is a brother to Honorable Rai Lordinga the brother was saying in 2002 they believed the system was not important and they stayed there and now they have realized the system is important and that's why they want to work with the government I'm thinking in the spirit of the handshake that's why now they want to fill in the government right there we will work with the president he is the system right now on the other hand Bony Halwale for my senator for Kaka Mega was saying we don't believe in the system the system is the people if the system was the person then Rai Lordinga became the president after Mwaiki Bakin because there was an agreement they worked together with the government so the people voted in 2013 so the people are the system if I could quote Deputy President William Bruto in a function in Rich Valley he once said they may have the system but I'm coming the name of the lord do you believe in the system I think things are changing in the country and we cannot talk about the system because I'll buy the idea of the system the people the system is not an individual and if it is an individual then you could have seen so many things happening but why do I say the system is not an individual the late president when he was retiring he blessed Huru Kenyatta to be his hair but the people who want to change who are now the system who built the system the so-called system we said no Kibaki is our man so it was there the same system that we talk of tried to made us fight in 207 208 you see when few individuals sat in a corner to decide so and so will be the president regardless of the votes he ganas you see the will of the people was different from an individual but you saw it led to a bloodshed ok so we come and say there is no system that appoints a person it is the individuals and the will of the people and if the will of the people is not respected then it will lead to a bloodshed or destabilization of the nation and that's not where we want to go so these people have been invoking the name of the president or like every politician who spoke over the weekend the kind of mentioned the president the dailies are full of the president the president plays a pivotal role at the moment remember the president is on his last term and he wants to retire he wants to go home now everyone will want to succeed him Hillary wherever you are here you are in an institution and you believe when a vacuum comes where you believe you fit you will compete to have that position from that going person ok so that is what is happening right now so there are those ones who wants to be around the president so that he can say you will be the next president after I leave the presidency after I retire but others I have decided let me now work with the people who will come and elect me then remember one thing all these people who are fighting for presidency ok we have been working together one there is a time they worked as a team there is a time they worked as opponents remember Uru Andrela in two or two they worked in the same institution where Moe was the political leader of the party the party leader then Uru was the chairman Moe was the Reila was the secretary general two or two Dabadi all of them were together Kalonzos they were together come the same two or two because of those political interests didn't favor few individuals they decided to ship out ok and form another political party that was Nak then they came the Saitotis the Moe Kibaki all of them in one ship and Uru in the other ship so these people they worked together they differed illogically they went because my interests are not covered and my interests are not well managed let me jump to the other side where my interests will be catered so that is how the game of politics has been come two or five remember Uru and Reila worked together on ODIM for the referendum and that's what made the referendum see the light of the day then the Kibaki the Kalonzo team and Reila team were kicked out of the cabinet because they were in the cabinet of Moe Kibaki because of the political interests they ashamed the president at that moment they were kicked out from their ministerial positions now come two or seven now Uru decides I'm not going to work with ODIM but I'm going to work with the PNU side and he relinquishes his opposition mentor I'm going to support the president and they work together and they achieve the light of the day so we cannot say it is the system if we beg on the system then that's where we get lost let the people decide the people decided in two or two the people decided in two or seven the people have always been making these decisions and I believe the people will still make decisions so you agree with Bonihaloale the people are the system because I'm a voter and I don't want to say it is then as a voter consistently then why should I go and vote if there is already a system that needs to appoint someone before we we shift to the focus of the day actually that will even form the basis of our discussion this morning the president will be meeting the governors they have been crying for a lockdown and they are calling for a lockdown of Nairobi again and Mombasa, Kilifi and Mandera I don't know why Mandera again and like almost every county has reported going by the latest data 44 out of the 47 that was released according to the statement that was released by the state house spokesperson Kanzedena last week the meeting that was scheduled for Wednesday which was postponed for this day 44 out of the 47 had reported now the president will be meeting the governors today what are your expectations my expectations from the meeting is not a lockdown my expectations as a citizen who follows the government Kilifi who wants the best from the government for the people a report will tell us we have managed to have these hospitals and hospital beds for ICU and coronavirus cases we have managed to ensure that in each and every county these other diseases because these other patients are being sidelined many people are dying at hospital beds because of ignorance of the doctors they are telling you they want to check you or they want to first of all check if you have corona so you wait for 8 hours or so many days and yet you have something else that is paining you inside or you are suffering from something as different from the perceived corona so you end up dying when the results come they say you have corona so you die of corona just because of negligence of the doctor so we want to what I want to hear from my leaders is very simple that we have managed to have these hospitals with fully furnished equipment that are going to manage the pandemic and other diseases because health is very important without this health we won't have these roads even if you have the roads we shall have the foreigners coming and constructing the roads for us we won't use the roads when we are alive but we will be transported maybe when we are dead being taken home have I enjoyed the road? No so health is very important and very paramount so what we need is a very good report remember as money on covid EU European Union gave us money on covid Kenyans have contributed to covid fund which has raised eyebrows some monies have been staffed in banks so these are some of the things we contribute towards the fund which now goes to benefit very few individuals yet Kenyans are suffering when you tell us about the lockdown in counties you are telling us that we are not supposed to move even from my house leave along the cessation when they talk about the lockdown when you look at it in a very bigger perspective it means I will not even be supposed to be where I am right now I will be in my house in my house when I'm in my house what am I eating what am I drinking it is a problem and yet the government itself cannot feed its own people Uganda did a lockdown and you saw it was able to feed its own people from door to door using their military what's our problem Kenyans can't feed their own people the problem is the management with the institutions that are in place and not managing it well but they are there for themselves now when they lockdown we have had an issue of cessation of movement apart from essential service providers but you've seen politicians moving round and round meeting the people so in other words if corona has spread our leaders because if it has increased who has increased it I was in my area of jurisdiction I was not able to move from one area to another because we were under cessation now somebody somewhere was moving from one area to another interacting with the people and this person is interacting is going to interact with other persons in that area and the people that this person is going to interact with in other areas they are going to interact with other persons also somewhere else so if somebody has got a corona from this point he has already spread it to the other end and it is not you and I it is our leaders who have been moving round and round somebody goes with the helicopter somewhere in a meeting after that so these are some of the things that we need to look into if it has to start with them you should not force us to do something that you are not even going to do it don't preach wine and drink water don't preach water and drink wine now let us have a balance in each and every area if it is all about the essential service providers who are supposed to move but we are all equal but we had even witty Kenyans who would corrupt our police and pass through the borders and the roadblocks that were erected by the officials to ensure no one goes through it has been happening so actually I think in other times the president approved what had been going on you see and that's why I said the persons we have entrusted to money the institutions are there are the ones who are letting us down I had a desire to move from Nairobi to my county to run a few errands but I said I will wait when the president will say let us open the situation thing is over then I will move if I wanted to bribe the police I could have done so but I said I will wait and I chose to wait so the institutions that are in place and the managers of the institutions are the ones who are letting us down if you decide to bribe your way out then that is the wrong thing we are doing you are not doing good to you or to the nation at large so we all need to be disciplined in this but for the lockdown I will keep on saying let us not even discuss about lockdown let us see let this meeting be productive and to the nation and to my president let the meeting be productive the productivity of the meeting is when you will come out and state we have sat down with the 47 governors and these are the hospitals that we have these are the beds that we have these are the machines that we have we have equipped our hospitals from the fund that were given to us by the European Union from the fund that you are given to us from the World Bank this is what you managed to do as a country to manage this situation because even if you lock down we went to a curfew when we had around 33 cases or 50 cases what was the essence of curfew to me I believe the essence of curfew was door to door mass testing mass testing it could have worked there was a cessation of movement in counties some counties Nerobe, Mandera, Mombasa, Kilifi what are the results we want to know what was the reasons of cessation were you just going to people sit there we assume you have the virus so you cannot move it was from assumption that there was a cessation but there was no testing if we could have tested we could have known to this point how many people have the virus then how are we going to manage the virus before the opening of the end of the cessation we could have known then we have the proof statistics because even if you ask me what kind of statistics is being used to come up with the samples or the tests we don't know fine there is an issue what we need to do is to think on how to manage the issue corona is not going to end today remember even US is fighting it even Britain is fighting it these are super powers who are we what we only need is to use the resources we have to manage the situation let's jump to now a different matter but of the same speaking of COVID-19 the implications it has had on financial status it is estimated according to the geopol survey that was conducted on 5 countries in Africa and it is estimated that 17 million Kenyans are operating on the last kashuri south to be depleted by August 6 now just a brief rundown of the people who did this survey 53% of the residents that were employed before coronavirus spread widely was 48% were informal sectors and when we speak of the informal sectors we are talking about the farmers sellers, cleaners construction workers beauty service providers oh what a makeup masks transportation workers and when we speak of the formal workers we are speaking about the government workers these are closed homes these are the civil servants providers, educators and actually educators are hard hit by COVID-19 then we have employers of large businesses now for this particular survey that was done in Kenya, Mozambik Nigeria, South Africa and Kodivoa Kenya and Mozambik are said to have contained coronavirus so far but now we have worrying numbers monthly income distribution I will take Kenya for an example we will compare Kenya and South Africa because those are the people we can compete with Mozambik and Nigeria to some extent other countries anyway I don't know we have to look yes we have to look at the GDP so Kenyans above 10,000 shillings it is 53% these are the people in the we must speak so and then we have if it's South Africa actually you see South Africa has 55 the monthly income distribution I won't even talk about the civil servants because these people are still earning the healthcare workers are still earning let's talk about this big number of the people who earn at least 10,000 and below the people who work the people who work they have in this category they have been affected by COVID-19 economically speaking how are we doing even speaking of the closure or the decision of movement how are we doing now you see there is a time I don't know what is on this media but I remember I raised the question about circulation of money in this corona era there has been less circulation of money in this corona era and I remember I raised an issue I think it was another set I raised an issue of what you call the taxation whereby some taxes were reduced okay now when you sit down and look at the reduction of taxation on some areas then you ask yourself what is the essence because there will be no money collected at all because when you have 10 people earning 100 shillings being taxed let me say 100,000 shillings being taxed like 25% are you really going to improve your economy or to to make your economy go down to me the economy because you better have 1 million people earning let me say even that 20,000 being taxed okay like even 10% or 20% from it so that it can make the government it can make a revenue collection to the government and like having people who earn let me say 100,000 and give less to the government for us to have a conveyor belt in the economy that belt will continue rolling we need to ensure we empower our people especially this and you see that is the bitterness when I come and talk of lockdown so there will be no circulation of money at all you've locked down each and everything now Kenya has debts to pay okay and the debts to pay we depend on the revenue collection from the people employee the government employees are less than a million to be told government employees are less than a million okay in the old institutions but these other people in the informal sectors are the majority and the informal sector people are the one that are the economy drivers of a country or a nation so these are the people who need to be safeguarded when this person stops opening or closes his shop or his business how many people have lost the job okay when a company shuts down due to corona issues or due to lockdown because maybe somebody travel and he cannot come back or maybe this person cannot report to work okay the productivity of a nation will reduce drastically this means we will have to negotiate with the international donors on how we are going to pay our debt okay because without the corona we have to pay our debt very true and the debt that we need to pay comes from the revenue that we need to collect and this self it never surpasses it's it's a whatever the target it's always below the target it sets a target and never achieve the target why? due to corruption a lot of monies are lost that are collected from the taxpayers through corruption at KRA and tax evasion so these are some of the things that we need to sit down and interrogate under the head of state these are some of the things that should be actually the top of his agenda when he's meeting the governors let him not be controlled by the governors who are relying on the revenue from the central from the central government because the county government itself has failed in revenue collection there is no county that has attained a target in revenue collection when you go back to the CRA report each county has to collect revenue so that it is added something from the national government but you see no county has attained this each and every county is struggling now for the sake let me for example take Nairobi and Mandera these are two different counties one is a city with a large population because of rural urban migration and the other one is a rural county down there or up there this county Mandera county with a few industries or institutions that have employed some individuals it is in a lockdown do you think the economy of that county will grow it won't grow so what we need is mechanisms on how we are going to manage the pandemic speaking of managing first of all we accept that this pandemic is there with us it is here with us we are going to live with it now how we are going to manage the way we manage malaria the way we manage HIV the way we manage these other other decisions I am seeing another big worrying number or the percentages of these people who are responding 71% of the respondents see they are more concerned with paying expenses very true we are living in rentals let's speak of Nairobi actually there are very few things about 17 million Kenyans speaking about Nairobi has around even 20 could be these are the people who are paying rent you have not been working for the last 6 months 5 months actually we reported the first case of COVID-19 people began losing their jobs these are people who are servicing loans these are people who are servicing mortgages you are paying rent whatever kind of bill you are paying it's a big number how do we live in COVID-19 with this that's what I have said when I started on that issue when the president comes when they go in that meeting what I expect as a citizen a very vigilant citizen not just a very vigilant citizen is that we need to hear the funds you see like there is that fund there is that money that is it the world but they gave IMF gave to cater for the economy of this country especially for those people who have lost their jobs but why are these money gone this is a question that we keep on asking ourselves these are the monies that we need to see for our people for our people let us now say this let us now see how we are going to sit with the banks for those who have loans and mortgages to cater for them and for our nation to grow we need beds we need hospitals right now here people are paying 5,000 for a test of covid this person doesn't have 5,000 this means this person will die at the end of the day so you form a statistics to the government that will benefit from the donor because many people are dying who are not even being taken care of by the government and then another question I always ask is the loaner you see right now Hillary if you go to the bank and in need of a loan the bank will interrogate you on how you want to use a loan what you want to do with a loan how you going to pay the loan my question has always been on this international donor when you loan us do you always question us on the expenditures do you always value the people or you just go by the number of people and calculate so Syras will be paying 80,000 a day to my loan then you are satisfied with that so these are some of the things that we need to sit down and look and that's what I have always said our parliament has always failed us because if we have a vigilant parliament then all these things we cannot be in such a mess because these are the representatives of the people at the ground they know the problems and they go at the ground because they didn't come from heaven for them to become in peace they came from the same area for them to be elected they were elected by the same people whom they will go back to after 5 years asking for the votes so what we need is credibility in our country but what we have at the moment is that Mrs of fund and let me say ignorance of highest order Kenyans we put our governments to task by questioning each and every penny that is being used each and every penny that is being loaned to us by the international donors let us not just sit there relaxed saying yes our GDP is growing but from the loans then how are we going to service these loans our loans are growing and the lenders are not going to say we have decided to write off our loans no they need the money now the 71% I mentioned narrowing it down according to the geopol Kenya for an example has 36% on loans or credits the savings is at 26% salary income is 16% of course we mentioned that the health workers that are in the formal employment places of work like the civil servants and others who are at 21% again comparing ourselves with South Africa 14% Nigeria 32% see Kenya now merges with Nigeria when it comes to loans and credits their population is big ours is big as well but not that big as compared to them South Africa was the first to go on lockdown but now let's move to something very interesting you remember the 8 stimulus points by the president I forgot that it's coming to an end this week I've had cries of is the work of the youth only to clean gutters and trenches is that what we can do but now 17% of the respondents of this particular survey said they have received some form of aid since the coronavirus crisis began I remember I think it was the second or the third speech by the president he said we will now cater for the vulnerable communities of vulnerable people they are here people who have not received what the government promised I even remember there has been a cry to the health workers whatever the president promised to the health workers it has not been disbust what else were we promised money that was not there or it is taking them to confirm and to sign on who should get what at what time the money is there the problem is the priorities the priorities that the government has for each people are different the priority of the government on somebody in that office and I remember I said it here sometimes back no matter what comes no matter how good idea will be but there will be someone in the government who already has done calculations and knows I am going to get millions of shillings from this initiative because I am going to have ghost youths who are going to work in my name but I am the one who is going to benefit for them maybe they will get shillings also and you see I have always said and I say this thing the last time I was here that youths need to work up youths have just decided to be used in a very wrong way we are the largest population in this country we need to be the economy drivers look at China 20 years ago China was a struggling country come to industry but it decided the youth in that nation who run what you called cottage industries home industries to be empowered they were empowered now they do what they supply things to us from their own remote areas which we buy and send money to them because we import and then we send money to them then when we import we sell to our Kenyans at higher price we have a country with let me say with a lot of opportunities that we can work on to improve our economy but we youths are lazy when we go to school we are lazy when we come outside we are lazy we want easy things and I don't know who to blame is it the parenthood because we keep on blaming the nation and the country at large but let us think as youths what can we do in our own capacity to ensure that we are the true economy drivers of this nation using our numbers not just to sit and wait to be told this is what we call an abuse let us be productive let us not just sit and wait to be told for free money you see there we used to get 4,000 shillings 4,000 shillings won't feed you won't pay your rent actually won't sustain you just as something this thing that came it's going to end I was reading some journals I think this week and many have not benefited from it and once it's gone it's gone it's gone yes then we wait for 2022 we hang on politicians for them to give us handouts for how long are we going to survive with handouts you have mentioned something to do with the priorities and I think at this point we will take a very short break and then when we will come back we will look at the priorities according to the surveys how people thought the government should look into the priorities and then we will speak because to something very interesting about the loans I'm speaking about many many loans Kaimshuari kuna neski atara wali funga after it was said kuna loans was sequestri many of us took advantage I've not said I'm one of them I could be maybe but anyway that's something we'll be looking into after we take this very short break when we come back that's what we'll be looking into actually we're looking forward to your comments or questions or how you feel about the whole thing how the survey says has it represented you in terms of the priorities the government is having the government has given to you we were promised masks have you gotten one have you seen any how are you coping with the situation especially the SMEs and our hawkas these are the people who make money go around saying we need money circulating is it happening keep it why in the morning my name is Adreva Hillary I'll show you in a bit


And then once I say whatever they're here's the transition. I got you will look I don't want to take up too much of your time That's the transition. You got a stick. I got you will look. I don't take it too much of your time. This is what I believe I'm sharing that with you for nothing. Just get out there and succeed All right, cool William William. Let's let you be the property owner and I'm the agent right all right ring ring ring Hey, mr. Patrick Hey, mr. Patrick Ricky Cruz down here the XP realty and Gulfshores. How you doing today? Cool, man. Yeah, I'm enjoying the day bro. It is gorgeous out here, isn't it? Yeah, look, I don't want to take it too much of your time But there was a house right around the corner from you that just sold didn't if there's anything in the world I could do for you Well, like I said, I'm with the XP realty, you know like buying or selling a piece of property Okay, cool. Cool. Is there an agent you would work with if you were to do something? Cool. Gotcha. Gotcha. Well, look, I'm sure at some point in the future. You're gonna do something at some point, right? Yeah, well, man, I would love the opportunity to work with you in that day comes would be hard if I just stayed in touch with you Cool, man, what's a good email for you? Cool, is this your cell number? Cool, man. Well, look, I'll stay in touch with you via email again This is Ricky Caruthen at exp realty and there's everything I could do for you. Just let me know Have a good day. One thing I want to emphasize here is the transition points Okay, the transition points from when they say they're doing okay. I ask them about the weather Maybe I don't talk about the weather. Maybe it's about, you know, a sports team Or maybe it's about a holiday or something to break it up where it's not It's not just a sales call. We're going straight into sales We want to loosen them up and then once they say whatever they're here's the transition. I got you will look I don't want to take up too much of your time. That's the transition. You got a stick. I got you will look I don't take up too much of your time, but the reason for the call I listed a property. I sold a property property sold around the corner. I see your house for sale by owner I see your property expired off the market, whatever you're calling about and I didn't know if there's anything in the world I could do for you today. A lot of times they might ask for more information on the sale or something like that You'll go through that motion at the end of the day, you know, if they want to do a deal great Let's see if they have an agent they're working with on that and help them do that. If not, hey, is there an agent here's the next transition Hey, is there an agent here's the next transition? They're not ready to do anything. Here's the next transition, right? This is the most important right here when they say they're not ready to do anything You cannot hesitate the transition has to be stuck and you have to say I got you Well, is there an agent you would work with if you were to do something boom? Okay, boom cool. Well, look, I'm sure you'll do you're gonna do something that some point I would love the opportunity to work with you when that day comes Would it be hard if I just stayed in touch now look at how I asked for the email address I didn't say do you have an email address or what's your email address or I'm gonna send you a market report or I'm gonna do This or I'm gonna do that. No, I said would it be hard if I stayed in touch with you And then you pause and let them answer you're setting them up And when they say yes when they say yes, then you ask for the email great. What's a good email for you? Boom This is gold


Many of you remember us as a player in the Rare Earth Space. We're still a believer in Rare Earth, but right now we're transitioning back to our roots, which was a lithium that was gut-Avalon oriented in this wonderful world, especially minerals. Over 20 years ago, and I see our separation rapids project now as being the opportunity that's creating the platform for real growth and creating a sustainable business going forward. So that's what I'm going to talk about here today. Before I do that, I remind you not to rely on any of the many forward-looking statements that I'm going to make. And you've heard this message a couple times this morning, most articulately I think from Amanda there earlier, but I will restate it because I don't think you can overstate this very important key message about messages about how different the specialty mineral sector is from the traditional mining business. And that is the kind of approach you have to take to creating a real business involves product design, as you heard from Amanda, working with your customers, understanding what their needs are, and creating a product that will meet their needs, doing that and using an efficient process, which in the case of minerals involves creating an innovative extraction process and trying to produce the best quality product at the lowest possible cost. In order to do that, you've got to be prepared to start that business at a small scale so you can start producing that product in small quantities, introduce it to the market, get it accepted by your customers, get those offtake commitments that will allow you to scale up and create a real business. And in this day and age, if you're going to serve the clean tech community, you better do it in a sustainable way and try to do it by minimizing environmental impacts, making maximum use of the resource and not creating any undesirable waste materials. So those are the principles that we're going to take in creating a real business here going forward. If you're saying to yourself, well, that doesn't sound like a mining business. That sounds like a tech business. You're right. That's really what it is. But you do need a resource. And we've had this one for 20 years now. And when we first discovered it back in the mid 1990s, it was a brand new discovery of a rare form of lithium pegmatite, an LCT type of the very highly fractionated type that contains petalite and lipidolite as the dominant lithium minerals as opposed to spodiumene. And we found it was a brand new find. No one had ever found a petalite resource in North America before of any consequence. And petalite is the preferred source of mineral for thermal shock-resistant glass ceramics. So at that time, that was the opportunity we saw to potentially develop it. And we were on our way to doing that. But unfortunately, the market changed in North America in a way that we were not able to adapt to and we weren't able to get it off the ground then. But I knew it would have another day. At that time, the lithium ion battery was around, but was still in its infancy as a new technology. It wasn't a big enough market for us to serve yet. But I knew it would have, it would grow. And sure enough, we're seeing that opportunity created for us now to look at that as a new market. But as I'll show you shortly, we haven't given up on that glass market either. That's a very interesting opportunity for us still as well. But in the meantime, we've continued to do some work on it. We have a very secure tenure under reminding lease there now, 100% ownership of the asset with large land positioning, offering lots of exploration possibilities, good access, road access. We've been there so long, everybody in the community in Northwestern Ontario knows us very well. Great relationship with the First Nation. And as you'll see, that's the resource outline in that photo as it appeared in 1998. Right at surface, everything in white is the pegmatite readily amenable to development by simple open pit type mining methods. And these pegmatites, one of the benefits of them is they don't contain anything that constitutes a toxic waste material of concern to the environment. So just on our location, we're up in Northwestern Ontario, about 70 kilometers north of the community of Kanora on the Lake of the Woods, community of about 15,000 people and swells in the summer with all the Manitobans that come to their cottages on the Lake of the Woods. But good infrastructure in that both railways go through Kanora area. There's natural gas available there and hydro power generated on the English River just downstream from us from two different dams that offer that possibility as well as other potential clean power generation possibilities for us. So what have we been doing the last couple years? Well, in the early years, all of the work was oriented towards the producing and industrial mineral for glass. We never really looked at the battery market as an opportunity. And so when we started to consider that as a possibility a few years ago, we had to kind of take a step back. And we also realized that no one had ever made a battery material from petalite before. So there was no existing process flow sheet out there.  And we chose lithium hydroxide as a target for PEA just because that seemed to be where the best opportunity was to create a product at a competitive cost from this particular mineral. But we also know we could make lithium carbonate too. So that's one of the reasons why you want to do a double plant is to look at where you can best fit into the market and design the product accordingly. And like I say, we haven't forgotten about the glass market. We processed about 30 tons of ores, gave us lots of concentrate to do that hydromet process development, but it also gave us samples to provide to the glass customers who remain interested in this material to reconfirm its suitability in some of their products. So then we did a PEA. And really the purpose of the PEA was just to show ourselves and the market that this represented an attractive economic development opportunity for this resource. It's by no means the final answer. There's quite a bit more work to do to determine what's the appropriate scale and mix of products here, but it showed us right off the bat that we could make a lithium hydroxide product for petalite, and it does produce attractive economics. The most important part of it really is the production costs. And while our average cost as determined here isn't quite as low as what the mask had been able to achieve, it's certainly better than others that are producing lithium hydroxide from Brian's as his slide, Guy's slide showed earlier. But also of interest is, we did this a year ago, and we used a price assumption of $11,000 a ton for lithium hydroxide that's already out of date. And others are saying the pricing now is more like $15,000 to $17,000 a ton. If you use that in our DCF model, you get quite a bit higher IRRs and MPVs. But coming back to the market, while batteries are the main story, and there's no question that's where most of the demand growth is coming from, you can't forget about these other markets because they're still very significant and they are growing as well. And the glass market actually has been traditionally the biggest consumer of lithium. It's only been in the last year or two that battery demand has surpassed glass as a use of lithium on a percentage basis. And while it's going to grow faster, there is still growth, a lot of growth in the glass market for lithium as well, and a lot of other uses. Guy Barrasso reminded me at another meeting that the use of lithium hydroxide in lubricating greases is still growing and there's concern there about there being enough supply now. And we've heard a little bit about metal alloys and lithium aluminum alloys is another growth opportunity. In many of these cases, it's about how lithium can make a lighter weight material, which as we've heard already is one of the goals in the automotive sector with electric vehicles of reducing the overall weight of the car. And what we're finding now is that lithium can contribute to those electric vehicles, not only in the battery, but also to that weight solution. And there could end up being just as much lithium or more in the body of the car as there is in the battery. So not to be forgotten about as significant markets. Well, the glass market is one that we keep a close eye on because petalite is still the preferred source of mineral to introduce into a glass batch. And that's because it has basically nothing else in it except lithium, aluminum, and silica, which are all ingredients that need in the glass batch. So it's kind of a pre-mixed material that provides it all in a ready solution and does not contain any iron, which is a major contaminant in glass. So that's what they want. And that's increasingly hard to find as the battery industry is just basically soaking up all the supply of lithium right now, leaving the glass industry kind of scrambling for supplies and materials. And while there are traditional products such as stove tops, cookware, and fireplace shields, there's a lot of innovation happening in the glass sector too. One product you've probably heard about is Gorilla Glass, Corning's new high-strength glass product that Apple are using in their iPhones and other products now as we've talked about is windshield glass. Guess what is the key ingredient to make that glass stronger? And that's just one example of a whole lot of innovative new high-strength glass products that will require lithium. And lastly, it can contribute in a positive way in terms of the environment in that lithium additions to a glass batch for sodalime glass reduces the melting temperature and therefore the amount of energy use and greenhouse gas emissions that would come from the furnace. And the other thing we have in this resource is a second lithium mineral actually called the petalite that's of lithium mica. It actually contains quite a bit more lithium than petalite. Those petalite has about four and a half percent lithium oxide on average. This body means usually six or so and the petalite actually has about eight, at least a dozen, separation liquids. So this is actually offering us possibility of a second lithium mineral concentrate we can make from the same resource from which we could derive a lithium chemical as well as well as other byproducts including rubidium and cesium. So we're now starting to factor this into our development plan as well. And that's a quick geological map. The area in black line, the outline there is the area I showed you in the photo earlier, the main mass of the outcrop area. But all the extensions shown in purple there are lapitalite rich components of the resource that we've never really fully accounted for in the in the economics. So we're actually doing a little bit of drilling there now to update our resource to better account for that going forward. The resources as originally reported, this is based on all the drilling we did back in the 90s, just looked at the lithium content as it's traditionally reported in an NI 43-101 resource. But actually what would be more meaningful for us and for most of such resources, it's actually reported in terms of the mineral content. And because the lithium actually is an aggregate of the lithium in the different minerals, that's what we will be able to do now, thanks to the emergence of a lot of new tools, scanning technology, et cetera, that can allow you to differentiate between the different minerals in the resource, quantify them and integrate that into your resource. So what are we going to do next? Well, we're going to move forward with that plan on the demonstration plant as quickly as we can. We're engaging with the downstream talking to our customers, understanding their needs so we could establish a fairly large demonstration plant. Same kind of idea as Namaska had. Build it big enough that you can start making enough quantity of the material to introduce it to your customers, get it accepted and start to perhaps even supply some of their initial needs and optimize your flow sheets to get the different products on spec. If we're able to do that, then we could have, get this financed in the next little while here. We'll be able to get this up and running by the end of 2018 and gives us an opportunity to initiate small-scale production and then potentially scale up from there as we get better accepted in the marketplace and perhaps reach full production in 2021. It's kind of a complicated slide but it's basically the main message here is just how many potential products that we have that we can pull out of this resource and the interest of sustainability and maximizing revenues and reducing waste. So it has to be complicated and that's the value of the phase one demonstration plant is to allow us to produce a little bit of each and test the market and then finally decide on what the the best process flow sheet would be for this particular resource. So the next big step for us is to go ahead with this phase one plant. We've scaled to that 90,000 tons per year. That would allow us to produce a fair quantity of both petalite and lipidolite so we can start supplying our customers needs on an ongoing basis once they've accepted the product specifications and also start to produce some of the byproducts and test some of the other technology that can be applied. We will be looking at just starting to quarry the source, the resources you saw there earlier, it will be easily accessed. We see putting this demo plant in Canora where we've already identified an industrial site that would be well suited for it. It's actually an old paper mill, again kind of like what Damascus does, take advantage of old infrastructure that can be repurposed for this new whole new emerging business sector. So that has all the infrastructure that we need to establish such a facility. We can truck the Orda Canora, take the tailings back to the site for disposal and have a hyper met component to the pilot plant to develop the processes we need to define the exact lithium battery material products that we want to produce. So we want to work with the downstream and see if we can be creative on that and define what battery industry is going to need next and work with them on developing those new product ideas. And so we have this kind of interesting opportunity to serve multiple markets from the same resource. We have the potential to make hydroxide from petalite. We can make lithium carbonate from lipidolite and we can make high-gurty lithium minerals from glass ceramics and a bunch of other byproducts to serve other markets. So it's a resource that's offering lots of possibilities and we're on it to create most value that we possibly can for our shareholders going forward and thank you for your attention here today.


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So let's go back to that problem of finding the angle between two vectors, and remember we can find the angle between two vectors u and v using the law of cosines. So again, if I imagine our two vectors originating from the same point, vector u and vector v, the third side of this triangle is going to correspond to the vector we might write as u minus v, and the law of cosines gives us a relationship between the angle theta and the magnitude of the three sides. Now we can rewrite this using the dot product. So remember the magnitude of any vector is the square root of the dot product of the vector with itself. And so this square of the magnitude of u, well that's just the dot product of u with itself, the square of the magnitude of v, well that's the dot product of v with itself, and the square of the magnitude of u minus v, well that's the dot product of u minus v with itself. And we'll leave the rest of the expression the same for now.  And we can apply the distributive property a second time, and remember that the dot product is commutative, so u dot v and v dot u are the same, and so we can simplify our dot product. Now notice both sides have a u dot u and a v dot v, and since these are just real numbers we can remove them from both sides and solve for the cosine of the angle between the two vectors, and this leads to the following theorem. Let u and v be two vectors with real components, the angle theta between the two vectors satisfies the following, the cosine of theta is the dot product divided by the product of the magnitudes. So let's try and find the angle between our two vectors, so we need to find the dot product, we need to find the magnitude of the two individual vectors, and our theorem says the cosine of the angle is the dot product divided by the product of the magnitudes, so we'll replace with the values we've found, and we can use that to find the angle itself. Now, we don't really care that much about the angle between two vectors. Well, okay, if you're a physicist or an engineer or an astronomer or a navigator or anybody else who uses vectors for something practical, you do actually care about the angle, but mathematicians don't really care that much about the angle, except there are sometimes when it's useful to have vectors that are perpendicular or because we want to generalize this idea, we use the term orthogonal. And so the question you want to ask yourself is, self, how can we tell if two vectors are orthogonal? And here's where the dot product is useful. If the two vectors are orthogonal, then the angle between them is theta equal to 90 degrees, but the cosine of 90 degrees is zero, and so our formula that gives us the angle between two vectors reduces down to the dot product equal to zero, and so we say that two vectors are perpendicular. Again, we also use the term orthogonal if their dot product is zero. And this leads to an important problem. Let's find a vector that's orthogonal to 158. And so we know that the vector will have components x, y, z, and our dot product should be zero. Well, we know how to compute the dot product. And the thing to observe here is that we have one equation with three unknowns, and we know that there is no unique solution. However, because we have one equation with three unknowns, if we pick values for two of the variables, we can solve for the value of the third. So let's choose, well, how about x equals zero, y equals zero? If we choose these as our values, we get z equal to zero, and so our vector is x, y, z, all zero. And before we box in this as our answer, let's think about this, a vector tells us how to get to a point from a point. The vector zero, zero, zero tells us to go nowhere. So it tells us how to get from where we are to where we are. Well, that doesn't seem very useful. And we say that it is a trivial solution to the problem where a trivial solution is a solution that doesn't really tell you anything. Can we find a non-trivial solution? Sure, let's choose a different set of values for x and y. So we don't want them all to be zero, so what if we choose x equals zero, y equals three? In that case, we get, and so we have our vector components, zero, three, negative 15 eighths, and so this vector will be orthogonal. And in fact, we could find other vectors by other choices of two of the variables. For example, if we let x equals three and y equals one, we get another vector that's orthogonal. And we don't have to choose values for x and y and find z. We could choose values for x and z and find y or y and z and find x. And so we could find as many orthogonal vectors as we want. So how many do we want? We'll take a look at that next.


Hello boys and girls, welcome to another Jeep video before I say anything else. I need to make a correction This is a 2020 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon JLU apparently two door Jeeps are JL and four Four door are JLUs Anyways, now if you've seen the supercharger install videos that was done kind of in between I kind of dropped everything whatever I was doing and started doing the supercharger only because it's it's more interesting than you know installing fenders or Suspension whatever this video is going to be about the lift kit, which is a 3-inch by Teraflex. I Think it's Teraflex. You're gonna see a box On one of the boxes it will say I think Teraflex anyway, so Front suspension for now Falcon adjustable shocks longer sway bar links springs and Drop brackets. I'm gonna have to split this into probably two parts which should cover the whole the front and rear Suspension lift. Alright, don't forget to subscribe like comment as always and enjoy the video Look at all this stuff Okay starting here This is no, this is the skid plate. Yeah, this is the skid plate The all this is part of the lift kit springs some kind of brackets Check this out. These are shocks here fully adjustable. These are nice by the way These are just seat covers. This is a harness for something these Two both long boxes. Those are running boards.  I'm guessing rear taillights. At least that's what they look like some kind of Step for the rear I'm guessing these big boxes are fenders. There's two more inside the Jeep and More lights. I'm not even taking any of these out out of the boxes yet But this is that big led light that's gonna get mounted on the roof Most likely maybe on the front bumper don't know and there's more coming to it's gonna be a lot of work I don't even know where to start. I honestly don't know where to start I don't want it to be to have a case where I install something and then I Open up a box and that part is gonna go in More or less where the where I just installed the new part and I'm gonna have to take some stuff out So I gotta kind of make a plan There's still the supercharger Coming the front bumper and Honestly, I don't even know would be nice to to have everything out and compare see but I Had to take my car out out of this garage and park it somewhere else just so I can Have everything out. Anyways. Oh, yeah, there's still the exhaust. That's not here. Maybe maybe I should start with the lift kit What do you think? All right decided to go with the lift kit first. I got bump stops Longer sway bar links brackets bolts nuts washers All kinds of things much longer springs And three sets of instructions. So whatever they say at this point. What I'm gonna do is remove this Fender and the wheel well cover this plastic thing just to make my life easier. They're asking for Removing the square ballings the springs the shocks and Supporting the front axle. So we're doing the front For now, obviously I took the wheels off. So let's start with the fender Okay, let's take a closer look what's behind door number one This looks like an air compressor. We've got access to the headers Or one of them catalytic converter right here. What's nice about this is Everything is accessible a lot of room to work with here's the other side Your brake booster another catalytic converter right here That's probably the AC compressor here It's your power steering Okay, so now what needs to be done is Need to somehow support the front axle on its side Here and Here and unfortunately, I don't have tall jack supports. So I'm going to work on the car while it's much lower Unless I can figure something out axle Support it. I cannot lock the The lift so it's going to sit like this for a bit without it being locked for a little bit. It's okay But you want to avoid you want to always use your luck. Okay, so now Now I'm going to remove the sway bar a link all together. These are 18s loosen up the different suspension components and Remove this track bar bolt This is a 21 so two 18s and a 21. Okay, so this was the Passenger side on the driver's side. You're only removing the sway bar link now same on both sides Brake lines 15 and a 10 mil take these both brackets off Now we are removing these brackets all together So this this lower one needs to be pried open Okay, this may I don't know is this now. This is steel feels like steel and This one there is a clip on the other side. Just use a flat screwdriver This one's This one's easy Okay, coming back to the driver's side I'm gonna remove this breeder hose from the front differential There's a clamp and remove this Harness here unplug this and remove it with this clip right here Basically, what you're doing is removing everything that might get caught while all of this the front Moves down so all the whole front axle it's gonna come down So anything that will just you know pay attention or anything that's still connected Just remove it make sure that you don't damage anything Pull on the white clip This guy here move it back and then press on the white tab here and remove the plug Okay, back to the passenger side only listening The control arm bolts, so this is your upper control arm. This is gonna be your lower control arm This is a 21 then on the back of this is a 24 and an 18 in there and 18 Here so we're only loosening these up now that I look inside here. This nut is welded to this Stopper whatever you want to call this thing. So you gotta get it from the other side and there is a cover Which is held up by two 10 mil bolts one is here on the bottom the other ones on top This is what I'm talking about upper and lower bolt both 10 mil bolts and Now I got access to the 18 mil Okay, this one. I'm gonna have to hold the bolt on the other side with an 18 mil wrench That was the upper control arm Now the lower okay little correction remove the upper and lower control arms Out completely. I left the lower one attached to the front So it's kind of hanging here along with the upper one, but the upper one is only hanging on this Harden this is a light. So it's okay. It's hanging on this harness over here on this clip Do the same thing on the other side because of these brackets This bracket on the passenger side will install It's gonna look like this And it's gonna bring those control arms lower Now I'm gonna remove the shock both 18 mil bolts There's an 18 mil nut on the back of the bottom one Now I'm gonna raise the Jeep So I can take the springs out Check if there's anything else that's connected or It was stretched for no reason. It's fine. We're good Still need a little more any of slack on the brake lines I'm just gonna go a bit more So these are the bump stops and you want to stack these up because we are doing a three inch lift Here this says two inch half and a half so that's three longer springs are for the front and They are both the same. I don't see an L or an R on Any of them and the part number is the same. Okay, I have removed this harness Uncliped it basically from here and unplugged it. It was getting close had a little bit of room But just I need to drop it a bit more Just to install those longer springs in place So just do yourself a favor and disconnect this harness as well. All right get it as high as you can but in my case The watch the drive ship because as the drive ship Angles down it will pull the axle with it So watch it because the whole axle started Going back and it's tilting my jack stands. So just keep an eye on that and you got a I Got I don't know probably two feet over here. All right grab your right spring Upper parts of the spring first now. They say to use zip ties to zip tie the bump stops to the spring I Found it easy already did the other side by the way found it easy to just hold it and Slide it in with the spring Now there is only one spot the spring will go so find that spot right there I'm going to Adjust it later on both springs as As we compress the springs. So now that the bump stop is in and take this ellen Bolt, this is a six by the way Drop it inside Using this tool to hold the nut won't drop because of the built-in washer I gotta say the driver's side was much easier. It didn't have this Provision for the For the track bar and it would be more difficult to aim the nut to the bolt, but using this LNT here and Patience Think we are in yes. We are all right. Okay. That's a lock nut. So it's gonna get tight with just a few turns So you want to put your Ratchet on try to lock in place that special tool holding the nut Watch your drop light drop Maybe that's why it's called the drop light This is a bit tricky tool on the Bottom there doesn't want to stay in place in one spot Okay, there we go that tool is still in place there. I'm gonna Remove the ratchets and use my trusty torque wrench this parts down to 12 but the trick here is to go slow if you're gonna go fast watch this Okay, see I already reached 12 But I bet you it needs more tightening. So if I go slow See it's only a 10 so you want to go slow and get it up to 12 and This should be good Alright time for this fancy schmancy Drop bracket is what they call it. It's gonna go in in between the frame here and in between Just basically put it in and Pull it towards you It's only attached. It's only gonna be touching the frame on this side here You'll see what I mean in a second. So what I'm gonna do just to hold it in place Just run through the lower bolt I only have two arms after all and I'm gonna work on the upper side of it with this Stuff here the longest bolt that they provide in the kit this 16 not I believe 16 mil Maybe 18. I don't know. So you got two small ones and one medium one Now the small one will go in between the frame and the bracket. So what I'm gonna do I'm gonna Hold it up there now I'm holding the spacer With the bolt now. Okay. Now that's in I'm holding the bracket with the bolt Here you can see it move. I'm gonna grab the medium spacer from the bottom using patience again. It's not gonna be easy. I Can't use a magnet because this is aluminum much easier This was steel but it's better that it's aluminum and won't rust. Okay now That's in drive the bolt in some more and now the small spacer again So I've done the other side first second time. It's much easier. So these nuts They're only gonna go in a few threads because if you can see they are Lock washer. They're squashed now back to the bottom bolt and take that out and only access this from the bottom here So what I'm gonna do Take it out and basically So this this part of the frame needs to go in between the spacer and the bracket So it can be a bit tricky But to make your life easier Keep a flat screwdriver handy. Now you can use the screwdriver to actually Adjust it. As you remember you're adjusting the bracket and the spacer and that's it This the screwdriver will make your life easier and this is a 24 and That's it. The whole point of this is to bring these lower control arms lower Okay, now the shocks are using these longest factory bolt and This bulge on the bottom this bulge facing the front of The Jeep so upper one first I'm not tightening anything up yet. That's gonna get done When everything is back together, so I'm gonna leave this hanging for now. And the next step is to lower the Jeep and adjust As it comes together probably two more people will be useful one way on the lift and two guys on each side watching and Holding the lower control arms Everything else needs to come together and The springs so that may take a while. So that's what I'm gonna do now Before I start lowering it when I reinstall the upper control arms with the factory bolts And leave that loose as well. Okay, let's roll here check this out I'm gonna use the upper control arm to hold the lower control arm