Now, it's my pleasure to introduce our keynote speaker, Nina Simon, who is a visionary leader in making cultural institutions truly relevant to their communities. Nina is currently the Executive Director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, and she is the author of the Participatory Museum, the very popular Museum Point 2.0 and most recently the Art of Relevance, which she will be signing after this session. Smithsonian Magazine called Nina a museum visionary, and in 2012 she received the American Alliance for Museum's Nancy Hanks Memorial Award. She was also named one of the 50 most powerful and influential people in nonprofit arts by the Western States Art Federation. Nina's work has been described as simultaneously game-changing and utterly doable, but I think the description I love most of her work is that it manifests relevance as radical hope. Here to bring us radical hope is Nina Simon. Thank you. Thank you so much for having me. My radical hope is that we can use relevance not to sell to more people, not to superficially connect to current events, but to matter more to more people in our communities that we serve. As Catherine mentioned, I run a small museum of art and history in Santa Cruz, California. We also run a couple of historic sites in our county. Santa Cruz, if you don't know it, is a community of about 65,000 people an hour and a half south of San Francisco. This is the outside of our museum, and this is what it looks like today, but it's not what it looked like when I came to become its director five and a half years ago. At the time, we had two really big problems. The first was money. We didn't have any. The day I walked in as our new director, we had $16,000 in the bank, we had $36,000 in unpaid bills, and there was no secret check or grant on the horizon.  There were more people in Santa Cruz County who knew that this building used to be the county jail than knew that it was now a museum, and it had been a museum at this point for almost 20 years. And it was in the context of this dual crisis, a financial crisis and a relevance crisis that our board was spurred to act to say we want to matter more to more people and we're willing to make a change to do that. So I was hired, as somebody once said to me, a crisis is a terrible thing to waste, and we made very short work of using this crisis to our advantage, to radically change the work that we do, to make the museum a welcoming gathering place for our community, to say, instead of saying that we have the art, we have the history, and it's our job to share it, to say the art and history lived throughout our county, and it's our job to find it and ignite it. And we do these things so that people can bond with the people they love, but more importantly, so that they can bridge with people and ideas and cultural experiences that are new to them. And also, not so they can necessarily learn and feel disempowered by the disembodied voice of a curator, but so that they can feel empowered to make art and make history themselves. We memorialized all of this in this theory of change we use to connect the activities we do to the impact that we want to have. And what's important to see here is this last statement. We changed our museum not by changing our building, but by changing its purpose, by saying we exist to build a stronger and more connected community, and we're going to use art and history to do that. And while that's aspirationally exciting, it's frankly been a game changer for us from a business perspective as well. So in my first five years, we were able to almost quadruple our attendance to more than double our staff, more than double our budget, and to go from that $16,000 in unsure if we could make payroll to being able to build and grow our impact and our capability in our community. And what you can't see in these numbers is that those 60,000 participants, 92% of them are local, and they reflect the full age, income, and ethnic diversity of our county. We are truly representing and involving our community now in what we do. And as an executive director, of course, I love these numbers. I love being able to make payroll. But underneath this growth has been a basic question. Who are all these people who are now engaged with the museum but who didn't care about it before? Are they coming because of this social experience? Is that what's relevant? Is it that we're doing unorthodox programs in unusual places with unusual partners? Or is it about the content of what we share in the museum, who we're empowering as the art makers and the history makers in our community? And it's in the context of all of those questions that I decided I wanted to learn more about relevance. I wanted to go on this quest to understand how other practitioners across the world, across our disciplines were thinking about this question of how we can matter more to more people. And the very first thing I learned about relevance is this. Nothing is universally relevant, not Beyonce, not the Super Bowl, and certainly not history.  Yes, history is important, but that doesn't make it relevant. We can't assign relevance to things by fiat. People choose every day for themselves what they think is relevant and what they don't. How do we make those choices? Well, interestingly, there are researchers who look at this and they've found that there are two criteria that really make something relevant. The first is that it generates a cognitive effect, some kind of aha, a meaningful experience, whether that be emotional, intellectual, physical. And the second criteria is that it requires a reasonably low effort to get that aha. So, for example, we're all here at this conference because we think it's going to be relevant to us. We think there's going to be some meaning here, whether we're going to learn, whether we're going to connect with colleagues, whether we're going to enjoy Houston. There is some positive cognitive effect that comes from this. But we're also all here because we decided that coming to Houston this week for this experience was manageable. The effort was worth it. And if this conference were happening in another city at another time, we all might not be here. We make these choices every day. How much meaning am I going to get out of this thing? How much effort is it going to take me to get that meaning? Let me give you an example that doesn't come from the cultural sector at all. Who here likes bacon? Come on, give it up. It's the end of the day. Great. So, I'm a vegetarian. And I have spent pretty much my whole adult life trying to convince my family and friends, you know, the people who love me most, that maybe eating meat is not such a good idea. And they, right, so while there are a few clappers here, at least my family and friends have just like totally ignored me. I don't know if this is happening to you as well. So, you can imagine my surprise when last year the World Health Organization, you may remember this, they put out this study showing that cured meats like bacon are in the same carcinogenic category as asbestos and cigarettes. Do people remember this? Yeah, so I felt like this was a study I had seen and sent to a million people, but I had not seen and sent this to a million people because this study was the one that broke the Internet and that blew up on news media everywhere because the headline was not what I just said, the headline was Bacon Causes Cancer. And people flipped out. It was all over the world media. I walked into the dentist and the hygienist told me she'd heard about this on the radio and she and her son had instantly decided to stop eating meat. And I remember looking at her and thinking, what happened here for you that has not happened in my years with my family and friends? And the answer is that this headline, Bacon Causes Cancer, is a beautiful example of fitting these criteria for relevance. It provides this aha, right? When something you love, bacon is connected to something you hate, cancer, there's a very big meaning moment there. It doesn't take a lot of effort to understand it. Of course, the effort problem comes in here when you actually think about making an action based on this information, at which point many people said, OK, I got the information, but I'm not going to change what I do. We can laugh about this because it's about bacon. But I would submit to you that we are making the same mistake every day in our work. We are trying to sell the meaning of what we do in our frame, and we are not finding the Bacon Causes Cancer headline that will make somebody turn around and see that meaning and that opportunity in their frame. And it's in this context that I've started to use this working definition of relevance, that if we think about relevance as a key, that unlocks a door to meaning. So imagine your historic site, your museum, whatever it is, that place that you love as a room. All the good stuff, the meaning, the emotional experiences, the power live inside that room. There are insiders to that room, your staff, your volunteers, your loved members and patrons. They have a key to that room. It is relevant to them. They know how to walk up that door. They take out their key. They unlock the door. They walk in, boom, they're having that great experience. But for people who are outside the room, they don't see the meaning. They don't see the good stuff. All they see is a locked door. And it's on us to figure out how we can use relevance to invite people to unlock that door so that they can access the power inside. This has led me over the last few years to really focus on this question of how we can invite outsiders into the work that we do. I've been thinking about this a lot this year because of the election. Everybody talks about who you support. But for me, the real story about presidential elections is how few eligible Americans vote. You know, it's somewhere between 30% and 50% of eligible adults don't vote.  I think that people don't vote because they don't feel like it's relevant to them. The effort feels impossibly high. Or maybe the meaning feels very low. I have friends who don't vote, and they say it's because they don't feel like they have a choice on something that matters to them. They don't feel like their vote matters. They don't see the meaning. And they're not going to unlock that door. And so if we want to change that, we have to find ways to invite outsiders in for their own reasons. And I think it's actually incredibly powerful that we've now had two presidents elected who have found ways to invite outsiders into the meaning of voting. You know, eight years ago, Barack Obama did it with art and music. And this year, Donald Trump did it with hats and Twitter. And both of these guys' campaigns were laughed at by insiders who said, you're not going to get those outsiders in for that. They're not going to vote because of that. But they were able to make that meaningful connection that invited people into that door. I think we have this fallacious idea when we do this work that we are going to get more outsiders into our doors just by opening our doors wider, that we have the programs we have. We have this purple circle of experiences and that our insiders love. And we're just going to open it wider, and those outsiders will come in. This doesn't work because this is predicated on the idea that the room is staying exactly where it is. Outsiders aren't avoiding us because they don't know where the door is. They're avoiding us because they don't see that door as relevant or meaningful to them. In our case, our change of the ma looked more like this. We had this small institution with a small group of insiders, and we took a perfectly nice set of walls, and we said we are going to turn those into doors, and we are going to invite outsiders in. Now there's a safe side and a scary side to this picture. The safe side is this. Most of the purple circle people stayed. Most of our insiders, most of our traditional museum lovers are thrilled to see young people in the museum. They're thrilled to see people of color in the museum. They're thrilled to see the museum they care about, solvent, and thriving in our community. Fewer of them left than you would think. But here's the scary part. To have this growth, we had to recenter a lot of our programming outside where we had been before. We had to take those perfectly nice walls and turn them into doors. Let me give you an example of what that tension looked like. This is a flyer from the very first pop-up museum we ever did. A pop-up museum is a museum that people make themselves. People bring their own objects on a theme. They hand write labels about those objects and boom, you have an instant museum. So this was the very first one. It was the night before Valentine's Day. The theme was F my X. And the idea was that you brought an object from a failed relationship to a bar. And we had this happy hour. People wrote their stories. It was great. I think you can probably imagine looking at this flyer how this flyer was a key to a door of meaning that many people in our community did not know existed before. There were, especially in this case, young people in our community who saw this flyer and said, whoa, I didn't know we had a museum. Wow, this looks fun. I'm going to go do that. I think you can also imagine that we had some insiders, some purple circle people who saw this flyer and were distressed, not just by the letter F, which I've learned is just said no, no. But the irreverence and the ephemerality of this program ran counter to what they saw a museum as being all about. And so because of this quote unquote controversy, we wrote a blog post about this. And we got this really interesting comment in from this guy who said, I'm closer to the stodgy traditional museum supporter than to the audiences you're currently trying to reach. But I strongly support your outreach and attempts to involve new communities. It's precisely because of that outreach that I finally became a museum member last year. There was no reason to do so before since in this guy's opinion, the museum was doing nothing. I still have little occasion to go to the museum, but I'm willing to support it as an important community resource. I think it's so fascinating, because this guy who's saying I'm a purple circle person and the museum as that purple circle museum meant nothing to me. And now I'm a supporter because you are building these doors in our community in new ways. And obviously this is the positive story, but there are a lot of other stories underneath this, tensions that we still deal with five and a half years later into this change between insiders and outsiders as we open up. Sometimes insiders express themselves in ways that are angry, discriminatory, racist. When people express themselves in these ways, it's actually pretty easy for us. When they go low, we say goodbye. But what's harder for us to deal with actually is when insiders express confusion. I remember when we were developing that theory of change and we were talking about art and history as vehicles for empowerment. And one of our trustees said, well, I don't go to a museum to be empowered. And I had to turn to her and say, Cynthia, you're the mayor of Santa Cruz. I'm pretty sure you have a lot of opportunities to be empowered. This is the hard thing about doing this work, right? That as you are building this construction site to open the doors for outsiders, the outsiders are not there saying thank you yet. They don't know you exist yet. All you have are insiders who are saying, why did you take that perfectly nice wall and turn it into a door that I don't understand? And so we are always trying at our institution to focus on the outsiders, even if they don't exist yet. Because in our case, we found that when we built the doors, they did come and they did exist. And there are people like Jasmine Avila. Jasmine's a young Latina librarian in Santa Cruz County. This is a piece from an email she sent to our members last year where she says, growing up in LA, I was surrounded by my culture. There were constant reminders of who I am. Santa Cruz always felt like something was missing. The parts of me were missing, even after living here for seven years. The maw is special to me because it fills that gap. It reflects my story, my history and my culture. And Jasmine goes on to talk about how as a young Latina, she's found her place culturally at the museum. And when I have to decide and I have to think about and hear from insiders who are confused and unhappy and uncertain about those new doors, people who are saying, why are we doing this? This doesn't make sense for what I need. I'm always thinking of the Jasmine's, whether they exist yet or not, who are going to come through those doors and have an experience that matters for them. Where do you find Jasmine's of this world? Leave your building. Go outside to the communities of interest for you because fundamentally, relevance is not about us imagining what somebody wants or selling to somebody. It's about really empathizing with somebody's needs, interests, fears, desires, the things they're proud of, the things they're curious about, the things that say welcome and the things that say keep out. And for me, my greatest heroes are those outsiders who I have the privilege to work with as volunteers, as partners, as staff, as trustees, who help me identify what says welcome in, what says keep out. I want to introduce you to two of those heroes. The first is Betty Reed-Suskin. Anybody here know who she is? All right, yeah, you all should know who she is because she's a history hero in this country. Betty Reed-Suskin is the oldest interpretive park ranger in the National Park Service. She's probably the oldest ranger of any kind in the park service. She's in her 90s, she's in Richmond, California, and she joined the park service in her 80s to interpret a site where she had worked during World War II as part of the home front effort. Incredible woman, incredible story. But the reason I bring her up now is because Betty joined the park service in her 80s and she does something unusual which is she wears her uniform not just while she's at the park, but all over the streets of Richmond and Oakland. And Betty says, when I wear my uniform on the streets of the city, I am announcing to young people of color a career path and an opportunity that I didn't know existed till I was in my 80s and Lord knows I don't want other people to have to wait that long to figure it out. Betty is a bridge walker. She is holding open a door and using her uniform as a key to say, come on in, this is for you too. But what's interesting, of course, is that every community is different and I want to introduce you to another one of my heroes in the park service. This is Cam Juarez, Cam works in Tucson, Arizona at Seguaro National Park. And Cam was hired as a community organizer specifically to work with local Latino communities in Tucson. And Cam said, you know, for my community, Latinos living near the border, this uniform is not an open door. This uniform does not say, come on in. And as we are working with communities in our own places, we have to find these cams, these beddies who can help us understand what says welcome and what says keep out. For us at our small museum, that has meant lots of partnerships with different people throughout our county. These are 40 of the people in our creative leadership network in our county, representatives of so many different communities. So that I know who to call if I want to understand more about what it means to be an undocumented O'Kalkan in our community. I know who to call if it's a young tech entrepreneur. And I know who to call in the bike messenger world or the farmer's market world to understand how we can invite people into the work that we do. You know, I was just in St. Paul a couple of weeks ago at a museum that had a cop in the lobby. And I asked them, why do you have a cop in the lobby? And they said, well, we've talked to our visitors and we've surveyed them and visiting families say they feel more welcome and more comfortable here if there's a cop in the lobby. And I said to them, well, you know, I know that you're interested in inviting in some other communities from St. Paul. Have you asked them how they feel about a cop in the lobby? Because things that are a welcome in sign for some people are a keep out sign for others. And I think the hardest thing to do is when you hear from those Betteys, those cams, those community partners, hey, this is a problem for me. You have to decide, are we gonna take that cop out of the lobby? Are we gonna take off that uniform? Are we gonna change what we do to really welcome in the people we care about engaging? And I wanna share a story of an institution that's done that in a powerful way. This is the State Library of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. Has anybody been there? Wait, that's such a big group, I would think. Okay, you should go, it's beautiful. And I was lucky enough to be there right after open. It is one of the most beautiful libraries I've ever seen. It is contemporary, white, gleaming, open plan, incredible space. And I was there because after they opened, they were working to plan a piece that they hadn't been able to open with the full library initially, which was this thing called Curl Doggin, an indigenous knowledge center. And so I was there along with other designers, architects, librarians, and indigenous and Aboriginal leaders to figure out how we could build this indigenous knowledge center into this library. And we're sitting in this white gleaming, open plan space. And the very first thing that the Aboriginal elders say is, you know, the way we share knowledge is not really around books. It's primarily through music and dance. It's intergenerational, and it's gotta be colorful. It can't be so sterile and white everywhere, like a hospital. You can see librarians looking around at their gleaming library that they were so proud of with new eyes. And then the Aboriginal elders said, you know, and the most important way we share knowledge is around a fire. I don't know if you know any librarians. But they were at this moment where they had to decide, were we for real when we said we wanted to invite indigenous people to make this their library too? Or were we just secretly hoping that they would come through the doors we already built to this place that we are proud of and thank us for the opportunity to do so? And to their great credit, they decided they were for real and they took one of those white gleaming spaces and made it a colorful intergenerational space for music and dance. And they found an outdoor space where they were able to build this fire pit. This is an international indigenous youth Congress happening here at this library because it was created to be a meaningful space for them. And so I invite you, as you think and talk over these next few days about the work you do to invite in community members to think about the room of the work that you do, to think about the doors that exist that welcome people into it and the doors that say keep out. I invite you to think about the historic doors that we've had, the doors that communicated welcome and power and happiness and pride to a particular people at a particular time but may not communicate that to other people now in our time. I invite you also to think about whether, as you grow, you are accidentally building a motel. I see this a lot, especially in big institutions that we end up saying, okay, we're gonna build this room and this door for youth programs, this room and this door for the archives, the development department will be over here and each one is gonna be a different experience targeted for a different kind of person. I think these motels, I understand why they happen but I think they're very problematic. They're problematic for visitors because we are tracking people narrowly into one narrow slice of all of the meaning and good stuff we have and they're problematic for us institutionally because we end up in these constant battles about which room is the real room and which room are we gonna put new furniture in and which room are we gonna decommission. Of course, this isn't actually the worst thing we do. I think sometimes the worst thing we do is we paint fake doors on the outsides of walls and we invite people, we entice people to run towards them and they bang their heads and they're walking away, rubbing their heads wondering what the heck just happened and we're sitting there saying, oh, why didn't they come back or maybe we have a door that we opened just for a short period. Oh, this weekend, it's Dragon Festival. Chinese families, come in. Oh, okay, now we're closing that door. Wait till next year or maybe you have a door that only opens into a very narrow vestibule of the experiences that you offer. I firmly believe that the meaning and value in the work that we do, in the sites that we steward is full of richness and goodness for everybody in our community but I believe to invite people into that, we can't be satisfied with the doors we already have. We have to be willing to look at those beautiful old walls and say, let's build a door here and here and here and as we do that, as we invite people in through those doors, we invite them in together to a bridge space to experience all the meaning inside and I truly believe if we can do that, if we can open these doors, we can build bigger rooms and more meaning together. Thank you. Thank you.


All praises due to Allah, the Lord of all the worlds. All praises are due to Allah who has guided us to Islam who would not have been able to guide ourselves had not Allah, Ta'ala, guided us. All praises due to Allah who has revealed the scripture unto his servant and has made no crookedness therein. All praises due to Allah who has blessed us to celebrate a beautiful Eid. Beautiful people in beautiful places. All praises due to Allah who has blessed us with safety and security. Alhamdulillah, all praises due to Allah who has blessed us with the Quran. Who sends messages of guidance, of hope, of love to his beloved servants. Now Allah make us amongst his beloved servants. Amongst the things that we have been enjoying to do for which Allah promises his love is working for this Deen. If Allah has blessed us even in the smallest ways, just in the context of our being a neighbor, to our neighbors who might not be Muslim, to show them through our example, the beauty of Islam.  It might be just with a friendly warm greeting. It might be an occasional gift. Small ways where they can witness to us the beauty of Islam. Alhamdulillah, Allah has shown us through the example of the people of Gaza. And before them, the people of Sham or the people of Afghanistan, or the people of Iraq, or the people of Somalia, or the people of all of these places where these manufactured crisis of vexing the Muslims has shown us that you can invade and occupy a people's lands, but you can invade and occupy their hearts.  That you can put all of the obstacles in the path of the people and freedom. But you can't put obstacles in the path of the will to be free. And through that example, people are becoming Muslims all over this world and waves. The most famous example I can think of right here is this very Masjid, where a young man walked all the way from Livermore, 13 years old, to this Masjid, to bear witness there's no God but Allah. And Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. And then walked all the way back and is a strong, young, intelligent young servant of Allah already making efforts to learn his deem and Allah give him and all of the others, Taufiq. A lot of people, and I can understand the sentiment, saying, you know, we shouldn't celebrate, eat, just have the prayer, don't have the games for the children and don't have the sweets. And the this and the that, because our brothers and sisters in Palestine, they're suffering. I don't know if you notice, they had eaten in Palestine and Gaza, people were praying on the rubble. And with the little bit that they had, they were sharing it and they were celebrating themselves. We always have something to celebrate as Muslims. Because we have Allah. We have Islam, we have the Qur'an. Allah Ta'ala addresses his Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, qul, bi-fatlilahi wa bi-rahmatihi fa bi-thalika afal yafrahu khayrum mimna yajma'un. Say, literally in the grace of Allah and in his mercy, let them rejoice. It is better than anything they can gather from the world. This address is not to the Muslims. It's to the people that will be lying the mission of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. It's for the people that were defending their idols and defending the erroneous ways of the ancestors. So the Prophet is instructed sallallahu alayhi wa sallam qul. Ya Muhammad. Bi-fatlilahi wa fatlilahi the fluffy, the exegesis tell us is Al-Islam, wa bi-rahmatihi and his mercy, el-Quran. So he's saying say to them, oh Muhammad, they shouldn't be celebrating the idolatrous practice practice, they shouldn't be celebrating their enmity unto you. Let them come into Islam and in Islam and in the mercy of the of Allah manifest in Quran, let in this let them celebrate. It's better than anything they can gather from the world. Dear brothers and sisters, you can have the best house, the best car, the best yacht, the best condo, the best clothes, the best perfumes, the best of anything the world can offer you. And you don't have anything if you live this, leave this world and La ilaha illallah Muhammad Rasulullah is not in your heart. We should be celebrating the resiliency and the steadfastness of the people of their determination to hold on to Islam, their courage to walk into certain death. Men, they're ambulance drivers, they know they're going, they're targeted and they're going to be killed. You might have seen a video, some of them joking about it. Two guys sitting in the front seat in an ambulance, we got to go get them guys. Probably our last run. Okay then let us celebrate Bismillah. Because they understand something. Losing this world is not losing everything. Losing this world is opening the door to everything. Because what's in this world including us doesn't last. Everything here is perishing. When we die, the door is open to that which remains. And the wets, all the Mufas yunim including Ibn Taymiah said that. So we could translate that. Everything here is perishing, only Allah will remain. And only your noble, your lord, Allah the processor of all nobility will remain. A power, majesty rather. The possessor of majesty and all nobility will remain. That's the reality my dear brothers and sisters.  Profiting on the murder of Muslims. War is bad for business unless you're in the business of war.  That's one reason that the myth of the Muslim menace so-called Islamophobia is perpetuated. You'll have the boogeyman, Hamas, Saddam, Khomeini, Khazafi to use the bombs against. The Taliban to use the bombs against. But change is coming. Change is coming. You want to see indication of the change five Jumaas. I remember when MCC was in a storefront. A small fraction of this room right at the height of Islamophobia. Did it stop Islam? It didn't stop Islam. Look now. If you're here on the night of the month Monday night, it was like umrah.  And Allah is going to complete his religion even if those who reject it despise it or hate it. So the question for us becomes are we going to hold on or will we be those people are replaces? Are we going to be example for those people coming into Islam? Are we going to organize ourselves so we can properly teach them? Are we going to get rid of all the petty nonsense that might deter people from Islam? Some of you know this story. We won't mention her name in Juma. The young chick talk lady sees the videos from Gaza. She's the faith. And so where's that coming from? They say they're Muslims. What's their book? The Qur'an. The lady buys a translation of the Qur'an becomes totally captured by the Qur'an. Opens up a page, a TikTok page. I don't know what you call it. It wasn't a TikTok page but can open some kind of room and got 5,000 people reading Qur'an with her. Then she takes it. But you know what's sad? 5,000 people aren't Muslims looking for guidance and direction. Here come the Muslims.  They're not real Muslims. Oh, be careful about those Sunnis. They don't respect Ali Bey. Be careful about those Wahhabis. They're anthropomorphists. Be careful about those Sufis. They're grave worshippers. We can't receive people who are learning, yearning and longing just for la ilaha Allah. Muhammad Rasul Allah. We can't receive them with that nonsense. We can't receive them with that pettiness. We'll drive them away. It's time for us to be a mature community. A nurturing community. A loving community. An accepting community. A tolerant community. A merciful community. People are suffering. People are suffering. Probably the biggest in this country right now. You know probably the biggest demographic coming into Islam. Young Jewish women. Young Jewish women. We know Allah and we have to stop here. We'll say this. If you want something to celebrate. Allah Ta'ala says Those who have rejected this this deem are spending their money to turn people away. From the path of Allah. And they will continue to spend it. Then it's going to be a source of great sadness. Why don't you be sad if you're spending billions of dollars to discredit Islam. Disfigure Islam.  Your very children are coming into Islam. Your very children are putting their lives on the line, stopping the traffic, occupying Congress, shutting down Grand Central Station. We're seeing miracles. We're seeing the Quran manifested before our very eyes. And some of us are depressed. We rejoice in the gifts and the favors that Allah shows to us. What we don't rejoice in is the dunya. What did Karun's people say to him? And Karun, what did he rejoice in? His house, his palace. So his people, they said don't rejoice in that. Don't give any meaning and significance to that. Allah doesn't love people who rejoice over that. So we know, we don't rejoice over the dunya. We don't get obsessed because we know if we're obsessed with it, one day what might happen. That wealth we might rejoice in, it benefits us in no way. The car is of no benefit now. You're so happy. If you got pollen, it's pollen season. You watch that every day so the pollen wouldn't build up. Everyone can see the sign on it. It's no benefit. The car, the house, everyone come over. When we're living in a little shack, we didn't invite anyone over. When we got the 4,000 square feet, everybody, every weekend, parties at our house, the vickers at our house. The house is going to be of no benefit. Kids doing bad, struggling. Kind of keep them away from the other kids. Kids just finish Quran. But you get the picture. They start messing up a little. We are headed for the normal of wealth. Our children are going to benefit us. Masha Allah, they finish Quran. Alhamdulillah. That's wonderful. That's beautiful. Especially in these circumstances, Allah like God. It's not going to benefit us if our heart is in Rahm. No amount of wealth or children will be of any benefit. Who will be benefited? The one who comes in for Allah with an upright heart. And in this dunya, what rectifies our heart? May Allah bless all of us to hold strong to our Islam. May Allah bless us all of us to give the Qur'an its right. If we don't understand it in Arabic, reading in English, reading in Spanish, benefit from the understanding as you learn to read it in Arabic. May Allah bless us to be the people of true Islam, the people of prophetic Islam, the people who follow a prophet whose heart was wide enough to encompass the entire universe. May Allah make our hearts wide enough to encompass all those wonderful people coming into this deem. May Allah bless us and have mercy on us and elevate us and make us a shining example for not just the people of this land, for this world.


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You tuned in to the COVID-19 community report here on KDRT LP 95.7 FM in Davis, California. I'm Autumn Lab A. Renaud. Today is Tuesday, April 6th, 2021, and we're sharing local news and resources focusing on what's impacting Davis and nearby cities in Yolo County during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is Episode 59. I'll be wrapping this show at the end of this month with the last episode airing April 27th. I started at March 17th, 2020, thinking I'd continue it for a few months. Ha! It's been purposeful work, and I hope it's been of service, and I need to begin reclaiming the chunk of time it takes to produce live public affairs radio each week. Thank you so much to all who have taken the time to speak with me, listen to the show, and provide it feedback. I'm truly grateful on many levels. This month, I'm touching base with folks in a few key sectors, business, local government, and nonprofit, to talk about what's next as we begin to emerge from this pandemic. My guest today is Heather Caswell, who's celebrating 34 years operating the wardrobe in downtown Davis. We'll talk about business during a pandemic, what she's learned in more than three decades of operating one in Davis, and what her work is centering on now, and we'll get to that interview in just a couple of minutes. I'd like to take a moment to recognize the passing of Davis icon Kathy Speck, who weathered a long battle with ALS and cancer. A musician, artist, LGBTQ activist, a community fixture loved by many, Kathy will be dearly missed. I'm sending love to her partner, her family, and her legion of friends, and her little dog, Maisie. Yesterday, UC Davis Health announced that starting today, anyone age 16 years or older will be eligible to schedule a vaccination appointment for COVID-19 at UC Davis Health, whether or not they are a patient there. Visit health.ucdavis.edu to learn more. This announcement beat the state's anticipated deadline of April 15 for those 16 and older by more than a week. Yolo County Public Health would like to offer a reminder that all the vaccines, whether the two-dose Pfizer and Moderna versions or the one and done single Johnson and Johnson dose, offer strong protection against COVID-19. The vaccines lower the risk of hospitalization and death, as well as the risk of severe infection. Residents still need to wear masks in public and physical distance, even if they've gotten the vaccine. Why? Well, of Yolo County's 220,000 residents, Public Health says approximately 70,000 have received a first dose. That's about a third of us. But that means 70% have not, and the risk remains substantial for many. And this week, the first instance of the South African variant was discovered in an unvaccinated individual in Davis. It's important to note that discovery was made possible by the genotyping and gene sequencing work done through testing via Healthy Davis together. So all of these numbers include vaccines administered not only through the county, but through various medical entities and pharmacies. And new this week, Costco and Walmart have been added as new locations to get vaccinated in Yolo County. There's one county vaccination clinic, public clinic tomorrow and look for more public first and second dose clinics starting next week. Please note the vaccine supply is still limited and may delay you getting an appointment or a vaccine. You can get more information and assistance by calling 2-1-1 or toll free at<PHONE_NUMBER>. All right, Yolo County remains in the orange tier with little change in our metrics this last week. Our adjusted case rate is 2.3% and our test positivity rate is 0.6%. The state will have additional announcements tomorrow, but there's supposition we could reach the yellow tier as early as April 30th. The threshold metric for yellow is a test positivity case rate of 1%, which even our public health officer acknowledges is really difficult to reach. That changes in the state's blueprint which drive those tier assignments are coming and those are based on the health equity quartiles. That's a measurement designed to ensure that California reopens its economy safely by reducing disease transmission in all communities. If the threshold metric changes percentage, we may not actually be that far off. Stay tuned as we move through the month. Let's take a moment for music and we'll be right back with our interview. Heather Caswell has been the owner and style curator of the wardrobe, a boutique in downtown Davis since 1988. She's the founder of Save Davis and the UCD Women's Heart Health Alliance and in 2021 she's co-founded a group called the Davis Community Vision Alliance. They're launching a Make Everyday Earth Day Shop Local Shop Davis Community Awareness Campaign and Celebration on April 22nd. And finally she is my dear friend of many years and so it's a treat to get time together today. Thanks so much for joining me, Heather. Thank you, Autumn. It's been nice to be on the air with you and thank you for all the great radio coverage and interviews you've been doing this past year. Thank you. It's been a while since I've gotten a chance to interview you about anything. So because, you know, the show is primarily about COVID-19, we're going to talk about some other things, but we all know it's been a challenging year for businesses and that's on top of many challenges in this age of Amazon and big box retailers. Can you tell us a little bit about how the wardrobe pivoted and what this past year has been like for you? Sure. So the wardrobe has been down 25% because of COVID. However, the PPP and State Grants have really helped us to survive. I'm happy to say that has been, you know, incredibly valuable and instrumental to our business still being, yeah, in a place of serving the community. And did you, I know I've been into the wardrobe recently. You limited the amount of customers and did you also begin to offer any virtual services? I think you did. Yeah. I started, people could work with me via Zoom or FaceTime. Nice. And or they could work with me via text and I could help them choose some wonderful things and I created style packages. I have an email blast that also helped them stay informed of what was available and how things were proceeding in terms of, you know, our practices and, and yeah, we, you know, we've managed to stay in relationship and in business with the community. And my staff has also been quite amazing and even one of the staff members made over 100 masks that we made available for sale and, you know, all my bookkeeping started to become virtual in terms of, you know, changes that the wardrobe started to put into place. And, and yes, and so we've, you know, managed to offer fashions in creative new ways and take advantage of a patio and a tent that we have now. So several of our racks are outside and Healthy Davis Together, you know, was a wonderful program too that kept us inspired to and even helped fund some of the things that we needed to recreate our business model. Yeah. Nice. Good to be flexible. Well, so one of the outcomes of this time is that you've, you've been increasingly focusing on the needs of small businesses in downtown Davis and you're part of a new effort called the Davis Community Vision Alliance. What is this effort? What do we need to know and why should we all care about it? It's building vibrant community together and as a result of recognizing that the community's voice needs to be better heard and better understood. And so basically the voice of the small businesses and I think the grassroots community at large. And so this all came together post-measured be just a wonderful, wonderful group of people that I can't thank enough. Several people that were very active with the Measure B awareness campaign and we just all came together. I want to actually say thank you to some of them because they have been instrumental in in helping form this wonderful and alliance and and they all are. Yeah, so I would like to give thanks to Nancy Price who was a farmer planning commissioner and Larry Gunther, Sunny Shine, Karen Beardsley. We have high school students and Rebecca Blum and Lily Moss and yeah, the wonderful group of people that again have been very committed to to helping sustain our community and recognize and help the community learn about the value of small business and we're going to have a website called The Davis Community Vision.com that we're launching on Earth Day, the 22nd of this month and this website will offer a shop local shop Davis awareness campaign on the value of shopping locally and how money stays in our community and actually specifically when you shop at locally owned businesses you need three times as much money in the local community as when you go into a chain store such as Target or Walmart and more than 10 times when you shop at Amazon. So again more than 10 times when you shop at Amazon and and so again shopping locally is in my opinion a way of not only supporting your community but practicing you know making Earth Day every day Earth Day and so our alliance will be celebrating something called Make Every Day Earth Day on Earth Day in front of the wardrobe on 117 D Street from 5 to 8 p.m. and we'll be featuring keynote speakers at 6 p.m. and we'll have free music and a wonderful local band called Boko Zaria will be playing and yeah we're really seeing this as our first public opportunity to kind of become better known and supportive to the community and the idea of inspiring community to become informed shoppers and to shop with intention and care. That sounds like an ambitious effort and knowing you I'm not at all surprised by the level of detail and attention that's that's going into thinking this but I do I do have to ask how does this effort differ from the work being done by say the downtown business association or even the Chamber of Commerce because those are two active groups that are focusing on business here in Davis. Yes that's a fantastic question and I'll be my best to answer it. Let's see so I definitely appreciate all the things that the two organizations do for our community but especially in the the transition out of COVID and the reinvention on the revitalization of our community it seems as though we we need you know an organization that's bringing new vision to the community and quite frankly I think that they've become too institutionalized at times and unable to properly you know represent the voice of the community so we're we're trying to again offer you know more transparency and offer an opportunity for playing a partnership role and playing a role of being an advisory at Lyon and really being in touch with the community and in a way that will hopefully affect grassroots change and it seems like that doesn't really easily come from existing institutions like I mentioned even the city of Davis and so we're excited to be again offering a new way of looking at things. So are there other business owners joining you this in this effort? I know I asked that question because a lot of the names you tossed out as far as I know they're not downtown business owners so I'm curious about that point. Yeah there are for many small business owners I got in much closer connection with at least 30 of them and and so I would say that yes we have a growing number of small business owners that aren't formally active at times some are a little more active but are definitely engaging with our work and I have a book on how to build a vibrant community that I've been making available to like dozens of business owners and community members and I've been getting even a little coaching from Quince Shooters team that helps write the book and so I'm you know feeling like I'm getting the support needed to help be a voice and spokesperson for again hopefully a third way. Okay so the word vision is literally in the name of your organization Davis Community Vision Alliance and you're getting ready to launch um it sounds like a several things on April 22nd on Earth Day so I want you to think forward a year out. What is your vision for what your first year of work with this organization will accomplish? Can you tell us about one or two hoped for outcomes? Very very interested in maintaining and strengthening vibrancy and I think that comes from connection it comes from celebration and so we will be again involved with a celebration of Earth Day and we plan on having a annual festival that's going to hopefully take place this October and going forward annually and it would be called the spirit festival and so those are ways I think to strengthen vibrancy and also we we are playing with the art in relationship to building vibrancy and there will be I think some very fun endeavors coming forward. We even made the hummingbird I guess part of our symbol and we're looking at a mosaic project perhaps as well to beautify and to inspire the community so we also hope to make a difference for the elections and have something to a voter's guide that would be valuable to help people become greater informed and we are seeing the possibility of gatherings and even in front of the wardrobe on a monthly basis for again people to be engaged in the conversation and the exploration of raising the civic IQ. That's an interesting phrase raising the civic IQ I like it so let's talk for a minute about gatherings and celebrations because I know you've been very conscious in your language about that currently under you know public health guidelines gatherings are are not allowed but small-scale celebrations are if they're outside and socially distant and all of that so you're very carefully describing the event on the on the 22nd as a celebration but more than that I just I just want to circle back to the fact that you've been in business here in Davis for 34 years and that's not only an incredible accomplishment it's you know there are very few businesses here who who can claim that redwood barn is is one coming up past 30 years you know but there aren't a lot of others of you around that have have weathered all the storms and all the economic the recessions and everything so first just let me pause to congratulate you on that it's significant um thank you a lot I might appreciate it yeah thank you the second is that and I know this first hand because Davis media access has partnered with the wardrobe to bring Amy Goodman to town I've partnered with you personally to bring author Heather Ashamara to town you you have really set up the wardrobe to be a gathering spot for many years so I don't think for you personally I don't see this as new it's just kind of an evolution of your own personal ethos around business and and community yes I think that's a beautiful way of saying it and I do see small businesses as instrumental in individually and collectively again rebuilding and making our community as vibrant as possible and I'm just thrilled to again be in a location that's allowing me to do it safely and joyfully great okay one more time let's let's give the website for the Davis community vision alliance the coming website yes it's the davis community vision dot com and it doesn't have the actually it's davis community vision dot com okay and again it will be going live by Earth Day the 22nd with very valuable information on the value of shopping local as well as some other fun information and visuals okay sounds good and then lastly the url for the wardrobe in case people want to find out more about what you do there and yes um it's so we are the wardrobe dot com and people can even join us and sign up for an email if they'd like to stay in touch with us that way as well okay yeah thank you all right thanks so much for joining me for a chat today and for all you do for our community and I will stay tuned and keep an eye on what you've got cooking up now oh I so appreciate it and thank you again for making time to um help inspire the community to know more about this wonderful group all right thanks so much take good care all right thank you bye wrapping up that interview with Heather Caswell a long time small business owner in davis as the owner and style consultant at the wardrobe I'm going to take just a minute for music and come back with a couple more updates for you all right Heather mentioned the healthy davis together effort which is so famous we were profiled in the new york times and I always like to to share some information about them we are a partner in the effort as well when it comes to covid 19 symptom free doesn't necessarily mean virus free and asymptomatic individuals have helped this virus and its new variants spread fast and far which is why healthy davis together urges weekly testing if you come into contact with others the collaborative effort between uc davis and the city of davis provides free saliva based asymptomatic covid 19 testing to anyone who lives or works in davis I want to know it if you are symptomatic the county will help you out with testing there healthy davis together offers testing sites at margary at montgomery elementary and south davis the mondavi center at uc davis the davis senior center and the veterans memorial center also both in davis testing is quick easy and painless you can find out more at healthy davis together dot org in addition federally qualified health care center communicator serves as a key conduit for getting vaccines to the county's hardest to reach populations including the uninsured undocumented and low income residents communicator serves as many as one out of every seven county residents providing primary behavioral dental and prenatal care regardless of insurance status or ability to pay and last month communicator and healthy davis together partnered up healthy davis together is providing staffing and administration for a communicator vaccination clinic that opened in west sacramento which if you don't know it's home to some of the most culturally diverse and disadvantaged communities in our county and really our region for again for info on any of these services visit healthy davis together dot org i do think it's pretty wonderful that we've healthy davis together has been able to expand beyond and out into some other areas in the county all right you have been listening to the covid 19 community report on kdrt in davis california i'm otam lab bay reno and i'll be back next week with yolo county supervisor don sailor thanks so much for tuning in


My name is Patrick Barnard and I'm a research geologist with the United States Geological Survey. Yeah, I'm a research geologist and I oversee our climate impacts program on the West Coast and so we seek a data-driven understanding of potential changes to coastal communities and impacts of storms and sea level rise across the West Coast and the Pacific Islands and Alaska. I define resilience as the ability to adapt to changing conditions. For us at USGS the goal is to provide science to communities so they can understand the range of conditions to expect in the future related to climate change and then they can then strategically plan to adapt to those potential changes and impacts. Yeah, well we don't have hurricanes so often we're overlooked in the sense of these really big-time impacts that we see in the East Coast and Gulf Coast but we do have very large storms, we get very large waves as much as 30 to 40 feet in the winter and so that combined with sea level rise puts many communities at risk and many of the communities on the West Coast are built within estuaries, reclaimed estuaries so in very vulnerable positions even though much of the coast is high relief, a lot of people live right at sea level. Yeah, Cosmos is the coastal storm modeling system. We develop it to look at the dual impact of sea level rise in storms on communities across California and the goal was to develop a line of products that would directly feed into the planning process so not just to kind of walk away from the table with just providing the science but also to provide the science in a format that people can use and really build right into their planning process and how they're going to look to do with climate change impacts. A couple things, one's really exciting is USGS has a definitely a move toward developing more nationally consistent products so not just doing hyper-local or regional efforts but trying to develop national-scale products for coastal hazards so that all the different communities and all the different congressional districts will have the same sort of set of plans to look at, to understand how they might be affected by climate change. The other on the science side in particular is in this satellite era now we have this amazing resource where we have satellites that are measuring like every square foot of the earth on a daily basis and so we have this opportunity now to bring all this data into our models and update our models on a more consistent, continual basis.


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You'll get updates on the videos I do each and every day here at summit odd mode of as well as Access to one of the largest catalogs of vehicle walkarounds on YouTube so that's pretty neat as well comes with the 20 inch painted and polished aluminum wheels You can see you get the Brembo brakes with these slotted rotors on there Good year eagle f1 to 45 45 ZR 20 tires and these front tires I would say have Probably about 60% of the tread left little over half Maybe even a little bit more This one does come with the HID headlamps factory fog lamps front bumper and Lower valence are in nice shape No major scuffs or cracks on that front bumper The hood and stickers on the hood are all in a very nice condition as well Didn't see any dents or dings on there and the passengers side front fender very nice condition as well Passengers side of front wheel no major scuffs or scrapes and B5 blues got a lot of pearl flake to it Once it Focuses here. You can see all the sparkle in that paint really a good-looking color if you like blue and As you go down this side of this 2009 Dodge Challenger take note of how clean that body is How reflective and mirror like that paint is I take these HD videos So if you are far away, or even if you're close by and you're not just can't make the trip down But you're still interested in purchasing the car you can see the car hear the car and of confidence In the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises If this video helps you make a smart buying decision Let your salesman know that you saw the video is helpful in that Brett sent you Passengers side down that door really nice and clean back wheels in excellent shape and the back tires are very new You can still see the wear knob on There so I would say probably 80 90% of the tread left on those back tires Coming around to the back of the vehicle rear bumper is in great shape. You do get the chrome tipped dual rear exhaust The trunk lid is in nice shape as well Get the deckwood spoiler on there Trunk area is very clean as well And this one comes with a tire inflator kit and that's where your battery is Also get a microfiber rig back there those seats do fold down for extra storage That shuts nice and solidly and For full disclosure this back wheel Just as nice as the rest Get the Brembo brakes on the back as well And this one does come with heated power mirrors Inside the SRT package gives you the black leather and suede interior get the blue inserts in The seats SRT stitched into the backrest The front seat is power Back seats are in really nice condition as well no rips or tears back there you get the latch child safety system Factory floor mats carpetings in really nice shape as well Up here you get the auto headlamps power windows locks and mirrors you get the suede insert on the door as well Hop inside check out the miles the radio and everything that this car has to offer on the interior You can see that this one has twenty two thousand eight hundred and forty nine miles You do get the white faced instrument SRT8 cluster there Compass outside temp display you get the leather wrapped steering wheel That's in really nice shape and see any major scuffs or scrapes on there CD player and FM and serious XM radio capabilities Down here your climate controls your heated seat buttons and your electronic stability program Button or stability control a six-speed manual shifter Get the SRT badge on the dash there and the passenger side format and seat are in really nice Conditional rips or tears in there this one does come with the power sunroof and the headliners in a really nice condition as well Up here you get map lights home link buttons for your garage door security systems and Lighting systems will start it up and take a look under the hood Starts right up. 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types of unit cell types of unit cell this classification is based on the arrangement of atoms ions or molecules ok classification this classification is based on arrangement of atoms ions or molecules mainly we have two types the first one is primitive unit cell primitive or we also call it as simple unit cell primitive or simple unit cell the second type we have centered unit cell centered unit cell see the first part of this chapter like I said all those concepts of void unit cell geometry and all this concept should ok you have to imagine the structure also I will make you understand but if you think like and memorize simply and do the questions is very difficult ok the concept you have to understand that is in the first part of the chapter second part you have to memorize ok so for reference will be this classroom to understand the structure of the crystal that we discussed ok centered unit cell further classified into three categories ok the one the first one is BCC body centered cubic unit cell BCC is body centered cubic unit cell FCC is face centered cubic unit cell and in centered cubic unit cell ECC in centered cubic unit cell the most important one for this chapter is FCC FCC is the most important one BCC then the next important ok in center is not that important ok in centered cubic unit cell and centered cubic unit cell ok one will discuss this see I have been BCC body centered cubic unit cell cubic unit cell is unit cell the cube ok so you can draw a unit cell like this will have hexagonal unit cell also possible and when we say hexagonal unit cell it is a hexagon ok not a cube you have a cube in this right unit cell is this ok now like I said unit cell is this now when this unit cell you repeat in three dimensional or in all these three directions ok it is like a matchbox thousand matchbox if you are inside by side top and bottom you will get the entire lattice ok yeah if you have this what we say any structure suppose if you have an entire structure like diamond what is the basic structure of a diamond tetrahedral and you have an arrangement of tetrahedral carbon 4 carbons right now this 4 carbons the tetrahedral arrangement is actually there in the if you arrange this pattern in three dimensional space you get the entire structure of what diamond ok now when you take this particular structure out now what we say we have a repeating unit of tetrahedral carbon chain in diamond structure if you want to study the property of diamond you take the unit cell out you study the property of this that will be the property of the entire crystal ok so crystal is made up of a basic repetitive unit and that basically repetitive unit is what unit cell right mainly we will discuss about cubic unit cell ok that is the most important one excellent also possible only one thing is there we will discuss that ok but we will have this one only in the chapter cubic unit cell now this cubic unit cell like I said what is the lattice point lattice point is what where the atoms molecules are ions are placed ok so here you see if I place the atoms only at the corner these are the corners how many corners are there in a cube 8 corners right if atoms are placed only at the corner do not draw this a still simply we will do this one by one so these are the lattice point ok there are 8 corners so lattice points are this when the atoms are placed here ok now in a cube we will have 8 corners how many faces 6 faces you should know this 8 corners 6 faces how many edges are there 12 edges right 6 faces so we will have 6 face centre also 12 edges and 12 edge centre also so when the atoms are placed only at the corners that is simple unit cell or primitive unit cell correct this is one thing in the centre unit cell is what apart from the atoms at the corner the atoms are other position also into the unit cell like if you want to define this bcc we will have atoms at the corner and atoms at the body centre that is what is body centered cubic unit cell bcc if you want to define along apart from this atoms at the corner one atom at the body centre body centre means suppose this is a cube right so we will have atoms at all corners on the top four corners on the bottom right so we will have atoms here also at the body centre this is body centre unit cell ok face center is what we will have atom centre corner along with the atoms at the face centre right this is one face centre another face centre is this this face centre this all the face centre right so when the atoms are placed at all face centre it is known as face centered cubic unit cell ok in the centre means what atoms at the corner plus atoms at the opposite phase, any two opposite phase like the center and the center or this center and this center or this center and this center and see a front wall. There are three different units here, we have centered units here, we will discuss this like there are many things we have to find out into this like suppose if I ask you what is the effective number of atoms present in primitive unit cell, what is the effective number of atoms means what in a unit cell how many atoms are present, see actually you see 2 2, primitive unit cells what what did I ask you how many atoms are present in the unit cell, so effective you need to find out, so when the atoms are at this corner okay the entire atoms is not within the unit cell suppose me is corner peg atom broke okay, so there are many like the most part of the atoms is outside the unit cell corner peg atom there the most part of that atom is outside the unit cell, so we have to count only that part which is within the unit cell, so you tell me one thing with this corner see when you do this question in the exam then I will be better examination also see what cube model and it will be easy for you to do that, now suppose the atoms are present at that corner okay now how many cubes you can draw from that corner, how many cubes you can draw only one, why a cube here will be here, so 4 in this plane and 4 in the top also, so when you take this entire 8 cubes this will be the center of that cube, so it means what the atoms present at this corner is distributed in among 8 cubes right, that's why the contribution in one cube is, here if I ask you what is the effective number of the atoms, 8 corners and the contribution of one corner is 1 by 8, so 8 into 1 by 8 is 1 okay, so we have to do all these conclusions, we have to do separately, this is same but you should know the contribution corner to k contribution, ok, but there are one thing which we will discuss before this write down, there are next line, there are 7 primitive unit cell, there are 7 primitive unit cell possible, there are 7 primitive unit cell possible and their variations are and their variations are as follows and their variations are as follows, so I will draw this table, on this table they have asked question once, this all these possible variations we call it as Bravier's lattice, they have asked how many Bravier's lattice is possible, write down here, so I will draw the table you copy it down, this you have to memorize, the first column I will write down here, crystal lattice, then the possible variations edge length axial distance also we call it as an axial angles, so we are taking the reference of this, this is x, y and z, edge length on x axis is k and opposite angle is alpha, it is b and this is beta, c and this is gamma, because we will have to take the reference of this, so we will take this as c, this is gamma and this is b, this is beta, because actually what happens I have will draw this table with reference of this, if you change this a, b and c the entire thing will change, so copy down as it is, the length on y axis is c and opposite angle is gamma, z axis is b, beta, a and alpha, so the first crystal lattice we write down, we have cubic crystal lattice, the first one is cubic, now in cubic the different possible variations are, we can have primitive unit cell, primitive unit cell I will write it as PRM for reference, primitive unit cell and we can have body centered BC or we can have face centered, only these three possible variations we have, what is the edge length for cubic, cubic of a is equals to b is equals to c and what is the axial angles, all three angles are 90, alpha, beta, gamma, 90, this is the first thing, now the next one is tetragonal, the possible variations is primitive PRM and body centered, only two possible variations here, primitive and body centered, the edge length is a is equals to b does not equals to c and the angle is all three angles are equal to 90, tetragonal, the next one is orthorhombic, orthorhombic, orthorhombic all four possible variations are there, primitive, possible, body centered possible, face centered possible, in centered possible, all four possible variations we have and here the three edges are different, a does not equals to b does not equals to c, but the angles are still 90 degree, the next one is hexagonal, hexagonal we have only one variations we have that is primitive, only one variations and then the edge length is a is equals to b does not equals to c, alpha, beta is 90, but gamma is one but b, rhombohedral or we also call it as trigonal, rhombohedral or trigonal in this only we have one possible variations that is primitive, a is equals to b is equals to c, alpha is equals to beta is equals to gamma, but it is not equal to 90 degree, monoclinic, the second last one monoclinic, two possible variations primitive and in centered, a does not equals to b does not equals to c, alpha gamma is 90 and beta is not equal to 90, the last one is triclinic, the only possible is primitive, a does not equals to b, does not equals to c, alpha does not equals to beta, does not equals to gamma, does not equals to this are the possible variations. Now, I say I have given this in a pattern, if you remember this you can write on this easily, first one all three are equal, last one is not equal all three are different then reverse, the last one is not equal all three are equal and the for the last two are not equal, it does not equals to b does not equals to c, because they will ask this they will give you for author and wrong way, what is the this like this they have given four options we need to choose this, for example a question many times this here also you will get this question, bit sad, whatever example you write c, j it is not it will not come most probably because very straight forward ok, but in other example you definitely get this ok, and C i t with d i y all these things you have to memorize this h length and xl, so it is in a order I will suggest you to memorize this and then you can write on this, first three all three angles are equal and directly gamma is 120 not equal to 90, now the possible variation like I said three here, three plus two, five plus four, nine ten, then eleven, thirteen and fourteen, that is why we have fourteen that is what this question also ask many times, how many possible variations are there that is possible that is fourteen answers, got it ok, and all these edge length and x and i angles based on this, x axis where we have a, y axis c and b z to b, a to the opposite of alpha, b to the opposite of beta, c to the opposite of alpha ok, if they change this in the exam if they give you this axis also, if they change this a here, c here, v here like that the entire thing will change ok, so that is why it is important.