Meanwhile, the schoolteacher, Aina Damora, stayed to run the Peter Has Colden communities to establish gender-based violence clubs in order to create awareness about the topic. Peter, who is a student counsellor in Government Science Technical College, made the appeal during a workshop organised by Salton Foundation for Peace and Development with support from SportLight Initiative. The reports. Addressing participants at the workshop, Peter expressed sadness over the rampant cases of such violence in communities, which she said caused for a quick and urgent attention, especially in view of the exposure of the students to social media. Actually, I have seen the benefit of that in our school because it helped the student to be calm and understand the effects of gender-based violence. So it is good for other schools to introduce such clubs. For us here, we have one. She thanked the Salton Foundation for organising the workshop and urged them to sustain the temple of such advocacy for the good of all. Also speaking, the head boy of the school, John Ezra, thanked Salton Foundation for organising the workshop, saying that it has opened their eyes on the rudiments of SBV, promising to pass the knowledge to his peers. We are thank you for using Salton Foundation. The programme assistant of the foundation in Adamaa State, Aminah Muhammad Ali, during a one-day workshop in GDS Feshwari, noticed that the aim of the project is to work with relevant stakeholders, including traditional religious and youth leaders, to end the menace, which has become rampant, noted that the 250 girls that would be covered would be selected from Yoland North and will be not local government of the state. A champion in gender-based violence for Banabas also pointed out the rationale for the paradigm shift in the approach to curb gender-based violence in our community. In the context of our local communities, children are also stakeholders. So formally, desensitisation was going to community leaders and caregivers. This time around, they saw it that it's very important to also include the children, that is the young ones who are also coming up, who will hopefully be parents tomorrow. So catching them young is the idea, so that in creating this wonderful discipline about gender-based violence and its effect to local community and especially the household society, catching them young and educating them will help to groom a society with people with this in-depth knowledge and also a society that is free from this violence. He called on the general public, especially parents, not to hesitate in reporting any form of gender-based violence, noting that the lesser fair attitude of communities towards such cases and boldings perpetrators to commit more of such atrocities.


So my name's Liz Seymour, I'm a registered manager of Melrose Care Home. I've been working in the nursing background for a long period of time. I'm a registered nurse and I started working here at Melrose over 20 plus years ago.


A new earthquake early warning system is on the way in California. Over the last several years, the earthquake early warning system has really taken several steps forward to become realization. Beta testing is nearly complete. Next stop, San Diego. You know, San Diego is a really beautiful and wonderful place to live, but we do have our faults, as I like to say. There are several faults that run through San Diego County, with the Rose Canyon fault posing the highest threat, and that's the reason for this test of ShakeAlert. Oakland was the site of the first live test of the ShakeAlert system in March. Cal OES and its partners, US Geological Survey and Alameda County, needed to know how long it would take to send a ShakeAlert to cell phones using the Wireless Emergency Alert System, or WIA, which, by the way, is already in use for amber and weather alerts. Everyone has Wireless Emergency Alerts on their phones today, and it's something that we want to use as a pathway. Cal OES earthquake program lead Ryan Arbus says they and the USGS simulated an earthquake in Southern California by triggering the ShakeAlert. WIA grabbed it and sent it to mobile phones in Oakland. That first alert came out four seconds after the test alert was generated, and that's record breaking. A test on a new earthquake warning system is scheduled to take place in Oakland this week. The sample size in Oakland was about 40,000, but the test in San Diego County will target more than 3 million people, and that means more data and a more reliable sample. The more data that we have about how our alert and warning systems function, the better we're able to operate, so we're very excited to partner on this test. San Diego County OES's Holly Porter is leading the way for this test of ShakeAlert through WIA. That's a system that we use for fires. Residents may remember receiving a wireless emergency alert during our LILAC fire in 2017. USGS scientist Bob DeGroote is just as excited about the upcoming test. He says the goal is to continue to do these tests so that we can gain more confidence. So the idea of doing the testing is that we're able to find essentially where the sticking points are, but overall the progress is going very well. He's talking about the sticking points to speed, so on Thursday June 27th at 11 a.m. there will be a scene in San Diego similar to this one. If you receive the alert on your phone, know that it is likely a test. We don't want people to be alarmed. We want to know that people to know that this test is coming. Take June 27th at 11 a.m. as a reminder and an opportunity to take preparedness steps in their own home. For more information about this test, go to readysandiego.org and oesnews.com. I'm Shawn Boyd.


Hello. Thank you for joining us for this talk on decoupled policy to enable architectural choice. My name is Ashnarkar. I am a software engineer at Styra, and I'm one of the maintainers of the Open Policy Agent. I care about developing software that can be ready to deploy, scale, manage, and secure by default. In today's talk, we'll look at the policy enforcement problem. We'll see what it is. We'll see how OPPA can help us resolve this policy enforcement problem. We'll learn a bit about OPPA, its features, and use cases. So let's get started. If you think about the cloud native landscape, there are new projects that are being added every single day. It may be a new service mesh or a new gateway or a new CI CD project, a new database, and so on. And so if you're building a system which comprises of all these projects, there are going to be a lot of moving paths in your system. If you think about security, specifically authorization, you can imagine a scenario where each of these projects is written in a different programming language. Each have their own way of controlling access, which may be tightly coupled to the underlying system. And what ends up is you have no visibility into the security posture of your diverse system. Even from a flexibility point of view, if tomorrow, say you wanted to swap out the service mesh, you now have to spend time and money to recreate those same policies to conform to your new platform. And you might say, we'll just use dogs and wikis to enforce policies until you have tens or even hundreds of these services and that wiki approach is no longer sustainable. And so what we need is a way to enforce policy across all these diverse systems in a highly performant manner. And this was one of the reasons for creating the open policy agent. We learn more about the open policy agent in the next few slides. So what is OPA? OPA is an open source general purpose policy engine. When you use OPA, you are decoupling the policy enforcement from the policy decision making so your services can now offload policy decisions to OPA by executing upgrading. We'll understand this concept a little more, but before that, let's look at OPA's community. OPA was started in 2016 at STARA and the goal of the project has been to unify policy enforcement across the stack. One of the earliest adopters of OPA was Netflix, and they've been using OPA for authorization over their GRPC and HTTP APIs, as well as companies like Pinterest, Intuit, Capital One, Yelp and many, many more use OPA in production today for use cases such as admission control, RBAC, ABAC, risk management, data filtering and so on. OPA is a graduated project at the CNCF with more than 150 contributors on Git. It has a healthy Slack community of more than 4,000 Slack members. It's been starred more than 5,000 times on GitHub and it's integrated with more than 20 of the most famous open source projects out there, some of which we'll see later on. Now going back to what OPA actually is and how it works. So imagine you have a service and this can be any service at all. It can be your own custom service, it can be Kafka, it can be Kubernetes, absolutely any service at all. So whenever your service gets a request, it's going to ask OPA for a policy decision by executing a query. OPA is going to evaluate this query based on the policies and the data it has access to and send a decision back to your service where it gets enforced. So you can see that we have decoupled the policy decision making from the policy enforcement. The policy query itself can be any JSON value. So if you're doing Kubernetes Admission Control, this policy query can be your pod manifest for example. If you're doing HTTP authorization, the policy query can contain your request path, your method, the user and so on. The policy decision itself can also be any JSON value and then it's up to your service to interpret that decision. Now let's look at some of OPA's features. And the core of OPA is a high-level declarative language called as WEGO. And with WEGO, you can write policies which are more than allow deny through false yes, no. You can write policies that return sets or objects or strings or collection of values. For example, OPA can help you answer the question, can Bob access a particular field? And OPA can also help you answer questions like which fields can Bob access? OPA is written in GO and it's designed to be as lightweight as possible so all the policies and the data it needs for evaluation are stored in memory. You can deploy OPA as a sidecar, a host-level daemon, or you can embed it inside your GO code. And now we can also compile REGO policies to Wazel and use those executables to evaluate your queries. Think of OPA as a host local cache for your policy decisions. OPA does not have any runtime dependencies, meaning it does not have to reach any external service to make a policy decision. You can extend OPA to do that, but that's completely optional. OPA does provide you with some management APIs that allow you to upload policy and data to an external service using its bundle feature. It also allows you to upload its decision logs to an external service. So for example, every decision that OPA makes, it's logged and you can take these logs and upload them to an external service for any kind of offline debugging. OPA will also upload its status to an external service, its health to an external service as well. Finally, along with the core policy engine, OPA provides a rich set of tooling that allows you to build, test, and debug your policies. That is our unit test framework. There are integrations with IDEs like WIM, VS Core IntelliJ, which allows you to author your policies. The unit test framework allows you to test your policies before you actually go and deploy them. And there's also the Rego Playground, which allows you to author policies and share those policies with the entire work. So these were some of OPA's features, a high-level declarative language, multiple deployment models, management APIs for control invisibility, and a rich tooling set. So we saw this figure before and we said that OPA can act as a unifying authorization engine across all these diverse projects. And the reason for that is OPA is not tied to any particular data format. As long as you give OPA some kind of structured data and you write policies that make sense for that data, OPA will give you a decision back to you. And hence, it's a general purpose policy engine. The cool thing about this is that you can take any of these integrations out of the box. And without having to write even a single line of code, you can start enforcing custom policies using OPA inside your systems. And this is just a snapshot of all the integrations OPA has. There are more on the OPA website on the Ecosystems page. If you'd like to contribute to OPA, one of the best ways is to take your project and integrate OPA with it and have it featured on the OPA website. So now let's look at some of the use cases starting with Kubernetes Admission Control. Those of you all who are not familiar with Admission Control, it's basically a piece of code that intercepts requests to your Kubernetes API server before that request is persisted into HCD. So Admission Control is an excellent way to enhance the security profile of your Kubernetes cluster. So with OPA as an Admission Controller, you can enforce policies which are shown here on the page. Some of the policies are shown on this page. So for example, if you don't want to pull images out of any external registry, you can enforce a policy around that using OPA. Or if you want your containers to specify CPU and memory limits, you can do that with OPA as well. Or if you don't want your container to run in the privileged mode, you can achieve that with OPA. In fact, all of the port security policies, you can implement them using the Open Policy Agent. So the way Admission Control works is that whenever you do something, whenever you do like a poop cuttle create some port, that request is going to be sent to OPA. And the input that OPA gets is this deeply nested structure that you see on the left, which indicates the port manifest, which is the Admission Review Object. And now OPA has to use this deeply nested structure as input and based on the policies and data it has access to, evaluate this input and send a decision back to the webhook. And the decision that OPA sends in this case, which is the Admission Response, you can see it's not a simple Boolean. It's sending the result as well as why that result was made. So now your webhook can have more information to provide to the user why OPA made a particular decision. And again, you can see that we have decoupled the policy decision making, which is done by OPA and the enforcement, which is done by the webhook. And so in this way, you can use OPA as an Admission Controller to enhance the security profile of your Kubernetes cluster. Next, let's look at another use case around API authorization. We know that a lot of organizations today are moving towards a microservice oriented model because it does provide a lot of benefits. But microservices alone do not solve age or distributed system problems like authentication, authorization, service discovery, and so on. In fact, these problems become even more acute because of the heterogeneous and the effemeral nature of microservices. In fact, Netflix was one of the leaders in microservices has publicly spoken about how difficult it is to get authorization correct at scale in a highly performant manner. And so imagine if you have like tens, hundreds of thousands of microservices and each microservice is making a decision on each of those thousands of API calls per second on whether they should be allowed or not. That's a really difficult problem to solve. And so what we need here is a solution that is highly performed, which fosters collaboration. So for example, each of these microservices may be written by different teams, each authoring their own policies that it would be great if there was a way to share these policies across teams and reuse some of the policies. So we need a solution that encourages or motivates such collaboration. And finally, we want the solution that allows us to write fine grained security policies. So I hope at this point it's it's pretty clear that what the solution is, it's going to be the open policy agent. And so like I mentioned before that you can integrate open in multiple ways like Zagore library, or a host level demon or a sidecar. We'll see in this example, how we should integrate open with a network proxy. And the advantage of this method is that your application stays as is you don't even touch your application, and still you can enforce custom security policies for API authorization. So the way this works is that you have on voice so for those of you are not familiar with on what it's a layer seven proxy and communication bus designed for large service oriented architectures. So imagine you have a Kubernetes pod inside your pod are going to have two containers one is the on my container and one is your application container. So the way this works is whenever there's a request for your application is intercepted by on what which forwards it to your application. The application is going to return a response back to on what which returns it to the end user. And now inject opa this flow by using a mechanism called the external authorization filter with sends a request to open. Now this request contains all the context open needs to make an informed choice about the fate of this particular incoming request. So opa is going to evaluate this request based on the policy and data has access to send a decision back to on why and if open denies a decision on what sends a photo three to the client. If open allows the decision, then like before the decision goes to your application gets a response and then on why forwards it to the end user. And see again in this example we have decoupled the policy decision making, which is done by opa from the policy enforcement, which is done by on what, and we haven't even touched the application. And still we are able to write very fine grade security policies in this example for HTTP API authorization. So now, when you think about authorizing your microservices in a highly performant manner, I hope to think about the open policy agent. So this was a talk on decoupled policy to enable architectural choice. You can check out more about opa and learn more about opa at open policy agent of park. You can join us on slack. If you have any questions or use cases you want to discuss and check out the project on GitHub, and please do start the project if you like what you see. So again, thank you for joining us and sharing your time with us today. Thank you.


I have been working with the food system since the food conspiracy and those with the food buying clubs, we just got together to buy food together because the idea was that good food, healthy food, organic food doesn't have to be just for rich people that we can have good food without being rich. So we got together and took control of the food, not just the price that we didn't have to pay high price but also trying to get hold of the farmers and trying to also teach ourselves how organic farms worked and what was the difference between organic and commercial and so on. So it was the effort to educate ourselves. It wasn't so much at the time to create jobs. And when the clubs got so big, we decided to open up storefronts. And somewhere along the line, I got involved after volunteering to work with one of the stores, first at the heat food store and then at other avenues which is in the outer sunset. And my folks that I work with, my co-worker, kept asking me whenever I tell them anecdotal history that why don't you put down these thoughts in computer and make a book with this. And I thought that was a great idea, but history was never really my favorite subject. So I kind of put it off for a while. But then I decided that I can actually tell story that's better. Her story is always better than history. And so I decided to do that way and I interviewed a lot of people, including one of the gentlemen is here today, Adam, and his photo is also in the book. Adam had been working with the food system as long as I have it. So I interviewed maybe 24, 34 people. So a lot of those voices are here. There are a lot of quotes in the book. The book is not just about making the stores happen. It's about the whole moment and how that moment was possible then and how some of those legacy, the remnants, growth, seeds that germinated are still going on in different directions. So that's what the book is about. In addition to three institutions that are still thriving, including Rainbow, which a lot of you know if you live in the area, and other avenues and produce distributor called vegetable vegetables. So those three people and they each get a chapter as an example, showcasing what's concretely left. But a lot of things that grew out of the moment isn't something that is tangible right now. And a lot of those thoughts and ideas and dialogues are also in this book. So the book is divided into three parts. Firstly, history, general history of the food cooperatives in the Bay Area. And then the people food system, how it grew and what made it collapse. And then about the three entities that survived and how they survived whereas the other people disappeared. And a really good portion of the last portion of the book is about the vision, the future vision. How can we build from what's left? And what can we all do in small and big ways? So before I read some things from my book, I want to tell you that I have this 10 minutes video. That's kind of a really special treat because as far as I know, it's the only recorded history of the people's food system, which served thousands and thousands of households in the 70s and nobody else made any film. A friend of mine made a film with a very old eight millimeter camera.  But so if the quality isn't great, the sound is really poor, but you will get a slice of that era because it is 70s for sure. So first I'm going to read a little bit from my book as it is customary, but I don't want to read too much because I want you to buy and read it yourself. So how did it all start? So it was the 70s that the youth of America who had settled here, restless from the 60s, they were not very happy with the now settled war in Vietnam and what the war had created by global capitalism and funded by big industry. Many young people dropped out of society that seemed to offer nothing worth emulating. They wanted to replace consumerism, greed, and hark mentality with a world of sharing and harmony. Energized by leadership for socially aware artists, musicians, activists, ordinary street people, a new decentralized food system spread across the country. Okay, so a lot of these people, it wasn't just about changing food itself, but they wanted to change the whole society. We all did, you know, we tried our best. So this of course came very fast because first in the 70s we had a lot of clubs and then we had about dozen stores and then we had about six distributing venues and all this happened within like four years, right, Adam? It was really amazing. It just kind of combusted, like one store would have just a little bit of money to open another store in the other section of the town. They had a little bit more money. They would help out third people. We trained each other. We had a lot of fundraisers and dance parties and a lot of dope got smoked, I'm sure. But we had a lot of fun, but it was also really, really hard work as well. So I'm going to now skip a little bit and talk a little bit about the success. This was our hiatus and this is something you'll see in the movie. The movie was made, the video was made when it was successful, not really as many venues open yet, but everybody was very much into the dream of this is going to happen. They were really, really very optimistic and like what happened last night that we are not feeling optimistic today, but at the time we were really thinking, okay, we can do it. You know, we can really replace the cardboard food with real food. We can actually shut down all the safe ways and make all these little stores connected to each other and people's food system could just go around the globe. So at the height of the people's food system between 76 and 78, there were approximately two dozen community food store supporting and supporting collective. Although they followed some of the international principle of cooperatives, the people's food system worker remained reluctant to identify their workplaces as co-op because we had experienced other co-ops, there were consumer co-ops that had become so big in the 50s that they were just co-ops in the name that they really weren't serving their members at all. So we kind of refrained calling ourselves co-op. We just call ourselves community stores and the people who worked there called themselves collective members. So those were more of the words that we used. The idea was to make it so that people who worked then that people we serve would be the same that they wouldn't be that much of a distinction. And a lot of those stores were small so it was working at the time. So in addition to doing a lot of this work and distribution, a lot of the people who worked like in the warehouse, like Adam worked, actually went to conferences to organize other workplaces. They delivered food far away, even like in different states all the way to Washington and so on. So there was a lot of back and forth between other people's food system and other food systems that were going on as far as Minneapolis. So this was going on across the nation. It was a very powerful moment. So let's see. I'm going to skip on the demise of, maybe it will come up in the Q&A after we watch the movie. Maybe some of you will have some questions. So I'm going to skip that because I want to really have the time for the movie and question and answer. I want to make this as much as sharing information as possible. So the survivors. The three businesses that revitalized themselves and are now doing well. How is that that these survived and remained vibrant even today? The continuing strength of the various food and justice movement helped as did the growing national interest in organic foods and healthy eating. But that is not all that kept these businesses going while one after the other all of them folded. For all these three, it is clear that their success in business and food activism was and is largely due to one, a strong connection with both the immediate neighborhood and the food and justice community at large. Two, constant attention to pragmatic business practices such as knowing how much the cost of goods is and things that we have to learn just like any market does. And three, a clear mission to bring healthy food to the people. Four, a strong commitment to workplace democracy. It's not something that we're just selling food. It's also we are serving ourselves as well as a community of workers. Okay. Now I'm going to read a little bit from the vision, keeping the vision. Also after the vision chapters, there's a really comprehensive appendix with list of markets like farmers market, organizations they give out food for free. There's a map of a small, irrevocable damage caused by global capitalism. How can we address world hunger, climate change and economic instability? These are hot topics to discuss among co-op supporters. Some scholars predict that the growth of corporate base income inequality is inevitable. That's a lot of the French economists said, this is it. All we get is Donald Trump. But then there are other people and they argue in two books that I studied that really gave me hope. One is called Democracy at Work, a Cure for Capitalism by Richard Wolff. And the other book is America Beyond Capitalism by Gar Alparovitz. So these books tell you that this is not the end of it all, that we can organize, that we can make things happen here, that we can make a difference. So then there's a list of things what we all can do and so on. Thank you. So now we are going to watch the movie, followed by a question and answer if you have about the movie or about the book. If the people that were in this film from the 70s are still around today and they have maintained their rent control apartments, their cost of housing is very modest. And I wish I was one of them. Right. I have kind of an answer, but other people might have answered. I think that a lot of these people, as it shows in my book, were discouraged after the people's food system folded and there was a whole drama and a lot of reason. And some of them was unfortunately similar to what might happen soon with, you know, Trump economics, you know, this Reaganomics, all the rents triple in quadruple. And this was true for storefronts as well as our home rents, you know, because it wasn't like we didn't have rent control when people needed to sell a building, you know, they just sold the building and there was no vacancy and there was just no support for small businesses. I can list just... Wait before I came here. Wait before I came here. I've been here for a long time. But at any rate, so there was a lot of factor why a lot of these people that are in the film aren't probably around or if they are around, they probably decided to do something else to stay in the Bay Area like myself, okay? But some of us who did continue to work, like I have worked with marginal income all my life in one of these stores, we did it more creatively like holding two jobs or learning how to live marginally and you know, it wasn't that easy, but some of the stores couldn't survive because their buildings got sold or their rent quadrupled and they just couldn't keep their doors open. I know at least three collectors that were older than 25-year-olds, three are co-ops that folded between 14 just recently, like 2014, 2015 because they got kicked out of their building, right? So that's the reality is in the Bay Area. You can't do what used to be able to do in the 70s is what I'm trying to tell you. I'm seeing empty storefronts all over the Castro. Let's take over. Yeah. There are a lot of empty stores. There's one store that was a real food store. When I came here, this was before people's food system, before food conspiracy. There were like a lot of moms and pops, health food stores, and they were really nice store. And then there was a series of little store connected owned by a private chain called Real Food. One of them Real Food is empty for 30 years on Novi Valley, Novi and 24th, right across from there's Whole Foods, right by a bookstore called Folio. Castro and 24th, that's going to be really prime estate, right? Somebody's able to sit on that property for more than 30 years now. Yeah. So, yeah, there are a lot of empty spaces in Berkeley and San Francisco. There should be cooperatives, among other things. Any other question, comment? Yes, Janet. There's a number of food co-ops throughout the country and they have members.  Is that something that would help finance food co-ops here? It could. That's a different model, the consumer cooperative model. It could. And I think that even the consumer cooperatives, there are two really good ones, one in Sacramento that just moved into a huge location. And one is in Davis. They were having some sort of a problem with the discount and even patterned refund to customers. So they have replaced that or eliminated that. I don't know the reasoning or the bookkeeping reasoning behind it, but they found it too cumbersome. So they're not doing that anymore. But there are other parts of the country that is still working to promote membership. In the city of San Francisco. Other avenues. Where is that? It's on 44th and Judah in the Outer Sunset District. Other avenues is in San Francisco. The whole city is 14 miles long only. It's not that long a bike, right? That's fine. Rainbow is a good thing. They are our sister store. We love Rainbow. Remember, Shanta, the original other avenues storefront. What is that now? Do you know what built what? That was closer to 46 and it's where general store is now. Oh, great. Thank you. Yeah. The little bodhiki gifty store. Anybody else have questions? You alluded to this a little bit in the film, but you're showing the paper and the reactions of the town to the food co-op mysteries. What was the, were other businesses threatened by the co-ops or what was Safeway's reaction or any kind of reaction for the regular grocery stores? There were some of those touching in the, how the food system collapsed. There were some conspiracy theory or maybe real threats that some people, some Safeway's, they were threatened by the fact that we were serving thousands and thousands of household and it was declining their sales, especially if the very effective food conspiracy was in their neighborhood such as the hate food conspiracy. Like we had a mantra that, you know, if you cannot walk to a neighborhood to order your food, you should start your own food conspiracy. So there were that many food conspiracy. But can you add something to that, Adam? Because Adam worked at the warehouse, cooperating warehouse. The stories around how much big stores like Lucky and Safeway may have been threatened by growing food system. I'll have to really dig deep in memory to come up with a more concrete answer, but I do recall there being some, well, perhaps conspiracy theories that large food supermarket chains were aware of our efforts. Could I come up with a document to, you know, nail that down, not at the tip of my tongue? But it's a possibility. Yeah, there were other, you know, you will read about some other stories too that there were perhaps outside forces, you know, like undercover agents who were infiltrated in some of our meetings. Who knows? There was a lot of that. So you've obviously been in this cooperative food system for a very long time. Right. Is there anything you would have done differently now that you've had, you know, the foresight to help make these alternatives more viable in this day and age? That's really, really a good question. I actually had one of the people in the audience from Rainbow and he was rather young, must be in his twenties or so, and he asked something similar like, how many times did you think, I can't do this anymore? And so, but I like the way you said it, like, you know, what we could have done better or different. Yeah, I think about that a lot. In fact, I have put some effort, not so much putting myself, but what could have happened that could have saved more of the venues, more of the stores, you know, more of the bakeries or whatever. Yeah, so the book touches upon that. Could you share a couple of those ideas? Myself, I think that, unfortunately, I was, and so a lot of little stores were so involved, day-to-day survival that really took toll on my life that we really didn't have time to think. But now, if I really had to reverse the time, I could say that, you know, maybe having a sense of better capital is, you know, like having better capital instead of just raising money in a shoestring like bake sale. I mean, we did really strangest thing to, you know, make few bucks to get going for the next rant, you know, because we were working on volunteer basis and we were really having fun, you know, and we also had other jobs that was our job to pay rent. And my rent was like $60 a month, I kid you not, and it was like a Victorian house that we shared with two other people, so we all paid $60, you know. So, you know, this was not that far long ago, you know. So at the time, either we were really struggling, but we were kind of enjoying the struggling. So if I had to really back, maybe I shouldn't, we shouldn't have enjoyed, and I'm speaking about myself and the few people that I was involved with, you know, that we could have planned better, you know, with a better capital. And I think this is probably my message now, now that we have better planning like at other avenues, like we are right now working on a five-year plan, you know. We didn't have that vision at the time, you know, and I wish that we, some of us did that we could have. And some of those who did, you know, like, veritable or veritable is like either as the first or the second largest organic distributor in the U.S., which probably means in the world, you know. So they are really big. So obviously they did something right. What's it called? Vettable vegetable. They're not a store. They are a distributor. They're a wholesaler. And they are also no longer cooperative. They're not collective anymore. They get a lot of their produce from Vettable, but we also do and they have other sources that they get produce from. We try to get as much local as possible. So I just wanted to clarify, Shanta, from the film, the short film. So it seemed like a group would go out to a warehouse and collect the food and then they would distribute it. Would they bring it to storefronts but also to individuals' homes? Is that right or garages where they could be? No, I think that the film was 40 minutes long. So it was spliced and you know, shortened. So there's a little bit confusion. Because some of the scene was actually, like when they were really carrying big bags and stuff, they were actually making delivery from the corporate warehouse to the store, not to the food conspiracy. But when the food conspiracy was just the buying club, we would just go to the farmer's market once a week. So you won't get fresh food every day, just on Saturday. We order on Wednesday, we get the food on Saturday. And then the dry good, which we call the great divide, where we had a lot of flour and oil and so on, that we did in bigger trucks and at bigger places. And the corporate warehouse was born before a lot of the storefronts were born. So we got it from them, as well as from some of the cheese factories, as well as from, you know, a lot of the wholesale sources that we developed. And one of the laws when the warehouse closed, which is, you know, and you will read in the demise, you know, that was kind of dramatic, is that we lost our source, you know. And to answer your question again, one of the things I would like to have happen even with the two co-ops left is if we can develop a warehouse again. Because, you know, that's what's missing. You know, we are now relying on some corporate warehouse and they're not always serving us right. And also, you know, it's not same as a co-operative warehouse. That would be another really good thing for us to do, not regularly, you know. Like, I might go and talk with their promotional person, like, let's do this and that, you know. Hello. The promotional person from Rainbow. So, only occasionally, I wish we had more regular chat to have more camaraderie, as well as maybe even financial success, you know, exchange to make it more successful. What exactly is the process of starting a co-op? Like, are there any things you have to do differently than, like, starting a traditional? Yes, this is not a how-to book. However, it has resources and we in the Bay Area are still very fortunate that three institution organizations are here. Two of them are Oakland. One of them is Davis. So, the Davis institution is called CCCD. It stands for California Center for Corporate Development. And one in Oakland is called NOBAS. It's a network of Bay Area worker cooperatives. And then the other is actually serving the whole country's worker cooperative and that's called USFWC. It's a U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives. And they can answer your concrete question. But as far as I know, all you need is three people, perhaps a lawyer, and a good bylaw, a storefront, if it is, you know, a retail.  But they can actually give you. And there are funds around if you seek for funds. You know, it depends. Two of the places, two of the organizations that can get funding more easily than others if you are trying to get something done in unserved community or if you're doing something in rural community, especially when it comes to food. Okay, any more questions? Did you have any guidelines concerning how you would accept organic produce?  Right. When we started, actually, there were not that many guidelines. So we relied on farmer's information. We relied on farmer's honesty. Often we would go to visit their farms because they would just open our door. They were very, very friendly with us. And a lot of what you see right now, that California developed the standard, organic standard, actually came from cooperatives. There were people who worked in the co-op who said we can't call everything organic. So let's develop standards. So there were a few people who organized and there were a few cooperatives that became backbone. What later became California certified. And now the U.S. certification is actually a little bit, I should say a lot, deluded from the California certification. So California certification is still a lot more stringent and more rules than is the U.S. Well, if the loose dictionary definition is something you grow that you don't use chemicals in fertilizer or you don't spray to get rid of the bugs. But then there's a lot of details involved in there too. Like last time the government wanted, you know, to have genetically modified and still call it organic and we said no, we can't do that. And we actually want that. But then we raised another concern about labeling of GM. We lost that battle, remember that? So it's Trader Joe, Safeway, and Rainbow, they all use the same organic standard? They're supposed, if a product says organic, it should be organic. The difference between though, if you get something from Trader Joe, apart from it being usually in plastic, is that they sell organic and commercial side by side. So for one, they're not really wedded to the organic principle. Secondly, they're also mixing the commercial and organic containers side by side. But they're segregated. Somewhat. Okay. But thank you so much. This was a great crowd. I don't know about you, but I really feel uplifted after being so depressed last night. Thank you for coming. Really, really appreciate the crowd.


What's up everybody jays here for jazby's case race dot com we just sold out 2023 hip-rate football emerald edition series 9 10 box case break random teams number one guys and again There are some of the bigger chasers guys some really awesome stuff and again hand numbered hundred boxes in the print run 10 boxes per case Looking to get one of the hottest NFL rookie superstars and Hall of Famers guys So here's the dice roll. Here's the customer names.  Thank you guys appreciate it. Good luck. There's the teams Let's click dice roll. It's a four and a three seven times one two three four five six seven Travis down to Patrick one two three four five six Steelers Travis of the Steelers James with the Bears Douglas for the Rams Nicole the 49ers Jordan with the Colts and Ravens Ed Edward that is petty that with the Panthers Jordan with the Cowboys Joe and recent with Texans Jimmy by the Jaguars Steven with the Broncos Josh was the Raiders Chad with the Browns Jordan with the Chiefs Joe You have the Patriots Jimmy with the Lions Douglas with the commanders Jordan with the Bucks Franco the Packers last Balmogio Jordan with the Chargers Chad B have my Eagles kind with the Cardinals Patrick Evans with the Dolphins Douglas with the Giants James you have the Titans Jordan with the Bills Josh with the Jets Simon with the Saints kind with the Sorry Simon with the Saints kind with the Seahawks Jordan with the Falcons Pat Wolf with the Bengals and then Patrick with the Vikings So, yeah, I'll leave the trade window open. It looks like Simon's here wanting to trade looking for the Packers So Saints over trade if anybody wants to trade I'll give it a quick minute Maybe two depending on if this chat is active, but if not, then uh, probably just close it in a minute or so But I'll leave the video running You're watching on YouTube just fast forward. I hope so Jordan. That's my goal man I know you grabbed a lot of teams you know helps out that filler I mean, hopefully I get something for everybody even though I know it's not entirely possible But yeah, you got a lot of nice teams man. So Hopefully get you some nice man. Yeah, and Chad be saying I'll trade the Eagles for the Lions Both have sell sheet hits. So that's that's that's pretty fair. I guess right I Do that trade Chad if I had the Lions Yeah, I mean Obviously some teams will have chasers some of them might not doesn't mean they won't have hits though But Josh W saying Raiders for Saints Yeah, the almond world is really cool That's that NT hybrid, right? All right. Well Simon, let me know if you're willing to do Raiders for Saints if not, I'm gonna close it guys Jimmy coming out of the out of nowhere. I'm down for the Lions for Eagles Chad Do we got a trade? Do we have a trade? Man, I kind of remember the last time I actually did a trade and a break I'll close the trade when this time is all good, but I'll allow that trade if you guys want to you guys are good for that Then wow trade confirmed It's gonna happen Let's do it. Is that right Frank? Alright, well good luck to everybody. Like I said, we did have a confirmed trade So James Jimmy now has the Eagles Chad B now has his lines and Here we go 32 teams 10 hits only There could be a chance that the team hits twice in this I've seen it happen before so You know, hopefully your team does it guys little Dakota Prescott For the Cowboys man, I remember ripping so much of this signature series football I remember I hit a Tom Brady one-on-one out of this. It's crazy Patrick Autograph Rookie of Dak Prescott and the Cowboys going to Jordan they go on the board buddy Jalen hurts 17 out of 49 from immaculate football Moments when Hearst ices win with the 24-yard rushing score. I remember that Trade mojo Jimmy is up on the board now. Oh Did Chad text do you text Jimmy? Oh Man and how about a Justin Jefferson rookie autograph 7 out of 49 for the Minnesota Vikings I don't think that's a chaser No, it's not but a very nice one those 7 out of 49 Minnesota Vikings that is going to Patrick What a guy Chad is Didn't even look out for the other Chad. I Guess you did look off for both Chad and Jimmy actually cuz they I know Chad wanted his lines anyway, so That's a 2017 prism or a optic rookie Christian McCaffrey. Yeah Christian McCaffrey for the Panthers 7 out of 150 and Panthers that's going to Edward Petty. All right, no tracer just yet Jamar Chase RPA from gold standard. That's still in the Panini seal 52 out of 99 Bangles going to Pat Wolf. I love what he sent me the receipts. I think this is the sell sheet It's the sell sheet and we're gonna have a randomizer Trevor Lawrence Justin Fields dual patches and autographs five out of 15 Jacksonville Jaguars going to Jimmy Justin Fields and the Bears going to James both James's are gonna ballot it out For this card a little grump 2012 top supreme Rob Gronkowski For the Patriots 41 out of 51 graded a 9-5 I guess no autograph on the 10 Don't see a 10 on there But the greater 9-5 though Patriots it's going to Joseph Joe on the board buddy Justin Herbert how about that? 2020 Panini Chronicles prism black This is actually one of my favorite years of Chronicles and they brought introduced prison black I loved it like this that it's an orange out of 75 graded a PSA 9 Going to the Chargers in Jordan There you go, man It's gonna be interesting to see how the Chargers are with a new head coach Let's see if Justin Herbert maybe takes an even bigger leap or something All right two more to go guys. Oh Nice patch Well, Jimmy, you're gonna get this one no matter what One out of five beautiful patch in there for the Jaguars Travis ETN All right last one Here we go and for the 49ers Five out of five Steve young beautiful signature to Super Bowl champions Not this year though for the 49ers But back in 94 I believe so All right For diners Nicole there you go on the board And there you go guys that was the break so some pretty solid hits overall and all I think it went pretty smoothly I think it went to a lot of different teams a lot of different customer names. I called out. So that's good You know, hopefully I think I should if I get in unfortunately, sorry about that You know, we see only 10 hits possible out of this with some good names there and I Have to break someone's heart here Trevor Lawrence Justin Fields Jags Bears and here we go roll it five and a two seven times One two three four five five and a two six seven Go to the Jaguars.  I'm sorry James, you know losing all this randomizer You know, obviously didn't get anything for for others, but if we can sell it that last break We can unlock $2,000 in break credit. So I'm gonna paste your guys's name in there And like I said, hopefully we can sell it that last break tonight So appreciate you guys. Thank you. Like I said chasing my home's Kelsey mixer is the last one guys and You get away $2,000. Thank you guys


Hey everyone, welcome to Echo Calypso. We are here now at the official Facebook page of Echo Calypso and a new log-in event, a 7-day log-in event just dropped and we'll be getting Niz for free. Okay, so I've seen this, not Niz for free, but Niz's skin for free. I've seen this a couple of, I think, I think yesterday they featured the skin and, oh my god, I said to myself, I gotta have it and look and behold, they're giving it for free. I actually was shocked to see this and to be receiving the first reward ready today. So this event is on November 2, which is today up to November 30 so that gives you a whole month to be able to complete the 7 days log-in even though you missed the log-ins in between. This is a significant log-in event, guys. Again, 30 summon tickets and 3,000 Eternium, I think. I forgot the name. But again, this currency can be used for summoning as well. This is so far the best event or the best 7-day check-in I've ever seen. So again, please log in. All you have to do is log in. Not 7 consecutive, but at least you could be able to log in for 7 days within November 2 to November 30. Again, that is probably around 4 weeks, 3 weeks. So you have ample time to get this. I don't, I won't understand if you're gonna miss this. This is a beautiful skin. As you guys have seen and please make sure that you log in for 7 days. Okay, so this is part of the update that they sent. By the way, this skin for Snezana is actually a paid skin. For those who are, actually, I'm interested in getting this, but I'm not sure if I'm gonna get this so far. I'm still thinking about it as long as it's available in the store. I might, but at this point, I'm not, I'm no longer using Snezana. But for those who are using her right now, she's the best SR in the game for me. Best damage dealer DPS. If you don't have any of the SSRs yet, she's the one to be using. So let's move on to the update. The details are here. Let's just load this page up. So when you click on that, so check an event, Stormy Sea Gift, as you see there, that was actually, yeah, it's Elementium. So 30 and, sorry, not Elementium. 3000 ery- ery- ery- ery- ery- demorphite. It's really hard to read. And Elementium 30. So this was the event that I discussed a while ago. Again, it's available from November 2 to 30. So eligibility, make sure that you're eligible. Awakener who have reached permission level 8. Make sure that you've reached level 8. So if not, you still have time before the event ends. So again, this is when you're checking in. And also, adjustment, adjusted the requirements for Rebration Arms and Chimera Contact. So Awakener who have reached permission level 46 for this is for both, for both. So previously it's at 48. So a lot have been asking, when can we see Chimera Contact? When can we see Vibration Arms? They've lowered the permission level to 46 so that you could see this and avail of this. Again, this is a good adjustment because a lot of people have been asking me, when can I see Vibration Arms? When can I see Chimera Contact? And now it's here. So again, guys, that is a short announcement. So all good news from the game so far. And comments on the new update on the FreeSkin on the 7 day login event. Happy with it. Not happy with it. Asking for more. Put your thoughts down and let's discuss. So thank you very much for staying this far. Take care. Stay safe. This is The Warden and I'm out of here.