WHO’S IN TOWN?
It’s like the X Games, but it doesn’t require participants or spectators to leave their chairs. The Cyber X-Games – a cooperative between the U.S. Army Reserve 335th Signal Command, Army Reserve Cyber Operations Group and Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute – gives participants a chance to respond to simulated world threats. The games are designed to mimic real-world scenarios, like malware and network security breaches that can take down companies and government entities. Presentations cover topics like cyber sovereignty and the evolving cyber threat.
Tuesday June 21-Thursday June 23. Naval Postgraduate School, Sloat Avenue, Monterey. NPS access required to attend first two days, security clearance required to attend third day. 656-7788, www.cyberendeavour.org.
WHAT’S UP WITH THAT
A reader asks “What’s up with all these flags, many around the Frog Pond trail [in Del Rey Oaks]? Actually, all around town. Mostly red, sometimes blue.” Officials at Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District, which manages the Frog Pond, report the small wire and thin plastic sheet markers signaled to maintenance workers wildflowers to avoid while trimming along the trail in the days preceding a wildflower show June 11-12.
OVERHEARD
“I’m actually a dog, which is probably why I don’t get along with cats.”
- A barista comparing spirit animals with her co-workers at Acme Coffee in Seaside.
GOOD WEEK / BAD WEEK
Good:
It was a good week for water projects when Marina Coast Water District entered into a partnership with the Monterey Regional Water Pollution Control Agency to build a $26 million, 10-mile-long pipeline that will serve both the Pure Water Monterey Project and Marina Coast’s Regional Urban Water Augmentation Project. The agreement means big savings for both agencies, eliminating the need to build separate facilities to serve their respective water projects. The pipeline will have the capacity to handle 5,000 acre-feet of water annually, 3,500 of which will come from Pure Water Monterey, wastewater recycling. “The most important solution to finding a long-term water supply for the Monterey region is cooperation,” Howard Gustafson, Marina Coast board president, said in a statement. Marina Coast built portions of the pipeline years ago, but halted construction during the Great Recession.Bad:
Farm workers are the backbone of the Monterey County workforce, supplying the labor to provide the United States with a steady serving of leafy greens and agribusinesses with steady cash flow. Yet they are treated different than most other workers, having been ignored by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1936, which created minimum wage and overtime. Eighty years later, it was a bad week for farm workers when a bill that would have phased in overtime pay died on the California State Assembly floor June 2. AB 2757 would have standardized the 40-hour workweek – long the standard in other industries – for farm workers by 2020. Assemblymen Luis Alejo, D-Salinas, and Mark Stone, D-Scotts Valley, both voted in favor of the overtime bill. Farm workers did get a boost earlier this year from a statewide minimum wage increase to $15 an hour that will take effect by 2022.
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