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PITTSFIELD — The City Council Tuesday accepted the budgets for the fire department and emergency management, then debated the Pittsfield Police Department funding request following calls during the public comment portion of the meeting to probe and reduce areas of police spending. Councilors had not conducted a final vote on the police budget by press time, after power outages kicked some councilors off of the Zoom meeting and prompted the council to break for two recesses. By unanimous vote, the council signed off Mayor Linda Tyer’s proposed $8,781,434 million budget for the fire d...

Human Resources The budget of $218,982 is $17,277 more than the previous year and is attributed to salary increases. Ward 1 Councilor Helen Moon asked the Director of Huma Resources Michael Taylor why there is a line item for Diversity and Inclusion when the city is implementing a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion department. Taylor said there will still be an element of DEI that falls under his department despite the new office. "We're still going to work very collaboratively with this new office, whether it's on recruitment and retention efforts, or it's on professional development,"...

May 24, 2021 43 per cent of all attacks in the quarter were reported in January The number of DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attacks dropped by 29 per cent in Q1 2021 compared to the same period in 2020, but increased by 47 per cent compared to Q4 2020, according to cybersecurity firm Kaspersky. In DDoS attacks, the hackers attempt to deny access to the rightful customers impacting transactions. They are meant to hinder a particular service for genuine users. Hackers send a large number of requests to the target websites, far exceeding their capacity, impairing their ability to function...

New Delhi, May 23 (IANS) In the first quarter of 2021, the number of DDoS attacks dropped by 29 per cent compared to the same period in 2020, but increased by

May 19 , 2021 U.S. importers and shippers of perishables are continuing to experience a severe reefer container shortage stemming from the Covid-19 pandemic, which in turn has led to increased demand for more costly air freight. There are shortages of frozen, dehydrated and fresh potatoes in many markets because US exports of the vegetable have been hobbled by the shortage of ocean containers, according to website The Load Star. Importers of fruit and other vegetables are also feeling the pain, one based in Miami reported vessels bringing in fruit from Central America had suffered delays, re...