Apr 16, 2021
JOHNSTOWN The Greater Johnstown School District Board of Education will conduct its monthly business meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday in the Knox Building auditorium. The members of the public can attend this meeting in person. Masks are required and social distancing protocols must be observed, according to a news release.
The public can also live stream this meeting by visiting the following link:
https://zoom.us/j/92008552438?pwd=aVhJNmJDZ1h6N2pPYlRIMXhSbVAwdz09.
Or by telephone: US: +1 646 558 8656.
Webinar ID: 920 0855 2438.
Passcode: 8723631.
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in Brief It was a tsunami of DNS queries that ultimately took out a host of Microsoft services, from Xbox Live to Teams, for some netizens about an hour on April Fools Day, Redmond has said.
Or as the Windows giant put it, the outage was the result of an anomalous surge in DNS queries from across the globe targeting a set of domains hosted on Azure. In a postmortem examination of the downtime, Microsoft said the flood of requests triggered a programming flaw in its infrastructure that hampered its ability to cope with the demand:
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In Brief Twitter has suspended multiple accounts purporting to be Amazon warehouse workers defending the mega-souk’s working conditions and speaking out against unionization.
All eyes are on the e-commerce giant as thousands of workers in America try to form a union.
The corporation s PR people also just admitted they scored an own goal in badly handling criticism of its working environments, and the US National Labor Relations Board determined Amazon illegally fired two of its workers, as reported by the New York Times. Those staffers, Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa, had publicly urged their bosses to do more on climate change and address complaints raised by the dotcom s warehouse workers.
Texas Stateâs COVID-19 dashboard added 22 new student cases and one new faculty/staff cases April 5.
According to the dashboard, [] cases are considered active. A total of 228 students and 23 faculty/staff have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 30 days.
The dashboard states that numbers include positive COVID-19 test results for students, faculty and staff who tested at the Student Health Center or reported positive results after being tested at other sites. Results received from other sites are added to the graph based on the test date.
The University Star will continue to provide COVID-19 updates as any additional information is released.
Montgomery County
City of Amsterdam: Route 30 over the Canal. All lanes on the main bridge are open. Motorists will encounter a south bound lane closure on the SSB ramp as well as closure of the north bound auxiliary lane. Route 30 north bound to Route 5 east bound ramp will be closed with a detour in place. Erie Street to Route 30 north bound ramp will be closed with a detour in place. The Downtown exit detour is in place for Route 5 east bound to Route 30 south bound.
City of Amsterdam: Route 5S at New York state Thruway exit 27. Motorists will encounter lane shifts in both directions due to utility work.