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As said elsewhere, the book has more background details and the process of harvesting Astrophage. It's a book a keep going back to, though I list to it as an audio book read by Ray Porter who does a great performance out of reading it (Rocky is really well done). Really loved the movie and am waiting for it to come out on DVD so I can watch it again (I know it's going to be on streaming but I don't want to have to keep paying for it). My wife watched it and enjoyed it but I had to explain some of the bits that were missed from the book.

I will pass this over to the Exams office team. They won't want to change this year as they have only just moved to Access by Examscreen due to the huge price increase in Exam WritePad.

I've just had a response from the developer and they tested it overnight and found that the behaviour spotted here is a bug. He has fixed it for the next version which is due out in a couple of weeks.

Yes, it does not seem to matter if multiple line breaks are used. If you put a full stop on the line then the spacing is correct, but that is not practical and the exams office staff are concerned that the examiners would not be happy about it. I have raised the issue through the contact page on the website.

We have just started using Access by Examscreen and have a problem with printing. In Access by Examscreen if a line break is added between paragraphs it does not print. See the screen shots. I was wondering if anyone else has seen this and resolved it? This is from Access by Examscreen. There is an extra line break between Paragraph 2 and 3. This is from a PDF, printing to Konica Minolta, Samsung, or HP printers results in the same on paper. Thanks

CoPilot is working for me at the moment. I asked it "is this working?" and "What was the problem that stopped copilot from working?" and got this back. I don't know if this is the real cause or something made up to make me go away. Earlier today, Microsoft Copilot experienced a major outage affecting users in the UK and parts of Europe. Here’s what happened: Root Cause: Microsoft reported that an unexpected surge in traffic caused a capacity scaling issue. The autoscaling system couldn’t keep up with demand, so engineers had to manually increase capacity and adjust load balancing rules to stabilize the service. [bleepingcomputer.com], [sharecast.com], [windowsforum.com] Impact: Many users were unable to access Copilot or experienced degraded functionality across Microsoft 365 apps (Word, Excel, Teams, etc.). Some saw generic fallback messages like “Sorry, I wasn’t able to respond to that” or had timeouts and incomplete responses. [windowsforum.com] Timeline: Reports started spiking around 9:00 AM UK time, and Microsoft acknowledged the issue shortly after. They posted updates under incident code CP1193544 in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center and on their official status account. [community....gntaxi.com] Current Status: Microsoft has been manually scaling capacity and adjusting load balancing. Service availability has improved, but they are still monitoring closely to ensure stability. [sharecast.com] If you want to check live status or confirm if everything is back to normal, you can visit:

I just saw this tweet on Microsoft 365 Status. I don't see this in the admin centre.

I am getting the same message in two different M365 tenants. Service health is reporting it as health. I am raising it as a service request to see what comes back.

My school has had similar problems with students, particularly, not receiving password reset emails. We noticed that most of the ones suffering this had two email addresses, a usually personal one (often the parents) and a school one. If we removed the personal one then password reset emails came through. I raised this with Arbor and the support person tested with and found that if someone has two email addresses with the one marked as default in second then the password resets emails did not get sent. I've not been told (yet) if there is a fix for this or if we just have to go through and find/remove non-default email addresses that appear before the default address. If I get told how to fix it and it's something we need to do then I will try to remember to come back and update this thread.

Same here. It's not been a great start as we have had problems with student and parents not getting the password reset emails they need to get their accounts going. So our parents are already a little grumpy about having had to move to a new system. I don't think they have seen the benefits yet. I am going to put a feature request into Arbor to ask them make the app/website report that there is maintenance occurring and that it is unavailable. It may reduce the number of "why's it not working" emails that are received.

The Head of Computer Science at my school has just asked if I can think of places or exhibitions that he could take a group of year 11 students to visit. He wants something that will enthuse them into taking A-Level Computer Science and head them into some form of technology related job. We are about 30 minutes south of Manchester right on the M6, so something in the North West would be ideal. Does anyone have any ideas as where to go. We did think of BETT but it's not quite the right event.

I hope there is along with post event recordings. I'm double booked for the afternoon so I would not be able to watch live.

https://www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy/senior-ict-technician-cheshire-east-1791052 We are seeking to appoint a Senior ICT Technician to support IT provision across Knutsford Academy, Cheshire Studio School, and Egerton Primary School in Knutsford. This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious technician to join our team as we expand and strengthen IT provision across the growing trust.

We have a vacancy for a Senior ICT technician. Salary: GBP £22,129 - £24,921 per year (Grade 6 (actual salary: £20,472 - £23,055)) Despite what it says on the TES site this is a term time + 3 week contract. Details are on the TES website: https://www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy/senior-ict-technician-cheshire-east-1673379 School website: https://www.knutsfordacademy.org.uk/

We have a complete AM radio station setup that we would like to see go to a good home rather than be scrapped. You would need to come and collect from Cheshire East. The cost of shipping it would be prohibitive. The equipment has not been used in several years, but does power up. If you were to use it as a real AM transmitter then you would need to look at the necessary licencing, etc. but it could be used as an internet radio station instead. 2x Sonifex S2. Both are different. See the pictures for the installed modules. 2x Denon DN-C635 CD Player 1x Denon amplifier 1x Sonifex telephone hybrid HY03 1x Tascam MD350 Mini Disc player 1x Denon DRM595 cassette player 1x Denon SCM51 speakers + table stand (pair) 3x Audio Technica Microphones MB2k 2x Desk arm microphone stands 1x ART 405 5 zone distribution mixer 1x Behringer Ultragain Pro 1x Radica Broadcast Systems AM50 AM transmitter (was tuned for 1350AM) 1x U shaped desk with mounting for the audio equipment and mixers. There is also our transmitter antenna, but it has been outdoors for years, so I do not know what condition it is in.