We’d like to take this opportunity to thank all the users that reported the issue and remind you all that we take any problem seriously and act on them as quickly as we can.

If you discover anything that you think is wrong with any of our services or you’re still having issues accessing any of our services, please report it to us via our support website at http://support.primaryt.co.uk and we’ll do our best to help rectify the situation for you.

Cheers,

Ed

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School holidays in the USA are assigned at a district level so vary more than any other country. There are currently 16500+ different available districts so it is important you check your own district or school calendar before booking a holiday or vacation.

When are the school holidays?

Spring Break

Spring break tends to fall around Easter and usually lasts a week. The date of Easter Varies so see the USA public holiday dates as a reference point.

Winter Break

Winter Break surrounds Christmas and New Year, the Holiday usually lasts a week or two. Winter is on the 25th of December and New Year is on the 1st of January. You should check your school or district calendar to see when the holidays begin and end for your school.

Thanksgiving Break

Thanksgiving break surrounds the fourth Thursday of November, schools receive a minimum of two days on this holiday however some schools extend this break up to a week. The date of Thanksgiving Varies so see the USA public holiday dates as a reference point.

Summer Break

The Summer break tends to begin late June and runs through till mid August. This Break represents the end of the school year and the beginning of a new school year.

How the Holiday dates assigned

Each district is a member of a region, for example these are the districts in the region of Alabama. Because each district has unique holiday dates and often each school assigns unique teacher training and snow days you should check your holiday dates for your school at us.MySchoolHolidays.com

The first day of school tends to fall in late August/early September and the school year tends to end between in late June.

Interesting Stats

There is an average of 175 school days.
There is an average of 86 holiday days.
There is an average of 10 public holidays. See the USA public holidays .
See more interesting stats about School Holidays in the USA

Recognized public holidays

The public holidays recognized by schools in the USA are:
[insert public holidays here]

Visit School Holidays USA to find the holiday dates for your school or district.

Visit USA holiday / calendar stats page.

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Visit the UKs stats page.

To see your countries stats visit your country page and click Stats.

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Sky, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, O2, Virgin Media and Orange are now blocking The Pirate Bay.  You should consider switching your ISP to one that doesn’t block The Pirate Bay.  Please leave comments to let me know if your ISP is blocking websites or not.

Kids.  The decision to block any website is an example of bad governance.

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Just a quick review of CampEd12. It was great, the events were great. It had a great feel. The food and beer was great. The weather was pretty good and the company was fantastic.

My thanks to Helen Daykin, @Dughall, and Bill Lord for organizing such a splendid event and to everyone that attended it.

CampEd all the fun and laughter you need.

Read about CampEd12 and Plan to attend CampEd13

Related articles by other folks..

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http://alexbellars.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/camped12/

Image courtesy of Dughall

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If you require any assistance deploying Etherpad Lite or help installing new plugins or features then please get in touch.

PrimaryPad offers a hosted Etherpad Lite instance too that can be leveraged so you don’t need to host your own, this service comes with an uptime guarantee and SLA that should provide your school with the piece of mind and simplicity of deployment.

Get the module now

Watch a video guide for how to get started.

We want to send a huge thanks out to Chris K from Dearborn Public Schools for leading on this project and also @spnova who lead the development.

Further reading ODT PDF DOC

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Some things that rock:

• CF sped my page loading up by minifying my JS/CSS etc and reducing the hops to the static content.  Also DNS lookups were marginally faster (<5%).
• Some of the plugins available may be of use to others but weren’t for me and some of them even introduced JS bugs.
• CF introduced me to some new techniques for doing stuff such as catching client side JS bugs.
• CF would help me scale quick
• CF protects against exploits and scrapers.
• FREE and if you want pro you can pay a small amount.

Some things that suck:

• No round robin ergo no high availability for sites that use this which means greater downtime.
• Poor customer support.
• Horrible console and back end.
• Bugs, lots of bugs.  Everywhere…
• Paid option doesn’t really give you much in the way of improvements if anything.
• CF “always online” feature doesn’t work.
• No wildcard domains.

Cloudflare have a great opportunity and a huge audience but they have some massive problems to deal with if they want to make it a worthwhile service for me to adopt across the board.

Note: I’m too lazy to include stats.

Summary: Use the free version, get used to using a CDN for offloading some page content.  Make sure you setup analytics before so you can review your page speed load times.   Amazon and Google have similar offerings that will probably have a higher QOS ergo provide a better ROI.

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