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Vocab Builder by Using Prefixes, Roots and Suffixes. Part 23: contra.

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This video is designed to help build general and scientific vocabulary for State and standardized exams by using word-part (prefix, root, suffix; many in Latin) explanation and examples.

This video is part of a series. In this video, we introduce this word parts: contra.

You can download the free student engagement worksheet / quiz that we made for this video at the following link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Vocabulary-Builder-Part-23-Video-sheet-Google-Forms-Canvas-more-V1-11949925

If possible, we encourage you to view this video the evening before the topic is presented in class. This will help you be more familiar with the key vocabulary and may improve your long-term retention of the concepts.

For educators:
– For background on why students may benefit from completing the video worksheets at home the evening before you teach the class, please see this 3-minute video: https://youtu.be/_zZuryl1k-c
– Our worksheets are available in electronic format for free (e.g., Blackboard, Canvas, Easel, Google Forms, MS Forms, Moodle). For more info, please see https://youtu.be/ZdSb95QyByI
– We have manually edited the closed captions, so those in English are correct. Although we cannot guarantee all automated translations will be accurate, we have been very impressed by those generated by YouTube® in parts of languages that we can understand. If a speaker of your chosen language can ensure the translations are acceptable, then you may wish to turn these on for students whose first language is not English.

Other free resources we’ve made:
– For links to many free educational resources, please visit our website (no 3rd party advertising, no subscriptions, no paywalls): https://TestPrepLLC.org/

– For our free apps for Apple’s Mac and iPad (collects no data, no advertising, no subscriptions, no paywalls, no in-app purchases), please visit our page on the Apple App Store. These apps include Common Core and State based practice tests in math, and State science exams based on NGSS and State curriculums (all with detailed, colorful explanations): https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/test-prep-llc/id1727786893

Best wishes,
The staff at Test Prep LLC
https://TestPrepLLC.org

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Drupal Association blog: Drupal launches Drupal 11, the latest version of the Open Source CMS

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PORTLAND, Ore., 1 August 2024—Drupal, the most powerful open source content management system for everyone from Fortune 500 enterprise companies to mission-driven nonprofits and entrepreneurial small businesses, is launching the latest upgrade to its popular software.

Drupal 11 continues enhancing the strengths of the platform. It makes structured content, workflows, and content governance more flexible and easier for ambitious builders.

Drupal 11 is designed to empower ambitious site builders to build exceptional websites and to accelerate Drupal’s innovation,” says Dries Buytaert, Founder and Project Lead of Drupal.  “With Drupal 11, we’ve made Drupal more intuitive, powerful, and flexible, ensuring it continues to lead in web development and digital experience creation.”

This latest version of Drupal brings together code and design for a refreshed CMS navigation experience, with an updated toolbar and a collapsible left-hand menu, all designed to ensure a seamless development experience.

With new Recipes functionality, you can add new features to your website instantly by applying a set of predefined configuration. A recipe can provide anything that can be configured in Drupal, from a simple content type to a full suite of features. You can create your own recipes to share or reuse, or apply recipes created by other Drupal users. Recipes are experimental in this release but already usable and expected to be stable in 11.1.

Single-Directory Components simplify front-end development by consolidating all necessary code into a single directory, making components self-contained and effortlessly reusable.

Drupal’s high performance means it runs fast by default with swift page loading, and Drupal 11 is even faster than previous versions, running up to 50% faster on PHP 8.3. 

Accessible for every user

Drupal’s core strengths include its accessibility, security, multilingual capabilities, and flexible features. 

Thousands of developers worldwide contribute their expertise to ensure that Drupal is continuously pioneering the industry in these strengths. Supported by a global community of domain experts, it offers multilingual support with over 100 languages. 

Drupal 11 improves upon these core strengths with various features suitable for developing simple websites or complex web applications. 

Accessibility is a key strength of Drupal,” says Tim Doyle, CEO of the Drupal Association. “The Open Web is for everyone, and our continual focus on accessibility, multilingual capabilities, and flexibility is intended to ensure that Drupal is a beacon of inclusiveness in an online world where many try to build walls and barriers to entry.”

With more features coming soon

Automatic Updates and Project Browser are two key features slated for a future release of Drupal 11 and are currently under development as contributed modules. 

Drupal’s open source innovation keeps pressing ahead with the release of Drupal 11, including milestone features like Automatic Updates and Project Browser. These features will be key to the success of the new Drupal Starshot project, which will see Drupal become even easier to use for anyone wanting to unleash the power of the world’s leading enterprise CMS.” – Owen Lansbury, Drupal Association Board Chair

Automatic Updates module will apply patch-level updates to Drupal core in a separate, sandboxed copy of your site to keep you up and running without any interruptions. It can detect and report problems at every stage of the update process, so you don’t have to discover them after an update is live. It automatically detects database updates and helps you run them during the process.

Project Browser will make it easy for site builders to extend the functionality, look and feel of Drupal. It provides a search interface in the Extend section of the Admin UI to find contributed modules and themes and research their capabilities. Once an extension is selected, instructions are provided on installing it on your site, all without leaving your website. 

Next steps

To start using Drupal 11, visit the Drupal 11 landing page. If you have questions about upgrading to Drupal 11, check out the FAQ page. 

To get help onboarding to Drupal 11 or creating a digital experience from the ground up, connect with one of our Drupal Certified Partners located around the world.

About Drupal and the Drupal Association

Drupal is the open source content management software trusted by millions of people and organizations worldwide. It’s supported by a network of over 10k professionals and over 100 Drupal Certified Partners. The Drupal Association is a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating Drupal innovation and supporting the growth of the open source community. This work delivers value to businesses, the digital community, and users of Drupal, in alignment with Drupal’s commitment to the Open Web.

Browsers, cookies and surfing the web: The quirky history of internet lingo

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Dr. Erica Brozovsky is a sociolinguist, a public scholar and a lover of words. She is the host of Otherwords, a PBS series on language and linguistics, and a professor of writing and rhetoric at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. You can find her at @ericabrozovsky on most platforms. Photo: Kelly Zhu The internet is ubiquitous: on […]

The post Browsers, cookies and surfing the web: The quirky history of internet lingo appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

health @ Savannah: GNU Health Hospital Management patchset 4.4.1 released

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Dear community

GNU Health Hospital Management 4.4.1 has been released!

Priority: High

Table of Contents

  • About GNU Health Patchsets
  • Updating your system with the GNU Health control Center
  • Installation notes
  • List of other issues related to this patchset

About GNU Health Patchsets


We provide “patchsets” to stable releases. Patchsets allow applying bug fixes and updates on production systems. Always try to keep your production system up-to-date with the latest patches.

Patches and Patchsets maximize uptime for production systems, and keep your system updated, without the need to do a whole installation.

NOTE: Patchsets are applied on previously installed systems only. For new, fresh installations, download and install the whole tarball (ie, gnuhealth-4.4.1.tar.gz)

Updating your system with the GNU Health control Center


You can do automatic updates on the GNU Health HMIS kernel and modules using the GNU Health control center program.

Please refer to the administration manual section ( https://docs.gnuhealth.org/his/techguide/administration/controlcenter.html )

The GNU Health control center works on standard installations (those done following the installation manual on wikibooks). Don’t use it if you use an alternative method or if your distribution does not follow the GNU Health packaging guidelines.

Installation Notes


You must apply previous patchsets before installing this patchset. If your patchset level is 4.4.0, then just follow the general instructions. You can find the patchsets at GNU Health main download site at GNU.org (https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/health/)

In most cases, GNU Health Control center (gnuhealth-control) takes care of applying the patches for you. 

Pre-requisites for upgrade to 4.4.1: None

Now follow the general instructions at

 https://docs.gnuhealth.org/his/techguide/administration/controlcenter.html

 

After applying the patches, make a full update of your GNU Health database as explained in the documentation.

When running “gnuhealth-control” for the first time, you will see the following message: “Please restart now the update with the new control center” Please do so. Restart the process and the update will continue.

 

  • Restart the GNU Health server

List of other issues and tasks related to this patchset


For detailed information about each issue, you can visit :

 https://codeberg.org/gnuhealth/his/issues

 

For detailed information you can read about Patches and Patchsets

 

Happy hacking!