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  • Saving Web Pages for Future Reference

    The Interest Archive (aka The Wayback Machine) – Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

    Archive.Today – A time capsule for web pages!  It takes a ‘snapshot’ of a webpage that will always be online even if the original page disappears.  It saves a text and a graphical copy of the page for better accuracy and provides a short and reliable link to an unalterable record of any web page. This can be useful if you want to take a ‘snapshot’ a page which could change soon: price list, job offer, real estate listing, drunk blog post, etc. Saved pages will have no active elements and no scripts, so they keep you safe as they cannot have any popups or malware!

    SnagIt by TechSmith – Image & Video Capture: Capture anything – a small region of your screen, wide panoramic scrolls, infinitely scrolling webpages, and more.  Saves it locally on your computer as a graphic file.

    Libraries of Historical Web Information

    Archive-It – The leading web archiving service for collecting and accessing cultural heritage on the web

    Search Engine Showdown – Leads for finding other sources of historical web information.




  • Connert Media Supports Veronica Escobar

    Veronica Escobar
    Veronica Escobar

    Vote For Ethics and a Voice for Immigration

    Veronica Escobar is a third-generation El Pasoan who has dedicated herself to the betterment of the community. She is proud to have served as County Judge where she was able to have an extraordinary impact on the lives of El Pasoans.

    Judge Escobar expanded access to affordable healthcare through her support of the El Paso County Hospital District, which has provided vital services for the community and built two new, modern clinics that provide primary care to some of the poorest El Pasoans. She was also instrumental in the foundation of El Paso Children’s Hospital, the only stand-alone children’s hospital on the border. [1]

    References:

    1. VeronicaEscobar.com -Democrat for Congress for the State of Texas
    2. El Paso Children’s Hospital




  • Ross Reck: How To Improve Your Luck

    How Luck Happens: Using the Science of Luck to Transform Work, Love, and Life
    How Luck Happens: Using the Science of Luck to Transform Work, Love, and Life – Available from Amazon.com

    A Great Book by Janice Kaplan

    Janice Kaplan and Barnaby Marsh wrote an article about their new book, How Luck Happens, which recently appeared in The Wall Street Journal. According to the article, two of the key traits of successful people are persistence and optimism—to keep trying again and again, knowing that sooner or later one of those tries is going to succeed.

    As Scott Adams, creator of “Dilbert” put it, “To succeed, first you must do something. And if that doesn’t work, which can be 90% of the time, do something else. Luck finds the doers.” The lesson here is that if you just wait around for luck to happen, it probably won’t. On the other hand, if you keep trying, one day luck will tap you on the shoulder. If you would like to read Kaplan and Marsh’s article in its entirety, here’s the link. (Archive Version) [1]

    References:

    1. RossReck.com, March 7, 2018 – How to Improve Your Luck




  • Students: Know Your Rights When Demonstrating




  • Not Too Many Care About The Oscars

    Oscars - The Academy Awards
    Who cares?

    Who Cares?

    Sunday’s 90th Academy Awards took place a little later in the year than previous editions because of the Winter Olympics in South Korea. While the Oscars remain the most prestigious film awards in the world, it seems the ceremony has lost a little of its appeal with the average American over the past few years. Annual surveys conducted by researcher YouGov suggest that lately the share of respondents who don’t follow the awards closely at all has risen to almost 60 percent, an increase by 15 points compared to 2014. [1]

    Infographic: Americans are Losing Interest in the Oscars | Statista You will find more infographics at Statista [1]

    References:

    1. Statista, March 5, 2018 – Americans are Losing Interest in the Oscars