You Ask: How did the school district make a mistake on my daughter’s record?

Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) – Graduation is a big milestone for most teenagers but one local girl missed her not because of a mistake she made, but because of a mistake by the school district. She even thought she might have to go back to school with the rest of Clark County Monday.

Her family called Action News to investigate how something like this could happen.

“They took away my you know special moment for me,” explained Diana Arias.

18 year old Diana Arias was finishing up her senior year at Del Sol High School last spring and already knew what she wanted to study in college.

“I want to become a nurse ,” said Diana.

In February, her dream of starting college this fall was derailed when her mom opened a letter from the school district that said she didn’t have enough credits to graduate.

“I was upset with her. I questioned her and she said I did go to school you know she was in class all day,” said Marina Arias, Diana’s mom.

So Diana made plans to go back and focused on going back to school to get those last few credits.

“I couldn’t afford summer school because they said I needed five credits so I wasn’t financially able to pay for it,” said Diana.

A few weeks ago Diana’s mom went to register her for the new school year. A counselor was looking at her records and noticed something that shocked both of them.

“He said that they forgot to add the first semester at Las Vegas High credits to her senior year at Del Sol,” said Marina.

Her mom emailed Action News asking us to look into how something like this could happen.

The district said there was an error in records that impacted her graduating in June. Diana transferred schools midway through the year, but her credits didn’t follow as they should have.

”I was happy but at the same time I was mad because she wasted the whole summer,” said Marina.

Diana missed out on walking with her class at the graduation ceremony, and her family missed the joy of recognizing her accomplishments.

“I think graduating from high school is the biggest thing for a parent to see their kid walk with you know their class and ceremony I wanted to see that I really wanted to see that but I guess i missed that now,” said Marina.

Marina says she’s learned a valuable lesson from all this.

“I question all the papers that come from the school now because the principal told me how come I didn’t question that with the letter I received,” said Marina.

Although she missed out on graduation Diana’s diploma should come in the mail in a few weeks. She plans to enroll in a nursing program in January. The principal at Del Sol even offered to pay for Diana’s senior pictures out of her own pocket, but the family declined. Read more at www.ktnv.com

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7 Services That Will Suggest Things You Like

Mashable! • by Sarah Kessler

Thankfully, the Internet does know what you want — or at least its algorithmic recommendation services are trying to figure it out. Pandora is great for music, but these seven sites will help narrow down that agonizingly long list of choices in a variety of areas using your own past preferences.

“Unlimited choice” can “produce genuine suffering,” argues Barry Schwartz in The Paradox of Choice. His research basically sums up what your mother has been telling you for years: You don’t even know what you want.

Read on and let us know in the comments which, if any, worked best for you.

1. BuzzVoice

While Robots might not be able to run the news, they can certainly read the news. BuzzVoice is the first step in making reading obsolete.

Users select sources from the web that they wish they had time to read. Their personalized players — which can be streamed on the web, on an MP3 player, through an iPhone or on an iPad — select articles from those sources’ RSS feeds and read them out loud. It’s like NPR, but tailored to your interests and without any hint of human inflection.

2. Jinni

At some point before Netflix, you could wander into your locally owned video store and ask something like, “I’m kind of in the mood for something romantic but light-hearted, maybe something with Vince Vaughn?” The helpful video store owner would reply, “Perhaps you would enjoy Swingers.”

Now you can ask Jinni. The site classifies movies using factors like mood, place, time period, and plot. It calls this selection process its “movie genome project.” Users search and browse by these factors and the site gives recommendations based on their preferences as they use it.

3. BookLamp

Want a shorter War and Peace? If BookLamp progresses as planned, you’ll be able to search for a book that has similar stylistic elements — perspective, dialog, description level, pacing and density — to Tolstoy’s classic, but that can be read during a four hour layover.

As of now, the site is still calling itself a “technology demonstration,” and hasn’t analyzed the writing style of enough books to be useful as a recommendation service. If you sign up, however, you can request a favorite book or author to be added to the database (although there are no promise that it will actually be added).

4. cookthink

If you are craving Chinese food, prefer chicken, and are in the mood for something filling, it’s unlikely you’ll be able to articulate your recipe search as “Stir-Fried Chicken, Bok Choy and Chiles With Basil” without some help. Cookthink helps users answer the perpetual question, “What should I make for dinner?” by allowing them to search recipes from food bloggers, cookbook authors, and newspapers by any combination of ingredient, dish, cuisine or mood. They call it “the recipe mapping project.”

5. Worio

Worio (or “Web Of Research -io”) supplements users’ favorite search engines with an enhanced discovery search. Normal search results from the selected engine appear on the left pane and results that use the keywords from the principle search as well as the user’s search history suggest related items that might be of interest on the right pane. The site operates by looking at the tags associated with webpages the user searches for. There are also options to create a library of tagged content, download a Facebook application, or look at friends’ libraries.

6. Bee.tv

Channel surfing used to be a lazy activity. Now, with choices on television, web video, digital download platforms and even your mobile phone, it can be a lot of work. Bee.tv is like a channel surfing assistant.

The site recommends TV shows and movies based upon the devices you are using, your preferences, and your likes and dislikes. It allows you to filter results based on rating, genre, HD and whether the content is free as well as to browse TV listings.

The site is currently still in Beta and requires an invitation code, but a free app is available on the iTunes store.

7. Apollo News

Time Inc. launched an experimental personalized magazine in print and online last year, but that was before the iPad hit the market. Apollo news is a similar idea. It’s an iPad app that serves as a personalized newspaper.

Users select preferences to build their customized periodical. The app’s algorithms populate content that the user will like by considering factors such as how much time she spends on certain articles and at certain sources’ sites, which articles they indicate they like or dislike, which articles they mention on social media, and similar people’s tastes. Read more at www.feedly.com

Texas Man Watches His Home Getting Robbed Via iPhone

Using an iCam App for the iPhone, Vince Hunter Watched His Home Getting Robbed

Imagine watching a home burglary in real time. Now imagine that it’s your home.

That’s what happened to Vince Hunter of Dallas last week as he and his wife were visiting family 1,500 miles away in Connecticut.

On Friday, while Hunter was out pumping gas, a $4.99 iPhone app called iCam sent Hunter a text message that the motion detectors in his house had been activated. Using his phone, he was able to watch live video captured by webcams he’d installed around his home.

“I check the footage, and see in real time guys in this area, and they’re kind of hunched over. They’d just broken the glass. I said holy cow, I gotta call 911,” he said.

Alerted by the same message, Hunter said his wife called, and he asked her to notify the security company.

“I go back to the footage, sure enough, they’re in the backyard checking things out. They’re throwing bricks … at the tempered glass and they can’t break it three times. Finally, it appears they wind up and kind of go back in that area, and they just hurl this brick through the glass and … this brick ends up in our living room,” he said.

As Hunter continued to watch, he saw the police arrive a few minutes later, guns drawn. But the burglars had already taken off, spooked by the home’s alarm system.

iCam App Lets Users Watch Video From Anywhere in the World

“You know, it was surreal. It really was. The first thing I couldn’t believe is that we could do this on our cell phone. Really? A cell phone?” he said.

The Hunter’s home had been broken into before, so they had invested in an elaborate security system. Three different cameras allow Hunter to watch surveillance video from any computer. But with the iCam app for his iPhone, he can watch the video from anywhere in the world.

This time, Hunter watched as the robbers ran away empty-handed. But his neighbor wasn’t as lucky.

Police believe the pair cleaned out her house just minutes before reaching the Hunters’ home.

“They’re just hoodlums! The fact that they just keep doing this over and over … they have to be stopped,” said burglary victim Julie McDonald. Read more at abcnews.go.com

6 Massive Secret Operations That Are Hidden All Around You

Ever had a sneaking suspicion that there’s another world, a secret world, hidden just out of sight of this one? Good news: There totally is! Bad news: There’s a reason they’re hiding that secret world from you …

#5.

Hidden Government Bunkers

Government officials are elected to look out for you. They only want to make sure that you’re healthy, safe and well protected… right after they make sure that they’re healthier, safer and better protected. That’s why FEMA has spent 1.3 billion dollars building secret bunkers all across the United States solely to house government officials in case the unthinkable happens. Cracked has a similar plan for the inevitable zombie apocalypse.

Project Greek Island was one of these secret bunkers. The U.S. government made a deal in the late 1950s with The Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia to use their building as a government facility to house Congress in the event of a nuclear war. Construction on a secret bunker beneath the hotel began under the guise of an “above-ground renovation” on the West Virginia wing. They dug out the area beneath the new wing as it was being built and constructed their own little addition: a massive, multi-level installation with walls of reinforced concrete and 30-ton blast doors. Right beneath the tourist resort.

Project Greek Island was operated under a dummy company named Forsythe Associates. It was completed, but went entirely unused during the 30 years before the Washington Post brought public attention to its existence. Once exposed, the project was shut down. Tax dollars at work, ladies and gentleman: They’re building play-forts with it.

Where Are They Hiding?

Similar government bunkers could be anywhere. If they were able to slip one under this beast of a hotel–a place so public it’s actually a tourist destination–there’s no telling where else they were able to hide the others.

See more at www.cracked.com

5 Best Desktop Blogging Editors To Increase Productivity

1. Windows Live Writer

Windows live writer is the best desktop blogging client, the free application can turn your writing experience. It has many excellent features which lacks in default dashboard. The plugins integration in Windows live writer helps you to be more productive and work faster. It supports most of the blogging platforms like WordPress, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, and many more.

2. Creative writer

It totally changes the working environment. The full screen distraction free editor can increase your creativity in writing. The undisturbed workspace will let you to be more productive. It doesn’t support any plugins like WLW, but the distraction free workspace can make you to be more productive by letting your thoughts flow in. Indulge yourself in a relaxed and calm atmosphere and achieve a whole new level of concentration!

3. Blogdesk

The simple application has easy to use interface and can speed up your work. It has WYSIWYG editor, spell checker, tags generator. The main plus for Blogdesk is, it has inbuilt Imagewizard which can crop, rotate shadow and edit your images which you’ve uploaded. There are more features which you can read at their official site.

4. Wbloggar

It is an application that lets you to post and also edit your templates. You can work with one or more blogs. It has many several features that browser-based editors don’t offer. It supports Blogger, WordPress, MSN Spaces, TypePad, BigBlogTool, Blogalia, TheBlog, Blog-City, EraBlog.NET, Upsaid, UBlog, SquareSpace, BlogWare, DearDiary.Net. It has portable version too, which you can carry it anywhere you go!

5. Thingamablog

Thingamablog is a cross-platform, standalone blogging application that makes it easy for publishing your blog post effortless. Thingamablog does NOT require a third-party blogging host, a cgi/php enabled web host, or a MySQL database. In fact, all you need to setup, and manage, a blog with Thingamablog is FTP, SFTP, or network access to a web server. You can publish your blogpost with single click, remotely via email, create unique layout with customizable templates, etc. Read more at www.shoutmeloud.com