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Protection One Focused on False Alarm Reduction, Timely Response at ASIS – SecurityInfoWatch

Protection One Focused on False Alarm Reduction, Timely Response at ASISSecurityInfoWatchComing on the heels of its announcement that it is the first national alarm provider to adopt the CSAA's ASAP Program, Protection One's focus at the ASIS show this week is the evolution of timely and accurate response for its national accounts and …

Open thread for night owls: 'Facebook for the rich' (Daily Kos)

The wealthy are different from you and me:
> A new social networking site bills itself as “the online country club for people with more money than time.” The Daily Mail has a more succinct description: “Facebook for the rich.”
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> Netropolitan, as the site is called, costs $9,000 (U.S.) to join. The initiation fee is $6,000, plus a $3,000 annual fee.
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> New York-based composer James Touchi-Peters came up with the idea when he realized he and his well-heeled friends needed somewhere to discuss their (rich-person) problems without the typical reactions they might get on traditional social networking sites. "I saw a need for an environment where you could talk about the finer things in life without backlash – an environment where people could share similar likes and experiences," he told CNN.

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Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in **2011**—_High school textbooks shortchange kids by excluding labor history_:
A new report (PDF) by the Albert Shanker Institute and the American Labor Studies Center argues that history textbooks exclude labor from the history that American schoolchildren learn. Their review of four leading high school history textbooks finds that the books:

• often implicitly …