Google Latitude shuts down August 9, but Google+ location sharing will go on (and on)

Checking in to your favorite places is a great way to let people know when you're somewhere important, but there are plenty of in-between times when you might want close acquaintances to know where you are so they can tell when you got stuck in traffic or got home safely. That's when Latitude comes in -- or, perhaps we should say, came in. As part of its Maps redesign, Google is sending its Latitude service the way of Google Reader. Latitude gets lost on August 9th, less than a month from now, and all of its various location-centric APIs will wander offline at the same time. Additionally, Google is removing check-in functionality from Maps, asking that you use Google+ instead, which is also where you'll have to turn if you want to share your location with friends -- a feature not currently enabled in the iOS version of the app. Google promises that functionality is "coming soon," so in the interim please tell your significant other the same when they ask what time you'll getting home from work.

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What if "Blurred Lines" was the 'Cosby Show' Theme Song?

What do you get when you combine Robin Thicke with The Cosby Show? Possibly the best thing ever! One of the most memorable aspects of The Cosby Show (and there were many) was the opening credits scene featuring Bill Cosby, aka Cliff Huxtable, dancing with his loving family. A mashup video of that same scene has now surfaced, but this time, the Huxtables are dancing to Thicke’s new hit song, "Blurred Lines." The "Blurred Lines" music video has already made headlines with its two-step dancing and topless women. But that was no match for Cosby’s smooth moves and the beautiful Phylicia Rashad. Watch the Huxtables get down here!

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Google Maps for Android update rolling out, brings new design and features

Google is rolling out the Google Maps update for Android devices, one of the Google services that was given a new look, but also new features, and which was demoed at this year?s Google I/O edition.

The company overhauled both its desktop and mobile versions of Google Maps, and now the mobile experience will be available to users that have a device running Android 4.0.3 or later.

In addition to a new design for Android handsets and tablets, the update will bring you ?enhanced navigation including live traffic updates, incident reports and dynamic rerouting? and improve the way you explore local ?places to eat, drink, shop, play and sleep.? The screenshots below will give you a quick taste of what Google Maps will feel like on your tablet and/or smartphone once you get the new update:

As Android Police explains, the update may not be available to download on all devices just yet, but the publications offers links to software-specific APKs.

In the Google Play Store, Google says that the update will be ?gradually rolling out to Android 4.0.3+ users over the next few weeks,? so in case you didn?t manually install the APK suitable for your device, you?ll may have to wait a while to get it.

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Florida to review handling of homeowners' insurance claims

The Associated Press

Published: July 10, 2013

TALLAHASSEE - Florida's insurance consumer advocate wants to look at how insurers are handling claims from homeowners.

Robin Smith Westcott announced Wednesday the creation of a working group that will meet later this month. The group will be asked to come up with recommendations, including whether legislators should change state laws that cover policyholders.

Westcott, who was appointed by Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater, says she was prompted to put together the group after hearing from frustrated homeowners at recent forums.

She said in a statement that consumers should not be "victimized" by poor claims handling or by those seeking to exploit homeowners following a loss.

Westcott said the working group will meet July 17 and 18. It will include representatives from both consumer organizations and the insurance industry.

For more information, visit the consumer advocate website here. Or call, 877-693-5236.

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UK & World News: Miliband details union link reforms

Ed Miliband has set out a series of reforms designed to reshape Labour's relationship with the trade unions and end the "machine politics" behind the alleged ballot-rigging controversy in Falkirk.

In changes which could provoke a major clash with the union bosses who bankroll his party, Mr Miliband said he would reform the system of affiliating union members to Labour, introduce a code of conduct for would-be election candidates and introduce open primary elections for Labour's next candidate for London Mayor.

But he also laid down a challenge to the other parties, announcing that a Labour government would impose a limit on MPs' earnings from second jobs. And he called for the reopening of stalled talks on the funding of political parties, repeating his offer to cap donations from individuals, businesses and trade unions.

Mr Miliband said that events in Falkirk - where the Unite union is accused of signing up more than 100 members, some of them without their knowledge, in the hope of fixing the selection for its preferred candidate - represented "part of the death-throes of the old politics".

The Labour leader said he wanted an "open, transparent and trusted" politics, which is the opposite of the "rightly hated" machine politics seen in the Scottish constituency as it chose a replacement for disgraced MP Eric Joyce.

Events in Falkirk had confirmed voters' "worst suspicions" that politicians are "in it for themselves", he said.

Mr Miliband said he did not want a change in the 1980s law which allows unions to maintain political funds to pursue campaigns, but wanted to end the situation under which many unions hand over cash from the funds to Labour, unless members choose to "opt out".

Instead, he said individual members should actively "opt in" to joining the party, saying: "I do not want any individual to be paying money to the Labour Party in affiliation fees unless they have deliberately chosen to do so. Individual trade union members should choose to join Labour through the affiliation fee, not be automatically affiliated. In the 21st century it just doesn't make sense for anyone to be affiliated to a political party unless they have chosen to do so."

The move threatens to cost Labour millions of pounds in donations, but Mr Miliband said it could also swell party membership from 200,000 to "a far higher number". In a message to trade union members, he said: "I invite you to be at the centre of what this party does, day in, day out, at local level."

Mr Miliband announced he has appointed former Labour general secretary and union official Lord (Ray) Collins of Highbury to lead work on the introduction of the new system. Lord Collins will also consider how the open primary process proposed for the London Mayoral candidate selection could be spread to other parts of the country.

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Military Coup In Egypt: A Recipe For Failure ? Analysis

Graffiti against Egypt's Morsi, photo by Japhet Weeks VOA

By James M. Dorsey

July 9, 2013

Egypt IS back to square one, with the military grabbing centre stage again through a coup in all but name. This came just two-and-a-half years after mass protests toppled President Hosni Mubarak in a popular uprising that rejected a security-dominated autocracy and the military?s behind-the-scenes central role in politics. The military owes its return and the prospect of regaining its key role in Egyptian politics to the missteps of ousted President Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood government ? the very force with whom it was at odds for the past six decades.

Morsi came to office after more than a year of transitory military rule that the armed forces bungled with its inept, post-revolt attempts to preserve as much as possible the old autocratic system and its perks and privileges: control of national security; an independent relationship with the United States that funds it to the tune of US$1.3 billion a year; rejection of civilian oversight and autonomy for its commercial empire that accounts for at least ten percent of Egypt?s gross national product.

Legitimacy versus endorsement

History will remember Morsi less as Egypt?s first post-revolt, democratically-elected president than as a failed leader who thwarted the achievements of the popular uprising?s goals and strengthened by default the military?s grip on politics, while presiding over an economy that was already in stark decline following the revolt that overthrew Mubarak. He also severely tarnished Saudi Arabia and Qatar?s support for Islamists across the Middle East and North Africa, and demonstrated that the Brotherhood, despite being one of the world?s largest and best organised Islamist movements, has a long way to go before it is ready for government.

Morsi?s failure is much the result of opposition and resistance by key state institutions ? the military, the security forces, and the judiciary ? to the rise of the Brotherhood. Morsi?s decision to run for office, contrasting starkly with the Brotherhood?s initial reluctance to join the anti-Mubarak uprising, broke its early promises not to seek a post-revolt majority in parliament or field a candidate for president.

Morsi?s insistence to the bitter end that he was a legitimately-elected leader reflected the same majoritarian interpretation of democracy displayed by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in his response last month to mass protests. Both Morsi and Erdogan?s failure to adopt inclusive policies alienated a significant portion of the population. But unlike Erdogan, Morsi failed to realise that he had lost the second ingredient of legitimacy alongside electoral victory: a recognition by those that had not voted for him that he was the country?s elected leader.

Far-reaching consequences

Morsi?s political demise has far-reaching consequences for Egypt as well as the Middle East and North Africa:

• The military will remain a key force free of civilian control and with a significant political and economic power base even if newly-appointed President Adly Mansour moves immediately towards free and fair elections. The reinstatement of Mubarak?s attorney general, the rounding up of hundreds of Muslim Bothers in the wake of the coup, and the prosecutor?s investigation of Morsi on charges of ?insulting the presidency? suggest that the military sees its intervention as an opportunity to shape Egypt in its mould. It raises the question of the role of the military in future anti-autocratic struggles in the Middle East and North Africa.

• As Egypt ventures into uncharted waters, the military would do well to look towards Southeast Asia where retired military officers in countries like the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and Myanmar successfully managed their countries? transition to democracy. Those officers understood that their interests were best protected by getting in front of the cart rather than seeking to salvage what they could of a failed system that lacked popular support. That is a recognition that has yet to be accepted by Egypt?s armed forces as well as other Arab militaries.

• The coup reinforces a widespread sentiment among Islamists that, in the words of Morsi?s national security advisor Essam al-Haddad, ?democracy is not for Muslims.? It risks the radicalisation of Islamists across the region who may see the ousting of Morsi as evidence that the Brotherhood?s strategy of working within the system is doomed to failure. There is little short of releasing detained Brothers, lifting the ban on Islamist media and immediate free and fair elections in which the Brotherhood will be allowed to compete unhindered that will counter the Islamists? sense of disenfranchisement.

• That sense of disenfranchisement is reinforced by the repression of the Brothers by Egypt?s three previous presidents ? Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat and Mubarak; the 1991 abortion of Algerian elections to prevent the victorious Islamists from taking office, thus sparking a brutal civil war; the soft coup against Turkish Islamist Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan in the late 1990s; and the Western boycott of Gaza following the electoral triumph of Hamas.

• The intervention of the military strengthens Saudi Arabia in its rivalry with Qatar for influence in the region. Saudi Arabia, backed by the United Arab Emirates, cemented its regional predominance by assuring the Egyptian military that it would step in if the United States cut off its US$1.3 billion annual aid to the armed forces or if Qatar, the Brotherhood?s main backer, reduced its $5 billion support to the government during Morsi?s tenure. The intervention was Qatar?s second regional setback as the country seeks to stamp its own influence in the Middle East. Similarly the supply by Saudi Arabia of non-US surface-to-air missiles to Syrian rebels ? endorsed by the US ? was from the kingdom?s perspective designed to strength the resistance to President Bashar al-Assad as well as to weaken the Brotherhood?s Syrian wing supported by Qatar.

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This article was published by the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and is reprinted with permission.

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Meteorology on the Front-line in the USA | Royal Meteorological ...

With the wildfire season upon the USA and the recent high temperatures and tragic loss of life, the question of how meterology might help arises. Enter the Incident Meteorologist, or IMET.

The US National Weather Service (NWS) trains meteorologists to work closely with fire control specialists from the Forest Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management and other state and local fire agencies.

IMETs use computers to access information from local and national NWS offices. Surface observations, upper air observations, Doppler Radar, and weather satellite pictures are used to make specialized forecasts. Daily coordination calls are used to discuss forecasts with local NWS offices and other IMETs that may be working other fires in the area.

There are less than a hundred IMETs employed by NWS and during the fire season they are sent to remote locations to support wildfire operations. They receive specialist training in microscale forecasting, fire behaviour and fire suppression, making them key members of fire fighting teams.

FireRAWS are portable weather stations that continuously measure temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction. These units also include observations of fuel temperature, fuel moisture, solar radiation and precipitation. In addition, the upgraded units include GOES satellite communication capability so the data reports can be accessed via the Internet. The FireRAWS are placed in a safe location near the fire to provide the IMETS with reliable and continuous weather information. Field observers also take weather readings on the fire line. This helps in understanding how topography influences the weather.

The IMETs are invaluable when it comes to preparing the critical forecasts needed for fire suppression and planned burning projects. Sometimes, as with the Smoke Jumpers of Washington State, fires are started deliberately in order to manage forests, or create breaks. One of the most important tools of an IMET is the All-hazard Meteorological Response System (AMRS), which enables forecasters to stay at the command post and provide immediate support to the firefighters.

IMETs will receive training in mesoscale?(large-scale) and?microscale?(the smallest) weather systems. Mesoscale phenomena include thunderstorms and squall lines, while microscale events could include air turbulence and dust storms.

IMETs live in fire camp just like the rest of the firefighters. ?Smoke can be seen billowing from the fire in the background.

Another part of the training for IMETs includes rapid deployment with portable forecast equipment. Forecasters set up their units near fire lines and can help provide the information that enables fire managers to decide where to move fire crews, how to plan tactics and ensure the safety of the public and the firefighters

IMETs will normally provide weather forecasts at the morning and evening fire crew briefings and also the strategy meetings for each shift.

With about 100,000 wildfires every year, their role in supporting the fire crews is vital.

Images and Information Courtesy of the US National Weather Service

Source: http://www.rmets.org/meteorology-front-line-usa

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