US troops testing jungle skills during Cobra Gold exercise

PHITSANULOK, Thailand ? The sweltering sun burned directly overhead as U.S. Army Pacific Command Sgt. Maj. Frank Leota pointed to the thicket of trees and vines behind him during one of the last days of this month?s Cobra Gold exercise.

?Look at the backyard we?re in. It?s all jungle,? Leota told about 20 sweat-drenched soldiers who?d just completed an exercise that involved creeping and crawling through the thick terrain. ?The Pacific. It?s all jungle.?

Leota was drawing the distinction between the kind of war U.S. troops have been fighting for a decade ? mostly in urban and semi-desert terrain ? and how vastly different war would be fought in the jungle.

?These field crafts, you have to master them,? said the 33-year Army veteran.

Training U.S. soldiers and Marines in the Thai jungle has long been a staple activity of the venerable Cobra Gold exercise, held for the 32nd time. But its focus on Asia has never been timelier.

For more than a year the Pentagon has been talking up its pivot to the Pacific, away from Afghanistan as the war ends and away from Europe as assets are shifted east. And while conflicts in the Pacific have in the past been dominated by naval engagements, virtually any land battle below the Tropic of Cancer would be waged in jungle.

Four nations that fully participate in Cobra Gold ? Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia ? are within that area. The other three fully participating countries, the U.S., Japan, and South Korea, are a major Pacific alliance.

Other Asian nations were invited to observe. For the first time, Myanmar ? also known as Burma and for many years an international pariah because of its oppressive ruling junta ? sent two officers to observe a staff planning exercise and visit a school being built by troops as part of the humanitarian segment of Cobra Gold.

U.S. Embassy spokeswoman Kristin Kneedler told Voice of America that Myanmar?s attendance was part of ?whole government approach? of reform in the country. She said that included ?engaging the Burmese military as an important stakeholder in and a potential contributor to the reform processes.?

Among the many U.S. troops participating were dozens of soldiers from Company B, 2nd Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, based in South Korea.

With deployment experience over the past decade, the soldiers were teamed up with their Thai counterparts to share knowledge and techniques, sometimes one-on-one.

?Based on our experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan, we?re extremely proficient at urban operations, and we?ve done a significant amount of training on short-range marksmanship,? said Lt. Col. Shawn Creamer, battalion commander. ?That?s where ? old guys like me, we used to call it reflexive fire ? you?re basically standing there, a target pops up, and it?s almost instinctive shooting. Muscle memory. That?s the training we?re providing to the Royal Thai Army soldiers of 5th Battalion.?

Creamer?s soldiers, on the other hand, received training in jungle patrol and survival.

?I ate a live scorpion,? Sgt. Brent Smith said matter-of-factly. ?I just took a bite off it. It?s a survival technique. It can be cooked or eaten raw. It?s kind of chewy, weird. The shell is hard and crunchy but the inside is kind of like mush. We just passed it around and took a bite of it.?

They also ate a variety of beetles, grub worms and native plants.

Anything tasty? ?Not really,? Smith said.

Thai Sgt. Thiti Noikoon said through an interpreter that he could easily survive for 12 days in the jungle carrying only uncooked sticky rice for food.

Second Lt. Robert Greeson was impressed by the self-sufficiency of Thai soldiers.

?Surviving off the land is like a way of life,? he said. ?Literally, every day they go out to the pond with nets and catch their lunch. The base is like its own farm. It?s self-sustaining. They have plants, livestock, grow rice. And they all know how to forage in the jungle.

?I don?t think I could survive a month [in the jungle]. But I mean, I know more now than I did before I got here, that?s for sure.?

The Thais also taught the U.S. soldiers how to remove the fangs of constricting snakes from their bodies if bitten.

?A constrictor is designed with a mouthful of teeth to grab, grip and hold, so that way he can wrap around and squeeze his prey until it suffocates,? said Sgt. Robert Juarez. ?The venomous snakes do a quick bite and wait for the venom to take effect.? The fangs are curved like a fishhook, so there?s an art to removing them without tearing away a hunk of flesh.

Many of the soldiers held out an arm as a Thai soldier unleashed an agitated constrictor on them.

?That?s the snake bite right there,? said Pvt. Colby Rau after rolling up the sleeve on his forearm, revealing four puncture wounds from a few days earlier.

?I kind of wondered how it would feel,? he said. ?If I?m walking through the jungle, I?m prepared for it now. If I see that snake, hey, at least it won?t make me freak out,? adding that ?it wasn?t as bad as I thought it would be.?

The soldiers also shared in a Thai ritual of drinking blood from the beheaded body of a cobra. The custom also included a ?cobra cocktail? of blood and rum.

?They said that cobra blood was a Thai tradition that would give you strength and manliness,? Rau said.

Asked if he felt the cobra drink delivered as advertised, Juarez smiled and said, ?I felt empowered by the people around me. The Thais were very supportive of it and very motivated by us doing it, so that?s what was empowering.?

A few days later the soldiers were paired with Thais for a lesson in creeping silently through the jungle. Thai soldiers travel light, carrying far less equipment than their American counterparts.

?You have to learn to live in this,? Leota told the gathered group of soldiers. ?One thing you?ll learn is that you cannot fight the jungle and fight the enemy at the same time. You?re going to lose. So you have to learn how to survive in this environment in order to fight in it.?

Leota said that after joining the Army in 1980, he spent his formative years in Panama where there was in jungle so dense ?you?d move for three hours and only move a half-mile.

?I was fortunate,? he said. ?I had squad leaders and platoon sergeants who were Vietnam vets, who knew how to survive in the jungle.?

He said it was obvious that soldiers are no longer outfitted appropriately for a jungle setting. ?What you see over there is right,? he said, pointing to several Thai soldiers who carried virtually nothing but two canteens, a small pouch, a rope and a weapon.

He said the U.S. Army had recently learned some hard lessons at an exercise in Singapore, in which ?we didn?t move 700 meters and we had 11 heat casualties.?

Operations Sgt. Maj. William Linares admonished the same group of soldiers to begin preparing for an unknown future.

?Before 9/11, how many of us thought we?d be in Iraq or Afghanistan? I didn?t. I knew there were things going on over there, but I didn?t think about it. And did any of you think you were going to be there that long??

Who?s to say that they might not be deployed to a Southeast Asian jungle? he asked.

Leota recalled a squad leader from his Panama years ? a Vietnam War vet ? who would sit out in the middle of the jungle and require his soldiers to take turns trying to sneak up behind him without being heard.

?That?s the kind of stuff we learned, and we?re going to get back to that,? he said. ?It?s going to take a couple years. You may not master it, but you can get better at it.

?When the time comes and we?ve got to come out here in somebody?s backyard in a jungle environment, we?ll already have folks with some sort of experience.?

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New Charges In Florida-To-Ohio Pain Pill Scheme

Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien says an alleged drug ring obtained more than 90,000 oxycodone pills with a street value of $2.8 million.(Photo: Be.Futureproof)

Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien says an alleged drug ring obtained more than 90,000 oxycodone pills with a street value of $2.8 million.(Photo: Be.Futureproof)

Dozens of defendants have been added to an indictment alleging they helped obtain thousands of prescription painkillers from Florida for illegal sale in Ohio.

Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O?Brien says the organization obtained more than 90,000 oxycodone pills with a street value of $2.8 million.

Authorities also seized 48 firearms during the investigation that alleges the pill pipeline dates to 2010.

Investigators in Ohio and several states have battled so-called prescription tourists for years as they try to stem the flow of drugs from Florida, with its proliferation of pill mills, to other states.

O?Brien said Friday a grand jury has added 38 defendants to the 14 individuals indicted last year.

The prosecutor says two ring leaders sent dozens of people to Florida pain clinics to obtain the pills.

Source: http://wosu.org/2012/news/2013/02/22/new-charges-in-florida-to-ohio-pain-pill-scheme/

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UCSB anthropologist studies cattle ranchers in Brazilian Amazon

Public release date: 21-Feb-2013
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Contact: Andrea Estrada
andrea.estrada@ia.ucsb.edu
805-893-4620
University of California - Santa Barbara

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) For over a century, the rubber tappers of Acre, Brazil collected the valuable sap of the rubber trees from the forests of the western Amazon. As the demand for natural rubber declined, however, the Brazilian government sought to stimulate the economy in the 1970's by encouraging southern ranchers to bring their cattle to the isolated state and convert the forests to pastureland.

During the dramatic land conflicts that ensued, rubber tappers captured international media attention by arguing that their harvesting of rubber and other products from the standing forest gave them a livelihood, while at the same time contributing to the preservation of the Amazonian rain forest. While much has been written about the internationally celebrated "forest guardian" rubber tappers, few researchers have tried to understand the ranchers, who, in the minds of many, remain the violent and environmentally destructive villains of Amazonia.

In an article titled "Black Hats and Smooth Hands: Elite Status, Environmentalism, and Work Among the Ranchers of Acre, Brazil," UC Santa Barbara anthropologist Jeffrey Hoelle studies the growing cattle industry as it related to rubber tappers, ranchers, and other rural groups. His article, which received the Eric R. Wolf Prize from the Society for the Anthropology of Work, appeared in a recent issue of the journal Anthropology of Work Review.

"Cattle raising is a leading driver of deforestation in the Amazon. It is a very contentious issue, and, in some ways, the ranchers have become the unquestioned bad guys of the region," said Hoelle, an assistant professor of anthropology. "But many rural groups see them as a model of the success and status that they want. No one has ever talked about the meaning of cattle raising, and the meaning of carving out a space within the forest in the Brazilian Amazon.

According to Hoelle, to resolve issues related to land use and deforestation in the Amazon, ranchers must be brought into the dialogue. "As is the case with any Amazonian research, if you want to preserve the rain forest, it makes sense to work with everyone especially those that have the most power." Generating a more nuanced understanding of the ranchers is an essential step in moving toward larger goals of sustainability and rain forest preservation.

Hoelle's research helped him develop that more nuanced understanding. He also found that ranchers aren't the only people who support cattle raising in the Amazon. Others, including rubber tappers, are moving toward that industry because of the economic advantages it offers. "Pastureland is worth more than forest," Hoelle noted, "and rubber is heavy and seasonal. But you can always walk your cow to market, milk it, and use it to carry your forest products." It's hard to compete with cattle raising in Amazonia, he added, noting that production has exploded over the past decade, fueling Brazil's rise to the top of global beef exporting countries.

Through his work, Hoelle also developed a sense of how groups could be opposed to deforestation regulations. According to current Brazilian forest law, ranchers are required to preserve 80 percent of their land as forest. "They don't like government officials telling them what to do with their land, particularly when they feel that the message is really coming from wealthy countries that already cut down much of their own forests," Hoelle said.

He noted that the ranchers are active in campaigns to revise the forest law. "They're just trying to get it to be more fair," he said, "or, to be compensated in some way for the land they can't use. They're told to sacrifice for the good of the world, but many look at North American and European environmentalists and see hypocrites trying to hold them back."

Some of the ranchers, as Hoelle learned through interviews and interaction, did not come to the Amazon as wealthy entrepreneurs, and their opposition to deforestation regulations is based on more than the pursuit of profit. "Many of the ranchers came to Amazonia in the 1970's, at a time when the forest was seen as little more than an obstacle, and they understood their work as pioneers opening the frontier," he said. "Only a few of them were rich when they came; the rest worked hard to get what they have today. I can't speak to the past violence of the ranchers, which was a topic they universally attributed to a few 'bad apples,' but I did come to understand their mindset. They and others quote the bible, talking about how God gave humans the land and the beasts and told them to make it productive. They cite the songs about hard work. For many rural Amazonians not just ranchers leaving the land idle is a sin, and leaving the forest intact is a sign of laziness."

Hoelle said he doesn't defend the ranchers, but he does understand their perspective better now than before he began his research. "Anthropologists and other social scientists are often drawn to the underdog," he explained. "I am no different. I went to Acre initially thinking about the forest-saving rubber tappers, and was prepared to look down my nose at the ranchers. But what good would that do? Finding a balance between environmental preservation, social justice, and economic development requires better understanding the perspectives of all groups living on the land in Amazonia, especially those with the most land, money, and power the ranchers. It also means asking why cattle raising now makes sense to a poor rubber tapper, instead of blaming the ranchers for deforestation. It is complicated, really, and this study is just the beginning."

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Contact: Andrea Estrada
andrea.estrada@ia.ucsb.edu
805-893-4620
University of California - Santa Barbara

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) For over a century, the rubber tappers of Acre, Brazil collected the valuable sap of the rubber trees from the forests of the western Amazon. As the demand for natural rubber declined, however, the Brazilian government sought to stimulate the economy in the 1970's by encouraging southern ranchers to bring their cattle to the isolated state and convert the forests to pastureland.

During the dramatic land conflicts that ensued, rubber tappers captured international media attention by arguing that their harvesting of rubber and other products from the standing forest gave them a livelihood, while at the same time contributing to the preservation of the Amazonian rain forest. While much has been written about the internationally celebrated "forest guardian" rubber tappers, few researchers have tried to understand the ranchers, who, in the minds of many, remain the violent and environmentally destructive villains of Amazonia.

In an article titled "Black Hats and Smooth Hands: Elite Status, Environmentalism, and Work Among the Ranchers of Acre, Brazil," UC Santa Barbara anthropologist Jeffrey Hoelle studies the growing cattle industry as it related to rubber tappers, ranchers, and other rural groups. His article, which received the Eric R. Wolf Prize from the Society for the Anthropology of Work, appeared in a recent issue of the journal Anthropology of Work Review.

"Cattle raising is a leading driver of deforestation in the Amazon. It is a very contentious issue, and, in some ways, the ranchers have become the unquestioned bad guys of the region," said Hoelle, an assistant professor of anthropology. "But many rural groups see them as a model of the success and status that they want. No one has ever talked about the meaning of cattle raising, and the meaning of carving out a space within the forest in the Brazilian Amazon.

According to Hoelle, to resolve issues related to land use and deforestation in the Amazon, ranchers must be brought into the dialogue. "As is the case with any Amazonian research, if you want to preserve the rain forest, it makes sense to work with everyone especially those that have the most power." Generating a more nuanced understanding of the ranchers is an essential step in moving toward larger goals of sustainability and rain forest preservation.

Hoelle's research helped him develop that more nuanced understanding. He also found that ranchers aren't the only people who support cattle raising in the Amazon. Others, including rubber tappers, are moving toward that industry because of the economic advantages it offers. "Pastureland is worth more than forest," Hoelle noted, "and rubber is heavy and seasonal. But you can always walk your cow to market, milk it, and use it to carry your forest products." It's hard to compete with cattle raising in Amazonia, he added, noting that production has exploded over the past decade, fueling Brazil's rise to the top of global beef exporting countries.

Through his work, Hoelle also developed a sense of how groups could be opposed to deforestation regulations. According to current Brazilian forest law, ranchers are required to preserve 80 percent of their land as forest. "They don't like government officials telling them what to do with their land, particularly when they feel that the message is really coming from wealthy countries that already cut down much of their own forests," Hoelle said.

He noted that the ranchers are active in campaigns to revise the forest law. "They're just trying to get it to be more fair," he said, "or, to be compensated in some way for the land they can't use. They're told to sacrifice for the good of the world, but many look at North American and European environmentalists and see hypocrites trying to hold them back."

Some of the ranchers, as Hoelle learned through interviews and interaction, did not come to the Amazon as wealthy entrepreneurs, and their opposition to deforestation regulations is based on more than the pursuit of profit. "Many of the ranchers came to Amazonia in the 1970's, at a time when the forest was seen as little more than an obstacle, and they understood their work as pioneers opening the frontier," he said. "Only a few of them were rich when they came; the rest worked hard to get what they have today. I can't speak to the past violence of the ranchers, which was a topic they universally attributed to a few 'bad apples,' but I did come to understand their mindset. They and others quote the bible, talking about how God gave humans the land and the beasts and told them to make it productive. They cite the songs about hard work. For many rural Amazonians not just ranchers leaving the land idle is a sin, and leaving the forest intact is a sign of laziness."

Hoelle said he doesn't defend the ranchers, but he does understand their perspective better now than before he began his research. "Anthropologists and other social scientists are often drawn to the underdog," he explained. "I am no different. I went to Acre initially thinking about the forest-saving rubber tappers, and was prepared to look down my nose at the ranchers. But what good would that do? Finding a balance between environmental preservation, social justice, and economic development requires better understanding the perspectives of all groups living on the land in Amazonia, especially those with the most land, money, and power the ranchers. It also means asking why cattle raising now makes sense to a poor rubber tapper, instead of blaming the ranchers for deforestation. It is complicated, really, and this study is just the beginning."

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NetSuite OpenAir Mobile Comes to Android Devices

The platform allows Android OS users to update and submit time and expense reports for projects on their smartphones and tablet devices.

Cloud-based enterprise resource management (ERP) and financials software specialist NetSuite announced the availability of its OpenAir Mobile time tracking and expenses management platform for Google's Android operating system. OpenAir Mobile for Android includes a calendar to track and manage time, access to OpenAir time sheets and expense reports using the Android user interface and instantaneous synchronization with OpenAir accounts to use up-to-date customer, project and task data. "Services professionals increasingly rely on smartphones and tablets while on the road or anytime they need to access an OpenAir account," Ed Marshall, NetSuite Service Vertical general manager, said in a statement. "This new mobile app for Android puts the power of the cloud in the palm of their hand to perform more efficiently and speed time and expense reporting and approvals." The platform allows users to update and submit time and expense reports for projects. Along with entering receipt data, the app lets professionals in IT services, consulting, digital marketing and advertising, as well as media and publishing to take a photo of an expense receipt with their Android device, attach it to a record and synchronize the information with the organization's back-end NetSuite OpenAir PSA account. As an example, services organizations that bill clients based on specific time and expense reports could accelerate processes and cash flow when consultants are able to enter time and expense data through a smartphone or tablet. The application is free and only requires a customer's OpenAir credentials to sync with their account. Although an application that could run on Apple's iOS platform was a near-necessary development half a decade ago, application developers are increasingly turning to Android app development as the platform has skyrocketed in popularity. The analyst firm IDC estimates that Android commanded 75 percent of the worldwide smartphone market in the third quarter of 2012, about five times greater than the Apple iOS for the iPhone. In addition, Android's year-over-year growth rate of 91.5 percent for the 12 months ending on Sept. 30, 2012, was nearly double the 46.4 percent growth rate of the smartphone market at large, according to IDC. In the tablet market, the Android platform powered more than 44 percent of tablet shipments as of Q3 2012, second only to the Apple iOS on the iPad, which claimed a market share of 55 percent. Despite maintaining its lead for 10 straight quarters, competition from tablets powered by Android continued to eat away at Apple's success. Nearly 14 percent share was given up in the quarter to several benefactors, including Amazon, Google and Samsung.

Source: http://www.eweek.com/mobile/netsuite-openair-mobile-comes-to-android-devices/

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Israel/Palestine focus shifts - Fri, 22 Feb 2013 PST

The Academy Awards ceremony will make history this year with the first nomination of a feature documentary made by a Palestinian. ?5 Broken Cameras? was filmed and directed by Emad Burnat, a resident of the occupied Palestinian West Bank town of Bil?in, along with his Israeli filmmaking partner, Guy Davidi. What does a Palestinian farmer wear on the red carpet in Hollywood? We were almost prevented from knowing, as Burnat, his wife and 8-year-old son were detained at Los Angeles International Airport and threatened with deportation. Despite his formal invitation from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences??

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The Academy Awards ceremony will make history this year with the first nomination of a feature documentary made by a Palestinian. ?5 Broken Cameras? was filmed and directed by Emad Burnat, a resident of the occupied Palestinian West Bank town of Bil?in, along with his Israeli filmmaking partner, Guy Davidi. What does a Palestinian farmer wear on the red carpet in Hollywood? We were almost prevented from knowing, as Burnat, his wife and 8-year-old son were detained at Los Angeles International Airport and threatened with deportation. Despite his formal invitation from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as an Oscar-nominated filmmaker, it took the intervention of Oscar-winning documentarian Michael Moore, who now sits on the Academy Board of Governors, followed by Academy attorneys, for Burnat and his family to gain entry into the?country.

?5 Broken Cameras? is in competition at the Oscars with an Israeli documentary, ?The Gatekeepers,? a film that features interviews with the six surviving former directors of Israel?s Shin Bet, the country?s secret internal security service, which functions as sort of hybrid of the U.S. FBI and CIA. In the film, all six condemn the current practices of Israeli occupation and settlement?expansion.

In a remarkable case of life imitating art, as celebrities gather for the entertainment industry?s biggest gala of the year, the Israel/Palestine conflict is being played out on the streets of?Tinseltown.

Hours after regaining his freedom, Burnat issued a statement that read: ?Last night, on my way from Turkey to Los Angeles, CA, my family and I were held at US immigration for about an hour and questioned about the purpose of my visit to the United States. Immigration officials asked for proof that I was nominated for an Academy Award for the documentary ?5 Broken Cameras? and they told me that if I couldn?t prove the reason for my visit, my wife Soraya, my son Gibreel and I would be sent back to Turkey on the same?day.?

He went on: ?After 40 minutes of questions and answers, Gibreel asked me why we were still waiting in that small room. I simply told him the truth: ?Maybe we?ll have to go back.? I could see his heart?sink.?

Gibreel?s birth in 2005 was the motivation for the film. Emad Burnat got his first camera then, to record his fourth son growing up. At that time, the government of Israel began building the separation wall through Bil?in, provoking a campaign of nonviolent resistance from the Palestinian residents and their supporters. As Burnat recorded the protests, his cameras were smashed or shot, one by one, destroyed by the violent response from the Israeli army and the armed Israeli?settlers.

Dror Moreh is the Israeli director of ?The Gatekeepers.? Moreh told me: ?The settlements are the biggest obstacle to peace. If there is something that will prevent peace, it?s the settlements and the settlers. I think this is the largest and most influential and most powerful group in Israeli politics. They?re basically dictating the policy of Israel in the last years. I think that definitely for the Palestinians, the settlements are the worst enemy in their way to the homeland. When they see everywhere, in Judea and Samaria now, the settlements that are built like mushrooms after rain, they see how their country is?shrinking.?

Both ?5 Broken Cameras? and ?The Gatekeepers? are up for the Oscar against other very compelling nominees: ?How to Survive a Plague,? about the AIDS epidemic; ?The Invisible War,? about rampant, unprosecuted rape in the U.S. military; and ?Searching for Sugar Man,? about renewal for a musician long thought?dead.

Burnat finished his statement on his detention at Los Angeles International Airport: ?Although this was an unpleasant experience, this is a daily occurrence for Palestinians, every single day, throughout the West Bank. There are more than 500 Israeli checkpoints, roadblocks, and other barriers to movement across our land, and not a single one of us has been spared the experience that my family and I experienced yesterday. Ours was a very minor example of what my people face every?day.?

Regardless of which documentary wins, the 2013 Oscars mark a historic shift in the public dialogue on Israel/Palestine, a long-overdue shift to which 40 million television viewers will be?exposed.

Amy Goodman is the host of ?Democracy Now!,? a daily international TV/radio news hour. Denis Moynihan contributed research to this?column.

Source: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/feb/22/israelpalestine-focus-shifts/

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Sony Officially Unveils The PlayStation 4: X86 CPU And 8GB Memory, But About Experiences, Not Specs

Sony had an event today and as expected, it introduced the PlayStation 4. The next-gen platform is designed to shift focus from the living room to the gamer, Sony said, and overall, PlayStation's approach is meant to make it possible for gamers to play wherever they want, whenever they want. The console has 8GB of memory and an impressive x86 CPU, but that's not what Sony claims to be focused on.

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Google demonstrates view behind the Glass wearable camera

A new video from Google shows how users can take photos and record video with Google Glass.

Google's wearable, interactive camera is now available for a new round of beta testing. The company released a video today to promote the technology, showing what the world looks like through Glass. In the video, users activate the camera to take and share photos by speaking to the device. A preview screen in the corner shows the image as well as who you are sending it to.

Users who want to get their hands on an early version of Google Glass can apply to be a beta tester. On Google+ or Twitter, post a message with the hashtag #ifihadglass. Applications must be 50 words or less and can include up to 5 photos and a video up to 15 seconds long. Winners will need to preorder the?Glass Explorer Edition for $1,500 plus tax and pick it up themselves in New York, San Francisco or Los Angeles.

Source: http://connect.dpreview.com/post/8520361839/google-glass

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