Military must protect monarchy: Army chief

January 4, 2012 4:45 pm

General Prayuth Chanocha also called on the public to help the military defend the monarchy against efforts to undermine the institution. He suggested social boycott against the offenders of lese majeste law.

"You can't employ the law alone. The authorities involved are trying to use both legal and political means in dealing with this issue. It's not that we are complacent or that we are not firm about protecting the monarchy," Prayuth said.

"Most people in this country are aware what is going on. The point is that we have to help protect His Majesty the King and the monarchy," the Army chief said.

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Intel's Ultrabook portal jabs at limited functionality of tablets

Love 'em or hate 'em, there's no question that tablets aren't capable of handling the same rigors (with the same efficiency levels) as a full-on laptop, and Intel's using that very point to promote the Ultrabook category as a whole. Given that we're just days away from seeing what's apt to be a flood of these things at CES, Intel's new Ultrabook portal (and linked "Ultra Excited For Ultrabooks" preview paper) is priming the masses for what to expect. In the note, Intel Technical Marketing Engineer Shirley Chen notes the following:

"Tablets have introduced some great features that support some of these use cases with longer battery life and touch capabilities in order to provide a more enriched experience. However the screens are still small, local storage is generally miniscule and restrictive, and tablets lack performance compared to that of a traditional PC. At the other end of the portable scale there are laptops, which for many are just too big, and place power and performance above user experience, which both hardware and software play a part in. Ultrabook systems marry thin and light with the best in performance, responsiveness, security and battery life - filling the gap between desktop/laptop and tablet. We are reinventing the PC again. An Ultrabook device is ultra-responsive and ultra-sleek."

Nothing here is truly groundbreaking, per se, but it's the first time that we've seen such a giant company take a meaningful swing at a product sector that has caught fire for myriad reasons. 2012 is shaping up to be the year of the inexpensive tablet, but if Intel has its druthers, you'll be shaking off the hype and picking up a full-fledged computing tool instead. Have a look at the rest in the PDF sourced below.

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Church announces dates for pope's Cuba trip

HAVANA (AP) -- The Roman Catholic Church in Cuba has announced the dates and a partial itinerary for Pope Benedict XVI's much-anticipated visit to the island.

The church said in a statement Sunday that the pontiff will be in Cuba from March 26 to 28, following a visit to Mexico.

Benedict will touch down in the western city of Santiago de Cuba, where he will be received personally by President Raul Castro.

He will make a private trip the following day to the sanctuary of Cuba's patron saint, the Virgin of Caridad del Cobre. He will fly later to the capital Havana where he is due to perform Mass at the sprawling Revolution Plaza on Mar. 28 before departing early that afternoon.

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Expert: Wastewater well in Ohio triggered quakes

CLEVELAND (AP) ? A northeast Ohio well used to dispose of wastewater from oil and gas drilling almost certainly caused a series of 11 minor quakes in the Youngstown area since last spring, a seismologist investigating the quakes said Monday.

Research is continuing on the now-shuttered injection well at Youngstown and seismic activity, but it might take a year for the wastewater-related rumblings in the earth to dissipate, said John Armbruster of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York.

Brine wastewater dumped in wells comes from drilling operations, including the so-called fracking process to extract gas from underground shale that has been a source of concern among environmental groups and some property owners. Injection wells have also been suspected in quakes in Ashtabula in far northeast Ohio, and in Arkansas, Colorado, and Oklahoma, Armbruster said.

Thousands of gallons (liters) of brine were injected daily into the Youngstown well that opened in 2010 until its owner, Northstar Disposal Services LLC, agreed Friday to stop injecting the waste into the earth as a precaution while authorities assessed any potential links to the quakes.

After the latest and largest quake Saturday at 4.0 magnitude, state officials announced their beliefs that injecting wastewater near a fault line had created enough pressure to cause seismic activity. They said four inactive wells within a five-mile (8 kilometer) radius of the Youngstown well would remain closed. But they also stressed that injection wells are different from drilling wells that employ fracking.

Armbruster said Monday he expects more quakes will occur despite the shutdown of the Youngstown well.

"The earthquakes will trickle on as a kind of a cascading process once you've caused them to occur," he said. "This one year of pumping is a pulse that has been pushed into the ground, and it's going to be spreading out for at least a year."

The quakes began last March with the most recent on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve each occurring within 100 meters (yards) of the injection well. The Saturday quake in McDonald, outside of Youngstown, caused no serious injuries or property damage.

Youngstown Democrat Rep. Robert Hagan on Monday renewed his call for a moratorium on fracking and well injection disposal to allow a review of safety issues.

"If it's safe, I want to do it," he said in a telephone interview. "If it's not, I don't want to be part and parcel to destruction of the environment and the fake promise of jobs."

He said a moratorium "really is what we should be doing, mostly toward the injection wells, but we should be asking questions on drilling itself."

A spokesman for Gov. John Kasich, an outspoken supporter of the growing oil and natural gas industry in Ohio, said the shale industry shouldn't be punished for a fracking byproduct.

"That would be the equivalent of shutting down the auto industry because a scrap tire dump caught fire somewhere," said Kasich spokesman Rob Nichols.

He said 177 deep injection wells have operated without incident in Ohio for decades and the Youngstown well was closed within 24 hours of a study detailing how close a Christmas Eve quake was to the well.

The industry-supported Ohio Oil and Gas Association said the rash of quakes was "a rare and isolated event that should not cast doubt about the effectiveness" of injection wells.

Such wells "have been used safely and reliably as a disposal method for wastewater from oil and gas operations in the U.S. since the 1930s," the association's executive vice president, Thomas E. Stewart, said in a statement Monday.

Environmentalists are critical of the hydraulic fracturing process, called fracking, which utilizes chemical-laced water and sand to blast deep into the ground and free the shale gas. Critics fear the process itself or the drilling liquid, which can contain carcinogens, could contaminate water supplies, either below ground, by spills, or in disposed wastewater.

Permits allowing hydraulic fracturing in Ohio's portion of the Marcellus and the deeper Utica Shale formations rose from one in 2006 to at least 32 in 2011.

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Canon Color imageClass MF8080Cw

At first glance, the Canon Color imageClass MF8080Cw ($449 direct) seems a little large for a color laser multi-function printer (MFP) meant for light-duty printing in a micro, home, or small office or as personal printer in any size office. However, the size and weight would have been typical just a few years ago. More important, if you have room for it, the printer's capabilities?most notably its paper handling and print speed?are just right for the intended use. That makes it a reasonable choice, if not a perfect fit.

Very much in the MF8080Cw's favor is that it offers much the same capability as the Editors' Choice Dell 1355cnw Multifunction Color Printer ($419.99 direct, 4 stars) that I reviewed last year. It can print, scan, and fax, including over a network, work as a standalone copier and fax machine, and also scan to or print from a USB memory key. For scanning, its 50-page automatic document feeder (ADF) serves as a complement to the flatbed and lets it handle multipage documents as well as legal-size pages.

The key issue that limits the printer to light-duty use is its paper handling, with a 150-sheet input tray and no duplexer. If your print needs?including copying and printing incoming faxes?are more than about 30 pages per day, having to constantly add paper may turn into an annoying chore. However, 150 pages should be sufficient for the light-duty print needs in most small offices.

Setup and speed
The MF8080Cw is big and heavy by today's standards, at 16.9 by 17 by 19.2 inches (HWD) and a hefty 57.4 pounds. That's about 20 pounds more than the 1355cnw, and heavy enough so most people would consider moving it a two-person job. It's also big enough to be a potential issue in a small office where flat space can be at a premium. Once you find a spot for it, however, setup is standard fare.

The printer offers both WiFi and wired network support. For my tests, I set it up on a wired network and installed the driver on a Windows Vista system. On our business applications suite (timed with QualityLogic's hardware and software) it managed a lackadaisical 3.7 pages per minute (ppm).

That's an appropriate speed for the rating, at a relatively slow 12 ppm for monochrome and 8 ppm for color. It's also faster than some of the printer's competition, including, for example the similarly priced HP LaserJet Pro CM1415fnw color MFP ($449 direct, 4 stars) and the HP TopShot LaserJet Pro M275 ($399.99 direct, 3 stars) that I recently reviewed. However, it's slower than the Dell 1355cnw, at 4.5 ppm, and it's not fast enough for its speed to count as a strength.

Output Quality and Other Issues
The MF8080Cw's output quality is uneven, with better than par graphics for a color laser MFP, photos at the low end of par, and below par text. Fortunately, the bar for laser text quality is high enough that being a bit below par isn't much of an issue. Unless you have a highly unusual need for printing at small font size, you should find the text more than acceptable for any business need.

The graphics output in my tests was easily suitable for any business need as well, including output meant for potential customers who you need to impress with a sense of your professionalism. Most people would consider the graphics to be good enough for printing their own marketing materials like one page mailers or tri-fold brochures.

You may or may not consider the photo output to be high enough quality for the same sort of marketing materials or for, say, client newsletters. I saw some graininess and a slight color shift, which could be an issue for anything that needs to show well, like a landscape filled with colorful flowers.

I'd like the MF8080Cw more if it were smaller, faster, had a higher paper capacity, or some combination of these. Even as it stands, however, it's worth considering, with a more than acceptable balance of speed, output quality, and MFP features. Its size may make it a little hard to find room for if space is tight, and the 150-sheet capacity rules it out for offices with heavy duty print needs. But if you have room for it, and need light-duty printing only, it's a reasonable choice, if not a compelling one.

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Katy Perry And Russell Brand's Divorce 'Not A Surprise'

'They were a sort of odd, mismatched pair,' celebrity-news expert says.
By Jocelyn Vena

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While fans of Katy Perry and Russell Brand might be surprised by the news of their divorce, those who work in the celebrity world are hardly shocked by the news. Celebrity-news experts say that from the beginning, the pair struck them as an odd couple, despite their equally charming and eccentric personalities.

"From the get-go, I thought they were a sort of odd, mismatched pair," David Caplan, a noted celebrity-news editor who has worked at publications such as People and Star, explained to MTV News. "She's so glamorous, pop and sexy, and he is diametrically not like that. He's a nice and funny guy, and from my encounters with her, I found her to be funny, have a sarcastic edge and a blast, but they weren't a match. Plus, she's more of a partier than he now, so their lifestyles were at odds."

See a timeline of Katy Perry and Russell Brand's relationship.

Despite what anyone may have thought or what rumors about the pair were swirling in the lead-up to the announcement, the twosome always seemed intent on denying the reports. "Katy and Russell's split is not a surprise," Caplan said. "It's one of those celeb splits where the writing was on the wall for months, so much so that they denied any marital trouble on 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' several weeks ago, which is uncommon for celebs to acknowledge tabloids reports.

"But then came news this week that they had a big blowup and spent Christmas apart," he added. "Very far apart — she in Hawaii, and he in London. You don't get much farther apart! Plus, in between 'Ellen' and Christmas, there were multiple reports of them on the rocks. And unlike so many other rumblings about celeb couples on the skids, this was totally true, and they clearly decided not to keep it a secret and just put on a happy front."

However, it seems that as much as they wanted to squelch talk of a breakup, in the end, it all came crashing down. "Katy and Russell's marriage has been under pressure for some time," said Rob Shuter, columnist for HuffPost Celebrity. "I'm surprised Russell did so many interviews denying the troubles. The truth always comes out. When a married couple choose not to spend the holidays together, you know something is up, if they are celebs or just regular folks."

Perry and Brand announced their split Friday, after one year of marriage. While Brand released a statement about the separation, as of press time, Perry had yet to speak about it.

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2011 Reflections: the end of a landmark year for Latin America

Seven Monitor correspondents reflect on the world's hot spots. In this installment, Sara Miller Llana says Latin America has economically boomed this year as the US and Europe struggle.

As 2011 comes to a close, Latin America's future looks bright, with poverty at its lowest level in 20 years ? 31.4 percent ? and economies growing, thanks to earlier market-oriented reforms, the high prices of commodities, and new trading partners, especially China.

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In the ultimate role reversal, as Europe and the United States struggle, Latin America has shined.

Even Cuba made major economic progress, albeit out of necessity, granting more licenses for entrepreneurs and allowing for the sale of real estate and cars. But shadows of the past have clouded the region as well, especially in elections.

In Central America, two cold-war-era figures won presidencies, with retired Army Gen. Otto Perez Molina winning Guatemala's runoff, and Sandinista Daniel Ortega winning another term in Nicaragua (unconstitutionally, many argue). Mr. Perez Molina is accused of human rights abuses during the civil war; Mr. Ortega was a US foe as president in the 1980s after Nicaragua's revolution.

And then there is growing discontent with dynastic influences.

In Peru, Keiko Fujimori, daughter of disgraced former dictator Alberto Fujimori, made it to the runoff in June (she lost to Ollanta Humala).

In Argentina, Cristina Fern?ndez de Kirchner easily won reelection in October, boosted by a solid economy. But by the time she steps down, her family will have ruled for 12 years. That's too long for those who seek more dynamic democracy, replete with a robust opposition.

That is the case in Venezuela, too, where opponents are trying to edge out President Hugo Ch?vez, who announced this year that he was ill. He has been in office since 1999 and will face probably his fiercest test in 2012, as the opposition seeks to capitalize on high crime rates and inflation.

In Mexico, the 2012 presidential campaign is heating up. The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which presided over 71 years of authoritarian rule before being defeated in 2000, has emerged as the front-runner ? in part because of public weariness over President Felipe Calder?n's strategy against organized crime, which has caused homicides to soar past 40,000 in five years.

There are other hints of the past. Honduras is still reeling from its 2009 coup. The head of Colombia's FARC rebel group was killed in November, but the group still terrorizes. And former dictator Manuel Noriega is back in Panama, where he went straight to prison, having spent 20 years in French and US prisons.

But most of these events are overshadowed by the positive economic news. The year 2011 may be seen as the starting point of a new era for Latin America.

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