Acer's Windows 8 all-in-ones cause big fuss in Taiwan, we go hands-on to find out why (video)

Although Microsoft's Windows 8 launch will very likely go down in history as a positive turning point for the company, it wasn't without it glitches. Specifically, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Microsoft reps in Taipei found it difficult to navigate their own OS due to hardware issues with their demo devices -- namely, new all-in-one PCs from Acer and ASUS. There were said to be issues with opening and closing apps, possibly due to the implementation of touch on such large screen sizes of 23-inches and over.

Well, we've just been fingers-on with both the 23-inch Acer Aspire 5600U and the 27-inch 7600U in London, and we can report that the touch interface was totally fluid. Moreover, the LCD displays maintained their natural colors very well when switching from an almost vertical 80-degree orientation to an almost-flat 30 degrees. These models come with Ultrabook innards starting with low-voltage versions of the Core i5 and the NVIDIA 630M, and they also come with HDMI-in and optional TV tuners so they can be used in a living room or kitchen situation. Pricing in Europe begins at 1,000 Euros for the 23-inch model, rising to 2,000 Euros for the full-spec 27-incher. Check out the video after the break and you'll see that we asked our Acer rep for his view on what happened in Taiwan and, although he didn't have first-hand knowledge of the event in question, he insisted that it was a storm in a teacup. Given our experience of the devices so far, we're inclined to believe him.

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Iran criticizes Iraq's search of Syria-bound plane

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ? Iran has criticized neighboring Iraq for forcing a Syria-bound Iranian cargo plane to land for inspection in Baghdad to ensure it was not carrying weapons.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Iraq should not be influenced by anti-Iranian Western countries, adding that the search of two Iranian planes over the past month had proved that no weapons were aboard Syria-bound Iranian flights.

Mehmanparast said the U.S. and its allies seek to divert global attention away from their own shipment of arms to Syrian rebels. He made the remarks during a press conference in Tehran Tuesday.

The Iraqi move appeared aimed at easing U.S. concerns that Iraq has become a route for shipments of Iranian military supplies that could help the regime of President Bashar Assad in its fight against rebels.

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Northwest softball seniors go out on top ? Sports ?

COLUMBUS ? For Northwest Whitfield softball?s senior class, Saturday marked the last time they?ll wear the Lady Bruins? blue and orange on the diamond.

For one of them, it was likely the last fast-pitch softball game of her career.

The Lady Bruins sent the Class of 2013?s Karlie Henson, Emily Boyd and Mykeah Johnson off in style Saturday with a dramatic 2-1 extra-inning victory against Madison County to win the Class 4A state championship.

For Boyd and Johnson, this was just the final game in Northwest colors. Boyd has verbally committed to play at Ole Miss ? she is expected to sign next month ? and Johnson is getting attention from college scouts.

Henson said she made a decision to stop her competitive playing days, win or lose, on Saturday.

?I don?t know. Probably,? the teary-eyed second baseman said when asked if she was first to cry. ?I?ve decided not to play in college, so this was my last game. It was really important to me (to win).?

A four-year legacy including more than 100 wins, three Region 7-4A titles and three trips to Columbus would have likely still seemed incomplete without a state championship. In 2009 and 2011, Northwest fell short at the state tournament, finishing third and fourth. In 2010, the Lady Bruins didn?t make it to the final eight.

But after this year?s success, there?s no doubt about the legacy left at Northwest by Henson, Boyd and Johnson.

?They?ve wanted it for a long time ? since they were freshmen,? said junior first baseman Mallory Souther.

Said Northwest coach Jason Brooker, who was in his first year as coach but knew well what the trio had accomplished before his arrival, ?They deserve it. They?ve been busting their butts for three or four years.?

And it happened against the desired foe.

?This was my last year, last time and last chance,? said Johnson, a third baseman. ?We actually wanted to play Madison County because they beat us our sophomore year.?

Henson agreed.

?It just makes it so much better, especially for it to be them who put us out sophomore year,? she said.

In this one, Boyd pitched all eight innings, allowing just one run on five hits and striking out seven.

Maybe it was fitting that the last batter she faced in her high school career was the victim of another Boyd strikeout, something she has done with alarming (to batters) regularity. She eclipsed the 1,000-strikeout mark Thursday in the Lady Bruins? victory against Madison County in the second round of the tournament.

At the time Boyd threw that final pitch, Northwest was trailing 1-0 heading into the bottom of the eighth, and a Madison County win would?ve forced a second do-or-die game right after ? so there was no way she could?ve known her final pitch was a fastball for a swing and a miss.

?I really didn?t (know) at the time,? said Boyd, who was The Daily Citizen?s All-Area Player of the Year the previous three seasons. ?It?s not that I didn?t have faith in my hitters. I knew we?d tie it up, but I also knew it wouldn?t be the ?last? as far as losing.?

She went hitless in three at-bats, and Johnson and Henson also went 0-for-3 at the plate. It didn?t matter, though, because the six juniors in the lineup stepped up both on defense and at the plate.

Aside from the six hits that crew collected, left fielder Macy Weeks and center fielder Colbie Thomas combined to catch three fly balls and shortstop Ashley Conner made two putouts, including one with runners on second and first and two outs in the seventh inning.

?Everyone played a part in it,? Weeks said. ?Emily did awesome on the mound like she always does, but the defense made plays and we got the hits when we needed to.?

With the effort, those who still have one year left let the outgoers know the program would be in good hands next year.

?It?s going to be awesome, and we?re going to continue what we?ve done this year, if not better,? Thomas said.

But Henson, Boyd and Johnson won?t be there in 2013.

After so many wins, and three previous near misses, they wanted to finally get a title and their teammates wanted it for them, even if it took two-and-a-half stressful hours before Bayli Cruse?s walk-off, two-run home run finally clinched it.

?I was out the dugout the minute she hit it,? a choked-up Henson said. ?I was saying all game, ?OK, walk-off home run.? I was just joking.

?Then it happened. I want to say, ?Thank you,? to her for making my season great.?

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President Obama Challenges Musicians To Get Political

During 'Ask Obama,' the president tells MTV News he raised his political awareness in college by listening to Bob Marley.
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Apple Adds 8 New Currencies Supported In App Store, Including Russian Ruble, Indian Rupee And Saudi Riyal

Apple continues to go global with its App Store ambitions: the company has made eight additions to the list of supported currencies. The new currencies are the Russian Ruble, Turkey's Lire, India's Rupee, Indonesia's Rupiah, Israel's New Shekel, Saudi Arabia's Riyal, South Africa's Rand, and United Arab Emirates' Dirham. The additions came after developers were told earlier in the week that iTunes Connect, the portal that lets developers control pricing and app availability, would be down for a period of time on the 25th.

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EU: Spain, Italy putting EU climate target at risk

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ? The European Union's environmental agency says Spain and Italy could hinder the EU from achieving its greenhouse emissions target under a U.N. climate pact.

The European Environment Agency said the debt-ridden countries are not on track to make the emissions cuts required by the Kyoto Protocol, and have not bought enough credits to offset the shortfall.

Such credits allow countries to offset their own emissions through CO2-reducing investments in developing countries.

Though the EU is on track to meet its overall target, its members must also meet their individual goals. In a report Wednesday, the EEA said that current gaps in Italy and Spain, if not addressed through Kyoto credits, could put the EU commitment at risk.

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Rockets, Mortars Launched from Gaza Pummeling Southern Israel

Dozens of rockets and mortars from the Gaza Strip pummeled southern Israel early Wednesday and an Israeli airstrike killed a Palestinian militant, in a sharp escalation of violence following a landmark visit to Gaza by Qatar's leader...

Several foreign workers in Israel were critically wounded in the rocket fire Wednesday, and a number of militants were injured in the Israeli air attacks, Israeli and Palestinian health officials said. Hamas security forces were ordered to evacuate their facilities for fear they would become targets of Israeli airstrikes, and some schools in southern Israel and Gaza canceled classes.

Crossings between Gaza and Israel were shut down following the exchanges of fire.

Hostilities have been simmering for weeks, and Israel's defense minister vowed that his country would not reconcile itself to attacks from Gaza.

Asked if Israel was considering a ground operation in the Palestinian territory, Ehud Barak told Israel Radio that "if we need a ground operation there will be a ground operation. We will do whatever necessary to stop this wave" of violence.

The Israeli military said nearly 70 rockets and mortars were fired by late morning, and that Israeli aircraft struck Gaza four times. The Popular Resistance Committees said one of its members died in one of the airstrikes, and Gaza health official Dr. Ashraf al-Kidra said another Gaza man died of wounds sustained in an attack Tuesday night that killed two militants. No militant group claimed him as a member.

One of the rockets hit a house, causing no injuries, and one of the airstrikes struck a mosque in the southern Gaza village of Khouza for the second time in several weeks.

Much of the fighting has been between Israel and smaller militant groups. But the military wing of Gaza's Hamas rulers and a smaller militant group claimed credit for the rocket and mortar fire Wednesday.

In a statement, Hamas and the Popular Resistance Committees said "these holy missions come in response to the repeated, continuous crimes of the enemy against our people, which killed four and injured 10 in the past 48 hours."

The barrage from Gaza came just hours after Qatar's ruler accorded Hamas unprecedented political recognition by becoming the first head of state to visit the largely shunned Palestinian territory on Tuesday.

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Ebooks Drive Bloomsbury Revenues, But Profits Fall ... - The Next Web

Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury has reported revenue rises of 2% in the six months leading to the end of August this year, however overall the publisher?s pre-tax profits (stripping out costs for international relocation etc) fell by 40%, dropping to ?0.9m ($1.44 million) from ?1.5m on the previous year.

Digging a little deeper, however, ebook sales jumped 89% to ?4.5m from ?2.4m though it?s not clear exactly how the arrival of Harry Potter in digital format buoyed these figures.

JK Rowling first announced her intentions to take?Harry Potter into the digital realm last summer, with the launch of?Pottermore.com. The proposed October launch was put back to March this year with all seven novels rolling out. And although agreements were inked to take the novels to all the common ebook platforms, Pottermore was the main go-to for actually procuring the series. Amazon later secured an exclusive license to bring Harry Potter to Kindle Lending Libraries, despite not being able to sell the books directly.

However, while Bloomsbury does play a role in the ebook element of the Potter franchise, and receives a share of the revenues, it is for all intents and purposes a separate entity and won?t translate into the multi-billion pound money-spinner it enjoyed with the print books. Bloomsbury hasn?t provided separate sales figures for the Harry Potter series, but it does acknowledge the launch of Pottermore.com briefly in the report.

In terms of the broader picture, Bloomsbury reports a turnover of ?43.5m from March to August this year, up from ?42.4m on the same period in 2011, and despite the drop in profits, Chief executive Nigel Newton remained upbeat, noting the figures showed a ?positive trend? overall, as quoted in the Bookseller. ?The group continues to make good progress,? said. ?We have acquired two new businesses further boosting our presence in the academic market, particularly in the USA, and have launched our own sales and publishing operation in India, a market which has the potential to become one of the largest English language book markets in the world.?

Indeed, in July last year Bloomsbury acquired Continuum International Publishing Group, which represented almost ?7m of Bloomsbury?s print sales. But the six-month interim report points to other external factors for the drop in print sales:

?Bloomsbury?s print sales this period have also been affected by the Olympics, during which many people stayed away from the high street, and a market dominated by the best selling Fifty Shades of Grey and more specifically by a reduction in sales of Harry Potter titles year on year, following the release of the last film in that series in the summer of 2011.?

?Higher ebook sales and academic turnover continue to increase the weighting of our sales to the second half,? continued?Newton. ?In addition, we have a strong second-half list, including potential best sellers, and are targeting a significant number of rights and services contracts. We remain well positioned for the future and results continue to show a positive trend over the longer term.?

In terms of digital, which naturally comprised mainly of ebook sales, this now represents 10% of Group continuing turnover, compared to 6% in 2011, and 15% of the Adult division continuing turnover (2011: 9%). More adults read ebooks, it seems.

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?Beetlejuice? sparks? Meteor shower brings 'shooting stars' and 'earthgrazers'

The increasing intensity of the annual Orionid meteor shower will be on full display Saturday night and Sunday morning as most of the US faces a cold, clear, moonless night ? the perfect celestial screen.

By Patrik Jonsson,?Staff writer / October 20, 2012

A shooting star above the Montebello Open Space Preserve in Palo Alto, Calif. Streaking fireballs lighting up the skies are part of a major meteor shower, and the show is just getting started.

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Projected clear skies and low moonlight across much of the country Saturday night and Sunday morning will help fans of celestial phenomena witness a peak of whizzing visitors across the sky as part of the annual Orionid meteor shower.

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Sky gazers can expect as many as 60 meteors an hour as the earth crashes into icy remnants abandoned by Halley?s Comet when it shot by the planet in 1986. The meteor shower will originate near the orange-glowing Betelgeuse star that makes up the right shoulder of Orion (The Hunter), most easily found by his conspicuous belt of stars.

The objects are boulders of ice and rock breaking into the atmosphere at about 148,000 miles per hour. Most sizzle and burn, creating ?shooting stars? and even ?earthgrazers? that span the sky. Larger chunks may actually explode into fireballs loud enough to hear down here on earth.

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(A large chunk of asteroid that entered the atmosphere and exploded just off the coast of northern California on Wednesday, in some cases shaking houses, was likely not part of the Orionids, NASA says.)

According to Weather.com, large sections of the Atlantic, the South, the Midwest, and Coastal West are likely to see crystal clear skies overnight. The moon has just begun to wax, meaning moonlight interference will be low.

Philosophers have long pondered the stars, but the Orionids usually inspire poetics even among the country?s most hardened space scientists. (For others who want to gush or chat, NASA will have its experts on hand starting Saturday night at this link.)

?The Orionid meteor shower isn?t the strongest, but it?s one of the most beautiful showers of the year,? says Bill Cooke, head of NASA?s Meteoroid Environment Office.

Tony Phillips, who blogs at spaceweather.com, explains why in a NASA post.

?The shower is framed by some of the brightest stars and planets in the heavens,? he writes. ?Constellations such as Taurus, Gemini, and Orion provide a glittering backdrop for the display. But that?s not all. This year, Venus and Jupiter have moved into position with Sirius, the Dog Star, to form a bright triangle in the eastern pre-dawn sky. On the morning of Oct 21st, blazing pieces of Halley?s Comet will cut straight through the heart of this celestial triad.?

NASA has a few suggestions for how to optimize the show. The best display is likely to be two hours before sunrise, when Orion will be straight overhead. The meteors will burst from near Betelgeuse, but will spray across the entire sky. And remember: don?t blink.

?Be prepared for speed,? says Mr. Cooke, according to NASA. ?Only the November Leonids are faster.?

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Judge dismisses MF Global employee lawsuit

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A judge on Tuesday dismissed claims MF Global's trustees fired employees without proper notice but left the door open for former employees to file an amended complaint against the bankrupt brokerage's parent company.

Lawyers for the trustees of failed futures brokerage MF Global Inc and its parent, MF Global Holdings, had argued that they were not subject to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, which requires employers to give notice of mass layoffs, because liquidating companies are not considered employers.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glenn agreed with that line of reasoning for MF Global Inc, noting that trustee James Giddens was appointed under the Securities Investors Protection Act (SIPA) and was from the get-go charged with liquidating the company.

That makes Giddens a "liquidating fiduciary" not subject to the requirements of the WARN Act, Judge Glenn concluded, dismissing the complaint against MF Global Inc "with prejudice".

MF Global's holding company, which filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11, may be a different case, Glenn said.

"The only purpose of the SIPA proceeding is liquidation; conversely, the chapter 11 cases were filed at least initially with the hope of reorganization, according to counsel for the debtors-in-possession," Glenn wrote in his order.

Glenn granted Chapter 11 trustee Louis Freeh's motion to dismiss, citing gaps in the complaint, but gave the former employees 30 days to amend their complaint against the parent company if they chose.

A handful of MF Global employees filed the lawsuit last year, saying more than 1,000 workers were fired without warning shortly after the firm's October bankruptcy filing.

An amended complaint against the MF Global parent company must include allegations about whether the parent company was indeed attempting to reorganize, Glenn said.

MF Global collapsed nearly one year ago over fears about its exposure to risky European debt, leaving customers with a $1.6 billion shortfall in their accounts.

(Reporting By Ann Saphir; editing by Andrew Hay)

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British badgers granted stay of execution

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has delayed a plan to shoot thousands of badgers to stop the spread of tuberculosis in cattle in the face of overwhelming public opposition to the cull.

Critics of the cull, which was supported by farmers, said it would be ineffective, not least because fleeing badgers would simply spread the disease beyond the pilot areas in southwest England where it had been due to begin shortly.

The debate is a sensitive one in Britain, where the mass slaughter of cattle to control disease in livestock has left deep scars in farming communities following outbreaks of other diseases over the past two decades.

Last year, 26,000 affected cattle were slaughtered and the disease cost taxpayers 90 million pounds ($145 million), including compensation to farmers.

Environment Secretary Owen Paterson said on Tuesday the delay had been due to surveys showing a higher number of badgers than thought in the afflicted areas. The opposition Labour party branded it a further example of government ineptitude after several blunders this month.

"The farmers delivering this (culling) have concluded that they cannot be confident that it will be possible to remove enough badgers based on these higher numbers," Paterson told parliament.

"It would be wrong to go ahead if those on the ground cannot be confident of removing at least 70 percent of the badger populations."

Public opposition to the cull has been widespread, with more than 150,000 people signing an online protest petition initiated by former Queen guitarist Brian May.

Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives have fallen further behind Labour in the polls and critics say they are increasingly seen as both incompetent and out of touch with ordinary voters.

One of Cameron's senior ministers resigned after he was accused of calling police "plebs", a condescending insult for working people. A botched attempt to find a private company to run a railway line and a Cameron statement on energy bills that sowed confusion have added to the government's problems.

"Labour has warned the government for two years that a cull was bad for farmers, bad for taxpayers and bad for wildlife, and it is right that it has been delayed," opposition environment spokeswoman Mary Creagh said.

Paterson said that while the government remained committed to vaccinating cattle against TB, the vaccine was not yet fully developed, and so the shooting would start next summer.

Animal rights activists had threatened to disrupt the night-time shooting and police leave had been cancelled until the New Year in one of the areas for fear of violence.

(Reporting by Peter Schwartzstein; Editing by Alison Williams)

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A Windows 8 PC that can be used in a tablet mode? Those will come a dime a dozen this fall. But what's fascinating is how each PC maker has approached the challenge of mixing a touchscreen with a more traditional mouse-and-keyboard setup. For some OEMs, this means going the hybrid route, with 10- or 11-inch tablets that slot neatly into an optional keyboard dock. For others, it means a full-fledged PC with a slide-out touchscreen. And for a few, it means a laptop whose screen can fold down, leaving you with what can only be described as an oversized slate.

That's how we would describe the Dell XPS 12, a 12.5-inch notebook whose screen flips inside its hinge, allowing you to use the machine in tablet mode or, if you prefer, with the screen facing away from the keys. (Yes, Dell is giving this form factor a second try.) It starts at a relatively steep $1,200 but then again, this is a fairly premium machine we're talking about: it combines all the ingredients of an Ultrabook (lightweight build, Ivy Bridge processor and a solid-state drive) with a 400-nit, 1080p, Gorilla Glass touchscreen. So what's it like to use this form factor? And how does it fare as a regular ol' Windows 8 PC? Let's see.

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State Obtains $7.7 Million Judgment Against Contractor Accused of ...

NEWARK ? Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa and the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs today announced a $7.7 million judgment against John Kot, of Garwood, and his multiple home improvement companies ? including Roofing Police, Inc., which has used distinctive vehicles painted to resemble police squad cars. Under the terms of the judgment, Kot and the companies are permanently barred from performing home improvement work, and Kot is permanently barred from managing or owning any business in New Jersey.
?These defendants allegedly left consumers with shoddy work, broken promises, and warranties that were ignored ? often while using business names or language on their websites that implied they had some connection to government or police work,? Chiesa said. ?We have held them accountable by obtaining a judgment that provides for consumer restitution and civil penalties, and which prohibits them from performing home improvement work, or even owning or managing any business in New Jersey.?

Under the Final Judgment by Default and Order, entered by Bergen County Superior Court Judge Robert P. Contillo, defendant Kot, 41, and the various home improvement companies he operated, were found to have engaged in conduct which comprises 1,542 violations of the State Consumer Fraud Act, Contractors? Registration Act, Contractor Registration Regulations, Home Improvement Regulations, and Advertising Regulations.

Kot and his companies are collectively required to pay a total of $7.7 million ? including $150,000 in consumer restitution, $7.5 million in civil penalties, $38,000 for the State?s attorney?s fees, and $30,000 for the State?s investigative costs. Kot and his companies are permanently enjoined from performing home improvements in the State. Kot also is permanently enjoined from managing or owning any business in the State; and the corporate charters of the defendant corporations and companies are annulled.

The Final Judgment by Default and Order is against all defendants in the state?s complaint, except for Gabriel R. DaSilva, Jr., who settled with the state via a Final Consent Judgment. A $30,000 civil penalty is assessed against DaSilva but will remain suspended so long as he complies with the terms of the settlement as well as all applicable laws. DaSilva is not barred from performing home improvement work, so long as he first obtains State registration as a home improvement contractor.

?Our investigation and the court?s findings make it abundantly clear that consumers must be cautious when hiring a home improvement contractor,? Acting Director Eric T. Kanefsky said. ?Through this default judgment, we have ensured that one of the worst can no longer defraud New Jersey?s consumers.?

The State?s complaint, filed on behalf of the Division of Consumer Affairs by the Division of Law, alleged that the defendants performed substandard work; refused to repair their substandard work despite promises and/or warranties; refused to return consumer deposits for work that was never performed; failed to honor guarantees or warranties provided in their contracts; and started work without the necessary state or local permits. The companies also allegedly advertised through names and statements that wrongfully implied they were affiliated with government or were quasi-police agencies or police-affiliated businesses.

The state alleged that the defendants perpetuated their deceptive business practices through the interchangeable use of multiple business entities, names, addresses and phone numbers. According to authorities the defendants advertised or contracted with consumers using the following corporations, limited liability companies, trade names and/or unregistered business names: A-1 American Construction, Inc.; A 1 American Chimney Limited Liability Company; Brick City Chimney Service, L.L.C.; Brick City Chimney Service and Cleaning, Inc.; Roofing Police, Inc.; Roofing Squad; Chimney Squad; Brick City; Brick City Chimney & Roofing Services; A-1 American Masonry; A-1 American Masonry Services; A-1 American Chimney Service; A-1 American Contracting; A-1 American Roofing; A-1 American Gutters; A-1 American Siding; A-1 Affordable Construction; A Above American; A Above Brick City; and Diamond Roofing. Defendants used common addresses in Fair Lawn, Hackensack, Maywood and Garwood.

The State?s Complaint further alleged that the defendants misrepresented their business locations and, in Kot?s case, used as assumed name as an alias in the course of conducting business. The Division of Consumer Affairs received complaints about the defendants from a total of 81 consumers.

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Voters: In role reversal, Obama aggressive, Romney passive

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By Emily Jones 3 hours ago

About 1,800 people die each?year in Washington County. Six hundred have already died in 2012, and Roger Morris, the Washington County Coroner expects about two-hundred more deaths this year than in the past ten years. More people die at night and in the winter than any other time because it?s easier to give up during the early hours of the morning, when everyone else is asleep and no one is thinking about the dying, except Morris.

The Washington County Coroner is a full time position, even before he was officially declared that in 2009. Morris deals with all the deaths that happen in Washington County. That includes unattended deaths, nursing home deaths, hospital deaths, homicides, suicides, car accidents and prison deaths. On a daily basis Morris will get ?one or two calls when it?s slow, and midnight to five it?s nothing to get nine to 15 calls.? He doesn?t sleep, there?s no time, people are always dying. He works more than 80 hours a week, of which half is spent with the dead, and he is always on call. Our first meeting was delayed three hours because he was getting his first sleep of the week, on a Thursday.

But Morris is used to the sleep deprivation, though he?s not used to the medical ailments like high blood pressure, and the early onset of gray hairs that come along with the job. After ten years as the county coroner and a certified embalmer for 27 years, his insomnia comes from dedication to the job rather than nightmares that might come from dealing with the dead, not the open-casket-style presentation of the dead, the newly dead.

Morris is good. He can tell if a death seems suspicious because of his experience. His father was the coroner of Madison County. Morris said he remembers watching his father pull a body out of a bushhog when he was five while he sat on the ground Indian style.

Morris? son Hayden is interested too, but he wants his son to focus more in the FBI crime scene field. Hayden is comfortable around the dead like Morris was at his age. ?I was embalming a body one time in our funeral home and Hayden, who was about seven, was sitting on a chair and he asked ?Daddy, what are you doing to that man??? And Morris has also found a way to use his job for teaching lessons to Hayden. His son kept running across the highway without looking. One day at the grocery store Hayden found pictures of a decapitated man that Morris had photographed from a crime scene. ?What happened to him?? Hayden asked. ?He didn?t look before crossing the road.?

In his office in the Washington County South Campus, right across from the county jail, he reenacted a scene from the night before. He stood behind his office chair. A lady had been found dead in her recliner the night before. He mimed checking for any irregularities. He opened where her hypothetical eyes were, shined a flashlight in them. He looked for broken blood vessels in the lower eyelid?a sign of asphyxiation, ?I didn?t see anything, they were as clear as yours or mine.? The pupils were bilateral, so it wasn?t a stroke.? ?Her body temperature was high, so she had just died, and she showed no signs of struggle on her palms and feet.? When I came back to his office later that day he had 11 bottles of prescription medicine scattered around his desk that were confiscated from the woman?s home. He looked up and smiled. Turns out Metamorphin is medication for Type 2 diabetes and ?that individual had not been taking hers.? With the case closed, Morris gets to declare the death a ?natural cause.?

Whenever Morris goes to a crime scene, he?s got a checklist to determine cause of death. ?We look for signs of lividity because if the police say the body was on its face and stomach, but there is lividity is on their back, it means they?ve been moved.? Lividity occurs whenever the heart stops pumping blood through the body. The stagnant blood will settle with gravity or around pressure points and the skin will take shape of the surface it?s on. After that he checks for knots and bruising, signs of struggle, then heads to the medicine cabinet because that will usually indicate their cause of death.

Morris shut off the lights to show me how to clear a crime scene. Wednesday was a very sunny day and there is a large window on one wall, so he didn?t achieve the dramatic effect we were both hoping for. Morris turned on a flashlight, but decided to go find some better batteries for it. His digressions keep him moving. If he stopped for a moment he would probably fall asleep. He came back and showed me one area at a time on the floor. ?This is why we never turn the lights on at a crime scene. You see a lot more with a flashlight.? The brain takes in everything through the sensory register. It discards things that don?t seem important, but in a crime scene everything is important. He sipped from his 24 oz. Diet Mountain Dew, one of 12 he will drink in a day, and sat down. ?You find a lot more that way.?

The eyes start to dry out four to six hours after death, but until that point, a licensed eye inoculator, like Morris, can take them from the body for organ donation. ?It?s actually pretty neat,? he said. But to donate most other organs, you have to be on life support. Except the skin. Morris explained that hospitals use lots of skin grafts, so having a surplus is important. They don?t take it all though, he drew a line across his wrist with his finger, ?they cut off your hands here.? He pointed at his collarbone area, they leave that skin too. But everything else is used. He described the replacement of PVC pipe to restructure the arm if the radius and ulna are removed for donation, but wished he knew the medical term for PVC pipe.

Morris became animated when he talked about the postmortem stages of the body, talking fast, as one does when passionate for his job. He explained that after 12 hours, rigor mortis sets in. He clenched his fist and tried to open it to no avail. The joints become stiff in the phalanges, Morris said, and after two days it will recede. But then there is skin-slippage. Morris pointed at his knuckles. ?Any skin that holds moisture will begin skin slipping first, think of it as a blister.? He drew a line back to his forearm. That?s how far the skin stretches after day three. From then on it is decomposition.

Some of the bodies in Washington County aren?t found for a couple of weeks if the deceased has no relatives. ?We put a chemical agent in them called STOP about an ounce in and it will kill every maggot in there. It?s cleared by the Arkansas state law for toxicology reports.? But the only thing that stops actual ?decomp,? as Morris calls it, is refrigeration.

?We keep our cooler right above freezing at 40 degrees,? said Randall Gallaway, one of the deputy coroners. ?It?s the optimum temperature to preserve a body.?

The refrigerator is in the back, behind the three offices in the modern architecture style building. It?s spotless, something that remains a priority for Morris because of airborne diseases that bodies can emit during decomposition. The lab is a vast square room. A large metal gurney is the only thing on the floor. Biohazard signs adorn the walls and tabletops like artwork. There are two industrial sinks and no windows. Morris turns off the lights leaving only the ultraviolet light above the gurney to arrange the space. Morris uses this to find particles on clothing and also to see if there are any strangulation marks. The blood disappears from the skin when it has been stressed, so he can see marks that might not appear for hours.

The cooler holds the blood for toxicology and the bodies that are waiting for Morris? transport to Little Rock, or waiting to be claimed by family members. ?One body we?ve had for over a year,? he said, but time is running out. The coroners office cremates unclaimed bodies when they can?t locate family members. Morris pulled out a drawer I had thought was another file cabinet. Four boxes bearing four names were cluttered on the left side. ?Four bodies in 10 years isn?t so bad if you ask me,? he said. Sometimes families come out of the woodwork after a while to claim the body. The deceased has already been cremated with the Coroner?s budget. Cremations cost between $900 and $1,500, Morris said. ?All we can do is hope they reimburse us for the costs.?

To objectively balance dealing with the dead, Morris uses jargon through his thick southern drawl. He calls the bodies ?individuals,? not by their names, he says the acronyms for organizations, calls death certificates ?DC?s?, tells me that they always use a Form 7 to close a case. A Form 7 is the coroner?s consent to destroy tissues gathered for investigation. But through all this formality, he remembers the names of most of the deaths he?s investigated and recalls in detail the crime scenes.

He has had to embalm his grandmother and visit crime scenes of his close friends. ?Every body is the same.? After death they become his job. They no longer have personalities and to Morris, a body is a body. But he?s not allowed to investigate the scenes of people he knows because it would be a conflict of interest. ?I wish I could though, because I do the job right.?

A death certificate categorizes five ways to die: accident, homicide, suicide, natural, and unknown. Morris signs off every death certificate in the county. The only way Morris classifies a death as a suicide is when there is a note. An accident has to be a car accident, slipping and falling, or death because of a past injury. Natural is strokes, heart attacks, and usually infant deaths. Unknown deaths are always sent to Little Rock for an autopsy. And ?you know pretty quickly when it?s a homicide.?

Morris can amend the death certificates if new evidence arises. Last Thursday Gary Conner came to the office looking for the file of McDowell. Conner also recalls every death in the same vivid description that Morris does. ?His autopsy came back undetermined because he was so badly decomposed, we had to ID him from his dental records? he said. ?It was September 2010 I believe.? McDowell?s friend had a journal that Conner said ?reflects distinct suicidal ideologies.? One Wednesday, Morris said he would get to change the death certificate to ?suicide.?

There aren?t many homicides in Fayetteville, but Morris said there have been more this year, than last year within the same months. If doors are locked or the body is up against a door then it ?s probably not homicide.

?Death has its own smell.? Morris claims that people emit the smell right before they die, if they are already dying. And he?s found a comfort in death. ?Every time someone dies, usually within a month a baby in that family is born. I call them guardian angels.?

Most people couldn?t handle Morris? job because of the smells, the horrific homicide scenes, the overtime and the taboo of the last moments of death.

But to Morris the taboo can?t exist. It?s 80 hours of his week, but the afterlife is still unexplainable to him. There is an explanation for the reasons people die. Morris is Baptist. ?I believe in God, but I also believe in facts,? said Morris, and I believe I?m going to heaven. ?I see a lot of peaceful deaths. Dying in your sleep isn?t such a bad way to go.?

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Source: http://www.uatrav.com/2012/10/21/dealing-with-death/

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