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West Virginia Man Heckles Presidents, Gets Fired

By John Raby Associated Press Writer
Published: Aug 21, 2004

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A man who heckled President Bush at a political rally was fired from his job at an advertising and design company for offending a client who provided tickets to the event.

Glen Hiller was ushered out of Hedgesville High School on Tuesday after shouting his disagreement with Bush's comments about the war in Iraq war and the search for weapons of mass destruction. The crowd had easily drowned out Hiller with its chant: "Four more years."

When he showed up for work at Octavo Designs of Frederick, Md., the following morning, he said he was told that he was fired.

Last month, Charleston City Council apologized to two protesters arrested for wearing anti-Bush T-shirts to the president's July 4 rally. The pair were taken from the event in restraints after revealing T-shirts with Bush's name crossed out on the front and the words "Love America, Hate Bush" on the back.

18 YEARS AGO TODAY

Aug 21 1986

1,700 people are killed in Cameroon when Lake Nyos emits a huge cloud of fast-moving fog, quickly enveloping the villages of Nyos, Kam, Cha, and Subum and killing thousands of cattle and even more birds and wild animals. One eyewitness later describes the landscape as being "littered with human remains and animal carcasses."

Scientists discovered that the crater lake, perched inside a dormant volcano, had become laden with carbon dioxide gas. This gas had suddenly bubbled out of the lake and asphyxiated nearly every living being in the surrounding valley community.

 Lake Nyos is a deep pool of water sitting in the throat of a dormant volcano. A pool of hot magma, laying almost 50 miles below the lake, releases the carbon dioxide and other gases, which travel upward through the earth. The gases gets trapped in natural spring water, which eventually rises toward the surface and feed into the crater lake.

The carbon dioxide, instead of being released harmlessly into the atmosphere, collects in the cold water at the bottom of the lake.  If the water at the bottom of the lake were to regularly rise to the surface, the gas could be safely released. The problem is that the waters of Lake Nyos are steady and still.

Degassing Nyos: perso.wanadoo.fr/mhalb/ nyos/project/project.htm

Over time, the lowest levels of the lake become more and more saturated with gas. And eventually, when they reach 100% saturation, the gas can bubble spontaneously out of the lake.

Carbon dioxide is heavier than air, and when released, it pours over the rim of the crater and slides down into the surrounding low-lying valley. The unfortunate villagers around Lake Nyos literally suffocated under the heavy poisonous cloud of gas.

-Savage Planet 

Pavel Guseinov / Photo from www.mk.ru

A nine-year-old Russian boy is claiming a new world record for the most push-ups in six and a half hours.

Pasha Guseinov from Moscow managed 9,263 push-ups in the allotted time.

After every hour Guseinov was allowed a five minute break to have a drink and go to the toilet.

He said: "I want to become stronger, so that I can protect those who are weak."

During his push-up marathon, Pavel forewent one five-minute break so that he could use it later to call his mother.

The shipwrecked mariner had spent several years on a deserted island. Then one morning he was thrilled to see a ship offshore and a smaller vessel pulling out toward him.  When the boat grounded on the beach, the officer in charge handed the marooned sailor a bundle of newspapers and told him, "The captain said to read through these and let us know if you still want to be rescued."

From LetMeGoToo

By EMMA ROSS, AP Medical Writer

LONDON - In a scathing analysis of the behavior of military doctors, nurses and medics, University of Minnesota professor Steven Miles calls for a reform of military medicine and an official investigation into the role played by physicians and other medical staff in the torture scandal.

He cites evidence that doctors or medics falsified death certificates to cover up homicides, hid evidence of beatings and revived a prisoner so he could be further tortured. No reports of abuses were initiated by medical personnel until the official investigation into Abu Ghraib began, he found.

"The medical system collaborated with designing and implementing psychologically and physically coercive interrogations," Miles said in this week's edition of Lancet. "Army officials stated that a physician and a psychiatrist helped design, approve and monitor interrogations at Abu Ghraib."

The New York Times said the inquiry found no evidence of direct blame above the rank of the colonel who commanded the military intelligence unit at the prison.

 Senior officers in Baghdad and in Washington were not found to have played a role in ordering or allowing the abuse. 'There was no direct policy directives out of the Pentagon that caused this,' said an unidentified official quoted by the Times.

813 YEARS AGO TODAY

Aug 20 1191

Crusaders massacre 2,700 bound Muslim prisoners at Acre, after a breakdown in negotiations over payment of their ransom. The killings take place in full view of the army from which they were taken.

"King Richard determined that Saladin had hardened his heart and cared no longer about ransoming the hostages. He assembled a council of the greater men among the people and they decided that they would wait in vain no longer, but that they would behead the captives. They decided, however, to set apart some of the greater and more noble men on the chance that they might be ransomed or exchanged for some other Christian captives.

King Richard always hoped to overwhelm the Turks completely, to crush their impudent arrogance, to confound the Moslem law, and to vindicate Christianity.

On the Friday next after the feast of the Assumption of Blessed Mary, he ordered that two thousand seven hundred of the vanquished Turkish hostages be led out of the city and decapitated. Without delay his assistants rushed up and quickly carried out the order. They gave heartfelt thanks, since with the approval of divine grace, they were taking vengeance in kind for the death of the Christians whom these people had slaughtered with the missiles of their bows and ballistas."

-Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi

32 hospitals supplied glands, says firm

18 August 2004

An international pharmaceutical firm, Novo-Nordisk, has told RTÉ News that 32 Irish hospitals supplied it with pituitary glands over a ten-year period.

2,500 glands were sent to Denmark from Irish hospitals to manufacture human growth hormone for children. The glands were supplied between 1976 and 1986 and 'minor compensation' was paid to doctors and hospitals for the purchase of medical books, the company said.

 Today, three more hospitals confirmed that they supplied glands from deceased children to the drugs firm.

A pensioner stole £10,000 from a bank in Peru without anyone noticing.

The woman, nicknamed the Silent Grandma by the local press, stole the money from the Sul-Americano Bank in Lima, reports Terra Noticias Populares.

She waited outside the bank manager's office until he came out, then entered, took the money and left within a few minutes.

After looking at CCTV footage, the only conclusion the police have reached so far is that the woman seems to be around 65 years old.

A police spokesperson said: "She was extremely discreet. But we will study the footage over and over to try and find out more about her."

From Kindred_Spirit