Highlight July 30, 2014

Taiwan gas blast

1 killed 2 wounded July 24, 2014 Mercy General Hospital Gunman Richard Plotts  At the Philadelphia PA area Mercy Fitzgerald hospital, Richard Plotts is the suspect named in killing a caseworker and intended to kill many others before he was shot by a doctor who also had a gun. He has a lengthy history of gun arrests, violence and mental health problems, and ranted about the hospital's 'gun-free' policy (political issue)  The shooting was inside the psychiatric unit inside psychiatrist Dr. Lee Silverman’s office. The doctor was also wounded but shot Plotts three times

July 28, 2014 Hong Minh Truong Sent More Than 500 Hoax Anthrax Letters Huffington Post Hong Minh Truong arrested accused of sending more than 15 batches of letters from the Dallas area, starting in 2008. In all but two of the batches, a white-powder substance was put in the envelopes. The hoax letters were mailed to cities across the U.S. and to U.S. Embassies abroad. Most recently, some letters were mailed to hotels in the vicinity of this year's Super Bowl in New Jersey... focused on Truong after an IP address associated with him was identified after 28 public schools in Boston received letters in June 2013, according to the complaint.

High Tech Like Twitter Dominated By White Asian Men ---

USA Today July 24, 2014 Jesse Jackson's PUSH coalition started campaign on Twitter for tech companies to reveal their race and gender hiring patterns, and called on Twitter to set targets and timetables, which is a politically correct way to ask for proportional quotas to fix the problem. In response, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter released numbers 3-4% Hispanic and 2% Blacks among employees, while 90% of Twitter's workers are white or Asian, and 90% of technology jobs in the U.S. are held by the two groups. AP reported "Twitter acknowledged Wednesday that it has been hiring too many white and Asian men to fill high-paying technology jobs", though there was no evidence that the proportions were any different from the qualified labor pool.

newsone: Google estimated 1 percent of its tech staff is Black and 2 percent Hispanic. Meanwhile, Asians make up whopping 34 percent of the company’s workforce, while 83 percent of its workers internationally are male Twitter’s silence is perplexing, given that Blacks, Hispanics and Asian Americans account for 41 percent of U.S. users, making the platform more racially diverse than most social networks, including Facebook. Black people account for 18 percent of Twitter users, compared with 10 percent of Internet users overall, the Wall Street Journal recently reported.