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LAS VEGAS SHOOTING LAWSUITS: HUNDREDS OF VICTIMS SAY HOTEL, CONCERT PROMOTER DIDN’T TRAIN WORKERS FOR EMERGENCY
BY CHRISTAL HAYES ON 11/21/17 AT 1:28 PM

The hotel where the Las Vegas gunman carried out his attack and the concert he targeted were not prepared for an attack and had not trained their employees properly, alleges a massive lawsuit filed Monday by 450 victims of the shooting.

The suit is the largest filed in the nearly two months since the attack. It was filed along with four others, two wrongful death cases and two for victims who were severely injured in the attack. The shooting left 58 dead and more than 500 others injured—the deadliest in recent U.S. history. The lawsuits target the hotel where gunman Stephen Paddock carried out his attack, the promoter of the Route 91 Harvest festival he shot at, Paddock’s estimated $5 million estate and a firm that provided security for the concert.

(Excerpt from the site: http://www.newsweek.com/450-las-vegas-victims-sue-hotel-concert-promoter-not-training-employees-718352 researched on november 2017.)

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LAS VEGAS SHOOTING LAWSUITS: HUNDREDS OF VICTIMS SAY HOTEL, CONCERT PROMOTER DIDN’T TRAIN WORKERS FOR EMERGENCY
BY CHRISTAL HAYES ON 11/21/17 AT 1:28 PM

The hotel where the Las Vegas gunman carried out his attack and the concert he targeted were not prepared for an attack and had not trained their employees properly, alleges a massive lawsuit filed Monday by 450 victims of the shooting.

The suit is the largest filed in the nearly two months since the attack. It was filed along with four others, two wrongful death cases and two for victims who were severely injured in the attack. The shooting left 58 dead and more than 500 others injured—the deadliest in recent U.S. history. The lawsuits target the hotel where gunman Stephen Paddock carried out his attack, the promoter of the Route 91 Harvest festival he shot at, Paddock’s estimated $5 million estate and a firm that provided security for the concert.

(Excerpt from the site: http://www.newsweek.com/450-las-vegas-victims-sue-hotel-concert-promoter-not-training-employees-718352 researched on november 2017.)

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What Makes a Genius? The World’s Greatest Minds Have One Thing in Common
Walter Isaacson @WalterIsaacson Nov. 16, 2017

Franklin, Einstein, Jobs, da Vinci. How history's greatest thinkers broke with tradition and solved problems nobody else could see. Being a genius is different than merely being supersmart. Smart people are a dime a dozen, and many of them don’t amount to much. What matters is creativity, the ability to apply imagination to almost any situation.Take Benjamin Franklin. He lacked the analytic processing power of a Hamilton and the philosophical depth of a Madison. Yet with little formal education, Franklin taught himself to become the American Enlightenment’s best inventor, diplomat, scientist, writer and business strategist. He proved, by flying a kite, that lightning is electricity, and he invented a rod to tame it. He devised clean-burning stoves, charts of the Gulf Stream, bifocal glasses, enchanting musical instruments and America’s unique style of homespun humor.

Albert Einstein followed a similar path. He was slow in learning to speak as a child–so slow that his parents consulted a doctor. The family maid dubbed him “der Depperte,” the dopey one, and a relative referred to him as “almost backwards.” He also harbored a cheeky rebelliousness toward authority, which led one schoolmaster to send him packing and another to amuse history by declaring that he would never amount to much. These traits made Einstein the patron saint of distracted schoolkids everywhere.

(Excerpt from the site: http://time.com/5027069/what-makes-a-genius/ researched on November 2017.)

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What Makes a Genius? The World’s Greatest Minds Have One Thing in Common
Walter Isaacson @WalterIsaacson Nov. 16, 2017

Franklin, Einstein, Jobs, da Vinci. How history's greatest thinkers broke with tradition and solved problems nobody else could see. Being a genius is different than merely being supersmart. Smart people are a dime a dozen, and many of them don’t amount to much. What matters is creativity, the ability to apply imagination to almost any situation.Take Benjamin Franklin. He lacked the analytic processing power of a Hamilton and the philosophical depth of a Madison. Yet with little formal education, Franklin taught himself to become the American Enlightenment’s best inventor, diplomat, scientist, writer and business strategist. He proved, by flying a kite, that lightning is electricity, and he invented a rod to tame it. He devised clean-burning stoves, charts of the Gulf Stream, bifocal glasses, enchanting musical instruments and America’s unique style of homespun humor.

Albert Einstein followed a similar path. He was slow in learning to speak as a child–so slow that his parents consulted a doctor. The family maid dubbed him “der Depperte,” the dopey one, and a relative referred to him as “almost backwards.” He also harbored a cheeky rebelliousness toward authority, which led one schoolmaster to send him packing and another to amuse history by declaring that he would never amount to much. These traits made Einstein the patron saint of distracted schoolkids everywhere.

(Excerpt from the site: http://time.com/5027069/what-makes-a-genius/ researched on November 2017.)

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A civil rights 'emergency': justice, clean air and water in the age of Trump
by Oliver Milman in New York

The Trump administration’s dismantling of environmental regulations has intensified a growing civil rights battle over the deadly burden of pollution on minorities and low-income people. Black, Latino and disadvantaged people have long been disproportionately afflicted by toxins from industrial plants, cars, hazardous housing conditions and other sources. But political leaders, academics and activists spoke of a growing urgency around the struggle for environmental justice as the Trump administration peels away rules designed to protect clean air and water.

“What we are seeing is the institutionalization of discrimination again, the thing we’ve fought for 40 years,” said Robert Bullard, an academic widely considered the father of the environmental justice movement. “There are people in fence-line communities who are now very worried. If the federal government doesn’t monitor and regulate, and gives the states a green light to do what they want, we are going to get more pollution, more people will get sick. There will be more deaths.”

(Excerpt from the site: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/20/environmental-justice-in-the-age-of-trump. Researched on November 2017.)

PRAY FOR PEACE
– Name of the Poet not available

In the moments of the morn when the day is being born
Pray for Peace
When you’re standing at the sink with some moments
free to think
Pray for Peace
When you’re putting on your shoes and you hear the
daily news
Pray for Peace
When you dance and sing and play, let the song within
you say
Pray for Peace
When you’re watching children run laughing freely in
the sun
Pray for Peace
When you’re starting up your car, take a moment where
you are to
Pray for Peace
When you’re entering the door of an office or a store
Pray for Peace
When the checkout line is long, keep your peaceful vision
strong
Pray for Peace
When your call is put on hold, let your peaceful vision
strong
Pray for Peace
When the traffic line is slow, breathe in peace and feel it
flow
Pray for Peace
When you’re sitting by the fire and flames are leaping higher
Pray for Peace
At the ending of the day when you meditate and pray
Pray for Peace

(PRAY for peace. Available on: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001502/150262e.pdf Accessed on: May 10th, 2018.)