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If you are not doing something different and news with your hotel lobby you are leaving money on the table!

Monday, February 04, 2013
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At the SOLD OUT BITAC® WEST Hotel Conference, October 14-16, 2012, there were some great panel discussions on today’s hotel needs and issues. Glenn Haussman, Editor in Chief, Hotel Interactive®, wrote an exciting article called “Unlocking Lobby Potential” which was published on October 18, 2012 after BITC WEST 2012. The design-driven, skilled panelists included: David Dunphy the Principal of Studio Hirsch Bedner Associates; Sara Pickard the President of Sarah Pickard Design Studio; Robert Lee the Vice President of The Hotel Group; and Glenn Haussman as facilitator and contributor.

In the ever changing hotel industry, we all must be aware of the trends that create new opportunities, attract more guests, and add revenue to the hotel bottom line.

Hotel lobbies have changed over time and now include one interactive space to heighten social experiences; to give guests a place where they can be alone or together; and it gives the hotel a place to sell more food and drink. Take Starbucks as an example, who as of 2009 had 16,706 locations, in 55 countries.

The re-design of the lobby keeps guests from walking out the door to go elsewhere. Many guests crave continual social interaction. Many hotel lobbies are integrating the business center with an open bar concept while continuing to meet the needs of those who want a quiet space to use their computers.

In hotel lobby design, it is imperative to create separate, multiple zones for social networking while including areas for those people that want to be alone. It is not that hard to accomplish this feat. Simple things like planning electric plug outlets and seating sections that include sofas, can be incorporated.

Hotel check-in areas are also evolving by eliminating boundaries between the guests and the front desks. Hotel clerks are getting more mobile through the use of iPads or desks.

As I always said, “there is no excuse for poor taste or bad design” in hotels. Timeless designs can be accomplished on a budget. Like all of us, we are always looking for “extraordinary”.

The Hilton Garden Inn has been busy requiring implementation of the “Project Grow” scenarios into their hotels. Project Grow focuses on the public space in their hotels. It is used to encourage guests to dine, socialize or to stay connected within the hotel during their stay. With this in mind, Interior IIG (www.interiorimagegroup.com), Patti Tritschler and her team, a leading architectural design firm, was retained to create an atmosphere within the public space that would benefit the business traveler. This space focused on guests as they dined, worked and entertained, as well as the weekend traveler. Incorporating several small meeting areas, along with semi private divided areas to plug in to work and to conference was a requirement. In addition, at the end of a long travel or work day, the dining and lounge areas must come alive to provide areas for guests to socialize. The bar and chef’s table offer a dual purpose, in the morning a buffet for breakfast and in the evening a place to order an appetizer, drink, and to socialize. With brightly colored, patterned fabrics and a dual-sided electric fireplace, the lounge seating areas provide a comfortable place to gather. Ottomans placed within the seating area provide a comfy, updated look. What amazed me about the Hilton Garden Inn Lobby remodel is how all of it was accomplished within budget.

In addition to incorporating the Hilton Garden Inn Project Grow requirements, the property decided to further enhance the space with a new expanded bar, dual sided electric fireplace, and check in desk. The glow of 3form back lit onyx and marble countertops provides a welcoming experience for guests. The “welcome to the garden” graphic and artwork enhance the space along with lanterns and greenery which provide a modern rustic environment.

This particular Hilton Garden Inn is seven years old, located near the Buffalo International Airport in New York. It is owned by Buffalo Lodging Associates, who owns over 70 properties across the USA and Canada. This property serves a business and leisure travel audience and this modernization project will be finished in the Spring of 2013. Interior Image Group has also worked with several other Buffalo Lodging properties as well as some Hilton Properties.

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Motel 6 today launched a streamlined booking experience with Google Wallet, allowing customers to pay for their stay using the Buy with Google button. Motel 6 integrated Google Wallet within its mobile website so guests can now book their hotel stay with just a few touches.

“We’re thrilled to further expand our partnership with Google, and integrate this solution into our digital experience, making it easier, faster and more convenient for our guests to book a reservation,” said Lance Miceli, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Motel 6. “We’re committed to offering travelers an increasingly efficient digital booking experience that leverages the latest advances in digital technology. Google Wallet allows our guests to book a stay with fewer touches, avoiding the need to fill out payment information manually.”

Google Wallet, an application that securely stores customer’s credit card information, provides a fast and easy way for people to book a reservation. After selecting the Motel 6 location within the Motel 6 mobile website, travelers can complete their reservation using the “Buy with Google” button. For guests who don’t have a Google Wallet account, information is saved securely the first time they make a reservation through this method of payment.

Motel 6 provides a robust mobile and digital portfolio of services to enhance guests’ booking experience, including an independent WAP site, a mobile app for smartphones and tablets, as well as, a custom booking application for Facebook.

The Google Wallet and Motel 6 apps are free and available for download at Google Play and the iTunes App Store.

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It was just after dawn along the Houston Ship Channel when all hell broke loose inside the Valero oil refinery. What had begun as a small fire in a storage tank quickly sparked an explosion, sending 3,461 pounds of sulfur dioxide into the air and five workers to the hospital.

None of the toxic pollutant, which can trigger a range of respiratory, heart and lung diseases and forms acid rain, was permissible under the refinery's state-issued permit.

Shortly after the blast, television news stations broadcast images of burning equipment and charred debris. People living in the nearby Manchester neighborhood were ordered to close their windows and doors and stay inside.

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On that humid morning of August 4, 2008, Delia Del Valle was among them. The 68-year-old retiree had spent the majority of her days living and raising her now-grown children less than ten blocks away from the Valero plant. She has lymphoma, and believes that her cancer was caused by the toxins and carcinogens routinely belched into the air by the scores of refineries and petrochemical plants that dominate east Houston along the ship channel, seven miles from downtown.

Del Valle, a petite woman whose wrinkled face is swollen from chemotherapy, remembers the explosion and being able to write her name in the ash that settled on top of her car afterward. Though that in itself was not unusual. Del Valle often found her car coated in debris, thanks to a never-ending drizzle of legal and illegal pollution.

Within days of the Valero explosion, other nearby plants also unexpectedly spit up huge amounts of toxins. On August 8, a tank overflowed at an ExxonMobil chemical plant in Baytown, releasing 3,623 pounds of benzene into the atmosphere. Benzene is one of the longest-known carcinogens and is used to make plastics, lubricants and rubbers. It also appears naturally in crude oil. The EPA requires that any accidental release of benzene greater than ten pounds must be reported, and doctors say there is no known safe level of exposure to any carcinogen.

Nine days later, at the same ExxonMobil plant, an equipment failure caused the release of 16,325 pounds of pollutants in six hours, including carcinogens and other chemicals that can cause birth defects and damage the nervous system. That's the equivalent of eight toxic elephants stampeding into Houston. Two days after that, there was a valve malfunction at one of LyondellBasell's plants in Channelview, sending 6,346 pounds of benzene into the air, exceeding the unit's yearly allowable benzene emissions in a single incident.

On October 4, Houston Refining coughed 28,641 pounds of sulfur dioxide into the air, more than eight times as much as was released during the Valero explosion. And the day after Christmas, a gasket failure at another one of LyondellBasell's chemical plants in the Houston area emitted 11,542 pounds of a known carcinogen in less than five hours.

Out of all of these emission events, most caused by some type of equipment failure, only the Valero explosion — the smallest and the one to make the afternoon news — received an enforcement citation from the state's regulatory agency, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. It penalized the plant $20,900 but then reduced the fine to $8,000, cutting the penalty by 62 percent. The other incidents slipped by, unnoticed by the public and unpunished by TCEQ. They represent just a small handful of the emission events that occur almost every single day of the year at the nearly 150 chemical and petroleum plants in Harris County.

The health and environmental costs of air pollution are not shouldered solely by people such as Del Valle who live close to the refineries and chemical plants. Once the toxins and carcinogens are air-borne, they know no bounds, and doctors say they can just as easily find their prey in River Oaks or Katy as they can in Manchester.

During a four-month investigation, the Houston Press examined emission reports submitted to TCEQ over the past six and a half years by 20 facilities along the Houston Ship Channel (see "Twenty Emitters"). The Press looked at hundreds of thousands of data entries for individual pollutants that were emitted during non-routine operations. The Press found that:

• More than 20 million pounds of pollutants, 450,000 of which are known carcinogens, were emitted due to equipment breakdowns or unscheduled maintenance, startup or shutdown events;

• TCEQ rarely took enforcement action, and when the agency did, the fines were nominal and in most cases later significantly reduced;

• The plants with the most violations paid the lowest percentage of their fines;

• TCEQ is so understaffed that it can take years to finalize penalties, and some critics say it avoids assessing time-consuming violations altogether.

• And, as a matter of policy, TCEQ strayed from federal law by combining multiple federal permit violations into a single state violation, thereby giving industry a break by assessing fewer and less costly penalties.

TCEQ is run by three commissioners who are appointed by the state's governor, currently Republican Rick Perry. Studies show that Perry (as well as other politicians throughout the state) has received more campaign money from the oil and gas industry than any other governor in the country, and critics say he has a vested interest in keeping air pollution regulation and enforcement at a minimum and appointing commissioners who share his pro-business agenda.

Not only does TCEQ allow plants to self-report information used to assess violations, insiders also say that companies frequently kick out state inspectors who ask troublesome questions. And TCEQ appears to do nothing about it.

In fact, TCEQ receives most of its funding from permitting and licensing fees from the very industry it is charged with overseeing, which critics call an obvious conflict of interest. A practice of lax enforcement, ineffective penalty policies and questionable permitting practices (see "A Quiet Hell: Game Time") at TCEQ has been the status quo in Texas for years.

As it turns out, even the supposedly friendly flares, those great bursts of flame most Houstonians grew up seeing along the horizon and were told safely burn off all the toxic crap before it enters the air, may not be so effective.

In fact, they may not be that effective at all — just like the TCEQ.

The refineries and chemical plants along the Houston Ship Channel are difficult to see from the street. Most of them are tucked away behind guarded fences, forming their own intensely private community along the water. The only way to get a good look is by boat.

Cruising down the channel is like entering another world, one made of scaffolding and smokestacks as tall as city buildings. The machinery is larger than the imagination. One complex stands next to another, and the spaghetti-network of tubes and pipes look like something out of a sci-fi novel, the combination of a drab Dickensian prison and a shiny new-age factory.

Each one of these plants is required to report every emission event to TCEQ. Some report a lot, some report very few. An emission event can be an equipment breakdown or malfunction, unscheduled maintenance, unplanned startup or shutdowns, and any other airburst that is not routine. The reports contain, among other things, a list of the chemicals emitted, how much was released and the emission limit for each chemical. All of the information reported comes directly from the facilities themselves. Industry critics claim that almost all emission events are preventable.

The Houston Press examined the emission reports for 20 local facilities, a mix of refineries and chemical plants, from February 1, 2003, through October 7, 2009. The Press tabulated how many pounds of each chemical were emitted and the number of times each pollutant exceeded the stated limit.

In slightly more than six and a half years, the 20 plants pumped out 4,864,730 pounds of sulfur dioxide, 452,080 pounds of carcinogens and a total of 20,716,547 pounds of pollutants during emission events (see "Pollutants by Pounds").

It is a violation under the federal Clean Air Act each time a pollutant is emitted beyond its permitted limit. Individually counting each chemical that is released during a single emission event is called "speciation." The EPA uses this method; so does the Texas Attorney General's Office. The only environmental enforcement agency that does not is TCEQ. Instead, TCEQ treats each event, no matter how many pollutants exceeded their limit, as a single violation. One event, however, could include the unauthorized release of hundreds of chemicals and thus hundreds of violations under federal law.

The difference is significant in the amount of fines that can be assessed and the subsequent ability that the penalties have to deter polluters. Under state law, there is a $10,000 per day maximum penalty. So if ten chemicals exceed their limit in one day, under TCEQ's system it would be a $10,000 fine. Under federal law, it could be as much as $100,000.

The Press discovered that individual chemicals at the 20 facilities exceeded the limit 12,701 times during the six and a half years.

TCEQ documents obtained through an open records request for the 20 plants show that the agency found 469 violations over the past six and a half years, 240 of which listed excess pollution during an emission event as the reason. Those 240 violations represent less than 2 percent of the number of times that individual pollutants exceeded their limit during emission events.

Many people, including former TCEQ Commissioner Larry Soward, see this as one of the ways TCEQ gives industry a big break.

In May 2008, TCEQ commissioners Soward, Bryan Shaw and Buddy Garcia discussed speciation during a recorded work session obtained by the Press. It was clear that Soward was the only one for it. Garcia sat on the fence, ultimately saying he wasn't ready to make a decision. Shaw, however, seemed dead opposed to the idea.

"My position and a lot of the staff's position," says Soward, whose six-year term expired in August, "was that we would love to be able to use speciation. But when staff tried to do it in 2008, they were basically rebuffed by a majority of the commissioners. That wasn't something that they felt like they could do or should do. The agency always errs conservatively, and I think it should err on the side of the environment and public health as opposed to erring on the side of whether industry thinks it's something it can afford and wants to do."

Much of Shaw's concern centered around the $10,000 per day maximum fine. He claimed he did not think TCEQ could legally impose the larger fines under speciation without violating the $10,000 limit. Shaw maintained his stance despite the fact that the Texas attorney general ruled that the agency can do it.

"The statute would allow it," says Soward, "because it says $10,000 a day per violation, and I've always maintained that every permit limit that's violated is a violation."

It would be one thing if the penalties that TCEQ issues really packed a wallop, but to the billion-dollar refineries and chemical companies, they are hardly a fly in the oil and chemical-rich ointment. TCEQ proudly says, for example, that in 2008 it issued 1,600 enforcement orders for $16 million. That equals $10,000 per enforcement, the statutory max.

"If a company knows that their only liability is $10,000 a day," says Soward, "they can make a business decision based on that. They'll say, 'We emitted and we'll probably continue to emit because all it's going to cost us is $10,000 a day.'" It's simply cheaper to pay the fine than it is to upgrade or replace aging or failing equipment.

In 2003, the State Auditor's Office reviewed TCEQ and discovered that the economic benefit for companies during periods of noncompliance was tremendous. For the years 2001-2003, the audit concluded, companies were fined only 19 percent of what they gained.

"In other words," says Tom "Smitty" Smith, state director of the environmental group Public Citizen, "the penalty was one-fifth the cost of proper disposal of the pollutants. That's a stunning number."

As evidence that fines are not a deterrent, Matthew Tejada, executive director of the Galveston-Houston Association for Smog Prevention, points to a study he helped publish showing that in 2007 at least 80 percent of companies in the Houston region that received a violation were repeat offenders and had previously been penalized for that same violation. Nearly half of the facilities had ten or more similar infractions and some had more than 50.

Many emission events never receive enforcement and are legally excused. However, InsideEPA, a news service covering the EPA, has reported that the agency is considering revoking those excuses, which critics say are far too broadly applied.

While some news stories have applauded TCEQ for assessing record amounts of fines this past year, the Houston Press found that the agency routinely gives companies a break by reducing the fines and that the facilities with the most violations paid the least percentage of their penalties.

According to calculations obtained through an open records request, TCEQ over the last three years assessed more than $5.7 million worth of fines to the 20 plants, but only ended up charging the facilities slightly more than $2.5 million, meaning the companies paid just 43.9 percent of the assessed penalties.

And the more violations a plant had, the lower the percentage of the penalty it paid.

LyondellBasell's Houston Refining plant, for instance, was cited for 44 violations and $467,306 in penalties. However, TCEQ only made the plant pay 29 percent of that amount. ExxonMobil's Baytown refinery was assessed 32 violations and more than $1.25 million and only had to fork over 35 percent of it. On the other end of the spectrum, the Lubrizol plant was cited for seven violations and had to pay all of its fines, totaling $20,410, and the Rohm and Haas facility, which had ten violations, had to pay 80 percent of its $236,175 in fines (see "Paying the Price").

In response, TCEQ said in an e-mail that the agency "assesses penalties based on statutory requirements."

Says Soward, "Penalties start out usually as a reasonably high number, but then it starts getting ratcheted down because the company gets credit for this and credit for that. Week after week I'd see enforcement orders that said, 'The penalty amount has been reduced to meet statutory limits,' and the agency has to dumb it down."

In addition, it can take as long as four years for TCEQ to finalize a penalty. A TCEQ spokesman acknowledged this problem, saying that "TCEQ is striving to lessen the amount of time it takes to process an enforcement case and issue an effective order."

The penalty process, says Tejada, is another example of how TCEQ does not deter companies from polluting.

"If you have a system like we do where you recover less than 50 percent of assessed penalties," he says, "that's a major failing. If the state doesn't use its penalty policy effectively, then they are effectively neutered."

Additionally, allowing frequent violators to pay less of their penalty than those who are in compliance is unfair to the industry.

"It creates an unbalanced playing field," Tejada says, "because the bigger companies, the ones who have better lawyers and have more representation, can game the system to their advantage, whereas the smaller companies are less adept at it. The whole penalty process needs to be transparent, efficient and accountable, not only to the citizens who suffer the pollution but also to the industries, and right now neither of those things exist."

It was an unusually warm spring day in Texas City on March 23, 2005, when workers at the BP refinery tried to start up a unit that had been down for repairs. As they pumped petroleum into a tower, the tower began to overflow, sending a geyser of gas into the air. This caused a highly flammable vapor cloud to form just above the ground, which exploded, killing 15 workers and injuring another 180. The U.S. Chemical Safety Board later ruled that the initial plume of gas that erupted was caused because the chemicals were vented directly into the atmosphere.

It was one of the most disastrous workplace catastrophes in the country in more than a decade. Experts intimate with the details surrounding the explosion claim that TCEQ could have prevented it from ever happening.

"It's a classic example of incompetence and indifference and the agency's inability to do the job," says Jim Tarr, who helped set up the Texas environmental agency's Houston office in the 1970s and now runs a consulting company in California that was involved in one of the post-explosion lawsuits against BP.

According to court papers, state regulators never knew about or permitted the emissions source, a vent, that led to the explosion, meaning its use was illegal.

For 30 years, says Tarr, every time BP applied for a permit, the company never told TCEQ about the vent. And TCEQ never found it.

"Permit engineers at TCEQ never asked the right questions to figure out if it was present and operating and needed to be controlled," he says. "The primary responsibility was clearly BP's, but TCEQ had a contingent responsibility as clear as the nose on my face. And their failure to do that contributed to the death of those people."

Neil Carman worked as a Texas environmental enforcement inspector for 12 years before joining the Sierra Club in 1992. He says that if inspectors had found the vent they could have required a flare, which would have diverted the overflow through a pipe to be safely burned instead of shooting it directly into the air.

"It is another indication that the accident in Texas City was fully preventable," he says.

A TCEQ spokesman said that the agency cannot comment on the BP explosion because of pending litigation.

In another instance, says former TCEQ inspector Wayne Strickler, a colleague of his was allegedly kicked out of a plant for finding violations and later reprimanded for doing so by supervisors. Strickler wrote a letter dated January 2007 complaining about the alleged incident to the agency's commissioners.

Sometime at the end of 2005 or start of 2006, Strickler claims, an inspector went to Texas City to check out a chemical plant. While reviewing a database used to keep track of compliance, the inspector began noting violations. Suddenly, a company representative stopped the inspection, saying, "We gave $4 million to the Republican Party; what do you think you are doing finding violations at our plant?" The investigator was then escorted out.

The inspector later had a meeting with several superiors and someone from the chemical company, during which supervisors chastised the inspector and dismissed the violations that were found, says Strickler. The inspector was then transferred to another division.

The inspector "talked about it to everybody and anybody," says Strickler, "and was very upset. When I heard it, I was in total disbelief."

The Press contacted the inspector, who did not deny the allegations. The Press also submitted an open records request to TCEQ for materials related to the alleged incident, but the agency is contesting the request.

Former commissioner Larry Soward says he does not remember Strickler's letter, but that it hardly surprises him to hear that a company would kick out an inspector.

"It happens all the time," he says. "They don't want staff in there inspecting."

Carman says he knows plenty of war stories.

"I've had friends around the state," he says, "who have been removed from investigations because companies thought they were writing too many violations. When I was with the agency, there was no review, no investigation, no scrutiny at all. And the atmosphere hasn't changed that much."

Other inspectors say the same.

"The agency has always been very forgiving," said one investigator, who asked to remain anonymous to protect his career. TCEQ "is so backed up that it's had to cut corners in order to dispose of violations rather than ensure compliance and assess fines and penalties. The enforcement forms are very complex, very user-unfriendly, and it takes more time to process a violation with fines than it does to just tell a plant, 'Fix this,' and then just go away."

Paul Judice retired in 2006 after 18 years with TCEQ. "I came to [TCEQ] from Exxon," he says, "so I knew how the system worked and how to fix a problem without going through all the agency's damn bureaucracy. It was obvious to me that [the agency] was created to be ineffective, so the best you could hope for was to be efficiently ineffective."

One of the biggest concerns Carman and others have about enforcement is that TCEQ relies heavily on company-reported information.

"It's just guesswork," says Carman. "Just fuzzy math estimates."

Most Houston area residents living near chemical plants are fairly well versed in common procedure. When there is a plant explosion as there was at the American Acryl plant in Seabrook last week, police and fire departments race to the scene while people in nearby schools and residents know to shelter in place. The citizenry has been well trained, as well, not to get too excited when flares light up the skies, knowing by that action that plants are burning off toxins before they can endanger anyone.

But even those supposedly trustworthy flares may not work as well as we think. When companies calculate emissions, they assume a 98 to 99 percent combustion rate from flares.

"In reality," says Joshua Kratka, an attorney with the National Environmental Law Center in Boston, who has worked on several cases dealing with emission events in Texas, "it is most likely extremely rare that those flares are operating at that efficiency."

Kratka, like many others, blames underreporting and an enforcement system that puts too much trust in companies and is easy to abuse.

In an e-mail, TCEQ says that the facilities use "widely-accepted methods" and are "thoroughly familiar with their plant and have information about the event...to calculate the emissions."

The Press contacted 20 facilities, fewer than half of which responded. Emily Thompson of Kinder Morgan, which owns a plant in Pasadena, says that the facility follows federal guidelines to calculate emissions and that the numbers reported to TCEQ "represent worst case estimates." Kevin Allexon of ExxonMobil also says his company complies with state and federal calculation methods, noting that its plants have reduced flaring and "reportable air incidents by more than 40 percent in the last several years."

Rick Hagar, spokesman for the French company Total, defends the industry, saying that if anything, the plants overestimate their emissions to avoid getting in trouble later on.

"It's better to be more open than less open," he says.

Critics, however, say the agency seldom audits the calculations that companies use to determine how much pollution was emitted.

"Those numbers in the reports have zero value unless they can be documented," says Tarr, "and the agency doesn't look at the documentation and doesn't require the companies to justify their numbers in general. Whatever the company says, the agency buys. It's like taking Bernie Madoff's word that your investments are soaring."

Soward agrees the system is not ideal, but says given the finite number of staff at TCEQ and the large number of facilities across the state, relying on industry-reported information is a "practical problem" that is tough to fix. "The agency doesn't have the manpower to monitor all of those things on any kind of a regular basis," he says.

TCEQ claims that investigators may ask companies for calculations and other materials not submitted in an emission event report.

"If industry knew that the teacher was going to check the homework," says Tejada, "industry would do a better job."

With such puny penalties, activist groups have begun filing an increasing number of lawsuits against companies for illegal pollution during emission events.

Kratka is one of the lawyers representing Environment Texas Citizen Lobby and the Sierra Club in two such lawsuits against Shell Oil's Deer Park plant and Chevron Phillips's chemical plant in Baytown. The two groups claim that the plants have emitted millions of pounds of pollutants during emission events, resulting in thousands of violations under the Clean Air Act.

In June, Shell settled its lawsuit, agreeing to cut its emissions by more than half in the next three years, improve emissions accounting, fix and replace equipment, and pay $5.8 million to local environmental programs. That's more than double the amount that TCEQ made all 20 of the plants that the Press investigated pay in fines over the past three years.

"It's pathetic," says Kratka. "We got [Shell] to pay nearly $6 million and spend probably several times that on upgrades, and what TCEQ has done to all of those other facilities is just a drop in the bucket compared to what one company really needed to do."

Many see these citizen-group lawsuits as a sign that TCEQ is derelict in its enforcement duties.

"I've been doing environmental work all over this country for 30 years," says Tarr, "and TCEQ is without a doubt the worst environmental regulatory agency operating in the United States of America in 2009. That's my experience. And it's extremely disturbing and extremely sad."

It's hard to see cancer coming. Benzene, for instance, is colorless and can only be detected by its faint, sickly sweet smell. It attacks bone marrow, which can lead to anemia. It damages the liver, lungs, heart and kidneys. It breaks up DNA strands and can cause cancer.

Rhonda Radliff, who grew up in Milby Park, a neighborhood near the Houston Ship Channel, is not angry that she has acute myeloid leukemia. She is, however, furious over how she believes she got it.

"The only known causes of my cancer are exposure to high doses of radiation and benzene," says the 45-year-old woman. "I haven't had much radiation, but I did live near all those plants, and they emit a lot of benzene. I'm so frustrated and pissed that something as violent as cancer can happen to people through neglect. Neglect by the companies and neglect by the regulators."

Radliff was diagnosed in 2007, more than 20 years after she left her old neighborhood to go to Georgetown University, from which she moved on to a legal career in Houston. Every day she undergoes chemotherapy. She says the drugs make her face swell, her lungs fill with liquid, and give her rashes, headaches, nausea and "bone pain that just makes you crazy, like they're pulsing, just bursting from the inside." Every month she suffers a battery of exams and medical tests from a bevy of doctors, including cardiologists, dermatologists and leukemia specialists.

It all takes its toll. She is constantly exhausted.

"If you're a working person like I am," she says, "by the time you get home, that's it, you're done. There's no more energy and you're so sore. Your life is cut in half between survival and sleeping, and you don't have the energy to go camping or do dinner with friends. It steals your right now, and it steals your hope and ability to plan your future. And it's not something that's going to go away. It's here with me forever. Overcoming it is just learning to cope."

There is little question that Houston has a benzene problem. According to the EPA, oil and chemical plants in Harris County coughed up 567,422 pounds of benzene in 2007, the latest year for which data is available. That's significantly less than the 907,114 pounds those industries emitted in 2003, but critics say it is still far too much.

According to the City of Houston, a six-month survey in 2008 showed that six out of seven air monitors near the ship channel detected benzene levels above what the EPA says can cause cancer in ten out of every million people. That's ten times higher than what is considered an acceptable risk.

"Until recently I didn't even know they were releasing any benzene into the atmosphere," says Dr. Charles Koller, a leukemia specialist at MD Anderson. "It's shocking to me. It seems, frankly, criminal."

It can take more than ten years for anemia to develop in someone who has been exposed to benzene, says Koller, and even longer for leukemia. A person also needs to be genetically susceptible.

"We don't know how susceptibility works," he says, "we just know that it works."

Because genetic Russian roulette plays a role in whether someone is at risk of getting leukemia from benzene exposure, and there is almost no way to know if someone is susceptible, that means everyone should be concerned, says Koller.

"Once benzene gets in the air," he says, "it's everywhere. So even in Katy, there's someone who, if they're susceptible, will get [sick] from what's going on in the Houston Ship Channel."

Radliff says she never thought itwould be her.

"I'm grateful for the plants, for how they help the economy and people's families, and of course I drive a car that uses gas," she says. "But we need to do better. Every time the number goes up of people here who get cancer every year, that's a number on a piece of paper to everyone else, but that's not just a number, that's one of me. No one ever believes it will be them, but it could be."

Volumes have been written about the connection between benzene and cancer, but doctors say that there has been very little research into what effects the entire toxic soup of chemicals and pollutants that exists in Houston's air has on people.

"Our entire focus on air quality is because of health," says Dr. Bonnie New, an occupational and environmental consultant. "And that has not been given the attention that you would think it would. We, the general public, depend on TCEQ to be acting on behalf of our best interests healthwise, and they have not really performed that function for us."

Robert Clowers, a city commissioner in Galena Park, a blue-collar suburb just north of the ship channel, agrees. He's lived there since 1947 and says he's seen "too many people die of cancer for the air to be clean. There's not a lot that working people here can do, though, until the powers that be decide it's important to stop killing us and letting us be killed."

When asked why he hasn't moved out of the area, Clowers says, "I'm just a dumb-ass, I guess."

Radliff got away from Milby Park, but she did not escape the toxic exposure of her youth. And she is still paying, literally. In the two years since her diagnosis with leukemia, Radliff has spent more than $250,000 on medical care.

"What's happening," says Koller, "is that the companies are transferring the costs from their bottom lines to patients' bottom lines."

If true, then companies have a lot more money to spend in other places.

The oil and gas industry gives more money to Texas political candidates than to those in any other state, and Rick Perry, the longest-serving governor in Texas history, leads the pack.

According to The National Institute on Money in State Politics, a nonprofit that tracks campaign money, Texas candidates hauled in more than $15.2 million in oil and gas industry campaign contributions during the three election cycles from 1999 to 2004, more than double that of the next closest state, California. That accounts for 25 percent of all campaign dollars that the industry donated to state political candidates across the country during that time.

Some of the largest individual contributors have operations around Houston, including Chevron, ExxonMobil, Valero and the Texas Oil & Gas Association, a 2,000-member organization that promotes petroleum interests. From 2001 to 2004, the industry gave Perry nearly $2.4 million, making him tops among all state candidates in the nation.

In the current election for governor, the energy and natural resources industry has given Perry more than $2.3 million, according to Texans for Public Justice, a political watchdog organization. That's more than any other special interest group has given to Perry.

Perry makes no bones about being pro-business, and has criticized ideas such as climate legislation, saying it would seriously injure Texas industry. Companies appear to take advantage of that. According to a 2005 City of Houston study that relies on EPA information, Texas allows the emission of far more carcinogens per 1,000 barrels of refined oil than either Louisiana or California, both states with huge refinery operations. Texas also has the highest percentage of carcinogen emissions versus refining capacity of any state in the country.

In order to help implement his philosophy, critics say, Perry appoints TCEQ commissioners who more often than not share his views and agenda.

"That's what governors do," says former commissioner Soward, who was frequently on the losing end of 2-1 votes on the commission. "That's just the real world."

In August, Soward, who was appointed by Perry, was replaced on the commission by Carlos Rubenstein, TCEQ's deputy executive director since June 2008. Most insiders say it's still too early to tell which way he will vote on important issues. The other two commissioners are Buddy Garcia and Chairman Bryan Shaw.

Before Perry appointed Garcia in 2007, Garcia worked for his hometown state senator, Eddie Lucio Jr. of Brownsville, and held a slew of jobs under Perry, including deputy secretary of state, border commerce coordinator and senate liaison for the governor's office. Garcia even worked for Perry as a border adviser when Perry was still lieutenant governor. With a degree in political science from Southwest Texas State University, now Texas State University, Garcia took the commissioner post with hardly any scientific, engineering or environmental experience.

In August 2007, former commission chairwoman Kathleen White's terms expired, leaving just Garcia and Soward on the job, and a vacancy for the spot of top dog. Perry appointed Garcia, passing over Soward, a lawyer with more than a decade's worth of experience with the Texas Water Commission and four years as a TCEQ commissioner. Soward had been a vocal critic of the agency for its industry-friendly permit policies and for not being aggressive enough in the fight against pollution.

"The governor puts people in there who have very little training in this field," says Carman. "He picks people too concerned with the political wind."

The state legislature confirmed Shaw as a commissioner in May 2009. Four months later, Perry appointed the former associate professor in the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department at Texas A&M University to be chairman. Shaw grew up on ranches in west Texas and has said that he believes his duty is to protect the environment, but in a way that maintains the economy.

Clean-air advocates have been going berserk this year over Shaw's stance on climate change and the control of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide.

"The science on global warming is far from settled," Shaw said in a statement this fall. "Reducing CO2 in Texas will do nothing to lower CO2 globally, but will have the effect of sending U.S. jobs to China and India."

Lobbyist Cyrus Reed of the Sierra Club says that Shaw's view that humans can't necessarily slow or reverse climate change is tantamount to saying that nothing should be done that can hurt industry.

"The commissioners tend to just listen to the industry point of view," he says, "and it's case after case after case."

When asked what the commissioners' reactions are to criticism that they are overly pro-business, an agency spokesman side-stepped the question, e-mailing the Press a statement saying, "The TCEQ aggressively enforces its environmental laws," followed by some broad agency enforcement statistics.

Looking at all the money that industry gives to Perry and whom he appoints to TCEQ, says Smith of Public Citizen, it becomes evident that companies have established a clear sphere of influence in Austin.

"When the energy and petrochemical folks want something done," he says, "they have a straight shot to Perry or to TCEQ."

Back in Manchester, several blocks from the Valero refinery, Delia Del Valle is desperate to move out. She doesn't want to die of cancer in the same place that she's convinced caused it. But she cannot afford to. The retired Luby's waitress collects less than $500 a month from Social Security, and her crumbling clapboard home is practically worthless. Not that anyone would buy it, especially in that neighborhood.

The exception is Valero. For years the company has been purchasing homes near its refinery, offering residents a last-ditch ray of hope to get away.

The problem is that Del Valle's home is just two blocks west of the cutoff point and is not eligible.

Marguerite McConihe contributed to the research for this story.

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The Galveston Arts Center, like a lot of places along The Strand, took a pretty big hit from Hurricane Ike.

Four feet of floodwater destroyed artwork, the plumbing and a/c systems, and much of the walls. It'll take close to $850,000 to repair it all and bring modern art back to the island.

It's a situation that calls for The Art Guys.

The Guys will be hosting a "pass the hat" fundraiser tomorrow night at the Lawndale Arts Center.

In addition to refreshments and general Art Guys frivolity, there will be a slideshow "of both good times and bad so that visitors can see for themselves the damage we are dealing with, as well as remember all of the great exhibitions and public programs that we provide," Alexandra Irvine, the Galveston Arts Center executive director, told the Galveston County Daily News.

The Arts Center was certainly one of the neater places on the Strand; if they can raise the cash (about $300,000 has been raised so far), plans are to open by next summer.

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Thanks to a question from RavenFeast, I finally got off my duff and decided to make one of my NTRPGCon adventures available here. I have several more of these that I intend to put up for sale somewhere, someday, but for now at least, you can grab a free copy of the post-apocalyptic "adventure" Rendezvous with Ruinator.

I put adventure in quotes up there because this is an adventure in only the loosest sense. It's really a set of notes that I used to run the adventure from. There are no stats, no numbers, no charts. Unique monsters, NPCs, and hazards are mentioned without any guidance on what they look like or what their abilities are. The whole thing is only 8 pages, including a cover and two-page map, and the map is only a schematic; it shows where places are in relation to other places but doesn't include doors or hallways.

That's how I enjoy running adventures at NTRPGCon—I rough out a general plan and then have the greatest fun riffing off the players' ideas and interactions. That goes double for Gamma World—I have a core group of terrific players who make it to my GW game every year, and they never fail to amaze me with their inventiveness and humor. With a group like that, the adventure practically writes itself.

I use 1st-edition Gamma World rules for these sessions in Dallas, but any post-apocalyptic game will work for Rendezvous with Ruinator. Mutant Future from Goblinoid Games and Broken Urthe from Wizardawn Entertainment are both fine, free, OSR alternatives, if you don't have a copy of Gamma World lurking on your shelves anymore.

A bit of background might help GMs get into this. My Dallas GW adventures are all based around the framing story of Professor Monkey, a super-intelligent chimp who roams Gamma Terra at the helm of the lumbering "Radium Powered Lab." Think a CDC emergency-response laboratory on legs, built in the wacked-out 23rd century. Prof. Monkey is part altruistic world-saver and part megolamaniacal empire-builder. He's assembled a crack team of lab assistants (who are always busy doing science at the Radium Powered Lab) and go-fers (the "#1 Fetch-It Squad"), who do the dangerous work of venturing out into the irradiated wilderness to investigate enigmas and bring artifacts back to the lab. Those are the PCs. With Prof. Monkey as a patron, the characters can start these adventures well-equipped and with a definite mission—which usually is, "find out what this funny blip on the Scan-o-Tron 360 is and bring me back something I can use from it."

Ruinator is a gigantic war machine a third of a mile long with a complex, thoroughly dysfunctional society living inside it. You could be forgiven for thinking that an adventure set inside an ancient war machine might lean heavily on the combat lever, but this is actually one of the most diplomacy-rich settings I've ever concocted. There's plenty of opportunity for whipping guns out of holsters and slicing off arms with vibroblades, but in the end, talking is what's going to win the day inside Ruinator.

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Eleven Hudson High School students have qualified to perform at a Wisconsin School Music Association State Solo & Ensemble Festival. Eleven sites statewide are holding the festivals April 25 and May 2.

To qualify for state, musicians had to earn a top rating at the district level. Participating from Hudson are Erin Bloomer, Kaitlyn McGinnis, Sarah Monette and Natalie Monical, treble choir; David Gillingham, Carter Johnson, Dominic Meincke and Corissa Vought, band; Erin Maher, mixed choir; alternates Sam Rosiejka, band/orchestra, and Rachel Zachar, mixed choir.


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Universal Credit: Why 150,000 Single Working Mums Will Be Worse Off

14/03/2012 14:06 | Updated 22 May 2015
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The charity Save the Children says that 150,000 of the country's poorest single parents will be worse off by up to £68 a week under the Coalition Government's new Universal Credit. This may mean that a quarter of a million children will be pushed further into poverty.

new report Save the Children says that although Universal Credit may boost income for many working families, single parents working longer hours (more than 16 hours a week) on low pay will end up worse off under the new system.

As Save the Children CEO Justin Forsyth says, "Universal Credit will help some families, but mums working hard to stay above the breadline are its big blind spot. A single mum on £370 a week simply can't afford to lose £68. Mothers who want to work more to provide for their children while juggling soaring childcare and living costs should be getting more help, not less."

Universal Credit also works better, the charity says, for a couple with one main breadwinner rather than a couple with both parents working part-time on a low income. Save the Children calculates that a typical low-income couple with three children, where one parent works 24 hours a week and the other works just a few hours, could lose as much as £1,800 a year (£35 a week).

The Government seems to be aware that the new system will have winner and losers. Its own impact assessment in November last year found that while 2.8 million households would have higher entitlements under Universal Credit, 2 million households (including 1.1 million with children) would be entitled to less.

But the Department of Work and Pensions says that Save the Children is basing its criticisms on just a few extreme examples. A DWP spokeperson says, "Save the Children are wrong to assert that lone parents will lose as a result of the introduction of Universal Credit – the truth is 600,000 lone parents will be better off under a system which will incentivise work and make work pay. This is in stark contrast to the broken system this Government inherited which only rewards lone parents who work 16 hours or more. But under Universal Credit, 80,000 more families, including lone parents, will be able to claim childcare support – no matter how few hours they work."

The Department for Work and Pensions has also said that it will ensure no one will be worse off in cash terms under the new system because there will be 'transitional protection' for anyone who's entitled to less money when they move to Universal Credit. But you will only get this protection if you are currently claiming benefits and your circumstances stay exactly the same – and circumstances do, if you're a working parent, tend to change quite frequently.

With the Budget coming up next week on 21 March, Save the Children – which is launching its campaign with the charity for single parents, Gingerbread, and the national charity Daycare Trust – is asking the Chancellor George Osborne to look again at the new system to make sure that the poorest parents don't lose out.

Justin Forsyth from Save the Children says, "Too many children in this country are going without basics like hot meals or proper clothes because their parents can't earn enough. We know from other countries that supporting mums who want to work takes children out of poverty, so we need a system that offers mothers that choice.

"Unless we see movement on childcare and benefits for struggling working mums in this budget, it could be too late for hundreds of thousands of children."

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Anchoring Our Volunteerism and Our Identity

One of the motivations behind the foundation of Humanists of Rhode Island was to provide a means by which humanists, atheists, agnostics, skeptics and freethinkers could reliably and regularly express themselves through volunteerism in the community. By design, volunteerism is built into the very DNA of Humanists of Rhode Island, and one of the ways we do this is by setting up a regular gig, specifically the second Saturday of every month, to volunteer with Habitat for Humanity of Greater Providence.

What this means is that each month our group provides Habitat between five and seven volunteers ready to do the hard, but fun and rewarding work of building a house between 8:30 AM and 3 PM on a day many people would prefer to be sleeping late. We've been volunteering regularly now as a group for just over a year and we are one of the most regular and consistent groups volunteering at our local Habitat. We have a great reputation there for consistency and quality. Even when we can only get three or four people to show up, as sometimes happens in those long, hot summer months when it seems that everyone is traveling or otherwise engaged, we at least have someone there, ready to work.

Having a group to depend on and that depends on you is very satisfying. Even on the occasional weekend where I personally can't make it to a build, I know that there are other Humanists out there, picking up my slack. I might feel badly about not being there and contributing, but I can at least be glad that there are people I know contributing to the public good as members of a group I am proud to be a part of.

This last weekend our group represented in unprecedented numbers, as six new people, Greg, Allison, Dounia, Michelle, Ethan and Joyce showed up in addition to Adam, Shawn and myself. We had a total of nine people show up to work at a brand new house. We had some Humanists on the roof nailing shingles, working outside on the siding, and inside putting up firewall. We worked side by side with another group and accomplished quite a bit. The house was noticeably more complete by the time we packed up and left.

Talking to some of the newcomers I was pleased to hear that what attracted them to our group was the opportunity to volunteer with Habitat. These are people who may or may not want to engage in political work ensuring the separation of church and state, join us on picnics or attend book signings, but they do want a community from which to engage with the greater society as volunteers, and I'm proud to say that my little group, in our own little way, provides that.

Volunteerism is an end unto itself. Making the world a better place is the right thing to do. The feeling of accomplishment and the positive feelings generated after participation are bonuses: happy side effects of our necessary work. Of course, maybe I have this backwards. Maybe we are all just going after the positive emotional benefits that such volunteerism provides, and the fact that the world has been slightly improved is just a happy consequence. Either way you slice it, so what? This is what they call a win/win situation, and I'm happy to be a part of it.

Another happy consequence of our volunteer efforts is the moral authority such work accrues to our causes. It would be quite easy for the public at large to dismiss our political concerns regarding human rights and church/state separation if we were simply a group writing indignant letters to the editor and having once a month potlucks in a community room somewhere. But our volunteer work shows that we are willing to put our ideals into action. We live our values. That makes us harder to ignore.

Humanists of Rhode Island, in addition to Habitat, also maintain a two mile stretch of road in Cranston Rhode Island as part of an Adopt-a-Highway program run by the state. We've just started holding blood drives as well. We're sponsoring a team for Light the Night to raise money to fight Leukemia and Lymphoma. We'll be out doing holiday gift wrapping to raise money for some special cause later in the year. And other efforts will come our way as well, since we're always looking for more to do.

Is it possible for a group to do too much? I don't think so. There are two things to remember here. First, not everybody can do everything. Personally, I can't give blood. But I can pick up litter and pound nails. Others have no problem giving blood and building houses but get grossed out at the prospect of picking up litter. Still others love to gift wrap.

The second thing to remember is that people will find your group because of what you're doing. Habitat is bringing new members into our group, and building houses might be all they are interested in doing. That's great! A group that has a lot of things going on allows those participating to feel real ownership of the projects they participate in. It's important to remember that the group doesn't belong to any one person, it belongs to every member.

Next month our Habitat volunteer team might have nine members again, or we might have four, or we might have sixteen. I like to think we're growing, that our efforts are paying off and that we're changing hearts and minds through our volunteerism.

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The role of South Sea Islanders in Australia’s economic development

The Australian South Sea Islander community played a significant role in the development of Australia’s sugar and cotton industries.

Between 1863 and 1904, an estimated 55,000 to 62,500 Islanders were brought to Australia to labour on sugar-cane and cotton farms in Queensland and northern New South Wales. [1] These labourers were called ‘Kanakas’ (a Hawaiian word meaning ‘man’) and their recruitment often involved forced removal from their homes. This practice of kidnapping labour was known as ‘blackbirding’ (‘blackbird’ was another word for slave).

They came from more than 80 Pacific Islands, including Vanuatu (then called the ‘New Hebrides’) and the Solomon Islands, and to a lesser extent, from New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Kiribati and Tuvalu. Most were young men and boys aged from 9 to 30 years. There were relatively few women and girls. [2]

When the first Islanders were brought to Queensland in the early 1860s, there were no laws or labour contracts to protect them from the most extreme kinds of exploitation by their employers. Many were abducted then paid nothing for their labour and were effectively treated as slaves. Later in the 1860s, a law was passed to regulate labour trafficking into Queensland and establish an indentured (contract) labour system. Under this system, Islanders signed three year contracts and were paid a meagre wage. Even under the indentured labour system Islanders continued to be exploited.

"I maintain that it was a form of slavery. It is true that some people in the later years signed a contract to work for three years. But my father didn't, neither did his brother and neither did their sister. They were paid nothing whatsoever." (Faith Bandler, interviewed by Paul Kelly for the television series '100 Years: The Australian Story'.)

Most Islanders left Australia at the end of their contracts, although many died here. By 1901 there were 10,000 Pacific Islanders left working in the Queensland cane fields. Between 1904 and 1908, most of these workers were deported in an effort to ‘racially purify’ the new Australian nation and ‘protect’ white Australian workers from the threat of cheap labour. The Pacific Island Labourers Act of 1901 authorised these deportations and banned further recruitment after 1903. Only a minority of Islanders were permitted to stay in Australia and a few hid from authorities and stayed illegally.

A history of race discrimination

The history of South Sea Islanders in Australia reveals a system of labour conditions and treatment in Queensland which discriminated on the basis of race. An estimated one-third were kidnapped or lured to Australia by trickery. Few of those signing labour contracts spoke English or understood how the system worked and what their obligations would be. Their wages were less than one-third of those paid to other labourers, including those imported from Ceylon in 1882 when the supply in the Pacific Islands dwindled. Their rights as workers were inferior to those of other labourers in other respects as well.

“[W]hite workers could go on strike, bargain for better wages and conditions, form trade unions or leave their place of employment. The bonded servant was legally precluded from attempting to improve his or her situation in these ways. The indentured labourer could not leave service or refuse to perform allotted duties, and strict penalties were provided for disobedience, insubordination or absconding.” [3]

“[T]heir general treatment was as close to slavery as the laws of the time would allow. White society used them as labourers when needed and discarded them when no longer needed: they were coerced and expendable labour.” [4]

In line with the White Australia policy, most remaining South Sea Islanders were deported in the early 1900s – the only victims of mass deportation in Australian history. Those able to stay continued to suffer discrimination by law. They could not become citizens or purchase liquor, and those who associated with Aboriginal people were subjected to the same discriminatory and punitive laws as those applied to Indigenous Queenslanders.

Recognition as a distinct community

The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission’s 1992 census of Australian South Sea Islanders revealed the community probably numbered between 10,000 and 12,000 people – with the majority (80%) still living in Queensland. About one-half indicated they also had Aboriginal ancestry. However, in the 2001 national census there were only 3,442 responses from people indicating their South Sea Islander ancestry.

The Commission’s 1992 report, The Call for Recognition: A Report on the Situation of Australian South Sea Islanders, called on the Commonwealth Government to recognise the community as a unique minority group which is severely disadvantaged by racial discrimination.

In 1994, the Commonwealth Government formally recognised Australian South Sea Islanders as a distinct community and in 2000 the Queensland Government followed suit.

1. The lowest estimate of 55,000 is from the Call for Recognition, p.1; an estimate of 61,160 is given in Evans, Saunders & Cronin, p.167; the Museum of Queensland estimate for its ‘Refined White’ exhibition was 62,500.
2. Evans, Saunders & Cronin, p.167.
3. Evans, Saunders & Cronin, p.184.
4. The Call for Recognition, p.13.

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CALGARY – Rookie Bori Falaye and veteran Dominic Russo each scored twice to lead the University of Calgary Dinos to a 5-0 shutout over the University of Saskatchewan Huskies Wednesday night at the West Varsity Soccer Pitch.

After a 30-minute delay due to lightning and thunder in the first half, the Dinos launched a constant attack on the Huskies' goalkeeper. Leonardo Culina and Dominick Zator both threatened, but it was the freshman Falaye who managed to break down the Huskies defenceto score the only first-half goal in the 37th minute. It was Falaye's first CIS goal, assisted by captain Zator.

Zator created yet another opportunity for Falaye moments into the second half, in the 47th minute, which the newcomer took full advantage of, scoring his second goal of the game. A minute later, Kieran Lane-Oppenheim scored his second goal of the season, assisted by Dominic Russo.

Dinos usual goal-getter Russo continued the positive streak with a header in the 59th minute, which was made possible thanks to a pass from Ty Werbecki. An All-Canadian last year Russo continued to impress by scoring yet another goal, a beautiful slow-rolling ball onto an empty net in the 60th minute.

While Saskatchewan never ceased in its attempt to come back, Calgary proved to be not only strong in the attack, but defense as well. Several times in the second half Huskies midfielder Mitchell Bauche kept the Dinos' 'keeper on his toes, but Hunter Brett managed to preserve the shutout.

Calgary finished the day with 18 shots compared to 11 by the Saskatchewan Huskies. Brett made five saves for the Dinos, while Greg Buckley turned away four attempts.

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David Lee Roth Confirms New Solo Album To Be Released

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The Project Was Finished Over A Year Ago.

David Lee Roth has a solo album coming out sometime in the future according to reports.  Sources say he has been working with guitarist John 5 on the new solo project.

John 5, who is currently working with Rob Zombie's band, has added his own flavor of music with other bands over the years, but his roots go back to 1998 when he started with David Lee Roth in the DLR Bank.

“[Dave and I] just made another record, and it’s, like, the ‘California Sessions’, [Dave] was calling it,” John 5 said of his project with David Lee Roth. “And it’s 11 of the greatest songs you’ll ever hear, and it’s just me and Dave, and we had Gregg Bissonette play drums on it. And it’s unbelievable. There’s a song called Somewhere Over The Rainbow Bar & Grill. And you know, just great, great songs. And hopefully sometime it’ll see the light of day. But he’s, of course, busy with Van Halen and all that stuff. But it’s an incredible record.”

“[The new album with David Lee Roth] was made not too long ago – like, probably, maybe, a year and a half ago or something like that,” he continued. “‘Cause I always go over to his house and we write music and things like that. It’s a lot of fun."

John 5 continued on by saying he enjoys working with Roth, and enjoys his style of music that Roth brings to the music table while they were recording.

“They’re all original songs. I would just go over to his [David Lee Roth's] house during the day and write this music and then he would book the studio at night. So we would go into A&M Studios – Henson Studios, it’s called now – and we’d record. And it’s so great. I mean, it sounds like just Dave from that Van Halen I or II or Women And Children First era, [in terms of his] singing [style], and it’s incredible, man. It’s really incredible. He loves it too, so maybe it’ll see the light of day sometime.”

It's not clear what's taking so long on the release of an album that was finished over a year ago, but Roth did say to fans that it should be coming out sooner than later.

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