The vast majority of Australians consider themselves to be "financially savvy" and most define that as regularly checking their bank account and sticking to a budget.
According to a recent white paper by lender aggregator Mortgage Choice, 77.2 per cent of Australians think they are "money smart", with 90 per cent of those saying it's important to have a proactive approach to their money by sticking to a budget.
Sixty per cent of savvy Aussie's said they review their finances regularly and check their bank accounts at least once a week, while 68 per cent of the money savvy club put more than 10 per cent of their pay away for a rainy day.
For 71 per cent of "money smart" people, keeping up-to-date with credit card expenses while ensuring they don't bite off more debt than they can handle is part of their money management strategy.
Commenting on the findings, Mortgage Choice CEO John Flavell said: "Interestingly, when we break the data down into age groups, it is clear that those over the age of 60 and those under the age of 30 boast the highest proportion of 'financially savvy' individuals.
The figures also reveal that with age, people are less likely to consider themselves more financially savvy than their peers, with 55 per cent of those under 30 considering themselves to be "a lot smarter" about money, compared to just 35 per cent of those older than 60.
To Mr Flavell, this raises the question of how Australians define being financial savvy.
For those who find making financial savvy decisions tricky, often it's because they face too many options, the results also revealed, with one-third of Australians baulking at too many options.
He argued that this is where financial professionals like brokers and advisers have a role, pointing to the 73 per cent of people who found that professional advice did improve their personal and financial wellbeing. That's despite 33 per cent of Australians feeling like their circumstances don't require professional financial advice.
Concluding, Mr Flavell argued that being money smart leads to better decisions and in turn, an improved capacity to cope with challenging periods, like being out of work.
He explained: "More specifically, financially savvy Australians are twice as likely to live a comfortable retirement and 1.5 times more likely to have emergency funds saved for those rainy day expenses.


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Media omission: Tancredo launches "Stop Chris Christie PAC"
Thursday, November 6th, 2014
If you follow Tom Tancredo you know he makes it clear where he stands on people, like Ryan Call (dislikes him), and places, like Mecca (bomb it).
So, even as Republicans are still warm from hugging each other, it's no surprise that Tancredo is launching a new campaign to stop New Jersey Gov. Chis Christie's presidential aspirations.
Tancredo doesn't like Christie, and you can't blame him. You recall Tancredo's promising path to the Colorado governor's office was upended this summer by his own party, through a vicious ad campaign orchestrated surreptitiously by the Republican Governors' Association, which is chaired by… Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey.
Tancredo is fighing back now with his "Stop Chris Christie PAC."
Speaking with Grassroots Radio Colorado (KLZ 560-AM) host Kris Cook Oct. 27, Tancredo said he's already "filed papers" to create the Stop Christie PAC, allowing him to do "everything" he can to prevent Christie from securing the Republican nomination for president.
"He is no more a Republican than the man in them moon," Tancredo told Cook. "He is a left wing, east coast liberal."
TANCREDO: "You know, to be absolutely fair here, and clear, I have a bone to pick with him in particular, because of what he did during our primary," Tancredo said on air. "You know, although, I must ad– we have never gotten along. We've always argued, especially about immigration. We did so publicly. I have never liked the guy. I have certainly never supported him for anything, and because he was concerned that I would, in fact, go against the [United States] Chamber o f Commerce position on immigration and make it a big deal, and I might win, he chose to spend a quarter of a million dollars of Republican money – Governors' Association money—
COOK: Right.
TANCREDO: –to attack me, here, in Colorado. And, launder the money through Attorneys General Association.
COOK: And five other organizations.
Tancredo held off promoting his Stop Chris Christie PAC until after Tuesday's election to avoid hurting Colorado Republicans.
"I don't want to do anything that's going to hurt Bob Beauprez or any other Republican in Colorado during–or before this election," said Tancredo on the KLZ show, which aired before the election on Oct. 27. "But when it's over with, I guarantee you, I'm going after him."
Partial Transcript of Oct. 27 KLZ-560 Grassroots Radio Colorado Interview with Tom Tancredo. See longer transcript here.
HOST KRIS COOK: Oh, goodie! We've got Jeb Bush, going to run for President
FORMER U.S. CONGRESSMAN, GOP GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE, AND GOP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, TOM TANCREDO: Yeah. Yeah, Jeb Bush and Chris Christie, what a pair to draw to.
COOK: It will be a delightful field. My goodness, we have got to do something about this.
TANCREDO: I agree completely, and I intend to.
COOK: [chuckles] Good.
TANCREDO: I totally intend to.
COOK: Good.
TANCREDO: I'm not going to let this one go by and everybody – you know, when — how many times have you said this? "Oh, my gosh! We just don't have any good ones to pick from, and I don't like — ." Well, okay, that – probably very true. And if it's Chris Christie or Jeb Bush either one, let me tell you, I think it's a debacle in the making for the Republican Party.
And so, I have started – I filed papers a couple of weeks ago, now – probably ten days ago, anyway, –for a Stop Chris Christie PAC . And I'm going to do everything I can to do just that: stop Chris Christie. He is no more a Republican than the man in them moon. He is a left wing, east coast liberal. He masquerades, to the extent that there's any – even attempt to pretend – any attempt –anything that comes out of his mouth that sounds relatively conservative. It's a masquerade, because he now is seeking the Republican nomination, he is actually – I read the other day, that he is actually so afraid of the governor of Wisconsin –
COOK: Scott Walker.
TANCREDO: –Scott Walker—that he has almost purposel—well, almost entirely, kind of subverted his campaign. They are not giving him the money he needs, and why? Why? Because, of course, he is a competitor for that presidential nomination.
COOK: [sarcastically] Yeah, Mr. Christie, that is exactly the way to use your position at the RGA
TANCREDO: Yeah.
COOK: I mean, he has proven that he is absolutely unworthy of that role, and any other role in power.
TANCREDO: Well, you know, to be absolutely fair here, and clear, I have a bone to pick with him in particular, because of what he did during our primary. You know, although, I must ad– we have never gotten along. We've always argued, especially about immigration. We did so publicly. I have never liked the guy. I have certainly never supported him for anything, and because he was concerned that I would, in fact, go against the [United States] Chamber o f Commerce position on immigration and make it a big deal, and I might win, he chose to have – spend a quarter of a million dollars of Republican money – Governors' Association money—
TANCREDO: –to attack me, here, in Colorado. And, um, and launder the money through Attorneys General Association.
TANCREDO: Five other organizations. You, — God bless you, you were the best interview we ever had on that issue, because you had done your homework and you knew what they had done. Uh, I'm telling you, it's, I think, unconscionable and I definitely want to make an issue of this, but I want to add somebody to it, and that would be,–let's – I might start another 527, saying, "Let's, you know, stop Jeb Bush." Let's try to do this before they get a foothold in the–
TANCREDO: And get out–get to people, — let them know who they really are. And I mean, I'm totally going to do this. I certainly am for Christie.
TANCREDO: Um, and we will take our – we will do our first whatever we're going to do right after the election. I mean, I don't want to do anything that's going to hurt Bob Beauprez or any other Republican in Colorado during–or before this election. But when it's over with, I guarantee you, I'm going after him.
COOK: November – the 2016 election season starts on November 5th, 2014.
TANCREDO: That's right. That's right.
COOK: And if you don't get that, if you don't understand that, you've got to wrap your brain around it. Because if –we cannot do what Republicans always do, which is disappear after the midterm general, and not show up again until the day of the – or the two weeks leading up to the primaries in 2016, that is not the way that this works. If we're going to win, and if we're going to win for conservative principles, we have to be out there on the ground. We have to be making those touches with unaffiliated voters. We need to make sure that stuff is happening, and that they understand what the Republican Party really stands for, and what conservative principles are.
TANCREDO: Yeah, well, and our job is to make the Republican Party stand for something.
COOK: [chuckles] That's right.
TANCREDO: And then—
COOK: It's a two way street, yeah.
TANCREDO: Absolutely. But, if we win this election, –generally speaking, I'm saying, both in national elections and Colorado elections,– if we do well, if we end up winning — winning control of the Senate, and if we do nothing to actually change the direction – not just slow down the movement to the precipice, –
TANCREDO: –but change the direction of this country, if we just watch it, for fear that if we really did change it, we'd all get thrown out of office again, well, I'll tell you, if that's it, then there's no need–. Why should we work hard—any of us–for the status quo to be slowed down? We have to see in these people who are running, the willingness [and] the desire –and the ones who win—the desire to change. Because, oh, I tell you, I can—this is the –my nightmare, is a Republican Senate that refuses to either impeach, repeal Obamacare, um, repeal whatever he's going to do to us in a few months, with regard to immigration.
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Stapleton cry of biased judges goes unchallenged on KLZ radio
Thursday, August 21st, 2014
Colorado State Treasurer Walker Stapleton took to the airwaves of KLZ 560-AM yesterday to raise the specter of judicial bias in Monday's Colorado Supreme Court decision not to release records on the top PERA recipients.
Speaking on KLZ's nooner show, Freedom560, hosted by Ken Clark, Stapleton said:
"It's worth pointing out, call me a cynic, that every single member of the judicial branch is also a member of PERA. And that means that every single judge that heard my case had a vested economic interest in doing nothing about the problem, in maintaining the status quo, in feeling that their pension would be somehow released to me and not wanting that to be the case. I mean it's mind-boggling to think our judicial branch is aiding and abetting a lack of transparency. It really is."
Commenting via Twitter on Stapleton's remark, Luis Toro, Director of Colorado Ethics Watch, wrote dryly: "Shocking admission that the point of his suit is to undermine PERA. If his suit was to strengthen PERA, the 'vested interest' would be to support him, wouldn't it?"
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Principles left unexamined in Woods' on-air suggestion that unaffiliated vote as Republicans in GOP Primary
The day before the Republican primary, in which Republican Laura Woods triumphed over Lang Sias for the right to take on Democratic State Senator Rachel Zenzinger, Woods made the following comment on the KLZ's Grassroots Radio Colorado:
WOODS: "…tomorrow, if you're an unaffiliated voter, and you don't want more of the same, go down to the polling place, change to a Republican for a day or two, fill out a ballot, and then after the primary, if you don't want to stay a Republican, you don't have to stay. You can unaffiliate again. But you can be a part of the change right now by electing somebody who is going to stand up for the Constitution."
Listen to Woods suggest unaffiliated voters briefly switch parties to help her win GOP primary 6-23-14
There's nothing illegal about Woods' suggestion, but the folks down at KLZ, including host Kristina Cook, are all about "principles."
How principled is it to try to win a Republican primary with the votes of fake Republicans? It doesn't appear that Woods' suggestion made any difference in the election, but if I were running the show at Grassroots Radio Colorado, I would have asked Woods about her idea that unaffiliated voters should join the GOP for "a day or two." But it's done now.
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Fact check: Tea-party radio host was correct in dispute with Beauprez
If you really want to understand the dynamic playing out right now among conservative candidates battling each other to defeat their primary-election opponents, I might suggest you tune to conservative talk radio, even if it's only for the next couple of months while the primary process unfolds.
You might ask, as a friend did the other day, "Does listening to talk radio make you want to crawl in there and strangle someone?"
No. Not at all.
Take for example, KLZ radio host Ken Clark's conversation with gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez the other day.
Clark asked Beauprez how he's going to get the support of grassroots conservatives when "you make statements like we-have-to-legislate-from-the-middle."
"I don't even remember saying it," Beauprez responded, "but I'll take you at your word, Ken'"
And then Beauprez flashed his conservative cards:
Beauprez: "I had one of the most conservative voting records in Congress. In fact, I believe I had the most conservative voting record of our entire Republican delegation, including Marilyn Musgrave and Tom Tancredo and Joel Hefley at the time. I believe the National Journal had me right at 90 percent of all members of Congress. So that puts me in reasonably elite category of proven conservatives."
Later, Clark did some off-air research and told Beauprez that he made his we-have-to-legislate-from-the-middle comment on KNUS' Peter Boyles Show.
But Beauprez denied being on Boyles show, telling Clark: "I suppose it showed. You couldn't catch me off guard, because that doesn't sound like something I would have said," and, in any event, "I don't think I was on Pete's show." [BigMedia emphasis]
A talk-radio puzzler! Did Beauprez make the heretical statement that we should govern from the middle? He didn't say it on Boyles' show because Beauprez was correct; he did not appear there.
But on KNUS' Dan Caplis show March 4, with attorney Craig Silverman guest hosting, Beauprez didn't use the exact words "legislate from the middle," but he said as much:
Beauprez: You know, Colorado is a wonderful place where we all seem to figure out a way to get along. But you can't track way far to the right or to the left in Colorado and pretend to still be mainstream and be on the side of the vast majority of people. Listen here.
So Ken Clark wins! In front of a more moderate conservative host (Silverman), Beauprez did advocate for governing from the middle. In front of a Tea-Party host (Clark), Beauprez disavowed any talk of middle-ground-governance. (Read this backwards: bob syaw-thob.)
Thumping is conservative chest on Clark's show, Beauprez suggested that anyone concerned about his conservative credentials should read his 2009 book, Return to Values, where he outlines an "appropriate agenda for America."
"Contact me, and I'll get you a copy!" Beauprez said.
See what I mean about conservative talk radio? On top of all the dramatic conflict and intellectual stimulation and puzzles, you even get free books by guys like Bob Beauprez. Don't miss it. Grassroots Radio Colorado starts at 5 p.m. on KLZ 560 AM.
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On radio,Tancredo brags about trying to shut Dept. of Education. What would he do to CO State Gov?
You knew Texas Gov. Rick Perry's famous Oops Moment would hurt Perry himself, because it made him look so stupid, but I really thought the substance of Perry's incomplete thought–that is, which federal departments should be shut down–would become more of a recurrent theme in conservative GOP primary circles.
I mean, it separates you from the crowd: Shut down the Commerce Department! The Education Department!
This comes up, just not so often.
For example, last week on KLZ 560-AM's new "Wake Up" show with Randy Corporon, Rep. Tom Tancredo, who's running for governor, boasted about his efforts, when he was a regional director of the U.S. Department of Education, to shut down the Department of Education:
TANCREDO: I was elected to the State Legislature in 1976, re-elected two more times. I was appointed by Ronald Reagan to run the U.S. Department of Education's regional office here, in Colorado – six state region. I did that for him and Bush I [one]. Our purpose was to try and implode the whole thing, because we wanted to get the federal government out of education, as much as possible. We couldn't even get a Congressman to introduce the bill to abolish it, so we tried to do it administratively, and, um–.
HOST RANDY CORPORON: Starve the beast.
TANCREDO: Starve the beast.
CORPORON: Cut back the budget.
TANCREDO: Exactly. So, I found out that that's what you had to do. That's the only way you could actually get rid of people that were extraneous – let's put it that way. [chuckles] I had 22o people employed at the U.S. Department of Education, in the regional office. Two hundred and twenty-two. Now, I emphasize the word 'employed'. Some of those people were working there, [but] not many. And, um, it took me four years – and as I say, I had to go back to Washington every year and ask for a budget cut in order to actually work through the process of reducing the staff. And I — and there were other reasons why we ended up moving downward, but we got to the point that we had sixty people left, when I left, out of 222.
Left hanging here is, what departments would Tanc cut, wholesale, from state government? That would've been a more relevant direction for Corporon to steer the conversation, given that Tancredo is running for governor.
Perry, you recall, had three federal departments he'd shut down. You get the feeling, when it comes to state government, a guy like Tancredo can top that. Maybe we'll hear about it next time he's on KLZ.
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Talk-radio host should fact check Stephens' statement that GOP would rally around Stephens but not Buck
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014
KNUS talk show host Dan Caplis sat silently behind his microphone last week while his guest, GOP Senate candidate Amy Stephens, said the Republican Party would not get behind her opponent, Ken Buck, if he wins the Republican nomination to take on Democratic Sen. Mark Udall. But Republicans would rally around her, she said.
Stephens: "I also believe nationally, and I have heard this in my travels, that there is not going to be — You know, when somebody wins a primary, people rally, come around. The party goes, whatever. I do not believe that's going to happen should Ken be the nominee. I do believe this would happen should I become the nominee, because I think there will be a lot more interest in this race and a lot more support." [BigMedia emphasis]
You wish Caplis had asked for the names of the folks who've been telling Stephens, during her national "travels," that they won't back Buck, even if he were the one left standing. Presumably it wasn't anyone associated with the rainmakers at the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and it's likely Stephens wouldn't have told Caplis about her sources, if he'd asked.
But, at least, Caplis could have fact-checked Stephens on her statement, delivered during a Jan. 15 interview, that "people would rally, come around" and support her if she gets the nomination.
So, to fill in the media gap left by Caplis, I decided to see if Stephens was correct. I didn't think so, because I thought I'd heard Ken Clark, co-host of KLZ 560-AM's flagship Tea-Party talk show, Grassroots Radio Colorado, say that he would not only never support Stephens but would never vote for her as well.
"I will never under any circumstances vote for Amy Stephens," Clark said via email when asked about Stephens. "She is the epitome of what the GrassRoots despises in some Republican Party candidates and elected officials. She is a big government, statist Republican and does not represent Conservative Values. Her arrogance is beyond measure, and I really don't see much difference between her and Udall. The Party had better come up with a candidate that is more palatable to the GrassRoots, or they will deliver yet another loss."
Before I had a chance to ask him about the veracity of Stephens' statement, Randy Corporon, who's hosting a new "Wake Up" show on KLZ (5-7 a.m.) announced Jan. 17 on air that he wouldn't vote for Stephens.
"Amy Stephens is running for Senate in Colorado on the Republican ticket, but she is the mother of Obamacare in Colorado," said Corporon. "I cannot support her. I have said publicly, and I will say again: If she is the Republican nominee, I will find a Libertarian. I won't vote for the Democrat. But there are certain lesser-of-two-evils choices that I am no longer willing to make. Is the Republican Party paying attention to that?
Does the Republican Party understand that they cannot win without the Liberty Movement, without those of us who knock on doors and make phone calls, and write small checks regularly and consistently to try and support the candidates that we believe in? Do they understand that they can't win without us? And if they promote—if they attack our people, the constitutionally principled conservatives that are running, if they promote the big government, establishment Republican-type candidates over our own, they're not going to win, because they can't win without us. Amy Stephens should just get out of the race." Listen to KLZ host Randy Corporon explain why he won't vote for Amy Stephens (1.17.14)
Certainly Stephens could be correct that Republicans will get behind her if she wins the nomination, while Buck would repel fellow Republicans away from him, if he's the nominee. But if you're tuned in to talk radio, and Caplis certainly is, you know there's two sides to that story that deserve to be aired.
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Rough road, even for conservatives, on KLZ's Grassroots Radio Colorado
If you want to convince the hosts of KLZ's Grassroots Radio Colorado that you're a true conservative, you have to do more than just say you're categorically opposed to raising the U.S. debt limit, as U.S. Senate candidate Randy Baumgardner did just before Christmas, saying on the radio that he'd "definitely not be in favor of extending" the debt ceiling.
Clark told Baumgardner that, for his radio show, conservative credentials are established by a website called Principles of Liberty, based on votes cast in the State Legislature. We rely on them, Clark told Baumgardner.
Clark reminded Baumgardner, a Republican, that Principles of Liberty gave Baumgardner a disappointing D+, fourth worst among Colorado Senate Republicans last year.
"And, you know, you're five away from being a Democrat!" Clark told Baumgardner, who's widely considered an arch conservative. "Why would the Liberty people want to support you in your campaign?"
Baumgardner's answer illuminates the rough road confronting conservative candidates as they face the stomping of feet and gnashing of teeth on radio stations like KLZ, 560-AM. Here's Baumgardner's response to Clark:
BAUMGARDNER: Well, I tell you, um, I am a conservative. And maybe [the Principles of Liberty score card], you know, doesn't always reflect [that]. One of the things that you find there, and I guess it comes down to what your word's worth, what you're made out of, because there were things that I didn't felt like I voted any different in the Senate than I did in the House. Okay? And my rankings were very good in the House. In fact, I had a 92 or a 93 percent in the House. In fact, [I] was top—I believe, top of Principles of Liberty when I served in the House of Representatives.
CLARK: You know, I'm going back – to be fair, I'm going back to 2012.
BAUMGARDNER: Yeah.
CLARK: Okay? And you were ranked number one by Principles of Liberty.
BAUMGARDNER: Yes.
CLARK: You got an A+ ranking with a 94 percent in 2012.
BAUMGARDNER: Yeah. And I've had conversations with Principles of Liberty that –. First of all, maybe it was the consent calendar because –.
CLARK: Well, but everybody voted on the consent calendar.
BAUMGARDNER: They did. They did, but the Principles of Liberty said that everybody's numbers were 10-15% lower than they normally were. I don't know why. I don't know what it was, but the only thing that I can say is that when you give your word—and there was a couple of bills that changed, and I went to the Senator and I said, "Look, this is not what I bought into. Can I get out of this?" And they said, "No, you said you'd be on with me." So if your word means anything, you stick to that. And that's where I am. If that's what they want to judge me on, that's fine. But I own what I vote, and I'll talk about anything that they want to talk to me about. So, that–.
CLARK: That is an amazing difference from one year to the next…. My point is, Senator Lundberg is number one, Senator Baumgardner is number twelve, with everything being equal.
BAUMGARDNER: Right.
CLARK: All right? Now, if you go back to 2012, yeah, I mean, you were top of the heap. That is an anomaly. I need to figure that out.
BAUMGARDNER: Yeah. Well, and I do too. And that was the conversation that I had with Principles of Liberty – 'cause I said I didn't feel like I voted any different than I did when I was in the House. So, I don't know….
WORLEY: We'll figure it out.
BAUMGARDNER: And when [Principles of Liberty organizer] Rich Bratten comes to me and said, "Randy, what's going on?" And I said, "Rich, I don't know!" So, we had those conversations, and yeah, I don't kn0w. I mean, I wish I had an answer, but the only thing that I can come up with is that there was a couple of votes that I had given my word on to other senators. And if they won't let you out of that, you have integrity and your word. That's all you've got down there. And if you lose that, and if they say, "Well, you didn't do as well", well, you know what, maybe I can strive to do a little better to not give my word to those people as easily. But I try to look at things, but as they change, again, if they say, "No, you can't be out — I'm not going to let you out of my commitment to me," then if, as a person, as someone that stands up and says I gave my word, I'm going to stick to it. Thanks guys!
Asked if he'd photograph a gay wedding, State Sen. says it would depend "on the circumstances"
Correction: An earlier version of this blog post stated that Sen. Kevin Lundberg would not photograph a gay wedding. In fact, he told me in a telephone interview that it would "depend on the circumstances."
State Sen. Kevin Lundberg told a KLZ radio audience Dec. 12 that he relates to the Colorado baker who, by court order, must bake a cake for a gay wedding even though the baker says it violates his Christian beliefs.
"I actually do some photography, and I've shot a few weddings," Lundberg said on the radio, explaining that a similar case involved a wedding photographer in another state. "And I can see a very close parallel between baking a cake for a wedding or shooting pictures for a wedding. And I can tell you that there's no way I could enter into shooting a wedding without doing my best to condone everything that occurred there." [BigMedia emphasis]
"You're trying to get the best [photo] shots," Lundberg continued. "You're trying to tell the story. And you're trying to promote the event. You've been hired by the couple, by the family, to make this statement. To do a wedding cake, it's not just a cake. It's a very strong symbol of the ceremony and the process that's occurring."
Lundberg, a Republican, appeared on KLZ to express his displeasure with Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, who told Lundbergduring a legislative hearing last week that his office would continue to side with the gay couple, not the baker, because Colorado's public accommodation law prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation.
"This baker considers it an artistic statement when he's baking a wedding cake," Lundberg said on air. "Somebody said, 'Come on. It's just a cake.' Well, the business is actually called Masterpiece Bakeshop. It's quite obvious they consider their bakery items a work of art. And if that isn't something that would qualify under freedom of speech, I'm not sure what would."
In his summary-judgment ruling against the Masterpiece baker, Colorado Administrative Law Judge Robert Spencer addressses Lundberg's argument as well as others in favor of the baker that you find floating around the talk-radio airwaves. Read his decision here. The complaint against the baker was initially filed by the ACLU of Colorado.
"Some legislators would insist, 'Keep your religion out of the State House,'" Lundberg told KLZ guest host Stacy Petty, going beyond the wedding-cake issue. "Well, I would say to them, 'Keep your worldview out of the State House.' And what do we have left? Nothing."
Obviously, Lundberg sees religion everywhere, even if he's not looking through his camera lens at a gay wedding.
Radio host doesn't explain why Buck was tagged a "gaffe-machine" in 2010
Fresh from his top-GOP-Senate-candidate showing in the latest Public Policy Pollingsurvey, Ken Buck took to the talk-radio airwaves in recent days, bragging that he's ahead of his primary opponents by "25 points or more" and that he "had a lot Tea Party support last time" and he has "a lot of Tea Party support this time."
Reminded by KHOW's Mandy Connell that he was tagged as a "gaffe-machine" in 2010, Buck said:
Buck: "Obviously, I'm more careful in what I say and where I say it and who I'm around. It doesn't mean I don't hold the same values. I think messaging is important."
Connell wouldn't have gotten anywhere with Buck had she asked him the sorts of things he'd say privately versus in public, but she could have at least listed a couple of Buck's private utterances that Democrats used to sledge-hammer Buck in TV ads last time around, including his infamous exuberance for banning abortion, even in the case of rape and incest, as well as his private courting then public dumping of personhood activists, whose failed amendment would have banned common forms of birth control, as well as all abortion.
Connell, who had Buck on her show Tuesday, also might have recounted some of the Buck material leading to the "gaffe-machine" tag, like his comment comparing being gay to alcoholism.
With this info out there, listeners might have wondered about the truth of Buck's claim to Connell: "The donors know me. They trust me." Really? On the issues, Buck said: "I'm going to put out a series of issue statements, starting in January, that will be very specific on health care, on energy, on five or six or seven different issues."
Five! Six! or even seven issue statements! Connell could have mocked Buck for promising such incredible depth. But instead she just let him say:
Buck: "I think it's very important for Republicans to stand for something, not just stand against something. I'm not just part of the party of no." On health care, for example, Buck says he wants a "free-market health-care system."
On KLZ radio Friday, Buck took a shot at candidates who petition onto the primary ballot, as planned by his opponent Rep. Amy Stephens, instead of going through the caucus process.
Buck said the petition route "bypasses the party structure, the people who work the hardest in the party, and it's something that would be very unfortunate, if people petitioned on."
Discussing in more detail why it's bad for a candidate to skip the caucus-process and petition onto the primary ballot, Buck and Clark said:
Clark: Then you have the other tactic, which is simply to pay a bunch of people to go out and get a bunch of signatures and put your name on the ballot. Well, okay, we've all seen what happens when that happens. It's usually not very pretty. This particular candidate, I have a feeling, is going to run a scorched-earth campaign. We're just going to have to deal with that. Ken?
Buck: Well, I think, one, there's a big advantage to going to the caucuses and the assembly. And that is, you go to all the counties of the state, and you ask for their support. And they work for you in the primary and they work for you in the general election. And when you put people in front of a supermarket with a clipboard in their hands, you're not gaining support. You may think that you may have enough money to run an air game in Denver media and win a race, but the reality is that running state-wide is very difficult to win petitioning on. And so, I agree with your analysis.
Buck told Clark: "In primaries, people are going to put their best foot forward, and they're going to put their opponent's worst foot forward, and we will be weaker going against a candidate like Mark Udall."
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Media omission: State Republicans try to edit out internal dissent
Do you remember this headline from The Denver Post Spot blog back in September?
"Upset Republicans propose chicken protest at Colorado GOP meeting Saturday"
It referred to an idea hatched by a group of Republicans to bring boxed chicken to a GOP gathering as a protest against State GOP Chair Ryan Call, who joined Democrats in criticizing a Republican legislator for talking about the "chicken" eating habits of the "black race."
The protest never happened, but Ryan Call was so upset that the idea for such a protest would land in the hands of The Denver Post that he angrily passed out copies of The Post story at the Sept. meeting of the Republican Party's Executive Committee and announced that he never wanted to see another article like it again.
During an hour-and-24-minute discussion about the chicken protest, Call angrily reprimanded CO GOP Secretary Lana Fore-Warkocz, who was accused, over her objections, of leaking the chicken-protest story to The Post. Never undermine the Republican Party again, she was told.
That is, according to the unedited, unofficial meeting minutes, written by Fore-Warkocz in her capacity as party secretary, and given to me by credible sources.
But the Colorado Republican Party's official minutes of the meeting, which are an edited version of Fore Warkocz's notes and were also given to me by credible sources, tell a different story:
Official Republican Meeting Notes: "Certain matters concerning recent disclosures in the press, and the airing of disagreements between certain officers and members of the Executive Committee were candidly discussed. Officers and members of the Executive Committee were reminded of the importance of trust, unity, confidentiality and our role as leaders and members of the Executive Committee, and of our duties with respect to the Republican Party, but no formal action was taken."
The unofficial meeting notes paint a different picture.
State GOP Secretary Fore-Warkocz' Meeting Notes: "Chairman Call made it clear that I signed up to defend ALL Republicans, including McCain and Boehner, and if I didn't like that, to check my bags at the door. Chairman Call said that folks like Jason Worley, Ken Clark, the Brattens, Debbie Healy and the Arnol's are no friends of this party. Again, I was instructed to never undermine the family or the Republican Party again."
Fore-Warkocz explained in her minutes that she had actually argued against the chicken protest.
But this didn't stop Ryan Call from telling Fore-Warkocz that "trust and honesty" had been broken and from ordering Fore-Warkocz to notify him "immediately" if she's invited to another meeting involving dissent (gasp) within the GOP.
"Senator Bill Cadman reiterated Chairman Call's comments, and I was reprimanded for another 20 minutes," according to Fore-Warkocz' version of the meeting.
Fore-Warkocz' notes state:
"[Committee member] Ellyn Hilliard explained that Ken [Clark] and Jason[Worley] are in it for the ratings and to not speak to them. I explained that I hadn't."
(Side note: As a media critic I was floored that anyone would think KLZ talk-radio hosts Ken Clark and Jason Worley are in it for the ratings! No one defends Sen. Vicki Marble for the ratings! You can defend Mylie Cyrus for the ratings. But talking on the radio about chicken or Marble or barbeque doesn't do much for you. Unless you're gunning for Tea-Party ratings, which still don't do much for you.)
At the end of the executive committee meeting, Ryan Call presented a new branding campaign for the Republican Party.
The bold initiative replaces "Grand Old Party" with the smooth-and-easy phrase "Great Opportunity Party."
"New brochures were presented, and all were very impressed with the new marketing materials," according to the official minutes.
I get it. Dumping the word "old" will make the Republican Party young!
Just like whitewashing the notes from a contentious GOP meeting will make the Party get along?
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Five months passed since "Sochi" deal was concluded between Turkey and Russia concerning Idlib governorate. However, the deal was not enough to deter the Syrian regime's shelling, and artillery and missile attacks, which so far caused several casualties among civilians, dead and injured, in the past months, and pushed a massive segment of the civilians out of the buffer zone, the demilitarized area agreed upon.
The civilians were displaced to the border areas, escaping the escalation which tempo has been on the rise since the beginning of 2019.
In sync with the missile and artillery shelling, focused on the eastern and southern rural parts of Idlib and the northern and western rural parts of Hama, the regime's political statements did not ceases, stressing that Idlib governorate "is to return to the embrace of the Syrian state after the removal of terrorism from it" and the military operation that Russia hinted at on the pretext of annihilating the "extremist" groups and foreign militants.
On the other side, there is not any serious action on the part of the opposition factions, which, in the past a few days, witnessed a state of confusion after the expansion of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham/HTS' control areas and the eyes turning to the steps that the latter would be taking in relation to Idlib's future and the elimination of the "terrorism" allegation attached to it.
The ongoing missile and artillery shelling on the part of Assad's forces forced the majority of the demilitarized zone's population to leave the area to ones witnessing lighter shelling, located in the city of Idlib and the areas at the borders with Turkey.
The group added that the hostilities intensified, targeting the southern and eastern rural parts of Idlib and the areas in the northern and western rural parts of Hama, while it documented the shelling of more than 25 areas in rural Idlib, 26 areas in rural Hama and 10 others in rural Aleppo.
The attacks on the part of Assad's forces have also caused massive damage of infrastructure and residential neighborhoods; and several towns and villages, al-Tah, Jarjanza, al-Tamanah included, were declared as stricken areas.
The matter was not limited to shelling, for Idlib's aerial space witnessed an enhanced presence of the Russian air force and reconnaissance aircraft, especially along the key fronts of the Syrian regime and the opposition.
According to Enab Baladi's correspondent, the air force and reconnaissance aircraft did not part from the area's sky in the past days, monitoring, in specific, the lines of contact with the Assad's forces.
In the past a few days, the Assad's forces and the militias backing them have brought military reinforcements in the northern and western rural parts of Hama. Regime loyalist networks posted footage of the reinforcements, which basically stationed in the al-Ghab Plain and the regime's military camps in northern rural Hama.
In a former interview with Enab Baladi, a commander of the Jaysh al-Izza/Army of Glory faction said that the reinforcements brought by the Syrian regime into Idlib's surrounding hint at a military operation from its side.
Mahmoud al-Mahmoud, the commander of the Army of Glory, added that Assad's forces have summoned a massive number of tanks into the area's vicinity, in addition to several military columns, which indicates its initiation of launching a military operation in the upcoming days.
"The Russians, the regime and Iranians keep neither pledges nor agreements. Mistakes must be learned from, and the option of war must be prioritized over peace in the North," the commander added.
To the day, the landmarks of Idlib governorate in the few coming days have not clarified, especially as the Russian threats of launching an attack continue, while the Turkish statements assure that the deal is yet ongoing without obstacles.
Vershinin added that all the de-escalation deals, agreed upon in 2017, are temporary procedures, pointing out that Idlib is the last area adhering to these deals.
"Idlib is an indispensable part of the Syrian state and the Syrian territories. Russia will not allow the presence of terrorist reserves, which must be annihilated," the Russian official said.
Idlib's destiny is linked to the outcomes of the Sochi summit to bring together the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and the Iranian president Hassan Rouhani in mid-February.


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LaRouche Presages Norway Terror Incident
Empire Propagandists Demand End of National Sovereignty in Europe
Greeks Denounce EU Bailout Deal
Sinn Fein on EU Deal: No Gain for Ireland; Burn the Bondholders
Some in Germany Revolt Against Euro Bailouts
Full Glass-Steagall Back on British Agenda
Nuclear Phaseout Leaves Germany Without Engineers
U.S. Targets Credit Suisse in Tax-Evasion Probe
From Volume 38, Issue 29 of EIR Online, Published July 29, 2011
Western European News Digest
July 20 (EIRNS)—Lyndon LaRouche warned as early as July 13 that unless Glass-Steagall is implemented in the United States and in Europe, the entire trans-Atlantic region is going to plunge into chaos. And under those circumstances, the kind of each-against-all warfare among the European financial oligarchy is likely to lead to some high-level assassinations. Saturday's deadly "terror" attack in Oslo, Norway must be examined with this perspective in mind.
July 20 (EIRNS)—A propaganda offensive directed against Germany, for the creation of supranational fiscal and economic control of what has remained in terms of national affairs in Europe, was launched on the eve of the EU crisis summit tomorrow.
The IMF's Luc Everaert arranged a special international conference call with journalists, Tuesday, telling them in warning tones that the euro "could succumb if countries put sovereign pride over the common good [!]," adding that "without a true recognition of Eurozone oneness, even with national and cultural differences, and then making decisions demonstrating that recognition rather than denying it, one cannot have a currency."
Then, in a special interview with Brussels-based Euronews, Jacques Attali (former advisor to French President Mitterrand, who helped force the euro down the throat of the Germans, with the help of Britain's Margaret Thatcher) called Germany "the sick man of Europe," and attacked the Germans for not having a "long-term strategy.... It is all about moving closer to European federalism but without putting the Germans in a position to oppose it, rather trying to make our German friends understand that it is in their interest to make progress towards European federalism."
July 22 (EIRNS)—While Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou returned from Brussels as if in triumph from the latest Eurozone bailout, which piles another EU159 billion of debt on his country, he was welcomed with denunciations by the Greek parliamentary opposition. Papandreou idiotically proclaimed that Greece was "relieved from the nightmare of default," while Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos, not to be outdone, babbled that the Greek banking system is the "safest in Europe."
Within hours of these statements, Fitch Rating agency said that the so-called "rescue" plan was indeed a "default event."
Among numerous other denunciations, Coalition of the Radical Left MP Evangelia Ammanatidou Paschalidou spoke to the point: "Unfortunately, it is the Greek society that is facing the tragic blow of a bankrupt policy." She warned that there is no future with the government's bankrupt policy.
July 22 (EIRNS)—The European Summit's phony bailout deal is being seen in Ireland as just that. Commenting that the deal presented no gains for Ireland, Sinn Fein finance spokesperson Pearse Doherty went after Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny's triumphalism over gaining a two-percentage-point reduction of interest rates, as illusory.
"With our national debt set to exceed 200 billion by 2014, this interest rate reduction will do nothing to address our national debt. The only way to reduce this debt is by burden-sharing with senior bondholders and loss-sharing with the ECB. Unfortunately these issues are explicitly ruled out for Ireland in this evening's agreement, and it seems that Enda Kenny, by signing up to this agreement, which rules out any type of private sector involvement in Ireland's debt crisis, has ditched any attempts to impose losses on senior bondholders in Anglo Irish Bank.
July 22 (EIRNS)—Two anti-bailout members of national parliament (Bundestag), Frank Schäffler and Klaus-Peter Willsch, organizers of a dissident group of more than 40 Bundestag members, have called for a special session of parliament in the coming days, despite the Summer recess. "If the Greeks are getting money, the Bundestag must be consulted first," Willsch told Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. "This is especially urgent, if a buy-up of Greek state bonds is intended, which would be in open violation of an existing decision of the parliament."
The spirit of revolt is also felt in this week's issue of Wirtschaftswoche, which, under the headline, "With the D-mark, back to the old strength," writes that a German return to its former national currency is possible. It could be done overnight; the Bundesbank experts know how to do it.
July 21 (EIRNS)—A Glass-Steagall banking reform is reportedly back on the agenda of the British Independent Commission on Banking (ICB), according to today's web newspaper CityAM. The move follows pressure by the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee to give consideration to a full structural separation between retail and investment banking.
Putting this separation back on the ICB agenda is a response to a tremendous number of requests the ICB has received since the publication of its interim report earlier this year. That report called for what appeared to be a rather anemic version of "ring-fencing" between retail and investment banking, and has the endorsement of Treasury.
The ICB's final report is expected to be released on Sept. 12, but now it is suggested it could be postponed.
July 19 (EIRNS)—One of the real problems that waits for a solution in Germany is the widening engineer gap. June 2011 showed an all-time high of demand for more than 76,000 engineers that are not available.
According to the VDI, the national association of engineers, the undersupply of young engineers hits the machine-building and car-making sectors predominantly, with 31,000 engineers lacking. The electric engineering sector lacks 18,300; construction is next with a lack of 10,600. Baden-Württemberg, the German state with the highest concentration of machine-building and car-making, is suffering from the worst undersupply, with 20,600 engineering jobs that cannot be filled. Bavaria is next on the list, with a shortage of 13,000, followed by North Rhine-Westphalia with 12,600.
Willi Fuchs, director of the VDI, said the problem has little to do with the young generation, which, as such, is not hostile to or disinterested in technology; it rather has to do with the media and the schools, which do not promote a pro-technology view.
July 17 (EIRNS)—The U.S. Department of Justice has targetted Credit Suisse, the second-largest Swiss bank, in its ongoing criminal investigation of banks that help U.S. residents illegally avoid paying U.S. income taxes. Credit Suisse disclosed the probe July 15. According to the Swiss daily Tages-Anzeiger, the move is intended to force Credit Suisse to release information about its U.S. clients, as UBS did in 2009, and is part of a broader investigation. The probe dials up the pressure on Switzerland, which has been trying to cut a deal to end the investigation, and include a provision that no Swiss bankers go to jail.


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Koudoumbo est une commune rurale située dans le département de Gourcy de la province du Zondoma dans la région Nord au Burkina Faso.

Géographie

Histoire

En 2019 un important litige foncier – pour l'accès à des terres cultivées et la construction d'infrastructure sanitaires – a opposé deux clans du village (les familles Zoromé et Sawadogo), tensions qui ont été réglées par les autorités coutumières du village et celles, administratives, de la province du Zondoma.

Économie

Santé et éducation

Le centre de soins le plus proche de Koudoumbo est le centre médical avec antenne chirurgicale (CMA) de la province à Gourcy.

Koudoumbo possède deux écoles primaires publiques (A et B) de trois classes chacune.

Notes et références

Ville dans le département de Gourcy

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OBITUARY - Boggs
Thursday, October 6. 2011
George Daniel Boggs of Jacksonville, Florida, and formerly of Blountstown, Florida, passed away peacefully surrounded by his family Monday, October 3, 2011, in Jacksonville at the age of 83.
He was born January 18, 1928, in Thomasville, Georgia, to the late Homer Boggs of Conneaut, Ohio, and Minnie Boggs Greene of Blountstown. He was a longtime Florida resident. George graduated as salutatorian from Blountstown High School in 1946, earned a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1953 and a Master in Business Administration from Georgia State University in 1971. He was a member of Phi Kappa Tau, Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi, and Sons of the American Revolution. George was a Navy Veteran who served after WWII and during the Korean Conflict and then worked for 36 years for Southern Bell, Bell Labs and AT&T.
George was a deacon in several churches and a member of Deermeadows Baptist Church in Jacksonville.
He was also a Boy Scout Scoutmaster and proud that all three of his sons were Eagle Scouts. After retirement he volunteered for 11 years at St. Luke's hospital in Jacksonville.
He was known for his warm smile and met the world and all people with a helping hand.
He was preceded in death by his brother, Louis Atkins.
He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Joyce Bridges Boggs; his three sons, David (Danuta), James (Monique), and Ralph (Sarah); seven grandchildren, Dan, Scott, Jill, Mitchell, Lucy, Samantha, and Chloe; niece, Nancy Revell (Terry); sister-in-law, Margie Atkins and niece, Janie Atkins as well as numerous cousins, nephews and nieces.
Graveside services will be held 1:00 p.m. CT, Saturday, October 8 in Boggs Cemetery in Blountstown with Reverend David Throckmorton officiating. A memorial service will be held at a later date at Deermeadows Baptist Church in Jacksonville.
Memorial gifts in memory of George may be made to his favorite charity, The Salvation Army online at www.salvationarmyusa.org.
Adams Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. Phone 674-5449. Online condolences may be made at adamsfh.com
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The memorial service for George Boggs will be held on Saturday October 15 at 11:00am EST at the Deermeadows Baptist Church, 9780 Baymeadows Road Jacksonville FL 32256 (904)642-2200
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Francesco Luciani is a Paris based photographer.
Born in Roma in 1989, he moved to Paris in 2008 to attend Icart Photo, école de photographie de Paris. In his three years of formation his first experiences took place that laid the foundation of his professional career: internships and partnerships with other professionals setting the method and encouraging subsequent collaborations with advertising agencies, architectural studios, public institutions and companies linked with the fashion industry and marketing.
Parallel to the commercial photography activities, he developed a few researches about urban landscape and the study of the territory, which favored the birth of Marble District series and the collaboration with urbanists Alberto Marzo and Valeria Volpe on the project OSSO.


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Risk Of Death In Connecticut Linked To Where You Live
By Lisa Chedekel | March 13, 2017
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Connecticut has seen significant reductions in deaths from breast and colon cancer in the last three decades, but the state exceeds the national mortality rate for uterine cancer and three other cancers, as well as for mental health and substance use disorders.
An analysis of data compiled by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, published in JAMA, also shows wide disparities between Connecticut counties in death rates from certain cancers and other illnesses. Windham County had the highest mortality rates for seven of 10 cancers identified in the study as having the highest disease burden or responsiveness to screening and treatment, including pancreatic, uterine and lung cancer.
Tolland County, meanwhile, had the lowest death rates for five cancers, including breast cancer, while Fairfield County was lowest for four.
Similarly, deaths from chronic respiratory diseases in Windham County were nearly double the rate in Fairfield County – 63.13 per 100,000, compared to 34.15. Mortality rates for neurological disorders ranged from a low of 75.07 in Tolland County, to a high of 116.89 in Middlesex County. The rates are from 2014.
Experts say the disparities likely stem from a combination of factors, including access to screening and early detection, lifestyle risks, and the availability of treatment options. Windham County has the lowest median household income in the state, while Fairfield has the highest, followed by Tolland, according to 2014 census data.
"It's quite a complex interaction" that leads to disparities based on socioeconomic factors, said Lou Gonsalves, an epidemiology with the state Department of Public Health (DPH)'s tumor registry. "Things like access to early detection, lifestyle factors such as smoking and obesity, the willingness to interact with medical services" are all elements.
She said DPH is working closely with the Connecticut Cancer Partnership to identify and address disparities "from diagnosis to end-of-life care."
Patricia Baker, president and CEO of the Connecticut Health Foundation, said that while the state should be pleased with the improvements in health outcomes, "what isn't surprising is the disparities that exist geographically and racially and ethnically.
"Windham County is often forgotten, yet has some of the most glaring disparities," she said. "While Connecticut is expanding access, the story often heard in Windham County is the challenge in attracting providers, and income is a large determinant of health."
Racial and ethnic disparities in mortality remain pronounced in Connecticut, as they do nationally. A 2016 DPH state health profile compiled as part of the Connecticut State Innovation Model (SIM) report shows higher death rates among African-Americans from breast, prostate and colorectal cancer, and higher mortality among Hispanic women for cervical cancer.
Connecticut has seen a significant drop in female deaths from breast cancer since 1980, when its mortality rate was higher than the national average – 41.85 deaths per 100,000, compared to 37.41 nationally. In 2014, Connecticut's rate fell to 23.54 — below the national average of 25.88. Death rates from colon and rectal cancer also fell from higher than the national rate to below average.
In fact, in all but four of 27 categories of cancer, the state has lower mortality rates than the U.S. as a whole. For all cancers (or neoplasms) combined, Connecticut's death rate dropped 28 percent from 1980 to 2014 – more than the national drop of 20 percent. The state is now at 179.49 deaths per 100,000 – lower than U.S. rate of 192.04.
The exceptions are higher-than-average rates of stomach cancer, pancreatic cancer, uterine cancer and bladder cancer, the 2014 data show.
Gonsalves said those four cancers are harder to detect early, and so are more likely to be found in later stages.
For non-cancer deaths, Connecticut fares well in the rate of cardiovascular diseases, with the mortality rate dropping by more than 50 percent since 1980 and now below the national average. The death rate for neonatal disorders also has fallen sharply, both in Connecticut and nationally, although the state's rate remains slightly higher than the national average (3.32).
But in other areas, the study shows, Connecticut has higher mortality than the U.S. as a whole. Deaths from mental health and substance use disorders claimed 14.2 of 100,000 lives in 2014, triple the rate in 1980.
Last month, the state medical examiner's office reported 917 drug overdose deaths in 2016 – a 25 percent increase over 2015. The synthetic opioid fentanyl accounted for the biggest increase.
The study shows that Connecticut's death rate from chronic respiratory diseases also has climbed, as it has nationally — from 34.86 in 1980 to 43.87 in 2014, a 26 percent increase – although it remains below the national average.
Connecticut's death rate from unintentional or accidental injuries declined slightly since 1980, but is now higher than the national average. For diabetes, urogenital, blood and endocrine diseases, Connecticut's death rate has risen 15 percent since 1980, but remains below the national average.
Disparities between counties are stark for some cancers and other diseases. Death rates for cervical cancer, for example, ranged from 1.04 per 100,000 in Tolland, to 1.92 in New Haven. For lung, tracheal and bronchus cancers, Windham County's rate was 53 percent higher than Fairfield County's.
Breast cancer mortality rates among women ranged from 20.42 in Tolland County to 24.63 in Windham County and 24.56 in New Haven County.
Mental health and substance use disorders claimed 16.45 lives per 100,000 in Hartford, compared to a low of 9.64 deaths in Tolland. Hartford also had the highest rate of deaths from neonatal disorders – 4.33, more than double the lowest rate (2.0) in Litchfield County.
A State Health Assessment from 2014 shows that towns in the eastern part of Connecticut, including Windham County, had higher rates of all-cause premature mortality. It notes that access to health care, including mental health, is a major issue facing the state's rural population.
Data on life expectancy, dating from 2013, show a two- to three-year longevity gap among counties, with women in Fairfield County living longest (to 84.14 years, on average), and women in Windham County shortest (81.84). Among men, Fairfield County residents had the longest average lifespan (79.99 years), while those in Windham had the shortest (76.58 years).
Nationally in 2014, the lowest all-cancer death rate was 70.7 deaths per 100,000 population for Summit County, Colorado; the highest was 503.1 in Union County, Florida.
The study shows that the pattern of change across counties varied by cancer type. For some cancers—such as colon and rectum, larynx, stomach, breast, cervical, prostate and testicular — mortality rates declined in nearly all counties; for others, including liver cancer and mesothelioma, they increased in nearly all counties. For the remaining cancers, rates increased in some counties and declined in others.
The Conn. Health I-Team is dedicated to producing original, responsible, in-depth journalism on key issues of health and safety that affect our readers, and helping them make informed health care choices. As a nonprofit, we rely on donations to help fund our work.
Drunk-Driving Fatalities Decline, But State Ranks High In Impaired Drivers
Connecticut saw a decline in drunk-driving fatalities in 2014, but the state still ranks among the highest in the country in the percentage of traffic deaths involving alcohol-impaired drivers, new federal data show. Ninety-seven of the 248 traffic fatalities in Connecticut, or 39 percent, involved drivers with a blood-alcohol content (BAC) of .08 or higher, considered alcohol-impaired, according to statistics compiled by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
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Louisville vs Duke: Pregame Breakdown
Posted on January 14, 2017 January 14, 2017 by Mitch Motley
In the state of Kentucky, fans of the state's major basketball schools (UofL and UK) don't agree on much. They disagree so much that many fans argue Louisville and Kentucky are two completely different geographical locations with no relationship. One thing the entire state can agree on, however; everybody hates Duke.
Duke is an all-time top-5 basketball program. That alone is cause for all other fan bases to despise a program. Add in all the easily unlikeable personalities like Christian Laettner, JJ Reddick, every Plumlee brother, Greg Paulus, this post would be too long to name them all, but you get my point. Duke has the stereotypical mold for the most hated player in college basketball, year in and year out. Crazily, we may be looking at the most hated player in Duke history between the two fan bases of the Bluegrass State, Grayson Allen.
Allen is notorious for his in-game antics of tripping, whining, and even punching. No one remembers him for the monster performance he had in the National Championship Game against Wisconsin. Instead, the only buzz that's ever around his name typically comes with an extended leg. Last year, Allen tripped Ray Spalding (no punishment) and he elbowed then punched Jaylen Johnson in the head in a scrum during a loose ball (again, no punishment).
You see, it's not the actions that have everyone upset with his play. It's the lack of consequences, it's the fact that Duke seemingly gets away with whatever it wants that makes the program so easy to hate. Allen received a suspension this season after tripping an Elon player (Elon..since when does Duke really need that much of a "leg up" (no pun intended) against Elon?). It was termed "indefinite" but we all knew how long it would last, but we all hoped something would change. Duke lost their next game to Virginia Tech by 14, and Grayson Allen's name was once again inserted into the Starting 5.
You may think that was an unnecessary tangent, but it wasn't. Duke comes into the Yum! Center today ranked 7th, coming off a loss to FSU, without Coach K, and needing a big win for their résumé. No one wants to see the Blue Devils win. Everyone wants to see another Grayson Allen meltdown (without injuries of course). Most importantly, the Cards want to get a win against a top-10 opponent with the most disliked player in recent history.
The game tips off at Noon and can be watched on ESPN. Senior forward Amile Jefferson is out today, he leads Duke in rebounds and also averages 13.6 PPG. Sharpshooting lefty, Luke Kennard averages 20.4 PPG, slowing him down will be crucial. The most important part of the game in my opinion, frustrate Grayson Allen. It's not hard to do, he's got the fuse of a bottle rocket. Last year, he had his way with the Cards and poured in the points before halftime. The second half, Allen got called for his 5th foul on a charge (Jaylen Johnson, poetic justice) then proceeded to yell at the official obscenities and picked up his 6th personal foul which would've ended his night in an NBA game as well. Once Allen was out of the game, mentally not physically Duke struggled. Cut off the head of the snake and the body dies, it's a lot easier to cut it off when tries biting you. The Cards will get to Grayson Allen today, Luke Kennard will still have a good day and keep the Blue Devils into it for the first half but the Cards fluster Duke with their defense and pull away in the second half to win 76-64.
Go Cards!


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Leo Casey (born 17 September 1965) is a former Ireland international rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, and coached in the 2000s. He played at representative level for Ireland, and at club level for Oldham (Heritage No. 904), Featherstone Rovers (Heritage No. 680) and Swinton, as a , and coached at club level for Oldham (Reserve team).

Background
Leo Casey is the father of the rugby league footballer; Callum Casey, and Sean Casey (born ,  for Leeds Rhinos (Reserve team )), Connor Casey (born ,  or  for Leeds Rhinos (scholarship )) and Patrick Casey (born , Oldham St Annes ARLFC/Oldham St Anne's ARLFC (Juniors )).

Playing career

International honours
Leo Casey won 5 caps for Ireland in 1995–1997 while at Featherstone Rovers, and Swinton.

County Cup Final appearances
Leo Casey played left-, i.e. number 8, (replaced by interchange/substitute xJohn Fairbank ) in Oldham's 16-24 defeat by Warrington in the 1989 Lancashire County Cup Final during the 1989–90 season at Knowsley Road, St. Helens on Saturday 14 October 1989.

Division Two Premiership Final appearances
Leo Casey played left-, i.e. number 8, in Featherstone Rovers' 20-16 victory over Workington Town in the Division Two Premiership Final during the 1992–93 season at Old Trafford, Manchester on Wednesday 19 May 1993.

References

External links
Statistics at orl-heritagetrust.org.uk

1965 births
Living people
English rugby league players
Featherstone Rovers players
Ireland national rugby league team players
Oldham R.L.F.C. players
Place of birth missing (living people)
Rugby league props
Swinton Lions players


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If I was in Mexico or another country illegally I'd be expected to live in fear of being deported .


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Integration of People with Disabilities: Accessibility - Universal Design
Council of Europe. 1993. Integration of People with Disabilities: Accessibility - Universal Design.
The Council of Europe recommends disability policy guidelines for Member States and is currently preparing revolutionary accessibility guidelines: a specific recommendation to incorporate the principles of Universal Design (design that responds equally to the needs of everyone), including accessibility, into the curricula of all vocations that work on the built environment. Internet publication URL: www.independentliving.org/docs3/coeacc.html
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Construction of the man-made environment is based on the assumption that there exists an "average" person. However, there is no standardised person. Every individual deviates from the norm in one way or another: age, height, width, weight, strength, speed, sight, hearing, stamina, mental faculties, etc. Consequently, facilities built for the average person are not necessarily equally accessible for everybody.
In the past, the problem of accessibility was considered a direct result of the individual's deviation from the norm. The person was the exception, hence the problem. The itemised approach tried to reduce the disadvantages of specific groups by introducing special facilities into the built environment, such as ramps or special doors. Individuals, still seen as exceptions to the rule, were thus stigmatised by having to use, for example, separate entrances.
Already the Council of Europe's landmark Recommendation No. R (92) 6 on A coherent policy for people with disabilities, which promotes their rights to full citizenship, independent living, equal opportunities and full participation, urged member States' governments to remove all obstacles in the environment and in society to make it possible for people with disabilities to play a full role in the community life.
In the publication Accessibility – Principles and Guidelines (1993) the Council of Europe promotes the concept of integrated accessibility. The text presents the fundamental principles of that concept and offers guidelines for solutions.
The Council of Europe is currently preparing revolutionary accessibility guidelines: a specific recommendation to incorporate the principles of Universal Design, including accessibility, into the curricula of all vocations that work on the built environment.
This new approach should respond equally to the needs of everyone. Everyone must be able to enter and use any part of the built environment as independently and naturally as possible. A new awareness of construction and design is needed. The criteria defining normality should be enlarged to ensure that the construction of the built environment is based on the principles of Universal Design.