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Skip to comments.Legally killed: 21 dementia victims given lethal injections by Dutch doctors in 2010
Posted on 06/30/2011 8:59:07 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Dementia sufferers are being killed by doctors in Holland under the countrys euthanasia laws, official figures are to reveal.
A total of 21 patients with early-stage dementia, including Alzheimers, died by lethal injection last year, according to a forthcoming annual report.
This is the first time dementia sufferers have been included in the countrys euthanasia statistics.
None of the cases is thought to have involved any illegal act on the part of health professionals, and each time the patient was considered capable of giving their consent.
But the figures have caused alarm among critics who say the pool of patients who qualify for euthanasia in the Netherlands is expanding.
The figures, which are due to be formally released later in the summer, were leaked on NOS, the state television news channel
The NOS report included video footage of Alzheimers sufferer Guusje de Koning, 63, explaining to her children why she wanted to die at the hands of her doctor.
She said she had witnessed her own fathers slow decline and death through the illness, adding: I dont want that. I dont want to suffer.
Euthanasia advocates are using her story to promote the idea that euthanasia for dementia sufferers is a suitable way to avoid suffering and the expensive healthcare.
A series of public meetings have been held over the last year to encourage the elderly to learn about their right to die, even if they are in good health but afraid of what might happen if they are diagnosed with dementia in the future.
But the practice of assisted suicide for dementia patients remains controversial. While some 95 per cent of Hollands population support the countrys euthanasia laws, only 33 per cent of Dutch doctors agree with offering lethal injections to dementia sufferers.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Uncle Adolf would be proud!
1/3 of the time that doctor is going to think it's OK to give you a lethal injection.
A comparison would be that you get in your car and drive out on the Interstate to travel downtown to work every day. You will have a fatal accident on Wednesday and the following Monday!
This is tragic! My father suffered with dementia for over 10 years. Though it was tough, they were some of the sweetest days I had with my father. My prayers are up for the Dutch people this evening.
A.....To keep the woodpeckers off their heads.
MY my, Nazi doctors live on.
Coming to an American Hospital near you.
That is the stupidest thing I have read in a long time!
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So "early stage dementia suffers" can be offed. What about "pre-dementia sufferers"? or "dementia-prone" people? Why wait until people actually have dementia? Think of the countless meals saved if it's caught early and people are killed off in a more timely fashion.
Germany lost WW2 but the Nazis won anyway.
As a practicing neuropsychologist I have dealt with stroke and dementia for the past 40 years. Almost all people fear brain injury which leaves them dependent more than death itself. Far more.
If I become demented, as I lose the last vestiges of dignity, I hope some one will show me the mercy I would give my dog or horse so I won't have to do it myself.
I have been fighting this for years as a private caregiver for dementia patients and am persona non gratia at every nursing home I come in contact with because I will go in and fight for them and even feed them.
Shots are not far behind.
This is a very disturbing report from the Neatherlands. If anyone has a friend or relative that still thinks Obama care is what we need, please get them this report. Tell them if they are ever suffering from dementia or alzheimers that Obama's doctors will do the same to them. Regardless of what they mey want..............
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Why, so you can evade personal responsibility?
TxDas is right above you - s/he wants to be killed if s/he gets dementia so s/he doesn't have to take personal responsibility for him/herself.
With professionals who want to be able to kill people, we're already there.
While I have worked with dementia patients for fewer years (34 rather than 40) than TxDas, I completely disagree with his view.
Dementia patients don't KNOW they have no 'dignity' (whatever that means). They are human, they are still loved by families and still have value as human beings. They are in reality little different than children.
It is cowardice to make someone else kill you because you don't want the responsibility of doing it yourself. And to put that burden on family members is reprehensible. There are such things as DNRs and Medical Directives where the individual states their desired care and medical treatment.
If he doesn't want to live so be it, but every person I have cared for in the last 34 years were still human beings and we have no right to end their life any more than we should kill unborn babies.
And it is sickening how often I have seen so called 'professionals' forget that they are to care not destroy.
Do I want to be a burden to my family? No. But that doesn't mean that I want to be killed either and I would be grateful if my family cared enough to let me live until GOD calls me home, not man.
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Organs of those killed by euthanasia being used (harvesting)
The Telegraph ^ | 14 Jun 2011 | Simon Caldwell
Posted on Thursday, June 30, 2011 11:19:50 PM by bronxville
Doctors are impressed by the superior condition of lungs taken from people who killed by lethal injection compared to those extracted from those killed in accidents...
Surgeons in Leuven between 2007 and 2009 successfully transplanted four pairs of lungs from people who died from euthanasia.
The authors of the study, Initial Experience with Transplantation of Lungs Recovered From Donors After Euthanasia, insisted that doctors were acting strictly within Belgian guidelines on euthanasia, which was legalised in 2002.
They reveal how donors were admitted to the hospital a few hours before the planned euthanasia procedure.
A central venous line was placed in a room adjacent to the operating room, said the report by D. Van Raemdonck et al, a team of surgeons from Leuven
Donors were heparinised [injected with an anticoagulant] immediately before a cocktail of drugs was given by the treating physician who agreed to perform the euthanasia.
The patient was announced dead on cardiorespiratory criteria by three independent physicians as required by Belgian legislation for every organ donor.
The deceased was then rapidly transferred, installed on the operating table, and intubated....
The paper showed that about 23.5 per cent of lung transplant donors in Belgium and 2.8 per cent of heart transplant donors are killed by euthanasia...
Dr Peter Saunders, of Care Not Killing, an umbrella group of more than 50 British medical, disability and religious charities opposed to euthanasia, said he was shocked by the report...
The report comes just a year after researchers found a high proportion of deaths classified as euthanasia in Belgium have involved patients who have not requested their lives to be ended by a doctor.
Belgium became the second in the world after the Netherlands to legalise euthanasia since the fall of Nazi Germany..
"so I won't have to do it myself", this is quite a shocking statement to make. You sir, sound like a true coward. Let someone else go to hell for the deed. Wow. Glad I'm not one of your patients.
First they came for the demented...
Are these the same people who oppose the death penalty; and vehemently so if the perp is a "mentally ill" psychopathic serial killing rapist?
"I hope some one will show me the mercy I would give my dog or horse so I wont have to do it myself."
So you would put that burden on them.
"Uncle Adolf would be proud!"
He would be; the Axis lost WWII on the battlefield, but the Nazis certaily won the peace. Their "culture" thrives, while that of the Western allies perished. 65 years ago abortion was one the crimes against humanity at Nuremberg; now WWII's "victors" celebrate it as the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Wonder what they get for body parts?Obamacare to ensue.
China has nice vans where they lay you on a table to finish you off, and then take your organs (it is assumed) - rather than the dirty method of a firing squad (for the undesirables, of course).
"Why, so you can evade personal responsibility?"
no, because, in my experience, as people become demented and want to be relieved of their suffering they are now too incompetent to do it right.
I have never understood why extending suffering, torture really, and preventing a person from reaching their seat at the right hand of God, is some how better than showing true mercy and relieving a person of unbearable agony.
I guess that is why religions are declining in America and elsewhere, the inability of the people to mind their own business and to continuously inflict their believes on others.
Because history has proved that the people who define 'suffering', 'torture' and 'unbearable agony' ultimately prevail over the wishes of those actually enduring the 'suffering', 'torture' and 'unbearable agony'. IOW, your 'quality of life' is determined for you and that is often contrary to your own opinions and wishes.
"I guess that is why religions are declining in America and elsewhere, the inability of the people to mind their own business and to continuously inflict their believes on others."
Somebody is always 'inflicting their believes'. After all, aren't you arguing that your 'believes' should prevail? The only question is, "Whose believes [sic] will we live under?"
How much longer before they decide Christianity and Judaism are mental illnesses and start rounding poeople up?
Baroness Warnock: Dementia sufferers may have a 'duty to die'
Interesting take on TxDas' point of view.
If, years before I have dementia or some other terminal disease, I execute a living will specifying my wishes, how is that dodging personal responsibility for myself? On the contrary, I'd be a vegetable and not know or care what was going around me, but it would be my family with the burden of caring and paying for me. Why should I push that responsibility off onto them? How selfish.
I lost both of my parents to cancer, and I watched them suffer a slow, lingering, and painful death. At the end they were in hospice, where they were given morphine for pain, but were allowed to continue to suffer until they passed away.
My wishes would be that when I'm at the point of being in hospice's care in the final stages of death, that instead of morphine I would be given something that would put me to sleep and end my suffering.
It is easy to turn this into Nazi-era killing of people because they might get sick, but until you witness the real suffering - twice - that goes on for weeks and months, you'd hope for something a little less painful at the end of your own life.
Nah, there's no such thing as death panels, just progressive diagnosis & treatment.
as people become demented and want to be relieved of their suffering they are now too incompetent to do it right.
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You are ASSUMING they 'want to be relived of their suffering'. I have seen cancer patients who have suffered much more than dementia patients. In fact, until they get to end stage and are in nursing homes that STARVE AND DEHYDRATE THEM, they aren't suffering at all. No more than a 3 yr old.
They can be curious, playful, and even (gasp) fun to be around. I had one patient (2.5 yrs) that wouldn't do her physical therapy, but she would mimic me and she would dance. So I did the excercise and she copied me, then we would cha-cha down the hallway, tango to the kitchen, waltzed to the bedroom. We didnt' walk, we danced. We fingerpainted and played with playdoh. I bought her kids makeup so she could still safely put on makeup every day. I helped her bathe, dress, gave her her meds (told her they were vitamins), took her to the doctor.
Her last 2.5 yrs on earth were a joy for her and her husband. He saw her loved and cared for. She was still a wife/mother who was loved, not a statistic.
IMO, you need a different line of work.
No religion is declining because of idiots like you who want to play God.
God has the power to give and take life, not you.
I hate to point out the obvious, but demented persons, being unaware, have no dignity to lose. Likewise, demented persons would be only capable of unintentional self-harm, not suicide.
From your comments, it appears that you are projecting present feelings of disgust toward the disabled into a hypothetical and counter-factual future. Should the viewer or the object be more ashamed by this disgust?
When my Father had his stroke and was paralyzed and unable to talk I watched tears run from his eyes as the medical staff talked about his condition in front of him like he was not there. They kept him on life support for 2 weeks, despite his living will asking for no heroics, until they had exhausted his medical benefits and then let him die from kidney failure 7 hours
I can assure you we can keep a ham sandwich "alive" indefinitely we want.
So I changed my career. I realized stroke and dementia are untreatable. However, at that time, 10+% of strokes happened during surgery. So I figured if I could prevent strokes, like the one that happened to my father, then I would have accomplished something worthwhile. So for the past 25 years I have dedicated my life and career to improving neurological outcomes following cardiac and orthopedic surgery. When I started, 5% of patients undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass had disabling strokes and 80% had evidence of brain injury.
My last analysis shows we have reduced obvious stroke to less than 1% and neurobehavioral deficits to under 10%. We did this by modifying how we deliver blood to the brain, how we manipulate the aorta, minimizing the use of blood products and improved monitoring. That is about 50,000 fewer strokes per year in the USA alone compared to 1990.
So I ask my critics - what have you done to alleviate human suffering and the indignity of debilitating neurologic decline other than assume the moral high ground? Held hands? Candle light vigils? Prayer? What other than bitching?
I (along with Mrreganaut) have devoted most of my life in caring for those who cannot care for themselves. What have I done? I have quit jobs to care for family members with dementia, I have moved, I have bathed, clothed, loved, cleaned up incontinence. I have made them feel loved and cared for. I have worked professionally caring for people whose children could or would not. I have been in the trenches every single day. I have made their last years as comfortable and joyous as they could be. MrR has been beside me, helping and supporting for since we were in High School and I had dropped out to go to college because it was easier to care for my Great-grandfather (Alzhiemer's 17 years).
What I haven't done is what you are doing, saying they would be better off dead because they are an inconvenience to others.
So, your claim of moral superiority falls flat with us.
This is disgusting. I guess we need an advocacy group called PETEAU....PEOPLE for the ETHICAL TREATMENT of the ELDERLY and the UNBORN.
I'm no philosopher but it's becoming apparent that at some point, there won't be enough moral people left to fight the immoral. I guess that's when it ends.
"So I ask my critics - what have you done to alleviate human suffering and the indignity of debilitating neurologic decline other than assume the moral high ground? Held hands? Candle light vigils? Prayer? What other than bitching?"
Been primary caregiver for each of my ancestors who ended up needing it. Three, to be exact. Carried the casket for one. Provided backup for others who found themselves in the same predicament - meals, transportation, shift relief, or simply being a sympathetic ear. I might eat a pistol when my time nears, but I am not pulling anyone's plug, or putting the weight of guilt on anyone else to pull mine.
I think, perhaps, that there has been some talking-past one another on this thread, and I apologize if I have said anything hurtful. The heart of your complaint is the treatment of your father by those who were supposed to be caregivers. This is the heart of my wife's complaint, also.
Both of you responded with compassion, and did what you felt would alleviate suffering. However, the point of the article is: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? By improving medical technique, you have done much to prevent harm. Your fear of mistreatment in the face of this improvement goes to show that we have far to go in actual treatment of one another as individuals.
Not giving so-called caretakers medical justifications to withhold care is a frail safeguard against a state which rewards carelessness and heartlessness.
If someone wants others to take responsibility for killing them, that is dodging personal responsibility. You want the government and the medical profession to turn into executioners. If anyone wants to commit suicide, there are books with many plans and details - get the supplies now, and at the first sign of dementia or pain or whatever else is your signal to exit, take care of your death yourself. Anything else is foisting the responsibility of your death onto the government and medical profession.
It is the ultimate selfishness to want to change the health profession into a death profession, and the government involved in deciding who should live and who should die, just to suit your suicidal impulse.
It is easy to turn this into Nazi-era killing of people because they might get sick, but until you witness the real suffering - twice - that goes on for weeks and months, you'd hope for something a little less painful at the end of your own life.
If you read about this topic at all, you will see that people are routinely killed in the Netherlands, the UK and Belgium - now read carefully - without their consent. Not "maybe in the future" but right now. Apparently that's okay by you. And your assumption that I and others opposed to the government and medical profession getting into the euthanasia business have no clue about taking care of the dying, or chronic pain, you are merely displaying ignorance.
Also, calling people with diminished mental, brain or communications capacity "vegetables" reveals much about you. Vegetables are killed every day when carrots, potatoes and cauliflowers are harvested. You're comparing human beings who have emotions and feel pain and comfort to turnips. That's disgusting.
So anyone not a medical professional such as yourself has no worthy opinion or viewpoint? Is that what you are saying?
I'm not going to detail my personal life for you. But I will say that I am no stranger to caring for the dying.
Turning the medical profession and the government into executioners is not the answer to pain and suffering.
That is beautiful. Thank you.
I have been blessed by God with a heart for the elderly and a gift for caring for those who have dementia and Alzheimers. I really do believe I have been called by God to do what I do, and I am good at it (totally a God thing).
What I have discovered, in caring for the elderly, is that they can be a blessing, not a burden. The lady I cared for that I mentioned above, could never remember my name but I was her 'very favorite special friend'. Part of what I did professionally, was to teach the family how to deal with the changes and to make the care easier for them.
I learned a lot from those I cared for and got and gave a lot of love. It can be a great thing to care for the elderly and it is sad that Americans have lost a lot of that.
Caring for the helpless is human. Killing them whether the reason is "useless eaters" or "it's for their own good" is demoniac.
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I certainly could have gotten rich giving false hope to families with little or no medical experience.
"You don't want your mother to die do you?" Well, another $2000 MRI scan will help; better let yet another $500, 5 minute neurologic help you make a decision; best get a $200 basic metabolic panel to see if her condition has changed since yesterday."
"For an extra $3000 a month your mother can rest with a higher class of fellow patients who don't recognize their children. Why, all of our non-English speaking aliens are certified legal!"
"We will just bankrupt your mom so she will be indigent and we can have Medicare and the Taxpayer pay for all these extra tests. She will now have to stay in a crappy nursing home and have a roommate, but neither know who they are so what the hell!"
"Another couple of years in that trailer park won't hurt because you know your mom is getting the best care possible. You son wasn't college material anyway and state schools are fine, those Ivy League schools are over rated. New Car? Come on, that clunker will run fine for a couple of more years and by ordering a few more tests I'll be able to afford that new yacht I have had my eye on".
Yep, there is a lot of money in taking care of the neurologically impaired. The absolute main problem is getting useful information which will provide realistic expectations. Hard to come by if you are not well informed. Even then it is a battle.
Good luck to all of you, you will need it.
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As the medium's evolved to the point it has now, there's been a push toward removing the linearity of gameplay in favor of giving the player more freedom in how they explore the world and unveil the story. But is there a point where there's too much freedom? And is there merit to a linear game?
In short, yes. Well, for me, anyway. I understand the reasoning behind the whole "wide open sandbox" thing; you want to make the player feel like his decisions really made a difference, and make them really feel like a part of the world. But at the same time, too much freedom can be suffocating: Confront the player with too many options, and they'll get lost.
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happens when I pick Door #3 instead of #2.
Which, I suppose, partly explains why I tend more toward action games, which even now tend to be a race from one end of the arena to the other where you smack around whatever happens to get in your way. I have been trying to play more RPGs, though, and I'm liking how the eastern RPGs tend to mix the linearity of the main story with the freedom of side-quests. If I want to just get on with it, I can, and the bulk of the game's content is right in front of me. If I want to explore the world a bit, I'm free to do that too in nice fun-sized bites.
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The global equity markets are in meltup mode again. I want to take this opportunity to reiterate that I am still quite bearish on much of the situation in Europe. Let's glance at the credit markets, major banks and the state of sovereign indebtedness in Spain.
"The government's debt cannot grow indefinitely at a rate much faster than the economy itself grows, so ultimately, something has got to change — either taxes are raised, spending is reduced, or the real value of the debt is eroded through an increase in inflation, an outcome the Federal Reserve is committed to preventing." - Jeffrey Lacker, Richmond Fed
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The ECB's executive board member Juergen Stark had a rare admission (and even rarer for a central banker demonstration of rationality) that not only are most advanced economies about to enter a "third wave, a sovereign debt crisis in most advanced economies", not only is a "timely exit of extraordinary fiscal measures crucial in order to ensure a continued recovery", but that the mentioned recovery and economic improvements are largely as a result of "massive support measures taken by governments and central banks." In other words, the whole episode of the past year has been a one-time item which most analysts would exclude from "recurring operations" yet due to the magic of the Keynesian magic wand, the new normal is expected to persists as the magical "consumer" at some point takes over the recovery from the government effort. Alas, while the economy has indeed stabilized (effect), the cause continues to be purely based on governmental actions, as the consumer, and the private sector in general, continues retrenching. Too bad the US Federal Reserve has no aerobic critters than can formulate the same critical thoughts as Mr. Stark, or else they would realize that the path they are leading the US on is pure disaster, and furthermore, with the lessons from the last bubble fresh in everyone's mind, doing all they can to be branded mad, at least according to the Einsteinian definition of insanity: let's just keep flooding the system with money and keep hoping that something will change. In retrospect, pleading insanity in a decade when the entire western world is in ruins, before a tribunal of the people may not have quite the desired effect.
If the contents of this post doesn't give you pause and cause you to doubt the future of the Eurozone's integrity, I don't know what will. Here's a quick quiz. What well known (in name only) Italian American has a significant chunk of the European Union Sovereign nations apparently modeled their financial engineering from?
The fates of many European countries are now inextricably tied by what appears to be a poorly conceived methodology of handling diverse political and economic entities under a single currency without a truly authoritarian governing body. Basically, it's the old American saying, "Too many Chiefs and not enough Indians". When I first started this series, a few pundits accused me of being sensationalist. It's funny how a few days can bring so many to your side of the table. Now it is becoming much clearer that this is more of a pan-European issue than a pan-Hellenic one.
Yesterday we presented our views on why Europe's decision to tip over the first of the bailout dominoes will be inherently a catastrophic one in the long term, and will ultimately transfer the peripheral liquidity risk into funding, and ultimately, solvency (and once again, liquidity) risk to the very core. Today, Niall Ferguson joins in, in this latest Op-Ed in the Financial Times. "It began in Athens. It is spreading to Lisbon and Madrid. But it would be a grave mistake to assume that the sovereign debt crisis that is unfolding will remain confined to the weaker eurozone economies. For this is more than just a Mediterranean problem with a farmyard acronym. It is a fiscal crisis of the western world. Its ramifications are far more profound than most investors currently appreciate." In other words, Marc Faber 1, CNBC talking heads, 0... as usual.
It is beyond a hallucinogenic-induced pipe dream to even consider that the Eurozone will come out of this attempt at replicating the US "extend and pretend" policy intact and unscathed. The US won't even get away with it, and we have the world's reserve currency printing press in our basement running with an ink-based inter-cooled, twin-turbo supercharger strapped on that will make those German engineers green with envy, not to mention green with splattered Greenback printer ink as the presses go berserk!
The sudden surge of optimism regarding the global economy resulted in the massive reduction in the costs of sovereign debt insurance. While the drop is not a surprise, the reasoning and the actions behind it surely are.
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I make this stew on cold days or when someone just isn't feeling well. It's a fabulous comfort food that smells great all day and helps chase the sniffles away...and it's easy too...the worste part is cleaning the meat off the chicken but don't use boneless, skinless because it just won't be the same! There's definately something in the bones that gives the stew it's rich home cooked flavor.
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- 1 medium onion, chopped
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- Skim fat off the top and add more water if necessary to keep chicken covered.
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- Mix the chicken base and water into the broth.
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- While the veggies cook remove all the meat from the chicken and add it to the pot.
- Melt butter in the microwave for 40 seconds in a glass measuring cup.
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- Pour into the boiling soup and stir to mix.
- Reduce heat to low and simmer for 15 minutes to thicken and then serve.
- TinTN: You make a good point that sometimes it does not thicken, I think sometimes the potatoes have more starch than other times and that there may be more or less stock when you take out the chicken because I have that problem at times too. My solution -- I make another batch of the butter and flour and add some more until it thickens. Hope it helps!
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We love chicken soup and stew and this is an awesome chicken stew. The flavour is great and it is really easy. I had no trouble thickening up, but I chose starchy potatoes for my stew and I think that is the key. When I came home from work for a late lunch the next day, the pot had been scraped clean, apparently my DH had the rest for breakfast. Thanks for sharing! Made for PAC Spring 2014.
very delicious and easy. Will definately make again. Thanks.
Not sure why but this stew never thickened up. Still giving it 4 stars because it made a fantastic soup! Followed recipe exactly. Plenty left over to stick some in the freezer for a quick meal later. Thanks for the great recipe.


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A NEW South Wales Supreme Court jury has found Mercedes Corby was defamed by the Seven Network in a series of interviews with her former best friend.
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Skip to comments.Obama's mama planned to "return to Kenya" with Obama and his father...
Posted on 05/12/2010 12:10:18 AM PDT by Red Steel
Obama's mom planned to "return to Kenya" with Obama and his father per Obama's book Dreams from My Father. To return to somewhere, you had to have been there first.
In Obama's biographical book Dreams from My Father, on page 126, Obama tells the account of Obama's mom telling him that some day it was intended that all three of them were to "return to Kenya", i.e., his father, mother, and Obama. Therefore to return somewhere you must have been there first. Thus all three of them were there before, i.e., when Obama was born. ;-) Hat tip to an anonymous poster.
See the quote on page 126 of Obama's book Dream from My Father, in this image:
And as we know from prior readings in Obama's book Dreams from My Father, per page 26, he had in his possession a copy of his birth certificate circa 1982 along with his vaccination forms. So he should show us and also some controlling legal authority that BC and vaccination docs (to see where they were done) instead of a 2007 internet image of an alleged Hawaiian computer generated 2007 COLB. See the BC quote in this image.
Not that I don't think there's something about Obama's BC he doesn't want us to see, but he was in Kenya before he was born, so "return" is not particularly an admission.
How did this go unnoticed by those who
read the book ? (I haven't)
"Then you were born, and we agreed that the three of us would return to Kenya after he finished his studies."
Obama Sr. was still a student as this was 1961.
"Need I say it?..."
Since he didn't write the book, it's hard to hold him responsible for anything written in it.
do not speculate. they get you sounding like a tinfoil hat nutjob when you start doing that.
just hold fast to the fact that he has to provide the same level of documentation that they demanded of mccain
and yes... the RNC is run by progressives that are in lock step with the dems... otherwise they would have been pushing this issue a long time ago
I have serious doubts about zero's citizenship, but the language chosen by his mother to express an idea is not strong proof at all. In fact, it's no proof. People use language rather loosely and, because zero's dad was from Kenya, and because many people defer to their spouse, using the word "return" to Kenya may well have been phrased that way in deference to him.
I think this "evidence" is wishful thinking on the part of the person presenting the information.
Lies upon lies.
Doesn't matter where he was born, his mother and father (Frank Marshall) were both American citizens.
I'd like to see Obama admit that the Marxist Bill Ayers wrote the book for him. If Ayers did, I suspect he interviewed him extensively. And if Obama had to admit that, Obama other hidden lies would likely start to unravel. Bill Ayers wouldn't be just a guy who lived down the street as Obama said during his presidential campaign.
The overwhelming evidence says otherwise. Although it would be a nice consolation to expose the Communist Party member Frank Davis Marshall as Barry's real father.
Taken this by itself is not enough evidence, however, the shear accumulation of all the evidence seen as a whole makes a compelling argument that Obama was born in Kenya. From Michelle Obama who said that Kenya is his home country to the Kenyan Minister of Lands Orengo who said explicitly that Obama was born in Kenya.
My suspicions are more focused on his citizenship status in college, when he had the ability to renounce his Indonesian status. Since birth certificates apparently carry notes about such things, he would have good reason to keep it hidden, particularly if he used foreign status to get financial aid.
Those two statements you speak of are more compelling than what zero says in his book that his mother said, meaning the subject of this thread.
But remember, it's easy to deconstruct arguments in which no one piece of evidence can stand squarely on its own.
I agree that is where he wrote from after they returned back to Hawaii. If they were all in Kenya, it was after 2 years Obama Sr. was in college in Hawaii who likely took a summer break in his home country with his pregnant wife before starting the next semester in the fall.
Thank you for the ping to this.
GOOGLE...you can download the pdf of 'Dreams From My Father' - there's a Search function, helps to find names without needing to read the entire book...for example.
'The same granny who died 2 days before the election?"
You mean the one who was "recovering and doing very well"?
[per MO's announcement]
*I* made a comment similar to yours right after she "suddenly died" and got torched for my troubles by a lot of people.
Elderly people have such vast reservoirs of knowledge...but they're so 'frail and helpless'.
Does anyone recall if she died at home or in a hospital?
Was *that* even ever mentioned?
Obama supplied the notes .....I think its something his mother said
Obongos using the social security nr. of a person born in 1890 and according to first numbers is issued to connecticut applicants. Obango never lived in connecticut.
I always had the suspicion she actually died when he went to visit, but they saved the announcement for the night before the election.
"Doesnt matter where he was born, his mother and father (Frank Marshall) were both American citizens."
This would answer the two most important questions of: How did he qualify, and Why is he hiding his records?
It would also mean that the short form Hawaii birth certtificate that tv newspeople like Cooper display on their shows and that Obama displayed on his website during the presidential campaign is a fake.
Yeah it would. Fake father.
Naw...his daddy was Malcolm X as this video clearly shows. Check it out at the 5:00 minute point. Stunning! Amazing this has not gone viral!
If you or I are correct, that would settle the NCB requirement, still without proof. However, it opens an entirely new can of worms...FRAUD! Not just fraud -- BIG FRAUD!
Nonsense! His name is listed as the author. It is/was not touted as an unauthorized biography. He is absolutely responsible for every word contained within it's covers.
I hold him responsible for everything from the deception of Eve in he Garden of Eden to the current nightmare in which we find ourselves embroiled.
Funny, I always had the suspicion she actually "died" when he "rushed" to her sick bed a couple of weeks prior to the election in order to take care of business before his glorious day.
Thanks for the ping, STAR. Have you and Fred seen the video I posted here? Amazing!
I guess we just ignore that his name is on the book as its author??
Then if that is true, the little sh!tstain is guilty of identity theft.
Since he is a pathological liar, it makes sense...
"Scratch a liar, catch a thief."
Isn't "Return to Kenya" an Elvis song??
I agree with you. That's the visit I meant.
I was simply tweaking your statement a bit. Along with the birth certificate, I would like to see the death certificate for grandma.
He's a liar for pretending he wrote the book, but how do you use words he never wrote to prove something about his life? His mother could just as easily said, "No way am I ever living in that festering sore of a British colony. If you think I'm moving there you can choke, turn purple, and die."
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This is a reach. You can 'return with' someone to a place that you yourself have never been. If a relative visits me from England and I 'return with' them to England it doesn't mean I've ever been there before.
I don't even believe Obama had much to do with writing that book anyway. See Cashell's articles here: http://www.cashill.com/articles_all/recent.htm
Yes I did .. it's downright eerie. Thanks for the refresher .. ;)
I think it's Frank Davis, meself.
His name is on the book. Whether he originally wrote the words or not, matters not. If there was a problem with the content, he could have left his name off the book as its author.
Seriously, did you watch the video I posted in #31 and STAR re-posted in #43? Someone sent it to me and I clicked on it to see what it was. Had no intention of watching, but got sucked in. It is very compelling!
I've seen it. But I'm sticking with my theory. All the pieces were in place for SAD and FMD to procreate. The nude photos of her are almost assuredly from him.
It's a useless book for historical purposes.
He put his name on it as the author. Every lie is as much his as Ayers.
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The authors addressed the problem of network stability in CSMA-based linear wireless mesh network and provide three main contributions. First, they identified two key factors impacting the stability: the network size and an artifact that they called stealing effect. Second, they proved analytically and showed experimentally that 3-hop networks are stable when they account for the stealing effect, but 4-hop networks (and presumably larger topologies) are not. Third, they proposed and designed EZ-flow, a new flow control mechanism for IEEE 802.11 WMNs.
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Kell Brook: Expect Fireworks, Fight of The Year Candidate
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British welterweight contender Kell Brook (32-0) is prepared to make it a dogfight next Saturday night at the StubHub Center in Carson, California. A career defining opportunity is on the table against IBF welterweight champion Shawn Porter (24-0).
In his last fight, Porter blew away the usually durable Paulie Malignaggi in four rounds. Brook knocked out his last four opponents. The fight who calls himself "The Special One" is anticipating a war of wills with many power punch exchanges.
"Fans can expect fireworks from me next Saturday night. It's a candidate for Fight of the Year. I believe you have two young, unbeaten fighters with punching ability power going at it. It's been a long time coming. I've always wanted to be a champion and it's now my time. My dream will come true. So believe you me, I'm going to leave it all in the ring that night," Brook said.
"It's been a long time coming for me, fighting for this world title, with all the postponements before. But this is the start for me, fighting at the elite level in America. People always have an opinion; I just want to compete with the best fighters in the world. I'm a fighter. I was born to compete."
Lol, I think Amir would beat Porter easier than Brook. I think Brook KOs Porter. Hope I'm wrong, but the only opponent they share is Juan Diaz and Khan beat Juan Diaz, while in reality Porter lost, even if it…Comment by Dean_Razorback on 08-09-2014
most of the people supporting porter here are actually khan's fans who want brook to somehow pull it off so they can have khan/brook 'cause they know there is no way in hell amir gets in there with a real…Comment by wiz1030 on 08-09-2014
[QUOTE=RichCCFC;14836576]link?.........[/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thaboxingvoiceradio/2014/08/07/danny-garcia-vs-rod-salka-destruction-or-upset"]http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thaboxingvoiceradio/2014/08/07/danny-garcia-vs-rod-salka-destruction-or-upset[/URL] Start at about 122:00. Keep listening through to the 125:00 markComment by Straightener on 08-09-2014
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The West Virginia senator's wealth fell by more than $2 million this year, down from $83.7 million in 2009, due to some of his assets losing value.
Family trusts make up the bulk of Rockefeller's wealth — his largest asset is a trust at JPMorgan Chase worth at least $50 million. Another trust, held at Wachovia Bank, is worth at least $25 million. His wife, Sharon Percy, also holds more than $1 million in stock at PepsiCo Inc., where is she is a board director.
Much of Rockefeller's fortune stems from the money made by his great-grandfather, John D. Rockefeller. His company, Standard Oil, made the family name synonymous with wealth. Some estimate he was the wealthiest man in history.
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These cookies are fudgy,chewy and chocolaty. Betty Crocker, prize winning 2007 recipe.
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- 1⁄3 cup butter or 1⁄3 cup margarine
- 6 ounces unsweetened chocolate
- 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk (not evaporated)
- 1 (17 1/2 ounce) sugar cookie mix (1 lb 1.5 oz)
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 60 Hershey chocolate kisses, unwrapped
- Heat oven to 350°F.
- In large microwavable bowl, microwave butter and chocolate untill melted and stir still smooth. (about 1 min, watch like a hawk and stir at intervals).
- Stir condensed milk into chocolate mixture.
- Stir in cookie mix and cinnamon until well blended.
- Using 1 level tablespoonful of dough for each cookie, shape into 60 balls. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
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So Allen Iverson is back, returned to Philadelphia and ready to strengthen his hold -- or loosen his grip -- on the unofficial title bestowed upon him last week by one of his former coaches, Denver's George Karl. On the night Iverson declared his short-lived "retirement,'' Karl responded to the news with a few spontaneous thoughts, including this one: "He'll go down in history as the best little guard ever to play the game of basketball.''
In the moment, it sounded right. And it still might be. But with a few days now to ponder, it seems the title might not be undisputed. The field actually is rather crowded, and it always is wise when tossing around superlatives to remember that significant things were being done by considerable people long before you bought the ketchup that's currently in your refrigerator.
Just two days after Iverson prematurely said he was done, Grant Hill cast the little-guard discussion in a different light, one shining in Steve Nash's direction. "Certainly their games are very different. I haven't played with Allen and I've played with Steve,'' Hill said. "But he's the best little guy I've ever seen, no disrespect to Allen. Especially that he's still doing it at 35.''
Look, Karl was being nice. He surely wasn't trying to start any arguments. But he did spark some conversation, which really is all the NBA has on the matter. This league might have a streak of size-ism running beneath its surface (bigger is almost always assumed to be better), but it doesn't have a "6-foot and under'' division or hand out an actual annual award to the best shorty.
It's different in college, where the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award [named for the daughter-in-law of the fellow who first nailed up peach baskets] honors the top male and female players each year who are "shorter than average.'' For the guys, that's 6-foot or less. For the gals, no more than 5-foot-8. Among current NBA players who have won it: Earl Boykins, Jameer Nelson, Nate Robinson and Darren Collison.
Lacking official hardware, the NBA is left with an informal title and a whole lot of semantics. Best little guard? That might not be the same thing as "best little man.'' In some circles, adjusting for the size factor has been the only reliable way to get around an automatic and debate-snuffing answer to the question, "Who is the NBA's best point guard of all time?'' [That's Magic Johnson, who stands 6-foot-8, not little by anyone's standards.]
For years, Iverson has been lauded in boxing terms as "pound for pound, the game's best player.'' Which is different still from a literal cutoff at 6-feet tall. Measurements of NBA players are shaky enough -- with shoes? without shoes? -- that it would be folly to stick entirely to published heights.
None of which is going to stop us from offering our thoroughly subjective ranking, in countdown style, of the NBA's best little guards ever.
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These guys have been the most recently successful of the NBA's Mini Coopers, pocket rockets who dart past, around and seemingly through the legs of their towering opponents. Think of those insect-scarfing birds in the African travelogues, the ones that somehow flit around the rhinos and elephants without getting squashed. "In some ways, those guys are even more amazing than Iverson,'' one Western Conference coach told me. "How is it, really, that a guy Muggsy Bogues' size (5-foot-3) could play in our league?''
Play? Bogues blocked 39 shots in his NBA career. The 5-foot-7 Webb literally soared to fame by winning the 1986 Slam Dunk contest. Boykins is averaging 10 points for Washington with an efficiency rating (9.67) better than Derek Fisher, Rasheed Wallace or Rudy Fernandez. And just to keep things in perspective, all of these guys owe a little (wink, wink) something to Charlie Criss, the 5-foot-8 product of New Mexico State who played eight seasons, mostly with Atlanta, and opened NBA doors and eyes again to the short set.
It's too early to consider Paul anywhere near the top of this list, but the New Orleans Hornets' fifth-year point guard has the potential to move up. He's been a Rookie of the Year, an all-NBA first teamer, an All-Star and a member of the U.S. Olympic gold-medal winners in 2008. For now, he'll serve as our stand-in -- or should it be stand-on for these guys? -- for active rivals such as Nelson, Aaron Brooks, Will Bynum, Speedy Claxton, Earl Watson and others who all see things eye-to-eye, about 68 inches from ground level.
The Mayor -- no, really, he is, in Sacramento -- was head-snapping quick through a 12-year career ended at age 34 by injuries incurred coping with bigger foes. He helped Phoenix to 11 playoff appearances. This is a good place to mention 5-foot-11 Terrell Brandon, another little guard who made the 6-foot Mark Price expendable in Cleveland after Price had done the same to the 6-foot-1 Johnson. In 1997, Sports Illustrated had Brandon on its cover, calling him the best point guard in the NBA.
Before Criss, before most of them, there was this guy. Murphy spent 13 seasons with the Rockets, first in San Diego and then in Houston, averaging 17.9 points and 4.4 assists. Five times he topped 20 ppg in a season and he was automatic from the foul line (career 89.2 percent shooter). The 5-foot-9 graduate of Niagara never stood taller than in 1993, when he went into the Hall of Fame.
Maybe Archibald should be higher on this list, just because of his nickname: Tiny. He's a Hall of Famer too, and one of the NBA's Top 50 players as named in 1997. But the gold standard for New York point guards has an even greater claim to fame: In 1972-73 -- back when giants such as Wilt Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar roamed the NBA -- Archibald led the league in both scoring (34 ppg) and assists (11.4). First and last dude of any size to pull that off.
The legendary Boston Celtics point guard has gotten shorter through the years. No, not from osteoporosis but from the increased size of NBA players overall. Back in the 1950s and '60s, the 6-foot-1 Cousy wasn't much shorter than many peers. But he looks small enough in the black-and-white footage of the time for this list, especially playing so much bigger. Beyond his ballhandling wizardry, Cousy was a part of six NBA title teams and entered the Hall in 1971.
No championship rings and definitely not a regular on highlight reels for flashy play. But Stockton led the NBA in assists for nine consecutive season and has a career total (15,806) that dwarfs others in the category. It only adds to his status that he came from a little school (Gonzaga) as well.
Nash might be bigger than some others here but he wouldn't tower over any of them. Except, of course, in his double duty as NBA Most Valuable Player. And in the way he used the entire offensive half of the court, all the way to the baseline to orchestrate the attacks in Phoenix and Dallas. Nash dribbling under the rim feels like the great Gretzky working from behind the goal, if only the NHL had 7-footers bearing down on him.
Oh, and if you have a problem with Nash being too tall for this club, here's an easy fix: Just snip him out and shorten the list, an appropriate move with these guys.
Let's be honest, no little guy this side of Barry Sanders has gotten knocked down and bounced back up again, ready to go, like Iverson. Run your index finger down the NBA's career scoring list and, when you get to Iverson at 24,020 points, it's like finding a guppy in the salmon run. Yet there he is, ahead of Charles Barkley, Elgin Baylor, Larry Bird and so many other big guys. Now we'll see if his career has as much bounce in it as his 165 wiry pounds.
So much of what Thomas has done or been involved in since his playing days (Knicks, CBA) has dimmed or tarnished his NBA star. But as the Detroit Pistons' playmaker and heart, Thomas was David in a league of Goliaths, deep into May and June most years. Other Bad Boys during their run with coach Chuck Daly were bigger, scowled more and got more physical, but the smiling point guard from the mean streets of Chicago dragged the lugs where he wanted to go.
"Isiah Thomas is my guy. He was a fantastic leader,'' said Bill Laimbeer, the nasty Pistons center turned Minnesota assistant coach. "And he had the great skills. You can have great skills and not be a great leader -- I'll let you figure out who we're talking about. ... Isiah had, I wouldn't call it a Napoleon complex, but he had a chip on his shoulder to be successful [because of] where he came from. He was always going to be the best. And win. That was the chip on his shoulder.''
Steve Aschburner has written about the NBA for 25 years. You can e-mail him here.
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Continued from India Beckons: JFK-DXB-BLR on EK:
I had ten glorious days lazing around Bangalore, spending precious time with my aging dad, and with heavy heart, had to bid goodbye and leave.
Third leg: BLR-DXB EK565 A332
Booked a Meru cab at 7am for a 10.35am flight to Dubai. Cab was on time, and after gassing up en route (why?) arrived at BIAL six hundred rupees ($12) later. Check in was amazingly efficient and quick, less than 10 minutes. Passed through security with no lines and was in the Departures area within 15 minutes of arrival. Impressive, but we wre the only international flight at that time.
I stopped by the Kingfisher Sports Bar for a quick breakfast, and the place was adorned with emblems of speed, like F1 cars and sports figures. However, the service was very, very slow as most staff had not yet shown up. I eventually managed to get a Masala Omelette and Coffee and ambled over to the bookstand, where the books were not even stacked properly. Not a good impression, my friends!
Eventually the flight was called and we boarded. The 330 has a nice 2-4-2 layout and I had a window seat. Once again, however, we had a delay. The freight palette had become stuck in the belly and it took over an hour of banging noises in the belly before we pushed back. Got a lemonade and hot towel pre-takeoff and soon we climbed out of BLR. We took off to the East, and it was quite some time before we banked around due W towards Mangalore. It was a beautiful day and we flow over Coorg and the Western Ghats (home of the dreaded 'ghaaties'), quite a sight in the morning. I resolved some day to overcome my fear of the lack of public sanitation and visit these places. We then took a turn to the left and headed on course to DXB.
Lunch was served - mutton korma and rice - and the time just flew by. I just love watching the clouds go by and day dreaming, especially having been ravished by the need to work in my younger days. Eventually we reached DXB and hour late, parked at a very remote stand and were bussed to Arrivals.
At arrivals, there were various lines, and a tall officious man in a dishdash was herding the various lines to the booths. He was pretty gruff pushing around some of the Indian workers from the villages and that was sad to see.
Given the overnight stay, I opted for the Holiday Inn Express across on Airport Road, and it was a good choice. The nice thing about hotel bars in Dubai is that they tend to have ladies of the evening hanging out, so it gives it a colorful atmosphere like a Chicago speakeasy. Too tired to indulge in wine, women or song, I went upstairs and flopped out for the night.
Impressions: I liked the flight and the 2-4-2 seating. Plane could use refrurbing but not bad. Good service at the right price. Good crew, unobtrusive and not pushing 'good service' in your face.
Fourth Leg: DXB-JFK EK201 A380 A6-EDA
Got up at the crack of dawn and took the Airport Shuttle form the Holiday Inn. Went through Passport Control and headed to the shopping and departure area. I was craving a coffee and croissant and headed over to a Costa Coffee, where they actually serve you at the table. Alas, they had microwaved my croissant and I could see how hard it is to import an entire culture and place in in the middle of nowhere.
The flight was eventually called and there was a very long line waiting to check in at the gate. Again, I was surprised at this - BA boards a 744 routinely in 20 minutes flat, tops 30 minutes. After you check in , you are sent to a holding area below - more waiting! You finally board the aircraft and the separate bridge for premium pax makes sure you don't annoy them on the way in. Trouble is, you don't get to see the lavish digs they have upstairs and they don't have the satisfaction of gloating as you pass by humbly to the rear of the plane.
I managed to get a window seat this time 72A right above the wing. The windows are small, and the wall space between the bulkhead and the glass in quite thick - like a porthole on a ship ( or Concorde). The cross section is also odd because of the two decks - the sidewalls curve out so you are not at the widest point of the aircraft.
The wings are HUGE, and the control surfaces are massive. If you are over the wing, it does dominate your view (like in a L1011). It was nice to have the space between the seat and the side wall and there was plenty of leg room.
We took off late because of ATC restrictions but soon enough we were flying. It was a very smooth takeoff, like a flying living room, headed over the Bandar Abbas area and on over Kuwait on our 14 hour journey.
Again, there was no refreshment service to get us started, and they jumped in to meal service right away. I do hope someone from EK is reading this - guys - lets have the refreshments first, please!
We had breakfast ( Mixed Griil, Omelette or Paneer Tikka) and lunch (Butter Chicken, Fish or Veg Curry) - all very nice.
Our routing took us over the Caspian Sea, Black Sea, Baltic, North Sea, Iceland, Greenland and then down the airways to JFK. It was a long wait for luggage - par for the 380, said the baggage handler. It was back to winter, reality and dreaming of my next trip.
Impressions: Very good experience on EK - friendly and helpful FAs. They don't stare you down if you approach them on break in the galley - more like join the party. The A380 - mixed feelings. The cabin is OK but wish it had been bigger. The seats were so hard it made the long trip miserable ( but it could just be me). The A380 also means long check in queues and long waits for baggage. I think Boeing still has the best interiors - clean, uncluttered spaces.
If BA is my gold standard, I'd say that EK is a different animal, and what they lose in perfection they make up in friendliness. I think EK is slightly ahead of AI and more cosmopolitan than IT or 9W. All in all, EK has built a major, game changing airline that blankets the world, and the end-to-end execution is impressive.


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Government to scrap 'appalling' IT GCSE following employers complaints
The government is to scrap the ICT GCSE in an effort to stop children turning away from the subject. Ministers have commissioned e-Skills, the computer...
The government is to scrap the ICT GCSE in an effort to stop children turning away from the subject.
Ministers have commissioned e-Skills, the computer skills organisations, to draft a replacement qualification, following complaints from employers that the current IT syllabus is too woolly to be taken seriously.
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Karen Price, CEO of e-skills, said there had been a 50% fall in computing degree applicants because children found the ICT GCSE "boring".
E-Skills has been commissioned to replace it after lobbying on behalf of employers, who wanted a computing GCSE that was a "respected qualification with the academic integrity of a science subject".
Paul Coby, CIO of British Airways and chairman of the e-Skills CIO advisory board, told the annual conference of the National Computing Centre yesterday: "GCSE [ICT] teaching is appalling. It's out of date, it's not about IT, it's not about solving problems."
He said the industry faced a "crisis" of under-education. "If current trends continue, we won't be able to keep the IT industry going," he said.
E-Skills predicts the industry would need 140,000 IT professionals a year by 2012. Yet the number of students taking GCSE IT exams had fallen by 14% this year.
David Chan, director of City University's Centre for Information Leadership and a former head of business systems at the BBC, said: "If you look at the content of the GCSE ICT examination, it really has nothing to do with IT. We are actually turning a big generation of potential people off the industry by offering the wrong thing at secondary education."
Keith Hollins, ICT business manager with the Building Schools for the Future programme for Durham Borough Council, said IT education was "a total failure" in the UK.
"We've got a teaching fraternity who are actually scared to use the tools that we classify in business as day-to-day tools. It's not the children themselves, it's the teaching side," he said.
Price said the problem was that the ICT GCSE was focused on IT literacy, giving people the skills to use office applications and the internet.
But many children were already IT literate before they started the GCSE course. A 15-year-old who had taken to developing iPhone applications in their spare time was typically discovering that the ICT GCSE was not what they had expected.
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Top Definition
an explative, not unlike whoa. It is a more emphasized version of the word "damn" when it is used in the same way.
"Dayum! Your sister's HOT!"
מאת Fatass 13 בפברואר, 2003
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Can you define these popular missing words?
Dayum, interchangeable with damn
As in, dayum that girl is fine!
Dayum I hate it when my car won't start!
Dayum I can't believe you just said that!
Dayum I hate it when my car won't start!
Dayum I can't believe you just said that!
מאת Volcano 1 באוקטובר, 2005
what u IMMEDIATELY say when u turn around an theres a fat bitch right behind u an u get scared
guy - (turns around) "DAYUM!"
girl - "what nigga?"
guy - "nothing...."
girl - "what nigga?"
guy - "nothing...."
מאת ~Mimi~ 4 במאי, 2008
A slang used for the word damn. Often used by guys when they see a hot girl, or when they get busted.
As she walked by he turned to his friends and said "Dayum! That girl is fly"
Guy 1: My girl walked in out on me last night
Guy2: Dayum bro, shitty buzz
Guy 1: My girl walked in out on me last night
Guy2: Dayum bro, shitty buzz
מאת Jesper7 16 בספטמבר, 2007
Unbelievable. A great big suprise.
Somebody you have not seen in many years who is supposed to be living on the other side of the globe shows up at your door and you say: "Dayum! Where the hell have you been?"
מאת Jennifer Rose 16 באוגוסט, 2005
You would use this interjection when you see a fine piece of ass. As this girl walks past you, you must lean back and exclaim this this phrase with impeccable timing. This is especially useful after watching a fine lady such as Danielle Conklin pass by.
DAYUM DConk! Since when were u so hot?!
מאת Lou 2 במרץ, 2006
A word often interchangeable with the word damn. Used to convey extra damn-ness.
מאת dj dz 24 בינואר, 2009