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Obama on His 'If You Like It, You Keep It' Pledge http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_Ict1O35xQ American President Obama explained that a grandfather clause in the Affordable Care Act was insufficient, leading to the cancellation of some Americans' health plans

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/16/world/asia/dead-of-a-failed-relief-effort-as-much-as-typhoons-winds.html?_r=0 By KEITH BRADSHER Published: November 15, 2013 Tacloban, the Philippines – Richard Pulga lay on a hard steel gurney for five days with only a saline drip after being seriously injured in the typhoon that devastated his country. On Friday, Mr. Pulga, 27, died — essentially of a broken leg. Doctors said the father of two small children could have been saved. Instead, he became a victim of the incompetence and inaction that have plagued relief efforts here for the hundreds of thousands left injured, or homeless or hungry, and sometimes all three, since the typhoon hit. By the time Dr. Rodel Flores, a surgeon with a team of visiting doctors, found Mr. Pulga on Thursday, he had received no antibiotics or antiseptic and his leg was badly infected. The doctor ordered an emergency amputation to try to save his life. But the surgery was too late, and death soon followed. “In short,” Dr. Flores said, “it was preventable.” Mr. Pulga was one of the first victims of Typhoon Haiyan to be brought to the top government hospital in the city. He was there because he had tried to protect his home, sending his family to a safer place as some of the highest typhoon winds ever recorded slammed into his island. Those winds sent a coconut rocketing through the darkness into his leg, shattering it. His death is one of the clearest signs yet of the human toll taken by a slow and troubled relief effort since the typhoon swept ashore on Nov. 8. Like much-needed water and food, medicine — including antibiotics — was held up for days as rescue teams struggled to operate amid the chaos of a city with too few military or police officers to provide security and too little government control. Aid workers huddled for days at the airport, unable to obtain vehicles or fuel and fearful of venturing out amid reports of sporadic gunfire as desperate people nearly hijacked one convoy approaching Tacloban, which turned back. Some of those workers have since said the inadequate government response has made this disaster more difficult in some ways than such historic catastrophes as the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. By Friday, a full week into the disaster, aid had finally begun to flow more smoothly, in part because of help from better-equipped foreign militaries. Field hospitals had begun to be set up, but as with the Indian Ocean disaster, aid workers worried that infections from lacerations would claim many more lives. For Mr. Pulga’s family, the loss is catastrophic. A farmer, Mr. Pulga was one of the few men in his extended family able to earn money. In his final days, as he spoke with a reporter from The New York Times, it was that thought that consumed him. On Friday, his widow, Marycris, wept next to his covered corpse in a hallway at St. Paul’s Hospital here, a private hospital the surgeons transferred him to in the last-ditch effort to save him. After initially being too traumatized to visit, she had arrived in time for his surgery. “I want to bring him home,” she said Friday, “but we have no home left.” Mr. Pulga arrived at the first hospital, Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center, shortly after the storm swept through. The hospital had been partly swamped with seawater, losing electricity and most of its medical supplies. In his time there, Mr. Pulga received virtually no care. When his wound began leaking blood during the interview on Wednesday, two workers in orange Philippines Department of Health vests removed the blood-caked, four-day-old bandage, showed the wound briefly to a government doctor, then secured the same bandage with gauze to stop the bleeding. The hospital was running low on antiseptics, antibiotics and painkillers; Mr. Pulga received none. It was unclear why the hospital’s triage team did not make him a higher priority. Luminada Florendo, Mr. Pulga’s aunt, said on Wednesday that a doctor had suggested she take him home because she had no money for the treatment he would need; the doctor left before he could be interviewed. When the visiting medical team from Davao in the southern Philippines showed up a day later, the doctors concluded that Mr. Pulga was the sickest person in the hospital and ordered that he be transferred to St. Paul’s. Dr. Mauri Bravo III, one of the surgeons who performed the amputation, said the wound had a distinctive fruity smell of infection. Mr. Pulga’s eyes were turning yellow, and his abdomen was distended. Doctors found no sign of lower-back injury, another possible cause of abdominal pain. Virginia Ausa, a nurse at Eastern Visayas Regional, said that no one there had been aware that Mr. Pulga had been interviewed by an international news organization and that he had not been singled out for special treatment for this reason by the Davao team. Dr. Flores said the same. As the doctors prepared Mr. Pulga for surgery on Thursday, it became clear that he was suffering from septicemia and that his body’s ability to produce red blood cells was dwindling. But on Friday his body began to shut down, partly because the hospital’s blood bank had been destroyed, so he could not receive a needed transfusion before surgery. By late morning, he was dead. Dr. Flores said the bill for his care would most likely be covered by the Philippines Department of Health. When told the story of Mr. Pulga’s final days, Mayor Alfred S. Romualdez — who has been widely accused by residents of mounting an insufficient relief response — was quick to deflect criticism, saying Eastern Visayas Regional has long been “a problem.” Dr. Albert de Leon, the hospital’s chief administrator, said malnutrition and other unsuspected weaknesses in people like Mr. Pulga sometimes made them hard to save. “There is a supreme being who decides the fate of every one of us,” he said. When told of Mr. Romualdez’s criticisms, Dr. de Leon launched into such an angry outburst that another doctor rushed over to calm him. Dr. de Leon said that his hospital was an excellent teaching and research institution and that the mayor should do much more to organize typhoon relief. “We are in his city, and yet he is not doing that — even the garbage disposal, he doesn’t do anything,” Dr. de Leon raged in a hospital corridor that was growing dark at sunset and still had no electricity. At St. Paul’s Hospital, a security guard told Mr. Pulga’s wife that her husband’s body would have to be buried in a mass grave if she could not remove it. She had no vehicle to transport it and sobbed for more than an hour, refusing to make a decision. Dr. Flores and Dr. Bravo gave a lengthy interview in the hospital parking lot about Mr. Pulga’s last days. Dr. Bravo then went upstairs to the steel bed where Mr. Pulga’s body had been. It was empty. No one seemed to know where the corpse or the bereaved had gone. =========== There have been a lot of stories about the slow response and lack of organization by the Philippine government. I found this on Youtube under News. Is this official serious? Apparently there are dead bodies neglected on the streets and not much is being done. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsOOSejtJ9U Andrew Stevens: “I travel into the city everyday, I have been. And everyday I have been passing by the same bodies on the street”. Response (butting in): “..maybe” Andrew Stevens (continuing): “ What I want to know is that… you are trying to reassure the people. The people who are living wherever they can. They are still living next to the decomposing…” Response: “Let me just correct that. It, they are not the same bodies.” Andrew Stevens (baffled): “..but” Response: “Excuse me. Every day we pick up the bodies. I myself led a pick up a cadaver recovery team yesterday and the day before…” Andrew Stevens: “With respect I see the same ones” Response: “Well they may look like they’re the same because they are in the same looking body bags…”

It's nice to see people on this site coming together. It is another major world tragedy like the 2010 Haiti Earthquake or the 2011 Japan Tsunami. DailyMail has a new article http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2499851/Typhoon-Haiyan-Full-horror-destruction-Philippines-revealed.html More scenes of desperation from the article

Internet Explorer released it's brand new browser Inori 2 hours ago. Below is IE Inori's mascot: Inori Aizawa / 藍澤 祈 A post from Inori: When I was younger, I used to be a clumsy, slow and awkward girl. However, just like the story of ugly duckling, people told me that I have really matured and changed over the years. I feel confident in my abilities now, and I'm eager to show you what I can do. Why don't you get to know me a little better? Inori's Introduction Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHTUlF7NA2o Download links for Inori: https://www.facebook.com/internetexplorertan/app_1422641071287146 What are your thoughts so far on IE Inori?

Some pics from CNN, Reuters, AFP, DM, etc. This looks horrible: DailyMail [uK] has a lot of pictures showing a lot of destruction. I did not include them here. Bodies in the streets, a plague of looters and 10,000 dead in one city alone: Filipinos struggle to cope with huge typhoon that was 'like a tsunami' [LINK]

It is an improvement but I was still hoping for a "super browser" after all the hype by Microsoft. It still looks like the regular IE. I am disappointed by the lack of add - ons (ie. Ad - Blockers) and customization options. There are still problems with "drag and drop" sites like Imgur. On the positive side, it seems to handle certain applications and Javascript sites better than Google Chrome or Firefox. My Google Chrome struggles with some of my e - mail services; IE Inori handles them well.

IE took down the download links for some reason. This is the new IE Inori homepage. I am using Windows 7. I had problems with the new IE 11 (Not sure if I have SP 1 on Windows 7) so I downgraded back to IE10. The new homepage links to anime/manga sites and Microsoft only. No other aesthetic differences or add - ons sadly. Switching between tabs is not slow anymore. I had problems re - opening IE whenever it was in "Minimize" mode in the TaskBar which gave me a headache. Now it is solved (at least for me).

This deserves more thumbs up.

The camera angle in the 3rd shot is sublime. That was a nice use of Photoshop.  

This is my first ever RHW interchange (a long time ago) and my first use of MMPs. I didn't know it was big. I ran out of space here. It is nice that there are more MMPs now. My MMP skills improved in my later cities. Next: Do you have autism?

You have a very strong and vivid imagination! 

I need to move plugins to my new laptop. Some questions: 1) What do I do with DAMN custom menus? I might have to re - install DAMN. Can I simply copy and paste my old DAMN menus into the new laptop and run the DAMN indexer? 2) Some mods can be installed by "copy and paste'. Are there any known mods that do not work by simple copy and paste (ie. NAM) and where I have to: run the installer and have it registered in my laptop's registry before working properly?

Sounds good!    It's really nice you took the time to make a .gif.

Wow, that's horrible. Did anyone die there?

Everyone, the new update is here!

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/10/06/new-photos-pakistan-earthquake-island/

Looks awful. The Pakistan EQ was higher on the Richter scale but was this worse on the Mercalli Scale? Were people crushed inside?

At least the maglev looks very "flexible"...

Sandy Hook Elementary School to be Demolished, Melted Down

Pictures from Reuters:

You are a CJ Master.

HD Brilliance. 

This. is. beautiful. 

You re - posted this entry from April 2013. Is the "AFTER" picture a new version of your BAT? Great improvement! :thumb: