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Date:
Sun, 26 November 2006 10:45 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
"Swimming at Sambas River" and Kuril Tsunami Warning
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Japan's Meteorogical Agency
officer Takeshi Hachimine points to the earthquake's centre on a
map of Russia's Kuril islands during a press conference at the
Meteorogical Agency headquarters in Tokyo. A huge earthquake
shook an isolated island chain north of Japan, triggering a
Pacific-wide tsunami warning but only a wavelet hit the coast
after thousands fled to higher ground.
(AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)
AFP via Yahoo! News - Nov 16 12:06 AM
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Volcano Mendeleyev
is silhouetted against the sunset on Kunashiri Island, one of
the Kuril Islands, Russia, in this recent undated file photo.
Japan's Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami warning after an
earthquake with preliminary magnitude 8.1 hit the Kuril islands
north of Japan Wednesday night, Nov. 15, 2006.
(AP Photo/File)
AP via Yahoo! News - Nov 15 4:07 AM
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In my response to my ex senior high school invitation monthly
gathering of November 16, 2006, I wrote a joke on November 15, 2006, about my
having been staying away from swimming pool for many years. Because the
invitation was at Sambas River street, so I was jesting that it would
require me to swim. Of course actually it was only the name of the
street, with no river, because the real Sambas river is
far away in the Kalimantan island.
Just one day before the event, breaking news appeared at CNN, Fox News and
other TVs about an earthquake with magnitude 8.1 at Kuril Islands in
Japan that might cause a tsunami. Japan's Meteorological Agency
immediately triggered a Pacific wide Tsunami warning.
Thank God only a wavelet hit
the coast after thousands fled to higher ground, with no significant
damage at all. Nevertheless during the event on the evening of November
16 I was still in a rather tense feeling of that Tsunami warning.
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Date:
Sun, 26 November 2006 11:00 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
"Swimming at Sambas" and Ian Thorpe Ended His Swimming Career
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Australian Olympic swimming star
Ian Thorpe leaves a Sydney press conference after announcing
he was retiring from his record-breaking competitive career.
AFP via Yahoo!
News -
Nov 21 7:43 AM
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A graphic on Ian Thorpe , the "Thorpedo,"
as he announced his retirement from professional swimming.
AFP Graphic via
Yahoo! News - Nov 21 10:43 AM
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Ian Thorpe of Australia reacts
after winning the 200m freestyle at the 2004 Olympic Games
in Athens, Greece, in this August 16 2004, file photo.
AP via Yahoo! UK
& Ireland News - Nov 20 5:41 PM |
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Ian Thorpe, of Australia, smiles
with his gold medal after winning the 200-meter freestyle at
the Olympic Aquatic Centre during the 2004 Olympic Games in
Athens, in this August 16, 2004, file photo.
AP via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News - Nov
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Tracey Menzies (L), coach of
Australia's world and Olympic swimming champion swimmer Ian
Thorpe , listens along with other supporters as Thorpe
announces his retirement during a media conference in Sydney
November 21, 2006. Thorpe told a packed news conference
broadcast live on Australian television that he had decided
to quit because swimming was no longer the most important
thing in his life.
REUTERS/Will
Burgess Reuters via Yahoo! News - Nov 20 6:29 PM |
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Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe
smiles during a news conference in Sydney March 7, 2006.
Thorpe will reveal his plans on Tuesday after the world and
Olympic champion called a news conference at one of Sydney's
largest hotels amid speculation he is set to announce his
retirement.
(Tim Wimborne/Reuters)
Reuters via
Yahoo! News - Nov 20 5:15 PM |
A few days later that joke of mine about swimming at Sambas River
Street seemed like inspiring the swimming legend Ian Thorpe, from down
under Australia, to announce his retiring from his record-breaking
competitive career.
Thorpe is regarded as one of the greatest swimmers of all time after
winning 11 world titles, five Olympic gold medals and setting 13
individual long-course world records.
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