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Tue, 16 January 2007 11:25 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
Taiwan Undersea Internet Cable Problem
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Ha Yung-kuen, acting director-general of telecommunications for Hong Kong's Office of the
Telecommunications Authority, points to a map showing cable systems in the South China Sea during a press conference in Hong Kong.
Ha spoke on the situation of repairs in the Luzon Straits of telecommunication cables which are undergoing repair after an earthquake
off Taiwan 26 December caused severe disruptions to digital telecommunciations in the region.
(AFP/Mike Clarke)
AFP via Yahoo! News - Jan 02 12:10 AM
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An man plays a game at a nearly empty Internet cafe in Manila. Much of Asia is still without
Internet access after undersea cables were damaged by a powerful earthquake that struck Taiwan earlier in the week. he chaos in
Asia's Internet service sparked by an undersea earthquake shows the region's cable network is too fragile and overly reliant on
connections to the United States, industry observers have said.
(AFP/Joel Nito)
AFP via Yahoo! News - Dec 28 12:20 AM
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Workers pass by the Verizon building in New York City. A new 500-million-dollar fiber
optic cable between China and the United States will be vital in helping to meet booming Internet traffic between the two nations,
state press has reported. US telecom giant Verizon Communications announced Monday it would build the cable in a joint project
with firms from China, South Korea and Taiwan.
(AFP/Getty Images/File/Stephen Chernin)
AFP/Getty Images/File via Yahoo! News - Dec 18 11:22 PM
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Problem of Luzon Straits telecommunication cables after an earthquake off Taiwan 26 December
caused severe disruptions to digital telecommunciations in the region, including the Internet connection to Indonesia. It created a situation
as if I was in a special mission but then left alone all by myself in the middle of nowhere, especially since
there was the time when so many reminders about my consent to move to the eternity appeared, like I wrote in my
previous letter of
"Parade of Reminders Around the End of 2006".
Nevertheless when I tried to get Internet connection on Saturday December 29, 2006,
from an Internet shop at the Cinere Mall, apparently it could connect, through Yahoo UK&Ireland, though a little
bit slower.
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Date:
Tue, 16 January 2007 11:36 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
Mourn for the Former President Gerald Ford
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(L-R) US President George W. Bush posing with former president Gerald Ford and his wife Betty
outside of Ford's residence in Rancho Mirage, CA, in April 2006. Ford, who sought to heal America after the trauma of the Watergate
scandal that forced Richard Nixon from office in 1974, has died at the age of 93.
AFP JOURNAL INTERNET - 27 Dec 05:28PM
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Betty Ford is comforted by her chlidren, Michael, Susan, Steve and Jack Ford,
as she pauses at the casket of her husband, President Gerald Ford, in the Rotunda of the U.
ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS - 02 Jan 12:13AM
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US President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush visit the casket of former US President
Gerald Ford in the Rotunda of the Capitol Building, in Washington, DC.
AFP JOURNAL INTERNET - 02 Jan 01:15AM
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Glynn A. Crooks, Vice Chairman of the Sioux Community, right, pauses to pay his
respects by the casket of former President Gerald Ford in the Capitol Rotunda on Capitol Hill in Washington Monday, Jan. 1, 2007.
AP Photo/Gerald Herbert
ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS - 01 Jan 08:43PM
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Vice President-designate Gerald Ford R laughs with President Richard Nixon at the White House in
Washington in December 1973. US flags have flown at half mast across the country in honor of the late former US president Gerald Ford,
as preparations for a state funeral were underway for the man who led America from its darkest political hour after the Watergate scandal.
AFP JOURNAL INTERNET - 28 Dec 09:47AM
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24 November 1974 file photo shows then US president Gerald R. Ford L and Soviet general
secretary Leonid Brezhnev R signing a Joint Communique in Vladivostok. World leaders extended their condolences for the death of Ford
and praised his brief tenure following the resignation of disgraced president Richard Nixon. Ford, a Republican who served as president
from 1974 to 1976, died late Tuesday at his home in California. He was 93.
AFP JOURNAL INTERNET - 28 Dec 07:29AM
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger L gives former President Gerald Ford the latest information on the
situation in South Vietnam, during a meeting at the White House in this April 29, 1975 file photo. Ford, who took office from an embattled Richard M. Nixon,
has died, according to a statement from his wife Bette on December 26, 2006.
REUTERS/David Hume Kennerly/Courtesy Gerald R. Ford Library/Files REUTERS - 27 Dec 05:27AM
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Former U.S. President Gerald R. Ford talks with his Chief of Staff Donald Rumsfeld L
and Rumsfeld's assistant Richard Cheney R in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington in this April 28, 1975 file photo.
Ford, who took office from an embattled Richard M. Nixon, has died, according to a statement from his widow on December 26, 2006.
REUTERS/Courtesy Gerald R. Ford Library/David Hume Kennerly/White House Photograph/Handout
REUTERS - 27 Dec 05:27AM
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George Harrison C and Billy Preston L meet with then president Gerald Ford in the Oval Office
13 December, 1974. World leaders extended their condolences for the death of Ford and praised his brief tenure following the resignation
of disgraced president Richard Nixon. Ford, a Republican who served as president from 1974 to 1976, died late Tuesday at his home in
California. He was 93.
AFP JOURNAL INTERNET - 28 Dec 07:29A
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The Times
December 28, 2006
Gerald Ford
JULY 14, 1913 - DECEMBER 26, 2006
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Decent and dependable Republican who helped to steady the United States after the shocks of Watergate and Vietnam
Gerald Ford was unique in the history of the United States as being the only man to occupy both the vice-presidency and the presidency without being elected to either office. Nevertheless, he played an indispensable role in guiding the country’s political life back to solid ground when the Vice-President, Spiro Agnew, and the President, Richard Nixon, had been forced from office after being exposed as having broken the law of the land.
By contrast with his predecessors, Ford frequently conveyed the impression of verbal clumsiness. (He never really lived down Lyndon Johnson’s cruel gibe: “The trouble with Jerry Ford is that he used to play football without a helmet.”) But he provided a reassuring solidity and stability in one of the most serious crises of confidence that has shaken the body politic and the people of the US.
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His succession as Vice-President to Agnew on the latter’s resignation in the autumn of 1973 gave the political authorities in Congress and in the country sufficient confidence in the succession to grapple with the Watergate affair, to face the issue of the impeachment of the head of the executive and, ultimately, to force President Nixon’s resignation.
By the time Ford came to the presidency in August 1974 America was reeling from a series of blows to its sense of direction and identity in the world unprecedented, perhaps, since the Civil War. The conclusion of a “peace” in Vietnam in 1973 confronted the US public with a humiliating and costly military defeat and the spectre of a complete failure of foreign policy, one which at the same time cast a large question over the fundamental morality of American actions overseas.
source: the times online
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December 27, 2006, in the afternoon I was preparing to make a new painting. After cutting the canvas, because I used to
buy the canvas in a 155 x 300 cm wide, I placed it in my bedroom to take time for a while before attaching it on the wall to work it. At that very moment, CNN announced
the death of former president Gerald Ford. He was having a special in the history of US presidents, since he was the only president who was never been elected for
the position. He became vice president of Richard Nixon after the previous VP Spiro Agnew stepped down by a bribery case in the highway development.
Then when Richard Nixon also had to step down after the Water Gate scandal, Gerald Ford took the presidential office, without any election for both position
of president and VP, the first in US history.
His first name Gerald was like containing "ald" like in the name of "Alda"
who died a few days earlier. While his last name "Ford" was like to remind me about "Firman Die" because my name Firman contains the syllable "fir" which
in Deutch or German has the meaning of "four".
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Thank's,
A.M. Firmansyah
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Tel. +62812 183 1538
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