VINTAGE FAMILY MOVIE CLIPS FROM MARK O HAMMEL ❧ 1950's

VINTAGE FAMILY MOVIE CLIPS FROM MARK O HAMMEL ❧ 1950's

I made the video at the link from the movie cameras' footage that our family had when I was growing up.

Ferne Jane Wiles Hammel
My Dad's Mother
My Grandma Hammel
Grandma had a disease that enlarged her bones after my Dad was born

It is so special to have these videos, though no sound was available in those days. I love seeing Grandma Hammel laugh, dry glasses in the Michigan home's kitchen, just as I remember seeing her do at the Gragg Street homestead. I love seeing Grandpa Hammel put his arm around Grandma Hammel while laughing like jello - the way my Dad also laughed. I love seeing Grandpa Hammel take the Sunday dinner roast out of the oven - and in his hat - as I saw him do more than once. I love seeing myself chew on one of Grandma Hammel's cookies, while sitting beside her. I love that Dad caught all of this through the lens of his camera....Grandma hoeing, Grandpa with his fire, Grandpa laughing behind a pole thinking my Dad was actually shooting the camera at his wife.

I love the Ring-around the Rosie with Nannette and Heidi. I love the picture of Nannette and Heidi in the red cart pulled my the pony Tony. I love all the family get together meals at Gragg Street. Just some special gems. I hope others do find some joy in watching these little clips, as I certainly do.

HAMMELofHuntingtonIN Youtube channel
My Dad's birthday was August 3rd and the Hammel Reunion would have been tomorrow (cancelled due to the Indiana heat index), August 7 ~ so how fitting to have this ready to share now. I hope everyone is okay that I made it "public". I explain below why I did that, instead of making the video "unlisted".

This is the text that I included with the video at the youtube page:

I am Sandra "Sandy" Kay Hammel. This video is a tribute. A tribute to my father Mark O'Keith Hammel (August 3, 1924 ~ May 10, 2007), third child of five that Audry Harold and Ferne Jane Wiles Hammel raised in Huntington, Indiana on Gragg Street. A tribute to Ferne Jane Wiles Hammel, a wonderful mother and grandmother. A tribute to my first cousin Nannette Hammel Stump, who I always felt a spirit kind of connection, although our actual encounters have been rare. Really a tribute to all the Hammel descendants and ancestors of which I am one. This has been a labor of love over three weeks plus. After making the video and being rejected because I was a little over the 15 minute youtube limit, I edited out some of the original and here you have what I now present.

I combed through our disorganized family movies (which my mother and brother had transferred to dvds) and edited as a whole for the extended Hammel Family. I hope you enjoy. And I hope you are okay with my including you in this little family movie. I originally made this "unlisted" so that it wasn't "public", but it wouldn't show up on the "HAMMEL of Huntington IN" channel page, unless is was accessible as a "public" youtube video. If others want to upload a video to this channel, contact me.

In this video, you will see featured the August 1, 1999 Hammel Reunion at what was the home of Vic and Freida Hammel. The photos that I shot of the grave stones were taken in late August or early September of 2005. You will also see the home of Audry and Ferne Hammel when they lived a short time in Michigan. I don't remember the town. They eventually moved back to Gragg Street where they raised 5 children beside Audry's parents' home.

The house I was born in at 910 Ray Street, Huntington, IN is down the hill from their house which is included in many shots. Featured are the five siblings of my father oldest to youngest: Ted, Jed, (Mark, my father), Dick and Evalyn and their children, my first cousins. Also, you will see brothers of my dad's father, Stanton, Victor, Meredith (Byno), Stanton's wife, Melba, their daughter Diana, their son, Rex, and maybe Stan "Bub", Meredith (Byno) and Marian's boys, Ron, Terry, Steve and Brent. (I need some help on who is at the Rook card game on our front yard in Columbia City, Indiana to be able to name more precisely the children pictured), Vic and Freida's children: Karen, Kendal, Duane, Royce, Jolene. Nannette Hammel and Gerald Stump and their children, Tara and Reggie sometime in the 1970's I believe it must be - when they lived in Colorado. My son is also pictured, Jonathan M Erickson Hammel. He just graduated May 6, 2011 from Northeastern University with Bachelors and Masters in Engineering.

See Connie Evans work of listing our ancestors and descendants at familytreemaker.genealogy.com

The pdf files of family members, pictures and stories are well worth time to look through.

The HAMMELofHuntingtonIN Youtube channel's logo picture is of my dad's parents and siblings. See below the Video Credits for the names.

❧ Video Credits ❧
❧ Music ❧
"From Here"
Written and Performed by Sandra Kay Hammel
"Did Trouble Me"
"May I Suggest"
"Help Somebody"
Written and Performed by Susan Werner
Used by permission
Susan's music at susanwerner.com, itunes & amazon

❧ Photo Credits ❧
Sandra Kay Hammel
Harold Theodore "Ted" Hammel
Contributors to familytreemaker.genealogy.com

❧ Video Credits ❧
Sandra Kay Hammel
Mark O'Keith Hammel
August 3, 1924 ~ May 10, 2007
Evelyn Viola Mickley (Michelet) Hammel
And anyone who held our camera

❧ Editing ❧
Sandra Kay Hammel

❧ Special Thanks ❧
Mark O'Keith Hammel
Evelyn Viola Mickley (Michelet) Hammel
Gregory M Hammel
Connie Evans

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Audry and Ferne Hammel's Five Children and their children:

Harold Theodore "Ted" Hammel and Dorothy King children:
Nannette Hammel
Heidi Hammel

Jerald Hammel and Freda Richards children:
Michael DeWayne Hammel
Patricia Alice Hammel
Ralph Edwin Hammel

Mark Hammel and Evelyn Mickley children:
Greg M Hammel
Sandra Kay Hammel
Nancy Jo Hammel

Richard Hammel and Arlene Funk children:
Terry Lee Hammel
Crystal Ann Hammel, born 21 Sep 1947 in Huntington, IN; died 01 Apr 1952.
Rodney DeWayne Hammel
Brenda Sue Hammel
Lynette Ann Hammel, born 21 Jan 1965 in Huntington, IN; died 27 Jan 1997 in Columbia City, IN.

Evalyn Hammel and Charles Wohlford children:
Sharon Lee Wohlford
Eric Lane Wohlford

INDIANA HOME ~ HAMMEL, MICKLEY, MICHELET, METZ, FRANCE

This is a picture I wanted to include in the video, but when I got around to finding it, I was at the end of making the video and couldn't find an appropriate place to slide it in. Dad always "enjoyed" in a humorous way what he was giving Mom for Christmas. When I was there, I always was asked by Dad to wrap the gift. So, I am sure I wrapped this gift. Photo credit: Sandra Hammel

Huntington, Indiana
Dad's man-made lake

Photo credit: Sandra Hammel

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The lake was made out of a field by my dad, where he also located a natural spring. The house was drawn by my mother and built by my dad. It is the third home that I lived in overall before moving out as an adult. The other two houses in the family childhood videos and photos were also built by my dad and the plan of the second childhood home was also drawn up by my mother. The first home was built right after WWII during the Depression.

This video at Youtube is "unlisted". Please, honor me and do not embed this video anywhere.
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I have made this video in three versions. The above video is the second version. The third version is still processing at Youtube. Unlike the first version, there are audio glitches in the youtube uploaded video above.

I love pictures and videos and taking them. One thing is all the "unpleasant" times of a family are not in the pictures and videos for the most part. I made this video for my mother that I haven't talked to since my dad's funeral. But I have been emailing and sending youtube videos to her over the last months. It works well.

Story behind what brought me to making this video

My brother who lives in Hawaii, called my sister in Indiana recently because he felt mother must go to the hospital with an extremely low blood pressure. She has always had a very high blood pressure. The hospital kept her for a few days, ran tests and sent her home finding nothing. Then she went to her doctor and he had a test ordered, which was done June 24, 2011. Then the doctor "quit", as my brother put it. It took my sister pursuing the test results and Wednesday, June 29, my brother called to tell me the results: 75% blockage to one artery to the brain and 50% blockage to another artery to the brain. So the 75% blockage apparently is getting a stint and the 50% is getting medication. She was born in 1925, so it is surely risky that the stint will go well. No one has let me know when the stint is being placed in the artery.

So, I made this video for my mother. It is something I can do for her. Even though, there were some very hard words and actions about my dad the couple of years before he died...in 2007. I can do this. And give her some comfort.

My father's name is Hammel. And very little history has been passed down about my ancestors on his side. It is either Swiss or German, I believe.

My mother's family ~ the Mickley family's name was Michelet in Europe. And before one of the ancestors came across the Atlantic Ocean, they were from the area around Metz, France.

There is a book of the Michelet ~ Mickley history ~ The_Genealogy_of_the_Mickley_Family_of_America. There are some very interesting stories in the book, including the name (last) changes down through history. Some ancestors are listed as being killed by Indians. (See my blog post about the Indians: Neglected story of discrimination) There is a story about the Liberty Bell. Pages, I particularly like are: (Page 95 (Joseph Jacob Mickley ~ Biographical Sketch, 100, 102, 117-118, 150-153. My name is listed in the hard copy that I have. But my sister was born after the time that new children's names were added.

The first link is to this book put online by Cornell University ~
www.archive.org/stream

Other related links ~
archive.org/details

archive.org/search/Minnie Fogel

openlibrary.org/books/The_genealogy_of_the_Mickley_family_of_America

Click on the image to enlarge
It has the Coat of Arms of the Michelet family and the motto of the family.

For Me ~ Raw title of the third version: Indiana The Lake July 14, 2002 #9 Hi 8 D 1 Edit Color of Video, Added Pictures and Video 720x480 (640x480) What A Wonderful World.mov

HEATH ~ THIS WORLD WAS NEVER MEANT FOR ONE AS BEAUTIFUL AS YOU

Heath and Jake in Brokeback Mountain
Heath deserved the Oscar for this role of Ennis Del Mar

Maybe This Time - Fan Tribute for Brokeback Mountain

Heath in I'm Not There

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Video of Morning Yearning by Ben Harper
Video directed by Heath Ledger

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Heath is proof that we are connected by the Spirit of Life.
His spirit was bright and continues to shine in our souls.

"Morning Yearning"

A finger's touch upon my lips
It's a morning yearning
Pull the curtains shut, try to keep it dark
But the sun is burning

The world awakens on the run
And will soon be earning
With hopes of better days to come
It's a morning yearning

Another day, another chance to get it right
Must I still be learning
Baby crying kept us up all night
With her morning yearning

Like a summer rose, I'm a victim of the fall
But I'm soon returning
Your love' s the warmest place the sun ever shines
My morning yearning.

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Michelle Williams speaking of her former partner, Heath Ledger:

His family and I watch Matilda as she whispers to trees,
hugs animals,
and takes steps two at a time,
and we know that he is with us still.

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Matilda Rose Ledger
Matilda's Song
Uploaded by AshleeRBradley
Text from poster's Youtube page sidebar:
This is a tribute to Heath Ledger & the two great loves of his life, Michelle & especially Matilda Rose. Heath asked his friend Ben Harper to write this song as a lullaby for his beautiful Matilda. It's called Happy Ever After In Your Eyes

"Happy Everafter In Your Eyes"

The morning sunrise spread her wings
While the moon hung in the sky
Held the sea in your hands
And happy everafter in your eyes

Couldn't leave you to go to heaven
I carry you in my smile
For the first time my true reflection i see
Happy everafter in your eyes

Every star in the night
Promises the dawn
I will be there if you fall
To ever so heavily rest upon

All that i can give you
Is forever yours to keep
Wake up every day with a dream
And happyever after in your eyes

Happy everafter is in your eyes.

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Here Comes the Sun - A favorite song of
Heath Ledger

Uploaded by alexg1985

Text at the poster's sidebar at Youtube:

The body of Heath Ledger was cremated in Australia on Saturday and his remains were laid to rest.

Michelle Williams read Shakespeare at the service and some of Ledger's favorite songs were played, including the Beatles' Here Comes the Sun.

After the service, mourners gathered at a beach side restaurant and many, including Williams, went fully clothed into the ocean as they watched the sunset.

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Family, friends, celebrities farewell to Heath Ledger
from Perth Now

Heath Ledger's life in pictures

You Take My Breath Away
(different song than in the video just below)

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Tribute
Uploaded by MrsLauraLedger

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Although I believe Heath didn't kill himself intentionally, I find some of the words in this song ~ Vincent ~ cause me to think of Heath. All I have is my feelings from my reading various things about Heath. I can believe that he was shy as I read and I can believe he was in despair over his break-up with Michelle and not being able to see his beloved daughter, Matilda Rose Ledger near the end of his life. It is too bad that he had too many conflicting prescribed medications that were lethal. When we are young and going through the loss of love in our lives, we don't always think clearly.

Uploaded by MrAdamBurns

Lyrics

Vincent

Starry, starry night
paint your palette blue and grey

look out on a summer's day with eyes that know the darkness in my soul.
Shadows on the hills
sketch the trees and the daffodils

catch the breeze and the winter chills

in colors on the snowy linen land.
And now I understand what you tried to say to me

how you suffered for your sanity
how you tried to set them free.
They would not listen
they did not know how

perhaps they'll listen now.

Starry, starry night
flaming flowers that brightly blaze

swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in
Vincent's eyes of China blue.

Colors changing hue
morning fields of amber grain
weathered faces lined in pain
are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.

And now I understand
what you tried to say to me
how you suffered for your sanity
how you tried to set them free.
perhaps they'll listen now.

For they could not love you
but still your love was true
and when no hope was left in sight on that
starry, starry night.
You took your life
as lovers often do;

But I could have told you
Vincent
this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

Starry, starry night
portraits hung in empty halls

frameless heads on nameless walls
with eyes
that watch the world and can't forget.
Like the stranger that you've met

the ragged men in ragged clothes

the silver thorn of bloody rose
lie crushed and broken
on the virgin snow.

And now I think I know
what you tried to say to me
how you suffered for your sanity
how you tried to set them free.
They would not listen
they're not list'ning still
perhaps they never will.

JOIN THE FAST FOR DARFURIS' FREEDOM TO GO HOME. RAFA NADAL PLAYS ANDREAS SEPPI IN ROME'S RD 2

JOIN IN THE FAST FOR DARFURIS FREEDOM TO LIVE

There will be 2 fasting options: water only, and refugee rations that mirrors the rations people get in the refugee camps that we have observed.

To join Darfur Fast for Life for one day or more, send an e-mail to join@fastdarfur.org with your name, date(s) fasting, hometown, and form of fasting you will participate in (water only or refugee rations). Please be sure to check with your doctor, if you intend on doing any extended form of fasting.

Water only fast

In this fast only water is consumed.

Refugee rations fast

Cracked Wheat - Daily, 7 oz. (weight not volume) (686 Calories)
Farina Wheat Cereal - Daily - 1.17 oz (weight not volume) (123 Calories)
Yellow Split Peas - Daily 1/6 Cup (82 Calories)
Oil - Daily 2.4 TSPNs (96 Calories)
Sugar - Daily 2 TSPNs (30 Calories)
Salt - Daily 1/10 Teaspoon per day.

Total of 1,017 Calories

People Fasting in Solidarity are listed at
fastdarfur.org

Darfur Fast for Life

Activist-actress Mia Farrow will began an extended hunger strike in solidarity with the people of Darfur on April 27, 2009. She intends to continue this water-only fast for 21 days. Darfur Fast for Life was created so that you and many more around the world can participate in saying no to the status quo on Darfur. Mia will be blogging here and at MiaFarrow.org. Others will join by participating in water-only and/or “refugee rations” fasts to bring attention to the immediate humanitarian crisis in Darfur created by the expulsion of aid organizations by the government of Sudan. Darfur Fast for Life demands from our leaders around the world to be ambitious and work on creating lasting peace in Sudan and guaranteeing the respect for the human rights of all.

Darfur Fast for Life
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We fast in solidarity with the people of Darfur because they do not have a choice. We fast as a personal expression of outrage at a world that has allowed the suffering of millions of innocent people. We fast because as we simply watched, Darfur’s defenseless people were forced into wretched camps where today they are facing starvation and disease. We fast because those in positions of authority who know what is right and just, could and should do more to alleviate their suffering and bring peace, protection, and justice to the people of Sudan.

We fast for Darfur’s courageous people —because we yearn for a world where human rights are respected and a life of dignity is the legacy for every man, woman and child.

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Adef’s food rations

Our Act Now for Darfur event in Rhode Island - April 18, 2009 ....
Quiet Riot for Darfuri Families
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Genocide in Darfur - Silence and Indifference...Are Necessary for Genocide to Happen
Uploaded by ilovemylifesblog
Posted April 22, 2009

Text from the Youtube from Quiet Riot for Darfuri Families:

Music Selections:
"Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child" ~ sung by Kathleen Emery
"This Little Light of Mine" ~ sung by Odetta

Genocide has never happened when there is space on our "To Do" list making it more probable for us to add Prevention or Stopping Genocide to our list. The holocaust went on for 12 years. Many claimed they didn't know. We know this time. Sudanese President Bashir says that he will protect the people that he is murdering.

The refugees in Sudan have been cut off from potable water, food and medical attention since March 4, 2009. Meningitis, cholera and diarrhea are spreading in the camps inside the Sudanese borders.

President Obama repeatedly said during his campaign "This is a defining moment". This story is a defining issue because of what we choose to do or not do. If effect, we have spoken with our failing. In place of choosing political will, our leaders have chosen indifference. HUMANITY BEFORE POLITICS is on the t-shirts of StopGenocideNow.org -unless, our message is clear to our leaders it will be politics before humanity.

MALNUTRITION
When food is not readily available, the body is thrown off balance, which results in weight loss from the digestion of body fat first, then muscle, then vital organs to keep the body alive.

With extreme malnutrition comes starvation. The skin hangs on the body, the facial contours change with temple wasting as a giveaway sign. Hair begins to lose pigment, thin, and then fall out. The person becomes so weak that appetite is radically diminished: the effort to eat and the energy needed to digest exceed bodily strength. Lethargy, apathy and onset of opportunistic diseases (bacterial, parasitic) besiege the helpless system.

In open circumstances, such as starving populations, disease usually kills first.

Kwashiorkor is a disease of children caused by protein deficiency in malnutrition. Signs of this are orange hair, swollen bellies from liver disease, vomiting, diarrhea (which contains undigested food), ulcerated peeling skin and sloughing of tissue/development of ulcers throughout the digestive tract. Extreme pain is present. The ulcers are entry points for bacteria and death usually occurs from overwhelming infection.

THIRST AND DEHYDRATION
Thirst drives a person to consume fluids of all types and juicy foods to make up the deficit.Unless fluid intake is successful, signs of dehydration occur, the most obvious of which is tenting. Gently pinching up a bit of flesh on the back of the hand creates a small tent which should fill and sink back if all is well. If there is dehydration, the tent stays up.

Sudden life-threatening dehydration brings on cholera. A healthy adult can die from cholera in 2-6 hours because of the acute and massive diarrhea it causes. There is no effective vaccine and antibiotics do not act quickly enough.

We honored three familes at
QUIET RIOT FOR DARFURI FAMILIES

Raouda (12 years old) and Hassanya, her grandmother

Adef and Achta and their 4 children
A family that the SGN team had made friends on their trip June 15, 2008 and again this trip in March 2009:
Guisma, daughter
Bashar and Bashir, twins sons
Abdelmouni, son

Dajhima - Mother
Khadija Daughter
Ibrahim Son

As bad as it is for these families, it is much better than for those Darfuris inside the Sudanese borders.

Elie Wiesel says "...to remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all...

The collective indifference to this human disaster is numbing and stunning.

While in Chad...
www.stopgenocidenow.org/iact/iact5/day 6 - June 15, 2008

www.stopgenocidenow.org/iact/iact7/day5 - March 28, 2009

www.stopgenocidenow.org/iact/iact7/day7 - March 30, 2009


SGN visited a school in camp Djabal where the students share songs from their homeland in March of 2009.

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Write to President Obama
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

President Obama can be called:
202-456-1111
or
1-800-GENOCIDE

Find USA elected politicians contact information at this link:
www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml

JOIN OTHERS TO PUT AN END TO GENOCIDE
www.enoughproject.org
www.savedarfur.org
www.standnow.org

Pictures in ilovemylifesblog's video are from camp Djabal, a Darfuri refugee camp visited March 23 - April 1, 2009 by the Stop Genocide Now iAct team. I have obtained permission from Gabriel Stauring, the founder of Stop Genocide Now, for use of the pictures. The other pictures are mine and of Newport (also known as Eastons) Beach, Newport, Rhode Island on the Atlantic Ocean on April 18, 2009 at our event.

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March 4, 2009, the Sudanese government decided to expel 13 international humanitarian aid groups from working in and around Darfur.

These are the consequences...

According to a joint UN-Sudanese humanitarian assessment team, around May 1^st we will see a sharp drop in the health and well-being of people living throughout the Darfur crisis region. Emergency food rations will run out. Clean water, an already rare commodity, will become even scarcer. And to top it off, a "rainy season" will render on-the-ground movement extremely difficult, escalating the risk of disease and danger to children and the elderly.

If Sudan's leaders won't step in to steer their country away from inevitable doom, then they will bear the blame for this new phase to the crisis in Darfur.

Urge UN and Sudanese Ambassadors to use their influence to press the government of Sudan to fully restore humanitarian aid in and around Darfur.

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Rome Tennis Tournament
April 29, 2009

Internazionali BNL d'Italia, Rome
Rafa Nadal vs Andreas Seppi in Round 2- Wednesday April 29th.

The match is scheduled third on Stadio Pietrangeli.
The first match beginsPlay starts at 7:00 AM USA EDT.

Link to find live streaming at vamosbrigade.com
Pay to watch live streaming ~ www.tennistv.com

Official Site for Rome
Singles Draw

Rafael Nadal of Spain celebrates match point and 6-2,7-6 victory against Andy Murray of Great Britain in the semi final match during day 6 of the ATP Masters Series at the Monte Carlo Country Club on April 18, 2009 in Monte Carlo,Monaco.
Photo credit: Michael Steele/Getty Images

Rafael Nadal of Spain in the final match against Novak Djokovic of Serbia during day seven of the ATP Masters Series at the Monte Carlo Country Club on April 19, 2009 in Monte Carlo,Monaco. Photo credit: Michael Steele/Getty Images

Rafael Nadal of Spain in the final match against Novak Djokovic of Serbia during day seven of the ATP Masters Series at the Monte Carlo Country Club on April 19, 2009 in Monte Carlo,Monaco. Photo credit: Michael Steele/Getty Images

Rafael Nadal (l) of Spain holds the winners trophy alongside Prince Albert II of Monaco (r) after his 6-3,2-6,6-1 victory in the final match against Novak Djokovic of Serbia during day seven of the ATP Masters Series at the Monte Carlo Country Club on April 19, 2009 in Monte Carlo,Monaco. Photo credit: Michael Steele/Getty Images

Rafael Nadal of Spain celebrates a point on his way to a 6-2,7-6 victory against Andy Murray of Great Britain in the semi final match during day 6 of the ATP Masters Series at the Monte Carlo Country Club on April 18, 2009 in Monte Carlo,Monaco. Photo credit: Michael Steele/Getty Images


Rafael Nadal of Spain in the final match against Novak Djokovic of Serbia during day seven of the ATP Masters Series at the Monte Carlo Country Club on April 19, 2009 in Monte Carlo,Monaco. Photo credit: Michael Steele/Getty Images

Monte Carlo
Rd 2 Rafa d Juan Ignacio Chela ~ April 15 ~ 6-2, 6-3
Rd 3 Rafa d Nicloas Lapentti ~ April 17 ~ 6-3, 6-0
QF Rafa d Ivan Ljubicic ~ April 17 ~ 6-3, 6-3
SF Rafa d Andy Murray ~ April 18 ~ 6-2, 7-6(4)
Final Rafa d Novak Djokovic 6-3, 2-6, 6-1
Fifth straight year Rafa won Singles at Monte Carlo
Last year he also won the doubles

Rafael Nadal (l) of Spain poses with the winners trophy after his 6-3,2-6,6-1 victory in the final match against Novak Djokovic (r) of Serbia during day seven of the ATP Masters Series at the Monte Carlo Country Club on April 19, 2009 in Monte Carlo,Monaco. (Photo by Michael Steele/Getty Images

Pictures of Monte Carlo

Picture from Barcelona Tournament

Rafael Nadal of Spain on his way back to the players lounge after attending a press conference on day 1 of the ATP 500 World Tour Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell 2009 tennis tournament at the Real Club de Tenis on April 20, 2009 in Barcelona, Spain.

Photo credit: Jasper Juinen/Getty Images Europe

Barcelona ~ Rafa did it again Rd 2 Rafa d Frederico Gil ~ 6-2, 6-2 Rd 3 Rafa d Christophe Rochus ~ 6-2, 6-0 QF Nalbandian withdrew SF Rafa d Nikolay Davydenko ~ 6-3, 6-2 Final Rafa d David Ferrer ~ 6-2, 7-5

Link to pictures of Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell 2009

Former tennis great Manolo Santana (L) holds a racket used by him in the year he won the Wimbledon Championships flanked by Rafael Nadal during a promotional event for Nadal's foundation on day 2 of the ATP 500 World Tour Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell 2009 tennis tournament at the Real Club de Tenis on April 21, 2009 in Barcelona, Spain.
Photo credit: Jasper Juinen/Getty Images

Link to pictures ~ Day 2


Rafael Nadal of Spain heads the ball during a training session on day 2 of the ATP 500 World Tour Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell 2009 tennis tournament at the Real Club de Tenis on April 21, 2009 in Barcelona, Spain. Photo credit: Jasper Juinen/Getty Images

Link to pictures - Day 3 ~ Rafael Nadal vs. Frederico Gil of Portugal at the ATP 500 World Tour Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell 2009 tennis tournament at the Real Club de Tenis on April 22, 2009 in Barcelona, Spain. Nadal won the match in two sets, 6-2 and 6-2.

Link to pictures ~ Day 4


Link to pictures of Rafael Nadal vs. Nikolay Davydenko of Russia during his semi-final match on day 6 of the ATP 500 World Tour Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell 2009 tennis tournament at the Real Club de Tenis on April 25, 2009 in Barcelona, Spain. Nadal won the match in two sets, 6-3 and 6-2.


Rafael Nadal of Spain returns a shot against Teimuraz Gabashvili of Russia during day 6 of the Sony Ericsson Open at the Crandon Park Tennis Center on March 28, 2009 in Key Biscayne, Florida ~ Miami. Photo credit: Matthew Stockman/Getty Images
Link to more pictures in Miami.

"WE CANNOT ESCAPE HISTORY" - YET WE HAVE TRIED IN REGARDS TO THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES WHO INHABITED THIS LAND

BEFORE THE UNITED STATES HAD A CONSTITUTION

"...Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves..." President Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated Monday, March 4, 1861. (Abraham Lincoln's first Inauguration Speech.) Abraham Lincoln is credited with much positive commenting currently and yesterday was a wonderful celebration of Barack Obama's upcoming inauguration at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. I have a book that I bought for $2.50 ~ Great Speeches by Native Americans. And I would have included one of the speeches from 1862, a year closest to President Lincoln's first year in office, but I preferred the ones I have selected to include here. To enlarge the scanned pages, click on them.

When I read Lincoln's words and think about what the United States government was doing to those who lived on the North American continent before the Europeans immigrated to this land, it is sobering to accept what "we" did to human beings that the immigrants ignorantly and incorrectly named as Indians. The indigenous human beings had their lands taken from them, their way of life stolen from them. Robbing the Native Americans of their very lives and future generations that would never carry on due to the presumption that taking this land was the right of the invaders. I am an ancestor of those invaders. And I believe it is the time to acknowledge that those of us who claim this country as the land of the free to admit we based our democracy on principles that were betrayed from the very beginning.

Click on images of book pages to enlarge for reading.

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Links:
www.native-languages.org/languages.htm (dedicated to preserving and promoting American Indian tribal languages )
www.americanindians.com
cherokeehistory.com

www.nativeculturelinks.com/media.html
www.cumbavac.org/Native_American.htm
www.jammed.com/~mlb/nawbt.html
www.firstpeople.us

Link to President Lincoln's words "We cannot escape history."

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"When your freedom depends on others' losing their freedom ~ it isn't freedom." Sandra Hammel January 19, 2009

Overview of Cobell vs. Kempthorne
Elouise Cobell ~ A great granddaughter of Mountain Chief,
one of the legendary Indian leaders of the West ~ Bio

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President Obama -
We'll be watching to see that you do this.
It was time a long time ago.

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Genocide Ends

When Enough of Us

Stand Up Against It

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WHEN YOU LIE UPON YOUR DEATH BED ~ WHAT WILL HAVE BEEN THE IMPORTANT THINGS YOU DID

OR SAID?

To gain and keep perspective in my life, I visualize and feel what I expect to feel if I get to my end knowing my death is soon to be. It instantly makes all things right for me. What will be important then comes front and center and what I once labored or fretted over just loses its grip on me. It won't matter that my family is broken, disconnected or differs from me in their beliefs, politics and ways of handling the truth. What will matter is how I lived my life. What I said, but more how I said... It will matter to me if I chose to be silent when I should have spoken up. Clear and with passion. It will matter to me if I consistently had truth as my anchor, strength and target.

This is one of those things that has my attention. And I feel stories such as these are neglected, dismissed and thrown out while our narcissism consumes our behavior.


The following is from the Enough Project

September 30, 2008

Peace process near collapse in eastern Congo

The peace process in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo is on the verge of collapse due to resumed hostilities between Government forces and rebels loyal to Congolese general Laurent Nkunda. Absent immediate and robust diplomatic pressure on the Congolese government and a more impartial effort by United Nations peacekeepers to stop the fighting, the region could descend back into total war.

After weeks of tit-for-tat violence, large-scale fighting between the Congolese army and Nkunda's National Congress for the Defense of People, or CNDP, began again on August 28 in the territory of Rutshuru, North Kivu. Violence has since spread to Masisi territory in North Kivu, and Kalehe territory in South Kivu. The clashes are the largest violations to date of the cease-fire agreement signed last January in Goma (capital of North Kivu) between the Congolese government, the CNDP, and 21 other armed groups active in the East.

The fighting has newly displaced an estimated 100,000 civilians in North Kivu, and has curtailed access for humanitarian aid agencies across the province. On September 25, the Enough Project -along with 82 other NGOs-released a statement on the humanitarian costs of faltering peace efforts. This follow-up examines why those diplomatic efforts are failing and what steps the international community must immediately take to halt the violence and reinvigorate the peace process.

• To read the full statement, click here
• To read the Congo Advocacy Coalition's September 25 release, click here
• To join our Raise Hope for Congo Campaign and learn what you can do to help protect and empower Congolese women, click here

Check out the Enough Project's website for our new Raise Hope for Congo Campaign

IGNORING GENOCIDE AS A POLICY

IGNORING GENOCIDE
AS A POLICY

That is what we have.  Denying the fact ~ is just another
form of ignorance.

If the economically leading countries of the world tried
to form plans on how to avoid stopping a known genocide
they could not do any more than they have done for
the last 5 years.

Stopping genocide is not impossible.  It just takes a moral
stand.  And a political will with intelligent plans and
knowledge of what would be the best way to stop it.
And it takes money.

Genocide stops with us.
Or it goes on with our complicit and enabling silence.

Into its 6th year, the Sudanese government is committing
and supporting genocide on its own people of the Darfur region.
China is supporting it with money provided to President
Omar al-Bashir of Sudan for buying Sudan's oil, selling
Sudan its weapons to use on the Darfuri people and blocking
U.N. actions to stop the genocide.

As an activist I receive emails from different organizations
about the genocide of the Darfur people, including those
with direct interest in Darfur and Sudan because they are
from Sudan.

Today I received the following email:

"This is what is happening now:

1- At check points Darfurians ( mainly from Zaghawa
tribe) are dragged from busses and cars, beaten in
public before shoved into security covered vehicles.

2- paramilitary and security forces went from house to
house in darfuri predominant neighborhoods (Umbada,
Fitaihab, Libiya Market in Omdurman), arrest male
darfurians ( mainly from Zaghawa tribe), beaten and
kicked in front of their families and children, some
are beaten by the end of assault rifles, then thrown
on the back of security trucks and taken away ( not
known where).

3- There were summary executions of Darfuris ( mainly
Zaghawa) and this some of the numbers reached us up to
now:

- 17 were executed in Umbada ( Omdurman)
- 5 were executed in Libya Market ( Omdurman).
- 3 were executed in Fitaihab ( Omdurman).
- 2 were executed in Khartoum Stadium ( Khartoum).

I get names of disappeared. I am trying to put updated
list. I get calls from all over the world from
Darfuris with relatives in Khartoum area - all night.

Update on Darfur:
The Government unleashed the Janjaweed in central
Darfur. I got news that Tawila village and surrounding
villages were burnt in a fresh attack ( revenge to
Khartoum incident). Still waiting on number and names
of casualties among the villagers."

And I received today, the link to the following USA Today article.
Because of copyright restrictions,
I have included a portion of the article, but I encourage you
to go to the link provided to read the entire article.
 
Sudanese Troops round up suspected rebels

By Charles Levinson, USA TODAY 
To read the entire article go to the link
usatoday.com/news/world/2008-05-11-sudan

'Living in panic'

"If you are dark and resemble the people of the Zaghawa tribe … they will take you away," said Fatema Daoud, 22, who belongs to a Darfur rebel faction. "If they hear you speaking the Zaghawa dialect, they will arrest you. My people are living in panic."

Sunday, government pickups circulated through Khartoum loaded with suspects, almost all of whom had dark skin. Soldiers pumped their fists into the air as jubilant onlookers cheered...

...Daoud said she knew of a dozen families whose sons had gone missing in the past 24 hours.

Minutes after she spoke from the sitting room of her family's single-story mud home, gunfire erupted one street over. Government forces descended upon a small laundry and dragged off a pair of suspects, said Mohammad Hassan, a shop owner who said he witnessed the arrest.

Hassan said the suspects were unlikely rebels. "They've lived here for years," he said...

Rebel movements 

The threat posed by the rebels may be difficult to completely defuse. The rebels reached Khartoum after crossing about 400 miles, including vast tracts of desert, in a short time with relatively little opposition from the government.

Sudan's government accused neighboring Chad of aiding the rebels and severed ties with the country Sunday...

...They met up with rebel forces that had slipped into the city in preceding weeks and months and marched on the government's radio and television headquarters, according to rebel leader Hagar Abdallah.

The rebels also marched on an artillery and tank depot where they hoped to seize the heavy weapons that would allow them to conquer all of Khartoum, Abdallah said.

The government was never in serious danger of collapse Saturday, but Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has faced increased pressure in recent months from a strong opposition and disloyal factions in his own ranks.

Mutrif alleged the rebels received help from within the army. Many of the army's rank and file are from Darfur...

Source: usatoday.com/news/world/2008-05-11-sudan
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Bernard Henri Levy and Umberto Eco talk about Darfur on Charlie Rose

About:
Bernard-Henri Levy
Umberto Eco

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