❧❧❧ Whatever you can do or dream, you can BEGIN IT. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Goethe ❧❧❧
❧❧❧ You were born whole, not broken. Sandra Hammel ❧❧❧
MULTIEXPOSURES- Rafael Nadal of Spain serves the ball during his match against Somdev Devvarman of India during the Masters 1000 tournament in Indian Wells, California on March 16, 2011. AFP PHOTO / GABRIEL BOUYS, Getty Images
Round 4 ~ Indian Wells
MULTIEXPOSURES- Rafael Nadal of Spain serves the ball during his match against Somdev Devvarman of India during the Masters 1000 tournament in Indian Wells, California on March 16, 2011. AFP PHOTO / GABRIEL BOUYS, Getty Images
Round 4 ~ Indian Wells
MULTIEXPOSURES- Rafael Nadal of Spain returns the ball during his match against Somdev Devvarman of India during the Masters 1000 tournament in Indian Wells, California on March 16, 2011. AFP PHOTO / GABRIEL BOUYS, Getty Images
Round 2 Rafa defeated Rik De Voest 6-0, 6-2 Round 3 Rafa Nadal defeated Ryan Sweeting
6-3, 6-1
Monday, March 14, 2011
Round 4 Rafa Nadal defeated Somdev Devvarman Wednesday, March 16, 2011 7-5, 6-4
Quarter Final Rafa Nadal defeated Ivo Karlovic 5-7, 6-1, 7-6 (9-7) Thursday, March 17, 1011
Semi Final 1 Rafa Nadal defeated Juan Martin Del Potro Saturday, March 19, 2011 6-4, 6-4 TV ABC and again on The Tennis Channel Sunday, March 20 at Midnight USA EST/DST and again Sunday, March 20, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. Semi Final 2 Novak Djokovic defeated Roger Federer 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 Saturday, March 19, 2011 Scheduled at 4:00 p.m. USA EST/DST TV ABC and again on The Tennis Channel Sunday, March 20, at 2:00 a.m. USA EST/DST and again Sunday, March 20, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. Indian Wells Final ~ LIVE ~ ABC Novak Djokovic defeated Rafael Nadal 6-4, 3-6, 2-6 Sunday, March 20, 2011 Delayed ~ The Tennis Channel Monday, March 21, 2001 8:00 p.m. , USA EST/DST and again at Monday, March 21, 2011 12:00 a.m., USA EST/DST
Semi Final
Rafael Nadal lost to Ivan Ljubicic 6-3, 4-6, 6-7 Saturday, March 20, 2010
Unfortunately the final will be Ivan Ljubicic versus Andy Roddick or Robin Soderling Sunday, March 21, 2001
UPDATE:
Singles Quarter Finals Rafael Nadal defeated Tomas Berdych 6-4, 7-6(4)
Thursday, March 18, 2010 photos
Upcoming
Semi Final
Rafael Nadal versus Ivan Ljubicic
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Stadium 1
3:00 p.m. EST
followed by
Semi Final Andy Roddick versus Robin Soderling
Not before 6:30 p. EST
Doubles
Semi Final
Rafael Nadal and Marc Lopez defeated Simon Aspelin and Paul Hanley 6-4, 6-4 Friday, March 19, 2010 Final Rafael Nadal and Marc Lopez versus yet to be determined: Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic of John Isner and Sam Querrey Saturday, March 20,2010 Stadium 1 Not before 8:00 pm EST
Indian Wells - Rafa's day on St. Patrick's Day
Singles Round 4 Rafael Nadal defeated John Isner (USA) March 17, 2010 7-5, 3-6, 6-3
Upcoming
Quarter Finals Rafael Nadal versus Tomas Berdych
Stadium 1
Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:30 p.m. USA EST at the earliest - could be a later start
Doubles Quarter Finals Rafa and Marc Lopez defeated Michael Llodra and Andy Ram
6-2, 6-4
Upcoming Semi Final Rafa and Marc versus Simon Aspelin and Paul Hanley
Rafael Nadal of Spain celebrates after winning a point against John Isner of the USA during the BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on March 17, 2010 in Indian Wells, California. Photo by Jeff Gross/Getty Images North America)
My IMAC went back for repair for another week, and I am still struggling to type with a finger slammed in a door a couple weeks ago. This laptop seems to be dimming, so that is not a good thing. Hope it survives for a while.
The past day and a half has been no fun. But I am fine. My television lost its picture weeks ago, and I have only had sound for weeks now. So I bought a new TV yesterday. The days of buying these things....computers, TV, DVDs, DVRs, cameras are so complicated. Gone are the days, where you could plug in a TV and it would be all you had to do to set it up. No more....it took me hours to get no picture with my cables and cable box, plus a DVR. After hours of spending time to try to get it to work and then having to wake up and make calls to get help, go back to my cable company that refuses to answer questions on the phone ("it's a 'walk-in only' office), I had a picture and no sound. I finally paid someone to come and tell me that all I had to do was unplug the cable box and replug it in to reset it. Voila, sound with the picture!
...And I found the HDmi cable I bought and misplaced...having spent hours looking for it after I took it out of the package. It is embarrassing to admit, I couldn't find it because I had it already inserted in the back of the TV and cable box! I apparently did it in the middle of inserting and retrying so many cables that I forgot I did this. And it was difficult to see behind the TV inside a cabinet. Then I used the 5 cable alternative - which duplicates the use of the HDmi. And come to find out from the guy I paid, that the "5 cable cable" - the alternative to the HDmi - canceled out the HDmi I had inserted.
Go figure. The inferior cable cancels out the superior cable.
After waiting for two years for my cable company to get The Tennis Channel - being promised it was coming a year ago....it finally came this year. However, since TTC is only in high definition, I couldn't get it. Until, today. So, this is great.
Not so great in that to record with the new technology - I get worse quality than with the old set - with digital cable. Ah, advanced technology.
Well, Federer and Djokovic have, unfortunately for them, left Indian Wells in defeat. I hope Rafa can defend his Indian Wells title this year. That would be so good for him after the injuries.
HEY RAFA! IF YOU READ THIS . . .
And Rafa, if you are reading this: I hate your pants. Love you. Hate your pants. You know, that "famous a_ _ is no fun anymore to watch for. No fashion statement should deprive your fans this view. We watch you for more than your talented play on the court. Nike needs to fire who comes up with these new kits or outfits for the court. I certainly could do a better job designing for you. Now, all we have is nostalgia for the days of the past - when we loved your long pants, and sleeveless. That is the look of Rafa that we will always remember. We will gladly forget these brown diamond shorts. And in the International Tennis Hall of Fame one day here in Newport, I bet you, they choose the signature look of Rafa in the long pants, no sleeves attire to adorn the poster size Rafa one day.
Who knew NIKE could design something that obliterates your best feature? Well, I guess, maybe not your only "best" feature. But, certainly one that we have noticed enough that it is "famous" worldwide .
One day, you will look back at the pictures taken and I bet this will not be one your outfits that you say to yourself, "I really liked that outfit from 2010 with the brown diamond shorts." I think you are solid and have a great sense of who you are....and that is what we love about you. You couldn't wear this outfit in front of the world, if this wasn't true.
............................................................ I prefer watching this with the sound turned down...
you decide for yourself, though.
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Change of subject - from fun to the serious
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It shouldn't be humanity versus inhumanity of the human race, but it is.
November 2, 2005, I spent 6 hours at the Dachau concentration camp that had been restored and now is visited by people like me from other countries, but also by high school children from the area. I wrote of this day which includes the following: “A lesson that appears clear is that when you are living through times of unjust curbing of freedoms and inhumane treatment of groups of people other than your group, what willingly is ignored without protest can escalate into affecting your life.Injustice to others comes ‘home’.
The agendas by people in political power and governing positions were missed by the German citizens in 1933.Whether in financial or political unstable periods, understanding human behavior of the populace is worth serious contemplation by citizens.Especially because power-hungry politicians understand the populace’s anticipated behavior.Not being tuned into political actions, not doing anything when injustices are apparent, not speaking up against injustices are all human behaviors that are repeated again and again.And they are forms of complicity.Standing out by speaking up takes courage and integrity.They also take commitment to principles without compromise.It is a choice to do nothing, just as it is to choose to do something
In the treatment done by humans in each of humanity’s genocides, including the European immigrants to the indigenous people of North America, the Nazis, the extremists in Rwanda or what the Sudanese government is supporting in Darfur, history and present day history-in-the-making shows how off-track human behavior can go.It also shows that for these things to happen, others who are not actively participating in the torture, murder, but know it is happening, have to stand by and not speak up for it to materialize and continue year after year."
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GENOCIDEWILL onlySTOPWITH US Our leaders have taught us this
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@ilovemylife5
Facebook: Sandra Hammel
the "Sandra Hammel" currently with theRed,White and BlueSudan Sham Election 2010 avatar
Tweet this button to read: @JimLangevin Call for a Intelligence Committee special hearing re: #Sudan policy review and demand pressures and consequences #SudanSham
"The Most Important Office is That of Private Citizen" Louis D. Brandeis
And at sudansham2010 do the tweets, but replace any reference to Senate Resolution 404 (it passed recently) with something important like "Gration has got to go"
in words of your choosing.
* Action to take: US RI Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Call (401) 453-5294 or Email
Message: I would like to thank Senator Whitehouse for his continued efforts for Darfur and Sudan. The Sudan Policy’s quarterly review just happened. Sudan has clearly violated benchmarks, and Obama’s policy promised consequences and pressures if and when this happens. Senator Whitehouse, as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, should hold a hearing about the Sudan Policy quarterly review. The Senate Intelligence Committee members should ask about the specific benchmarks, pressures, and incentives in the policy, holding our administration to their word.
Rafael Nadal vs. John Isner March 17, Wednesday, 2010 They play the second match on Stadium 1 The first match starts at 3:00 p.m. EST
M Lopez (ESP) / R Nadal (ESP) defeated F Lopez (ESP) / F Verdasco (ESP) 64 76(4)
[1] R Federer (SUI) lost to [27] M Baghdatis (CYP) March 16 7-5, 5-7, 6(4)-7
Indian Wells 2010 Mens Singles Round 1 - March 13 Rafael Nadal defeated Rainer Schuettler 6-4, 6-4
Round 2 - March 15 Rafael Nadal defeated Mario Ancic 6-2, 6-2
Round 3 John Isner (15) vs Sam Querrey (17) - night match March 15, 2010 one of these will be Rafa's next opponent
Doubles Round 1 Rafael Nadal and Marc Lopez defeated Lukas Dlouhy and Leander Paes 6-4, 3-6, 10-6
Round 2 Rafael Nadal and Marc Lopez versus Feliciano Lopez and Fernando Verdasco
Round 1 - Rafael Nadal of Spain celebrates his win over Rainer Schuettler of German during the BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on March 13, 2010 in Indian Wells, California. Photo by Harry How/Getty Images North America
Rafa and Marc Better on the eyes...these white shorts on Rafa, huh? The brown ones (above) put the "ugly" in tennis. Picture source: gototennisblog
Community Organizer and Leader to Prevent and End Genocide
Sandra Hammel
Use Your Voice to Stop Genocide RI Leading Rhode Island in Sudan Sham 2010 campaign See 50 days of actions running up to the Sudan April 11, 2010 Elections at the website: sudansham2010
GENOCIDEWILL onlySTOPWITH US Our leaders have taught us this
My twitter:
@ilovemylife5
Facebook: Sandra Hammel the "Sandra Hammel" currently with theRed,White and BlueSudan Sham Election 2010 avatar
Tweet this button to read: @JimLangevin Call for a Intelligence Committee special hearing re: #Sudan policy review and demand pressures and consequences #SudanSham
"The Most Important Office is That of Private Citizen" Louis D. Brandeis
And at sudansham2010 do the tweets, but replace any reference to Senate Resolution 404 (it passed recently) with something important like "Gration has got to go" in words of your choosing.
* Action to take: US RI Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Call (401) 453-5294 or Email
Message: I would like to thank Senator Whitehouse for his continued efforts for Darfur and Sudan. The Sudan Policy’s quarterly review just happened. Sudan has clearly violated benchmarks, and Obama’s policy promised consequences and pressures if and when this happens. Senator Whitehouse, as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, should hold a hearing about the Sudan Policy quarterly review. The Senate Intelligence Committee members should ask about the specific benchmarks, pressures, and incentives in the policy, holding our administration to their word.
If you want peace, work for justice إذا كنت تريد السلام ، أعمل من أجل العدالة
Rafael Nadal is practicing since his injury and withdrawal at the Australia Open 2010. He began Monday, February 15, 2010.
Australia Open 2010 - How it ended for Rafa (he was the Australia Open 2009 winner): Rafael Nadal retired in the third set of his quarterfinal match against Andy Murray, losing 6-3, 7-6 (2), 3-0
.................................................... .................................................... The injury assessment in Melbourne during the match at the Australia Open 2010
Rafa when he went to Barcelona after Melbourne regarding his injury - in Spanish rtvmallorca
Federer, Nadal, Sampras, Agassi To 'Hit For Haiti' In Indian Wells
Indian Wells, U.S.A.
18.02.2010
The BNP Paribas Open, the most attended tennis tournament in the world outside of the four major events, to be held March 8-21, 2010, will hold a Hit For Haiti exhibition on the evening of Friday, March 12, that will feature former BNP Paribas Open champions with a combined total of 44 Grand Slam singles titles, and is expected to raise a minimum of $1 Million for Haiti relief efforts, it was announced today by Steve Simon, tournament director....
In addition to the exhibition, the evening will begin at 7:00 p.m. with the annual Salute to Heroes ceremony, where the tournament will recognize veterans, military personnel, police, firemen and women, and Red Cross volunteers on Stadium Court for their efforts in the community and around the world. The ceremony and tennis exhibition will be followed by one main draw match. Read the entire article: ATP World Tour Indian Wells Hit For Haiti
RAFA BRINGS THE DRAMA - WINS INDIAN WELLS 09 THE SEMI FINAL VS. USA'S RODDICK
RAFAEL NADAL (1) DEFEATED ANDY RODDICK (7) in Indian Wells Semi-Final 6-4, 7-6 (7-4) Saturday, March 21, 2009 in a quirky second set
Andy Murray (4) defeated Roger Federer (2) in Indian Wells Semi-Final 6-3, 4-6, 6-1
Doubles - Final M Mirnyi (BLR) / A Ram (ISR) vs M Fish (USA) / A Roddick (USA) To be played Saturday, March 21, 2009
Final MatchSet Rafael Nadal (1) vs. Andy Murray (4) Sunday, March 22, 2009 2:00 p.m. Indian Wells, California time that is 6:00 p.m. USA EST
So Rafa plays another Andy tomorrow. Back to back Andys.
I hope Rafa brings some heat tomorrow.
Rafa in the Semi-Final Match Indian Wells March 21, 2009 Above photo credits: The photographer is unknown because where I copied them didn't post credit. Probably a Getty photographer.
This is footage of World #1 Rafael Nadal warming up at the 2009 BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, CA...The practice courts at Indian Wells offer unprecedented access to the players... This footage was shot over the course of several days, thus the different outfits Rafa can be seen wearing. This text is taken from the poster. Uploaded March 20, 2009 by FYB2007
MY SOAPBOX
Apparently, the poker game was more important today than showing the Semi-Final Match live with Rafa and Andy on the east coast of the USA.
It looks like here Fox Sports Net NE is airing the Semi-Final matches between 11:00 pm. and 3:00 a.m. EST
Who knows if they will show the entire match. In the past they have skipped games and almost entire sets to fit the match into the allotted time slot.
Imagine doing that with any football, baseball, basketball, hockey, golf, bowling or any other sport's game. Aw, heck ....poker.
Hey, what about tiddly winks, does anybody play that on TV? I know. I'm going over the top. I'm venting.
I mean Rafa is the Number 1 Professional Tennis Player in the World and this is how they air tennis on TV. Last season, when he was Number Two, they actually left a big match before it was over and went to paid programming.
This was posted March 19, 2009 Rafa Nadal vs David Nalbandian It's just a medical time-out, but we who love Rafa even like watching this stuff. Uploaded by luneworld
One of my favorite pictures of Rafa from the archives.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ And now shifting gears.... to what's really important
Jen Marlowe Director of the film Darfur Diaries and author of the book Darfur Diaries - Stories of Survival, Sandra Hammel and Dr. Peter Liotta, Director of the Pell Center in Newport, Rhode Island at the screening of Darfur Diaries at the 500 seat Jane Pickens Theatre in Newport on March 24, 2007. If you click on the picture, you will see the words: We Will Not Be Silent in two languages on Jen's shirt.
MY OTHER SOAP BOX
The thing is about Darfur and how I try to write about it. I just feel so very helpless. I want to scream at our lovely and shiny new President. I adore him. I do. But he is letting me down. And all we citizen activists who have felt like we have reached down to the bottom of the barrel over and over to try to get the light shone on this humanity-falling-way-short issue of genocide feel so small compared to the huge bottomless hole of ignoring this issue by all of the world's leaders. And really what we mean is President Obama is letting us down for the sake of the forgotten people who have been hanging on by shreds of mental and emotional threads for nights and days on end. Year after year. I understand the treatment of a raped female in Sudan is one of rebuke to the point of totally dismissing her as worthy. Like she is not respectable anymore once she is raped. And she has done nothing to deserve the brutal rapes. And the rapes include ramming sharp objects into the woman's vagina.
And we go about fretting over the stuff in our world where our government, no matter how wrong it has been over the last eight years, it isn't charging people with the duty to torch our houses while we are sleeping, village by village, terrorize our children, brutalize and kill fathers, steal all our belongings and livestock, take away our food and all clean water supplies, rape our souls and our bodies, gouge our eyes out, tell us we are unworthy to live because of the shade of our skin, take everything away from us. EVERY THING. And yet some people are still trying to stand up and keep some shred of sanity. They have to be emotionally frayed. They have to be emotionally depleted. And they don't have anti-depressant drugs. I so hate that "depression drug" commercial that is running on TV..."Who does depression hurt? Everyone. Where does depression hurt? Everywhere...." I mute the TV every time it comes on.
What is wrong with us, that we allow this kind of treatment to go on to our brothers and sisters of the human race? We are just self-absorbed. We are spoiled. We could learn something from the people who are braving to breathe every day with the hope that America, the USA will come to their rescue. Or Europe. The thing is they still believe that the democracies of the world will care about something this brazen. Outrageously wrong. They don't have to watch "Survivor" on TV. They ARE Survivor. The Real Story.
We have done nothing to warrant their trust. And yet they have no one else to put their trust in.
And we are betrayers of their trust in our goodness.
I am just so embarrassed and horrified that we stand by and have done nothing to help these people see an end to this injustice. This bondage. This humiliation. This degradation.
So you see, I really don't have such an issue about the tennis getting no respect on TV. It is people like the Darfuri people who love their children. Who want their children to have a good education. Who want their children to be able to play without being traumatized. Who want to get up in the morning and know that they are safe. Who get NO RESPECT. By our media. By our leaders. We should be ashamed. We like to pretend we are moral people. We like to believe we are principled people. We like to believe that we are the best because we are American citizens of the USA. But that doesn't mean a thing if you don't walk the talk.
I have a wonderful sense of humor. But I find myself feeling like I need to stop myself from feeling humorous or light because these people of Darfur are screaming inside and we are just going about our business like the story doesn't exist.
But the story does exist.
And no matter how many genocides we let go on. And no matter how many politicians lie and say "Never Again" - we know who we are. Small people who didn't want to do anything to stop the madness we gave a word to in 1948 - Genocide I know that wikepedia is no expert resource but check out the page Genocides in history .
Here is a bit of the page:
Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group.
While precise definition varies among genocide scholars, a legal definition is found in the 1948 United NationsConvention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocidenational, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group." (CPPCG). Article 2, of this convention defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a
The preamble to the CPPCG states that instances of genocide have taken place throughout history, but it was not until Raphael Lemkin coined the term and the prosecution of perpetrators of the Holocaust at the Nuremberg trials that the United Nations agreed to the CPPCG which defined the crime of genocide under international law.
We really are a sorry lot.
Won't you follow Katie-Jay, Gabriel and Yuen-Lin, while they are in Chad the next 10 days? Here is their website:
http://twitter.com/iact It is my first time really doing the Twitter thing. I did it a little when Ann Curry was in the Darfur region, recently.
And won't you choose to make a difference? It starts with one person, deciding to act. And you'll know at the end of your days, that you didn't stand idly by and just ignore this plain and awful behavior of our fellow human beings upon other fellow human beings.
The situation was dire before the arrest warrant for Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir March 4, 2009. You know, he wasn't elected, right? Now, the devastating situation is a devastating situation on top of a devastating situation. It is hell on earth.
Please, call or write President Obama and tell him it is not all right with you to continue the same chartless plan of the Bush administration about the Darfuris plight. It just isn't all right. And we need to say so. Clearly and apparently with more voices than we have been saying it with since 2003.
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................................................. Link to the song The Answer is Blowin' in the Wind Trini Lopez Uploaded by hun896
It doesn't have to be blowin' in the wind.
"The Most Important Office is That of Citizen" I heard Barack Obama quote this on Oprah
I also remember he repeatedly said "Now, let's go change the world."
Let's.You lead.We so need a leader.
Come on President Obama Be the one. We have been trying to be the ones we've been waiting for. But, we still need a President to have the political will to find a way to end the genocide. We can't do it without you, Mr. President.
I love my life. I love where I live. And I am passionate about my passions. I love to dance. Necessary to live: music, piano, singing, writing, acting, painting.
I have been fighting for and supporting the arts all my adult life. Since 2004, I have been working with other activists to end the Darfur genocide.
I have traveled to Europe many times since my early twenties. Places I have been: many USA states including Hawaii, Montreal, Canada, Barbados, France, Spain, Luxembourg, England, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Greece and Germany - and have wonderful memories.
My last trip was in May - June 2013 to Spain.
I would like to travel to Europe and Kyoto, Japan.
I love the southwest where I have visited Hopi, Navajo, Zia and San Idlefonso potters.
Life is exciting and I intend to live it full-out to the end.
B.S. and M.M., both in music
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RAFA NADAL -BRING BACK LONG PANTS - SLEEVELESS TOPS
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Darfur - The Abandoned Genocide - a video by Sandra Hammel
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Satchita - Playing for Change
Stand By Me ~ Playing for Change
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Genocide is not only a word,
it is crying of the whole human race.
There is nothing redeeming about being silent
when speaking up is the humane thing to do.
The honor and integrity of the human race is at stake.
Round 4 ~ Indian Wells
Round 4 ~ Indian Wells
