RAFA NADAL IN BARCELONA 2011

UPDATED April 24, 2011 at 12:50 p.m. USA EST/DST
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Barcelona April 24, 2011
Photo credit: Reuter

Final

Rafa Nadal (Esp) defeated David Ferrer (Esp)

6-2, 6-4

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Pista Central Court

Pictures

Yahoo

Daylife

Customary dip in the pool

Rafa is now a Six Time Champion in Barcelona

2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, (didn't play in 2010) and 2011

This is the 501st ATP match win for Rafa

It is Rafa's 45th ATP Title

Rafa Nadal has won 7 straight in Monte Carlo as of 2011

Rafa has played 2 clay tournaments so far in 2011

Next

Madrid-Open.com
May 1 - 8, 2011

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Barcelona Open

Round 1 ~ Bye

Round 2

Rafa Nadal defeated Daniel Gimeno-Traver

6-1, 6-1

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Round 3

Rafa Nadal defeated Santiago Giraldo

Thursday, April 21, 2011

6-3, 6-1

Quarter Final

Rafa Nadal defeated Gael Monfils

6-2, 6-2

Friday, April 22, 2011

Quarter Final Match ~ 7:57 minutes

Interview after QF

A great Rafa point

Semi Final

Rafa Nadal (Esp) versus Ivan Dodig (Cro)

6-3, 6-2

Saturday, April 23, 2011

This match was Rafa's 500th ATP win

Final

Rafa Nadal (Esp) defeated David Ferrer (Esp)

6-2, 6-4

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Pista Central Court

Rafa is now a Six Time Champion in Barcelona

2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, (didn't play in 2010) and 2011

This is the 501st ATP match win for Rafa

It is Rafa's 45th ATP Title

Rafa Nadal has won 7 straight in Monte Carlo as of 2011

Rafa has played 2 clay tournaments so far in 2011

Next

Madrid-Open.com
May 1 - 8, 2011

USA TV

Sorry, nothing apparently

Watch Live Online at ESPN3

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Pictures ~ Barcelona ~ 2011

Spain's Rafael Nadal drinks as he leaves a training session at the Barcelona Open tennis tournament, April 19, 2011. Photo credit: Reuters.

Rafa at a training session at the Barcelona Open tennis tournament, April 19, 2011. Photo credit: Reuters.

Round 2

Spain's Rafael Nadal runs for the ball against compatriot Daniel Gimeno-Traver during the Barcelona Open tennis tournament Conde de Godo on April 20, 2011 in Barcelona. Nadal won 6-1, 6-1. Photo credit: Getty Images.

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Daylife Rafael Nadal

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Rafa's Website
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You can watch parts of matches already played in Barcelona 2011,
interviews in English and Spanish
Look down on the right

Just in case you forgot how Rafa looked prior to the sleeves.
Recently, Roger referred to how intimidating Rafa was on court when he exposed the bulging arm muscles.

RAFA NADAL INSIDE OUT IN A PHYSICAL WAY

As a sports fan of tennis and basketball for my main interests in sports in the mainstream (aside from those I mostly see at the Olympics), I am most interested in the professional tennis world via Spanish player Rafael Nadal. But if you come to my blog, you already know that Rafa is someone I watch play tennis. He also appears to be a genuinely nice human being. And I have always felt, though Rafa says no, that Rafa would make a great actor. Take a look at these two videos and see a side of Rafa that might make me think so.

Rafael Nadal in Emporio Armani Underwear and Armani Jeans commercial

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Mondibaby has made a video of Rafa set to the song of I'm a Fool to Want You sung by Ketty Lester. To see it, click this post's title. It is a collection of pictures including this Armani ad campaign.

Rafael Nadal of Spain breaks a new record winning his seventh straight Monte Carlo Masters title in Monte-Carlo. He beat in the final David Ferrer of Spain in 2 sets -6/4, 7/5 at the Monte-Carlo Country Club in Monaco. April 17, 2011 Photo by PacificCoastNews.com

Rafa is playing in Barcelona April 20, 21, 2011 and hopefully beyond ~ Check out my post Rafa Nadal in Barcelona

RHODE ISLAND RALLY ~ SOLIDARITY WITH WISCONSIN SAT FEB 26, 2011

We are all Wisconsin. We are all Americans. Rhode Island had two rallies to support the right to be in a union, freedom to bargain, Wisconsin Citizens and Wisconsin Democrats who have taken a stand to support "the right to exercise rights" wtihin a democracy. One rally was on Tuesday, February 22, 2011 and the other on Saturday, February 26, 2011. This video includes highlights of the Saturday Rally at the Rhode Island State House. Presented by Sandra Hammel

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Uploaded by me ~ ilovemylifesblog
Correction: Spelling on one side of my poster's last line...
Governor Walker. I was very much in a hurry when I did the sign.
I had to drive 45 minutes to get there and I was late in leaving by 10 minutes.

Notable ~ The organizer of the Rhode Island Saturday rally asked the attendees how many were Union members and almost all those attending were not Union members.

Rhode Island rally to support Wisconsin on Tuesday, February 22, 2011 ~ Photostream
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50 Photos from the 50 State Rallies to save the American Dream
(Saturday, February 26, 2011)

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Interview with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Sunday, February 27, 2011 with David Gregory on Meet the Press. Video of the interview at Meet the Press transcripts

Found the following at moveon.org

Posted by GabrieleSe

Original by Dietrich Bonhoeffer:

“First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out.

Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out.

Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out.

And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.”

Then this posted by HollyandJohn ~

Perhaps the new version goes something like this:

First they came...

First they came for the car unions,
and I didn't speak out because I didn't work in Detroit.

Then they came for the air traffic controllers,
and I didn't speak out because I thought, yeah they are too entitled.

Then they came for the welfare mothers,
and I didn't speak out because I thought, yeah they are lazy, aren't they?

Then they came for the all the industrial workers,
and I didn't speak out because I thought, well, NAFTA could be good for me.

Then they came for the free press,
and I didn't speak out because I believed it was fair and balanced.

Then they came for everyone's savings and retirement money,
and I didn't speak out because I thought bubbles happen and deregulation will make me money.

Then they came for people with houses and predatory loans,
and I didn't speak out because they said greedy low-income people brought down the system.

Then they came for the right to an education,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a student or a teacher.

Then they came for those who organized to fight the rich,
and I didn't speak out because I believe them when they said it was about the budget.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me. show more

Then this posted by lillymouse ~

Then they came for the mentally ill
and I didn't speak out because I didn't have a problem and didn't know anyone who did.

Then they came for the sick, unable to afford treatment,
and I didn't speak out because I was healthy and had a job with what I thought was good health insurance.

Then they came for the old and disabled
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't either and I believed them when they said social security was broken and there was no way to fix it and we must all settle for less.

A TRIBUTE to PAUL WARREN ALLEN ~ Warum ist das licht gegeben dem mühseligen

First
Worked on a project of putting together a video.
Second
Imported it at Youtube.
Third
Youtube compressed the movie and the timing was all off. So, I didn't make the video "public".
Fourth
I tried to rework the video seven times to correct this, then upload at Youtube. But, the timing was only wrong after uploading to Youtube, which made the corrections a calculation game at best and a guessing game at worst.
Fifth
Surrendered and made the final upload "public" even though the work of trying to coordinate text, transition placements and singing was not evident at Youtube.

Then days later, my project in the software program was no longer coordinated because I had been changing it, guessing at how to make it come out right at Youtube. But then, I had the idea to try to upload it at Facebook to see if the timing would come out how I had created it in the first place. But I had to retrieve old versions in Quick Time formats and splice them together, then downgrade the quality in order to downsize it below 1 GB, which is a Facebook requirement (Youtube's requirement is 2GB). I know it is hard to follow...but in the end, the Facebook upload came out with the timing correct. So I post it here.
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North Central College Choir ~ 1968

by Sandra Hammel

12:52

Warum ist das licht gegeben dem mühseligen (opus 74, 1877)
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), op. 74 no. 1 (1877) [satb], from Zwei Motetten, no. 1.

Other songs from the record uploaded are
"DICHTERLIEBE" ~ "Art Songs" Robert Schumann
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"The Eyes of All Wait Upon Thee" by Jean Berger
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"I Am the True Vine", arranged by Salli Terri
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"It's May", Robert Schumann's "Art Song"
www.youtube

Source of the following is
www.cantate-choir.info/ProgrammeNotes/Brahms-WarumIstDasLichtGegeben

The imposing opening Adagio (in D minor) of this motet, is punctuated four times by the urgent cry of Warum? (wherefore?). The following sections are in flowing cannon form with a 'warm F major glow' reflecting the text. It ends with a nunc dimittis in chorale form.

About the composer
Johannes Brahms was born 7th of May in 1833 in Hamburg, Germany
Bio:
www.johannesbrahms.org/JBbio.htm
and more at www.johannesbrahms.org

Johannes Brahms - (7 May 1833 in Hamburg, Germany to 3 April 1897 in Vienna, Austria)

Brahms studied piano from the age of seven and composition from thirteen. He had a lifelong interest in early music and amongst his generation he was without equal in sophisticated contrapuntal technique. He did not enjoy a meeting of minds with composers of the New German School, but his artistic kinship with Robert Schumann and his passion and veneration for Clara Schumann are well known influences on his life. Whether or not Brahms was a believer, he whole-heartedly accepted the Christain ethic and admired and embraced the literature and poetry of the Bible. His background was North German Lutheran Protestant. This inheritance gave to his choral music 'a noble human consolation' and air of hope.

His musical style was of the romantic school; his nature was introspective, reserved, logical and studious. Musicologists point to the essence of all these influences being demonstrated in the a capella motets spread over thirty years, and in his other sacred music, but most especially in the German Requiem.

Warum ist das licht gegeben dem mühseligen (opus 74, 1877)

Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; which long for death but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures; which rejoice exceedingly and are glad, when they can find the grave? Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? (Job 3, 20-23)

Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens (Lamentations 3, 41)

Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy. (James 5, 11)

With peace and joy I go forth in the will of God, my heart and mind are comforted, gentle and still. As God has promised me, death but becomes sleep to me. (Martin Luther - 1524)