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Mikhail Youzhny Safely into Gstaad Quarterfinals Mikhail Youzhny, 3rd seed, knocked out Flavio Cipolla of Italy 6-3, 6-2 in one hour and 32 minutes Thursday for a place in the Allianz Suisse Open quarterfinals. Youzhny hit six aces, won 60 per cent of service points, and broke four times from 11 opportunities in the pair’s first career meeting. Youzhny clinched his fourth career ATP title at

14-15th June in Luxembourg with a record turnout of 310 players The 15th Open Echternach was held on 14-15th June in the "Hall of Mirrors" and the cloister of the ancient abbey in Luxembourg. Nine rounds of the Swiss pairing system were played, and the time rate was "rapid" - 45 minutes for the entire game. Turkish champion and recent World Chess Championship candidate, GM Mikhail Gurevich, crown

Aerosvit-2008Yesterday was a free day in Foros. Some of the players went on an excursion to the Sapun-mountain and Balaklava.I am working at the tournament as an online commentator as our readers might have noticed. Magnus Carlsen's lead is absolutely confident - as well as his play, with a single exception, the overoptimistic 14.b4?! against Alekseev in round 6.So maybe the intrigue is more or le

    Born in the village of Novospasskoe near Smolensk in Belarus Russia to a wealthy family, this composer’s first contact with music had to most certainly be Russian folk songs and the sound of church bells which rang every day in his small and quaint little village. At the age of 13, he was sent [...]

Angry Tennis Player Hurts Himself: Really strange incident during an ATP Masters tennis match between Mikhail Youzhny and Nicolas Almagro played on 1st April. Youzhny gets angry after at a close call and takes it out on himself. [photo link]On April 1st, Youzhny became the talk of the tennis world: While playing a match against Nicolas Almagro of Spain, Youzhny first hit a relatively easy return into the net, and after gesturing angrily towards his own temple, he proceeded to hit his head with the side of his tennis racket 3 times, drawing blood. Surprisingly enough, after receiving assistance from the medical staff, he went on to win 7 straight points and the tiebreaker to win the match. [wikipedia][via Ballsiest]

I had never heard of Mikhail Youzhny prior to today, now Youzhny will forever be infamous in my mind for being one of the biggest idiots tennis has ever seen. Now we’ve all seen John McEnroe go ballistic time and time again if he lost points. We’ve seen all of the various technicals and emotional [...]

Billboard.com Underground caught up with Gavin Mikhail, where he talked about the independent release of his third album, the 'Lay It Down, Mix It Up' contest which he won thanks to his loyal MySpace fans, and the song 'Brave' - a track written about

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Balance - you need to learn how to balance your nutritional needs. This means eating right. Basically, your childhood lessons concerning the food pyramid still apply in your adulthood if you want to live a healthy lifestyle. Upsetting the balance of the food pyramid can ultimately lead to malnutrition and to poor health. More: continued [...]

Deuxième session podcast pour moi sur Get The Curse. Contrairement à mon premier mix, l’idée cette fois-ci n’était pas de faire un mix chaud ou froid mais plutôt de penser le set comme une fin de set tout simplement, comme si je reprenais les platines de 4h à 6h. Deux heures de mix concentrées en [...]

Mikhail Khodorkovsky was born on June, 26th 1963 in Moscow. Lived with parents in the Moscow two-room flat. Both mother, and the father were the engineers-chemists, all life worked on the Moscow factory “Calibre”. By an example of parents, Michael since the childhood took a great interest in chemistry, has left school with profound teaching [...]

A Cristian Castro y Valeria Liberman les vuelve a sonreir la vida, pues su segundo hijo nació el pasado 5 de diciembre, en el Hospital Jackson Memorial de Miami, por parto natural, después de 14 horas de labor.El bebé pesó 3 kilos 700 gramos y midió 57 centímetros, pero lo más curioso es que su famoso papá lo bautizó con el nombre de Mikhail Zaratustra.Aquí te mostramos la exclusiva de la Revista TVnotas, con las primeras fotos del niño con su familia; además el querido Gallito Feliz, habla de sus seres queridos y de la tristeza que siente porque su mamá, Verónica Castro, no compartió ese momento único con él.Aquí unos trocitos de las exclusivas declaraciones de Cristian a la mencionada revista:"Está llegando mi momento de madurez verdadera, porque ya es demasiada felicidad y hay que saberla disfrutar. Mi mujer y yo planificamos bien esta familia que iniciamos y así nos quedamos"."Pensé que (Mikhail) iba a ser pequeño, pero es grandote. Primero salió la cabeza y

Oil Offshore Marine presents you a letter from Mikhail Khordokovsky’s representative, a so called Dom May sending his email from dommay001@terra.es “Hi,i am Dom May and I represent Mr. Mikhail Khordokovsky the former C.E.O of Yukos Oil Company in Russia. I have a very sensitive and confidential brief from him to ask for your partnership in re-profiling funds in a private bank investment portfolio in Western Europe. I will give the details, but in summary, the funds are coming via Bank Menatep in Russia. This is a legitimate transaction. You will be paid 20% of the portfolio investment value as your “management fees”. If you are interested, please make sure that you write back to me via my private E-mail doublebarrdmay@yahoo.de and provide me with your confidential telephone number, fax number and email address and I will provide further details and if you are satisfied I can proceed with the instructions. Please we can not afford any political problems because o

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka(1804 - 1857)El fundador de la música nacionalista rusa.Sus influencias en Balakirev, quien se autodenominó líder del grupo de cinco compositores nacionalistas, fueron considerables.De niño tomó lecciones de piano de un pianista irlandés, John Field, pero en aquel entonces su relación con la música se mantuvo puramente a nivel de aficionado, hasta su visita a Italia y en 1833 a Berlín, las cuales permitieron que concentrara sus estudios y consecuentemente un grado mayor de seguridad en sus composiciones, las cuales ganaron una real atención en su país como en en extranjero. Sus operas rusas ofrecían una síntesis de la manera de operar del occidente pero con melodía rusa, mientras que su música orquestal, con una instrumentación excelente, ofrecía una combinación de lo tradicional y lo exótico. Glinka murió en Berlín en 1857. Refiriéndose a la personalidad de Glinka, con pleno derecho los rusos le consideran “El sol de la música rusa”--

Mikhail Tal 2006 Memorial will be held on November 5th-20th in Moskow. The festival will consist of 20th category round robin tournament and Blitz Cup of Mikhail Tal. Information about the festival is very limited, so far I gathered that Morozevich, Leko and Shirov are some of the participants in...