After UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva choked out PRIDE middleweight champion Dan Henderson in the title unification match Saturday night, there weren’t a lot of people willing to argue his reputation as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world.
About the only person who would is Anderson Silva.
“I still don’t consider myself the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world,” he said after his second-round win via tapout with a choke, against the man whom most felt stylistically had the best chance to beat him. “Maybe when I retire, I can look back and then say I was the best pound-for-pound.”
Silva overwhelmed Henderson standing late in the round, putting him down after a hard knee and trade of punches. He got behind Henderson and threw numerous punches to the side of the head before he began working for a choke. With eight seconds left in the round, Henderson tapped out.
Henderson won the first round. After some wild action, he scored a takedown and connected with hammer fists to the side of Silva’s head for the remainder of the round.
Things changed in the second round, mostly standing, and it was Silva’s multipronged attack of punches, kicks and knees that overwhelmed Henderson.
Henderson had been finished only twice in his prior 28 matches, in a career loaded with foes who were top fighters and almost always bigger than him. Aside from the one takedown in the first round, and ensuing advantage period, the former Olympic wrestler wasn’t able to do a lot.
Henderson threw wildly, and Silva’s superior technical standup saw him score with many kicks, particularly in the second round as Henderson started to fade.
Fighters Jon Fitch, Diego Sanchez, Jorge Gurgel and Josh Koscheck were blown away by Silva and said his pound-for-pound reputation was deserved.
“Josh Koscheck and I shared a training room with him before the fight,” said Fitch, who put himself in line for a welterweight title match with a win over Chris Wilson on the show. “Watching him hit the (focus) mitts, I’ve never seen anyone, including pro boxers, with so much agility and hit with so much power.”
Koscheck said: “He’s a bad dude. I don’t want to fight him.”
Gurgel, the training partner of Rich Franklin, noted that he knows firsthand what Franklin can do, and it was scary how easy Silva made beating Franklin look in both of their previous matches.
The big question is who will face Silva next. At 21-4, Silva, who picked up $120,000 in added bonuses for both match of the night and best submission, feigned a frightened look when asked about moving to light heavyweight and facing Quinton Jackson, then said it wasn’t his immediate goal.
Another potential opponent at middleweight, Black House stablemate and unbeaten World Extreme Cagefighting champion Paulo Filho, was ruled out.
“It’s impossible,” Silva said through an interpreter. “We train together, and that’s not going to happen.”
UFC president Dana White said that in his mind, when the stars are aligned, any fight is possible.
Silva’s most logical next opponent for a UFC title match appears to be Yushin Okami (23-4). He knocked out Evan Tanner on Saturday night with a knee.
Okami is the last person to gain a win over Silva, in a Jan. 20, 2006, match in Honolulu, via disqualification for an illegal kick. Silva said that he didn’t have the rules properly explained to him, which caused the miscue. Silva has won seven fights since.
A crowd of 16,431 fans at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus were pro-Henderson when the match started. Even though Silva is from Brazil, he received only a smattering of boos when the match started and won over everyone by the end.

It’s not a huge revelation that the way to improve your writing skills and perfect them to their fullest potential, is to practice as much as possible. All writers know this obvious fact but so often we tend to stop for the day if what we think we wrote was shit or fail to even start writing until we can come up with what seems like an award winning idea for the context. But if we really want to find ways to improve our writing skills, it is imperative that we constantly remind ourselves that even if we write nothing worth developing three days in a row, at lease we are getting more and more writing practice and even if it sucks, it will still without a doubt contribute to the betterment of our skills. Maybe you don’t like what you’ve written down on the paper but what you write takes thoughts and thoughts of any sort lead to more thoughts just as creativity jumpstarts creativity and if you simply relax and keep trying when you think you’ve failed, something worthy is almost guaranteed to eventually spill out onto the page. It is hard sometimes, though, as a writer to make time to practice ways to improve your writing skills, especially if you seem to be in a writing funk. If you find yourself longing to practice writing more often but you see yourself pushing it off and procrastinating almost involuntarily for various reasons, it may be time to introduce another party into the picture. By another party, I am referring to a writing partner.

It's no secret of the dancers are among the greatest athletes out there, and they have some of the best bodies, as well. But can you get as fit as a dancer in your living room or den with one of the new interactive dance video games?
If you've been dancing with the stars and breaking a sweat, are you getting any fitter? Does it take the place of regular exercise? Will you get that dancer's body?
The American Council on Exercise (ACE) has helped answer some of these questions.
Specifically they asked: Can a video game make your kids more fit? ACE then put Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) to the test.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, focused on quantifying DDR's potential physical benefits and determined that it is comparable to many other aerobic activities and could result in significant weight loss if used regularly.
All subjects showed a significant increase in exercise intensity as they participated, with adults burning more overall calories than kids (based primarily on expected differences in body weight).
How much exercise did they actually get? According to ACE, the participants burned: 5.9 kcal/min on light mode (comparable to an easy walk on a treadmill), 6.7 kcal/min on standard mode (equivalent to riding a bike about 12 to 14 miles and hour) and 8.1 kcal/min on difficult mode (similar to the benefits obtained with high-impact aerobics). They used the Sony PlayStation version of the game for this particular study. You can get more information on the ACE website.
Obviously, different versions of this and other "interactive" games, especially those developed for use on the Nintendo Wii, have different potential levels of activity that one can experience.
Much depends on the level of intensity that the user provides. I have personally been impressed with the Wii. I've watched my kids in perpetual motion for hours at a time. Many of the games kept me moving as well, and they even offered some very basic fitness training and testing routines. I'm sure we'll see more of that.
Bottom line, it won't replace regular exercise any time soon but it sure beats sitting on the couch and being totally sedentary. I don't think you'll be seeing it in any upcoming Olympics, but you can experience a modest work out, while having fun, and enjoy the associated health benefits.
It also may have a place in activating certain diehard couch potatoes - both young and old. I have even witnessed, with my own patient population, that the appeal crosses a wide range of age groups from kids to their grandparents. They are enjoying this "movement" together.
I would encourage the video game industry to get even more creative in terms of activating our population. I believe the technology world in general has alot to offer in this regard and that we have only seen the beginning of a whole new positive use of technology for fitness and health.
Do you think these new video-active games, or as some have called them, "exergames," have a place in the world of exercise? What games would you like to see?

Google searches more sites more quickly, delivering the most relevant results.
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The heart of our software is PageRank™, a system for ranking web pages developed by our founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University. And while we have dozens of engineers working to improve every aspect of Google on a daily basis, PageRank continues to play a central role in many of our web search tools.
PageRank Explained

PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at considerably more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; for example, it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important." Using these and other factors, Google provides its views on pages' relative importance.

Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines dozens of aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query. Integrity
Google's complex automated methods make human tampering with our search results extremely difficult. And though we may run relevant ads above and next to our results, Google does not sell placement within the results themselves (i.e., no one can buy a particular or higher placement). A Google search provides an easy and effective way to find high-quality websites that contain information relevant to your search.

One heck of a movie!! This is so hillarious!

From the creators of Scary Movie and Date Movie comes this tongue-in-cheek parody of the sword-and-sandal epics, dubbed Meet the Spartans. The 20th Century Fox production is written and directed by the filmmaking team of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. Sure, Leonidas may have nothing more than a cape and some leather underwear to protect him from the razor sharp swords of his Persian enemies, but that won't stop the brave leader and his team of thirteen warriors from defending their beloved homeland against a powerful invading force that includes the likes of a mutant Paris Hilton, the Transformers, the Ghost Rider and Rocky Balboa. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide

FYI, Paper Wings is sung byRise Against. I've first heard it on a Parkour video clip. It really sounds cool... A two thumbs up for me.. One of my fav. songs. Hope you like it.

One last thing I beg you please, just before you go
I've watched you fly on paper wings half way round the world until they
Burned up in the atmosphere and sent you spiraling down
Landed somewhere far from here with no one else around
To catch you falling down and I'm looking at you now

And I cant tell if you're laughing
Between each smile there's a tear in your eye
There's a train leaving town in an hour
It's not waiting for you and neither am I

Swing for the fences son, He must have told you once
That was a conversation you took nothing from so raise your
Glass now and celebrate excatly what you've done
Just put off another day of knowing where your from
You can catch up with yourself if you run

And I cant tell if you're laughing
Between each smile there's a tear in your eye
There's a train leaving town in an hour
It's not waiting for you and neither am I

Is this the life that you lead?
Or the life that's left for you?
Will you take the road thats been laid out before you
Will we cross paths somewhere else tonight? Somewhere else tonight

And I cant tell if you're laughing
Between each smile there's a tear in your eye
There's a train leaving town in an hour
It's not waiting for you and neither am I

And I cant tell if you're laughing
Between each smile there's a tear in your eye
There's a train leaving town in an hour
It's not waiting for you and neither am I

A happy new to everyone!