August 8th at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia saw tons of UFC 101 action as the best MMA fighters converged to pit themselves against other fierce opponents.
The results speak for themselves as 2 of the biggest matchuip0s saw BJ Penn defeating Kenny Florian with a choke hold in the 4th round, and Anderson Silva defeating Forrest Griffin with a KO, sending Griffin running from the cage.
Other results include:
Johny Hendricks beat Amir Sadollah by TKO
Ricardo Almeida beat Kendall Grove by vote
Kurt Pellegrino beat Josh Neer by vote
Aaron Riley beat Shane Nelson by vote
John Howard beat Tamdan McCrory by vote
George Sotiropoulos beat George Roop by Submission
Jesse Lennox beat Danillo Villefort by TKO
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Folk Musician Mike Seeger passed away at his home at the age 75 of cancer.
Seeger was a self-taught musician who began playing stringed instruments at the age of 18. At about the age of 20, he began collecting songs by traditional musicians on a tape recorder. He was exposed to traditional “old-time music” through his mother Ruth Crawford-Seeger and father Charles Seeger, who worked with musicologists John and Alan Lomax. Folk musicians such as Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, John Jacob Niles, and others were frequent guests in their home . His famous musical family included half-brother Pete Seeger and sisters Peggy Seeger and Penny Seeger.
He was an accomplished musician; a distinctive singer who played autoharp, banjo, fiddle, dulcimer, guitar, mouth harp, mandolin, and dobro. At 25, along with John Cohen and Tom Paley, he became a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers. He received six Grammy nominations and was the recipient of four grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Mel Martinez , Republican of Florida, will resign from his office by the end of August for personal reasons, aides say. Martinez had already decided not to run for re-election in 2010, but had previously insisted that he would not resign.
Senator Martinez has told supporters in a statement that he will resign his Senate seat as soon as a replacement can be found.
Senator Martinez was quoted as saying:
“My priorities have always been my faith, my family and my country and at this stage in my life, and after nearly twelve years of public service in Florida and Washington, it’s time I return to Florida and my family.
So today I am announcing my decision to step down from public office, effective on a successor taking office to fill out the remainder of my term.”
