UFC on Fox prelims: ?Bruce Leroy? finds a home at bantamweight, Rosa and Pierce win too

ANAHEIM -Alex "Bruce Leroy" Cacares carries a huge persona, but not big enough to overcome the lack of size he battled at lightweight during Season 12 of "The Ultimate Fighter.' Now that he's dropped all the way down to 135 pounds, it looks like he might be a real prospect.

Cacares' athleticism was impressive during a 15-minute battle on the feet. He had Cole Escovedo confused throughout and rolled to a unanimous decision, 30-27 on all three scorecards. This was win No. 1 in the UFC for the 23-year-old Cacares (6-4, 1-2 UFC).

"I feel great and I don't think it has all registered yet. This was my third fight under the UFC banner and considering that I lost my first two I knew that tonight it was do or die," Cacares said. "After my last loss I felt it was my conditioning that cost me the win. House, the cut-man, told me I needed to work on my endurance and he gave me a list with some different sprints to do. I think those definitely helped me get the victory tonight. ?It's my dream to fight in the UFC and I want to make sure it lasts as long as possible."

Escovedo, 29, has a lot of experience around the world. He was once a WEC champ, but he had trouble tracking down Cacares. Cacares did a job with his offensive game mixing in a variety of kicks with some good two and three punch combinations.

Escovedo was surprised by the one-sided decision and said he had some troubles with his weight cut that left him lacking explosiveness.

"Nothing that Alex hit me with hurt me in the fight. He didn't have any power on his punches and we knew that coming into the fight. I accidentally cut to 134 yesterday and I think that hurt my stamina in the fight and cost me the win. I'm extremely disappointed with my performance."

Rosa wins battle of the clinch to get first UFC win

Aaron Rosa made the wise move of getting back to his natural class down at 205. There is no easy weight class in the UFC, so he got a solid test from UFC newcomer Matt Lucas.

Rosa showed better stamina and landed some heavy shots inside during a fight that featured 80 percent clinch work along the cage. The veteran got his first UFC win via majority decision, 30-26, 30-26 and 28-28, in fight No. 1 of the UFC on Fox card in the Honda Center.

Rosa (17-4, 1-1 UFC) lost his promotional debut back in June at UFC 131. Heavyweight Joey Beltran beat him up that night as Rosa entered the cage in excess of 250 pounds.

Tonight, he was a trim 205 and it made a big difference. Lucas landed four takedowns, but Rosa was able to get to his feet quickly in all four cases. Lucas (14-3) worked the takedown for most of the 15 minutes and it tired him badly. He spit out his mouthpiece on three occasions. Referee John McCarthy took a point away from Lucas in the second.

"I was very happy to go out there and get the win in such a big show. When the people started cheering it made all the work worthwhile," Rosa said. "My hands are feeling a little roughed up but I'm very excited to get back in the Octagon as soon as possible."

It's not surprising at all to hear Rosa's hands were hurt. He landed a lot of heavy shots in close quarters. He really beat up Lucas with elbows to the head, side and back during the clinches.

"I was way too reluctant and I couldn't seem to find my rhythm or put my strikes together the way that I planned to. I was stalling, I think being under the lights for the first time in an event like this had something to do with it. ?Hopefully I'll be back to show the fans what I can do," said Lucas.

Pierce edges Bradley using crisp left hand

Mike Pierce and Paul Bradley are carbon copies. Both fighters have a good wrestling background and developing striking. Pierce was a little better with his hands tonight and got slight nod on the scorecards in a split decision victory, 30-27, 29-28 and 28-29.

Much of the fight spent battling in the clinch for head control and inside punches. Pierce did most of his damage in close quarters. Anytime the fighters broke, Pierce (13-4, 5-2 UFC) did a nice job of landing his left hook. Bradley's eyes were pretty busted up by the end of the fight.

That's win No. 5 in the UFC for Pierce. He was on a great run and moving up the rankings until he met another good wrestler in Johny Hendricks during the summer. He lost that fight via unanimous decision. This gets him back on track.

Bradley (18-4, 0-2 UFC) is a tough opponent, he just hasn't been able to turn the corner in big fights. He's lost to Pierce and Rafael Natal in the UFC and back in 2009 he lost to eventual Strikeforce middleweight champ Luke Rockhold at 185 pounds.

This was actually a rematch of a 2009 outside the organization. Pierce won that night in a unanimous decision.

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Shuffler.fm Launches Its Nifty ?Flipboard For Music? iPad App (With Angel Funding To Boot)

Last year, Tim Heineke of Twones and Tone.fm, Marcel Corso and Diedrik Martens launched a new Amsterdam-based music startup, called Shuffler.fm, to let users listen to the tunes and artists being covered by music blogs while they read. The startup thus began its career as a cool web app for music discovery, with the goal of aggregating music from blogs across the Internets -- based on genre. Over the last year, Shuffler.fm has evolved into a service that now allows users to play continuous mixes of their favorite music blogs, browse through popular songs and artists through a nifty search function, as well as create personalized channels based on "favorite-ing" tracks and blogs. Music blogs can also create their own pages, including a "Play this blog" button that launches the blog's own channel. (Check out Sarah's coverage in August here.)

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HP Compaq 8200 Elite USDT

The HP Compaq 8200 Elite USDT ($869 direct) is a fine desktop choice for businesses who work primarily over the Web or a network (such as in the database, information analysis, or Web design fields). It lacks backward compatibility with old-school hardware like PCI cards and peripherals that connect via serial ports, but it compensates with speedy quad-core processing and forward-looking components. It's ideal for either a startup or an enterprise department that has finally thrown off the shackles of legacy hardware.

Design and Features
The 8200 Elite USDT is small enough (2.6 by 9.9 by 10 inches, HWD) to hide under a desk or in a cubbyhole, but it still retains some full-size components, like its Intel Core i5-2500S processor. Though the system is compact, there's still a little room inside. The system has two SO-DIMM slots for memory (one is filled), and the system has an MXM graphics card slot. MXM was designed for use in laptops and other small-form-factor machines as strictly an interior solution (it offers no external ports); it really hasn't taken off the way designers thought it would in the mid 2000s. Here it's used for configuring 8200 Elites with discrete graphics. On one hand this means that ultra-slim desktop (USDT) and ultra-small-form-factor (USFF) machines like the 8200 Elite can be equipped with optional discrete graphics at the factory. On the other, third-party MXM graphics cards are difficult to find, so you probably won't be upgrading the systems after purchase. The MXM card slot in this review unit is unoccupied, so the system uses the i5-2500S's integrated Intel HD 2000 Graphics.

Its compact size means that the 8200 Elite USDT doesn't have any other internal expansion room. You (or likely your IT folk) will have to add extra functionality using the system's ten USB 2.0 ports. The only legacy ports are the PS/2 ports for the keyboard and mouse, and a VGA port for the monitor. If your business has stopped buying VGA monitors, the only alternative is DisplayPort. There are also no HDMI, USB 3.0, or eSATA ports. There simply isn't room?a tradeoff you must make for such a compact system. The serviceability of the system is average: The system's lockable case door comes off quickly, but you'll have to remove the optical drive to get to the hard drive. In contrast, the Editors' Choice Lenovo ThinkCentre M91p USFF ($1,180 direct, 4 stars) is much easier to get into and service.

The desktop comes with two laptop-style drives: a 2.5-inch 250GB hard drive and a tray-loading DVD burner. This setup has plusses and minuses. The hard drive can be swapped out for another solution in some configurations, but both the spinning hard drive (320GB) and SSD (160GB) options are relatively small; competing systems can be configured with full-size hard drives ranging from 500GB to 4TB in capacity.

The 8200 Elite USDT can be configured to your liking during the ordering process, but our review unit came with a standard set of preloaded programs, mostly in the form of installers. Installers are a good way to go, because they avoid the headaches of preinstalled programs but give end users or IT folk the option of using them. These programs include HP's Power Assistant, HP's ProtectTools security software, and Norton Internet Security 2011. As it does with most enterprise PCs, HP supports disk imaging for the 8200 Elite line, from the USDT seen here all the way up to tower PCs in the same family.

Performance
A 2.7GHz Intel Core i5-2500S processor, with built-in Intel HD Graphics 2000, and 4GB of DDR3 memory made the HP Compaq 8200 Elite USDT a quick performer on our benchmark tests. For example, the 8200 Elite motored through our Handbrake video test in only 1 minute 21 seconds and our Photoshop CS5 test in 3:16. These results are in a dead heat with those of the Lenovo ThinkCentre M91p (1:21 Handbrake, 3:12 CS5), though behind those of the class-leading (but more expensive) Dell Optiplex 990 ($1,905 direct, 3.5 stars) (1:11 Handbrake, 2:57 CS5). That said, the 8200 Elite should last your company the three to five years it takes to write off the capital expense.

The HP Compaq 8200 Elite USDT is certainly a capable compact desktop for your medium-to-enterprise-sized business. It's powerful enough to fulfill your day-to-day needs, particularly if you're a Web-based business or frequently work with more traditional databases and Excel spreadsheets, and it can even handle light-to-medium graphics tasks. It's reasonably easy to service, but the Lenovo M91p will be even quicker for your IT folks. The Lenovo also uses cheaper and more capacious desktop-class hard and optical drives. Both systems are roughly equivalent performers, but the HP costs a few hundred dollars less per unit. That said, the Lenovo M91p's build quality, backward-compatibility with legacy PCI cards, and serviceability give it the leg up to stay as our Editors' Choice for large/enterprise-class businesses.

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The Most Potent Orgy of Nostalgia I've Ever Seen [Video]

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Venezuela vows all-out hunt for Nationals' Ramos

FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2011, file photo, Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos looks up from the dugout at the end of the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds at Nationals Park in Washington. According to Kathe Vilera, a spokeswoman for Ramos' Venezuelan League team, the Aragua Tigers, four armed men kidnapped Ramos on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011, from his home in central Venezuela. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2011, file photo, Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos looks up from the dugout at the end of the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds at Nationals Park in Washington. According to Kathe Vilera, a spokeswoman for Ramos' Venezuelan League team, the Aragua Tigers, four armed men kidnapped Ramos on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011, from his home in central Venezuela. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

FILE - In this June 4, 2011, file photo, Washington Nationals' Wilson Ramos looks on during a baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks in Phoenix. According to Kathe Vilera, a spokeswoman for Ramos' Venezuelan League team, the Aragua Tigers, four armed men kidnapped Ramos on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011, from his home in central Venezuela. (AP Photo/Paul Connors, File)

FILE - This July 6, 2011 file photo shows Washington Nationals' Wilson Ramos hitting a sacrifice bunt to drive in teammate Michael Morse for the go-ahead run in the seventh inning against the Chicago Cubs at Nationals Park in Washington. According to Kathe Vilera, a spokeswoman for Ramos' Venezuelan League team, the Aragua Tigers, four armed men kidnapped Ramos Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011 from his home in central Venezuela. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, file)

FILE - This 2011 file photo shows player Wilson Ramos of the Washington Nationals baseball team. According to Kathe Vilera, a spokeswoman for Ramos' Venezuelan League team, the Aragua Tigers, four armed men kidnapped Ramos Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011 from his home in central Venezuela.?(AP Photo/David J. Phillip, file)

David Ramos, brother of Washington Nationals' catcher Wilson Ramos, left, opens the gate of his family's home for an unidentified woman in the municipality of Santa Ines in Valencia, Venezuela, Thursday Nov. 10, 2011. The 24-year-old player, who had just finished his rookie season, was just outside the front door at his home in the town of Santa Ines on Wednesday night when an SUV approached, armed men got out "and they took him away," said Ramos' agent, Gustavo Marcano. (AP Photo/Lexander Loiza)

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) ? The government sent top investigators Thursday to hunt for Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos, whose abduction has shaken Venezuela's elite athletes and focused attention on the nation's sharp rise in kidnappings for ransom.

The 24-year-old player, who had returned to Venezuela after his rookie season, was just outside the front door at his home in the town of Santa Ines on Wednesday night when an SUV approached, armed men got out "and they took him away," said Ramos' agent, Gustavo Marcano.

It was the first known kidnapping of a Major League Baseball player in Venezuela, though the relatives of some ballplayers have previously been held captive for ransom.

Police found the kidnappers' vehicle abandoned in the nearby town of Bejuma on Thursday morning, Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami said. He said anti-kidnapping units led by "the best investigators we have" were dispatched to the area in central Carabobo state.

He vowed to rescue Ramos and capture his abductors.

"We're taking on this investigation with everything we've got," El Aissami said.

Major League Baseball and the Nationals said the leagues' Department of Investigations was working with authorities.

"Our foremost concern is with Wilson Ramos and his family and our thoughts are with them at this time," the team and the MLB said in a joint statement, adding there would be no further comment.

Ramos was outside with his father and two brothers when the SUV pulled up with four men inside, three of whom got out and seized the player, Marcano said.

"The abductors haven't made contact with the family or with anyone," said Domingo Alvarez, vice president of the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League. "We're worried."

Ramos is a key young player for the Nationals. As a rookie in 2011, he hit .267 with 15 home runs and 52 RBIs in 113 games. He also threw out 19 of 67 runners attempting to steal a base, a 28 percent success rate that ranked third among qualifying catchers in the National League.

Washington acquired Ramos from the Minnesota Twins in a trade for All-Star relief pitcher Matt Capps in July 2010.

He is one of dozens of Venezuelans in professional baseball, and security while at home has increasingly become a concern for the players and their families as a rising wave of kidnappings has hit the wealthy as well as the middle class.

Venezuelan police said 618 kidnappings were reported in 2009, and the numbers have grown rapidly in recent years. In 1998, when President Hugo Chavez was elected, just 52 kidnappings were reported. Security experts say the real number of kidnappings today is much higher because many cases aren't reported to authorities.

The wealthy have taken steps to protect themselves. Sales of armored cars have soared in the past several years. Bodyguards typically shadow major leaguers when they return to their homeland to play in the winter league.

"Every major league player has his own security, but we don't know if he had his security there at that time," Alvarez said.

Former Boston Red Sox slugger Tony Armas, who lives in Venezuela, said young players have been taking additional security measures due to the risk of kidnappings.

"But many of them are careless sometimes. No one seriously thinks that this can happen to us, and much less in a country like ours where people love baseball," Armas said in a telephone interview.

"Most of us came from humble families. We still have relatives who live in poor areas; we frequent those places and unfortunately the criminals are getting more soulless all the time," he said.

In November 2009, the 56-year-old mother of Victor Zambrano, who retired after a seven-year Major League career, was rescued in a commando-style operation three days after she was kidnapped. The former pitcher's cousin, Richard Mendez Zambrano, had been kidnapped a few days earlier, and was later killed.

In June 2009, Colorado Rockies catcher Yorvit Torrealba's 11-year-old son and brother-in-law were kidnapped and released a day later.

The mother of former player Ugueth Urbina, who was a two-time All-Star pitcher, spent more than five months in captivity until she was rescued in early 2005.

Venezuela has one of Latin America's highest murder rates, and violent crime has worsened in recent years. As ransom kidnapping has soared, the government passed a revised law in 2009 that stiffened prison sentences for kidnapping and also allows authorities to freeze the banks accounts of victims' families to prevent them from paying ransom.

Ramos had been training and planned to start playing with his Venezuelan team next week. Arizona Diamondbacks third baseman Melvin Mora, also a Venezuelan, proposed that the Venezuelan league ought to call off its games "until he appears."

But league president Jose Grasso said that won't happen. "Turning out the stadium lights isn't a solution," Grasso said, calling Ramos' abduction "an isolated event."

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AP Sports Writers Howard Fendrich in Washington and Ron Blum in New York contributed to this report.

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How the cold, dead moon stayed magnetic

A mystery thrown up by the Apollo moon rocks may finally have been solved. How did the moon remain magnetic tens of millions of years after its molten core stopped sloshing?

The moon has no global magnetic field today, but early in its life, it probably had a core hot enough to churn violently, with the movement of this electrically charged fluid creating a magnetic field. But as the core cooled, the convection should have eased enough to kill the field. So it was a puzzle when Apollo moon rocks suggested the moon still had a magnetic field 4.2 billion years ago, millions of years after the powerful mixing is thought to have ended. Now two groups have come up with explanations for what could have kept the core stirred up.

The moon is thought to have formed closer to the Earth than it is now and spun faster, slowing down and moving away over time through tidal interactions with Earth. Christina Dwyer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and colleagues say previous models did not take into account this faster spin, which would have agitated the molten core like water in a washing machine. This could have enabled the magnetic field to last until 2.7 billion years ago.

Michael Le Bars at the Non-Equilibrium Phenomena Research Institute in Marseille, France, says large meteorite impacts that occurred until about 3.9 billion years ago also could have set the lunar core sloshing for periods of 10,000 years at a time.

Both models offer "a way out of a pretty major conundrum", says Ben Weiss at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Some meteorites ? thought to be chips off of asteroids ? are magnetic, and spacecraft flybys have measured two asteroids with magnetic fields, he says, adding that the models might explain how these space rocks came to be magnetised.

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Amazon gets Siri-ous about mobile, acquires voice technology application Yap (Digital Trends)

Amazon has been making big moves lately. The Kindle Fire and its app marketplace are becoming a more serious competitive threat, with hosting and storage services to back it up. In the scheme of things, Amazon is shaping up to not only challenge the digital retail space, but the Apple ecosystem has been put on notice ever since the rumors of an Amazon tablet surfaced.

And its most recent acquisition has given new life to the Amazon vs. iOS speculation. AllThingsD has confirmed that Amazon now owns Yap, which most recently has been serving as a voicemail-to-text service. However, previously, Yap?s focus was voice recognition technology, something the company was reportedly still developing.

Sound familiar? The iPhone 4S? Siri has been the belle of the iOS ball ever since the refreshed iPhone 4 debuted last month. The all-encompassing virtual assistant has not only been the new handset?s major sell, it?s been heralded as a significant step toward ushering next-gen tech into the average consumer?s hands.

Whether you buy the Siri hype or not, the application has hit a chord with its audience, and Apple competitors know it. No sooner had the iPhone 4S launched then Android takes on Siri began to get some attention. And now, Amazon appears to be investing in its own attempts at artificial intelligence.

The easiest assumption to make right off that bat is that this means a future version of the Kindle Fire will include virtual assistant technology (it?s worth noting that Siri has not made its way to older versions of the iPhone or the iPad ? however we?re due for the next-gen version which could very easily include the feature). From there, the grander guesses come fast and furiously: does this confirm that Amazon is pursuing a family of mobile devices?including smartphones and additional tablets? A larger model of the Kindle Fire is rumored to be part of Amazon?s roadmap.

Adding some drama to the deal is the fact that Amazon has kept incredibly quiet about the entire thing. The acquisition has been in the works since last month, and only after a blogger picked up on SEC filing did any of this come to light.

The jury is still out on whether or not Yap means Siri-like intelligence for Amazon products?whatever those products may be. If anything, this just confirms that Amazon won?t remain complacent in the mobile technology race.

This article was originally posted on Digital Trends

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