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The Arab League met yesterday to assess its observer mission to Syria so far and to consider further steps. Syria's reprehensible behavior and the Arab League's inability to stop it will doubtlessly lead to stepped-up calls for international military intervention. While such calls may be justified, any military intervention in Syria is still a long way off. Few countries are prepared to intervene militarily in Syria, nor are the goals of such military action entirely clear.
Against this backdrop, I've just published an article on Fareed Zakaria's Global Public Square in which I both assess the Arab League's efforts so far and suggest eight practical steps the international community could adopt short of military intervention. The piece can be found at http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/22/danin-how-to-help-syria-without-intervening-militarily/ and is posted below as well.
Danin: How to help Syria without intervening militarily
Editor's Note: Robert M. Danin is Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a former Director for the Levant and Israeli-Palestinian Affairs at the National Security Council.
By Robert M. Danin – Special to CNN
The Arab League's decision on Sunday to renew its monitors' mandate consigns Syria to further bloodshed and the pan-Arab body back to its longstanding position of irrelevance. Arab League representatives argue that they've ratcheted up the pressure by calling on President Bashar al-Assad to surrender power to a deputy, form a national unity government, and hold multi-party elections. But who can take this call seriously?
Damascus agreed last November to the Arab League's original plan to pull back its heavy weapons from Syria's cities, halt attacks on protesters, open talks with the opposition, and allow human rights workers and journalists into Syria. The Syrian regime did little other than let in a fraction of the Arab League monitoring team into the country and restrict their movements. In the one month that those Arab League monitors were in Syria, Assad's savagery only increased along with the daily rate of Syrians killed.
The Arab League had earlier shown promise with its decisions to request non-Arab engagement in Libya, and then its subsequent decisions to suspending Syria from its body and impose economic sanctions on Damascus. But those sanctions are still largely unimplemented, and the Arab League seems to have lost its resolve. Had it demonstrated courage, the Arab League would have admitted that the monitoring effort was a failure, or put serious muscle behind its actions.
Clearly, that's what Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal wanted. In response to Sunday's Arab League decision, Prince Saud announced, "My country will withdraw its monitors because the Syrian government did not execute any of the elements of the Arab League plan." Instead, Faisal called for the international community to take greater responsibility for countering Assad's carnage.
Sunday's Arab League decisions are a profound disappointment to those of us who had hoped that the Arab League was adapting itself to the unrest sweeping the Arab world by making itself responsive to the needs of the Arab people. Instead, the Cairo-based body has reverted back to its traditional form, disconnected from the sentiments of the people it purports to represent. In doing so, the League squandered an opportunity to state honestly that its monitoring mission has only provided additional time and cover for Assad to increase the daily killing of scores upon scores of Syrians. The credibility of this monitoring effort was illustrated by the fact that over twenty of the more than 100 monitors allowed into Syria have resigned out of conscience.
The silver lining in all this is the Arab League's dismal efforts have drawn attention to a conflict that the international community otherwise seems to want to just go away. The Obama Administration's high-level inattention towards the bloodshed in Syria is curious, given just how inimical such a posture is to American interests and values.
Syria's recent unrest has already diminished Damascus' ability to support terrorists and other retrograde elements - witness Hamas' move to find safer haven and Iran's move to step up its direct support for Gaza's Islamic Jihad given the loss of Syria as a middle-man. With Syria strategically located at the region's epicenter bordering countries vital to U.S. interests - including Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, Israel, and Lebanon - there is no reason to believe that increased turmoil and instability in Syria will remain contained there.
Bashar al-Assad has a demonstrated record of recklessness and of efforts to export violence, unrest, and subterfuge towards all of these neighbors. For Syria's neighbors, Bashar is simply an accident waiting to happen. Moreover, with Syria the sole Arab country that has openly and actively facilitated the expansion of Iranian influence into the Arab world, success in rolling that back would be a victory of strategic significance.
No doubt, there are grave risks inherent in the collapse of the Assad regime. Those who back Assad today do so not out of affection or respect for the man or his regime, but out of fear of chaos or an Islamist take-over in Syria. These concerns have some legitimacy. But the status quo in Syria is equally if not more dangerous. The country is clearly sliding into civil war and intense sectarian strife. The stability once offered by the Assad family business has long since ended.
President Obama no doubt understands all this. Otherwise, he would not have long ago crossed the Rubicon by calling - repeatedly - for the Alawite ophthalmologist, Bashar al-Assad, to go. Yet the Administration seems to think this will happen by itself. For months, officials have been saying that Assad's days were numbered. In early November, Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs, Jeffrey Feltman, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Assad's departure was "inevitable." Yet when Administration officials are asked about timing, their assessments vary widely, ranging from days and weeks to months and years. Indeed, in the long run, all leaders' days are numbered.
The Istanbul-based Syrian National Council, an umbrella group of oppositionists, asked the Arab League recently to request the United Nations Security Council authorize a no-fly zone over Syria. Even if such a no fly-zone were militarily desirable as a panacea to the ills that plague the Syrian forces fighting to topple the Assad regime - a questionable proposition from a military perspective - the political and diplomatic pieces needed to legitimate and effectuate such an action are a long way off.
The Arab League won't request it, the Russians are implacably hostile to it, and NATO's senior military leadership misses no opportunity to articulate its adamant opposition. Syria is not Libya, and even Libya is not looking so great these days. Syria is currently mired in a tragic situation that does not lend itself to a single magic step to end the bloodshed.
That does not mean the situation is impossible or irrevocably in stalemate. The difficulties posed by the Assad regime and its international supporters should not allow the Obama Administration to conclude that nothing can be done. There are a number of things that can be done, short of military intervention, to increase the pressure on Bashar al-Assad, isolate his regime internationally, weaken his base of support in Syria, and help begin to prepare the environment for a post-Assad Syria. What follows are eight steps that the United States and other members of the international community could adopt, well short of military action, to this end:
1. Recall the U.S. Ambassador from Syria.
Washington's envoy to Damascus, Robert Ford, has been valiant and courageous in his public outreach and his efforts support legitimate protests in Syria. But given the growing illegitimacy of the Assad regime, Ford's continued presence there makes little sense. It undermines the President's message that Assad must go. He should be withdrawn. This withdrawal is all the more timely as Washington begs the Syrians to provide adequate security to the U.S. Embassy. The most visible American in Damascus is not necessarily best positioned anymore to have discreet discussions with the Syrian opposition. Other Americans on the ground should do that.
2. Put the Syrian regime on notice that it alone will be held responsible for any harm to American officials in Syria and threaten to close the U.S. Embassy if American officials' safety and freedom of movement is not guaranteed.
In the past few days, Washington has asked the Syrian government to bolster security around the American compound in Damascus. According to the State Department, the Syrian government is "considering the request."
This approach is unacceptable. With bombs regularly exploding in Damascus, and the government struggling to create a narrative that the Syrian government is the victim of foreign intrigue, the U.S. has inadvertently put the initiative (and American lives) in the hands of proven killers. It is desirable to keep our embassy open to reach out to opposition elements and civil society. But closing the embassy is far preferable than waiting for the next Syrian rent-a-crowd or bomb to attack American facilities. This has happened several times before in Syria. How long before the Syrians attack again?
3. Create an international Syria contact group or "Friends of Syria" to unite efforts to help the Syrians people, heighten diplomatic pressure on Syria, and prepare for the "day after."
Such a contact group was remarkably effective in uniting international diplomatic efforts and drawing international attention towards Libya. It could serve to coordinate efforts by those Arab states, like Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Jordan, that have clearly broken with Bashar al-Assad and those in the West, such as France, Britain, and hopefully the U.S. that claim to have done the same.
4. Provide greater support and deploy a senior American official to the Syrian opposition.
The Syrian opposition is clearly fractured along sectarian, ideological, and programmatic lines, not to mention between those located inside the country and those based in neighboring Turkey. Divisions and disorganization is not surprising, given Syria's heterogeneity and the opposition relatively recent formation. Yet it is unrealistic, if not disingenuous, for foreign governments to withhold support to the opposition until they overcome their differences. Left to their own devices, they will remain divided and unable to reach out to the significant minority groups that remain fearful that a post-Assad Syria will offer them no protections.
Greater organizational and diplomatic support should be provided immediately. While full diplomatic recognition as the sole representative of Syria should be conferred only under the right conditions, in the meantime, the U.S. should take other steps, including sending a full time and visible representative to the Syrian National Council, just as we did when the able diplomat Chris Stevens was assigned to work with the Libyan opposition in Benghazi.
5. Push for an Arms Embargo on Syria.
Russia has brazenly defied calls to halt its arms shipments to the Syrian government and threatened to veto any resolution at the United Nations that calls for an arms embargo. This should not deter efforts to unite the rest of the world around a resolution endorsing an arms embargo, even if in the end Russia is forced to stand alone at the Security Council by casting an embarrassing and indefensible veto.
6. Keep Syria on the Security Council Agenda.
Since at least last October, Russia has agilely stymied efforts to condemn Syria at the United Nations by providing watered down resolutions that create moral equivalencies between the Assad regime and the protesters demonstrating again it. As a corollary to its efforts to impose an arms embargo on Syria, the international community should introduce the harshest possible condemnation of the Syrian government's reprehensible actions, and then force the Russians to have to stand alone in defending Bashar al-Assad. No doubt gaining unanimity even without Russia and without Arab League endorsement will require scaling back the punitive effect of such a resolution. But even a purely symbolic resolution condemning Syria is important in keeping the international community's human rights' compass properly aligned.
7. Tighten sanctions on Syrian government officials and their supporters.
Broad sanctions against Syria are clearly having a devastating impact on the country's economy. But it is not clear that it is forcing the key pillars of the regime's support - the army and the Aleppo and Damascene business communities. Designating key individuals who are most critical to supporting Assad's continued rule would be more effective and less blunt an instrument. These measures would include freezing assets of more senior officials, tightening travel bans on them and their families, encouraging Europe to expand the list of individuals, companies and institutions targeted by European Union sanctions. To date, EU sanctions target 30 entities and 86 Syrian individuals.
8. Initiate steps to indict Bashar al-Assad and his key henchmen at the International Criminal Court.
Syria is not a signatory to the Rome Statute that established the Court in 2002. Nonetheless, Assad's regime could be held accountable if the Security Council were to ask the ICC's chief prosecutor to investigate the situation. Such a precedent was set in February 2011 when United Nations Security Council Resolution 1970 referred Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's regime to the ICC. Some government officials argue that even Russia and China may be amenable to some action along these lines.
No doubt, there are more steps that governments and institutions can adopt to further pressure and isolate the Assad regime. Government mandarins can and always will provide compelling arguments against taking any given course of action, suggesting that such steps are either bad ideas or have already been tried. That is why senior officials must lead and take difficult decisions.
The current international paralysis and relative silence about Syria, just like the Arab League's efforts to effectuate change in Syria, will be seen in Damascus as either a sign of weakness or a tacit if uncomfortable preference for the status quo. Changing that perception is necessary to forcing real behavior change, if not regime change, in Syria. Yet that perception can only be changed through serious, concerted, and ongoing high-level international attention. It was once called diplomacy.
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I know I haven't been around very much here on the blog. I've been super busy and haven't felt very creative. However, I did whip up a few baby congrats cards and thought I would share before my blog gets dust bunnies. lol I love making cards with the same design but different papers/colors. Super easy!
That's all I got for now. Thanks for stopping by. I'll be back when my case of the "blahs" wear off. :)
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Super cute cards!
Hope your "blahs" go away soon. :-)
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- Deirdre said...
Great cards... hope the blahs wear off soon.....
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- Sara said...
Those cards are super sweet!! Hope you're back blogging soon! {{HUGS}}
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Barefoot Bloggers: Parmesan Chicken
How great is it to come home from a long day at work to the smell of dinner cooking? Now imagine dinner looked like this:
And it tasted as good as it looked. (Maybe even better since I didn't have to cook it, heh.)
Bill took over the shopping and cooking duties for me on this one, so he made a few modifications to his taste. (Base recipe link is available here.) He opted for romaine lettuce instead of mixed greens, and whipped up a balsamic vinaigrette instead of the lemon (just switched out balsamic vinegar for the lemon juice).
Big thumbs up from me, and a smaller thumbs up from Bill. The chicken was moist and tasty, specially when you got everything together in one bite. Bill thought the chicken could have used more flavor (and when you ate it by itself, some additional spices would have been nice). All in all, I'd have to say this is a recipe that I'll gladly add to the week-night rotation.
Thanks to Megan of My Baking Adventures for picking a great recipe! And don't forget to check out the other Barefoot Blogger entries for this.
(PS - Like the Rolling Rock shot? LOL That's his preferred method of cooking. One beer plus cooking makes him a happy camper.)


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John Gruber is one of my favorite tech commentators, but he's not doing so well with the iPad. He has divided the world into those who "get it" (i.e., adore the iPad) and those who "don't get it." This is an old Andrew Sullivan move, and one of the more annoying ones. Saying "you just don't get it" is not an argument; in fact, it's a straightforward refusal to discuss an issue rationally.
Gruber and others — Stephen Fry, for instance — have said that it's impossible to understand just how fabulous the iPad is until you hold it in your hands. In one sense I'm sure that's true, but let's remember that holding a device in your hands for twenty minutes (which is how long Gruber got) is not the same as using it day in and day out. Let's think about this one task at a time:
Typing. How much typing are you going to want to do on the iPad? Even in Apple's promotional video the guy looks awkward, pecking with three or four fingers with the device propped on his lap. You're only going to be able to do short emails, texts, tweets — anything more and you'll need to use the (optional) keyboard and dock. But to do that you'll have to sit at a desk: it won't balance on your lap the way a laptop does. And then how much typing will you want to do on a screen that's about the size of the original Macintosh's?
Moreover, much of my writing is done while switching back and forth between my browser — where I read things that make me think, copy and paste quotations, and post links — and my text editor. Writing this post on an iPad would be a major pain in the neck, and this is just a blog post, not a novel.
I think even the biggest iPad fans are likely to concede this point — they will presumably retort that the iPad is basically a media consumption device. But have they thought about how much time we spend on our computers typing?
Okay, then, on to the media.
Music. First of all, you'll need to make sure that you get an iPad with enough memory to hold a good bit of your music collection, at least until Apple moves to cloud-based music storage (which is bound to happen). But even if you do, you're probably only going to be able to listen to the music while sitting down, likely with the iPad in your lap, or right next to you. In other words, this won't be significantly different from listening on your laptop, and therefore won't be nearly as convenient as listening on an iPod.
Photos. Photos will definitely be fun to look at on the iPad. How much time do you spend doing that?
Movies. This would seem to be a strength of the iPad, except that its 4.3 format significantly reduces the available size for widescreen films. Good, but not great. Movies are going to look a lot better on your laptop.
Web browsing. I hate Flash with a passion, but it is all over the internet, and that's going to lead to a lot of frustration. It's not just a matter of the games you can't play — Apple likes that, because it encourages you to buy games from their App Store — but think of all the retailers whose sites are Flash-based. (Come to think of it, maybe Apple likes that too: if you can't shop at J. Crew, that leaves you with more money to spend at the iTunes Store.)
Calendar. Apple seems to be making a big deal out of the iPad's calendar, which is pretty sad. No doubt it looks really cool, but won't it almost always be a great deal more convenient to look at the calendar on your smartphone?
Getting work done. The one thing that I saw in the videos that I really like is the iPad version of Keynote. It would be great fun to create a Keynote presentation on the iPad — maybe when you're traveling and didn't even know that you were going to need one — plug it into a projector, and wow people. But a great many of my Keynote presentations are made by copying and pasting text and images from my browser and from other applications on my computer. How easy is that going to be on a computer that can't have multiple applications open? And how much of the information (especially text-based information) that you need will even be on the iPad? It's probably back home on your iMac or MacBook, which at some point in your travels you'll probably be wishing you had with you.
So, in short: I have major doubts about the utility, for most users, of the iPad. There isn't a single thing it does that isn't done better by other products in the Apple lineup.
And one more comment: everyone who is sold on this device is trying to refute the critics — people like me who "just don't get it" — by quoting all the people who dismissed the iPhone. But let's remember two things: first, some of us who are skeptical about the iPad were really enthusiastic about the iPhone, right from its first appearance; and second, I don't notice anyone quoting the people who predicted that the Apple TV would be a failure, or that the MacBook Air would be a fringe product. Not all of Apple's products have done what the iPhone has done.
So for what it's worth, my prediction: over the long haul, the iPad will be a minor success, but not a game-changer. It will be a heck of a lot more popular than the Apple TV, but nothing like the iPhone. And many of the people who buy them will within three months be setting them aside to gather dust, because they'll discover that they're happier with their smaller but utterly portable iPhones. I have a feeling that this time next year there will be a great many iPads available on eBay.


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Tyndale Christian School
My six paintings, in the naïve style, explore memories of my childhood and adolescence: events and situations that have shaped the person that I am today. I take the audience on a journey through the six most significant memories of my growing-up – from the humorous memory of an angry power drill attacking me when I was eight through to my changing perceptions of life, world issues and politics as I matured – to look like artwork of a young boy drawing on his personal memories. I was influenced by the autobiographical style of Basquiat and Kruger's commentary on society.
Discuss how Pieter Neve and Adam Cullen draw upon personal and public icons to create allegories or stories with alternate meanings in their art practice. Consider the subject matter and the gestural style in each work. How is the expressive mark-making quality of the painting medium that they both choose to employ used to maximum effect?


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Two Greek font/keyboard questions:
(1) For years (since mid-1990s), I've used Bwgrkl font as my default, go-to way of typing Greek. Now, however, I need to use the unicode Greek characters for a current project. I'm so used to typing fast using the bwgrkl keyboard map that I keep making mistakes using the "Greek Polytonic" keyboard layout through Windows. Is it difficult to remap that keyboard so it matches the keystrokes for Bwgrkl? Or has someone already done this in a way that can be downloaded and installed on a PC? (Btw, I'm using Windows XP, Word 2010, BW 9.)
Also... (2) I'm trying to use a document on a group project that was written using Greek in unicode characters. But for some reason, no diacritical marks are showing up... nor any letter with diacritical marks. I use a PC, Windows XP, Microsoft Word 2010. Another member of the group uses the same setup (except Windows 7 instead of XP) and the Greek text appears correctly with diacritical marks. We can't figure out why it won't on my PC. Any suggestions?
I've attached a jpg screenshot of Rev 1:1 to show the unicode diacritical mark problem.
Thanks in advance,
--ta biblia


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The Central Connecticut men's and women's basketball programs will be represented at Northeast Conference "Social" Media Day tomorrow at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY.
The event can will be streamed live for fans on NECFrontRow.com starting at 11 a.m. Blue Devil fans can log on and watch live interviews with head women's basketball coach Beryl Piper and senior captain Jessica Babe.
Head men's basketball coach Howie Dickenman and senior forward Terrell Allen will also be interviewed live by long time NEC television Dave Popkin and Tim Capstraw.
The #NECinNYC event is designed to enhance the fan experience with the proceedings to air live and in HD on NEC Front Row beginning at 11:00 a.m. NEC Media Day will also air on delay in condensed form on Fox College Sports (FCS) in early November.
"The inaugural NEC Basketball "Social" Media Day was a huge success for the league, our coaches and fans," said Noreen Morris, NEC Commissioner. "We are thrilled to return to Barclays Center to kick off the 2013-14. It's an amazing venue to showcase our men's and women's basketball programs. Follow us live on NEC Front Row and interact with us on Twitter!"
The interactive nature of NEC Media Day will begin well in advance of the event. Fans can tweet questions for NEC coaches to @NECsports or by using the hashtag #NECinNYC. During the broadcast, NEC Director of Social Media Ralph Ventre and Matt Martucci will be interacting with fans and highlighting the best tweets on air. By using the hashtag #NECinNYC, the most active and engaging tweeters will have the opportunity to win NEC prize packs.


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Businesses are growing worried about drive-by infections by malware that exploits two zero-day Java vulnerabilities.
Attackers, apparently operating from China, chained the two vulnerabilities together to defeat Java 7 security settings, allowing them to execute arbitrary code on targeted PCs. But the exploit code has since been added to attack toolkits and used in new, targeted attacks.
Here are six facts that businesses need to know about the vulnerabilities being exploited, as well as how to protect their users:
1. Warning: Uninstall Java, Or Maybe Disable
Security experts have recommended that users disable all Java browser plug-ins, pending a patch from Oracle.
US-CERT has offered detailed instructions about how to disable Java in Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer browsers. But it warned that where IE is concerned, nuking the Java plug-in isn't a straightforward manner, as "there are multiple ways for a Web page to invoke a Java applet, and multiple ways to configure Java plug-in support."
[ Windows 7 and 8 password clues are vulnerable to attack. See Windows Password Clues Easy To Crack. ]
In fact, at least for IE users, US-CERT suggested that the difficulties involved in disabling Java might require stronger measures. "Due to the complexity and impracticality of disabling Java in Internet Explorer, you may wish to uninstall Java to protect against this vulnerability."
2. Oracle Learned Of Vulnerabilities Four Months Ago
Is Oracle patching critical vulnerabilities in Java quickly enough? Sunday, FireEye went public with details of a never-before-seen attack. In response, some security researchers this week criticized the company for behaving irresponsibly by not having worked with Oracle to patch the flaws before disclosing them publicly.
But IDG News reported Wednesday that Polish vulnerability research company Security Explorations disclosed the two exploited vulnerabilities to Oracle--including detailed proof-of-exploit attack code--more than four months ago, on April 2. "Among a total of 19 weaknesses discovered, there are issues that allow to either create a specific Java security bypass condition or that facilitate the exploitation process of a certain type of vulnerabilities," according to a press release issued by Security Explorations. The firm said it had developed reliable proof-of-concept exploits for all of the vulnerabilities, including 12 mock attacks "that demonstrate a complete JVM security sandbox bypass."
"Why critical remote code execution vulnerabilities were not fixed in Oracle's June patch is unknown," said Chester Wisniewski, a senior security advisor at Sophos Canada, in a blog post. "Oracle has yet to acknowledge these publicly, but had set expectations with Security Explorations that they were to be fixed in October."
3. Vulnerability Added To BlackHole Within Hours
The seriousness of the new Java exploits can be measured by the speed with which exploit toolkit authors updated their software to make use of the exploit. According to Wisniewski at Sophos, "it took less than 12 hours from the time the proof of concept for the latest Java zero-day vulnerabilities went public for exploits of those vulnerabilities to be included in a commercial crimeware kit"--namely, the BlackHole toolkit.
Of course, BlackHole isn't the only exploit kit on the market. "Exploit competition heats up. Latest Java exploit added to Redkit exploit kit too," tweeted Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure, about the Russian-language RedKit, a relatively new exploit kit that competes with the BlackHole and Phoenix crimeware packs, and which gained notoriety earlier this year for targeting a new Java exploit.


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As episode No. 10 of "The Ultimate Fighter 16" opens, Team Carwin's Mike Ricci is discussing his decision to face fellow Canadian Michael Hill. Mike insists it's nothing personal, despite Michael's anger. But after beating Team Nelson's first pick, Dom Waters, he wants to take out No. 2, as well.
First up though, it's a Team Carwin matchup as Bristol Marunde takes on Neil Magny. Shane Carwin's assistant coaches are split between the two fighters, and one of them will soon be the first semifinalist of the season. There's no messing around in episode No. 10, and we go right to the fight.
Round 1 – Referee Josh Rosenthal in the cage. The pair engages immediately and trade punches in the pocket. Bristol misses with a few haymakers as Neil manages the distance well and stays out of range. Bristol moves in on a takedown and works immediately to top position, but Neil calmly turns to his knees and breaks away on the feet. Bristol adds in a few low kicks, but Neil remains elusive, even when he slips briefly to the floor. Bristol remains the aggressor in the late going. Neil does a good job of avoiding any real damage, but Roy Nelson is screaming for him to do a better job of countering when he does avoid Bristol's attacks. The round ends with Bristol tripping Neil to the floor on a missed kick.
Round 2 – Both fighters pick up the pace to open and fire off punches and kicks in close range. They settle shortly after, and Bristol again is the one moving forward. However, Neil does a fantastic job of countering and appears to stun his opponent with punches from distance. Shortly after, Bristol recovers and is able to again trip Neil to the floor, where he sets up in top position. Bristol stands, and Neil's corner screams for him to stand, which he does shortly after. Neil then reverses the position with his own takedown but is forced to defend a kimura attempt underneath. He eventually breaks the lock and settles on top in the final minute. He looks to score with punches before Bristol ultimately scrambles up. Neil works to the back on the close. He's done enough to take round two, so it's all going to come down to the first. At the close, the decision is in, and he's done enough.
Neli Magny def. Bristol Marunde via unanimous decision (20-18, 20-18, 20-18)
Following the result, Neil is obviously thrilled at the result. Bristol is disappointed, but he believes he can be proud of his efforts in the fight.
We move quickly on to the second fight of the show with Team Carwin's Igor Araujo vs. Team Nelson's Colton Smith. Igor has to weigh in behind a towel, but he does hit 171 pounds. Colton is 170, but this weigh-in is anything but routine. In the staredown, their noses touch, and Igor goes ballistic. Two shoves to the chest prompt coaches and teammates to jump in and hold him back. Roy isn't one of the people who interrupts, and Shane finds it ridiculous that his opposing coach isn't acting a little more responsibly.
The tempers remain high for quite some time. Igor thinks Colton has insulted his mother, and the two basically threaten death on one another. Roy just laughs at the drama. Shane looks extremely annoyed at his opposing coach's actions.
TEAM CARWIN'S IGOR ARAUJO (22-6) vs. TEAM NELSON'S COLTON SMITH (3-1)
Round 1 – Steve Mazzagatti oversees this fight. Igor rushes forward to open and moves into a clinch. Colton circles off the cage and scores his own takedown. Colton looks to establish position on the floor, and after looking briefly for a choke, he drops several elbows to his opponent's head. Igor settling on to his back, and his team calls for him to pick up the pace. As he scrambles, he exposes his back, and Colton takes the position. However, Igor moves well to avoid any potential chokes and simply turns and rolls as he looks for opportunities. Still, it's Colton who controls the action until the bell and easily claims the round. Despite the animosity, Colton helps Igor up at the close of the round.
Round 2 – Igor looks energized to open and ready to strike, but Colton quickly closes the distance and brings the fight to the floor. Igor's corner yells for him to attack from his back, and he does look for a few potential submissions. Colton slips out of each attempt and again settles on top. Colton lands a few short elbows from the top, but more importantly, he controls the positioning and refuses to allow Igor an opportunity to reverse the momentum. Igor's corner begs for him to do something, but time is ticking away, and Colton is in total control. He finishes the round on top, and there is little doubt who the winner will be.
Colton Smith def. Igor Araujo via unanimous decision (20-18, 20-18, 20-18)
Despite the heat, the two hug it out to close. Colton walks into the semifinals. An emotional Igor admits he's missing his kids tremendously, and his tournament is over.
Next week, the remaining two semifinalists will be chosen.
Catch new episodes of "The Ultimate Fighter 16: Team Carwin vs. Team Nelson" every Friday at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT on FX. MMAjunkie.com recaps each episode of the reality series, and full series coverage can be found on The Ultimate Fighter 16 page.


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Are you listening to your kids?September 28, 2015
"I originally went to see Nicole so I can get some advice on controlling my adult acne, but Nicole uncovered the real culprit. I had not realised how my digestive system was affecting my entire life, let alone my skin. With a series of easy nutritional changes and Nicole's digestion aid drops, I started to see the difference within 2 weeks."Angelique K. VIC