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		<title>Robert W. Smith passes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 18:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Couch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Demarco, editor of the Journal of Asian Martial Arts, passed along the news that Robert W. Smith has passed away. Even if, as is likely, you&#8217;re familiar with his work, you&#8217;ll still likely be surprised what all you can find in his impressive bibliography at EJMAS here. You can also find some Smith correspondence [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Michael Demarco, editor of the <em>Journal of Asian Martial Arts</em>, passed along the news that Robert W. Smith has passed away. Even if, as is likely, you&#8217;re familiar with his work, you&#8217;ll still likely be surprised what all you can find in <a href="http://ejmas.com/jcs/jcssmith_bibliog.htm">his impressive bibliography at EJMAS here</a>.</p>
<p>You can also find some <a href="http://ejmas.com/jcs/jcsart_harrison_0503.htm">Smith correspondence with E.J. Harrison here</a> and <a href="http://ejmas.com/jcs/jcsharrison_completejudo.htm">here</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://ejmas.com/jcs/jcsdraeger_fightingarts.htm">As well as correspondence with Donn Draeger here.</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.161680077233602.40627.155774411157502">Lastly, here is a photo gallery posted by JAMA on facebook.</a></p>
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		<title>20% Off Books This Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Couch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Get 20% off any Lulu.com books for the next week, such as mine here or check out some others like Kirk&#8217;s WMA Books or Tony&#8217;s material. Terms: Enter coupon code SUNSHINE305 at checkout and receive 20% off your order. The maximum savings for this coupon is $250. Offer good towards print costs only &#8211; shipping [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Get 20% off any Lulu.com books for the next week, such as <a href="http://stores.lulu.com/martialhistory">mine here</a> or check out some others like <a href="http://stores.lulu.com/lawson">Kirk&#8217;s WMA Books</a> or <a href="http://stores.lulu.com/antagonistics">Tony&#8217;s material.</a></p>
<p>Terms:</p>
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		<title>Girl Gangs of London</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 12:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Couch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say you can&#8217;t judge a book by its cover, but Brian McDonald&#8217;s Gangs of London sure doesn&#8217;t look like much from it&#8217;s barebones Amazon UK page. This article in the Guardian shows why, once again, &#8220;they&#8221; might be onto something. Tell me this snippet about a female shoplifting gang in London doesn&#8217;t tickle your [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They say you can&#8217;t judge a book by its cover, but Brian McDonald&#8217;s <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1903854911?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=argovent-21&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=6738&#038;creativeASIN=1903854911">Gangs of London</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.co.uk/e/ir?t=argovent-21&#038;l=as2&#038;o=2&#038;a=1903854911" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /> sure doesn&#8217;t look like much from it&#8217;s barebones Amazon UK page.<span id="more-724"></span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/27/girl-gang-london-underworld"> This article in the Guardian</a> shows why, once again, &#8220;they&#8221; might be onto something. Tell me this snippet about a female shoplifting gang in London doesn&#8217;t tickle your fancy:</p>
<blockquote><p>Presided over by a formidable &#8220;queen&#8221;, the Forty Elephants were responsible for the largest shoplifting operation ever seen in Britain between the 1870s and 1950s. The gang was first mentioned in newspapers in 1873, but police records suggest it had existed since the late 1700s.<br />
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Born in 1896 in Southwark, Annie Diamond became queen of the gang when she was 20. She ruled with military precision, dividing the gang into cells to ransack a single shop or raid a series of shops across the city simultaneously. To the police, she was &#8220;the cleverest of thieves&#8221; and called Diamond Annie, because she had a &#8220;punch to beware of&#8221;, said McDonald, thanks to fists studded with diamond rings.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>A Position on Dueling</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Couch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Schofield Kid: [after killing a man for the first time] It don&#8217;t seem real&#8230; how he ain&#8217;t gonna never breathe again, ever&#8230; how he&#8217;s dead. And the other one too. All on account of pulling a trigger. Will Munny: It&#8217;s a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he&#8217;s got and [...]]]></description>
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The Schofield Kid: [after killing a man for the first time] It don&#8217;t seem real&#8230; how he ain&#8217;t gonna never breathe again, ever&#8230; how he&#8217;s dead. And the other one too. All on account of pulling a trigger. </p>
<p>Will Munny: It&#8217;s a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he&#8217;s got and all he&#8217;s ever gonna have.<br />
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The Schofield Kid: Yeah, well, I guess they had it coming. </p>
<p>Will Munny: We all got it coming, kid. </ul>
<p>Unforgiven (1992).</p>
<p>A typical refrain amongst the young bucks, especially those with some weapons experience, is that a revival of the dueling traditions would make for a safer, or at least politer, society. Personally I think that attitude is (dead!) wrong because some folks will always be knuckleheads and dueling would just give them a greater opportunity for their knuckleheadery. After all, there&#8217;s a big difference between a young fella who thinks he has nothing to lose and someone with a family to support.</p>
<p>But the real reason I&#8217;m against dueling is that, even though there might be something said for going out doing the things you enjoyed, I could easily see myself as a less illustrious version of one of these guys. And, while it makes for a good story, when it&#8217;s all said and done would you really want to be in either one&#8217;s place?:</p>
<p>In 1719, in London (Eng.), Captain William Aldworth, of the army, and Owen Buckingham, member of Parliament, met, and dined, and quarrelled, and fought, all in one evening. It was so dark that they could not see each other, and they were so thoroughly well intoxicated that it did not make much difference whether they did or did not see each other; but, all the same, there was one less member of Parliament the following morning, for Buckingham was found by some friends shortly after the fight, pierced to the heart with his antagonist&#8217;s rapier, and Aldworth near by very drunk and covered with wounds.</p>
<p>Truman, Benjamin Cummings. <em>The Field of Honor</em> (1883).</p>
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		<title>25% Off Books This Week at Lulu</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 17:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Couch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Get 25% off any Lulu.com books, such as mine here or check out some others like Kirk&#8217;s WMA Books or some of Tony&#8217;s material or even Ralph&#8217;s recent Americane book. Just enter the code WINTER305 at checkout for 25% off the base price. You can only use it once per account, but you can use [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Get 25% off any Lulu.com books, such as <a href="http://stores.lulu.com/martialhistory">mine here</a> or check out some others like <a href="www.lulu.com/lawson">Kirk&#8217;s WMA Books</a> or some of <a href="http://stores.lulu.com/antagonistics">Tony&#8217;s material</a> or even Ralph&#8217;s recent <a href="http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/americane-the-grasso-morale-method-of-personal-defense/13513616">Americane book</a>.</p>
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