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Police searching for armed robber

Wow! I just heard about this.
Posted: Thursday, May 16, 2013 4:03 pm
(http://www.enterprise-journal.com/)
McComb police are searching for a man suspected of stabbing a woman during an attempted Thursday afternoon armed robbery. Officials said the suspect is a a black male wearing a white T-shirt and blues jeans and is possibly in north McComb. 
Officials and witnesses said a man attempted to rob a woman at the Medical Arts Building on Rawls Drive around 3:15 and stabbed her in the left shoulder. The assailant took nothing, and police brought the woman to Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center for treatment. Police were searching for the robber in the vicinity of Delaware Avenue, West Street, Kendall Street, Rawls Drive and around Edgewood Park.
I was walking by that building about that time with my four children, and saw nothing!  Gotta stay prepared and stay alert!




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The fundamental kata of the Kodokan

If you were to take a guess as to which of the Kodokan Kata was the fundamental kata that Kano based the other katas off of - which would it be? Which kata did Kano have in mind when he developed the DNA of the Kodokan?
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Maybe Nagenokata?
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Maybe Koshikinokata? 
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Nope.
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In Kano's Memoirs...
... I finalized the eight seated and twelve standing techniques for Kime no Kata. This was, incidentally, the fundamental kata from which the other Kodokan katas were created. (Judo Memoirs of Jigoro Kano, Chapter 57)
What WHAT? Kime No Kata!?
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WHO would have thunk that?



photo courtesy of C. Gilmore


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