<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5929261214963378971</id><updated>2012-02-16T18:13:04.417-08:00</updated><category term='non-profit'/><category term='Aikido'/><title type='text'>The Aiki Club</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theaikiclub.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5929261214963378971/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theaikiclub.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Nancy Churchill</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01237035007130000832</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ZkoRmS7b-1Y/SE82E2T247I/AAAAAAAAAAM/stD9WUYoGTk/S220/Teacher+Nancy+headshot.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5929261214963378971.post-3757809083855999950</id><published>2010-09-03T21:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-04T21:30:21.359-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='non-profit'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Aikido'/><title type='text'>Welcome to The Aiki Club</title><content type='html'>Welcome to the new &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;blogspot&lt;/span&gt; for The Foundation of Empowerment, &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;The &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Aiki&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt; Club&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;This blog replaces our old word-press blog which was just not working&lt;/span&gt;.     &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="  color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;The Foundation of Empowerment is a non-profit organization created to promote the martial art of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Aikido,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt; and to provide learning materials and practice lessons for students of the art.  We also promote youth appropriate self-defense, and physical fitness of all types. Our mission is to provide a safe and practical curriculum in simple self defense and life skills for children ages 4 and up.   We plan to support that curriculum with training materials, mentoring and coaching in teaching methods and skills necessary to deliver the curriculum in the most effective manner.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;If you would like to help introduce more young people to Aikido, please send your donation to The Foundation of Empowerment, 11126 159&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; Ave NE, Redmond, WA 98052.   Thanks!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5929261214963378971-3757809083855999950?l=theaikiclub.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theaikiclub.blogspot.com/feeds/3757809083855999950/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://theaikiclub.blogspot.com/2010/09/welcome-to-aiki-club.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5929261214963378971/posts/default/3757809083855999950'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5929261214963378971/posts/default/3757809083855999950'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theaikiclub.blogspot.com/2010/09/welcome-to-aiki-club.html' title='Welcome to The Aiki Club'/><author><name>Nancy Churchill</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01237035007130000832</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ZkoRmS7b-1Y/SE82E2T247I/AAAAAAAAAAM/stD9WUYoGTk/S220/Teacher+Nancy+headshot.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
