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		<title>Consistent Promotion Is In Fashion</title>
		<link>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201201/30/me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the more important aspects of any business is its effort and success in creating revenue.  It makes no difference whether it&#8217;s a little neighborhood curry shop that&#8217;s only open during lunch hours or a giant global corporation producing and selling value-added products world-wide.  It is the effort to get out and create awareness of what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hatsumode 初詣　2012 &#8211; Ikuta Jinja 生田神社 Kobe</title>
		<link>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201201/15/hatsumode-%e5%88%9d%e8%a9%a3%e3%80%802012-ikuta-jinja-%e7%94%9f%e7%94%b0%e7%a5%9e%e7%a4%be%e3%80%80in-kobe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife Yoko and I really love visiting temples and shrines and we make quite a pilgrimage out of Hatsumode every year.  For those of you new to the word, Hatsumode refers to the Japanese custom of visiting your favorite Buddhist temple or Shinto shrine to pay respects to the appropriate gods and pray for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growth at Smith&#8217;s Franchises &#8211; Local Promomotion Part 16 : Now Is The Time</title>
		<link>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201110/16/me-totally-thumbs-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201110/16/me-totally-thumbs-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/?p=13591</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Anytime is a good time but &#8230;. Now is THE time, as another well-spoken Smith&#8217;s School of English Franchise owner recently said, to own a Smith&#8217;s School of English Franchise .  One of the cornerstones to our success is putting to work the straight-forward and effective brand tools and brand resources exclusively available in the Smith&#8217;s School of English system. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Driving In Japan #22  :  Astronomy &#8211; Winter versus Summer Stargazing</title>
		<link>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201110/03/driving-in-japan-22-winter-versus-summer-stargazing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201110/03/driving-in-japan-22-winter-versus-summer-stargazing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SSE Kotoen Corner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sightseeing in Japan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/?p=13530</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone! It&#8217;s been a very long while since I last talked much on the topic of astronomy.  Two main reasons are that I have had very little time for astronomy this summer, and even then the sky conditions were so unusually and uniformly bad that there really was no point.  Atmospheric instability dominated July and August so most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living and Sightseeing in Japan : Biwa Lake Resorts</title>
		<link>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201109/29/living-and-sightseeing-in-japan-biwa-lake-resorts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201109/29/living-and-sightseeing-in-japan-biwa-lake-resorts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living in Japan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/?p=13931</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while you just have to get away and relax, and this year with all its ups and downs and continuous bad news here and there and all around the world, it is tempting to just remain complacent and wait for better times.  At least we are not at war! But the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>***** WINNER ***** August 2011 Festival Review  :  Tsuruga Hanabi Taikai Tohrohnagashi Aug 16th</title>
		<link>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201109/12/winner-august-2011-festival-review-tsuruga-hanabi-taikai-tohrohnagashi-aug-16th/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201109/12/winner-august-2011-festival-review-tsuruga-hanabi-taikai-tohrohnagashi-aug-16th/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living in Japan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/?p=13575</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello y&#8217;all!  I hadn&#8217;t actually planned this to become a competition but as an after-thought, here it is!  We really do have a favorite festival each year!  So here goes:  this is the third and final installment in my rather lengthy 2011 Fireworks Festival Calendar and Review.  Tsuruga has by far and wide been our favorite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August 2011 Festival Review : Otsu Biwako Hanabi Taikai Aug 8th</title>
		<link>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201109/05/august-2011-festival-review-otsu-biwako-hanabi-taikai-aug-8th/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201109/05/august-2011-festival-review-otsu-biwako-hanabi-taikai-aug-8th/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living in Japan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/?p=13588</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The second festival on our most-loved list and one that deserves at least an honorable mention in any one&#8217;s top five review is the Aug 8th show at Otsu Biwako. This is a very good show in a charming setting but the crowd can be quite daunting as you&#8217;d expect. The setting off the beach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ohara FPL-53 LZOS OK-4 vs Schott Hoya  :  Astronomy Classes at Smith&#8217;s School of English Kotoen  :  Pt 2</title>
		<link>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201108/28/mewlon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201108/28/mewlon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 09:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[BAK-4 vs BK-7]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BK-7 vs Pyrex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Borofloat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CaFl2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clearceram]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fluorite]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Leica]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mewlon]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[quartz mirrors]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Takahashi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ULE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zeiss]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/?p=13600</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello!  A handful of students at my Smith&#8217;s School of English Franchise in Kotoen are interested in science, and a couple of them have research jobs in pure science fields.  It is mainly for them and for potential future students like them that I offer this. Several previous astronomy articles focused on the subject of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August 2011 Festival Review  :  Kobe Minato Hanabi Taikai Aug 6th</title>
		<link>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201108/25/august-2011-festival-review-kobe-minato-hanabi-taikai-aug-6th/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201108/25/august-2011-festival-review-kobe-minato-hanabi-taikai-aug-6th/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living in Japan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/?p=13577</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hope you all had a great break! With the festival season now pretty much coming to a close, I thought it might be a good idea to review and recap some of the festivals that my wife Yoko and I are particularly fond of.  The rationale behind this is that next year all of you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living and Sight-Seeing in Japan: Kyoto Gosho and Its Fabulous Ikebana Displays</title>
		<link>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201108/18/living-and-sight-seeing-in-japan-kyoto-gosho-and-its-fabulous-ikebana-displays/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/201108/18/living-and-sight-seeing-in-japan-kyoto-gosho-and-its-fabulous-ikebana-displays/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living in Japan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sse-franchise.com/soapbox/?p=13469</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello all! Now I cannot profess to know very much about Ikebana, but it is one of my wife Yoko&#8217;s favorite hobbies and she is surprisingly intuitive and talented for it. Sagagoryu is the type of Ikebana Yoko has studied at length as a hobby, but anyone even remotely knowledgable on the subject can tell [...]]]></description>
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