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	<title>Renaissance Man &#187; Differences US vs PL</title>
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	<description>Jack of all trades, Master of none</description>
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		<title>US-Polish Differences: Stores and Restaurants</title>
		<link>http://blog.rykus.com/2008/09/23/us-polish-differences-stores-and-restaurants</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without anything better to discuss, I figured I&#8217;ll hit on another difference, which is the stores. &#160;Not so much the stores themselves, but moreso the attitude of the employees.
Residual from the Communist era, most store workers do not try practice aggressive selling tactics, as they do in the states. &#160;This makes me VERY happy, because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US-Polish Differences: Electricity</title>
		<link>http://blog.rykus.com/2008/09/18/us-polish-differences-electricity</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will conclude my &#34;Obvious Differences&#34; category with a brief discussion about Electricity.
Poland, along with most if not all of Europe, follows much closer to Nikola Tesla&#8217;s standard for electrical distribution at 230 Volts and 50 Hertz. &#160;Whereas the United States follows Thomas Edison&#8217;s standard at 120 Volts and 60 Hertz.&#160;
The result of this, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US-Polish Differences: The Metric System</title>
		<link>http://blog.rykus.com/2008/09/09/us-polish-differences-the-metric-system</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now, as I eat my eggs and toast, I give you the second installment of observed differences between living in the US, and in Poland (Warsaw, specifically).
This continues the &#34;Obvious Differences&#34; category with: The Metric System.
Currently only 3 countries in the world do not use the Metric System. &#160;They are, Myanmar (formerly Burma), Liberia, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US-Polish Differences: Language</title>
		<link>http://blog.rykus.com/2008/09/02/us-polish-differences-language</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve decided to do a comparitive section to highlight the differences we&#8217;ve noticed as Americans living in Poland.&#160;
These differences are just our observations, and are only as good as that.
That being said, let&#8217;s get on with the first, and most obvious difference: Language
It&#8217;s definitely disconcerting to live in a place where you don&#8217;t speak [...]]]></description>
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