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		<title>Ambassadors blogging in Jordan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Lund-Sørensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My good friend and colleague James Watt, UK ambassador to Jordan has joined the ranks of blogging ambassadors in Jordan. That makes us two so far &#8211; hope I haven&#8217;t missed anyone   Check out his blog - it looks very promising and he has had good feedback. Welcome to the Jordanian Blogosphere James - keep [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tholun.wordpress.com&blog=2663172&post=756&subd=tholun&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>40 Days and Counting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Lund-Sørensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have now only 40 days until the negotiations start in Copenhagen. It is not much, but if all make an effort we will be able to seal the climate deal in Copenhagen. Climate change is a fact. We cannot ignore that human activity and the burning of fossil fuels carries a major responsibility for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tholun.wordpress.com&blog=2663172&post=704&subd=tholun&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LEGO donation to Jordan &#8211; part III</title>
		<link>http://tholun.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/lego-donation-to-jordan-part-iii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Lund-Sørensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the last six months the embassy has been engaged in a nationwide charity distribution of LEGO toys to underprivileged children. Two 40ft containers with in total 1000 big boxes of LEGO &#8211; about 12 tons &#8211; have (almost all) been handed over to institutions such as Madrasati schools, orphanages, community centres, refugee camps, nurseries and kindergartens, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tholun.wordpress.com&blog=2663172&post=688&subd=tholun&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Changing Diabetes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Lund-Sørensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of their Corporate Social Responsibilities the insulin producer Novo Nordisk is conducting free testing for and advice on diabetes today and tomorrow in Amman and on the 21th in Irbid. In Amman the event takes place in front of Mecca Mall gate 3.
I took the test myself this morning &#8211; no apparent diabetes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tholun.wordpress.com&blog=2663172&post=680&subd=tholun&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ramim &#8211; The Last Breath</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Lund-Sørensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I had one of those experiences that will stay with me for a long time when remembering Jordan.
I really didn&#8217;t have the time to go, but a couple of days before I noticed that a new Jordanian short documentary was going to be aired at the Royal Film Commission. It was entitled &#8220;Ramim&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tholun.wordpress.com&blog=2663172&post=670&subd=tholun&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Parade</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Lund-Sørensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Amman celebrates it&#8217;s first 100 years as a modern entity &#8211; the city itself is much older dating back at least some thousand years B.C.
The main celebration event was a big parade through the streets of downtown Amman last friday. A big number of floats illustrating the many different origins of the city&#8217;s founding inhabitants since 1910 drove by and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tholun.wordpress.com&blog=2663172&post=657&subd=tholun&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What happened in Jordan?</title>
		<link>http://tholun.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/what-happened-in-jordan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Lund-Sørensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[during the last two months? Not much according to Jordan Times and Petra which are the two main stream media I have had the opportunity to follow on-and-off from Denmark. Well, don&#8217;t you say &#8220;no news is good news&#8221;?
What also struck me in the last couple of weeks was the lack of blogging from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tholun.wordpress.com&blog=2663172&post=590&subd=tholun&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rising Temperatures &#8211; Rising Tensions</title>
		<link>http://tholun.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/rising-temperature-rising-tensions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Lund-Sørensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Primarily thanks to the continuous efforts of environmentalists climate change has now become an established item on the global agenda. On a lower level “Being green” and showing care for the environment is in many countries regarded as a luxury in the light of everyday challenges but I think this is changing for good. Climate change [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tholun.wordpress.com&blog=2663172&post=566&subd=tholun&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So &#8211; What happened to the Danish-Jordanian Trade?</title>
		<link>http://tholun.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/so-what-happened-to-the-danish-jordanian-trade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 13:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Lund-Sørensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago I promised to publish the Danish-Jordanian trade figures for 2008 on this site.
Trade from Denmark to Jordan grew with 19% in 2008 and export to Denmark from Jordan 10,1%.
The numbers are still not impressive but the export figures are the highest to Jordan since 2003: 58 mio. USD export to Jordan (49 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tholun.wordpress.com&blog=2663172&post=557&subd=tholun&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Stereotypes &#8211; follow-ups</title>
		<link>http://tholun.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/beyond-stereotypes-follow-ups/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Lund-Sørensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you very much for your participation in the &#8220;Beyond Stereotype&#8221; event last night. It got nicely crowded and a little bit to warm in the theatre. The feedback I got in the lounge afterwards was very positive.
Some would have liked to have had more time for discussion &#8211; and so would I &#8211; but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tholun.wordpress.com&blog=2663172&post=538&subd=tholun&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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