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Continuing with the series of interviews with bright PR professionals from around the world for this blog,   “global public relations” , in-cooperation with the   World Communication Forum  –  #WCFDavos ,  we had the chance to talk with a connoisseur of cultural intelligence and business etiquette. Directly from Jordan, she gave us a masterclass about the art of global business protocol. The Mosque and The Church - Greetings from beautiful Jordan I have the pleasure to introduce:  Rana Nejem .   Rana started out her career as a broadcast journalist with Jordan Television. After working with CNN during the First Gulf War, she moved to the Royal Hashemite Court where she was responsible for His Majesty the late King Hussein’s International Media Department for 2 years. Rana then moved into the field of communications and public relations leading the public diplomacy and communications work of the British Embassy in Amman for 18 years. Rana Neje...

2014 had the highest global average temperature ever recorded .   The U. S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)   and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) jointly announced on Jan. 16, 2015 that the year 2014 was the hottest year since record keeping began in 1880.   This result represents the globally averaged temperature, for both land and ocean surfaces, over the entire year.   A 1½ minute video from NASA gives more information on this finding.   It includes a speedy review, year-by-year and location-by-location across a map of the globe, of how annual average temperatures, in ºC (multiply by 1.8 for ºF), have increased from 1957 to 2014.   (They are shown as the differences from a 30-year reference period from about 1945 to about 1975). The ten hottest years on record occurred between 1998 and the present (see Details section at the end of this post).   [Update added January 26, 2015 ]: The United Kingdom M...