for me to be with you all here this evening to celebrate Faroese Flag Day. Thank you, Lord Provost, for your warm words of welcome to Edinburgh. It only adds to our pleasure and pride to be here in your [...] chance to highlight how many of the troops stationed in the Faroes during the war actually came from Scotland. Two of the main regiments on our shores during those five years of wartime occupation were the Lovat [...] that is what the whole story and the long struggle for our own flag has been all about: To become an equal part of the world. Taking our own responsibilities in the world together with the diverse peoples

observing the mass-slaughter in the East Harbour in Tórshavn. There´s no comparison between the bayonet lessons and the whales-slaughter: The kapokdummy was not bleeding and no bowels. In 1944 the Lovat Scouts [...] Tórshavn. The tide and darkness made the hunt compIicated for the small boates. In spide of the entired blackout because of the war a British officer in charge turned on the powerful searchlight in order to [...] whale-hunt the townfólk gather in the dance-hall and around the harbour-head, and celebrate their good fortune by joining in the national dance. The origin of the curious chaindance which they perform to the

permission to do so, we still may dock our ship in Torshavn in Saturday, August 13 to invite people onboard for discussion with the Captain and crew. In the meantime, for anyone in the Faeroes who wants to know [...] of the Taiji dolphin slaughter to the attention of the world with the Academy Award-winning film The Cove, we now must turn the barrel of the most powerful weapon ever invented on the Faeroes – the camera [...] open dialogue in the Faeroes. We were told that other people had been welcome to discuss the “grind” in the Faeroes because they were open to understanding the culture and traditions of the Faeroese that

Watson, In these media-years it is understandable that you’ve fallen for the temptation to become known worldwide. You’re a tough guy, all right, and apparantly you’re doing what you like to do. You even [...] even get paid for your hobby by ample donations from townspeople. You’re protecting threatened whale species. Go on doing so. Pilot whales in the Northern hemisphere are heavily polluted by the industrial [...] Instead of fooling about the globe, squandering the meagre energy recourses left, you should consider using your influence on issues that would really matter. Please stop your life of luxury, polluting

temptation to become known worldwide. You’re a tough guy, all right, and apparantly you’re doing what you like to do. You even get paid for your hobby by ample donations from townspeople. You’re protecting threatened [...] Open letter to Paul Watson, The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. A call for stopping polluting our waters. Dear Mr. Watson, In these media-years it is understandable that you’ve fallen for the temptation [...] whales in the Northern hemisphere are heavily polluted by the industrial nations. Deficient statistics cause uncertainty of the population of pilot whales. Nevertheless, no matter what we, the people of

have received a job offer in the Faroe Islands, and who are coming here in good faith. In my opinion the ad is repulsive. In the text, you try to make it sound like you are doing the foreigners a favor by [...] on the racism bandwagon Address your anger to the politicians I think that you should put an ad in the newspaper and apologize to the foreign workers and guests of our country. Then, continue your fight [...] around the world in the supermarket, on the streets, etc. It gives me a feeling that even though I live in the Faroe Islands we are a part of the globalized world. In conclusion, I would like to welcome

thinking of you They asked, why do you stare". "The following day I had to check To see if you were on MySpace. I found your name, a picture I saw It was your beautiful face". "The night at the party, when [...] just won´t stop his feet. He finally stops, he turns around Saying "let me be". I lift my brow and make a "what? You´ve got to be kidding me." "You were the one who wanted to know me Wanting to know my name [...] suroundings I do have, So this I cannot do. But one thing you must know, Real, my feelings are for you." "Come with me and I´ll be there Through good times and the bad. I see the tears form in your eyes It makes

event that would draw the merciless and powerful light of the whole world’s projectors to the combatants in the Laugardals hall, Fischer and Spassky, as well as to the rest of the Icelandic society. This [...] great credit to the House of Industry. I recently read the book about Bobby Fischer, the American chess player who defeated the Soviet chess machine in Reykjavík way back when. This was the first time [...] Fidel Castro – issued a press release in the party paper Granma, announcing to the world that to get a little something on the side was just a basic human right. The famous Columbian Nobel laureate Gabriel

only the increasingly devalued U.S. dollar to spend. On the island of Samos, within sight of the Turkish coast, we stayed with a lovely pair of English teachers who treated us to the only bed in the apartment [...] awaits us in the Faroes, but I highly anticipate the natural beauty, a new family and comm­unity, and the wool. If you see me on the street over the next year shout out a greeting: We can count to 20 together [...] Atlantic. The next phase of our trip was to visit several of the world-famous Greek Isles. We have few friends from the United States who have enjoyed the cool white houses and bright blue waters of the isles

country simply seemed too big to grasp fully, mysterious in some ways, and maybe even a little dangerous. The usual reaction I get when talking to people at home about studying in the U.S. is something like this: [...] outsider is no barrier to fitting in and utilizing what the country has to offer. It is made easy by the astonishing openness that the people has been conditioned into by their heritage as ’the great melting pot’ [...] About to begin a new chapter of my life in their country, I was utterly convinced that very few Americans were normal according to the standards on which I usually judge people. In addition, the country