everybody you met, to nowadays where you can often be on a bus or a plane and you do not know anybody. ?We have also become a much more outgoing community and I think for the better of it. People have been [...] important to get the best deal possible. He said: ?Nobody was particular keen to have oil here because we had lived a certain kind of lifestyle for many years and oil seemed to be too disruptive to be good [...] been actually come to live in Shetland, build their homes and have their families here. They are a bonus to the islands, I believe.?

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 [...] it so full of opportunities for a person to shape life as he or she pleases. And coming in as an outsider is no barrier to fitting in and utilizing what the country has to offer. It is made easy by the [...] been college students) all seem to have a great ability to actually get something of worth out of their existence. In short, they use the opportunities they have, they realize that living is more than subsisting

their contractors have to turn their focus towards a new market to find out what that particular market has to offer. This stipulation also commits the local business community which has to be on its feet marketing [...] whole have been carried out in a satisfactory manner. However I still think that this conference is a good forum for dialog between the parties involved, as they from time to time might seem to have opposite [...] privilege to open the first Offshore Faroes conference, and I am honoured to be invited back this year. Last year we were on the brink of a new industry in the Faroese context. Today we have three exploration

the means to do so, and because I am human, I have the means to react to defend them and I do. Empathy is the experience of a foreign consciousness and the ability to see what another sees, to feel what [...] very, wrong. It is so easy to deny this, and in our hominid arrogance we choose to be willfully ignorant in negating their sentience. This is not about killing a cow, a sheep, or a pig raised for human consumption [...] not compromise. In other words, we had to understand and accept the slaughter in order to discuss it, and that we will not do. It is our position that culture and tradition must never be a justification

back to the Faroes in the not too distant future to relax a bit in this most peaceful and enterprising corner of the planet and to seek out a quiet cup of coffee with a newfound friend or two to catch [...] from the sea, they have managed to produce a most remarkable society and at the very heart of that society is a streak of practicality that the world would do well to adopt. A case in point involves that [...] surprisingly, a book on how to build a windmill. Apparently for years it was the largest collection of books in America. Now Jónas knew the realities of living in a harsh environment and he brought along

wherever you go. It is a miracle that people and creatures have managed to survive here in this seemingly inhospitable place for more than a thousand years. You’ve got to be creative to do that. But there [...] essential in every area of business, and a nation like the Faroes has a distinct strength in this context. I think it’s crucial that we use this as an opportunity. To stay competitive, we have to be inventive [...] and learn how to develop new concepts and fresh thinking. And when setting our goals and objectives, we have to be strategic and think ahead – yet in following through on plans we have to be consistent.

globalisation in mind, and this situation is not least beneficial for the smallest actors on the international arena. You might say that the smaller your own home market, the more active you have to be on other [...] what you may find deep down, but one is always taking a risk, and you will not know if you find anything, before you actually hit it with the drill. Let me now, ladies and gentlemen, reassure you that [...] neither do you or me any good. We will in the next few moments hear people, who know far more about these matters. - - - - I will now turn to the Faroese society and political system as such, to give a brief

see other societies, but also needs to get them back home. Small societies The Faroes has a lot to give the world in how to manage remote and small societies and could in the future use this knowlegde [...] . The aim is to develop the Faroes to a knowledge society and in this environment where the country is, at may well be a process that makes the Faroes bring solutions to the world in these areas mentioned [...] Faroes also has experiences of being a non-sovereign political entity. We see a lot of places around the world today with similar problems, and thus this knowledge could be use in diplomacy and in intrastate

It is a great pleasure and honor 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 [...] unthinkable suffering can be countered by another flag in a different place that is raised to celebrate victory in the same context. Therefore, on a day like this, all our thoughts go to the peoples around the [...] Shetlanders in the mid-nineteenth century how to develop a commercial fishing industry. Fisheries continue to be an important part of our relationship today as closest neighbors, with a shared stake in sustainability

country, when it comes to how we help newcomers to be integrated in a good way in our country. Of course it is a matter for the Council to give newcomers the best service. We must have employees and an office [...] November 10th. I am 36 years old, married to Jóannes and we have five children. I am a nurse and I work in an elderly home here in the capital. I want to be your voice in the Town Council. Birita Baldvinsdóttir [...] Council in Tórshavn has a lot more focus on integration than we have today. Integration must be on our political agenda. As Tórshavn is the capital, it would be appropriate that we serve as a model for