was to benefit from a massive oil boom. To taste a flavour of the mood in the islands, look no further than the film Local Hero, a huge hit in Britain when it opened in cinemas across the country in 1983 [...] whole. They have funded many economic and social projects and continue to do so. A new cheese factory is about to open and work will soon begin on a modern new library in the Orkney capital, Kirkwall. Funding [...] Danny might not be rich. But he is happy to acknowledge that the plant and its staff been excellent neighbours - and have made a huge contribution to the present prosperity of Orkney as a whole. The wealth

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

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

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