Take Jónas Bronck, for example. Born in Copenhagen, the son of a Danish Lutheran minister, he was raised in the Faroes. As one could well imagine, growing up in the Faroes Jónas was quite at home on the [...] proceeded to found Rome. A few odd centuries later in 1639, Jónas Bronck sailed westward across the Atlantic in his sturdy Fire of Troy and settled a bit of land in the new world that would later be known as The [...] collection of books in America. Now Jónas knew the realities of living in a harsh environment and he brought along good quantities of building supplies (scare at even the best of times in the Faroes) and skilled

This led to a great increase in bed capacity in hotels and B&Bs, and tourist numbers started rocketing. The fact that people could get in contact with the local people in this way, along with the slightly [...] Trade Council and Tourist Board in the beginning of this year. This was done in the realisation of the fact that development of trade and tourism can depend on each other in many ways. This new organisation [...] that our country is a small archipelago in the middle of the big ocean in the periphery of western society makes us quite unique and special. Many consider islands in the ocean to be exotic and romantic by

Tinganes in Tórshavn and the White House in Washington is immense. Thousands of kilometers divide the United States from the Faroe Islands. But this did not deter the Norse a thousand years ago. In fragile [...] they discovered America a long time before Columbus. In this way the Nordic peoples and Americans have quite a few things in common. Our ties are in reality a thousand years old. They broke and remained [...] Bill Clinton writes in his memoir that despite having been the President of the world’s most powerful country for 8 years he nevertheless always felt like a servant. The Presidency was merely a loan and

results by participating in Faroexpo! The aim is to get 65 participating companies from the Faroe Islands and other contries. The partenariat will take place in a sports hall in Runavík. In addition to the p [...] The international business event Faroexpo 2008 will be held for the fourth year in a row in Runavik from 20 to 23 October Faroexpo is a perfect combination of Partenariat (B2B meetings), Conference and [...] through Performance Management". The conference is open to the public and will take place in a modern conference hall in Skálafjørður. See programme on www.faroexpo.fo. Parallel to the partenariat and conference

Sveinn Jónsson Iceland On the 11th of June in 1988 about six thousand peoplewere gathered together in a religious gathering by the Bethlehem church in Kawangware in Nairobi, Kenya. Mary Sinaida Akatsa was [...] and waved their hands. A tall man in white clothes and having a beard suddenly stood among them. The man walked hand in hand with Mary towards the church building. In clear Swahili without any trace of [...] Himalaya mountains in 1977 and took up residence in the Pakistani-Indian community in London. There he has lived and worked appearing as a seemingly ordinary man. Benjamin Creme has travelled the world and brought

a fantastic array of talent. In the end the first prize went to Boys In A Band from the Faroe Islands. In second place were Jetstream from the USA with Moja from Japan in third place.? Úrslitið av finaluni [...] pláss: Boys in a Band (Føroyar) 2. pláss: Jetstream (USA) 3. pláss: Moja (Japan) 4. pláss: Atmasfera (Ukraina) 5. pláss: A Key Is A Key (Danmark) 6. pláss: Cliff Clavin (Ísland) Vitja Boys in a Band á MySpace [...] um størsta tónleikabragd í føroyskari søgu. Út av trý túsund bólkum úr tretivu londum endaðu Boys in a Band ovast. Hetta merkir, at teir eru 100.000$ ríkari og skulu á eina konsertferð um allan heim.

egna kroppi sum Sam­bands­flokk­ur­in, at hetta bleiv ein eyð­mýk­i­ng segði Jákup Mikk­elsen í løgtinginum fríggj­a­dag­in. Hann vísti eisini á, at eyð­mýk­ing­in ikki minst stend­ur í tí at fara til [...] fyri Sam­bands­flokk­in, og at hetta var prís­ur­in, Fólkaflokkurin var sinn­að­ur at rinda fyri at fáa nógv onn­ur mál framd. Og Jákup Mikkelsen stað­fest­ir eisini, at Fólka­flokk­ur­in var púra ról­ig­ur [...] Tí er tað, at vit hava mis­­tonkt Fólk­a­flokk­in fyri lumpa løg­mann – at flokk­ur­­in als einki meinar við hetta. Men fyrstur at loysa frá posa­band­i­num er for­­mað­­ur Fólk­a­­floks­ins og á tingi

sigur hon: In the talk I will examine some of the transformations that are taking place in Icelandic fishery based localities, transformations that involve new ressource management systems in the fisheries [...] fisheries, new developments in technology and changing role of the state in regional development. Based on a case study of one locality, as an example, I consider the effects of these changes and how men and [...] Félgasvísindadeild á Háskóla Íslands heldur fyrilestur, ið hon kallar: Coping with changing economy in Northern localities. An Icelandic case study. Fyrilesturin verður á enskum. Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir

pilot whales in the northeastern Atlantic Kate Sanderson: Whales and whaling in Lucas Debes? Færoæ & Færoa Reserata from 1673 Anna Maria Fosaa: The vertical distribution of the vegetation in the Faroe Islands [...] Past and present, south and north Nanna Stefania Hermansson: A bookcase in Kongsstova in Nólsoy Ole Humlum: Reconstructing climate in the Faeroe Islands since AD 1600 Paul C Buckland, Eva Panagiotakopulu: [...] 350. Millum greinirnar eru Pehr H Enckell: Carl Julian in the Faroes Bogi Hansen, Eilif Gaard, Høgni Debes, Karin M.H. Larsen: Abrupt interruptions in the spring bloom on the Faroe Shelf Richard H.W. Bradshaw

mán­að­in. Tað merk­ir í rund­um tøl­u­m, at um pen­sjóns­hækk­ing­in upp á eitt pro­sent, ella 32 krón­ur um mán­að­in, kost­ar lands­kass­a­num 2,5 mill­i­ón­ir um ár­ið, so kost­ar hækk­ing­in upp á [...] 30.000 um mán­að­in skulu hava hes­ar 220 krón­ur í løn­ar­hækk­ing um mán­að­in, með­an løn­ir yv­i­r 30.000 einki fáa. Fólka­pen­sjón­ist­ar telj­ast so at siga all­ir í tann bólk­in, sum fær und­ir 30 [...] 220 krón­ur um mán­að­in. Sam­stund­is kom lyft­ið frá sam­gong­uni um, at pen­sjón­ir­nar skulu hækka tað sama, sum løn­ir­nar ann­ars. Og tað má so merkja 220 krón­ur um mán­að­in. Tað var eftir ynski