the smoke rings of my mind Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow ­ Mr Tambourine Man vísir [...] magic swirlin´ ship My senses have been stripped, my hands can´t feel to grip My toes too numb to step Wait only for my boot heels to be wanderin´ ­ Hvat er tað fyri skip, sum her ve rður sungið um? Svarið [...] hand in your ticket And you go watch the geek Who immediately goes up to you When he hears you speak And says, How does it feel To be such a freak? And you say, Impossible As he hands you a bone ­ Men

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. I gave you a smile and tossed my hair Wanting to know the same." "We wrote together [...] Cliché. But that´s how it always starts That´s how it started this day. Me and the girls were at a party We all were having a blast Then suddenly a stranger arrives Hey, it´s ´x´ from the past. He looks [...] alone in my room There´s been a hole in my heart." "I decided to go out this weekend To this "club" DJ - show. I´m joking around, talking to friends And hey, what do you know." "I saw you dancing on the

Commission in 1993, provides a clue as to how events were being watched at the time. Referring to the decision by Copenhagen in 1992 to cede mineral resources rights to the Faroese Home Rule government, Olafsson [...] company is expected to float on the London Stock Exchange early next year in a bid to raise £10-20million to finance its participation in the great, slow-pace Faroese oil race. ?We?re ready to go ? waiting for [...] about events from the Clair find through to the ?90s is almost non-existent. There are not even references to the period in the 1993 Report of the Faroese Hydrocarbon Planning Commission to the Faroese

mountain top. Far, far away. There were mixed feelings inside of them. What will he do? (...) The faith is born from what is heard. How can they hear if no one is there to tell them? Go to the world and [...] and tell them of me. Go to the world, I will be with you« Meðan lagið koyrir uppá sítt allarbesta, kemur upplestur av brotinum í Bíbliuni, har hendan søgan stendur skrivað, og brýtur tað feita við sanginum

of the Atlantic to the North Sea, the story of oil has also been slow to unfold, though the potential of Eastern Canada is said to be considerable. And, in Greenland, there is nothing to show for efforts [...] the hunt for oil and gas on the Eastern Atlantic Frontier ? from Portugal to Lofoten off Norway ? slow. There are few commercial discoveries to show for the enormous effort made, except in the Norwegian [...] Belford Dolphin. Geological analysis points to the right conditions for hydrocarbons to be present, but will they be there? Will there be a sealing mechanism to contain the hoped for prize? The Marjun success

terms, not to waste a second opportunity. The second boom, albeit less dramatic, has arrived, the promises have been kept and great care has been taken this time to try to avoid any more boom to burst scenarios [...] dependent on oil and when in 1986, with no warning, the price plummeted from $30 to less than $10 in less than a month the city was rocked to it?s granite foundations. It was estimated that 6000 out of 28,000 [...] report prompted a fundamental change in how safety offshore was handled. The responsibility for safety was taken away from the Department of Energy and handed to the Health and Safety Executive. In tandem

background that the UK Labour government was willing to hand down far reaching powers to the local government of the islands, which enabled local councillors to negotiate on a more equal level with the oil bosses [...] massive oil terminal at Sullom Voe will be able to handle oil extracted from Faroese wells. A simple look at a map of the North East Atlantic reveals how close the infrastructure, which is being developed [...] for obvious reasons ? his cards very close to his chest when it comes to the prospects of handling future oil from the Faroese sector. Fact is that the terminal has received a major £50 million overhaul

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 and an eagerness to talk politics [...] was my duty to defend our leader. We may have been wrong as we cast our votes, but we were not that wrong. In these circum­stances Ben only has to explain where the Faroes are located; I have to try and explain [...] mob hit. As I watched the wreckage from across the street, stepping over broken plates and plastic, I thought about how there will not be any more hero-presidents to help this fledgling country as it works

course, have to have effective strategies. This is a very small country and our budgets are equally small – so we must know how to get attention in a way that is not too costly. We have to rely heavily [...] the main reason why people want to come here. Most people seem more concerned by what there is to do while they’re here. They want a variety of activities to choose from. And they don’t necessarily find [...] are starting to turn their eyes to the north rather than the south. Maybe it is because people feel safer travelling north than south these days. And since the northern countries have seen far less of mass

had been forced to leave to find work, to come back to the islands. And that reversed the trend which had seen the Orkney population decline over the first 70 years of the 20th century.« To date, more than [...] it is difficult to envisage the excitement of residents - particularly those living on the tiny island of Flotta - when news broke that Orkney was to benefit from a massive oil boom. To taste a flavour [...] well away from the main centres of population. That meant that the massive disruption during the construction phase was far less damaging to the Orkney community« The Flotta Terminal was built to handle oil