disparate from my own. It is this diversity which has been my greatest teacher: By living, working, and laughing with humans that are different from me, I have learned that my way of doing things is not always [...] girl asked me if I didn’t think it was to far away to go. I had told her with great confidence that it was only a plane ticket away. That is not true. America is much further away than that. To come here [...] best way. Diversity is hard, but I it is crucial for growth. I am still Faroese, and I will always stick to Faroese values. But now I understand that even we can learn something from the global community:

least abroad. It is no big secret however, that both patience and professionalism is required if a contract is to be established with a large oil company. The beau racy is immense and it is all important [...] oilfields already connected to the SheFar-cable. There is, and there will be an ever increasing requirement from the oil companies for tele­communi­cations, which is not being met today. For Faroe tele­ [...] Sosialurin in its Monday edition. The contract is to link two of the producing oilfields west of Shetland, Schiehallion and Clair into the SheFar-cable, which is currently being laid between Shetland and the

exploration in areas such as the Faroes. This is because modern exploration is heavily reliant on seismic information, which in turn is obtained by measuring echoes from artificial sound sources generated at the [...] size used for exploration. As a result, the equipment required for this type of survey is far from standard, and, from a practical point of view, much more difficult to handle. Notwithstanding the challenges [...] disturbed by loud music from noisy neighbours, you might like to think of BLAST, and how understanding why the music sounds the way it does is helping discover new oil fields. It is just another form of rock

closer than others. It is estimated that around 170 Faroese women left with British men after the war. We don’t know exactly how many of these fortunate young men were Scottish, or how many of these couples [...] playing with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Scotland is hosting Nordic Music Days 2024 in Glasgow from 30th October to 3 rd of November. This is a collaboration between the Nordic Composers Council and [...] choir will give us a taste of some of what is on the program in Glasgow later in this year. Also with us here this evening is a delegation of key academic staff from the University of the Faroe Islands, who

which is worth reciting once again. It has been confirmed, that an active hydrocarbon producing system is present in the Faroe subsoil. Although this is an important confirmation, oil exploration is a far [...] payment, which is a fee the license holders have to pay for the licensed area, increases as the years pass. This is also an incentive for the companies not to drag their feet with this work. It is also very [...] administration be on par with the workload, so it can ensure the work is conducted in a sensible manner – both from a public viewpoint and from the viewpoint of the license holders. We must continually remind

This, of course, is how we like to see ourselves and how we should like, hopefully, to introduce ourselves to two illustrious guests, from Sweden and the United States. Hanus Kamban is a Faroese short-story [...] should like other nations to learn from our experience with regard to this crucial area: This is the faith from which we start: Men shall know commonwealth again From bitter searching of the heart. To play [...] indeed. The spectacle of leaders from some countries in the Northern hemisphere rushing to grab as much as they can from the polar ice-cream, or what lies beneath it, is hardly edifying. In this situation

the world. If we look at violence, the picture is the same. Natural balance Faroes is one of the very few modern places still in touch with nature. It is still an integrated part of nature to go fishing [...] The Faroes has herself never been to war. From remote to central The Faroes have always paid the price of being “The Far Away Islands”. But this remoteness is no longer an obstacle. Modern technology makes [...] and it is evolving. You might say that the change from remote to finally having opportunities like the rest of the world has demanded and created a fast and willing capacity building. The Faroes is now a

get when talking to people at home about studying in the U.S. is something like this: “I don’t think I could live there, it’s just too far away, and isn’t the crime rate pretty high over there? Oh, but [...] become completely demystified. This is not a dream, but real life – and I can’t do anything but love it. Rather than being intimidating, the size of the country is what makes it so full of opportunities [...] 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 astonishing openness that the people has been

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 in the North and West of Shetland, is located to the [...] the whole region is already benefiting from increased activity. »The harbour has recently been very, very busy with oil related ships. Our income this year is well up, and much of that is thanks to oil-related [...] buildings, employs the county?s archaeologist and is engaged in the reforestration of the bleak bog covered hills. Surprisingly, the oil industry is far from being the dominating feature despite its massive

in their own right can ever be realised, if that ever happens. However, it is far too early to know what the real potential is, though figures like 1 billion barrels of crude have been bandied about ? manna [...] exploration wells drilled, the success rate achieved in the first |Faroes campaign is smack on the global average. The trick now is to multiply that success several times over during the next two to three years [...] projects and guarantee the islands a place among the world?s oil and gas nations. Quite how this will be achieved is a question that will occupy many minds this winter as oil company geologists and others