globalisation, the very foundation is the development of the Faroese welfare society. This is why we for the first time with Vision 2015 have made strategic comprehensive plans for welfare of all the most important [...] ensure a financial income basis for the life of the elderly, which we can build upon with trade-union and private pension fonds. The public structures regarding care for the elderly suffices necessary support [...] residential homes. The legal framework in regards to welfare of the elderly will be carried out in a new law that ensures the elderly citizens’ rights and options. The Welfare System Strengthens the Availability

with the Faroese. At least we are clear about which of the wells to date have essentially failed ? all but the Marjan probe drilled by Amerada Hess. The failure of the only well drilled during the 2003 [...] being forced to disclose helps the companies insofar as they can hide failures when it suits them strategically, at least for a while. In the case of the UK effort, the writer?s opinion is that such secrecy [...] said: ?Further technical work on the prospect will be required before the size of the gas condensate accumulation and the possibility for any commercial development can be accurately assessed. ?However

allastaðni. "The light came through the window, straight from the sun above, and so inside my little room. There plunged the rays of love. In streams of light I clearly saw. The dust you seldom see. Out of [...] which the nameless makes a name for one like me. All busy in the sunlight. The flecks did float and dance, and I was tumbled up with them. In formless circumstance. Then I came back from where I'd been [...] goodbye. I'm not looking for another as I wander in my time. Walk me to the corner now, our steps will always rhyme. You know my love goes with you, as your love stays with me. It's just the way it changes

gentlemen, One year ago I had the 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 [...] challenge for the authorities, the oil companies and the local industry. The large quantities of data which has been collected from the drillings this summer will be subjected to intense studies over the coming [...] were to be expected when you combine the traditional working methods of the oil industry with the stipulations of the hydrocarbon law and the expectations of the local business community. Let me first

feel and because I feel what they feel, I react as they would react if they had 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 [...] consciousness and the ability to see what another sees, to feel what another feels, and to suffer what another suffers. Thus when the knife penetrates the body of the whale, I feel it too and I can identify with [...] the world of the 21st Century, in a world where species extinction is escalating, where the oceans are dying, and where the sheer numbers of human beings compromise the ecological integrity of an entire

the World The waters around the Faroe Islands are said to be the cleanest in the world. The perfect mix of the warm Gulf Stream from the south and the Arctic waters from the north produce a paradise for [...] mainly on the mainland where globalisation has levelled out cultures almost to the point of lost identity. That might be the reason why peripheral countries like the Faroe Islands can now become the focus [...] published an article about The Faroe Islands by the journalist Stephen Metcalf on the 25th of March this year. The headline went: “Into the Mystical Unreal Reality of the Faroe Islands”. I’ll quote from this article:

teenagers? If so, did you notice that the music sounded »duller« than it would if you had been in the same room as where it was being played? In fact, the reason the music sounded dull is not just because [...] 10 Hz (i.e. ten vibrations a second), and this in turn means that the airguns have to be both deeper in the water, and four or five times the normal size used for exploration. As a result, the equipment [...] and this done by varying the amount of air they release and changing the depth at which they are deployed in the water. However, Professor Ziolkowski?s calculations suggest that the source needs to have

to diversify the economy. We have seen the economy grow and diversify for more than a decade now, since the recovery from the recession of the early 90ies. What must be striking about the Faroese economy [...] Education, the Faroese people are in fact amongst the best educated in the world, and of the Nordic countries only the Finnish population actually has a higher degree of education than the Faroese. In [...] industry and at the same time to look for other ways of producing energy. We need the oil, and incomes from oil can help us invest in alternative and renewable energy. On the whole, I see good reasons to

Wilson As the evening drew to a close with the guests singing the national anthem with pride and passion, one had the feeling that this gathering on 18 February at the Danish Embassy was the occasion when [...] arranged. As well as being a social occasion the intention was that the evening should be informative for everyone. The talks and film about the future Oil Industry in the Faroe Islands certainly gave everyone [...] one can only be impressed by the preparations that have already been made. To take one example the achievement in drawing up a whole new body of law to regulate the operations of Oil Industry where nothing

changes of the current and we have one of the most respected scientists in the field, Bogi Hansen, here in the Faroes. Maybe this is where the question of climate changes can get answers. In May the worlds [...] around 40% of the produced electrical power. The great opportunity seams to be in utilizing the power from the sea. The idea is to use the power waves give when they reach the shore, a process the company Sewave [...] polity close to the North Pole into to being a strong, dynamic polity in the middle of the North Atlantic taking the advantage of the new opportunities The task for the Faroes is to bring home the Faroes brainware