denne udvikling, for ændringerne kommer, uanset om vi bliver enige om årsagerne eller ej. ?The times they are in changing?, synger Bob Dylan i en af sine klassikere. I færøsk politik er der stort set kun [...] ændringer?. Meget klogt, når man ved, hvilke forandringer han tænkte på. Men det bliver dog i sidste ende et spørgsmål om, hvilke ændringer, det er, man ønsker. Vi må vel erkende, at de borgerlige også vil [...] ændringer for ændringernes skyld, men ændringer for folkets skyld. Ikke forfængelige ændringer, der måske ender med at sætte samfundet og dets værdier over styr, men ændringer, der giver folket et rigere og bedre

Severin har Tróndur Patursson også tegnet illustrationer til bogen om dette togt, In Search of Moby Disk. Quest for the White Whale (1999). Tróndur Patursson er stadig fast bosiddende i den færøske bygd [...] óivað út áðrenn jólini eru í hondum. Í greinini verða ferðirnar, sum Tróndur hevur gjørt saman við Tim Severin, nevndar. Tróndur sigur, at hesar ferðir hava alstóran týdning sum íblástur. Til dømis hevði [...] evindelige yndlingsmotiv ? bygden ved havet ? til en national »arketype«, som efterhånden truede med at ende i ren trivialisering. Den udtalte træghed og uvilje i forholdet ti lat eksperimentere sig frem til

kristiliga og bíbilska: 1. Gloria 2. I still haven?t found what I?m looking for 3. Until the End of the World 4. The First Time 5. Wake up Dead Man 6.Peace on Earth (Petur Jensen í Eysturskúlanum 31.10.00) DAGBÓKIN [...] sekund. Men burtur úr hesum kom avgjørt vakrasta lagið á fløguni. Samdur. »In A Little While« - jamen er hetta ikki »Under the Bridge« við Red Hot Chili Pepper? Men tó - ein klárur soulsangur á la Wilson [...] sentimentalitet krevur dirvi og dugnaskap, skal tað hepnast. Akkurát sum hjá Lars von Trier í Dancer in the Dark. Eg haldi báðir partar - Trier og U2 - hepnast heilt væl við hesum sentimentala leiki, hvør

of the islands. The first gas was discovered in the North Sea by BP in their West Sole Field in 1965 and two years later Amoco found the first oil in the Arbroath field. It was 10 years before the first [...] choose to make their homes in the Faroe Islands and push up the prices in the same way as happened in Aberdeen forcing them beyond the reach of most of those not involved in the industry which, although [...] because of the oil industry and the challenge for the Faroes, if oil is discovered in its waters, will be to capitalise on the opportunity yet retain the unique charm of the islands. Aberdeen and the North-east

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. One scene in particular struck a chord [...] 30,000 in 1901 to just 17,000 in 1971. »One of the most important benefits of the oil era, and one often overlooked, is the way it restored confidence in the people of Orkney,« he said. »Until the 1970s [...] glow for the past 25 years - a sight as familiar to residents as the stars that fill the clear skies above the islands. Islanders treasure the winter spectacle of the aurora borealis. But the source of

not taken up in the previous 20th round and a batch of assets in the gas prone southern North Sea basin. Acreage in the West of Shetlands and east of the Faeroes Islands will be included in a single round [...] As exploration success has eluded the explorers in the southeast corner of the island?s offshore waters, it is likely that attention will turn to the northeast. The west of Shetlands region is vying for [...] between the UK and Norway is now better than at any previous point in the history of the North Sea industry. It is particularly important that we should find ways of working together in the median areas

But times change and the focus of Faroese interests in the UK has moved south to London. The great days evoked in ?Tevatn og Breyð? of Faroese ships landing Ice Fish in Aberdeen are long gone. The connection [...] achieve this end and even seemed to have the tacit encouragement of the British Government. At that time the Faroe Islands seemed to have very few friends in positions of influence in London ? even the Danish [...] when the Faroese community in the UK has come of age. John Rajani the newly appointed as representative in Britain had invited Faroese people living in the UK as well as those with Faroese connections

Franck Sinatra syngur(My Way): And now, the end is near, and so I face the final curtain my friend, I´ll say it clear, I´ll state my case, of which I´m certain I´ve lived a life that´s full. I´ve traveled [...] lítið dism av fákunnleika kann kollrenna "harddiskin" ovast uppi, og so er einki, men Hans: Did it in his Way ? javnvágin var líka til tað síðsta. Hans J. stillaði málningar út einsæris i Havnini í fýrati [...] ingina, sum komandi ár hevur 35 ár á baki. I planned each charted course; each careful step along the byway, but more, much more than this, I did it my way .. etc. Hans J. hevur við sínum verumáta? við

sanction in 2001. That came symbolically when, in November that year, Energy Minister Brian Wilson gave it the green light. Phase-1 concentrates on the core, Graben, and Horst segments in the southern [...] be the end of a 27-year haul, given that Clair was located west of Shetland in July 1977. Development has been shelved at least once. But now the project is unstoppable, with construction past the halfway [...] possible changes to the drilling plan. ?It will take six years to drill and put all these wells in place.? Meanwhile, under the original plan, the Clair pipeline was to be laid next year, but the decision was

disruptive to be good for us.? However, the debate in the islands quickly focussed on whether the oil harbour and the ground the terminal stands on should be in public or in private ownership, he said ?Eventually [...] to come anyhow, and the more we could control and be part of the development, the more money we could keep in the community and create the facilities for the future.? Subsequently, the council?s representatives [...] their case to the UK government in London, which resulted in the Zetland County Council Act 1974, a unique piece of UK legislation that gave the islands the control over its waters and led to the present set-up