From the Faroes to the World Stage

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Green
Keyword(s):  
North Atlantic ◽  
International System ◽  
Faroe Islands ◽  
Tourist Gaze ◽  
The Core ◽  
Transnational Mobility ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
Tourism Economy

This chapter explores music in the context of evolving transnational dynamics in the Faroe Islands, focusing on the tourism boom and on connections with the global music industry. Similar to the situation in Iceland a decade earlier, music became part of an evolving tourism economy in the early 2010s, shaped by exotic views of the North Atlantic. Drawing from Urry’s concept of the tourist gaze, the chapter shows how Faroese bands work as producers of difference, within an international system of industry and institutions, including the Nordic Council. The analytical focus is on transnational mobility and industry networks of popular music and its performers. The chapter shows that Faroese bands engage with these transnational flows and with exoticism in the international marketing of their music. The core case study is the doom metal band Hamferð, whose career evolved to participation in international events, particularly festivals and competitions.

Volcanic sequences as reservoir rocks. Importance of natural fracture systems - a case study from the Faroe Islands area - North Atlantic Igneous Province (NAIP)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Óluva R. Eidesgaard ◽  
Lars Ole Boldreel ◽  
Niels H. Schovsbo ◽  
Jana Ólavsdóttir
Keyword(s):  
North Atlantic ◽  
Geothermal Energy ◽  
Water Movement ◽  
Natural Fracture ◽  
Faroe Islands ◽  
The North ◽  
Igneous Province ◽  
The North Atlantic ◽  
North Atlantic Igneous Province

<p>Volcanic rocks have been known to be reservoirs for more than a century but due to their often complex geological settings, they are commonly avoided.</p><p>The North Atlantic Igneous Province (NAIP) is one of the largest igneous provinces in the world. Large ranges of rock types comprise the NAIP, including tholeiitic and alkali basalts, nepheline- and quartz-syenites, nephelinites and carbonatites. The province is Paleocene in age and covers large parts of the North Atlantic region today. Parts of the NAIP outcrop onshore the Faroe Islands, on the western and the eastern side of Greenland, on Iceland and on the British islands.</p><p>In the Faroe Islands region volcanic settings serve as shallow geothermal energy systems, shallow groundwater aquifers and hydrocarbon reservoirs. These settings have been studied by core data and wire-line logs and examples will be presented. The aim of this study is to examine the key important parameters governing the reservoir properties and occurrences.</p><p>In all settings microfractures are important as porosity and permeability enhancers and are often linked to lava emplacement pathways and specific lava types such as subaqueous hyaloclastites and pillow lavas.</p><p>Studies on water movement from onshore the Faroe Islands on the islands of Streymoy have shown that the water in the volcanic settings in the area is being transported through large fractures and weathered flow tops and bases. This has also been seen in e.g. similar large igneous volcanic provinces such as the Columbia River Basalt Group, USA, and the Deccan Traps, India. Six influx zones were identified in the three approximately 200 meter deep geothermal holes on Streymoy, the Faroe Islands. Three with visible macrofractures striking north-south dipping east, two through weathered units, while the sixth influx zone did not show any visible fractures or weathered zones (Eidesgaard et al., 2019).</p><p><strong>Reference:</strong> Eidesgaard, Ó.R., Schovsbo, N.H., Boldreel, L.O. and Ólavsdóttir, J. 2019 Shalllow geothermal energy system in fractured basalt: a case study from Kollafjørður, Faroe Islands, NE-Atlantic Ocean. Geothermic vol. 82, p. 296-314.</p>

scholarly journals North Atlantic warming over six decades drives decreases in krill abundance with no associated range shift

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Edwards ◽  
Pierre Hélaouët ◽  
Eric Goberville ◽  
Alistair Lindley ◽  
Geraint A. Tarling ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North Atlantic ◽  
Range Shift ◽  
The Core ◽  
Krill Abundance ◽  
The North ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Warming Climate ◽  
Two Temperatures ◽  
The North Atlantic

AbstractIn the North Atlantic, euphausiids (krill) form a major link between primary production and predators including commercially exploited fish. This basin is warming very rapidly, with species expected to shift northwards following their thermal tolerances. Here we show, however, that there has been a 50% decline in surface krill abundance over the last 60 years that occurred in situ, with no associated range shift. While we relate these changes to the warming climate, our study is the first to document an in situ squeeze on living space within this system. The warmer isotherms are shifting measurably northwards but cooler isotherms have remained relatively static, stalled by the subpolar fronts in the NW Atlantic. Consequently the two temperatures defining the core of krill distribution (7–13 °C) were 8° of latitude apart 60 years ago but are presently only 4° apart. Over the 60 year period the core latitudinal distribution of euphausiids has remained relatively stable so a ‘habitat squeeze’, with loss of 4° of latitude in living space, could explain the decline in krill. This highlights that, as the temperature warms, not all species can track isotherms and shift northward at the same rate with both losers and winners emerging under the ‘Atlantification’ of the sub-Arctic.

Notes on Power Operated Controls for Large Aircraft

1945 ◽  
Vol 49 (410) ◽  
pp. 51-54
Author(s):  
A. Gouge
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
The North Atlantic ◽  
Large Aircraft

A Study of the air routes of the world brings out almost at once the fact that some of the most difficult route are also the most attractive. For instance, the North Atlantic route which couples North America with Europe is certainly one of the most difficult in the world, but also by the fact that it couples two of the most densely populated, as well as the most wealthy groups of people in the world, one of the most attractive.

scholarly journals The Effect of Islamic Revolution on the Muslim’s Intellectual Schools Case Study of Libya and Tunisia

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Jaseb Nikfar ◽  
Ali Mohammadi ◽  
Ali Bagheri Dolatabadi ◽  
Alireza Samiee Esfahani
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Analytic Method ◽  
Islamic Revolution ◽  
General Direction ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Islamic Values

Nowadays the discussion of intellectual schools in the world, especially in the north of Africa is very important for the political analysts. The intellectual roots that existed in these regions from the beginning of independence were more toward the Islam. These roots mostly revealed themselves after the victory of Islamic revolution. The formation of Iran’s Islamic revolution on the top of west and east blocks’ mutuality was a paradigm of general direction of religions and Islamic values for forming the government. This article uses description- analytic method to investigate the effects of Islamic revolution on the Muslim’s intellectual schools in the north of Africa. Two main questions are How and in what direction has the Islamic revolution happening affected the Muslim’s intellectual schools in Libya and Tunisia? Findings of the research shows that with regards to the Muslim’s intellectual backgrounds that before the Islamic revolution existed, in these countries Islamic revolution caused the reinforcement and doubled motivation for these groups. But, yet the reinforcement of the activity of these groups caused their mutuality with the government and increase of violence and insecurity.

scholarly journals Meditation Tourism, Buddhist Philosophy in Practice: A Case Study of Lumbini, Nepal

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-59
Author(s):  
Netra Prasad Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Research Study ◽  
National Development ◽  
Meditation Practice ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
The Core ◽  
Spiritual Tourism ◽  
Religious Tourism ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government

The dimensions of travelling and tourism have become manifold in recent decades. People love to travel with various purposes. Religious tourism, yoga tourism, peace tourism and spiritual tourism are some dimensions. Lumbini can be a best destination for meditation tourism, which could be much rewarding for individual, social and national development. The travelers and stakeholders have yet to be aware of this aspect. In Buddhism, Lumbini is a best destination for meditation tour. Exploring the importance of travelling Lumbini for meditation is the main objective of this article. Tourists and pilgrims would benefit immensely if they understand the significance of meditation tourism to Lumbini, its philosophy and practice. This article aims to explore the spiritual significance of Lumbini and it will provide visions of a purposeful development and publicity that would shape Lumbini as a best destination for meditation tourism. The government and private sectors are interested to develop Lumbini as best tourist destination. People all over the world are attracted to visit Lumbini for different reasons. Most tourists are unaware of the core aspect of visiting Lumbini. People who visit Lumbini are unaware about meditation practice or involving in charity works. Meditation and compassion are the core aspects of Buddha’s teachings, which are neither realized nor practiced. There seems a vast gap between the actual philosophy of Buddhism and the attitude of most of the visitors. This research study attempts to reveal the significance of meditation tourism in Lumbini.

scholarly journals Patriarchy in the Digital Conjuncture: An Analysis of Google’s James Damore

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Little ◽  
Alison Winch
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Method ◽  
Software Engineer ◽  
High Stress ◽  
Silicon Valley ◽  
High Status ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Belief ◽  
The World ◽  
New Form

Our case study looks at the events surrounding the sacking ofGoogle engineer James Damore who was fired for authoring a memo which stated that women are biologically less suited to high-stress, high-status technical employment than men. Damore, asserting that his document ‘was absolutely consistent with what he’d seen online’, instantly became an ambivalent hero of the alt-right. Like the men who own and run the companies of Silicon Valley, the software engineer subscribes to the idea that the world can be understood and altered through the rigorous application of the scientific method. And as he draws on bodies of knowledge from evolutionary psychology and mathematical biology, we see how the core belief structures of Silicon Valley, when transferred from the technical to the cultural and social domain, can reproduce the sort of misogynistic ‘rationalism’ that fuels the alt-right. We argue that Damore’s memo is in line with Google’s ideology of ‘dataism’: that is the belief that the world can be reduced to decontextualised information and subject to quantifiable logics.Through its use of dataism, the memo reveals much about the similarities and continuities between Damore, the ideas laid out n his memo, and Google itself. Rather than being in opposition, these two entities are jostling for a place in the patriarchal structures of a new form of capitalism.

The Challenge of War on Maritime Trade in the North Atlantic: The Case of the British Trade to Iceland During the Napoleonic Wars

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Agnarsdóttir
Keyword(s):  
North Atlantic ◽  
Maritime Trade ◽  
Napoleonic Wars ◽  
The North ◽  
British Trade ◽  
The North Atlantic

This chapter analyses the wartime behaviour of maritime merchants, particularly the necessity of seeking new trade ventures. As a case-study, it seeks to determine why Britain sought maritime trade with Denmark-dependent Iceland, during the Napoleonic Wars, and how this trade was conducted. It contextualises the maritime activities of Iceland in 1800; traces the trade voyages of the Clarence, the HMS Rover, the Margaret and Ann, and the Talbot to Iceland. It concludes by affirming the trade began as a result of chance, and failed to thrive due to the pressures of war.

What Is Decolonial Love?

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Joseph Drexler-Dreis
Keyword(s):  
North Atlantic ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Positive Response ◽  
The Core ◽  
The North ◽  
European Experience ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
The North Atlantic

The introduction establishes the decolonial perspective that prompts the questions to which the book responds. In light of the modern/colonial context of the North Atlantic world, the introduction raises two basic questions. First, can theology, as a mode of critical reflection that employs core concepts and images within lineages grounded in the European experience, contribute to the task of decolonization? Second, if a positive response to this question were offered, what would the content of that response look like? The introduction then proceeds to map out how the core image of decolonial love is developed through the book as a basis for responding to these questions.

scholarly journals A global algorithm for estimating Absolute Salinity

Ocean Science ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 1123-1134 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. J. McDougall ◽  
D. R. Jackett ◽  
F. J. Millero ◽  
R. Pawlowicz ◽  
P. M. Barker
Keyword(s):  
Thermodynamic Properties ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
World Ocean ◽  
Practical Method ◽  
Sea Salt ◽  
The North ◽  
Salinity Anomaly ◽  
The World ◽  
Standard Composition ◽  
The Absolute

Abstract. The International Thermodynamic Equation of Seawater – 2010 has defined the thermodynamic properties of seawater in terms of a new salinity variable, Absolute Salinity, which takes into account the spatial variation of the composition of seawater. Absolute Salinity more accurately reflects the effects of the dissolved material in seawater on the thermodynamic properties (particularly density) than does Practical Salinity. When a seawater sample has standard composition (i.e. the ratios of the constituents of sea salt are the same as those of surface water of the North Atlantic), Practical Salinity can be used to accurately evaluate the thermodynamic properties of seawater. When seawater is not of standard composition, Practical Salinity alone is not sufficient and the Absolute Salinity Anomaly needs to be estimated; this anomaly is as large as 0.025 g kg−1 in the northernmost North Pacific. Here we provide an algorithm for estimating Absolute Salinity Anomaly for any location (x, y, p) in the world ocean. To develop this algorithm, we used the Absolute Salinity Anomaly that is found by comparing the density calculated from Practical Salinity to the density measured in the laboratory. These estimates of Absolute Salinity Anomaly however are limited to the number of available observations (namely 811). In order to provide a practical method that can be used at any location in the world ocean, we take advantage of approximate relationships between Absolute Salinity Anomaly and silicate concentrations (which are available globally).

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