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Federation of South Arabia The Federation of South Arabia was an organization of states under British protection in what would become South Yemen. It was formed on 4 April 1962 from the 15 protected states of the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South.
Federation of State Medical Boards The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) is a national not-for-profit organization representing the 70 medical boards of the United States and its territories, including 14 state boards of osteopathic medicine. Additionally, members include medical boards in the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, U.
Federation of Student Nationalists The Federation of Student Nationalists (FSN) (sometimes termed SNP Students) is the student wing of the Scottish National Party (SNP), representing students in Scottish higher education was formed in the 1960s when various student organisations supportive of Scottish independence and the Scottish National Party in particular decided to join forces into a new constituent body.
Federation of the Democratic and Socialist Left The Federation of the Democratic and Socialist Left (Fédération de la gauche démocrate et socialiste or FGDS) was a conglomerate of French left-wing non-Communist forces. It was composed of the Socialist French Section of the Workers International (Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière or SFIO), Radical-Socialist Party and several left-wing republican groups led by François Mitterrand.
Federation of the Green Parties of the Americas The Federation of the Green Parties of the Americas is the organization of Green parties in North America and South America. The Federation is one of four of its kind around the world; three other federations exist on other continents.
Federation of the Greens The Federation of the Greens (Federazione dei Verdi, or just Verdi) is an Italian green and eco-socialist party. Its leader is Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio, minister for the Environment from April 2006 in Romano Prodi's centre-left government.
Federation of Tamil Sangams of North America The Federation of Tamil Sangams in North America (FeTNA, established 1987) is an umbrella organization of many (but not all) local North American Tamil diaspora organizations. In April 2006, it stated that it represented 42 local organizations, with a combined constituency of about 20,000 Tamil families, mostly Indian American (from Tamil Nadu) and Sri Lankan American.
Federation of The Greens–Green Left The Federación de Los Verdes–Izquierda Verde (Spanish for "Federation of The Greens–Green Left") was a political federation founded in Spain in 1999 by Confederation of The Greens, the Initiative for Catalonia Greens, and Aragonese Council for the European Parliament election, 1999. It has the status of observer in the European Federation of Green Parties.
Federation of Trade Unions of Belarus The Federation of Trade Unions of Belarus is a trade union centre in Belarus. It has evolved from the Soviet era official unions, but has in recent years been in conflict with the government over issues such as living standards and union interference.
Federation of Trade Unions of Burma The Federation of Trade Unions of Burma (FTUB) is an underground trade union in Myanmar. It was formed in 1991 and includes workers and students who were involved in the general strike of August and September, 1988.
Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine The Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine (FPU) is an all-Ukrainian voluntary association of trade unions that have the status of all-Ukrainian trade unions and associations of trade union organisations of the Crimea, regions and the city of Kyiv. It is the largest trade union confederation in Ukraine.
Federation of Trade Unions of Uzbekistan The Federation of Trade Unions of Uzbekistan (FTUU), also known as the Trade Unions Federation of Uzbekistan (TUFU) is the sole national trade union center in Uzbekistan. It is the remnant of the previous Soviet trade union system, although it has lost some of its previous powers, such as state planing and enterprise management.
Federation of Writers (Scotland) The Federation of Writers (Scotland) is a public organisation with a free membership and committee drawn from the members. It was brought into existance in May 2006 when a steering group met and held the first annual general meeting.
Federation of Young European Greens The Federation of Young European Greens AISBL is a federation of green youth organisations from all over Europe (both EU and non-EU). It is currently an observer member of the European Green Party european political party.
Federation of Zionist Youth The Federation of Zionist Youth (FZY) is a Zionist Jewish youth movement. Israel and Zionism are at the center of all FZY activities and programming and over the last five years the numbers of young people participating on their Israel programmes has increased significantly [citation needed].
Federation President In the Star Trek fictional universe, the President of the United Federation of Planets is the leader of the United Federation of Planets. The president's office is located on the 15th floor of the Palais de la Concorde, located in the city of Paris, France, on Earth.
Federation Square Federation Square (or Fed Square) is a public square in the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is located at the southeast corner of the intersection of Flinders and Swanston Streets and opposite Flinders Street Station and St Paul's Cathedral.
Federation Tower The Federation Tower is a skyscraper complex currently under construction in Moscow, Russia and is designed to be both the tallest building in Europe as well as Europe's first "supertall" building. The Federation Tower complex is divided into three towers:
Federation Trail The Federation Trail is a shared use path for cyclists and pedestrians located in the western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The trail begins at Millers Road in Brooklyn (near Altona North, finishing at the Werribee River in Werribee.
Federation X Federation X is a rock band, originally formed in Bellingham, Washington, though now shares members between Bellingham and Portland, Oregon. Founded by Ben Wildenhaus (guitar), Bill Badgley (guitar, vocals), and Beau Boyd (drums) in 1998, the band has toured the US countless times, as well as two European tours, and a quick tour of Israel.
Federazione Italiana dello Scautismo The Federazione Italiana dello Scautismo (FIS, Italian Scout Federation) is the national Scouting and Guiding federation of Italy. Scouting and Guiding in Italy started in 1910, the Boy Scouts were among the charter members of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1922, the Girl Guides joined the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 1948.
Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio The Italian Football Federation (, FIGC), also known as Federcalcio, is the governing body of football in Italy. It organises the Italian football league, Coppa Italia, Italian national football team, and the Italian women's national football team.
Federfechter The Freifechter or Federfechter (Freifechter Von der Feder zum Greifenfels) were a fencing guild founded around 1570 in Prague. They were known, from early in their existence, to be skilled, rivalling the Marx brothers who for the best part of a century had held a monopoly.
Federica Montseny Federica Montseny i Mañé (February 12 1905, Madrid—January 14 1994) was a Spanish anarchist, intellectual and Minister of Health during the social revolution that occurred in Spain parallel to the Civil War. She is also known as a poet, novelist, essayist, and children's writer.
Federico (Fico) LĂłpez Federico "Fico" Lopez (March 26, 1962 - November 6 , 2006 ) was a Puerto Rican basketball player, member of the Guaynabo Mets Lopez together with his brother-in-law Mario "El Quijote" Morales won various tournaments of the Ligra de Baloncesto Superior Nacional of
Federico Aubele Federico Aubele is an Argentine singer-songwriter whose music blends influences from both North and Latin American folk music, electronica, rock, and traditional Spanish music. After submitting a demo to Eighteenth Street Lounge Music Music, he was signed quickly to the label, and released his debut album, Gran Hotel Buenos Aires, in 2004.
Federico Barocci Federico Fiori Barocci (or Baroccio; also Federigo) (1528–1612) was an Italian Counter-Reformation or proto-Baroque painter. His work fills an oft-overlooked period of art; while in his day his work was highly esteemed and influential.
Federico Carlos Gravina y Nápoli Don Federico Carlos Gravina y Nápoli, (Palermo, Sicily, 1756 - Cadiz, 1806), was a Spanish Admiral during the American Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, who died of wounds sustained during the Battle of Trafalgar.
Federico Consolo Federico Consolo (1841–1906) was a Sammarinese violinist and composer who composed the arrangement for the national anthem of San Marino, based on a 10th century chorale, with lyrics by Giosué Carducci. It was adopted in 1894.
Federico da Montefeltro Federico da Montefeltro, also known as Federico III da Montefeltro (June 7, 1422 – September 10, 1482) was one of the most successful condottieri of the Italian Renaissance, and Duke of Urbino from 1444 until his death. In Urbino he commissioned the construction of a great library, perhaps the largest of Italy after the Vatican, with his own team of scribes in his scriptorium, and assembled around him a great humanistic court in one of the great architectural gems of the early Renaissance, the Ducal Palace of Urbino, designed by the architect and theorist Francesco di Giorgio Martini.
Federico Degetau Federico Degetau y González (December 5, 1862 – January 20, 1914) was a Puerto Rican politician, lawyer, writer, author, and the first Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico to the United States House of Representatives.
Federico Errázuriz Echaurren Federico Errázuriz Echaurren (November 16, 1850 - July 12, 1901) was a Chilean political figure. Born in Santiago, he served as President of Chile between 1896 until his death from cerebral thrombosis in 1901 in ValparaĂso.
Federico Fellini Federico Fellini (January 20 1920 – October 31 1993) was one of the most influential and widely revered Italian film-makers of the 20th century and is considered to be one of the finest film directors of all time. A unique combination of memory, dreams, fantasy, and desire, Fellini's films are deeply personal visions of society, often portraying people at their most bizarre.
Federico GarcĂa Lorca Federico GarcĂa Lorca (June 5, 1898 – August 19, 1936) was a Spanish poet and dramatist, also remembered as a painter, pianist, and composer. An emblematic member of the Generation of '27, he was killed by Nationalist partisans at the age of 38 at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.
Federico Heinz Federico Heinz is a Latin-American programmer and Free Software advocate living in Argentina. He is a co-founder of FundaciĂłn VĂa Libre, a non-profit organization that promotes the free flow of knowledge as a motor for social progress, and the use and development of Free Software as a powerful tool towards that goal.
Federico Chueca Federico Chueca (Madrid, 5 May 1846 - 20 July 1908) was a Spanish composer of zarzuelas and author of La gran vĂa along with JoaquĂn Valverde in 1886. Chueca was one of the most prominent figures of the gĂ©nero chico.
Federico Kauffmann Doig Federico Kauffmann Doig was born in Chiclayo, but his childhood and infancy passed in small localities of Cajamarca and Amazonas, particularly in Cocochillo (today Camporredondo) on the margin right hand of the River Marañon. Of German father, it is provided for the maternal side with forefathers of the millennial culture Mochica.
Federico Lopez Federico "Fico" Lopez (March 26 1962 - November 6 2006) was a Puerto Rican basketball player, member of the Guaynabo Mets. Lopez together with his brother-in-law Mario "El Quijote" Morales, won various tournaments of the Ligra de Baloncesto Superior Nacional of Puerto Rico.
Federico Maria Sardelli Federico Maria Sardelli is mainly known as the leader of the award-winning baroque music ensemble Modo Antiquo, but is also a unique humorist, artist and comic writer, relatively well-known in Italy because of his monthly humour contributions to the Tuscan satirical magazine Il Vernacoliere. He's also an illustrator and the director of the Ancient Music department at the Florence Music Academy.
Federico Nieto Federico Nieto (born 26 August 1983 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine professional footballer currently playing for Italian Hellas Verona on loan. He previously played for Almagro, with a loan spell at Scottish club Rangers in 2005.
Federico Turienzo Federico Ezequiel Turienzo (born February 6, 1983 in La Plata) is an Argentine football player. He is a 6'2" tall, 12 stone striker who currently is a free agent after being released from his contract at Brighton and Hove Albion in May 2006.
Federigo Enriques Federigo Enriques (5 January 1871 –14 June 1946) was an Italian mathematician, now known principally as the first to give a classification of algebraic surfaces in birational geometry, and other contributions in algebraic geometry.
Federigo Giambelli Federigo Giambelli (or Gianibelli), Italian military engineer, was born at Mantua about the middle of the 16th century. Having had some experience as a military engineer in Italy, he went to Spain to offer his services to Philip II.
Federrico Federrico is a Venezuelan sitcom produced in 1982 and starred by Carlos Villagrán, RamĂłn ValdĂ©s, SimĂłn GarcĂa, Maribel Ponte and Nancy Soto. An spin-off of the series was produced in 1983 under the name of Las nuevas aventuras de Federrico ("The new adventures of Federrico").
Federsee Federsee is a swampy lake, partially overgrown with reeds, located to the north of Bad Buchau in the region of Upper Swabia in Southern Germany. With a size of 33 km², it is one of the largest, connected moor areas in Southwest Germany.
Federschwert The Federschwert (feather sword, plural Federschwerter), or Fechtfeder (fighting feather, plural Fechtfedern), is a type of training sword used in Renaissance Fechtschulen (martial arts schools) to train safely at full speed and power. They are used extensively in the fighting manuals of the 16th century, particularly those of Paulus Hector Mair and Joachim Meyer.
Federweisser Federweisser, also spelled as Federweißer, is known as Suser, Sauser or Junger Wein in Southwest Germany, Switzerland and South Tyrol, Sturm in Austria, New Wine in the Palatinate, Bremser in Franconia, and burčák in Czech Republic. It is a fermenting grape must.
FedEx Flight 647 Federal Express corp. (FedEx) flight 647 was a flight between Metropolitan Oakland International Airport (OAK), Oakland, California and Memphis International Airport (MEM), Memphis, Tennessee that crashed during landing on December 18, 2003.
FedEx Flight 705 FedEx Flight 705 was the scene of an attempted hijacking of a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 on April 7, 1994. Auburn Calloway, a FedEx employee, was due to be fired for lying on his résumé about his previous flying experience with the United States Navy.
FedExField FedExField is a football stadium located in Landover, Maryland, a community off of the Capital Beltway (I-495) in Prince George's County near the site of the old Capital Centre later called USAir Arena. FedExField is the home of the Washington Redskins football team and is the largest stadium in the National Football League, seating 91,704 people.
Fedchenko Glacier The Fedchenko Glacier (Russian Федченко, also transliterated Fedcenko) is a large glacier in the Pamir Mountains of central Tajikistan. The glacier is long and narrow, currently extending for 77 km (47 miles) and covering over 700 km² (270 mi²).
Fedir Shchus Fedir Shchus also known as Fyodor Shuss was a commander in the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine of Nestor Makhno.Originally separate and independent of Makhno, Shchus eventually swore his loyalty to Makhno and became one of his ablest officers.
Fedis Fedis is one of the 180 woredas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Misraq (East) Hararghe Zone, Fedis is bordered on the southwest by Gola Odana Meyumuluke, on the west by Girawa, on the northwest by Haro Maya, on the north by the Harari Region, on the east by Babille, and on the southeast by the Erer River which separates it from the Somali Region.
Fedje Fedje is a small municipality in the county of Hordaland, Norway. The main island of Fedje is surrounded by about 125 smaller islands and rocks mostly north of the main island, and the name Fedje applies both to the main island, and to all the islands and rocks as a whole.
Fedlimid Rechtmar Fedlimid Rechtmar (Feidhlimidh Reachtmhar or Feidhlim the Lawgiver), son of Tuathal Teachtmhar, was a legendary High King of Ireland of the 2nd century. His name comes from the many wise laws he established in Ireland during his reign.
FedNor The Federal Economic Development Initiative of Northern Ontario (or FEDNOR) is a department of Industry Canada whose initiative is to address the economic development of Northern Ontario. FedNor specifically aids women, franco-ontarians, youths, and Aboriginal peoples in Ontario.
Fedor Andreev Fedor Andreev (Russian Федор Đндреев)(born March 2, 1982 in Moscow, Russia) is a Canadian skater, former Abercrombie & Fitch model, automotive drifting racer, and son of famed choreographer and coach Marina Zoueva. His greatest skating accomplishment to date, is winning the 2003 Canadian men's bronze medal.
Fedor den Hertog Fedor Iwan den Hertog (born April 20, 1946 in Utrecht) is a is a Dutch cyclist. He became Olympic champion of the Team 100k Time Trial in the 1968 Oympics along with Joop Zoetemelk, René Pijnen and Jan Krekels.
Fedor Fedorov (hockey) Fedor Fedorov, (born June 11 1981 in Apatity, Soviet Union), (now Russia) is an ice hockey player. On July 25th, 2006, he signed with the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Russian League, having previously been playing for the Hartford Wolf Pack, the minor league affiliate of the National Hockey League's New York Rangers.
Fedor Golovin Count Feodor Alekseyevich Golovin (Фёдор ĐлекŃандрович Головин) (1650 - 1706) was the last Russian boyar and the first Russian chancellor. Until his death he was the most influential of Peter the Great's associates.
Fedor Simasjov Fedor Petrovich Simasjov () (born March 13 1945) was a Soviet/Russian cross-country skier who competed in the early 1970's, training at Dynamo in Moscow. He won the 4 x 10 km gold and the 15 km silver at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo for the USSR.
Fedor Terentjev Fedor Mikhailovich Terentjev () (October 4 1925 in village Padany, Medvezhyegorsky District, Karelian ASSR - January 20 1963) was a former Soviet cross-country skier who competed during the 1950's, training at the Armed Forces sports society in Moscow. He earned two medals at the 1956 Winter Olympics with a bronze in the 50 km and a gold in the 4 x 10 km relay.
Fedor Tokarev Fedor Vasilievich Tokarev (Russian: Фёдор Đ’Đ°Ńильевич Токарев, sometimes translated as Fyodor Vasilyevich, or Fedor Vasilevich) (1871–1968) was a Russian weapons designer and deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 1941 to 1950. Outside the former Soviet Union he is best known as the designer of the Tokarev TT-33 semiautomatic handgun and the Tokarev SVT-40 self-loading rifle, both of which were produced in large numbers during World War II (known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War).
Fedor von Bock Fedor von Bock (December 3, 1880 - May 4, 1945) was a generalfeldmarschall of the Wehrmacht who served as Army Group Center's commander during the attack on the Soviet Union in 1941. Von Bock was considered a very "by the book" general and was not heavily involved in politics but also did not sympathize with those who opposed Adolf Hitler.
Fedora (Giordano) Fedora is an opera in three acts by Umberto Giordano to an Italian libretto by Arturo Colautti, based on the play Fédora by Victorien Sardou. Along with Andrea Chénier and Siberia, it is one of the most notable works of Giordano.
Fedora (software) Fedora (or Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture) (not to be confused with Fedora Core) is a modular architecture built on the principle that interoperability and extensibility is best achieved by the integration of data, interfaces, and mechanisms (i.e.
Fedora Core Fedora Core is an RPM-based Linux distribution, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. It aims to be a complete, general-purpose operating system that contains only free and open source software.
Fedora Directory Server The Fedora Directory Server (FDS) is an LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) server developed by Red Hat, as part of Red Hat's community-supported Fedora Project. Fedora Directory Server is identical to the Red Hat Directory Server, just rebranded.
Fedora Extras Fedora Extras is a repository for packages not distributed with the base Fedora Core distribution. Extras packages are generally obtained online, and can be downloaded with yum or other package management software.
Fedora Legacy The Fedora Legacy project is a community-supported open-source project to provide security and critical bug fix errata package updates for versions of Red Hat Linux and Fedora Core no longer officially supported by Red Hat. Currently, it provides updates for Red Hat Linux 7.
Fedora Project The Fedora Project is the organization responsible for producing the Fedora Core (FC) Linux distribution and Fedora Extras, along with a variety of other projects. It is the result of a merger between the Red Hat Linux (RHL) and old Fedora Linux projects in September 2003, and is officially sponsored by Red Hat, which has many employees working on the project's code.
Fedoskino miniature Fedoskino miniature (Russian: федоŃкинŃкая миниатюра) is a traditional Russian lacquer miniature painting on papier-mache, named after its original center Fedoskino (ФедоŃкино), an old village near Moscow widely known from the late 18th century. The contemporary Fedoskino painting preserves the typical features of Russian folk art.
Fedwire Fedwire is a Real Time Gross Settlement system operated by the Federal Reserve that enables financial institutions to electronically transfer funds amongst its more than 9,500 participants. In conjunction with the privately held Clearing House Interbank Payments System (CHIPS), Fedwire forms the primary United States network for large-value domestic and international payments, and is designed to be highly resilient and redundant.
Fee A fee is the price one pays as remuneration for services, especially the honorarium paid to a doctor, lawyer, consultant or member of a learned profession. Fees usually allow for overhead, wages, costs and markup.
Fee fixing scandal In September 2005, fifty British Independent schools were found guilty of operating a fee-fixing cartel by the Office of Fair Trading. The OFT found that the schools had exchanged details of their planned fee increases over three academic years between 2001-02 and 2003-04, in breach of the 1998 Competition Act.
Fee simple Fee simple is an estate in land in common law. It is the most common way real estate is owned in common law countries, and is ordinarily the most complete ownership interest that can be had in real property short of allodial title, which is often reserved for governments.
Fee simple absolute Fee simple absolute(FSA) is a real estate term in which the owner is entitled to the entire property with unconditional power of disposition during the owner's life, and the property descends to the owner's heirs and legal representatives upon the owner's death intestate.
Fee tail Fee tail or entail is an obsolete term of art in common law. It describes an estate of inheritance in real property which cannot be sold, devised by will, or otherwise alienated by the owner, but which passes by operation of law to the owner's heirs upon his death.
Fee-for-service Fee-for-service is health care coverage in which doctors and other health care providers receive a fee for each service such as an office visit, test, procedure, or other health care serviceFEHB Glossary. Retrieved May 31, 2006..
Fee-Only financial advisor Fee-Only financial advisors are compensated only by their clients and accept no commissions or compensation from other sources, such as insurance products or investments; rather, fee-only advisors charge fees calculated as a percentage (e.g.
Feeble-minded Feeble-minded was a term used from the late 19th century through the early 20th century to loosely describe a variety of mental deficiencies, including what would now be considered mental retardation in its various types and grades, and learning disabilities such as dyslexia.
Feed and Forage Act The Feed and Forage Act is legislation passed by the United States Congress that allows the Military Departments to incur obligations in excess of available appropriations for clothing, subsistence, fuel, quarters, transportation and medical supplies. This provision is codified in Section 3732 of the Revised Statutes ().
Feed the Kitty Feed the Kitty is a Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese where Bulldog Marc Antony adopts small cat Pussyfoot and tries to hide it from his mistress. It was released theatrically on February 2, 1952.
Feed The Children Feed The Children is a Christian, international, non-profit relief organization founded by Larry and Frances Jones in 1979, whose stated mission is "to deliver food, medicine, clothing and other necessities to individuals, children and families who lack these essentials due to famine, war, poverty or natural disaster". Last year, Feed The Children shipped 183 million pounds of food and other essentials to children and families in all 50 states and internationally.
Feed: URI scheme In computing, the feed: URI scheme (sometimes referred to, somewhat imprecisely, as the feed protocol; see Protocol (computing)) is a non-standard URI scheme designed to facilitate subscription to web feeds; specifically, it is intended that a news aggregrator be lauched whenever a hyperlink to a feed: URI is clicked in a web browser.
Feedback (Matthew Atherton) Feedback is a fictional superhero created and originally portrayed by actor Matthew Atherton on the reality television series Who Wants to Be a Superhero?. As a result of winning the show, his character will be the subject of a Dark Horse Comics comic book to be written by Stan Lee and will be the featured character in an original Sci Fi Channel Saturday Night Movie.
Feedback (Spirit album) Feedback is the 5th album by the rock & roll band Spirit. Released in 1972, it was the first Spirit album without original members Jay Ferguson and Mark Andes, and it was also the only Spirit album that did not feature Randy California performing on it, as California had left the group to pursue a solo career.
Feedback arc set In graph theory, a directed graph may contain directed cycles, a one-way loop of edges. In some applications, such cycles are undesirable, and we wish to eliminate them and obtain a directed acyclic graph (DAG).
Feedback linearization Feedback linearization is a common approach used in controlling nonlinear systems. The approach involves coming up with a transformation of the nonlinear system into an equivalent linear system, through a change of variables and a suitable control input.
Feedback loop A feedback loop is a system where outputs are fed back into the system as inputs, increasing or decreasing effects — think of audio feedback from an amplifier. The term may refer to social effects; see cycle of poverty.
Feedback Runaway Feedback Runaway is a situation in a feedback system where (usually positive) feedback causes a undesirable situation to become worse. The most common use of the term is in Thermal runaway, when an increase in temperature leads to changes that cause further increase of temperature.
Feeder (band) Feeder are a rock band that formed in Newport, South Wales in 1992. The band's members are Welsh singer/guitarist/songwriter, Grant Nicholas, Japanese bass guitarist Taka Hirose, and English drummer Mark Richardson.
Feeder school Feeder school is a name applied to schools, colleges, universities, or other educational institutions that provide a significant number of graduates who intend to continue their studies at specific schools, or even in specific fields.
Feederism Feederism is a sexual fetish (specifically a type of body alteration fetishism), centered on the practice of eating large amounts of food. The feeder provides the gainer with an abundant supply of food, either to encourage weight gain or simply for delight in the act of feeding.
Feeding frenzy Feeding frenzy is an ecological term used to describe a situation where oversaturation of a supply of food leads to rapid feeding by predatory animals. For example, a large school of fish can cause nearby sharks to enter a feeding frenzy.
Feeding the children with Celestial Nectar According to Ayyavazhi mythology the Santror Makkal born for Seven Virgins were named and after the naming ceremony, Sivan and Thirumal, wanting to feed the children with celestial nectar, commanded the celestial attendants to bring the same. When they went to bring the nectar, they found it emptied by a priest and his wife who â€dressing themselves as per the rules of the scriptures’, had been drinking the whole measures of nectar to their full.
Feeding the multitude Feeding the multitude (also known as The miracle of the loaves and fishes) is the name of two miracles attributed to Jesus, the first of which is reported by all four of the canonical Gospels of the Christian religion (, Mark 6:31-44, Luke 9:10-17 and John 6:5-15), while the second is reported by Mark and Matthew but neither Luke nor John. The first is the only miracle present in both the narrative of the Gospel of John and that of the Synoptic Gospels.
Feedlot A feedlot or feedyard is a type of concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) (also known as "factory farming") which is used for fattening livestock, notably beef cattle, prior to slaughter. They may contain thousands of animals in an array of pens.
FeedLynks FeedLynks is an online video on demand entity created for the sole purpose of building awareness for Canadian urban music music videos. The website is home to many current music videos and also provides access to infrequently publicized videos, not normally available for viewing anywhere on the Internet.
FeedTree FeedTree is a peer-to-peer system for distributing Web feeds faster and with lower bandwidth requirements for publishers. Instead of polling feeds independently, FeedTree users cooperate to share news updates using Scribe multicast in Pastry, a scalable p2p overlay network.
Federation of State Medical Boards The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) is a national not-for-profit organization representing the 70 medical boards of the United States and its territories, including 14 state boards of osteopathic medicine. Additionally, members include medical boards in the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, U.
Federation of Student Nationalists The Federation of Student Nationalists (FSN) (sometimes termed SNP Students) is the student wing of the Scottish National Party (SNP), representing students in Scottish higher education was formed in the 1960s when various student organisations supportive of Scottish independence and the Scottish National Party in particular decided to join forces into a new constituent body.
Federation of the Democratic and Socialist Left The Federation of the Democratic and Socialist Left (Fédération de la gauche démocrate et socialiste or FGDS) was a conglomerate of French left-wing non-Communist forces. It was composed of the Socialist French Section of the Workers International (Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière or SFIO), Radical-Socialist Party and several left-wing republican groups led by François Mitterrand.
Federation of the Green Parties of the Americas The Federation of the Green Parties of the Americas is the organization of Green parties in North America and South America. The Federation is one of four of its kind around the world; three other federations exist on other continents.
Federation of the Greens The Federation of the Greens (Federazione dei Verdi, or just Verdi) is an Italian green and eco-socialist party. Its leader is Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio, minister for the Environment from April 2006 in Romano Prodi's centre-left government.
Federation of Tamil Sangams of North America The Federation of Tamil Sangams in North America (FeTNA, established 1987) is an umbrella organization of many (but not all) local North American Tamil diaspora organizations. In April 2006, it stated that it represented 42 local organizations, with a combined constituency of about 20,000 Tamil families, mostly Indian American (from Tamil Nadu) and Sri Lankan American.
Federation of The Greens–Green Left The Federación de Los Verdes–Izquierda Verde (Spanish for "Federation of The Greens–Green Left") was a political federation founded in Spain in 1999 by Confederation of The Greens, the Initiative for Catalonia Greens, and Aragonese Council for the European Parliament election, 1999. It has the status of observer in the European Federation of Green Parties.
Federation of Trade Unions of Belarus The Federation of Trade Unions of Belarus is a trade union centre in Belarus. It has evolved from the Soviet era official unions, but has in recent years been in conflict with the government over issues such as living standards and union interference.
Federation of Trade Unions of Burma The Federation of Trade Unions of Burma (FTUB) is an underground trade union in Myanmar. It was formed in 1991 and includes workers and students who were involved in the general strike of August and September, 1988.
Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine The Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine (FPU) is an all-Ukrainian voluntary association of trade unions that have the status of all-Ukrainian trade unions and associations of trade union organisations of the Crimea, regions and the city of Kyiv. It is the largest trade union confederation in Ukraine.
Federation of Trade Unions of Uzbekistan The Federation of Trade Unions of Uzbekistan (FTUU), also known as the Trade Unions Federation of Uzbekistan (TUFU) is the sole national trade union center in Uzbekistan. It is the remnant of the previous Soviet trade union system, although it has lost some of its previous powers, such as state planing and enterprise management.
Federation of Writers (Scotland) The Federation of Writers (Scotland) is a public organisation with a free membership and committee drawn from the members. It was brought into existance in May 2006 when a steering group met and held the first annual general meeting.
Federation of Young European Greens The Federation of Young European Greens AISBL is a federation of green youth organisations from all over Europe (both EU and non-EU). It is currently an observer member of the European Green Party european political party.
Federation of Zionist Youth The Federation of Zionist Youth (FZY) is a Zionist Jewish youth movement. Israel and Zionism are at the center of all FZY activities and programming and over the last five years the numbers of young people participating on their Israel programmes has increased significantly [citation needed].
Federation President In the Star Trek fictional universe, the President of the United Federation of Planets is the leader of the United Federation of Planets. The president's office is located on the 15th floor of the Palais de la Concorde, located in the city of Paris, France, on Earth.
Federation Square Federation Square (or Fed Square) is a public square in the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is located at the southeast corner of the intersection of Flinders and Swanston Streets and opposite Flinders Street Station and St Paul's Cathedral.
Federation Tower The Federation Tower is a skyscraper complex currently under construction in Moscow, Russia and is designed to be both the tallest building in Europe as well as Europe's first "supertall" building. The Federation Tower complex is divided into three towers:
Federation Trail The Federation Trail is a shared use path for cyclists and pedestrians located in the western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The trail begins at Millers Road in Brooklyn (near Altona North, finishing at the Werribee River in Werribee.
Federation X Federation X is a rock band, originally formed in Bellingham, Washington, though now shares members between Bellingham and Portland, Oregon. Founded by Ben Wildenhaus (guitar), Bill Badgley (guitar, vocals), and Beau Boyd (drums) in 1998, the band has toured the US countless times, as well as two European tours, and a quick tour of Israel.
Federazione Italiana dello Scautismo The Federazione Italiana dello Scautismo (FIS, Italian Scout Federation) is the national Scouting and Guiding federation of Italy. Scouting and Guiding in Italy started in 1910, the Boy Scouts were among the charter members of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1922, the Girl Guides joined the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 1948.
Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio The Italian Football Federation (, FIGC), also known as Federcalcio, is the governing body of football in Italy. It organises the Italian football league, Coppa Italia, Italian national football team, and the Italian women's national football team.
Federfechter The Freifechter or Federfechter (Freifechter Von der Feder zum Greifenfels) were a fencing guild founded around 1570 in Prague. They were known, from early in their existence, to be skilled, rivalling the Marx brothers who for the best part of a century had held a monopoly.
Federica Montseny Federica Montseny i Mañé (February 12 1905, Madrid—January 14 1994) was a Spanish anarchist, intellectual and Minister of Health during the social revolution that occurred in Spain parallel to the Civil War. She is also known as a poet, novelist, essayist, and children's writer.
Federico (Fico) LĂłpez Federico "Fico" Lopez (March 26, 1962 - November 6 , 2006 ) was a Puerto Rican basketball player, member of the Guaynabo Mets Lopez together with his brother-in-law Mario "El Quijote" Morales won various tournaments of the Ligra de Baloncesto Superior Nacional of
Federico Aubele Federico Aubele is an Argentine singer-songwriter whose music blends influences from both North and Latin American folk music, electronica, rock, and traditional Spanish music. After submitting a demo to Eighteenth Street Lounge Music Music, he was signed quickly to the label, and released his debut album, Gran Hotel Buenos Aires, in 2004.
Federico Barocci Federico Fiori Barocci (or Baroccio; also Federigo) (1528–1612) was an Italian Counter-Reformation or proto-Baroque painter. His work fills an oft-overlooked period of art; while in his day his work was highly esteemed and influential.
Federico Carlos Gravina y Nápoli Don Federico Carlos Gravina y Nápoli, (Palermo, Sicily, 1756 - Cadiz, 1806), was a Spanish Admiral during the American Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, who died of wounds sustained during the Battle of Trafalgar.
Federico Consolo Federico Consolo (1841–1906) was a Sammarinese violinist and composer who composed the arrangement for the national anthem of San Marino, based on a 10th century chorale, with lyrics by Giosué Carducci. It was adopted in 1894.
Federico da Montefeltro Federico da Montefeltro, also known as Federico III da Montefeltro (June 7, 1422 – September 10, 1482) was one of the most successful condottieri of the Italian Renaissance, and Duke of Urbino from 1444 until his death. In Urbino he commissioned the construction of a great library, perhaps the largest of Italy after the Vatican, with his own team of scribes in his scriptorium, and assembled around him a great humanistic court in one of the great architectural gems of the early Renaissance, the Ducal Palace of Urbino, designed by the architect and theorist Francesco di Giorgio Martini.
Federico Degetau Federico Degetau y González (December 5, 1862 – January 20, 1914) was a Puerto Rican politician, lawyer, writer, author, and the first Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico to the United States House of Representatives.
Federico Errázuriz Echaurren Federico Errázuriz Echaurren (November 16, 1850 - July 12, 1901) was a Chilean political figure. Born in Santiago, he served as President of Chile between 1896 until his death from cerebral thrombosis in 1901 in ValparaĂso.
Federico Fellini Federico Fellini (January 20 1920 – October 31 1993) was one of the most influential and widely revered Italian film-makers of the 20th century and is considered to be one of the finest film directors of all time. A unique combination of memory, dreams, fantasy, and desire, Fellini's films are deeply personal visions of society, often portraying people at their most bizarre.
Federico GarcĂa Lorca Federico GarcĂa Lorca (June 5, 1898 – August 19, 1936) was a Spanish poet and dramatist, also remembered as a painter, pianist, and composer. An emblematic member of the Generation of '27, he was killed by Nationalist partisans at the age of 38 at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.
Federico Heinz Federico Heinz is a Latin-American programmer and Free Software advocate living in Argentina. He is a co-founder of FundaciĂłn VĂa Libre, a non-profit organization that promotes the free flow of knowledge as a motor for social progress, and the use and development of Free Software as a powerful tool towards that goal.
Federico Chueca Federico Chueca (Madrid, 5 May 1846 - 20 July 1908) was a Spanish composer of zarzuelas and author of La gran vĂa along with JoaquĂn Valverde in 1886. Chueca was one of the most prominent figures of the gĂ©nero chico.
Federico Kauffmann Doig Federico Kauffmann Doig was born in Chiclayo, but his childhood and infancy passed in small localities of Cajamarca and Amazonas, particularly in Cocochillo (today Camporredondo) on the margin right hand of the River Marañon. Of German father, it is provided for the maternal side with forefathers of the millennial culture Mochica.
Federico Lopez Federico "Fico" Lopez (March 26 1962 - November 6 2006) was a Puerto Rican basketball player, member of the Guaynabo Mets. Lopez together with his brother-in-law Mario "El Quijote" Morales, won various tournaments of the Ligra de Baloncesto Superior Nacional of Puerto Rico.
Federico Maria Sardelli Federico Maria Sardelli is mainly known as the leader of the award-winning baroque music ensemble Modo Antiquo, but is also a unique humorist, artist and comic writer, relatively well-known in Italy because of his monthly humour contributions to the Tuscan satirical magazine Il Vernacoliere. He's also an illustrator and the director of the Ancient Music department at the Florence Music Academy.
Federico Nieto Federico Nieto (born 26 August 1983 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine professional footballer currently playing for Italian Hellas Verona on loan. He previously played for Almagro, with a loan spell at Scottish club Rangers in 2005.
Federico Turienzo Federico Ezequiel Turienzo (born February 6, 1983 in La Plata) is an Argentine football player. He is a 6'2" tall, 12 stone striker who currently is a free agent after being released from his contract at Brighton and Hove Albion in May 2006.
Federigo Enriques Federigo Enriques (5 January 1871 –14 June 1946) was an Italian mathematician, now known principally as the first to give a classification of algebraic surfaces in birational geometry, and other contributions in algebraic geometry.
Federigo Giambelli Federigo Giambelli (or Gianibelli), Italian military engineer, was born at Mantua about the middle of the 16th century. Having had some experience as a military engineer in Italy, he went to Spain to offer his services to Philip II.
Federrico Federrico is a Venezuelan sitcom produced in 1982 and starred by Carlos Villagrán, RamĂłn ValdĂ©s, SimĂłn GarcĂa, Maribel Ponte and Nancy Soto. An spin-off of the series was produced in 1983 under the name of Las nuevas aventuras de Federrico ("The new adventures of Federrico").
Federsee Federsee is a swampy lake, partially overgrown with reeds, located to the north of Bad Buchau in the region of Upper Swabia in Southern Germany. With a size of 33 km², it is one of the largest, connected moor areas in Southwest Germany.
Federschwert The Federschwert (feather sword, plural Federschwerter), or Fechtfeder (fighting feather, plural Fechtfedern), is a type of training sword used in Renaissance Fechtschulen (martial arts schools) to train safely at full speed and power. They are used extensively in the fighting manuals of the 16th century, particularly those of Paulus Hector Mair and Joachim Meyer.
Federweisser Federweisser, also spelled as Federweißer, is known as Suser, Sauser or Junger Wein in Southwest Germany, Switzerland and South Tyrol, Sturm in Austria, New Wine in the Palatinate, Bremser in Franconia, and burčák in Czech Republic. It is a fermenting grape must.
FedEx Flight 647 Federal Express corp. (FedEx) flight 647 was a flight between Metropolitan Oakland International Airport (OAK), Oakland, California and Memphis International Airport (MEM), Memphis, Tennessee that crashed during landing on December 18, 2003.
FedEx Flight 705 FedEx Flight 705 was the scene of an attempted hijacking of a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 on April 7, 1994. Auburn Calloway, a FedEx employee, was due to be fired for lying on his résumé about his previous flying experience with the United States Navy.
FedExField FedExField is a football stadium located in Landover, Maryland, a community off of the Capital Beltway (I-495) in Prince George's County near the site of the old Capital Centre later called USAir Arena. FedExField is the home of the Washington Redskins football team and is the largest stadium in the National Football League, seating 91,704 people.
Fedchenko Glacier The Fedchenko Glacier (Russian Федченко, also transliterated Fedcenko) is a large glacier in the Pamir Mountains of central Tajikistan. The glacier is long and narrow, currently extending for 77 km (47 miles) and covering over 700 km² (270 mi²).
Fedir Shchus Fedir Shchus also known as Fyodor Shuss was a commander in the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine of Nestor Makhno.Originally separate and independent of Makhno, Shchus eventually swore his loyalty to Makhno and became one of his ablest officers.
Fedis Fedis is one of the 180 woredas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Misraq (East) Hararghe Zone, Fedis is bordered on the southwest by Gola Odana Meyumuluke, on the west by Girawa, on the northwest by Haro Maya, on the north by the Harari Region, on the east by Babille, and on the southeast by the Erer River which separates it from the Somali Region.
Fedje Fedje is a small municipality in the county of Hordaland, Norway. The main island of Fedje is surrounded by about 125 smaller islands and rocks mostly north of the main island, and the name Fedje applies both to the main island, and to all the islands and rocks as a whole.
Fedlimid Rechtmar Fedlimid Rechtmar (Feidhlimidh Reachtmhar or Feidhlim the Lawgiver), son of Tuathal Teachtmhar, was a legendary High King of Ireland of the 2nd century. His name comes from the many wise laws he established in Ireland during his reign.
FedNor The Federal Economic Development Initiative of Northern Ontario (or FEDNOR) is a department of Industry Canada whose initiative is to address the economic development of Northern Ontario. FedNor specifically aids women, franco-ontarians, youths, and Aboriginal peoples in Ontario.
Fedor Andreev Fedor Andreev (Russian Федор Đндреев)(born March 2, 1982 in Moscow, Russia) is a Canadian skater, former Abercrombie & Fitch model, automotive drifting racer, and son of famed choreographer and coach Marina Zoueva. His greatest skating accomplishment to date, is winning the 2003 Canadian men's bronze medal.
Fedor den Hertog Fedor Iwan den Hertog (born April 20, 1946 in Utrecht) is a is a Dutch cyclist. He became Olympic champion of the Team 100k Time Trial in the 1968 Oympics along with Joop Zoetemelk, René Pijnen and Jan Krekels.
Fedor Fedorov (hockey) Fedor Fedorov, (born June 11 1981 in Apatity, Soviet Union), (now Russia) is an ice hockey player. On July 25th, 2006, he signed with the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Russian League, having previously been playing for the Hartford Wolf Pack, the minor league affiliate of the National Hockey League's New York Rangers.
Fedor Golovin Count Feodor Alekseyevich Golovin (Фёдор ĐлекŃандрович Головин) (1650 - 1706) was the last Russian boyar and the first Russian chancellor. Until his death he was the most influential of Peter the Great's associates.
Fedor Simasjov Fedor Petrovich Simasjov () (born March 13 1945) was a Soviet/Russian cross-country skier who competed in the early 1970's, training at Dynamo in Moscow. He won the 4 x 10 km gold and the 15 km silver at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo for the USSR.
Fedor Terentjev Fedor Mikhailovich Terentjev () (October 4 1925 in village Padany, Medvezhyegorsky District, Karelian ASSR - January 20 1963) was a former Soviet cross-country skier who competed during the 1950's, training at the Armed Forces sports society in Moscow. He earned two medals at the 1956 Winter Olympics with a bronze in the 50 km and a gold in the 4 x 10 km relay.
Fedor Tokarev Fedor Vasilievich Tokarev (Russian: Фёдор Đ’Đ°Ńильевич Токарев, sometimes translated as Fyodor Vasilyevich, or Fedor Vasilevich) (1871–1968) was a Russian weapons designer and deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 1941 to 1950. Outside the former Soviet Union he is best known as the designer of the Tokarev TT-33 semiautomatic handgun and the Tokarev SVT-40 self-loading rifle, both of which were produced in large numbers during World War II (known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War).
Fedor von Bock Fedor von Bock (December 3, 1880 - May 4, 1945) was a generalfeldmarschall of the Wehrmacht who served as Army Group Center's commander during the attack on the Soviet Union in 1941. Von Bock was considered a very "by the book" general and was not heavily involved in politics but also did not sympathize with those who opposed Adolf Hitler.
Fedora (Giordano) Fedora is an opera in three acts by Umberto Giordano to an Italian libretto by Arturo Colautti, based on the play Fédora by Victorien Sardou. Along with Andrea Chénier and Siberia, it is one of the most notable works of Giordano.
Fedora (software) Fedora (or Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture) (not to be confused with Fedora Core) is a modular architecture built on the principle that interoperability and extensibility is best achieved by the integration of data, interfaces, and mechanisms (i.e.
Fedora Core Fedora Core is an RPM-based Linux distribution, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. It aims to be a complete, general-purpose operating system that contains only free and open source software.
Fedora Directory Server The Fedora Directory Server (FDS) is an LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) server developed by Red Hat, as part of Red Hat's community-supported Fedora Project. Fedora Directory Server is identical to the Red Hat Directory Server, just rebranded.
Fedora Extras Fedora Extras is a repository for packages not distributed with the base Fedora Core distribution. Extras packages are generally obtained online, and can be downloaded with yum or other package management software.
Fedora Legacy The Fedora Legacy project is a community-supported open-source project to provide security and critical bug fix errata package updates for versions of Red Hat Linux and Fedora Core no longer officially supported by Red Hat. Currently, it provides updates for Red Hat Linux 7.
Fedora Project The Fedora Project is the organization responsible for producing the Fedora Core (FC) Linux distribution and Fedora Extras, along with a variety of other projects. It is the result of a merger between the Red Hat Linux (RHL) and old Fedora Linux projects in September 2003, and is officially sponsored by Red Hat, which has many employees working on the project's code.
Fedoskino miniature Fedoskino miniature (Russian: федоŃкинŃкая миниатюра) is a traditional Russian lacquer miniature painting on papier-mache, named after its original center Fedoskino (ФедоŃкино), an old village near Moscow widely known from the late 18th century. The contemporary Fedoskino painting preserves the typical features of Russian folk art.
Fedwire Fedwire is a Real Time Gross Settlement system operated by the Federal Reserve that enables financial institutions to electronically transfer funds amongst its more than 9,500 participants. In conjunction with the privately held Clearing House Interbank Payments System (CHIPS), Fedwire forms the primary United States network for large-value domestic and international payments, and is designed to be highly resilient and redundant.
Fee A fee is the price one pays as remuneration for services, especially the honorarium paid to a doctor, lawyer, consultant or member of a learned profession. Fees usually allow for overhead, wages, costs and markup.
Fee fixing scandal In September 2005, fifty British Independent schools were found guilty of operating a fee-fixing cartel by the Office of Fair Trading. The OFT found that the schools had exchanged details of their planned fee increases over three academic years between 2001-02 and 2003-04, in breach of the 1998 Competition Act.
Fee simple Fee simple is an estate in land in common law. It is the most common way real estate is owned in common law countries, and is ordinarily the most complete ownership interest that can be had in real property short of allodial title, which is often reserved for governments.
Fee simple absolute Fee simple absolute(FSA) is a real estate term in which the owner is entitled to the entire property with unconditional power of disposition during the owner's life, and the property descends to the owner's heirs and legal representatives upon the owner's death intestate.
Fee tail Fee tail or entail is an obsolete term of art in common law. It describes an estate of inheritance in real property which cannot be sold, devised by will, or otherwise alienated by the owner, but which passes by operation of law to the owner's heirs upon his death.
Fee-for-service Fee-for-service is health care coverage in which doctors and other health care providers receive a fee for each service such as an office visit, test, procedure, or other health care serviceFEHB Glossary. Retrieved May 31, 2006..
Fee-Only financial advisor Fee-Only financial advisors are compensated only by their clients and accept no commissions or compensation from other sources, such as insurance products or investments; rather, fee-only advisors charge fees calculated as a percentage (e.g.
Feeble-minded Feeble-minded was a term used from the late 19th century through the early 20th century to loosely describe a variety of mental deficiencies, including what would now be considered mental retardation in its various types and grades, and learning disabilities such as dyslexia.
Feed and Forage Act The Feed and Forage Act is legislation passed by the United States Congress that allows the Military Departments to incur obligations in excess of available appropriations for clothing, subsistence, fuel, quarters, transportation and medical supplies. This provision is codified in Section 3732 of the Revised Statutes ().
Feed the Kitty Feed the Kitty is a Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese where Bulldog Marc Antony adopts small cat Pussyfoot and tries to hide it from his mistress. It was released theatrically on February 2, 1952.
Feed The Children Feed The Children is a Christian, international, non-profit relief organization founded by Larry and Frances Jones in 1979, whose stated mission is "to deliver food, medicine, clothing and other necessities to individuals, children and families who lack these essentials due to famine, war, poverty or natural disaster". Last year, Feed The Children shipped 183 million pounds of food and other essentials to children and families in all 50 states and internationally.
Feed: URI scheme In computing, the feed: URI scheme (sometimes referred to, somewhat imprecisely, as the feed protocol; see Protocol (computing)) is a non-standard URI scheme designed to facilitate subscription to web feeds; specifically, it is intended that a news aggregrator be lauched whenever a hyperlink to a feed: URI is clicked in a web browser.
Feedback (Matthew Atherton) Feedback is a fictional superhero created and originally portrayed by actor Matthew Atherton on the reality television series Who Wants to Be a Superhero?. As a result of winning the show, his character will be the subject of a Dark Horse Comics comic book to be written by Stan Lee and will be the featured character in an original Sci Fi Channel Saturday Night Movie.
Feedback (Spirit album) Feedback is the 5th album by the rock & roll band Spirit. Released in 1972, it was the first Spirit album without original members Jay Ferguson and Mark Andes, and it was also the only Spirit album that did not feature Randy California performing on it, as California had left the group to pursue a solo career.
Feedback arc set In graph theory, a directed graph may contain directed cycles, a one-way loop of edges. In some applications, such cycles are undesirable, and we wish to eliminate them and obtain a directed acyclic graph (DAG).
Feedback linearization Feedback linearization is a common approach used in controlling nonlinear systems. The approach involves coming up with a transformation of the nonlinear system into an equivalent linear system, through a change of variables and a suitable control input.
Feedback loop A feedback loop is a system where outputs are fed back into the system as inputs, increasing or decreasing effects — think of audio feedback from an amplifier. The term may refer to social effects; see cycle of poverty.
Feedback Runaway Feedback Runaway is a situation in a feedback system where (usually positive) feedback causes a undesirable situation to become worse. The most common use of the term is in Thermal runaway, when an increase in temperature leads to changes that cause further increase of temperature.
Feeder (band) Feeder are a rock band that formed in Newport, South Wales in 1992. The band's members are Welsh singer/guitarist/songwriter, Grant Nicholas, Japanese bass guitarist Taka Hirose, and English drummer Mark Richardson.
Feeder school Feeder school is a name applied to schools, colleges, universities, or other educational institutions that provide a significant number of graduates who intend to continue their studies at specific schools, or even in specific fields.
Feederism Feederism is a sexual fetish (specifically a type of body alteration fetishism), centered on the practice of eating large amounts of food. The feeder provides the gainer with an abundant supply of food, either to encourage weight gain or simply for delight in the act of feeding.
Feeding frenzy Feeding frenzy is an ecological term used to describe a situation where oversaturation of a supply of food leads to rapid feeding by predatory animals. For example, a large school of fish can cause nearby sharks to enter a feeding frenzy.
Feeding the children with Celestial Nectar According to Ayyavazhi mythology the Santror Makkal born for Seven Virgins were named and after the naming ceremony, Sivan and Thirumal, wanting to feed the children with celestial nectar, commanded the celestial attendants to bring the same. When they went to bring the nectar, they found it emptied by a priest and his wife who â€dressing themselves as per the rules of the scriptures’, had been drinking the whole measures of nectar to their full.
Feeding the multitude Feeding the multitude (also known as The miracle of the loaves and fishes) is the name of two miracles attributed to Jesus, the first of which is reported by all four of the canonical Gospels of the Christian religion (, Mark 6:31-44, Luke 9:10-17 and John 6:5-15), while the second is reported by Mark and Matthew but neither Luke nor John. The first is the only miracle present in both the narrative of the Gospel of John and that of the Synoptic Gospels.
Feedlot A feedlot or feedyard is a type of concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) (also known as "factory farming") which is used for fattening livestock, notably beef cattle, prior to slaughter. They may contain thousands of animals in an array of pens.
FeedLynks FeedLynks is an online video on demand entity created for the sole purpose of building awareness for Canadian urban music music videos. The website is home to many current music videos and also provides access to infrequently publicized videos, not normally available for viewing anywhere on the Internet.
FeedTree FeedTree is a peer-to-peer system for distributing Web feeds faster and with lower bandwidth requirements for publishers. Instead of polling feeds independently, FeedTree users cooperate to share news updates using Scribe multicast in Pastry, a scalable p2p overlay network.
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