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Fahamore Fahamore (from the Irish language An Faiche MĂłr meaning "the large plain") is a small hamlet/village on the Maharees peninsula in County Kerry. It consists of about 50 houses and one famous pub called Spillanes Bar and Restaurant.
Fahd Ballan Fahd Ballan (1933-1997) was a Syrian singer. Like most of his generation of artists who started their show business careers in the early sixties he was exposed to a world of influences of those decades of music glory.
Fahd Faraj al-Juwair Fahd Faraj al-Juwair (Arabic: Ůهد Ůرج الجŮير) (born 1969 - February 28, 2006) was a high ranking member of al-Qaeda who was the highest member of that organization in Saudi Arabia at the point of his death.
Fahd Mohammed Ahmed Al-Quso Fahd Mohammed Ahmed Al-Quso (born November 12, 1974 in Aden, Yemen) was wanted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation in connection with the 2000 USS Cole bombing, which killed 17 American sailors on October 12, 2000 off the port coast of Aden, Yemen. Al-Quso was being held by Yemeni authorities in connection with the attack when he escaped from prison in April of 2003.
Faheem Shuaibe Faheem Shuaibe is the resident Imam of Masjidul Waritheen and the director of the Clara Mohammed School in Oakland, California. He´s a very insightful author and lecturer who has given lectures, seminars, and workshops to hundreds of audiences for over sixteen years on the topics of Al-Islam, world politics, human relationships, and societal evolution.
Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam (born February 19 1976 in Mombasa, Kenya) is a Kenyan, who was indicted December 16, 1998 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York for his alleged involvement in the August 7, 1998, bombings of the U.S.
Fahir AtakoÄźlu Fahir AtakoÄźlu is a renowned Turkish pianist and composer who has worked with a wide range of artists across many genres of music, ranging in style from symphonic scoring to advertising jingles. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey.
Fahir Ersin Fahir Ersin (February 22, 1929 - April 1, 1988) was a Turkish journalist, intellectual and a proponent of rights of Turkish Migrants in Germany and of Turkish-German relations. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey, as son of Ayshe Sultan from the descendents of the ancient Candaroglu dynasty, a regional noble family in Turkey, and of a father of Cypriot origins, Mahir Ersin.
Fahnestock Winter Park Fahnestock Winter Park is part of the Clarence Fahnestock State Park a state park located in the middle of Putnam County in the Town of Kent, New York, USA. Off Route 301, it is convenient to both the Taconic State Parkway and Route 9.
Fahr's syndrome Fahr’s Syndrome is a rare, genetically dominant, inherited neurological disorder characterized by abnormal deposits of calcium in areas of the brain that control movement, including the basal ganglia and the cerebral cortex.
Fahrenheit (1994 computer game) Fahrenheit is a full motion video computer game released for the Sega CD and Sega 32X. It was published by Sega Entertainment, Inc and developed by Sega Studios for release on the Sega CD and Sega 32X CD in 1995.
Fahrenheit (Taiwanese band) Fahrenheit () is a Taiwanese boy band that has recently achieved success in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mainland China, Singapore, as well as the rest of Southeast Asia. This group consists of four members: Arron Yan, Wu Zun, Calvin Chen, and Jiro Wang.
Fahrenheit (Thai band) Fahrenheit is a Thai rock band featuring a female lead vocalist, Piraporn Pranpanas, backed by former members of other well-known Thai rock bands. Guitarist Pichet Kruawan was from Y Not 7 while drummer Kittisak and founding bassist Apirath Sukkhajitr were from Loso.
Fahrenheit 1/15 Part II: Revenge of the Nerds This mixtape was the second mixtape in the "Fahrenheit 1st/15th" series released by Lupe Fiasco, released for promotional purposes only. It sampled some movie elements from the film Revenge of the Nerds.
Fahrenheit 1/15 Part III: A Rhyming Ape Special Re-Release This mixtape was a special online re-release of the third mixtape in the "Fahrenheit 1st/15th" series released by Lupe Fiasco, released for promotional purposes only. It comes with a Special Audio Commentary that takes you behind the scenes and into the creative process of this 3rd installment in the Fahrenheit 1/15 Series.
Fahrenheit 212 A specialized innovation consulting firm based in New York. With a proprietary approach to innovation known as Idea Led Innovation, Fahrenheit 212 develop and commercialize new products and services for clients such as Coca-Cola, Hershey, Starbucks, Diageo, Samsung, Fonterra and NBC Universal.
Fahrenheit 451 (band) Fahrenheit 451 are an Essex, England based political indie/punk/rock band, named after the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. The band are Jez (guitar, vocals), Jon (drums, vocals) and Matt (bass, vocals), who tour the South of England regularly.
Fahrenheit 9/11 Fahrenheit 9/11 is an award-winning documentary film by American filmmaker and political activist Michael Moore, which had a general release in the United States and Canada on June 25 2004. Because of its harsh critique of the Bush Administration, it generated much controversy around the time of its release.
Fahrner Image Replacement Fahrner Image Replacement (abbreviated FIR) is a Web design technique that uses Cascading Style Sheets to replace text on a Web page with an image containing that text. It is intended to keep the page accessible to users of screen readers, text-only web browsers, or other browsers where support for images or style sheets is either disabled or nonexistent, while allowing the image to differ between styles.
Fahrudin Karisik Fahrudin Karisik (born 4 February, 1985 in Bosnia) is a Swedish-Bosninan football player, currently competing with his elder brother Eldin for a place on the central midfield at Helsingborgs IF. He has been described as a talented young player, but is yet to make an impact at Olympia.
Fachen The Fachen (also spelled Fachan or Fachin) is a creature with only half a body in Scottish and Scots-Irish folklore. Supposedly its appearance, which includes a mane of black feathers tufted at the top and a very wide mouth, is so frightening that it induces heart attacks.
Fachhochschule A Fachhochschule (plural: Fachhochschulen) or "University of Applied Sciences" in Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein and Switzerland is a vocational university sometimes specialized in certain topical areas (e.g.
Fachhochschule fĂĽr Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin The Fachhochschule fĂĽr Technik und Wirtschaft (German, literally University of Applied Sciences for Engineering and Economy) or FHTW is the youngest and largest University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Germany. It has almost 10,000 students studying in programs in the area of computer science, technology, business and graphic arts.
Fachhochschule LĂĽbeck The Fachhochschule LĂĽbeck is a university in the city of LĂĽbeck in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. The name of the institution translates as "LĂĽbeck University of Applied Sciences" in English, but in conversations and prose it is generally called by its German name or by the acronym of the German name, FHL.
Fachidiot Fachidiot should be one of the German loanwords recently added into everyday English, as announced by the Goethe-Institut on 8 December 2006 in its competition to find the word that would most benefit the English language.
Fachtna Fáthach Fachtna Fáthach, son of Ross or Cas, son of Rudraige (3), was High King of Ireland in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. He was the lover of the Ulster princess Ness, and may have been the father of her son, Conchobar mac Nessa.
Faiava Island Faiava Island (also known as Wasaü) is one of the Loyalty Islands, in the archipelago of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. The island is part of the commune (municipality) of Ouvéa, in the Islands Province of New Caledonia.
Faidhan-e-Madina Mosque The Faidhan-e-Madina Mosque is situated on Gladstone Street in New England, Peterborough, England. It can hold up to a thousand worshippers, and its 30m green dome is thought to be one of the biggest in the United Kingdom.
Faience Faience or faĂŻence is the conventional name in English for fine tin-glazed earthenware on a delicate pale buff body. The invention of a pottery glaze suitable for painted decoration, by the addition of an oxide of tin to the slip of a lead glaze, was a major advance in the history of pottery.
Faik Konica Faik Konitza (1875-1942) was one of the great figures of Albanian intellectual culture in the early decades of the twentieth century. Faik Konitza wrote little in the way of literature, but as a stylist, critic, publicist and political figure he had a tremendous impact on Albanian writing and on Albanian culture at the time.
Fail-deadly Fail-deadly is a concept in military strategy which encourages deterrence by guaranteeing an immediate, automatic and overwhelming response to an attack. The term fail-deadly was coined as a contrast to fail-safe.
Fail-fast [is a property of a system] or module with respect to its response to [[failures. A fail-fast system is designed to immediately report at its interface any failure or condition that is likely to lead to failure.
Fail-Safe (1964 film) Fail-Safe is a 1964 film directed by Sidney Lumet, based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. It tells story of a fictional Cold War nuclear crisis, and the US President's attempt to end it.
Fail-Safe (television) Fail-Safe is a televised play, based on the Cold War novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, and broadcast in 2000. The play, broadcast live in black and white on CBS, starred George Clooney, Richard Dreyfuss, and Noah Wyle, and was one of the few live dramas on American television in four decades.
Failed predictions This is a list of failed predictions. Psychics and would-be prophets often give exact details of what is about to happen and when the day passes, their followers conveniently forgot they ever said anything of the kind, remembering mainly those that happened to come true.
Failed States (book) Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy (ISBN 0-8050-7912-2) is a book by Noam Chomsky, first published in 2006, in which Chomsky argues that the United States is a “failed state,” and thus a danger to its own people and the world.
Failer Failer is the commercial debut album by Canadian singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards. It was released on January 14 2003 on the independent labels MapleMusic in Canada and Zoe Records in the United States, and features the hit singles "Six O'Clock News" and "Hockey Skates".
Failing badly Failing badly and Failing well are concepts in systems security and network security describing how a system reacts to failure. The terms have been popularized by Bruce Schneier, a cryptographer and security consultant.
Failover Failover is the capability to switch over automatically to a redundant or standby computer server, system, or network upon the failure or abnormal termination of the previously active server, system, or network. Failover happens without human intervention and generally without warning, unlike switchover.
Failover services In information technology, a failover service is a highly available service, which has one active/primary instance running on a cluster node, and one or more passive/standby/secondary instances configured on other cluster nodes. In the event of a hardware or software failure due to which the service can not continue to run on the primary node of the cluster, it is started on one of the secondary nodes.
Failsworth East Failsworth East is an electorial ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. Failsworth East appropriately covers the eastern portion of the town of Failsworth and forms part of the Ashton-under-Lyne parliamentary constituency.
Failsworth railway station Failsworth railway station is a railway station in Failsworth, in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. The station lies on the Oldham Loop Line 6 km (3½ miles) north east of Manchester Victoria operated and managed by Northern Rail.
Failsworth West Failsworth West is an electorial ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. Failsworth West appropriately covers the western portion of the town of Failsworth and forms part of the Ashton-under-Lyne parliamentary constituency.
Failure analysis Failure analysis is the process of collecting and analyzing data to determine the cause of a failure and how to prevent it from recurring. It is an important discipline in many branches of manufacturing industry, such as the electronics industry, where it is a vital tool used in the development of new products and for the improvement of existing products.
Failure assessment Failure assessment, as used in the context of software systems design, is the science of determining the circumstances under which a particular algorithm fails and then correcting the cause. It is directly related to the notion of algorithm accuracy, robustness, and reliability.
Failure mode and effects analysis Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a method (first developed for systems engineering) that examines potential failures in products or processes. It may be used to evaluate risk management priorities for mitigating known threat-vulnerabilities.
Failure of imagination The term failure of imagination has been used to describe part of why intelligence agencies such as the CIA failed to foresee and prevent the events of September 11, 2001. More properly, the term refers to the failure of imagination within the George W.
Failure rate Failure rate is the frequency with which an engineered system or component fails, expressed for example in failures per hour. It is often denoted by the Greek letter λ (lambda) and is important in reliability theory.
Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action Systems Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action Systems (FRACAS) is a software system that provides a framework for controlling corrective action processes. It is used in an industrial environment to collect, record and analyse system failures.
Failure to appear Failure to appear is the legal term for the failure of a defendant or respondent to appear within the stated time before a tribunal as directed in a summons. Where the conduct alleged in the summons or complaint is an infraction or summary offence, failure to appear is a crime for which a bench-warrant can be issued if the defendant promised to appear.
Failure to Launch Failure to Launch (2006) is an American romantic comedy film. It is a loose remake of the French film Tanguy, being solely based on its premise, the overgrown thirty-something child who does not want to leave home.
Failure transparency In a distributed system, failure transparency refers to the extent to which errors and subsequent recoveries of hosts and services within the system are invisible to users and applications. For example, if a server fails, but users are automatically redirected to another server and never notice the failure, the system is said to exhibit high failure transparency.
Failure-oblivious computing Failure-oblivious computing is a technique that enables computer programs to continue executing despite memory errors. The technique handles attempts to read invalid memory by returning a manufactured value to the program, and it ignores invalid writes.
Faint blue galaxy A faint blue galaxy is a distant, irregularly shaped galaxy in which star formation occurs at a high rate. From the late 1970s it became apparent in deep galaxy surveys that a population of these blue galaxies existed at vast distances.
Faint young sun paradox The faint young sun paradox describes the apparent contradiction between observations of liquid water early in Earth's history and the astrophysical expectation that the sun's output would be only 70% as intense during that epoch as it is during the modern epoch.
Faint-Hope Clause In Canada, the so-called "Faint-Hope Clause" (Section 745.6 of the Canadian Criminal Code) specifies that prisoners serving the maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for 25 years, may apply for early parole after 15 years has been served.
Fair (band) Fair is a Christian alternative rock band that features notable musician and producer Aaron Sprinkle; they are currently signed to Tooth & Nail Records. Sprinkle was formerly the guitarist for pioneering Christian alternative band Poor Old Lu in the 1990s.
Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act Under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACT Act or FACTA, ) which was passed by Congress on December 4 2003 as an amendment to the Fair Credit Reporting Act, consumers can request and obtain a free credit report once every twelve months from each of the three nationwide consumer credit reporting companies (Equifax, Experian and TransUnion). In cooperation with the Federal Trade Commission, the three major credit reporting agencies set up the website annualcreditreport.
Fair Access Policy Internet service providers often implement a so-called Fair Access Policy to prevent users of a broadband connection to overuse bandwidth. Generally, the limit is 200 MB/day, and after that the speed of the connection is reduced to dial-up levels.
Fair catch A fair catch is a feature of American football and several other codes of football. In rugby union and Australian rules football, a fair catch is called a mark; see mark (Australian football) and mark (rugby) for more information on fair catches in those games.
Fair catch kick The fair catch kick is a little-known, rarely enacted rule found in professional and some amateur American football. It is one of the three types of free kicks; the other two are the kickoff and the safety kick.
Fair division Fair division, also known as the cake cutting problem, is the problem of dividing a resource in such a way that each recipient believes they have received their fair share. The problem is hard because each recipient may have a different measure of value of the resource: in the "cake cutting" version, one recipient may like marzipan, another like cherries, and so on.
Fair Finance Watch Fair Finance Watch is a non-governmental organization known for its investigations of the banking industry's treatment of low-income communities of color, around the world. It produces weekly reports on, and advocates concerning, such global banks as HSBC, Citigroup, Royal Bank of Scotland, Mizuho Financial Group and others.
Fair Folk (Exalted) The Fair Folk are one of many groups of villains from the high fantasy role-playing game Exalted published by White Wolf Game Studio. They are briefly described in the game's core rulebook, but are given full attention in the "fatsplat" (hard-cover sourcebook) entitled Exalted: The Fair Folk (ISBN 1-58846-678-7).
Fair Game Fair Game is a 1995 action movie directed by Andrew Sipes, starring Cindy Crawford as family law attorney Kate McQueen and William Baldwin as Max Kirkpatrick, a Florida police officer. Kirkpatrick ends up on the run to protect McQueen when she is targeted for murder by ex-members of the KGB with interests in a ship owned by a Cuban man who may lose it in a divorce case being pursued by McQueen.
Fair Game (radio) Fair Game From PRI with Faith Salie is a new satirical news and entertainment program distributed nationally on Public Radio. Hosted by Faith Salie, possibly the only Rhodes Scholar doing comedy today, Fair Game covers the important stories of the day and uses insightful humor to tease out what it all means.
Fair Game (Scientology) Fair Game was a status assigned to those whom the Church of Scientology had officially declared to be Suppressive Persons or SPs. "Suppressive Persons" are those whose actions are deemed to "suppress or damage Scientology or a Scientologist.
Fair Go Fair Go is a New Zealand consumer affairs television program anchored by Kevin Milne. First aired in 1977, it is one of New Zealand's longest-running and highest-rated programmes, frequently placed high in the New Zealand TV Guide list of most viewed programs.
Fair Ground Fair Ground is the culmination of years of friendship between Pete Lesperance and Mike Turner, two Canadian guitarists, who have sold millions world-wide in their respective projects Harem Scarem and Our Lady Peace. What began as a simple guest appearance on Pete's solo record turned into a desire to fully collaborate on what was to become Fair Ground's debut Down In It.
Fair housing In the United States, the phrase fair housing dates back to the 1960s. It refers to a political movement of the time to outlaw discrimination in the rental or purchase of homes and a broad range of other housing-related transactions, such as advertising, mortgage lending, homeowner's insurance and zoning.
Fair Harvard "Fair Harvard" is the commencement hymn of Harvard University. Composed by the Reverend Samuel Gilman of the class of 1811 for the university's 200th anniversary in 1836, it bids the school an affectionate farewell.
Fair Haven (Star Trek) In the fictional Star Trek universe, Fairhaven is a holodeck village in Ireland during the 19th century. It is where Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) falls in love with the character Michael Sullivan (Fintan McKeown).
Fair Haven Heights Fair Haven Heights, or simply the Heights, is a residential and light industrial neighborhood in the eastern part of the city of New Haven, Connecticut, located east of the Quinnipiac River. Fair Haven Heights is not to be confused with the adjacent Fair Haven neighborhood west of the river.
Fair Labor Standards Act Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA, ch. 676, , June 25, 1938, ), is United States federal law that applies to employees engaged in and producing goods for interstate commerce, unless the employer can claim an exemption from coverage.
Fair Lawn High School Fair Lawn High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, United States, serving students as part of the Fair Lawn Public Schools. The school is for those residing in Fair Lawn, a borough in Bergen County in Northern New Jersey.
Fair market value Fair Market Value is a term in both law and accounting to describe an appraisal based on an estimate of what a buyer would pay a seller for any piece of property. It is a common way of evaluating the value of property when assessing damages to be awarded for the loss of or damage to the property, generally in a claim under tort or a contract of insurance.
Fair Margaret and Sweet William "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" or Lady Margaret or Lady Margaret and Sweet William is a folk song, collected by Francis James Child as Child ballad number 74. It appeared in The Percy Folio as well, and Thomas Percy reported that it was quoted in the Knight of the Burning Pestle (1611).
Fair Oak Fair Oak is a small village on the outskirts of Eastleigh near Southampton and Winchester with a population of around 10,000. It has 3 schools - infant, junior and a secondary school called Wyvern Technology College, which is host to a large gym for public use.
Fair Oaks Avenue (Pasadena, California) Fair Oaks Avenue in Pasadena, California, is a major north-south road connecting the communities of Altadena, Pasadena, and South Pasadena. It starts at its southernmost end in South Pasadena at Huntington Drive and the former Oneonta Station of the Pacific Electric Railway Red Car system.
Fair Oaks Bridge The Fair Oaks Bridge is a truss bridge over the lower banks of the American River, connecting Fair Oaks to the greater Sacramento, California region. The current bridge, built in 1907, is the third bridge at this location.
Fair Oaks Presbyterian Church Fair Oaks Presbyterian Church is located in the residential town of Fair Oaks (about 28,000 population), an unincorporated area within northeastern Sacramento County, California. The Senior Pastor is the Reverend Dr.
Fair Oaks, Virginia Fair Oaks is an unincorporated community located in Henrico County, Virginia. Fair Oaks Station was located on the Richmond and York River Railroad and played a role in the Peninsula Campaign in 1862 during the American Civil War.
Fair play for musicians On 7th December 2006, a full-page advertisement was published in the Financial Times newspaper calling on the UK Government to extend the existing 50 years copyright protection for sound recordings in the United Kingdom. It consisted of around 4,500 names in small print filling the full page and its style was consistent with other newspaper petitions.
Fair Park Fair Park is a 277 acre (112 hectare) recreational and educational complex located in Dallas, Texas (USA). The complex is registered as a National Historic Landmark and is home to nine museums, six performance facilities, a lagoon, and the largest ferris wheel in North America.
Fair Play for Cuba Committee The Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC) was an activist group set up in New York in April 1960.Richard Gott : Cuba a new History 177-178 The FPCC's purpose was to provide grassroots support for the Cuban Revolution against attacks by the United States government once Fidel Castro began openly admitting his commitment to Marxism and began the expropriation and nationalization of Cuban assets belonging to U.
Fair Play Men The Fair Play Men were illegal settlers (squatters) who established their own system of self-rule from 1773 to 1785 in the West Branch Susquehanna River valley of Pennsylvania in what is now the United States. Because they settled in territory claimed by Native Americans, they had no recourse to the Pennsylvania colonial government.
Fair Queuing Fair Queuing (FQ), is a scheduling scheme used in computer networks and statistical multiplexing to allow several data flows to fairly share the link capacity. The advantage over conventional First In First Out queuing, is that an ill-behaved flow (consisting of large data packets or bursts of many packets) will only punish itself and not other flows.
Fair Russia Fair Russia: Motherland/Pensioners/Life (; Spravedlivaya Rossiya: Rodina/Pensionery/Zhizn), also translated as Russia of Justice: Motherland/Pensioners/Life, Justice Russia: Motherland/Pensioners/Life and Just Russia: Motherland/Pensioners/Life, was formed on 28 October 2006 as a merger of Rodina, the Russian Party of Life and the Russian Pensioners' Party. Sergey Mironov, the chairman of the Federation Council of Russia, is the new party's first chairman.
Fair trade Fair trade is an organized social movement which promotes equitable standards for international labour, environmentalism, and social policy in areas related to the production of Fairtrade labelled and unlabelled goods, which may range from handcrafts to agricultural commodities. The movement focuses in particular on exports from developing countries to developed countries.
Fair trade debate Fair trade's increasing popularity has drawn criticism from both ends of the political spectrum. Different arguments are used by those who favour and by those who oppose fair trade, or feel that more stricter standards and higher fair trade prices are needed.
Fair trade federation The Fair Trade Federation (FTF) is an association of fair trade wholesalers, retailers, and producers whose members are committed to providing fair wages and good employment opportunities to economically disadvantaged artisans and farmers worldwide.
Fair Trade Certified Mark The Fair Trade Certified Mark is a certification mark used in Canada and in the United States. It appears on products as an independent guarantee that disadvantaged producers in the developing world are getting a better deal.
Fair use Fair use is a doctrine in United States copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, such as use for scholarship or review. It provides for the legal, non-licensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another author's work under a four-factor balancing test.
Fair use (US trademark law) In the United States, trademark law includes a fair use defense, sometimes called "trademark fair use" to distinguish it from the better-known fair use doctrine in copyright. As with copyright law, the trademark fair use doctrine is premised in significant part on the First Amendment guarantees of free speech.
Fair Use: The Story of the Letter U and the Numeral 2 Fair Use: The Story of the Letter U and the Numeral 2 is a 270 page book and ten track CD released in 1995 by Negativland detailing their lawsuits with U2's record label Island Records for their U2 (single), including many legal documents and correspondences.
Fair value Fair value, also called fair price, is a concept used in finance and economics, defined as a rational and unbiased estimate of the potential market price of a good, service, or asset, taking into account such factors as:
Fair Vote Canada Fair Vote Canada is a nonprofit, multi-partisan advocacy group for electoral reform in Canada. It is active both federally and in those provinces where there are efforts to reform the first past the post system that is used now in Canada.
Fair-haired Fair-haired is an expression used to refer to someone who has blonde hair. In more general terms, when a person is said to be fair skinned or just fair, the person is usually someone of white Caucasian extraction.
Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife The Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife is a stiletto-style dagger developed by William Ewart Fairbairn and Eric Anthony Sykes during World War II with a foil-like handle and a keen, double-edged blade. Modeled on contemporary Shanghai street daggers, it was primarily intended for use by British troops, particularly Commando forces.
Fairbanks disease Fairbanks disease or multiple epiphyseal dysplasia (MED) is a rare genetic disorder (dominant form--1 in 10,000 births) which affects the growing ends of bones. Bones usually elongate by a process that involves the depositing of cartilage at the ends of the bones, called ossification.
Fahd Ballan Fahd Ballan (1933-1997) was a Syrian singer. Like most of his generation of artists who started their show business careers in the early sixties he was exposed to a world of influences of those decades of music glory.
Fahd Faraj al-Juwair Fahd Faraj al-Juwair (Arabic: Ůهد Ůرج الجŮير) (born 1969 - February 28, 2006) was a high ranking member of al-Qaeda who was the highest member of that organization in Saudi Arabia at the point of his death.
Fahd Mohammed Ahmed Al-Quso Fahd Mohammed Ahmed Al-Quso (born November 12, 1974 in Aden, Yemen) was wanted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation in connection with the 2000 USS Cole bombing, which killed 17 American sailors on October 12, 2000 off the port coast of Aden, Yemen. Al-Quso was being held by Yemeni authorities in connection with the attack when he escaped from prison in April of 2003.
Faheem Shuaibe Faheem Shuaibe is the resident Imam of Masjidul Waritheen and the director of the Clara Mohammed School in Oakland, California. He´s a very insightful author and lecturer who has given lectures, seminars, and workshops to hundreds of audiences for over sixteen years on the topics of Al-Islam, world politics, human relationships, and societal evolution.
Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam (born February 19 1976 in Mombasa, Kenya) is a Kenyan, who was indicted December 16, 1998 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York for his alleged involvement in the August 7, 1998, bombings of the U.S.
Fahir AtakoÄźlu Fahir AtakoÄźlu is a renowned Turkish pianist and composer who has worked with a wide range of artists across many genres of music, ranging in style from symphonic scoring to advertising jingles. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey.
Fahir Ersin Fahir Ersin (February 22, 1929 - April 1, 1988) was a Turkish journalist, intellectual and a proponent of rights of Turkish Migrants in Germany and of Turkish-German relations. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey, as son of Ayshe Sultan from the descendents of the ancient Candaroglu dynasty, a regional noble family in Turkey, and of a father of Cypriot origins, Mahir Ersin.
Fahnestock Winter Park Fahnestock Winter Park is part of the Clarence Fahnestock State Park a state park located in the middle of Putnam County in the Town of Kent, New York, USA. Off Route 301, it is convenient to both the Taconic State Parkway and Route 9.
Fahr's syndrome Fahr’s Syndrome is a rare, genetically dominant, inherited neurological disorder characterized by abnormal deposits of calcium in areas of the brain that control movement, including the basal ganglia and the cerebral cortex.
Fahrenheit (1994 computer game) Fahrenheit is a full motion video computer game released for the Sega CD and Sega 32X. It was published by Sega Entertainment, Inc and developed by Sega Studios for release on the Sega CD and Sega 32X CD in 1995.
Fahrenheit (Taiwanese band) Fahrenheit () is a Taiwanese boy band that has recently achieved success in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mainland China, Singapore, as well as the rest of Southeast Asia. This group consists of four members: Arron Yan, Wu Zun, Calvin Chen, and Jiro Wang.
Fahrenheit (Thai band) Fahrenheit is a Thai rock band featuring a female lead vocalist, Piraporn Pranpanas, backed by former members of other well-known Thai rock bands. Guitarist Pichet Kruawan was from Y Not 7 while drummer Kittisak and founding bassist Apirath Sukkhajitr were from Loso.
Fahrenheit 1/15 Part II: Revenge of the Nerds This mixtape was the second mixtape in the "Fahrenheit 1st/15th" series released by Lupe Fiasco, released for promotional purposes only. It sampled some movie elements from the film Revenge of the Nerds.
Fahrenheit 1/15 Part III: A Rhyming Ape Special Re-Release This mixtape was a special online re-release of the third mixtape in the "Fahrenheit 1st/15th" series released by Lupe Fiasco, released for promotional purposes only. It comes with a Special Audio Commentary that takes you behind the scenes and into the creative process of this 3rd installment in the Fahrenheit 1/15 Series.
Fahrenheit 212 A specialized innovation consulting firm based in New York. With a proprietary approach to innovation known as Idea Led Innovation, Fahrenheit 212 develop and commercialize new products and services for clients such as Coca-Cola, Hershey, Starbucks, Diageo, Samsung, Fonterra and NBC Universal.
Fahrenheit 451 (band) Fahrenheit 451 are an Essex, England based political indie/punk/rock band, named after the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. The band are Jez (guitar, vocals), Jon (drums, vocals) and Matt (bass, vocals), who tour the South of England regularly.
Fahrenheit 9/11 Fahrenheit 9/11 is an award-winning documentary film by American filmmaker and political activist Michael Moore, which had a general release in the United States and Canada on June 25 2004. Because of its harsh critique of the Bush Administration, it generated much controversy around the time of its release.
Fahrner Image Replacement Fahrner Image Replacement (abbreviated FIR) is a Web design technique that uses Cascading Style Sheets to replace text on a Web page with an image containing that text. It is intended to keep the page accessible to users of screen readers, text-only web browsers, or other browsers where support for images or style sheets is either disabled or nonexistent, while allowing the image to differ between styles.
Fahrudin Karisik Fahrudin Karisik (born 4 February, 1985 in Bosnia) is a Swedish-Bosninan football player, currently competing with his elder brother Eldin for a place on the central midfield at Helsingborgs IF. He has been described as a talented young player, but is yet to make an impact at Olympia.
Fachen The Fachen (also spelled Fachan or Fachin) is a creature with only half a body in Scottish and Scots-Irish folklore. Supposedly its appearance, which includes a mane of black feathers tufted at the top and a very wide mouth, is so frightening that it induces heart attacks.
Fachhochschule A Fachhochschule (plural: Fachhochschulen) or "University of Applied Sciences" in Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein and Switzerland is a vocational university sometimes specialized in certain topical areas (e.g.
Fachhochschule fĂĽr Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin The Fachhochschule fĂĽr Technik und Wirtschaft (German, literally University of Applied Sciences for Engineering and Economy) or FHTW is the youngest and largest University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Germany. It has almost 10,000 students studying in programs in the area of computer science, technology, business and graphic arts.
Fachhochschule LĂĽbeck The Fachhochschule LĂĽbeck is a university in the city of LĂĽbeck in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. The name of the institution translates as "LĂĽbeck University of Applied Sciences" in English, but in conversations and prose it is generally called by its German name or by the acronym of the German name, FHL.
Fachidiot Fachidiot should be one of the German loanwords recently added into everyday English, as announced by the Goethe-Institut on 8 December 2006 in its competition to find the word that would most benefit the English language.
Fachtna Fáthach Fachtna Fáthach, son of Ross or Cas, son of Rudraige (3), was High King of Ireland in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. He was the lover of the Ulster princess Ness, and may have been the father of her son, Conchobar mac Nessa.
Faiava Island Faiava Island (also known as Wasaü) is one of the Loyalty Islands, in the archipelago of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. The island is part of the commune (municipality) of Ouvéa, in the Islands Province of New Caledonia.
Faidhan-e-Madina Mosque The Faidhan-e-Madina Mosque is situated on Gladstone Street in New England, Peterborough, England. It can hold up to a thousand worshippers, and its 30m green dome is thought to be one of the biggest in the United Kingdom.
Faience Faience or faĂŻence is the conventional name in English for fine tin-glazed earthenware on a delicate pale buff body. The invention of a pottery glaze suitable for painted decoration, by the addition of an oxide of tin to the slip of a lead glaze, was a major advance in the history of pottery.
Faik Konica Faik Konitza (1875-1942) was one of the great figures of Albanian intellectual culture in the early decades of the twentieth century. Faik Konitza wrote little in the way of literature, but as a stylist, critic, publicist and political figure he had a tremendous impact on Albanian writing and on Albanian culture at the time.
Fail-deadly Fail-deadly is a concept in military strategy which encourages deterrence by guaranteeing an immediate, automatic and overwhelming response to an attack. The term fail-deadly was coined as a contrast to fail-safe.
Fail-fast [is a property of a system] or module with respect to its response to [[failures. A fail-fast system is designed to immediately report at its interface any failure or condition that is likely to lead to failure.
Fail-Safe (1964 film) Fail-Safe is a 1964 film directed by Sidney Lumet, based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. It tells story of a fictional Cold War nuclear crisis, and the US President's attempt to end it.
Fail-Safe (television) Fail-Safe is a televised play, based on the Cold War novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, and broadcast in 2000. The play, broadcast live in black and white on CBS, starred George Clooney, Richard Dreyfuss, and Noah Wyle, and was one of the few live dramas on American television in four decades.
Failed predictions This is a list of failed predictions. Psychics and would-be prophets often give exact details of what is about to happen and when the day passes, their followers conveniently forgot they ever said anything of the kind, remembering mainly those that happened to come true.
Failed States (book) Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy (ISBN 0-8050-7912-2) is a book by Noam Chomsky, first published in 2006, in which Chomsky argues that the United States is a “failed state,” and thus a danger to its own people and the world.
Failer Failer is the commercial debut album by Canadian singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards. It was released on January 14 2003 on the independent labels MapleMusic in Canada and Zoe Records in the United States, and features the hit singles "Six O'Clock News" and "Hockey Skates".
Failing badly Failing badly and Failing well are concepts in systems security and network security describing how a system reacts to failure. The terms have been popularized by Bruce Schneier, a cryptographer and security consultant.
Failover Failover is the capability to switch over automatically to a redundant or standby computer server, system, or network upon the failure or abnormal termination of the previously active server, system, or network. Failover happens without human intervention and generally without warning, unlike switchover.
Failover services In information technology, a failover service is a highly available service, which has one active/primary instance running on a cluster node, and one or more passive/standby/secondary instances configured on other cluster nodes. In the event of a hardware or software failure due to which the service can not continue to run on the primary node of the cluster, it is started on one of the secondary nodes.
Failsworth East Failsworth East is an electorial ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. Failsworth East appropriately covers the eastern portion of the town of Failsworth and forms part of the Ashton-under-Lyne parliamentary constituency.
Failsworth railway station Failsworth railway station is a railway station in Failsworth, in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. The station lies on the Oldham Loop Line 6 km (3½ miles) north east of Manchester Victoria operated and managed by Northern Rail.
Failsworth West Failsworth West is an electorial ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. Failsworth West appropriately covers the western portion of the town of Failsworth and forms part of the Ashton-under-Lyne parliamentary constituency.
Failure analysis Failure analysis is the process of collecting and analyzing data to determine the cause of a failure and how to prevent it from recurring. It is an important discipline in many branches of manufacturing industry, such as the electronics industry, where it is a vital tool used in the development of new products and for the improvement of existing products.
Failure assessment Failure assessment, as used in the context of software systems design, is the science of determining the circumstances under which a particular algorithm fails and then correcting the cause. It is directly related to the notion of algorithm accuracy, robustness, and reliability.
Failure mode and effects analysis Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a method (first developed for systems engineering) that examines potential failures in products or processes. It may be used to evaluate risk management priorities for mitigating known threat-vulnerabilities.
Failure of imagination The term failure of imagination has been used to describe part of why intelligence agencies such as the CIA failed to foresee and prevent the events of September 11, 2001. More properly, the term refers to the failure of imagination within the George W.
Failure rate Failure rate is the frequency with which an engineered system or component fails, expressed for example in failures per hour. It is often denoted by the Greek letter λ (lambda) and is important in reliability theory.
Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action Systems Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action Systems (FRACAS) is a software system that provides a framework for controlling corrective action processes. It is used in an industrial environment to collect, record and analyse system failures.
Failure to appear Failure to appear is the legal term for the failure of a defendant or respondent to appear within the stated time before a tribunal as directed in a summons. Where the conduct alleged in the summons or complaint is an infraction or summary offence, failure to appear is a crime for which a bench-warrant can be issued if the defendant promised to appear.
Failure to Launch Failure to Launch (2006) is an American romantic comedy film. It is a loose remake of the French film Tanguy, being solely based on its premise, the overgrown thirty-something child who does not want to leave home.
Failure transparency In a distributed system, failure transparency refers to the extent to which errors and subsequent recoveries of hosts and services within the system are invisible to users and applications. For example, if a server fails, but users are automatically redirected to another server and never notice the failure, the system is said to exhibit high failure transparency.
Failure-oblivious computing Failure-oblivious computing is a technique that enables computer programs to continue executing despite memory errors. The technique handles attempts to read invalid memory by returning a manufactured value to the program, and it ignores invalid writes.
Faint blue galaxy A faint blue galaxy is a distant, irregularly shaped galaxy in which star formation occurs at a high rate. From the late 1970s it became apparent in deep galaxy surveys that a population of these blue galaxies existed at vast distances.
Faint young sun paradox The faint young sun paradox describes the apparent contradiction between observations of liquid water early in Earth's history and the astrophysical expectation that the sun's output would be only 70% as intense during that epoch as it is during the modern epoch.
Faint-Hope Clause In Canada, the so-called "Faint-Hope Clause" (Section 745.6 of the Canadian Criminal Code) specifies that prisoners serving the maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for 25 years, may apply for early parole after 15 years has been served.
Fair (band) Fair is a Christian alternative rock band that features notable musician and producer Aaron Sprinkle; they are currently signed to Tooth & Nail Records. Sprinkle was formerly the guitarist for pioneering Christian alternative band Poor Old Lu in the 1990s.
Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act Under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACT Act or FACTA, ) which was passed by Congress on December 4 2003 as an amendment to the Fair Credit Reporting Act, consumers can request and obtain a free credit report once every twelve months from each of the three nationwide consumer credit reporting companies (Equifax, Experian and TransUnion). In cooperation with the Federal Trade Commission, the three major credit reporting agencies set up the website annualcreditreport.
Fair Access Policy Internet service providers often implement a so-called Fair Access Policy to prevent users of a broadband connection to overuse bandwidth. Generally, the limit is 200 MB/day, and after that the speed of the connection is reduced to dial-up levels.
Fair catch A fair catch is a feature of American football and several other codes of football. In rugby union and Australian rules football, a fair catch is called a mark; see mark (Australian football) and mark (rugby) for more information on fair catches in those games.
Fair catch kick The fair catch kick is a little-known, rarely enacted rule found in professional and some amateur American football. It is one of the three types of free kicks; the other two are the kickoff and the safety kick.
Fair division Fair division, also known as the cake cutting problem, is the problem of dividing a resource in such a way that each recipient believes they have received their fair share. The problem is hard because each recipient may have a different measure of value of the resource: in the "cake cutting" version, one recipient may like marzipan, another like cherries, and so on.
Fair Finance Watch Fair Finance Watch is a non-governmental organization known for its investigations of the banking industry's treatment of low-income communities of color, around the world. It produces weekly reports on, and advocates concerning, such global banks as HSBC, Citigroup, Royal Bank of Scotland, Mizuho Financial Group and others.
Fair Folk (Exalted) The Fair Folk are one of many groups of villains from the high fantasy role-playing game Exalted published by White Wolf Game Studio. They are briefly described in the game's core rulebook, but are given full attention in the "fatsplat" (hard-cover sourcebook) entitled Exalted: The Fair Folk (ISBN 1-58846-678-7).
Fair Game Fair Game is a 1995 action movie directed by Andrew Sipes, starring Cindy Crawford as family law attorney Kate McQueen and William Baldwin as Max Kirkpatrick, a Florida police officer. Kirkpatrick ends up on the run to protect McQueen when she is targeted for murder by ex-members of the KGB with interests in a ship owned by a Cuban man who may lose it in a divorce case being pursued by McQueen.
Fair Game (radio) Fair Game From PRI with Faith Salie is a new satirical news and entertainment program distributed nationally on Public Radio. Hosted by Faith Salie, possibly the only Rhodes Scholar doing comedy today, Fair Game covers the important stories of the day and uses insightful humor to tease out what it all means.
Fair Game (Scientology) Fair Game was a status assigned to those whom the Church of Scientology had officially declared to be Suppressive Persons or SPs. "Suppressive Persons" are those whose actions are deemed to "suppress or damage Scientology or a Scientologist.
Fair Go Fair Go is a New Zealand consumer affairs television program anchored by Kevin Milne. First aired in 1977, it is one of New Zealand's longest-running and highest-rated programmes, frequently placed high in the New Zealand TV Guide list of most viewed programs.
Fair Ground Fair Ground is the culmination of years of friendship between Pete Lesperance and Mike Turner, two Canadian guitarists, who have sold millions world-wide in their respective projects Harem Scarem and Our Lady Peace. What began as a simple guest appearance on Pete's solo record turned into a desire to fully collaborate on what was to become Fair Ground's debut Down In It.
Fair housing In the United States, the phrase fair housing dates back to the 1960s. It refers to a political movement of the time to outlaw discrimination in the rental or purchase of homes and a broad range of other housing-related transactions, such as advertising, mortgage lending, homeowner's insurance and zoning.
Fair Harvard "Fair Harvard" is the commencement hymn of Harvard University. Composed by the Reverend Samuel Gilman of the class of 1811 for the university's 200th anniversary in 1836, it bids the school an affectionate farewell.
Fair Haven (Star Trek) In the fictional Star Trek universe, Fairhaven is a holodeck village in Ireland during the 19th century. It is where Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) falls in love with the character Michael Sullivan (Fintan McKeown).
Fair Haven Heights Fair Haven Heights, or simply the Heights, is a residential and light industrial neighborhood in the eastern part of the city of New Haven, Connecticut, located east of the Quinnipiac River. Fair Haven Heights is not to be confused with the adjacent Fair Haven neighborhood west of the river.
Fair Labor Standards Act Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA, ch. 676, , June 25, 1938, ), is United States federal law that applies to employees engaged in and producing goods for interstate commerce, unless the employer can claim an exemption from coverage.
Fair Lawn High School Fair Lawn High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, United States, serving students as part of the Fair Lawn Public Schools. The school is for those residing in Fair Lawn, a borough in Bergen County in Northern New Jersey.
Fair market value Fair Market Value is a term in both law and accounting to describe an appraisal based on an estimate of what a buyer would pay a seller for any piece of property. It is a common way of evaluating the value of property when assessing damages to be awarded for the loss of or damage to the property, generally in a claim under tort or a contract of insurance.
Fair Margaret and Sweet William "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" or Lady Margaret or Lady Margaret and Sweet William is a folk song, collected by Francis James Child as Child ballad number 74. It appeared in The Percy Folio as well, and Thomas Percy reported that it was quoted in the Knight of the Burning Pestle (1611).
Fair Oak Fair Oak is a small village on the outskirts of Eastleigh near Southampton and Winchester with a population of around 10,000. It has 3 schools - infant, junior and a secondary school called Wyvern Technology College, which is host to a large gym for public use.
Fair Oaks Avenue (Pasadena, California) Fair Oaks Avenue in Pasadena, California, is a major north-south road connecting the communities of Altadena, Pasadena, and South Pasadena. It starts at its southernmost end in South Pasadena at Huntington Drive and the former Oneonta Station of the Pacific Electric Railway Red Car system.
Fair Oaks Bridge The Fair Oaks Bridge is a truss bridge over the lower banks of the American River, connecting Fair Oaks to the greater Sacramento, California region. The current bridge, built in 1907, is the third bridge at this location.
Fair Oaks Presbyterian Church Fair Oaks Presbyterian Church is located in the residential town of Fair Oaks (about 28,000 population), an unincorporated area within northeastern Sacramento County, California. The Senior Pastor is the Reverend Dr.
Fair Oaks, Virginia Fair Oaks is an unincorporated community located in Henrico County, Virginia. Fair Oaks Station was located on the Richmond and York River Railroad and played a role in the Peninsula Campaign in 1862 during the American Civil War.
Fair play for musicians On 7th December 2006, a full-page advertisement was published in the Financial Times newspaper calling on the UK Government to extend the existing 50 years copyright protection for sound recordings in the United Kingdom. It consisted of around 4,500 names in small print filling the full page and its style was consistent with other newspaper petitions.
Fair Park Fair Park is a 277 acre (112 hectare) recreational and educational complex located in Dallas, Texas (USA). The complex is registered as a National Historic Landmark and is home to nine museums, six performance facilities, a lagoon, and the largest ferris wheel in North America.
Fair Play for Cuba Committee The Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC) was an activist group set up in New York in April 1960.Richard Gott : Cuba a new History 177-178 The FPCC's purpose was to provide grassroots support for the Cuban Revolution against attacks by the United States government once Fidel Castro began openly admitting his commitment to Marxism and began the expropriation and nationalization of Cuban assets belonging to U.
Fair Play Men The Fair Play Men were illegal settlers (squatters) who established their own system of self-rule from 1773 to 1785 in the West Branch Susquehanna River valley of Pennsylvania in what is now the United States. Because they settled in territory claimed by Native Americans, they had no recourse to the Pennsylvania colonial government.
Fair Queuing Fair Queuing (FQ), is a scheduling scheme used in computer networks and statistical multiplexing to allow several data flows to fairly share the link capacity. The advantage over conventional First In First Out queuing, is that an ill-behaved flow (consisting of large data packets or bursts of many packets) will only punish itself and not other flows.
Fair Russia Fair Russia: Motherland/Pensioners/Life (; Spravedlivaya Rossiya: Rodina/Pensionery/Zhizn), also translated as Russia of Justice: Motherland/Pensioners/Life, Justice Russia: Motherland/Pensioners/Life and Just Russia: Motherland/Pensioners/Life, was formed on 28 October 2006 as a merger of Rodina, the Russian Party of Life and the Russian Pensioners' Party. Sergey Mironov, the chairman of the Federation Council of Russia, is the new party's first chairman.
Fair trade Fair trade is an organized social movement which promotes equitable standards for international labour, environmentalism, and social policy in areas related to the production of Fairtrade labelled and unlabelled goods, which may range from handcrafts to agricultural commodities. The movement focuses in particular on exports from developing countries to developed countries.
Fair trade debate Fair trade's increasing popularity has drawn criticism from both ends of the political spectrum. Different arguments are used by those who favour and by those who oppose fair trade, or feel that more stricter standards and higher fair trade prices are needed.
Fair trade federation The Fair Trade Federation (FTF) is an association of fair trade wholesalers, retailers, and producers whose members are committed to providing fair wages and good employment opportunities to economically disadvantaged artisans and farmers worldwide.
Fair Trade Certified Mark The Fair Trade Certified Mark is a certification mark used in Canada and in the United States. It appears on products as an independent guarantee that disadvantaged producers in the developing world are getting a better deal.
Fair use Fair use is a doctrine in United States copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, such as use for scholarship or review. It provides for the legal, non-licensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another author's work under a four-factor balancing test.
Fair use (US trademark law) In the United States, trademark law includes a fair use defense, sometimes called "trademark fair use" to distinguish it from the better-known fair use doctrine in copyright. As with copyright law, the trademark fair use doctrine is premised in significant part on the First Amendment guarantees of free speech.
Fair Use: The Story of the Letter U and the Numeral 2 Fair Use: The Story of the Letter U and the Numeral 2 is a 270 page book and ten track CD released in 1995 by Negativland detailing their lawsuits with U2's record label Island Records for their U2 (single), including many legal documents and correspondences.
Fair value Fair value, also called fair price, is a concept used in finance and economics, defined as a rational and unbiased estimate of the potential market price of a good, service, or asset, taking into account such factors as:
Fair Vote Canada Fair Vote Canada is a nonprofit, multi-partisan advocacy group for electoral reform in Canada. It is active both federally and in those provinces where there are efforts to reform the first past the post system that is used now in Canada.
Fair-haired Fair-haired is an expression used to refer to someone who has blonde hair. In more general terms, when a person is said to be fair skinned or just fair, the person is usually someone of white Caucasian extraction.
Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife The Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife is a stiletto-style dagger developed by William Ewart Fairbairn and Eric Anthony Sykes during World War II with a foil-like handle and a keen, double-edged blade. Modeled on contemporary Shanghai street daggers, it was primarily intended for use by British troops, particularly Commando forces.
Fairbanks disease Fairbanks disease or multiple epiphyseal dysplasia (MED) is a rare genetic disorder (dominant form--1 in 10,000 births) which affects the growing ends of bones. Bones usually elongate by a process that involves the depositing of cartilage at the ends of the bones, called ossification.
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