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Fisher separation theorem The Fisher separation theorem in economics asserts that the objective of a firm will be the maximization of its present value, regardless of the preferences of its owners. The theorem therefore separates management's "productive opportunities" from the entrepreneur's "market opportunities".
Fisher School of Accounting The Fisher School of Accounting is the academic accounting unit at the University of Florida (UF). In 1977, the School of Accounting was established by the Board of Regents as a separate school within the College of Business, and was endowed in 1985 by Frederick Fisher.
Fisher Stevens Fisher Stevens, born Steven Fisher, (November 27, 1963) in Chicago, Illinois is an American actor, living in New York City. He is probably best known for his portrayals of Chuck Fishman on Early Edition, Eugene "The Plague" Belford in Hackers, and Ben Jabituya in the Short Circuit and Ben Jahrvi in Short Circuit 2.
Fisher transformation In statistics, hypotheses about the value of the population correlation coefficient Ď between variables X and Y of the underlying population, can be tested using the Fisher transformation applied to the sample correlation r.
Fisher's ghost The legend of Fisher's ghost is a popular Australian story dating to the early 19th century. It arose from a series of historical events which occurred in Campbelltown, now a large urban population centre on the southwestern outskirts of Sydney, but at the time a remote rural outpost.
Fisher's method In statistics, Fisher's method is a data fusion or "meta-analysis" (analysis beyond analysis) technique for combining the results from a variety of independent tests bearing upon the same overall hypothesis (H0) as if in a single large test.
Fisher, Australian Capital Territory Fisher is a suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia located in the district of Weston Creek. Fisher was named after Andrew Fisher (1862-1928), coal miner, founding member of the federal parliamentary Labor Party and Prime Minister of Australia for three terms between 1908 and 1915 (ACTLIC, 2004).
Fisheries and Oceans Canada The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), also referred to as Fisheries and Oceans (Pêches et Océans), is the department within the government of Canada with responsibility for the management and safety of waters under federal jurisdiction.
Fisheries Act 1985 (Act 317) Malaysia The Fisheries Act 1985 (Act 317) is a Malaysian federal act relating to the administration and management of fisheries, including the conservation and development of maritime and estuarine fishing and fisheries in Malaysia waters, protection to aquatic mammals and turtles and riverine fishing in Malaysia and to matters connected to establishment of marine parks and marine reserves.
Fisheries Centre The Fisheries Centre, located at the University of British Columbia, promotes multidisciplinary study of aquatic ecosystems and broad-based collaboration with maritime communities, government, NGOs and other partners.
Fisheries management Fisheries management is today often referred to as a governmental system of management rules based on defined objectives and a mix of management means to implement the rules, which is put in place by a system of monitoring, control, and surveillance (MCS). Modern fisheries management is most often based on biological arguments where the idea is to protect the biological resource in order to make a sustainable exploitation possible.
Fisheries Research Services Fisheries Research Services (FRS) is an Executive Agency of the Scottish Executive, part of the Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department. FRS is responsible for scientific and technical research into the marine and freshwater fisheries and aquaculture, and the protection of the aquatic environment in Scotland.
Fisherman A fishermanIn recent years, the job-bearer is sometimes called a "fisher" to be non-gender specific. Those who fish with a hook-and-line rather than a net may be referred to by the non-gender specific term "angler".
Fisherman's Bastion The Halászbástya or Fisherman's Bastion is a terrace in neo-Gothic and neo-Romanesque style situated on the Buda bank of the Danube, on the Castle hill in Budapest, around Matthias Church. It was designed and built between 1895 and 1902 on the plans of Frigyes Schulek.
Fisherman's Hope Fisherman's Hope is a 1996 science fiction novel by David Feintuch and is the fourth book in the Seafort Saga. It is the sequel to Prisoner's Hope and is the final book in the first part of the Saga, depicting the actions of the central character, Nicholas Seafort, from the years 2194 to 2202.
Fisherman's Chronicles The Fisherman Chronicles is a three-part story by the band Primus over the course of three albums, Frizzle Fry ("John the Fisherman"), Sailing the Seas of Cheese ("Fish On"), and Pork Soda ("The Ol' Diamondback Sturgeon"). Although the songs all deal with the theme of fishing, the plot of each song seems to be unrelated to the others.
Fisherman's Wharf, Kowloon The Fisherman's Wharf (Chinese: ćĽäşşç˘Ľé ) in Kowloon, Hong Kong is a shopping mall. It is located at the southeastern coast of the Kowloon Peninsula, within the residential complex of Laguna Verde (海逸豪園) in Hung Hom.
Fisherman's Wharf, Monterey, California Fisherman's Wharf is an historic wharf in Monterey, California. Used as an active wholesale fish market into the 1960s, the wharf eventually became a tourist attraction as commercial fishing tapered off in the area.
Fishers Junior High School Fishers Junior High School is located at 13257 Cumberland Road in Fishers, Indiana, United States. It is one of three public junior high schools serving grades seven through eight in the Fishers area of Hamilton County, Indiana.
Fishers, Indiana Fishers, located in Hamilton County, Indiana, is a town of population 52,390, according to a special census conducted in 2004. A suburb of Indianapolis, Fishers has grown rapidly in recent decades: about 350 people lived there in 1963, 2,000 in 1980, and only 7,200 as recently as 1990.
Fishery A fishery (plural: fisheries) is an organized effort by humans to catch fish or other aquatic species, an activity known as fishing. Generally, a fishery exists for the purpose of providing human food, although other aims are possible (such as sport or recreational fishing), or obtaining ornamental fish or fish products such as fish oil.
Fishery Limits Act 1976 The Fishery Limits Act 1976 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (1977 c. 86) in order to implement the extension of fishing waters under the European Community's Common Fisheries Policy into British law.
Fisheye lens In photography, a fisheye lens is a wide-angle lens that takes in an extremely wide, hemispherical image. Originally developed for use in astronomy and called "whole-sky lenses", fisheye lenses quickly became popular in general photography for their unique, distorted appearance.
Fishfinder A fishfinder is a type of fathometer, both being specialized types of echo sounding systems, a type of Active SONAR. ('Sounding' is the measurement of water depth, a historical nautical term of very long usage.
Fishhook waterflea Cercopagis pengoi is a water flea native to Ponto-Aralo-Caspian basin in South Easten Europe at the meeting point of the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. It has spread from its native range and become invasive in some waterways of Eastern Europe and in the Baltic Sea.
Fishing Fishing is the activity of hunting for fish by hooking, trapping, or gathering animals not classifiable as insects which breathe in water or pass their lives in water. By extension, the term fishing is applied to pursuing other aquatic animals such as various types of shellfish, squid, octopus, turtles, frogs, and some edible marine invertebrates.
Fishing boat A fishing boat can range from two-person pleasure fishing boats up to 7-8 ton commercial fishers that can haul in over a billion fish at one time. Island nations like Japan rely on the fishing industry to provide food.
Fishing capacity The fishing problem is not only related to the conservation of fish stocks but also to the sustainability of fishing activity. Causes of the fishing problem can be found in property rights regime of fishing resources.
Fishing fleet A fishing fleet is an aggregate of commercial fishing vessels. The term may be used of all vessels operating out of a particular port, all vessels engaged in a particular type of fishing (as in the "tuna fishing fleet"), or all fishing vessels of a country or region.
Fishing for Moonlight Fishing for Moonlight (2006) is an American movie, directed by Roger Michell, and written by Stephen Schiff. It is a thriller based on the true story of a stockbroker whose life is destroyed when he frees a prostitute from the Russian mafia.
Fishing industry The fishing industry is the commercial activity of fishing and producing fish and other seafood products for human consumption or as input factors in other industrial processes. According to Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) statistics the total fish production in the world in 2001 was 130 million tonnes.
Fishing industry in Scotland The fishing industry in Scotland comprises a significant proportion of the United Kingdom fishing industry. A recent inquiry by the Royal Society of Edinburgh found fishing to be of much greater social, economic and cultural importance to Scotland than to the rest of the UK.
Fishing light attractor A fishing light attractor is an underwater light that can be used to attract fish of many species, including baitfish, and larger fish. It depends on the type of water (fresh or saline) to determine the species to attract.
Fishing Lakes The Fishing Lakes are a chain of four lakes in the Qu'Appelle Valley cottage country some 40 miles to the northeast of Regina, Canada. The perimeters of Pasqua, Echo, Mission and Katepwa Lakes are the location of several provincial parks, public swimming beaches and are — where not public property or aboriginal reserves — intermittently built up with private cottages and youth summer camps.
Fishing rark A fishing rark was a type of water vessel used for fishing and favored by pirates for its speed and maneuverability. The ship itself consists of one main square sail with ropes tied to opposite ends of the sail's yard (horizontal mast) and attached to cranks at the ships fore and aft sides.
Fishing River The Fishing River is a short tributary of the Missouri River in western Missouri in the United States. It rises in the northeastern extremity of Kansas City in Clay County and flows generally eastward and southeastward through Clay and southeastern Ray Counties, past the town of Mosby.
Fishing stage A fishing stage is a wooden vernacular building, typical of the rough traditional buildings associated with the cod fishery in Newfoundland, Canada. Stages are located at the water's edge or "landwash", and consist of an elevated platform on the shore with working tables and sheds at which fish are landed and processed for salting and drying.
Fishing tackle Fishing tackle refers to the equipment and gear used when engaging in the pursuit of fish for sport and commercial value. Examples of fishing tackle include (but are not limited to) hooks, lures, bait, sinkers, leaders, lines, rods, and reels.
Fishing television series The fishing television series genre is rather self-explainatory; they are television programs revolving around recreational and sport fishing. The genre has enough of a following to justify its own digital television station WFN, the World Fishing Network.
Fishing town Fishing Town or Fishing City (Simplified Chinese: 钓鱼城; Traditional Chinese: 釣鱼城; Pingyin: diaoyucheng) also called the “Oriental Mecca” and “the Place That Broke God's Whip” is one of the three ancient battlefields in China. It is famous for its resistance against the army of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty in the later Song (Sung) dynasty.
Fishing weir A fishing weir is an ancient type of fish trap that is traceable back to Roman times in the UK. It is also a technology used by, among others, North American Natives and early settlers to catch fish for trade and to feed their communities.
Fishka Rais Fishka Rais (-died 1974) was a South African born Canadian actor. He appeared in the children's television series The Hilarious House of Frightenstein as Igor and also appeared in the movie Cannibal Girls, credited as Kingfish playing The Butcher.
Fishman (wrestler) JosĂ© Ăngel Nájera Sánchez, best known under the ring name of Fishman, is a Mexican professional wrestler who became one of Lucha Libre's biggest stars during the 1980s with the Universal Wrestling Association. The front dropkick was often called "Fishman's kangaroo kick" after him.
Fishman Affidavit The Fishman Affidavit is a set of court documents submitted by ex-Scientologist Steven Fishman in 1994 containing criticisms of the Church of Scientology and, controversially, substantial portions of the Operating Thetan course materials.
Fishpaste Fishpaste is a term used by SpongeBob SquarePants whenever he messes up on something. Fishpaste was once used by Squidward Tentacles on the SpongeBob episode "Bossy Boots" where he told SpongeBob to tell Pearl about to new Krusty Krab uniform.
Fishplate In rail terminology, a fishplate is a metal bar that is bolted to the ends of two rails to join them together in a track. In rail transport modelling, a fishplate is often a small copper or nickel/silver plate which slips onto both rails.
Fishpond Fishpond was the code name given to an extension to the H2S airborne radar system fitted to allied bombers during World War II. It was designed to give early warning of German night fighters approaching in the hemisphere below the carrying aircraft out to a range of 30 miles (48.
Fishpool Fishpool is a district to the south of Bury town centre in Greater Manchester. The area is roughly-speaking, a square bounded by Wellington Road to the north, Manchester Road to the west, Gigg Lane to the south and Market Street to the east.
Fishpool Creations Fishpool Creations is a software company in Finland. It specialises in script technologies and building extensions (Perl, Python, Tcl), as well as Java and C work in the fields of networks, mobile phone technology and the web, especially on the Linux, UNIX and Mac OS X platforms.
Fishtank Ensemble Fishtank Ensemble (or simply Fishtank) is a Euro-American musical group that formed in Oakland, California in 2004. They perform a variety of traditional musical styles including Romanian, klezmer, flamenco, and Japanese folk and Roma music.
Fishtank interactive Fishtank Interactive was a German computer game publishing company, and a division of Ravensburger Interactive. It was founded in 2000 to try to expand the horizons of Ranvensburger Interactive by publishing more mature games than the rest of the mostly pre-school oriented games of the company without sullying its reputation.
Fishtanked FishTanked is a webcomic written and illustrated by Joe Angrisano (sometimes cited as Joe Angerson). The series was first produced in 2002 and saw only a limited run of comics produced until the strip was revived in August of 2006.
Fishtoft Fishtoft is one of eighteen parishes which, together with Boston, form the Borough of Boston in the county of Lincolnshire, England. The local government has been arranged in this way since the reorganization of April 1 1974, which resulted from the Local Government Act 1972.
Fishtrap Lake Fishtrap Lake is a man-made lake in eastern Kentucky. As one of the larger lakes in the state, it is home to the most popular and largest Hybrid Bass fish populations in the state (Ranked #1) and has came close to setting the Kentucky State Record, with documented Hybrid Bass weighing up to 18 lb (state record: 20 lb, 8 oz).
FishTanked FishTanked is a webcomic written and illustrated by Joe Angrisano (sometimes cited as Joe Angerson). The series was first produced in 2003 and saw only a limited run of comics produced until the strip was revived in August of 2006.
Fishville, Louisiana Fishville is a tiny community in Central Louisiana. In the late 60's and early 70's, Fishville, was a popular Summer spot for the surrounding area, including Alexandria, Louisiana, where hundreds of people would come out to the country to enjoy the cold creeks, roller skating, or just relaxing at one of many camp houses located along the numerous lakes, creeks, and streams, throughout the surrounding woods of the Kisatchie National Forest.
Fischer esterification Fischer esterification is a special type of esterification and the process of forming an ester by refluxing a carboxylic acid and an alcohol in the presence of an acid catalyst. Commonly used catalysts for a Fischer esterification include sulfuric acid or lewis acids such as scandium(III) triflate.
Fischer glycosidation Fischer glycosidation (or Fischer glycosylation) refers to the formation of a glycoside by the reaction of an aldose or ketose with an alcohol in the presence of an acid catalyst. The reaction is named after the German chemist, Emil Hermann Fischer, winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry, 1902.
Fischer House The Fischer House is a historic mansion in downtown Austin, Texas completed in 1882. Its builder, Joseph Fischer, was a prominent mason in Austin at the time, and its bold High Victorian Italianate architecture and ornamentation reflect his family's skill in the trade.
Fischer indole synthesis The Fischer indole synthesis is a chemical reaction that produces the aromatic heterocycle indole from a (substituted) phenylhydrazine and an aldehyde or ketone under acidic conditions. The reaction was discovered in 1883 by Hermann Emil Fischer.
Fischer oxazole synthesis The Fischer oxazole synthesis is a chemical synthesis of the aromatic heterocycle oxazole from cyanohydrins and aldehydes in the presence of anhydrous hydrochloric acid. This method was discovered by Hermann Emil Fischer in 1896.
Fischer projection In chemistry (particularly organic chemistry and biochemistry), a Fischer projection is a two-dimensional representation of a three-dimensional organic molecule by projection. All bonds are depicted as horizontal or vertical lines.
Fischer Skis Fischer Skis is an Austrian company producing Nordic and Alpine skiing equipment. It is one of the largest manufacturers of equipment in the world cup for both disciplines and manifactures a wide range of skis and ski equipment targeted against both professionals and amateurs.
Fischer's Chameleon The Fischer's Chameleon (Bradypodion fischeri) includes several subspecies of chameleon native to the mountains of Kenya and Tanzania, particularly the Usambara Mountains region. It is also known as the Usambara two-horned chameleon, from the flat horns evident on the males of the species.
Fischer's Lovebird The Fischer's lovebird (Agapornis fischeri, synonym Agapornis personata fischeri) is a species of bird in the parrot family. They are native to a small area of east-central Africa, south and southeast of Lake Victoria in northern Tanzania.
Fischer-Hepp rearrangement The Fischer-Hepp rearrangement is a rearrangement reaction in which an aromatic N-nitroso or nitrosamine converts to a carbon nitroso compound O Fischer, E Hepp. Ber Deutsch chem Ges 19 (1886) p2991 M B Smith, J March.
Fischer-Z The British rock band Fischer-Z released three quite successful albums between 1979 and 1981. The original lineup consisted of John Watts (vocals, guitar), David Graham (bass), Steve Skolnik (keyboards) and Steve Liddle (drums).
Fischingen Abbey Fischingen Abbey (Kloster Fischingen), now Fischingen Priory, is a Benedictine monastery situated in Fischingen in the Canton of Thurgau, Switzerland, on the upper reaches of the Murg, a tributary of the Thur. It was founded in 1138, dissolved in 1848 and re-founded as a priory in 1977.
Fischmob Fischmob, from Hamburg, was a German hip hop band in the 1990s. The band includes DJ Koze Stefan Kozalla, Cosmic DJ (Daniel Sommer), and Der Schreckliche Sven Sven Mikolajewicz and Stachy produced 4 albums including their hit song Susanne Zur Freiheit.
Fisk Generating Station The Fisk Generating Station, located in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States, is a legacy coal-fired powerplant not covered by current Clean Air Act emission standards. However, Nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide emissions are well below current state and federal EPA limits.
Fiskardo Fiskardo (Greek, Modern: ΦιĎκάĎδο, Ancient/Katharevousa: -on), rarely Fiscardo, is a village located about 54 km N of Argostoli in Erissos in the northernmost part of the island of Kefalonia. The origin of the name is the corrupted form of Guiskardo (ΓυϊĎκάĎδο) from Robert Guiscard in the time of the Frankish dominion in Greece.
Fiskars Fiskars Corporation is a metal and consumer brands company founded in 1649 in Fiskars bruk, today Fiskars ruukki in the municipality of Pohja, Finland, located about 100 kilometres west of Helsinki along the ancient mainroad from Turku to Viipuri. The most well-known products that Fiskars produces are scissors and axes, but the knives are also noteworthy.
Fiskerton, Lincolnshire Fiskerton (The name means the 'place of the fishermen' ) is a commuter village within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, situated on the north side of the River Witham approximately 10 km (6 miles) east of Lincoln.
Fiskerton, Nottinghamshire Fiskerton is a small village in Nottinghamshire on the west bank of the River Trent about 5 miles southeast of Southwell. Regarding the old boat ferry from Fiskerton to East Stoke, "Up until the middle of this century (1950s) there was a ferry boat service over to the other side of the River Trent at Stoke Field.
Fiskeville, Rhode Island Fiskeville is a small village in the south west corner of Cranston, Rhode Island, United States, and also reaching into the south east corner of the Town of Scituate, Rhode Island. Its Main Street forms the border between the two municipalities.
Fisking The term Fisking, or to Fisk, is blogosphere slang describing detailed point-by-point criticism that highlights errors, disputes the analysis of presented facts, or highlights other problems in a statement, article, or essay.
Fiskville Fiskville is the training college for members of the Country Fire Authority (CFA), which is a large, predominantly volunteer fire and emergency service which has legislative responsibility for fire and emergencies in regional Victoria (Australia).
Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty The Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty is a proposed international treaty to prohibit the further production of weapons-grade uranium and plutonium. It would not prevent the production of fuel-grade uranium and plutonium, nor of other components in nuclear warheads.
Fission fragment reactor Similar to how the fission-fragment rocket produces thrust, a fission fragment reactor is a nuclear reactor that generates electricity by decelerating an ion beam of fission byproducts instead of using nuclear reactions to generate heat. By doing so, it bypasses the Carnot cycle and can achieve efficiencies of up to 90% instead of 40-45% attainable by efficient turbine-driven thermal reactors.
Fission sail The fission sail is a type of spacecraft propulsion proposed by Robert Forward that uses fission fragments to propel a large solar sail-like craft. It is similar in concept to the fission-fragment rocket in that the fission by-products are directly harnessed as working mass, and differs primarily in the way that the fragments are used for thrust.
Fission track dating Fission track dating is a radiometric dating technique based on analyses of the damage trails, or tracks, left by fission fragments in certain uranium bearing minerals and glasses. Uranium-238 undergoes spontaneous fission decay at a known rate.
Fission-fragment rocket The fission-fragment rocket is a rocket engine design that directly harnesses hot nuclear fission products for thrust, as opposed to using a separate fluid as working mass. The design can, in theory, produce very high specific impulses while still being well within the abilities of current technologies.
Fissure Fissure (Latin fissura, Plural fissurae) is a groove, natural division, deep furrow, or cleft found in the brain, spinal cord, and liver; or a tear in the anus (anal fissure). In dentistry, a fissure is a break in the tooth enamel.
Fissurellidae Fissurellidae, is a family of gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Fissurelloidea and order Archaeogastropoda. They are conical, limpet-shaped shells, with an apical perforation, marginal slit, notch, or internal groove, to allow a more direct exit of exhalant water currents from the mantle cavity.
Fist and Rose Tendency The Fist and Rose is a tendency of the Socialist Party USA founded by Melvin Little and others to promote global unification with the Socialist International and greater unity within the Party. Prominent members include Walt Brown, Michael C.
Fist of Fear, Touch of Death Fist of Fear, Touch of Death, also known as The Dragon and the Cobra, is a 1980 martial arts documentary (really more of a mockumentary) about a martial arts tournament at Madison Square Garden that will determine the "successor" to Bruce Lee. It is hosted by future Oscar-nominee Adolph Caeser, it is really more of a collection of martial arts-related stock footage strung together by the clothesline of the Madison Square Garden plot.
Fist of Fun Fist of Fun was a popular British comedy television and radio programme, written by and starring Lee and Herring (the comedians Stewart Lee and Richard Herring). Each episode featured several disparate sketches and situations.
Fist of Fury II Fist of Fury II, originally released in Hong Kong as Jing wu men xu ji and also released as Chinese Connection 2 and Fistful of the Dragon, is a martial arts film that is an unauthorized sequel to Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury (A/K/A The Chinese Connection), not to be confused with New Fist of Fury). Bruce Li plays the brother of the Lee character from the first film.
Fist of Fury III Fist of Fury III is a martial arts Bruceploitation sequel. It was originally released in Hong Kong as Jie quan yingzhua gong (literal: Jeet Kune the Claws and the Supreme Kung Fu), and has been informally called The Chinese Connection III.
Fist pound A fist pound, pound it, respect knuckles, or props is a type of social interaction commonly used by teenagers. It involves one person holding out their fist and someone else "pounding it" with their fist.
Fistball Fistball is a very old sport which continues to be practiced all over the world: in Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia. The earliest known written mention of the game is by Roman Emperor Gordian III and dates to the year 240.
Fistful of TOWs A Fistful of TOWs (FFT) is a miniatures wargame covering the “modern period”, usually defined as the period from the end of World War II to the present. Version 2 (“FFT2”) covers battles from 1946 through 2010.
Fisting Fisting (also FF, for fist fucking) is a sexual activity that involves inserting the hand and forearm into the vagina or anus. Typically, fisting does not involve forcing the clenched fist into the vagina or anus.
Fistulotomy A Fistulotomy is the surgical opening or removal of a fistulous tract. They can be performed by excision of the tract and surrounding tissue, simple division of the tract, or gradual division and assisted drainage of the tract by means of a seton; a cord passed through the tract in a loop which is slowly tightened over a period of days or weeks.
Fit Couture Fit Couture is a designer, manufacturer and retailer of women's clothing in the United States. Fit Couture specializes in fitness wear and yoga wear for women, offering several styles of pants, tops, shorts and jackets.
Fit for Life Fit for Life is a diet and lifestyle promoted by Harvey Diamond and Marilyn Diamond, which stems from the principles in Natural Hygiene. As the title of the book suggests, Fit for Life claims how to lose excess body weight and maintain good health via long term dietary and lifestyle practices, rather than short term dieting.
Fit Fuel Fit Fuel is a healthy vending company created in 2004 by former Wall Street banker Luke Arthur and his cousin, model and actor Sean Kelly. Fit Fuel employs a team of health professionals, including a medical doctor, nutritionist and dietician.
Fit-fit Fit-fit is an Eritrean and Ethiopian food typically served at breakfast (though it can be served at other meals as well). It is typically made with tesmi and sometimes also with berbere, in which case it is called fir-fir.
Fita Bayisa Fita Bayisa (born December 15, 1972 in Ambo) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner most known for winning a bronze medal on the 5,000 metres at the 1992 Summer Olympics. A year before he had won a silver medal at the World Championships in Athletics in Tokyo.
Fitamin Un Fitamin Un is an underground electronic and hip-hop record label started by Steffan Cravos in 1995. It's currently based in Cardiff, Wales and features bands interested in Breaks, Electronic, Electronica, hip hop and Rap.
Fisher School of Accounting The Fisher School of Accounting is the academic accounting unit at the University of Florida (UF). In 1977, the School of Accounting was established by the Board of Regents as a separate school within the College of Business, and was endowed in 1985 by Frederick Fisher.
Fisher Stevens Fisher Stevens, born Steven Fisher, (November 27, 1963) in Chicago, Illinois is an American actor, living in New York City. He is probably best known for his portrayals of Chuck Fishman on Early Edition, Eugene "The Plague" Belford in Hackers, and Ben Jabituya in the Short Circuit and Ben Jahrvi in Short Circuit 2.
Fisher transformation In statistics, hypotheses about the value of the population correlation coefficient Ď between variables X and Y of the underlying population, can be tested using the Fisher transformation applied to the sample correlation r.
Fisher's ghost The legend of Fisher's ghost is a popular Australian story dating to the early 19th century. It arose from a series of historical events which occurred in Campbelltown, now a large urban population centre on the southwestern outskirts of Sydney, but at the time a remote rural outpost.
Fisher's method In statistics, Fisher's method is a data fusion or "meta-analysis" (analysis beyond analysis) technique for combining the results from a variety of independent tests bearing upon the same overall hypothesis (H0) as if in a single large test.
Fisher, Australian Capital Territory Fisher is a suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia located in the district of Weston Creek. Fisher was named after Andrew Fisher (1862-1928), coal miner, founding member of the federal parliamentary Labor Party and Prime Minister of Australia for three terms between 1908 and 1915 (ACTLIC, 2004).
Fisheries and Oceans Canada The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), also referred to as Fisheries and Oceans (Pêches et Océans), is the department within the government of Canada with responsibility for the management and safety of waters under federal jurisdiction.
Fisheries Act 1985 (Act 317) Malaysia The Fisheries Act 1985 (Act 317) is a Malaysian federal act relating to the administration and management of fisheries, including the conservation and development of maritime and estuarine fishing and fisheries in Malaysia waters, protection to aquatic mammals and turtles and riverine fishing in Malaysia and to matters connected to establishment of marine parks and marine reserves.
Fisheries Centre The Fisheries Centre, located at the University of British Columbia, promotes multidisciplinary study of aquatic ecosystems and broad-based collaboration with maritime communities, government, NGOs and other partners.
Fisheries management Fisheries management is today often referred to as a governmental system of management rules based on defined objectives and a mix of management means to implement the rules, which is put in place by a system of monitoring, control, and surveillance (MCS). Modern fisheries management is most often based on biological arguments where the idea is to protect the biological resource in order to make a sustainable exploitation possible.
Fisheries Research Services Fisheries Research Services (FRS) is an Executive Agency of the Scottish Executive, part of the Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department. FRS is responsible for scientific and technical research into the marine and freshwater fisheries and aquaculture, and the protection of the aquatic environment in Scotland.
Fisherman A fishermanIn recent years, the job-bearer is sometimes called a "fisher" to be non-gender specific. Those who fish with a hook-and-line rather than a net may be referred to by the non-gender specific term "angler".
Fisherman's Bastion The Halászbástya or Fisherman's Bastion is a terrace in neo-Gothic and neo-Romanesque style situated on the Buda bank of the Danube, on the Castle hill in Budapest, around Matthias Church. It was designed and built between 1895 and 1902 on the plans of Frigyes Schulek.
Fisherman's Hope Fisherman's Hope is a 1996 science fiction novel by David Feintuch and is the fourth book in the Seafort Saga. It is the sequel to Prisoner's Hope and is the final book in the first part of the Saga, depicting the actions of the central character, Nicholas Seafort, from the years 2194 to 2202.
Fisherman's Chronicles The Fisherman Chronicles is a three-part story by the band Primus over the course of three albums, Frizzle Fry ("John the Fisherman"), Sailing the Seas of Cheese ("Fish On"), and Pork Soda ("The Ol' Diamondback Sturgeon"). Although the songs all deal with the theme of fishing, the plot of each song seems to be unrelated to the others.
Fisherman's Wharf, Kowloon The Fisherman's Wharf (Chinese: ćĽäşşç˘Ľé ) in Kowloon, Hong Kong is a shopping mall. It is located at the southeastern coast of the Kowloon Peninsula, within the residential complex of Laguna Verde (海逸豪園) in Hung Hom.
Fisherman's Wharf, Monterey, California Fisherman's Wharf is an historic wharf in Monterey, California. Used as an active wholesale fish market into the 1960s, the wharf eventually became a tourist attraction as commercial fishing tapered off in the area.
Fishers Junior High School Fishers Junior High School is located at 13257 Cumberland Road in Fishers, Indiana, United States. It is one of three public junior high schools serving grades seven through eight in the Fishers area of Hamilton County, Indiana.
Fishers, Indiana Fishers, located in Hamilton County, Indiana, is a town of population 52,390, according to a special census conducted in 2004. A suburb of Indianapolis, Fishers has grown rapidly in recent decades: about 350 people lived there in 1963, 2,000 in 1980, and only 7,200 as recently as 1990.
Fishery A fishery (plural: fisheries) is an organized effort by humans to catch fish or other aquatic species, an activity known as fishing. Generally, a fishery exists for the purpose of providing human food, although other aims are possible (such as sport or recreational fishing), or obtaining ornamental fish or fish products such as fish oil.
Fishery Limits Act 1976 The Fishery Limits Act 1976 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (1977 c. 86) in order to implement the extension of fishing waters under the European Community's Common Fisheries Policy into British law.
Fisheye lens In photography, a fisheye lens is a wide-angle lens that takes in an extremely wide, hemispherical image. Originally developed for use in astronomy and called "whole-sky lenses", fisheye lenses quickly became popular in general photography for their unique, distorted appearance.
Fishfinder A fishfinder is a type of fathometer, both being specialized types of echo sounding systems, a type of Active SONAR. ('Sounding' is the measurement of water depth, a historical nautical term of very long usage.
Fishhook waterflea Cercopagis pengoi is a water flea native to Ponto-Aralo-Caspian basin in South Easten Europe at the meeting point of the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. It has spread from its native range and become invasive in some waterways of Eastern Europe and in the Baltic Sea.
Fishing Fishing is the activity of hunting for fish by hooking, trapping, or gathering animals not classifiable as insects which breathe in water or pass their lives in water. By extension, the term fishing is applied to pursuing other aquatic animals such as various types of shellfish, squid, octopus, turtles, frogs, and some edible marine invertebrates.
Fishing boat A fishing boat can range from two-person pleasure fishing boats up to 7-8 ton commercial fishers that can haul in over a billion fish at one time. Island nations like Japan rely on the fishing industry to provide food.
Fishing capacity The fishing problem is not only related to the conservation of fish stocks but also to the sustainability of fishing activity. Causes of the fishing problem can be found in property rights regime of fishing resources.
Fishing fleet A fishing fleet is an aggregate of commercial fishing vessels. The term may be used of all vessels operating out of a particular port, all vessels engaged in a particular type of fishing (as in the "tuna fishing fleet"), or all fishing vessels of a country or region.
Fishing for Moonlight Fishing for Moonlight (2006) is an American movie, directed by Roger Michell, and written by Stephen Schiff. It is a thriller based on the true story of a stockbroker whose life is destroyed when he frees a prostitute from the Russian mafia.
Fishing industry The fishing industry is the commercial activity of fishing and producing fish and other seafood products for human consumption or as input factors in other industrial processes. According to Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) statistics the total fish production in the world in 2001 was 130 million tonnes.
Fishing industry in Scotland The fishing industry in Scotland comprises a significant proportion of the United Kingdom fishing industry. A recent inquiry by the Royal Society of Edinburgh found fishing to be of much greater social, economic and cultural importance to Scotland than to the rest of the UK.
Fishing light attractor A fishing light attractor is an underwater light that can be used to attract fish of many species, including baitfish, and larger fish. It depends on the type of water (fresh or saline) to determine the species to attract.
Fishing Lakes The Fishing Lakes are a chain of four lakes in the Qu'Appelle Valley cottage country some 40 miles to the northeast of Regina, Canada. The perimeters of Pasqua, Echo, Mission and Katepwa Lakes are the location of several provincial parks, public swimming beaches and are — where not public property or aboriginal reserves — intermittently built up with private cottages and youth summer camps.
Fishing rark A fishing rark was a type of water vessel used for fishing and favored by pirates for its speed and maneuverability. The ship itself consists of one main square sail with ropes tied to opposite ends of the sail's yard (horizontal mast) and attached to cranks at the ships fore and aft sides.
Fishing River The Fishing River is a short tributary of the Missouri River in western Missouri in the United States. It rises in the northeastern extremity of Kansas City in Clay County and flows generally eastward and southeastward through Clay and southeastern Ray Counties, past the town of Mosby.
Fishing stage A fishing stage is a wooden vernacular building, typical of the rough traditional buildings associated with the cod fishery in Newfoundland, Canada. Stages are located at the water's edge or "landwash", and consist of an elevated platform on the shore with working tables and sheds at which fish are landed and processed for salting and drying.
Fishing tackle Fishing tackle refers to the equipment and gear used when engaging in the pursuit of fish for sport and commercial value. Examples of fishing tackle include (but are not limited to) hooks, lures, bait, sinkers, leaders, lines, rods, and reels.
Fishing television series The fishing television series genre is rather self-explainatory; they are television programs revolving around recreational and sport fishing. The genre has enough of a following to justify its own digital television station WFN, the World Fishing Network.
Fishing town Fishing Town or Fishing City (Simplified Chinese: 钓鱼城; Traditional Chinese: 釣鱼城; Pingyin: diaoyucheng) also called the “Oriental Mecca” and “the Place That Broke God's Whip” is one of the three ancient battlefields in China. It is famous for its resistance against the army of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty in the later Song (Sung) dynasty.
Fishing weir A fishing weir is an ancient type of fish trap that is traceable back to Roman times in the UK. It is also a technology used by, among others, North American Natives and early settlers to catch fish for trade and to feed their communities.
Fishka Rais Fishka Rais (-died 1974) was a South African born Canadian actor. He appeared in the children's television series The Hilarious House of Frightenstein as Igor and also appeared in the movie Cannibal Girls, credited as Kingfish playing The Butcher.
Fishman (wrestler) JosĂ© Ăngel Nájera Sánchez, best known under the ring name of Fishman, is a Mexican professional wrestler who became one of Lucha Libre's biggest stars during the 1980s with the Universal Wrestling Association. The front dropkick was often called "Fishman's kangaroo kick" after him.
Fishman Affidavit The Fishman Affidavit is a set of court documents submitted by ex-Scientologist Steven Fishman in 1994 containing criticisms of the Church of Scientology and, controversially, substantial portions of the Operating Thetan course materials.
Fishpaste Fishpaste is a term used by SpongeBob SquarePants whenever he messes up on something. Fishpaste was once used by Squidward Tentacles on the SpongeBob episode "Bossy Boots" where he told SpongeBob to tell Pearl about to new Krusty Krab uniform.
Fishplate In rail terminology, a fishplate is a metal bar that is bolted to the ends of two rails to join them together in a track. In rail transport modelling, a fishplate is often a small copper or nickel/silver plate which slips onto both rails.
Fishpond Fishpond was the code name given to an extension to the H2S airborne radar system fitted to allied bombers during World War II. It was designed to give early warning of German night fighters approaching in the hemisphere below the carrying aircraft out to a range of 30 miles (48.
Fishpool Fishpool is a district to the south of Bury town centre in Greater Manchester. The area is roughly-speaking, a square bounded by Wellington Road to the north, Manchester Road to the west, Gigg Lane to the south and Market Street to the east.
Fishpool Creations Fishpool Creations is a software company in Finland. It specialises in script technologies and building extensions (Perl, Python, Tcl), as well as Java and C work in the fields of networks, mobile phone technology and the web, especially on the Linux, UNIX and Mac OS X platforms.
Fishtank Ensemble Fishtank Ensemble (or simply Fishtank) is a Euro-American musical group that formed in Oakland, California in 2004. They perform a variety of traditional musical styles including Romanian, klezmer, flamenco, and Japanese folk and Roma music.
Fishtank interactive Fishtank Interactive was a German computer game publishing company, and a division of Ravensburger Interactive. It was founded in 2000 to try to expand the horizons of Ranvensburger Interactive by publishing more mature games than the rest of the mostly pre-school oriented games of the company without sullying its reputation.
Fishtanked FishTanked is a webcomic written and illustrated by Joe Angrisano (sometimes cited as Joe Angerson). The series was first produced in 2002 and saw only a limited run of comics produced until the strip was revived in August of 2006.
Fishtoft Fishtoft is one of eighteen parishes which, together with Boston, form the Borough of Boston in the county of Lincolnshire, England. The local government has been arranged in this way since the reorganization of April 1 1974, which resulted from the Local Government Act 1972.
Fishtrap Lake Fishtrap Lake is a man-made lake in eastern Kentucky. As one of the larger lakes in the state, it is home to the most popular and largest Hybrid Bass fish populations in the state (Ranked #1) and has came close to setting the Kentucky State Record, with documented Hybrid Bass weighing up to 18 lb (state record: 20 lb, 8 oz).
FishTanked FishTanked is a webcomic written and illustrated by Joe Angrisano (sometimes cited as Joe Angerson). The series was first produced in 2003 and saw only a limited run of comics produced until the strip was revived in August of 2006.
Fishville, Louisiana Fishville is a tiny community in Central Louisiana. In the late 60's and early 70's, Fishville, was a popular Summer spot for the surrounding area, including Alexandria, Louisiana, where hundreds of people would come out to the country to enjoy the cold creeks, roller skating, or just relaxing at one of many camp houses located along the numerous lakes, creeks, and streams, throughout the surrounding woods of the Kisatchie National Forest.
Fischer esterification Fischer esterification is a special type of esterification and the process of forming an ester by refluxing a carboxylic acid and an alcohol in the presence of an acid catalyst. Commonly used catalysts for a Fischer esterification include sulfuric acid or lewis acids such as scandium(III) triflate.
Fischer glycosidation Fischer glycosidation (or Fischer glycosylation) refers to the formation of a glycoside by the reaction of an aldose or ketose with an alcohol in the presence of an acid catalyst. The reaction is named after the German chemist, Emil Hermann Fischer, winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry, 1902.
Fischer House The Fischer House is a historic mansion in downtown Austin, Texas completed in 1882. Its builder, Joseph Fischer, was a prominent mason in Austin at the time, and its bold High Victorian Italianate architecture and ornamentation reflect his family's skill in the trade.
Fischer indole synthesis The Fischer indole synthesis is a chemical reaction that produces the aromatic heterocycle indole from a (substituted) phenylhydrazine and an aldehyde or ketone under acidic conditions. The reaction was discovered in 1883 by Hermann Emil Fischer.
Fischer oxazole synthesis The Fischer oxazole synthesis is a chemical synthesis of the aromatic heterocycle oxazole from cyanohydrins and aldehydes in the presence of anhydrous hydrochloric acid. This method was discovered by Hermann Emil Fischer in 1896.
Fischer projection In chemistry (particularly organic chemistry and biochemistry), a Fischer projection is a two-dimensional representation of a three-dimensional organic molecule by projection. All bonds are depicted as horizontal or vertical lines.
Fischer Skis Fischer Skis is an Austrian company producing Nordic and Alpine skiing equipment. It is one of the largest manufacturers of equipment in the world cup for both disciplines and manifactures a wide range of skis and ski equipment targeted against both professionals and amateurs.
Fischer's Chameleon The Fischer's Chameleon (Bradypodion fischeri) includes several subspecies of chameleon native to the mountains of Kenya and Tanzania, particularly the Usambara Mountains region. It is also known as the Usambara two-horned chameleon, from the flat horns evident on the males of the species.
Fischer's Lovebird The Fischer's lovebird (Agapornis fischeri, synonym Agapornis personata fischeri) is a species of bird in the parrot family. They are native to a small area of east-central Africa, south and southeast of Lake Victoria in northern Tanzania.
Fischer-Hepp rearrangement The Fischer-Hepp rearrangement is a rearrangement reaction in which an aromatic N-nitroso or nitrosamine converts to a carbon nitroso compound O Fischer, E Hepp. Ber Deutsch chem Ges 19 (1886) p2991 M B Smith, J March.
Fischer-Z The British rock band Fischer-Z released three quite successful albums between 1979 and 1981. The original lineup consisted of John Watts (vocals, guitar), David Graham (bass), Steve Skolnik (keyboards) and Steve Liddle (drums).
Fischingen Abbey Fischingen Abbey (Kloster Fischingen), now Fischingen Priory, is a Benedictine monastery situated in Fischingen in the Canton of Thurgau, Switzerland, on the upper reaches of the Murg, a tributary of the Thur. It was founded in 1138, dissolved in 1848 and re-founded as a priory in 1977.
Fischmob Fischmob, from Hamburg, was a German hip hop band in the 1990s. The band includes DJ Koze Stefan Kozalla, Cosmic DJ (Daniel Sommer), and Der Schreckliche Sven Sven Mikolajewicz and Stachy produced 4 albums including their hit song Susanne Zur Freiheit.
Fisk Generating Station The Fisk Generating Station, located in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States, is a legacy coal-fired powerplant not covered by current Clean Air Act emission standards. However, Nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide emissions are well below current state and federal EPA limits.
Fiskardo Fiskardo (Greek, Modern: ΦιĎκάĎδο, Ancient/Katharevousa: -on), rarely Fiscardo, is a village located about 54 km N of Argostoli in Erissos in the northernmost part of the island of Kefalonia. The origin of the name is the corrupted form of Guiskardo (ΓυϊĎκάĎδο) from Robert Guiscard in the time of the Frankish dominion in Greece.
Fiskars Fiskars Corporation is a metal and consumer brands company founded in 1649 in Fiskars bruk, today Fiskars ruukki in the municipality of Pohja, Finland, located about 100 kilometres west of Helsinki along the ancient mainroad from Turku to Viipuri. The most well-known products that Fiskars produces are scissors and axes, but the knives are also noteworthy.
Fiskerton, Lincolnshire Fiskerton (The name means the 'place of the fishermen' ) is a commuter village within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, situated on the north side of the River Witham approximately 10 km (6 miles) east of Lincoln.
Fiskerton, Nottinghamshire Fiskerton is a small village in Nottinghamshire on the west bank of the River Trent about 5 miles southeast of Southwell. Regarding the old boat ferry from Fiskerton to East Stoke, "Up until the middle of this century (1950s) there was a ferry boat service over to the other side of the River Trent at Stoke Field.
Fiskeville, Rhode Island Fiskeville is a small village in the south west corner of Cranston, Rhode Island, United States, and also reaching into the south east corner of the Town of Scituate, Rhode Island. Its Main Street forms the border between the two municipalities.
Fisking The term Fisking, or to Fisk, is blogosphere slang describing detailed point-by-point criticism that highlights errors, disputes the analysis of presented facts, or highlights other problems in a statement, article, or essay.
Fiskville Fiskville is the training college for members of the Country Fire Authority (CFA), which is a large, predominantly volunteer fire and emergency service which has legislative responsibility for fire and emergencies in regional Victoria (Australia).
Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty The Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty is a proposed international treaty to prohibit the further production of weapons-grade uranium and plutonium. It would not prevent the production of fuel-grade uranium and plutonium, nor of other components in nuclear warheads.
Fission fragment reactor Similar to how the fission-fragment rocket produces thrust, a fission fragment reactor is a nuclear reactor that generates electricity by decelerating an ion beam of fission byproducts instead of using nuclear reactions to generate heat. By doing so, it bypasses the Carnot cycle and can achieve efficiencies of up to 90% instead of 40-45% attainable by efficient turbine-driven thermal reactors.
Fission sail The fission sail is a type of spacecraft propulsion proposed by Robert Forward that uses fission fragments to propel a large solar sail-like craft. It is similar in concept to the fission-fragment rocket in that the fission by-products are directly harnessed as working mass, and differs primarily in the way that the fragments are used for thrust.
Fission track dating Fission track dating is a radiometric dating technique based on analyses of the damage trails, or tracks, left by fission fragments in certain uranium bearing minerals and glasses. Uranium-238 undergoes spontaneous fission decay at a known rate.
Fission-fragment rocket The fission-fragment rocket is a rocket engine design that directly harnesses hot nuclear fission products for thrust, as opposed to using a separate fluid as working mass. The design can, in theory, produce very high specific impulses while still being well within the abilities of current technologies.
Fissure Fissure (Latin fissura, Plural fissurae) is a groove, natural division, deep furrow, or cleft found in the brain, spinal cord, and liver; or a tear in the anus (anal fissure). In dentistry, a fissure is a break in the tooth enamel.
Fissurellidae Fissurellidae, is a family of gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Fissurelloidea and order Archaeogastropoda. They are conical, limpet-shaped shells, with an apical perforation, marginal slit, notch, or internal groove, to allow a more direct exit of exhalant water currents from the mantle cavity.
Fist and Rose Tendency The Fist and Rose is a tendency of the Socialist Party USA founded by Melvin Little and others to promote global unification with the Socialist International and greater unity within the Party. Prominent members include Walt Brown, Michael C.
Fist of Fear, Touch of Death Fist of Fear, Touch of Death, also known as The Dragon and the Cobra, is a 1980 martial arts documentary (really more of a mockumentary) about a martial arts tournament at Madison Square Garden that will determine the "successor" to Bruce Lee. It is hosted by future Oscar-nominee Adolph Caeser, it is really more of a collection of martial arts-related stock footage strung together by the clothesline of the Madison Square Garden plot.
Fist of Fun Fist of Fun was a popular British comedy television and radio programme, written by and starring Lee and Herring (the comedians Stewart Lee and Richard Herring). Each episode featured several disparate sketches and situations.
Fist of Fury II Fist of Fury II, originally released in Hong Kong as Jing wu men xu ji and also released as Chinese Connection 2 and Fistful of the Dragon, is a martial arts film that is an unauthorized sequel to Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury (A/K/A The Chinese Connection), not to be confused with New Fist of Fury). Bruce Li plays the brother of the Lee character from the first film.
Fist of Fury III Fist of Fury III is a martial arts Bruceploitation sequel. It was originally released in Hong Kong as Jie quan yingzhua gong (literal: Jeet Kune the Claws and the Supreme Kung Fu), and has been informally called The Chinese Connection III.
Fist pound A fist pound, pound it, respect knuckles, or props is a type of social interaction commonly used by teenagers. It involves one person holding out their fist and someone else "pounding it" with their fist.
Fistball Fistball is a very old sport which continues to be practiced all over the world: in Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia. The earliest known written mention of the game is by Roman Emperor Gordian III and dates to the year 240.
Fistful of TOWs A Fistful of TOWs (FFT) is a miniatures wargame covering the “modern period”, usually defined as the period from the end of World War II to the present. Version 2 (“FFT2”) covers battles from 1946 through 2010.
Fisting Fisting (also FF, for fist fucking) is a sexual activity that involves inserting the hand and forearm into the vagina or anus. Typically, fisting does not involve forcing the clenched fist into the vagina or anus.
Fistulotomy A Fistulotomy is the surgical opening or removal of a fistulous tract. They can be performed by excision of the tract and surrounding tissue, simple division of the tract, or gradual division and assisted drainage of the tract by means of a seton; a cord passed through the tract in a loop which is slowly tightened over a period of days or weeks.
Fit Couture Fit Couture is a designer, manufacturer and retailer of women's clothing in the United States. Fit Couture specializes in fitness wear and yoga wear for women, offering several styles of pants, tops, shorts and jackets.
Fit for Life Fit for Life is a diet and lifestyle promoted by Harvey Diamond and Marilyn Diamond, which stems from the principles in Natural Hygiene. As the title of the book suggests, Fit for Life claims how to lose excess body weight and maintain good health via long term dietary and lifestyle practices, rather than short term dieting.
Fit Fuel Fit Fuel is a healthy vending company created in 2004 by former Wall Street banker Luke Arthur and his cousin, model and actor Sean Kelly. Fit Fuel employs a team of health professionals, including a medical doctor, nutritionist and dietician.
Fit-fit Fit-fit is an Eritrean and Ethiopian food typically served at breakfast (though it can be served at other meals as well). It is typically made with tesmi and sometimes also with berbere, in which case it is called fir-fir.
Fita Bayisa Fita Bayisa (born December 15, 1972 in Ambo) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner most known for winning a bronze medal on the 5,000 metres at the 1992 Summer Olympics. A year before he had won a silver medal at the World Championships in Athletics in Tokyo.
Fitamin Un Fitamin Un is an underground electronic and hip-hop record label started by Steffan Cravos in 1995. It's currently based in Cardiff, Wales and features bands interested in Breaks, Electronic, Electronica, hip hop and Rap.
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