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BFG (other)
BFG may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''The BFG'', a 1982 children's book by Roald Dahl ** ''The BFG'' (1989 film), an ITV film by Brian Cosgrove ** ''The BFG'' (2016 film), a Disney movie by Steven Spielberg * BFG (weapon), fictional gun in the ''Doom'' and ''Quake'' games * Bound for Glory (wrestling pay-per-view) * Bunchofuckingoofs or the BFGs, a Toronto-based punk band Military and weapons * BFG 50, a Serbu Firearms model of rifle * British Forces Germany, a 1945–2020 U.K. military presence Technologies * BFG (web framework), for the Python programming language * BFG Technologies, a defunct American manufacturer of graphics cards * Blast furnace gas, a by-product and synthetic fuel Other uses * Bullfrog Basin Airport, Utah, U.S. (by IATA code) * FIK BFG Fana Friidrettsklubben BFG Fana is a Norwegian athletics club from Fana in Bergen, founded in 1987 as an umbrella team for Bjarg, Fana and Gneist. BFG Fana uses the Fana stadion, and hosted the Bislett Game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The BFG
''The BFG'' (short for ''The Big Friendly Giant'') is a 1982 children's book written by British novelist Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake. It is an expansion of a short story from Dahl's 1975 book '' Danny, the Champion of the World''. The book is dedicated to Dahl's late daughter, Olivia, who died of measles encephalitis at the age of seven in 1962. An animated adaptation was released in 1989 with David Jason providing the voice of the BFG and Amanda Root as the voice of Sophie. It has also been adapted as a theatre performance. A theatrical Disney live-action adaptation directed by Steven Spielberg was released in 2016. As of 2009, the novel has sold 37 million copies, with more than 1 million copies sold around the world every year. In 2003, ''The BFG'' was listed at number 56 in ''The Big Read'', a BBC survey of the British public. In 2012, the novel was ranked number 88 among all-time best children's novels in a survey published by ''School Library Journal' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The BFG (1989 Film)
''The BFG'' is a 1989 British animated fantasy adventure film produced by Cosgrove Hall Films and Nelvana, based on the 1982 novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. It was directed by Brian Cosgrove and written by John Hambley. The film was first shown on 25 December 1989 on ITV in the United Kingdom. The film was dedicated to animator George Jackson, who had worked on numerous Cosgrove Hall productions prior to his death in 1986. This film is also the last role of Ballard Berkeley (the voice of the Head of the Army), who died in 1988. Plot Sophie is a young orphaned girl living in the orphanage of the cantankerous and abusive Mrs. Clonkers. One night, Sophie wakes up and looks out of her window to see a cloaked Giant Man blowing something through a trumpet into a bedroom window down the street; whereupon the Giant Man notices her and snatches her through the window, carrying her away to a mysterious realm known as "Giant Country". In his cave, the Giant identifies himself a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The BFG (2016 Film)
''The BFG'' (titled onscreen as ''Roald Dahl's The BFG'') is a 2016 fantasy adventure film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg, written by Melissa Mathison (her final film before her 2015 death) and based on Roald Dahl's 1982 novel of the same name. The film stars Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill in her film debut, Penelope Wilton, Jemaine Clement, Rebecca Hall, Rafe Spall and Bill Hader. In the film, a 10-year-old orphaned girl named Sophie befriends a benevolent giant dubbed the "Big Friendly Giant", who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world. Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall began development on a live-action adaptation of ''The BFG'' back in the 1990s, and various screenwriters were hired to work on the screenplay in the subsequent years. DreamWorks acquired the screen rights to Dahl's book in September 2011, and Marshall and Sam Mercer joined as producers, Mathison as screenwriter and Kenne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BFG (weapon)
The BFG ("Big Fucking Gun") is a fictional weapon found in many video games, mostly in id Software-developed series' such as ''Doom'' and '' Quake''. The abbreviation BFG stands for "Big Fucking Gun" as described in Tom Hall's original ''Doom'' design document and in the user manual of '' Doom II: Hell on Earth''. The ''Quake II'' manual says it stands for "Big, Uh, Freakin' Gun". This euphemistic label implies the more profane name of the BFG. Another version of the name used in the ''Doom'' motion picture is "Bio Force Gun". The versions found in the ''Doom'' games are called "BFG 9000" and those in ''Quake'' "BFG 10K". Appearances ''Doom'' The weapon first appeared in the press beta release of ''Doom''. In that version, the BFG 9000 released a cloud of 80 small plasma balls (randomly green or red) per shot, which could bounce off floors and ceilings. However, this version of the BFG was scrapped, as developer John Romero stated that it "looked like Christmas" and severely sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bound For Glory (wrestling Pay-per-view)
Bound for Glory (frequently abbreviated to BFG) is a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) List of Impact Wrestling pay-per-view events, event produced annually in October by the American Impact Wrestling promotion. The event was created in 2005 to serve as the company's flagship PPV event, similar to WWE, WWE's WrestleMania, in which List of Impact Wrestling employees, wrestlers competed in various professional wrestling match types in what was the culmination of many feuds and storylines that occurred during the calendar year. As of , eighteen events have occurred under the chronology. History The Bound for Glory (2006), 2006 edition was the company's first three-hour monthly PPV event to take place outside of the TNA Impact! Zone, Impact Zone (the sound stage owned by Universal Studios, and operated within Universal Studios Florida, from which the company's Impact! (TV series), television series and much of their pay-per-views were produced), emanating from the Compuware A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunchofuckingoofs
Bunchofuckingoofs, or the BFGs, was an infamous Canadian hardcore punk band from Toronto's Kensington Market neighbourhood, formed in November 1983. From July 1983 to July 1988, they ran a 24/7 boozecan at their Baldwin Street address known on the street as "Fort Goof". For another three and half years they continued their antics at the 26A Oxford Street warehouse (Goof World). They lived communally and, while they were known for smashing TVs on stage and opening bottles of beer with chainsaws, they described themselves as anti-drug crusaders, community activists and the neighbourhood police force. History The band was founded by Crazy Steve Johnston, who was already playing with a loose group of musicians. Ruth Taylor asked him to put together a band to open for her band, United State, at Larry's Hideaway. Johnston and his group wrote seven songs, then brought in a band called Quarantine to fill out a set. At the show, their performance was such that Johnston said ""we better ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BFG 50
Serbu Firearms is an American manufacturer of firearms based in Tampa, Florida, founded by mechanical engineer Mark Serbu. History After earning a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of South Florida in 1990, Mark Serbu found employment building flight simulators, founding Serbu Firearms as a part time occupation in 1995. In 1999, he quit his job as a flight simulator designer entirely to dedicate to his firearm business full-time. The company is known for manufacturing simple and affordable .50 BMG rifles, such as the single-shot bolt-action BFG-50, the semi-automatic BFG-50A and the single-shot break-action RN-50. Serbu Firearms is also noted for its production of the Super-Shorty, a compact 12- or 20-gauge (on special order) pump-action shotgun with front and rear pistol grips, which in the United States is regulated as what is called Any Other Weapon under the National Firearms Act. Controversy Soup Nazi incident In 2013, Serbu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Forces Germany
British Forces Germany (''BFG'') was the generic name for the three services of the British Armed Forces, made up of service personnel, UK Civil Servants, and dependents (family members), based in Germany. It was established following the Second World War, the largest parts of it becoming known as the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) and RAF Germany (RAFG). It was the largest concentration of British armed forces permanently stationed outside the United Kingdom. With the end of the Cold War, and the Options for Change defence review in the early 1990s, BFG as a whole was considerably reduced, with the British presence centred on the 1st Armoured Division, and supporting elements. Following the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review, the permanent deployment in Germany ended in 2020. This was after British forces personnel were scaled down over several years, with 19,100 in April 2010, and 2,850 in April 2019. However, around 185 British Army personnel and 60 Ministry of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BFG (web Framework)
Pylons Project is an open-source organization that develops a set of web application technologies written in Python. Initially the project was a single web framework called Pylons, but after the merger with the repoze.bfg framework under the new name Pyramid, the Pylons Project now consists of multiple related web application technologies. Pyramid Pyramid is an open source web framework written in Python and is based on WSGI. It is a minimalistic web framework inspired by Zope, Pylons and Django. Originally called "repoze.bfg", Pyramid gathered attention mostly in the Zope and Plone community as the Open Society Institute's KARL project migrated from Plone to BFG. In 2010 it was announced that the Pylons framework will move over to using BFG as a base in version 1.5. As a result of the inclusion of BFG into the Pylons project, BFG was renamed Pyramid. Features Pyramid is a minimalistic, platform-independent web framework. It is persistence agnostic and is integrated both with S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BFG Technologies
BFG Technologies was a privately held U.S.-based supplier of power supplies and video cards based on Nvidia graphics technology and a manufacturer of high-end gaming/home theater computer systems. BFG Technologies branded products were available in North America and Europe at retailers and e-tailers. The company's main headquarters were located in Lake County, Illinois, near Lake Forest. Graphics cards BFG manufactured graphics cards for mainstream to enthusiast level computers. They were known for their Asylum brand; however, the Nvidia 5 series of graphics accelerators were the last to use that name. They were best known by computer enthusiasts for the overclocked (OC) versions of their graphics cards, lifetime warranty and 24/7/365 U.S.-based technical support. BFG was among the first graphics card companies to offer cards that were already overclocked from manufacturer recommended speeds. Since then, many other manufacturers have copied BFG's model. Their most recent fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blast Furnace Gas
Blast furnace gas (BFG) is a by-product of blast furnaces that is generated when the iron ore is reduced with coke to metallic iron. It has a very low heating value, about 93 BTU/cubic foot (3.5 MJ/m3), because it consists of about 51 vol% nitrogen and 22 vol% carbon dioxide, which are not flammable. The rest amounts to around 22 vol% carbon monoxide, which has a fairly low heating value already and 5 vol% hydrogen. Per ton of steel produced via the blast furnace route, 2.5 to 3.5 ton of blast furnace gas is produced. It is commonly used as a fuel within the steel works, but it can be used in boilers and power plants equipped to burn it. It may be combined with natural gas or coke oven gas before combustion or a flame support with richer gas or oil is provided to sustain combustion. Particulate matter is removed so that it can be burned more cleanly. Blast furnace gas is sometimes flared without generating heat or electricity. Blast furnace gas is generated at higher p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bullfrog Basin Airport
Bullfrog Basin is one of the National Park Service recreation sites of the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area of Kane County, Utah, United States, adjoining Lake Powell. It encompasses Bullfrog Basin Airport , the Bullfrog Resort and Marina, the Bullfrog terminus of the Charles Hall Ferry, and a campground. It is nearby the 1970s mining town Ticaboo. The National Park Lodge in the site is named Defiance House Lodge. Built on a bluff that overlooks the Bullfrog Bay part of Lake Powell, it is a stucco building with several adjoining prefabricated units. Bullfrog Basin has a USNPS visitor centre, and the Bullfrog Resort and Marina includes a restaurant, shops, and a gas station. Its development was personally championed by Calvin Rampton in the 1960s, who secured a million funds-matching grant from the Economic Development Administration in 1966 to pave an access road to the area. Although the road did not connect to a settlement at either end, the USNPS had already spent & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
