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BFS (other)
BFS may refer to: Science and technology *Big Falcon Ship, precursor of SpaceX Starship * Benign fasciculation syndrome, a neurological disorder * Blow fill seal, a manufacturing technique Computing * Basic feasible solution, in linear programming * Be File System, the native file system for the Be Operating System * Best-first search, a path finding algorithm * Boot File System, a file system used on UnixWare to store files necessary to its boot process * Breadth-first search, a graph search algorithm * Brain Fuck Scheduler, a process scheduler for the Linux kernel Organisations * BFS Group, foodservice wholesaler and distributor * Bournemouth Film School, part of Arts University Bournemouth * Basketball Federation of Slovenia, sports governing body * Bibby Financial Services, UK-based multinational financial services provider * Bio Fuel Systems, a Spanish company using captured CO2 to create fuel * British Fantasy Society, a group dedicated to promoting the best in the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Falcon Ship
Starship is a fully reusable, super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by SpaceX, an American aerospace company. With more than twice the thrust of the Saturn V, it is designed to be the most powerful launch vehicle ever built and the first with total reusability. The Starship launch vehicle is made up of the Super Heavy first-stage booster and the Starship second stage. The second stage functions as a self-contained spacecraft for carrying crew or cargo once in orbit. Both stages are powered by Raptor engines that burn liquid oxygen and liquid methane propellants in a highly efficient, full-flow staged combustion power cycle. Both rocket stages are designed to be reused by landing vertically at the launch pad or at a separate platform. In its fully reusable configuration, Starship has a payload capacity of to low Earth orbit and is designed to be flown multiple times to spread out the cost of the spacecraft. The spacecraft can be refueled in orbit before traveli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basketball Federation Of Slovenia
The Basketball Federation of Slovenia ( sl, Košarkarska zveza Slovenije) also known as KZS is the governing body of basketball in Slovenia. It was founded in 1950 as a member of the larger Yugoslav Basketball Federation (see also: Basketball in Yugoslavia). In 1992, KZS joined the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) on its own. The Basketball Federation of Slovenia operates the Slovenia men's national team and Slovenia women's national team. They organize national competitions in Slovenia, for both the men's and women's senior teams and also the youth national basketball teams. The top professional league in Slovenia is the Premier A Slovenian Basketball League. See also * Slovenia men's national basketball team * Slovenia women's national basketball team * Slovenia men's national under-20 basketball team * Slovenia men's national under-19 basketball team * Slovenia men's national under-17 basketball team References External links Official website Sloveniaat FI ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beatles For Sale
''Beatles for Sale'' is the fourth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released on 4 December 1964 in the United Kingdom on EMI's Parlophone label. The album marked a departure from the upbeat tone that had characterised the Beatles' previous work, partly due to the band's exhaustion after a series of tours that had established them as a worldwide phenomenon in 1964. ''Beatles for Sale'' was not widely available in the US until 1987, when the Beatles' catalogue was standardised for release on CD. Instead, eight of the album's fourteen tracks appeared on Capitol Records' concurrent release, ''Beatles '65'', issued in North America only. The sessions for ''Beatles for Sale'' also produced a non-album single, "I Feel Fine" backed by "She's a Woman". During the sessions, the band ventured into studio experimentation, such as employing a fade-in and incorporating guitar feedback, and supplemented the basic recordings with percussion instruments such as timpa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Busan Foreign School
Busan Foreign School (BFS) is an international school located Busan, South Korea, with an American style educational philosophy and curriculum. It has been fully CCP accredited (Pre-K–12th grade) since 1998. Busan Foreign School opened in October 1996. With only two grades originally, it has since expanded to encompass early childhood to twelfth grade, currently educating over 240 students from 25 different nations. References External linksOfficial web site International schools in Busan 1996 establishments in South Korea Educational institutions established in 1996 {{South Korea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooklyn Friends School
Brooklyn Friends School is a school at 375 Pearl Street in Downtown Brooklyn, New York City. Brooklyn Friends School (BFS) is an independent, college preparatory Quaker school serving a culturally diverse educational community of approximately 900 students as of 2017–18, from preschool (two years of age) through 12th grade. History and governance Founded in 1867 by the Religious Society of FriendsJazmine HughesA Quaker School Promoted Liberal Values. Then Its Teachers Unionized. ''New York Times'' (September 3, 2020). as a coeducational Quaker school, Brooklyn Friends School is one of the oldest continuously operating independent schools in New York City. Starting as a grade school, BFS added a kindergarten in 1902, a high school division in 1907, and a Preschool and Family Center in 1985 and 1992 respectively. The most recent addition, the BFS Preschool, has gained prominence as one of the city's premier early learning centers. The Academy Award-winning 1981 documentary ''Clo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beltane Fire Society
The Beltane Fire Society is a charity run by a board of volunteers, who oversee the year-round operation of the organisation responsible for the Beltane Fire Festival. The society is funded entirely by donations through its membership, from Beltane Fire Festival ticket sales, and from merchandising. It receives no donations from any public funds. The Beltane Fire Society organises the Beltane Fire Festival on Calton Hill and the Samhuinn Fire Festival on the Royal Mile, both in Edinburgh, Scotland. The society was formed in 1988 for the second Beltane Fire Festival (the first on Calton Hill). The Beltane Fire Society also organises events for the other Celtic cross-quarter days, i.e., Imbolc and Lughnasadh and Samhuinn. Gallery File:Edinburgh Beltane Fire Festival 2012 - National Monument.JPG, The Edinburgh Beltane Fire Festival Beltane Fire Festival is an annual participatory arts event and ritual, held on 30 April on Calton Hill in Edinburgh. Historical backgroun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal Statistical Office (Switzerland)
The Federal Statistical Office (FSO) is a Federal agency of the Swiss Confederation. It is the statistics office of Switzerland, situated in Neuchâtel and attached to the Federal Department of Home Affairs. The Federal Statistical Office is the national service provider and competence centre for statistical observations in areas of national, social, economic and environmental importance. The FSO is the main producer of statistics in the country and runs the Swiss Statistics data pool. It provides information on all subject areas covered by official statistics. The office is closely linked to the national statistics scene as well as to partners in the worlds of science, business and politics. It works closely with Eurostat, the Statistics Office of the European Union, in order to provide information that is also comparable at an international level. The key principles upheld by the office throughout its statistical activities are data protection, scientific reliability, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bureau Of The Fiscal Service
The Bureau of the Fiscal Service (Fiscal Service) is a bureau of the United States Department of the Treasury, U.S. Department of the Treasury. The Fiscal Service replaced the Bureau of the Public Debt and the Financial Management Service effective October 7, 2012 by directive of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. The Bureau manages the government's accounting, central payment systems, and national debt of the United States, public debt. Among some of its better known duties is to collect any voluntary donations made to the government for reduction of the public debt. The amount of such reductions has hovered around two million dollars per year, and have been widely variable. By comparison, the annual compounding interest on US government debt in the year 2022 has been projected to be about $305B, making it some 152500 times greater than the amount of voluntary donations to the treasury. See also * Title 31 of the Code of Federal Regulations * TreasuryDirect * United States Tre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Fantasy Society
The British Fantasy Society (BFS) was founded in 1971 as the British Weird Fantasy Society, an offshoot of the British Science Fiction Association. The society is dedicated to promoting the best in the fantasy, science fiction and horror genres. In 2000, the BFS won the Special Award: Non-Professional at the World Fantasy Awards. The society also has its own awards, the annual British Fantasy Awards, created in 1971 at the suggestion of its president, the author Ramsey Campbell. It held its first Fantasycon in 1975. The current British Fantasy Society has no direct connection with the earlier science fiction group using the same name from 1942 to 1946. Publications The BFS currently publishes two magazines, ''BFS Horizons'', its fiction publication; and the ''BFS Journal'', its non-fiction and academic publication. Each has two issues a year, with alternating schedules. These are available in both print and electronically. It also produces a monthly members only email, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bio Fuel Systems
BFS Blue Enterprises is a Spanish-owned firm whose multi-patented, microalgae-based technology uses emissions to produce crude oil together with biotech & pharmaceutical products. It was formed in 2006 in eastern Spain after three years of research by scientists and engineers connected with the University of Alicante. Currently, an industrial pilot plant is known to have proven to produce standardized products, while utilizing and neutralizing emissions. Their system of bioconversion is said to be more productive than any other plant-based system producing oil or ethanol. Founders One of the founders is to be Bernard StroÏazzo Mougin. See also * Algal fuel * Biofuel * Biopetroleum * Bioplastic Bioplastics are plastic materials produced from renewable biomass sources, such as vegetable fats and oils, corn starch, straw, woodchips, sawdust, recycled food waste, etc. Some bioplastics are obtained by processing directly from natural ... References External links In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bibby Financial Services
Bibby Financial Services (BFS) is a multinational corporation that provides financial services to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The company is a subsidiary of the Liverpool-based Bibby Line Group, which was founded in 1807 by businessman, John Bibby (1775-1840). The group diversified into financial services, haulage, retail and private-equity-style investments in businesses in the 1980s. This helped it to survive and grow whilst local rivals, such as Cunard and White Star, disappeared or were swallowed up by others. Bibby Line Group, today headed by the sixth generation of the Bibby family, is a £1.2 billion business, and operates in more than 20 countries and employing over 4,500 people in industries including retail, offshore, financial services, distribution, shipping, marine based businesses and plant hire. History Bibby Financial Services was founded in 1982 during Sir Derek Bibby's chairmanship of the Bibby Line Group, a post he held from 1969 until 1992. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
