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BTF
BTF may refer to the following: * Biz Trip Finder'' *'' Back to the Future'', film and/or film series. *''Bangalore Theological Forum'', an academic journal * BTF (finance), French Treasury bills *Baseball Think Factory, website *Berkshire Theatre Festival, arts venue in Massachusetts, United States *Bhindranwala Tigers Force of Khalistan, Sikh militant group *Bhutan Tiger Force * Bidirectional texture function * Bottesford railway station, Leicestershire, England (station code: BTF) * Brain Trauma Foundation, American organisation * Brain Tumor Foundation, American charity * British Tamils Forum * British Thyroid Foundation * British Transport Films * British Triathlon Federation, the national governing body for triathlon, duathlon and multisport in Great Britain. * blessthefall, a metalcore band * Skypark Airport Skypark Airport is a public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) southwest of the central business district of Bountiful, a city in Davis County, Utah, U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Tamils Forum
British Tamils Forum or BTF, is a largest organisation representing the Tamil Community in the United Kingdom. The BTF intends to be the voice of the Tamil Community in the UK by raising the issues on Tamils in UK and to bring awareness to the issues affecting Tamil people in the island of Sri Lanka and around the world. The BTF's work is focused on addressing the root cause to the conflict through an international justice mechanism to bring truth and justice to all victims of war and to bring end to the entrenched culture of impunity in Sri Lanka. The BTF's vision for a lasting peace and security through a negotiated political settlement to the Tamil national question by recognising the Tamil people’s right in the North-East of the island of Sri Lanka and hope to bridge the voice between the British Tamil Community and the Tamil people in the island of Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan government banned the organization as a front for the LTTE. However the lack of evidence to link t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bidirectional Texture Function
Bidirectional texture function (BTF) is a 6-dimensional function depending on planar texture coordinates (x,y) as well as on view and illumination spherical angles. In practice this function is obtained as a set of several thousand color images of material sample taken during different camera and light positions. The BTF is a representation of the appearance of texture as a function of viewing and illumination direction. It is an image-based representation, since the geometry of the surface is unknown and not measured. BTF is typically captured by imaging the surface at a sampling of the hemisphere of possible viewing and illumination directions. BTF measurements are collections of images. The term BTF was first introduced in and similar terms have since been introduced including BSSRDF and SBRDF (spatial BRDF). SBRDF has a very similar definition to BTF, i.e. BTF is also a spatially varying BRDF. To cope with a massive BTF data with high redundancy, many compression methods were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bhindranwala Tigers Force Of Khalistan
The Bhindranwale Tiger Force of Khalistan (BTFK) is a Sikh extremist militant group, and one of several major separatist organizations involved in the Khalistan movement during the Punjab insurgency. The BTFK's main aim was to establish a Sikh homeland called Khalistan. At its peak, the BTFK's membership totaled 500 members and remained the strongest pro-Khalistan group in Tarn Taran Sahib, which was the epicenter of violence during the Punjab insurgency. It was formed in 1984 by Gurbachan Singh Manochahal. After Manochahal's death, the BTFK seem to have disbanded or splintered into factions. It was listed in 1995 as one of the 4 "major militant groups " in the Khalistan movement. History Bhindranwale Tiger Force of Khalistan had two main factions, one led by Gurbachan Singh Manochahal and the other faction led by Sukhwinder Singh Sangha. The BTF was a Sikh group fighting for an independent Sikh homeland. Based in the state of Punjab, India, the BTF was described as one of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Transport Films
British Transport Films was an organisation set up in 1949 to make documentary films on the general subject of British transport. Its work included internal training films, travelogues (extolling the virtues of places that could be visited via the British transport system – mostly by rail), and "industrial films" (as they were called) promoting the progress of Britain's railway network. It was headed by Edgar Anstey until 1974, and from then until its demise by John W. Shepherd. Initially, it made films mostly for the British Transport Commission, but after that organisation was broken up in 1963 the majority of its films were for the British Railways Board. However it also made films for London Transport Board, London Transport, the British Waterways Board, the travel company Thomas Cook & Son and the coach company Thomas Tilling. Output Their first film was Berth 24 concerning the operation of Hull Docks. Many of the unit's films celebrated the running of Britain's nationali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Thyroid Foundation
The British Thyroid Foundation (BTF) is a UK-based, patient-led, registered charity dedicated to supporting people with thyroid disorders and helping their families and people around them to understand the condition. Function The British Thyroid Foundation is a patient support organisation. The aims of the BTF are to help improve understanding of thyroid disease; represent the patient perspective to medical professionals; offer a peer support network and fund research into thyroid function and thyroid disease to improve patient outcomes. The BTF is recognised by the British Thyroid Association, the British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons, the British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, and the Society for Endocrinology as a helpful resource. It is also listed as a carer centre and service by National Health Service (NHS) England. History The British Thyroid Foundation was founded in 1991 by Janis Hickey MBE after she was diagnosed with Graves and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skypark Airport
Skypark Airport is a public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) southwest of the central business district of Bountiful, a city in Davis County, Utah, United States. It is privately owned by Skypark Airport Assoc., LLC. Facilities and aircraft Skypark Airport covers an area of at an elevation of 4,234 feet (1,291 m) above mean sea level. It has one asphalt paved runway designated 17/35 which measures 4,700 by 70 feet (1,433 x 21 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2007, the airport had 75,912 aircraft operations, an average of 207 per day: 99.8% general aviation and 0.2% air taxi. At that time there were 225 aircraft based at this airport: 87% single-engine, 8% multi-engine and 5% helicopter A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward and laterally. These attributes .... Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baseball Think Factory
Baseball Think Factory, abbreviated as BTF or BBTF, is a sabermetrically-oriented baseball web site that features daily news stories in baseball, with original content contributed by SABR members such as Dan Szymborski. The site was previously branded as ''Baseball Primer'', and was created in 2001 by the founders of Baseball-Reference. Contributors who have gone on to work for Major League Baseball front offices include Voros McCracken, Carlos Gomez, and Tom Tango. Bill James' ''Baseball Abstract'' books published in the 1980s are widely considered to be the modern predecessor to websites using sabermetrics such as ''baseballthinkfactory'' and baseballprospectus. History The site was founded in 2001 by Jim Furtado and Sean Forman of Baseball-Reference under the name "Baseball Primer," with a matching URL of (http://www.baseballprimer.com/). The site's emphasis on sabermetric baseball analysis attracted members of the rec.sport.baseball Usenet groups, and later drew readers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bhutan Tiger Force
The Bhutan Tiger Force (BTF) is the armed wing of the Communist Party of Bhutan (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist) (CPB (MLM)). History On 13 December 2007, the BTF injured a refugee at the Beldangi I camp near Sangam Chowk in Damak, Nepal. On 23 April 2008, a bomb planted by BTF rebels was defused near a bridge in Phuntsholing Phuntsholing, also spelled as Phuentsholing ( dz, ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་), is a border town in southern Bhutan and is the administrative seat of Chukha District. The town occupies parts of both Phuentsholing Gewog and Samp .... On 30 December 2008, BTF insurgents attacked six forest rangers in Singye village after they set off a BTF landmine, killing four and injuring another in the whole engagement. The BTF insurgents also took some of the forest rangers’ weapons. References Citations Sources Bhutan Assessment 2008''South Asian Terrorism Portal'' Country profile: Bhutan''BBC News'' Yearender : Part IKuensel Online ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BTF (finance)
BTFs (Bons du Trésor à taux fixe et à intérêts précomptés) are fixed-rate short-term discount Treasury bills issued by the French debt agency Agence France Trésor (AFT). They are fungible securities whose original maturity is less than or equal to one year. BTFs are issued on a weekly basis by auction An auction is usually a process of buying and selling goods or services by offering them up for bids, taking bids, and then selling the item to the highest bidder or buying the item from the lowest bidder. Some exceptions to this definition ex ..., according to a quarterly calendar published in advance specifying the maturity of bills to be auctioned. A 3-month BTF is issued each week, together with a semi-annual or annual BTF. References * DesJardine, M., & Bansal, P. T. (2015). Failing to meet analysts’ expectations: How financial markets contribute to corporate short-termism. ''Available at SSRN 2674258''. * Lockwood, T., & Renda-Tanali, I. (2010). A New Market ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berkshire Theatre Festival
The Berkshire Theatre Festival is one of the oldest professional performing arts venues in the Berkshires, celebrating its 80th anniversary season in 2008. History The main building of the Berkshire Theatre Festival was originally the Stockbridge Casino, designed by Stanford White and built in 1887. At one point the center of social life in Stockbridge, by 1927 it had fallen into disuse. Mabel Choate, the daughter of one of the casino's founders, purchased the property for $2,000, but wasn't interested in the casino itself (she moved the Mission House (Stockbridge, Massachusetts), Mission House to the property). Three prominent Stockbridge residents, sculptor Daniel Chester French, businessman and artist Walter Leighton Clark, and Dr. Austen Fox Riggs, formed a committee called the Three Arts Society to save the casino; Choate sold the building to them for $1 on the condition that it be relocated. French, Clark, and Riggs agreed, and had the structure dismantled and moved to its cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blessthefall
Blessthefall (stylized as blessthefall or BLESSTHEFALL prior to 2013) was an American metalcore band from Phoenix, Arizona, signed to Rise Records. The band was founded in 2004 by guitarist Mike Frisby, drummer Matt Traynor, and bassist and vocalist Jared Warth. Their debut studio album, '' His Last Walk'', with original vocalist Craig Mabbitt, was released April 10, 2007. Their second studio album, ''Witness'', with second vocalist Beau Bokan, was released October 6, 2009. Their third studio album, '' Awakening'', was released on October 4, 2011. Their fourth studio album, '' Hollow Bodies'', was released on August 20, 2013. '' To Those Left Behind'' is the band's fifth studio album, released on September 18, 2015. Their sixth and final studio album, '' Hard Feelings'', was released on March 23, 2018. Following Traynor's departure, Warth became the band's only remaining original member before they disbanded in 2022. History Formation, line-up changes and ''His Last Walk'' (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Triathlon Federation
The British Triathlon Federation (formerly the British Triathlon Association) is the national governing body for triathlon, duathlon and associated multisport in Great Britain. It administers triathlon in England, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. It represents Britain at the world body, the International Triathlon Union (ITU) and the regional body the European Triathlon Union (ETU). The BTF also selects athletes to represent the national team, at races such as the world triathlon series and the Olympic games. Structure It is a federation of the three Home Nation membership associations (Triathlon England, Triathlon Scotland and Welsh Triathlon). Triathlon in Northern Ireland is organised under Ulster Triathlon, part of the all-Ireland governing body Triathlon Ireland. However North Irish athletes may compete for Great Britain as long as they have a valid British passport and are a member of one of the three home nations associations. Clubs in both the Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |