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The World Social Forum (WSF, Portuguese: Fórum Social Mundial [ˈfɔɾũ sosi'aw mũdʒiˈaw]) is an annual meeting of civil society organizations, first held in Brazil, which offers a self-conscious effort to develop an alternative future through the championing of counter-hegemonic globalization. The World Social Forum can be considered a ...
Washington State Ferries (WSF) is a government agency that operates automobile and passenger ferry service in the U.S. state of Washington as part of the Washington State Department of Transportation. It runs ten routes serving 20 terminals located around Puget Sound and in the San Juan Islands, designated as part of the state highway system.
Kwa-di Tabil-class ferries[2] (kwah-DEE-tah-BALE) were built for Washington State Ferries to replace the retired Steel Electric-class ferries. The vessels serve lower-traffic routes and carry up to 64 vehicles. The State of Washington spent approximately $213 million to construct the three ferries in this class. [3]
In the first nine of months of 2024 WSF has canceled 1.9% of scheduled sailings, or 509 fewer sailings missed than the same time frame last year. The drop in cancellations can largely be ...
The WSF World Team Squash Championships are an international squash competition organised by the World Squash Federation (WSF) and played between teams representing different nations. Countries enter teams of three or four players to represent them in the championships. In each round of the competition, teams face each other in a best-of-three ...
The World Science Forum (WSF) is an international conference series on global science policy. Since 2003, it is organised biannually in Budapest, Hungary. The WSF traces back its origin to the first World Conference on Science, organised by UNESCO and ICSU and held in Budapest in 1999. The first WSF was organised in 2003, followed by the second ...
These pitchers benefited from baseball's increase from a 154-game schedule to a 162-game schedule in 1961, and expansion of the league from 16 teams in 1960 to 26 by 1977. The increased use of specialized relief pitchers , an expanded strike zone , and new stadiums, including Shea Stadium , Dodger Stadium and the Astrodome , that were pitcher's ...
The WSF was founded in the aftermath of the 2002 Winter Olympics figure skating scandal. [1] Plans for the organization were announced in March 2003, [2] and involved former ISU officials Sally-Anne Stapleford, Sonia Bianchetti, Ron Pfenning, and Britta Lindgren.