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A Lake Effect Snow Advisory is issued by the National Weather Service of the United States when pure lake effect snow may pose a hazard or is life threatening. The snow must be directly caused by a lake and not by a low pressure system. The criteria for this advisory vary from area to area.
Motomaster is a line of automotive products sold exclusively at Canadian Tire stores. Products branded as Motomaster range from small items, such as oil filters and air filters, to larger items, such as the Motomaster line of tires.
In some product classes, Motomaster has created its own sub-brand to distinguish high-end merchandise. ‘Motomaster Eliminator’ identifies premium batteries and power-related products, while ‘Motomaster Roughrider’ is a line of truck tires. ‘Formula 1′ is the name used on premium Motomaster oils and additives.
The Motomaster line has shrunk somewhat in recent years as the store has moved towards brand name products. For example, in early 2003, the line of Motomaster spark plugs was fully discontinued in favour of carrying only brand names such as Champion, NGK and Bosch. In 2004, the Formula 1 line of oil filters was discontinued, and in 2002, the ‘Motomaster 60′ line of batteries was replaced with the more generic ‘Sure Start’. One reason for the graduation reduction of the Motomaster line is the existence of the PartSource chain, of which 63 locations are fully owned and operated by the Canadian Tire Corporation as of May 2007. Though these stores carry many of the same products and share much of their supply chain, there is no formal affiliation between PartSource and Canadian Tire stores.
Although the Motomaster name remains on a wide variety of tires, the selection has shrunk recently. Since 2004, the Sentinel A/S and Touring 160 tires have been discontinued, with no Motomaster replacements expected.
Generally, Motomaster is regarded as the “base” or “starting” quality and price point line.
Fred Winter may refer to:
A Snow White Christmas, released in 1980 is a Christmas cartoon-movie that is 50 minutes long and dedicated to the young children.
The movie is kind of a sequel for the original Snow White story (not the 1937 Disney film) Snow White and her husband Prince Charming (now known as King Charming as he has been coronated and he and Snow White are now the rulers of the land) have a young daughter; also named Snow White. The royal family is hosting a festival in honor of Christmas. When the Wicked Queen learns about that, she decides to kill the little girl and wreak havoc on the kingdom. She creates an ice storm, and freezes the entire village, just barely missing the girl. Snow White Jr. is horrified to see her parents turned to ice. The younger Snow White and her bumbling friend Grunyon must run away and meet the Seven Friendly Giants. The younger Snow White is never safe from the Wicked Queen because she will always be able to find her. The giants must save the girl from her vengeance before she ends up frozen like her parents.
Live and Acoustic at Park Ave. is a five song EP by Alternative rock band Snow Patrol, released in late 2005. All of the songs are performed live and acoustic and are taken from a single performance. Lead singer Gary Lightbody notes after the first song that the band had never played some of the songs acoustically before because “they don’t work acoustically” and they may very well turn out to be “bloody shambles”.
A Winter carnival is an outdoor celebration that occurs in wintertime.
Winter carnivals, or festivals, are popular in places where winter is particularly long or severe, such as Scandinavia, Canada and the northern United States. Most winter carnivals involve traditional winter pursuits such as ice carving, snow carving, skating, skiing and dog sledding.
Some notable winter carnivals include:
Tire rotation or rotating tires is the practice of moving automobile tires from one wheel to another to ensure even tire wear. Tire wear is uneven for any number of reasons. Even tire wear is desirable to maintain consistent performance in the vehicle.
By design, the weight on the front and rear axles differs which causes uneven wear. With the majority of cars being front-engine cars, the front axle typically has more of the weight. For rear wheel drive vehicles, the weight distribution between front and back approaches 50:50. Front wheel drive vehicles also have the
differential in front, adding to the weight with a typical weight distribution of no better than 60:40. This means, all else being equal, the front tires wear out at almost twice the rate of the rear wheels, especially when factoring the additional stress that braking puts on the front tires. Thus, tire rotation needs to occur more frequently for front-wheel drive vehicles.
Turning the vehicle will cause uneven tire wear. The outside, front tire is worn disproportionately. Cloverleaf interchanges and parking ramps turn right in right hand drive countries, causing the left front tire to be worn faster than the right front. Furthermore, right turns are tighter than left turns, also causing more tire wear. Conversely the sidewalls on the right tire tends to be bumped and rubbed against the curb while parking the vehicle, causing asymmetric sidewall wear. The symmetric opposite occurs in countries that drive on the left.
In addition, mechanical problems in the vehicle may cause uneven tire wear. The wheels need to be aligned with each other and the vehicle. The wheel that is out of alignment will tend to be dragged along by the other wheels, causing uneven wear in that tire. If the alignment is such that the vehicle tends to turn, the driver will correct by steering against the tendency. In effect the vehicle is constantly turning, causing uneven tire wear. Also, if a tire is under or over-inflated, it will wear differently than the other tires on the vehicle. Rotating will not help in this case and the inflation needs to be corrected.
Manufacturers will recommend tire rotation frequency and pattern. Depending on the specifics of the vehicle tire rotation may be recommended every 12,000 km (7,500 mi). The rotation pattern is typically moving the back wheels to the front and the front to the back but crossing them when moving to the back. If the tires are unidirectional, the rotation can only be rotated front to back on the same side of the vehicle to preserve the rotational direction of the tires. Most unidirectional tires can be moved from side to side if they are remounted; tires with asymmetric rims are a rare exception. More complex rotation patterns are required if the vehicle has a full-size spare tire that is part of the rotation or if there are snow tires.
Current thinking stresses the desirability of keeping the best tires on the rear wheels of the vehicle, whether it is front or rear drive. The reason for this is that if the rear wheels lose grip before the front ones, an oversteer condition will occur, which is harder to control than the corresponding understeer which will happen if a front wheel is lost. This is also the case if a tire blows out, so the intuitive belief that the front steering/driving tires need to be the best quality is not actually the case.
In rare cases, automobile manufacturers may recommend performing no tire rotation at all (eg BMW MINI).
Two Plays for Voices is a sound recording of Snow Glass Apples and Murder Mysteries. Snow Glass Apples tell the tale of Snow White from the point of view of the Queen but things are a bit different seeing as Snow White is slightly vampiric and Prince Charming happens to be a necrophiliac. Murder Mysteries is dually narrated, flip flopping between a man from London who is staying in Los Angeles and runs into an old girlfriend and a fallen angel, called Raguel, who tells the story of his solving a murder of an angel in heaven for the cost of two cigarettes and a book of matches. Both radio-dramas were written by Neil Gaiman and produced by Brian Smith of the Sci-Fi Channel’s program, the Seeing Ear Theatre.
A bought deal occurs when an underwriter, such as an investment bank or a syndicate, purchases securities from an issuer before selling them to the public. The investment bank (or underwriter) acts as principal rather than agent and thus actually “goes long” in the security. The bank negotiates a price with the issuer (usually at a discount to the current market price, if applicable).
The advantage of the bought deal from the issuer’s perspective is that they do not have to worry about financing risk (the risk that the financing can only be done at a discount too steep to market price.) This is in contrast to a fully-marketed offering, where the underwriters have to “market” the offering to prospective buyers, only after which the price is set.
The advantages of the bought deal from the underwriter’s perspective include:
The disadvantage of the bought deal from the underwriter’s perspective is that if it cannot sell the securities, it must hold them. This is usually the result of the market price falling below the issue price, which means the underwriter loses money. The underwriter also uses up its capital, which would probably otherwise be put to better use (given sell-side investment banks are not usually in the business of buying new issues of securities.)