It was quickly realized that the design was superior in many snow conditions, and as was the case with radical sidecuts, modern alpine skis generally feature some sort of " rocker " design today.

When a modern ski is tilted on to its edge, a gap is created between the ground and the middle of the ski ( under the binding ) as only the sides near the tip and the tail touch the snow.

Although sledding on snow or ice had been popular in many northern countries, bobsleighing is a relatively modern sport.

In the 1960s, the competitions manager of BMC, Stuart Turner, hired a series of brave and gifted young Finns, skills honed on their country's highly competitive gravel or snow rallies, and the modern professional driver was born.

However, modern geophysics organizations use a broader definition that includes the hydrological cycle including snow and ice ; fluid dynamics of the oceans and the atmosphere ; electricity and magnetism in the ionosphere and magnetosphere and solar-terrestrial relations ; and analogous problems associated with the Moon and other planets.

The only recorded snowfall in modern times was light snow flakes in mid August 2011 during a prolonged cold period that saw 75mm of snow fall as far north as Dargaville.

" Through the years of 1927 and 1962, thirteen patents were granted to inventors for snow vehicles considered the predecessors to the modern snowmobile.

Apple snow, with puréed apple added to the basic recipe, was popular served hot in the 17th century while a more modern version is eaten cold.

The city has an average of six days of snow per year, which is a contrast to coastal cities of Galicia which have not received snow in modern times.

In modern times, it is used on snow to carry one or more people ( often children ) down a hill or other slope for recreation.

The all-wheel drive can be inserted via a button on the dash, and a complex and modern electro-pneumatic system that allows, four-wheel drive off, leaving firm transmission shaft and rear axle shafts, the pull is inserted by pressing the button, the engine is running and the car is stopped or at least at speeds below 55 km / h, where the traction was inserted over this speed, the wheel would fit only slowing below 55 km / h and also to prevent accumulation of ice, mud or snow clogging your system actuators of the transmission control, it is automatically inserted by turning off the engine.

The resort was equipped with modern facilities including roller / ice-skating rinks, chair lifts, skiing platforms, telephones and snow clearing equipment.

Good Roads is therefore unofficially credited as the originator of the modern snow plow, though their horse drawn steel blade road graders were used to clear roads of snow as early as the company's founding in 1878.

Ridge and furrow often survives on higher ground where the arable land was subsequently turned over to sheep walk in the 15th century and has never been ploughed out since by modern ploughing methods, today surviving still as pasture and grazing for sheep where the effect is clearly visible, especially when the sun is low or after a dusting of snow.

Tucker Sno-Cat has many modern competitors fighting for the grooming business at ski-resorts and snowmobile clubs as trail groomers., Kässbohrer / Pisten Bully, VMC / UTV International, Scot-Trac as well as Sure Trac agricultural tractor conversions for snow grooming.

Sixteen inch tall cranes have been produced, helicopters on flat bed semi trucks, forestry log loaders, piston bully snow tracked vehicles, an ultra-detailed stake bed Mercedes Unimog, potato digger truck, triple engined competition pulling tractor and modern tram and subway cars.

In modern film and literature, snow globes often symbolize childhood, innocence or so-called " happy days ".

To control the odor, modern toilets use a small fan to keep the toilet under negative pressure, and exhaust the gasses to a vent pipe.

Fans of the literary detective Sherlock Holmes are widely considered to have comprised the first modern fandom creating some of the first fan fiction as early as 1887 and holding public demonstrations of mourning after Holmes was " killed " off in 1893.

This modern meaning of the term should not be confused with the traditional ( pre-1970s ) meaning of " fan fiction " within the community of fandom, where the term meant original or parody fiction written by fans and published in fanzines, often with members of fandom as characters therein (" faan fiction ").

Changes in role assignment can also result from modern preferences for contrasts in vocal timbre between two major characters, e. g. Fiordiligi and Dorabella in Così fan tutte.

Most use film, video, clips and still images from a variety of sources: American and Japanese science fiction movies of the 1950s, old newsreel footage, more modern TV news and cable show clips, atomic bomb test footage, old civil defense films, silent movie footage, 1950s social etiquette films, industrial films, clips from their various SubGenius events, self-created footage, and fan clips.

" In modern usage, fan 番 means " foreigner ; barbarian ; aborigine ".

However, modern research has proved that this was a marketing ploy developed in the 18th century ( FANA Journal, spring 2004, Fact & Fiction about the language of the fan by J. P. Ryan )-one that has kept its appeal remarkably over the succeeding centuries.

Alan is not a fan of the modern obsession with health and safety, stating on one occasion that political correctness had " gone mad " after being told that naked flames are not permitted on the forecourt of his local petrol station, thus curtailing his plans for a barbecue there.

Moffat, according to the Birmingham Post, " is a huge fan of the group genre and claims its success works because it reflects modern society.

By comparison, most modern " warm air " furnaces typically use a fan to circulate air to the rooms of house and pull cooler air back to the furnace for reheating ; this is called forced-air heat.

Many modern motherboard chipsets have hot northbridges ( notably nForce4 ), which may come with active cooling, usually a small, noisy fan.

These insects, which resemble modern Blattodea, or Cockroaches owing to shell-like forewings and the large, unequal anal fan, are known from the Permian of North America, Europe and Australia.

The other two, which make a fan shape, have elevations of ( the site of the old town, now the city centre ) and ( the site of the modern city ) respectively.

Air is drawn through the tubes with a fan that is driven by a clockwork mechanism to ensure a consistent speed ( some modern versions use an electric fan with electronic speed control ).

The few trees present today, including California fan palms, Washingtonia filifera, were introduced in modern times.

A big modern music fan, he played in a number of local rock bands, as a drummer and keyboard player.

" However, Alan Davis has said that it comes from 616, a variation on the Number of the Beast, picked because Dave Thorpe " wasn't a fan of the modern superhero genre " and expressed this in his stories, " such as recording his opinion of the Marvel Universe with the designation 616.

They are most commonly found in skateparks and a skiing / snowboarding terrain park, although the trained eye of an extreme sports fan can find them in modern day architecture.

Bester may have come across his title expression in the writings of John Whiteside Parsons, one of the fathers of modern rocketry, and a science fiction fan and occultist.

Hopper, a fan and collector of modern art, would later introduce Southern to British gallery owner and art dealer Robert Fraser.

He was an unabashed Bulldog fan, but because he generally espoused a dour or pessimistic view of the team, his broadcasts were considered among the modern generation of sportscasters as not only acceptable, but sometimes even more authentic than contemporary sportscasting.

In modern high-bypass turbofan engines, the fan mounted afore the jet engine core is very large.

The appearance of a quartet of lovers ( Aminta and Elisa, Agenore and Tamiri ) of somewhat dubious fidelity automatically puts a modern audience in mind of Così fan tutte.

The title was the first to feature Neal Adams ' version of Batman, generating fan interest that led to Adams ' style defining the modern Batman image to this day.