Expire is not really the right term; but effectively yes. In general a cheque older than six months will be considered stale-dated and will not be honoured. Reference the Canadian Payments Association FAQ.
SKYACTIV is a brand name for a series of technologies developed by Mazda which increase fuel efficiency and engine output. The initial announcement of the SKYACTIV technologies include new engines, transmissions, body, and chassis, which appeared in Mazda products from 2011.
A new Microsoft data crunching framework is set to launch on the companyâs Azure cloud, according to a report from Redmond pundit Mary Jo Foley on ZDNet. Dubbed Cosmos, itâs a potential competitor to both Hadoop and eventually Googleâs homegrown Dataflow. Microsoft Cosmos is used extensively within the company to aggregate data from every major service into a shared pool. These services include Azure, Skype, and search engine Bing. It is similar to MapReduce, the heart of Hadoop, as it uses a structured query interface.