Modern cross-country ski competition is experiencing a revolution that is resulting in greater compatibility with audiences which began with the addition of the Sprint event to the World Cup and Olympic competitions in 2002.

Modern competitions take place for ploughing enthusiasts like the National Ploughing Championships in the UK.

Modern six guns are used commonly by Single-Action Shooting enthusiasts in shooting competitions, designed to mimic the gunfights of the Old West, and for general target shooting and personal defense.

The Ancient Olympic Games, first held in 776 BC, was the precursor to the Modern Olympic Games, although its first edition only featured a footrace and the number of sporting competitions expanded at later editions.

Modern kont is mostly performed during major festival competitions.

Modern influences from Trinidad have organized the Carriacou song style, and there are competitions similar to calypso tents on the island.

The Modern Parents do not believe in childhood activities such as fairgrounds, fast food restaurants, games, competitions and sports, toys, normal holidays or mainstream school and impose their moral positions on their children and the children of others.

He was a prizewinner at several foreign competitions such as the Prix Italia in 1970 ( for Euridice ), the Serocki composers ’ competition in 1984 ( for Paradiesvogel ), the International Competition for Choir Compositions in Austria 1987 ( for Olof Palme ), the Olivier Messiaen Organ Prize in 1988 ( for Luna ), Vienna Modern Masters in 1991 ( for the Piano Concerto ) and the Music and Poetry Prize in Belgium in 1989 ( for Enzensberger ’ s Prozession ).

Thornlea also has an excellent Modern Languages department, as evidenced by its students ' consistently high scores in regional and provincial French competitions over the past decade.

Modern mixed martial arts competitions are similar to the historic Greek Olympic sport of pankration and allow a wide range of both striking and grappling techniques.

One of the fundamental aspects of Modern Army Combatives training is the use of competitions as a tool to motivate Soldiers to train.

The Italian town of Arezzo continues to hold an annual jousting tournament, which dates to the Crusades .. Modern theatrical medieval-style jousting competitions are popular at American Renaissance fairs and similar festivals, and feature riders on horseback attempting various feats of skill with the lance, which may not always have a basis in history.

Modern gliding competitions now comprise closed tasks where everyone races on an aerial route around specified turn-points, plus start and finish points, that brings everybody back to base.

Modern set dances are rarely offered to dance outside of championship competitions, though may occasionally be present as a ' special ' competition.

Modern forms are used in wushu competitions.

Both competitions were inaugurated in the fall of 2005 with the world premieres of Laus Trinitati by Jocelyn Hagen and A Modern Toast to Yale by Zachary Sandler.

Modern embroidered panels, framed and meant to be hung on the wall, are another aspect of this trend.

For all these points he relies exclusively on Berle and Means's study of 1932, The Modern Corporation And Private Property.

Modern Zen presentation to the West insists on the anti-authoritarian, highly pragmatic nature of the Zen belief -- scriptures are burned to make fire, action is based on direct self-confidence, and so on.

Modern Kabbalah developed by Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, in his writings about the future generation, focuses on how society could achieve an altruistic social framework.

In 1998, the Modern Library ranked A Clockwork Orange 65th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

His work in Early Modern European History focuses on the history of education, the history of the book and the history of reading.

Modern anchors for smaller vessels have metal flukes which hook on to rocks on the bottom or bury themselves in soft bottoms.

Modern moorings may be anchored by sand screws which look and act very much like oversized screws drilled into the seabed, or by barbed metal beams pounded in ( or even driven in with explosives ) like pilings, or a variety of other non-mass means of getting a grip on the bottom.

Modern Anah lies from west to east on the right bank along a bend of the river just before it turns south towards Hit, and presents an attractive appearance.

Modern experiments have tested claims that Archimedes designed machines capable of lifting attacking ships out of the water and setting ships on fire using an array of mirrors.

: The Sabbath: Its Meaning For Modern Man is a work on the nature and celebration of Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath.

* The Social Significance of the Modern Drama, a book by Emma Goldman, contains a chapter on A Doll's House.

Modern Bulgarian was based essentially on the Eastern dialects of the language, but its pronunciation is in many respects a compromise between East and West Bulgarian ( see especially the phonetic sections below ).

Several Cyrillic alphabets with 28 to 44 letters were used in the beginning and the middle of the 19th century during the efforts on the codification of Modern Bulgarian until an alphabet with 32 letters, proposed by Marin Drinov, gained prominence in the 1870s.

Modern biotechnology can be used to slow down the process of spoilage so that fruit can ripen longer on the plant and then be transported to the consumer with a still reasonable shelf life.

Modern SAT solvers are also having significant impact on the fields of software verification, constraint solving in artificial intelligence, and operations research, among others.

Modern historians disagree on whether the plague was a critical factor in the loss of the war.

The Behistun Inscription ( also Bistun or Bisutun, Modern Persian: بیستون < Old Persian: Bagastana, meaning " the place of god ") is a multi-lingual inscription located on Mount Behistun in the Kermanshah Province of Iran, near the city of Kermanshah in western Iran.

Modern work on the experimental evaluation of personal probabilities uses the randomization, blinding, and Boolean-decision procedures of the Peirce-Jastrow experiment.

Modern musicians such as Little Richard, Mark Farner, Dan Peek, Donna Summer, Bob Dylan, Kerry Livgren, Dave Hope, Dave Mustaine, Nicko McBrain, Roger McGuinn, Ted Nugent, Kanye West, Carrie Underwood, Johnny Cash, Brian Welch, Keith Farley, Cliff Richard, Charlie Daniels, Randy Travis, Alice Cooper, Steven Tyler, Mariah Carey, Nick Cannon, and Lou Gramm were artists whose born again conversions had an impact on modern culture.

Modern Times ( film ) | Modern Times ( 1936 ), described by Jérôme Larcher as a " grim contemplation on the automatization of the individual "

The massive use of charcoal on an industrial scale in Early Modern Europe was a new type of consumption of western forests ; even in Stuart England, the relatively primitive production of charcoal has already reached an impressive level.

Carol Clover, in her popular and influential book " Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film " ( Princeton University Press, 1992 ) argues that young male viewers of the Horror Genre ( young males being the primary demographic ) are quite prepared to identify with the female-in-jeopardy, a key component of Horror narrative, and to identify on an unexpectedly profound level.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has a level named Mind the Gap where most of the level takes place between the dockyards and Westminster while the player and a team of SAS attempt to take down cargo being shipped using London Underground.

Modern computer-monitors typically display about 72 to 130 pixels per inch ( PPI ), and some modern consumer printers can resolve 2400 dots per inch ( DPI ) or more ; determining the most appropriate image resolution for a given printer-resolution can pose difficulties, since printed output may have a greater level of detail than a viewer can discern on a monitor.

Modern or more complex editors usually provide a multiple level history such that issuing the undo command repeatedly will revert the document to successively older edits.

Chancery Standard was not the only influence on later forms of English — its level of influence is disputed and a variety of spoken dialects continued to exist — but it provided a core around which Early Modern English could crystallise.

The most prominent current advocate of the ensemble interpretation is Leslie E. Ballentine, professor at Simon Fraser University, author of the graduate level text book Quantum Mechanics, A Modern Development.

Modern machines tend to read blocks of lower memory into the next level of the memory hierarchy.

Modern research suggests that this policy was misguided, and that a certain level of wildfires is a natural and important part of forest ecology.

Modern excavation of the site has revealed that the Assyrians built a stone and dirt ramp up to the level of the Lachish city wall, thereby allowing the soldiers to charge up the ramp and storm the city.

Modern styli ( phonograph needles ) and phono cartridges give a very low level output signal of the order of a few millivolts which the circuitry amplifies and equalizes.

Modern twin studies have shown that almost all traits are in part influenced by genetic differences, with some characteristics showing a strong influence ( e. g. height ), others an intermediate level ( e. g. intelligence quotient ) and some more complex heritabilities, with evidence for different genes affecting different aspects of the trait-as in the case of autism.

Modern humans arrived 9000 years ago, as soon as the ice sheet disappeared and enough land had risen above sea level.

Modern dragon boat racing is organised at an international level by the International Dragon Boat Federation ( IDBF ).

Modern leveling came into being with the invention and patent of a level sensitive mercury switch system invented by Raymond Alvah Hanson in 1946.

Modern hillside combines level around 35 % on average, older machines were closer to 50 %.

* In the video game Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, on the level " Act III, No Fighting in the War Room ", a Russian W. O. P. R.

Indeed, Edmar Mednis's remark was that the entire Pirc Variation had become unplayable at the highest level, while Modern Chess Openings ( MCO ) cites this variation as the main problem with 4 ... c5.

The Modern Standard Chinese pronunciation of 天 " sky, heaven ; heavenly deity, god " is tiān in level first tone.

Modern video games have included cold opens, either beginning with a lengthy opening sequence or, like the Metal Gear Solid games, including an entire level before the titles.

Modern regulations prevented the installation of a replacement hump-backed bridge, so restoration required the canal to burrow underneath, leaving the road at its existing level.

Modern competition law has historically evolved on a country level to promote and maintain competition in markets principally within the territorial boundaries of nation-states.

Modern portfolio theory ( MPT ) is a theory of finance which attempts to maximize portfolio expected return for a given amount of portfolio risk, or equivalently minimize risk for a given level of expected return, by carefully choosing the proportions of various assets.