Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

Modern Mount Helicon — Hesiod once described his nearby hometown, Ascra, as " cruel in winter, hard in summer, never pleasant.

Modern enthusiasts have created standard PC style IDE hard disk adapters for real and simulated PDP-8 computers.

Modern battering rams sometimes incorporate a cylinder, along the length of which a piston fires automatically upon striking a hard object — thus enhancing the momentum of the impact significantly.

Modern operating systems, application code, and data are stored on nonvolatile data storage devices, such as hard drives, CDs, DVDs, flash memory cards ( like SD cards ), USB flash drives, and floppy disks.

Modern nunchaku can be made from any suitable material, such as wood, metal, or almost any plastic, fiberglass or other hard substance.

Modern synthetic materials have allowed the design of riding boots that will slide from a stirrup but are also comfortable for walking, with a sole using varying hard and soft materials that provides reasonable traction with a minimal amount of raised tread.

Modern hard aluminum ( 7075 and 2024 alloys ) with proper mold design, can easily make molds capable of 100, 000 or more part life with proper mold maintenance.

The pace of the assembly line intensifies ( as in the Charlie Chaplin comedy Modern Times ), and Donald finds it increasingly hard to complete all the tasks.

Modern servers try hard to ascertain that a message can be delivered before they accept it.

The university published several nationwide magazines or periodicals, such as Study on Economy and Management, the Learned Journal of CUEB, Population and Economy, Modern Handlers, and so on. The leading body has paid much more attention to encouraging, supporting and organizing experts, scholars to make research work hard on theories and practical experience for capital Beijing's economic construction, and serve for its economic development by contributing their wisdom and talent with their versatile ideas.

Modern systems run on hard disk, where all of the music, jingles, advertisements, voice tracks, and other announcements are stored.

Many locals credit AJJ ( John ) Thompson, appointed as town clerk in 1970, as the " Father of Modern Junee " for his vision of the town's future and for taking the hard decisions that were needed to reinvigorate the township.

Modern high resolution backs that push the limits of data storage and transfer technology still are able to make use of a tethered configuration to offload gigabytes of data to cheaper external storage mediums such as hard drives, instead of the more expensive integrated flash memory.

Today, the Alternative Songs chart ( Modern Rock ) favors more alternative rock, indie rock, and punk rock bands while the Mainstream Rock Songs favor more hard rock, post-grunge and heavy metal.

Modern hard drives have mostly solved the stiction problem by using ramps to " unload " the heads from the disk surface on power-down.

Modern hard disks often feature automatic remapping of marginal sectors or tracks, which are automated in a way that the OS would not need to work with it.

Modern calenders have " hard " heated rollers made from chilled cast iron or steel, and " soft " rollers coated with polymeric composites.

Some favour it for use on the computer screen because of this, as the thinner strokes of Computer Modern can make it hard to read at low resolutions.

Modern commercial producers use primarily Hickory, a hard and resilient wood, in the construction of their wasters.

Modern writers and students use these topics, as well, when discovering arguments, although today more emphasis is placed on such things as scientific facts, statistics, and other " hard " evidence.

Modern baby walkers have a base made of hard plastic sitting on top of wheels and a suspended fabric seat with two leg holes.

Modern DASD used in mainframes only very rarely consist of single disk-drives: most commonly " DASD " means large disk arrays utilizing RAID schemes.

Modern disk drive systems have considerable processing power on board, so that the host system only needs request a particular block of data and the drive internally carries out all the steps required to retrieve it.

Modern programming languages mainly assume two levels of memory, main memory and disk storage, though in assembly language and inline assemblers in languages such as C, registers can be directly accessed.

Modern disk storage is not interleaved.

Modern disk storage does not need interleaving since the buffer space is now so much larger.

Modern disk controllers are integrated into the disk drive.

Modern Apple computers will boot from an appropriate disk if the user presses the C key while the machine is starting.

Modern personal computers owe many advancements and innovations to the game industry: sound cards, graphics cards and 3D graphic accelerators, CD ROM and DVD-ROM drives, are a few of the more notable improvements.

Modern computer CD-ROM drives allowed the redbook audio to be read in digital format ( versus earlier drives that merely output analog audio ), which allows entire volumes of music to be copied and encoded many times faster than normal playback speed.

Modern solid state AC drives have seen elevator installations move to direct AC drive, which has more than a 50 % efficiency gain over DC machines with an MG set.

Modern drives ( certainly at time of writing in 2007 ) typically allow writing to both DVD-R and DVD + R discs making the difference largely irrelevant to the average consumer.

Modern 32-bit terminal emulators such as mTelnet and SyncTerm include native telnet support.

Modern studies have shown the important role such concepts played in the world-view of Early Medieval scholars.

Modern biotechnology is often associated with the use of genetically altered microorganisms such as E. coli or yeast for the production of substances like synthetic insulin or antibiotics.

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 printing technology, such as laser printers and inkjet printers, can adequately reproduce all three.

Modern theoretical studies involve the use of numerical computation of electronic structure and mathematical tools to understand phenomena such as high-temperature superconductivity, topological phases and gauge symmetries.

The term " consequentialism " was coined by G. E. M. Anscombe in her essay " Modern Moral Philosophy " in 1958, to describe what she saw as the central error of certain moral theories, such as those propounded by Mill and Sidgwick.

Modern forms of CBT include a number of diverse but related techniques such as exposure therapy, stress inoculation training, cognitive processing therapy, cognitive therapy, relaxation training, dialectical behavior therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy.

Modern systems, such as Sogou Pinyin and Google Pinyin, predict the desired characters based on context and user preferences.

Modern equivalents also exist, such as the discontinued Ruger Police Carbine, which uses the same magazine as the Ruger pistols of the same caliber, as well as the ( also discontinued ) Marlin Camp Carbine ( which, in 1911, used. 45 ACP magazines ).

Modern European conservatives such as Edmund Burke have found the extreme idealism of either democracy may endanger broader liberties, and similarly reject " abstract reason " as a guide for political theory.

Modern crossbow sights often use similar technology to modern firearm sights, such red dot sights and telescopic sights.

Modern day social stratification in Caribbean nations such as Jamaica and Haiti developed during the colonial era.

The relationship of music to dance serves as the basis for Eurhythmics, devised by Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, which was influential to the development of Modern dance and modern ballet through artists such as Marie Rambert.

Modern Mongolians still use such bones as shagai, for games and fortunetelling.

Modern commercial domino sets are usually made of synthetic materials, such as ABS or polystyrene plastics, or Bakelite and other phenolic resins ; many sets approximate the look and feel of ivory while others use colored or even translucent plastics to achieve a more contemporary look.

From these effort, many other Deist sites and discussion groups have appeared on the Internet such as Positive Deism, Deist Info, Modern Deism and many others.

Modern historians consider this highly implausible however, noting that malicious rumours such as those concerning Domitia's alleged infidelity were eagerly repeated by post-Domitianic authors, and used to highlight the hypocrisy of a ruler publicly preaching a return to Augustan morals, while privately indulging in excesses and presiding over a corrupt court.

Anscombe in her essay " Modern Moral Philosophy " in 1958, to describe what she saw as the central error of certain moral theories, such as those propounded by Mill and Sidgwick.

Modern electronic commerce typically uses the World Wide Web at least at one point in the transaction's life-cycle, although it may encompass a wider range of technologies such as e-mail, mobile devices and telephones as well.

Modern humans started burying their dead, using animal hides to make clothing, hunting with more sophisticated techniques ( such as using trapping pits or driving animals off cliffs ), and engaging in cave painting.

Among concrete examples of Modern human behavior, anthropologists include specialization of tools, use of jewellery and images ( such as cave drawings ), organization of living space, rituals ( for example, burials with grave gifts ), specialized hunting techniques, exploration of less hospitable geographical areas, and barter trade networks.

Modern scholars such as Lee Hollander explain that Lokasenna was intended to be humorous and that the accusations thrown by Loki in the poem are not necessarily to be taken as " generally accepted lore " at the time it was composed.

Modern guitarists such as Ramón Montoya, have introduced other positions: Montoya himself started to use other chords for the tonic in the modern Dorian sections of several palos ; F sharp for tarantas, B for granaínas and A flat for the minera.

Modern scholars consider many claimed noble ancestries to be fabrications, such as the Anglo-Saxon chronicles that traced the ancestry of several English kings to the god Woden.