Modern indoor plumbing delivers clean, safe, potable water to each service point in the distribution system.

Modern television sets incorporate liquid-crystal flat-screen displays, solid-state circuits, microprocessor controls and can interface with a variety of video signal sources, allowing the user to view broadcast and subscription cable TV signals or Satellite television, recorded material on DVD disks or VHS tape, or less common devices such as home security systems, and even over-the-air broadcasts received through an indoor or outdoor antenna.

It contains a modern shopping centre, restaurants ( including an 800 + seat Yum Cha Restaurant called The Eight Modern Chinese Restaurant ), boutique shops, Galaxy World ( a large indoor entertainment complex ), and the Haymarket Paddy's Markets, a Wednesday-to-Sunday produce and flea market, as well as a large residential high-rise building called the Peak Apartments.

Central heating, indoor plumbing, and electricity were all new developments in house design that " Modern Homes " incorporated, although not all of the houses were designed with these conveniences.

The Modern Homes features of central heating, indoor plumbing, and electrical wiring were the first steps for many families to modern HVAC systems, kitchens, and bathrooms.

Modern reconstruction of a cross-section of an ancient Greek trireme, showing the three levels of rowers.

Modern writers, who are supposed to keep their fingers firmly upon the pulse of their subjects, insist upon drawing out this legend, prolonging its burial, when it well deserves a rest after the overexploitation of the past century.

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

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 music is available in several facets: raï music is a style typical of Western Algeria with his two fiefs are Oran and Sidi Bel Abbès.

Modern discussions of alchemy are generally split into an examination of its exoteric practical applications, and its esoteric aspects.

Modern definitions are concerned with the fundamental chemical reactions common to all acids.

Modern critics are more likely to find fault with the narrow definition of the citizen body, but in the ancient world the complaint if anything went in the opposite direction.

Modern antibiotics are tested using a method similar to Fleming's discovery

Modern arrows are made to a specified ' spine ', or stiffness rating, to maintain matched flexing and hence accuracy of aim.

Modern blóts are celebrated several times during the year.

Modern IFVs are well-armed infantry carriers, differencing from earlier APCs by their heavier armament allowing them to give direct-fire support during an assault.

Modern self-propelled artillery vehicles may superficially resemble tanks, but they are generally lightly armoured, too lightly to survive in direct-fire combat.

* Modern Christians typically believe it is acceptable to play instruments or to attend weddings, funerals, banquets, etc., where instruments are heard.

Modern cisterns are usually large plastic tanks.

Modern CPUs are typically 2-operand or 3-operand machines — the additional operands specify which one of many general purpose registers ( also called " general purpose accumulators ") are used as the source and destination for calculations.

Modern bridge are currently built in concrete, steel, fiber reinforced polymers ( FRP ), stainless steel or combinations of those materials.

Modern birds are characterised by feathers, a beak with no teeth, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a lightweight but strong skeleton.

Modern steal rules were fully implemented in 1898, and steals are now only credited when a runner successfully takes an extra base while the ball is being pitched, but not already hit.

Modern bicycle brakes may be: rim brakes, in which friction pads are compressed against the wheel rims ; internal hub brakes, in which the friction pads are contained within the wheel hubs ; or disc brakes, with a separate rotor for braking.

Modern variants of the Batavian founding myth are made more credible by pointing out that the Batavians were only part of the ancestry of the Dutch people, together with the Frisians, Franks and Saxons, and by tracing patterns of DNA.

Modern scholars have instead proposed that, with the eponymous Benjamin being just a metaphor, son of the south / son of the right are references to the tribe's being subordinate to the more dominant tribe of Ephraim.

Modern boomerangs used for sport are often made from carbon fibre-reinforced plastics, thin aircraft plywood, or other high-tech materials.

Modern clay bricks are formed in one of three processes-soft mud, dry press, or extruded.

Modern critics often fault Alcott for not being able to financially support his family.

Modern coastal artillery ( for example, Russia's " Bereg " system ) is often self propelled, ( allowing it to avoid counter-battery fire ) and fully integrated, meaning that each battery has all of the support systems that it requires ( maintenance, targeting radar, etc.

Modern advertising was created with the innovative techniques introduced with tobacco advertising in the 1920s, most significantly with the campaigns of Edward Bernays, which is often considered the founder of modern, Madison Avenue advertising.

Modern beadwork is often used as a creative hobby to create jewelry, purses, coasters, and dozens of other crafts.

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.

It is because of these and other contributions that Antoine Lavoisier is often celebrated as the " Father of Modern Chemistry ".

Some Modern Orthodox leaders cooperate and work with the Conservative movement, while haredi (" Ultra-Orthodox ") Jews often eschew formal contact with Conservative Judaism, or at least its rabbinate.

Modern conservative parties often define themselves by their opposition to liberal or labour parties.

Modern citizenship is much more passive ; action is delegated to others ; citizenship is often a constraint on acting, not an impetus to act.

Modern citizenship has often been looked at as two competing underlying ideas:

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

Modern single-panel gag cartoons, found in magazines, generally consist of a single drawing with a typeset caption positioned beneath or ( much less often ) a speech balloon.

Modern Roman Catholic churches often have a crucifix above the altar on the wall ; for the celebration of Mass, the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church requires that, " on or close to the altar there is to be a cross with a figure of Christ crucified ".

Modern cable systems are large, with a single network and headend often serving an entire metropolitan area or county.

Modern Donegal fiddle music is often played in concerts and recorded on albums.

Modern western mysticism and new age philosophy often use the term ' the Divine ' as a noun in this latter sense: a non-specific principle and / or being that gives rise to the world, and acts as the source or wellspring of life.

This conflation of case in Middle and Modern English has led most modern grammarians to discard the " accusative " and " dative " labels as obsolete, often using the term " objective " for oblique.

In Modern English, an indirect object is often expressed with a prepositional phrase of " to " or " for ".

Modern school textbooks often define separate figures called lines ( infinite ), rays ( semi-infinite ), and line segments ( of finite length ).

Samarrai, however, also advises to handle this theory with care, as Medieval and Early Modern Muslim scribes often used etymologically " fanciful roots " in order claim the most outlandish things to be of Arabian or Muslim origin.

Modern readers are more often introduced to Orwell as a novelist, particularly through his enormously successful titles Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Modern graffiti art often incorporates additional arts and technologies.

Modern harp strings are often nylon or, less often, metal ; tuning pins are also metal components.