Modern mole ploughs may also bury a flexible perforated plastic drain pipe as they go, making a more permanent drain – or they may be used to lay pipes for water supply or other purposes.

Modern industry includes a plastic pipe moulding factory for Brett Martin plc. There was also a wood wool production unit on Staveley works.

Modern drainage systems which collect runoff from impervious surfaces ( e. g., roofs and roads ) ensure that water is efficiently conveyed to waterways through pipe networks, meaning that even small storm events result in increased waterway flows.

Modern wetbacks may run the pipe in a more sophisticated design to assist heat-exchange.

Modern French drain systems can be made with perforated pipe ( weeping tile ) surrounded by sand or gravel and geotextile or landscaping textile.

Modern drip irrigation began its development in Afghanistan in 1866 when researchers began experimenting with irrigation using clay pipe to create combination irrigation and drainage systems.

Modern high grade pipe bands are required to play a march, a strathspey and a reel for competition purposes.

Modern toilets may be close coupled, with the cistern mounted directly on the toilet bowl and no intermediate pipe.

Modern underground utilities tend to be enclosed in pipe chases, which are not large enough for people.

Modern afrobeat bands / artists include:

Internationally-recognised musicians such as metal acts Striborg and Psycroptic, indie-electro bands The Paradise Motel and The Scientists of Modern Music, singer / songwriters Sacha Lucashenko ( of The Morning After Girls ), Michael Noga ( of The Drones ), and Monique Brumby, two-thirds of indie rock band Love of Diagrams, post punk band Sea Scouts, blues guitarist Phil Manning ( of blues-rock band Chain ), power-pop group The Innocents are all successful expatriates.

Later, between 1976 and 1988, Richman used the name Modern Lovers for a variety of backing bands, always billed as " Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers.

A very short listing of notable jazz bands includes King Oliver and his Creole Jazz Band, Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers, Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five, the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra, the Benny Goodman Orchestra, the Dizzy Gillespie-Charlie Parker Quintet, the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, the Modern Jazz Quartet, the Miles Davis Quintet, the Jazz Messengers, the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet, the Sun Ra Arkestra, the John Coltrane Quartet, the Bill Evans Trio, Weather Report, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Herbie Hancock's Headhunters, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Oregon, Return to Forever, the Pat Metheny Group, and the World Saxophone Quartet.

Modern big bands can be found playing all styles of jazz music.

Modern J-pop has its roots in 1960s pop and rock music, such as The Beatles, which led to bands such as Happy End fusing rock with Japanese music.

Modern bands are La Mafia, Selena and her band Selena Y Los Dinos, Shelly Lares, Jay Perez, and Jimmy Gonzalez Y Mazz.

Modern swing dance bands active in the U. S. during the 1990s and 2000s include many contemporary jazz big bands, swing revival bands with a national presence such as Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers ( based in San Francisco ), and local / regional jazz bands that specialize in 1930s-1940s swing / Lindy dance music, such as The Swingout Big Band, White Heat Swing Orchestra, and Beantown Swing Orchestra ( Boston ), The Boilermaker Jazz Band ( Pittsburgh ), the Southside Aces ( Minneapolis ), Gordon Webster Septet ( New York ), Jonathan Stout and His Campus Five ( Los Angeles ) and The Jonathan Stout Orchestra featuring Hilary Alexander ( Los Angeles ), The Flat Cats ( Chicago ), The Gina Knight Orchestra ( Chicago and Joliet, IL ), the Solomon Douglas Swingtet and the Tom Cunningham Orchestra ( Washington, D. C .), Sonoran Swing ( Arizona ), and The Bill Elliott Swing Orchestra ( Los Angeles ).

Modern klezmer instrumentation is more commonly influenced by the instruments of the 19th century military bands than the earlier orchestras. The orchestration employed by Joel Rubin — one of the most experienced and knowledgeable contemporary klezmer musicians — represents a historically justified link with that of contemporary ethnic music ensembles of Romania and Hungary.

The songs, all somewhat influenced by polka and progressive rock, are performed in English and have themes such as vodka, tractors, rockets, and Genghis Khan, as well as folkloric Russian songs, rock and roll ballads and covers from bands as diverse as The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Modern Talking, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, all presented with lots of humour.

Modern bands like Folk och Rackare, Hedningarna and Garmarna incorporated folk songs into their repertoire.

Modern bouyon bands include Rough and Ready, Wassin Warriors, Seramix, and Triple K International.

Modern Barbadian tea meetings, tuk bands, the Landship tradition and many folk songs come from slaves parodying the practices of white authorities.

Modern units such as the AN / PRC-148 Multiband Inter / Intra Team Radio ( MBITR ) can communicate on a variety of bands and modulation schemes and include encryption capabilities.

Examples of this style include Turkish musicians such as Cem Karaca, Barış Manço, Erkin Koray, Fikret Kızılok, Cahit Oben, Selçuk Alagöz, Edip Akbayram and Murat Ses alongside bands such as Moğollar, Kurtalan Ekspres, Grup Çığrışım, Grup Çağrışım, Mavi Işıklar, Apaşlar, Kaygısızlar, Haramiler, Modern Folk Üçlüsü and Kardaşlar.

Modern bands and artists with some degree of recognition in the Portuguese music scene include André Sardet, Bunnyranch, WrayGunn and JP Simões.

Modern bands use a wide variety of instruments, especially the fiddle, concertina, and accordion.

Modern J-pop has its roots in 1960s pop and rock music, such as The Beatles, which led to Japanese rock bands such as Happy End fusing rock with Japanese music in the early 1970s.

Modern radar speed guns normally operate at X, K, K < sub > a </ sub >, IR Band ( infrared ), and ( in Europe ) K < sub > u </ sub > bands.

Modern bands to use the work include Brave Saint Saturn, Great Big Sea and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum.

Modern Finnish popular music includes a renowned heavy metal music scene, in common with other Nordic countries, as well as a number of prominent rock bands, hip hop performers, pop music and dance music acts such as Bomfunk MCs, Darude and Waldo's People.

Modern political science has questioned whether average citizens have sufficient political information to cast meaningful votes.

According to the modern, quantum-mechanical understanding of the hydrogen atom, the average distance between electron and proton is ≈ 1. 5a < sub > 0 </ sub >,< ref > Modern physics, by Serway, Moses, Moyer, Example 8. 9, p284 The value 1. 5a < sub > 0 </ sub > is approximate, not exact, because it neglects reduced mass, fine structure effects ( such as relativistic corrections ), and other such small effects .</ ref > somewhat different than the value in the Bohr model (≈ a < sub > 0 </ sub >), but certainly the same order of magnitude.

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

Modern consumer behaviour research methods often deal in aggregates that average out income levels and are too blunt an instrument to capture these specific situations.

Modern foils average 89 cm in length, and have standardized, tapered, quadrangular blades which are designed to present a blunt ( and therefore non-lethal ) tip should they snap.

Modern Western diets typically have ratios of n − 6 to n − 3 in excess of 10 to 1, some as high as 30 to 1 ; the average ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 in the Western diet is 15 / 1 – 16. 7 / 1.

Wheeler's Manchester: Its Political, Social and Commercial History, Ancient and Modern ( 1836 ) states that about one-fifth of the land around Worsley, Astley and Tyldesley was in tillage, lower on average than the surrounding areas.

Modern intensive hog farms in the United States have an average of about 2, 000 hogs, and large farms raise tens of thousands of hogs.

However, after their teething problems were sorted out, they have since been the most reliable fleet of EMUs in the United Kingdom, winning Best Modern Era EMU at the Golden Spanners Awards from 2005 to 2007, for an average annual miles per casualty ( MPC ) figure of 43, 180 in 2005, 37, 391 in 2006, and 45, 459 in 2007 ( defined as the number of miles a train runs before a defect develops causing 5 minutes or longer delay ).

Shipped by railroad boxcar, and then usually trucked to a home site, the average Sears Modern Home kit had 25 tons of materials, with over 30, 000 parts, and came with such utilities as electric and gaslight fixtures in early models.

Modern day coal power plants pollute less than older designs due to new " scrubber " technologies that filter the exhaust air in smoke stacks ; however emission levels of various pollutants are still on average several times greater than natural gas power plants.

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.

On the official Blur forum, the song was voted ( by overall average ) the best song on Modern Life is Rubbish in 2012, narrowly beating " Colin Zeal " which resided in second place.