In the United Kingdom Red Kites were ubiquitous scavengers that lived on carrion and garbage.

) However, by emphasizing a ubiquitous object rather than a more unique object ( such as the auction-worthy violin in The Red Violin ), this film " ushers the genre into heretofore unexplored territory.

Clinton Heylin, author of Babylon's Burning: From Punk to Grunge, cited Black Sabbath as " perhaps the most ubiquitous pre-punk influence on the northwest scene.

Black & white copies of artwork have sometimes been regarded as too easy and impersonal, and ubiquitous ' add & pass ' sheets that are designed to be circulated through the network with each artist adding and copying, chain-letter fashion, have also received some unfavorable criticism.

The Mysterons are a fictional race of extraterrestrials, native to the planet Mars, which appear in the British science-fiction Supermarionation television series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons ( 1967 – 68 ) and Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet ( 2005 ), symbolised by ubiquitous projected green rings and the deep bass voice of their human convert, Captain Black.

Black and tan is a more ubiquitous term used to describe any lager / ale that will support the Guinness draught, although some Irish-themed bars shun the term for its association with the Black and Tans.

They were designed for mixed traffic use on secondary routes where the otherwise ubiquitous BR standard class 5 and their predecessors, the Black Fives, would be too heavy.

* Monte Guardia " Lookout Hill " Ponza's tallest hill, has old ubiquitous Semaphore building on top used for flag signaling.

Bob Burns, who started the discussion over a flag for Devon, cited the visibility of the Cornish Flag as one of his reasons " Devonians are only too aware of the ubiquitous Cornish Flag, which can often be seen in the form of car bumper stickers, on vehicles entering Devon from Cornwall.

" Classic cyberpunk characters were marginalized, alienated loners who lived on the edge of society in generally dystopic futures where daily life was impacted by rapid technological change, an ubiquitous datasphere of computerized information, and invasive modification of the human body.

Codd's solution to the necessary looping was a set-oriented language, a suggestion that would later spawn the ubiquitous SQL.

DARPA has been responsible for funding the development of many technologies which have had a major effect on the world, including computer networking, as well as NLS, which was both the first hypertext system, and an important precursor to the contemporary ubiquitous graphical user interface.

Because Ethernet was able to adapt to market realities and shift to inexpensive and ubiquitous twisted pair wiring, these proprietary protocols soon found themselves competing in a market inundated by Ethernet products and by the end of the 1980s, Ethernet was clearly the dominant network technology.

Although vi was almost ubiquitous, he could not count on the local version working the way he expected.

In the late 1980s the upside down Martini glass that was the tag for punk band Missing Foundation was the most ubiquitous graffito in lower Manhattan, and copied by hard core punk fans throughout the U. S. and West Germany.

48-215 sedans were produced in parallel with the 50-2106 coupé utility from 1951 ; the latter was known colloquially as the " ute " and became ubiquitous in Australian rural areas as the workhorse of choice.

The Greeks took some extreme positions on the nature of change: Parmenides denied that change occurs at all, while Heraclitus thought change was ubiquitous: " ou cannot step into the same river twice.

The low-fidelity reproduction of these ubiquitous cards was often assumed to somehow be a property of MIDI itself.

That year's new M7A car, Herd's final design for the team, was powered by Cosworth's new and soon to be ubiquitous DFV engine ( the DFV would go on to be used by McLaren until 1983 ) and with it a major upturn in form proceeded.

The ubiquitin protein itself is 76 amino acids long and was named due to its ubiquitous nature, as it has a highly conserved sequence and is found in all known eukaryotic organisms.

* Roman military equipment, particularly armour, was thicker and far more ubiquitous, especially in the late Republican / Early Imperial era, than that of most of their opponents.

One of the earliest ubiquitous systems was artist Natalie Jeremijenko's " Live Wire ", also known as " Dangling String ", installed at Xerox PARC during Mark Weiser's time there.

Ubiquitin ( originally, ubiquitous immunopoietic polypeptide ) was first identified in 1975 as an 8. 5-kDa protein of unknown function expressed in all eukaryotic cells.

The single most common and ubiquitous pairing of all was always and everywhere the lute and bass viol: for centuries, the inseparable duo.

The News Round-Up format was born and is still ubiquitous today in broadcast news.

This contrasted sharply with the Greek cultures further south, where the ubiquitous city-states mostly possessed aristocratic or democratic institutions ; the de facto monarchy of tyrants, in which heredity was usually more of an ambition rather than the accepted rule ; and the limited, predominantly military and sacerdotal, power of the twin hereditary Spartan kings.

The tin whistle due to its relative cheapness was a popular household instrument and was as ubiquitous as the harmonica.

Following an August 23, 1971, bank robbery in Queens, Shakur was sought for questioning, and a photograph of a woman ( who was later alleged to be Shakur ) with thick rimmed black glasses, a high hairdo pulled tightly over her head, and a steadily pointed gun became ubiquitous in banks and full page print ads paid for by the New York Clearing House Association.

This effect is ubiquitous in karaoke machines and is often used to assist pop singers who sing out of tune.

The implication of this attack is that all data encrypted using current standards based security systems such as the ubiquitous SSL used to protect e-commerce and Internet banking and SSH used to protect access to sensitive computing systems is at risk.

the ubiquitous Indian ( Arabic ) system used world-wide and two indigenous systems.

The modern-day ubiquitous x86 architecture belongs to this category as well, but octal is rarely used on this platform, although certain properties of the binary encoding of opcodes become more readily apparent when displayed in octal, e. g. the ModRM byte, which is divided into fields of 2, 3, and 3 bits, so octal can be useful in describing these encodings.

The Peter Principle is a special case of a ubiquitous observation: Anything that works will be used in progressively more challenging applications until it fails.

Developed at the end of the 19th century, set theory is now a ubiquitous part of mathematics, and can be used as a foundation from which nearly all of mathematics can be derived.

Dried pinto beans are a major staple food during the winter months, used to make the ubiquitous ham-flavored bean soup usually called soup beans.

Sculptures and hunting trophies were used rather than the more ubiquitous African masks.

This design is almost ubiquitous in Europe, where overall truck lengths are strictly regulated, but also widely used in the rest of the world as well.

This is the header format used in the ubiquitous gzip file format.

Marketed as a slightly more upscale competitor to the ubiquitous Ford Model T, it pioneered or made standard many features later taken for granted: all-steel body construction ( the vast majority of cars worldwide still used wood-framing under steel panels, though Stoneleigh and BSA used steel bodies as early as 1911 ); 12-volt electrical system ( 6-volt systems would remain the norm until the 1950s ); 35 horsepower ( versus the Model T's 20 ), and sliding-gear transmission ( the best-selling Model T would retain an antiquated planetary design until its demise in 1927 ).

This effect is ubiquitous in karaoke machines and is often used to assist pop singers who sing out of tune.

Banners and signs produced with software that used this ability, such as Broderbund's Print Shop, became ubiquitous in offices and schools throughout the 1980s.

The end of production in Mexico can be attributed primarily to Mexican political measures: the Beetles no longer met emissions standards for Mexico City, in which the ubiquitous Beetles were used as taxicabs ; and the government outlawed their use as taxicabs because of rising crime rates, requiring only four-door vehicles be used.

Besides their academic influence, these algorithms formed the basis of several ubiquitous compression schemes, including GIF and the DEFLATE algorithm used in PNG.

The Great Lester, used only one figure, Frank Byron, Jr., and it is believed that it was Lester's success that started the ventriloquist-with-one-figure routine that is ubiquitous today although this is doubtful as

This fact, combined with a fluorescence readout capability and their ubiquitous presence in biology laboratories, suggests that DNA sequencers may be used to study temperature dependent events in cells.

In some areas, chert is ubiquitous as stream gravel and fieldstone and is currently used as construction material and road surfacing.

The ubiquitous word lah ( or ), used at the end of a sentence, can also be described as a particle that simultaneously asserts a position and entices solidarity.

" Meh " is also a common ubiquitous word that used at the end of a question.