* Alternative, an album by Pet Shop Boys

Alternative rock grew out of the grunge scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s and is particularly favored by college radio and adult album alternative stations ; there is a strong focus on songwriters and bands with an outsider sound or a more sophisticated sound than the " three chord wonder " cliché.

Two years later, The Offspring had its fifth top ten album with Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace and its third Modern Rock / Alternative Songs chart-topper with " You're Gonna Go Far, Kid ".

He wrote lyrics for a number of tracks on the IAMX albums " Kiss + Swallow " and " The Alternative " and released the album All These Lines Make Noises in 2005 as singer / songwriter / lyricist with the band transporter.

The album debuted at No. 3 on US Billboard 200, No. 1 on the Top Modern Rock / Alternative Albums Chart, No. 1 on the Top Digital Albums Chart, and also No. 1 on the Top Internet Albums Chart, with first week sales of 91, 800 units.

The album was preceded by its first single, " Sick of You ", which was released in September 2010, hitting number 4 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart.

A 2000 Virgin poll saw the album voted the 24th greatest Heavy Metal / Alternative Rock album of all time.

The first single from the album, " Medicate ", was released on August 25, 2009 and reached number 7 on the Billboard Alternative Songs Chart.

Though originally released to mixed reviews in September 1998, the album was a success and received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Alternative Music Performance.

Liverpool doom metal band Anathema's 1998 album Alternative 4 was also named after the programme.

Psychedelic rock band Monster Magnet have a song about the conspiracy, titled " Third Alternative " on their Dopes to Infinity album.

The song " Alternative Three " on the album Karma Had It Coming by Nova Scotia punk rock band, The Broomhandles takes inspiration from the program.

The album later won Best Alternative Music Performance at the 38th Grammy Awards in 1996.

" The Spin Alternative Record Guide ( 1995 ) noted " a creative musical blend " on the album, but concluded that " the results feel like dress rehearsals for Gentlemen, with one partial exception, ' Conjure Me ,' and one absolute triumph: a surging final track ... that might be the Afghan Whigs ' strongest recorded performance.

In 2003, Blender placed the album on its list of " 500 CDs You Must Own: Alternative Rock ", stating that the album is " Experimental yet accessible, it ’ s exactly the kind of album that Eno devotees long for from him today ".

The album earned two more Grammy nominations: one for Best Urban / Alternative Performance for the track " Star / Pointro " and another for Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group for the track " Don't Say Nuthin '.

Alternative TV soon evolved into the avant-garde project, The Good Missionaries ( taking the name from a track on the ' Vibing ' album ), releasing one album, Fire From Heaven in 1979.

Perry released a solo album, Snappy Turns, and joined the experimental duo The Door And The Window on their debut album Detailed Twang before he, Burns and Fergusson briefly reformed Alternative TV along with former members of Fergusson's Cash Pussies in 1981.

Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, Homeopathy and Naturopathy are cited as examples The term appears to have entered into usage through the National Institute of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ), which began to employ it as a substitute for alternative medical systems as a way of differentiating widely comprehensive systems of medicine, such as Ayurvedic medicine, from specialized alternative approaches.

A Critical Analysis of Complementary or Alternative Medicine, by Edzard Ernst ( Editor ) ( 2008 ), reviewed in Metapsychology.

* Democratic Alternative ( Malta ) ( Maltese: Alternattiva Demokratika ), the Maltese Green party

* Alternative investment, investment other than stocks, bond ( finance ), money funds, and cash

* Alternative ( Kamen Rider ), a character in the Japanese TV series, Kamen Rider Ryuki

Alternative notations include C ( n, k ), < sub > n </ sub > C < sub > k </ sub >, < sup > n </ sup > C < sub > k </ sub >, C < sup > k </ sup >< sub style =" position: relative ; left :-. 5em ;"> n </ sub >, C < sup > n </ sup >< sub style =" position: relative ; left :-. 5em ;"> k </ sub >, in all of which the C stands for combinations or choices.

* Deutsche Alternative ( German Alternative ), a rightist group

Emotion, Seduction and Intimacy: Alternative Perspectives on Human Behaviour ( Third Edition ), Seattle: Libertary Editions.

** Certifications: Chartered Financial Analyst ( CFA ), Certified Treasury Professional ( CTP ), Certified Valuation Analyst ( CVA ), Certified International Investment Analyst ( CIIA ), Financial Risk Manager ( FRM ), Association of Corporate Treasurers ( ACT ), Certified Market Analyst ( CMA / FAD ) Dual Designation, Corporate Finance Qualification ( CF ), Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst ( CAIA )

Alternative start codons ( depending on the organism ), include " GUG " or " UUG "; these codons normally represent valine and leucine, respectively, but, as a start codon, they are translated as methionine or formylmethionine.

Marcuse defended the arrested East German dissident Rudolf Bahro ( author of Die Alternative: Zur Kritik des real existierenden Sozialismus The Alternative in Eastern Europe ), discussing in a 1979 essay Bahro's theories of " change from within ".

Nostradamus has been credited, for the most part in hindsight ( see under ' Alternative views ' below ), with predicting numerous events in world history, from the Great Fire of London, and the rise of Napoleon and Adolf Hitler, to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

Orange Alternative ( Pomarańczowa Alternatywa ) is a name for an underground protest movement which was started in Wrocław, a town in south-west Poland and led by Waldemar Fydrych ( sometimes misspelled as Frydrych ), commonly known as Major ( Commander of Festung Breslau ) in the 1980s.

Electoral reforms in 2001 introduced the Limited Preferential Vote system ( LPV ), a version of the Alternative Vote.

In 2005, the PDS, renamed The Left Party. PDS ( Die Linkspartei. PDS ), entered an electoral alliance with the western Germany-based Labour and Social Justice – The Electoral Alternative ( WASG ) and won 8. 7 % of the vote in Germany's September 2005 federal elections ( more than double the 4 % share achieved by the PDS alone in the 2002 election ).

However, low membership and voter support in Germany's western states continued to plague the party on the federal level until it formed an electoral alliance in July 2005 with the Electoral Alternative for Labor and Social Justice ( WASG ), a leftist faction of dissident Social Democrats and trade unionists, with the merged list being called the Left Party.

* Alternative Distribution Alliance, music distributor owned by Warner Music Group

* Alternative comedy, a range of styles used by comedians and writers in the 1980s

Alternative or complementary medicine, including acupuncture, psychological interventions, vitamins and yoga, was evaluated in a number of systematic reviews by the Cochrane Collaboration into treatments for epilepsy, and found there is no reliable evidence to support the use of these as treatments for epilepsy.

Alternative social doctrines were elaborated by such Russian radicals as Alexander Herzen and Peter Kropotkin.

The EU's Directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers ( AIFMD ) was passed by the EU Parliament on November 11, 2010 and is the first EU directive focused on " alternative investment fund managers ", including hedge fund managers.

New performance measures have been introduced that attempt to address some of theoretical concerns with traditional indicators, including: modified Sharpe ratios ; the Omega ratio introduced by Keating and Shadwick in 2002 ; Alternative Investments Risk Adjusted Performance ( AIRAP ) published by Sharma in 2004 ; and Kappa developed by Kaplan and Knowles in 2004.

Alternative views on this topic are given by famous British-Australian physicist John Ward and laser physicist Frank Duarte.

** Pyay – Myade / Aunglan – Satthwa 145 · 4 Alternative route to Bagan, but heavy grades, sharp curves and danger of washouts mean the line is only used by two trains / week

" In the 1995 book America's Alternative Religions, published by the State University of New York Press, Baker wrote: " Although they prefer to be called Unificationists, they are referred to in the media and popularly known as ' Moonies '.

Alternative starting rulesets exist for Internet and mail games, wherein gameplay occurs in alphabetical order by surname, and points added to the score are based on the success of a proposed rule change rather than random dice rolls.

Another example of the syntactic approach is the Alternative Set Theory introduced by Vopěnka, trying to find set-theory axioms more compatible with the non-standard analysis than the axioms of ZF.

During the summer of 1989, New Order supported Technique by touring with Public Image Ltd, Throwing Muses and The Sugarcubes across the United States and Canada in what was the press dubbed the " Monsters of Alternative Rock " tour.

By doing this, Orange Alternative participants could not be arrested by the police for opposition to the regime without the authorities becoming a laughing stock.

Orange Alternative movement has inspired several other similar movements in authoritarian countries including Czechoslovakia and Hungary and it has also inspired and influenced the Pora and the so called Orange Revolution movement in Ukraine, which was in turn supported by Poland.

The first known actions of the Orange Alternative consisted of painting dwarf graffiti on spots created by the police's covering up anti-regime slogans on walls of the Polish cities.

In 1993, Smith contributed " Memorial Tribute ( Live )" to the AIDS-Benefit Album No Alternative produced by the Red Hot Organization.

Alternative rock encompasses a diverse set of styles — including gothic rock and grunge, among others — unified by their debt to punk rock and their origins outside of the musical mainstream.