Due to limitations of this system found during the 1960s and 1970s — victims often simply did not report crimes to the police in the first place — the Department of Justice developed an alternate method of tallying crime, the victimization survey.

He sets out to find the minority report, which would give him an alternate future.

Originated by Edmond Malone in 1790 as an alternate to Johnson's memorial report theory.

* In Timeslides, when transported to an alternate reality in which he is rich and famous, Holly finds a news report stating he died in a plane crash aged 98 ; he was making love to his 14th wife at the time and lost control of the plane.

The alternate map gave every incumbent member of the governing party a " safe " seat to run in, while the original report would have forced some of the party's MLAs to compete against each other in nomination contests.

* Chernobyl catastrophe ; TORCH report ( Rebecca Harms commissioned two UK scientists for an alternate report, entitled TORCH, to the disputed November 2005 IAEA report on the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster )

Professors that give a non traditional exam, such as a project or lab report, may give homework and the alternate exam assignment during dead week or finals week.

She is a director of the Centre for the Study of Children at Risk at McMaster University ; a delegate to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, September 1995 ; a delegate to the First World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Stockholm, August 1996 ; the alternate head of the Canadian delegation to the International Child Labour Conference in Oslo, October 1997 ; the co-chair of Out From the Shadows: International Summit of Sexually Exploited Youth in Victoria, British Columbia, March 1998 ; and the co-chair of the Special Joint Committee on Child Custody and Access which drafted the report entitled For the Sake of the Children, 1998.

This Superboy soon seemingly vanishes, returning to his own alternate timeline.

In " The Farnsworth Parabox " Bender seemingly falls in love with an alternate gold-plated version of himself, stating that he has finally found someone " as great as me ".

The books seem to be set in an alternate, " timeless " world with stylistic similarities to both the 19th century and the 1930s, though with contemporary, and seemingly anachronistic scientific knowledge.

While seemingly limited this method allows sprites to be used as alternate colored vertical borders or separators on a display, and when priority values are set to put sprite pixels behind playfield pixels they can be used to add additional colors to a display.

He also fought Overman, another pre-Crisis alternate universe version of Superman who had been infected by a sexually transmitted disease, became insane and killed, seemingly for the sake of killing.

In an alternate timeline created when the Ultimate Fantastic Four attempt to undo the accident that gave them their powers, their teleportation experiments allowed them to make contact with the seemingly benevolent Skrulls, who subsequently provide Earth with special pills that grant everyone on the planet-with the exception of Ben Grimm, who rejects the offer as he is comfortable with who he is, and all those who possessed powers already-with superpowers.

Kane is a fictional character in the alternate history universe of Westwood Studios ' and Electronic Arts ' Command & Conquer real-time strategy video games in which he is a seemingly immortal mastermind behind the ancient and secretive Brotherhood of Nod society.

Prowl was also the leader of the few surviving Autobots in the alternate 2009 seen in the story " Rhythms of Darkness ", where Unicron had destroyed Cybertron ( seemingly in the equivalent of Transformers: The Movie ) and Galvatron and the Deceptions had gone on to wipe out Rodimus Prime and most of the Autobots and effectively conquer Earth.

The plot of the game involves the player getting sucked into Tonetown, a surreal alternate world seemingly based on a distillation of 1980s culture, with overtones of punk and New Wave culture ( such as pink hair, etc .).

in alternate cycles from an experimental observation, through to a theoretical explanation

It can be variously seen as a sub-genre of literary fiction, science fiction, and historical fiction ; different alternate history works may use tropes from any or all of these genres.

Cross-time, time-splitting and alternate history themes have become so closely interwoven that it is impossible to discuss them fully apart from one another.

According to Steven H Silver, alternate history requires three things: 1 ) the story must have a point of divergence from the history of our world prior to the time at which the author is writing, 2 ) a change that would alter history as it is known, and 3 ) an examination of the ramifications of that change.

It helps to be able to route cold air from a sky-facing radiator ( perhaps an air heating solar collector with an alternate purpose ) or evaporative cooler directly through the thermal mass.

A 900-kilometer U. S .- financed alternate route, known as the AMBO pipeline, would bring oil from Burgas across Bulgaria and Macedonia to the Albanian port of Vlore on the Adriatic Sea, bypassing both the Bosporus and Greece.

The demand for unissued Holly material was so great that Norman Petty resorted to overdubbing whatever he could find: alternate takes of studio recordings, originally rejected masters, " Crying, Waiting, Hoping " and the other five 1959 tracks ( adding new surf-guitar arrangements ), and even Holly's amateur demos from 1954 ( where the low-fidelity vocals are often muffled behind the new orchestrations ).

Between the 1959 – 60 Jack Hansen overdubs, the 1960s Norman Petty overdubs, various alternate takes, and Holly's undubbed originals, collectors can often choose from multiple versions of the same song.

Individuals who alternate between top / dominant and bottom / submissive roles – whether from relationship to relationship or within a given relationship – are known as switches, though the term is occasionally seen as derogatory or unnuanced and is rejected by many who might simplistically fit the definition.

They write: " Thus, according to that alternate rendering, the new birth originates ' from above '— that is, ' from heaven ,' or ' from the Father.

Departing from denominational practice for over 120 years, English language churches may now choose alternate Bible translations at these services ( i. e. Phillips ).

Charles N. Brown, the publisher of Locus, which primarily addresses the science-fiction publishing world, wrote in the July 2006 issue: " Two Charles McCarry hardcover reprints from Overlook ... aren't really SF or fantasy, but they are two of the best spy thrillers ever written and form a secret or alternate history of the 20th century.

The confusion may stem from the fact that Major League Baseball did decide that, should the Cubs make it to the World Series, the American League winner would have home field advantage unless the Cubs hosted home games at an alternate site since the Cubs home field of Wrigley Field did not yet have lights.

The burial chamber is normally located at one end of a rectangular or trapezoidal cairn, while a roofless, semi-circular forecourt at the entrance provided access from the outside ( although the entrance itself was often blocked ), and gives this type of chambered cairn its alternate name of court tomb or court cairn.

Although his name and history were taken from his early life with his adoptive Earth parents, everything about Clark was staged for the benefit of his alternate identity: as a reporter for the Daily Planet, he receives late-breaking news before the general public, has a plausible reason to be present at crime scenes, and need not strictly account for his whereabouts as long as he makes his story deadlines.

This counter will increment once for every clock cycle and takes two clock cycles to overflow, so every cycle it will alternate between a transition from 0 to 1 and a transition from 1 to 0.

The letter å is pronounced, derived from an older aa, and an alternate spelling is paaske or paask.

However, a pattern has emerged in which administrations from the center-left alternate with those from the center-right.

One alternate suggestion is that planets should be distinguished from brown dwarfs on the basis of formation.

Most of its releases begin with these stories then add background material to explain the settings ( often as alternate worlds whose history diverges from our own ), adventures, and other game material.

Fulani Muslims migrated to Fouta Djallon in Central Guinea and established an Islamic state from 1735 to 1898 with a written Constitution and alternate rulers.

* Shattered World: A Worse World War, a site based on an alternate historical scenario containing an active forum.

Examples of alternate disaster recovery sites being compromised by the same disaster that affected the primary site include having had a primary site in World Trade Center I and the recovery site in 7 World Trade Center, both of which were destroyed in the 9 / 11 attack, and having one's primary site and recovery site in the same coastal region, which leads to both being vulnerable to hurricane damage ( for example, primary site in New Orleans and recovery site in Jefferson Parish, both of which were hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 ).

With the advent of the World Wide Web and other multimedia technologies, bands such as The Smashing Pumpkins ( with the album Machina / The Machines of God ), Coheed And Cambria ( with the Amory Wars as a backing story for every one of their albums ), and Nine Inch Nails ( with the album Year Zero ) exploited emergent cultural phenomena such as the alternate reality game to provide additional web-based content beyond that on the album itself.

England contest the FIFA World Cup and UEFA European Football Championships which alternate biennially.

The giant octopus appeared in an alternate ending in Frankenstein Conquers the World that was intended specifically for the American market but was ultimately never used.

** In a 2011 episode of Misfits, an alternate reality where Germany won the Second World War, depicts Britain and the gang under the rule of the Nazi occupation force.

In 1994 and 1996, two anthologies of alternate history science fiction involving World Science Fiction Conventions, titled Alternate Worldcons and Again, Alternate Worldcons, edited by Mike Resnick were published.

Four years later, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past returned to the top-down view ( under a 3 / 4 perspective ), and added the concept of an alternate dimension, the Dark World.

Those books provided stand-alone material or materials for several other game lines with the focus on a specific region or theme like WoD: Blood dimmed Tides ( about the oceans ), WoD: Combat ( Stream-lined alternate combat system ), WoD: Tokyo ( about the City of Tokyo ) or WoD: Mafia ( about the Mafia in the World of Darkness ).

< imagemap > File: 2nd millennium montage. png | From left, clockwise: In 1492, Christopher Columbus ; The American Revolution ; The French Revolution ; The Atomic Bomb from World War II ; An alternate source of light, the Light Bulb ; For the first time, a human being sets foot on the moon in 1969 during the Apollo 11 moon mission ; Aeroplanes become the most-used way of transport though the skies ; Napoleon Bonaparte, in the early 19th century, affects France and Europe on subjects of expansionism and modernization ; Alexander Graham Bell's telephone ; In 1348, the Black Death kills over 100 million people worldwide, and over half of Europe, in two years.

These competitions include the Special Olympics World Games, which alternate between summer and winter games.

The serpent grew so big that he was able to surround the Earth and grasp his own tail, and as a result he earned the alternate name of the Midgard Serpent or World Serpent.

* In the Justice League episode " A Better World, Part 1 ", an alternate Martian Manhunter lures the Justice League into a trap by deploying a similar story.

SS-GB is an alternate history novel by Len Deighton, set in a United Kingdom fictionally conquered and occupied by Germany during World War II.

* Axis victory in World War II — includes an extensive list of other Wikipedia articles regarding works of Nazi Germany / Axis / World War II alternate history.

Category: World War II alternate histories

* Minerva — Earthlike planet occupying the orbit of Mars in the alternate universe of Harry Turtledove's A World of Difference.

Money earned in 2012 majors count double and money earned in 2012 alternate events ( those played opposite the majors or World Golf Championships ) count half.

Fort Dix was the setting home base in the 1988 C64 and Nintendo video game Rocket Ranger based on an alternate World War II scenario, where the Nazis discovered lunarium which would allow them to win the war and a young American scientist must stop it from happening.

During World War I, Porter Brothers contracted to build the third rail for the D & HRR " bridge line " through Maryland and Worcester to allow larger eastbound freight trains without extra locomotives to clear Richmondville Hill by an alternate route, much of which was later obliterated by I-88 construction.