The film's conclusion shows two alternate versions of events: a. Lilja and Volodya, now both dead, angelic and happily playing basketball on the roof of some tenement building, safe from all harm the world can do to them.

The barricaders succeed in prolonging the police siege in that they forced them to think of alternate ways of reaching the roof.

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.

For example, it is likely that even if the Library of Alexandria had hundreds of thousands of scrolls ( and thus perhaps tens of thousands of individual works ), some of these would have been duplicate copies or alternate versions of the same texts.

It is set in an Earthlike world ( perhaps in an alternate reality ), deals with metaphysics, and refers heavily to Ancient Greek philosophy, while at the same time being a complex commentary on the insubstantiality of today's contemporary society.

It is not impossible that additional works will be contracted for in months to come, action being set on Yarth or perhaps another alternate world, Aerth.

In writing his novel, Martorell perhaps rewrote history to fit what he wanted it to be-which in a way makes it a precursor of the present-day genre of alternate history.

* Samarra Shaw: Leader of Clan Hellfire in the Chronomancer alternate future, perhaps Anthony's sister or daughter.

An alternate etymology derives it from the praenomen Artor, which may be of Etruscan origin ( perhaps a Latinization of the Etruscan name Arnthur ).

Sometimes the reader is given a glimpse into an alternate world ( perhaps the past as well ) where Reginald is still alive.

There were initial plans to air a regional ticker and additional streams of alphanumeric data ( perhaps via an alternate channel ) when the channel first launched, but those plans were ultimately abandoned.

His body disappeared as he died, however, proving that he had changed the future and that perhaps an alternate Chris with different memories would survive.

His most-anthologized and perhaps best known work is " The Undiscovered ", an alternate history in which Shakespeare is transported to Virginia and writes " Hamlet " for the Cherokee tribe.

Gary Wolf is perhaps best known for a series of comedic mystery novels featuring the now famous Roger Rabbit, a cartoon character who inhabits an alternate universe where so-called " toons " ( an abbreviation for the word " cartoons ") and humans co-exist.

There is a chance they have already been paid, perhaps using an alternate payment vehicle such as a wire transfer or p-card.

Since the 1950s, this type of fiction has to a large extent merged with science fictional tropes involving cross-time travel between alternate histories or psychic awareness of the existence of " our " universe by the people in another ; or ordinary voyaging uptime ( into the past ) or downtime ( into the future ) that results in history splitting into two or more time-lines.

The Haemosporidians have more complex life cycles that alternate between an arthropod and a vertebrate host.

" Still more demos, alternate takes, and wholly unheard-before recordings have been released since Haley's death.

One interesting feature observed about Clipperton Island's flora is that the vegetation is arranged in parallel rows of species ; dense rows of taller species alternate with lower, more open vegetation.

See Hicks ' account of it referenced above for details, or for an alternate and more current explanation, Cristobal Kay's " Why East Asia Overtook Latin America: Agrarian Reform, Industrialization, and Development.

It appears that the particular term, with its more definite sense, was coined by Heisenberg in the 1950s, while criticizing alternate " interpretations " ( e. g., David Bohm's ) that had been developed.

A more recent development, the alternate reality game, is intrinsically tied to the concept ; an ARG may exist solely as a collection of false documents that build a fictional storyline and puzzles connected to it.

There are also more exotic varieties, such as guitars with two, three, or rarely four necks, all manner of alternate string arrangements, fretless fingerboards ( used almost exclusively on bass guitars, meant to emulate the sound of a stand-up bass ), 5. 1 surround guitar, and such.

It has been proposed that newborn brains are able to use alternate fuels when glucose levels are low more readily than adults.

Many advocate using the more recent and nuanced alternate terms when describing criminals and others who negatively take advantage of security flaws in software and hardware.

Thus, if there is no alternate rationale for prosecuting some people more harshly for the same crime based on who the victim is, then different defendants are treated unequally under the law, which violates the United States Constitution.

In the more complex stranded approach, two or more yarns alternate repeatedly within one row and all the yarns must be carried along the row, as seen in Fair Isle sweaters.

Individual stitches, or rows of stitches, may be made taller by drawing more yarn into the new loop ( an elongated stitch ), which is the basis for uneven knitting: a row of tall stitches may alternate with one or more rows of short stitches for an interesting visual effect.

Along the shore of Tripolitania for more than 300 km, coastal oases alternate with sandy areas and lagoons.

Animal forms vary accordingly with cultures and local species ( including bears and wolves ), for example, a coyote is more likely to be found as a skinwalker's alternate form in the Great Plains region.

An alternate view of the labor market has low-wage labor markets characterized as monopsonistic competition wherein buyers ( employers ) have significantly more market power than do sellers ( workers ).

Originally formulated for two-player zero-sum game theory, covering both the cases where players take alternate moves and those where they make simultaneous moves, it has also been extended to more complex games and to general decision making in the presence of uncertainty.

Writers would have the ability to change stories or make alternate endings, giving readers more material to enjoy.

However, the implosion of the supernova caused by the red matter opened a rift in space-time that sent Spock and the Romulan mining ship Narada, along with its captain, Nero, and its crew, to go back in time more than 100 years, creating an alternate timeline.

The same year Day of the Dead premiered, Night of the Living Dead co-writer John Russo released a film titled Return of the Living Dead that offers an alternate continuity to the original film than Dawn of the Dead, but acted more as a parody or satire and is not considered a sequel to the original 1968 film.

The Germs recorded two singles ( with alternate tracks ), an album-length demo session, and one full-length LP, ( GI ), each more focused and powerful than the last.

On 29 November, an exclusive video was posted on RollingStone. com, containing more footage of the alternate version of " Don't Think ".

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.

Actors sometimes alternate between theater, television and film or even branch into other occupations within the entertainment industry such as becoming a singer, comedian, producer, or a television host in order to be monetarily diversified, as doing one gig pays comparatively very little.

However, the view that there is no causal instantaneous effect has also been proposed within the Copenhagen interpretation: in this alternate view, measurement affects our ability to define ( and measure ) quantities in the physical system, not the system itself.

The tabular Islamic calendar usually has 12 lunar months that alternate between 30 and 29 days every year, but an intercalary day is added to the last month of the year 11 times within a 30-year cycle.

Short and tall stitches may also alternate within a row, forming a fish-like oval pattern.

In 1941, the problem of frequency instability was solved by coupling (" strapping ") alternate cavities within the magnetron.

These alternate notations are most common within computer science.

Similar illustrations of cocks in fighting stance are found within the Vivian Bible as well as the fighting cocks capitals in the Basilica of St. Andoche in Saulieu and the Cathédrale Saint-Lazare d ' Autun provides “ alternate documentation ” of the rooster and the religious, spiritual and sacred cockfight.

The teacher may decide to alternate groups within one meeting, or they may alternate at each separate meeting.

The phenomena associated with measurement are claimed to be explained by decoherence, which occurs when states interact with the environment producing entanglement, repeatedly splitting the universe into mutually unobservable alternate histories — distinct universes within a greater multiverse.

In chapter 57, within a list of names of ásynjur ( and after alternate names for the goddess Freyja are provided ), a further section contains a list of " Odin's maids "; valkyries: Hildr, Göndul, Hlökk, Mist, Skögul.

The line is further blurred by novelists such as Kim Stanley Robinson, whose alternate-history novel The Years of Rice and Salt has a character talking of historians ' use of counterfactuals, within the novel's alternate history.

These virtual versions of both Jor-El and Lara remain as constructs within the Fortress throughout the series ( until the alternate continuity of Superman Returns, see below ).

* Grade, an alternate vowel sound within a word in apophony

* The Young Wizards series by Diane Duane-the protagonists live in Manhattan, New York, but each book in the series has a different setting ; settings include various planets within and outside of the Solar System and various alternate universes.

Such supernatural, alternate history and sexuality themes continue in works produced within the modern speculative fiction genre.

However, he still admits that without basic understanding of these alternate techniques, you will not be able to learn Ni Ten Ichi Ryu, probably for reasons of finding the wrongs in other techniques, and righting them within yourself in Ni Ten Ichi Ryu.

In the 1993 adventure PC game Myst, the unnamed protagonist travels to multiple alternate worlds through the use of special books, which describe a world within and transport the user to that world when a window on the front page is touched.

An alternate variation requires the person who has achieved bingo to raise his or her hand and use the word " Bingo " within the context of a comment or question.

Michael Hattaway offers an alternate, sympathetic view of Joan which argues that the character's movement from saintly to demonic is justified within the text: " Joan is the play's tragic figure, comparable with Faulconbridge in King John.

The World Register of Marine Species places all species within the family Conidae in the genus Conus and the genera recognized by Tucker & Tenorio 2009 are considered to be " alternate representations.

This concept has been said to have implications for mind uploading or mind transference, as it indirectly addresses the question of whether an exact replica of one's brain patterns created within an alternate brain, an android brain, or a virtual universe is the same being as the person it was copied from, or another being entirely.