* February 1 – Lyricist / guitarist Richey Edwards of the Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers goes missing from a hotel in Bayswater, London on the eve of a planned tour of the United States.

Earliest research towards what became known as the phase-locked loop goes back to 1932, when British researchers developed an alternative to Edwin Armstrong's superheterodyne receiver, the Homodyne or direct-conversion receiver.

Author on topics in alternative history David Hatcher Childress goes so far as to suggest that Ophir was located in Australia ; proposing that the cargoes of gold, silver and precious stones were obtained from mines in the continent's north-west, and that ivory, sandalwood and peacocks were obtained in South Asia on the voyage back to Canaan.

Furthermore, the argument goes, if people choose to work for low wages and in unsafe conditions because it is their only alternative to starvation or scavenging from garbage dumps ( the " preexisting options "), this cannot be seen as any kind of " free choice " on their part.

He has advanced an ' alternative ' to Moore's law ( May's law ) stated as follows: Software efficiency halves every 18 months, compensating Moore's Law He goes on to state In ubiquitous systems, halving the instructions executed can double the battery life and big data sets bring big opportunities for better software and algorithms: Reducing the number of operations from N x N to N x log ( N ) has a dramatic effect when N is large ... for N = 30 billion, this change is as good as 50 years of technology improvements

Even a purely historical work selectively reveals backstory to the audience, a backstory which may receive alternative creative emphasis in each rendition of a novel, play, or film, while each shares key elements — however differently they may be depicted and revealed — which are factors of timing, style and story telling art of a given media while the whole of a backstory goes to facts.

In the Mam language the site also goes by the alternative name Chinabajul.

The Comedy Underground was fertile development ground for alternative humour with its anything goes policy.

An alternative route goes from the Braunschweigerhütte in the Pitztaler glacier area.

Same goes to the single parent movement, by the growing trend of children raised by one parent, which once was viewed as an alternative lifestyle.

Allmusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave it three stars out of five and said that " Sponge's sense of alternative rock goes back as far as Pearl Jam, or maybe only Stone Temple Pilots, judging from the hit single ' Plowed.

For this reason, the letter b is said to be named after the birch, and In Lebor Ogaim goes on to tell the tradition that all letters were named after trees, a claim also referred to by the Auraicept as an alternative to the naming after Fenius ' disciples.

Murray goes on to say, " the personality is almost continuously involved in deciding between alternative or conflicting tendencies or elements ... the most pressing and demanding are conflicts between different conations.

The Park even goes one step further to offer a plethora of alternative education courses to younger students looking for guidance and the older students who are willing and able to help.

Dauer ( German for " permanent ") describes an alternative developmental stage of nematode worms, particularly Caenorhabditis elegans whereby the larva goes into a type of stasis and can survive harsh conditions.

The courts still look for the “ mischief ” and “ remedy ”, but now use what they find as aids to discover the meaning of what the legislature has said rather than to change it .” Driedger goes on to argue that this modern use of the mischief rule ought to be understood as one of the components of what he characterized as the " modern " method of statutory construction, rather than a stand-alone rule serving ( as it formerly had ), as an alternative to the methods of construction proposed by the plain meaning rule and the golden rule.

One of Canada's most influential alternative theatres, Theatre Passe Muraille ( theatre " goes through walls ") was founded in 1968 by director and playwright Jim Garrard, who started the company out of Rochdale College.

The Remastered DVD from Mei Ah is uncut and contains the scene where the magician goes to a jail and tells the prisoner who is the person who killed Xie Miao's father that the God of Gamblers will be going to Taiwan. Then an Extended scene where Tony Leung and Chow Yun Fat talk on the boat. These scenes were cut out of the Original non-anamorphic Mei Ah DVD release. In Malaysia an alternative version entitled Battle of the Champions had an alternate extended opening but believed to be the Original opening had a cop talking to Lung Wu and inform him that Chau Siu Chee will come looking for him at France. Then what is actually to be believed that there is an original Directors ending is that Chau gets arrested then cuts to Lung Wu talking about gambling then freeze frame then end title credits pop out the Director said that this doesn't fit with the story so he removed that and made the Theatrical ending.

An alternative proof goes as follows, using its own diagram:

An easier and longer alternative from the same starting point goes by an old track which used to serve the cobalt mine on the slopes of Scar Crags, this approaches the fell " from the back " reaching Sail pass and then crossing the summit of Scar Crags before attaining Causey Pike.

We may show, first, that there cannot possibly be an alternative other than the three typically represented by Bultmann, Barth, and Buri.

We note that an inverse system in a category C admits an alternative description in terms of functors.

" Some months after the event, Minh was reported to have privately told an American official that " We had no alternative.

" Some months later, Minh reportedly confided to an American source that " We had no alternative.

Several alternative names have been proposed by various people: Generation We, Global Generation, Generation Next, the Net Generation, The name " Echo Boomers " refers to the size of the generation and its relation to the Baby Boomer generation.

We cannot conceal the fact that the whole German question is a simple alternative between Prussia and Austria.

An alternative title is So Shall We Reap: how everyone who is liable to be born in the next ten thousand years could eat very well indeed ; and why, in practice, our immediate descendants are likely to be in serious trouble, on the future of agriculture, in which he challenges the current science and technology paradigm and outlines a sustainable way of feeding the population of the world, expected to stabilise at ten billion people by the middle of the 21st Century.

We note that a direct system in a category admits an alternative description in terms of functors.

* Premature termination of search for evidence – We tend to accept the first alternative that looks like it might work.

... We succeeded in showing not only that the standard theory was not robust – changing only one assumption in ways which were totally plausible had drastic consequences, but also that an alternative robust paradigm with great explanatory power could be constructed.

The American alternative rock group We The Living have explicitly stated that their name is derived from the novel and have often listed Rand and her Objectivist views as a major influence to their music.

" Although not a mental health professional, Cooper employed the term as an alternative to other slang terms, stating: " We read of ' gun grabbers ' and ' anti-gun nuts ' but these slang terms do not this behavior.

Councillor Dawn Somper, Chair of the Development Control Committee, Camden Council said: " We absolutely support the desire to preserve the independent and alternative attraction and feel of Stables Market — rather than it looking like a typical high street — and also its economic importance to the Camden Town area.

We in our muddle-headedness want neither it nor the alternative – war.

We cannot conceal the fact that the whole German question is a simple alternative between Prussia and Austria.

We stand up for writers, expose corruption in the publishing world, and work to create a fun & exciting alternative to the literary mainstream.

" The decision also stated that " We find that there is no alternative measure to removal that would be sufficient to restore public confidence in the judge in this case.

Boss Volenti have recently supported US alternative rockers We Are Scientists on the Irish dates of their 2008 tour.

We both loved that song and we both thought it would be great for Weezer, and for my voice, and it ’ d be great to do like a rock version of it with more of an alternative aesthetic.

The Sister George version featured the voice of serial killer Aileen Wuornos, and the band chanting, " We kill in self defense ". In a gig in london's club v, the alternative queer club, in the mid 90's, robinson intoduced his song by saying, " i'm now going to sing a sister george cover ".

de Valera originally intended that Éire would serve as an alternative name in English speech, and the constitution itself includes the phrase " We the people of Éire ", but this practice has long ceased in Ireland itself, though occasionally continuing outside.

We should consider the impact of manufacturing alternative energy sources.

We follow the treatment in Bressoud's book ; for an alternative combinatorial proof see the paper by Zeilberger.

Gordon Love, chairman of the Calgary Stampede Board, owners of the Stampeders stated: " We have been treated so shabbily by Chicago, that we have no alternative ... Tommy Ivan simply wasn't interested in the future of hockey in Calgary, and that's all there is to it.