According to the foreword of Ubik: The Screenplay ( by Tim Powers, a friend of Dick's and fellow science fiction writer ), Dick had an idea for the film which involved " the film itself appearing to undergo a series of reversions: to black-and-white, then to the awkward jerkiness of very early movies, then to a crookedly jammed frame which proceeds to blacken, bubble and melt away, leaving only the white glare of the projection bulb, which in turn deteriorates to leave the theater in darkness, and might almost leave the moviegoer wondering what sort of dilapidated, antique jalopy he'll find his car-keys fitting when he goes outside.

" According to the foreword ( written by Pat Buchanan ) in the most recent edition of Conscience of a Conservative, Buchanan was a member of the Young Americans for Freedom and wrote press releases for that organization.

According to Hickman in the foreword to The Soulforge, " were just settling in to the game when I turned to my good friend Terry Phillips and asked what his character was doing.

According to the foreword in Robot Visions, Asimov was approached to write a story titled " Bicentennial Man " for a science fiction collection, along with a number of other authors who would do the same, in honor of the bicentennial of the United States.

According to Hickman in the foreword to The Soulforge, " were just settling in to the game when I turned to my good friend Terry Phillips and asked what his character was doing.

According to Adrian Johns ' foreword to the 2004 edition, Ong was urged to research Ramus after his graduate mentor, Marshall McLuhan had no particular interest in Ong's original subject, Gerard Manley Hopkins.

According to the book's foreword, the opening section of the novel is almost directly taken from the journal he kept when he was a fire lookout on Desolation Peak in the North Cascade mountains of Washington state.

According to the foreword ( dated 2019 ), of the book The Complete Yes Minister: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister by the Rt.

According to Forbes magazine Armenia had the second worst economy in the world in 2011.

According to the Fraser Institute, Alberta has very high levels of economic freedom and rates Alberta as the most free economy in Canada, and second most free economy amongst U. S. states and Canadian provinces.

According to John T. Townsend, " it is not before the last decades of the second century that one finds undisputed traces of the work.

According to Gow, Housman could never remember his students ' names, maintaining that " had he burdened his memory by the distinction between Miss Jones and Miss Robinson, he might have forgotten that between the second and fourth declension.

According to Ridenti, who cites the Fernando Henrique Cardoso administration as an example of the first group and the Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva administration as an example of the second, " we have it cyclically ".

According to the stories, the derelict disappeared ; others elaborating further that the derelict reappeared minus the prize crew, then disappeared again with a second prize crew on board.

According to a second principle of classification, a concordant coastline is a coastline where bands of different rock types run parallel to the shore.

* Entropic forces: According to the second law of thermodynamics, a system progresses to a state in which entropy is maximized.

According to the World Health Organization, physical inactivity is second only to tobacco smoking as a health risk in developed countries, and this is associated with many tens of billions of dollars of healthcare costs.

According to the memoirs of Chen Jieru, Chiang's second wife, she contracted gonorrhea from Chiang soon after their marriage.

According to Payscale, Dartmouth College alums have among the highest average starting salaries ($ 58, 200 ) in the United States, as well as the second highest average income ten years after graduation ($ 123, 000 ), placing after Harvey Mudd College and tying with Princeton University.

According to the third Canon of the second ecumenical council: " Because it is new Rome, the bishop of Constantinople is to enjoy the privileges of honor after the bishop of Rome.

According to the pseudo-historical Kojiki and Nihonshoki ( collectively known as ), Sujin was the second son of Emperor Kaika Sujin's mother was Ikagashikome no Mikoto, a stepmother of his father.

According to Kojiki and Nihonshoki, Ankō was the second son of Emperor Ingyō.

According to the centimeter gram second system of units ( cgs ), the gauss is the unit of magnetic field B and the equivalent of esu / cm ^ 2, while the oersted is the unit of magnetizing field H. One tesla is equal to 10 < sup > 4 </ sup > gauss, and one ampere per meter is equal to 4π × 10 < sup >− 3 </ sup > oersted.

The Gospel According to Mark (,, to euangelion kata Markon ), commonly shortened to the Gospel of Mark or simply Mark, is the second book of the New Testament.

According to the biblical history Ezra and Nehemiah arrived in Jerusalem in the middle of the 5th century BCE, the first empowered by the Persian king to enforce the Torah, the second with the status of governor and a royal mission to restore the walls of the city.

" According to Bronwen Walter, professor of Irish Diaspora Studies at Anglia Ruskin University, " the adoption of a hyphenated identity has been much more problematic for the second generation Irish in Britain.

According to the EU's statistics body Eurostat, Italian public debt stood at 116 % of GDP in 2010, ranking as the second biggest debt ratio after Greece ( with 126. 8 %).

According to the Bologna statistics of the European Union, Italian is spoken as a mother tongue by 65 million people in the EU ( 13 % of the EU population ), mainly in Italy, and as a second language by 14 million ( 3 %).

The economy of Japan is the third largest national economy in the world after the United States and the People's Republic of China and is the world's second largest developed economy According to the International Monetary Fund, the country's per capita GDP ( PPP ) was at $ 34, 739 or the 25th highest in 2011.

According to the 2001 edition of the National Jewish Population Survey, in the United States ' Jewish community — the world's second largest — 4. 3 million Jews out of 5. 1 million had some sort of connection to the religion.

According to Suetonius, a physician later established that only one wound, the second one to his chest, had been lethal.

According to Jacques Barzun: Voltaire, who had felt annoyed by the first essay the Arts and Sciences, was outraged by the second, on the Origin of Inequality Among Men, declaring that Rousseau wanted us to “ walk on all fours ” like animals and behave like savages, believing them creatures of perfection.

According to the scriptures, Bahubali, also known as Gommateshvara, was the second of the one hundred sons of Rishabha and king of Podanpur.

According to the author of his biography in the Eleventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica: " Ambrose is interesting as typical of the new humanism which was growing up within the church.

According to Del Mar, this edition corrects nearly 3000 mistakes in the Breitkopf edition, some of which were remarkable.

According to current thinking, a first draft ( the Yahwist ) was probably written in the 6th century BCE during the Babylonian exile ; this was supplemented and completed as a post-Exilic final edition ( the Priestly source ) at the very end of the 6th century or during the 5th century, and further adjustments and minor revisions continued down to the end of the 4th century.

According to a statement of proceedings published elsewhere in the same edition of the BMJ, the report was officially ‘ approved at last week ’ s Council meeting of the British Medical Association .’ ( BMA Council Proceedings, BMJ, April 23, 1955: 1019 ).

According to a new edition of Severn's letters and memoirs, Severn fathered an illegitimate child named Henry ( b. 31 Aug 1819 ) about a year before leaving England for Italy.

According to the Encyclopedia of Social Work ( 19th edition ), the news media play an influential role in the general public's perception of cults.

According to the 1999 edition of Religion and Politics In America Unification Church followers were known " universally " by the term.

According to the publishers, it would take a single person 120 years to " key in " text to convert it to machine readable form which consists a total of 59 million words of the OED second edition, 60 years to proofread it, and 540 megabytes to store it electronically.

According to the 1885 edition of The American Printer, the importance of punctuation was noted in various sayings by children such as:

According Steve White, during the Putin presidency Russia made clear that it had no intention of establishing a " second edition " of the American or British political system, but rather a system that was closer to Russia's own traditions and circumstances.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first figurative use of the term appeared in the 1902 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica relating to an entry on the chemical analysis of glucose.

According to the American writer Kevin Self, in the 1920s a German committee member of the International Electrotechnical Commission proposed giga-as a prefix for 10 < sup > 9 </ sup >, drawing on a verse by the humorous poet Christian Morgenstern that appeared in the third ( 1908 ) edition of Galgenlieder ( Gallows Songs ).

According to the revised fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM-IV-TR ), to be diagnosed with schizophrenia, three diagnostic criteria must be met:

According to the Saintly Bible website, every Saint book published between 1928 and 1983 saw the first edition issued by Hodder and Stoughton in the UK ( a company that originally published only religious books ) and The Crime Club ( an imprint of Doubleday that specialized in mystery and detective fiction ) in the United States.

According to his nephew's Memoir the first edition was prepared by Bowdler's sister, Harriet, but both were published under Thomas Bowdler's name, probably because a woman could not then publicly admit that she understood Shakespeare's racy passages.

According to Anthony Cronin, " always possessed a Bible, at the end more than one edition, and Bible concordances were always among the reference books on his shelves.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary ( second edition 1989 ), valerian is derived from a Latin adjectival form of the personal name Valerius.

According to a later edition of the Enconium, the English took the initiative in communicating with Harthacnut in 1039, possibly when it was known that Harold had not long to live.

According to the jacket bio for the first edition of his scriptwriting text ( see Print below ), Straczynski had a play produced when he was 17, a sitcom produced when he was 21, and sold his first movie script when he was 24.

According to the featurettes Pacino, DeNiro and the Conversation and The Making of Heat: True Crime, included in the special edition DVD, which includes a taped interview with Adamson, the scene of McCauley and Hanna in the restaurant was also based on a real life event.

* Poke's edition of Creasy's 15 Most Important Battles Ever Fought According to Edward Shepherd Creasy Chapter VII.

According to the Dictionary of the Fungi ( 10th edition, 2008 ), the order consists of 12 families, 80 genera, and 1767 species.

According to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary ( third edition 1933 ) the term sidewalk was still in occasional use in the UK and pavement was also used for: ' a piece of paved work '; ' the superficial covering of a floor, yard, street etc.