" Tal Cohen of Tal Cohen's Bookshelf called The Edge of Human " a good book ", praising Jeter's " further, and deeper, investigation of the questions Philip K. Dick originally asked ", but criticized the book for its " needless grandioseness " and for " rel on Blade Runner too heavily, the number of new characters introduced is extremely small ..."

The strip originally centered on Jon, being rejected by the King Features, Post-Hall and the Chicago Tribune-New York News agencies, all which asked Davis to focus on the cat, who in their opinion, got the better lines.

Jeffreys ' DNA method, which is often called DNA fingerprinting, was first put to use when he was asked to help in a disputed immigration case to confirm the identity of a British boy whose family was originally from Ghana.

The school committee asked to be allowed to buy the property and there arose a dispute with the Rhenish Mission even though the rental had originally been undertaken with a view to protecting the property and preserving it for the German mission.

He was then asked to play a part in the film Dune, which had originally begun pre-production in 1971 ; however, the project was cancelled.

Scholars have theorized that the Vanir may be connected to small pieces of gold foil, gullgubber, found in Scandinavia at some building sites from the Migration Period to the Viking Age and occasionally in graves, have asked whether the Vanir originally represented pre-Indo-European deities or Indo-European fertility gods, and have theorized a form of the gods as venerated by the pagan Anglo-Saxons.

IDSA originally asked CES for a private meeting space for game developers, but was told that

Simmel was originally asked to lecture on the role of intellectual ( or scholarly ) life in the big city, but he effectively reversed the topic in order to analyze the effects of the big city on the mind of the individual.

John Barrymore was originally asked by Paramount to play the lead role, in an attempt to recreate his role from the 1920 version of Jekyll and Hyde, but he was already under a new contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Also, when Burke was asked if she had a tape while being interviewed on RTE 6 o ' clock news on May 31st 2011 by Caitriona Perry, Perry asserted that " despite originally believing that she had a recording of the interview, Helen Lucy Burke is now not so sure ".

Green writes that Jesus ' final question ( which, in something of a " twist ," reverses the question originally asked ):

For example, a person who writes his name as 张伟 in a foreign country might be expected to come from mainland China or Singapore, while a 張偉the same name in traditional charactersmight be asked if he or his family is originally from Taiwan or Hong Kong.

Thus, a question that is often asked of fossil deposits is to what extent does the fossil deposit record the true biota that originally lived there?

This use of the book's universe was approved by Kipling after a direct petition of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scouting movement, who had originally asked for the author's permission for the use of the Memory Game from Kim in his scheme to develop the morale and fitness of working-class youths in cities.

Chandler had originally agreed to write the screenplay for nothing ' as a favour ' to John Houseman, the producer-but instead asked for a case of scotch as full payment.

One word of each pair is presented in a random order and the participant is asked to recall the item with which it was originally paired.

They originally all had other names, but when Medb asked a druid which of her sons would kill Conchobar, he replied, " Maine ".

He originally asked for his fee to be paid as a royalty of 1d ( one pre-decimalisation penny ) for each badge made, but was offered a flat fee of £ 100 ( equivalent to around £ 1, 600 at 2006 rates ).

* Kliph Scurlock of The Flaming Lips was originally a roadie for the band before being asked to join the band as a drummer on tours.

" Wanting to be liberal with Foster if I bought him out, since he had created the paper and originally owned most of the stock, and had made a success of it, I thought for a while before answering and finally asked him how much he owed.

They originally had other names, but after Medb asked a druid which of her sons would kill Conchobar, and received the reply " Maine ", they were all renamed as follows:

The Olmsted firm originally designed the campus for up to 3, 000 students, but state officials asked the firm to scale the plan back due to budgetary constraints ; subsequently, the new plan presented to the state by the Olmsted Brothers centered the campus around a cruciform quadrangle similar to the one that exists on campus today.

The concert originally was scheduled to be held at San Jose State practice field since there had just recently been an outdoor free festival with fifty-two bands and eighty thousand people in attendance for three days, Dirt Cheap Productions was asked to help secure the property again for the Rolling Stones and Grateful Dead to play a free concert.

Poe originally sold " The Gold-Bug " to George Rex Graham for Graham's Magazine for $ 52 but asked for it back when he heard about a writing contest sponsored by Philadelphia's Dollar Newspaper.

Prokofiev's first major success breaking out of the composer-pianist mould was with his purely orchestral Scythian Suite, compiled from music originally composed for a ballet commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev of the Ballets Russes ; Diaghilev commissioned three further ballets from Prokofiev – Chout, Le pas d ' acier and The Prodigal Son – which at the time of their original production were all highly successful.

Some composers, including Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Carl Nielsen, continued to write in the traditional four-movement form, while other composers took different approaches: Jean Sibelius ' Symphony No. 7, his last, is in one movement, whereas Alan Hovhaness's Symphony No. 9, Saint Vartan — originally op.

* Samarkand has a large featuring in the originally Russian film Day Watch, originally written by Sergei Lukyanenko as part of a Trilogy.

Lawrence Keeley, following in the footsteps of Sergei Semenov, conducted microscopic studies ( with a high-powered optical microscope ) on the edges of tools manufactured de novo and used for the originally speculative purposes described above.

Particularly popular are his audio book ( originally radio ) recordings of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and the narration of Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.

Lieutenant Kijé or Kizhe ( ), originally Kizh ( Киж ), is the protagonist of an anecdote going back to the time of Emperor Paul I of Russia ; the story was used as the basis of a novella by Yury Tynyanov published in 1927 and filmed in 1934 with music by Sergei Prokofiev.

Sergei Martynov ( Belarusian: Сяргей Мартынаў ; new transliteration Siarhei Martynau, Łacinka Siarhiej Martynaŭ ) ( born May 18, 1968 ) is a Belarusian 50 m Rifle shooter, originally from Russia.

* Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata in D Major ( originally for flute, later transcribed for violin )

Of one thing we can be sure: they were not sketched out by the revolutionary theorists of the eighteenth century who formulated the political principles and originally shaped the political institutions of what we term the `` free society ''.

Whether it is or not, the propaganda impact on the free world of the document scheduled to be adopted at this meeting will be far less than had been originally anticipated.

If, on the other hand, they opted for representation, it had to be representation per se -- representation as image pure and simple, without connotations ( at least, without more than schematic ones ) of the three-dimensional space in which the objects represented originally existed.

Joe naturally ruled that a ball be dropped from alongside the spot where it had originally entered the stream.

Man's life, originally shaped for immortality and for communion with God, must now be conformed to the shape of death.

Though the word atom originally denoted a particle that cannot be cut into smaller particles, in modern scientific usage the atom is composed of various subatomic particles.

A number of species have come to be considered invasive, including, most notably in North America, dandelion, which was originally introduced by European settlers who used the young leaves as a salad green.

The discovery of CP violation helped to shed light on this problem by showing that this symmetry, originally thought to be perfect, was only approximate.

Yet we may with better reason suppose that it came originally from a foreign mythology, and that the accident of its numerical value in Greek merely caused it to be singled out at Alexandria for religious use.

The term originally came from antibody generator and was a molecule that binds specifically to an antibody, but the term now also refers to any molecule or molecular fragment that can be bound by a major histocompatibility complex ( MHC ) and presented to a T-cell receptor.

He originally believed those substances to be precursors of antibodies, just like zymogen is a precursor of an enzyme.

High above the city, near the small town of South Fork, the South Fork Dam was originally built between 1838 and 1853 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as part of a canal system to be used as a reservoir for a canal basin in Johnstown.

Hellen, Graikos, Magnis, and Macedon were sons of Deucalion and Pyrrha, the only people who survived the Great Flood ; the ethne were said to have originally been named after the elder son Graikoi but renamed later after Hellen who was proved to be the strongest.

* In the Judge Dredd comic stories, originally published in 2000 AD, the megalopolis of Mega-City One consists of many hundreds, if not thousands, of City Blocks, in which a citizen can be born, grow, live, and die without ever leaving.

* In the Star Wars prequels, the galactic capital planet Coruscant has buildings many miles tall, and approaches the completely built-over condition of Trantor in Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation trilogy ( Note: due to this, Coruscant was originally to be named Jhantor but was eventually renamed Coruscant ).

Resonator guitars were originally designed to be louder than conventional acoustic guitars, which were overwhelmed by horns and percussion instruments in dance orchestras.

Gluck feared that the Parisian critics would denounce the opera by a young composer known mostly for comic pieces and so the opera was originally billed in the press as being a new work by Gluck with some assistance from Antonio Salieri, then shortly before the premiere of the opera the Parisian press reported that the work was to be partly by Gluck and partly by Salieri, and finally after popular and critical success were won on stage the opera was acknowledged in a letter to the public by Gluck as being wholly by the young Antonio.

The fortified site described below, originally identified as Abae by Colonel William Leake in the 19th century, is much more likely to be that of the Sanctuary of Artemis at Hyampolis.

These legends seem to be a mythical account of the colonization of Aegina, which seems to have been originally inhabited by Pelasgians, and afterwards received colonists from Phthiotis, the seat of the Myrmidons, and from Phlius on the Asopus.

In a final twist, Bradley later went on to discover the existence of the nutation of the Earth's axis – the effect that he had originally considered to be the cause of aberration.

To ensure software developers had an economical means of producing better sound than TIA, GCC had originally planned to make a low-cost, high performance sound chip, GUMBY, which could also be placed in 7800 cartridges to enhance its sound capabilities further.

The games were originally meant to be loaded from tape, but were later changed to load from ROM.

AMD's older CPUs could simply be set to run at whatever clock speed the user chose on the motherboard, making it trivial to relabel a CPU and sell it as a faster grade than it was originally intended.

Remains of an ancient bath and gymnasium complex can be found within this area ; this building is locally known as Bal Saray ( Honey Palace ) and was originally endowed by Herodes Atticus in the year 135.