According to Steve Wilhite, the creator of the GIF format, the original pronunciation deliberately echoes the American peanut butter brand, Jif, and the employees of CompuServe would often say " Choosy developers choose GIF ", spoofing this brand's television commercials.

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 Chicago folksinger Steve Goodman, " no man could inspire more love, more hate.

According to Chicago Tribune columnist Steve Chapman, " Daley lasted 22 years in office partly because he resolved to ingratiate himself with black Chicagoans.

According to economist Steve Keen, the " deleveraging " moments when they ( or the governments they live under ) pay down debt instead of spending on consumption or investment in real-economy infrastructure, result in economic crises or even depressions ( such as The Great Depression ).

According to former Victorian Premier Steve Bracks, " We won't be renaming the National Gallery of Victoria.

According to artist Steve Purcell, that became a major limitation for the art team ; due to a low number of " ghastly " colors, they often chose bizarre tones for backgrounds.

According to fandom historian Fred Patten, the concept of furry originated at a science fiction convention in 1980, when a character drawing from Steve Gallacci ’ s Albedo Anthropomorphics started a discussion of anthropomorphic characters in science fiction novels.

According to Chairman Steve Van Andel and President Doug DeVos, " We are going through a global transformation of our business ; this includes rethinking our global approach to products, training, brands, and how we operate in all the countries in which Alticor operates.

According to conversations with Dan McKinnon and Steve Harfst ( former COO ), there was no desire for the company to compete with the low fare cost structure of JetBlue.

According to biographer Michael David Harris, " Sullivan signed Presley when the host was having an intense Sunday-night rivalry with Steve Allen.

According to Elaine Dundy, Presley sang " Love Me Tender " " straight, subdued and tender ... — a very different Elvis from the one on The Steve Allen Show three months before ".

According to Bonanno, he was held captive in upstate New York by his cousin, Stefano " Steve the Undertaker " Magaddino.

According to page 20 of the CD's liner notes, Steve Katz elected not to allow his performances onto the CD, which were digitally replaced by Jimmy Vivino.

According to Steve Huey of allmusic, " Only Built 4 Cuban Linx ... contained a narrative album format revolving around cocaine trafficking, criminal activity, and a rise through the ranks of the illegal industry.

According to Steve Cropper, the song was recorded with the intention of being released as by The Mar-Keys ( another name used to release singles by the Stax house band.

According to Steve Heine in 2011, less than 15 % of Japanese believe in God.

According to Allmusic editor Steve Huey, the success of his 1994 debut album Ready to Die " reinvented East Coast rap for the gangsta age " and " turned the Notorious B. I. G.

According to the BBC's website, Steve " tries to be the voice of reason while talking to his mates over a pint, but more often than not he stumbles into more complex and ridiculous situations than any of them.

According to David Doak, the majority of the work on the multiplayer mode was done by Steve Ellis, who " sat in a room with all the code written for a single-player game and turned GoldenEye into a multiplayer game.

According to giant squid expert Steve O ' Shea, such lengths were likely achieved by greatly stretching the two tentacles like elastic bands.

According to Goldberg, Steve Jobs demanded a demonstration of the Smalltalk System, which she refused to give him.

According to several sources including Macworld UK, the company name " Be " had its origin in a conversation between Gassée and Be co-founder Steve Sakoman.

According to Gregory, this effect was observed by a member of his laboratory, Steve Simpson, in the tiles of the wall of a café at the bottom of St Michael's Hill, Bristol.

According to the poet Saadi Shirazi: Arslan possessed a fort, which raised at the height of Alwand, from all were those within its walls, for its roads were a labyrinth, like the curls of a bride.

According to economist Eduard Aghajanov, Armenia could have repaid them with low-interest loans from other, presumably Western sources, or with some of its hard currency reserves which then totaled about $ 450 million.

According to Maimonides, an afterlife continues for the soul of every human being, a soul now separated from the body in which it was " housed " during its earthly existence.

According to Peter Heather, Theodoric's former governor Theudis was implicated in Amalaric's murder, " and was certainly its prime beneficiary.

According to fellow folk singer Joan Baez, it was one of the most requested songs from her audiences, but she never realized its origin as a hymn ; by the time she was singing it in the 1960s she said it had " developed a life of its own ".

According to the anthropologist Tim Ingold, animism shares similarities to totemism but differs in its focus on individual spirit beings which help to perpetuate life, whereas totemism more typically holds that there is a primary source, such as the land itself or the ancestors, who provide the basis to life.

According to Steven J. Brams and Peter C. Fishburn, the IEEE board in 2002 rescinded its decision to use approval voting.

According to platonists ( realists ), the truth of a statement consists in its correspondence to objective reality.

According to the theory of aerodynamics, a flow is considered to be compressible if its change in density with respect to pressure is non-zero along a streamline.

According to The Guardian newspaper: " At the heart of years of dissent against psychiatry through the ages has been its use of drugs, particularly antipsychotics, to treat distress.

According to the Boston Globe ( as reported on May 18, 2010 ), the town has renamed its amphitheater in the artist's honor, and is looking to develop an Al Capp Museum.

According to the 2010 census, its population was 5, 145, a decrease of 17. 8 % from 6, 260 in 2000.

According to the Turkish Statistical Institute, as of 2011 the city of Bursa had a population of 1, 704, 441 and its metropolitan municipality 1, 948, 744.

According to this view, Beowulf can largely be seen to be the product of antiquarian interests and that it tells readers more about " an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon ’ s notions about Denmark, and its pre-history, than it does about the age of Bede and a 7th-or 8th-century Anglo-Saxon ’ s notions about his ancestors ’ homeland.

According to bundle theory, an object consists of its properties and nothing more: thus neither can there be an object without properties nor can one even conceive of such an object ; for example, bundle theory claims that thinking of an apple compels one also to think of its color, its shape, the fact that it is a kind of fruit, its cells, its taste, or at least one other of its properties.

According to this theory, the cycle of philosophical upheavals that in part drove the diversification of Buddhism into its many schools and sects only began once Buddhists began attempting to make explicit the implicit philosophy of the Buddha and the early suttas.

According to its Memorandum & Articles of Association, its objectives are :- “ To act as Nominee or agent or attorney either solely or jointly with others, for any person or persons, partnership, company, corporation, government, state, organisation, sovereign, province, authority, or public body, or any group or association of them ....” Bank of England Nominees Limited was granted an exemption by Edmund Dell, Secretary of State for Trade, from the disclosure requirements under Section 27 ( 9 ) of the Companies Act 1976, because, “ it was considered undesirable that the disclosure requirements should apply to certain categories of shareholders .” The Bank of England is also protected by its Royal Charter status, and the Official Secrets Act.