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 to Steve Erlewine, its memorable guitar riffs, lumbering rhythms, psychedelic blues, groovy, bluesy shuffles and hints of English folk, made it " a significant turning point in the evolution of hard rock and heavy metal ".

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 writer Timothy Dufort, by 1969, all Church of England bishops had acquired Old Catholic lines of apostolic succession recognised by the Holy See.

According to this theory, the anonymous author attributed these events to Daniel, as prophecies that were witnessed by this writer in the 2nd century BCE.

* According to culinary writer Giuliano Bugialli, the term comes from the Italian bagno maria, named after Maria de ' Cleofa, who developed the technique in Florence in the sixteenth century.

According to activist writer Naomi Klein, ironic enjoyment of the film initially arose among those with the video before MGM, the film's chief marketer, capitalized on the idea.

According to one nineteenth-century writer, at a time when it was hard for unknown painters to come to the attention of the Royal Academy, he first found notice by displaying a painting at the " small Corpus Christi " ( held eight days after the regular one ) on the Place Dauphine ( by the Pont Neuf ).

According to writer / director Peter Bogdanovich, Marlene Dietrich told him during an aircraft flight that she and James Stewart had an affair during shooting and that she became pregnant and had the baby surreptitiously aborted without telling Stewart.

According to music writer Piero Scaruffi, the disco phenomenon spread quickly because the " collective ecstasy " of disco was cathartic and regenerative and led to freedom of expression.

According to the 4th century Latin writer Servius, a fourth set of Etruscan books existed, dealing with animal gods, but it is unlikely that any scholar living in the 4th century could have read Etruscan.

According to tradition, Ezra was the writer of the Books of Chronicles.

According to Alf Brown, football writer for The Herald:

According to a writer cited by the author of the Easton's Bible Dictionary, this epistle

" According to writer Philip Norman, when Groucho jokingly pointed his index fingers as if holding a pair of six-shooters, Elton John put up his hands and said, " Don't shoot me, I'm only the piano player ," thereby naming the album he had just completed.

According to Gay Lib writer Toby Marotta, " their Gay political outlooks were not homophile but liberationist ".

According to writer Chris Yost, Elixir is still on Necrosha.

According to the ancient astronaut writer Peter Kolosimo a robot was seen entering a subterranean tunnel below a monastery in Mongolia, he also claimed a light was seen from underground in Azerbaijan.

According to writer Mike Carey, " the events leading up to Messiah Complex, Iceman got blindsided by Mystique " are " still preying on to a large extent " and " some of those events be revisited.

According to writer Mike Carey " one of Iceman's best personality traits is that emotionally Bobby Drake is like the ice he manipulates -- not cold but transparent.

According to Eliot Weinberger, an American writer, essayist, editor and translator, Kosiński was not the author of The Painted Bird.

According to Camus, Sartre was a writer who resisted, not a resister who wrote.

According to B. Boy Omega, a writer for The Source, the first Latino in hip hop music was DJ Disco Wiz, a product of a Puerto Rican father and a Cuban mother who was born in The Bronx.

According to her statement, the Norwegian Film Fund was blocking her and writer Kjetil Bjørnstad from pursuing the project.

According to Mad writer Frank Jacobs, a letter was once successfully delivered to the magazine through the U. S. mail bearing only Neuman's face, without any address or other identifying information.

According to the writer Marianna Torgovnick, " The most fully documented instances of cannibalism as a social institution come from New Guinea, where head-hunting and ritual cannibalism survived, in certain isolated areas, into the fifties, sixties, and seventies, and still leave traces within certain social groups.

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 writer James Stevens in his 1925 book Paul Bunyan, French Canadians gave birth to the tales during the Papineau Rebellion of 1837, when they revolted against the young English Queen .< ref >