Pantone Inc. is a corporation headquartered in Carlstadt, New Jersey. The company is best known for its Pantone Matching System (PMS), a proprietary color
space used in a variety of
industries, primarily printing, though sometimes in the manufacture of colored
paint, fabric, and plastics. In October
2007, X-Rite Inc., a supplier of color measurement
instruments and software, purchased Pantone Inc. for $180 million. Read more and see "colors of the
year" from 2000 (Cerulean) to 2015 (Marsala) at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantone
The Graphics
Interchange Format (better known by its acronym GIF is
a bitmap image format that
was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and
has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due
to its wide support and portability. The
format supports up to 8 bits per pixel for
each image, allowing a single image to reference its own palette of up to 256
different colors chosen from the 24-bit RGB color space. It also supports animations and allows a separate palette of
up to 256 colors for each frame. These
palette limitations make the GIF format less suitable for reproducing color
photographs and other images with continuous color, but it is well-suited for
simpler images such as graphics or logos with solid areas of color. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF
See also GIF - graphic
interchange format b http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/G/GIF.html
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its
flavor."--Truman Capote (born in
New Orleans in 1924 as Truman Streckfus Persons) Capote died in 1984 at the age of fifty-nine,
having apparently made no progress on what some thought would be his greatest
work, Answered Prayers--which was published posthumously in its unfinished
state. https://www.bookbrowse.com/quotes/detail/index.cfm/quote_number/209/failure-is-the-condiment-that-gives-success-its-flavor
Robert James "Bobby" Fischer (1943–2008)
was an American World Chess
Champion. At age 13 Fischer
won a "brilliancy"
that became known as The Game of
the Century. Starting at age 14, Fischer played in
eight United
States Championships, winning each by at least a one-point margin. At age 15, Fischer became both the youngest
grandmaster up to that time and the youngest candidate for
the World Championship. At age 20,
Fischer won the 1963–64 U.S. Championship with 11/11, the only perfect
score in
the history of the tournament. Fischer's My 60 Memorable Games (1969)
remains a revered work in chess literature.
In 1970 and 1971, Fischer "dominated his contemporaries to an
extent never seen before or since". During that period he won the 1970 Interzonal Tournament by a record 3½-point
margin and won 20 consecutive games, including two unprecedented 6–0 sweeps in
the Candidates Matches.
In
July 1971, he became the first official World Chess Federation (FIDE)
number-one-ranked player, spending 54
total months at number one.
In 1972, he captured the World Chess Championship from Boris Spassky of
the USSR in a match held in Reykjavík, Iceland, publicized as a Cold War confrontation which attracted more
worldwide interest than any chess championship before or since. In 1975, Fischer refused to
defend his title when an agreement could not be
reached with FIDE over
one of the conditions for the match.
Afterward, Fischer became a recluse, disappearing from the public eye
until 1992, when he won an unofficial rematch
against Spassky. It was held
in Yugoslavia,
which was under a United Nations embargo at the time. His participation led to a conflict with the
U.S. government, which sought income tax on Fischer's match winnings, and
ultimately issued a warrant for his arrest.
In the 1990s, Fischer patented a modified chess timing system which added a time increment
after each move, now a standard practice in top tournament and match play, and
created a new variant of chess called
Fischer Random Chess or Chess960. During
the 1990s and early 2000s, Fischer lived in Hungary, Germany, the Philippines,
Japan, and Iceland, and made increasingly anti-American and anti-semitic remarks on various radio
stations. Possibly as a result, his U.S. passport was
revoked. Fischer,
unaware of his passport's revocation, traveled to Japan, where he was arrested
by Japanese authorities and detained for over eight months
(in 2004 and 2005) under
threat of deportation. In March 2005,
Iceland granted Fischer full citizenship, leading Japanese authorities to
release him from prison. Fischer flew to Iceland, where he
lived until his death on January 17, 2008.
References in popular culture:
The musical Chess,
with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Björn
Ulvaeus and Benny
Andersson, tells the story of two chess champions, referred to only as
"The American" and "The Russian". The musical is loosely based on the 1972
World Championship match between Fischer and Spassky. During the 1972 Fischer–Spassky match, the
Soviet bard Vladimir
Vysotsky wrote an ironic
two-song cycle "Honor of the Chess Crown". The first song is about a rank-and-file
Soviet worker's preparation for the match with Fischer; the second is about the
game. Many expressions from the songs
have become catchphrases in Russian culture. The 1993 film Searching for Bobby Fischer uses Fischer's name in the title, even
though the film is about the life of chess prodigy Joshua
Waitzkin. Outside of the
United States, it was released as Innocent
Moves. The title refers to
the search for Fischer's successor after his disappearance from competitive
chess. The author feels that his son
could be that successor. Fischer never
saw the film and complained bitterly that it was an invasion of his privacy by
using his name without his permission. Fischer
never received any compensation from the film, calling it "a monumental
swindle". The 2015 film Pawn
Sacrifice tells the story
of Fischer's attempts to defeat Russian Boris
Spassky and become the World
Champion. The film is directed by Edward
Zwick and stars Tobey
Maguire as Fischer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer
Boris Vasilyevich Spassky was born on January 30, 1937, in Leningrad, Russia, and displayed his chess
genius at an early age. Forced to flee
the city during the Nazi invasion of 1942, he learned to play chess while
riding a train. At the age of 10, he
beat World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik in an exhibition. He attained the rank of International
Grandmaster in 1955, and was the World Chess Champion from 1969 until his loss
to American Bobby Fischer in 1972. In 1992, he lost a highly publicized rematch against
the reclusive Fischer in Yugoslavia, which was then subject to United Nations
trade sanctions. Fischer had already
been in trouble for tax evasion; after his arrest in 2004, Spassky wrote a letter
on his friend's behalf to U.S. President George W. Bush, stating, "Bobby
and myself committed the same crime. Put
sanctions against me also. Arrest me. And put me in the same cell with Bobby
Fischer. And give us a chess
set." http://www.biography.com/people/boris-vasilyevich-spassky-9489899
Local Chess Players Weigh In On Fischer-Spassky Match
And ‘Pawn Sacrifice’
Game
6: Fischer vs Spassky - 1972 World Chess
Championship
According to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, U.S. paper
currency is made up of 75% cotton and 25% linen. There are three-fourths of a pound of cotton
in each pound of dollar bills. There are
454 bills in a pound of currency. See a
table comparing value of cotton and value of currency printed at https://www.cotton.org/pubs/cottoncounts/cotton-currency.cfm
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1356
October 2, 2015 On this date in 1889,
in Colorado, Nicholas Creede struck it rich in silver during the
last great silver boom of the American Old West.
On this date in 1925, John Logie Baird performed the first test of a working television system.
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