The Palm Valley School Student Blog
By Chelsea Xu
Hello everyone!! This week is all about green!! That’s right, the color green! I ́ve decided to draw Loki to match the theme. But, this is not a typical art post of mine. Instead of a drawing tutorial, this is going to be an appreciation post for Loki. Because. . . MY BOI DIDN’T DESERVE TO DIE! BRING. HIM. BACK. MARVEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So please, enjoy the fanart and have a good day.
Green Editor: Luke Langlois
By Luke Langlois
Pigs hog the puck. There are only three certainties on thebirdonfire.org: death, taxes, and Luke pestering the audience with hockey posts. When I think of holiday seasons, the one I anticipate the most is the National Hockey League season. Who decided that the NHL’s opening day could be a holiday? I did. “Holiday” is relative, people! We all know what’s going on in the other major sports leagues. The NFL is everywhere; the disappointment of Dodgers fans is loudly heard around the world, and the NBA is always filled with some sort of interpersonal drama. Where’s the buzz for the NHL?! Who should you cheer for? What’s the best bandwagon to hop on? I’ve got it covered.
The Atlantic Division
The Metropolitan Division
The Central Division
The Pacific Division
If you have made it to the bottom of this post, I APPLAUD you. Seriously. Our desert NEEDS hockey fans. For the unaware, the NHL will be adding an expansion team to Seattle, Washington. Each NHL team has an AHL (American Hockey League) affiliate, where players on the cusp of the NHL go to develop. We are getting that AHL team RIGHT HERE in the desert, and I highly recommend that you learn the sport so that you can take advantage of what is likely to be the greatest entertainment hub in our valley. Plus, we don’t want them to leave us if it’s not working out financially. That is all!
Seasons Editor: Katelin Mei
A Poem by Andrew Hall (who turns his AP Lang angst into poetry)
Audience Favorite at CSF’s Spooky Open Mic on the Green
Four students, all alike in dignity
In Ms. Zachik’s class where we lay our scene
4 friends, all with grammar ability
Where daily points have all remained unclean
From forth Andrew, Kyle, Evan get 4s all the time
A pair of star-crossed graders get their 5s
Ms. Zachik and Jake, they see eye to eye
And Adventures of Jake, seem like archives
The fearful grade book, where these points are marked
And the continuance of answers rage
Andrew, Kyle, and Evan sit in the dark
As Ms. Zachik slowly writes on the page
What she may write, patience is what survives
Look on Mybackpack, ’twas a 4 of 5
Editor: Luke Langlois
By James Zheng
The birth of the ARPANET is attributed to the start of the Cold War. The original purpose of ARPANET (the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) was military. Computers were the intended intermediary for military communication.
One of the most important figures in computer science, J.C.R. Licklider, formulated the earliest ideas of a global computer network in August 1962 in a series of memos discussing the “Intergalactic Computer Network” concept. These ideas contained almost everything that the Internet is today, including cloud computing.
When J.C.R. Licklider left office, he handed over the baton to Bob Taylor. Taylor graduated from the University of Texas, majoring in experimental psychology, and his adoration of Licklider reached a point of no return.
One day in 1966, when Taylor walked into the Charles Herzfeld’s office, who was the Head of the ARPA, he proposed his idea of the Internet to Herzfeld. The blueprint of ARPANET was formally established.
Here came another guy who was a genius from MIT, Larry Roberts. Taylor put his whole expectation on Roberts, and Roberts rapidly constructed the fundamental structure for the ARPANET. In not even a year, Roberts put the goal forward: a multi-computer network with communication between computers.
But, the first two things Roberts and Taylor planned were 1) arrange at least sixteen work groups participating in this research and use at least thirty-five computers, and, 2) make these computers deliver messages to each other every day, and the amount of messages has to be at least five hundred thousand.
With the objective out there, Roberts submitted another report called “the network which could share the information.” The report mainly advocated utilizing the four trending computer prototypes to set up the experimental nodes. These prototypes were Sigma-7, IBM360, PDP-10 and XDS-940, but the question came again: how do you enable these computers to communicate with each other?
At this moment, another savior arrived named Wesley Clark. Clark told Taylor and Roberts that they didn’t need to connect all the computers to the network. They just needed to install an intermediary computer between the host providing the resources and the network. The task of this intermediary computer only involved three things: to receive the remote information, to convert it to the format that could be used by the local computer, and to make sure computers are always connected. Do you feel you know this intermediary computer? You should; it was the predecessor of the router!
When the four computer prototypes finished setting up, the first ARPANET link was established between the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Stanford Research Institute at 22:30 on October 29, 1969.
“We set up a telephone connection between us and the guys at SRI,” researcher Kleinrock said in an interview: “We typed the L and we asked on the phone, ‘Do you see the L?’
’Yes, we see the L,’ came the response.
We typed the O, and we asked, ‘Do you see the O.’
‘Yes, we see the O.’
Then we typed the G, and the system crashed …
Yet a revolution had begun.”
By December 5, 1969, a 4-node network was connected by adding the University of Utah and the University of California at Santa Barbara. ARPANET grew rapidly. By 1981, the number of hosts had grown to 213, with a new host being added approximately every twenty days.
ARPANET became the technical core of what would become the Internet, and a primary tool in developing the technologies used today.
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1960s Editor: Quintus Ni
By Katelin Mei
The fashion in the 1960s changed drastically throughout the decade. In the early 60s, the fashion looked more like the fashion from the 50s, which was very conservative. Before 1964, the fashion styles were a continuation of the 1950s fashion, but with the Beatles came a new fashion influence from London.
In the 1950s, fashion was very conservative and tried to make young people look more mature. In the 1960s, the fashion changed from trying to make people look like “young adults” to revisiting the bright colors and child-like styles of their youth. The whole idea of revisiting youth drove most of the 1960s fashion.
In the early 60s, the skirts and dresses were just updated versions of the 50s’ ankle-length skirts and dresses. As the decade progressed, new fashions emerged. The full-skirt look didn’t leave in the 1960s but instead survived to the 1970s in a simpler form.
By 1966, dresses were significantly shorter and more snug.
Many women preferred skirts over dresses because they could mix and match their outfits a lot easier.
There were many different styles of fashion going around during the 60s. You would be able to see a woman wearing an ankle-length skirt, and another woman next to her, wearing a mini skirt. From the mid to late 60s, skirts could be easily bought at any length. 1960s dresses kept going shorter and shorter throughout the decade.
Many young women liked the mini skirt, which dominated the fashion world in 1967. The shorter the skirt’s length was, the more confidence the woman wearing the skirt had.
The 1960s were not as revolutionary for men’s fashion as it was for women’s. However, it did change a lot. Men got more options for business and casual attire
Some fashion trends of the 1960s
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Far-Out 1960s Editor: Quintus Ni
By Renee
What is there to say about Halloween….. A time of panicked last minute costumes, consuming copious amounts of sweets, and decorating homes with cheesy props. I love Halloween. I love dressing up and beaming with pride over how good my costume came out. I love tricking myself into believing that treats are not bad because they’re small. I love feeling giddy, waiting in suspense as I watch horror movies. I love Halloween. But, while I’m working on my costume, baking something spooky, or carving pumpkins, I have to listen to some music to get myself into the Halloween spirit! So I thought that y’all might enjoy a good ol’ Halloween playlist for tonight.
1. “31 Days of Halloween” by Nancy Nightmare and the Wizard.
2. “I Put A Spell On You” by Nina Simone
3. “Land of the Dead” by Voltaire
4. “Somebody’s Watching Me” by Rockwell
5. “Burn the Witch” by Queens of the Stonewell
6. “Thriller” by Michel Jackson
7. “Season of the Witch” cover by Lana Del Rey
8. “She Put a Hex on You” by Them
9. “The Maddest Story Ever Told” by Fantomas
10. “The Night” by Voltaire
Seasonal Holiday Editor: Katelin Slosky
By Katelin Mei
The night sky has always fascinated me. I have always wondered what is out there. The possibilities are endless. However, it will take a long time to explore outer space because even if we were traveling at the speed of light, it would take many years to travel to the stars closest to us. We do know about these stars because we are able to see and track them. Here are the brightest stars we can see in our night sky.
Oh, and here is the source:
Far away editor: Doreen Yuan
By James Zheng
Back to our topic of ART, James asks, . . .
“What is art? I think that everything could be considered art as long as someone gives a reason and demonstrates how it is a type of art. Sometimes my classmates ask me, “You call this art?” while I’m gazing at various architectural styles. Well, I say, if you admire or enjoy seeing something, I would say that you could totally consider it Art.
Here is a list of architectural ART:
The house depicted below was designed by Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe. The original is located in Plano, Illinois, USA. Farnsworth’s house is similar to overhead transparent glasses in a box shape with four sides. The model of the building is simple, clear, but it gives viewers an elegant view. Steel structures exposed to the outside are painted white and blend with the surrounding trees and lawns. Due to the full transparency of the glass wall, the view from the internal space is wide.
The house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, initially was located in Mill Run, Pennsylvania. Fallingwater Villa has achieved one of the most extraordinary successes in the historical development of architecture. On the aspect of space composition between the internal structure and external environment, I consider this as the most “natural” design I have reviewed due to its cohesive integrity with nature.
It is one of the most famous personal art museums designed by Solomon R. Guggenheim located in New York City. Unlike any other buildings, it can be described as a tea cup or a huge white spring, probably because of the spiral structure that makes some people say it looks like a conch as well. Solomon R. Guggenheim has a collection of modern art, many of which are hung by metal poles and appear to float in the air. Traditionally, museums display works of art on walls along the hall. But Guggenheim broke the tradition.
The Smith House is designed by Richard Meier and sits in Connecticut. The conceptual ideas for this house are similar to the Farnsworth House, on the way of exposing the internal space to outside. The frame that is displayed in rectangular shape creates a discordant sense, and its purpose may lead people to have the illusion of internal and external inseparability. But, when you actually see the building, it is easy to distinguish the outside and inside. You also would observe a difference between the protruding part and the surface of the building and realize the variability of space.
The magical presence of structural architecture may only seem physical–that it does not compare with the “art” of drawings and poems. But, despite architecture being recognized as a substantial practical existence, what architecture authentically expresses is the progress of the eras and the culmination of human aesthetics.
Art Editor: Chelsea
Hello guys!! I am going to do something different this week! Editor Quintus assigned Blog Staffers to write on the 1960s. So, instead of doing my usual art tutorials, I will do a post about another interest of mine: History. The history of the 1960s that most interests me is the Cold War. Without further adieu, let the journey begin.–Chelsea Xu
Source Link: https://list25.com/25-facts-about-the-cold-war-you-probably-didnt-know/
1960s Editor: Quintus Ni