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Lea Verou talks about CSS Animations at WDCNZ 2012
Photo by WE DO Photography and Design wedo.net.nz
Christopher Schmitt presenting at the CSS Summit. Hosted at the University of Cincinnati, Raymond Walters College
Ovi Chris Rouly, Ph.D. Candidate,Department of Computational Social Science, George Mason University. Chris’s talk entitled “At The Root Of Sociality: Working Towards Emergent, Permanent, Social Affines"
Abstract: Complexity science often uses generative models to study and explain the emergent behavior of humans, human culture, and human patterns of social organization. In spite of this, little is actually known about how the lowest levels of human social organization came into being. That is, little is actually known about how the earliest members of our hominini tribe transitioned from being presumably small-groups of ape-like polygynous/promiscuous individuals (beginning perhaps with Ardipithecus or Australopithecus after the time of the Pan-Homo split in the late Pliocene to early Pleistocene eras) into family units having stable breeding-bonds, extended families, and clans. What were the causal mechanisms (biological, possibly cognitive, social, and environmental, etc.) that were responsible for the conversion? To confound the issue, it is also possible the conversion process itself was a complex system replete with input sensitivities and path dependencies i.e., a nested complex system. One author has referred to similar processes and their distinctive social arrangements as, “the deep structure of society” (Chapais, 2010). This paper reviews ongoing research attempting to model-then-understand a few of the underlying social, environmental, and biological systems present at the root of human sociality.
The CSS Hunley was a submarine of the Confederate States of America. The Hunley made her only attack against an enemy ship on a cold night in 1864 approximately 5 miles offshore. She successfully sank the USS Housatonic using a spar torpedo. The Hunley and her crew went missing and would not be seen again for over 100 years.
In 1995, a team led by New York Times bestselling author Clive Cussler discovered the Hunley in only 30 feet of water in Charleston Harbor. The submarine was raised and taken to the Warren Lasch Conservation Center, where she remains today, undergoing conservation.
Despite sinking three times previous and kiling twenty one of her own crew, including her designer and principle financier, Horace L. Hunley, the Hunley made history.
On February 17th, 1864, the H. L. Hunley became the world's first successful combat submarine.
Stamp Sets: Large Baby Shower (die cuts) + Baby Shower (stamp/die) + Baby Sentiments
by Clear and Simple Stamps
Over at the CSS&SB shops in Michigan City I found this line up of South Shore cars with car 1 next to combine 101 and trailer 203.
From Wikipedia:
CSS Acadia is a former hydrographic surveying and oceanographic research ship of the Hydrographic Survey of Canada and its successor the Canadian Hydrographic Service.
Acadia served Canada for more than five decades from 1913–1969, charting the coastline of almost every part of Eastern Canada including pioneering surveys of Hudson Bay. She was also twice commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy as HMCS Acadia, the only ship still afloat to have served the Canadian Navy in both World Wars. Today she is a museum ship and National Historic Site moored in Halifax Harbour at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.
Retaining her original engines, boilers and little-changed accommodations, she is one of the best preserved Edwardian ocean steamships in the world and a renowned example of Canada's earliest scientific prowess in the fields of hydrography and oceanography.
Acadia was designed in Canada for the Hydrographic Survey of Canada and built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson at Newcastle-on-Tyne in England. She was launched in May 1913 and made her first voyage in July 1913.