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How does one breathe new life into a retrolicious toy like Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots? In this day and age, it's a motion-control setup from Zachery Shivers and Anne Flinchbaugh that they created for the TI Design Challenge.
The motion controls arrive thanks to a pair of accelerometer-sporting Chronos watches, one per wrist, that interact with some custom circuitry under the ring (not standard back in the 1970s). Physical punches translate into quick jabs inside the ring, with the goal still being "knock your opponent's head skyward for the win".
The campy video gets good after the brief "introductions":
Want to build your own motion-controlled Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots ring? Good news! This is a DIY project, with the instructions located in the Rock 'em Sock 'em source link that follows: [Rock 'em Sock 'em via MAKE via Engadget]


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Guaranteed to make a bold statement this season is the Ravel ladies' Desoto flat sandal. Ravel's Desoto slip-on flat features a woven detailed strap entwined with silver discs, finished in a white leather and with a silver toe thong. Desoto will bring a bold, strong finish to your summer look and will lend itself to a wealth of outfits this season!
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Meat: The Greatest Gift of All
Come the holidays, being a pitmaster means there's absolutely no shortage of gifts to choose from to bring a smile to my face. With such a breadth of grilling related products, it can be a chore separating the useful from useless, and delightfully kitschy from the cringe inducing (nice rack?). I've put together a short list of things I've recieved, or wish to get, that are sure to add extra warmth to the fire burning in your special griller's heart.


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The two-week search for Jennifer Huston came to a close Tuesday, when her vehicle and body were found on a rural road near Sheridan. On Thursday, her death was ruled a suicide by asphyxiation by the Oregon State Medical Examiner's office.
Huston, 38, had been missing since July 24 when she disappeared from Newberg after running errands.
Huston's 1999 Lexus SUV was spotted outside of Sheridan about six miles down Southeast Gopher Valley Road, off Highway 18 around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday by Vern Clemmer, 74, when he went out to chop wood on his 30-acre property. Spotting the vehicle, he said he wrote down the license plate because it seemed suspicious. When he returned to the house and told his wife Charlotte Clemmer what he saw, she said her heart fell.
Vern Clemmer said he smelled what he thought was a dead deer.
"I was going to look for a dead deer on the way back and now I'm glad I didn't," Clemmer said. He said he didn't investigate further because he got an "eerie feeling." He said the Lexus was parked roughly 50 yards in from the road and in an area that required the driver to unlatch a roped gate, pass a "No Trespassing" sign and re-attach the gate.Newberg-Dundee Police Department detectives have not established a connection to the property or the property owners, but there was no evidence of a crash, damage to her vehicle and the fuel tank was full, according to a press release from the NDPD.
"NDPD detectives and crime scene technicians from the Oregon State Police located the empty box of the sleeping aids that were purchased at the Rite-Aid pharmacy, and a gas receipt from the Circle Kay gas station in Newberg," according to the release. "Inside the vehicle detectives found a note addressed to members of Jennifer's family. Jennifer's purse and personal effects to include her cell phone, were also located in the vehicle. The cell phone was analyzed by our computer forensic detectives. There were no indications of nefarious actives."
Officials said based on the evidence, detectives and the medical examiner determined Huston had been deceased "fairly close to the time she was reported missing."
"The whole entire county was checked as best as it can," NDPD Capt. Jeff Kosmicki said. Police spent the past week following up on tips from as far away as Michigan and Texas. "And of course (the San Juan Islands). None of those were more significant than the other. I'm not really sure how one became more important than another. We received tips from all around this half of the nation."
Kosmicki described the scene as a driveway on private property, although not a main driveway and surrounded by a "thick canopy of trees."
Kallen Huston, Jennifer's husband, spoke to the media during two press conferences in an attempt to find his wife. He said she was acting erratically the night she left to run errands. Records show she went to an ATM before purchasing snacks and sleeping pills from Rite-Aid in Newberg.
"If you can come home, do," Kallen Huston said in a press conference last week. "The boys need you, I need you."
The "Find Jennifer Huston" Facebook page garnered nearly 45,000 likes since her disappearance and posted Wednesday "Thank you to everyone who has helped us search for Jennifer. We are grieving at this time and ask that we be given privacy."
The family also released a statement Thursday evening.
"Our hearts ache today. We have lost our first born child. We have lost a wife and a mother. We don't know what lead Jennifer to this dark place and to this end and perhaps never will understand this," the statement read. "We are incredibly thankful to family, friends, community and media for their searching, supporting and getting the information out that lead to locating Jennifer's car and finding Jennifer. ... This community really came together to support this effort as so many could relate to a mother of two small children and a husband desperately looking for his wife."
The family also thanked the NDPD for its efforts and the media for its assistance in spreading the message of their search. A celebration of life will be held in the future, although a date is not yet set. The Huston family said the information will be
Hillside Fellowship Church Pastor Zach Elliott helped organize a prayer session at the church last week and said the situation is heartbreaking, especially for the two young boys, ages 6 and 2.
"Just as a person and as a dad, I can empathize up to a point, but there are no real words to express the grief that has probably surrounded the family today," Elliott said. "I know from the Huston family, what they have said over and over, is just that they have appreciated the support and the love and the encouragement that they have felt from not only the community but the folks that were involved in searching -- all of those people."
He said anyone wishing to leave notes, cards or flowers for the family may do so at Hillside Fellowship or contact him at email@example.com. Elliott said those items would be passed along to the family at an appropriate time.


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Cali - also called "the Branch of Heaven" - is a city in south-western Colombia with a spring-like climate during most of the year and warmhearted and hospitable inhabitants, making it a favorite destination of travelers to South America. Cali is also considered one of the country's main business hubs, due to its sugar industry.
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Caleños shrug off criticism of their city with the saying, 'Cali es Cali y lo demás es loma, ¿oís?' (Cali is Cali, and the rest [of Colombia] is just mountain, ya hear?).
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Connecting with Students through Standards
In my teaching and research career, I have been fortunate to connect with students of varying backgrounds by using ASTM International standards to give them real-world design and testing experience.
I have been teaching undergraduate classes for a relatively short time, but have enjoyed the classes where standards have been used for the labs and hands-on testing. One good example is the engineering material lab, where comprehensive testing methods for various materials are introduced to the students. Different ASTM International standards are used such as D638, Test Method for Tensile Properties of Plastics; C158, Test Methods for Strength of Glass by Flexure; E18, Test Methods for Rockwell Hardness of Metallic Materials; and E1876, Test Method for Dynamic Young's Modulus, Shear Modulus and Poisson's Ratio by Impulse Excitation of Vibration, to name a few.
These standards cover different types of materials ranging from polymer and ceramic to metal and provide nondestructive and destructive testing methods. The students in this class are in the early stages of gaining experience in the engineering field, and having them utilize standards shows students where to find and how to use standards. The standards serve as a practical extension of the textbook content and class evaluations show that students love this class.
In addition to classes, I have been supervising undergraduate students from the National Science Foundation's Research Experience for Undergraduates program. NSF REU programs have provided undergraduate students with the chance to experience research activities for about two and half months during each summer semester. These junior and senior students, with chemistry or physical science backgrounds, are usually from other universities and colleges and are seeking research experience. Some of them have not had any experience in using ASTM International standards, which are more applied in engineering fields.
In many cases, projects have been assigned to them that involve incorporating ASTM standards into their experiments. It is my responsibility to introduce the use of ASTM standards and teach the students to adopt the correct standards for their experiments. They have to write a report and present their project summary based on the data collected using ASTM standards. They learn a lot from the project and, more important, they are exposed to standards.
Senior design students have to complete capstone projects, and this also gives them a chance to put their new knowledge of standards into practical use before they graduate. They normally have to select different materials for their design based on their testing results. Standards are extremely important since they provide basic guidelines for material property comparisons. I have supervised several senior design groups in the last several years. In one example, ASTM standards were used to compare carbon fiber epoxy composite and aluminum for a proposed electric car frame structure.
Graduate students have been working in our research center on multiple projects that require collaboration with industries or governmental agencies. They have experience in using standards and are more focused on using certain standards in the area of composite materials for their research projects. They frequently need to collect data for their research. In my role, I have given them specific suggestions for using certain standards to achieve their engineering goals. We use various standards to guide mechanical testing and material characterization. We estimate that at least 50 ASTM International standards have been used.
In addition to training graduate students on choosing the most suitable standards for their research topics, I stress that other than using the standards, they should have the mindset that new procedures can be developed to complement the current standards. I suggest to them that they join ASTM International; the students are excited when they learn that there are scholarship opportunities and other benefits after they sign up for free student membership.
It has been quite a great experience for me to introduce students to using ASTM standards and assist them in their work. Doing the hands-on work of using ASTM test methods and other standards develops a strong connection with them and gives them what they need to advance in their careers.Haibin Ning, Ph.D., a research assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is ASTM International's 2013 Professor of the Year. In addition to teaching courses in materials characterization and testing at UAB, manufacturing processes and finite element analysis, he manages the operation of the advanced materials testing and processing laboratory at the university and conducts research on fiber reinforced composite materials.


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Ink, Paper, Silk: One Hundred Years of Collecting Japanese Art
Exhibit - Painting | December 12, 2018 – April 14, 2019 every day | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
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BAMPFA's Japanese art collection began in 1919 with a remarkable donation of more than a thousand woodblock prints from the estate of UC Berkeley Professor of English William Dallam Armes. This exhibition features a selection of these exceptional prints, as well as hanging scroll paintings, screens, lacquerware, and ceramics that have entered the collection over the century since this transformative gift changed the small, mostly regional art collection of the University forever, creating a foundation for what would become BAMPFAs extensive holdings of Asian art and helping catapult the museum into a new era of international art collecting.
A remarkable group of surimono printssmall, privately published prints made for special occasions and intended as giftsis on view, for the first time, along with translations of the poetry inscribed on these exceptionally beautiful works. The delicately painted White Swallows by a Waterfall by Okamoto Shuki (18071862) demonstrates the Japanese artists special connection to the natural world. The grandeur of the impressive Japanese tradition of screen painting is on display in several examples of this format, including Children Playing on an Elephant, attributed to the eighteenth-century painter Nagasawa Rosetsu (17541799). In this charming work, young boys line up to climb over a massive, reclining elephant, feeding him tufts of grass and wondering at his enormity. The exhibition also features several fine lacquerware and ceramic pieces that have recently joined the collection.
A powerful calligraphic work by Mokuan Shōtōa Chan monk who came from China, settled in Japan during the seventeenth century, and helped to found the Obaku Zen sect of Buddhismis the most recent addition to the collection. It takes its place alongside Armess gift and those of many other donors as we celebrate the collections first century and look forward to a bright future of collecting Japanese art at BAMPFA.
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Today you are lucky, lucky because we are featuring Madder Root, the collaboration of two Old Town women (Janyce and Christina) who have come together to make simple, rustic, functional linens with vibrant, modern and fresh colors. Let's take a look!
Madder Root gains their color inspiration from nature – with all their inks hand-mixed they are able to tweak the hues until they get exactly what they want. When you visit their Etsy store you'll see that although they cover every color in the rainbow, the palette works so well together and recalls kitchens of the 1950s and before with mustard yellows, bright teals and luscious reds. Now, if you're wondering where they got the name (I certainly was), madder roots are used as a natural dye. With Janyce and Christina being obsessed with all-things-natural it was an easy name that stuck. Not to mention it's the name of Christina's dog!
Madder Root will be bringing a bevy of organic linen tea towels and napkins with them for your purchasing pleasure to The BIG THAW on Saturday, April 16th at Mayo Street Arts. In addition, they will bring a selection of their discontinued recipe cards which will be available at a discounted price to BIG THAW shoppers! Wow wow, those are perfect. They'll also be releasing two new designs that will be ready in time for the THAW – one featuring a crab (yes) and another that falls inline with their folk/vintage inspired collection. New designs will become available throughout the year, as well, so always keep an eye turned towards their Etsy shop where you can view their newest wares.
The Madder Root girls are obviously talented – but when I found out they did all their own photography I was extra impressed. Look at those chickens and eggs up there! Sometimes two creative, like-minded people come together to make something that is more than the sum of all its parts. We are so excited that the two of them found each other in time for the THAW! 🙂 When I asked Christina about how the the creative partnership came together for her and Janyce, she had the following to say:
"Like all great friendships we came together over lobster and flannel. Right from the beginning, we shared a common passion for textiles, art, food, the environment and wanted to collaborate on a project that gradually evolved into Madder Root. We experimented early on with other products, but our love for all things kitchen moved us to focus on tea towels, napkins and other kitchen accessories."
We love that, and we love them. Come see Madder Root and MORE at The BIG THAW on Saturday, April 16th at 10 Mayo St. in Portland. 10am-4pm, rain or shine, my friends!