Hong Kong Cosplay ACG Trip Part 1: Cafe Dre@m'n @kiba Maid ...

Recently we?ve visited Hong Kong over the last weekend of July, to attend their????????, or ACGHK convention. We?ll be having several posts to this trip, but as we?re still sorting out the photos, we?ll kick-start the first post about a place in Hong Kong that we recommend cosplayers and japanese pop culture fans alike to visit: A maid cafe!

We visited the most well-known cafe in Hong Kong,?Cafe Dre@m?n @kiba. It?s pretty accessible, a 5 minutes? walk from the nearest MTR, Yau Ma Tei. At 43H Dundas Street, the building is pretty easy to access, with many floors full of different theme cafes.
Taking the lift up to the 19th floor?s also pretty conveniently brings you to the entrance of the maid cafe.

At the entrance:

A very warm and hearty welcome was given upon entrance; and we were promptly whisked to a comfortable table in the corner, facing the full cafe.
No proficiency with Cantonese, but thankfully members of the staff were able to converse in both English and Mandarin/ ?Putonghua? as what the locals know the language as.
A quick and clear introduction to the menu was given together with a porcelain bell that we could ring at any time to call a maid over. Pretty responsive with great service attitudes.

Visitors to the cafe seemed like quite a variety. Cosplayers from the ACG event came over in their costumes, there were also many other local groups/couples/singles seated at various tables. There was a party going on in their ?event room? with over 10 teenagers in their school attires.
The kitchen was actually just behind us, but the atmosphere was preserved with big colored cloths sealing out the culinary preparations? sounds and sights.

Technically, photos inside were not allowed, but we checked and photos of the food could still be taken.

The delicious soup that came with each main course for only HKD8 (About US$1):

Soup and drinks, while waiting for the main dish!

Strawberry crushed ice drink. We?re using our own merchandise purchased from the ACG convention.

The main course: Omelette rice with a hearty dose of tomato drawing!

Also made the omelette ?more delicious? by performing a Moe Moe Kyun routine with the serving maid.
Our first time at a proper maid cafe but we?ve heard about it online so the routine wasn?t a problem. Plenty of meat and rice, and pretty delicious as well.

We also signed up to be a member, at HKD10. Every HKD100 gets a membership point, and points can be used for certain requests with food, or interactions with the maids.
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Our partner having a drink as well.

The cafe also has interesting events such as dances and performances. On the night of our visit, it was someone?s birthday, so there was a mini dance performance by a maid accompanied by an appropriate song in tow, to celebrate.

The event stage. Photo courtesy of?http://www.openrice.com/english/restaurant/photos.htm?shopid=98858

Definitely a recommended To-Go venue for an excellent maid cafe experience, nice food, good service, great atmosphere ^.^ Will go again next year when we visit Hong Kong once more.

You can find more information on them at:
Their facebook page:?https://www.facebook.com/Cafe.Dreamin.Akiba
Their blog:?http://dreamnakiba.blogspot.hk/

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'Private Benjamin' star Eileen Brennan dies at 80

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Eileen Brennan in the TV series "Private Benjamin."

Emmy-winning actress Eileen Brennan, perhaps best known for her role as Goldie Hawn's commanding officer in the 1980 film "Private Benjamin," has died from bladder cancer at age 80.

"Our family is so grateful for the outpouring of love and respect for Eileen," Brennan's family said in a statement. "She was funny and caring and truly one of a kind. Her strength and love will never be forgotten. She will be greatly missed by all of us."

Brennan played Doreen Lewis in both the movie and television versions of "Private Benjamin."

She was nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actress for the movie role, and won an Emmy award and a Golden Globe for reprising the role in the 1981 to 1983 TV adaptation.

She also played Mrs. Peacock in the 1985 movie "Clue," brothel madam Billie in 1973's "The Sting," and had roles in such films as "The Last Picture Show," " "Murder by Death" and the "Last Picture Show" sequel, "Texasville."

On television, she had recurring roles on such shows as "7th Heaven," "Will and Grace," and "thirtysomething," where she played Elliot Weston's mother, Margaret. She was nominated for a guest-actress Emmy for her "thirtysomething" role.

Brennan is survived by two sons and two grandchildren.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/entertainment/private-benjamin-star-eileen-brennan-dies-80-6C10799875

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Is there no 2600 emulation for the iPad?

orion1052003, on Tue Jul 30, 2013 2:46 PM, said:

Looking around on the net, I didn't find any emulators or videos of 2600 emulation for the iPad. Does anyone know if there is any 2600 emulation currently running on the iPad?I don't have one, but still want to know.??I suppose there is no ios version of Stella. Also wondering, if you can hook an Atari CX-40 joystick to the stelladaptor to USB to lightning connector, and actually play 2600 games on an ipad with an original 2600 controller. (with an emulator) That was be pretty awesome.

Orion

There was one for Jailbroken iOS.
2600.emu
Works with Bluetooth controllers like the Wii remote with classic Game Pad, iCade, and touch screen controls.
It was up to date at Stella 3.8.1. It is a shame that it is gone!
It helps in my 2600 batari Basic development.

I don't have a Stelladapter, I don't think that would work.
Jailbreak turns the iPad into a computer with file system access, downloading, uploading...
I do copy ROMs to SD cards for Harmony and PSP, so the iPad does have USB with the camera connector (unlike the half truth that Windows tablet commercial says).

Source: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/215025-is-there-no-2600-emulation-for-the-ipad/

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Ex-wife of MSP says wedding photograph reveals 'bruising'

Maureen Traquair, MSP Bill Walker's first wife, has already given evidence over assaults allegedly perpetrated on her during his trial at Edinburgh Sheriff Court, including a black eye she said she suffered before the marriage.

However, Sheriff Katherine Mackie agreed to a prosecution move to recall her as a witness to give further testimony as the trial resumed after a break yesterday, despite defence opposition.

The ex-wife agreed she had unexpectedly come into possession of a wedding photograph after giving her earlier evidence. She said her sister had come across it among items belonging to her mother while she was looking for other pictures.

She agreed that she had thrown out her wedding pictures in 1970 following her divorce from her former husband. She earlier said she had married Mr Walker, 71, in January 1967 but he had punched her before throwing her engagement ring out a car window a fortnight before the ceremony.

Fiscal Les Brown asked her if she had looked at the photo and what she saw.

She replied: "Some of the ?bruising is still showing through the concealer and I had some light foundation on as well."

She said she could could still see the bruising which was a dark colour and added that green concealer had been applied which her mother helped with.

Mr Brown asked if she was well aware of the injury and was trying to help her daughter cover it up. She said this was the case.

The bride had also worn a veil for her wedding day. Ms Traquair said it "quite voluminous" and her mother "pulled a little bit out to give a little bit extra cover".

She said: "She adjusted the veil before I left the house." She agreed that the bruising had faded to some extent by the time of the marriage.

She denied a suggestion by defence solicitor advocate Gordon Martin that what she described as a mark caused by Mr Walker was a figment of her imagination.

Mr Martin said: "Is it not simply a shadow on the photograph, if anything?" But she replied: "No."

The artist and award-winning photographer said: "If it were a shadow there would be corresponding shadows on Bill Walker as well."

Mr Walker has denied ?assaulting Ms Traquair in January 1967 in Edinburgh, by punching her on the face. He has also pled not guilty to committing a further assault on her in December 1969 in the city by slapping her on the face.

He further denies committing another assault on her in the 1980s at Balerno in which it is alleged he forcibly removed a ring from her finger.

Prosecutors claim the ?politician assaulted ex-wives Ms Traquair, Anne Walker now Gruber, 71, and Diana Walker, 61. It is also alleged that he assaulted Anne Louise Paterson.

The offences are said to have occurred in Edinburgh, Stirling, Midlothian and Alloa, in Clackmannanshire.

The alleged offences are said to have occurred between January 1967 and January 1995.

Mr Walker, a former SNP member, who sits as MSP for Dunfermline, in Fife, in the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, has denied a total of 23 charges of assault.

The MSP, of Alloa, also denies a further charge of breach of the peace.

Lawyers acting for Mr Walker earlier lodged special defences of self defence to three of the charges he faces.

The trial before Sheriff Mackie continues.

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Source: http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/ex-wife-of-msp-says-wedding-photograph-reveals-bruising.21736605

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Poland's first face transplant patient goes home

Poland's first face transplant patient, identified only by his first name Grzegorz, speaks at a press conference after he was discharged from the hospital, in Gliwice, Poland, Tuesday, July 30, 2013. The 33-year-old man said he owes his doctor "everything" following a skin-and-bone transplant on May 15, three weeks after losing his nose, upper jaw and cheeks in an accident at the brick factory where he worked. (AP Photo/Tomasz Griessgraber) POLAND OUT

Poland's first face transplant patient, identified only by his first name Grzegorz, speaks at a press conference after he was discharged from the hospital, in Gliwice, Poland, Tuesday, July 30, 2013. The 33-year-old man said he owes his doctor "everything" following a skin-and-bone transplant on May 15, three weeks after losing his nose, upper jaw and cheeks in an accident at the brick factory where he worked. (AP Photo/Tomasz Griessgraber) POLAND OUT

Poland's first face transplant patient, identified only by his first name Grzegorz, attends a press conference after he was discharged from the hospital, in Gliwice, Poland, Tuesday, July 30, 2013. The 33-year-old man said he owes his doctor "everything" following a skin-and-bone transplant on May 15, three weeks after losing his nose, upper jaw and cheeks in an accident at the brick factory where he worked. (AP Photo/Tomasz Griessgraber) POLAND OUT

WARSAW, Poland (AP) ? Poland's first face transplant patient was discharged from the hospital Tuesday, speaking with some effort at a press conference just 11 weeks after the extensive surgery that saved his life.

The 33-year-old man said he owes his doctors "everything" following a skin-and-bone transplant on May 15, three weeks after losing his nose, upper jaw and cheeks in an accident at the brick factory where he worked. Doctors say it was the world's fastest time frame for such an operation.

Doctors who performed the transplant at the Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology in Gliwice, in southern Poland, said the rehabilitation is proceeding faster than expected thanks to the "courage and determination" of the patient, identified only as Grzegorz.

He can breathe on his own, see, eat, taste and speak, although his speech is hard to understand because the face muscles still need to regain mobility. When that is achieved, through intensive exercise, he will need surgery on his right eyelid, which remains motionless. At the news conference, his eyes were hidden behind sunglasses.

The surgery reconstructed the area around the eyes, nose, jaw and palate and other facial areas, with the transplant running from above his right eye, under his left eye and around his face to his neck.

He will need to avoid large gatherings and sick people to protect against infection. He will take medication for the rest of his life, the anesthesiologist, Dr. Sebastian Giebel, told the news conference. Potted plants, rugs and the man's dog had to be removed from his home because they were potential sources of infection, he said.

Grzegorz will be able to resume work, though he will have to avoid working in agriculture, where he could catch fungi infection from the soil, according to Dr. Adam Maciejewski, who led the 27-hour operation

His mother was making roast duck for his homecoming, said his sister, who identified herself only as Barbara.

"We will see what comes next, but we are and will be with him," she said.

The patient took the microphone to thank his doctors. "My speech isn't clear, but it's really important that it is there," he said. "I know it's still a long way." His words were transcribed in a broadcast by TVN24 after the press conference.

He was injured in an April 23 accident at his job at a concrete brick factory near the southwestern city of Wroclaw when a packaging machine tore off most of his face, including the upper jaw.

He received intensive treatment at a hospital in Wroclaw that saved his life and eyesight. But an attempt to reattach his own face failed, leaving an area close to the brain exposed to infections.

The damage was too extensive for doctors to temporarily seal the wound, and an urgent transplant was the only way to save the man's life. Face transplants are extraordinarily complicated and relatively rare procedures that usually require extensive preparation of the recipient over a period of months or years, but the Polish patient's condition was deteriorating so rapidly that the doctors had to act fast.

The donor, a 34-year-old man, was chosen from a national registry of potential donors after his age, gender, blood group and body features were determined to be a good match for the injured man.

More than two dozen transplants of the face or parts of the face have been performed around the world. The first one was a partial face transplant on a woman maimed by her dog in France in 2005.

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/bbd825583c8542898e6fa7d440b9febc/Article_2013-07-30-EU-Poland-Face-Transplant/id-6bfb28622fed472a82c82076cac47fb0

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Radio waves carry news of climate change: Surprising tool to measure our changing climate

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Radio waves reflecting back to Earth from the ionosphere can offer valuable news about the extent of climate change. His simple, cost-effective measurement can be a valuable contribution to the ongoing effort to track climate change, adding to current measurements for a more holistic picture.

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Report: Car insurance premiums are lower for college graduates

A recent report reveals that some companies consider your education level and type of employment, in addition to several other factors, to determine your car insurance premium costs.

According to the report published by the Consumer Federation of America (Consumerfed.org-PDF), companies like GEICO, Progressive, Liberty Mutual and Farmers charge you more if you have only a high school education or are a "blue collar" worker. They charge even more for high school dropouts. According to Consumer Watch Dog: "Janitors may pay more than business executives. People who rent may pay more than home owners. People who live in poor, crime-ridden parts of town will pay much more than others." But of course, other factors, such as your driving record, will determine how much you pay overall. The implication, however, is that some car insurance companies judge that college graduates and people with "white collar' jobs are more responsible and careful drivers than people with a lower level of education and people with "blue collar" jobs. According to the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) report, (PDF): GEICO often charges a factory worker with a high school degree far higher annual premiums than a plant supervisor with a college degree ? 45% more in Seattle ($870 vs. $599), 40% more in Hartford ($1299 vs. $926), 33% more in Oakland ($922 vs. $693), 23% more in Louisville ($2200 vs. $1791), 21% more in Chicago ($1013 vs. $840), and 20% more in Baltimore ($1971 vs. $1647). Happily, other companies, including State Farm, Allstate, Nationwide, USAA and Travelers do not use education or work status to calculate insurance rates. As unsettling as you may find the information, the companies would probably point to statistics to support their policy, and it is likely that car insurance companies in other countries and other parts of the world follow the same policy.

Source: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/355417

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BMW eases path to EV ownership to gain 'meaningful' sales

By Andreas Cremer and Deepa Seetharaman

LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - BMW aims to win a "meaningful" segment of the electric car market with its i-series battery-powered models by offering luxurious styling and packages designed to help owners overcome the traditional hurdles to electric car ownership.

Among the incentives offered by the world's biggest luxury carmaker is what it calls "BMW add-on mobility", which gives owners access to a pool of traditional gas-powered BMW vehicles to use on longer journeys when an electric car might not be practical.

The option aims to allay a common concern among potential buyers of electric cars -- so-called range anxiety, or the fear of being stranded when the battery runs out of electricity. This is part of BMW's broader push to broaden the appeal of its i3 electric car, which was unveiled by executives in three cities worldwide on Monday.

The company said the projected range for its i3 standard model would be about 80-100 miles on a single charge.

"We're not entering to be a niche player," BMW sales chief Ian Robertson told reporters at the i3's launch event in London, staged to coincide with others in New York and Beijing.

"We're targeting meaningful sales," he said, in an electric-car market that BMW expects will grow to between 150,000 and 160,000 vehicles globally this year, from 7,000 in 2010.

BMW has declined to give sales or production goals for the four-seater i3, to be followed early next year by a battery-powered i8 sports car. During an interview with Reuters TV, BMW Chief Executive Officer Norbert Reithofer said he expects the vehicle to make a "positive contribution" to earnings immediately.

Limited driving ranges, high prices and relatively Spartan interiors have hobbled demand for electric vehicles made the other car makers with including Nissan Motor Co Ltd, General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co.. Edmunds.com predicts electric cars will account for 0.1 percent of the U.S. market this year, 1.1 percent in 2017 and 2.3 percent by 2020.

BMW joins U.S. automaker Tesla Motors Inc in trying to change the stereotype of electric cars through beautiful styling. Both companies are also taking steps to make owning a battery powered car easier. BMW's Reithofer called Tesla "an example" of how a premium car company could approach the electric car market.

"Tesla is one of those brands which is trying to make this type of car premium and emotionally involving," said Adrian van Hooydonk, senior vice president of group design for BMW.

Tesla has said it expects to deliver 21,000 Model S cars worldwide. The strength of demand for the Model S has surprised industry experts, investors and analysts.

The upcoming i8 will rival Tesla's Model S sedan, which starts at around $70,000 before a federal tax credit. Tesla is working on a lower cost vehicle that would compete with the i3.

BMW already sees good sales potential for its first all-electric vehicle in affluent urban regions of California, Europe and Asia, Robertson said. Some 92,000 people have expressed an interest online in test-driving the i3.

Demand will rise as the number of people living in urban environments more than doubles to 4-5 billion over the next 20-25 years, Robertson said, citing United Nations projections.

While the i3's 34,950 euro ($46,400) price tag is well above the conventional BMW 3-Series sedans, it also qualifies for tax breaks and generous upfront government incentives in markets such as Britain and the United States.

The company, which has trademarked its new "i" series through to i9, does not yet have another i-branded model in development to follow the i8, Robertson said.

(Additional reporting by Deepa Seetharaman in New York; Editing by Pravin Char and Ken Wills)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bmw-eases-path-ev-ownership-gain-meaningful-sales-215018848.html

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Kentucky GOP suspends spokeswoman after DUI

by Joe Arnold

WHAS11.com

Posted on July 29, 2013 at 10:08 AM

Updated today at 10:09 AM

LOUISVILLE, Ky (WHAS11) -- The Republican Party of Kentucky has suspended its spokeswoman after she was arrested for driving under the influence in Lexington late Saturday night.

Kelsey Cooper was placed on a two week unpaid suspension, said RPK Chairman Steve Robertson, who added that Cooper would not be available for comment.

"She has learned a very valuable lesson about what she should and shouldn't do," Robertson said. "We look forward to moving forward from here." Since Cooper was hired as the RPK Communications Director earlier this year, she has been an active and vocal critic of Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes.

WKYT-TV in Lexington reports Cooper stopped her car near officers Saturday night and told them she was lost.

Source: http://www.whas11.com/news/local/Kentucky-GOP-suspends-spokeswoman-after-DUI-217379361.html

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The Matrix Of Hell And Two Open-Source Projects For The Emerging Agnostic Cloud

Docker,?an app container service from the co-founder at DotCloud, and Salt,?an open DevOps platform from the founder of Salt Stack, were mentioned this past week at OSCON as two of the most exciting new open-source efforts. Complexity comes with the cloud and it fit with enterprise data centers. The Docker team calls this new world of services and devices the matrix of hell. The Salt folks see salvation in speed -- perhaps to save us all from the hell that comes with heavyweight systems that require extensive resources and are slow due to being built when distributed systems were not as common as they are today.

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