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Rare cause for celebration in the world of esports happened the other day. The news that Nicole Lapointe-Jameson will step down as CEO may well be publicly lamented by the esports Twitterati but the rest can breath a sigh of relief and dare to finally pop some corks. The writing had been on the wall for some time. A string of high profile failures across their various teams, a string of scandalous exposes on this website among others, lawsuits with former players and haemorraging sponsors were all indicative of a failing organisation.

When I looked at the Astro City Mini, I thought it was about as far as the “toy arcade cabinet” idea could reasonably be expected to go for $140. Consider the evolution of the concept: SNK put out the Neo Geo Mini for about $100 a while back. The parts and the screen weren’t bad, but it was just way too small to reasonably expect to play. You couldn’t see the bullets in the shooting games, and trying the special moves in the fighting games might break your fingers.

Cleopatra Selene, the daughter of Cleopatra VII, Queen of Egypt, and Marcus Antonius (known as Mark Antony), Roman consul and triumvir, was born in 40 BCE. This made her around ten years old when the civil war between her father and his fellow triumvir Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (known as Octavian) culminated in Octavian’s victory over Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium in 31 BCE and his conquest and annexation of Egypt the following year.

Field of Dreams' status as an all-timer baseball movie is so secure that Major League Baseball has taken to hosting an annual "Field of Dreams Game," on a cornfield in Iowa. (What I wouldn't give for a Major League Game or, even better, a Bull Durham Game.)  But despite that, there are quite a few knocks on Field of Dreams that have emerged over the years, often shared by my friend Craig Calcaterra.

El Patio 139 E. Andreas Rd., Palm Springs (between Palm Canyon and Indian Canyon) Menu | Website | phone (760) 832-6332 | Mon-Sat 9am-9pm, Sun 9 am-2pm​ ​Our star rating: 2.5 stars of of 5 On our many forays into downtown Palm Springs, we frequently peer into the festive scene at El Patio, located along the sidewalk on Andreas Road between Palm Canyon and Indian Canyon. Its outdoor dining area is frequently packed with a fun, noisy crowd enjoying margaritas, tequila shots, beers and snacks under the verdant canopy of a huge ficus tree.

Dear Queenagers Hope you are having a lovely Sunday – I swam this morning in the sunshine, nearly got taken out by a seagull which wasn’t looking where it was flying, and admired the ducks and cormorants who were diving and squawking with great enthusiasm. I then tried to buy a Christmas wreath but baulked at the price tag (£40!! For a bit of chopped off Xmas tree) and I also said no to the mistletoe (£15 for a small sprig).

LaForge has apparently built a giant scale model of the HMS Victory, yet Data fails to appreciate it because his encyclopaedic knowledge is devilishly short on context. Then, in a rather tenuous link, LaForge hands Data a Basil Rathbone pipe and invites him to the holodeck to play at being Sherlock Holmes. Data excels in the role... so much, in fact, that LaForge storms out in disappointment, because there's just no fun in watching Data slavishly execute a story he already knows.

A lot of places are building elevated rail these days, something I’m quite a fan of. But with more elevated rail comes more NIMBYism, and with NIMBYism comes bold statements that are backed by tenuous evidence, if any!  One of the most common comparisons I’ve seen, from Toronto to Montreal and beyond, is the comparison between an elevated rail guideway and an elevated highway — this comparison is a bad one, and I will detail why in this piece.

Eli AlbrechtHusband, #LawDad, Acquisitions (M&A) lawyer, and goat farmer. I work at a top BigLaw firm, but love small to mid-size buyers and sellers. Georgetown Law + @ Johns Hopkins business school + sold a security company + served in the IDF Special Forces. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kja2t1p2YnQ%3D%3D