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The unceremonious removal of its Theodore Roosevelt statue – theday.com

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The American Museum of Natural History, a wonderful institution founded in pursuit of science and truth, has been fulfilling a lifesaving mission for the past nine months, administering COVID-19 vaccines seven days a week. Under the great blue whale, more than 85,000 shots have been given to New Yorkers (including us). President Ellen Futter and Board of Trustees Chairman Lewis Bernard should be proud on behalf of the entire museum.

But Futter and Bernard should be ashamed at the way they exiled a true giant of history, Teddy Roosevelt, with a dead-of-night removal of his equestrian statue to be carted off to the godforsaken North Dakota Badlands for a future TR library that may never materialize.

His sin was to be portrayed in the 1939 bronze work on horseback next to armed native guides of the American West and Africa on foot. If the trio were all mounted or all standing, they would have had no racial hierarchy that the museum found upsetting. Add in a cowardly Bill de Blasio, and one of our greatest New Yorkers has been banished. Hes good enough for Mount Rushmore, but not for Central Park West.

TR was no saint; not even saints are saints. But in 60 years, he was governor, president, Medal of Honor recipient, Nobel Peace Laureate and much more. Now the words of his New York state memorial at the museum Ranchman, Scholar, Explorer, Scientist, Conservationist, Naturalist, Statesman, Author, Historian, Humanitarian, Soldier and Patriot frame an empty plaza.

Meantime, at the top of the structure remain statues of Daniel Boone, John James Audubon, William Clark and Meriwether Lewis, slaveholders among them. They stay and TR gets hauled away? What would be fitting is a new heroic statue to the man in the arena.2022 New York Daily News. Visit nydailynews.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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Best Movies Coming to Netflix in February 2022 – Den of Geek

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By the mid-1990s, Al Pacino had completed his transformation from the restrained, internalized young thespian who rocketed to fame in The Godfather to the loud, scenery-chewing showstopper of films like Scent of a Woman and Scarface. So it only made sense for Pacino to eventually portray the most brazen showman of all, the Devil himself, in director Taylor Hackfords film version of Andrew Neidermans 1990 novel.

Pacinos Satan, under the name John Milton (look it up), heads a New York City law firm that specializes in defending distasteful clients. He recruits hotshot Florida attorney Kevin Lomax (Keanu Reeves, stiff as always) to join the firm, moving Lomax and his wife Mary Ann (Charlize Theron) to the Big Apple and immediately setting about corrupting Kevins soul.

The idea of a powerful legal firm run by Satan is almost begging for satire, but the film plays it remarkably straight, resulting in a few genuine chills. Even Pacino is relatively laid back until the bonkers third act, which features flames, demons, Theron and Connie Nielsen in the nude, and Pacino bellowing his big monologue like its the last hell ever give. A little long and overripe, The Devils Advocate is nevertheless a fun horror watch for a lazy Sunday afternoon.

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Donnie Brasco might not be one of the all-time great crime thrillers, but it is one of the most underrated ones. Directed by Mike Newellyes, that Mike Newell from Four Weddings and a FuneralBrasco offers a rollicking account of one of the most extensive FBI undercover operations in its war with the mafia. Johnny Depp plays the man who calls himself Brasco, a streetwise patriot who must live with the fear of being discovered for years, and with the unlikely sense of camaraderie and friendship that can develop between himself and a midlevel guy who never made it far, Lefty Ruggiero (Al Pacino).

Its a top notch thriller with superb performances in the margins, including from the late great Bruno Kirby.

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Jim Haynes: Australians are lightweight drinkers and other furphies – The Australian Financial Review

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Despard, who famously led a disastrous campaign in the Maori Wars, also gave an order that prohibited citizens from walking on any part of the grass-covered area in front of the barracks when listening to the band play. This had been the towns chief entertainment for many years.

The 99th were so annoyed when Despard stopped their grog ration that they forgot their obligations to their Queen and country, by refusing to obey the lawful commands of their Officers, or to perform any further duty, and went on strike.

The barque Tasmania was chartered and 400 men and officers of the 11th Regiment in Hobart embarked for Sydney to disarm the mutineers of the 99th Regiment.

An offshore gale kept the vessel from entering the Harbour for seven days but eventually the 11th Regiment arrived in Sydney on January 8, 1846 and marched four-deep, with fixed bayonets, along George Street with the band playing Paddy Will You Now until they entered the Barrack Square to a hearty welcome and cheers from the 99th Regiment and their families, together with as many citizens as could fit into the barrack grounds.

Thus ended the mutiny of the 99th Regiment. The grog ration was restored and Sydneys citizens were again allowed to walk on the grass in front of Barrack Square, and listen to the band play on Thursday afternoons.

One thing to note here is that the 99th were a British regiment!

Limits on the sale of alcohol created the 6 oclock swill.

One of the most common myths about Australians is that we are great beer drinkers. This is simply not true anymore. Before the advent of refrigeration, rum and other spirits were the popular drinks, along with some styles of beer that are drunk at room temperature, like ale and porter.

After it became possible to refrigerate beer, we became prone to drinking relatively large amounts of cold lager, due to the climate being rather hotter here than in Europe, which is quite understandable.

There was a period when we were quite famous for overindulgence in lager. The soldiers riots that occurred on Valentines Day 1916 in Liverpool and Sydney were the result of trainee soldiers being denied access to alcohol at the overcrowded army training camps in the Liverpool district.

This mutiny was one of the reasons New South Wales adopted the infamous six oclock closing, which led to binge-drinking of cold lager and many social problems. Some other states had similar legislation, and similar social problems such as illegal liquor sales, the development of criminal networks and police corruption.

Today Australia rates a lowly 17th in the list of nations judged on the consumption of beer per head of population. Our figure is 75 litres per head per year, which puts us in the same ballpark as the USA (73 litres) and the UK (70 litres), and way behind European nations like the Czech Republic (189 litres), Austria (108 litres), Romania (100 litres) and Germany (99 litres). In Africa, Namibia (96 litres) beats us hands down, and in Central America we lag a full 3 litres behind Panama (78 litres).

I regret to inform those who take pride in our beer-drinking reputation that we rank higher, 14th place, in the list of wine-drinking nations!

This uniquely Australian term for regurgitation can be easily proven to derive from a hugely popular, long-running series of advertising cartoons that appeared in The Bulletin magazine from 1909 to 1920.

However, before we demystify the weird and wonderful (and magnificently politically incorrect) history of Chunder Loo of Akim Foo and Cobra boot polish, we need to dismiss the far more recent attempt to explain the origin of the term, which is a pathetically obvious furphy.

Barry Humphries as Aunty Edna with Barry Crocker in The Adventures of Barry McKenzie.

Since the 1960s, a story has circulated that chunder is an abbreviated version of an old sailing days warning, watch under, that was yelled by sailors who were about to vomit while working aloft in a sailing ships rigging.

Even at first glance this derivation seems highly unlikely to be valid. Firstly, sailors develop their sea legs relatively quickly and, secondly, they would be unlikely to go aloft feeling obviously nauseous. Then there is the fact that regurgitation usually comes on rather suddenly and the victim is highly unlikely to take the time to shout a warning. Opening the mouth to shout anything would, in all likelihood, precipitate involuntary vomiting.

Although I have no definite proof, I suspect that this story is the work of Barry Humphries who, in the 1960s, invented Bazza McKenzie, a cartoon caricature who represented the ultimate extreme example of the crude Aussie ocker.

The cartoon strip, which was suggested to Humphries by Peter Cook and drawn by Nicholas Garland, began in Private Eye magazine in 1964. It was a highly satirical send-up of the uncultured, sex-starved, boozy Australian expat living in Londons Earls Court.

The character became enormously popular, because the idea appealed on so many levels. British readers loved the put down of the stupid Aussie, while many Aussies enjoyed the satire and laughed affectionately, recognising an exaggerated version of people they knew. In many ways Bazza was an assertion of Aussieness over English pomposity. On a completely different level, many young Aussie males identified with the character as a role model and hero!

Two movies, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie and Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, were made and there were popular songs, like Chunder in the Old Pacific Sea.

As part of the satire, Humphries invented colourful, pseudo Aussie colloquialisms, such as point percy at the porcelain for urination; technicolour yawn, rainbow laugh and liquid laugh for vomiting; and supposedly common Aussie curses like May your chooks turn into emus and kick your dunny down.

(I had the opportunity recently to ask Barry Crocker, who played the part of Bazza McKenzie in the movies, whether it was true that, when the film was shown in the USA, there were sub-titles to explain the Aussie jargon, and the phrase above was sub-titled May your fowls turn into large Australian native birds and kick down your outhouse. Barry confirmed that it was the case!)

In one adventure from the comic strip, Bazza vomits from an upper deck of a ship over a woman on the deck below, who is holding a chihuahua. He rushes down to apologise, sees the tiny vomit-drenched dog and exclaims, Struth, I dont remember eatin that!

Along with all the newly invented pseudo Aussie terms, Humphries was also responsible for bringing back into popularity genuine Aussie slang words like chunder and phrases like up shit creek without a paddle.

The obviously phony story of the derivation of chunder has a very Humphries-like flavour.

The real derivation is an even better story.

Samuel Rowe was a successful furniture and textile designer of the Arts and Crafts movement who migrated to Australia in 1899 at the age of 29 and became the founder of what is today the National Art School.

Rowe saw opportunities for expanding the family boot polish business into Australia and set up a factory in 1908 in Sydney, to manufacture their Cobra brand boot polish.

In 1909, the company began an advertising campaign in the hugely popular Bulletin magazine, which involved the artist brothers, Lionel and Norman Lindsay, drawing a full-page cartoon each fortnight, with an accompanying rhyming verse, written by the short-story writer and regular Bulletin contributor Ernest OFerrall.

As bizarre as it may seem, in the heyday of the White Australia policy, the hero of the cartoon series was an Indian who worked shining shoes at Circular Quay. His heroic exploits were all due to his use of Cobra boot polish. The heros name was Chunder Loo of Akim Foo. The name sounded vaguely Indian and amusing, and Akim Foo was actually a failed campaign battle in the Ashanti War.

The Chunder Loo cartoons became phenomenally popular and The Bulletin was the most successful magazine in the land (it was known as The Bushmans Bible). By 1912, the cartoons were appearing weekly.

All bushmen, working men and soldiers knew the cartoons and, somewhere along the way, Chunder Loo became universal Aussie rhyming slang for spew and was used by Australian soldiers in World War I. As is usually the case with such colloquialisms, it was soon shortened to just chunder.

This is an edited extract from Great Furphies of Australian History by Jim Haynes (Allen & Unwin)

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Free Online Roulette Simulator

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Live Roulette | Evolution

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Evolution Live Roulette is the most popular, authentic and exciting live dealer Roulette available online. There are multiple game variants, the largest number of generic, VIP and native speaking dealer tables, and dedicated tables for optimum control over your online brand, and even Dual Play Roulette, which brings together land-based and online players at the same on-premise tables. Then there are innovations such as Lightning Roulette, Immersive Roulette, Speed Roulette, Instant Roulette and Double Ball Roulette to provide our licensees with uniquely engaging ways to attract and retain more players.

Players enjoy a world-class live gaming experience. Our multi-camera immersive view brings players closer to the action by allowing them to follow every spin of the wheel and movement of the ball. Theres a choice of game views and rich features such as Autoplay, extensive statistics from which bets can be placed, chat and the possibility to save up to 15 favourite bets.

Scalability means thousands of concurrent players can enjoy the live games on all devices. We cater for all player types with our worlds widest range of online Roulette tables. Whichever live table your players choose, theyll experience the thrill of playing alongside other players, at a real wheel, with a choice of both real dealer and automated games, and with the live action streamed to their screens in flawless HD quality.

Whichever live table your players choose, theyll experience the thrill of playing alongside other players, at a real wheel, with a choice of both real dealer and automated games, and with the live action streamed to their screens in flawless HD quality.

LiveEuropean Roulette is our core Live Roulette game for players in Europe and beyond. Offering the largest number of standard and VIP tables available from a single source, its the ultimate world-class Live Roulette experience for players to enjoy across the widest range of devices. As with all Evolution Live Casino games that support mobile play, every table is available on every supported device, with everything beautifully optimised for the specific device and screen size.

The online live game experience is as real as it gets, with live interaction, a user-friendly interface and rich features such as Autoplay, chat and extensive statistics from where players can place bets and favourite bets. This personal menu saves up to 15 favourite bets for each player, speeding up betting for everyone and making complex betting simple for more experienced players.

LIGHTNING ROULETTE

Lighting Roulette is an innovative and revolutionised award-winning Roulette game from Evolution that has become the biggest Live Roulette table in the world both for land-based and online.

Our unique Lightning Roulette is like no other Roulette game. Not only is it visually stunning with an electrifying user interface and eye-catching black and gold Art Deco environment, it also adds high-payout RNG Lucky Number wins to every game round.

All the familiar elements of our world-class Live Roulette are here, but Lightning Roulette gives players the chance to win greatly multiplied payouts on a Straight Up bet. In each game round between one and five Lucky Numbers are struck by lightning and given multiplied payouts of between 50x and 500x.

Lightning Roulette won Product Innovation of the Year at the Global Gaming Awards, G2E Las Vegas, Innovation in Live Casino at the SBC Awards and was voted EGR's Game of the Year 2018 by operators in the sector.

Two native-speaking versions of Lightning Roulette are available - Lightning Roulette Italia and Ruleta Relmpago en Vivo.

A world-first from Evolution, Immersive Roulette is a uniquely different premium-quality game that draws players into the action. Its also ideal for drawing in new customers to your site and for cross-selling the unique thrill of Live Roulette to RNG and sportsbook players.

Featuring Hollywood-style multiple cameras, this advanced Live Roulette variant gets players up close to the action. As the live dealer spins the wheel, players can see and follow every movement of the ball all in 200 frames-per-second HD video and with a slow motion replay of the winning number-colour as the ball comes to rest.

Immersive Roulette was awarded EGRs Game of the Year 2014 by operators in the sector.

Another world-class variant of Live Roulette and another way to ensure that players can always play the games they love. As in European Roulette, the French Roulette wheel features the numbers 1 to 36 and a single zero. However, in French Roulette theres the La Partage rule: if a player makes an even-money bet and the ball lands on zero, he or she loses only half their bet. French Roulette also uses a slightly different table layout with some bet types named in French.

Our Live American Roulette adds extra choice and variety to ourRoulette line up. This double-zero variant adds extra excitement for players, including not only the 136 and zero (0), but also an additional double-zero number (00) on the wheel and table layout.

This popular variant has lower betting limits than other Roulette variants, with an additional Five Bet for yet more variety and choice.

A super-fast version of our live dealer Live Roulette in which game rounds take just 25 seconds from spin to spin. Thats around 50% of the duration of a game round in our standard Live Roulette and Immersive Roulette games. As a result, Roulette lovers can pack more betting opportunities and more excitement into every playing session.

This is Live Roulette game action in the fast lane with a custom designed wheel and experienced live dealers. Betting occurs only during the spin so theres no dead time and theres no time lost in getting on with the next spin, either, thanks to fast video-based winning number recognition.

Available as both mainstream and VIP tables, Auto Roulette features fast-paced, real live-wheel action with a high quality look-and-feel.

In Auto Roulette, theres no live dealer. Instead the live game is powered by an advanced, fully automated, precision Roulette wheel capable of 60 to 80 games per hour, 24 hours a day. Further benefits for operators include half-currency betting units for wider audience appeal, faster game completion than in Roulette, and low cost of ownership.

Speed Auto Roulette is a superfast variant with an impressive 2,500 games per day. Betting occurs only during the spin in Speed Auto Roulette.

Auto Roulette is available as European, French and American Auto Roulette.

With Instant Roulette weve taken Live Roulette for a completely new spin to meet many players desire for near instant results. In this thrilling multi-wheel game, 12 individual and synchronised Auto Roulette wheels spin almost constantly, with the balls dropping one after the other in the different wheels.

Players can play at their own pace since betting time is unlimited. The player is always in control and clicks on the PLAY NOW button whenever they are ready. The wheel closest to the next drop of the ball is then automatically selected as the wheel on which the player is betting for this game round.

Players who prefer a faster pace can just click REBET to start the next round immediately with the same bet.

Another world-first from Evolution and not available from any other Live Casino provider Double Ball Roulette is a unique, innovative Live Roulette variant.

Two balls deliver two winning numbers from a single spin. At the push of a button the live dealer sends the two balls shooting from a special patented device. There are new and exciting betting opportunities and more frequent payouts of up to 1,300 to 1. Proven in the land-based sector, the game is a unique attraction as it offers double the fun for players through the potential for more frequent wins.

Created in partnership with Games Marketing, this premium game is available only to Evolution licensees that opt for the Games Marketing side bets in our Live Blackjack or Live Baccarat games.

Land-based and online convergence doesnt get any more exciting than this. Dual Play Roulette adds dual play capability to any Roulette table in your land-based casino using an advanced camera and sound installation, On-premise seated players and a virtually unlimited number of additional online players from anywhere in the world can then play the same games at the same table. Online players are transported straight onto the gaming floor of some of the worlds most iconic casinos, where they can play alongside the on-premise players in the fastest and slickest Dual Play Roulette solution available.

This makes Dual Play the perfect way to extend service to customers in your venue, while also relaying the unique excitement of your casino and your brand to a greatly extended audience of new players online.

VIP ROULETTE

VIP variants of our European and French Live Roulette tables and also our Auto Roulette tables. All are set in the most sumptuous and welcoming VIP environments with betting limits set to appeal to high rollers, and with exceptional levels of VIP service.

This unrivalled VIP offering means that high-wagering players can enjoy the widest choice of live dealer tables tailored to their needs, as well as access to VIP Auto Roulette tables that deliver 6080 game rounds per hour.

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Heightened levels of VIP customer service include a VIP Room Manager present at all times and the ability for the player to control choice of dealer, the shuffle, and game speed using Spin Now and Deal Now buttons.

Five private tables are available: one Salon Priv Live Roulette table, three Salon Priv Live Blackjack tables and one Salon Priv Live Baccarat table, with each table offering a different minimum bet.

A mini-window variant of our world-leading Live Roulette, this delivers the big attraction of our standard European Live Roulette but in a scaled-down game window measuring 200x230 pixels. Mini Live Roulettes smaller window means multiplied revenue opportunity as players can play two or more games simultaneously. The smaller window is also ideal for including in your sportsbook, RNG games and bingo pages to cross-sell the excitement of Live Casino.

By offering the worlds widest range of ready-to-roll and bespoke native speaking dealer solutions, we make it easy for operators to speak the customers language. Its a proven way to significantly increaseplayer acquisition numbers and average spend per existing players, and to generate the strongest player-dealer rapport.

With our flexible platform and state-of-the-art production studio facilities we can quickly create and deploy for virtually any market.

Blue screen technology is particularly effective in creating the illusion of spacious, opulent casino interiors in just a few square metres of studio floor space. Blue screen also enables the same native speaking dealer and table to feature in different interiors, so it can be highly cost effective for operators with multiple brands.

We have the widest range of ready-to-deploy localised solutions with native speaking dealer tables, currently with native speaking dealers in English, Italian, Swedish, German, Russian, Danish, French, Flemish, Turkish, Arabic, Norwegian, Spanish, Finish, Japanese and Romanian. We can source top native speaking dealers for virtually any language.

DEDICATED ROULETTE

Dedicated Roulette gives licensees the option to add a complete studio installation that adds multiple HD cameras around the wheel and dealer on your dedicated Live Roulette tables. The dedicated studio set-up is fully customisable. Licensees simply choose the number of cameras and the shot angles. Where licensees have multiple dedicated tables, brief cutaway shots of other tables can be used to heighten the Live Casino atmosphere.

RULETA EN VIVO

Ruleta En Vivo is our ready-made, world-class, customisable Live Roulette solution available for any licensed gambling operator in Spain. The fully equipped live studio operates from Casino Odiseo in Murcia, Spain, where we also have the ability to accommodate dedicated tables for our licensees.

Rich features such as the Roulette favourite bets menu add convenience, speed and fun to our world-leading Roulette. This personal menu allows players to customise and save up to 15 of their favourite bets, whether it be one bet or multiple bets, special or neighbouring bets. This feature speeds up betting for everyone and makes more complex betting really simple. A players favourite bets are available on any Roulette table meaning that players can place their saved bets time and time again, at whichever table they are playing.

Statistics

Players can open Statistics to view the winning numbers in up to 500 of the most recent game rounds. The player can use the slider to alter the number of past rounds to apply.

When the player hovers over any part of the statistics diagram, the spot on the betting table where a chip would be placed is highlighted. Players can then simply click the bet to place their chip.

Autoplay

Autoplay is also available should the player wish to automatically play the same bets for a selected number of game roundThe automatic game rounds will continue until the chosen number of Autoplay rounds is complete or the player chooses to stop Autoplay.

Placing additional bets on the betting grid or doubling bets while Autoplay is running will not stop Autoplay. The player can continue with Autoplay for the new bet after confirming this.

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Learn How To Play Roulette In A Casino

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Between the shows, fantastic restaurants, and amazing nightlife, we recommend you take a little time to learn how to play roulette in a casino, so when you approach the roulette table you can confidently place your bets and understand the game.

Walking up to aLas Vegas casino table gamecan be intimidating even for those who actually play once in a whileand especially for those who haveneverrolled the dice. The casino floors variety of fast-paced games, each with their own rules, minimums and tricks, can be confusing and overwhelming. But what if you could learn enough basics to play a few rounds and win big?

In a video filmed on the casino floor ofThe Cromwell, dazzling Strip performer Jeff Civillco, star of the variety showJeff Civillico: Comedy in Actionat Flamingo Las Vegas, offers quick and easy how-to for learning roulette. Roulette is not only one of the more exciting, adrenaline-inducing games, but its also the fastest to pick up: just place your chip on your lucky number(s), or bet a column, group, red or black color, or odd or even numbers and watch the wheel spin.

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The perfect date night begins with a game of Delivery Roulette – The Takeout

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Dating during a pandemic is a unique experience. When my current boyfriend first slid into my DMs in April 2020, we assumed that it would be no time before we could casually grab a drink to get to know each other. After a couple weeks of texting, as the pandemic got worse and worse, it became clear that we would have to put a hold on our first in-person cocktailboth trying to be as safe as possible, we stuck to just chatting over FaceTime for the early stages of our relationship. But just because we couldnt go on a traditional dinner date didnt mean we couldnt make meals part of the fun.

Delivery roulette is simple. Get your dates address for delivery, see whats nearby, then send them dinner without telling them whats coming. Theyll do the same for you, and when the food arrives you hop on the digital video platform of your choice, unbox your meal, and go from there. You can ask a few questions ahead of time to make sure there are no complete disasters: deathly allergies, dietary restrictions, any ingredients that are a complete no-go. But dont give too much away, because the real joy is in the surprise.

My boyfriend and I first tried this out after a few FaceTime chats and a handful of Netflix Parties (another great form of digital hangout thats reminiscent of the golden days of AOL Instant Messenger). I spotted the idea on TikTok and, always desperate to be a hip TikTok teen, thought we could try it out. Wed had enough time to get to know a little bit about each other and put that knowledge to the test. Reader, we both nailed it.

I sent him a meal from his favorite barbecue place complete with a bottle of their signature sauce, remembering that he had sung its praises in one of our earlier talks. He sent me a meal from a restaurant near an old, beloved apartment of mine, a spot that I hadnt even considered would be within my current delivery radius. We not only both enjoyed delicious meals but were able to acknowledge how the other was paying attention and taking interest in our lives.

The meals dont always have to be so personally aligned to your partner, though. Delivery roulette can be a great way to simply try something new and get you out of your delivery rut. On another occasion, I was sent an incredible jibarito from a neighborhood spot that I had never bothered to tryit soon became a new go-to.

Plus, you just might learn more about the other person in the process. On a whim during one delivery roulette night, I sent my boyfriend a bowl of Caldo Gallego soup from a local Cuban cafe. When he received it he was shocked, revealing personal and family memories based on the soup that may not have come up in our conversations otherwise.

Weve been together for almost two years, and while we are now fully comfortable with seeing each other in person and even dining out at the occasional restaurant, we still keep delivery roulette in our back pocket. Snowed in at our separate apartments? Delivery roulette. Someones got a case of the sniffles? Delivery roulette. Spending time in a different city? Delivery roulette! Its the perfect distanced date idea for every occasion that really proves that the way to someones heart is through their stomach.

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Microgaming to drop several new game releases this month – World Casino Directory

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Its a new month, so that means Microgaming is introducing a totally new set of online slot games from its exclusive partners! For February, there are plenty of new releases on the table, with each option having an exciting theme and plenty of features. Take a look at what to expect throughout the month below!

Early February Releases

Starting on February 7, Microgaming will begin adding to its collection of games. Viking Queen by GONG Gaming Technologies will release on this date, offering a fun 53 grid with a warrior theme. Warrior shields are earned in the extra spins round of the title to help players advance throughout the multiplier map, which leads to 10x the bet!

Switch Studios will release a new roulette title on February 7, providing a new option within its suite of roulette games. French Roulette will offer fun table gaming with the roulette wheel, utilizing a new game engine.

The very next day, Wolf Call will enter the fray, created by SpinPlay Games. This online slot title offers 1,024 ways to win and includes the Power Range feature, where players earn a 2x win multiplier on wilds that land on the middle reels. A Diamond meter is also included that is fed with wilds, providing a special jackpot feature when triggered.

On February 9, Gameburger Studios will release Hyper Strike Hyperspins, bringing the two features together to enhance the slot spinning experience. Enjoy extra spins with multipliers as you give this new title a try.

On the 15, players will find Adventures of Captain Blackjack is available by Just For The Win, featuring an immersive pirate theme. The game includes stacked wilds, extra spins, and jackpot prizes worth up to 5,000x the bet!

Late Releases

As the month progresses, even more great titles will be provided by Microgaming. On the 17, check out Bust the Mansion by Pulse 8 Studios. Try to break into the vault of the game to receive one of the prize options. The title includes a quality soundtrack along with the Link&Win mechanic, plus extra spins with wild money vault symbols.

Aztec Falls by Northern Lights Gaming will drop late in the month, featuring a fun bonus titled Cash Fall, plus extra spins with sticky wilds. Just before this game goes live, Switch Studios will present a new table game titled Perfect Strategy Blackjack. This game offers a player-focused approach to blackjack and even includes strategy guidance.

A new dinosaur-themed slot is coming this month too by Stormcraft Studios. Jurassic Park: Gold also includes the Link&Win mechanic plus collection challenges, chases, extra spins, and more.

All of these games will add something new for players to explore from Microgaming. Check out each new title as they launch this month via partner casinos.

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China wants the world’s biggest gambling hub to do less gambling – Economy

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How much say should governments get over habits that are fun but can be harmful?

Macau, a special administrative region of China, is famous for its casinos. More gambling goes on there than anywhere else in the world. In 2019, before the pandemic caused business to dip, the gambling industry there was worth $36.7 billion dollars. Thats four times bigger than Nevada, home of Las Vegas. But the Chinese government, which has outlawed betting on the mainland, isnt super keen on this. (The gambling industry was established while Macau was a Portuguese territory, which it was until 1999.)

A new law plans to cap the number of gambling licenses available, and to shorten how long those licenses are valid for. There has also been a crackdown on junkets; people whose job is to entice rich Chinese mainlanders to come play in Macaus casinos. There will be fewer licenses available for them too, and casinos will no longer be able to share revenues with junkets or provide rooms in casinos for junkets to operate out of. China has also arrested the head of Macaus biggest junket firm, on the basis that a junkets role can be read as assisting cross-border gambling, which it decided last year was also illegal.

This sort of set up,where a government begrudgingly allows some gambling but is generally pretty against it,isquite common. America is another prominent example. There, casino gambling is legal statewide in only two states. That's because thething with the gambling industry is that it has big economic benefitsandalso big economic and social costs.

Let's start with the benefits. The gambling business is extremely profitable. That success creates lots of jobs,and also lots of new tax revenue for governments, which can then be spent on useful things like education or healthcare systems. Plus casinos provide something beneficial to many gamblers: fun! There is a thrill to taking our chances on the roulette wheel or blackjack. Up to a point, the pleasure of playingcan be worthwhile even if we ultimately loseour betting money - as long as it's money we can afford to lose, then its not much different to spending our cash on some beers or a cinema ticket or whatever.

The problem, of course, is that its not uncommon for gamblers to lose more money than they can afford to.Plus, gambling firms often make this more likely to happen: they have a financial incentive to exploithuman psychology to push us into making rash decisions we later regret. The question of how much thisis the governments problem, orhow much responsibility the state has to protect us from making bad decisions, is a much-debated question.

Gambling laws have historically been tied up with a lot of social ideas about morality - the idea that betting, regardless of how much you lose, is just an evil thing to do. That could seem over-paternalistic to a lot of modern societies, especially ones with a clear line between church and state. A separate concern is thatthe state can end up on the hook financially when gambling goes south - perhaps via paying for addiction healthcare, or welfare support for the families of people who gamble their life savings away. The more resources governments have to divert to these sorts of issues, the fewer they have to put towards other problems. Some would say that builds a case for societies and governments to have a say in individuals gambling habits.

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Google Workspace goes all in on shadow IT – TechCrunch

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Google today announced a new version of Workspace, the companys productivity service that you probably still refer to as G Suite. With the new and free Google Workspace Essentials plan, Google wants to bring more business users onto the platform by offering them the basic Workspace productivity tools with the exception of Gmail.

Until now, in order to use Workspace with a non-Google email address, you had to sign up for the $6/month/user Business Starter account after a 14-day trial. That paid plan is not going away, but all you now need to do is sign up with your work email and youre good to go. No credit card needed.

The new free plan is essentially the existing entry-level Business Starter plan, but with a reduced storage quota of 15 GB (down from 30). Otherwise, though, you can use Google Meet with up to 100 users for up to 60 minutes in each call, get access to Spaces for work collaboration and Chat for gossiping about their co-workers.All of the standard tools like Sheets, Slides and Docs are also included, of course.

Since you already have an email address from work, though, theres no Gmail included in this edition, which makes sense, given that it would be tough to send out emails with your work address from there, leading to all kinds of confusion.

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There is a little complication here, though. There is a cap of 25 users per Essentials Starter team account. But multiple team accounts can be created within the same company. So basically, somebody from your team needs to start an account and can then invite other team members if youre working in a larger company.

With this move, Google is opening up a whole new world for shadow IT and Google says as much in its announcement when it writes: With Essentials Starter, were making it easy for employees to choose their own productivity tools and bring modern collaboration to work. If IT doesnt make the choice, employees will make it for them.

This also opens up all kinds of questions about data governance and security.

Google Workspace Essentials Starter was designed for people to easily start using Google Workspace at work by themselves or with their team, a Google spokesperson told me when I asked about this. While it does include some lightweight admin controlssuch as the ability to invite users to their team granular IT controls and features like more advanced security are only available with paid Google Workspace plans.

Chances are, this will get any large enterprise that doesnt have a paid Workspace account yet to quickly sign up for one in order to block its employees from setting up their own.

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