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Creating a Windows 8 Store Game with MonoGame (XAML) and SignalR
Posted by Filip Ekberg on December 21 2012 4 Comments
In previous posts we've looked at how we could create a cross-platform game that relied on HTML and JavaScript. What we also did was moving the server-side code over to a server that runs on Linux and uses Apache and Mono with SignalR! Now let's take this a step further and convert this game client to a Windows 8 Store application using MonoGame with XAML!
Prerequisite; what you'll need to install first
Before we can dig into the coding part we need to have some tooling installed first. I am going to use Visual Studio 2012 for this. There are however a lot of resources around that tells you how to use MonoGame with MonoDevelop on for instance a Mac.
All you really need to install if you already have Visual Studio 2012 installed is MonoGame. You can grab the latest version (3.0 Beta) over at the MonoGame CodePlex site.
After installing this you should be able to see the MonoGame (XAML) project template in the "New Project" dialog as seen in the image below.
For those of you that don't have a clue what MonoGame is, here's a quote from their CodePlex site:
MonoGame is an Open Source implementation of the Microsoft XNA 4 Framework. Our goal is to allow XNA developers on Xbox 360, Windows & Windows Phone to port their games to the iOS, Android, Mac OS X, Linux and Windows 8 Metro. PlayStation Mobile development is currently in progress.
Amazing, isn't it?
Even more Amazing is that they're currently working on getting this to work with Windows Phone 8, which this post was initially going to be about but as the support isn't in the stable release yet, we'll take a look at that some other time. Tom Spilman tweeted a while back that he got MonoGame working on Windows Phone 8!
There's actually one more thing that we will need to have installed and this is the XNA Game Studio. This is because we want to be able to add content (Textures and such) to the game. In order to create a Content project we need to create a Dummy XNA project (there might be a much easier way, then please enlighten me!).
Go to File -> New Project -> XNA Game Studio 4.0 and create a new Windows Phone Game. This will create a projected called
WindowsPhoneGame1Content inside the solution. Rename this to
TicTacToeContent and add the images you'd like to have in the game (You can download all the resources below). After doing so you will need to edit the Dummy XNA project (not the content project and NOT the MonoGame project). This requires you to first unload the project by right clicking the project and then selecting unload. After that right click it again and select to Edit the csproj file.
Add the following right after the Project node:
<Configuration Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == '' ">Debug</Configuration>
<Platform Condition=" '$(Platform)' == '' ">x86</Platform>
Then reload and build the solution!
Finally add a folder in the MonoGame project called Content and add the xnb files that was created when you compiled the Dummy XNA project. These are found in
bin\Windows Phone\Debug\Content. Select them all and go to the properties tab (Alt+Enter) and change the "Copy to Output Directory" value to "Copy if newer". Before closing the property window you'll also need to change the Build Action to Content!
Let's get some code running!
In order to stay consistent with the code that I previously wrote for the Tic-Tac-Toe demo we can start by renaming Game1.cs to something more suitable such as
TicTacToeGame. The first thing we can do is to try and get the Logo in place, I added the following images as Content (xnb):
This means that we will have the following xnb's and thus be able to load them by their names:
- board (board.png) – This is the game board
- logo (logo.png) – This is the game logotype
- TicTacToeO (TicTacToeO.png) – This is the marker for a Circle
- TicTacToeX (TicTacToeX.png) – This is the marker for a Cross
Adding a texture
The first thing that we can try out to ensure that the content works properly is to load a 2D Texture. Add a private variable that we can access from our
Draw method:
Then inside the method
LoadContent we can load the texture like this:
In order to actually draw something on the screen we use the sprite batch and we need to tell the sprite batch when to being and when to end. Then we can draw a texture in a rectangle that defines the size and the position like this:
_spriteBatch.Begin(SpriteSortMode.Immediate, null, null, null, null, null);
_spriteBatch.Draw(_logoTexture, new Rectangle { X = 100, Y = 100, Height = _logoTexture.Height, Width = _logoTexture .Width}, new Color(255, 255, 2555));
Running this in the simulator will make it look something like this:
Now we're ready to start with the fun! Let's install SignalR into the project, we can simply do this by getting it from NuGet!
There's a known bug in the RC version of SignalR which effects the fallback to long polling. This means that we manually need to define that we are in fact using long polling. After SignalR is installed into the project through NuGet we can connect to the Tic-Tac-Toe server and create a proxy.
First define two private read-only fields in the
GamePage class, this is the code behind for the XAML file that was created for us by MonoGame:
private readonly IHubProxy _proxy;
You'll also need to add the reference to the following namespaces:
using Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR.Client.Transports;
Now, go down to the constructor of the
GamePage class and add this to the bottom of it:
_proxy = _connection.CreateHubProxy("game");
If you recall from previous posts about SignalR we need to hock up the events before we start the connection. This is pretty much equal to what we saw in the WinRT with HTML and JavaScript demo. Here's what I have to hook it up with the Tic-Tac-Toe server, to make it a bit more fluent we are going to send the request to start a game as soon as the name is registered:
AddMessage("Registration complete, ready to look for a game!");
Dispatcher.RunAsync(Windows.UI.Core.CoreDispatcherPriority.Normal, () =>
_username = Username.Text;
StartGame.Visibility = Windows.UI.Xaml.Visibility.Collapsed;
I would recommend to hook these up somewhere else than in the constructor, since the proxy is a member variable. There are two new things in this anonymous function. First we have the function
AddMessage that takes a string. Then we have the dispatcher invocation. The method for adding a message is purely for debugging purposes, to understand what I am going with this, take a look at the following XAML for this game page:
<RowDefinition Height="200" />
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
<ListBox x:Name="Messages" Width="400" HorizontalAlignment="Right" />
<StackPanel x:Name="StartGame" Background="Black" Grid.Row="1">
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Height="50" Margin="10,20,0,0">
<TextBlock FontSize="30" Margin="0, 10, 0, 0">Enter your name:</TextBlock>
<TextBox x:Name="Username" FontSize="30"></TextBox>
<Button Height="50" Margin="10,0,0,0" Click="Register">Start game</Button>
This adds a surrounding grid to our view, this view is where we will mix the DirectX graphics and the XAML elements. Worth knowing here is that the XAML elements are always going to be topmost! The surrounding grid will have an empty area to the top left, this is where we will align the logotype that we added before. Then to the right of that we have a list box where we can add some debug messages.
Then finally we have the area where we can register the current player. This is just a simple button and some text fields. The result looks like this when running in the simulator:
As you can see in the top right corner there are some messages added, these are added from the events that we hooked up earlier, but what you didn't see was when we connected to the server. This is exactly as you are used to when it comes to SignalR, except for the small thing that we are forcing long polling at the time being. This will hopefully be fixed in the next RC.
AddMessage("Connected to server!");
Other than the method for adding a message we have seen that we have an event handler on the button. This following code sample shows how these two are implemented:
Dispatcher.RunAsync(Windows.UI.Core.CoreDispatcherPriority.Normal, () => { Messages.Items.Add(message); });
private void Register(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
_proxy.Invoke("registerClient", Username.Text);
Notice that
Dispatcher.RunAsync is showing up again, this is just like the
Dispatcher that you might be used to from WPF. We use it to run things on the GUI thread. In this case we want to add something to a GUI element and we can't do that from another thread than the GUI thread.
I would also not recommend to hook up the events to the buttons like in this demo, but for the purpose of keeping it focused on what is interesting here, you can go ahead and check out MVVM and Commands later on!
The game page which we've been working on almost solely so far is pretty much complete, in the below longer code snippet you can see the complete implementation of this class. As you can see much of the code isn't implemented such as what is going to happen when the game ends, you're free to add that on your own later. Now we can start looking at the MonoGame and Touch code!
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls;
using MonoGame.Framework;
using Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR.Client.Hubs;
using Microsoft.AspNet.SignalR.Client.Transports;
namespace TicTacToe.Windows8
public sealed partial class GamePage : SwapChainBackgroundPanel
TicTacToeGame _game;
private readonly HubConnection _connection;
private readonly IHubProxy _proxy;
private string _username;
public GamePage(string launchArguments)
_game = XamlGame<TicTacToeGame>.Create(launchArguments, Window.Current.CoreWindow, this);
_connection = new HubConnection("http://signalr.fekberg.com/");
_proxy = _connection.CreateHubProxy("game");
_proxy.On("registerComplete", () =>
AddMessage("Registration complete, ready to look for a game!");
Dispatcher.RunAsync(Windows.UI.Core.CoreDispatcherPriority.Normal, () =>
_username = Username.Text;
StartGame.Visibility = Windows.UI.Xaml.Visibility.Collapsed;
_proxy.On("waitingForOpponent", () =>
_proxy.On("waitingForMarkerPlacement", () =>
_proxy.On("foundOpponent", () =>
_proxy.On("noOpponents", () =>
_proxy.On("addMarkerPlacement", (message) =>
_game.AddMarkerPlacement((int)message.MarkerPosition, message.OpponentName == _username ? 1 : 0);
_proxy.On("opponentDisconnected", () =>
_proxy.On("refreshAmountOfPlayers", () =>
_proxy.On("gameOver", () =>
_connection.Start(new LongPollingTransport()).ContinueWith((t) =>
AddMessage("Connected to server!");
_game.MarkerAdded = (position) =>
_proxy.Invoke("play", position);
private void AddMessage(string message)
Dispatcher.RunAsync(Windows.UI.Core.CoreDispatcherPriority.Normal, () => { Messages.Items.Add(message); });
private void Register(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
_proxy.Invoke("registerClient", Username.Text);
Adding the board, graphics and handling touch
Since this Tic-Tac-Toe game isn't really that complex, the graphics and game code is going to be quite simple. The game class itself is going to consist of a couple of private fields which we will use a lot throughout the class. These are used to handle the textures that we have loaded, just as we did with the logo before and for handling the game state and the board!
These are the member variables in the game class:
SpriteBatch _spriteBatch;
private Texture2D _logoTexture;
private Texture2D _board;
private Texture2D _markerX;
private Texture2D _markerO;
private bool _isGameStarted;
private int[] _boardPlacements;
There's actually one more member to this class which you might have glanced upon in the longer code sample from the game page, which is the action we use to place a marker. This action will just work as a handler for the touch events. So when we touch the screen it tries to send a marker placement to the server. This might of course not be ideal since bandwidth and messages might cost in an enterprise application, but let's keep it simple.
In case you don't want to scroll up and see how this is used from the game page, here's how it's being used:
_proxy.Invoke("play", position);
Now, there are actually just a couple of methods in the game class that we are using. From the beginning, this class which is called
TicTacToeGame is generated and has a set of methods overridden from its base class. Some of these methods are used when content is loading and unloading or when the state is updated. It is also used when we want to draw something on the screen. It's a good idea to split this up into different "scenes" if your project grows. However, let's keep it simple!
The easiest method we can start with is the one that doesn't rely on anything else, resetting the game and the game board. This following method resets the game board by creating an integer array with 9 positions where each integer starts at the value -1.
The code that is commented out is used to test if the board is possible to fill with different markers:
_boardPlacements = new int[9]; // [] {0,1,0,1,0,1,0,1,0};
for (var i = 0; i < 9; i++)
_boardPlacements[i] = -1;
_isGameStarted = true;
We also have two other methods that don't rely on anything else and these are for ending the game and for adding marker placements:
_isGameStarted = false;
public void AddMarkerPlacement(int position, int marker)
_boardPlacements[position] = marker;
The following method is a bit more complex, it's the method that we use to draw the board. This will use the board placement array to find out where to place the marker in x and y coordinates and then draw it on top of the board. As you can see we use the same methods for drawing the textures as we did with the logotype:
if (!_isGameStarted) return;
new Rectangle {
Height = 400,
Width = 400},
new Color(255, 255, 255));
for (var i = 0; i < 9; i++)
if (_boardPlacements[i] == -1) continue;
if (_boardPlacements[i] == 0)
new Rectangle
X = 20 + ((i % 3) * 140),
Y = 180 + ((i / 3) * 120),
Height = 100,
Width = 100
new Color(255, 255, 255));
new Rectangle
X = 20 + ((i % 3) * 140),
Y = 180 + ((i / 3) * 120),
Height = 100,
Width = 100
new Color(255, 255, 255));
In order to actually draw something on the screen we need to implement the
Draw method. This method will actually use the method we just looked at for drawing the board, just so that we don't have too much code in one method:
_spriteBatch.Begin(SpriteSortMode.Immediate, null, null, null, null, null);
_spriteBatch.Draw(_logoTexture, new Rectangle { X = 10, Y = 10, Height = _logoTexture.Height, Width = _logoTexture.Width }, new Color(255, 255, 255));
One final method that we need to implement before we can run our game is the method for updating the game state. It is also here that we handle the touch events. However, in order for us to interpret the touches at taps we need to enable that type of gesture. This is preferable done in the initialization and looks like this:
The gesture types are enums and are marked as flags, so you can combine different gestures like this:
We can stay with just allowing tap for this demo though. Now let us take a look at how we handle the touches. The touches will be added to a collection and we can keep track of when there's no longer any touches on the screen. When we have a touch collection we can see if the current touch (the first touch) is within the bounds of our game board.
Then we can calculate where on the game board the touch is and thus finding out the position:
protected override void Update(GameTime gameTime)
var touches = TouchPanel.GetState();
if (!Touching)
if (touches.Count <= 0) return;
if (touches[0].Position.Y < 150 || touches[0].Position.Y > 650) return;
if (touches[0].Position.X < 10 || touches[0].Position.X > 410) return;
var column = (int)Math.Floor(touches[0].Position.X / 150);
var row = (int)Math.Floor(touches[0].Position.Y / 150) - 1;
var index = column + row * 3;
Debug.WriteLine("Row: {0}, Column {1}", row, column);
if (touches.Count == 0) Touching = false;
Remote debugging on Surface
I want to try this on my ARM device, so what I first need to do is to change the Platform target to Any CPU as you can see in the image below.
Now verify that you are building against any platform by pressing the arrow next to "Debug" and go to "Configuration Manager". It should look like this:
Next you need to install and run the application "Remote Debugging" which is available here. You'll need to scroll down to "Remote tools for Visual Studio 2012″. This should be installed on the Surface (or whatever computer you want to remote debug on!), not the development machine. There's a great post describing this in details that I suggest you check out.
Finally run the Remote Debugging application on the Surface and set Visual Studio to run on your Surface:
Playing against myself
Now that this is running on the Surface I can bring another instance up in the Simulator and try to play against myself. This is what that will look like:
This post has gone through a lot of interesting topics and just scratched the surface on many of them. But the idea was to wrap up all the cool things that we've looked at with SignalR and Windows 8 for the last couple of months. This post is far to long to fit in a tl;dr but here is a bullet list of the awesome things used in this post:
- Getting started with MonoGame
- Adding basic textures with MonoGame
- Understanding how to add basic images such as PNGs as XNBs with the annoying work-around
- Creating a basic application that uses both XAML and DirectX
- Running MonoGame on Surface
- Communicating with a server using SignalR which runs on Mono, Apache and Linux!
- Wrapping it all together and porting the Tic-Tac-Toe client to a Windows 8 "XNA" Game that runs on Surface!
I probably forgot one or two things in the list above, but you get the point! We looked at some very interesting things and I think that you can take it from here and make some amazing cross platform games and not be limited by what server software you are running (read: this works on linux with Mono and Apache!).
Where can I get the code?
Don't worry, you can download the entire solution that I worked on here. Remember that a lot of the code is based on the other SignalR posts that I've done:
Don't forget to check out my screencast on SignalR, here it is again so you don't forget:
I really hope that you enjoyed this post, I had a lot of fun writing it and if you have any questions, leave a comment, ping me on twitter, send me an e-mail or poke me on JabbR.
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Sadly Filip, couldn't get your sample to run. Not sure if it's the backend or if the SignalR client has just moved on but clicking on "Start Game" to call "proxy.Invoke("registerClient", Username.Text);" just crashes the app.
On Win 8 you don't get an intelligible exception but on WP8 you get "Could not send until you have called init", which is odd since it does init on start-up.
Also on WP, "proxy.On("addMarkerPlacement", (message)" fails because message needs to have it's type defined (but works on Win?, very odd)


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Witnesses: Campus shooting 'hit home'
Witness: Campus shooting victim was conscious
Student: People shot on the ground
Witness: Gunman looked like he could be student
HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A fight between two people erupted in gunfire Tuesday at a Houston-area community college, catching a maintenance man in the crossfire and leaving students and others cowering in classrooms.
No one was killed, but the volley of gunshots heard just before 12:30pm sparked fear of another campus massacre less than a month after 26 people were killed at elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.
Authorities one of the two people involved in the altercation had student identification. Late Tuesday, detectives identified the alleged shooter as 22-year-old Carlton Berry, but did not specify whether he was the one with the student ID. Berry has been charged with aggravated assault, but is still at a hospital being treated for a gunshot wound.
According to Alan Bernstein with the Harris County Sheriff's Office, the other person involved in the fight also was shot and taken to a local hospital. He says both of them are being treated under armed guard by deputies, pending more possible criminal charges.
A third person, identified as a maintenance man, was accidentally hit by gunfire. He was taken to Ben Taub Hospital. A woman, uninvolved in the shooting, was taken to an area hospital for a medical condition.
We're told two of the shooting victims suffered multiple gunshot wounds, but were conscious when they arrived at Ben Taub Hospital. Both were taken into surgery in what's being called 'relatively serious condition.'
Student Luis Resendiz, 22, hid quietly in a small room with dozens of classmates after the gunfire rang out. All he could think about was the shooting in Connecticut last month.
"I didn't think something like this could happen," said Resendiz, who crouched in the room for about 20 minutes before being allowed to leave. "You don't think about it happening to you."
"There was a lot of blood in the floor and one guy inside," a Lone Star College student told us. "I think he was shot in the leg. He was on the floor, but he wasn't dead."
"Panic, panic, panic. Some people were yelling don't push because someone did fall," a Lone Star College student named Keisha told us. "It hit home. It's serious. What you see you on TV going in other states, other campuses, other schools, you always say, 'Oh, I'm praying for the families, or I'm praying for those involved.' When it happens so close to home, it makes you think, it could've been me. I was however many feet away from being outside. The gunshots were so loud, I still don't know how close to my physical being."
The Lone Star College North Harris campus was evacuated and closed for the remainder of the Tuesday, but officials say the campus will reopen on Wednesday. Staff and students are advised to check LoneStar.edu for further updates on campus operations.
"There were teachers on every door and they told us to leave. They just kept telling us to leave, go home get into your vehicles," student Jasmine Thomas said.
Students have told Eyewitness News they heard five to six shots. One girl said sounded as if they occurred outside, in an area between the library and the cafeteria. Other students say they saw a wounded person in the library.
"I just don't know what to think. I come here to school and once you hear that, there's a lot of people that's scared," a Lone Star College student named Sharon said.
In a statement issued late Tuesday night, the Lone Star College System says all its 170 police officers and security personnel have been trained for such emergencies and the Office of Emergency Management followed contacted students via text messages, e-mail, web, voice messages, and personal announcements.
But some are questioning whetherthe alert system worked. Some students claimed they weren't notified of the shooting until more than 30 minutes after it had happened.
Aldine ISD had put four campuses near Lone Star College on lockdown during the investigation -- Dunn Elementary, Parker Intermediate, Nimitz Ninth Grade Campus and Nimitz High School. At about 3:30pm Tuesday, that lockdown was lifted and students were dismissed. All after-school activities and athletics involving Nimitz High School were cancelled for Tuesday afternoon and evening.
YMCA staff locked down their programs located on the Lone Star College campus. They operate pre-school, child watch and after school care sites at that location. There were 17 children ranging in age from 18 months to four years in the pre-school and child watch programs at the time. Parents were allowed to pick up their children. All students and staff are safe.
The University of Houston system went on high alert as a precaution in the wake of the shooting, though there was no security threat there.
A number of law enforcement agencies are investigating this shooting, including the Harris County Sheriff's Office, Houston Police Department, ATF and FBI.
Governor Perry has been briefed on the situation and his office is in contact with state law enforcement. A staff member says the governor's thoughts and prayers are with those who have been impacted.
�The Lone Star College System has an enrollment of 90,000 students and six college campuses, according to its website. Its North Harris campus is about 20 miles north of downtown Houston.
The following is a statement from Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott:
- "All Texas schools must be places of safety and learning. Lawless shootings on campuses will not be tolerated and should meet swift justice. Texas will do all it can to make the school environment safe for students, teachers and administrators.
Today's shooting is an example of the critical importance of school safety plans and emergency drills in all schools. Having a plan and practicing that plan can save lives when seconds count. We do know that Lone Star College submitted their safety and security plan to the Texas School Safety Center, confirming the campus had a critical incident plan in place.
I've instructed our Crime Victim Services Division to immediately make contact with the school and with families involved to offer whatever assistance we can provide."
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Published: Oct 04 2013 06:12:24 PM EDT Updated On: Oct 04 2013 07:23:25 PM EDT
Congress is taking a closer look at the role broadcasters play during natural disasters and other emergencies.
A Congressional sub-committee held a hearing this week on the issue of emergency preparedness.
The President and General Manager of WFMZ, Barry Fisher, was there representing the National Association of Broadcasters.
"When the power goes out, when phone service is limited, when Internet goes down, broadcasters are always there and always on the air," said Fisher.
The hearing was the second in a series meant to look at ways to improve the nation's emergency management capability.
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Joey Arias, Zack Zadak, and More to Perform at Joe's Pub This Winter
Each week Joe's Pub at The Public presents some of New York City's most eclectic programming ranging from world to classical, pop, singer-songwriter, jazz and more. At the center of Joe's Pub's genre-blind booking is The Public Theater's mission to bring world-class performance to New York City's diverse cultural community.
JANUARY 25 at 7:00 PM
Casting is set for the upcoming one-night-only world premiere performance of selections and music from Shaving, a new musical by writer/performer Alex Davis, at Joe's Pub on Friday, January 25, 2013 at 7pm. Based on his one-man-show, Alex Davis: Man of the Year, seen a year ago at the famed Knitting Factory Brooklyn, Shaving is a powerful rock musical memoir about love and self-transformation with music & lyrics by Alex Davis and a book by Alex Davis & Miranda Russo. Directed by Joseph Hendel and featuring a live band under the musical direction of Kris Kukul, Shaving features a cast of seven. The cast of Shaving, led by Alex Davis, also includes Chris Henry Coffey (David Schwimmer's Trust), Christopher Ryan Grant (Million Dollar Quartet), Nikki Kimbrough, Grace McLean, Gayle Rankin (Tribes) and Miranda Russo. Shaving is a personal, moving and humor-filled musical by singer/songwriter Alex Davis about his heroic evolution into a transgender man. The only child of iconic actor Brad Davis - the Golden Globe-winner best known for his acclaimed performances in the 1978 film Midnight Express and the 1985 premiere of Larry Kramer's groundbreaking drama The Normal Heart - who died of AIDS when Alex was just eight years old, Shaving exposes Davis's journey growing up without a father yet triumphantly transitioning into a new world of manhood. Of this courageous tale of love, self-discovery and transformation, Larry Kramer says, "Alex Davis is an extraordinary young man, with an extraordinary story to tell." A Critic's Pick by Time Out New York, Davis returns to New York for this special concert performance of Shaving at Joe's Pub. Shaving, directed by Joseph Hendel with musical direction by Kris Kukul, is produced by Lauren Fitzgerald.
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MARCH 1 at 9:30 PM
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Joey Arias
Dubbed "a demigod of the demimonde" by Time Out New York, legendary performance artist and chanteuse Joey Arias appears in his first residency at Joe's Pub over a series of three Sundays. Harking back to the days of Bar d'O (the notorious West Village boîte where Arias reigned for nearly a decade), each week sees the Arias With A Twist star exploring a range of musical selections from Billie Holiday and popular standards to 70's rock anthems and Klaus Nomi. The residency is a warm up to Arias' west coast tour, anchored by a headlining concert at the historic Castro Theater in San Francisco on Valentine's Day.


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Miles Davis (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz musician.
- The music has gotten thick. Guys give me tunes and they're full of chords. I can't play them...I think a movement in jazz is beginning away from the conventional string of chords, and a return to emphasis on melodic rather than harmonic variation. There will be fewer chords but infinite possibilities as to what to do with them.
- About the new modal style. Interviewed by The Jazz Review, 1958.[specific citation needed]
- It's that goddamned motherfucking 'Machine Gun.'
- Charles R. Cross, Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix (2005), ISBN 1-4013-0028-6
- Davis' response when questioned on what he heard in the music of Jimi Hendrix.
- Is that what you wanted, Alfred?
- Miles Davis asking Blue Note records producer Alfred Lion's approval of a recorded performance in Rudy Van Gelder's studio. Miles' gravelly-voice question was accidentally recorded, but included at the end of "One For Daddy-O" on the Cannonball Adderley recording "Somethin' Else": a famous recorded peek into the recording studio process.
- For me, music and life are all about style.
- Miles, the Autobiography (1989) (co-written with Quincy Troupe, p. 398.
- I've changed music four or five times. What have you done of any importance other than be white?
- Miles, the Autobiography (1989) (co-written with Quincy Troupe, p. 371.)
- At a White House reception in honor of Ray Charles 1987, this was his reply to a society lady seated next to him who had asked what he had done to be invited.
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- (Bill Evans talking about Miles Davis's change of style to jazz fusion) I would like to hear more of the consummate melodic master, but I feel that big business and his record company have had a corrupting influence on his material. The rock and pop thing certainly draws a wider audience. It happens more and more these days, that unqualified people with executive positions try to tell musicians what is good and what is bad music. It's tempting for the musican to prejudice his own views when recording opportunities are so infrequent but I for one am determined to resist the temptation.


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Katrina Markoff, the founder of high-end Chicago chocolatier Vosges Haut-Chocolat, is nearing completion on two high-profile projects: a winery-style chocolate facility in Logan Square and an education center at a cacao plantation and eco-lodge in Belize.
Markoff isn't ready to talk about the Logan Square project, her spokeswoman said. But in an interview last week, she said she hopes the Belcampo farm in Belize will become the source of a majority of Vosges' cacao once its plants mature.
The project means Markoff will soon play a role in every aspect of production from seed selection through packaging without having to assume the financial risk of owning a tropical plantation.
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Belcampo Group CEO Anya Fernald said the education center that Markoff helped design will open in mid-December, and Markoff will teach her first "master class" on cacao to guests at the 12-room lodge April 23-27. In exchange for her time and expertise, Markoff will receive a better price on the beans.
"I've always wanted to be involved through the full vertical, from actually growing the varietals of cacao I want, and being particular about how they're grown and harvested and fermented and dried," she said.
Once the farm reaches full yield in about five years, Fernald estimated it will produce 250,000 pounds of cacao annually. Already, with only 60 acres planted so far — all under a rain forest canopy — Fernald said Belcampo is already Belize's largest cacao plantation.
"The integrity of that project is really, really unique and special," Markoff said. "Typically when people buy beans to make chocolate, they just buy whatever is available in the commodity market. There's not a lot of control over how it's grafted, where it's planted, how it's nurtured, who's taking care of it. You just don't get that kind of control."
Bluhm continues gambling push
Chicago real estate and gambling executive Neil Bluhm is entering the race to build one of four planned casinos in Massachusetts and has launched an online gaming division in Chicago, said Greg Carlin, chief executive of Bluhm's Rush Street Gaming.
Earlier this year Rush Street hired Richard Schwartz from Waukegan-based WMS Industries and appointed him president of Rush Street Interactive, its new online gaming division.
"We think (Internet gaming) is going to be eventually legalized throughout the country, or in jurisdictions that have bricks-and-mortar casinos," Carlin said. "Illinois is actually a leader in selling lottery tickets online and could be a leader in Internet gaming as well if they get ahead of the curve and pass legislation before some of the other states."
Nevada and Delaware have legalized some forms of Internet gambling.
In recent years, Bluhm has built three casinos: Rivers Casino in Des Plaines, one in Pittsburgh and another in Philadelphia. In October, Bluhm sold his first U.S. casino, Riverwalk Casino and Hotel, in Vicksburg, Miss., for $141 million in cash to Churchill Downs Inc. (Bluhm held a 70 percent stake in Riverwalk.)
Churchill Downs, a horse racing and wagering company, also owns Arlington Park in Arlington Heights. Its largest shareholder is Duchossois Group, founded by Arlington Park Chairman Richard "Dick" Duchossois.
Duchossois has been trying to persuade the Illinois Legislature to approve slots at racetracks, which, if successful, would make Arlington Park a competitor of Bluhm's Des Plaines casino.
As for the Massachusetts casino, the gambling commission there will weigh applications for casino licenses well into 2013.
Alvarez joins Culloton
Public relations firm Culloton Strategies has hired Michael Alvarez, a commissioner of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, as senior vice president for public affairs.
As the Sun-Times reported in January, Alvarez, 32, has worked for Barack Obama, Rod Blagojevich and Richard M. Daley — while he has close ties to Ald. Richard Mell, Blagojevich's father-in-law.
In addition to his $70,000 annual salary at the water district, Alvarez has a $60,000-a-year public relations contract with the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority and a "fast-growing" lobbying practice, the Sun-Times reported.
According to Alvarez, he is registered as a lobbyist with seven companies, including Saint Anthony Hospital and American Traffic Solutions, a competitor to the city's red-light camera company, Redflex Traffic Systems.
Among Culloton's clients are the Chicago Cubs and the team's owners, the Ricketts family, who are trying to get government assistance to help pay for Wrigley Field renovations.
"The reason why I wanted Mike to join the team is that he was the director of outreach for President Obama when he was Sen. Obama," Culloton Strategies founder Dennis Culloton said. "He was the first and only Hispanic elected official to endorse Mayor (Rahm) Emanuel during his run for mayor … and he's a strong ally of a great number of other important policymakers and political figures in Chicago and across the state."
Alvarez will continue his state agency and lobbying work on books separate from those of Culloton Strategies, Culloton said. However, Alvarez said he expects his lobbying work to wane over time, and he'll instead be advising clients on how best to do it themselves, he said.
Rahals team up
Veteran race car driver and team owner Bobby Rahal announced last week that his 23-year-old son, Graham, would finally join Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing as its 2013 IndyCar Series driver.
Bobby Rahal, who lives in Lincoln Park and grew up in Glen Ellyn, said that the pairing would make race day easier. He would no longer need "one eye" on his team's car and "one eye" on his son's.
"I really wanted him to drive for other teams so that no one even accused him of being where he was because of me," Rahal said Thursday during a presentation at Cooper Technica, a vintage car restoration company in the West Loop. "I also thought, for him to earn the respect of his peers, he needed to be somewhere else" first.
The younger Rahal, who won his IndyCar Series debut in 2008, lives in Indianapolis, his father said.
Melissa Harris can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 312-222-4582. Twitter @chiconfidential or facebook.com/chiconfidential.


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That's Life
As a career professional, volunteer, mom, wife, and friend, I focus on the positive aspects of life, even when the road is rough getting there. Life is funny. How you treat others, how you handle situations, and how you live each day is your responsibility ... so are the outcomes.
Suicide Awareness - A Day Everyone Can Help
There is more to May 18, 2013 than people realize. It is our day of awareness for families and friends, who have lost a loved one to suicide. "When guns fall silent and ceasefires are agreed, wars live on in the minds of the men and women who fought them. And a killer still stalks them, more deadly than the enemies they once faced.[i]" These statistics are staggering. The rates are climbing every year. "349 service members in all branches of the US Military committed suicide in 2012, up 15 percent from 301 suicides in the military in 2011.[ii]" Like soldiers, teenage deaths due to suicide are the number three killer taking the lives of our youth ages 15 - 24.[iii]
I have become all too familiar with the lasting impacts of suicide, the heartfelt pain, and the lack of answers as to "why" or "how could I have helped before it was too late." It is for this reason we are holding the Homes for Our Troops 9-Pin Tap Bowling Tournament. October 26, 2012 claimed another 15-year old victim and this time, it hit way too close to home again. Maddy was a vibrant, beautiful young lady, who wanted to go into the Army, loved fundraising / donating her time, and was an avid bowler. Now, imagine being a disabled soldier, who not only has to deal with a decrease in their independence, but also has to cope with dreams, thoughts, and other side-affects from being in combat. Unless you have lived it, it is unimaginable, yet there is (Maddy's) hope for a better life and help available for survival through life's hardships.
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It is our duty and honor to assist severely injured veterans and their immediate families by raising donations of money, building materials and professional labor and to coordinate the process of building a home. Since inception, administration and fundraising costs are only 9.6 % of revenue. Through your generous donations, the homes Homes for Our Troops provide to our veterans are given at no cost." (http://
This is not just another raffle. It is a way to show kindness and compassion for humanity. It is a way we all can play a part in something bigger than ourselves. It is a way to honor our armed forces by contributing to their stability.
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Dear CDC:
Anyway, my idea is for a webpage on the CDC website called "What Goes Around…" It would be linked to Facebook and there would be a smartphone app (perhaps you've heard of these). Anyway, sick people would fill out a brief questionnaire via phone or computer about their symptoms and also indicate whether or not they have been diagnosed by a doctor with a certain disease. This would then be plotted on a chart, and people could then hover over a map of the U.S. and see what other things (colds, flu, GI illness, allergies) are going around in their area. It would have a huge disclaimer about not being scientific, or medical advice, blah blah blah… But it could be a really cool thing to look at, and maybe, under the right circumstances, tip off a health department to illness trends.
If nothing else, the Internet has taught me that I have NO unique ideas (…HELLO, napping centers and Barcade…I thought of you first!!), so I'm sure you've thought of this and dismissed it, but I thought I'd share. Sorry to bother you with my rambling… Since you've made me watch your graphic anti-smoking commercials, I figure we're almost even.


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I did not get up to watch the Royal Wedding. I did not watch it on tape delay either. I did not record it. I did not even read any stories leading up to it. In fact, I gave it about as much thought as a soccer match in Paraguay.
But, judging from the hubbub it appears I am in the gross minority. Granted, I live in a house of women: a wife and three little girls. They're fascination with this "event" was off the charts. Weddings in general seem to enthrall them, as they are also huge fans of The Bachelor.
But I digress. The Royal Wedding (and I am capitalizing it under protest) was a global phenomenon. This I cannot deny. But for the weeks leading up to it I kept on asking myself: Why? Oh, I knew the answers (Royalty! Pageantry! Romance!), I just wasn't comfortable accepting them.
I'm a man. And I'm a cynical man. I struggle with weddings. One of the few joys of turning 40 was the precipitous drop in wedding invitations. No more wasted summer Saturdays (and sometimes Fridays) devoted to these dressy, formal and interminable celebrations. No more donning a suit at 11 AM and not being able to take it off until midnight. No more disco dancing with inebriated yuppies in stuffy country clubs. No more choosing between bland codfish or overcooked filet. I was free at last!
I'm also an American. Despite our country's corrupt and/or ridiculous politics I still find the monarchy an upsetting and archaic concept. I don't care what anyone says, being born into rule is just plain wrong.
So, for me the Royal Wedding was, at best, a silly distraction and at worst, insufferable.
Until, that is, I was able to find an angle that made sense. The Royal Wedding was an anthem commercial for Great Britain! With that in mind, I could finally understand its appeal. The costumes. The props. The protagonists. All of it worked better, in my mind, as an anthem. We have the Superbowl. They have that.
I received this epiphany after coming across a Tweet from one of my followers in London. He said, "Today I feel proud to be an Englishman!" And that's when it hit me. The nuptials of this comely couple served as an anthem for a country, world and species in dire need of cheering up. On that front, this one-off commercial hit it out of the park.
Of course, it all comes crashing down when the Prince gets caught boinking a chambermaid. Then, it's back to the scandal and everyday nastiness that we're all accustomed to. Not to worry, however. A regal and global funeral for the Queen Mother will bring us all back.
Special note: Writing for Adweek,, Christopher Silvestor claimed the Royal Wedding was a bust across the pond. Go figure.


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Open Day registration will open approximately eight weeks before the Open Day. Booking for the June Open Days will open by Tuesday 29th April.
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2014 Open days will take place on:
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Saturday 18 October
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Our Open Day on Saturday 12 October was a huge success, attracting thousands of visitors to our campus.
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Evaluating Commercial Anti-Plaque Products and Oral Rinse
This study has been completed.
Colgate Palmolive
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Colgate Palmolive
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: September 26, 2008
Last updated: June 10, 2011
Last verified: June 2011
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Detailed Description:
Clinical research study to determine the anti-plaque efficacy of commerical dentifrices and an oral rinse.
Dental Plaque
Drug: Fluoride
Drug: Chlorhexidine digluconate
Drug: Fluoride, triclosan
Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Evaluating Commercial Anti-Plaque Products and Oral Rinse
Resource links provided by NLM:
Drug Information available for: Chlorhexidine Chlorhexidine acetate Triclosan Chlorhexidine hydrochloride Fluorine Fluoride Chlorhexidine gluconate HibiclensU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Colgate Palmolive:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Plaque Index [ Time Frame: Four days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Plaque scale 0 to 5 (0 = no plaque, 1 = separate flecks of plaque on the tooth, 2 = a thin continuous band of plaque,3 = a band of plaque up to one-third of the tooth, 4 = plaque covering up to two thirds of the of the tooth, 5 = plaque covering two-thirds or more of the crown of the tooth)
|Study Start Date:
|August 2007
|Study Completion Date:
|September 2007
|Primary Completion Date:
|September 2007 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Placebo Comparator: Fluoride toothpaste
Negative control
Drug: Fluoride
Half mouth toothbrushing twice a day for four days.
Other Name: fluoride toothpaste
Active Comparator: Triclosan/Fluoride toothpaste
positive control toothpaste
Drug: Fluoride, triclosan
Half mouth Brushing twice daily
Other Name: Total toothpaste
Active Comparator: Chlorhexidine Oral Rinse
Positive Control mouthrinse
Drug: Chlorhexidine digluconate
Mouth rinsing with 15 ml for 30 seconds twice a day for four days.
Other Name: Periogard oral rinse
Detailed Description:
This clinical research study was to train new examiners for short term plaque clinical methodologies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|23 Years to 81 Years
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Male or female volunteers at least 18 years of age.
- Good general health.
- Must sign informed consent form.
- Minimum of 20 natural uncrowned teeth (excluding third molars) must be present.
- No history of allergy to personal care consumer products, or their ingredients, relevant to any ingredient in the test products as determined by the dental/medical professional monitoring the study.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Subjects unable or unwilling to sign the informed consent form.
- Medical condition which requires pre-medication prior to dental visits/procedures.
- Moderate or advanced periodontal disease or heavy dental tartar (calculus).
- Two or more decayed untreated dental sites at screening.
- Other disease of the hard or soft oral tissues.
- Impaired salivary function (e.g. Sjogren's syndrome or head and neck irradiation).
- Use of medications that are currently affect salivary function.
- Use of antibiotics or antimicrobial drugs within 30 days prior to study visit #1.
- Allergy to chlorhexidine.
- Pregnant or nursing women.
- Participation in any other clinical study within 1 week prior to enrollment into this study.
- Use of tobacco products.
- Subjects who must receive dental treatment during the study dates.
- Current use of Antibiotics for pre-medication for dental treatment or for any other purpose.
- Presence of an orthodontic appliance that interferes with plaque scoring.
- History of allergy to common dentifrice ingredients.
- Immune compromised individuals (HIV, AIDS, immuno suppressive drug therapy).
Contacts and Locations
More Information
No publications provided
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on April 17, 2014
No publications provided
|Responsible Party:
|William DeVizio/VP - Clinical Research, Colgate Palmolive
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01014143 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|September 26, 2008
|Results First Received:
|September 26, 2008
|Last Updated:
|June 10, 2011
|Health Authority:
|United States: Food and Drug Administration
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Dental Plaque
Dental Deposits
Tooth Diseases
Stomatognathic Diseases
Chlorhexidine gluconate
Anti-Infective Agents, Local
Anti-Infective Agents
Therapeutic Uses
Pharmacologic Actions
Dermatologic Agents
Cariostatic Agents
Protective Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Fatty Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
Hypolipidemic Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Lipid Regulating Agents
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on April 17, 2014


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City will ask USD to shut down air conditioning unit by David Lias Families who reside near The University of South Dakota Medical School can�t take it anymore.
The high-pitched whine emitted by an air conditioning unit installed in June 1998 at the medical school building on the west side of the 200 block of North Harvard Street has made life unbearable for people who live in the neighborhood.
Monday, residents appealed to the Vermillion City Council for help. The council agreed that, before enforcing the city�s noise ordinance, it would ask USD to voluntarily shut off the unit until it gets the noise problem fixed.
According to a petition presented to the council by affected families, decibel readings have been monitored at between 61 and 68 decibels, and a recent reading by the police department registered 57 decibels.
According to the petition, the World Health Organization guidelines recommend that night-time average levels of noise suitable for undisturbed sleep ranges from 35 down to 30 decibels. The guidelines also include a peak night-time maximum of 45 decibels.
The air conditioner unit has made life miserable at the Carl and Ellen Baranowski home, located at 221 N. Harvard Street.
�We live at our house, and I teach at our house, and I have a special needs child at our house who has a hearing problem, and in trying to work with the hearing problem last summer, when this noise happens,� Baranowski said, �there is a high-pitched squeal coming from the new air compressor across the street over at the medical school.
�It permeates our homes,� she added, noting that the sound�s pitch is higher on the upper floors of her home, where the bedrooms are located.
The pitch of the sound is about the same as a school bell, and is very piercing.
�It is 24 hours a day,� Baranowski said. �We have tried to mask it with fans and with music. It has still caused my child failure to thrive last summer while the university was working on this.
�I feel we have given them more than enough time,� she added. Baranowski wanted to bring her children to the city council meeting, but four of them are ill.
�We have been very ill, and we�ve been suffering with headaches,� she said. Baranowski added that her hearing-impaired child is now refusing to wear his hearing aid as the weather grows warmer and the unit constantly is in operation.
She said that the family has worked hard to restore their beautiful home. They had hopes that it would be an enjoyable place for not only the family, but for their friends.
�I had hoped to sit on my front porch and watch Vermillion happen, because it�s a beautiful place,� Baranowski said. �And our home is a beautiful place. But nobody wants to come there now, because it hurts to sit out on our front porch.�


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Doctors >Meaux, Rachelle, Md - Woman 2 Woman The Ctr
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Women do not use this horrible Gynecologist. – I DO NOT recommend this doctor to anyone. I was so excited for my appointment because I was going to ask my Dr. about her opinion on having a first child in my late 20's. I am 21, getting married in two months, and I want a child more than anything in this world. I want my child to have what is best for them, so I would like to wait until I am overly financially ready and I have been married for several years. This just shows how concerned I am for my child's well-being and that I want them to be born into a stable, well-established home. To start off the exam, Dr. Meaux told me I was too young to get married. Just like that. No smiles, not jokingly, and continued to say I'm not trying to talk you out of it I'm just saying all odds are against you. You're really gonna have to work on it. Which I clearly understand but this is not something a stranger needs to advise me of. She is not my mother. Not to mention she did not consider my possible religious beliefs and maybe my personal story. I am well aware that I am getting married at a young age and I have considered that. My fiance' and I have been together for several years and I am 100% comfortable getting married at the time in my life. To top it off, when I ask the baby question, she turns to me and says If you can't provide for your child you shouldn't have one. I was so hurt and disappointed. You be the judge.
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The secret ballot was the biggest contributor to unionization. Without it (the unions demanded and got it), unions couldn't organize as effectively. Your cavalier remark was don't get involved in union business. Until the vote is taken, it's not union business.
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Oakland >Food & Dining > Scott's Seafood
2 Broadway, Oakland, CA | Directions 9460737.794289 -122.276946
M-Th 11a-10p; F-Sa 11a-11p; Su 10a-2p & 3p-9p
Neighborhoods: Produce and Waterfront, Ralph Bunche
If you love seafood then you need to try this place! – This is a very nice place if you love seafood and I DO LOVE MY SEAFOOD!
My friend and I stopped here a few weeks ago. She was home for Christmas and we were looking for somewhere to eat so we thought why not try this place! Best decision we have ever made!
The restaurant is HUGE! It also had a wonderful deck overlooking the water so if you love being by water then I highly suggest this place!
I started with the Orzo & Veggie Soup for an appetizer and it was just the best soup I have ever tasted! For dinner I got the Broiled Sea Scallops and my friend ordered the Bay Shrimp Pasta.
Both were very good and even though a little expensive it was well worth every penny!
Great restaurant to try if you haven't already!
Michael Stagg, Owner of Scott's restaurant doesn't do the right thing..... How sad ;( – On Friday, December 7, 2007, I was at a PRIVATE Holiday Party which was held at this establishment. At approximately 11:00pm, I noticed my camera was missing from the table I was sitting at. I had set my camera down, (next to my handbag); got up to dance right next to our table and noticed a few minutes later that my camera was missing. I asked several of the wait staff if they had accidentally picked it up when they had cleared the table, and they said no. I was very upset for the fact that one, the photos on the camera are not replaceable and two, I was at a high end establishment and, three the staff was allowing several outside people into our private party. I feel this establishment is responsible for the loss of my camera and Michal Stagg is NOT willing replacing it or even give me some type of compensation. Just a warning for those who are planning to have a party here,
Great stop for lunch! Not your typical "chain-like" restaurant in a high tourist area. – If you want a nice atmosphere for a business lunch, to take a load off while walking through the Jack London Square, or to simply enjoy the water and setting, then Scott's is it. The service is great, the staff cheerful and attendant, and the food delicious. I ordered the Manhattan Clam Chowder and it was the best this side of the Appalachians. The Seafood Louie salad was chock full of crab, and the pour of wine delicious. And while the great weather and magnificent views can't be controlled by the staff, the appropriate seating at an inviting and available was. Thank you!
Overrated – I went to Scott's last night and was very disappointed. The service was excellent, but the food was gross. I had an interesting cocktail, the Pom Lemonade. This consisted of lemonade and pomegranate vodka, it was delicious but very stingy on alcohol. We started with the crab and artichoke gratin. The overwelming flavor was of mayonaise and hardly any crab or artichoke was present. My meal was the petrale sole with wilted spinach and mashed potatoes. The sole was okay, but the spinach was so greasy and the potatoes were over-processed. Considering the other reviews of this restaurant, I was very disappointed with the food.
Nice View from Jack London Square. We went on Valentines, and it was busy, but the waitress was nice, and the Prawns with rice and veges were great. We're going back there again!
Excellent – First visit to a Scott's restaurant and we were very impressed. The service was top-notch, as was the atmosphere and food. We did not order appetizers (although they have many wonderful choices) and our main courses were brought out promptly. The crab-encrusted sword-fish was wonderful, as was the mixed platter. Servings were decently sized, but you wont have leftovers. Overall a wonderful experience.
Great service and food – Went on valentine's day for the first time in years, the calamari was great as was the salmon alla bella that was ordered. Waitress was good as well...be prepared to spend $80 minimum for 2, depending what you drink.
A classic seafood restaurant that draws loyal locals for its famed clam chowder, fresh fish and dry-aged steaks. – The Scene
Scott's offers a quiet, romantic and leisurely dining experience in an elegant setting. During workday lunch hours, the restaurant attracts a serious executive crowd that talks business over halibut and iced tea. In the evening, the mood becomes laid-back as well-dressed locals turn out for grilled prawns and cosmos.
The Food
Start with a heaping order of crisply fried, still chewy calamari accompanied by a lightly tangy lemon-and-shallot dipping sauce. The creamy Boston clam chowder is a house specialty, but the soup of the day--especially if it's the creamy summer squash--is often better. For a main course, try the buttery grilled halibut, a moist, flaky filet served with a sweet-and-salty mix of sauteed corn, fresh spinach and roasted tomatoes. Served slightly rare, the thick swordfish steak is a silky treasure encrusted in crunchy pistachios. Finish up with a classic sundae topped in luscious, warm chocolate sauce.
Worth going to! – Scott's has great food, very friendly service and wonderful location on the water!
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Emmy Award-winning radio personality, television host and producer Ryan Seacrest has signed on to narrate the third season of PIONEERS OF TELEVISION, PBS' Emmy-nominated series that brings to life the stories of television's most beloved stars. PIONEERS OF TELEVISION returns to PBS on Tuesday, January 15, 2013, 8:00 p.m. ET and runs through February 5. The new season's four episodes are "Funny Ladies" (January 15), "Primetime Soaps" (January 22), "Superheroes" (January 29), and "Miniseries" (February 5).
Stars featured in PIONEERS include Carol Burnett, Lynda Carter, Joan Collins, Diahann Carroll, Richard Chamberlain, Patrick Duffy, Lou Ferrigno, Tina Fey, Louis Gossett Jr., Larry Hagman, Cloris Leachman, Joan Rivers, Leslie Uggams, Rachel Ward, Adam West and Betty White, among many others.
In PIONEERS OF TELEVISION more than 100 stars bring their stories to life, telling backstage tales of America's favorite shows. Each episode melds compelling new interviews with iconic clips and never-before-seen photos to offer an insider's look at television's biggest celebrities.
"We are thrilled to bring another season of PIONEERS OF TELEVISION to PBS and the American public," said executive producer Steve Boettcher. "It's doubly exciting to have our show led by Ryan Seacrest, who's both a major television star, and an ardent fan of television's pioneers."
Below are descriptions of PIONEERS OF TELEVISION'S THIRD season episodes.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013, 8:00-9:00 p.m. ET
This episode offers surprising new insights about television's most-beloved variety star Carol Burnett. "Funny Ladies" also looks at the backstory behind Lucille Ball's breakthrough, I LOVE LUCY and the sitcom stars who followed, including Mary Tyler Moore, Betty White and Marla Gibbs. Featured television stand-ups include Joan Rivers and the late Phyllis Diller—whose final interview was for this episode. The episode also includes interviews with contemporary actresses Tina Fey and Margaret Cho.
Tuesday, January 22, 2013, 8:00-9:00 p.m. ET
DALLAS and DYNASTY kicked off the nighttime soap frenzy in the late 1970s, a phenomenon that continued through the last season of KNOTS LANDING in 1993. The episode offers surprising new details about the legendary "Who Shot J.R." episode of Dallas, and reveals the backstage personalities that shaped DYNASTY and KNOTS LANDING. Interviewees in this episode include Larry Hagman, Joan Collins, Linda Evans, Diahann Carroll, Linda Gray, Patrick Duffy, Michele Lee, Joan Van Ark and Donna Mills.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 8:00-9:00 p.m. ET
"Superheroes" crosses many eras: SUPERMAN in the 1950s, BATMAN in the '60s, WONDER WOMAN and THE INCREDIBLE HULK in the '70s and THE GREATEST AMERICAN HERO in the '80s. The episode features in-depth interviews with Adam West, Burt Ward, Julie Newmar, Lynda Carter, Lou Ferrigno, William Katt and others. It also includes comments from Robert Culp about his show THE GREATEST AMERICAN HERO, recorded just days before he passed away.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013, 8:00-9:00 p.m. ET
Miniseries still rank among the top-rated programs in television history. ROOTS was the biggest — interviewees about that groundbreaking series include stars LeVar Burton, Louis Gossett Jr., Leslie Uggams, Ben Vereen, John Amos, Georg Stanford Brown and Ed Asner. This episode also considers the very first miniseries, RICH MAN, POOR MAN, as stars Peter Strauss and Susan Blakely offer fresh insights. All of the key stars from the landmark miniseries THE THORN BIRDS (the most-watched romance) provide surprising commentary about the romance seen by more viewers than any other in TV history. These new interviews with Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown mark the 30th anniversary of one of television's biggest events.
- DALLAS Update On The Return Gary, Val, Lucy & Afton; Plus, No Plans For Pam
- INTERVIEW: From Theater to TV to the Web - Joan Van Ark
- DALLAS Starts Production on Second Season - A Look At What Lies Ahead
- DALLAS Returns January 28, 2013 For Season 2
- Judith Light Joins DALLAS
- Annie Wersching Joins DALLAS
PBS' PIONEERS OF TELEVISION Will Feature Primetime Soaps
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How are they doing primetime soaps before DAYTIME? Hello??!!??ReplyDelete
And how can do "Primetime Soaps" without the one that started it all, PEYTON PLACE??ReplyDelete
And how can do "Primetime Soaps" without the one that started it all, PEYTON PLACE??ReplyDelete
Just because the synopsis doesn't mention PEYTON PLACE doesn't mean they are going to ignore it. Hopefully FORSYTE SAGA and UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS will be included as well - even though they are from the UK. This is a well-done series and I'm glad they are including serialized drama. The other three installments sound terrific too. Long live PBS!ReplyDelete
I agree with Doug about these being well done. I think it will cover them all, well, the important ones through the past 50 years.ReplyDelete
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If you're still unsure about how you are going to celebrate this holiday and your time off, have no fear, we at The Brown Palace have taken the luxury of outlining a few ways to occupy your Presidents' Day weekend.
Washington Park. Get out and get a little exercise this Presidents' Day weekend. Wash Park boasts a 2.6-mile jogging path, soccer fields, 2 playgrounds, a basketball court, horseshoe court, 10 tennis courts and a lawn bowling green. As temperatures are looking to get warmer leading up to Presidents' Day, you have no excuse to not take advantage of this gorgeous park located in the heart of Denver.
Stay at The Brown. Honor this nation's great leaders by staying in one of our hotel's suites named for their presidential residents: Eisenhower Suite, Reagan Suite, and Teddy Roosevelt Suite. If you can land the Eisenhower Suite look for a dent in the fireplace mantel. This dent marks where President Eisenhower hit a wayward golf ball while practicing in the room.
Free Day at Denver Botanic Gardens. On Presidents' Day, Monday, February 20, the Denver Botanic Gardens will once again be offering free admission to all of their gardens to Colorado residents. Get together with your friends or family, to take a leisurely stroll around these beautiful and flamboyant gardens which offer up a few of Denver's most spectacular art exhibits.
Westword Artopia. On Saturday, February 18 Denver's Westword Magazine will be hosting their annual Artopia celebration. Westword's Artopia will feature Denver's finest musicians, culinary creations, local fashion and art at 5 different venues on South Broadway. All guests must be 21 or over.
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Friday, April 25, 2014
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If you peer down to the head of your Thanksgiving dinner table on Thursday and think "There's Grandpa, in his proper seat because he's the head of the family," then you're not thinking deeply enough.
Staff Photo Illustration/Michael Fisher
And it's not just that his father probably sat at the head of the table, as did his father before him.
Where people sit or stand in different situations can say a lot about them. Where we sit in life is dictated by a myriad of biological and historic facts, including our collective past as hunter-gatherers and the principles of proxemics -- the science of spatial relationships.
As if telling folks where to sit at the Thanksgiving table wasn't complicated enough, right? Now you find out there's science and ancient history all wrapped up in it, too.
"There's been a lot of research about why the dominant person in the group usually sits at one end of the table -- the end where they can see the entrance to the room -- and it has a lot to do with patterns of human spatial behavior that date back to the days when we were bushmen living on the savanna," said Sally Augustin, a Chicago-based environmental psychologist who consults businesses and designers on personal-space issues.
"People didn't have all the tools to protect themselves like we do now, so the dominant male had to sit in a position where his back was protected and where he could see anyone who might attack the group."
Depending on how well your family gets along at Thanksgiving, this ancient history lesson might have some relevance today.
So does all this science and history explain why anyone takes any particular seat at the table? Can we point to the third seat down on the left and say, "Aha! That guy is a Mets fan"?
Probably not, Augustin and other psychologists say.
Still, the complexities of why people position themselves where they do every day -- at work, in an elevator, in a movie theater -- can be fascinating to explore.
Brett Wickard of Cumberland has finally come to realize -- after 20 years or more -- that he always chooses a seat as far to the right side of a room as he can, so he can always see to the left. It doesn't matter what's on the left; he needs to look there.
"I think my kids first pointed it out to me. For instance, if I'm at a restaurant, I always pick the seat where my right arm can hang into the aisle so I'm able to look left and see everyone at the table," said Wickard, founder and president of the Maine-based Bull Moose Music stores.
Wickard didn't notice this about himself until others spotted it. After thinking about it for a while, the only possible reason he can come up with has to do with the first Bull Moose music store he opened, in Brunswick. The counter in that store was on the far right, and Wickard spent a lot of time there.
"Pretty much 11 hours a day, seven days a week for years, I was greeting people by looking to my left," said Wickard. "Is that it? I don't know."
Psychologists say the human instinct to be territorial has a lot to do with where people choose to sit or stand. For some, like Wickard, the brain may become programmed by years of routine to choose a certain spot.
If you have children, think about how territorial they are with their seats at the dinner table, says Bill Thornton, a professor of social psychology at the University of Southern Maine. That's because picking a seat -- or choosing any personal space -- is an important part of a child's development, of his or her growing sense of personal identity.
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