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California English
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California English (or Californian English) is a variety of Western American English documented among some native English speakers throughout California, with its most advanced forms reported among younger, urban, and coastal speakers.[1][2] California is home to a highly diverse population, which is reflected in the historical and continuing formation of California English, whose uniquely developing sound shift was only first noted by linguists in the 1980s,[3] best researched in Southern California and the San Francisco Bay area of Northern California.[3][4] Since that time, California speech has been mostly associated in American popular culture with adolescent and young-adult speakers of coastal California; the possibility that it is, in fact, an age-specific variety of English has been proposed though not confirmed.[5]
English was first spoken on a wide scale in the area now known as California following the influx of English-speakers from the United States, Canada, and Europe during the California Gold Rush. The English-speaking population grew rapidly with further settlement, which included large populations from the Northeast, South and the Midwest. The dialects brought by these pioneers were the basis for the development of the modern language: a mixture of settlers from the Midwest and the Border South produced the rural dialect of Northern California, whereas settlers from the Lower Midwest and the South, (especially Missouri and Texas), produced the rural dialect of Southern California.
Before World War I, the variety of speech types reflected the differing origins of these early inhabitants. A distinctly Southwestern drawl could be heard in Southern California. When a collapse in commodity prices followed World War I, many bankrupted Midwestern farmers migrated to California from Nebraska, Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota, and Iowa contributing to a new homogenized speech in urban sprawl, where teachers banned "ain't", 'awl' (oil),[6] and "ahll" (I'll). Subsequently, incoming groups with differing speech, such as the speakers of Highland Southern during the 1930s, have been absorbed within a generation. The Great Depression's Dust Bowl migration re-introduced a purer Southwestern accent to the West Coast in the 1920s and 30s. A California accent with notable Southern features is still spoken by some Californians of the Central Valley, especially around Kern County (centered on Bakersfield), an area historically associated with California "Okies."[7]
California's status as a relatively young state is significant in that it has not had centuries for regional patterns to emerge and grow (compared to, say, some East Coast or Southern dialects). Linguists who studied English as spoken in California before and in the period immediately after World War II tended to find few, if any, distinct patterns unique to the region.[8]
However, several decades later, with a more settled population and continued immigration from all over the globe, a noteworthy set of emerging characteristics of California English had begun to attract notice by linguists from the late 20th century onward. As more people moved into the state, all those groups, ranging from a diverse variety of backgrounds, began to pick up different elements of spoken language from one another.[9]
|Differences in Californian versus General American vowels
|General American
|Example words
|/ɒ/ (LOT set)
|[ä~ɑ] ( listen)
|bother, lot, top
|/ɒ/ (CLOTH set)
|[ɒ(ː)] ( listen) or [ɑ~ɒ] ( listen)
|cloth, loss, off
|all, bought, saw
|[ɛ~æ] ( listen)
|[ɛ] ( listen)
|dress, said, breath
|[ɪ~ɛ] ( listen)
|[ɪ] ( listen)
|hit, skim, tip
|[ʊ] ( listen)
|book, put, should
|[u~ʉ] ( listen)
|[u] ( listen)
|food, glue, new
Several phonological processes have been identified as being particular to California English, but they are neither universal within nor limited to the California area.
- California (Vowel) Shift: Most noticeably, typical California English is characterized by a lowering chain shift of the front vowel sounds in words like bit, bet, and sometimes bat; additionally, certain innovative speakers of California English, particularly in Northern California and the San Fernando Valley (stereotyped as "Valleyspeak"),[11] show fronting of the back vowel sounds in words like butt, boat, bush, and boot.[12]
- Context-specific vowel changes: Many California English speakers exhibit the following vowel characteristics, nearly identical to the Canadian Shift:
- /ɛ/ (as in bet, wretch, head, etc.) has a fairly open pronunciation (for example, with car wreck and kettle drum in California English sounding to a General American speaker more like car wrack and cattle drum), as indicated in the vowel chart here.
- /ɪ/ (as in bit, itch, quick, etc.) has a fairly open pronunciation (for example, with pick and Missy sounding more like peck and messy), as indicated in the vowel chart here.
- /æ/ (as in bat, rag, quack, etc.) is slightly more open pronunciation than in General American (something like the open front a sound in Spanish or Italian); however, before /n/ or /m/ (as in ran or ram), /æ/ is raised and diphthongized to [eə] or [ɪə] before nasal consonants, a widespread shift throughout most American English.
- Context-free vowel changes: The following changes are much newer and not typical of mainstream California speakers, but are often associated with youthful California stereotypes. They are usually more observable in younger Northern Californian[12][verification needed] and "Valleyspeak" accents. Imitation of peers and other sociolinguistic phenomena play a large part in determining the extent of this part of the vowel shift in a particular speaker.[citation needed]
- /ʊ/ may be fronted towards [ʌ] (so that, for example, book and should could sound more like buck and shud)
- /ʌ/ may be fronted beyond [ɜ] (mud, glove, what, etc. may sound more like Southern American English)
- /u/ may be fronted beyond [ʉ] (rude and true approach reed and tree but with rounded lips)
- /oʊ/ may be fronted beyond [ə] (cone and stoke are approach cane and steak but with rounded lips).[13]
- Context-specific vowel changes: Many California English speakers exhibit the following vowel characteristics, nearly identical to the Canadian Shift:
- Front vowels are raised before /ŋ/: The sounds of the traditional "short a" /æ/ (as in bat) and "short i" /ɪ/ (as in bit) are raised to the sounds of the "long a" [e] (as in bait) and "long ee" [i] (as in beat), respectively when they occur before the ng sound /ŋ/; in other words, rang may have the same vowel as "rain" and king the same vowel as keen.[citation needed] However, that pronunciation is not spread evenly, and the more common American pronunciation of [kʰɪŋ] (where "king" has the same vowel sound as "kin") still exists in many areas of California.
- Cot–caught merger: Most California speakers do not distinguish between /ɔ/ and /ɑ/ (the vowel sounds, for example, in caught versus cot), and thus have completed the cot–caught merger.[2] The merged vowel is typically a centralized ä.[14] A notable exception may be found within the San Francisco Bay Area.[15]
- Pin–pen merger in some areas: it is complete only in and around Kern County and northern Los Angeles County; however, speakers in Sacramento do perceive or produce the pairs /ɛn/ and /ɪn/ close to each other.[15]
Lexical characteristics[edit]
The popular image of a typical California speaker often conjures up images of the so-called Valley girls popularized by the 1982 hit song by Frank and Moon Unit Zappa, or "surfer-dude" speech made famous by movies such as Fast Times at Ridgemont High. While many phrases found in these extreme versions of California English from the 1980s may now be considered passé, certain words such as awesome, totally, fer sure, harsh, gnarly, and dude have remained popular in California and have spread to a national, even international, level. The use of the word like for numerous grammatical functions or as conversational "filler" (such as in place of thinking sounds "uh" and "um") has also remained popular in California English and is now found in many other varieties of English.
A common example of a Northern Californian[16] colloquialism is hella (from "hell of a (lot of)", euphemistic alternative, hecka) to mean "many", "much", "so" or "very".[17] It can be used with both count and mass nouns: "I haven't seen you in hella long"; "There were hella people there"; or "This guacamole is hella good." Pop culture references to "hella" are common, as in the song "Hella Good" by the band No Doubt, from Southern California, and "Hella" by the band Skull Stomp, from Northern California.[18]
California, like other Southwestern states, has borrowed many words from Spanish, especially for place names, food, and other cultural items, reflecting the heritage of the Californios. High concentrations of various ethnic groups throughout the state have contributed to general familiarity with words describing (especially cultural) phenomena. For example, a high concentration of Asian Americans from various cultural backgrounds, especially in urban and suburban metropolitan areas in California, has led to the adoption of words like hapa (itself originally a Hawaiian borrowing of English "half"[19]). A person who was hapa was either part European/Islander or part Asian/Islander. Today it refers to a person of mixed racial heritage such as half-Asian/half-European-Americans in common California usage and FOB ("fresh off the boat", often a newly arrived Asian immigrant). Not surprisingly, the popularity of cultural food items such as Vietnamese phở and Taiwanese boba in many areas has led to the general adoption of such words among many speakers.
In 1958, essayist Clifton Fadiman pointed out that Northern California is the only place besides England where the word chesterfield is used as a synonym for sofa or couch,[20] but it is also used in Canadian English.
Californians sometimes refer to the lanes of a multi-lane divided highway by number, "the number 1 lane" (also referred to as "the fast lane") is the lane farthest to the left (not counting the carpool lane), with the lane numbers going up sequentially to the right until the far right lane,[21] which is usually referred to as "the slow lane". In areas where three and occasionally two lane freeways are more common, the lanes are simply the "fast lane", "middle lane" and "slow lane".
In the Los Angeles Metropolitan area, Inland Empire, Coachella Valley and San Diego, freeways are often referred to either by name or by route number (perhaps with a direction suffix), but with the addition of the definite article "the", such as "the 405 North" or "the 605 (Freeway)". This usage has been parodied in the recurring Saturday Night Live sketch "The Californians".[22] In contrast, typical Northern California usage omits the definite article.[23][24][25] When Southern California freeways were built in the 1940s and early 1950s, local common usage was primarily the freeway name preceded by the definite article, such as "the Hollywood Freeway".[26] It took several decades for Southern California locals to start to commonly refer to the freeways with the numerical designations, but usage of the definite article persisted. For example, it evolved to "the 605 Freeway" and then shortened to "the 605".[26] That did not occur in Northern California, where usage of the route numbers was more common.
A Southern-influenced "country twang" variety of California English is noted among some speakers of the Kern County (metropolitan Bakersfield) area, who may recognizably demonstrate the pin–pen merger, fill–feel merger, and full–fool merger.[27] Certain varieties of Chicano English are also native to California, sometimes even being spoken by non-Latino Californians.[28][29] One example is East Los Angeles Chicano English, which has been influenced by both Californian and African American Vernacular English.[30]
See also[edit]
- North American English regional phonology
- Boontling
- Chain shift
- Chicano English
- African American Vernacular English
- Hyphy
- Sociolect
- Sociolinguistics
- Spanglish
- Valspeak
- Vowel Shift
- Labov, William; Ash, Sharon; Boberg, Charles (2006), The Atlas of North American English, Berlin: Mouton-de Gruyter, pp. 187–208, ISBN 3-11-016746-8
- Ward, Michael (2003), "The California Movement, etc.", Portland Dialect Study: The Fronting of /ow, u, uw/ in Portland, Oregon (PDF), Portland State University, pp. 39–45
- ^ Podesva, Robert J., Annette D'Onofrio, Janneke Van Hofwegen, and Seung Kyung Kim (2015). "Country ideology and the California Vowel Shift." Language Variation and Change 48: 28-45. Cambridge University Press.
- ^ a b "California English." Do You Speak American? PBS. Macneil/Lehrer Productions. 2005.
- ^ a b Gordon, Matthew J. (2004). "The West and Midwest: phonology." Kortmann, Bernd, Kate Burridge, Rajend Mesthrie, Edgar W. Schneider and Clive Upton (eds). A Handbook of Varieties of English. Volume 1: Phonology, Volume 2: Morphology and Syntax. Berlin / New York: Mouton de Gruyter. p. 347.
- ^ Bucholtz, Mary; et all (December 2007). "Hella Nor Cal or Totally So Cal? : The Perceptual Dialectology of California". Journal of English Linguistics 35 (4): 325–352. doi:10.1177/0075424207307780. Retrieved 2010-11-04.
- ^ Ward (2003:41): "fronted features in the young speakers seems to indicate a nascent chain shift in progress, [however] the lack of a true generational age range in the study precludes too strong of a conclusion. Alternatively Hinton et al. also suggest that possibility that the age-specific pattern could also be a function of age-grading, where the faddish speech style of California adolescents is adopted for its prestige value, only to be abandoned as adolescence wanes."
- ^ Upton Sinclair, Oil! (1927).
- ^ Bailey, Brianna (2015). "[newsok.com/article/5420122 Read this, y'all: Is the Okie dialect disappearing?]" NewsOK.
- ^ Walt Wolfram and Ben Ward, editors (2006). American Voices: How Dialects Differ from Coast to Coast. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. pp. 140, 234–236. ISBN 978-1-4051-2108-8.
- ^ "Do you speak American? - California English". PBS. Retrieved October 28, 2013.
- ^ a b Ladefoged, Peter (1999). "American English". In Handbook of the International Phonetic Association, 41–44, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-63751-1.
- ^ Hinton, Leanne, Sue Bremner, Hazel Corcoran, Jean Learner, Herb Luthin, Birch Moonwomon, and Mary Van Clay (1987). "It's Not Just Valley Girls: A Study of California English." Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 13: 117–27.
- ^ a b c Eckert, Penelope. "Vowel Shifts in Northern California and the Detroit Suburbs". Stanford University. Accessed 2015.
- ^ "Professor Penelope Eckert's webpage". Stanford.edu. Retrieved 2011-12-30.
- ^ Ward (2003:43)
- ^ a b Labov, Ash & Boberg (2006:64,68)
- ^ "However, science isn't all that sets Northern California apart from the rest of the world," Sendek wrote. "The area is also notorious for the creation and widespread usage of the English slang hella, which typically means very, or can refer to a large quantity (e.g. there are hella stars out tonight)." [1]
- ^ "Jorge Hankamer WebFest". Ling.ucsc.edu. Retrieved 2011-12-30.
- ^ "Lyrics | Skull Stomp - Hella". SongMeanings. 2008-11-02. Retrieved 2011-12-30.
- ^ Mary Kawena Pukui, Samuel H. Elbert & Esther T. Mookini, The Pocket Hawaiian Dictionary (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1983)
- ^ Fadiman, Clifton Any Number Can Play 1958
- ^ "Choosing a Lane". California Driver Handbook (PDF). California Department of Motor Vehicles. 2010. p. 33.
- ^ Rose, Joseph (April 16, 2012). "Saturday Night Live's 'The Californians': Traffic's one big soap opera (video)". The Oregonian (Portland, Oregon). Retrieved December 3, 2013.
- ^ Simon, Mark (2000-06-30). "'The' Madness Must Stop Right Now". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2012-11-19.
- ^ Simon, Mark (2000-07-04). "Local Lingo Keeps 'The' Off Road". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2012-11-19.
- ^ Simon, Mark (2000-07-29). "S.F. Wants Power, Not The Noise: The 'The'". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2012-11-19.
- ^ a b Geyer, Grant (Summer 2001). "'The' Freeway in Southern California". American Speech 76 (2): 221–224. doi:10.1215/00031283-76-2-221.
- ^ Ornelas, Cris (2012). "Kern County Accent Studied." 23 ABC News. E. W. Scripps Company.
- ^ Take Two (2013). "Map: Do Californians have an accent? Listen to some examples and add your own." Southern California Public Radio.
- ^ Guerrero, Jr., Armando (2014). "Speak Good English for Being Mexican' East Los Angeles Chicano/a English: Language & Identity." Voices, 2(1). pp.56-7.
- ^ Guerrero, Jr., Armando (2014). "Speak Good English for Being Mexican' East Los Angeles Chicano/a English: Language & Identity." Voices, 2(1). p. 4.
Further reading[edit]
- Vowels and Consonants: An Introduction to the Sounds of Languages. Peter Ladefoged, 2003. Blackwell Publishing.
- Language in Society: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. Suzanne Romaine, 2000. Oxford University Press.
- How We Talk: American Regional English Today. Allan Metcalf, 2000. Houghton Mifflin.
External links[edit]
- PBS.org: "Do you speak American? − California English"
- Stanford.edu: Penelope Eckert Bolg − Vowel Shifts
- Phonological Atlas of North America
- USC.edu: "A hella new specifier" — by Rachelle Waksler, discussing usage of "hella".
- Binghamton.edu: "Word Up: Social Meanings of Slang in California Youth Culture" — by Mary Bucholtz Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara Department of Linguistics, includes discussion of "hella".


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There's only one planning application on this week's "Yellow List"- but it's an interesting and important one. It's a planning application for an outdoor artificial sports pitch, with floodlighting, at Fitzwimarc School. It's recommended for approval – if no councillor calls it in to committee by 1 pm next Wednesday, it will be passed.
The report is lengthy – 67 pages long. You can download it here. It's too long to summarise here, but issues such as nuisance from floodlighting, noise and potential flood risk are discussed, as is the need for sports pitches in the western part of the district. Proposed hours are 8am to 10pm Monday to Friday, 8am to 8pm Saturdays and 9am to 8pm Sundays and Bank holidays.
Here are some sample comments, both for and against:
Currently, there are a number of local pitches which are not fit for
purpose in the winter as they become waterlogged and unplayable. I
believe that this installation will enable our
children to continue to enjoy football (and other sports) throughout the year.
As a parent and local Head Teacher I am passionate about the importance of sport in our
schools and communities, and I fully support the proposal
It will be sited as far away from local houses to avoid any nuisance and
it can also be used by children in the school holidays avoiding excess
travel to similar facilities in Southend or Thundersley. This facility if
approved will be great for the community of all ages.
In relation to the construction of the 3G pitch. I am supportive of this as
a Rayleigh resident. 3G pitches are the next generation to develop
skills for young and old alike in football and it was a disappointment
that this was not considered at the Rayleigh sports centre which
currently has hard court outside facilities when it was built. Hard court
pitches at the sports centre become dangerous when it's cold and wet.
The 3G pitches will be safer and provide an all year round football
facilities to Rayleigh's football teams and also bring Fitzwimarc school
on a par with Sweyne school with its facilities.
I am writing this objection from my position as a schoolteacher. I am
absolutely astounded and bewildered that FitzWimarc are even
considering installing a 3G synthetic full size pitch.
The school is struggling at present trying to maintain its high standards of teaching in
what can only be described as a very poorly maintained infrastructure.
FitzWimarc School requires a huge injection of cash purely to bring it
back up to a reasonable safe specification, let alone the modernisation
that is desperately needed. The sporting success of the school is
beyond doubt, all the facilities, including two indoor sports centres, are
currently enjoyed by all the pupils. The provision of this huge structure
will have a detrimental effect on these facilities. They will lose the
cricket pitch and running track along with many other field sports! I
cannot understand why these plans were not discussed with the staff; I
think management may find their views
very interesting.
I am also concern that once this pitch is in place where will the children
of the school do their athletics, cricket and cross country. I have been
informed that they will be doing all of these activities off site. As a
parent of the school I am not in favour of pupils being taken off the
school grounds when there is ample grounds at present, which when
this pitch is in place will take up most of the ground.
Fitzwimarc are a very sporty school but why would they get rid of their
rugby/cricket pitches to then rent out to clubs out of school and send
their own school children to Rawreth Lane when they need to play a
game of cricket!! Crazy and unfair to pupils of Fitzwimarc.


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Grandma made this for holidays. I've been trying to replicate it for years with mixed results. Now I can get it right. Thanks for posting!!
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Since graduating from BYU 60 years ago, Jerry Elison has been doing what he loves: directing musicals and plays. His talents will be honored with a Jerry Elison Scholarship Concert at the SCERA Center for the Arts on Nov. 9-10.
"When I was asked if a scholarship could be named after me, I was flabbergasted! I also was very humbled," Elison said. "To have them create this scholarship while I'm still around and ask for my input means a lot."
Directing over 100 plays and musicals, Elison's love for the arts has been evident since he was a young boy. He would write plays in grade school and hold practices with students during recess. Although his dad wanted him to study business in college, Elison couldn't seem to stay away from theatre.
"I have loved theater my whole life. I was fortunate enough to have teachers during my high school years that encouraged me to continue being involved in the arts," Elison said.
Elison has participated in productions in many venues over the years, including school districts in Utah and Idaho, the Sundance Summer Theatre, Hale Center Theater Orem and the SCERA.
For the scholarship concert, cast members from some of Elison's productions will perform selections from favorite musicals, including "Almost Like Being in Love," from "Brigadoon," by Emily Bennett and Steve Diamond; "Bring Him Home," from "Les Miserables," by Chris Higbee; and "She Loves Me," from the musical of the same name, by Rex Kocherhans.
Elison's family has always been willing to be involved in musicals. For the scholarship concert, Elison, his wife Barbara and two of their daughters will provide the pre-show entertainment, including an eight-hand piano rendition of "Tonight" from "West Side Story." Elison's grandkids will also perform "Tell a Handsome Stranger" from Elison's personal favorite musical, "Little Mary Sunshine."
Elison wants to make sure the proceeds will be used where the community feels it is needed most.
"Although the scholarship could be used towards helping a student who needs help to pay for college, it could also be used for local theaters and productions," Elison said. "It is my hope that down the road, enough money will be raised and could benefit more than one cause."
Tickets for the concert are $10 for ages 3 and older and can be purchased at the main office of the SCERA Center, 745 So. State, Orem. Tickets may also be purchased by calling 801-225-ARTS or online at scera.org. For more information, visit SCERA's website.
Kylie Lewis is an intern for the Deseret News where she writes for Mormon Times and other feature articles. She recently graduated from Brigham Young University-Idaho, receiving her bachelor's in Communications.
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I have the following image: and I'd like to detect a contour of the note which is intuitionally seen easy, but when I try to do it, it actually isn't that easy.
For quick prototyping I started using MATLAB first (but later I want to do it in Java thus I'd like to not use too many special algorithms in MATLAB but rather try to use basic image proessing algorithms (prewitt / sobel / canny / adaptive thresholds / hough trafo) which are easily available in another language as well (e.g. opencv etc)..
The most easy code to start with was (but I thought this should already be quite good as the outside-edge looks to strong compared to the inside ones):
I = double(rgb2gray(imread('img.jpg')));
bw = edge(I, 'canny');
I thought matlab would be doing the choice of the threshold in the canny filter very well when using the automatical-mode. But it actually doesn't: http://i.imgur.com/LeKPgso.png
When setting the threshold as a scalar manually (to .4 e.g.) I still get way too many gradients for the text inside and the outside borders are already way too incomplete/patchy: http://i.imgur.com/p68CVIU.png
I tried it using a prewitt filter (in x and y direction):
I = double(rgb2gray(imread('img.jpg')));
f1 = double(fspecial('prewitt'));
x = conv2(I, f);
y = conv2(I, f');
bw = (x.^2+y.^2).^0.5;
resulting in: http://i.imgur.com/Jd9Fqpn.png so also not very well... it looks better but still the outside is very patchy :(
Any ideas how to improve it very much? Further I'd like to unwarp the image later on to a rectangular shape. Any ideas on how to do it? Hough transform wouldn't work on a non-straight contour like the image above as it yields straight lines as a result...
Thanks very much!
Edit: Okay I found out the patchy-look comes from MATLAB... when zooming in, it is much much better and less patchy, see: http://i.imgur.com/UrPd8me.png And I could imagine to find the contour by shrinking the outer contour because it is all black in this case (some sort of boundary box). But I don't want to assume that as the pictures are not always taken with flashlight on, e.g.: http://i.imgur.com/nfqygmA.jpg So then there will be some noise in the outer areas...
Edit2: Just found Algorithm to detect corners of paper sheet in photo doesn't look too easy obviously. :) Maybe you've got some new ideas to start with.


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Vista Rock is the second highest Manhattan schist outcrop in Central Park (the highest being the 137.5 foot Summit Rock at Central Park West and 83rd Street). At a height of 130 feet, Vista Rock is named for its excellent views of the entire park. When the Board of Commissioners of Central Park held the park design competition in 1858, their rules stipulated that each entry include four transverse roads to carry cross-town traffic through the park. The winners, Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) and Calvert Vaux (1824-1895), proposed to sink these transverse roads below the grade of the park; this brilliant idea was one of the distinguishing features of their winning Greensward Plan and one likely reason for their success. Vista Rock was a major impediment to the construction of the 79th Street transverse road. Creating a tunnel required a major feat of engineering, and blasting had to be done with gunpowder, as dynamite had not yet been invented.
Clarence Cook described the tunnel in his 1869 book A Description of New York Central Park: "Under that portion of the rock that lies just south of the Belvedere is the tunnel, constructed at great expense, for carrying the second of the traffic-roads...This tunnel was completed in January 1861, and, after a careful examination, the roof was found to be sound and firm. The length of the tunnel is one hundred and forty-six feet, and the height of the roof above the center of the roadway is seventeen feet ten inches. Its width of forty feet is the same as that of the road it spans, all traffic-roads having the same dimensions."
The tunnel so delighted 19th century park visitors that builders added steps leading to the transverse road, a feature unique among the park's roads. The rock dome of the tunnel still inspires visitors to appreciate the difficulties builders faced working with limited technology in the creation of Central Park.
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It appears even the flu can only moderately slow down McPherson High's Katelyn Loecker.
The star forward put up 13 points in MHS' 55-29 league win over Buhler Tuesday, despite limited minutes due to the illness, which visibly left her playing a step or two slower than normal.
Her teammates stepped up huge for the Bullpups, however, as MHS exploded for an 16-2 run late in the first quarter, holding an 18-4 advantage after the first quarter. "Going in our kids knew (Loecker) was struggling and didn't know how she was going to be," McPherson coach Chris Strathman said. "Everybody's focus was there tonight, both offensively and defensively."
The Pups kept up the pressure throughout the rest of the half, taking a 31-17 advantage into the locker room at the half. Loecker would come out in the third quarter and kick off an 8-0 run for McPherson, who would also hold the Crusaders to only eight points in the frame.
The offense was sparked by junior Abby Pedersen, who took the scoring burden on her shoulders, pouring in 20 points total in the ballgame for McPherson.
"She bounced back from Friday night, where she struggled shooting against Blue Springs," Strathman said. "She shot the ball well and really attacked it off the bounce, as well.
When she does that, she's difficult to guard."
Hailey Ruder and Janae Barnes would each add nine for the Pups.
Buhler was led in scoring by senior Josie Williams, who had 14 points.
Strathman said Tuesday's win was important for the Pups following Friday's 39-26 loss to Blue Springs at the HyVee Shootout.
"Even though we knew we played really good defense against Blue Springs," Strathman said, "your confidence can be a little shaken, obviously from a loss, but also from struggling so much offensively. Our kids got it going tonight and it was fun to see."
The JV squad also defeated Buhler, as the Bullpups rolled to a 63-25 win. Cassidy Wedel led the Pups with 13 points, followed by freshman Paige Schmidt with 11. Bri Cooks added seven for McPherson High.
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Chandler Parsons will don buzzed head Christmas Day for cancer patient
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With that said, many of the matchups will be missing marquee names like Carmelo Anthony, Derrick Rose, Kobe Bryant and Steve Nash and a noticeable playoff atmosphere — as only five of the 10 teams would be eligible for postseason play heading into Wednesday's action.
While the games might not be big on hype, one will certainly deliver in the holiday cheer department.
That's because when Rockets forward Chandler Parsons takes the floor against the Spurs, he'll do so with a buzzed head. The haircut will be a nod to 10-year-old Patrick Hobbs-DeClaire, a Stage 4 cancer patient, whom Parson met while visiting the Texas-Children's Hospital last week.
"His dad was telling me how he isn't even scared of death," Parson told the Houston Chronicle. "He is more worried about not looking like his twin brother anymore, so me being his favorite player, I decided to shave my head to look more like him and hopefully give him some support and encouragement from me.
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I think this recipe has a lot of potential, but it did not seem to work as intended. First, the turkey legs around here are big - at least 1.5 lbs. each. Two of them were all I could really fit into a Dutch oven. I used the entire amount of the remaining ingredients, but the liquid in the pan was so low that I did not feel it would cook properly, so I added a fair amount of broth. That most likely is the reason that the curry taste was so mild - really too mild. I love lamb curry, and I think overall that this can work as an excellent substitute. What I am going to look for is turkey thighs, which would have the same meaty quality as drumsticks, but none of the pesky tendons, and then fiddle with the ingredients. UPDATE: I finally found turkey thighs. My two thighs weighed 2.8 lbs. I used all of the rest of the ingredients, and I think I would increase the amount of curry next time. This was quite tasty, perhaps not quite like lamb curry, but tasty in its own right. The thighs were a lot easier to deal with than were the drumsticks. Oh, I used a 14 oz can of diced tomatoes, as it's not tomato season just now. CROCKPOT UPDATE: I had one thigh weighing 2.3lbs. I used three garlic cloves, 3 tbl curry and all the other ingredients (except flour) as indicated. I sauteed the onion and garlic, then added the curry and ginger to bring out their fragrance and flavor. This cooked in 4 hours on low in my 5 qt crockpot - did not quite fill half and I anticipated a quick finish. I removed the turkey, then whirred all of the sauce with my immersion blender, which made a lovely sauce. Definitely my best preparation of this dish.
Pretty good recipe ! I didn't have curry so I used 3 tbsp of red curry paste. Didn't have tomatoes either, so I used 1 can of diced tomatoes. Thank you so much for the recipe, my husband who doesn't like turkey loved it !
Exceptional, easy comfort meal and a good twist on turkey during the holidays. Thank you so much for sharing! I would make this again, hands-down. Brava!
This was awesome. DH has been telling me all weekend how rich and perfect your turkey recipe turned-out. He doesn't like tomatoes, either! He didn't mind them here. It didn't taste like lamb, but I altered the recipe. I added sweet potato and peas... and didn't need the flour. I am making it again this week, but with lamb since it was on sale. THANKS FOR POSTING! UPDATE: I have made this recipe with both lamb and chicken. I really prefer the turkey. Chicken is too weak, and the lamb flavor is too over-powering. The turkey is the perfect meat to go with it... it comes out just right that way! Well, I'm off to the store to buy more turkey so I can make this AGAIN! Mmm.
I made this exactly according to the directions, except I did not add flour at the end (allergies). My husband pronounced it "Brilliant!" We all were very pleased with the result. I will make it again for company.
I followed the recipe pretty closely, used 3 large tomatoes and 2 large onions for the veggies. Also cooked for about 2- 2 1/2 hours, leaving the lid off the last 1/2 to 3/4 hours so the fluid will evaporate some. Did not thicken with flour, only used origional pam spray to brown the legs and veggies. Mixed all the veggies and seasonings together in the pan before adding skinned turkey legs. As the meat cooked off the bone, I removed the bones. I did not like the problem of the tendons in the dish, would probably be good with thighs. Served over brown rice and served corn and peas as side dishes. Hubby really liked so will make again. Did not have fresh ginger root, so used 1 teaspoon of ground ginger (old and not much flavor, need to buy some new ginger! LOL)
The whole family of picky eaters loved this.


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Here is the third recipe from the Kongu nadu cuisine – Thattam Payaru Katharikai Kuzhambu. Yes I am back with one more brinjal recipe. Distinct and unique tangy and spicy gravy loaded with the good ness of black eyed peas. Usually for sambar we use mashed toor dal but for this recipe you use mashed black eyed peas along with cooked black eyed peas. Didn't I say it's distinct?
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Evangelista "Cyborg" Santos not only lost his Bellator 158 bout to Michael Page on Saturday, he also suffered a fractured skull that will require surgery. read news >>
Jim Miller and Joe Lauzon are poised to fight at UFC on FOX 21 in a rematch of their epic battle that dates back to UFC 155, which closed out 2012. read news >>
UFC 200 got off to a quick start as Jim Miller, Gegard Mousasi and Joe Lauzon all recorded first round TKO's to start an historic night. read news >>
When Daniel Cormier's original UFC 200 opponent, Jon Jones, was pulled from the fight card, former middleweight champ Anderson Silva stepped up. read news >>
Invicta Fighting Championships has announced that Mizuki Inoue as the replacement for undefeated Indian fighter Manjit Kolekar at Invicta FC 18: Grasso vs. Esquibel. read news >>
Cristiane Justino, ex-wife of Evangelista Santos, revealed the 38-year-old mixed martial arts fighter suffered a gruesome head injury in his defeat Saturday to Michael Page at Bellator 158. Justino p read news >>
The UFC on Tuesday pulled a welterweight match-up between Carlos Condit and Demian Maia from the UFC 202 fight card, making it the UFC on FOX 21 main event. read news >>
Emil Meek has been pulled from his UFC debut due to a potential conflict with the UFC's Anti-Doping Policy. read news >>
UFC fighter George Sullivan has been pulled from Saturday's UFC on FOX 20 fight card due to a potential compliance issue with the UFC Anti-Doping Policy. read news >>
While George Sullivan was pulled from UFC on FOX 20 due to supplements he voluntarily revealed, he was shocked that they resulted in him not fighting. read news >>