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On California's central coast sits the idyllic beachside town of Morro Bay, and it's here that visitors will find Morro Bay State Park. The 2,700-acre park covers grasslands, freshwater riparian habitat, saltwater marshes and coastal sage scrub habitat. Anyone interested in nature, geology and marine wildlife will want...
Morro Rock is the bay's most prominent landscape. The rock is a 23-million-year-old volcanic plug and is the smallest of nine that are found in the area. The volcanic plugs were formed when magma swelled up and then solidified inside softer rock, which later eroded away. The chain of nine volcanic plugs are called the ...
You also know you're in Morro Bay because of the smoke stacks. While not part of the park, they are a significant landmark. The stacks are part of a power plant that was completed in 1955. Originally there was only one stack, which quickly rivaled Morro Rock as a landmark. During later expansions, two more stacks were ...
Morro Bay State Park offers outstanding opportunities for enjoying the bay. Kayaking, canoeing and stand-up paddling are favorite activities, especially within the calmer waters of the lagoon, which is protected from the ocean by a sandpit.
Also found within the lagoon, and often spotted by excited onlookers, are sea otters. This endangered species has made one of the most dramatic and inspiring comebacks in environmental conservation. Once thought to be extinct after being hunted into oblivion by fur traders, a small group of sea otters was rediscovered ...
Of course, not everyone wants calm waters. The park has opportunities for sailing, fishing, hiking and bird watching — and yes, surfing too, in some areas. The park also has an 18-hole public golf course.
Morro Bay State Park encompasses a pristine saltwater marsh that runs along the northeast edge of the park. The 800-acre wetland is home to a thriving bird population. The entire bay is an important part of the Pacific Flyway and is a place for more than 100 different species of migratory birds to rest, mate and nest d...
Year-round, there are many species for bird watchers to enjoy. In fact, bird watching is so popular in and around the state park that Morro Bay hosts an annual Winter Bird Festival every January.
Not all the wildlife is of the feathered variety. Visitors to Morro Bay State Park can also spot marine mammals including whales, which migrate along the coast between feeding and breeding grounds, and seals and sea lions.
Along hiking trails farther inland and up in the hills of the park, visitors may spot land animals including red fox — such as this youngster — as well as raccoons, opossum, snakes and even the occasional coyote. Hiking in the early morning hours would provide the best opportunity to see these critters.
On the itinerary of every visitor should be a stop at the Museum of Natural History in Morro Bay State Park. The museum offers activities for all ages, including docent-led tours, nature walks, lectures, and of course exhibits and special events. It is here that visitors can learn about the ancient cultural history of ...
Morro Bay State Park is a great place for camping. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) — created in 1933 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's with other New Deal programs — came to the state park on May 11, 1934, and helped turn what was once a country club into a flourishing state park. That renovation included plan...
Morro Bay State Park is one of those magical places that offers stunning views, activities for any age, fantastic wildlife watching, and so much more to visitors. The long history of the area, the wildlife that is now protected within its borders, and the iconic scenery all help to inspire people to get out and enjoy t...
The 2,700 acre park covers grasslands, freshwater riparian habitat, saltwater marshes, and coastal sage scrub habitat.
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The Republican frontrunner assigned words and phrases to potential VP candidates.
Mitt Romney sat down with Jay Leno on Monday's edition of "The Tonight Show" to play a game of Republican word association.
When GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney sat down with Jay Leno on Monday's episode of "The Tonight Show," the late-night host asked the former Massachusetts governor if his campaign has settled on a pick for the VP slot.
Gov. Romney, who has yet to definitively lock up the Republican nomination, didn't want to get ahead of himself.
"I haven't actually put a list together at this stage," Romney said. "It would be presumptuous."
But that didn't stop the presumptive ticket-topper from obliging Leno's request for a rousing game of GOP word association—Vice Presidential edition.
"Give me one word on each person," Leno said, before launching into a shortlist of GOP politicians whose names and CVs have been floated by pundits throughout the long-fought nomination battle.
"How about a couple of words, maybe?" Romney proposed.
Check out the clip below (starting at the 03:40 mark) for the choice adjectives and phrases Romney used to describe New Jersey governor Chris Christie, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan, South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, and Donald Trump.
Of course, Leno couldn't resist including Romney's closest rival.
"Press secretary," Romney said with a grin.
David Utter said, after a judge ended his probation.
The teen is one of six Jena High School students arrested and charged for a racially motivated December 2006 attack on another student at the school. Before the assault, three nooses were hung from a tree in the high school courtyard.
Jesse Ray Beard is still awaiting trial for that incident. He had been on 16 months of house arrest for previous juvenile charges and alleged probation violation.
Mr. Utter said Jesse Ray was accepted by Canterbury School , and the school's varsity football coach, Tom Taylor , wrote a letter to the court expressing his commitment to help the youth succeed academically and athletically at the school, according to the newspaper Web site thetowntalk.com of Louisiana.
Bryan Kiefer, acting Canterbury School spokesperson, said he is unable to confirm if Jesse Ray is registered because the school's policy is to not disclose information on its students.
"People send their children here with the expectation of privacy," Mr. Kiefer said Wednesday.
But someone who answered the phone number for Mr. Taylor's office at the school said, "Jesse is not enrolled here at this time."
The man refused to confirm if he was Mr. Taylor, adding, "That is the only comment I am going to make," before abruptly ending the call.
As well as being the head football coach, Mr. Taylor "presently teaches business seminar and recently joined the Admission Office ," according to Canterbury's Web site.
Canterbury is a private lay-Catholic coed boarding and day school for grades 9-12.
This year's tuition, including board, is $39,900, Mr. Kiefer said, but the school offers financial aid.
"Financial aid is based on demonstrated need, and I can tell you that we are very generous with financial aid to those who need it," he said.
Louisiana State Judge Thomas Yeager , who is hearing the Jena Six cases, released Jesse Ray for the summer to go to New York, where the youth took an English course, worked in a law firm and lived with an attorney, according to thetowntalk.com.
The Web site also reported that Mr. Utter said 100 percent of the Canterbury School football team is accepted to attend college following graduation.
Look at picture and guess what's the word should be for that picture.Can you guess the picture from blurry picture shown?As time passes picture will remove blurry effects, and it will be shown to you as time elapses.But be careful of time, you will get as more score as you guess the picture as faster as you can.First y...
ROQUE SANTA CRUZ may have fallen out-of-favour at Manchester City this season but Fulham boss Mark Hughes believes Santa Cruz can re-establish himself as one of the Premier League’s leading strikers.
Hughes, whose side entertain Blackburn today, is wary of the threat posed by his former employee, now on loan at Rovers from Manchester City, as he has twice signed him.
When he was in charge of Blackburn in July 2007, Hughes’s £3.8million capture of Paraquay striker Santa Cruz from Bayern Munich turned out to be a bargain as he scored 23 goals in his first campaign.
And when Hughes went to City, Santa Cruz, 29, soon followed – this time for a fee in the region of £17.5m in 2009.
Since the influx of more expensively-recruited strikers, however, Santa Cruz’s first-team chances became limited.
And while he has yet to score on his Rovers return, Hughes said: “My feeling in terms of his ability and what he can bring are well-documented. I have paid some significant amounts of money for him – I spent all Blackburn’s budget on him but only a small part of Manchester City’s.
Blokkeerfries – the name given to Frisians who blocked a motorway to stop anti-Zwarte Piet demonstrators reaching the town of Dokkum in 2017 – has been voted new word of the year.
Some 55% of the 28,000 people who took part in this year’s election organised by dictionary maker Van Dale thought blokkeerfries the most emblematic of 2018.
The word hit the headlines frequently this year when members of the group were charged with – and found guilty of- stopping a legal demonstration.
The second most popular word was ‘yogasnuiver’ (yoga sniffer) a nickname coined by a leading policeman for a person who lives a healthy life but indulges in cocaine and party drugs every now and again.
The Batman origin story will continue on Fox. The network has ordered a third season of Gotham, based on the characters from DC Comics.
While down vs its first season, Gotham — which hit a Live+same day season low of 1.3 18-49 rating on Monday — has been doing a solid business in multi-platform viewing, averaging 9 million total viewers in Season 2, and has done well with male demos. The series ranks among this season’s Top 10 entertainment programs ov...
“It takes a very special team to tell the tales of Gotham. For the past two seasons, Bruno, Danny and John have masterfully honored the mythology of Gotham and brought it to life with depth, emotion and memorable high drama,” said David Madden, Fox’s Entertainment president.
From writer/executive producer Bruno Heller, Gotham follows one cop’s rise through a dangerously corrupt city teetering between good and evil, and chronicles the birth of one of the most popular super heroes of our time. The next episode on March 21 will kick off the guest arc of Paul Reubens as Elijah Van Dahl, Pengui...
Heller executive produces the series with Danny Cannon and John Stephens. Warner Bros. Television is the studio.
Gotham joins previously renewed Empire and Scream Queens. Fox also picked up veteran Bones for a 12th and final season.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- After the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, Americans are now more likely to name terrorism as the top issue facing the U.S. than to name any other issue -- including those that have typically topped the list recently, such as the economy and the government. About one...
This is the highest percentage of Americans to mention terrorism in a decade, although it is still lower than the 46% measured after 9/11. Before 2001, terrorism barely registered as the most important problem facing the country.
After 9/11, terrorism faded as the top problem, although mentions have spiked after major terrorist incidents. In 2004, mentions rose as high as 19% after the Madrid train bombings, and then jumped again to 17% in 2005 after the London train and bus bombings. Since 2007, less than 10% of Americans -- sometimes less tha...
In January 2015, mentions of terrorism as the most important U.S. problem increased to 8% a few weeks after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris. However, they soon fell and remained between 6% and 2% until December. The most recent polling was conducted Dec. 2-6, just after the San Bernardino attacks, and a few weeks af...
Republicans are more likely than Democrats to say terrorism is the most important problem facing the U.S. And there has been a much greater rise in Republican concern about terrorism over the last month than among members of other party groups. Currently, 24% of Republicans name terrorism as the most important problem,...
In December, 9% of Americans listed the economy in general terms as the most important problem, the lowest percentage to mention the issue since the end of 2007, before the depths of the recession took hold. Mentions of the economy increased sharply in 2008 and 2009, reaching an all-time high of 58% at the end of 2008....
In December, 21% of Americans mentioned some aspect of the economy as the most important problem, the lowest such percentage since mid-2007 and down significantly from 39% in November. This significant drop in December does not suggest a dramatic shift in the way Americans are viewing the economy, but instead indicates...
In December, 7% of Americans named guns or gun control as the most important U.S. problem. This is up from 3% in November, but the same as the October percentage. Before 2013, guns were rarely mentioned as the most important problem. But at the beginning of 2013, after the Sandy Hook Elementary shootings, mentions incr...
The terrorist attacks in San Bernardino and Paris have altered how Americans view the problems facing the U.S. Satisfaction with the way things are going in the U.S. dropped significantly to a 13-month low in December, and Americans' trust in the government to protect them from terrorism is the lowest Gallup has measur...
In the past, mentions of terrorism as the most important U.S. problem have quickly fallen after a major incident. But two major attacks in short succession, at a time when concern about terrorism was already elevated given the threat of the Islamic State, have Americans on edge. President Barack Obama himself made a ra...
Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted Dec. 2-6, 2015, with a random sample of 824 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. For results based on the total sample of national adults, the margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points at the...
MILWAUKEE -- Amazing what a difference one victory can make.
The Milwaukee Brewers wrapped up in dramatic fashion, snapping a seven-game losing streak with an 11-2 thumping of the St. Louis Cardinals who, a night earlier, pulled into a tie with the Brewers atop the NL Central.
With that victory, Milwaukee goes into the break with a one-game lead that will feel enormous for the next four days.
When the calendar flipped to July, things were pretty good for the Brewers, who had cooled off after a blistering start but still led their division by 6 1/2 games.
That lead disappeared over the next 12 games as the Brewers lost 11 times, including a four-game sweep at the hands of the Philadelphia Phillies.
But all was well in Milwaukee's clubhouse Sunday afternoon, with four days of rest and recovery in store for a team that has sat atop the division for 100 days.
"It makes the break a lot more fun," manager Ron Roenicke said. "You wouldn't think so, but it does. When you're on a losing streak and if you lose today, you're not sure when the streak is going to end so you go into the break not feeling good, you come out of the break not feeling good.
"Now, we go into it feeling good and come out of it feeling good. It does a lot. I know I talk about every game being important but it does a lot for the feeling of where we are now and where we are coming out of it."
The Brewers will have their work cut out for them when play resumes July 18 in Washington, where the Nationals, who go into the break tied with Atlanta atop the NL East.
Then, its back home to Milwaukee where the Reds await, followed by the Mets and a trip to Tampa to play the Rays and back to St. Louis for another meeting with the Cardinals.
There are, of course, questions: Can the starting pitching revert to its early-season form? Can Roenicke find a lineup that works on a day-in and day-out basis? Does the bullpen have enough left in the tank for the rigors of the stretch run after throwing 272 innings in the first half?
That number is actually fifth-lowest total in the NL but when broken down by pitcher, there is cause for concern: lefty Will Smith is tied for the league lead with 49 appearances; he was practically unhittable for much of the season but allowed nine runs over two innings (40.50) in three games before throwing a scorele...
Closer Francisco Rodriguez has 27 saves in 30 chances but has appeared in 45 games.
Getting to those two arms has also been a bit of a problem as right-handers Jim Henderson and Tyler Thornburg have been sidelined with injuries and Brandon Kintzler has been nothing close to his 2013 form.
Roenicke is hoping his pitching staff won't have to carry as much of the team's burden in the second half; he's optimistic that offensively, the four-day break will help clear the mind as well as rest the muscles.
"I thought we would have a stretch somewhere where we didn't play that well, but I really didn't expect this," Roenicke said. "I think this is too good of a team to go into this big of a slump. It's concerning to me. That's why I think it is important to get this thing turned around."
They're big questions, but there's no reason to think Milwaukee won't be in the hunt for at least a playoff spot this fall, especially when you consider injuries elsewhere in the division.
The Cardinals already lost two starters in RHP Michael Wacha and LHP Jaime Garcia, then lost catcher Yadier Molina for 8-to-12 weeks with a torn ligament in his right thumb.
Cincinnati, meanwhile, will go forward without second baseman Brandon Phillips.
If the Brewers can stay healthy -- and they have thus far -- and get back to clicking on all cylinders, Milwaukee will be watching baseball come October.
But for now, the Brewers will just be happy with that one-game lead.
"It's not comfortable because (St. Louis) is a great ball club and they're going to be there until the end," left fielder Khris Davis said. "But just taking it day-by --day, glad to be in the spot we are."
FIRST-HALF MVP: C Jonathan Lucroy. CF Carlos Gomez deserves plenty of consideration but the nod here has to go to Lucroy who hit .315 with nine home runs, 32 doubles and 44 RBIs in the first half and after winning his first spot on the NL All-Star team via the players' vote, will start now that C Yadier Molina is out w...
FIRST-HALF GRADE: B-minus -- OK, so Milwaukee fell flat at the end but look at it this way: The Brewers have spent 100 days atop the NL Central and were only tied for one of them. They're also a game behind the Dodgers for the National League's best record. Not too shabby.
PIVOTAL POST-BREAK PLAYER: RF Ryan Braun. Of all the Biogenesis Boys, nobody has more to prove than Braun. Milwaukee's $100 million man is batting .298 with 11 home runs and leads the team but 52 RBIs, but a prolonged slump in June and a number of nagging injuries have sapped the consistency out of the one-time Most Va...
BUY OR SELL: It all depends. The Brewers could use some help in the bullpen, but would like to see whether or not RHPs Jim Henderson and Tyler Thornburg can return and contribute down the stretch. A versatile bat off the bench would be beneficial, but unless the Brewers find a way to move 2B Rickie Weeks, there just is...
INJURY STATUS: The Brewers' second-half fate likely comes down to the health of RF Ryan Braun and, to a lesser extent, 3B Aramis Ramirez. Without those two in the lineup for extended periods of time, the Brewers offense lacks a legitimate power threat. Look no further than last season for an example. RHP Jim Henderson ...
TOP PROSPECT: RHP Jimmy Nelson was unstoppable at Triple-A Nashville, where he went 10-2 with a 1.46 ERA. He threw five scoreless innings in a spot start earlier this season against Miami but when moved into the rotation just before the break, he was knocked around in 4 1/3 innings by the St. Louis Cardinals. The Brewe...
--LHP Wei-Chung Wang (left shoulder tightness) went on the 15-day disabled July 11.
--RHP Jim Henderson (right shoulder inflammation) went on the 15-day disabled list May 2. He threw a 25-pitch bullpen session May 18. He began a rehab assignment with Double-A Huntsville on May 23. However, he experienced discomfort during that game, so he was pulled off his rehab assignment. He received a cortisone sh...
A careless teenage motorist has been fined after she collided into a cyclist who suffered a broken leg.
Chesterfield magistrates’ court heard on Friday, November 2, how Taran Feltham, 18, of Hall Drive, at Sutton Scarsdale, Chesterfield, was driving a VW Beetle when she was involved in the collision with a cyclist on Mansfield Road, at Heath.

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