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Cattle are shown on Joe Gonzales' ranch in Gilroy. JEFF CHIU/Associated Press  
AP  

Thinning the herd

Drought forces California cattle ranchers to downsize

California's worst drought in decades is forcing the state's cattle ranchers to downsize their herds because two years of poor rainfall have ravaged millions of acres of rangeland used to feed their cows and calves. (Associated Press)
ALSO:
• 2009 planning and planting risky business

Several geothermal power plants provide power to the Imperial Valley extracting heat deep inside the earth from geothermal hot springs that have been heated by rising magma. This area is near Niland on the southeastern edge of the Salton Sea. JAY CALDERON/Palm Springs Desert Sun  
Desert Sun  

Consensus push

State 'overdue' on Salton Sea plan, IID says

The Imperial Irrigation District Board of Directors needs to develop its stance toward Salton Sea restoration — or risk losing out on state support, IID's general manager said, and suggested working “to craft a consensus position” on the state’s responsibility toward restoration. (Imperial Valley Press)
ALSO:
• Numerous pesticides in rivers feeding Salton Sea, study says
• Read the USGS abstract
• Salton Sea photo gallery

Though the common flush toilet has remained largely the same since it's invention in 1596, the world it inhabits has changed drastically. TIME  
Time  

The other WTO

Is it time to kill the flush toilet? Or just flush and forget?

To flush or not to flush. That was the question that designers and ecologists were asking each other this week as hundreds of people — who spend a lot of time thinking about these things — convened for the annual World Toilet Summit and Expo in Macau. (Time)  MORE ABOUT THE WTO

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“If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.”
— Arthur Goldberg

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CRYSTAL NAJERA
City of Encinitas

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Joan Sutherland, 82; Johnny Rivers, 66; Joni Mitchell, 65; Christopher Knight, 51; Julie Pinson, 41; Jeremy London, 36; Yunjin Kim, 35.

On this Day in 1917
Russia's Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.

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