California's Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency because of a severe drought. The governor said the drought was having "a devastating impact" on people, the economy and environment.
He urged the state's cities and towns to cut water consumption by 20%, or face the prospect of compulsory cuts.
The state water director said three years of below-average rainfall could cost California an estimated $3bn (£2.1bn) and 95,000 jobs.
"This drought is having a devastating impact... making today's action absolutely necessary," Mr Schwarzenegger said.
"We have a water system that is for 18 million people - now we are 38 million. We've got to go and redo our water system - bring it up to date."
Three dry winters have left California's reservoirs at their lowest levels since 1992, reports the BBC's Peter Bowes in Los Angeles.
Farmers have been particularly badly hit in a state which is the largest producer of food and agricultural products in the US.
The drought has resulted in many fields being left fallow and thousands of farm worker have been laid off, our correspondent says.
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(CNN) -- A Turkish airliner crashed at Amsterdam's main airport about 10:40 a.m. Wednesday local time, Dutch airport officials said.
De Boeing 737 van Turkish Air. FOTO A. LUGTIGHEID
Turkey plane crashes in Amsterdam 
Explanation: When the Moon rose in predawn skies on February 23rd, it sported a sunlit crescent. It also offered early morning risers a tantalizing view of earthshine, the dark portion of the lunar disk illuminated by sunlight reflected from the Earth. Of course, on that morning a remarkable conjunction with three wandering planets added an impressive touch to the celestial scene. Recorded just before sunrise, this serene skyview looks east toward a glowing horizon across Tuggerah Lake on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Along with the waning crescent Moon, the picture captures (top to bottom) bright Mercury, Jupiter, and Mars. 
Müller, 40, said that this type of street art had not been around for very long, even though the technique had been used by artists on other surfaces for centuries 
The German explained: "Three-dimensional street painting itself is a very new art form which only a handful of people do worldwide. Its nature is to trick people's eyes and show them a new 'reality'"
"The technique itself is called anamorphism and has been known since the Middle Ages. It was used by famous painters like Michelangelo, da Vinci and others in their murals"
The work, called Ice Age, was created last August for the port town's Festival of World Cultures 
The artist's previous works include a German high street apparently riven by a lava chasm
The work, called Use Your Eyes, was painted in the town of Geldern 
The painting covered about 400 square metres of the street
ORIGINAL CAPTION: My son in law today saw about 20 army guys with full combat gear walking down the street in Hayden, Idaho. He took pictures and asked them what they were doing. ‘They said they were just training. One of the troopers was carrying a saw or squad automatic weapon. Is this just training or is it getting the people used to seeing troops patroling the streets. My son in law lives about a mile from the reserve unit at the airport. my son in law was kind of surprised to see those guys. I”ve lived in the Hayden area most of my life and never saw any patrols. (submitted by Pam)
NASA talks little green men with Vatican
Unidentified underwater anomaly aproximately 43 miles north of Lake Titicaca, Peru. This is the most obvious image showing something under the water. What is it? Could it be a government underwater installation? How about a UFO base? Beter yet, an ancient civilization like Atlantis? "UWA-1" lat=-14.7212735952, lon=-69.3578055556 
Unidentified underwater anomaly near Lake Titicaca and Cusco, Peru. The detail shows some kind of underwater city with buildings, roads, and what have you. It is just too man made to be a naturally occuring phenomenon. "UWA-1" lat=-14.7212735952, lon=-69.3578055556 
UWA-2 is similar to UWA-1 and is only 7 miles north of UWA-2. Similar underwater anomalies can be seen in this small lake. The lake is about a football field and a half long (141 yards) by 43 yards wide. The main building here (rectangular shape in upper section) is 97 feet long. Nice storage warehouse size. Don't you think? Even the shape of the roof looks like some of the warehouses we see today! Note that there is no apparent roads anywhere in the vicinity and the closest populated area is a house 6 miles south west of this location. The house on Google Earth is classified as "Hacienda Pampa Blanco" in the Puno region of Peru. What I did find is a series of land buildings about 3 miles as the crow flies over a steep glazier mountain. More on these buildings in the next couple of photos... "UWA-2" lat=-14.6256627138, lon=-69.3780468486 
This lake is 936 feet at its longest length. Not so obviously defined are the unatural rectilinear forms within the lake. Note that if you look at this area, or any lake area using Google Earth, you will not find this type of underwater anomaly. It's just so weird! See the next photo for a detail of the darker blue area in the upper left side of the lake. "UWA-3" lat=-14.6407196069, lon=-69.4205488442 
I know this photo is a bit out of focus, but I just had to show you this detail of the unidentified underwater anomaly. What's interesting about the location of this lake is the proximity of a group of buildings that just look out of place because of the altitude of the Andes in this area. "UWA-3" lat=-14.6407196069, lon=-69.4205488442 
The buildings on the left are only a quarter of a mile from UWA-3. As you can see from this photo, global warming has taken an effect on the landscape. Looking at the various stratification water lines shows how the glaciers have been melting over the years. So why are these buildings here? I mean, we're in the boonies here! I'm guessing this is some type of research facility. The next photo will show a bit more detail... "Buildings near UWA-3" lat=-14.63997412, lon=-69.4273769486 
So, what do you think these buildings are doing at a very high elevation of the Andes Mountains. This is a very remote location with no trees, agriculture, or obvious commerce. It's also a bit strange on the randomness of the placement of the individual buildings. The largest building here measures 40 feet by 27 feet. Lake Titicaca is about 47 miles (as the crow flies) from this location. The closes mayor city in Peru to this site is Arequipa, and it is a 187 mile flight to this location. Is it possible that the research going on here is dealing with the Unidentified Underwater Anomalies (UWA's)? "UWA-3 building detail" lat=-14.6428069454, lon=-69.427 
We now head north-east over the Andes mountains and into the Amazon. A point of reference is the city of Cusco, which is a linear 38 miles from UWA-4. The strangeness of this lake or large pond which is 175 feet in diameter is that there are no glaciers or obvious water source. Sure, it can be fed by a natural stream, but why are there no trees in the vicinity? Take a look at the next photo to see QuiQue's Anomaly (UWA). "UWA-4 Overview" lat=-13.15626706, lon=-71.551011 
I was walking up King Street in South Shields last Saturday morning when I was confronted with a line of four prams abreast all with pushers talking on their mobile phones whilst attempting to have a conversation with each other, they all had Paris Hilton hairstyles and fatty bare deposits hanging over the waistbands of their “tracky bottoms”, I could see eight beer barrel sized hoops hanging from multi pierced ear lobes, and eight pristine white trainers at £90 per pair. The buggies were exclusively MacLaren and the owners can not have been aged any more than seventeen at the most.
'Out-of-control' British teens the worst behaved in EuropeBy LAURA CLARK 
After the rains dried up in March last year, 800,000 head of cattle have died
A lone cow crosses the dry bed of the once-mighty Salado river 
The bright lights of Tucson, Arizona, are more than matched by a flash of lightning far above the city skyline. The sunset scene shows a classic cumulonimbus cloud formation. 
The summit of Washington's Mount Rainier lies hidden beneath a stack of horizontally layered lenticular clouds. These clouds are formed by high winds blowing over rough terrain and are sometimes described as a "stack of pancakes." 
February 18, 2009--Remarkably tall artificial light pillars are seen in Ontario, Canada, in January 2004 in this composite panoramic photo. 
February 18, 2009--Oddly extraterrestrial-looking, "broken" light pillars glow over Ath, Belgium, on November 20, 2006.
February 18, 2009--A light pillar rises over the setting sun at Lake Tahoe, California, in February 2000.
February 18, 2009--Light pillars scrape the night sky over Victor, Idaho, on January 26. Typically seen in polar regions, the vertical columns of light have been appearing along with frigid temperatures at lower latitudes this winter. 
National Geographic, Fire Rainbow
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Yet they still don't want you to know that these are very new to mankind. They were never around in our youth unless you are only ten years old now.
Parhelic Circle over the Dead Sea imaged by Koby Harati ( Photography site) on March 7, 2007. The camera is pointing straight upwards. The white parhelic circle passes through the sun and circles around sky, everywhere at the same altitude. The coloured halos at top right are fragments of a 22 degree halo, circumscribed arc and, on the parhelic circle, two sundogs. Had the sun been any higher the sundogs would not have formed.
These wonderfull photo's from Latvia, where sent to me from Zenbouy!
Circumzenithal arc, Atacama Desert, Chile. Imaged at the European Southern Observatory by Sylvain Rondi (site) on the morning of 21st March '02 when the sun was 22° high, the ideal altitude for CZAs. Image©2002 Sylvain Rondi, shown with permission.
