SATURDAY This Bud‘s for you An individual was kicking full cans of beer at a seated person onC Street.

The line outside of VarsityTheatre wrapped around the block Saturday night,but those waiting weren‘t there for a movie.They were waiting for Ralph Nader. Nader and running mate Matt Gonzalez came toVarsity Theatre onSaturday to speak at a campaign rally,where they focused on theircampaign goals and challenges.

Fiddlers and guitarists interested in bluegrass,Celtic and Romanian Gypsy tunes should take out their string instruments.BeginningonWednesday,theDavisWaldorfSchool will be hosting their guitar and fiddle workshop.All else that is needed isa tape recorder because the music will be taught solely by ear.

Conor Oberst is taking a break from digital urns and Floridian clairaudients. The black-and-white cover of Oberst‘s newest self-titled album with the Mystic Valley Band– a supporting cast formed specifically for the album– features the Bright Eyes frontman enjoying a sling-aided nap,presumably somewhere in the Mexican mountain villa of Valle Místicowhere he recorded the12-song album due outTuesday.

UC DavisMedical Centerwas named among the nation’s top50“Best Hospitals“ for the16thconsecutive yearbyU.S.News & World Report in its annual survey of over5,000national hospitals.The results were made public July10online.

High consumption of fish in Japanese diet may prevent clogged arteries Traditional seafood-rich Japanese diets may be the key to reducing risk of heart disease, according to Dr. Akira Sekikawa, assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh, and his team of researchers.

This weekend, the True Love Coffeehouse in Sacramento will host the first In The Flow music festival, a weekend of modern and improvisational jazz, rock, blues and more. Performances will be held on two outdoor stages throughout the event. More than 15 groups are scheduled to perform, including local and regional musicians of varied styles of music and improvisation.

An Alameda County Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday to lift a February2007injunction against UC Berkeley that preventedthe building of a new athletic training facility next toMemorialStadium.The controversy over the new facility centers on its location.In order to build the structure next to the stadium,the university plans to clear44trees from a grove of about80oaks,redwoods and other trees.

One man’s trash is another man‘s electricity inYoloCounty,and the feds have noticed. The Environmental Protection Agency recently recognized the county for its landfill bioreactor,a system that takes the gas generated by solid waste and uses it to generate electricity.

To our readers: The California Aggie has traditionally printed twice a week over thesummer months,on Monday and Thursday.That tradition has continuedthis summer.Due to budget concerns,however,The Aggie will beprinting only Thursdays duringsummersessionII.Although theprint edition of the newspaper will only be available one day a weekduring this period,The Aggie will continue to update its onlineedition two days a week.You can visit The Aggie online atcaliforniaaggie.com.

DavisCity Council took a step towards banning wood burning fireplaces at its meeting Tuesday night,in an effort to improvelocalair quality.

In the July28issue of The California Aggie,the article “UC to open two new medical schools” statedthat the UC regents granted approval for the opening of a medical school on the UC Merced campus.The article should have stated that UC Merced has received approval to plan a new medical school.The Aggie regrets the error.