Suicide ranks as one of the leading causes of death for American youths, but state officials hope to change that. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the Jason Flatt Act this month to help prevent teen suicide by providing suicide prevention funding to schools.

TODAY ClimateActionTeam meeting 7:30to9:30p.m. Clubroom,VeteransMemorialCenter,203E.14th St. The City ofDavisClimate Action Team willhave a discussion on community choice aggregation,a type of public power.Speakers will include PG&E employees as well as local clean energy advocates.

In the July24issue of The California Aggie,the article “UCD graduate students start water resources website” stated that the website has users inIraq,when it actually has users inIran.The article also stated that the site has users in88countries,when in reality it has users in77countries.The Aggie regrets the errors.

A Downtown Davis development project that would have demolished an old cottage and replaced it with modern apartment units was struck down by the Davis Planning Commission on Wednesday.

As long as you don‘t expect Daft Punk,you shouldn‘t be too disappointed.The third album from electro duoRatatatisn‘t as rousing and danceable as one would hope and is generally reminiscent of car commercial background music.That being said,LP3andits exotic,fluttery beats are hard to dislike.

Upstairs in the Pence Gallery,tranquility kisses the walls but as you move downstairs,the mood drifts like leaves.One floor down,loud colors and a beautiful woman dressed in hautecouture fill the lower showroom.

Editor’s note: For this edition of 10 questions, The California Aggie spoke with Matt Rexroad, a Yolo County supervisor who lives in Woodland. Prior to his current position, Rexroad served as mayor of Woodland, an attorney and a U.S. marine serving in Iraq.

That antibacterial soap might not be so good for your health after all,according to a new UC Davis study. A coalition of UC Davis researchersstudying twoantimicrobialchemical compounds – triclosan and triclocarban – found in a wide variety of hygienic products,recently published an article inEnvironmental Health Perspectivesdocumenting their discoveriesof thenegativeeffects of these chemicals on reproductive hormone activity and cell signaling through studies of human and animal cells.

Graduate students from different departments at UC Davis launched a social bookmarking website in May field called WaterSISWEB, which stands for Scientific Information Syndication Websites, and is dedicated to the water resources. Kaveh Madani, a Ph.D. candidate in civil and environmental engineering, helped create the site, along with other graduate students from various departments and people on campus.

John Maurice Tucker,a UC Davis professor emeritus of botany and world-renowned oakspecialist and plant expert,diedJuly5from a stroke.He was92.

Before longtimeart gallery owner Barry Smithopened the new Sacramento Art Complexbetween K and21st streets inSacramento,he looked up the noun “complex” in a dictionary. “It’s an interrelated but separate[group] of intellectually creative entities,” said Smith,who has been an art dealer for25years. “I loved it,so I thought, ‘Hey,what if I had a gaggle of artists around me as this synergetic entity?'”

When Kenyan-born Victor Sila first came toAmerica15years ago,he wanted to be a Michael Jackson orBabyface-style R&B singer.However,he was rejected by every label he approached. “It felt inauthentic,especially with my heavy accent,” Sila said. “I was trying to be westernized,trying to do what I thought was the cool thing to do,but I was miserable and everyone else who heard me could feel it.“