If you recently bought a new computer, plan to or are tired of your word processor, you should check out OpenOffice.

A recent study by Linda Bacon, UC Davis nutritionist, and co-author Lucy Aphramor, a National Health Service specialist dietician, concludes that dieting and weight loss efforts may actually be detrimental to one’s health.

In 2004, JusticeCorps launched its pilot program in Los Angeles County, providing assistance to low-income litigants unable to afford legal representation. Since then, the program has expanded to the Bay Area, San Diego and – as of September 2010 – Sacramento.

CSU Sacramento (CSUS) experienced a record-high number of sexual assaults on its campus last semester. This term, that number is being used in a campaign to put more patrols on campus.

What would you do if you could live forever? Would you climb every mountain? Read every book? Formulate plans for world domination? Embarrassingly, our greatest scientific minds have been beaten to the punch by a tiny little jellyfish, measuring no more than five millimeters across.

Even at 5:30 a.m. last Thursday, I had a quick rush of adrenaline when I heard that a mother horse had given birth just minutes ago – these are the kind of pictures I live for. Not knowing exactly what to expect, I biked to the horse barn on campus trying not to crash in the thick early-morning fog. When I arrived, students were gathered in their pajamas, half awake and in awe. They were peeking through the stable bars at the adoring mother and her new wet foal. Only Joel Viloria, the animal resource supervisor at the horse barn, was allowed in the stable so I was limited to resting my camera in between the bars of the stable. I tried to capture what I could without disturbing the mother and her new baby. With so much going on, it was difficult to capture every little moment – so it was best to use a fast shutter speed. To properly expose, I had to keep my camera at an ISO of 1600 and have a large aperture of f5.6 to capture the movements going on and to get the horses and Viloria in focus. In this image, Viloria is holding the placenta of the mother, which had held the baby just hours before, while she is assisting the foal in his first steps of life.

Event: Waikoala Invitational.

The debate over who will lobby for UC Davis at the Capitol has resurfaced as student administration turnover may shift responsibility from the ASUCD Lobby Corps to the UC Students Association (UCSA).

When neuroscientist Frank Sharp looks at a classroom of elementary-school students he sees the signs of Tourette Syndrome. Kids fidget, they squirm, they tic.

At the exciting age of five years old, I wrote an insightful, colorful, thought-provoking poem. My ideas were brilliant. But, my punctuation was that of a five-year-old. (How was I expected to distinguish between “butterflies, who fly, are cool” or “butterflies who fly are cool”?) Ever since then, I have been in a love-hate relationship with punctuation.

So after reading my thrift article a few weeks back, one of my seven readers may have gone to a thrift store and plundered the racks with the help of my handy advice. This reader may, however, be thinking, “OK, Brittany, I concede that the deals were tantalizing and the fashion’s as varied as Jelly Bellys, but I believe that my pennies can be stretched further and my fashion sense even further shocked.” Well, dear solitary reader, I happily match your challenge and present to you the art of garage sales.

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