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Want to go to summer camp, ride horsesor play on a playground and get paid to do it? The City of Davis Community Services Department is holding its Recreational Job Fair on Wednesday, January 28 from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Multipurpose room in the VeteransMemorial Center on 203 East 14th St.

TODAY Picnic Day booth lottery Picnicday.ucdavis.edu Student organizations that are interested in having a booth on Picnic Day need to sign up with SPAC by today. There will be a lottery for a limited number of booths tomorrow. Visit picnicday.ucdavis.edu for more information.

UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz are the only UC schools with their own fire departments.

For an escape from the typical café snobbery,Cloud Forest Café serves up a delightful blend of culinary freshness andfriendly ambiance. Expansive windows line the front of the café on D Street,and local artists‘ paintings and vintage coffee burlap sacks adorn the surrounding walls.The atmosphere is entirely unlike that of the dark,cave-like Mishka’s,and with fewer future-prize-winning-poets-slash-antisocial-computer-junkies pecking away at their laptops.

TODAY Texas Hold ‘Em Poker Tournament 6 to 8 p.m. Griffin Lounge, MU Get there early; seats fill up quickly. Must be there by 6 p.m. If you’re one of the top 30 players, you could end up in the tournament of champions!

TODAY Australia: Urban to Outback Noon to 1 p.m. Conference Room, Education Abroad Center, 207 Third St. Learn about a summer 2009 study abroad opportunity!

Most students in Davis hail from the San Francisco Bay Area or the Central Valley, while a sizable number come from the “distant lands” of Los Angeles and San Diego. But a large and growing number – 2,500 students, according to the Education Abroad Center – come from other countries.

Two years of research were thrown out in a few days – by an11-year-old. Gabriel Leal,a sixth-grader at Willet Elementary School in Davis,needed to create a science project forWillet’s Open House and Science Fair/Family Science Night in April.Gabriel’s father,Walter Leal,a UC Davis professor of entomology,suggested that Gabriel study mosquitoes.Gabriel,however,decided tostudy the navel orangeworm,an agricultural pest,and its preference for nuts.Prior to Gabriel’s experiment,Professor Leal’s research was based on a paper published in California Agriculture stating that the NOW moth preferred almonds to other types of nuts.

TODAY Italy: Renaissance Florence and the Birth of Modern Europe Noon to 1 p.m. Conference Room, Education Abroad Center, 207 Third St. Learn about a summer 2009 study abroad opportunity!

UK/England: Warriors and Monks in Medieval Europe Noon to 1 p.m. Conference Room, Education Abroad Center, 207 Third St. Learn about a study abroad opportunity for this coming summer!

The Gunrock Pub The UC Davis Silo Hours: Monday through Friday 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Price: $$ out of $$$$ Ambience: 3 stars Food: 3 ½ stars Service: 3 ½ stars

It all started with an artificial vagina. The newborn foals in the campus Horse Barn are a charming vision of life in the quaint Davis flatlands.They tenderly nuzzle their mothers and wave their bristled tails in the winter breeze.Every January,these tiny foals appear in the barn.And every January,the students of the Stud ManagerInternship help to create them.