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Veritas Christian Academy
Lauren Rebekah Alewine, James David Allen, Catalin Lucian Baciu, Anna Catherine Caulder, Mark Steven Cortese, Daniel James Councell, Jonathan Ashe Ellington, Stephen Michael Gilpin, Amber Nicole Jackson, Joshua Randall Kilby, Alexander Philip Kiratzis, Amy Stuart Lewis, Sarah Elizabeth Morris, Robert Russell Mouser, Patrick Pilos Narron, Yoon Sun Park, Alexander Morton Rose, Elizabeth Helen Shaw, Aaron Simon West.
Hendersonville High School
Felicia Ann Arriaga, Katie Marcella Bailey, Mallory Elizabeth Barber, John Pandelas Baxevanis, Robert Kent Beal, Elizabeth Natalie Benoit, Emily Louise Blake, Avery Lauren Blatt, Adrian O’Neal Branch, Laura Marie Brenskelle, George Jacob Brown, Mary Catherine-Alan Calhoun, Zachary Adam Caliri, Adali Cardenas Solis, Jose Cardona, Carson Joseph Carpenter, Dorothy Adeline Carr, Rebecca Chelsea Casteel, Margaret Erin Chandler, Artavious Chery, Kathryn Dianne Christensen, Peter Morten Clausen, Stephen Anthony Clay II, Brenton Lawrence Coburn, James Joseph Donald Cole, Camaren Xavier Coleman, Joseph Lee Conner, Megan Lynn Corn, Benjamin Walter Cottingham, Rachel Caitlyn Crisp, Daphne Elise Crowell, Matthew Jacob Crowley, Javier Cruz Jr., Antonio Cuahutle Zuniga, Joshua Aaron Cypher, Michael John DeAngelo Jr., Ryan Thomas Dekay, Tyler Austin Dillingham, Brittany Suzanne Dodson, Kathryn Ashley Douglas, Karl Thomas Smeal Durancik, Brian Anthony Edwards, Joseph Michael Edwards, Brock Peter Elgin, William Lee Ellis, Lauren Michelle Ertzberger, Morgan Patricia Estes, Grant McArthur Faulkner, MaryClaire Lydia Fey, Krisma Regenna Ficker, Maria Orquidea Zacnite Figueroa Caballero, Caitlyn Sarah Forbes, Michael Thomas Franco, Brandon Joseph Frank, Samantha Elizabeth Freeman, Eric Garcia Garcia, Kelsey Leigh Garvey, Christopher Carter Gentile, Sarah Bennett Gibbs, Stephanie Laird Gillon, Kevin Tipton Greene, Tyler Fredric James Grove, Forrest James Harmon, Katherine McCann Hartman, James Edwards Hatten, Amy Nicole Heatherly, Maria Magdalena Hernandez, Deborah Kattianne Hoffman, Seth Ronald Horton, Carlos Alberto Huerta Guzman, Bailey Livingston Hunter, Benjamin Taylor Huntley, Shelby Ann Huntley, Vittorio Anthony Iosue, Vanessa Mae Jeffery, Ryan Spencer Jones, Jesse James Keenan, Yannik Ricardo Torres Kellinghusen, Victoria Lynne Kempfert, Nicholas William Kowalczyk, Sarah Elizabeth Layne, Tara Ashley Lindeman, Jane Curry Livingston, Andres Annibal Lopez, Mayra Edith Lozano, Daniel James Lytle, Markisha Elizabeth Mackey, Karissa Martindale, Lucy Katherine Massagee, Julia Lynn Maurer, Danielle Nicole McCollam, Mario Alberto Mendez, Kayla Elizabeth Merrell, Caroline Marie Merrill, Christopher Lloyd Morgan, Jason Paul Munger, Christopher Ward Murphy, Ryan Gregory Newman, Long Van Nguyen, Jerry Isaac Noah, Elizabeth Renee Norris, Jessica Marie Nunez, Veronica Marie Olsen, Faleace Annette Overton, Autumn Lee Patterson, Cosmo Keith Pernie, Samantha Jo Peterson, Brian Henry Pugliese, Arie Carol Romstadt, Turner Morrison Rouse Jr., Kaitlin Callie Shannon, Krystalyn Ann King Shelton, Tyler Morgan Smith, Gayla Brenae Ann Snipes, Leena Soy Sommeth, Rebecca LeAnn Stone, Esther Ann Marie Summers, Qased Shakeeb Tabaileh, Michael Jarrod Tanguay, Chapman Karlsson Thomas, Daniel Aaron Turpin, Chelsea Renee Usher, Rebecca Lindsey Waddell, Stephen Hill Walker, Molly Anne Walters, Chase Levar Washington, Brittany Nichole Waters, Katherine Marie Watkins, Carson Grant Westall, Jessica Rae Westall, Samuel Allen White, Dominique Rakeem Whiteside, Jonathan William Wilkins, Lauren Elizabeth Williams, Kyle Benjamin Wilson, Christopher Ryan Womack, Martinn Co-dero Woodyard, Brad James Wooten, Laura Diane Workman, Cassandra Marie Young, Nicholas John Zdanowicz, Charles Egerton Zogzas.

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Published: Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 7:43 a.m.
ACE-IN-THE-HOLE PUB Gentry Bronson Band, 6 p.m. today; Happy Hour with Blind Willies, 4:30 p.m. Friday; Sonny Lowe and Friends, 7 p.m. Saturday. Graton Road at Highway 116, Graton. 829-1223.
BLACK CAT BAR AND CAFE Sex and Machines, Friday; Amor Loco, Baby Seal Club, Saturday; Foxtails Brigade, 5 p.m. Sunday; Fastest Gun Alive, 10 p.m. June 6; The Big Tamborski, 10 p.m. June 7; Honeyrose, 5 p.m. June 8. 10056 Main St., Penngrove. 793-9480.
THE BLACK ROSE All shows at 8:30 p.m. unless noted: Flatt Lonesome, Friday; Tonewoods, Sunday; International Session, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday; The World’s Biggest Comedy Duo, 9 p.m. June 5; Greenhouse, June 6; Black Horse, June 7; Apostolics Anonymous, 9 p.m. June 8. 2074 Armory Drive, Santa Rosa. 546-7673.
CAFE DU NORD The Junior Panthers, 9 p.m. today, $10; Bryan Horne and the Jawdroppers, 9 p.m. Friday, $14-$16; Lebo, Forest Sun, 9 p.m. Sunday, $14-$16; The Kitchen Sisters, 8 p.m. Sunday, $12; Ed Harcourt, Bright Brown, 8 p.m. Monday, $14; Brooke Fraser, William Fitzsimmons, 8 p.m. downstairs Tuesday, $15; Matt Wertz, 7:30 p.m. upstairs Tuesday, $15; Schande, French Miami, 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, $10; The Reverse, Murder of Lilies, 9 p.m. June 5, $10; Frog Eyes, Little Teeth, 9:30 p.m. June 6, $10-$12; Annuals, What Laura Says, 9:30 p.m. June 7, $10. All shows 21-up unless noted. 2170 Market St., San Francisco. (415) 861-5016. www.cafedunord.com.
THE FILLMORE Swervedriver, 8 p.m. today, $25; Bootsy Collins and The Hardest Working Band, 9 p.m. Saturday, $42.50; Chevelle, 8 p.m. Monday, $25; Dethklok, 8 p.m. June 6, $26.50; The Dan Band, 9 p.m. June 7, $25. 1805 Geary Blvd., San Francisco. (415) 346-6000.
GREEK THEATRE REM, Modest Mouse, The National, 6 p.m. Saturday, 5 p.m. Sunday, $39.50-$89.50. Gayley Road, Berkeley. (510) 642-9988.

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NARRAGANSETT — “He’s probably somewhere sleeping,” said Steven H. Hall, chief of the DEM’s Division of Law Enforcement, about the black bear last spotted in a heavily populated neighborhood off Route 1A.
“It’s been pretty quiet the last couple of hours,” Hall said yesterday afternoon, though he was still considering calls that came in earlier in the day from Saunderstown, about three miles north, where two residents said they spotted a bear.
It had him wondering, he said, if there might be two bears on the run.
“We don’t know if it’s the same bear.”
A Narragansett police officer was the last one to see a bear, early yesterday in the Mettatuxet area. Hall said there were reports of a bear in the immediate area of Mettatuxet, including in the parking lot of an apartment complex and on the other side of Route 1A.
Yesterday morning, about a half dozen Department of Environmental Management police officers gathered in the parking lot of Twin Willows on Boston Neck Road. A bear trap had been brought to the area.
“We’re trying to keep track of him,” said DEM Officer John R. Gingerella, who took a photo of the bear on Tuesday after it had crossed Narrow River from South Kingstown.
Reports of bear sightings started coming in to the DEM more than a week ago starting in Glocester, Hall said. Calls continued from Scituate, Coventry, West Greenwich, South Kingstown and Narragansett, where officers said the bear ripped apart a bird feeder and was seen on several streets.
Once word got out about the bear, Gingerella said, crowds gathered.
“There were so many people it became like a parade setting.”
Gingerella guessed that the runaway bear is “a teenage boy looking for his own place.”
Television and radio station reporters also gathered in the parking lot.

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• In the latest development in ridiculously priced food, Wall Street Burger Shoppe has introduced a $175 Kobe burger that comes topped with — what else? — truffles, foie gras, and gold. [NYDN]
• The U.S. Agriculture Department raised its food-inflation forecast for the third consecutive month; if the figure rises again next month, it could match inflation in 1990. [WSJ]
• Ilili’s chef-owner, Philippe Massoud, may listen to disco when the mood is right, but he doesn’t allow any music to be played in the kitchen of his restaurant. [Diner’s Journal/NYT]
• Black truffles are increasingly under threat from climate change, so don’t expect those prices to drop in future years. [Reuters]
• Stressed-out monkeys enjoy eating junk food just as much as stressed-out humans do. [NYT]
• Del Posto’s new pastry chef is a self-described “dessert psycho.” [Strong Buzz]
• Not only is Crazy Legs Conti a competitive eater, but he’s also the purchasing director for the Penthouse Executive Club. [Midtown Lunch]
• Eating raw vegetables is not always as nutritious as eating them cooked. [NYT]

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Burke and colleagues also assessed the association of obesity with traditional cardiovascular risk factors and with subclinical vascular markers. They found a higher body-mass index (BMI) was associated with more adverse levels of blood pressure (BP), lipids, and fasting glucose and more subclinical disease despite a high prevalence of pharmacologic treatment for these disorders.
“Fifteen to 20 years ago, people said obesity was not an independent risk factor for heart disease, and when they did that, they basically said that obesity doesn’t matter because all you need to do is treat their hypertension, and if their LDL is high, treat that, and have them not smoke and they’re going to be okay,” Burke continued. “What we are finding is that that’s not true. For the first time in human history we are seeing a generation with a lot of obesity age into older adulthood, where we often see a lot of chronic diseases. The ability of the medical care system to treat that many people—it just doesn’t work.”
Burke and colleagues analyzed data from MESA, which involved 6814 individuals aged 45 to 84 who did not have CVD when the study began (2000 to 2002). They assessed the association between body size and CVD risk factors, medication use, and subclinical vascular disease by measuring coronary artery calcium (CAC), carotid artery intima media thickness (IMT), and left ventricular mass.
A large proportion of white, African American, and Hispanic participants were overweight (60% to 85%) or obese (30% to 50%), while fewer Chinese Americans were overweight (33%) or obese (5%).
Burke commented: “For an awfully long time we have been looking at data from Hispanics, whites, and African Americans and saying, ‘Well, you know, black women have greater obesity than white women,’ but when you throw the Chinese into the equation, those three groups actually look very similar; they look almost identical. We see huge amounts of obesity in the other racial ethnic groups [apart from the Chinese] that are not acceptable.”

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“Indiana Jones”? Check. “Batman”? Yep. Will Smith? Him too. There will be no shortage of box-office draws during the 2008 summer movie season, which is so loaded with potential blockbusters that it may surpass last year’s record-setting summer grosses of $4.15 billion, the highest in Hollywood history.
That is no guarantee the movies themselves will be good, of course: Just because they’ve made another “Hulk” picture doesn’t mean it will be any better. But at least on paper, the 2008 summer movie lineup certainly looks formidable.
Here is a partial list of the many movies heading our way between now and Labor Day.
“The Chronicles of Narnia:Prince Caspian”: The next installment in author C. S. Lewis’ fantasy series about the magical realm of Narnia is set a year after the events of the first film, which translates into 1,300 years in Narnia- time. Once again, the four Pevensie siblings play a key role in helping the denizens of the land fight off evil forces, etc.
“Indiana Jones and the Kingdomof the Crystal Skull”: Almost 20 years after the last Indy film, Harrison Ford picks up his whip and leather jacket for more old-school, serial-matinee adventure. Director Steven Spielberg and producer George Lucas took their sweet time coming up with a script everyone liked, setting aside the Nazi villains of the first and third films for Cold War-era Russkies, led by a raven-haired Cate Blanchett. Karen Allen and Shia LaBeouf co-star.
“Sex and the City”: Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kim Cattrall and Kristin Davis are all back. As the girls’ lives move on four years from where we left them on HBO, there are new and older offspring and a pending wedding for Carrie and Mr. Big (Chris Noth). Early reviews are through the roof, and so is the fashion. The four friends are still juggling jobs, relationships and the joys of New York City. Fans of Jason Lewis (Smith) will be happy to hear that he’ll be back, and the film is rated R— so it’ll be just as raunchy as ever.

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While there still hasn’t been an official announcement from Apple (as of this writing), Fortune has reported that Steve Jobs will don the black shirt and blue jeans to deliver a keynote address on June 9, kicking off WWDC ‘08.
It’s not a surprise, of course, as Steve typically talks during the show. Also expected is the announcement of a 3G iPhone, as well as plans for international distribution, as rumors have been at their usual pre-event levels for a couple of weeks.
If you can’t wait for all of the fun to begin, download the Countdown to WWDC Dashboard widget and stare at it obsessively.
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The following are the leading stories in Maltese and foreign newspapers:
The Times says that Brussels expects spring hunting to stop once and for all. The paper also reveals that Thursday’s murder victim was shot twice in the head.
On the issue of spring hunting, The Malta Independent says the European Court of Justice assessed the European Commission case against Malta as "well founded".
Il-Gens Illum also leads with the spring hunting issue but it also refers to the forthcoming visit by the Archbishop to Brussels and Luxembourg next month and the current visit to Detroit by the Bishop of Gozo.
In-Nazzjon leads with the report by Business Europe which sees Malta economic climate as sound. The paper also says that there have been no developments in the Birkirkara murder case.
l-orizzont leads with the murder case and asks whether the police have established the motive for the Mafia-style killing. It also quotes GWU Secretary General Tony Zarb saying that the union would work with any MLP leader who respects it and its officials.
The Press in Britain…
The effects of a two-day strike at Scotland’s largest oil refinery is featured in six of Britain’s newspapers this morning. The giant Grangemouth oil refinery has been closed down ahead of the strike by 1,200 workers in a row over pensions which threatens fuel supplies. BP has also started making preparations to close down a pipeline that delivers 30 percent of the UK’s daily oil output and which relies on power from Grangemouth.
The Daily Mail reports that if one can find petrol, it’s becomingly even more expensive.
The Scotsman says the Unite union, whose members are on strike over their pension schemes, is fighting a political battle at the refinery. It pictures a young man holding before him a T-shirt with the slogan "Fighting for our Pension".

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EBay Inc. says it's cutting 125 jobs in Europe and North America, including 70 positions at the online auctioneer's headquarters in San Jose, Calif.
Company spokesman Jose Mallabo says the work force reduction is part of a reorganization to streamline operations _ not cut costs. He says the cuts amount to less than 1 percent of the company's global head count of 15,500 people.
Mallabo says the cuts in Europe are the result of a centralization of corporate functions. He wouldn't talk about what jobs were being affected at headquarters.
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