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Along with Lloyd Dobler from "Say Anything," Jim Stark from "Rebel Without a Cause" and, everyone’s favorite hottie, Romeo from "Romeo and Juliet," Ren ranks among the best teenage boyfriends from screen and stage. He’s wounded but not weak, dangerous but never cruel, caring without being creepy.

Here, Go! magazine rips a page from the high school sweeties yearbook. The boys span the ages, but they all are dreamy (or at least adorkable), masters of the meaningful gesture (making snow, killing rivals, kicking away broken glass) and loyal to their gals despite their flaws (mean parents, snobby friends, desire to butcher entire student body).

Plus, we talk to two actors who are well-acquainted with being teen idols: Zac Efron, who stars in the new film "Charlie St. Cloud," and Curtis Holbrook, who plays Ren in "Footloose" at the Muny.

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PAULIE BLEEKER

Played by Michael Cera in "Juno" (2007)

Lowdown: Accepts Juno’s decision to give up his oops-baby for adoption. Good at rocking tiny track shorts and matching sweatbands.

Quoted: "I don’t like Katrina. She smells like soup."

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TROY BOLTON

Played by Zac Efron in the "High School Musical" series (2006-2008)

Lowdown: Defies the odds and deflects ridicule by balancing basketball and musical theater. Good at multitasking and spontaneous hallway dance numbers.

Voted: Most likely to appear in "Footloose."

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LANDON CARTER

Played by Shane West in "A Walk to Remember" (2002)

Lowdown: Makes all of dying Jamie’s wishes come true. Good at hugging.

Voted: Most likely to star with Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson in "The Bucket List 2."

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EDWARD CULLEN

Played by Robert Pattinson in the "Twilight" series (2008-present)

Lowdown: Resists the urge to turn his girlfriend into supper. Good at fighting rogue vampires, werewolves and wrinkles.

Voted: Most likely to develop "Sucker," a new line of pigmented powders for men.

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DEREK

Played by Sean Patrick Thomas in "Save the Last Dance" (2001)

Lowdown: Keeps ballerina Sara on her toes. Excels at dirty dancing and chemistry, both the organic and sexual kind.

Quoted: "Let’s put some S-E-X in those H-I-Ps!"

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LLOYD DOBLER

Played by John Cusack in "Say Anything" (1989)

Lowdown: Woos Diane Court, a brain trapped inside the body of a game-show hostess. Good at kickboxing, sport of the future; bad at selling, buying and processing.

Voted: Most likely to develop a lightweight boom box.

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DEAN FORESTER

Played by Jared Padalecki in "Gilmore Girls" (2000-2005)

Lowdown: Understands fast-talking Rory Gilmore. Good at building cars and bagging groceries; bad at marriage.

Voted: Most likely to investigate the supernatural.

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DAN HUMPHREY

Played by Penn Badgley on "Gossip Girl" (2007-present)

Lowdown: Catches the eye of Upper East Side socialite Serena van der Woodsen, despite his Brooklyn background. Good at carrying a flame and sparking rumors.

Quoted: "If you ever need someone to talk to. Or not talk to. I’d be happy to do either."

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LAURIE (Theodore Laurence)

Played by Peter Lawford in "Little Women" (1949)

Lowdown: Jumps into the March girls’ world with glee because their busy, idealistic home is so much cooler than the cold mansion where he’s growing up. Good at acting sickly and romantic.

Voted: Most likely to have an affair with his sister-in-law.

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NEVILLE LONGBOTTOM

Played by Matthew Lewis in the "Harry Potter" series (2001-present)

Lowdown: Wows Hufflepuff Hannah Abbott with his decency and loyalty. Good at Herbology and finding swords in surprising places.

Voted: Most likely to become a professor at Hogwarts.

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REN McCORMACK

Played by Kevin Bacon in "Footloose" (1984)

Lowdown: Accepts Ariel despite her promiscuous past and total lack of rhythm. Good at dancing in warehouses, reading Kurt Vonnegut,Charm pendant, combing the Bible for God’s explicit endorsement of "boppin.’"

Voted: Most likely to be connected to anybody famous.

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ROMEO MONTAGUE

Played by Leonard Whiting in "Romeo and Juliet" (1968)

Lowdown: When he says he’d die for you, he means it. Good at wall-climbing and going without sleep; bad at planning ahead.

Quoted: "Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die, /Take him and cut him out in little stars,/ And he will make the face of heaven so fine/ That all the world will be in love with night." — Juliet

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MOONDOGGIE

Played by James Darren in "Gidget" (1959)

Lowdown: Declares "although she’s not king size, her finger is ring-size. Gidget is the one for me." Good at surfing and kissing short girls.

Voted: Most likely to name child Starbunny.

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MURRAY

Played by Donald Faison in "Clueless" (1995)

Lowdown: Reveals to Dionne that underneath his street-smart facade, he is a caring and articulate Baldwin. Boasts good gaydar and hats.

Quoted: "Street slang is an increasingly valid form of expression. Most of the feminine pronouns do have mocking, but not necessarily misogynistic, undertones."

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TOMMY ROSS

Played by William Katt in "Carrie" (1976)

Lowdown: Falls for Carrie, despite her mommy issues and taste for blood. Good at wearing crowns and taking pity.

Voted: Most likely to do nothing because, you know, Carrie killed him.

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JAKE RYAN

Played by Michael Schoeffling in "Sixteen Candles" (1984)

Lowdown: Picks overlooked sophomore Samantha Baker over his prom-queen girlfriend. Good at wearing sweater vests, throwing parties and driving a Porsche.

Quoted: "I want a serious girlfriend. Somebody I can love, that’s gonna love me back. Is that psycho?"

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MATT SARACEN

Played by Zach Gilford in "Friday Night Lights" (2006-present)

Lowdown: Wins over the coach’s daughter with his awkward pauses and sweet smile. Good at taking care of granny, enduring his girlfriend’s many mood swings and winning the big game.

Voted: Most likely to never return to Dillon, Texas.

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EDWARD SCISSORHANDS

Played by Johnny Depp in "Edward Scissorhands" (1990)

Lowdown: Shows Kim that her thuggish jock boyfriend is the town’s real freak show. Good at transforming shrubs into adorable forest animals and shaving ice into snow for Kim’s twirling pleasure.

Voted: Least likely to win a "rock, paper, scissors" competition.

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SIEGFRIED

Played by many big-voiced — or vocally suicidal — tenors over the years in the last two operas of Richard Wagner’s four-opera cycle "Der Ring des Nibelungen": "Siegfried" and "Gotterdammerung" (1876)

Lowdown: Emerges as the hero Brunnhilde hungered for. Loves fighting dragons, walking through impenetrable fire, cougars.

Quoted: "I still haven’t learned fear!"

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A.C. SLATER

Played by Mario Lopez in "Saved by the Bell" (1989-93)

Lowdown: Turns feminist Jessie into his "Mama." Good at nicknames, dimples and casual flexing.

Quoted: "You macho pig!" — Jessie Spano; "Oink,tiffany money clips, oink, baby." — Slater

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JIM STARK

Played by James Dean in "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955)

Lowdown: Plays house with Judy after killing her boyfriend in a chickie run. (It was the least he could do.) Good at knife fights and astronomy.

Quoted: "You’re tearing me apart!"

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SEAWEED J. STUBBS

Played by Elijah Kelley in "Hairspray" (2007)

Lowdown: Teaches Baltimore that race doesn’t matter to two hearts in love. Good at detention and cutting a rug.

Quoted: "The darker the chocolate, the richer the taste. … Run and tell that."

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BRANDON TEENA

Played by Hilary Swank in "Boys Don’t Cry" (1999)

Lowdown: Proves the best boyfriends are always good friends,discount tiffany, but not necessarily boys. Likes masking tape and shoplifting.

Quoted: "I hate your life, too."

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JOHN TRUETT

Played by Tom Drake in "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1944)

Lowdown: Complies with all the romantic plans that next-door neighbor Esther Smith cooks up. Good at baseball, turning down the gas lamps and having the right address.

Quoted: "You’ve got a mighty strong grip for a girl."

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STEVE URKEL

Played by Jaleel White in "Family Matters" (1989-1998)

Lowdown: Persuades Laura Winslow to finally say yes to Mr. "Did I Do That?" after countless pratfalls, date rejections and sincerely sweet pickup lines. Good at the Urkel dance.

Voted: Most likely to wear suspenders at his wedding.

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BRANDON WALSH

Played by Jason Priestley in "Beverly Hills, 90210" (1990)

Lowdown: Knows how to treat ‘sensitive, seductive, tortured" Kelly Taylor, unlike a certain bad boy. You know who you are,tiffany bangles, Dylan. Good at upholding Midwestern values and partying at the Peach Pit.

Voted: Most likely to die in a freak blow-drying accident.

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PACEY WITTER

Played by Joshua Jackson in "Dawson’s Creek" (1998-2003)

Lowdown: Is a faithful and supportive boyfriend to Andie McPhee and, later, Joey Potter. Good at wooing English teachers, dating girls with gender-ambiguous first names and dabbling in a variety of careers.

Quoted: "You reminded me of what I’m capable of feeling. It’s like I was walking around seeing my life through a smudged window, and then I saw you and the smudges were gone."

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Board members Charlie Bobbitt and Bob Null questioned why the district wasn’t giving a full week off at Thanksgiving.

Deputy Superintendent Mary Thurman said the calendar committee always discusses Thanksgiving break, but adding two days of vacation then means it must find two other days to hold classes. However, she acknowledged that "it is time. We’re one of only a few districts that have only three days off."

She said staff absenteeism is higher on the Monday and Tuesday before Thanksgiving. Average daily absenteeism for the district’s 4,000 employees is about 300 and on those days it averages about 500,tiffany cuff Links, she said.

The board approved the calendar on a 6-1 vote with Null opposing.

Last year, 10 of the region’s 17 districts had classes off for the full week. Not all districts have approved or posted their 2010-11 calendars, but there’s already been a couple of switches.

According to calendars posted on their websites,discount tiffany, Cheyenne Mountain School District 12 joined the full-week Thanksgiving break group and Falcon School District 49 left the group, scheduling a Wednesday through Friday break that week.

D-49 starts school in early August and takes two-week breaks in October, December and March.

Most of the region’s 16 other districts start class in mid-August and have a two-week winter break and one week off in March.

In other action at its meeting Wednesday, the D-11 board approved $524,000 for three bond projects. They are: $174,000 for a replacement server and software for the district-wide library system; $150,000 to replace two failing heating and ventilation units at Doherty High School,tiffany rings, and $200,tiffany necklaces,000 to replace boilers at Edison Elementary School.

The projects, recommended by a citizen oversight committee, were picked from a list of unfunded capital improvements to be paid for with part of the money remaining in the bond fund. The $152 million bond program was approved by voters in 2004 to pay for certain projects, and has been stretched to pay for additional projects.

All bond moneys must be used by the end of the year under IRS rules. As of April 1, the fund had nearly $1.2 million remaining.

The board also had discussion on:

–A proposal to change some benefits in its employee health care plan to cover an anticipated $2 million increase in claims in the next three years. The most controversial portion of proposal would increase the annual deductibles, a move opposed by educational support professionals. The board is expected to vote on the proposed changes on April 28.

–A request from the Colorado Springs Vocational Academy to take its proposal for a charter school to the Colorado Charter School Institute for authorization. The charter school group last year submitted a proposal to D-11 but withdrew it after the administration noted shortcomings in the plan recommended the board deny it. Several board members indicated they would prefer that the organizers reapply to D-11, but organizers said the CSI timeline was earlier and would give the school more time to prepare for a June 2011 opening. The request for permission to seek state approval will be voted on April 28.

Many consignment stores are busier than ever in this economy. Now even Bibelot gift shop is joining in. Its Como store (2276 Como Av., St. Paul, 651-646-5651, www.bibelotshops.com) is accepting women’s fall/winter clothing in excellent condition. Used clothing (up to 12 items) can be brought to the Como location only. Consignors will be notified within a week if items have been accepted. The new ReWear department is expected to open in mid-July on the second floor.

Bibelot should be applauded for adding consignment as part of its "reuse, recycle, refresh" mission, but it’s disappointing that customers will receive 50 percent of the resale price in store credit, not cash or check. Store credit is more valuable at Bibelot than at many consignment-only shops,discount tiffany, but it seems fair to offer more than 50 percent if it’s the only option. Bibelot marketing manager Katie McNamara Howie said the store chose 50 percent after researching the resale industry.

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"Hummingbirds are as fascinating to study as they are beautiful to watch," said Laurel Barnhill, bird conservation coordinator with the S.C. Department of Natural Resources (DNR) in Columbia. Barnhill encourages South Carolina residents to landscape with flowers, hang out a feeder and invite hummingbirds to lunch: "In return, they’ll entertain you with their antics and add a little color to your life."

Thousands of South Carolina residents enrich their summers by feeding hummingbirds. Male ruby-throated hummingbirds, which feature the characteristic metallic blood-red throat bib, began showing up in South Carolina in late March,tiffany cuff Links, with their white-throated mates arriving from the tropics about a week later. Most hummingbird activity around feeders, however, does not really pick up until midsummer. Do not despair if you had hummers at your feeder early during the migration period and now there are none. Some of those birds continued flying north and others stayed here but are busy raising young and taking advantage of plentiful natural food sources.

Under natural conditions, hummingbirds obtain sugar by eating the nectar of flowers and the sap of trees. Homeowners can duplicate this part of a hummer’s diet by placing a sugar solution in a hummingbird feeder, with the added attraction of getting to witness the antics of one of nature’s most delightful and colorful birds. "Hummingbirds consume 50 percent of their body weight daily in sugar, which makes it one of the most important food items in a hummer’s diet," Barnhill said.

A wide variety of hummingbird feeders are now available on the market. If you have used the feeders in previous seasons, Barnhill said, be sure to wash the hummingbird feeder with hot water and vinegar or hot water and bleach to destroy all mildew and mold left over from last year, then rinse thoroughly with clean water. This is the most important thing to do to make these birds’ stay in the Palmetto State more enjoyable.

The sugar-water mixture for the feeders should be a ratio of four parts water to one part sugar; an easy-to-remember mixture is one cup of sugar per quart of water. This solution closely approximates the sugar content of nectar. Red dye is unnecessary–the red coloring on the feeder will suffice. Honey should not be used as a sweetener because honey-water solutions often harbor a fungus that can be harmful to the hummer.

When making the sugar-water mixture, Barnhill advises boiling the sugar and water solution for about three minutes–this will help retard fermentation. Store all unused solution in the refrigerator, and keep the feeder mold-free by keeping fresh nectar in it at all times. As soon as the solution becomes cloudy, discard it.

"If you are putting a feeder up for the first time, don’t be discouraged if hummingbirds don’t come right away," Barnhill said. "It may take a while for them to find it and establish a visitation routine." Be sure to keep the solution fresh especially as the days get warmer, because birds will not be attracted to a fermented solution.

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"That was the time when textile plants were at top capacity,discount tiffany," Amos said. "You didn’t have to leave Kings Mountain to go and get anything."

Times changed. People moved and buildings were left empty and abandoned.

Now, the Kings Mountain community is working together to create a new vision for the city’s downtown.

Amos, president of the Mountaineer Partnership, is working hand in hand with the city to bring business and beauty to Kings Mountain’s downtown.

Amos said the Mountaineer Partnership is a not-for-profit organization.

"We are the private sector that joined with the City of Kings Mountain to bring Main Street to the city," she said. "We are an economic driver organization."

Amos said the Mountaineers purpose is to promote the downtown and assist in refilling the empty buildings with new businesses and support existing ones.

She said historic preservation is also a vital piece to the plan.

‘What brings business to Kings Mountain?’

Kings Mountain was recently selected as a Main Street city as part of the North Carolina Main Street Program. The program is focused on strengthening and revitalizing downtown economies across the state.

As a part of the Main Street Program, a community forum was held to help put that vision into words.

"It was a great meeting," said Lou Ballew, participant. "The crowd was enthusiastic. We covered a lot of ground. I think it was very beneficial."

During the forum, teams worked to create a vision and focus for Kings Mountain.

"Who are we? How are we different from other small town communities?" Amos said. "We listed economic drivers. What brings business to Kings Mountain?"

Amos said the roughly 60 forum members were business owners, local government officials, high school and college students, retirees, new community members,tiffany bangles, and more.

Prior to the meeting, disposable cameras were given to participants and they were told to take pictures of things they liked and disliked about the city’s downtown.

The pictures showed the positives: Patriots Park, the building murals, the history of the city. As well as the negatives: broken windows, empty and run down store fronts, trash and cracked sidewalks.

At the conclusion of the forum, a specific vision began to take shape.

"The visioning was to actually use all of the positive economic drivers and create a concise statement which could be used as a vision for downtown Kings Mountain," Amos said. "We’re working on that…we have lots of wonderful ideas."

The next step is to complete the vision statement.

"Our board is right now completing a summary of all the positives, negatives, the economic drivers and, most importantly, the vision,tiffany earrings," Amos said. "Then we as a board will come up with what we call a vision statement. Kings Mountain is the center of, or crossroads of, whatever it is. We will then share that with the Main Street folks from Raleigh."

Eventually,tiffany cuff Links, Amos said, that vision will be put into action with advertising, marketing and business recruiting.

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The disc holds tremendous, delicate beauty: "Same Mistakes" is a gentle country torch song. The harmonies on "All This Time" have the power to break a man down and put him back together again; whereas the fiddle melody on "Freiderick" courses through the instrumental cut like wind through Midwestern wheat. "Long Hot Summer Days" is another sweet,tiffany bracelets, sweltering standout. Of the album, BBC’s Sid Smith rightly wrote, "Watkins’ time in the spotlight is a triumph with her agile playing and the kind of voice that gives your goosebumps the shivers." Whether the spotlight remains focused only on Watkins or expands, illuming a Nickel Creek reunion, it’s clear her name should be on more and more lips as she continues to make music with hers.

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Troopers arrested Shawn Sayer, 40, at his home at 23 Marion Ave. on Thursday on charges of violating a protection from abuse order and violating his bail conditions from an earlier charge of violating a protection order.

Sayer is accused of posting lewd propositions on social networking sites that were purported to be from his ex-girlfriend, inviting men to her home or her workplace for kinky sex, said Sgt. Glenn Lang, head of the computer crimes unit.

"Her life has been absolute hell for the last four years,tiffany cuff Links," said Lang, who did not identify the woman.

The woman had to counter what Sayer was doing all the time, Lang said. She posted notes on her door saying the Internet invitations were fake, and had special knocks for her friends so she knew it was safe to open the door for them.

Last year, she changed her name and moved to Louisiana, leaving behind her friends and family, Lang said. But Sayer, a self-employed carpenter, discovered her new identity because the court papers documenting the name change weren’t sealed, and the harassment resumed, Lang said.

"It was truly a scheme to terrorize and intimidate this girl and destroy a life," he said.

Sayer used photographs and video from the two years they were a couple and posted them on Facebook, MySpace and Craigslist, Lang said. That was reported to law enforcement agencies, some of which didn’t take it seriously.

Catching Sayer wasn’t easy because he didn’t upload the fake postings from his home computer. Instead, Lang said, he took advantage of the hundreds of publicly accessible wireless networks in the Biddeford-Saco area.

When police subpoenaed Internet service provider records to trace the fraudulent postings, they invariably led to wireless networks with no connection to Sayer, Lang said.

Over the course of an eight-month investigation led by Detective Laurie Northrup, detectives retrieved surveillance video from those locations and identified a car that looked identical to Sayer’s. The car would park somewhere for 20 minutes, nobody would get out, then it would leave.

In one such case, a witness reported that the driver was using a laptop computer, and the license plate the witness reported was registered to Sayer. Lang said that information helped investigators get a search warrant for Sayer’s home and computers. However, when investigators searched the home in November, it appeared that Sayer had been tipped off.

When police arrived to seize his computer equipment,tiffany money clips, hard drives had been removed and his laptop was gone, Lang said, even though the case and the power cord were there.

Sayer said he had spilled water on the computer and thrown it away.

"Rarely do you have someone that determined to cause that amount of trouble in an anonymous way," Lang said.

State police worked with Saco police and the Secret Service, which put a tracking device on Sayer’s car,tiffany key rings, but Sayer discovered it within a couple of days.

Police eventually determined that the computer that had been used to post the provocative solicitations was also used to update Sayer’s own social networking pages.

Sayer was convicted of stalking in the fall of 2007 for charges brought a year earlier. He was given a one-year suspended sentence and one year of probation. It is unclear whether that conviction involved the same victim.

Sayer is now being held in the York County Jail pending a bail hearing.

Violating a protection from abuse order is a misdemeanor, punishable by as much as a year in jail. Sayer also could face federal charges because some of the alleged conduct crossed state lines.

"He could be facing some significant time in jail," Lang said,discount tiffany, "but nothing compared to what he’s put her through."

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