Talen Horton-Tucker (Sr- Simeon Wolverines) – "Talo" took his game to the next level as he elevated a very talented Simeon squad to a top 10 national ranking and a city title during the regular season. The Iowa State University commit was in his bag all season but fell short of the ultimate goal (with what head coach Robert Smith said could be the most talented team he's coached) …a state title. There's no denying that he is worth the price of admission and bright things are in store for this young man!
Ayo Dosunmu (Sr- Morgan Park Mustangs) – Ayo missed 12 of the Mustangs 34 games (9-3 without him) due to a serious ankle injury. He returned at the start of the CPS playoffs and MP lost to Whitney Young on a buzzer beater in the quarterfinals. They finished the season 8-0 on the way to back-to-back 3A state titles. Dosunmu set a new record for points scored (28) in a championship game and ended his high school career as a winner. He will take his talents to the University Of Illinois and head coach Brad Underwood where expectations are high, but Dosunmu has proved without a shadow of a doubt that he's willing to put in all the work necessary to succeed at the next level.
Javon Freeman-Liberty (Sr- Whitney Young Dolphins) – The most athletic of the finalists, "Vonno" played at a high level on both ends of the floor all season and was able to lead the Dolphins back to the 4A championship game. His versatility and elite competitiveness have been the keys to his success in his high school career as a Seton Sting and Whitney Young Dolphin. Freeman is headed to Valparaiso in the fall and should be the perfect fit. He is battle tested and is a prime candidate to flourish at the next level.
Dannie Smith (Sr- Orr Spartans) – "Danno Buckets" had an outstanding season as he helped lead the Spartans to back-to-back 2A state titles. He was tough, played inside out and a was a huge leader down the stretch for head coach Lou Adams. When a big play was needed, they put the ball in his hands and he came through in the clutch. Orr was as talented of a team as we saw this season and the guys knew they could count on Dannie when it mattered most. On a special Orr team, Dannie will be remembered as one of its brightest stars.


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Hanoi (VNA) – Artists from Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera will perform the "Cinderella" ballet with Japanese partners at the HCM City Opera House on April 13-14.
The character of Cinderella will be played by Vietnamese artist Tran Hoang Yen, while the prince is being performed by Japanese artist Fukuda Hiroya. The role of the fairy godmother is at the hands of Yuki Hiroshige.
The performance is a result of cooperation between the city's opera house and Norway's Transposition Programme.
"Cinderella" is one of the two ballets most popularly anticipated by children each year.


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Flow Like an Oil, Stick Like a Mussel
Scientists look to nature to make a glue that can bind wet surfaces together.
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Yuen Yiu, Staff Writer
(Inside Science) -- Researchers have created a new underwater glue using materials inspired by mussels -- and a dash of soybean.
Marine organisms can adhere to underwater surfaces with admirable ease. But since one can't extract glue from a mollusk as easily as milk from a cow, scientists have long tried to come up with synthetic alternatives that can mimic the water-impervious grip. One particular compound of interest is found in the long sticky strands that mussels use to cling onto seaside rocks like Spiderman. The key ingredient is known as L-DOPA and it is a close relative of dopamine, the organic chemical perhaps best known for its role in humans' perception of pleasure.
Researchers have done a lot of work trying to make L-DOPA in the lab and then use it to stick things together underwater, said Ali Dhinojwala, a materials scientist from the University of Akron in Ohio who led the research that created the new glue. But even though scientists have managed to synthesize the L-DOPA molecules, many challenges remain. For instance, the molecules form a solid at room temperature -- not exactly what you want for a glue.
"Imagine trying to squeeze glass out of a tube -- it's just not going to work," said Dhinojwala.
To solve this problem, Dhinojwala and his team looked into ways to cook up a new material with L-DOPA that can retain all its stickiness, but can also be squeezed out of a tube.
Mussel goop in soybean oil
Now take a deep breath and try not to get queasy. While stringy mussel fibers swimming in soybean oil may not sound appetizing, the recipe turns out to be a great inspiration for an underwater glue.
By combining the chemistry of free-flowing soybean oil and sticky mussel glue, Dhinojwala and his colleagues created a gooey substance that can join surfaces underwater. The greasy substance also happens to be hydrophobic, meaning that it repels water. After all, if the reason that normal glue does not work underwater is the water itself, then why not make a glue that can, you know, push away the wet stuff?
"We've actually known that hydrophobicity is important for underwater adhesives for quite some time, so it's not entirely a new idea," said Chao Zhong, a materials scientist from Shanghai Tech University in China who was not involved in the study. "But from a material perspective, what they have is very interesting. Especially because you can apply it without using any solvent. It may have some potential biomedical applications."
Medical applications, such as sticking tissue back together after surgery, are a huge driver of the studies on underwater adhesives, and researchers are constantly looking for materials well-suited for such delicate tasks. Compared with existing adhesives for wet environments, Dhinojwala's glue has a few advantages. Because it doesn't need a solvent and is also hydrophobic, it can't be washed away as easily, say, by a gush of blood. Another advantage is that the glue, which the researchers describe in a paper in the journal Advanced Materials Interfaces, is biodegradable and likely nontoxic, unlike many solvent-based adhesives.
The group still has a long road ahead before their glue can show up next to an operating table. For instance, it still needs to be tested on soft biological tissues instead of just aluminum and glass plates. The glue could also use some improvements in the process it takes to set, since currently it needs to be exposed to a UV light for several minutes before the two surfaces are securely stuck to each other.
Even if these challenges can be overcome, there is perhaps still one major property that separates a synthetic glue from a natural one.
"In a living system, if somehow the adhesive is damaged, there's usually some kind of a self-repair mechanism," said Timothy Lu, a materials scientist from Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was also not involved in the project. "That's something that synthetic systems can't necessarily replicate at this point."
Recent research efforts such as one led by Lu himself are actually making some progress in figuring out how to incorporate living cells and bacteria to make a "living glue." But, for now, it seems like the 4-dollar-per-pound shellfish is still sticking it to the scientists who try to mimic its power.
Yuen Yiu
Yuen Yiu covers the Physics beat for Inside Science. He's a Ph.D. physicist and fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin. Follow Yuen on Twitter: @fromyiutoyou.
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Police Auxiliary Messengers (PAMS) were operational in the UK during World War 2. Young lads under the age of eighteen with their own bikes were employed by local police forces with the primary role of taking messages during and after air raids if telephone communication was not practicable.

The police during WW2
The police had a critical part to play as part of the civil defence arrangements during World War 2 for the UK. In addition to their normal duties they were responsible for enforcement of the blackout restrictions, monitoring enemy aliens, finding and arresting deserters, and dealing with drunken servicemen.  They also attended all air raid incidents and depending on local civil defence arrangements would co-ordinate the response to a bombing.  Most forces set up new sub-stations throughout their area. At the outbreak of War working in the Police was not regarded as a reserved occupation, although this changed in 1940, and many of the young constables joined up voluntarily or were conscripted; many constables were ex-servicemen who were called up as part of the forces reserve. The Police were also subject to a freeze on recruiting. They made up their numbers by recalling their own pensioner reservists, and by increasing the number of special constables (mainly men in reserved occupations). These were supplemented by War Reserve Police who were men over the age of conscription but who were not doing work that was considered essential for the war effort.

Police Auxiliary Messenger Service

Establishment of the service
The Home Office had foreseen that communications would become difficult in the event of an air raid when it was likely that telephone communications would be cut either by wires coming down, by a power failure or where a telephone link could not be established. Civil Defence committees set up their own messenger services in 1939, in some cases pressing entire troops of Boy Scouts into service. This enthusiasm had to be tempered at the prospect of boys, and in some cases girls, of 14 out riding bikes with bombs flying around. A UK wide scheme was then set up in 1941 for volunteers over 18 – those under 18 were used post raid only.  The Police however needed their own messengers and from 1940 they took on lads below the age of 18, with their own bikes, (some forces recruited at the age of 15, others at 16). The PAMs, as they were universally called, were to act as messengers during and after raids. They were issued with uniforms – army surplus dyed black - and wore berets, or tin helmets during raids. They were employed full-time although it is thought that some Police Authorities also took on volunteer PAMs who only worked when the sirens went off.

Training
PAMs were given a basic training in first aid and in the use of stirrup pumps. They had to know where all the civil defence and Police out-stations were – they would often be riding their bikes at night in the black out and would not always be able to see such street signs as there were; during or after an air raid streets could be blocked with rubble and debris.

PAMs at work
From the firsthand account of those who served as PAMs it seems that in some areas where there was little enemy bombing, e.g. Oxfordshire, that PAMS were used as extra pairs of hands to make up for lack of manpower particularly in the headquarters offices. In areas targeted by the enemy the PAMs filled their primary role of taking messages during air raids but would also help the rescue services when needed. This was clearly the case in Coventry where PAMs proved their worth during the heavy bombing raids.
George Frederick Barratt of the Coventry PAMs was awarded a British Empire Medal in June 1941 – his citation reads
"Police Messenger Barratt, who was in the lower corridor of a building when it received a direct hit from a H.E. bomb, was blown by the blast for some distance. When he recovered he immediately made his way to report to the Main A.R.P. Control Centre and was sent out with a message. On the way he was blown off his cycle by blast. He remounted and continued his journey but ran into some broken telephone wires and sustained injuries to his neck. He delivered the message and returned with the reply. First aid treatment was obtained for him and although he was badly shaken again he went out through the rain of falling bombs to deliver other vital messages."
Another Coventry PAMs' citation for the B.E.M. reads:
"Howard George Miles, Police Messenger, Police auxiliary Messenger Service, Coventry.
During a severe enemy air attack Police Messenger Miles rendered great assistance by delivering urgent and important messages. He dealt with many incendiary bombs and, at grave risk to himself, helped to rescue a baby who was trapped in the wreckage of a house. Miles showed courage and devotion to duty."

Discontinuation of the service
During War time, Police officers and their auxiliary support were not allowed to resign. In June 1945, in response to a question in the House Sir D Somervell, Secretary of State for the Home Department announced the discontinuation of this restriction on PAMs:
"Yes, Sir. I am glad to say that the war-time restrictions on the liberty to resign of part-time special constables and part-time members of the Women's Auxiliary Police Corps and the police auxiliary messenger service will come to an end on the 1st July." This effectively resulted in the disbandment of the Police Auxiliary Messenger Service and its replacement with Police Cadets.

PAMs in literature
The Police Auxiliary Messenger Service is little known in literature but a recent book, Blitz PAMs, by John Orton, gives a semi-fictional account of the early years of the blitz on South Shields through the eyes of a 16 year old PAM. Although the story line (as told by Mossie Hamed, a grocery delivery boy of mixed Yemeni/Shields blood, which includes his ill-fated love for Jackie Hansen, a girl who pretends to be a lad to become a PAM) is fictional, the accounts of the air raids on South Shields are as near fact as possible, based on the photographic archive held by South Tyneside Local Library Service.

PAMs archive material
The Metropolitan Police Force's records of their Police Auxiliary Messenger Service is now deposited at The National Archives. Kew.

References

Civil defence organisations based in the United Kingdom
1945 disestablishments in the United Kingdom

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By Jonathan Selzer
The Gaahls Wyrd frontman brings his paintings to the UK for the first time
London By Norse, the three-day festival of Nordic art and culture is soon upon us, running from March 17-19 across London and featuring three, career-spanning Enslaved shows, Enslaved guitarist Ivar Peerson's Bardspec project and a workshop from Wardruna frontman Einar Selvik and culminating at the Coronet at Elepant & Castle with Wardruna themselves and the first UK performance of Ivar and Einar's collaborative Skuggsjá project.
On March 19, the Coronet will also play host to the first UK exhibition of artwork by renowned black metal vocalist Kristian 'Gaahl' Espedal. First shown at November's Blekkmetal festival in Bergen, Norway, Gaahl's haunting and immersive paintings often show figures both lost in private reveries and engaged in ambiguous rituals where the overall coldness of colour tone and isolated nature of its figures still suggests a vast reservoir of emotion seeping out from beneath the surface.
We spoke to Gaahl about his approach to his art and what we can expect from the forthcoming exhibition.
The artwork is another side of you that not many people have seen before. Is it a very different discipline? It's obviously a much more private thing to do.
"Yes, it is very private. It's something that you do completely isolated, and music of course, you tend to work with others. I'd never thought of presenting the paintings before Blekkmetal, but when you have a house full of artwork then you need to refresh your own mind by releasing them."
Is art something that you have a background in?
Actually, not too much, but I've done this equally seriously for the same amount of time as the music. Actually, I started the art prior to music, but it's gone hand in hand, even though they're not portraying the same energies. But I'm self-taught when it comes to painting. I'm not a technician, I'm just a child when it comes to art, and the same goes for being a vocalist. If I knew what I did, I wouldn't do it."
Letting these visions take form in the way that they have, has this been a journey of discovery for you?
"I don't know how to answer that, because I just live by my own emotions. There's nothing I want to 'achieve' in that sense, so I just do what I feel like, and some sorts of patterns come out of it, and some things you return to more than others."
Because you don't have that training, and because you go so much by emotion, is there something you feel like a medium for?
"Well, there's one aspect that I've noticed now, when I've seen myself in retrospect and what I've done – I see that when I didn't speak to people, I used to be better at putting my thoughts into the artworks, and when you speak to people, you feel like you don't need to put them into the art. I've used a lot of people I've met and observed and captured their emotion and not necessarily their sadness but what they're not explaining and telling their surroundings. In the last 10 years now I've been better at just going up to them and telling them 'I see this in you', so it's been a dialogue for my own observation of others' energies, and probably my own energies as well. Otherwise I probably wouldn't have recognised them."
For someone who's yet to see the paintings, how would you describe them?
"They're figurative works, it's not naturalistic or anything, and it's not like they're direct portrait of anyone, but I drag the persona into something. Of course, it's not only this, but those are the works that survive the most for me in a sense. It'll be very interesting to see them in the perspective of others because I can go an communicate with the paintings whenever, but it will be interesting to put them out of the private setting, and see if I maybe observe something I haven't before. In a way, I'm more in that realm at the moment than the musical realm."
How are you approaching the By Norse exhibition? Will it be different from the Blekkmetal exhibit?
"I have an idea of presenting the artwork even more simplistically in London, and it has to do with the use of colour. Maybe I disappear from colour. Colour can fool your idea of emotion and when you strip it away and simplify things then it might be easier to catch the actual emotion that is there. It's hard to imagine if you haven't seen the work already – it's not what people think I would paint, hahah!"
Gaahl's exhibition runs at the Coronet on March 19
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5-year-old in critical condition following shooting at Crestwood Forest Apartments in Greenville
GREENVILLE, S.C. (WSPA) – Evidence of a shooting still in the parking lot, the incident left shattered windows and shattered lives.
A 5-year-old child faced a second surgery Monday morning after getting shot at the Crestwood Forest Apartments Sunday evening.
"Our deputies provided medical aid to the child, put him in the car with them and then they drove him, with lights and sirens, to the hospital for treatments," Greenville County Sheriff's Office PIO Lt. Ryan Flood said.
The shooter hit three vehicles, and the 5-year-old was inside one of the cars when he was hit.
Investigators said no occupants were in the other two cars. Deputies released what information they could about the suspects.
"The suspects are described as two Black males in their upper teens and low 20s," Flood said.
Investigators looked to the public and those who live in the complex to help them piece the details together.
"Certainly people who are firing openly, free will, to multiple vehicles, striking a 5-year-old child these are individuals who need to be taken off the streets," Flood said.
What you know could be significant and could be the piece of information that cracks this case.
"We are an agency of 400, serving a community of over a half one million people, so we only have so many eyes on the streets," Flood said.
When these suspects are caught, Flood said they could face some stiff charges.
"They could potentially even be charged federally, but we're talking about a minimum of attempted murder," Flood said.
Anyone with information is asked to reach out to Crime Stoppers at (864) 23-CRIME. Callers may remain anonymously.
by Scottie Kay / Jan 25, 2021
CHEROKEE CO., S.C. (WSPA) - Three elementary schools in Cherokee County will soon be closing and many have wondered what will be done with those buildings.
Well, after a county council meeting, there's now talk of possibly turning one of those schools into a jail annex.
GREENVILLE COUNTY, SC (WSPA) - Greenville County Sheriff's Office investigators said a man faces multiple charges related to impersonating a law enforcement officer.
According to a news release, in December 2020 a sheriff's office investigators was introduced to a man who claimed he was an agent with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration at a local restaurant, and an investigation began.


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The rebuilding of the chancel by the fourth Sir Nathaniel Curzon, the second son of Sarah Penn, described in the previous article, was only a part of radical and costly alterations to the structure of the church which he knew so well from his boyhood in Penn.
In 1733, the nave roof was raised again, by another three feet, and extended out over the south aisle. The arch between the nave and the chancel was widened, replacing the medieval lancet with the present round-headed chancel arch, and three towering gentry pews blocking the chancel were moved into the south aisle. This was a period when the sermon was all-important. A good view of the preacher was essential and because high box pews were the fashion for gentry families, the preacher had to be placed on the highest level of a three-decker pulpit in order to be visible. The Bible was read from the middle level and the Clerk led the responses for a largely illiterate congregation from the bottom level. Henry Ziegler's watercolours of c.1850 showed us what it looked like.
There is still visible evidence on the wall of the nave of the gable roof of a 2-storey medieval porch at the centre of the south aisle which must have remained because there was still enough head room to retain the 'Little Gallery over against the South door…. being built at the charges of the young men that had learned to sing Psalms' in 1709.
The present single-storey south porch and vestry were added. In October 1733, the congregation paid for a second wooden gallery over the west door to the tower, to cater for an increasing population. It has since been replaced by the organ.
The newly extended roof over the south aisle had the big disadvantage of blocking the three high- level, southern clerestory windows of the nave, which left the nave in need of more light, particularly near the new public gallery. An 1819 drawing in the British Museum confirms that a larger three-light round-headed window replaced the original smaller 15th century window of which the displaced white clunch stones are still to be seen in the wall. The drawing also shows that the long two-light brick round-headed window, which is still there, was added at a lower level.
The fine medieval tie beams and arch braces of the roof, resting on their stone corbels, were left in place and the heightened roof of the nave allowed the whitewashed Doom, by losing only a few inches of its periphery, to be moved up to its present position in the roof space above the tie beam over the chancel arch. They must have known it was worth keeping.
The Lady Chapel was taken down to window-sill level and rebuilt in brick on the medieval base. There were probably lancet arches between the Lady Chapel and the chancel and the south aisle which were removed at this stage.
© Miles Green, Penn Parish Newsletter No.41, January 2016
Photograph © courtesy of Eddie Morton
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