The second USS Willoughby (AGP-9) was a motor torpedo boat tender that served in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946, seeing service in the later stages of World War II. Transferred to the United States Coast Guard in 1946, she was in commission as the cutter USCGC Gresham (WAVP-387), later WHEC-387 and WAGW-387, from 1947 to 1969 and from 1970 to 1973, seeing service in the Vietnam War during her Coast Guard career.

Construction and commissioning

Willoughby was laid down as a [[Barnegat class seaplane tender|Barnegat-class]] small seaplane tender designated AVP-57 on 15 March 1943 at Houghton, Washington, by Lake Washington Shipyards. She was reclassified as a motor torpedo boat tender and redesignated AGP-9 on 11 May 1943. Launched on 21 August 1943, sponsored by Mrs. D. R. Lee, she was commissioned on 18 June 1944.

United States Navy service

World War II
After fitting out and undergoing sea trials, Willoughby conducted her shakedown out of San Diego, California, from 9 July 1944 to 4 August 1944, exercising in antisubmarine warfare operations and antiaircraft and gunnery drills and running further speed trials. Following a post-shakedown periods in the shipyard at Terminal Island, California, from 5 August 1944 to 11 August 1944, Willoughby shifted to San Francisco, California, where she loaded stores before getting underway on 15 August 1944, bound for Funafuti in the Ellice Islands.

While she was en route, her destination was changed to Manus Island in the Admiralty Islands. Willoughby fueled and took on stores at Tulagi in the Solomon Islands on 1 September 1944 before she reached her destination, Seeadler Harbor, Manus, on 6 September 1944. Her stay there proved brief, however, for she got underway that day, bound for the Padaido Islands.

The voyage to Mios Woendi proved eventful, as Willoughby picked up a sound contact on sonar at 1335 hours on 7 September 1944, distance . Going to general quarters, the ship commenced a run on what, after the executive officer had reported seeing a torpedo wake pass the ship, she believed to be a submarine. At 1342 hours, Willoughby dropped four depth charges and, although she lost contact with the submarine, continued her search of the area. Regaining a slight sound contact at 1512 hours, Willoughby made another run but did not drop depth charges. The ship secured from general quarters at 1632 hours, resumed her voyage, and arrived at Mios Woendi on 8 September 1944.

New Guinea campaignWilloughby tended patrol torpedo boats (PT boats) at Mios Woendi from 9 September 1944 to 12 October 1944. During that time, the New Guinea campaign was gradually coming to an end; PT boats operating from Mios Woendi were finding slimmer pickings to choose from in regard to Japanese barge traffic. All combat patrols from Mios Woendi finally ceased on 16 November 1944 when the Japanese evacuation from New Guinea had been completed.

Philippines campaign

The Leyte campaign beginsWilloughby was part of the burgeoning force of PT boats and their tenders that had grown as the World War II in the Southwest Pacific had progressed. So significant had been the role of PT boats in the island-hopping campaigns that they were slated to take part in supporting the initial landings in the Philippine Islands. Moving the motor torpedo boats from New Guinea to the Philippines, however, presented a problem.

Commander Selman S. Bowling, commanding Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron (MTBRon) 21, considered the voyage too long to be made "in one hop, even if escorted by tenders." The margin of safety for the ships to operate with, once they arrived in the objective area after the long voyage, was deemed unacceptable. Fuel was critical.

Ultimately, the decision was made to route the boats via the recently secured Palau Islands, sending them along with their tenders. Willoughby made up part of this significant movement—described as "the largest and longest mass movement of PT's under their own power during the war"—that began on 13 October 1944, at Mios Woendi.

On that day, Willoughby, in company with motor torpedo boat tenders USS Oyster Bay (AGP-6) (Commander Bowling's flagship) and USS Wachapreague (AGP-8), seaplane tender USS Half Moon (AVP-26), two United States Army craft, and 45 PT boats, sailed for the Palaus on the first leg of their monumental voyage of 1,200 nautical miles (2,222 kilometers). At Naval Base Kossol Roads, the PT boats fueled from the tenders, while the tenders in turn fueled from accompanying oilers. On the second leg of the trip, the PT boats fueled at sea from the tenders, a difficult task but a necessary one if the PT boats were to arrive off Leyte with their fuel tanks full and ready to go.

The PT boats arrived at Leyte Gulf on the morning of 20 October 1944, the first day of the landings on the western beaches of Leyte proper, and commenced patrols that evening. Willoughby steamed to San Pedro Bay, off Leyte, arriving there at 1443 hours on 21 October 1944, and tended the PT boats of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons (MTBRons) 7 and 21 over the ensuing weeks.

On 23 October 1944, Willoughby took on board a man from USS PT-325 who had been wounded by shrapnel during Japanese air attacks that day. On 24 October 1944, heavy Japanese air attacks upon the American invasion forces commenced at 0750 hours; American combat air patrol (CAP) fighters shot down four Japanese twin-engined Mitsubishi G4M "Betty" bombers, one of them attempting a suicide dive into a transport. A few moments later, a formation of "Sally" light bombers came into the area, and a heavy antiaircraft barrage claimed three of them. CAP fighters and antiaircraft fire combined to down most of another mixed group of Japanese planes —- Kawasaki Ki-45 "Nicks," Aichi D3A "Vals," and a Mitsubishi Ki-46 "Dinah" that attacked subsequently.Willoughby gunners claimed two planes downed—this was reduced to one the next day—and one of the planes she damaged crashed into and sank a nearby landing craft infantry (LCI). Willoughby brought on board five of the LCI's survivors and saw a kamikaze crash into the ocean-going tug USS Sonoma (ATO-12). During the day, Willoughby stood at general quarters at one point for a stretch of six and one-half hours.

Japanese air attacks enlivened the next day, 25 October 1944, as well. During that 24-hour span, Willoughby was at general quarters for 11 and one-half hours. She also shot down one Japanese plane.

The Battle of Leyte Gulf
Meanwhile, major Japanese naval forces were approaching the Philippines from three directions. The Japanese southern force was heading through the Sulu Sea in the direction of Surigao Strait, their central force was crossing the Sibuyan Sea toward the San Bernardino Strait, and a northern force of Japanese aircraft carriers was north of Luzon, hoping to lure the American Fast Carrier Task Force away from Leyte Gulf.

For the first time since the 1942 fighting off Guadalcanal, the opposing sides arrayed battleships against one another. Rear Admiral Jesse B. Oldendorf deployed his forces across the northern end of Surigao Strait. Thirty-nine of the 45 PT boats that had come from Mios Woendi and made the long voyage via the Palaus deployed in sections of three boats each, strung out through the straits and along the coasts of Mindanao, Leyte, and Bohol, into the Mindanao Sea, to detect and report on the enemy's approach.

In the Battle of Surigao Strait that followed, the PT boats played a significant role. "The skill, determination, and courage displayed by the personnel of these small boats is worthy of the highest praise," reported Admiral Chester W. Nimitz subsequently. "Their contact reports," he continued, "as well as the firing and illumination they drew from the enemy, gave ample warning to our own main body; and, while the issue of the later main engagement was never in doubt, the PT's action very probably threw the Japanese command off balance and contributed to the completeness of their subsequent defeat."

All boats attached to Willoughby participated in that important encounter, while the tender herself remained at San Pedro Bay. The battle was just one part of the larger Battle of Leyte Gulf of 23 October 1944 – 26 October 1944, in which the Imperial Japanese Navy suffered a crushing defeat.

The Leyte campaign concludes
In ensuing days, Willoughby experienced Japanese air attacks at odd intervals during daylight hours. On the morning of 27 October 1944, one of her boats came under attack by Japanese planes, when a Mitsubishi A6M Zero (or "Zeke") dropped a fragmentation bomb off the bow of USS PT-152. Two men died and eight were wounded; the boat subsequently pulled next to Willoughby and transferred the dead and wounded to the tender.

Also while at San Pedro Bay, Willoughby experienced a storm of typhoon intensity on 30 October 1944. During that spell of heavy weather, the storm carried away one of the ship's motor launches, but it was later recovered. The ship herself suffered no damage.

From 31 October 1944 to 12 November 1944, Willoughby experienced daily air raids. On 5 November 1944, Japanese planes scored a direct hit on USS PT-320, moored off the tender's starboard bow, demolishing the boat and killing nearly the entire crew; only one man survived. A week later, on 12 November 1944, a flight of suicide aircraft attacked; while Willoughby herself was not touched, she witnessed kamikazes crash into landing craft repair ships USS Egeria (ARL-8) and USS Achilles (ARL-41).Willoughby and her sister ship Wachapreague retired from Leyte on 13 November 1944 and arrived at Mios Woendi on 16 November. On 17 and 18 November 1944, the motor torpedo boat tenders loaded stores and supplies. Later, in company with motor torpedo boat tender USS Pontus (AGP-20), Wachapreague, seven Army crash boats and 41 PT boats, Willoughby departed New Guinea and proceeded vai Kossol Roads back to the Philippines, in a repeat performance of the previous mass movement of PT boats from New Guinea to that strategic archipelago. After servicing the PT boats en route, at Kossol Roads, on 23 November 1944, Willoughby steamed into Leyte Gulf, arriving late on 27 November 1944.

The tender manned her general quarters stations when a large American task force nearby – composed of battleships, cruisers, and destroyers – underwent a Japanese air attack. Shells from friendly ships fell "perilously near" Willoughby, but she emerged unscathed as the force repulsed the Japanese raid.

The Luzon campaign
Shifting to Espiritu Santo soon thereafter, Willoughby picked up necessary spare parts vital to the continued operation of PT boats in the Philippine Islands on 4 January 1945 and departed for the Treasury Islands on 5 January 1945, where she picked up more spare parts after her arrival on 8 January 1945. She continued loading operations at Green Island, Emirau Island, and Manus before returning to the Philippines, anchoring in San Juanico Strait on 18 January 1945.

Over the next three days, Willoughby unloaded the vital spares that had been gathered on the recently completed voyage. She then steamed to Mangarin Bay, off Mindoro Island, towing a fuel barge and a small pontoon drydock, and in company with 25 Army tugs escorted by two destroyer escorts, and arrived there on 31 January 1945. En route, on 27 January 1945, she spotted a Japanese plane, but it did not attack the convoy.Willoughby was at Mindoro only briefly. Underway soon thereafter, she took the kamikaze-damaged destroyer USS Gansevoort (DD-608) in tow. Since no other vessels were available to tow the crippled destroyer, Willoughby drew that special duty and pulled the ship to San Pedro Bay, arriving on 5 February 1945. Willoughby then resumed tending PT boats at San Pedro Bay on 6 February 1945.Willoughby, carrying the personnel of MTBRons 20 and 30, departed Leyte on 19 February 1945 in a Mindoro-bound convoy with 25 landing ships tank (LSTs), 15 landing ships medium (LSMs), nine LCIs, seven motor minesweepers (YMS), a patrol craft (PC), a small coastal transport (APC), and three submarine chasers (SC). On the morning of 21 February 1945, the Japanese submarine  torpedoed destroyer , one of the convoy's escorts. The torpedo struck the destroyer's forward fire room, leaving her dead in the water. Destroyer  stayed behind to protect the crippled Renshaw while the convoy proceeded. Ultimately, a tug, dispatched from Leyte, brought the crippled Renshaw into port.

The Palawan campaignWilloughby meanwhile arrived at Mangarin Bay, Mindoro, on 23 February 1945 to prepare for the imminent invasion of Palawan, in the southern Philippine Islands. On 27 February 1945, Willoughby weighed anchor and set out for Palawan with a convoy of 19 LST's and 21 PT boats, escorted by four destroyers. On 28 February 1945, units of the 8th Army went ashore on Palawan, the westernmost major island in the Philippine archipelago. On 1 March 1945, Willoughby and her charges from MTBRons 20 and 23 arrived off Palawan at Puerto Princesa and began operations. The invading troops of the 8th Army found little opposition awaiting them ashore, and the PT's, patrolling the length of the island, found no Japanese forces afloat.

Off the southern tip of Palawan, however, the PT boats found a small Japanese garrison on the island of Pandanan. The boats repeatedly strafed the Japanese positions, encountering a volume of fire that was initially heavy but that later slackened and finally disappeared. Late in April 1945, a landing party went ashore and found that the Japanese had evacuated. Thus, at the end of April 1945, the PT boats ceased patrols off Palawan.

The Borneo campaign
Relieved by the motor torpedo boat tender  at Puerto Princessa on 30 April 1945, Willoughby weighed anchor and sailed for Samar, arriving at PT Base 17 on 2 May 1945. She spent the next eight days steaming to various points in Leyte Gulf, taking on stores in preparation for the expected invasion of Brunei Bay in British North Borneo.Willoughby returned to Mangarin Bay in company with five merchant ships and two destroyer escorts and then spent the period from 13 May 1945 to 4 June 1945 off Mindoro, tending MTBRons 13 and 16, preparing for the North Borneo operation to come. The tender got underway on 5 June 1945 and on 6 June 1945 arrived at Puerto Princessa, where the PT boats refueled and underwent minor repairs.Willoughby weighed anchor on 7 June 1945 and headed for Brunei Bay, rendezvousing in Balabac Strait on 8 June 1945 with the Brunei assault force, and continued in company with those warships for the remainder of the voyage toward her objective. Meanwhile, on 9 June 1945, four of her PT boats – USS PT-78, USS PT-81, USS PT-82, and USS PT-84—patrolled the invasion area.

On 10 June 1945, the Australian 9th Division moved ashore at Brunei Bay and pushed inland. Willoughby arrived at Brunei Bay that day and went to general quarters at 0615 hours in preparation for the assault phase of the strikes on Labuan Island, Muara Island, and Pelumpong Split. Shortly thereafter, a lone Japanese plane attacked the formation to which Willoughby was attached and dropped two bombs which splashed into the water without causing any damage.Willoughby tended MTBRons 13 and 16 in Brunei Bay until August 1945. Early in June, the ship experienced several air raid alerts, and three enemy planes actually entered the area on 14 June 1945. In the meantime, ashore, the Australians were encountering heavy resistance from the Japanese on Labuan Island. The PT boats supporting the campaign destroyed a  sailing vessel and six barges during the first phase of the landings and then ran out of targets afloat. They then machine-gunned and mortared Japanese positions, and at times conducted joint strikes with Royal Australian Air Force planes at Jesselton, Miri, and Kudat, three Japanese-held oil centers on North Borneo.

During her time at Brunei Bay, Willoughby shifted her anchorage on 10 July 1945, moving to a spot off Muara Island, the site of the newly established PT boat base. She remained there for the rest of the war. She lay at Muara Island on 15 August 1945 when word reached her that the Japanese had decided to accept the terms of the Potsdam Declaration. Simultaneously, offensive operations by MTBRons 13 and 16 ceased.Willoughby earned three battle stars for her World War II service

Post-World War II
On 24 August 1945, Willoughby got underway for Mindanao to take on a cargo of diesel fuel and arrived at Zamboanga on 26 August 1945. During her passage, she sighted a Japanese horned-type naval mine and destroyed it with gunfire. Willoughby returned to Muara Island at the end of August 1945, encountering en route on 28 August 1945 and sinking another stray Japanese naval mine.

From 30 August 1945 to 8 September 1945, Willoughby tended PT boats off Muara Island before she embarked 38 officers and 318 enlisted men of the Australian 9th Division and loaded 50 tons of supplies on 9 September 1945, at nearby Labuan Island. She got underway on 10 September 1945, bound for Tanjong Po, off the mouth of the Sarawak River. En route, she rendezvoused with six PT boats, which she accompanied for the rest of the passage.

Making arrival on 11 September 1945, 180 troops disembarked from Willoughby and went on board five of the PT boats. The sixth PT boat embarked Captain W. C. Jennings, Commander J. P. Engle, USNR, and Lieutenant Commander A. W. Fargo, USNR, three American naval officers who had been invited to attend the surrender of Japanese forces in North Borneo. Soon, the six PT boats and the Australian corvette HMAS Kapunda headed upriver.

Although the surrender ceremonies had been set for 1400 hours on board Kapunda, the Japanese commander, Major-General Hiyoe Yamamura, reported that he was indisposed to attend. Ordered to show up, however, Yamamura arrived at 1500 hours. The surrender was signed, and the Japanese left Kapunda, at 1600 hours. The six PT boats then proceeded on to Kuching on the Sarawak River and put ashore the first Australian occupation troops.

The next morning, 12 September 1945, Willoughby disembarked the remaining Australian troops to the PT boats and unloaded the 50 tons of stores into two Landing craft tank (LCTs) brought to Tanjong Po for that purpose. On 13 September 1945, 210 former Allied prisoners of war and internees kept at Batu Lintang camp near Kuching embarked in Willoughby. Among the men transferred were two American POWs, enlisted men who had been captured by the Japanese after their ship, the heavy cruiser USS Houston (CA-30, had been sunk in Sunda Strait on 1 March 1942 during the Battle of Sunda Strait. Several stretcher cases went on board the Australian hospital ship Manunda, anchored off Tanjong Po.

Underway on the afternoon of 13 September 1945, Willoughby and her PT boats headed for Labuan Island and, upon her arrival there on the evening of 14 September 1945, discharged all evacuees. Willoughby subsequently made two additional voyages to Kuching, each time transporting Australian troops and relief supplies on the inbound passage and taking out former prisoners of war and internees on the return trip. She made her last visit to Tanjong Po on 23 September 1945, returning to Brunei Bay and anchoring at her usual berth off Muara Island late on 24 September 1945.Willoughby subsequently returned via the Philippine Islands to the United States West Coast, arriving at the Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, in early December 1945 for temporary duty there in connection with the repair of vessels at the yard. She continued that duty into 1946.

In the meantime, the United States Coast Guard inspected Willoughby for suitability for use as a weather ship. After Willoughby was classified as "not essential to the defense of the U.S.," she was decommissioned on 26 June 1946 and was simultaneously turned over to the Coast Guard at Government Island, Oakland, California. Her name was struck from the Navy List on 19 July 1946.

United States Coast Guard serviceBarnegat-class ships were very reliable and seaworthy and had good habitability, and the Coast Guard viewed them as ideal for ocean station duty, in which they would perform weather reporting and search and rescue tasks, once they were modified by having a balloon shelter added aft and having oceanographic equipment, an oceanographic winch, and a hydrographic winch installed. After World War II, the Navy transferred 18 of the ships to the Coast Guard, in which they were known as the Casco-class cutters.

After undergoing conversion for use as a weather-reporting ship, the former Willoughby was commissioned into Coast Guard service as USCGC Gresham (WAVP-387) – the third ship of the U.S. Coast Guard or its predecessor, the United States Revenue Cutter Service, to bear the name – on 1 December 1947. During her Coast Guard career, Greshams primary duty was to serve on weather stations in the Pacific Ocean to gather meteorological data. While on duty in one of these stations, she was required to patrol a 210-square-mile (544-square-kilometer) area for three weeks at a time, leaving the area only when physically relieved by another Coast Guard cutter or in the case of a dire emergency. While on station, she acted as an aircraft check point at the point of no return, a relay point for messages from ships and aircraft, as a source of the latest weather information for passing aircraft, as a floating oceanographic laboratory, and as a search-and-rescue ship for downed aircraft and vessels in distress, and engaged in law enforcement operations. She also served on the Bering Sea Patrol, took part in United States Coast Guard Reserve training cruises, and participated in the U.S. Navy's underway refresher training program to ensure her readiness to support military operations.

Pacific service, 1947–1967

Upon commissioning in 1947, Gresham was assigned to the 12th Coast Guard District, with her home port at Alameda, California. Her first ocean station patrol was at Ocean Station Fox, and began with her departure for the patrol on 26 March 1948. For the next few months she conducted naval mine and coastal patrols and served on Ocean Station Fox and Ocean Station Able.

During July 1949, Gresham was among the ships patrolling the Transpacific Yacht Race from Los Angeles, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii. On 9 September 1949 she assisted the British merchant ship SS Pacific Enterprise, which had run aground two nautical miles (3.7 kilometers) north of the Point Arena Light Station in thick fog.

On 8 January 1950 Gresham was assigned to Ocean Station Peter in the Pacific; cutter USCGC Winnebago (WPG-40) relieved her on 29 January 1950. Later in 1950 she served on Ocean Station Nan and Ocean Station Oboe.

In 1951 Gresham served on Ocean Station Uncle and Ocean Station Sugar. On 16 June 1951 the cutter USCGC Chautauqua (WPG-41) relieved her on Ocean Station Sugar, and she proceeded to Yokosuka, Japan. She repeated the cruise from Ocean Station Sugar to Yokosuka in March 1952 and February 1954.

On 22 May 1955, Gresham assisted the merchant ship SS David Thompson, which was adrift in the Pacific. During July 1955 she again escorted the Transpacific Yacht Race.

After several more weather patrols, Gresham departed Alameda on 13 August 1956, for Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, via Port Angeles, Washington, on a U.S. Coast Guard Reserve training cruise. On 30 September 1956, she was relieved from Ocean Station November by cutter USCGC Pontchartrain (WPG-70). On 17 October 1956, Pontchartrain rescued passengers of Pan American World Airways Flight 6, the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser Sovereign of the Skies, which had ditched in the eastern Pacific during a flight from Honolulu to San Francisco, California; Gresham left Alameda and rendezvoused with Pontchartrain at San Francisco Light Station on 19 October 1956 as Pontchartrain  brought in the rescued passengers.

Tragedy struck Gresham on 17 December 1958 while she was relieving the cutter USCGC Klamath (WPG-66) on Ocean Station Romeo. The ships were in a line-ahead formation with Gresham  ahead of Klamath  and transferring mail to Klamath when a large wave engulfed Greshams quarterdeck, injuring 11 enlisted men, inflicting a severe head injury on Ensign George T. Bergman, and washing Bergman overboard. The cutters could not recover Bergman.

During 1959 and 1960, Gresham served on Ocean Station November seven times. During this period, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Henry Cabot Lodge, arranged for Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to tour San Francisco Bay while Khrushchev was visiting San Francisco during his September 1959 state visit to the United States. Gresham was in port at Alameda at the time, and was chosen to carry Khrushchev on his tour of the bay.Gresham continued her duties on Ocean Station November throughout the next few years. On 1 May 1966, she was reclassified as a high endurance cutter and redesignated WHEC-387.

Vietnam War service, 1967–1968Gresham departed San Francisco for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on 16 April 1967 under the command of Commander Norman L. Scherer, USCG. Upon her arrival in Hawaii, Gresham became flagship of Coast Guard Squadron Three, which was designated Task Unit 70.8.6. Captain John E. Day, commander of the squadron, hoisted his flag aboard Gresham upon activation of the squadron on 24 April 1967.

Coast Guard Squadron Three was tasked to operate in conjunction with U.S. Navy forces in Operation Market Time, the interdiction of North Vietnamese arms and munitions traffic along the coastline of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The squadrons other Vietnam War duties included fire support for ground forces, resupplying Coast Guard and Navy patrol boats, and search-and-rescue operations. Serving in the squadron with Gresham were the cutters , ,  and ; like Gresham, they all were Casco-clas cutters and former Navy Barnegat-class ships. They departed Pearl Harbor on 26 April 1967 and reported to Commander, United States Seventh Fleet, for Market Time duty on 4 May 1967. They were joined by U.S. Navy radar picket destroyer escorts (DERs) of Escort Squadrons 5 and 7.

The ten Market Time ships arrived at Subic Bay in the Philippines on 10 May 1967. The five Coast Guard cutters and five Navy destroyer escorts continuously manned four Market Time stations off Vietnam, while only Navy warships served on two Taiwan patrol stations. One ship rotated duty as the station ship in Hong Kong. Gresham remained in the Western Pacific until 28 January 1968 and arrived home at Alameda on 10 February 1968.

Pacific service, 1968–1969Gresham made her final patrol in the Pacific when she served on Ocean Station November in September 1969. On the night of 23 September 1969 she went to the assistance of the  containerized cargo ship SS Hawaiian Legislator, which had lost power in her main propulsion gear and was adrift approximately  south of Greshams position. After rendezvousing first with the U.S. Navy ammunition ship  to transfer a Coast Guardsman with appendicitis for transport to San Francisco, Gresham went to the aid of Hawaiian Legislator and took her under tow towards San Pedro, California. On 26 September 1969 she turned the tow over to a commercial tug and then set course for San Francisco. She moored at Government Island, Alameda, on 30 September 1969. She was then deactivated and placed in reserve.

Atlantic service, 1970–1973

In January 1970 Gresham was reactivated and transferred to the United States East Coast, assigned a new home port at Norfolk, Virginia. She was assigned the duty of establishing a new weather station, Ocean Station Hotel, approximately  northeast of Norfolk and deemed necessary to report critical weather data necessary to improve storm-warning forecasts for the northeastern United States after winter storms in 1969 shut down large areas there; the new XERB-1 weather buoy also was tested at Ocean Station November for use by Gresham at Ocean Station Hotel.Gresham arrived at Norfolk on 7 February 1970 and established Ocean Station Hotel on 20 February 1970. On 27 February 1970 she redesignated as a Meteorological Cutter WAGW-387 and fitted with a special storm-tracking radar system housed in a distinctive bulbous dome fitted atop her pilot house.

The cutter  replaced Gresham on Ocean Station Hotel early in 1973.

Decommissioning and disposalGresham was decommissioned on 25 April 1973. She was transferred to the Maritime Administration on 21 May 1973 for lay-up in the James River in Virginia. She was sold for scrapping on 25 October 1973 to B. V. Intershitra of Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Notes

References

 Department of the Navy Naval Historical Center Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS Willoughby (AGP-9, originally AVP-57), 1944-1946
 NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive USS Willoughby (AVP-57) (AGP-9) USCGC Gresham (WAVP-387) (WHEC-387) (WAGW-387)
 United States Coast Guard Historians Office Gresham, 1947 AGP-9; AVP-57; WAVP / WHEC / WAGW-387 ex-USS Willoughby Radio call sign: NODB
United States Coast Guard Historian's Office: Mackinac, 1949 WHEC-371
 Chesneau, Roger. Conways All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. New York: Mayflower Books, Inc., 1980. .
Gardiner, Robert. Conway's All the Worlds Fighting Ships 1947–1982, Part I: The Western Powers''. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1983. .

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World War II auxiliary ships of the United States
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USS Willoughby has been the name of more than one United States Navy ship, and may refer to:

 , a patrol vessel in commission from 1918 to 1919
 USS Willoughby (AVP-57), a seaplane tender laid down in 1943 but converted into the motor torpedo tender  prior to completion
 , a motor torpedo boat tender in commission from 1944 to 1946

United States Navy ship names


W.O.S. Thorne, more generally known as Oakleigh Thorne (July 31, 1866 − May 23, 1948), was an American businessperson, a publisher of tax guides, a banker, and a philanthropist. Among his early ventures were the consolidation of brickyards on the Hudson River, and later he was president of the National Switch and Signal Company and Westinghouse Electric's vice president. In 1900 he came to New York City as vice president of the International Banking and Trust Company, becoming president. That company became the Trust Company of America, of which Thorne was serving as president. He helped the company survive a bank run during the Panic of 1907, securing the backing of J. Pierpont Morgan and European sources. He served as a director of Wells Fargo & Company from 1902 to 1918. In addition to his connection with Commerce Clearing House, Wells Fargo, and the Trust Company of America, Thorne was a director of the Corporation Trust Company and of the Bank of Millbrook. After purchasing Briarcliff Farms in 1918, he became a breeder of champion Angus cattle. He was inducted into the Angus Heritage Foundation Hall of Fame in 1934.

Early life and education
Oakleigh Thorne was born on July 31, 1866, in New Hamburg, New York, the son of Edward Thomas Thorne and Charlotte (Pearsall) Thorne. He is of the fourth generation of a family that settled in Dutchess County in 1785, making his family's ancestors "among the earliest settlers within the [state of New York]." The founder of the American branch of Thorne's family had settled first in Massachusetts and then in Long Island. Inheriting a considerable fortune from his parents, Thorne was educated in the schools of Poughkeepsie, New York. While studying he took in active interest in the politics of Poughkeepsie, and at one time was the president of the village of Millbrook, New York.

Career

1890s-1911: Early ventures
In 1892, Thorne purchased a small printing company that under his management became Commerce Clearing House, a major publisher of tax guides for lawyers and accountants. One of Thorne's early ventures was the consolidation of several brickyards on the Hudson River. Later he was president of the Easton, Pennsylvania, company National Switch and Signal Company.  As of January 1894, Thorne remained president of the National Switch and Signal Company. When that company was acquired by the Union Switch and Signal Company of Westinghouse Electric, he became Westinghouse Electric's vice president.

Thorne was elected a director of Wells Fargo & Company on January 2, 1902. This was at the time control of the express company passed to E.H. Harriman; the company headquarters moved from San Francisco to New York City in 1904. Thorne remained a director of Wells Fargo until the company ceased express service in 1918. In addition to his connection with Commerce Clearing House, Wells Fargo, and Trust Company of America, Thorne was a director of the Corporation Trust Company and of the Bank of Millbrook. In September 1911, Thorne did not deny reports that he wanted to run for Congress in the 21st District as a Republican in the fall, possibly running against Hamilton Fish.

On November 5, 1908, a court case commenced in which Thorne was sued by lawyer John W. Herbert over $83,400, who alleged that Thorne had presented false and fraudulent information about stock value, leading to Herbert's investment in the International Fire Engine Company. The case was dismissed on November 13, with the judge noting that there was no evidence to show that Thorne's earlier assessment of value had been incorrect.

1900-1912: Trust Company of America
He was 34 years old when he came to New York at vice president of the International Banking and Trust Company, in 1900. Several months later the company appointed him president. When that company was merged with the North American Trust Company, Thorne became the latter's vice president and later president. He was president of the North American Trust Company until it merged in 1904, becoming part of the Trust Company of America. Thorne was serving as president of Trust Company of America when its main office on Wall Street was the target of a bank run starting on Wednesday, October 23, 1907, during the Panic of 1907. It survived, with the backing of J. Pierpont Morgan and an infusion of gold from the Bank of England and other European sources. Thorne remained president until the Trust Company of America was absorbed by the Equitable Trust Company in the spring of 1912. When he retired from the Trust Company of America, Thorne spent $500,000 purchasing the Corporation Trust Company of New Jersey. He explained he made the purchase to provide employment to the men who had stood by him during the 1907 run on the bank, as many of them lost their jobs when the Trust Company of America merged with the Equitable Trust.

1906-1914: Railroad and real estate speculation
Expanding into the realm of railroad speculation, Thorne and his partner Marsden J. Perry bought up a controlling interest in the failing New York, Westchester and Boston Railway in 1906. In November 1906, after a long franchise fight, the New York & Port Chester Railroad and the New York, Westchester & Boston Railroad agreed to consolidate. "Absolute" control of both roads passed to Thorne and Marsden J. Perry. The Times reported that both had been directors in Westchester with controlling interests, and that Thorne had possibly secured a directorship with the opposition with the goal of securing the merger. Thorne was president of the Milbrook Company, which was organized as the holding company of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. The Milbrook Company then sold on October 29, 1907, by Thorne and Marsden. The merger resulted in a lawsuit by a banker with interest in the companies, seeking an injunction against the merger in late 1906. On January 10, 1908, after New Haven took over the holdings in the Westchester and Port Chester Railroads owned by Perry and Thorne, an injunction was uphold stalling Port Chester's purchase. In a formal statement issued on March 9, 1914, Thorne confirmed that he had accepted $8,250,000 from J. P. Morgan & Co. to purchase the New Haven Road, with the money used to purchase the securities of the New York, Westchester & Boston and New York & Port Chester Railroads. He had also purchased their construction companies and the developments, and upon the cancellation of his contract, Thorne turned over all the acquired assets to J. P. Morgan & Co.

In March 1913, Thorne and William H. Chesebrough purchased the corners at the northwest corner of State and Whitehall Streets on Long Island, with plans to build a skyscraper for use as an office building.

1918-1930s: Agricultural career
On October 9, 1918, it was announced that Thorne had purchased Briarcliff Farms at Pine Plains, New York At the time, the property had 4,200 acres and had a herd of around 1,000 cows. That year Thorne changed careers to focus on developing Briarcliff, which was originally a dairy farm that used for beef cattle production. He then served as chairman of the Better Beef Association, leading efforts to establish grades on market beef in 1927. He became president of the American Angus Association, from 1929 to 1931.

He started winning various divisional awards for his steer at the International Live Stock Exposition in 1924. He became the first to win the grand championship at the International Live Stock Exposition twice, in 1931 and 1933 in the Chicago stock yards. His winning steer the first time was a black Aberdeen Angus steer named Briarcliff Thickset. He was inducted into the Angus Heritage Foundation Hall of Fame in 1934.

Philanthropy
Thorne dedicated the garden and village green of Millbrook, landscaped by his wife, as a memorial to the men of Washington, New York, who died in the World Wars. Although not Catholic, Thorne was a close friend of Patrick Cardinal Hayes, and in 1940 he gave the Chancellor Estate in Millbrook to the Archdiocese of New York to serve as a memorial to Hayes and a convalescent home for children. On May 16, 1947, it became public that Thorne had contributed $50,000 to the St. Francis Hospital building fund, of which he was general chairman. Thorne had long been a contributor to the hospital, having contributed to the addition of the Thorne wing in 1919.

Personal life
A "crack shot" in pigeon shooting, he won the international pigeon-shooting match for the Gun Club International Cup in England in July 1892, as one of three Americans out of 69 competitors. On February 26, 1889, he married Helen Seymour Stafford. His marriage ceremony was described by the Times as "brilliant," taking place at Christ Church in St. Louis with many New Yorkers in attendance. Thorne's brother, Thomas Thorne, served as best man. The couple went on to have three daughters. In February 1909, he entertained for 24 friends at Delmonico's in New York, with professional vaudeville entertainment for the dinner. The Times reported that "it was said that [the event] was one of the most elaborate small affairs that had been given [at Delmonico's] this season."

In 1916, Thorne ceased living at his home town at Park Avenue and 73 Street to live full-time in Millbrook, New York at his Thornedale estate with his family, which remained the family's principal place of residence as of 1950.  A number of incidents at Thornedale reached the press, and in July 1916, Thorne was rushed from Thornedale to a hospital in Poughkeepsie to have an operation for appendicitis. With Thorne recovering from his operation at Thornedale, in early August 1916, two large barns on the Thornedale estate were burned, with the fires put out by the Millbrook Fire Department. When Mrs. Thorne received information that new fires were to be started, she hired a force of detectives to guard every building on the estate. In August 1919, Thorne had his ex-butler arrested on the charge of writing annoying letters to his daughter. Thornedale was robbed of silverware in July 1922 while the Thorne family slept, the second time it was robbed that year. On October 21, 1922, residents of Millbrook held a hunt ball at the Sunny Croft estate of Frederick Chesebrough, in honor of Thorne and his wife, with Thorne dubbed master of hounds. The event marked the official opening of the hunting season.

Thorne died on May 23, 1948, in New York's Doctors Hospital at the age of 81. His death was attributed to shock, after he broke his leg a week earlier at a fall at Thornedale. The funeral service was held on May 25 at Thornedale. He was survived by his wife Helen and two daughters; Mrs. Philip S. Chancellor and Mrs. Daryl Parshall. Helen Thorne died in California in November 1952. Thorne has a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and his great-grandson Oakleigh Thorne was #1014 on Forbes' 2008 list of the world's billionaires.

References

Further reading

1866 births
1948 deaths
Wells Fargo
Businesspeople from Poughkeepsie, New York
North American Trust Company people
Trust Company of America people


Lawn bowls at the 1968 Summer Paralympics consisted of four events.

Medal summary

References

1968 Summer Paralympics events
1968
Paralympics


Jeton Kelmendi (born 1978 in Peja, Kosovo) is an academic, Albanian journalist, poet, translator, university professor and political analyst.

Early career
Jeton Kelmendi completed elementary school in his birthplace. Later he continued his studies at the University of Pristina and received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Mass communication. He completed his graduate studies at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, specializing in International and Security Studies. He finished his second master's degree in diplomacy. Kelmendi did a PhD in the "Influence of media in EU Political Security Issues". He is professor at AAB University College. He is active member of the European Academy of Science and Arts in Salzburg Austria. For many years he has written poetry, prose, essays and short stories.

Career
His poems are translated in more than 37 languages and published in several international literature anthologies. He is the most translated Albanian poet and well known in Europe. According to a number of literary critics, Kelmendi is the genuine representative of modern Albanian poetry. International critics and poets wrote for him a lot of article, considering him as great European poet. He is a member of many international poetry clubs and is a contributor to many literary and cultural magazines, in different Languages around the world. The wisdom of his work in the field of Literature is based in the attention that he pays to the poetic expression, modern exploration of the text and the depth of the message.  His Genre is focused more on love lyrics and elliptical verse intertwined with metaphors and artistic symbolism. Currently resides and works in Brussels, Belgium and in Pristina, Kosovo.

 Jeton Kelmendi has some poems dedicated to important Albanian personalities as Mother Teresa (Living Beyond Herself), and Ibrahim Rugova (The Winter Of Great Despair).

Published works
 The Century Promises (title of the original: Shekulli i Premtimeve), 1999 (poetry)
 Beyond Silence (Përtej Heshtjes), 2002 (poetry)
 If it is afternoon (Në qoftë mesditë), 2004 (poetry)
 Fatherland pardon me (Më fal pak Atdhe), 2005 (poetry)
 Where are the arrivals going (Ku shkojnë ardhjet), 2007 (poetry)
 You arrived for the traces of wind (Erdhe për gjurme te erës, 2008) (poetry)
  Time when it has time (Koha kurë të ketë kohë), 2009 (poetry)
 Wandering thoughts (Rrugëtimi i mendimeve), 2010 poetry
 The baptize of spirit (Pagezimi I shpirtit), 2012 poetry
 I call forgotten things (Thërras gjëtar e harruara) 2013 poetry.
 Another coming (Një ardhje tjetër) 2020 poetry

Published plays
 The Madam Word (Zonja Fjalë), 2007 (Drama)
 Play and anti-play (Lojë dhe kundër lojë), 2011 (Drama)

Translations

 1.     Plagët e bukurisë by Athanase Vantchev de Thracy (France), translated from French together with Gjovalin Kola
 2.     Hijet e dritës by Skënder Sherifi (Belgium), translated from French.
 3.     Gjuha e botës (International Poetry Antholgy) (10 poets from 10 countries) translated from English and French.
 4.     Sheshi i shikimeve (International Poetry Anthology) (13 poets from 13 countries) translated from English.
 5.     E di kush je by Erling Kittelsen (Norwey), translated from English.
 6.    Emrimi i gjërave by Zhang Zhi Diablo (Chine), translated from English.
 7.    Vetmia e erës by Bill Wolak (USA), translated from English.
 8.    Trokas në mendjen tënde by Alicja Kuberska, Poland, translated from English.
 9.    Tingujt e Mendimeve by Lee Kuei-shien, Taiwan. Translated from English.
 10.   Kam mësuar ca gjëra by Ataol Behramoglu, Istambul. Translated from English.
 11.   Pakti im – Testament by Ernesto Kahan, Telaviv, translated from English.
 12.   Rreth dy botëve by Maria Miraglia, Italy, translated from English.
 13. Destinacioni by Fernando Rendon (Kandidat NOBEL), translated from English.
 14. Amplituda e probabiliteteve nga Laura Garavaglia, translated from English and French.
 15. Rreth dy botëve, by Maria Miraglia, translated from English.
 16.  Regjister i shkruar nga domethënia by Tendai Rinos Mwanaka, translated from English.
 17.  Pyllezimi- Dystopia by Saso Ognanovski, translated from English.
 18.  Vargu i thyer (Broken string), by Maria Samiero do Barroso, translated from English.
 19.  The waight of wish by Luan Maloku, translated from Albanian to English.
 20.  I feel you so close by Luan Maloku, translated from Albanian to English.
 21.  Anthem of quiet thoughts by Bujatr Tafa, translated from Albanian to English.
 22.  Thoughts hunt the loves by Jeton Kelmendi, translated from Albanian to English.
 23.  Genocide by Ernesto Kahan and Taiko Youriko, translated from English to Albanian.
 24.  Twenty years silence by Bora Balaj, novel translated from Albanian to English.
 25.  Nuk kam kohe per enderra by Maria Miraglia, translated from English to Albanian.
 26.  Biblioteka e shpirtit by Rahim Karim Karimov, translated from English to Albanian.
 27.  Ndermjetesi i mendimeve by Erling Kittelsen, translated from English to Albanian.
 28.  Parajsa nuk eshte nje ordike by Chris Lawrence, translated from English to Albanian.
 29.  On Syndays do not call me by Lulzim Tafa, translated from Albanian to English.
 30.  Mergimi dhemb by Julio Pavanetti,, translated from English to Albanian.
 31.  Himni i dashurisë by Metin Cengiz, translated from English to Albanian.
 32.  Fotoja e errësirës by Umid Najjari, ranslated from English to Albanian.
 33.  Thirsty time by Engjell I. Berisha, translated from Albanian to English.
 34.  Cdo ëndërr ofron dy pasyra by Bill Wolak, transmated from English.
 35.  Një sfinks guri by Claudia Piccinno, translated from English.
 36.  Pezazhet e brendshme by Nicole Laurent-Caterice, translated from French to Albanian.
 37.  Simfonia e papërfunduar by Duan Guang’an, translated from English to Albanian.
 38.  Love finds itself everywhere by Jeton Kelmendi, trzanslated from Albanian to English by Jeton Kelmendi.
 39.  Drita e ditëve të zakonshme by Kristine Doll, translated from English to Albanian
 40.  Autoportret i vargut by Laure Cambau, translated from French to Albanian
 41.  Lirë për tëjetur by Elisabette Bagli, translated from English to Albanian.

Published books in foreign languages
"Ce mult s-au rãrit scrisorile" ("Sa fortë janë rralluar letrat"); published in Romanian Language.
"A respiration" ("Frymëmarrje"); published in India
"Dame parol," drama; published in French
"Comme le commencement est silencieux"  ("When start the silence"), poetry; Paris, France poetry; Paris, France
"ΠΟΥ ΠΑΝΕ ΟΙ ΕΡΧΟΜΟΙ ("Where go the comings"), Poetry in Greek; Greece
 "Wie wollen ("Si me dashtë"), poetry; Germany
Frau Wort (Miss word) drama Germany.
A Palavra Evitou o Silêncio/(Words croses the silence) 2009, Brazil
Nasil sevmeli (Si me dashtë) poetry Turkey
НА ВЕРХІВ’Ї ЧАСУ (In the beginning of time) poetry Ukraine.
How to reach yourself  Poetry in USA
в зените времени истлевшего (A vers on top of the time gone) Poetry Russia
34首封面 (34 poemus) poetry China.
"فواصل للحذف " (Elliptical dots) Poetry in Egypt.
Pensamientos del Alma (Thoughts of the spirit), poetry Spain 2014.
Xewnên di dîwêr de (How to love) poetry Kudristan-Turkey 2015
Cómo Llegar A Ti Mismo (How to love) poetry Argentina 2015
Com Retrobar-Se (How to love) poetry Catalonia 2015
Prescurtarea departarilor (Shortening distances), poetry Romania, 2016
Rănile cuvântului (Plagët e fjalës) poetry Moldavia 2018
思想狩獵愛 (Thoughts Hunt the Loves) poetry Taiwan 2018.
wybrane wiersze (Selected poems) Poetry in Polish, Poland 2018.
Düsünceye götüren misralar (How to know) Turkish Turkey 2018.
ДИВЉА ЋУТАЊА (Wild silence) Serbian, Serbia Belgrade 2018.
Daba Ljubavi (Eatg of love) Montenegrin, Montenegro Podgorica 2018.
Cудбински простор (destiny space) poetry, Macedonia 2018.
Tra realtà e sogno (Between the reality and dreams) Italy 2019.
Čas ljubezni (Love moments) Slovenia, 2019.
Savaş zamaninda eşq (Love in war time) Azerbaijan 2019.
 Keserü kávé (Bitter coffee), Hungarian, Budapest, 2019.
Pfungua dzinovhima vadiwa, (Thoughts Hunt the Loves), Shona, mangiage, Zimbabwe  2019.
Antidrom (Antidream), Norwegian Oslo 2019.
L’Age mythique (Age mythic) Paris 2020.
Hayat İçimde Yaşıyor (Life lives in me) Istambul Turkey 2021.
La vida vive en mí (Life lives in me) Spanish 2021.
Prescurtarea depărtărilor (Abbreviation of distances) Craiova Romania 2021.
Cinta di musim perang (Love in war time) Malaysia 2021.
爱无处不在 (Love is everywhere) China 2021.
вдали от себя (away from myself) Saint Petersburg Russia 2021.
Nella casa dell’ anima (in the house of the soul) Taranto Italy 2021.
Love finds itself everywhere (India) 2022.
Tvoje  Ďaleké Zore (Your far zone) Bratislava, Slovakia 2022.
La vida vive en mí (Life lives on me), Columbia 2022.
 אהבה מוצאת עצמה בכל מקום (Love finds itself everywhere) Tel Aviv Israel 2023.

Political science
    I.         EU mission in Kosova after its independence 2010 USA.
   II.         Bad times for the knowledge 2011, Pristina Kosovo.
   III.        NATO-EU missions, cooperative or competitive 2012, Tirana Albania.
   IV.        Media Influence in Security Politics in EU, 2016, Brussels, Belgium.
   V.         Media influence in Kosovo change politics 2022, Pristina Kosovo.
   VI.        Patching the hopes of citizens, publicistica 2023, Pristina Kosovo.
 -- Books together with other authors:
 1.     Conceptualising Indian Writing in English by Vinod Bhatt, Dev Brat Gupta and Jeton Kelmendi. 2022, Pristina Kosovo.
 2.     An Insight on English Language Teaching by Dev Brat Giupta, Vinod Bhatt and Jeton Kelmendi, published 2023, Pristina Kosovo.
 3.     A perspective on English Language Teaching by Vinod Bhatt, Jeton Kelmendi and Dev Brat Gupta, published 2023, Pristina Kosovo.
 4.     Culture experimentation in literary writing by Dev Brat, Vinod Bhatt and Jeton Kelmendi, published 2023, Pristina Kosovo.
 5.     Literature and gender by Jeton Kelmendi, Dev Brat Gupta and Vinad Bhatt, published 2023, Pristina Kosovo.

International awards

 I.	Doctor Honoris Causa of the Institute of Ukrainian     and Caucasian studies at the  Ukrainian Academy of Sciences 2012.
 II.	Doctor Honoris Causa of Universidad Nacional Del Este, Paraguay 2017.
 III.	SOLENZARA Prestigious International Award, Paris, France 2010.
 IV.	International Prize "Nikolaj Gogol" Ukraine 2013.
 V.	International Prize "Alexander the Great" Greece 2013
 VI.	National Poetry book prize MITINGU, in Gjakova, Kosovo 2011.
 VII.	International Prize "World Poetry" third prize in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina 2013.
 VIII.	"Translator of the year 2013", in China 2013.
 IX.	International Prize "Mather Teresa" for humanity in poetry, Gjakova Kosovo. 2013
 X.	International Prize "Ludwig Nobel" of Udmurtian PEN Club, Udmurtu, Russia 2014
 XI.	International Prize "Mihai Eminescu" Romania, 2016
 XII.	International Prize "Soflay Poet of the year 2016", Soflay International Literary Foundation & Soflayinc, 2017.
 XIII  International Prize "World Icon for Peace", from the World Institute for Peace, Nigeria, 2017.
 XIIV.	International Prize "World Literature", in Kazakhstan, 2017.
 XV.	Ambassador of Peace by the World Institute for Peace. 2017.
 XVI.	International Prize "Prize of the Academy", European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Paris 2018.
 XVII.	International "Matthew Arnold Award", India 2018.
 XVIII.  International Prize "Special Ganadores del concurso", Bolivia 2019.
 XVIX. Doctor Honoris Causa from the University Constandin Stere, Chisinau Moldova 2019.
 XX.	International Neruda Awards, Taranto Italy 2019.
 XXI.	World big name in literature, Mongolia, 2020.
 XXII.	Doctor Honoris Causa from Theoligical Institute mission the Last Trumpet, Brazil
 XXIII	Doctor Honoris Causa  from the Institute for the European Roma Studies and Researcher in Belgrade, Serbia, 2020.
 XXIV	Doctor Honoris Causa  from Theoligical Institute mission the Last Trumpet, Brasil 2020.
 ‘XXV	Great Personality  Award 2020’ from World International Forum for Peace, India 2020.
 XXVI	Prize the best poetry book 2020, Kosovo 2020.
 XXVII	International prize “Henrich boll” Germany 2022.
 XXVIII	International First prize Dante Aligeri, Rome Italy 2022.

International Membership
 Member of the Academy of Science and Arts of Europe, Salsburg, Austria.
 Member of the World Academy of Art and Culture, California, USA.
 Member of the Association of Professional Journalists of Europe, Brussels, Belgium.
 Member of the Academy of Science, Arts and Literature of Europe, Paris, France.
 Member of the Academy of Science and High Education of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine.
 Member of International PEN club Belgian Francophone, Brussels Belgium.
 Honorary member of Academy Internacional "Mihai Eminescu", Romania.
 Member of Euro-Azia Writers Union, Turkey.
 Member of the Soflay Literary Foundation & Soflayinc, Mexico.

Bibliography
 Dr. Irena Gjoni, Poeti shqiptar, Studies on the Creativity of Jeton Kelmendi
 Acad. Constantin Barbu, Codul meu pentru mâine (My code for tomorrow)

Reviews

 "Jeton Kelmendi's name in poetry is the part that gives meaning to this art, while the poetry of this European author is large and very dimensional. The poet Kelmendi has so much power to introduce you into his poetic art that he creates the conviction that his words are alive and you cannot leave reading".
Prof. Ernesto Kahan, Professor Emeritus, Israel NOBEL Peace Prize 1985
 "Prefers to better propagate within his heart than in the exotic exterior world, filtering the intuition behind his characters. Again, his instant art is amazing the skill that uses. His poems often summarized several times in a few words. This is touching, due to its concerns and shortcomings." Acad. Athanase Vantchev de Thracym, France
 "With inspiring flowers, and the words flow easily translated, he has literary persistent effects, which can be found in this volume. Jeton Kelmendi leads us in the twenty-first century, with a name that is becoming greater." Christopher Lawrence, England
 "Our author has the ability to move through different times: long distance, ancient, not so far, present and future. This is probably his strength about what he presents before the cosmopolitan readers." Prof. Dr. RICHARD A. BROSIO, University of Michigan, Professor Emeritus, USA

References
How to reach yourself, 2010.

Notes

References

External links

1978 births
Living people
Kosovan journalists
University of Pristina alumni
Kosovo Albanians
Writers from Peja
Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
Romanian-language poets
21st-century Albanian poets
Albanian male poets
21st-century male writers
Kosovan translators


James Byers was a New York shipowner, merchant and sealer, originally from Springfield, Massachusetts.

Byers sent a four-vessel sealing fleet to the South Shetland Islands in 1820-21.  He also lobbied US Secretary of State John Quincy Adams and President James Monroe to send a warship and take possession of the islands, suggesting that the American sealers were prepared to establish a permanent settlement there.

Honour
Byers Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands is named after James Byers.

References
 Alan Gurney, Below the Convergence: Voyages Toward Antarctica, 1699-1839, Penguin Books, New York, 1998

Notes

Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
Sealers
19th-century American merchants


Snooker at the 1968 Summer Paralympics consisted of a men's event. It was held at the Hayarkon Scouts Club, Tel Aviv from 5 to 12 November 1968.

There were eight competitors, from six countries: two each from Italy and Great Britain, and one each from Australia, Austria, the Republic of Ireland and Rhodesia.

Michael Shelton won the gold medal, as he had in 1964.

Medal summary

References

1968 Summer Paralympics events
1968
Paralympics


Aldridge School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form with academy status located in Aldridge, in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall in the West Midlands, England. The school is recognised as a Science College.  The current head is Mr. Worth.

History
The school was formed in 1975 by merging  Aldridge Grammar School with Tynings County Secondary Modern School, which were based in adjacent buildings on the same campus.

Aldridge Grammar School opened in September 1959 and was an 11-18 selective school. <it was originally named Aldridge Grammar-Technical School. The original Headmaster was Eric Ioan Emlyn Whitman, BSc (1909-1990) who had previously played first class cricket for Glamorgan. He served for 15 years until his retirement in July 1974

In September 2003, Aldridge School became a Science College. Since then, it has invested in science equipment for each subject, as well as a biology block.  The school has 15 laboratories with prep rooms and technical support.

The school's most recent Ofsted inspection was in 2017 and it was rated Good.

House system
When a pupil joins the school, they are placed in a tutor group which is assigned to one of the four houses - Barr, Daniels, Linley and Scott - each of which houses around 360 pupils.

Music Scholarship
Prospective students can apply for admission through a music scholarship. The school has a large music department with over 50 pupils studying music at A-level.

Notable former pupils

Aldridge Grammar School
 Air Chief Marshal Stuart Peach, Baron Peach, Chief of the Defence Staff (2016–2018)

Aldridge School
 Ellie Simmonds, swimmer
 Jorja Smith, singer-songwriter
 Tom Davies, YouTuber, adventurer
 Lee Sinnott, footballer
 Richard Sinnott, actor
 Richard Taundry, footballer
 Rachel Unitt, footballer
 Martyn Bennett, footballer
 Jamie Pardington, footballer

References

External links
 Former grammar school

Aldridge
Academies in Walsall
Secondary schools in Walsall


WJOS-LD (channel 45) was a low-power television station in Pomeroy, Ohio, United States. The station broadcast local news, high school football and basketball, and religious programming from Meigs and Gallia counties in Ohio and Mason and Jackson counties in West Virginia.

History and programming
The station was established in 1997 on channel 27 by William A. "Pete" Barnhart, pastor of the Restoration Fellowship Church at Pomeroy. In 1998, the local cable system began airing WJOS on channel 19 on weekday evenings and channel 23 on weekends, later shifting to 24-hour programming on Channel 20. A new transmitter established in 2003 allowed WJOS to switch to UHF channel 58. WJOS's first home was Commercial Building 3 at the Meigs County Fairgrounds.

Most of WJOS's broadcasts were devoted to religious, family, and gospel music programming, much of it produced by the Christian Broadcasting Network.

Local programming
Barnhart's wife, Brenda, also a pastor of the Restoration Fellowship Church, hosted local news broadcasts on Thursday and Friday evenings. WJOS broadcast football and basketball games for Wahama High School in Mason, West Virginia, Gallia Academy, and Meigs County Schools. Religious programming included services and the program Joy for Your Journey, from the Syracuse Church of the Nazarene, services from Restoration Fellowship Church and Ripley Tabernacle Baptist Church on Sundays, along with gospel music on Monday evenings.

WJOS was involved in local community affairs, promoting local tourism with the Meigs County Chamber of Commerce, participating in a forum on local news coverage, and working with community members and churches to organize a support group for the bereaved.

WJOS also broadcast area Christmas concerts, including the Choirs of Angels concert in 1998 and various performances on Christmas Along the River.

Discontinuance
The station's owner, William Barnhart, died in 2017, and ownership of WJOS passed to Brenda Barnhart as executrix of her husband's estate. In 2020, Brenda Barnhart announced she was in talks to sell the station to an unspecified man from Texas and friend of the Barnharts whose programs had aired on WJOS; the buyer would eliminate local programming but continue to provide Christian programming. The sale never closed, and the station went dark some time in 2021. Its license was cancelled by the Federal Communications Commission on April 28, 2023.

See also
Channel 45 digital TV stations in the United States
Channel 58 virtual TV stations in the United States

References

JOS-LD
Low-power television stations in Ohio
Television channels and stations established in 1997
1997 establishments in Ohio
Defunct television stations in the United States
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2021
2021 disestablishments in Ohio


Saiyed Muhammed Shah, better known by his title as Jan-Fishan Khan, was a 19th-century Afghan warlord. He participated in the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–42) and the Indian Rebellion of 1857, and on both occasions, he supported the British. For his services to the British, Khan was granted the estate of Sardhana and is the forefather of the Nawabs of Sardhana.

Background
Jan-Fishan Khan was the son of an Afghan noble, Saiyed Qutubuddin Hashmi, of Paghman, the family's ancestral home in Afghanistan. His family has historically claimed descent from Ali ar-Ridha, the eighth Imam, through Najmuddin Kubra and the Arab Sufi Saiyed Bahaudin Shah.

Life
In the First Anglo-Afghan War, Saiyed Muhammed Shah, also known to the British as the "Laird of Pughman", supported Shah Shuja and the British Army against other Afghan forces, apparently in order to honour a family allegiance to Shah Shuja. In 1840, he was awarded the title "Jan-Fishan Khan" by Shah Shuja for his support. According to writer James Moore, the title means "The Zealot" (however this is a misunderstanding of the meaning of the Persian idiom which can mean "zealous" in the sense of 'ready to sacrifice one's life', as it is defined in Steingass). One of Jan-Fishan Khan's descendants Saira Shah has correctly explained that this nom de guerre translates literally as "scatterer of souls". Shah recounts that the appellation has a double meaning: first, that of a warlord scattering the souls of his enemies, and second, one based on a Sufi couplet describing the supplicant's devotion to God:

Having accompanied Sir Robert Sale's force on its march from Kabul to Jalalabad, Jan-Fishan Khan was honourably mentioned in despatches for his assistance. In the Indian Rebellion of 1857, Jan-Fishan Khan again helped the British to quell the mutiny. Lethbridge (1893) gives the following summary in The Golden Book of India, a genealogical and biographical source:

Exiled from Kabul ever since the British retreat from Afghanistan, Jan-Fishan Khan eventually came to settle in Sardhana, a town near Meerut in the North-Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, and was given the hereditary title of Nawab of Sardhana in recognition of his services. He had lost several of his sons in the fighting.

The Sardhana estate
According to the Imperial Gazetteer of India (1908): On account of services rendered to Sir Alexander Burnes in his Kabul mission, and subsequently to the British in the retreat from Kabul, a pension of Rs. 1,000 a month was given to the family, which settled at Sardhana. As a reward for subsequent help to the British in putting down the Indian mutiny, the title of Nawab Bahadur, and confiscated estates assessed at Rs. 10,000 per annum, were conferred on Jan Fishan Khan, with concessions as to the revenue assessed. The pension was also made permanent. During the lifetime of the first Nawab, and for some time after, the family added largely to the estate, but speculations in indigo and personal extravagance caused losses. The estate was taken under the Court of Wards in 1895, and in 1901 the debts, amounting to 1 million (100,000 = 100,000 Rupees), were paid off by a loan from Government.

Tradition has it that the town of Sardhana (population 12,059 in 1891, growing to 12,467 in 1901 and 47,970 by 2001) was founded by a Raja Sarkat, whose family ruled there until their expulsion by the Muslims. Sardhana was once famous as the residence of the Catholic ruler Begum Samru.

Sufi connection
According to his descendant Idries Shah's obituary, as well as being an Afghan warlord, Jan-Fishan Khan was also a Sufi sage.

Statements attributed to Jan-Fishan Khan by Idries Shah in his books on Sufism include: "The candle is not there to illuminate itself", "You may follow one stream. Realize that it leads to the Ocean. Do not mistake the stream for the Ocean" and "The visible places of Sufi study are like lamps in the dark. The inner places are like the Sun in the sky. The lamp illuminates an area for a time. The sun abolishes the dark". Khan also features in several teaching stories and some didactic passages in these books.

Descendants
After Jan-Fishan Khan's death in 1864, his three sons succeeded him as Nawab, the last being Saiyid Ahmad Shah, who succeeded in 1882.

Jan-Fishan Khan has a number of notable descendants, including his great-grandson, the author and diplomat the Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah who married the author and traveller Saira Elizabeth Luiza Shah; great-great-grandchildren: the authors and Sufi teachers Idries Shah and Omar Ali-Shah and the storyteller Amina Shah; and great-great-great-grandchildren: the author and filmmaker Tahir Shah; the author, reporter and documentary filmmaker Saira Shah, and Safia Nafisa Shah, Tahir's twin sister, who edited the book Afghan Caravan. Omar Ali-Shah's son, Arif Ali-Shah is a filmmaker and has led Sufi study groups.

References

Further reading
 Sale, Florentia Wynch (1844). A Journal of the Disasters in Affghanistan, 1841-2. London: John Murray.

External links
 Lithograph with accompanying text from Leicester Galleries, depicting Jan-Fishan Khan

1864 deaths
Jan-Fishan Khan
Afghan warlords
Indian Muslims
Indian people of Afghan descent
Year of birth unknown


The Men's Greco-Roman 68 kg at the 1972 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program at the Fairgrounds, Judo and Wrestling Hall.

Medalists

Tournament results
The competition used a form of negative points tournament, with negative points given for any result short of a fall. Accumulation of 6 negative points eliminated the wrestler. When only two or three wrestlers remain, a special final round is used to determine the order of the medals.

Legend
DNA — Did not appear
TPP — Total penalty points
MPP — Match penalty points

Penalties
0 — Won by Fall, Passivity, Injury and Forfeit
0.5 — Won by Technical Superiority
1 — Won by Points
2 — Draw
2.5 — Draw, Passivity
3 — Lost by Points
3.5 — Lost by Technical Superiority
4 — Lost by Fall, Passivity, Injury and Forfeit

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Final

Results from the preliminary round are carried forward into the final (shown in yellow).

Final standings

  and

References

External links
Official Report

Greco-Roman 68kg


Sunčanica is a historical opera composed by Boris Papandopulo, with a libretto by Marko Soljačić based on Ivan Gundulić's Osman and his son Šišmundo Gundulić, who continued the Osman, about the Sunčanica history.

It was first performed at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb (then the Croatian State Theatre in Zagreb) on June 13, 1942. The opera was produced by Branko Gavella, choreographed by Ana Roje and Oskar Harmoš, and its main role was played by Srebrenka Jurinac.

In 2008, the opera was fully performed for the first time in 62 years when it opened the 16th Zajc's Days festival at the Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc in Rijeka.

References

Croatian-language operas
1935 operas
Operas
Operas by Boris Papandopulo


Nation Media Group (abbreviated as NMG) is a Kenyan media group listed on the Nairobi Stock Exchange. NMG was founded by Aga Khan IV in 1959 under AKFED and is the largest private media house in East and Central Africa with offices in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. In 1999, NMG launched NTV, a news channel in Kenya, and Easy FM (now known as Nation FM).

Media outlets
The group publications include The EastAfrican, Daily Nation, Business Daily Africa, Daily Monitor, The Citizen, NMG Investor Briefing, Taifa Leo and Zuqka. The Daily Nation and the Sunday edition of the same newspaper, the Sunday Nation, celebrated their 50th anniversaries, branded by the Nation Media Group as "50 Golden Years", in 2010.

NMG owns a 76.5% stake in the Monitor Publications Limited and 93.3 KFM, a Kampala-based radio station in Uganda. It also owns two television stations in the country, NTV Uganda and Spark TV. NMG also has a 60% shareholding in Mwananchi Communications Limited''' in Tanzania. The group's East African subsidiaries, especially the Tanzanian business, contribute significantly to growth in the group.

In March 2016, NMG commissioned a new state-of-the art printing press on Mombasa Road in Nairobi. The new facility has capacity to print 86,000 newspapers per hour. It cost KSh2 billion (about US$20 million) and will print the dailies Daily Nation, Business Daily, Taifa Leo and the weekly The EastAfrican''.

Shareholding
The shares of stock of the Group are listed at the Nairobi Stock Exchange and are cross-listed at the Uganda Securities Exchange as well as the Rwanda Stock Exchange, trading at all three bourses under the symbol "NMG". As at December 2014, there were a total of 10,436 shareholders in the company. Of these, 4,135, owned 1 to 500 shares each, with a cumulative total of 782,157 shares, controlling 0.41 percent of the company. The seven largest shareholders controlled 62.57 percent of the total shareholding. These included:
 Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development with 44.66 percent.
 Alpine Investments Limited with 10.15 percent.
 National Social Security Fund with 3.44 percent.
 John Kibunga Kimani who had 1.54 percent shareholding.
 Jubilee Insurance Company of Kenya Limited with 1.07 percent.
 Standard Chartered Nominees A/c KE17984, who controlled 0.91 percent
 CfC Stanbic Nominee Limited with 0.81 percent shareholding.

Awards

 2021 IF Design Awards for an outstanding digital platform
 2021 Global Media Awards (by the International News Media Association (INMA))
 2022 Global Media Awards

See also
 List of newspapers in Kenya
 List of newspapers in Tanzania
 List of newspapers in Uganda

References

External links

2008 annual report
The Citizen newspaper website – the official website for The Citizen Tanzania newspaper
The Mwananchi newspaper website – the official website for Mwananchi Tanzania Newspaper
The Mwanaspoti newspaper website – the official website for Mwanaspoti Tanzania newspaper
Mwananchi Communications Ltd website – the official website for Mwananchi Communications Ltd, its subsidiary in Tanzania

Newspapers published in Kenya
Mass media in Nairobi
Companies listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange
Companies listed on the Uganda Securities Exchange
Companies listed on the Rwanda Stock Exchange
Mass media companies established in 1959
Kenyan companies established in 1959


Ned Wayburn's Town Topics was a musical comedy revue that ran at the Century Theatre from 23 September 1915 to 20 November 1915.  It was written Harry B. Smith, Thomas J. Gray and Robert B. Smith and composed by Harold Orlob.

External links

1915 musicals
Broadway musicals


Phyllachne is a genus of four cushion plant species in the family Stylidiaceae. Of the four species, two are endemic to New Zealand, while P. colensoi is also native to Tasmania and P. uliginosa is entirely endemic to southern South America and is the only species in the Stylidiaceae native to the Americas. The movement of P. colensoi to colonize Tasmania is a relatively recent move. Molecular studies group P. colensoi, P. clavigera, and P. rubra together in one clade with P. uliginosa in the sister clade. Based on molecular clock data of the rbcL gene, it is estimated that P. uliginosa last shared a common ancestor with the New Zealand clade about 6 million years ago.

References

Stylidiaceae
Asterales genera


Andriy Baloha's Team (; formerly United Centre) is a Ukrainian political party. It is an offspring of Our Ukraine. Legally, Andriy Baloha's Team is the successor of the Party of Private Property (; Partija privatnoi vlasnosti), registered with the Ministry of Justice on September 24, 1999. The party changed its name to United Centre in March 2008. In 2020, the party was renamed Andriy Baloha's Team and consequently taken over by Mukachevo mayor Andriy Baloha.

As United Centre the party won 3 seats in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election; but in February 2013 its member Pavlo Baloha was deprived of his deputy seats by the Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine because it had established that the election results in the single-member districts in which he was elected had been "unreliable". In the 2014 parliamentary election the party won no parliamentary seats. In the 2019 parliamentary election the party won one seat as Viktor Baloha was elected to the Verkhovna Rada.

History

Party of Private Property
The Party of Private Property was registered with the Ministry of Justice on September 24, 1999. In the 1999 Ukrainian presidential election, the party endorsed incumbent President, Leonid Kuchma.

During the Ukrainian parliamentary elections 2002, it was part of the electoral alliance Team of Winter Generation. Team of Winter Generation won 2.0% of the popular vote and no seats.

The Party of Private Property did not participate in the Ukrainian parliamentary elections of 2006 and 2007.

A merger of United Centre with the Democratic Party of Ukraine failed to materialize prior to the first congress of the United Centre.

United Centre

Viktor Yushchenko Presidency (2008-2009)
In February 2008, several prominent members left Our Ukraine. Viktor Baloha, Head of the President's Secretariat resigned on February 15. Roman Bezsmertny, a high ranking party official, along with people's deputies Mykhaylo Polyanchych, Ihor Kril, Viktor Topolov, Oksana Bilozir and Vasyl Petiovka, resigned on February 20, declaring in a joint statement that: "some of the leaders of the party play their own game, coming from personal interests and it has nothing to do with responsibility, pluralism and norms of democracy."

At the sixth Party Congress of the Party of Private Property, held on 20 March 2008, the party decided to change its name to United Centre. At this time the party's goals were: "assisting President Viktor Yushchenko to realize his program of actions" and "to unite Eastern Ukraine and Western Ukraine".

On March 27, United Centre held the founding meeting in Kyiv. On July 8, Presidential Secretariat's Chief Baloha entered the United Centre party. On July 12, 2008 United Centre re-elected Verkhovna Rada deputy Ihor Kril of Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense. The merger of United Center with the Democratic Party of Ukraine failed to materialize prior to the congress. Administrative pressure by governors upon state employees to sign up to United Centre is said to be ongoing. Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defence Bloc complained that members of its regional branches are being poached by United Centre.

In October 2008 the Social Christian Party merged with United Centre.

On October 21, 2008 the presidium of People's Union Our Ukraine decided not to team up with any other party then the Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc for the 2008 snap parliamentary poll and called the idea of teaming up with United Centre "impossible". On 20 November 2008, the United Centre leader Ihor Kril said the party would participate independently in the next parliamentary elections and that he "fully supports the view that the format of Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense Bloc, as it exists now, is not realistic or effective. Every political force should take responsibility for their actions before the electorate."

According to UNIAN, the People's Union Our Ukraine and United Centre parties were to carry out a unifying congress on January 17, 2009. The People's Democratic Party was reported to join the move. However, nothing like this happened.

Viktor Baloha resigned as Head of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine because he was against President Yushchenko's decision to run for president for a second term and alleged nepotism.

Viktor Yanukovych Presidency (2010-2014)
The party did not join the parliamentary coalition which supported the Azarov Government in March 2010 because the Communist Party of Ukraine was a part of that coalition.

A March 2010 poll predicted that the party would get 0.2% of the vote at the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election.

In early August 2010 parliamentarian Kyrylo Kulykov joined the party, thus making six United Centre lawmakers in the Verkhovna Rada. Kulykov had switched from Yuriy Lutsenko's People's Self-Defense. This was still nine too short to form a United Centre faction in the Verkhovna Rada.

In the 2010 local elections, the party won a few representatives in regional parliaments and then went to achieve a stunning victory in the Zakarpattia Oblast.

On November 12, 2010, President Viktor Yanukovych appointed party leader Viktor Baloha Minister of Emergencies and Minister of the Protection of the Population from the Chernobyl disaster . According to Baloha, this did not mean his party would join the coalition government. According to Ukrayinska Pravda, the United Centre deputies in parliament already quietly voted with the Party of Regions (the main component of the Azarov Government). Deputy Lesya Orobets left the party after Baloha's appointment because the party never informed her about it.

According to Ukrainian media Strong Ukraine party leader Serhiy Tyhypko personally prevented a merger of United Centre with Party of Regions in March 2012.

The party did not take part in the October 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election nationwide proportional party-list system; instead nine members of the party tried to win seats in the 225 local single-member districts. The party won 3 constituencies (all in Zakarpattia) and thus parliamentary representation. These seats where won by Viktor Baloha, Vasyl Petiovka and Pavlo Baloha. Pavlo Baloha joined the faction of Party of Regions in December 2012, while Viktor Baloha and Petiovka did not join any faction. Pavlo Baloha left the Party of Regions faction mid-April 2012 to become an unaffiliated lawmaker too.

Pavlo Baloha was deprived of his deputy seats on 8 February 2013 by the Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine because it had established that the election results in the single-member districts in which he was elected (single-member districts number 71 in Zakarpattia Oblast) had been "unreliable". On 7 July 2013 Pavlo Baloha's mandate was officially cancelled.

After 2014

In the 2014 parliamentary election, the party did not compete on the nationwide party list and also did not win a constituency seat and thus no parliamentary seats.

In the 2019 parliamentary election the party won one seat, Viktor Baloha was elected (for the party) to parliament.

Andriy Baloha's Team

In August 2020, ahead of the 2020 Ukrainian local elections, the party was renamed Andriy Baloha's Team, and taken over by Viktor Baloha's son, Andriy Baloha. Under the new name, the party saw a revival as a regional political force in Zakarpattia Oblast. Even though it only ran candidates within Zakarpattia, the organization garnered 0.5% of the total vote across Ukraine in the 2020 elections, winning 194 seats on local councils across Zakarpattia and 7 seats on the regional legislature, the Zakarpattia Oblast Council. Its most notable success came in the city of Mukachevo, where Andriy Baloha was reelected mayor. Baloha received 54% of the vote, allowing him to bypass a potential runoff election.

In January 2022 (Andriy) Baloha joined (former parliamentary speaker) Dmytro Razumkov's new political project.

Stances
The party rejects any possibility of joining a parliamentary coalition with the Communist Party of Ukraine.

Results

See also
 2008 Ukrainian political crisis
2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election
List of Ukrainian Parliament Members 2007

References

External links
  of Andriy Baloha's Team
  of United Centre (last updated in February 2019)

1999 establishments in Ukraine
Centrist parties in Ukraine
Political parties established in 1999
Political parties in Ukraine
Populist parties
Pro-European political parties in Ukraine


Cecil Ernest Shaw (22 June 1911 – January 1977) was an English footballer who played as a full back.

Biography

Shaw was born in Mansfield. He turned professional in February 1930 when he joined Wolverhampton Wanderers. After 183 competitive appearances for Wolves, Shaw moved to their local rivals West Bromwich Albion in December 1936. Albion broke their transfer record to secure his services, paying the £7,500 fee in two installments. He made his Albion debut the same month, against Liverpool at Anfield. During the Second World War he continued to represent Albion, as well as making guest appearances for Nottingham Forest and Blackpool. Shaw scored 14 goals in 251 competitive games for West Bromwich Albion. In 1947 he left the club to join Hereford United, where he played until his retirement in 1949. He later refereed in the Oldbury & District leagues and worked as a scout for West Bromwich Albion. Shaw died in Handsworth, Birmingham in January 1977.

References

1911 births
1977 deaths
Footballers from Mansfield
English men's footballers
Men's association football fullbacks
Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. players
West Bromwich Albion F.C. players
Hereford United F.C. players
English Football League players
English Football League representative players
Nottingham Forest F.C. wartime guest players
Blackpool F.C. wartime guest players


Witherwack is a suburb in the north of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, situated between Red House to the west, Carley Hill to the east and Marley Pots to the south.  The origin of the name Witherwack is unknown. The spelling of the name has changed since the Ordnance Survey maps of 1862 (and as late as 1945) on which it was spelled Whitherwhack.

The area is an overspill council estate, usually regarded as part of Greater Southwick, and was built in the 1960s.  In common with most estates in Sunderland, the street names all start with the same letter - 'W' in the case of Witherwack.

The whole of the estate falls within the SR5 postal code. It is represented by three Labour councillors as part of the Southwick ward on Sunderland City Council.

Fulwell Quarry Nature Reserve
Fulwell Quarry, known locally as Witherwack Quarry, is a Local Nature Reserve located in the disused quarries at Fulwell. It is bounded by Witherwack to the west, Carley Hill to the south, Newcastle Road to the east and the South Tyneside county border to the north. Road access is via Newcastle Road only; however, the site is also accessible by foot from the neighbouring suburbs of Witherwack and Carley Hill. Public transport is available on Go North East services 9,20

The nature reserve is of national importance due to its rare Magnesian Limestone geology. The wildflower meadows and grasslands are favourable habitats for many butterflies, such as the large skipper, the small skipper and the dingy skipper. Plants include Fragaria vesca (wild strawberry) and Blackstonia perfoliata (yellow-wort). Looking to the north and east, there are good views of the Cleadon Hills and the North Sea coast.

Transport
Witherwack does not have its own Tyne and Wear Metro station. However, nearby Stadium of Light Metro station on Newcastle Road, and Seaburn Metro station on Station Road, are both within easy reach from Witherwack by bus services 16 and the 135/36 (Sunday and nights only) respectively.

There is a park and ride facility near Witherwack based at Stadium of Light Metro station. There are 182 free car parking spaces available. Witherwack is located less than a mile north of the Queen Alexandra Bridge, giving good road links into Sunderland City Centre. Witherwack is located close to the A1231 for road links to Washington, Tyne and Wear, which in turn feeds into the A1. Witherwack, via the A1231, is close to the A19; north to the Tyne Tunnel and North Tyneside, or south to Peterlee and Teesside.

Witherwack has been built around a purpose built bus terminus, which is situated at the eastern end of Wiltshire Road. Service 16 operated by Stagecoach Group, provides a service from Witherwack to Sunderland City Centre via Carley Hill Road, Southwick

References

External links
 Map of Witherwack
 Sunderland Bus Routes

City of Sunderland suburbs
Local Nature Reserves in Tyne and Wear
Sunderland


Serenade is the fourth album by Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins, released on 6 November 2006, in the UK. It charted at number 5 on the UK Albums Chart and at number 1 on the UK Classical Album Chart.

Track listing
 ""(Quello che faró) Sarà per te"
 "Nella Fantasia"
 "Chanson Bohème" (from Bizet's Carmen)
 "Green Green Grass of Home"
 "O Mio Babbino Caro"
 "Be My Love"
 "The Flower Duet" (feat. Kiri Te Kanawa)
 "Pachelbel's Canon"
 "Granada"
 "Lisa Lân"
 "The Prayer"
 "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind"
 "Il Canto"
 "Ave Maria"

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

Katherine Jenkins albums
2006 albums
Universal Classics and Jazz albums


Michael Wolff (born August 27, 1953) is an American journalist, as well as a columnist and contributor to USA Today, The Hollywood Reporter, and the UK edition of GQ. He has received two National Magazine Awards, a Mirror Award, and has authored seven books, including Burn Rate (1998) about his own dot-com company, and The Man Who Owns the News (2008), a biography of Rupert Murdoch.  He co-founded the news aggregation website Newser and is a former editor of Adweek.

On January 5, 2018, Wolff's book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House was published, containing  unflattering descriptions of behavior by U.S. President Donald Trump, chaotic interactions among the White House senior staff, and derogatory comments about the Trump family by former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon. The book quickly became a New York Times number-one bestseller and became the first of a trilogy about Trump in power, the other two books being Siege (2019) and Landslide (2021).

Early life
Michael Wolff was born in Paterson, New Jersey, the son of, Jewish, Lewis Allen Wolff (1920–1984), an advertising professional, and Marguerite (Vanderwerf) "Van" Wolff (1925–2012) a reporter for Paterson Evening News. Wolff graduated from Montclair Academy (now Montclair Kimberley Academy) in 1971, where he was student council president in his senior year. He attended Vassar College and transferred to Columbia University, from which he graduated in 1975. While a student at Columbia, he worked for The New York Times as a copy boy.

Career

1970s
He published his first magazine article in the New York Times Magazine in 1974: a profile of Angela Atwood, a neighbor of his family who helped kidnap Patricia Hearst as a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army. Shortly afterward, he left the Times and became a contributing writer to the New Times, a bi-weekly news magazine started by Jon Larsen and George Hirsch. Wolff's first book was White Kids (1979), a collection of essays.

1990s
In 1991, Wolff launched Michael Wolff & Company, Inc., specializing in book-packaging. Its first project, Where We Stand, was a book with a companion PBS series. The company's next major project was creating one of the first guides to the Internet, albeit in book form. Net Guide was published by Random House.

In the fall of 1998, Wolff published a book,  Burn Rate, which recounted the details of the financing, positioning, personalities, and ultimate breakdown of Wolff's start-up Internet company, Wolff New Media. The book became a bestseller. In its review of Wolff's book Burn Rate, Brill's Content criticized Wolff for "apparent factual errors" and said that 13 people, including subjects he mentioned, complained that Wolff had "invented or changed quotes".

In August 1998, Wolff was recruited by New York magazine to write a weekly column. Over the next six years, he wrote more than 300 columns  that included criticism of the entrepreneur Steven Brill, the media banker Steven Rattner, and the book publisher Judith Regan.

2000s

Wolff was nominated for the National Magazine Award three times, winning twice. His second National Magazine Award was for a series of columns he wrote from the media center in the Persian Gulf as the Iraq War started in 2003. His book, Autumn of the Moguls (2004), which predicted the mainstream media crisis that hit later in the decade, was based on many of his New York magazine columns.

In 2004, when New York magazine's owners, Primedia Inc., put the magazine up for sale, Wolff helped assemble a group of investors, including New York Daily News publisher Mortimer Zuckerman, to back him in acquiring the magazine. Although the group believed it had made a successful bid, Primedia decided to sell the magazine to the investment banker Bruce Wasserstein.

In a 2004 cover story for The New Republic, Michelle Cottle wrote that Wolff was "uninterested in the working press," preferring to focus on "the power players—the moguls" and was "fixated on culture, style, buzz, and money, money, money." She also noted that "the scenes in his columns aren’t recreated so much as created—springing from Wolff’s imagination rather than from actual knowledge of events," calling his writing "a whirlwind of flourishes and tangents and asides that often stray so far from the central point that you begin to wonder whether there is a central point."

In 2005, Wolff joined Vanity Fair as its media columnist. In 2007, with Patrick Spain, the founder of Hoover's, and Caroline Miller, the former editor-in-chief of New York magazine, he launched Newser, a news aggregator website.

That year, he also wrote a biography of Rupert Murdoch, The Man Who Owns the News, based on more than 50 hours of conversation with Murdoch and extensive access to his business associates and his family. The book was published in 2008. Beginning in mid-2008, Wolff briefly worked as a weekly columnist for The Industry Standard, an Internet trade magazine published by IDG. David Carr, in a review Business Insider'''s Maxwell Tani described as "scathing" wrote that Wolff was "far less circumspect" than most other journalists.

 2010s
Wolff received a 2010 Mirror Award in the category Best Commentary: Traditional Media for his work in Vanity Fair.

In 2010, Wolff became editor of the advertising trade publication Adweek. He was asked to step down one year later, amid a disagreement as to "what this magazine should be".

Fire and Fury

In early January 2018, Wolff's book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House was published. Excerpts released before publication included unflattering descriptions of behavior by U.S. President Donald Trump, chaotic interactions among the White House senior staff, and derogatory comments about the Trump family by former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon. News of the book's imminent publication and its embarrassing depiction of Trump prompted Trump and his lawyer, Charles Harder, to issue on January 4, 2018 a cease and desist letter alleging false statements, defamation, and malice, and to threaten libel lawsuits against Wolff, his publisher Henry Holt and Company, and Bannon, an action that actually stimulated pre-launch book sales. On January 8, Henry Holt's attorney, Elizabeth McNamara, responded to Harder's allegations with an assurance that no apology or retraction would be forthcoming, while also noting that Harder's complaint cited no specific errors in Wolff's text. John Sargent, the chief executive of Macmillan-Holt, informed the publisher's employees that "as citizens, we must demand that President Trump understand and abide by the First Amendment of our Constitution."

According to other lawyers and a historian, threats of a lawsuit by Trump against a book author and publisher were unprecedented by a sitting president attempting to suppress freedom of speech protected by the U.S. First Amendment. Before its release on January 5, the book and e-book reached number one both on Amazon.com and the Apple iBooks Store, and by January 8, over one million books had been sold or ordered.

Siege: Trump under Fire
Wolff's book, Siege: Trump Under Fire, was released on June 4, 2019. In it he claims that the Justice Department had drafted indictment documents against Trump in March 2018, accusing him of three criminal counts relating to interfering with a pending investigation and witness tampering. Special Counsel Robert Mueller is reported to have sat on these draft indictments for a year before deciding that Justice Department policy would prevent such an indictment. "The documents described do not exist," Mueller spokesman Peter Carr said, referring to the purported three-count charging document against Trump.

 Nikki Haley controversy

While being interviewed during Fire and Fury's publicity tour Wolff said he was "absolutely sure" President Trump was having an affair and suggested on two occasions that his partner was Nikki Haley, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Haley denied Wolff's allegations, calling them "disgusting". Erik Wemple of The Washington Post said that Wolff was engaging in a "remarkable multimedia slime job". Bari Weiss in The New York Times said that Wolff was "gleefully" spreading "evidence-free detail". On February 25, 2018, Wolff was interviewed by Ben Fordham on the Australian morning show Today, where he was asked about his claim that Trump was having an affair behind Melania Trump's back. Wolff stated that he couldn't hear the question, prompting Fordham to repeat it and eventually asking "you're not hearing me, Mr. Wolff?" to which Wolff replied, "no, I'm not getting anything", before removing his ear piece and walking off the set. Both Fordham and the Today show later tweeted a video that included the audio from the ear piece which revealed that the question could be heard. Days earlier, after being pressed about the rumor in a college press tour interview, Wolff stated "I do not know if the president is having an affair" and added "this is the last thing I say about it".

 Criticism

The Columbia Journalism Review criticized Wolff in 2010 for suggesting that The New York Times was aggressively covering the breaking News International phone hacking scandal as a way of attacking News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch. The Guardian criticized Wolff's book Too Famous for the way it portrayed controversial celebrities including Steve Bannon, Jeffrey Epstein, and Christopher Hitchens.

Several people have denied quotes published in Fire and Fury. These people include Tom Barrack, Tony Blair, Katie Walsh, and Anna Wintour.Sean Hannity also denied that he let Donald Trump review questions before interviewing him.

Columnist David Brooks questioned Wolff's credibility since Wolff has been known to not check his facts. Brooks expressed doubts about Wolff's journalistic methods and conveyed skepticism over the accuracy of Fire and Fury.  The View host Meghan McCain criticized Wolff for publishing an off the record conversation with Roger Ailes in Fire and Fury.

Journalist Steven Rattner referred to Wolff as an “unprincipled writer of fiction.”

Alan Dershowitz criticized Wolff's book Siege: Trump Under Fire, calling it fiction. Wolff wrote in the book that Dershowitz had a dinner with Donald Trump at the White House to discuss the possibility of representing him. However Dershowitz claimed this dinner never happened.

PolitiFact writer Angie Drobnic Holan noted that Fire and Fury contains several factual errors, including that Trump did not know who John Boehner was in 2016 (Trump had tweeted about Boehner in 2015) and that Wilbur Ross was Trump's choice for  US Secretary of Labor (rather than Secretary of Commerce).

Some questioned Wolff using Sam Nunberg as a source in Fire and Fury'' since Nunberg had admitted to fabricating a story about Chris Christie in the past.

Books

Personal life
Wolff was formerly married to lawyer Alison Anthoine. Wolff and Antoine are parents of three children. He is now married to Victoria Floethe, and they have two children.

Wolff and Floethe are parents of Louise Wolff, born in 2015.

His daughter, Susanna Wolff, was the editor-in-chief of CollegeHumor.

Wolff is known for his pugnacious personality, and has reportedly been ejected from numerous New York City restaurants.

References

External links

Vassar College alumni
Columbia College (New York) alumni
Living people
American male journalists
Writers from Paterson, New Jersey
American columnists
American biographers
20th-century American Jews
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Montclair Kimberley Academy alumni
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Swimming at the 1968 Summer Paralympics consisted of 68 events, 34 for men and 34 for women.

Medal summary

Medal table

Participating nations

Men's events

Women's events

References

1968 Summer Paralympics events
1968
Paralympics