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# Ali Al Hajj

Ali Al Hajj (Arabic: علي الحاج; born 1955) is a former major general and ex-director general of the Lebanese Internal Security Forces.

## Early life

Hajj was born into a Muslim Sunni family based in northern Lebanon in 1955.

## Career

Hajj was in charge of government protection for Rafik Hariri from 1992 to 1998. He was removed from his post when Hariri discovered Hajj was also working for Syrian intelligence. He was appointed the director general of the Lebanese internal security forces in 2004 by Interior Minister Suleiman Frangieh. He stepped aside on 22 April 2005 and was replaced by Ashraf Rifi. He was one of seven pro-Syrian officials whose resignations had been requested by the Lebanese opposition after the assassination of Hariri.

## Controversy

The first UN team investigating the Hariri assassination led by Irish deputy Garda Commissioner Peter Fitzgerald discovered that the wreckage of Hariri's six-car motorcade had been removed from the crime scene at midnight on 14 February 2005. It was further found that other materials were not associated with the bomb placed in the massive crater. The man responsible for doing so was allegedly General Ali Al Hajj. It was also found that General Hajj after being appointed to the post as the head of the internal security forces reduced the number of state bodyguards of Hariri from 40 down to eight in November 2004. The reason for this reduction was given to be a letter from then Lebanese president Emile Lahoud and then Lebanese prime minister, indicating that Lebanese law should be applied on all levels and in all matters. According to a decree (3509 of 1993), the number of security staff for a person in the Hariri category should be eight.
On 30 August 2005, the Lebanese authorities arrested and detained four high-level officials including General Jamil Al Sayyed, former head of the Lebanese general security (Sûreté Générale), General Ali Al Hajj, former head of the internal security forces, General Raymond Azar, former head of military intelligence and General Mustapha Hamdan, commander of the republican guard brigade. They were arrested at the request of German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis, who was carrying out the UN investigation about the assassination. The Mehlis report dated October 2005 quoted a witness stating that Jamil Al Sayyed cooperated closely with Mustapha Hamdan and Raymond Azar in the preparation of the Hariri assassination and that Hajj knew about the attack in advance. However, later reports about the assassination did not repeat the allegations against these Lebanese generals. Hajj and other generals were held in Roumieh prison, northeast of Beirut from 2005 to April 2009. They were released from the prison upon the order of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon pre-trial judge Daniel Fransen due to lack of evidence. They were not charged with any crime.

## Personal life

Ali Al Hajj married Samar Al Hajj, who is a social activist. His son is a major in the Lebanese Internal Security Forces.
# Mina 25

Mina 25 (or simply 25) is double studio album by Italian singer Mina, released in October 1983 by PDU and distributed by EMI Italiana.

## Overview

The celebration of the anniversary of Mina's career coincided with the thirtieth anniversary of the RAI broadcasting company, which offered the singer a collaboration. Mina's songs from this album, as well as her comments, were used as the soundtrack to Paolo Frajese's Trent'anni della nostra storia (Thirty Years of Our History). The first issue of the program covered the history of the channel from 1945 to 1955, so the singer recorded songs from this period. This was the first such work, and three more albums will be released in the following years: Catene (1984), Finalmente ho conosciuto il conte Dracula... (1985) and Sì, buana (1986).
The song Verde luna had already been included on the album Salomè and was re-recorded for this album.
To support the album, the single "Devi dirmi di sì" was released with the song "La controsamba" on the b-side. The song was a success with listeners and reached the 7th place in the singles chart. The album itself debuted at the twenty-second position on the weekly albums chart, and in the fourth week of its stay reached the peak eighth position. In total, the album spent a total of 14 weeks there.

## Critical reception

Christian Calabrese from Musica e dischi gave a positive assessment of the album, calling the songs very beautiful, mostly because of the authors with whom Mina has been collaborating for a long time and who know her style.

## Personnel

* Mina – vocals
* Victor Bach – arrangement (A1–B6), strings, wind instruments, keyboard
* Massimiliano Pani – arrangement (C1), background vocals
* Celso Valli – arrangement (C2, C3, C5–D3), keyboard
* Mario Robbiani – arrangement (C4, D4), strings, keyboard
* Piero Cassano – background vocals
* Lella Esposito – background vocals
* Giulia Fasolino – background vocals
* Gianni Ferrio – background vocals
* Naimy Hackett – background vocals
* Germano Melotti – background vocals
* Silvio Pozzoli – background vocals
* Wanda Radicchi – background vocals
* Gigi Cappellotto – bass
* Paolo Gianolio – bass
* Massimo Moriconi – bass
* Hugo Heredia – clarinet
* Paolo Tomelleri – clarinet
* Ellade Bandini – drums, percussion
* Bruno Bergonzi – drums
* Rolando Ceragioli – drums
* Flaviano Cuffari – drums
* Walter Scebran – drums, percussion
* Sergio Farina – guitar
* Angel "Pato" Garcia – guitar
* Paolo Gianolio – guitar
* Ernesto Massimo Verardi – guitar
* Bruno De Filippi – harmonica
* Simonne Sporck – harp
* Maurizio Preti – percussion
* Aldo Banfi – synthesizer

## Charts

Chart performance for Mina 25 :
| Chart (1983–1984) | Peak position |
| Italian Albums (Billboard) | 16 |
| Italian Albums (Musica e dischi) | 8 |
# Ernest Pintoff

Ernest Pintoff (December 15, 1931 in Watertown, Connecticut – January 12, 2002 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles) was an American film and television director, screenwriter and film producer.
He won the Oscar for Best Animated Short for The Critic (1963), a satire on modern art written and narrated by Mel Brooks.

## Background

Born in Watertown, Connecticut, but raised in New York City, Pintoff originally began as a jazz trumpeter who taught painting and design at Michigan State University. However, he had always shown an interest in the animation of film and began writing in 1956.

## Career

His career took off in 1957, when he wrote the script for Flebus, followed by 1959 as a producer and director for the animated short film, The Violinist. Narrated by Carl Reiner, the film earned Pintoff an Oscar nomination and illustrated a promising young career in directing film ahead of him.
In 1964, he won an Oscar for his direction of the 1963 film, The Critic, which was narrated by co-creator Mel Brooks and focused on a man with a grumpy voice trying to understand abstractions he observes.
On television, Pintoff directed many episodes of popular television series, including Hawaii Five-O (1968), Kojak (1968), The Six Million Dollar Man (1974), The Dukes of Hazzard (1979), Falcon Crest (1981) and Voyagers! (1982). As part of NBC's "Experiments in Television" in the late 1960s, he also directed the documentaries This Is Marshall McLuhan and This Is Sholem Aleichem.
Pintoff produced and directed a number of low-budget independent films such as Harvey Middleman, Fireman (1965), Who Killed Mary What's 'Er Name? (1971) and Dynamite Chicken (1972), a film using a collection of old clips from music with appearances by John Lennon, Richard Pryor and Andy Warhol, Nel mirino del giaguaro (1979).
Following his last film in 1985, Pintoff taught directing at the School of Visual Arts, American Film Institute, USC School of Cinematic Arts, California Institute of the Arts and UCLA.
He received the International Animated Film Society's Winsor McCay Award for prolific lifetime contributions to animation in 1998.

## Health

After suffering a stroke in 1985, Pintoff retired from film and turned to writing books, including a memoir, Bolt From the Blue and a novel, Zachary and further books on his love of animation. His health declined again in 2001 and he died of a stroke on January 12, 2002.

## Personal life

Pintoff was married to Caroline Pintoff and had two children and three grandchildren.

## Selected filmography

* Flebus (1957)
* The Violinist (1959) – Best Animated Short Academy Award nomination
* The Interview (1960)
* The Old Man and The Flower (1962)
* The Critic (1963) – Winner of Best Animated Short Academy Award
* Blade (1973)
* Jaguar Lives! (1979)
# New Taipei City Art Museum

The New Taipei City Art Museum or New Taipei Museum of Arts (NTMOA; traditional Chinese: 新北市美術館; simplified Chinese: 新北市美术馆; pinyin: Xīnběishì Měishùguǎn) is an upcoming museum in Yingge District, New Taipei, Taiwan.

## History

The groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the museum was held on 4 December 2018 attended by New Taipei Mayor Eric Chu. The museum was opened as the main hall of the 2023 Taiwan Design Expo in October 2023.

## Architecture

The museum is designed by architect Kris Yao with an expected total floor area of 3.2 hectares. It will have 8 floors above ground and 3 floors below. It will consist of exhibition rooms, auditorium, children's art space, warehouse etc.
# 1959 in Estonian television

This is a list of Estonian television related events from 1959.

## Debuts

4 September - television series TV ülikool began airing.

## Births

* 3 February – Laine Mägi, actress
* 11 March – Margus Oopkaup, actor (died 2025)
# Volkswagen ID. Life

The Volkswagen ID. Life is an electric subcompact SUV concept revealed by German automobile manufacturer Volkswagen at the 2021 International Motor Show Germany. In 2022, it was reported that the ID. Life concept has fallen out of favour in Wolfsburg already, to be replaced by models probably named ID.2(X), and designed closer to existing VW models, like Volkswagen Polo or Volkswagen T-Cross.

## Overview

The Volkswagen ID. Life concept was revealed at International Motor Show Germany on September 7, 2021, in Munich, Germany. It is a retro-styled 5-door electric subcompact SUV. The ID. Life was designed by Klaus Zyciora and Slovak automobile designer Jozef Kabaň, who says "Volkswagen's design language always has to move in a more timeless direction. It fits the brand. We want to be authentic and clear and use real materials; there's no fake of any kind or trying to look like something else. Fake exhaust outlets, fake wood, and so on. We want our cars to be well balanced.”

## Specifications
### Technical specs

The Volkswagen ID. Life concept is built on Volkswagen's MEB platform, designed for electric vehicles. It uses a 57 kWh battery pack and has a front wheel motor, giving a range of 400 km (249 mi) (under the WLTP cycle) and a total output of 172 kW (231 hp). Volkswagen claims the car can accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) in 6.9 seconds. This would be the first application of MEB to a front-drive vehicle.

### Exterior

The ID. Life is finished in a white paint with a black matte retractable roof constructed of textile and plastic material, which is also used on the hood. The front grille and rear tailgate feature Volkswagen's illuminated logo, used on EVs and concept vehicles, as well as squarish-shaped headlights and taillights.

### Interior

The interior of the ID. Life concept is made from recycle materials and natural wood and seats four. With the second row seats folded down, the ID. Life has a cargo space of 40.3 cubic feet.

## Production model

The Volkswagen ID. Life concept previews a production model that will be released by 2025 as a €20,000 (US$24,000) electric subcompact SUV, likely to be called the Volkswagen ID.2 or the ID.1, positioned under the ID.3 hatchback. It will be based on the same MEB platform used by the concept and all other Volkswagen ID. series EVs.
# Old Town Historic District (Clearfield, Pennsylvania)

Old Town Historic District is a national historic district located at Clearfield, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 19 contributing buildings in Clearfield. The district is exclusively residential and consists of notable Victorian style dwellings built from 1860 to 1890.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
# Christian Kwabena Andrews

Christian Kwabena Andrews who is popularly called Osofo Kyiri Abosom is a Ghanaian priest and politician.

## Career

Aside from being a priest and a politician, Andrews is a farmer, entrepreneur and businessman.

## Politics

Andrews launched the Ghana Union Movement (GUM) in March 2019. During the event, he described himself as the new Kwame Nkrumah and declared that the "spirit of Nkrumah is back". He hoped to be able to break the duopoly between the National Democratic Congress and the New Patriotic Party which have dominated Ghana during the Fourth Republic.

## 2020 Pandemic

Andrews was keen to have as limited a lockdown period as possible during the COVID-19 pandemic. He gave the Akufo-Addo government a week to relax the social distancing rules or face the wrath of God.

## 2020 election

He is the GUM candidate for President of Ghana in the 2020 Ghanaian general election. He is key to continue with ideas of Kwame Nkrumah, first President of Ghana. He was also keen to have an all inclusive government with a Muslim as his running mate. Abu Grant Lukeman was thus chosen to be his running mate. Andrews is also well known for being the Founder and General Overseer of Life Assembly Worship Centre.
# Olympus Guard Station

The Olympus Guard Station near Port Angeles, Washington was built in 1930s. It was built by the U.S. Forest Service and was designed by architects of the U.S. Forest Service. It is located about nine miles backcountry, within what is now the National Park Service-administered Olympic National Park.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. It has also been known as OGS and as Olympus Guard Station Historic District. The NRHP listing included five contributing structures and one contributing building on 2 acres (0.81 ha).
# University of Timor

The University of Timor (Indonesian: Universitas Timor, abbreviated Unimor) is an Indonesian public university in the island of Timor, in the town of Kefamenanu which is part of the North Central Timor Regency. As a public university, Unimor accepts students partially through the SNMPTN system administered nationwide. It is one of the two public universities on the Indonesian part of the island, the other being the University of Nusa Cendana.
Following the independence of East Timor and exodus of Indonesian nationals (many to Kefamenanu), the teaching staff formerly from Universitas Timor Timur established the university in 2000 on a 40-hectare plot of land donated by the local council and a Rp 2 billion funding from the central government. Initially a private university, it attempted to be nationalized starting around 2010 and after several rejections, was officially made a public university in 2014.
Located 7 hours away from the provincial capital of Kupang, the university is close to the border with East Timor and hence receive some students from across the border. In 2017, it claimed that 6,000 East Timorese students had studied at Unimor. As comparison, there were 5,000 active students in the same year with an intake of 1,500. The institute has been categorized as part of the fourth cluster - the lowest tier - among other higher education institutions in Indonesia, as of 2017.
# Givry, Saône-et-Loire

Givry (French pronunciation:) is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.

## Geography

Located 10 km (6.2 mi) from Chalon-sur-Saône, Givry is a small town, famous for its listed monuments and its wines. It is surrounded on the southeast by the commune's forest, and on the west by vineyards; the commune of Givry also includes three hamlets: Cortiambles, Poncey and Russilly.

## History

Givry's foundation dates back to the Gallo-Roman era. Its fortifications were built in the Middle Ages. As of the 18th century, several architectural works were established. Givry's AOC wine makes part of the Côte Chalonnaise wealth. It is said that Givry wine was French king Henry IV's favorite.
Givry's population is rising steadily as the town is a greatly sought-after residential area. Turned towards tourism, the town is crossed by the Green Way.
* Jacques Doyen, fondateur de l'abbaye de Notre Dame de Cortiambles en 1299.
* Dominique Vivant, first director of the Louvre museum

## Twin towns

Givry is twinned with:
* Oppenheim, Germany
# Santa Inés Yatzeche

Santa Inés Yatzeche is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in southeastern Mexico and is the third smallest municipality in Oaxaca behind Santa Cruz Amilpas and Natividad.

## History

The community, which lies on the Atoyac River in the southern Valle Grande, has a long history. Archaeological studies have shown that it was a flourishing center for hundreds of years before the rise of Monte Albán around 500, when it suffered a loss of 75% of its population.

## Population

The community is now relatively poor. As of 2000, only 7% of households earned more than twice the minimum wage. Most of the inhabitants, who speak Zapotec, had not completed six years of education. The villagers must travel to Zimatlán to sell produce, and to Oaxaca City to obtain wage-paying work. As of 2005, the total population was 975, of whom 908 spoke an indigenous language, living in 210 homes.

## Geography

The municipality covers an area of 11.48 km² at an average elevation of 1,460 meters above sea level. It is part of the Zimatlán District of the Valles Centrales region. The climate is temperate and main economic activity is agriculture and livestock husbandry.
# Sarita Austin

Sarah "Sarita" Austin is an American Democratic politician who represents Chittenden-9-2 in the Vermont House of Representatives. Austin ran as the incumbent for the seat in 2020.
# Crocodile (pharaoh)

Crocodile (also read as Shendjw; fl. c. 3170 BC) is the provisional name of a predynastic ruler, who might have ruled during the late Naqada III epoch. The few alleged ink inscriptions showing his name are drawn very sloppily, and the reading and thus whole existence of king "Crocodile" are highly disputed. His tomb is unknown.

## Name sources

The proposed existence of Crocodile is based on Günter Dreyer's and Edwin van den Brink's essays. They are convinced that Crocodile was a local king who ruled at the region of Tarkhan. According to Dreyer, Crocodile's name appears in black ink inscriptions on burnt earthen jars and on several seal impressions found in tomb TT 1549 at Tarkhan and tomb B-414 at Abydos. He sees a crawling crocodile and a rope curl beneath it and reads Shendjw ("the subduer"). Van den Brink thinks alike and reads Shendjw, too, but sees only a large rope curl sign inside the serekh.

## Reign and datation

Almost nothing is known about Crocodile's reign. If he existed, he might have had his capital at Tarkhan, where his proposed tomb was excavated. Dreyer places him in a time shortly before the kings Iry-Hor, Ka and Narmer. He points to guiding inscriptions on the jars mentioning a Hen-mehw ("brought from Lower Egypt"). This specific diction of designations of origin is archaeologically proven for the time before three mentioned kings, from King Ka onward, it was Inj-mehw (with the same meaning).
One artifact that possibly depicts King Crocodile, was found at Hierakonpolis in the so-called Main deposit. The artifact is a piece of a broken mace head which shows traces of a once-completed relief scene. The conserved part of the relief shows the head and upper torso of a seated king figure inside a hebsed-pavilion. It wears the White Crown of Upper Egypt, a hebsed cloak and a flail. Right before the face of the king traces of a golden rosette (the predynastic crest of the kings) and a certain hieroglyph are visible. All but the hieroglyph are damaged, leaving room for interpretations. Mainstream Egyptologists consider the sign to be either the name of Crocodile or King Scorpion II.
A clay seal impression from Minshat Abu Omar is also of special interest to Egyptologists: in the centre of the impression it shows a serekh-like frame with a bucranium above and a crocodile crawling through grass inside. Right of this crest a divine standard is depicted, a recumbent crocodile with two projectings (either lotus buds or ostrich feathers) sprouting out of its back and is sitting on that standard. The whole arrangement is surrounded by rows of crocodiles with rope curls beneath, which seems to point to the proposed reading of Crocodile's royal serekh. But Egyptologists Van den Brink and Ludwig David Morenz argue against the idea that the seal impression talks about the ruler. In their opinion, the inscription celebrates the foundation of a shrine for the god Sobek at a city named Shedyt (alternatively Shedet). The city and the shrine are known from Old Kingdom inscriptions; the main cult centre was located at Medinet el-Fayum. For this reason, Sobek was worshipped during early dynasties as "Sobek of Shedyt".
# New York Athletic Club S.C.

Active departments of New York Athletic Club :
| Basketball (Men's) | Basketball (Women's) | Boxing |
| Cycling | Fencing | Gymnastics |
| Handball | Judo | Lacrosse (Men's) |
| Lacrosse (Women's) | Rowing | Rugby |
| Soccer (Men's) | Soccer (Women's) | Squash |
| Swimming | Table Tennis | Tennis |
| Track & Field | Water Polo | Wrestling |
New York Athletic Club is a soccer club based in Westchester County, New York, United States. It is affiliated with the much older multi-sport Manhattan-based New York Athletic Club, which also bears the winged foot as its copyrighted logo, and has been noted for achievements in sports that include track, cross-country, boxing, wrestling, rowing, cycling, gymnastics, swimming, and water polo, and was first organized in 1868. Founded in 2008, the soccer club fields teams in both the National Premier Soccer League and the Cosmopolitan Soccer League (part of the USASA). The two leagues represent the fourth and fifth tiers of the American soccer pyramid, respectively.
The team plays its home games at the New York Athletic Club at Travers Island, where they have played since 2008. The border between New Rochelle and Pelham Manor runs through the field at Travers Island. Most of the field is located in New Rochelle, but the entire parking lot is located in Pelham Manor. The team's colors are red, white, and blue.
The women's team, a sister club of the organization, plays in the Women's Premier Soccer League.

## Year-by-year

| Year | Division | League | Regular Season | Playoffs | Open Cup |
| 2008 | 4 | NPSL | 2nd, Mid Atlantic | did not qualify | did not qualify |
| 2009 | 4 | NPSL | 5th, Atlantic | did not qualify | did not enter |
| 2010 | 4 | NPSL | 5th, Atlantic | did not qualify | did not enter |
| 2011 | 4 | NPSL | 4th, Atlantic | did not qualify | did not enter |
| 2012 | 4 | NPSL | 3rd, Atlantic | did not qualify | did not enter |
| 2013 | 4 | NPSL | 3rd, Atlantic | did not qualify | did not enter |
| 2014 | 4 | NPSL | 3rd, North Atlantic | did not qualify | did not enter |
| 2015 | 4 | NPSL | 2nd, North Atlantic | Northeast Region Semi-Finals | did not enter |
| 2016 | 4 | NPSL | 8th, Atlantic | did not qualify | Withdrew |
| 2017 | 4 | NPSL | 6th, Atlantic White | did not qualify | did not enter |
| 2018 | 4 | NPSL | 6th, North Atlantic | did not qualify | did not enter |
| 2019 | 4 | NPSL | 8th, North Atlantic | did not qualify | did not enter |

## Head coaches

* Barclay MacKinnon (2008–2016)
* Erik Bagwell (2016–2018)
* Ridi Dauti (2018–present)

## Stadium

* New York Athletic Club; Pelham, New York (2008–present)