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Ceremony (New Order song)

"Ceremony" is a song written by Joy Division, and first released as New Order's debut single in 1981. The track and its B-side, "In a Lonely Place", were recorded as Joy Division prior to the death of Ian Curtis. Both were re-recorded and carried over to Joy Division's re-formation as New Order.

New Order released the song as a single twice, firstly in January 1981 and secondly in September 1981 featuring new member Gillian Gilbert, with the latter recording later appearing on the album Substance.

Joy Division
"Ceremony" was one of the last Joy Division songs to be composed, with lyrics written by Ian Curtis. According to guitarist Bernard Sumner, the band wrote the song a couple of weeks before Ian Curtis died "to try and heal him through music" and keep him "involved in the band and involved in music and remind him of what ... a great future he had." Sumner concluded, "Unfortunately, it didn't work."

At the time, the band felt that the song represented a major step forward and had the potential to be a major hit. Sumner characterized the song as "a very uplifting track, filled with and enhanced by Ian's lyrics." Drummer Stephen Morris, meanwhile, commented, "In my opinion, it had 'hit single' pressed through it like Blackpool rock. It was probably the only Joy Division song that I played repeatedly on cassette. I liked it that much. It was something uplifting and well… up [in mood]. It felt like the start of something new – or different, at least."

There are three recorded versions by Joy Division in existence. The first is a live version, available on the Still album, from their final concert at High Hall, Birmingham University on 2 May 1980. The second, available on the Heart and Soul four-disc box set, is from a studio session on 14 May 1980, four days before Curtis' suicide. It was the band's last recording. The third is a version recorded at the soundcheck on the afternoon of 2 May 1980 (along with "Decades") and is only available via bootleg. In all recordings, the vocals are only partially audible.

New Order
After the death of Ian Curtis, the remaining members of Joy Division regrouped as New Order. Their first release was a re-recording of "Ceremony" as a stand-alone single backed with "In a Lonely Place", with guitarist Bernard Sumner taking over lead vocals. Because Curtis had never transcribed the lyrics to "Ceremony" and because his singing was muted to the point of near-inaudibility on all surviving recordings, Sumner said he had to put them through a graphic equalizer to approximate the lyrics.

New Order "Version 1" March 1981
On March 6 of 1981, the first single of New Order and the first version of the song "Ceremony" was released by Factory Records (with the name FAC 33). Initially released as a 7" single, it was reissued as a 12" two months later. Martin Hannett (Joy Division's producer) produced the record and Peter Saville designed the sleeve artwork for both releases.

The 7" record was issued in a stamped gold-bronze sleeve. The 12" sleeve was a completely separate design: gold typography on a green background.

New Order "Version 2" September 1981
In September 1981, "Ceremony" was re-released. Gillian Gilbert played guitar on this new recording just after she joined the band. Martin Hannett again produced the record. The single was re-issued as a 12" only, with the same catalogue number (FAC 33). The original is approximately 4:34 minutes in length while the re-recording is 4:23. The re-recorded version was used on all subsequent compilations until Singles in 2005, when the original March '81 recording was released on CD for the first time.

There are differences in the recordings. Version 1 has a more "Joy Division sound", with throbbing bass, distorted guitar, spacey vocals, and solid drums also contributing a wash of cymbals. In Version 2 the bass is diminished, cymbals restrained, and the vocals are "drier". The guitar has a sound typical of that used on the album Movement. Drum hits in the opening verse are dramatically panned in the mix. There is a greater contrast between verse and chorus, with the latter sections reaching some of the emotional pitch of the original. In addition to the new recording of the A-side track, the B-side track "In a Lonely Place" was slightly remixed and added more synthetic "thunder" noises throughout the song. This alternate mix also appears on the second disc of Substance and subsequent compilations.

The sleeve (pictured) was changed to a light cream with a vertical blue stripe, though with the same motif and typography as the original 12" single. After supply of the re-designed sleeve ran out, copies of the originally-designed sleeve were re-used. Accordingly, the two versions of the song were packaged indiscriminately in the original sleeve. However, the run-groove notation (phrases pressed onto the vinyl) differ according to the version. The original says "watching love grow forever", while the re-recording's etching says "this is why events unnerve me"; both phrases are excerpts from the lyrics of "Ceremony".

Re-issue
The single was re-issued again in April 2011 for Record Store Day in a white sleeve. This limited edition release (only 800 copies) plays at 33 rpm. It features the New Order recordings of "Ceremony" (the pre-Gillian Gilbert take) and "In a Lonely Place" on one side, with the rare Joy Division recordings of the same tracks on the flip side—"Ceremony" comes from the 1997 Heart & Soul box set but the version of "In a Lonely Place" is a recently discovered complete take and not the same as the version featured on Heart & Soul. The Heart & Soul version is cut short at 2:32, whereas this newly discovered take runs for 5:45 and the full Ian Curtis vocal of "In a Lonely Place" is heard here for the first time, complete with the missing third verse.

Composition
"Ceremony" is a mid-tempo rock song in the key of C major. The song contains two implied chords, C major and F major, shown through the driving bassline. The song does not contain any keyboards, which became a common staple in Joy Division's later sound, and New Order's eventual sound. The song, in its original recording, featured a slower tempo than that of the September re-record, as well as clearer production and a more processed guitar tone. "Ceremony" utilises quiet-loud dynamics and artificial reverb to give the song its trademark flowing atmosphere. The song reverts to its quieter stage for the guitar solo, a practice carried over to New Order by Bernard Sumner.

Notable covers
The song has been covered by a number of artists, including:
 * Galaxie 500 on their 1990 Blue Thunder EP (available on the re-issue of On Fire).
 * Xiu Xiu on their 2002 debut EP Chapel of the Chimes and on their 2007 compilation album Remixed & Covered
 * Radiohead on their "Thumbs Down" webcast on 9 November 2007.
 * Chromatics on their 2014 extended play "Cherry", featuring Ida No
 * Day Wave on their 2016 live album "Spotify Sessions", recorded at SXSW 2016

Track listing

 * Usually a green sleeve.

 * Usually a cream and blue sleeve.

 * White sleeve

Charts
Notes:
 * 1 – Charted in 1983 and 1984.

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Nou (TV channel)

Nou (, "nine"), previously known as Canal Nou ("channel nine"), was a Valencian free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Radiotelevisió Valenciana (RTVV). It was the corporation's flagship channel, featuring general programming mainly in Valencian, with some contents and films in Castilian.

The channel began broadcasting on 9 October 1989 and was closed on 29 November 2013. It was succeeded in 2018 by À Punt.

Broadcasting
Canal Nou could be watched mainly in the Valencian Community. During analogue broadcasting, it reached adjacent areas, especially southern Catalonia, part of Murcia, part of Balearic Islands and the east of Castile–La Mancha. After the digital transition, it was only available in part of Albacete province and Murcia. It was also available in Catalonia following an agreement until July 2010.

Programming
The newscasts were divided into three issues of Notícies Nou and one in the morning, Bon Dia Comunitat Valenciana. It broadcast Valencian fiction series such as Negocis de Família, Les Moreres or L'Alqueria Blanca. It also broadcast soap operas, mainly of Mexican and Venezuelan production. Other programmes included En connexió, an afternoon news and entertainment programme and football matches of the Valencian First Division teams, as well as the most important sporting events of different Valencian clubs, such as the Pamesa Valencia match of the ULEB Cup. The channel also had the rights to the matches of the Valencian Community football team.

It also had a children's space for children called Babala Club, a container for animated series.

In prime time, it used to broadcast self-produced programs, series, cinema and thematic programs. It also broadcast the space Check-in hotel, a sketch-comedy that had audience shares of up to 30%.

In addition, the channel was very involved with the Valencian festivities, with broadcasts of the Falles de València, as well as broadcasts of the Moors and Christians festivals of the Valencian cities of Ontinyent and Alcoi, the Magdalena Festival, the Fogueres de Sant Joan and the Holy Week.

Closure
In July 2012, in the middle of the then-ongoing financial crisis, RTVV announced a labor force adjustment plan, firing 1,198 of its 1,660 employees. Trade unions CCOO and CGT challenged the measure, and on 5 November 2013 it was nullified by the National Court. Claiming that reinstating the employees was untenable, the Generalitat Valenciana closed down RTVV that same day.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Clairvoyance (album)

Clairvoyance (album) was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was KEEP. 6 votes to keep, 4 votes to delete.

Clairvoyance (album)
This was originally deleted by an admin without first listing on VfD. I am listing it here to get community consensus before we remove it. It is only just a list of tracks at the moment. Should this be removed? - Ta bu shi da yu 10:39, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * If it were me, I'd delete all such pages as ephemera. It's remarkable that these pages occur only with relatively current music, I can't remember seeing pages with listings of tracks of Horowitz piano albums, or Sinatra. But I've just been leaving them alone, it's obviously what Wikipedians want to do. (If it isn't, though, I'll start listing the others here as I find them: there are lots of pages just like this one, just tell me what to do.) — Bill 12:14, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Most albums are not notable. Maybe none are. --Improv 15:42, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete unless it can be expanded to say why this album is notable. Mere track listings are no more encyclopedic than my listing what I had for dinner. Average Earthman 16:12, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * I've expanded it to say why it is notable — siro  χ  o  23:25, Oct 22, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: not an article, nonnotable album. Wile E. Heresiarch 17:19, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Now info has been posted so that we actually know whose album it was, and Screaming Trees is a notable group. So now we're just stuck with a substub and a vfd debate.  This is why I speedy deleted it in the first place—a list of tracks with NO OTHER information is worthless, and we would have lost nothing to start from scratch.  Is it too much to ask that an article at least have one complete sentence when it is first posted?  Postdlf 18:05, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * I've made it into an article, and its just as notable as most bands initial full length release albums — siro  χ  o  23:25, Oct 22, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep; I don't believe a precedent to delete albums should be set on a vfd that, thus far, hasn't attracted the attention of anyone who actually feels such articles should be kept. If this gets deleted, everyone who creates album articles--and who doesn't watch vfd--will feel put out, and rightly so. Plus, this article could be expanded. Could someone explain to me how having this article harms Wikipedia, because I've never seen a fully laid-out argument. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 18:21, Oct 22, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep albums by notable bands. Everyking 19:06, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep! Its the first full lenght release by a very influential band. I've expanded it. — siro  χ  o  23:25, Oct 22, 2004 (UTC)

Stray comment moved to correct location (Chris 02:20, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)) *Keep, all this article needs is more info. I went ahead and added whose album it is. Lachatdelarue [[User talk:Lachatdelarue|(talk)]] 13:04, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep now that it actually has content and we know what it is. Postdlf 02:52, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Album by notable band. Gamaliel 05:29, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Radman1 15:51, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like other '/delete' pages is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion or on the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Y-chromosomal Aaron

Y-chromosomal Aaron
This is pseudoscientific nonsense on the basis that some radical Jews think our last shared patrilineal ancestor was Aaron not Adam (see Y-chromosomal Adam). This is POV, and unnecessary. Dunc|☺ 10:40, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC) oh I see now, withdraw. Dunc|☺ 10:46, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)


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DB 601

DB 601 may refer to:
 * Daimler-Benz DB 601, a V12 reciprocating aircraft engine of the 1930s and 1940s
 * DB Class 601, the power heads or locomotives used for Trans Europ Express trains in Germany

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Edmund Michał Piszcz

Edmund Michał Piszcz (17 November 1929 – 22 March 2022) was, from 22 October 1988, the bishop of Warmia, Poland. On 25 March 1992, he was promoted to the rank of archbishop, together with his diocese, the Archbishopric of Warmia. He retired on 30 May 2006.

He was awarded the German Bundesverdienstkreuz (Großes Verdienstkreuz des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland) on 28 October 2004 for supporting German-Polish understanding, in e.g. keeping contacts to the members of Federation of Expellees from Ermland (Warmia).

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Everything's Gone Green

"Everything's Gone Green" is the third single by the English rock band New Order, released in December 1981.

As usual per New Order and Joy Division's releases, the recording date and location of the music is not disclosed on the original sleeve. The single was originally released in Belgium on Factory Benelux and bears the catalogue number FBN8. The single was later released in New Zealand in 1982 and was made available in the UK through import copies. The artwork was designed by Peter Saville with computer graphics on the cover designed by Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert.

Recording and music
The song had already been released in an edited form, as a double A side  with the song "Procession" in September 1981.

Two original songs, "Cries and Whispers" and "Mesh", are included as B-sides. Both have been commonly mistitled on New Order's releases. The track names of the B-sides are correctly identified on the label, but are printed in incorrect order on the sleeve. As a result, the songs were misidentified on subsequent releases; for example, the track identified as "Mesh" on the CD version of the Substance compilation is actually "Cries and Whispers". For the 2019 12" single reissue, the tracks are properly labelled on the rear sleeve cover, with "Cries and Whispers" listed before "Mesh".

Stephen Morris wrote the lyrics to "Cries and Whispers" and "Mesh," earning Morris the scorn of critic Julie Burchill ("Sixth form drivel"). The title "Cries and Whispers" is taken from the Ingmar Bergman film. Morris later wrote about the origin of the title for "Everything's Gone Green:" "The song's title arrived spontaneously as we were programming the rhythm track at Pinky's. After a few hours of button stabbing, synth-chattering and drum bashing, I sat down on a rickety chair, rolled a joint and inhaled deeply. The weak sunlight was reflected off the glazing of the swimming baths opposite and diffused through the grease-smeared window of our room. Momentarily, the light seemed to me to take on a crystalline glow, giving the room an aquamarine haze. 'Everything's gone Green,' I observed. 'That's good, let's call it that then,' said Bernard, who hadn't noticed my Condor moment."

All three tracks were produced by Martin Hannett, the last that he would produce with Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, and Stephen Morris. Hannett, who had previously produced Movement and both of Joy Division's studio albums, had a fractious relationship with the group, caused by his unorthodox techniques and the band's (especially Sumner's) desire to co-produce. Sumner remarked retrospectively that "Martin's last track was 'Everything's Gone Green' – fact he walked out halfway through the mix because Hooky and me asked him to turn the drums up."

Availability
"Everything's Gone Green" and "Mesh" were rereleased the following year on the 1981–1982 EP, along with the tracks from the "Temptation" 12". The single was rereleased as a CD in 1990. All three tracks appeared on the cassette version of Substance in 1987 and were in remastered form on the 2008 collector's edition of the 1981 album Movement.

"Everything's Gone Green" appears on many of New Order's compilations; aside from Substance, the song appears in remixed form (by Dave Clarke) on 1995's The Rest of New Order, in both its original form and a live recording on 2002's Retro, in its 7" mix on 2005's Singles and in its 12" mix on the second disc of the 2008 collector's edition re-release of Movement.

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San Po Kong

San Po Kong is an area in New Kowloon in Hong Kong. It is largely industrial and partly residential. Administratively, it belongs to Wong Tai Sin District.

Location
San Po Kong is located south of Wong Tai Sin and Diamond Hill, north of the former Kai Tak International Airport and west of Ngau Chai Wan. The area is bounded by Choi Hung Road and Prince Edward Road East.

Village
San Po Kong was a new village replacing the old Po Kong Village that was destroyed by the Japanese in 1943. The original village consisted of terraced housing and a small forested area along a hill. The hill was partially levelled by the Japanese during the extension of the runway at Kai Tak during World War II. Today the old village hill is now site of the Choi Hung Road Playground. Reminders of the old village lives on with street names and a park (Po Kong Village Road, Po Kong Village Road Park). The current San Po Kong is a post-War residential scheme with mostly public housing blocks.

Airport
In 1916, the area south of present-day San Po Kong was reclaimed by Ho Kai and Au Tak for a garden estate. The reclamation was completed in two phases in 1920 and 1927. The reclaimed area became known as Kai Tak Bund. The company lacked the capital to complete the project and left part the land unused. The Hong Kong Government decided to buy back the land for the Royal Air Force and a future Kai Tak Aerodrome. In the late 1930s, the airport was significantly expanded to take up the whole of San Po Kong. Clear Water Bay Road, part of the current Choi Hung Road, and a nullah were constructed around the airport. During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, more than 20 villages surrounding San Po Kong were demolished for further expansion of the airport.

Industrial area
In 1958, the airport was shifted south, out of San Po Kong and into Kowloon Bay. Prince Edward Road East was completed at around this time. San Po Kong became an industrial area, in many high-rise buildings. The government also established the San Po Kong Factory Estate, a factory estate for small manufacturing businesses in the early 1960s.

In May 1967, a labour dispute in a factory making artificial flowers ignited the 1967 riots, which lasted until October. During that period, public bus services were suspended, forcing workers from other areas to commute on foot.

In the 1980s, many of the manufacturing businesses in San Po Kong relocated to China, and the industrial buildings were turned into offices and godowns.

Features
Facilities in San Po Kong include:
 * Mikiki, a shopping mall
 * Choi Hung Road Playground
 * Rhythm Garden, a housing estate
 * Ho Lap College
 * Ng Wah Catholic Secondary School

Transport
San Po Kong is served by Wong Tai Sin station, Diamond Hill station and Kai Tak station of the MTR.

Education
San Po Kong is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 43. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money) and Wong Tai Sin Government Primary School.

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BRAC

BRAC may stand for:

Military

 * Base Realignment and Closure for U.S. military bases
 * 1988 Base Realignment and Closure Commission
 * 1991 Base Realignment and Closure Commission
 * 1993 Base Realignment and Closure Commission
 * 1995 Base Realignment and Closure Commission
 * 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission

Organizations

 * BRAC (organisation), an international development organization in Bangladesh
 * Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks, a labor union known as the Transportation Communications International Union
 * Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities, Cuban secret police agency
 * Building Regulations Advisory Committee, of UK government

Other

 * BRAC Bank Limited, a private commercial bank in Bangladesh
 * BRAC University, in Bangladesh
 * Basic rest-activity cycles of the brain
 * Binding and Retrieval in Action Control, a theoretical framework to explain basic psychological functions
 * Breath Alcohol Content (BrAC), a measure of alcohol intoxication; see
 * An alternative specification for countries in the BRIC list: Brazil, Russia, Australia, and Canada or China

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