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Velvet Underground Reissue Highlight: A Bluesy 'I'm Waiting For The Man'

A rather bluesy version of "I'm Waiting for the Man" will be featured on the upcoming 45th anniversary reissue of the Velvet Underground "s third and self-titled album, released in 1969. The remastered edition is set to be released on Nov. 24 on Polydor.

According to Pitchfork, this "super deluxe" version of "The Velvet Undergorund" will include a case-bound book, liner notes by Rolling Stone writer David Fricke and no less than 65 tracks over six CDs. These will consist of remastered mixes of previous studio and live works, but also a version of the New York band's unreleased fourth album recorded in October 1969 to get out of their contract with MGM. Several of these tracks had already ended up on Lou Reed's solo album Transformer.

This version of "I'm Waiting for the Man" was available on the band's 1969: The Velvet Underground Live, released in 1974, but this deluxe edition is actually much cleaner and less scrambled. Compare for yourself:

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Why Have Hong Kong's Hearing Impaired Been Left Behind?

Sign language services are relatively good in such Asian countries as Japan, South Korea and Thailand. Why do they lag in Hong Kong? An exploration of the island's particular circumstance

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A volunteer translates in sign language for a live stream of Hong Kong Pride during the coronavirus Covid-19 epidemic outbreak, November 14, 2020, Hong Kong, China.

Shi Wanping

HONG KONG — In May 2020, Chung Chi Keung, a deaf man suffering from depression, committed suicide 16 hours after being discharged from Kwai Chung Hospital in Hong Kong.

In July 2023, the Coroner's Court held an inquest, revealing that the suicide risk assessment form had not been properly filled out, and that Chung hadn't had access to a sign language interpreter while in hospital, and was left to communicate there with only pen and paper.

The incident raised concern among Hong Kong's community of people with hearing impairments around the hospital's failure to provide timely sign language assistance, which had clearly created miscommunication.

The general public knows very little about sign language, as a language and a service. If they think that there is sufficient support for the deaf in this society, and that it is only negligence and individual failures that led to this tragic incident, this glosses over the real problem of insufficient service, and also oversimplifies the complex linguistic reality of sign language.

Singapore news media The Initium invited Shi Wanping, a sign language researcher at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Associate Director of the Center for Sign Language and Deaf Studies, to help share a basic understanding of sign language and some of the related issues.

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