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Sydney Secondary College Blackwattle Bay Campus

The Blackwattle Bay Campus of the Sydney Secondary College is a government-funded co-educational dual modality comprehensive senior secondary day school, located in the inner-western Sydney suburb of Glebe, New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia.

Established in 1979 as Glebe High School, the campus caters for approximately 750 students in Year 11 and Year 12. Since 2005, the campus has served exclusively as the senior school of the Sydney Secondary College and its two junior campuses are Balmain and Leichhardt campuses.

Establishment of Glebe High School
Discussions of creating a new high school in Glebe started around late 1977 with many local teachers rising concerns over the lack of accommodation for an increasingly large number of local students. Hearing these concerns, the NSW Department of Education agreed to investigate the demography and needs of the local area. As an outcome of this study, the Department of Education arranged to create a new high school in Glebe as a part of a new scheme and accommodate for the overflow of students from other schools in the local district.

After deciding to create a school in Glebe, the NSW Department of Education was searching for a suitable location. A local lumber yard owned by George Hudson and called Hudson Timber Yard went on the market in 1979 and the Department of Education purchased the waterfront property for $1.86 million (equivalent to $ million in ) with the sale being seen as a "bargain".

Glebe High School was established in 1979, starting with 110 students and 17 staff members and exclusively catering for Year 7 during its first year.

Located upon the newly-purchased land, students and staff were all housed in demountable classrooms, with permanent buildings being included in the initial plan for the school.

Construction of Permanent Buildings
During a public meeting in July 1980, at Glebe's town hall, Glebe High School's student enrolment numbers were reported to be 1600 lower than expected, leading the NSW Department of Education to reconsider the creation of an originally planned permanent building. Following this discovery, Minister Paul Landa decided to defer the creation of permanent buildings until a more detailed report of Glebe High School was completed. An investigative report of the school was created by a working party consisting of two departmental officers, two local teachers elected by the Inner West Teachers Association and two members of the Glebe P&C.

Construction of the school's permanent buildings began in December 1980, with the students and staff continuing to use demountable classrooms whilst the new buildings were being constructed. Permanent buildings were completed in the early 1980s.

Joining Sydney Secondary College
In 2002, the school became part of Sydney Secondary College and was renamed Blackwattle Bay Campus. Since 2005, it is exclusively a senior campus catering for Years 11 and 12. This enables the school to offer one of the largest range of Higher School Certificate courses in Sydney. Student enrolments increased significantly when the school was transformed into a senior campus.

Recent
The campus has a sister-school relationship with Malibaca Yamato High School in East Timor, and a volunteer project in community work.

Achievements
In 2005, Fawad Qaiser became the first student to sit for a Higher School Certificate (HSC) examination using Auslan, the Australian sign language. In 2011, Chinese language teacher, Chorng Leu, was awarded a Premier’s Teacher Scholarship to undertake an international study tour. In 2012, local resident Robert Brand, his son Jason Brand, together with students from Leichhardt Public School and the senior students at the Blackwattle Bay Campus, launched and tracked a balloon into near space as a science project. The balloon reached approximately 25 km before it burst.

First in Course
A number of Blackwattle Bay students have been awarded first place in the state in various HSC courses:

Sports
The school offers various sports which are not compulsory for all Year 11 students, including rowing which can be done in the morning or afternoon. Blackwattle Bay is on the waterfront, and accordingly offers both rowing and kayaking as sporting options, a unique feature of the sporting curriculum that sets it apart from other urban Sydney high schools. A wide range of sports are available at Blackwattle Bay Campus. A student has the choice to participate in badminton, soccer, basketball, netball, baseball, football, table tennis, fitness walking, tennis, rockclimbing, boxing, swimming or softball.

Students with disabilities participate in an annual state athletics carnival that can lead to selection in the Australian team for the Paralympic Games.


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Simion Bărnuțiu

Simion Bărnuțiu (21 July 1808 – 28 May 1864) was a Romanian historian, academic, philosopher, jurist, and liberal politician. A leader of the 1848 revolutionary movement of Transylvanian Romanians, he represented its Eastern Rite Catholic wing. Bărnuțiu lived for a large part of his life in Moldavia, and was for long a professor of philosophy at Academia Mihăileană and at the University of Iași.

Early activities
He was born in Bocșa (Oláhbaksa), Szilágy County, Transylvania (now in Sălaj County, Romania). He became a teacher of history at the secondary school in Blaj, which was at the time, like the rest of Transylvania, part of the Austrian Empire. Bărnuțiu was influenced early-on by the philosophy of Immanuel Kant (Kantianism), in which he saw the means to reform society in opposition to traditional theological views.

He was an active contributor to Foaie pentru minte, inimă și literatură, the literary supplement of George Bariț's journal Gazeta de Transilvania, he became noted after 1842 for virulently opposing the decision of the Magyar-dominated Transylvanian Diet to give Hungarian a status of a semi-official language in local administration of Transylvania(see History of Transylvania).

In 1843, following widespread support of reform within Transylvanian christian communities regarding clerical representation of its members, Bărnuțiu advocates for the abolition of unilateral administrative power in the church, on the side of a democratic structure electing its leaders, able of directly participating in the social conditions of Romanians.

On 24 March 1848, Bărnuțiu issued one in a series of appeals by various authors, calling for self-determination of Romanians inside Transylvania, viewing it as a necessary step in matching Magyar success in obtaining rights from Emperor Ferdinand I, and professing that Romanians should reject the projected union of the region with the Kingdom of Hungary until ensured proportional representation and the official condemnation of serfdom. Concerning his ideals of national identity cited in 1872 by the Transylvanian faction of the Austrian, student composed, România Jună Society, in opposition to prominent Romanian authors Ioan Slavici and Mihai Eminescu, Bărnuțiu writes on the importance of moderation in favor of the liberation of Romanians in Transylvania, commends national identity as the most relevant social factor, calls for church legislative intervention for Romanians in Transylvania, and avows the Romanian national identity as directly succeeding that of the Roman Empire.

Blaj Assemblies and National Committee
The Blaj Assembly convened in April on the basis of such proclamations gathered together intellectuals, clergy, and commoners.

Bărnuțiu gave several speeches in front of the Assembly, calling for patience and moderation while continuing to campaign against all unilateral change in Transylvania's government and disagreeing with more skeptical political leaders, such as Bariț and Andrei Șaguna, and finally being persuaded to include an oath of allegiance to the Emperor in his political strategy. Just before the Second Assembly in May, he agreed to moderate his tone further, taking in view the points made by Bariț in regard to the fragile situation facing Romanians in the region, and partly reformulated his program on self-determination. On 17 May, he was elected vicepresident of the Permanent Committee formed by Blaj delegates as a supervising body (one presided by Șaguna), later the basis of the National Romanian Committee.

The rapid succession of events after the proclamation of Transylvania's union with the Hungarian Kingdom (11 July) and of Hungary's independence (27 September), with an Austrian military debacle in Transylvania, saw a rapprochement between the loyalist Austrian Anton Freiherr von Puchner, nominal governor of the region, and Bărnuțiu's Committee. From the committee's perspective, this was an Austrian recognition of Transylvania's self-government as a Romanian region, which was to be advanced to the new emperor Franz Josef.

In Moldavia and Romania
After Imperial Russian intervention in Transylvania, he decided to go into exile, and settled in Iași, Moldavia's capital. He wrote several treaties on law and philosophy (including a passionate defense of Roman law), and, before and after the union of the Danubian Principalities under Domnitor Alexandru Ioan Cuza advocated radical reforms which were a direct inspiration to the Moldavian liberal dissidents grouped as Fracțiunea liberă și independentă. In the 1850s, Bărnuțiu wrote against the popular project of electing a foreign prince as ruler of the Principalities, an opposition which Fracțiunea carried into the Constituent Assembly following the toppling of Cuza two years after Bărnuțiu's death. Junimea, a conservative literary society created during that period, criticized him along with other Transylvanian intellectuals (such as Timotei Cipariu, Gheorghe Șincai, and August Treboniu Laurian) for having supported a Romanian grammar and alphabet based on Latin etymologies instead of one reflecting the spoken language (at the time, "Latinist" influences following Transylvanian guidelines had come to be favoured by the Romanian Academy).

After having fallen gravely ill, Simion Bărnuțiu asked to be allowed to return to his native village. He died on the way there, in Hida.

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Belagavi division

Belagavi (Belgaum) division is one of the four divisions of Karnataka state of India. The division comprises the districts of Bagalkot, Belgavi, Bijapur, Dharwad, Gadag, Haveri and Uttara Kannada. It covers a geographical area of 44538 sqkm and had a population of 13,499,721 at the 2011 census. The population density of the division was 239 /sqkm.

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Tom Finn (singer)

Thomas Joseph Finn (November 21, 1948 – June 27, 2020) was an American musician and DJ. He was a founding member of the 1960s baroque pop group The Left Banke, on bass and vocals.

Musical career
At age sixteen, Finn was a founder member of The Left Banke in Manhattan, New York City in 1965, alongside Michael Brown, Steve Martin, George Cameron and Warren David-Schierhorst. The members of the group were all members of other groups, but were put together by Harry Lookofsky, a jazz violinst who was the father to Michael Lookfosky, known as Michael Brown, who was the bands keyboardist.

After initial success with the songs "Walk Away Renée" and "Pretty Ballerina", the group split up, though Finn was involved in later reformations of the band. "Walk Away Renée", along with many other songs released by the Left Banke, were inspired by Renée Fladen-Kamm, who at the time was Finn's girlfriend.

After the Left Banke disbanded, Finn went on to become an engineer at Bell Sound Studios, as well as working with jazz drummer Buddy Rich at Rich's night club Buddy's Place as stage manager and MC. Finn returned to the Left Banke for reunions in 1971, 1978, and 2011.

Disc jockey career
In 1982, Studio 54 owner Steve Rubell convinced Finn to try his hand as a DJ. This led to Finn working at NY clubs such as The Palladium, The Red Zone, and Au Bar. In the 1990s Finn began working as a DJ for private events, resulting in his own company, Topspin Entertainment.

He played at the 1995 wedding of Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece and Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece.

Finn was the DJ for the White House Millennium Gala, hosted by President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton.

In 2006, he appeared in the November issue of Town & Country magazine in a five-page spread called "The Party Masters". Finn was featured in a New York Times (December 16, 2006) article "The D.J. Who Moves the Movers and Shakers". It was said that Finn played on average 70 nights a year, and charged $5,000–12,000 a gig.

Death
Finn died on June 27, 2020, after a period of ill health. He was the last surviving member of the original members of The Left Banke, as Michael Brown died in 2015, George Cameron died in 2018, and Steve Martin Caro had died five months before Finn, in January 2020.

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Kalaburagi division

Kalaburagi division, formerly known as Gulbarga division, is one of the four divisions of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has seven districts, namely: Bellary district, Bidar district, Kalaburagi district, Koppal district, Raichur district, Yadgir district, and Vijayanagar district. It was the southwestern part of the former princely state of Hyderabad State. Kalaburagi is the headquarters of Kalaburagi division. The total area of the division is 44,138 km2. The total population as of 2011 census is 11,215,224.

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Tornado

 * January 21, 1999 - Four people have died after an RAF Tornado and a light aircraft collided above the village of Everton in north Nottinghamshire.

 * 21 August 1999 - An Italian AF Tornado crashed into the sea off Sicily, killing both pilots.

 * October 14, 1999 - a Tornado from RAF Lossiemouth crashed in Northumberland, killing the pilot and navigator.

 * 30 August, 2000 - A German air force Tornado fighter crashed in a remote part of eastern Canada during a NATO exercise, killing both crew members.

 * In May 2002, both crewmen ejected safely when the Tornado GR4, from 13 Squadron, was destroyed as it went into the River Humber near Brough. Mechanical failure has been blamed for the crash.

 * On 23 March 2003, an Tornado GR.4A ZG710 'D' of 13 Squadron is shot down by a US Patriot missile in Iraq, killing the pilot and navigator, both from 9 Squadron.

 * 22 July 2004 - The pilot and navigator of a Tornado aircraft have been taken to hospital after their aircraft crashed into the sea off the north-east of England.

 * On 24 October 2006, two airmen ejected after their RAF Tornado crashed into The Wash close to a practice bombing range in Lincolnshire.

 * 12 April 2007 – An unarmed Tornado ECR of the German Air Force crashes in a rock face 46.55033°N, 7.92381°W) near Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland, killing the pilot. The weapons system officer ejects and is rescued severely injured from the rock face by a local helicopter rescue team. The crash occurs minutes after refueling in Emmen during an authorized navigation training in the Swiss Alps while returning to Germany from a long-distance flight to Corsica, France.

 * 6 June 2007 - An Italian AF Tornado crashed near Ferrara. The two pilots ejected successfully.

 * On 2nd July 2009 an RAF Tornado crashed in Argyll in Scotland killing the crew of two from 43 Squadron operating from RAF Leuchars.

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Graça Aranha

José Pereira da Graça Aranha (June 21, 1868 – January 26, 1931) was a Brazilian writer and diplomat, considered to be a forerunner of the Modernism in Brazil. He was also one of the organizers of the Brazilian Modern Art Week of 1922.

He founded and occupied the 38th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1897 until his death in 1931. However, he would break all his relations with the Academy in 1924, accusing it of being "old-fashioned".

Life
Graça Aranha was born in São Luís, to a rich and cultured family, son of journalist Temístocles da Silva Maciel Aranha and Maria da Glória da Graça. He was a prodigy, having completed his secondary studies when 13 years old, and went to study Law in Recife. He graduated with honours in 1886 and travelled to the South to work. He became a judge in Porto do Cachoeiro, a village in the backlands of the state of Espírito Santo. This experience was used by him in one of his best known novels, Canaã, a great editorial success in 1902. The novel explored the conflicts of the Brazilian immigrants. According to author Raymond Leslie Williams:

 * Along with Os Sertões (by Euclides da Cunha), Canaã was one of the most widely read and discussed books in Brazil in the early part of the century. Canaã is a work of ideas rather than actions, and one of the central ideas that Graça Aranha promotes is that culture in the broadest sense (cultura) is the ultimate answer to society's ills.

Without having published any books, Graça Aranha was invited to be one of the 40 founding members of the Brazilian Academy of Letter in 1897, by Machado de Assis, Joaquim Nabuco and Lúcio de Mendonça.

In 1900, he was admitted to the Foreign Service as a career diplomat. He worked as such for the next 20 years. While he was stationed in Paris, France, he wrote another success in 1911, the theater drama Malazarte. He retired as a diplomat in 1919 and returned to Brazil in 1921.

Graça Aranha sponsored modernism in the letters and arts and had several personality clashes with the traditionalists at the Academy, headed by writer Coelho Neto. He allied himself to other budding modernists of São Paulo and organized the revolutionary Week of Modern Art in February 1922. He opened the week under booing of an hostile audience, with a conference titled "The aesthetic emotion in modern art".

Shortly before the "Week", Graça Aranha published in 1921 an influential theoretical essay, "Estética da Vida" (An Aesthetics of Life), where he analysed the relationship of Brazilian soul with nature, a recurrent theme at the time. He argued that the three main races had formed the "soul" or essence of the Brazilian people by adding three basic emotions to culture: the Portuguese's melancholy, African childishness and "cosmic terror", and the Indians' "metaphysics of terror", or the use of ghosts. He proposed that Brazilian culture should strive to achieve a new relationship to nature, based on the incorporation of such feelings into art and by overcoming the ethnic differences by means of an integration between the I and the cosmos.

Due to his participation, Graça Aranha was ostracised in the Academy, but he persisted, to the point even that on June 19, 1924 he stated in a conference, titled "The modern spirit" at the Academy, that its creation had been an error. A few months later, on October 18, he resigned from the Academy. In the same year, he founded with Renato Almeida a modernist literature review and magazine, Movimento Brasileiro, which lasted until just after his death.

His last novel, published in 1929 was A Viagem Maravilhosa (The Marvelous Journey), which was not so well received by the critics. He also wrote an incomplete autobiography, which was published posthumously in 1931.

Aranha died in Rio. After his death, a group of intellectuals and friends established the Graça Aranha Foundation, a project which was devised by him. One of the Foundation's aims was to award prized in the arts and literature to distinguished Brazilians who excelled in these fields. Among the most famous awardees were writers Jorge Amado, Rachel de Queiroz, José Lins do Rego, Érico Verissimo, Clarice Lispector, Lêdo Ivo and Alphonsus de Guimaraens Filho. The Foundation, which was maintained by Nazareth Prado, closed down only a year later, when funds for awarding prizes were exhausted.

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I'm pretty sure this is the wrong map for this article. It seems to be of the taluks of Mysore district, not of a group of districts in a Mysore division of Karnataka.

I agree this is not mysore division map. --Kurumban (talk) 00:06, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Doesn't have reliable tertiary sources
This article does not contain any tertiary reliable sources. More reliable 3rd-party citations such as newspapers, etc. are needed (WP:Suggested sources). Else, this article is purely biased and a one-sided POV. Aviator423 (talk) 13:25, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

This article does not adhere to WP:Notability
This article doesn't adhere to WP:Notability. Most people in Mangalore and Udupi are not even aware of Mysore Division and its existence. This article however claims that Mangalore and Udupi come under Mysore Division. And remember, Mangalore is much more developed in terms of Economy, Infrastructure and HDI, compared to Mysore. Aviator423 (talk) 13:29, 3 May 2020 (UTC) What you are speaking is your opinion, it is one of the government's administration unit and hence it is notable.Unless you advocate that every article on administrative division should be deleted, your argument holds no significance. As a matter of fact, Mangaluru and Udupi does come under Mysuru division and you can see that in multiple government websites. https://rcmysore-rmis.kar.nic.in/ https://rcmysore.gov.in/ It doesn't matter which city is much developed, development is subjective. While HDI of Mysuru district is low, the city itself ranks 2nd https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mysuru/Human-development-index-Mysuru-stands-12th-in-state/articleshow/49604962.cms. According to government sources, Mysuru had an infrastructure index of 2.846 but Mangalore was 1.085. https://smartnet.niua.org/sites/default/files/resources/HUDCO%20Phase%20II.pdf Stop mixing facts with feelings. PareeKatti24 (talk) 05:10, 26 December 2020 (UTC) It isn't proven nor does it matter than most people in Mangaluru and Udupi don't know if Mysore Division exists, it is one of the government division. Better educate yourself rather than unnecessarily tagging an article. It helps us editors to do better. Also keep neutrality in mind while editing.PareeKatti24 (talk) 05:24, 26 December 2020 (UTC) Read More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_India PareeKatti24 (talk) 05:36, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

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Lady Sun

Lady Sun (180s - 211), also known as Sun Ren in the 14th-century historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Sun Shangxiang in Chinese opera and contemporary culture, was a Chinese noblewoman who lived during the late Eastern Han dynasty. She was a daughter of the warlord Sun Jian, and her (known) older brothers were the warlords Sun Ce and Sun Quan, who founded the state of Eastern Wu in the Three Kingdoms period. Sometime in 209, she married the warlord Liu Bei to strengthen an alliance between Liu Bei and Sun Quan. Around 211, she returned to Sun Quan's domain when Liu Bei left Jing Province (covering present-day Hubei and Hunan) and settled in Yi Province (covering present-day Sichuan and Chongqing).

Life
Lady Sun was the daughter of Sun Jian; her mother's identity is not recorded. She had four brothers who were born to Lady Wu – Sun Ce, Sun Quan, Sun Yi and Sun Kuang. Her personal name was not recorded in history. Also, the birth order of her and her brothers Sun Yi and Sun Kuang is unknown.

During 209, Lady Sun married the warlord Liu Bei to strengthen an alliance between Liu Bei and Sun Quan. The marriage probably took place at Gong'an County because it was the provincial capital of Jing Province and Liu Bei was nominally serving as the provincial governor at the time. Lady Sun was known to be talented and bright. She was also bold and extremely fierce in character, with a personality reminiscent of her elder brothers. She had more than a hundred female servants who carried swords and stood guard outside her room. Liu Bei was also suspicious and fearful of Lady Sun. Liu Bei's adviser Zhuge Liang once said: "When our lord [Liu Bei] was in Gong'an, he dreaded Cao Cao's influence in the north and feared Sun Quan's presence in the east. Even in home territory he was afraid that Lady Sun would cause trouble." In 211, Fa Zheng was sent by Liu Zhang to form an alliance with Liu Bei against the future threat posed by Cao Cao in Hanzhong. While he was in Jing Province, he met Lady Sun, who left quite an impression on him since he urged Liu Bei to have her sent back to Wu.

Lady Sun saw herself as the sister of a powerful warlord, and not only acted in an arrogant, unbridled manner, but also allowed her bodyguards and personal staff to behave lawlessly in Jing Province. For this reason, Liu Bei specially appointed his general Zhao Yun, whom he deemed a serious and conscientious person, to oversee domestic affairs in Jing Province and maintain law and order. Around 211, Liu Bei left Jing Province on a campaign to attack the warlord Liu Zhang in Yi Province while Lady Sun remained behind in Jing Province. When Sun Quan heard that Liu Bei had travelled to Yi Province, he sent a ship to fetch her. Lady Sun attempted to bring Liu Bei's son Liu Shan (who was born to Liu Bei's other wife, Lady Gan) with her to Sun Quan's territory. However, Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei, another of Liu Bei's generals, led their men to intercept her along the way and to retrieve Liu Shan. Nothing was recorded in history about what happened to Lady Sun after she returned home.

Names
Other names of Lady Sun include:

 * Sun Ren, in the 14th-century historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
 * Sun Shangxiang, in drama and popular culture.
 * Xiao Ji, nickname in popular culture.
 * Gongyao Ji, nickname in the Japanese translation of Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Eiji Yoshikawa.

In Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Lady Sun appears as a character in the 14th-century historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which romanticizes the historical events before and during the Three Kingdoms period. Her name was Sun Ren (孫仁) in the novel, which depicts her as a fiery, determined woman skilled in martial arts. Fictitious events in the novel include her marriage to Liu Bei and subsequent suicide when she heard false news of his death.

In popular culture

Lady Sun is a playable character in Koei's Dynasty Warriors video game series. She also appears in Warriors Orochi, a crossover between Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors. She is referred to as "Sun Shang Xiang" in the first seven installments of the series, and as "Sun Shangxiang" from the eighth installment onwards.

In Koei's Kessen 2 she is named "Sun Li" and is one of Liu Bei's many love interests.

Chinese actress Zhao Wei portrayed Sun Shangxiang in the 2008 Chinese epic war film Red Cliff directed by John Woo. In the first part, she and her all-female bodyguards lure Cao Cao's troops into an ambush. In the second part, she infiltrates Cao Cao's camp and draws a map of the enemy formation.

Lady Sun was portrayed by Pets Tseng in the 2009 Taiwanese idol drama series K.O.3an Guo, which spoofs Romance of the Three Kingdoms in a present-day high school setting. In the drama, Sun is the love interest of Xiu, who is the Iron Dimension counterpart of Liu Bei.

In the game Total War: Three Kingdoms she is named Sun Ren. Initially appearing as a child in the family tree of Sun Jian's campaign, Sun Ren becomes a playable character later in the game when she is an adult.

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Lose My Breath

"Lose My Breath" is a song recorded by American group Destiny's Child for their fifth and last studio album Destiny Fulfilled (2004). It was written by Beyoncé, Kelly Rowland, Michelle Williams, Rodney Jerkins, LaShawn Daniels, Fred Jerkins III, Sean Garrett and Jay-Z. The song was partially developed by Jerkins before being presented to Destiny's Child; its chorus was afterwards rewritten by Jay-Z. An uptempo R&B and dance-pop song, "Lose My Breath" has a marching, military percussion-led instrumentation with different sound effects in its backing track. Columbia Records released the song as the lead single from Destiny Fulfilled on October 23, 2004.

"Lose My Breath" received positive reviews from music critics, who generally praised its melody and instrumentation. The song further received a Grammy Award nomination in the category for Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group. "Lose My Breath" was commercially successful, peaking at number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 and reaching the top spot on numerous international charts, as well as appearing within the top ten in almost every country it charted in.

The song's accompanying music video was directed by Marc Klasfeld and filmed in Los Angeles, California. It featured Destiny's Child performing dance choreographies portraying three different sets of characters. The song was performed during the group's tour Destiny Fulfilled... and Lovin' It (2005) and on numerous televised appearances and awards ceremonies in 2004 and 2005. The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) used "Lose My Breath" as the official song for the NBA playoffs in 2004 and 2005.

Writing and production
"Lose My Breath" was written by Beyoncé, Kelly Rowland, Michelle Williams, Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, Fred Jerkins, Sean Garrett, LaShawn Daniels and Jay-Z. The production of the song was handled by Jerkins, Beyoncé, Rowland and Garrett. Record producer Jerkins, who had previously collaborated with the group for "Say My Name" (2000), had worked on "Lose My Breath" without informing Destiny's Child. Beyoncé and Williams heard the drum instrumentation of the track and they enjoyed it with the latter feeling that the song was nothing like the mainstream radio sound. They went to their bandmate Kelly Rowland presenting the song.

Alongside Jerkins, the group asked for help from American rapper Jay-Z who immediately created a chorus including the lines "Can you keep up" without hearing the track. The group took his chorus and wrote the verses and bridge around it. During an interview with Complex, Garrett recalled the time he worked with Williams on the song, saying: "There was so much magic going on in the studio. We probably recorded all the songs in about a month and every day it was a new song coming out. 'Lose My Breath' was towards the latter part of the album and that was an amazing song that we felt could not only be big on the radio but big with bands and marching bands. I was on a natural high after that."

Music and lyrics
"Lose My Breath" is an uptempo R&B and dance-pop song with elements of dancehall music. It is performed with a brightdance beat and a tempo of 120 beats per minute. The song is set in common time, composed in the key of C minor, not E♭ major with the vocal elements spanning from the low note of C4 to the high note of D5. The band members' vocals in "Lose My Breath" were described as "breathy". The song features fast snare drum sequences, choppy beats with hand-clappy percussion, cymbal crashes, and itchy hi-hats, creating a military sound reminiscent to a drumline of a marching band. The opening drum sequence is sampled from the drumline of "Taps" performed by the University of Michigan Marching Band. Synthesizer blips are also utilized in the song's melody. Along with those instruments, the complex backing track of the song uses various sound effects such as ripple of claps, stomps, thumps, snare rolls, and gasps.

Lyrically, the female protagonists challenge their male "suitors" to keep up instead of being full of empty promises; the women further feel that "He's not fulfilling you like he says". Williams further explained the meaning of the song during an interview with MTV News, "We've had experiences with men doing a lot of talking but they can’t back it up. You said you could do this, but you can't, whether that's on the dance floor or wherever else. He said what he could do for you, but..." The lyrics are constructed in the chorus-verse pattern. The song opens with the lines "Hit me" and the first verses sung by Beyoncé follow: "I put it right there made it easy for you to get to / Now you want to act like you don't know what to do". The chorus follows during which the group repeatedly sings the lines "Can you keep up?". Rowland's second verses follow where she sings the lines "Put it on me deep in the right direction". The chorus is repeated twice before the bridge by Williams. After the bridge, the group sings the lines "Here's your papers, baby you are dismissed" letting their man know that he is not good enough for them. Rowland sings a short ad lib, and then the trio ends with a repeated chorus. Nick Reynolds from BBC compared the song to Missy Elliott's "Pass That Dutch" and to songs by The Supremes. He further found a name check of Public Enemy's "Bring the Noise". Eric Henderson of Slant Magazine also compared "Lose My Breath with "Pass That Dutch".

Release
Following the group's two-year hiatus, "Lose My Breath" was considered their comeback release. It premiered on September 9, 2004 via AOL Music. In the United States, the single was released in different formats; "Lose My Breath" itself was available for digital purchase on October 5, 2004. On November 2, it was released along with "Soldier" and "Game Over" separately, the former being an EP with several remixes of "Lose My Breath" being also available. A 12-inch vinyl single of the song was released on the same date.

A dance mixes EP was released on December 7, while a Remix 2 Pack containing two remixes by Peter Rauhofer was released on August 16, 2005. On October 29, 2004, a maxi single was released in Australia, featuring the album version of the track, two remixes and a new song "Why You Actin'". In the United Kingdom, two CD singles and a 12-inch single were issued on November 1, 2004. The song was included on the group's compilation albums #1's (2005) and Playlist: The Very Best of Destiny's Child (2012).

Critical reception
Jenny Eliscu of Rolling Stone referred to "Lose My Breath" a "sweat-soaked" track and a "percussive sex romp" where Destiny's Child "pant in time to a marching-band beat." Nick Reynolds of the BBC called the military drumming of the "fantastic" track "exciting" and its keyboard stabs "nasty". A writer for Vibe hailed it as a "pounding, animalistic piece of music – as urgent as a war cry" with a "thunderous tribal beat". In an album review of Destiny Fulfilled, Tom Sinclair of Entertainment Weekly felt that "Lose My Breath" opened the record with "a brisk enough start" and concluded, "While it's no 'Bootylicious,' it's got more nervous energy and verve than almost anything else here". A writer of Billboard magazine felt that the song was "love's exhilarating start". Kelefa Sanneh of The New York Times described it as "suitably calisthenic". AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine considered the song to be an album highlight. Eric Henderson of Slant Magazine called the song a "thigh-snapper" and said it responsible for the "increased use of paradiddling drumsticks as sex toys". Barbara Ellen of The Observer felt that "Lose My Breath" was "of the exemplary standard" of the band's previous albums, Survivor and The Writing's on the Wall. In his review, Alex MacPherson of Stylus Magazine chose the song as one of the album's best and wrote, It [Destiny Fulfilled] shoots its load quickly, although just as effectively: "Lose My Breath" and "Soldier" are stunning, both displaying the Beyoncé trademark of creepily submissive lyrics matched with dominatrix vocals and arrangements to superb effect. The former kicks off with a martial beat and a call of "hit me!" which sounds like a military command, and proceeds to put you through a series of moves without pause for breath, Beyoncé and her minions cracking the whip every time you even think of flagging. The A.V. Club's Andy Battaglia felt that "Lose My Breath" gave the album an "opening charge by way of a raucous marching-band beat and panting attempts to squeeze a lot of words into closing musical corners". Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian described the song as "fantastic, legs-in-the-air". Paul Flynn of the same publication wrote that it "further relegated the other members of Destiny's Child to the position of Beyoncé's backing singers". Tom Breihan of Pitchfork Media who complimented Jerkins's "incredible" drum programming and the "mind-boggling" backing track felt that it lacked a tune: "The vocals are too breathy, too whiny, and too processed, and the song's one thrilling moment-- near the end, where the harmonies get a bit of room to play off each other with ABBA-esque rococo aplomb-- lasts only for a second." Los Angeles Times writer Natalie Nichols deemed its production "nifty" with a "rat-a-tat drum line percussion propelling" but felt that it contained a single hook expanded into an entire song. Lindsey Weber from Vulture criticized Williams' contribution to the bridge, describing it as "weak".

Accolades
In 2005, "Lose My Breath" was nominated in the category for Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo Or Group at the 47th Annual Grammy Awards. At the 23rd Annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards, "Lose My Breath" was recognized as one of the Most Performed Songs in 2005 along with the group's other song "Soldier". Sean Garrett won a BMI Urban Award at the 2006 BMI Awards for the song.

Clem Bastow from Stylus Magazine put "Lose My Breath" at number ten on his list "Top Ten Drum Beats You Are Powerless to Resist". He wrote: "Rodney Jerkins's masterstroke of a production technique... propels this... penultimate... Destiny's Child gem into the stratosphere." The song was ranked at number 39 in the annual Pazz & Jop mass critics poll of the year's best in music in 2004. In 2013, Weber from Vulture included "Lose My Breath" at number 19 on her list of the 25 best songs by the group. Houston Chronicle's Joey Guerra also included the song in his list of the group's best songs, writing that it gave a chance to Rowland and Williams to "shine vocally". The same year, Erika Ramirez and Jason Lipshutz of Billboard magazine put it at number nine on their list of "Beyonce's 30 Biggest Billboard Hits". In 2014, Official Charts Company (OCC) writer Justin Myers listed the song as one of the essential "pop gems" in the UK, praising the group for coming back in 2004 with "classic DC [elements]: super-speedy singing, a frantic beat and dramatic melody".

Commercial performance
"Lose My Breath" entered the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 prior to its physical release, debuting at number 30 for the week ending October 2, 2004. The next week, it ascended to number 12 due to being the fastest-growing song on the radio. After its commercial release as a single, "Lose My Breath" moved from number four to number three on November 6, which also became its peak position, making it Destiny's Child's ninth top-ten single. Staying at number three for four weeks, the single enjoyed a total of 23 weeks charting. Similarly, "Lose My Breath" performed well on other Billboard charts in the United States; it peaked at number one on the Dance Club Songs chart for the week ending January 8, 2005, and numbers three and ten on the Mainstream Top 40 and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, respectively. On the latter chart, it became the band's ninth top-ten entry. It was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on April 28, 2005, for shipments of 500,000 copies in the US.

"Lose My Breath" was also commercially successful in Europe. On the UK Singles Chart, the song debuted and peaked at number two on November 13, 2004. The single was held from the top by Eminem's "Just Lose It" which sold only 2,000 copies more than "Lose My Breath". The following week, it again stayed at number two, held off by U2's "Vertigo" and went on to spend the next two weeks at number two, held off by "I'll Stand By You" by Girls Aloud. It stayed within the top ten for seven consecutive weeks and spent a total of 11 weeks on the chart. As of September 2014, "Lose My Breath" is the group's third best-selling single in the country, with 340,000 copies sold. The single reached number one in Ireland, Italy, Switzerland, and the Belgian region Flanders. It was certified gold by the Belgian Entertainment Association (BEA) and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) in Switzerland for sales of 25,000 and 20,000 copies in the countries, respectively. "Lose My Breath" also entered the top ten in ten other countries across Europe. In Germany, it became the band's best-charting single, reaching number three on the singles chart. "Lose My Breath" further peaked at number one on the European Hot 100 Singles chart for the week ending December 4, 2004, spending four consecutive weeks on top until the end of 2004.

Across Oceania, the single had similar reception, debuting at number five on the ARIA Charts in Australia on November 15, 2004. It peaked at number three, three weeks after its debut, and stayed at that position for another week. "Lose My Breath" remained on the chart for a total of 17 weeks, being seen for the last time at number 43 on March 6, 2005. The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) awarded the single with a platinum certification for shipments of 70,000 copies in the country. On the New Zealand Singles Chart, the single debuted at number 16 on November 15, 2004. It spent seven weeks there, peaking at number four in its fourth week on November 29.

Background and synopsis
The music video for "Lose My Breath" was directed by Marc Klasfeld (under the pseudonym of Alan Smithee) and was shot in Los Angeles, California on October 8, 2004. Destiny's Child had dance rehearsals for the video in late September and continued the following month. During the rehearsals, Beyoncé tore her right hamstring, while overdoing the choreography. Following the injury, she was advised by a specialist to avoid dancing and other physical activities for a week; MTV News further reported that the injury could further postpone the filming of the video. However, the next week, the group revealed in an interview with the publication that the video would be filmed as originally planned as Beyoncé's leg healed fast. She said, "My leg was actually a blessing in disguise because it gave us more time to prepare for the video". Speaking about the concept of the video, Beyoncé revealed It's really a dance-off between a more sophisticated 'in-fashion' Destiny's Child versus a more 'street' Destiny's Child. And in the end a third Destiny's Child even more fierce takes over. It's a lot of hard work for us because we have to learn three routines for the same song. People will be shocked because it's different for us. They've never seen us really dance.

The video mainly takes place in an alleyway, where the members of Destiny's Child are having a dance-off. As the song opens, it begins with Beyoncé, Williams and Rowland walking, representing the "fierce Destiny's Child" dressed in stilettos and fur. It transitions to the group being dressed in-fashion with red burgundy suits as they meet their identical street-styled, hip hop copies with hoodies and Timberland boots, starting to perform a dance-off; the camera focuses on each member of the group performing a separate choreography with their rival in front of them during their solo lines. As the song progresses, Beyoncé, Williams and Rowland are joined by other male and female dancers at the start of the song's chorus. During her lines, Rowland performs a dance sequence with two male dancers. Following the song's bridge, the two different groups head towards another place where they are welcomed by more dancers and their third "fierce" rivals appear for the final chorus. The video ends in the same way it opened, with the "fierce" group members walking.

Release and reception
The music video of "Lose My Breath" premiered on MTV's Total Request Live (TRL). It debuted on the video program on October 26, 2004, at number eight remaining for 36 days. On Muchmusic's Top 30 countdown, the video debuted on November 6, 2004, at number 26. It peaked at number seven on January 15, 2005, stayed there for another week, and charted for a total of twelve weeks. The music video was featured on the DualDisc editions of the albums #1's and Destiny Fulfilled as well as on the bonus DVD of the Destiny Fulfilled Tour edition. It was also included on the Destiny's Child Video Anthology, a video anthology album released in 2013.

Erika Ramirez and Jason Lipshutz writing on behalf of Billboard magazine felt that Destiny's Child "came back strong after a three-year hiatus, showing off their dance skills in the video" for "Lose My Breath". Jess Harvell of the website Pitchfork Media criticized the "weird mink stole" Beyoncé wore in the clip. A writer of People felt that the group borrowed from their old looks for their outfits in the video "glammed up in stilettos and fur". Justin Myers from the Official Charts Company considered it to be a proof that the group was back in 2004, and showed them being "totally kick-ass – so pretty autobiographical". The music video was nominated for the Best Dance Video category at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards, but lost to Missy Elliott's "Lose Control" (2005). In 2014, The Guardian editor Michael Cragg ranked the video for "Lose My Breath" in his list of the ten best videos by Beyoncé. He remarked that the clip featured bigger budget than the group's previous visual efforts and praised the concept, saying, "It's a simple idea executed perfectly, especially when Beyoncé gives herself side-eye, flicks her hair and then watches while one of the other Beyoncé's dances like a creature possessed."

Live performances
The first live performance of "Lose My Breath" was during the opening of the 2004 NFL season on September 9 for which Destiny's Child was surrounded by smoke from fog machines. Chicago Tribune writer Chris Malcolm reported, "I think what I love most is the blank look on some of the hard-core Boston football fans who showed up early to watch kickers practice and instead got a live version of 'Lose My Breath.'" On October 25, 2004, the group performed "Lose My Breath" during the Radio Music Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada starting with an a cappella jazz harmony. Destiny's Child appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show in November 2004 where they closed their performance with a rendition of the song. On November 8, 2004, the trio appeared on Total Request Live (TRL) and performed the song along with "Say My Name". They went to the German entertainment TV show Wetten, dass..? on November 13, 2004, performing "Lose My Breath". The group "Soldier" and "Lose My Breath" at the 2005 NBA All-Star Game on February 20, 2005. They performed the song again at the 2005 ESPY Awards on July 13 with the ceremony being aired on ESPN four days later. Destiny's Child performed "Lose My Breath" at the Fashion Rocks benefit concert at New York's Radio City Music Hall in February 2006 which marked their last televised appearance as a group.

In 2005, the song was part of the set list of the group's tour Destiny Fulfilled... and Lovin' It where it was performed during the concert's encore. The singers wore white T-shirts and jeans and during the end of the performance went under cascading water on stage. While reviewing a show by the group in the UK, Adenike Adenitire writing for MTV News found the performance to be somehow casual: "It was like watching three young girls and their friends practicing their moves at a slumber party. It was a perfect note of DC harmony to end a night that celebrated both the group and the individuals within it." Barbara Ellen from The Observer felt that the song worked as a "stupendous encore". The song was included on the track listing of the group's live album Live in Atlanta (2006) chronicling a concert from the tour. Beyoncé performed "Lose My Breath" at the 2007 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo on March 15 as part of a Destiny's Child medley during the concert.

Cover versions and usage in media
Rihanna, Teairra Marí and Amerie performed "Lose My Breath" at the 2005 World Music Awards on August 31 as a tribute to Destiny's Child. Starting with the Christmas Day 2004 Miami Heat-Los Angeles Lakers telecast, the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) used the song as the music for their introductory montage for the 2004 NBA Playoffs. The song was used through the rest of the regular season, and through the first few weeks of the 2005 NBA Playoffs. During that time, it also served as part of many commercials until the playoffs. In February 2015, "Lose My Breath" was performed by Josie Totah in "Child Star", the ninth episode of Glee's sixth and final season.

Formats and track listings
UK CD single 1
 * 1) "Lose My Breath" (Album Version) – 4:02
 * 2) "Why You Actin'" – 4:29

UK CD single 2
 * 1) "Lose My Breath" (Album Version) – 4:02
 * 2) "Lose My Breath" (Maurice's Nu Soul Mix) – 5:54
 * 3) "Lose My Breath" (Paul Johnson's Club Mix) – 6:07

Maxi CD single
 * 1) "Lose My Breath" (Album Version) – 4:02
 * 2) "Lose My Breath" (Maurice's Nu Soul Mix) – 5:54
 * 3) "Lose My Breath" (Paul Johnson's Club Mix) – 6:07
 * 4) "Why You Actin'" – 4:29

US CD single
 * 1) "Lose My Breath" (Album Version) – 4:02
 * 2) "Game Over" – 4:05

German Pock It-CD (3-inch)
 * 1) "Lose My Breath" (Album Version) – 4:02
 * 2) "Lose My Breath" (Paul Johnson's Club Mix) – 6:07

Credits and personnel
Credits are adapted from the liner notes of Destiny Fulfilled.
 * Lead vocals: Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland, Michelle Williams
 * Vocal production: Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland, Sean Garrett
 * Recorded by: Jeff Villanueva, Jim Caruna at Sony Music Studios, New York City
 * Audio mixing by: Tony Maserati
 * Master recording by: Tom Coyne
 * Introduction by: Michigan Marching Band Drumline

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Say My Name

"Say My Name" is a song by American group Destiny's Child from their second studio album, The Writing's on the Wall (1999). It was written by Beyoncé Knowles, LeToya Luckett, LaTavia Roberson, Kelly Rowland, LaShawn Daniels, Fred Jerkins III, and Rodney Jerkins, featuring production by the latter. While the song and single artwork features the group's original line-up consisting of Luckett and Roberson, the music video for the single marked the introduction of the group's second line-up with replacement members Michelle Williams and Farrah Franklin. "Say My Name" was released as the third single from The Writing's on the Wall on October 14, 1999, by Columbia Records.

"Say My Name" was the most successful of the four singles from The Writing's on the Wall, becoming Destiny's Child's second number-one single on the US Billboard Hot 100 and reaching the top ten in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Iceland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, and the United Kingdom. Critically acclaimed, the song won two Grammy Awards at the 2001 ceremony for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals and Best R&B Song, while also being nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year.

The accompanying music video for "Say My Name" won the 2000 MTV Video Music Award for Best R&B Video. The song also won a Soul Train Lady of Soul Award for Best R&B/Soul Single, Group, Band or Duo and a BMI Pop Award for Most Played Song. Billboard ranked the song at number seven on their list of the "100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time" and named it the best song of 2000. In 2021, Rolling Stone placed the song at number 285 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time while Pitchfork ranked it at number eight on their 2022 list of "The 250 Best Songs of the 1990s".

Writing and production
"Say My Name" was the group's first collaboration with producer-songwriter Rodney Jerkins, who was one out of several people hired to work with Destiny's Child on their second album. The demo for the track had a different approach and Jerkins said that it was inspired by 2-step garage music he heard while in a club in London. When they wrote the song, however, the lead singer Beyoncé Knowles was initially displeased with the track they were working on. She commented that there was "too much stuff" on the track and it sounded like a "jungle". During the photo shoot for the album, Beyoncé's father-manager Mathew Knowles went to the studio informing her that Jerkins reworked on the track she "hated". He told her to "just have to take a listen to it". When the new mix was played to the group, they liked it.

Music and lyrics
Lyrically, "Say My Name" has a female protagonist telephoning her lover and suspecting him of cheating. She asks him to "say her name". The young man hesitates, and the narrator believes it is because he does not want the girl he is cheating with to know who she is. Jerkins supported the song's lyrics with a backing track that shifts back and forth in dynamics, steadily bringing different elements, including syncopated, 808 drum programming, synthesized strings and 1970s-style wah-wah guitar licks, in and out of the mix. Knowles sings lead on the verses and bridge and leads the melody of the chorus with Kelly Rowland adding the second part harmony. LeToya Luckett sings the high harmony on the pre-chorus and second chorus. LaTavia Roberson sings second part harmony with LeToya on the pre-chorus and sings the bottom harmony late in the second chorus.

Release
"Say My Name" was first released in Japan as a maxi-CD on October 14, 1999, containing various mixes of "Bug a Boo" as B-sides. The single was then released in Australia on January 31, 2000, via the same format but with a different track listing that includes the album version of "Bills, Bills, Bills". In the United States, the song began getting radio airplay by select broadcast stations in November 1999. It was later officially sent to urban contemporary radio on January 10, 2000, and was issued physically on February 29, 2000, across four formats: CD, maxi-CD, 12-inch vinyl, and cassette. These "Say My Name" singles have several remixes that were included alongside the original version, including remixes by Timbaland, Maurice Joshua, and Dreem Teem. The Timbaland remix features guest appearances from Static Major and Timbaland himself. Elsewhere, various versions of the single were released in France in March and April 2000, in the United Kingdom on March 27, and in Germany on April 10.

Commercial performance
"Say My Name" debuted at number 83 on the US Billboard Hot 100. After being released on physical formats, it reached the top of the chart in its 13th week, selling 134,000 copies during its first week of commercial availability. It took longer than any other of Destiny's Child's number-one singles to reach the top. The song spent a total of 32 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 and was one of the top ten best-selling CD singles of 2000 in the United States. It also reached the top of both the Radio Songs and the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts for three weeks in 2000. "Say My Name" is the group's third best-selling single in the US after "No, No, No" and "Bills, Bills, Bills", and was also their third single to be certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

In the United Kingdom, it was the group's biggest hit up to that point, peaking at number three on the UK Singles Chart and selling over 190,000 copies. The single enabled the group to break into the Asian market, when R&B music was just beginning to receive strong airplay. In the Philippines, it became the longest number-one single by an R&B girl group, topping the charts for seven weeks. In Australia, it was the second single ever by an R&B girl group to reach number one on the ARIA Singles Chart, after TLC's "No Scrubs", and helped propel The Writing's on the Wall to multi-platinum status.

Music video
Conflict among members of the group arose in December 1999, following allegations that the group's manager and Knowles' father, Mathew Knowles, was withholding group profits from Luckett and Roberson. They then allegedly asked Knowles for more money; they were dismissed from the group in January 2000. That same month, Mathew Knowles recruited Franklin and Williams to replace both without the signed members' consent or knowledge. The video for "Say My Name" was then filmed with little time for the new members to learn the choreography. The video premiered on February 15, 2000, with Franklin and Williams alongside Knowles and Rowland, on MTV and BET simultaneously with the publication of a press release announcing the line-up change. Luckett and Robersons' vocals still appear on the song, despite their absence from the video. Franklin and Williams' vocals are not included on the track.

The video, directed by Joseph Kahn, shows the four members along with two females and one male dancer singing and dancing in color-coded sets resembling apartment living rooms. Rowland is in blue clothes to match her equally blue room. Knowles is in an orange room, while Franklin is in a red room and Williams in a white room. After the first verse and the chorus, the girls, along with furniture from their respective color-coded sets, switch rapidly between the other members' sets. Soon after the second verse, all girls gather in a garage-like room complete with cars and Destiny's Child in black PVC-pants and orange tops and all of the dancers, dressed in black, from the video.

Legacy
In October 2011, NME placed it at number 58 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years" and Pitchfork Media placed it at number 131 on its "The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s". On VH1's list of the 100 best songs of the 1990s, "Say My Name" was ranked at number 17. In 2021, Rolling Stone placed the song at number 285 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, while Pitchfork, at number 8 on their 2022 list of "The 250 Best Songs of the 1990s".

Jody Rosen from The New Yorker credited Beyoncé's slippery rap-style syncopations in the song with creating a new sound that did not exist in the world before her. He further wrote, "If they sound 'normal' now, it's because Beyoncé, and her many followers, have retrained our ears."

Track listings
US CD and cassette single
 * 1) "Say My Name" (album version) – 4:28
 * 2) "Say My Name" (Timbaland remix) – 5:01

US maxi-CD single
 * 1) "Say My Name" (album version) – 4:28
 * 2) "Say My Name" (Timbaland remix) – 5:01
 * 3) "Say My Name" (Maurice's Last Days of Disco Millennium mix) – 7:35
 * 4) "Say My Name" (Daddy D Remix with rap) – 4:48
 * 5) "Say My Name" (album version featuring Kobe Bryant) – 4:27

US 12-inch single
 * A1. "Say My Name" (album version featuring Kobe Bryant) – 4:27
 * A2. "Say My Name" (Daddy D Remix with rap) – 4:48
 * A3. "Say My Name" (Maurice's Last Days of Disco Millennium mix) – 7:35
 * B1. "Say My Name" (album instrumental) – 4:31
 * B2. "Say My Name" (Daddy D Remix instrumental) – 4:48
 * B3. "Say My Name" (Maurice's Old Skool dub mix) – 7:35

UK CD1
 * 1) "Say My Name" – 4:28
 * 2) "Say My Name" (Storm Mix by Tariq) – 4:35
 * 3) "Say My Name" (Timbaland remix) – 5:01

UK CD2
 * 1) "Say My Name" (Dreem Teem club mix) – 5:45
 * 2) "Say My Name" (Noodles mix) – 5:17
 * 3) "Say My Name" (Maurice's Bass 2000 mix) – 4:20

European CD1
 * 1) "Say My Name" (radio edit) – 3:46
 * 2) "Say My Name" (Timbaland remix) – 5:02

European CD2
 * 1) "Say My Name" (album version) – 4:28
 * 2) "Say My Name" (Timbaland remix) – 5:01
 * 3) "Say My Name" (album version featuring Kobe Bryant) – 4:27
 * 4) "Say My Name" (Daddy D remix without rap) – 4:48

Australian and New Zealand CD single
 * 1) "Say My Name" (album version) – 4:31
 * 2) "Say My Name" (a cappella) – 4:31
 * 3) "Say My Name" (instrumental) – 4:31
 * 4) "Bills, Bills, Bills" (album version) – 4:00
 * 5) Multimedia

Japanese CD single
 * 1) "Say My Name" (album version) – 4:31
 * 2) "Bug a Boo" (Refugee Camp remix featuring Wyclef Jean)
 * 3) "Bug a Boo" (Maurice's Xclusive Bug a Boo club mix)
 * 4) "Bug a Boo" (Maurice's Bug a Dub mix)

Credits and personnel
Credits are taken from The Writing's on the Wall album booklet.

Studio
 * Recorded and mixed at Pacifique Studio (North Hollywood, California)

Personnel

 * Rodney Jerkins – writing, all music, production
 * Fred Jerkins III – writing
 * LaShawn Daniels – writing, vocal production, recording
 * Beyoncé Knowles – writing
 * LeToya Luckett – writing
 * Kelly Rowland – writing
 * LaTavia Roberson – writing
 * Brad Gildem – recording
 * Jean-Marie Horvat – mixing

Cover versions
In 2021, English rapper ArrDee released his third solo single, "Flowers". The song heavily samples the track of the same name by Sweet Female Attitude and interpolates "Say My Name". It peaked at number 5 on the UK's Official Singles Chart Top 100, spending thirteen weeks in the Top 40, seventeen weeks in the Top 100, with seven of those weeks being in the chart's Top 10.

In popular culture
In February 2020, the first trailer for the horror film Candyman (2021) was released with a slowed-down version of the song.

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British NVC community H3

NVC community H3 (Ulex minor - Agrostis curtisii heath) is one of the heath communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system. It is one of three communities which are considered transitional between the lowland dry heaths and the wetter communities classified in the NVC as mires.

It is a very localised community. There are three subcommunities.

Community composition
The following constant species are found in this community:
 * Bristle Bent (Agrostis curtisii)
 * Heather (Calluna vulgaris)
 * Bell Heather (Erica cinerea)
 * Cross-leaved Heath (Erica tetralix)
 * Purple Moor-grass (Molinia caerulea)
 * Dwarf Gorse (Ulex minor)

The following rare species are associated with the community:
 * Bristle Bent (Agrostis curtisii)
 * Dorset Heath (Erica ciliaris)
 * Pale Dog-violet (Viola lactea)

Distribution
This community is confined to Hampshire and southern Dorset.

Subcommunities
There are three subcommunities:
 * the so-called typical subcommunity
 * the Cladonia spp. subcommunity
 * the Agrostis curtisii subcommunity

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Fril

Fril is a programming language for first-order predicate calculus. It includes the semantics of Prolog as a subset, but takes its syntax from the micro-PROLOG of Logic Programming Associates and adds support for fuzzy sets, support logic, and metaprogramming.

Fril was originally developed by Trevor Martin and Jim Baldwin at the University of Bristol around 1980. In 1986, it was picked up and further developed by Equipu A.I. Research, which later became Fril Systems Ltd. The name Fril was originally an acronym for Fuzzy Relational Inference Language.

Prolog and Fril comparison
Aside from the uncertainty-management features of Fril, there are some minor differences in Fril's implementation of standard Prolog features.

Types
The basic types in Fril are similar to those in Prolog, with one important exception: Prolog's compound data type is the term, with lists defined as nested terms using the  functor; in Fril, the compound type is the list itself, which forms the basis for most constructs. Variables are distinguished by identifiers containing only uppercase letters and underscores (whereas Prolog only requires the first character to be uppercase). As in Prolog, the name  is reserved to mean "any value", with multiple occurrences of   replaced by distinct variables.

Syntax
Prolog has a syntax with a typical amount of punctuation, whereas Fril has an extremely simple syntax similar to that of Lisp. A (propositional) clause is a list consisting of a predicate followed by its arguments (if any). Among the types of top-level constructs are rules and direct-mode commands.

Rule
A rule is a list consisting of a conclusion followed by the hypotheses (goals). The general forms look like this: (fact) (conclusion goal_1 ... goal_n) These are equivalent to the respective Prolog constructions: fact. conclusion :- goal_1, ..., goal_n.

For example, consider the  predicate in Prolog: In Fril, this becomes: ((member E (E|_))) ((member E (_|T)) (member E T))

Relation
Some data can be represented in the form of relations. A relation is equivalent to a set of facts with the same predicate name and of constant arity, except that none of the facts can be removed (other than by ing the relation); such a representation consumes less memory internally. A relation is written literally as a list consisting of the predicate name followed by one or more tuples of the relation (all of the arguments of the equivalent fact without the predicate name). A predicate can also be declared a relation by calling the  predicate; this only works if the proposed name does not already exist in the knowledge base. Once a predicate is a relation, anything that would ordinarily add a rule (and does not violate the restrictions of relations) automatically adds a tuple to the relation instead.

Here is an example. The following set of facts: ((my-less-than 2 3)) ((my-less-than 8 23)) ((my-less-than 42 69)) can be rewritten as the relation: (my-less-than    (2 3)     (8 23)     (42 69))

Direct mode
A predicate may be called with exactly one argument using the syntax: predicate argument Queries are submitted using this syntax, with predicate being  (or one of the other query-related predicates).

Fuzzy sets
Fril supports both continuous and discrete fuzzy sets, each with their own special syntaxes. A discrete set (dtype) lists discrete values and their degrees of membership, with this syntax: {value:dom value:dom ... value:dom} value is an atom or number, and dom is a value in the interval [0, 1].

A continuous set (itype) lists real numbers and their degrees of membership; the degree-of-membership function is the linear interpolation over these mappings. The syntax is thus: [value:dom value:dom ... value:dom] where the values must be given in non-decreasing order.

Each dtype and itype may be constrained to a universe (a set of allowable values). Fril has predicates for fuzzy set operations (but does not directly support control through fuzzy logic). It is even possible to combine dtypes and itypes through some operations, as long as the dtypes contain only real numbers.

Support pairs
Any rule may have a probability interval (called a support pair) associated with it by appending  to it, where min and max are the minimum and maximum probabilities. Fril includes predicates that calculate the support for a given query.

Disjunction
While Prolog uses punctuation — namely  — for disjunction within clauses, Fril instead has a built-in predicate.

Merits
There are advantages and disadvantages to this simpler syntax. On the positive side, it renders predicates such as Prolog's  (which maps between lists and clauses) unnecessary, as a clause is a list. On the other hand, it is more difficult to read.

Behavior
As a logic programming environment, Fril is very similar to Prolog. Here are some of the differences:
 * Both Prolog and Fril have shell applications, which serve as the standard way of interacting with them. Prolog reads commands in two modes: in source file-reading mode, it accepts directives and clauses; in user interaction mode, it accepts only queries (although it is possible to tell Prolog to read directives and clauses from standard input by using ). Fril makes no distinction: all types of commands can be given both from source files and on the command line.
 * The Prolog shell automatically prints the values of all instantiated variables that appear in a query, along with a yes or no answer. The Fril shell only gives the answer; it is the user's responsibility to print variables if desired.

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Brebu Monastery

The Brebu Monastery in Romania is one of the most important architectural achievements of the rule of Matei Basarab and of Romanian art in the 17th century. Constructions began in 1640.

The Romanian Orthodox monastery is located in the present-day locality of Brebu Mânăstirei, Prahova County, Romania. It is situated in the foothills of the Bucegi and Grohotiş Mountains.

Architecture
The architectural complex at Brebu is currently preserved in its initial form, being one of the few Romanian medieval monuments that is significantly preserved. The monastery's chapel is similar to that of the Dealu Monastery, and has dimensions of 30 x 10 m, constructed in a triconic formation, with a tower extending from the nave and another two smaller towers from the pre-nave. The walls of the chapel/church have a thickness of two metres, and are constructed from burnt bricks and stone. The exterior decoration is characteristic of Wallachian architecture at that time, being fairly devoid of ornaments. Some of the decorative elements resemble those of the late gothic period in Moldavia. The interior decoration of the chapel dates from 1843, and was restored by Sava Henția in 1901–1902.

The monastery's living quarters are formed by nine rooms and a hall, all of them communicating with each other. There is also a lower ground floor containing cellars. The access tower in the complex is fairly large, and is regarded as one of the most beautiful examples of such constructions found in Romania. It is situated in the southern part of the complex, and has three levels and a total height of approximately 20 metres. The third levels is used for bells, and has an open space in all four sides. Part of the exterior walls of the tower were repainted by Sava Henţia at the beginning of the 20th century.

The monastery is surrounded by six-metre-high wall, with an irregular octagonal shape. It is made out of stone and burnt bricks. The annexes are situated in the west of the complex, and today only their remains can be found. Their existence is confirmed by various milestones and markers which were erected after the site's restoration in 1963.

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Category:British National Vegetation Classification heath communities

This category groups together articles on the heath communities of the British National Vegetation Classification system.


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Muttworld

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The result of the debate was Delete --Gareth Hughes 17:34, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Muttworld
Does not meet WP:MUSIC, no AllMusic entry, very few google hits (even fewer when excluding Wikipedia mirrors). Punkmorten 12:11, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete per nom --JAranda | watz sup 22:05, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete NN --Rogerd 09:38, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Side Project (band)

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The result of the debate was Delete --Gareth Hughes 20:19, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Side Project (band)
No assertion of meeting WP:MUSIC, few google hits, no Allmusic entry (although they list an easy listening group by that name) Punkmorten 12:11, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete per nom --JAranda | watz sup 05:08, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete NN --Rogerd 09:38, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/After School Knife Fight

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The result of the debate was Delete --Allen3 talk 02:15, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

After School Knife Fight
Does not meet WP:MUSIC, official site is a MySpace page. A google search for their "record label" Ball Punch Records gives 3 hits. Punkmorten 12:11, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

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 * Delete NN --Rogerd 09:38, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

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User:HERB

I am a Japanese Wikipedian. My Username HERB means "Super Typhoon HERB". I have another important task, so I'll be an inactive member of the Tropical cyclone WikiProject for a while.

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User:PBS27

Every day I'm bitterly disappointed about the state of the general economic theory. I will have to give up on economics or rewrite it completely.

Fields:
 * Applied Economics
 * Political Economy
 * ASEAN and East Asia
 * Foreign Exchange Markets

I the past I also did research in the filed of "axiology" and "general theory of value". In business I've been concerned with export from South-East ASIA region.

The articles that I have started or rewritten completly are mainly:
 * International economics
 * Currency pair
 * Trifflin's dilemma
 * Heckscher-Ohlin theorem
 * Multinational corporation

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Liv (Livingston Taylor album)

Liv is the second studio album by the rock artist Livingston Taylor. It was released in 1971 on Capricorn Records. The album's eleven tracks include ten of Taylor's own songs, and a cover rendition of "On Broadway".

Track listing
All tracks composed by Livingston Taylor; except where indicated
 * 1) "Get Out of Bed" – 2:49
 * 2) "May I Stay Around" – 3:31
 * 3) "Open Up Your Eyes" – 2:52
 * 4) "Gentleman" – 3:14
 * 5) "Easy Prey" – 4:42
 * 6) "Be That Way" – 3:06
 * 7) "Truck Driving Man" – 3:18
 * 8) "Mom, Dad" – 2:40
 * 9) "On Broadway" (Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) – 3:37
 * 10) "Caroline" – 2:16
 * 11) "I Just Can't Be Lonesome No More" – 2:46

Personnel

 * Livingston Taylor — Acoustic guitar, guitar, piano, keyboards, vocals
 * Greg Prestopino — Vocals, backing vocals
 * Robert Popwell — Bass, guitar
 * Walter Robinson — Bass, Acoustic bass
 * Johnny Sandlin — Bass, guitar
 * Bill Stewart — Drums
 * Tommy Talton — Acoustic guitar, guitar
 * David Woodford — Flute, tenor saxophone, wind
 * George Marino - Mastering Engineer

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New Mexico State University Agricultural Experiment Station

The New Mexico State University Agricultural Experiment Station is a system of scientists who work on facilities on the main campus in Las Cruces and at 12 agricultural science and research centers located throughout the state of New Mexico. It facilitates and administers the botanical gardens, the NMCR herbarium, and other agricultural facilities associated with New Mexico State University.

 * Fabian Garcia Science Center - botanical gardens, greenhouse, orchard, crop research fields, gazebo rentals, and turf demonstration plots.
 * Mora Research Center - a small forest, about 49 acre of irrigated tree plantations, and several research greenhouses. Located in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, it is one of New Mexico's leading forest genetics programs and conservation nurseries.
 * Chile Pepper Institute Teaching and Demonstration Garden - over 150 varieties of chili from all of the main species of Capsicum, including C. annuum, C. baccatum, C. chinense, and C. frutescens.
 * Range Science Herbarium (acronym NMCR) - about 18,000 specimens, roughly half grasses, emphasizing the flora of New Mexico, with special strength in Aristida and Bothriochloa from western United States and northern Mexico. Also includes a beginning collection of about 170 mosses from New Mexico.


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User:Donald Albury/Workspace

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 * Delray Beach/History
 * Theodore Pratt
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Longcross railway station

Longcross railway station is next to Longcross Garden Village (Upper Longcross) in Surrey, England. It straddles the former parishes of Virginia Water and Lyne and Longcross (a current civil parish) in part of the large wooded sandy heath known as Surrey Heath, larger than the district of the same name. It is 25 mi down the line from London Waterloo and is served as a minor stop by South Western Railway on the Waterloo–Reading line.

History
The station was opened c. 1940 by the Southern Railway. Originally named Longcross Halt, it was not shown in regular timetables until 21 September 1942. On 5 May 1969 it was renamed Longcross by British Rail.

Since the May 2022 timetable change, trains stopping at this station have increased to a regular half-hourly frequency similar to other stations on the Waterloo–Reading line. This reflects the development of Longcross Garden Village nearby.

Location
The station provides access to Longcross Garden Village, and the adjacent Longcross film studios. The station has no direct road access but has a short, broad path to the nearby residential Burma Road and Churchill Drive.

To the north is Wentworth Golf Course, lacking any rights of way between it and the station. The station is adjacent to parts of the Wentworth Estate and, beyond the M3 motorway, Chobham Common.

Services
All services at Longcross are operated by South Western Railway.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
 * 2 tph to London Waterloo via Richmond
 * 2 tph to Reading

On Sundays, the service is reduced to hourly in each direction.

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Whitland railway station

Whitland railway station serves the town of Whitland in Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is located on the West Wales Line from Swansea. To the west of the station, a branch line diverges towards Pembroke; the main line continues to Milford Haven and Fishguard Harbour. The Whitland and Cardigan Railway (closed in 1962) diverged from the Fishguard/Milford Haven line 2 mi west of Whitland.

Passenger services are operated by Transport for Wales Rail using a mixture of Class 150, Class 153 and Class 175s, and Great Western Railway who run services using Class 800 trains on summer Saturdays from London Paddington to Pembroke Dock.

History
The station was opened by the South Wales Railway on 2 January 1854 as part of their route from Cardiff to Haverfordwest and to Neyland two years later. A branch line to Milford Haven followed in 1863 and the Pembroke and Tenby Railway (P&T) arrived from Tenby in 1866; their route was built as standard gauge, rather than the SWR's broad gauge, and so initially the P&T had to terminate at its own station next to the main line one, which by now was owned by the Great Western Railway. This separate P&T station had opened on 4 September 1866 and was closed in August 1869. A single line was converted to dual gauge in 1868 to allow P&T trains to reach Carmarthen. Full-through-running trains between the two routes was made possible in 1872 with the conversion of the main line to standard gauge. The network in the area was completed when the Cardigan branch was opened in stages between 1873 and 1886.

From 1957 the station was rebuilt. On the up side it had a ticket hall, waiting room with refreshments, ladies waiting room, toilets, stationmaster's office, district inspector's office, parcels office, central heating, and a 320 ft steel and aluminium platform canopy. On the down side it had a 270 ft canopy, refreshment room and toilets.

Services
The station has an approximately hourly service (including Sundays) to and from Carmarthen and Swansea eastbound and every two hours westbound to each of Milford Haven and Pembroke Dock. Certain eastbound services continue onwards to Cardiff Central, Hereford and Manchester Piccadilly.

The services between Fishguard Harbour and Carmarthen (and stations further afield) also call (eight trains per day Mon-Sat, with 1 on Sundays, plus a 6-days-a-week night time service). Summer Saturday Class 800 services between London Paddington and Pembroke Dock also serve Whitland.

Rail and sea corridor to Ireland
Transport for Wales Rail boat trains to and from Fishguard Harbour serve the station. These connect with the Stena Line ferry to Rosslare Europort in Ireland with a daily morning and evening service in both directions. This route has been in existence since 1906.

Facilities
Despite being a once-major junction, the facilities at Whitland station are limited. There are neither toilet nor waiting room facilities available. The main building located on the eastbound platform once contained a waiting room and ticket office, but is now closed and boarded up (tickets must therefore be purchased on board the train or prior to travel). Most of this platform is covered by a canopy, and west of the building rusting rails remain in one of the former bay platforms. Across the footbridge, waiting shelters are provided on the westbound platform. There is in fact a serviceable bay platform behind this, accessed from the Pembroke Dock branch, but this is seldom used for passenger trains as services from the branch do not normally terminate at Whitland.

Train running information is provided by timetable posters, digital display screens and a customer help point on each side. Step-free access is available to both operational platforms, though the eastbound one is via a steep ramp.

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Mount Vernon Camp

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Mount Vernon Camp, also known as the Gurkha Cantonment, is an establishment of the Singapore Police Force built to house the training and residential facilities of the Gurkha Contingent's Gurkhas and their families.

Located at Mount Vernon near the now closed Bidadari Cemetery, it has undergone expansion on the hilly terrain, particularly with the introduction of modern, high quality high-rise housing blocks for the over 2,000 officers and their families-in-tow.

The road leading into the camp is named Kathmandu Road for the capital city of Nepal. Built as a self-contained complex due to security concerns to minimise movements into and out of the complex, it has its own shops, a school and playgrounds for the younger children, and a swimming pool which the families can access on weekends, which contingent commander Bruce M. Niven equates to being a township all on its own. There are no schools in the camp.

Dwellers in the complex are not prohibited from leaving the camp or utilising services and facilities outside it. Throngs of school-going Nepalese children regularly leave and enter the camp everyday, wearing the uniforms of national schools. The camp's close proximity to Bartley Secondary School has seen a significant number of Nepalese children being enrolled there, although they can also be found in schools much further away as the children become gradually assimilated into Singapore society and culture. First Toa Payoh Primary School is one of the few primary schools the Gurkha's children are enrolled in.

The surrounding commercial outlets thrive on business from the Nepalese community based in Mount Vernon Camp, and it is a common sight to see officers doing their daily recreational runs around the major roads close to the camp.

Phase 2B of the complex expansion commenced in 2001, costing a total of S$42.2 million and adding 93,568m2 of largely residential space. Designed by PWD Consultants and built by the China Construction (South Pacific) Development Co., it was completed by 2003. The complex has continued to undergo physical upgrades, with the government setting aside another S$47.8 million for expansion works carried out from 2004 to 2006, as well as another complex expansion from 2015 to 2020. This was followed by phases 1,2,3 and 4 of an elevator modernisation scheme for selected apartment buildings in-between 2023 and 2024 due to the deteriorating conditions of the elevators. Phase 5, the final phase of the scheme has been speculated to commence after phase 4.

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The Miami Horns

The Miami Horns are an American horn section best known for touring and recording with Southside Johnny, Bruce Springsteen, Little Steven and The Max Weinberg 7. They have also toured, performed or recorded with, among others, Diana Ross, Gary U.S. Bonds, Robert Cray, Bon Jovi, Cissy Houston, Joe Cocker, Dave Edmunds, Darlene Love, The Allman Brothers Band, Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow and Ricky Martin. As individuals, the various members have also worked with the likes of Aerosmith, David Bowie, Duran Duran, Power Station, Graham Parker, and They Might Be Giants.

The Miami Horns were first put together in 1976 by Steven Van Zandt as part of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. The connection with the city of Miami is only tenuous. Van Zandt had acquired the nickname Miami, due to his dislike of winter, and consequently the horn section also became known by that name. On occasions they have also been billed as The Jukes' Horns, La Bamba's Mambomen, The U.S. Horns, The J.A.M. Horns, The Tunnel Of Love Horns, The Horns of Love and The Late Night Horns. The line-up is very much impromptu and seems to depend on who is available at the time.

The As a consequence it has varied in size from a duo to a big band. Not unlike The Drifters, many performers have come and gone, and even returned. However Richie "La Bamba" Rosenberg (trombone), Mark Pender (trumpet) and Eddie Manion (saxophone) have been the most consistent members. Other notable players have included Stan Harrison, Chris Anderson, Joey Stann and Mario Cruz. In 1991 Rosenberg, Pender, Manion and Harrison recorded an eponymous album as La Bamba & The Hubcaps.

Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes
In January 1976, Steven Van Zandt set about finding a record deal for Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. As well as being a full-time member of the E Street Band, Van Zandt also acted as a singer, guitarist, songwriter, manager, producer and arranger for the band, which he and Southside Johnny had co-founded in the early part of 1975. At the time, the Jukes horn section consisted of just one permanent member - sax player Carlo Novi. However, for the recording of their debut release, I Don't Want To Go Home, Van Zandt put together a horn section consisting of Rick Gazda (trumpet), Bob Malach (tenor sax), Deacon Earl Gardener (trumpet), Bill Zacagni (baritone sax) and Louie Parente (trombone). This quintet formed the original Miami Horns line up. However, with the exception of Rick Gazda, they all went their separate ways in March 1976 once the album had been finished. Bob Malach would briefly return in 1977 to play a solo on the second Jukes album, This Time It's for Real.

On May 30, 1976, the Jukes celebrated the release of I Don't Want To Go Home with a show at The Stone Pony. It was broadcast live on nine radio stations, including WMMR, and featured guest appearances by Ronnie Spector, Lee Dorsey, Bruce Springsteen, and various members of the E Street Band. By this time, a new Miami Horns line up consisted of Carlo Novi (tenor sax), Eddie Manion (baritone sax), Tony Pallagrosi (trumpet) and Rick Gazda (trumpet). They eventually grew into a five-piece with the arrival of Richie "La Bamba" Rosenberg (trombone) in November 1976 and went on to tour and record regularly with Southside Johnny during the 1970s. They featured prominently on the album Hearts of Stone. In 1991 they also featured on Better Days, effectively a Jukes reunion album, produced by Van Zandt. It also featured guest appearances by Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi and honorary Jukes, Max Weinberg and Garry Tallent. The horns were provided by Rosenberg, Pender, Manion, Gazda, Joey Stann, Frank Elmo and for the first time, Jerry Vivino.

Bruce Springsteen
The Miami Horns first toured with Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band in 1976 and 1977 during the latter stages of the Born to Run tour. For many years it was assumed that that horns line-up for this tour was the same quintet that featured on I Don't Want To Go Home. However research by the Asbury Jukes historian, Mike Saunders, revealed that the horns were actually provided by two separate quartets, both billed as the Miami Horns. The first quartet consisted of Carlo Novi (tenor sax), Eddie Manion (baritone sax), Tony Palligrosi (trumpet) and Rick Gazda (trumpet). They made their debut with Springsteen on August 1 at the Monmouth Arts Centre in Red Bank, New Jersey. At the time Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes where temporarily inactive due to Southside Johnny suffering from an illness. However, by September, Southside was fully recovered and Novi, Manion, Palligrossi and Gazda rejoined the Jukes. A second Miami Horns was then recruited to accompany Springsteen and the E Street Band. This line up featured Ed De Palma (sax), Dennis Orlock (trombone), John Binkley (trumpet) and Steve Paraczky (trumpet) and were based out of Philadelphia. They made their debut with Springsteen at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum on September 26 and continued to tour with him until March 1977.

On the Born in the U.S.A. Tour the Miami Horns, featuring Richie "La Bamba" Rosenberg (trombone), Mark Pender (trumpet), Eddie Manion (baritone sax), Mike Spengler (trumpet) and Stan Harrison (tenor sax), made a guest appearance at the Meadowlands Arena on August 20, 1984; they featured prominently on Dobie Gray's "Drift Away", performed as a duet by Springsteen and Little Steven, and on "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out". This version of the latter song was later featured on Live/1975-85. On August 22 Springsteen returned the favour when he guested with La Bamba & The Hubcaps during a show at The Stone Pony. The Tunnel Of Love Express Tour of 1988 featured a horn section much more prominently. Rosenberg, Manion, Pender, Spengler and Mario Cruz, sometimes referred to as The Tunnel Of Love Horns or The Horns of Love, accompanied Springsteen throughout the tour. On September 19, 1988 at the JFK Stadium they also made a guest appearance during the Human Rights Now! Tour. On June 24, 1993, during The "Other Band" Tour they also guested once again at  Meadowlands Arena.

They have been featured on The Rising and We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions. Rosenberg, Manion and Pender also toured with Springsteen as part of The Seeger Sessions Band and subsequently featured on Live In Dublin. They also played with Springsteen at the halftime show during Super Bowl XLIII.

A photo of The Miami Horns playing behind Springsteen and the E Street Band at the Boston Music Hall on March 24, 1977 can be found here:

In 2012, Eddie Manion joined Springsteen and the E Street Band's new horn section for their Wrecking Ball Tour as a replacement for the late Clarence Clemons. As of 2014, Manion still remains part of the recording and touring horn section for Springsteen.

Little Steven
As well as arranging the horn parts when they toured and recorded with Southside Johnny and Bruce Springsteen, Steve Van Zandt has also used the Miami Horns when he produced for other artists. In 1981 he used them on Dedication, an album he produced for Gary U.S. Bonds, and they then featured prominently on his own debut Men Without Women. This was released under the name Little Steven & The Disciples Of Soul and the horns were credited as La Bamba's Mambomen. They also toured to promote the album. Van Zandt also used the horns on "All Alone on Christmas", a single he wrote and produced for Darlene Love which was also featured on the Home Alone 2: Lost in New York soundtrack.

The Max Weinberg 7 and The Tonight Show Band
In 1993 Max Weinberg became music director for Late Night with Conan O'Brien and when putting together a band, he recruited Rosenberg, Pender and Jerry Vivino. The three played until 2009 as members of The Max Weinberg 7, which moved that year with Conan O'Brien to become the latest iteration of The Tonight Show Band. When not on TV, this trio has worked regularly as session musicians. In 2010, the trio toured North America as part of the Legally Prohibited Band (essentially The Tonight Show Band under a different name, with Weinberg's place taken by James Wormwood) in support of Conan O'Brien's 32-city "Legally Prohibited From Being Funny On Television" tour. They continued to be part of O'Brien's late night band as part of the Basic Cable Band on O'Brien's current show, Conan, until the band was removed from the show when O'Brien moved to a different format in 2019.

Other artists
In the early 1980s Southside Johnny temporarily broke up The Asbury Jukes, and the Miami Horns, featuring Mark Pender for the first time, went on tour with Diana Ross. Touring with Springsteen raised the profile of The Miami Horns and led to more work, including sessions with Joe Cocker. In 1989 they also toured as part of Dave Edmunds' Rock 'n' Roll Review which also featured Graham Parker, Dion, Kim Wilson and Steve Cropper. In October 1991 they played at the Legends Of Guitar Festival in Seville, performing with such artists as Keith Richards, Bob Dylan, Jack Bruce, Robert Cray, Phil Manzanera, Robbie Robertson, Albert Collins, B.B. King, Bo Diddley and again with Edmunds and Cropper. The concert was broadcast live on TVE2 and some of the recordings also appeared on the Manzanera album Million Reasons Why. Manion and Pender also played and arranged horns on the acclaimed Robert Cray album, Shame + A Sin and between 1991 and 1994, Manion was a full-time member of The Robert Cray Band.

Discography

 * Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes
 * I Don't Want To Go Home (1976)
 * Live At the Bottom Line (1976)
 * This Time It's for Real (1977)
 * Hearts of Stone (1978)
 * The Jukes (1979)
 * Love Is a Sacrifice (1980)
 * Reach Up and Touch the Sky (1981)
 * Trash It Up! (1983)
 * In the Heat (1984)
 * At Least We've Got Shoes (1986)
 * Better Days (1991)
 * Messin' With the Blues (2000)
 * Goin' To Jukesville (2002)
 * Into the Harbour (2005)
 * Southside Johnny & La Bamba's Big Band
 * Grapefruit Moon: The Songs of Tom Waits (2008)
 * Bruce Springsteen
 * Live/1975-85 (1986)
 * Chimes of Freedom (1988)
 * Tracks (1998)
 * 18 Tracks (1998)
 * The Rising (2002)
 * We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (2006)
 * Live In Dublin (2007)
 * Gary U.S. Bonds
 * Dedication (1981)
 * Standing In the Line of Fire (1984)
 * Debbie Davies
 * Picture This (1993)
 * Loose Tonight (1994)
 * Phil Manzanera
 * Manzanera Collection (1995)
 * Million Reasons Why (1997)
 * Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
 * Talkin' About The Blues (1998)
 * Xtra Acme USA (1999)
 * Emergency Call From Japan (1999)
 * Magical Colours (2000)
 * Selected Others
 * Various artists: The Sounds Of Asbury Park (1980)
 * Little Steven & The Disciples Of Soul: Men Without Women (1982)
 * Power Station: The Power Station (1985)
 * J.A.M: We've Got The Love / Save Love, Save Life (1986)
 * Joe Cocker: One Night Of Sin (1989)
 * La Bamba & The Hubcaps: La Bamba & The Hubcaps (1991)
 * Killer Joe: Scene Of The Crime (1991)
 * Tyler Collins: Tyler (1992)
 * Various artists: Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) (soundtrack)
 * Robert Cray: Shame + A Sin (1993)
 * Bon Jovi: These Days (1995)
 * Cissy Houston: He Leadeth Me (1997)
 * New York Voices: The Songs Of Paul Simon (1997)
 * Joe Pesci: Vincent Laguardia Gambine (1998)
 * Various artists: Where Have All The Flowers Gone (1998)
 * Lucky Peterson: Lucky Peterson (1999)
 * Various artists: A Very Special Christmas Live (1999)
 * Son Seals: Lettin' Go (1999)
 * The Max Weinberg 7: The Max Weinberg 7 (2000)
 * Ricky Martin: Sound Loaded (2001)
 * Various artists: Autofocus (2002)(soundtrack)
 * Sherie Rene: Men I've Had (2002)
 * Various artists: Camp (2003)(soundtrack)
 * Sinner: There Will Be Execution (2003)
 * Joe D'Urso & The Stone Caravan: Both Sides Of Life (2003)
 * Bradley Cole: In Our Time (2004)
 * Sean Costello': Sean Costello (2004)

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