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texts: care of her baby with her mouth. Her attorney commented, "The worst thing that could happen is the child could be spoiled."At the time, <mask> was receiving Social Security and public assistance. Jet provided an address for readers to send notes and contributions. The magazine later reported receiving contributions and letters numbering in the "hundreds". At the final custody hearing, the judge awarded <mask> full joint custody with her grandparents under "protective supervision of the court", adding that he would personally visit the child. She had publicized her case on radio and television talk shows. Her attorney credited Jet readers for contributing to the court victory. In January 1978, she announced plans to publish her autobiography, then titled All By Myself, with J.B. Lippincott & Co., and to "get out of this house ... find me a man and move to the suburbs."In the two years since the custody hearings, she had obtained sole custody of Niya, and by April, had moved out of her grandparents home to one a mile away, and had a new boyfriend. She stated Lippincott Co. had declined to publish, but a local publisher agreed. In 1979 she gave birth to Coronda <mask>, by the new boyfriend. Jet reported in late 1980 that <mask> had attempted suicide by overdose, due to difficulties finding a home, and publishers turning down manuscripts of her autobiography (then titled To Those Who Ask: Why Me?) as "too sad". She had been living with her aunt; her daughters were with other relatives. <mask> took music lessons for six months at Philadelphia's Settlement Music School disabled classes.Starting in the 1980s she performed on streets in downtown Philadelphia, then shifted venues to the Atlantic

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 Never Walk with Dorrance Publishing Co., a subsidy publisher, with funding by Evander Holyfield. In December 1997 Celestine began work for a McDonald's restaurant, taking telephone orders and distributing flyers. She operated her computer with a special device, and increased telephone order volume substantially, according to the franchise owner. Appearances
Celestine appeared on daytime television talk shows hosted by Oprah Winfrey, Sally Jesse Raphael and Geraldo Rivera, and several radio shows, including The Howard Stern Show, on which she said she appeared six times.Music
Her daily street performances, in front of Bally's Park Place casino and Caesars, included "Stormy Weather", "Amazing Grace", "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" "Born Free", and patriotic hymns like "America the Beautiful" and other religious tunes. In <mask>'s first telephone appearance on the Howard Stern Radio Show in 1989, Howard listened to her play music, then invited her to play tennis for the upcoming October 7, 1989 "U.S. Open Sores" live event. Appearing before 16,000 fans at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Celestine performed The Star-Spangled Banner with her tongue. Death
On February 19, 1998 two colliding cars struck her as she traveled down an Atlantic City street on her motorized gurney. She received massive head injuries, and succumbed six days later. She was 42. 200 people attended the procession and memorial service at Bally's.References

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<mask> (born 1940) is an American actor and a member of the Firesign Theatre. He has performed voice-over work for video games, films and television series. Career
Of the four members of Firesign Theatre, <mask> has had the greatest amount of mainstream exposure as an actor. A boy soprano in his youth, he worked extensively in musical theatre, including numerous juvenile female roles in productions of Gilbert & Sullivan operettas. In his early adult career, he worked in musical theatre on Broadway, the West Coast and in touring productions. During this period <mask> worked with many famous names, including composer Richard Rodgers, and forged important social connections, becoming close friends with notable figures including Henry Jaglom, Brandon de Wilde, Peter Fonda and Karen Black. <mask> also appeared occasionally on television in small roles, including episodes of Daniel Boone, All in the Family, and Night Court; and Off-Broadway in the 1964 musical The Amorous Flea.He also provided the voices of Meltdown in Treasure Planet and "Drunk Monkey" in the Dr. Dolittle remake series. He has also provided uncredited ADR overdubs for numerous movies over the years. More recently, he has done voices for several cartoons and video games, including the voice of Howard Deville in Rugrats and All Grown Up! on Nickelodeon, "background" voices for Disney features, and voice work on Power Rangers Time Force. He also did two voices in the GameCube video game Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. He is the voice of The Professor and White Monkey in the Ape Escape series. Recently, his voice was featured in the video game Dead Rising as Russell Barnaby, in the Assassin's Creed series as Dr. Warren Vidic, and on Adventures

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 in Odyssey as Leonard Meltsner and Detective Don Polehaus.In the 2007 live audio production of the Angie Award-winning screenplay Albatross (original screenplay written by Lance Rucker and Timothy Perrin)  at the International Mystery Writers Festival, he played seven characters requiring four different accents: KGB agent Stefan Linnik, East German Communist Party apparatchik Kurt Mueller; a West Berlin gasthaus owner; an armed forces radio announcer; the Senate minority whip; a Secret Service guard; and Gerhard Derstman, the East German Cultural Attache/Stasi member. He also lent his voice to the game Battlezone. He was the announcer on Big Brother in seasons 3 through 6. <mask> also lent his voice in the Marvel: Ultimate Alliance series as the voices of Edwin Jarvis and Baron Mordo in the first game, and the Tinkerer in the sequel, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2. He currently serves among the repertory cast of featured voices in recent and current Disney animated films. Stage versions of the records Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers; The Further Adventures of Nick Danger, Third Eye; and Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him and Temporarily Humboldt County are published Broadway Play Publishing Inc. In 2017, <mask> published an autobiography entitled Where's My Fortune Cookie?coauthored with Brad Schreiber. In recent years <mask> has performed on the radio program American Parlor Songbook in sketches called "Boomers on a Bench". (1994)
 The Tick (1994–1996) – Courderoy Cordova / Fortissimo Brothers / Charles' Father
 Spider-Man The Animated Series (1997) – Electro / Rhienholdt Kragov
 The Wild Thornberrys (2000) – Game Host / Body Builder
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<mask> (born 4 February 1973) is a psychological and neuroanthropologist working on identity and self and emotions. He focused on religion with a particular interest in Muslim societies. He has been the Director of the Study of Contemporary Muslim Lives research hub at Macquarie University. and Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK. He was formerly Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. <mask> is the founding editor of the first anthropological journal of Islamic studies, Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life. Together with Bryan Turner he also founded the book series Muslims in Global Societies with Ronald Lukens-Bull serving as an Assistant Editor.Education and academic history
During his training as an anthropologist, <mask> studied the relationship between gender and musical identity in immigrants of Algerian origin and later wrote about various aspects of raï music among Algerian immigrants in Paris, France, based on his year-long anthropological fieldwork there. Moving beyond an examination of raï in its North African context, Marranci focused upon the development of raï from its beginnings in Algeria to "Beur-raï" in France. He received his MA degree in Anthropology of Music in 1999 at the University of Bologna, Italy and also completed a diploma in piano performance at the Conservatoire Girolamo Frescobaldi, a musical conservatory in Ferrara, Italy, in 1998. In 2000, <mask> moved to Northern Ireland to study for a Ph.D. in social anthropology at Queen's University Belfast. His PhD use a neuroanthropological approach and focused on identity formation.Two years later, he became a teaching assistant within the same department. After conducting

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Marranci has explored numerous topics concerning Muslims and Islam varying from general concepts such as arts, music, gender, ethnicity, education, political Islam and social issues to more specific ones such as jihad, the ummah and the idea of justice. His areas of interest further include identity and emotions, urban sociology, Muslim migration/immigration, criminology, fundamentalism, secularisation processes, ethnomusicology, and the relationship between anthropological research and cognitive neuroscience. All of these seemingly highly varied topics, however, are linked to his main social anthropological interest: human identity and self. Singapore

<mask>’s current research focuses on young Malay Muslims (aged 12–25) and the issues that they may encounter in contemporary Singapore. Based on participant observation and interviews with male and female residents of welfare homes, parents, educators and organizations, his topic investigates the exposure of young Malays to what he terms as ‘global social threats’ and also the effects of a widening generational gap in the context of the recent 2008-2009 economic crisis. England and Scotland
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 prison – the longest study of its kind to date.Funded by the British Academy, the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland and the University of Aberdeen, this research focused on the experience of Muslims in prison in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and how being behind bars impacted their identity and experience of Islam. Using participant observation as a primary research methodology, <mask> conducted over 170 interviews with current and former Muslim prisoners and their families. This meant taking part in Friday prayers, Islamic lessons, observing imams' activities and spending time with the prisoners in their cells and during their association time – at times for up to 10 hours a day. As far as former prisoners are concerned, this has also included living for a short time with the former prisoners' families and following their lives once released from prison. <mask> presented some of his research at the 2007 IQRA Trust Annual Lecture at the House of Lords. His research has also attracted attention from newspapers such as The Guardian, Le Figaro, and Daily Times (Pakistan), among others. In addition, he has been interviewed for a documentary for the BBC.Northern Ireland
Between 2001 and 2003 <mask> carried out fieldwork among the local Muslim community, primarily in Belfast. His research interests included cultural influences, religious modifications, the concept of ummah, children's education, Muslim associations, community organization, child-parent relationships, identity conflicts, and women. He also studied identity construction among Muslim migrants and their children, proposing an interpretation of the reasons for which Muslims in the West may radicalize or understand jihad as violent struggle. He has

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 published some of this research in Jihad beyond Islam and, along with findings from his research with Muslims in prison, in Understanding Muslim Identity, Rethinking Fundamentalism. Italy
Between 1999 and 2000, <mask> studied Muslim immigrant women and their daughters in Pisa. His fieldwork centered on family roles, women's associations, diaspora, myth of return, private vs. public, female genital mutilation in immigration contexts and social relationships. France
Between 1998 and 1999, <mask> conducted fieldwork in both Paris and Lyon with first and second-generation Algerian immigrants, focussing on the use of urban space, identity conflicts, cultural expressions, gender, transnationalism and local and global dimensions.Selected bibliography
<mask>, G. (2009), Faith, Ideology and Fear: Muslim Identities Within and Beyond Prisons, London and New York: Continuum Books
<mask>, G. (2009), The Sociology and Anthropology of Islam, in Bryan Turner (ed.) The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. <mask>, G. (2009), Understanding Muslim Identity, Rethinking Fundamentalism, London, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. <mask>, G. (2008), British Muslims and the British State, in Bryan Turner (ed. ), Religious Diversity and Civil Society: A Comparative Analysis, Oxford: Bardwell Press. <mask>, G. (2007), The Anthropology of Islam, London and New York: <mask>, G. (2007), From the Ethos of Justice to the Ideology of Justice: Understanding Radical Views of Scottish Muslims, in Tahir Abbas (ed. ), Islamic Political Radicalism: A European Comparative Perspective, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.<mask>, G. (2006), Jihad beyond Islam, London and New York: Berg. References

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<mask> (born July 15, 1953) is an American singer and songwriter who co-wrote and performed her international hit "I Love the Nightlife (Disco 'Round)" in 1978. Early years
Born in Charlotte, North Carolina and raised in the small Cleveland County town of Lawndale, <mask> sang from a very young age, learning to play guitar at the age of 10. At the age of 12 she had her own radio program: The <mask> Show, broadcast every Saturday on station WADA in Shelby, North Carolina. Occasionally she would sing on the show but has said what she is most proud of is that she "ran all the dials, the turntables, cued the records and made all the announcements live on the air". From age thirteen <mask> fronted bands who performed in local clubs- (<mask> quote:)"They were pretty rough places...but these were the only places I could get...performing experience... so I had to adjust to that rough environment and learn to survive in it"

Discovery and fame (1970s)
<mask> first recorded for the Nashville-based Mega Records with two 1973 single releases of her original material: both singles flopped but <mask> came to the attention of the president of the publisher of her songs: Bill Lowery, who signed as her manager, subsidizing <mask> over a roughly two-year period of canvassing record labels which ended when she was signed to Polydor in 1977. <mask>' self-titled debut album was the inaugural production by Steve Buckingham who was assigned to produce <mask> after playing guitar on one of her earliest sessions. <mask> and her personal and songwriting partner Susan Hutcheson had written a song entitled "Disco 'Round" which at Buckingham's suggestion was recorded as "I Love the Nightlife" as Buckingham felt the song was R&B rather than disco

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texts: ("Disco 'Round" was retained as the song's subtitle): <mask> herself would later admit she'd had hopes that the song would be received as a Memphis soul number, calling it "something Al Green might sing".However club support was a key factor in the success of the track which became a "sleeper" Top 40 hit spending 27 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 with a peak of number five, and also appearing on several international hit parades as evinced by the Billboard's "Hits of the World" chart. The song was also in the #5 position on the Record World and Cash Box charts. It was also a "crossover" hit, receiving play even on country music stations. The cover of the 1978 self-titled LP features an early skyline picture of Atlanta, Georgia. In 1978 <mask> was a Grammy nominee and was the opening act, performing "I Love the Nightlife". <mask>' self-titled LP, <mask> Bridges, was also rising on the Billboard, Cash Box and Record World charts and the LP remained on the charts for up to 35 weeks. Both the LP and the single release were international successes, and "I Love the Nightlife" went top 40 in the UK and Germany, Spain and other European countries.<mask>' music was especially popular in Japan. She received an RIAA Certified Gold Record for the sale of over one million copies of her hit single in the US, as well as a gold record from Canada. Contrary to the impression created by her success with "I Love the Nightlife", <mask> was primarily a singer of R&B, rock, blues and love songs. "I Love the Nightlife" has a definite back beat and organ similar to early 1970s R&B; the original intention was for "I Love the Nightlife" to be an R&B song, but when Bill Lowery first heard the song, he saw its disco potential: subsequently a 12"

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 single remix was created by Jim Burgess, ultimately becoming a worldwide club smash. "I Love the Nightlife" has been featured in several movies, including Love at First Bite, The Last Days of Disco and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. <mask>' second single, "Body Heat", was a rock song with strong electric guitar rhythms. It was a "rock/dance" song released at a time when there was some rivalry between disco fans and rock fans; this time period began to see more songs which mixed the genres of rock and disco to create a "rock/disco" flavor.In an interview, <mask> mentioned Elvis Presley as the singer who originally aroused her interest in rock music but she has always considered herself an R&B singer. She cited Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight and Patti Labelle as her 1970s influences. She said that she didn't care for white female singers as a rule with the exception of Joni Mitchell and Janis Joplin. She complained that white women sounded like they were "sleepwalking" through their performances. "Yeah, I jump around a lot when I'm performing," she said. Impostor
In 1983, a woman was arrested in Nashville, Tennessee for pretending to be <mask> during a country music convention. <mask> drove from her home in Atlanta to give evidence in the case.<mask> stated that she had been plagued by an impostor for five years. Recent years
Subsequent to the 1984 release of the second of two consecutive flop album releases <mask> began working as a disc jockey at Atlanta dance clubs, and was working at the Ponce de Leon Avenue venue the Atlanta Eagle when her disco classic "I Love the Nightlife" had its 1994 revival due to its inclusion on the soundtrack of the movie The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the

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 Desert. This revival spurred <mask> to perform at retro disco shows for a number of years, before retiring to Charlotte North Carolina. Alicia Bridges Music Publications was founded in 2006 and has produced three albums. In November 2006 <mask> released a remixed and remastered compilation of her songs titled This Girl Don't Care. In 2007 she released Say It Sister. Her third CD, Faux Diva, was released in 2008; this included a remix of "I Love The Nightlife".<mask> is currently active in the music community as a producer and DJ. Her works, digital versions of her recordings, a blog and videos can be found on her official web sites. In 2009 <mask> was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame. Personal life
<mask> is openly lesbian. She has stated that as a teenager, she realized she was "different from the rest", as discussed during a 1998 interview for The Advocate. Discography

Albums
 1978:  <mask> (Polydor, 1978)
 1979: Play It as It Lays
 1984: Hocus Pocus
 2002: The Collection: I Love the Nightlife (compilation)
 2006: This Girl Don't Care (remixed and remastered compilation)
 2007: Say It Sister (remastered compilation)
 2008: Faux Diva (remixed and remastered compilation)

Singles

See also
List of 1970s one-hit wonders in the United States

References

External links
 Official site

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<mask>, <mask> of Etchingham (born 31 October 1956) is an English journalist and a former editor of The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator and The Sunday Telegraph; he still writes for all three. He is known for his authorised biography of Margaret Thatcher, published in three volumes (2013, 2016 and 2019). Under the government of Boris Johnson, in July 2020 <mask> was given a peerage and made a member of the House of Lords. Early life
<mask> was born in Hastings, East Sussex. He is from a Liberal family. His mother was a county councillor for the Liberal Party in Sussex and his father Richard was a leader writer on the News Chronicle, who unsuccessfully stood for the party at several general elections. While at Eton in 1974 <mask> wrote about his membership of the Liberals in the Eton Chronicle and also about his taste for real ale.During this period he was already a friend of Oliver Letwin. <mask> remained a Liberal into his early twenties. <mask> went to Trinity College, Cambridge, at the same time as Letwin. At Eton he had also known Nicholas Coleridge, who was also at Trinity. He read English (2.1) and History (2.1) and graduated BA in 1979. By now an advocate of architectural conservation, he became an admirer of the work in this field of Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman. Early career
In 1979 he joined The Daily Telegraph as a political correspondent, and, after a short period on the 'Peterborough' gossip column, was writing leaders within two years, by the age of 24.In 1982 <mask> wrote a pamphlet for the Salisbury Group, titled The Old People of Lambeth (1982). In the aftermath of the 1981 Brixton riot, (which <mask> blamed on "poorly planned mass immigration"), <mask> interviewed elderly white residents of Lambeth on their experience of crime, the police, immigration and politics. <mask> wrote: "The native population of Lambeth feels little natural sympathy with the West Indian arrivals. Without having any arrogant or dogmatic theory of racial superiority, the old people of Lambeth can see with their own

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 eyes that they are surrounded by people more primitive than they, who lack their respect for law and privacy". In the final paragraph, <mask> wrote of the old people's loyalty to the Royal Family, their memories of the two world wars, their work ethic and their readiness to obey the law: "As one old man said simply, 'It's our country and our Queen. Why should we be afraid to go out?'" In 1992 in an article questioning the success of the welfare policies intended to combat historical social problems, <mask> supportively claimed there was a perception in America that some groups might be more able than others, which he then went on to support: "The Korean sets up the grocery store which the black then robs, that is the caricature that America recognises", and that there was a prejudice often voiced in conversation but hardly ever put into print "that there really is something different about blacks, or at least about young black men" and "If it is true, as it surely is that some races – the Jews are the obvious example – are highly enterprising and talented, it may also be true that some are the opposite."In September 2003 <mask> launched a new column, Beebwatch, that he claimed will "delve into the unconscious bias" of the corporation. "The BBC's mental assumptions are those of the fairly soft left, that American power is a bad thing, whereas the UN is good, that the Palestinians are in the right and Israel isn't, that the war in Iraq was wrong, that the European Union is a good thing and that people who criticise it are xenophobic," <mask> said. As editor

The Spectator
Two years after joining The Spectator as a political columnist, <mask> became the magazine's editor in 1984, remaining there until 1990. <mask> was given this role by the owner, John “Algy” Cluff, whose company Cluff Resources specialises in “support activities” for oil and gas extraction and is co-located with a number of climate change denial think-tanks at 55 or 57 Tufton Street. <mask> employed a young journalist Boris Johnson at The

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<mask> co-edited A Tory Seer: The Selected Journalism of T. E. Utley, which was published in 1989. Editor of the Sunday Telegraph
Following The Spectator, he edited The Sunday Telegraph from 1992 to 1995. Near the start of this period, around the time of the publication of the Andrew Morton book Diana: Her True Story, he appeared on Newsnight to discuss the marital difficulties of the Prince and Princess of Wales.To the astonishment of the presenter, Jeremy Paxman, <mask> said that because he wished to protect the monarchy: "I believe in the importance of concealment in these matters and, if you like, hypocrisy." Editor of the Daily Telegraph
<mask> became editor of The Daily Telegraph in 1995. In 2001, his signed editorial "A Free Country" gained some notice elsewhere in the media. In this article, he argued in favour of hunting, pornography, the right to employ whom we choose, the right to trial by jury and advocated the legalisation of cannabis. He blamed a decline in "freedom" on the controls imposed during the Second World War and on Margaret Thatcher: "If you've been in office for a long time you always start to believe in having more power, and she undoubtedly got that disease." False allegations against George Galloway
Owing to falling circulation, there had been speculation by 2003 about <mask>'s future prior to his resignation in the autumn of that year. <mask> had been editor when stories about George Galloway, which led to a successful libel action from the politician, were published.The newspaper had falsely written that Galloway received payments from Saddam Hussein's regime. Later career
Since leaving the editorship of the Daily Telegraph in 2003, to spend more time writing Thatcher's authorised biography, <mask> has penned regular columns at The Spectator and at the Daily Telegraph. Chairman of Policy Exchange (?-2011)
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 number of years chairman of Policy Exchange, a London-based think-tank, before he stepped down in June 2011. In December 2007 he entered the debate over The Hijacking of British Islam, a Policy Exchange report which the BBC had found to rely on evidence that was clearly fabricated, On 17 December 2007, The Times issued an apology to Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari of the East London Mosque in connection with its coverage of the report originally defended by <mask>. Policy Exchange did not bring its threatened legal action against the BBC but in September 2008, the Finsbury Park Mosque issued a writ in the High Court over the report's allegations. In March 2009, the report appeared to have been removed from the Policy Exchange website, and a correction notice was published. The case came to the High Court in December 2009 but was struck out by the Judge on the basis that the Mosque could not sue for defamation as it was not a corporate entity or legal person.Peerage
On 31 July 2020, <mask> was given a life peerage alongside other prominent Brexiters Claire Fox, Kate Hoey, Gisela Stuart, Frank Field and Sir Ian Botham. He took his seat in the House of Lords on 17 September 2020, and sits as a non-affiliated. , he has yet to speak in the Lords or ask a written question, although he has voted 75 times, he will give his maiden speech on 23rd February 2022. Publications

Biographer of Margaret Thatcher
Following the death of Margaret Thatcher on 8 April 2013, during his appearance on the Question Time programme three days later, <mask> criticised the BBC for giving too much publicity to the Thatcher critics who were celebrating her death. Menzies Campbell accused <mask> of suffering from "a persecution complex". On 17 April, the day of Thatcher's funeral, <mask> said that parts of the country showing enmity were considered "relatively less important". <mask> left his post as editor of The Daily Telegraph in 2003 to spend more time writing Thatcher's authorised biography.Always intended to be published after her death, the

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 first volume, titled Not For Turning, was published in 2013 shortly after her funeral. (The US edition of this initial volume was retitled Margaret Thatcher, The Authorized Biography: From Grantham to the Falklands.) <mask> does not know exactly why he was chosen to write the biography, but believes it was probably because of his age, and because he was familiar with all the main characters of Thatcher's time in government, without being especially strongly linked to any one of them. He was selected by Thatcher, without his prior knowledge, out of a list of names which were presented to her. The first volume of <mask>'s three-volume work received the £5,000 Elizabeth Longford Prize in 2014. Personal life
<mask> married Caroline Baxter (whom he had met at university) during 1981 in Tunbridge Wells. The couple have two children.<mask> converted to Roman Catholicism following the Church of England's decision to allow the ordination of women as priests in 1992. His wife, a former English don at Peterhouse, Cambridge, chose not to make such a move and remains an Anglican. <mask> is the founder-chairman of The Rectory Society which is dedicated to preserving past and present parsonages. <mask> is also a patron of the Latin Mass Society of England & Wales. Views
<mask> is a monarchist and says the monarchy "reaches parts politics cannot reach". He supported Brexit and has criticised the BBC's Brexit and climate change coverage. In The Spectator in 2018 he wrote that "religious freedom is central to all freedoms".In September 2020, <mask> referred to Black Lives Matter as a "Marxist movement whose doctrines about white people are explicitly racist". Critic of the BBC
<mask> is a critic of the BBC, which he believes has a left-wing bias. <mask> was fined £262 for not possessing a TV licence in May 2010, eighteen months after announcing that he would donate the amount payable as a television licence to Help the Aged because the BBC had failed to sack Jonathan Ross for his "Sachsgate" prank with Russell Brand. He saw

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 the episode as part of an ongoing "pathology" at the BBC, rather than being an isolated incident. In December 2019, <mask> was a guest editor on the BBC flagship news programme, Today, where he invited fellow Global Warming Policy Foundation affiliates Matt Ridley and Michael Kelly to be interviewed in back-to-back editions of the programme also featuring climate activist Greta Thunberg and climate scientist Kevin Anderson. <mask> said the BBC was biased against climate change deniers. Today host, Nick Robinson, said that the corporation's coverage was governed by "Ofcom regulations and the law" and that it reported the "global consensus" on climate science, denying it preached a certain position.Sir David Clementi, the outgoing chairman of the BBC, warned the government that lining up <mask> as his successor would "put off" candidates. <mask> was reported to have been the Prime Minister's preferred choice for chairman before the position had been advertised. However, since then, <mask> has said he decided against applying for personal reasons, although <mask>'s demand for a pay rise over the current salary and discomfort over his previous comments were also reported. Critic of David Cameron
<mask> was a critic of David Cameron's Conservative Party modernisation strategy, that he stated embraced "subjects which they had previously ceded to the Left, like health, welfare, the environment and schools", which he believed had supported the interests of government organisations rather than that of the consumer. In particular, <mask> has been critical of the National Health Service, which he considers "a terrible organisation". In December 2009, regarding the Beano character Lord Snooty, the nickname Private Eye uses for <mask>, <mask> wrote that "he is the ideal role model for David Cameron." In 2011, after the News International phone hacking scandal became public knowledge, he wondered if the Left had been right all along, not only in their objection to Rupert Murdoch's power, but also whether "'the free


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In June 2013, <mask> said that following the murder of Lee Rigby by Islamic terrorists, the BBC and organisations which monitor attacks against Muslims and anti-Muslim prejudice, such as Tell MAMA, had set a trap "inviting those of us who reject such statements" (i.e. that anti-Muslim prejudice had increased following the attacks) "to defend the [English Defence League]. I do not." He described the EDL as a "reactive organisation" which "does not – officially at least – support violence". <mask> also said "If we attack the EDL for being racist, fascist and pro-violence, we can do so with impunity, although we are not being strictly accurate" and that "the only serious violence was against a British soldier". Sadiq Khan said in his response to <mask> that "Al-Rahma Islamic Centre had been burnt to the ground, or to the 182 staff and pupils evacuated from the Darul Uloom School in Chiselhurst, traumatised by an arson attack in the middle of the night". On gay rights
<mask> has expressed his view that civil partnerships achieved a "balance" for heterosexual and homosexual couples.In July 2013, <mask> wrote that he opposed changing the definition of marriage, writing in The Spectator: "I wonder if the law will eventually be changed to allow one to marry one's dog." In 2015, <mask> wrote that a "gay rights sharia" was dictating what the LGBT+ community should believe following Dolce & Gabbana's openly gay founders criticising gay adoptions. <mask> wrote that "If you are gay, Mr Strudwick seemed to assert, there are certain things you must believe. Nothing else is permitted under the gay rights sharia." In 2013, he wrote that "Respectable people are truly terrified of being thought anti-homosexual. In a way, they are right to be, because attacking people for their personal preferences can be a nasty thing." In 2017, <mask> opposed banning the pseudoscientific practice of conversion therapy, asking: "Why should they not be entitled to seek escape [from


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In the wake of the June 2015 Sousse attacks, in which 38 Westerners were murdered by an Islamist who had apparently been seduced by an associate of Abu Qatada, <mask> wrote an essay the thesis of which was that ISIS and its fellow-travellers truly believe only it can defeat the conspiracy that runs the world and that there is no possible common ground. He concluded that "It is not paranoid to say that there is a deadly enemy within [the UK] and not intolerant to want to defeat it." <mask> wrote in September 2015 that Muslim immigration meant "more political disturbance, more communal tension, more intolerance of other faiths and more terrorism". In January 2017 <mask> defended Donald Trump after the President attempted to ban citizens of several Muslim nations entering the US. <mask> described the criticisms of Trump as "foaming" and "ridiculous" in an editorial for The Daily Telegraph. Alleged sexism
In August 2015, <mask> received media attention and criticism after he wrote an article for The Spectator about the 2015 Labour Party leadership election, titled "Have Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall got the looks for a leadership contest?", in which he wrote "there is an understanding that no leader—especially, despite the age of equality, a woman—can look grotesque on television and win a general election" and discussed the looks of the two female candidates in detail. The article was condemned by Liz Kendall, First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon and Tessa Jowell, candidate for the Labour nomination for Mayor of London and former Minister and MP, along with several journalists and MPs from various parties. In August 2019 he was criticised for suggesting that Olivia Colman had a "distinctly leftwing face" which cast a doubt in his mind on her ability to play the role of the Queen in the then-upcoming season of The Crown. Climate change
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Bibliography
 Review of Margaret Thatcher: The Authorised Biography, Volume Two: Everything She Wants. External links
 <mask> Column archive The Daily Telegraph
 I'm starting to think that the Left might actually be right, The Daily Telegraph, 22 July 2011
 <mask> Column archive The Spectator

 <mask> Article archive Journalisted
 In Defence of Dogma Interview with Luke O Sullivan, Quadrapheme Magazine, 17 April 2014 (Archived)

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<mask> is an American essayist, novelist, and author of several books of nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in publications including Quillette, TIME, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, National Review, First Things, The Weekly Standard, and other venues. In March 2017, she was named senior research fellow at the Faith & Reason Institute. <mask> spoke at the Edmund Burke Foundation's inaugural National Conservatism Conference in July, 2019. Education and personal life
<mask> grew up in rural upstate New York. She graduated magna cum laude in 1983 from Cornell University, where she was a four-year Telluride Scholar. <mask> is married to author and demographer <mask>.Professional career
Eberstadt has written for a wide variety of magazines and newspapers. New York Times columnist David Brooks has twice awarded Eberstadt's writing a "Sidney," his annual award for best essay writing of the year. Columnist George Will has called Eberstadt "intimidatingly intelligent," and author George Weigel has called her "our premier analyst of American cultural foibles and follies, with a keen eye for oddities that illuminate just how strange the country's moral culture has become." In 2016, HarperCollins published Eberstadt's latest book, It's Dangerous to Believe: Religious Freedom and Its Enemies, which chronicles the rise in discrimination against religious believers in the United States and elsewhere during an era of ascendant secularism. The book argues that the sexual revolution has inadvertently generated a new, rival, secularist Western faith, complete with quasi-religious ritual and theology; and that this new secularist faith must learn to coexist in civility alongside traditional Judeo-Christianity, rather than seeking to drive other men and women of faith from the public square. Thomas Farr of the Religious Freedom Project said that "every man and woman of the left should read this book." Robert P. George called it "a powerful manifesto."Russell D. Moore of the Southern Baptist Convention said that "this book will equip you to know

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texts: religion." <mask> also authored Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution, published in 2012. The book examines how the sexual revolution has produced widespread discontent among men and women, and has harmed the weakest members of society. Eberstadt explores the portrayal of the sexual revolution in pop culture voices, pinpointing "a wildly contradictory mix of chatter about how wonderful it is that women are now all liberated for sexual fun--and how mysteriously impossible it has become to find a good, steady, committed boyfriend at the same time."A review in the Washington Times stated that "in this concise, elegantly written book, <mask> marries brilliant analytical power with wry wit" and called it "an enormous contribution to understanding both modern moral culture and the significance of current political debate." <mask>'s first book, Home-Alone America: The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs and Other Parent Substitutes, argued that separating children from family members at early ages is linked to childhood problems such as obesity and rising rates of mental and behavioral disorders. The book also connected these problems to popular culture, particularly as reflected in adolescent music (including the award-winning chapter, "Eminem is Right"). R. Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, called it "a book that should be read by every concerned parent, pastor, and policy maker." <mask> served as a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution from 2002 to 2013. From 1990 to 1998, <mask> was executive editor of National Interest magazine. From 1985 and 1987, she was a member of the Policy Planning Staff at the US State Department and a speechwriter for then Secretary of State George P. Shultz.From 1984 to 1985, she was a special assistant to Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. <mask> was also a managing editor of the Public Interest. <mask> is also the founder of the Kirkpatrick Society, named after her late mentor, Jeane Kirkpatrick. Founded in 2011, the Kirkpatrick

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 Society is based in Washington, D.C. and is a professional and literary society for women working in journalism, government, television, radio, book editing, think tanks, and foundations. The Kirkpatrick Society is made up of over 300 women and meets on a monthly basis. As of January 2017, the American Enterprise Institute assumed responsibility for the management and operations of the Kirkpatrick Society. On March 15, 2017, <mask> became a senior research fellow at the Faith & Reason Institute.In 2019, Eberstadt released Primal Screams. Wherein she postulates that the sexual revolution and female contraception of the 1960s contributed to identity politics. She says that it contributed to premarital sex, skyrocketing rates of abortion, fatherless homes, family shrinkage and family breakup. She especially blame smaller families for a lack of family role models for young people, and thus a breakdown of understanding between genders. The end of the family and church-life is deemed as the cause why people seek belonging in identity politics. Animal welfare

<mask> is known for her writings on animal welfare, and the moral connections she draws between the pro-life and pro-animal movements. Her widely discussed 2009 essay in First Things, "Pro-Animal, Pro-Life," was followed by a number of other, related pieces on the subject, among them "The Truth About Religion and Animals," "Support for Animal Welfare Grows on the Right," and "Why Animal Lovers Should Abhor Planned Parenthood."The Loser Letters
Eberstadt published her first work of fiction in 2010, The Loser Letters: A Comic Tale of Life, Death, and Atheism. The book satirically follows the experiences of a young Christian converting to atheism. P. J. O'Rourke wrote that "<mask> is the rightful heir and assignée of CS Lewis, and her heroine in The Loser Letters is the legitimate child (or perhaps grandchild) of 'the patient' in The Screwtape Letters." Playwright and director Jeffrey Fiske adapted the book for the stage, which had its world premiere at The Catholic University of America in

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 September 2016 starring World Champion and Olympic Gymnast Chellsie Memmel. According to Kathryn Jean Lopez of National Review, "The timing of this adaptation by playwright Jeffrey Fiske may just be an opportunity to catch millennial "nones" with an invitation. It's also a nudge to conservatives and others to get creative. Polemics alone won't change the world."Writing also for National Review, Stanley Kurtz noted that this play could serve as a test of free speech on other college campuses. "What if The Loser Letters were to go on a tour that included some secular colleges?," he asked. "I'd like to believe the play would be courteously received at any school, but I can't help feeling that heads might explode—with protests or worse to follow. I only hope we get a chance to find out." Recognition
In 2014, <mask> gave Seton Hall University's commencement address and was awarded an honorary degree. The choice of Eberstadt as the school's commencement speaker brought dissent from some faculty members, who objected that her values were not consistent with those of the university. USA Today listed Eberstadt's address in its compilation of notable 2014 commencement speeches, alongside the speeches of John Kerry, John Legend, and Eric Holder.In 2014, the Siena Symposium for Women, Family, and Culture at St. Thomas University in Minnesota awarded Eberstadt a Humanitarian Leadership Award. She also received a Leadership Award from the Catholic Lawyers' Guild of Nebraska that same year. In 2009, Mt. St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Maryland awarded its Presidential Medal of Honor to Eberstadt and her husband, Nicholas. References

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<mask><mask> (born August 21, 1982) is a former American college and professional football player. <mask> was a consensus All-American running back for Virginia Tech in 2003 and selected in the first round of the 2004 NFL Draft. <mask> played professionally for six seasons (2004–10) for the Detroit Lions and Chicago Bears in the National Football League (NFL). Early years

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<mask> was born in Chester, Pennsylvania. With his natural ability and his father's training regimen, he became a highly conditioned athlete at a very young age. <mask> was a multi-sport athlete in high school (1997-2001) and competed at the varsity level as a freshman at Cardinal O'Hara High School in Springfield Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Track and field
<mask> was a star track and field athlete, excelling in the 60 meters (6.79 sec), 100 meters (10.59 sec), long jump (6.92 m) and triple jump (14.57 m).Football
O'Hara Head football coach, George Stratts reluctantly started <mask> as a freshman. <mask> had immediate success on the field and was a four-year starter, breaking many school records. As a senior, he led his team to a Philadelphia Catholic League Championship and became the Catholic League's all-time leading rusher. <mask> is the inaugural winner of the U.S. Army Player of the Year Award, named the "Hall Trophy", which is presented to the best high school football player in the country. Other notable recipients of the award include: Adrian Peterson, Jimmy Clausen, and Terrelle Pryor. College choice reveal
In 2000, <mask> was the No.1 overall recruit in the nation. Courted by many colleges, <mask> narrowed his choices to Penn State and Virginia Tech.To the surprise of many, <mask> chose to

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 become a Hokie, making his decision the day after a home visit from Virginia Tech Head Coach, Frank Beamer. <mask> said of his decision, "If you're a blue-chipper from Pennsylvania, you go to Penn State. But I've always been a little contrary. On the day of my press conference, I still hadn't decided between Virginia Tech and PSU. As I sat down in front of everybody, I had both jerseys with me. I pulled the Penn State jersey out of a bag and said, "I will ... not be attending Penn State." Then I ripped off my sweater and had a Mike Vick jersey on underneath.The entire room was flabbergasted." <mask>' college reveal was so highly anticipated that it was covered nationally, and televised by several local news stations. Since then, the use of props (hats, shirts, gear, music etc.) by recruits to announce their college choice has become a staple of the recruiting experience. The phenomenon can be credited to <mask>, who was the first to ever do so with his reveal in 2000. College career
<mask> played for Virginia Tech and Hall of Fame coach Frank Beamer, from 2000 to 2003. He is the highest rated recruit to ever commit to the Virginia Tech football program.During his freshman season, <mask> assumed the starting job, after an injury to starter, Lee Suggs. <mask> set a school record for rushing yards for a freshman. In 2002, Suggs and <mask> split time at tailback, and were together called "The Untouchables" as a result of a fan contest for giving the duo a nickname. <mask> finished his college career with 3,475 yards and 35 touchdowns on 616 carries (an average of 5.6 yards per carry), and 24 receptions for 229 yards (an average of 9.5 yards per reception). His 3,475 rushing yards and 35 touchdowns both

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 rank second on the school's career-record list. He was elected to the Virginia Tech Sports Hall of Fame in 2016. Stats
2001: 175 carries for 957 yards (5.47) and 5 TD.6 catches for 47 yards. 2002: 160 carries for 871 yards (5.44) and 9 TD. 4 catches for 21 yards. 2003: 281 carries for 1647 yards (5.86) and 21 TD. 14 catches for 161 yards. Professional career

Detroit Lions
<mask> had a successful rookie season with the Detroit Lions and became only the third running back in franchise history to rush for over 1,000 yards in his rookie season, joining the ranks of Billy Sims and Hall of Famer Barry Sanders. He was sidelined at the end of the 2006 season with a foot injury.In 2007, <mask> began the season in a backup role. He became the starter in Week 7 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He rushed for 105 yards on 23 carries and one touchdown in a Week 8 victory over the division rival Chicago Bears. However, he suffered another season-ending injury. On March 13, 2008, the Lions released <mask>. Chicago Bears
On July 15, 2008, <mask> signed a one-year, $605,000 contract with the Chicago Bears. He was re-signed to a two-year contract worth approximately $3.5 million on March 6, 2009.The deal includes a $1 million bonus and $2 million in the first season. He was intended to be the primary backup to Matt Forte. On September 3, 2009, <mask> was injured during a preseason game when he was hit out of bounds by Cleveland Browns linebacker Marcus Benard. He was out for the 2009 season with torn ligaments in his left ankle. <mask> was released on March 9, 2010 after the Bears signed Chester Taylor during the free agency period. Hartford Colonials
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 of the UFL. In his only season with the Colonials, <mask> played in two games where he rushed for 41 yards on 16 carries before being placed on injured reserve on October 21, 2010.Personal
<mask> retired from football in 2011 and returned to Virginia Tech as a student later that year to study industrial design in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in industrial design in 2014. While interning at a furniture design company in Switzerland, <mask> manned the position of "grinder" as the only American in a 22-man crew aboard the 68 ft. racing yacht,  Caol ila R. By the summer of 2014, <mask> had worked five races with the team. In 2014, Virginia Tech hired <mask> as "Special Assistant to the Athletic Director". <mask> stepped down from the position on June 12, 2016. In 2015, <mask> co-founded the  design firm Void Design Haus in Blacksburg, Virginia, with Alex Barrette. They changed the company name to JoBa in 2016, as a combination of their last names.On June 3, 2019, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers introduced <mask> as a Bill Walsh Coaching Fellow, in a running backs coaching position role for the 2019 Mini-Camp. References

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<mask>or Steffano<mask> (18 March 1580 – 15 February 1637), also known as "il Moretto", was an Italian priest, composer and music theorist. Born in Verona and maestro di cappella at the Verona Cathedral from 1611 to 1622, he later moved to Salzburg, where he was responsible for the music at the Salzburg Cathedral and composed a Te Deum for 12 choirs performed at the cathedral's consecration in 1628. <mask>'s career spanned the transition from late Renaissance music to early Baroque, with some of his works in the polyphonic style of Palestrina and others in the new concertato style. He composed both sacred and secular music, including several masses and motets as well as sinfonias and three books of madrigals. He also wrote a treatise on counterpoint published in 1615. Biography
<mask> was born in Verona and educated at the Scuola Accolitale (Acolyte College) attached to the Verona Cathedral, where he also sang in the choir under Ippolito Baccusi. By 1602 he was a paid musician at the court of Count Mario Bevilacqua and at the Accademia Filarmonica in Verona.In 1606, the Accademia elevated his position to maestro della musica (Music Master). The following year Bernardi went to Rome for further training and stayed there for four years, becoming the maestro di cappella of Santa Maria ai Monti in 1610. He returned to Verona in 1611 when he was offered the same position at the Verona Cathedral as the successor to Francesco Anerio. He held that post until 1622 and during that time was also closely associated with the Accademia Filarmonica. He published a treatise on counterpoint, Porta musicale, in 1616 primarily for the students at the Scuola Accolitale where he also taught. Amongst his students in Verona in those years were Antonio Bertali and Pietro Verdina. In 1622 <mask> left Verona to take up a post as Director of Court Music to Archduke Carl Joseph, Bishop of Breslau and Brixen.Following the Archduke's

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 death in 1624, Bernardi settled in Salzburg, where he was to become the Director of Court Music for Paris von Lodron, the Prince-Bishop of Salzburg, a position he held until 1634. As such, he was also deeply involved in the musical life of Salzburg Cathedral, where he was one of the first composers to introduce the new Italian concertato style. For its consecration in 1628, Bernardi composed a Te Deum (music now lost) sung by twelve separate choirs placed in the various marble galleries of the cathedral. While in Salzburg, he was ordained a priest and also received a doctorate in canon and civil law. Towards the end of his life, Bernardi returned to Verona where he died in 1637. Works
Most of Bernardi's works were published in his lifetime, primarily in Venice by Giacomo Vincenti, and later by Alessandro Vincenti who also published a posthumous collection of Bernardi's Messe a otto voci (Masses for eight voices) in 1638. Two collections of his works were published in Rome: Motecta (motets) for two to five voices in 1610, four of which were also anthologized by Georg Victorinus in his Siren coelestis published in Munich in 1616, and a collection of madrigals for three voices in 1611 which also contains a six-part "peasants' masquerade".The music has been lost for two of the works he composed in Salzburg, the Te Deum and a dramatic work (title unknown). However Encomia sacra for two to six voices which he wrote in Salzburg was published there by Gregor Kyrner in 1634. His Salmi concertati for five voices published in 1637 is considered particularly important for the way the psalms highlight an alto or soprano soloist against a four voice choir which echoes the beginnings and endings of the solo passages. In addition to five psalms for vespers, the collection also contains a Magnificat and the hymn, Jesu nostra redemptio. Another important work was the Concerti Accademici which <mask> composed for the


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 Accademia Filarmonica in Verona between 1615 and 1616. Originally published in 1616 and containing what Magnabosco considers his finest pieces of secular music, it consists of ten madrigali concertati (concerted madrigals) and eight sinfonias. A modern edition of the Concerti Accademici by Flavio Cinquetti and Matteo Zenatti, with critical revision and an essay by Marco Materassi was published in 2008."<mask>, <mask>" in The New Oxford Companion to Music. Oxford University Press, p. 215. (also reprinted on arts.jrank.org. Accessed 22 November 2010)
 Buelow, George J. (2004). A History of Baroque Music. Indiana University Press.Fisher, Alexander (2008). "Celestial Sirens and Nightingales: Change and Assimilation in the Munich Anthologies of Georg Victorinus ", Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music Volume 14, no. 1. Jensen, Niels Martin (1992). "The Instrumental Music for Small Ensemble of Antonio Bertali: The Sources". Danish Yearbook of Musicology  Volume 20 pp. 25–43
 Kurtzman, Jeffrey G. (1995).Vesper and Compline Music for One Principal Voice. Routledge. Magnabosco, Michele (2007). "<mask>i: il primo dei moderni". Cadenze. Accademia Filarmonica di Verona, Anno III n. 10 June–August 2007. Randel, Don Michael (ed.)(1996). "Bernardi, <mask>" in  The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Harvard University Press (1996) pp. 73–74. ,
 Sadie, Julie Anne (1998) "Bernardi, <mask>" in Companion to Baroque Music. University of California Press, pp. 80–81.Sadie, Stanley (2006). Mozart: The Early Years 1756-1781. Oxford University Press. External links
 Kraibacher, Michael. Biography of <mask> and List of directors of court music in Salzburg on Salzburg City of Music. Accessed 22 November 2010. Italian male classical composers
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<mask>. (born December 16, 1948) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 41st Governor of Illinois, from 2009 to 2015. A Democrat, <mask> began his career as an activist by founding the Coalition for Political Honesty. Born in Chicago, Illinois, <mask> is a graduate of Georgetown University and Northwestern University School of Law. <mask> began his career as a tax attorney in private practice before working as an aide to then-Illinois Governor Dan Walker. He was elected to one term as a commissioner on the Cook County Board of Appeals, serving from 1982 to 1986; he later served as revenue director in the administration of Chicago Mayor Harold Washington. <mask> served as Treasurer of Illinois from 1991 to 1995. In Illinois' 2002 gubernatorial election, <mask> won the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Illinois in the primary and was paired with then-U.S. Representative Rod Blagojevich in the general election.He was sworn into office as Lieutenant Governor in 2003. <mask> assumed the governorship on January 29, 2009, after Governor Blagojevich was impeached and removed from office on corruption charges. <mask> was narrowly elected to a full term in office in 2010, defeating Republican State Senator Bill Brady by a margin of less than 1% out of about 3.5 million votes cast. <mask> was narrowly defeated in 2014 by Republican candidate Bruce Rauner. <mask> unsuccessfully ran in the Democratic primary for Attorney General of Illinois in 2018. Early life and education

<mask> was born in 1948 in Chicago. His family moved to the suburb of Hinsdale, Illinois, when he was a child.The son of Eileen (Prindiville), a school secretary, and <mask> <mask>, a public relations official for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago. His grandparents were Irish. He was reared a Catholic and attended the local Catholic elementary school, St. Isaac Jogues. He graduated in 1967 from Fenwick High School, a Catholic school in Oak Park, Illinois;  while at Fenwick, <mask> was the cross-country team captain and sports editor of the school newspaper. <mask> went on to graduate from Georgetown University in 1971

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 with a bachelor's degree from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, where he was a student of Professor Jan Karski and a sports editor for The Hoya. After taking a few years off from education, he earned a Juris Doctor degree from Northwestern University School of Law in 1980. In 1982, <mask> married Julie Ann Hancock.The marriage produced two sons, <mask> and <mask> IV, before the couple's 1986 divorce. From 1976 through 1978, he worked as an economist for the company Coilcraft. Political activism
Before running for public office, <mask> was involved in political action, serving as an aide to Governor Daniel Walker from 1973 through 1975. He was first put on the political map in the late 1970s by leading a petition to amend the 1970 Illinois Constitution with the "Illinois Initiative". This amendment was intended to increase the power of public referendums in the political process and recalls for public officials. The petition drive was successful, but the Illinois Supreme Court ultimately ruled that the Illinois Initiative was an "unconstitutional constitutional amendment," and thus never was presented to voters. <mask> drew more attention to his causes by holding press conferences on Sundays, seen as a slow news day.While still in law school, <mask> scored his first political success in 1980, earning a reputation as a reformer on the Illinois political scene. Through his organization, "The Coalition for Political Honesty," he initiated and led the statewide campaign for the Cutback Amendment to the Illinois Constitution, ultimately reducing the size of the Illinois House of Representatives from 177 to 118 members. Early political career
In 1982, <mask> was elected as commissioner of the Cook County Board of Appeals, now known as the Cook County Board of Review. During his time on the board, <mask> was instrumental in the creation of the "Citizens Utility Board", a consumer watchdog organization. <mask> did not seek re-election to the Cook County Board of Tax Appeals, in 1986, instead opting to run an unsuccessful campaign for the Democratic nomination for Illinois State Treasurer, losing to Jerome

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 Cosentino. After this defeat, <mask> briefly served in the administration of Chicago Mayor Harold Washington as Revenue Director in 1987. <mask> also served on the local school council of Sayre Magnet School on Chicago's West Side.State Treasurer
<mask>'s bid for office was successful in the 1990 election for Illinois Treasurer, defeating Peg McDonnell Breslin in the Democratic primary and Greg Baise in the general election. <mask> campaigned as a populist reformer in opposition to big government. His pledged during his campaign that he would seek to transform the office into a consumer advocate-style position. As a candidate, he refused to take campaign contributions from banking officials. He also pledged as a candidate to modernize the office and maximize returns on state deposits through use of electronic fund transfers and through expanding linked-deposit programs. He released an "Invest in Illinois" plan which proposed competitive bidding from financial institutions wanting to be state depositories. He also promised that he would not deposit or invest assets used to pay employee retirement benefits in junk bonds.He also pledged to implement a professional code of ethics for the office's employees. He served in the position of Illinois Treasurer from 1991 to 1995. During this period, he was publicly critical of Illinois Secretary of State and future Governor, George Ryan. Specifically, he drew attention to special vanity license plates that Ryan's office provided for cronies and the politically connected. This rivalry led <mask> to unsuccessfully challenge Ryan in the 1994 general election for Secretary of State, winning the Democratic primary but losing in the general. U.S. Senate campaign

<mask> then took his aspirations to the national stage. When United States Senator Paul Simon chose not to seek re-election in 1996, <mask> entered the race.However Dick Durbin won the Democratic primary and eventually the Senate seat. 1998 lieutenant gubernatorial campaign

<mask> sought the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor in 1998, but was narrowly defeated by Mary Lou Kearns. <mask> did not initially accept

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 the count and charged fraud, but several weeks after the election he declined to ask the Illinois Supreme Court for a recount and endorsed Kearns. In 1998, <mask> protested an increase in state legislators' salaries by urging citizens to send tea bags to the Governor, Jim Edgar. The tactic was a reference to the Boston Tea Party. As lieutenant governor, he would later repeat this tactic in 2006, urging consumers to include a tea bag when paying their electricity bills, to protest rate hikes by Commonwealth Edison. Lieutenant governor

<mask> won the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor in March 2002, and subsequently won the general election on the Democratic ticket alongside gubernatorial nominee, Rod Blagojevich.In Illinois, candidates for Lieutenant Governor and Governor at that time ran in separate primary elections, but were conjoined as a single ticket for the general election. This same ticket won re-election in 2006, where <mask> was unopposed in the primary. While Lieutenant Governor, according to his official biography, his priorities were consumer advocacy, environmental protection, health care, broadband deployment, and veterans' affairs. On December 14, 2008, when <mask> was asked about his relationship with Blagojevich, he said, "Well, he's a bit isolated. I tried to talk to the Governor, but the last time I spoke to him was in August of 2007. I think one of the problems is the Governor did sort of seal himself off from all the statewide officials ... Attorney General Madigan and myself and many others." Blagojevich had announced in 2006 that <mask> was not to be considered part of his administration.Governor of Illinois

Succession and elections
On January 29, 2009, Rod Blagojevich was removed from office by a vote of 59–0 by the Illinois State Senate. <mask> became Governor of Illinois. 2010 gubernatorial election

In the Democratic primary for governor in 2010, <mask> defeated State Comptroller Daniel Hynes with 50.4% of the vote. On March 27, 2010, Illinois Democratic leaders selected Sheila Simon to replace Scott Lee Cohen on the ballot, after Cohen won the February 2010 Democratic primary

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 to be Illinois' Lieutenant Governor, but later withdrew amid controversies involving his personal life. In the general election <mask>'s campaign aired television ads produced by Joe Slade White that repeatedly asked the question of his opponent, "Who is this guy?" Ben Nuckels was the general election Campaign Manager and was named a "Rising Star of Politics" by Campaigns & Elections magazine for his efforts with <mask>. <mask> won the general election on November 2, 2010, by a narrow margin against Republican candidate Bill Brady.<mask>'s victory was named by RealClearPolitics.com as the No. 5 General Election upset in the country; Politico said it was the 7th closest gubernatorial in American history. 2014 gubernatorial election

<mask> declared a run for re-election for 2014. In the summer of 2013, former White House Chief of Staff and former United States Secretary of Commerce William M. Daley declared a run for governor in the Democratic Primary against <mask>, but later dropped out. <mask> chose Paul Vallas, the former Chicago Public Schools CEO, as his running-mate. <mask> was challenged in the Democratic Primary by Tio Hardiman, the former director of CeaseFire, but won 72%-28% and faced Republican businessman Bruce Rauner for the general election. The majority of major Illinois newspapers endorsed Rauner, but <mask> was endorsed by the Chicago Defender, the Rockford Register Star, and The Southern Illinoisan.<mask> was defeated by Rauner in the general election, 50%-46%. He lost every county except Cook County. His term as governor ended on January 12, 2015. Governorship
As governor, <mask> faced a state with a reputation for corruption—the two previous governors both went to federal prison—and after two years polls showed <mask> himself was the "Nation's most unpopular governor." The main issue was a fiscal crisis in meeting the state's budget and its long-term debt as the national economic slump continued and Illinois did poorly in terms of creating jobs. <mask> spoke often to the public and met regularly with state leaders, in stark contrast to Rod Blagojevich's seclusion from others. On August 20, 2013

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 <mask> signed a bill into law that raised the rural interstate speed limit in Illinois to 70 mph.It was previously 65 mph. The bill also raised the speed limit on the Illinois Toll Road. The law became effective at midnight January 1, 2014. Budget, debt and taxes
<mask> announced several "belt-tightening" programs to help curb the state deficit. In July 2009, <mask> signed a $29 billion capital bill to provide construction and repair funds for Illinois roads, mass transit, schools, and other public works projects. The capital bill, known as "Illinois Jobs Now! ", was the first since Governor George H. Ryan's Illinois FIRST plan, which was enacted in the late-1990s.On July 7, 2009, he for the second time in a week vetoed a budget bill, calling it "out of balance", his plan being to more significantly fix the budget gap in Illinois. In March 2009, <mask> called for a 1.5 percentage point increase in the personal income tax rate. To help offset the increased rate, he also sought to triple the amount shielded from taxation (or the "personal exemption") – from $2,000 per person to $6,000. However, the bill that eventually passed increased the personal income tax by 2%. With the state budget deficit projected to hit $15 billion in 2011, the legislature in early 2011 raised the personal income tax from 3% to 5%, and the corporation profits tax 4.8% to 7%. Governor <mask>'s office projected the new taxes will generate $6.8 billion a year, enough to balance the annual budget and begin reducing the state's backlog of about $8.5 billion in unpaid bills. A report from the Civic Federation in September 2011 projected a $8.3 billion deficit to end the budget year.After three years of tax increases for workers and businesses, ending with an increase in corporate taxes in 2011 from 5% to 7%, the national recession left the economy in trouble. During an annual budget address on February 22, 2012 to the Illinois Legislature, <mask> warned that the state's financial system was nearing collapse. The Associated Press reported that <mask> feared Illinois was "on the verge of a financial meltdown because of pension systems eating up every


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 new dollar and health care costs climbing through the roof." According to the Civic Federation, Illinois is only able to remain solvent by not paying its bills on time. <mask> advocated Medicaid and healthcare cuts totaling $1.6 billion in 2012; critics including Democratic State Representative Mary E. Flowers stated the cuts would remove hundreds of thousands of the poor and elderly from public health programs. The unprecedented cuts were too small to resolve the long-term issue according to rating agencies that downgraded Illinois to the lowest credit rating of any US state in 2012. As of November 2012, unpaid pension obligations totaled $85 billion with a backlog of $8 billion.In an effort to reduce the state's financial obligations, in November 2012 <mask> cancelled contracts with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Union officials contended that "<mask> wanted concessions so deep that they are an insult to every state employee,"  while the administration contended that the state is paying salaries and benefits at levels that "exceed the salaries and benefits of other unionized state workers across the country." As of December 2012, Illinois had the fifth highest unemployment rate in the United States, and by March 2013, Illinois public-employee pension liability reached $100 billion. <mask> has been a major supporter of the controversial Illiana Expressway. In 2009, <mask> signed into law the Video Gaming Act which legalized the use of video gambling machines in Illinois. <mask> had previously denounced video gambling as a "bad bet". <mask> said the legislation was necessary to make up revenue due to the recession.A 2019 ProPublica investigation found that Illinois gambling regulators were underfunded and understaffed, and the gambling failed to meet projected revenues for the state's public coffers. Ethics reform and corruption allegations
On January 5, 2009, <mask> appointed <mask>. Collins to chair the Illinois Reform Commission, which was tasked with making recommendations for ethical reform for Illinois government. On February 20, 2009, <mask> called for the resignation of US

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<mask> won generally high praise for his leadership on environmental issues, going back at least as far as when he was lieutenant governor, where he helped develop annual statewide conferences on green building, created a state day to celebrate and defend rivers, and promoted measures such as rain gardens for water conservation.As governor, <mask> helped pass measures on solar and wind energy, including sourcing electricity for the state capitol from wind power, and helped secure funding for high-speed rail in the midwest corridor. As

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On March 9, 2011, <mask> signed the bill which abolished the death penalty in Illinois. On signing the bill, <mask> stated,

"It is impossible to create a perfect system, one that is free of all mistakes, free of all discrimination with respect to race or economic circumstance or geography.To have a consistent, perfect death penalty system, I have concluded, after looking at everything I've been given, that that's impossible in our state. I think it's the right and just thing to abolish the death penalty." On May 17, 2012, <mask> appointed Brandon Bodor to be Executive Director of the Serve Illinois Commission. On September 11, 2012, the two announced that the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) had awarded $8.4 million to enable 1,200 volunteers in 29 AmeriCorps programs to better serve Illinois communities. <mask> is an advocate for gun control, supporting an assault weapons ban, high-capacity magazine ban and universal background checks for Illinois. <mask> has also been known for criticizing concealed carry legislation in Illinois (which would allow a person to have a concealed handgun on their person in public), and the National Rifle Association. Despite this opposition, the Illinois General Assembly legalized concealed carry in the state on July 9, 2013, overriding <mask>'s veto.This made Illinois the last state in the U.S. to enact this type of legislation. In <mask>'s 2013 State of the State address, he declared his commitment to the legalization of same sex marriage. After a months-long battle

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 in the legislature, <mask> signed the Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act into law on November 20, 2013, before a crowd of thousands, making Illinois the 16th state in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage. He had previously signed a bill legalizing civil unions on January 31, 2011. In 2011, <mask> signed a law outlawing capital punishment in Illinois. This law falls inline with public sentiment during this time but still created some controversy especially given his Catholic faith. In an interview with the New York Times, <mask> attributed his decision to the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin who had argued until the end of his life for a “consistent ethic of life" that included opposing capital punishment.To date, capital punishment is still outlawed in Illinois. Post-gubernatorial activities

<mask> has kept a low profile since leaving office, volunteering for causes like veterans' affairs and consumer protection. <mask> has been critical of his successor, Bruce Rauner, calling him "anti-worker" and "dishonest." He has stated that he is interested in grassroots petitions. On June 12, 2016, <mask> announced a new petition drive called Take Charge Chicago to put a binding referendum on the Chicago ballot to place a two-term limit on the Mayor of Chicago and create a new elected position called the Consumer Advocate. As of mid-2017, that is still ongoing. On October 27, 2017, <mask> announced he would run for Illinois Attorney General in the 2018 election.<mask> was generally regarded as the most well-known candidate in the race, however he narrowly lost the nomination to State Senator Kwame Raoul on March 20, 2018. For the 2020 election cycle, <mask> championed a citizens initiated ballot item which would ask voters in Evanston whether the city should adopt a system under which binding citizen initiated referendums to create city ordinances would be allowed. This ballot question was rejected by the city's election board, a decision subsequently upheld in the Circuit Court of Cook County and the Illinois Appeals Court. Electoral history

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Christopher Lee Schamber, (born December 26, 1982) better known by his stage name <mask>, is an American rapper and hip hop recording artist from Stockton, California. Biography
Although <mask> has been performing worldwide and recording music since the late 1990s, he didn't take on the moniker <mask> until the year 2003. He gained considerable visibility in the underground hip-hop scene when he was selected as one of URBs Next 1000 in 2009, and received a favorable artist review by URB (magazine) reviewer Aylin Zafar, who wrote "Melding classical music with pulsating beats and emcee <mask>'s hard-hitting flow, the California native, but current Missouri resident's sound is unique and emotional." Earlier in the same year, Savage Sun's song "The Reason" garnered more than 1,650,000 dedications (February 2009), making it the most iLike dedicated song across Facebook during that particular month. Savage Sun has been featured in newspapers across the United States, including the Tri-City Herald, The Record, The Monterey County Herald, the Riverfront Times (Village Voice Media), and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Savage Sun's music has been featured or reviewed in various magazines and music blogs, including URB Magazine, Murder Dog Magazine, Inbox Magazine, and Reactor Magazine. Savage Sun's music has received extensive radio play, including rotation on Elevated Rhymestate 88.1 KDHX, college radio, Clear Channel's IHeartRadio, and can be found on over 800 live, local radio stations around the United States.His music has also been featured on various different internet radio stations, including the Midnight Mixtape on Chuck D's Rapstation.com. <mask> has released two music videos to date and one teaser for the song "The Finale" which is expected to be released on his forthcoming album "The Alchemy Of Sound." In 2007, Savage Sun was featured on "The Next Generation Of Heads, a compilation released by Equalibran Productions, which also

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texts: featured production by DJ Premier. Savage Sun has been featured on dozens of additional compilations and collaborative projects during the past decade, although only a handful of these releases were pressed in at least 1000 units, therefore, the distribution of the other releases has primarily been digital, and the impact and relevance is unknown. Since 2000, Savage Sun has performed internationally, including performances in New Zealand, Costa Rica, Germany, Colombia, Uruguay, and an impromptu street performance in Belgium in 2002. Between 2000-2003, Savage Sun performed under different pseudonyms, including performing at the 2000 Big Day Out music festival in Auckland, New Zealand, alongside artists such as Nine Inch Nails, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Blink-182, The Chemical Brothers, Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros and various other acts. Savage Sun has also performed at many other high-profile music festivals and events, including S.L.U.M.Fest, Play STL Fest, and the St. Louis Scribble Jam Prelim. Savage Sun has shared the stage with a variety of notable acts, including Akil the MC (Jurassic 5), Bicasso and <mask>pot Jonz (Living Legends), Ra Scion (Common Market) and many other artists. On a national level, Savage Sun has performed in dozens of cities across the United States, including universities such as Washington University in St. Louis and Saint Louis University and distinguished venues such as Blueberry Hill in St. Louis, MO and Berbati's Pan in Portland, OR. On June 27, 2014, <mask> received attention by entertainment writer of The Blender, Kevin Johnson, in a featured interview that was released in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and STLtoday, highlighting his second performance at the largest hip-hop festival in the Midwest. In 2015, Savage Sun's music video for the song Forced was honored as an official selection by the Richmond International Film Festival and was also featured on IMDB. On Dec. 29th, 2017,

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 <mask> released the first single 'Don't Change A Thing' from his forthcoming album 'The Alchemy Of Sound.' On June 30, 2018, <mask> released the second single 'A Darker Flame' from his forthcoming album 'The Alchemy Of Sound.'The Art Of Being Alive LP/DVD
On September 23, 2007, <mask> released his first full-length solo LP "The Art Of Being Alive" in conjunction with the Autumn Equinox. The physical version of the album is accompanied by a DVD (second disc) that featured a music video for the song "Tight Grip On Nothing", as well as other interactive features. The album was released on the independent label "Sentient Productions" and was mastered by industry professional Stephen Marsh. The album was released to a worldwide audience in 19 countries, spanning four continents, as well as distributed in the Caribbean Islands. The album received positive reviews from industry and independent reviewers alike, including a review by Brad Bush of CD Baby who called it "One of the best we've ever heard." The album was also selected as one of CD Baby's editor's picks and was showcased on the front page of the online music store's website. Ian Hill of the Stockton Record described Savage Sun's debut album "The Art Of Being Alive"  as bringing together complex, layered beats with (Savage Sun's) intense delivery and often-introspective lyrics.Hill wrote that "the title speaks volumes" and compares Savage Sun to Atmosphere and Sage Francis by stating that if you've listened to the aforementioned artists, that "you'll recognize the sound, feel and sense of struggle" on Savage Sun's album. In a separate review, Hill noted about the album that "it's refreshing to hear another voice taking rap in a different direction." Marc Cabrera of the Monterey Herald characterized the album as "A live wire mix of esoteric lyricism and mood music inspired by the seasons" and "A nice raw mix of some potent lyrics." Cabrera explained his interpretation of the

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On August 27, 2013, Savage Sun continued his signature album release in conjunction with a celestial event by dropping his second solo album, an EP titled "Rebel's Odyssey," during Neptune at Opposition. The album features two bonus tracks, a hidden track, and the physical version of the album is accompanied by a 20-page comic book detailing the origin of Savage Sun, which also corresponds with an animated music video for the song "Forced" which was featured on his first LP.The album also features "Bridge Da Gap", the first song of an international collaborative project. The song features emcee's from three different continents, rapping in Spanish, German, and English. The album also features the second song from the aforementioned international collaborative project, titled "The T.aK.eO.ver," with a special guest appearance by Pete Rock. The album was released on the independent label "Globe Massive Entertainment" and was mastered by industry professional Stephen Marsh. In March, 2014, The Monterey Herald published a featured interview and article discussing the new album. In November, 2013, Rebel's Odyssey received special consideration for Album of the Year by Wil Wander of KDHX Radio in the 3rd annual Rhymey Awards. The EP placed 3rd overall.On February 20, 2015, <mask> released his third music video for the song "I Can(t) Change", the first music video from Rebel's Odyssey EP. DiscographyWith Sentient Productions''' The Art Of Being Alive LP/DVD (2007)
 Rebel's Odyssey EP (2013)
 The Alchemy Of Sound LP (2018 - anticipated)

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 "Singlehandeadly" on AudioMight Records: AudioMight Presents (2002)
 "Circles" "Enter The Struggle" on AudioMight Records: The Character Development Sampler (2003)
 "Look The Other Way" on AudioMight Records: AudioMight Promo C.D. (2003)
 "Enter The Struggle" on CellarNoise: Noise from the Cellar vol.1 (2004)
 "Skybound" "We Wash Away (Remix)" on D.J. Balance Presents: Official bootleg vol.2 (2006)
 "Ghosts Of The Gangs" on My Shame: My Creation (2006)
 "Forced" on Miller Bay Productions: Beat Hogs (2007)
 "We Keep It Movin'" on Equalibran Productions: The Next Generation of Heads (2007)
 "We Keep It Movin'" on Cal Major: Arch City Underground Mixtape (2008)
 "In The City" on Heavenly Wharf Music: UAINTKNW? The Mixtape volume 2 (2010)
 "Bridge Da Gap" on Freedom Culture Coalition: Beats For Eats'' (2012)

Acting
Beyond his music videos & a teaser on YouTube, <mask> has been featured in two independent films, I Am D.B. Cooper & Pill. Both films were produced by Team Wood Films, an independent film production company in St. Louis, MO.I Am D.B. Cooper was only released on YouTube and never officially released in theaters and therefore the response to the film has been lackluster. In Savage Sun's one scene, he portrays a manager at a company that must fire an employee. In Pill, <mask> Sun portrays a district attorney who has a confrontation with another actor in the film. This film premiered at The Chase Park Plaza Hotel theater in St. Louis, MO on January 21, 2016. The budget for both films is unknown. References

External links
 Savage Sun Official Website
 MP3 Review for the song "Ghosts Of The Gangs
 Album Review by Marc Cabrera, Entertainment writer for the Monterey Herald
 Artist Review by Calvin Cox, contributing writer for the Riverfront Times
 Facebook artist page

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Living people
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