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<mask> (16 September 1722 – 26 January 1799) was a British Army General from Scotland, who settled in Montreal after the Seven Years' War. Following the British Conquest of New France, he invested in land and became one of the largest landowners in the British Province of Quebec. Early life
Born in Stirling, he was the son of <mask> (1695-1745), a wealthy merchant and manufacturer with branches in Glasgow, London and Baltimore. <mask>'s mother, Catherine Napier, was the daughter of Francis Napier (d.1713), of Craigannet; Provost of Stirling and a grandson of the distinguished John Napier. <mask> was educated in Stirling, Glasgow and England. <mask> entered the army as an ensign in 1742 under the patronage of his uncle, Lt.-General Robert Napier (1708-1766), Chief Staff Officer to the Duke of Cumberland at the Battle of Culloden. Military career

In 1745, <mask> was gazetted Lieutenant of the 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot.Present with his uncle at the Battle of Culloden, young <mask> was sent to the governor of Stirling Castle with the despatches announcing the victory. As Captain of the 44th Regiment of Foot, in 1756 General Abercrombie appointed him assistant-deputy-Quartermaster-General to the Forces in North America, maintaining that position under the new commander-in-chief, Earl Loudoun. He fought with Wolfe at the Siege of Quebec, when he was promoted Brevet Major. In 1762, he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel, and in 1769 he was made deputy-Quartermaster-General to the Forces in North America. In 1773, he was appointed Lt.-Colonel of the King's Royal Rifle Corps and served with them in the West Indies. In 1778, he was made Colonel Commandant of the 2nd Battalion of that regiment. In 1780, they were serving in Antigua and in 1781 he was appointed Major-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands.In 1793, he was gazetted Lt.-General, and in 1796 he was made Colonel Commandant of the King's Royal Rifle Corps. In 1798, he received his final promotion to General and Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in the Canadas, at Montreal. Canadian Seigneur

<mask> was based in the West Indies during most of the American Revolution, but in the 1780s, when his active role in the army was completed, he settled in Quebec where he had already started with his intentions of becoming a significant Seigneur there. In 1764, he purchased six seigneuries from noble French Canadian families returning to France after the Conquest. The first was the seigneury of L’Islet-du-Portage, from Paul-Joseph Le Moyne de Longueuil (son of Charles le Moyne de Longueuil, Baron de Longueuil), but he sold it in 1777 preferring land closer to Montreal. His second and third purchases were in partnership with Moses Hazen, acquiring the seigneuries of Bleury and Sabrevois from Clément Sabrevois de Bleury (father of Clément-Charles Sabrevois de Bleury) for £7,300. His fourth purchase was with John Campbell (1721-1795), buying the seigneury of Noyan from the Payen de Noyan family.In 1765, he purchased the seigneury of Lacolle, from the family of Jacques-Philippe Saveuse de Beaujeu. Finally, he purchased the seigneury of Léry from Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry. Around 1777, he added the seigneuries of Lachenaie and Repentigny to his lands. He owned land in England too, but even these seigneurial acquisitions were not enough to satisfy his ambition: In 1792, he made two unsuccessful requests for land grants in the Eastern Townships. His final purchase was in 1796, when Jean-Baptiste Boucher de Niverville sold him the seigneury of Chambly. <mask> hired agents to look after his extensive land holdings and lived comfortably in Montreal with his family until his death, despite a few set backs. His property along the Richelieu River was devastated during the American Invasion of Canada in 1775.The seigneuries near St. Johns that he purchased with Hazen also created difficulties for him as during the War of Independence Hazen sided with the armies under Richard Montgomery who invaded Quebec. Hazen and <mask> were in court for years over their failed business partnership. Family

He had married Sarah Stevenson, daughter of John Stevenson of Albany, New York when stationed in the area, and settled her, their son and two daughters in Montreal. During his time in London in the 1780s, he had taken a mistress by the name of Rachel Plenderleath, and by her was the father of three further sons (<mask>, George and William) who were fully accepted into the main family and provided for equally - they each received £1,500 and commissions in the King's Royal Rifle Corps, while their eldest legitimate brother, Napier, inherited the bulk of his estate, before passing it to his half-brother. <mask> lived with his family on Rue Saint-Paul, Montreal. General <mask>-Burton (1758-1835), M.P., for Beverley, who succeeded his father as Commander-in-Chief of the British troops in the Canadas. Educated at Eton, as a compliment to his father he was invited to Windsor Castle by George III.He married Mary, daughter and heiress of General Ralph Burton, of Hotham Hall, Yorkshire and assumed the Burton name by license. Their sons died unmarried. Their eldest daughter married first Major-General John Clitherow and second Henry Peters of Betchworth Castle. Their youngest daughter founded at Wakefield a home for discharged female prisoners. <mask> (1772-1849). At Jamaica, she married Major John Robertson (1767-1815), of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, son of Colonel Daniel Robertson of Struan. He was associated with the mercantile firm of Alexander & James Robertson of Montreal, through whom he was granted 2,000 acres in the township of Buckingham, Quebec.She returned to Montreal in 1831 with her three children: Catherine (married Philip Anglin, of the King's Royal Rifle Corps), Maria and Amelia. <mask> (1774-1836), married Rev. James Tunstall (1760-1840), Rector of Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal. They were the parents of three sons and a daughter, Mrs Edward Roe. <mask> (b.c.1778)
George Plenderleath (b.c.1779)
William Smith Plenderleath (1780-1845), inherited his father's Canadian estates from his half-brother, on the condition he took the name '<mask>'. He was married three times, but had no children (1) In 1808,  Marie-Marguerite Chaboillez, daughter of Charles Chaboillez and widow of Simon McTavish of the North West Company, (2) Elizabeth McGinnis (3) Amelia Martha Bowman (1805-1898)

See also

 James Bell (merchant)

References

External links
Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
The Christie Seigneuries: Estate Management and Settlement in the Upper Richelieu Valley, 1760-1854
Genealogical Memoirs of the <mask> family of Stirling

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People educated at Eton College
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
British Army generals
British Army personnel of the French and Indian War
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44th Regiment of Foot officers
Scottish landowners
British Army personnel of the Jacobite rising of 1745

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<mask> (born 4 September 1994) is an Irish semi-professional footballer who plays as a winger for Midland League Premier Division South Normanton Athletic. <mask> was born in Waterford, County Waterford. He joined the Tottenham Hotspur academy in July 2011. Since joining the Tottenham Academy, McEvoy quickly make an impact for the team, where he played for the under-18 team and scored eight goals in twenty-two appearances in the 2011–12 season.In the middle of the 2012–13 season, <mask> was promoted to the under-21 team and first featured for the reserve team when he appeared as an unused substitute against Liverpool U23 on 11 February 2013. He then made his Tottenham Reserve debut against Arsenal U21 on 23 February 2013, setting up one of the goals, in a 4–2 win. His first goal came on 11 March 2013, in a 4–0 win over West Bromwich Albion Reserve. At the end of the 2012–13 season, <mask> went on to make eleven appearances and scored three times. In the 2013–14 season, <mask> continued to feature for the under-21 team and scored his first goal of the season, in a 1–1 draw against Leicester City U23 on 21 October 2013. In November 2013, <mask> was called up by the first team for the first time ahead of the UEFA Europa League match against Tromsø in Norway, but was used as an unused substitute. Following this, <mask> scored two goals in the next two matches between on 13 December 2013 and 14 January 2013 against Fulham U23 and Newcastle United U23.Then, in February 2014, <mask> was featured again in the first team, where he was once again as an unused substitute in a UEFA Europa League match against Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk on 20 February 2014. As the 2013–14 season progressed, he went on to make eighteen appearances and scoring five times. After being recalled by his parent club on 11 November 2014, whilst on loan at Peterborough United, <mask> returned to the club's reserve team, where he started the whole game, in a 2–0 win over Fulham U23. Shortly being recalled once again by his parent club, whilst at Colchester United, <mask> scored on his return for the club's reserve team, in a 1–1 draw against Manchester United U23 on 3 March 2015. He scored again for the team, several weeks later on 23 March 2015, in a 3–1 loss against Leicester City U23. Having spent the whole season on loan in the 2014–15 season, <mask> went on to score two goals in ten appearances. For his performance, <mask> signed an 18-month contract.In the 2015–16 season, <mask> went on to make five appearances and scoring three times for the reserve team, including a brace against Leicester City U23 on 21 September 2015. He also scored against Manchester City U21 on 14 August 2015. Loan spells
<mask> joined League One club Peterborough United a youth loan for the 2014–15 season on 24 July 2014. On 9 August 2014, he made his senior debut against Rochdale. <mask> scored his first goal a week later, with a deflected shot in a 3–2 home win over Milton Keynes Dons. He was recalled by Tottenham on 11 November 2014, having made eight appearances for Peterborough. On 30 January 2015, he joined Colchester United of League One on a youth loan until the end of 2014–15, but only managed one appearance before being recalled by Tottenham.On 26 September 2015, <mask> joined League Two club Stevenage on a one-month loan. He made his Stevenage debut against Cambridge United on the same day, coming on as a seventy-first-minute substitute in a 1–0 defeat. This was his only appearance for Stevenage before the loan expired. York City

On 25 November 2015, <mask> joined League Two club York City on loan until 2 January 2016. He made his York City debut on 28 November 2015, three days after signing for the club, making his first start, in a 5–1 loss against Accrington Stanley. Having impressed manager Jackie McNamara in his four appearances for York, <mask> joined the club on a permanent contract for the rest of 2015–16 on 5 January 2016. <mask>'s first game after signing for the club on a permanent basis came on 16 January 2016, making a start, in 1–0 loss against Newport County.Several weeks later, on 30 January 2016, he scored his first York City goal, in a 2–1 win over Stevenage. His second goal came on 30 April 2016, in a 4–1 loss against Bristol Rovers. After seeing the York City relegated from the League Two, <mask> went on to make twenty appearances and scoring twice for the team. He was released by York when his contract expired at the end of 2015–16. South Normanton Athletic and Waterford
After leaving York City, <mask> moved to East Midlands Counties League club South Normanton Athletic, where he briefly stayed there, as he made twelve appearances and scoring seven times in all competitions. After leaving South Normanton Athletic, <mask> was linked a move back to his hometown country, with a tug of war between Waterford and Sligo Rovers expressed interests in him. <mask> signed for League of Ireland First Division club Waterford on 25 January 2017 and made his Waterford debut on 24 February 2017, playing the whole game, in a 1–0 loss against Athlone Town.<mask> scored his first goal for Waterford against Cobh Ramblers in a crucial 2-1 victory at the RSC. After featuring 18 times for Waterford, <mask> left the club by mutual consent, after committing to a full-time job in England. On 10 August 2017, <mask> re-signed for South Normanton Athletic, with the club now in the Midland League Premier Division. International career
<mask> has represented the Republic of Ireland at under-17, under-19 and under-21 levels. Style of play
McEvoy plays as a winger and has been praised for his pace and crossing. Personal life
In June 2015, <mask> married his wife, Toni and became a father when his wife gave birth to a baby girl named Dolly on 26 September 2016. McEvoy earned attention from both the British and Irish media, due to his resemblance of his then teammate Gareth Bale.Career statistics

References

External links

<mask> profile at the Football Association of Ireland website

1994 births
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Association footballers from County Waterford
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Colchester United F.C. players
Stevenage F.C. players
York City F.C. players
South Normanton Athletic F.C. players
Waterford F.C.players
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title: Earl Rogers

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<mask> (November 18, 1869 – February 22, 1922) was an American trial lawyer and professor, who later became the inspiration for Perry Mason. Life
<mask> was born in Perry, New York on November 18, 1869, the son of Methodist minister Lowell L<mask> and Ada (Andrus<mask>. The Reverend <mask> moved the <mask> family to California in 1874. <mask> attended Ashland Academy in Ashland, Oregon and St. Helena Academy in St. Helena, California. He then studied at Syracuse University, but left to return to California after his father went bankrupt. <mask> worked as a newspaper reporter, then studied law under former U.S. senator Stephen M. White and Judge William P. Gardiner. <mask> was admitted to the bar in 1897, and began to practice in Los Angeles.Among the prospective attorneys who studied law under <mask> was Buron Fitts, who later became a Los Angeles County district attorney. As a defense counsel, <mask> handled 77 murder trials and lost only three . He astonished medical experts on the witness stand with his technical questions . His expertise was so complete that he became a professor of medical jurisprudence and insanity in the College of Physicians and Surgeons as well as a professor at the University of Southern California Law School. In "The Case of the Grinning Skull," <mask> introduced the victim's skull to prove what appeared to be a fracture caused by a violent blow from a blunt instrument, in fact, was the result of the autopsy surgeon's carelessness. The jury returned a not guilty verdict. Ten years after his death, impressed with accounts of <mask>' cases, attorney and author Erle Stanley Gardner reincarnated <mask> as the character Perry Mason.<mask>'s life is recounted by his daughter Adela <mask>. Johns, who was his assistant for most of his legal career, in her book Final Verdict (Doubleday, 1962), which was the basis of the television film Final Verdict, that was produced by Warner Bros. Notable cases

William Alford, 1899
<mask> defended William Alford from a murder charge by entering the victim's intestines into evidence. An expert witness testified that the path of the bullet confirmed Alford's story . Charles F. Mootry, 1899
<mask> defended Charles F. Mootry from a charge of murdering his wife by appealing to the jurors' own feelings about their wives. After the trial, when Mootry tried to congratulate <mask>, he turned away from Mootry and said, "Get away from me, you slimy pimp; you're as guilty as hell and you know it." The Catalina Island murder 1902
<mask> is also remembered for the defense in the Catalina Island murder case. In the early morning of August 13, 1902 at the Metropole Hotel, a gambler, William A. Yeagar, better known as "the Louisville Sport," was murdered during a card game.Alfred Boyd was one of three men in the room playing poker. Harry Johnson, who was at the table, ran from the room, yelling "He shot him, he shot him!" and handed Boyd's gun to bartender Jim Davis, who thought that there was no question that Boyd was the killer. Boyd was charged with the murder, but <mask> won an acquittal..

Griffith J. Griffith, 1903
Colonel Griffith J. Griffith, the namesake of Griffith Park, was tried for the attempted murder of his wife. He was convicted of the lesser charge of assault with a deadly weapon and served two years in prison. Morrison Buck, 1906
In 1906, <mask> made one of his rare appearances for the prosecution and used his medical expertise to send Morris Buck to the gallows for the murder of Chloe Canfield, wife of Charles A. Canfield (1848-1913). Patrick Calhoun 1909
Patrick Calhoun, president of the United Railroad Company, was charged with bribing the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in exchange for granting the overhead trolley franchise to his company in the wake of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.<mask> defended Calhoun, but during his trials and all the related trials of United Railroad Company's general counsel, Tiery Ford, <mask> did not call a single witness nor introduce any evidence, arguing that the prosecution simply hadn't made a case against the defendants. On June 20, 1909, the Calhoun jury was deadlocked, with the final jury vote at ten for acquittal and two for conviction. He was not retried. Clarence Darrow, 1912-1913
Perhaps the most famous lawyer-client disagreements recorded in legal history were those which developed between Clarence Darrow, indicted for attempted jury bribery in Los Angeles in 1912, and <mask>. The case arose out of Darrow's defense of the McNamara brothers, labor leaders who were indicted in the 1910 dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times building, in which 21 Times non-union employees were killed. The McNamara brothers were indicted, and Clarence Darrow was brought in to defend them. The case gripped the attention of the entire nation.Before the McNamara brothers could plead guilty, however, Darrow himself was charged by the Los Angeles district attorney with an attempt to bribe a juror. Darrow then hired  <mask> as his chief counsel. When the case went to trial, however, Darrow frequently disagreed with his attorney over how the case should be tried. According to the account of Adela <mask>. Johns, much of her father's energy during the trial was given over to trying to persuade Darrow and his wife to accept his position on how to try the case. <mask> was successful in getting Darrow, the great champion of organized labor, to refrain from making an argument essentially condoning the dynamiting of the Times building and the killing of 21 people. <mask> and Darrow both made closing arguments. <mask>' short summary of the evidence was business-like and to the point, emphasizing his own theory of the case that Darrow was too smart to have been involved in a bribery scheme and that he would not in any event have knowingly run across the street at the scene of the bribery and thus drawn attention to his presence at the scene.Darrow was acquitted, but he was later indicted for allegedly attempting to bribe another juror in the McNamara case. <mask> began the second case as lead counsel but was soon forced to withdraw for health reasons. The second bribery trial ended in a hung jury, with several jurors holding out for a conviction. It was not until many months later that the second indictment was finally dismissed, based on Darrow's agreement never to practice law in California again. The most difficult advocating that <mask> faced in the Darrow case was to persuade Darrow not to continually hurt his own case with unappealing – if not suicidal – arguments." The actor Robert Vaughn played <mask> in the episode, "Defendant: Clarence Darrow" (January 13, 1963), of the CBS anthology series, GE True, hosted by Jack Webb. In the story line, Darrow, played by Tol Avery, and <mask> argue passionately over legal procedures.Jess Willard 1913
<mask> defended boxer Jess Willard on charges of second-degree murder stemming from the death of his opponent, John "Bull" Young, from a blow to the head in the ninth round of a boxing match on August 22, 1913. On January 13, 1914, a jury found Willard not guilty. Willard later went on to become heavyweight champion of the world. Charles E. Sebastian, 1916
<mask> successfully defended Los Angeles Police Chief Charles E. Sebastian, who later became mayor, against a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. While running for the mayor's office Sebastian was charged with many crimes but was later acquitted of all of them. However, he left City Hall on September 2, 1916, after adverse publicity concerning his personal life arose from the publication of several letters of a damaging nature, and <mask> ran the mayor's office until  Frederick T. Woodman was appointed acting mayor on September 5, 1916. References

St. Johns, Adela <mask>, Final Verdict, (Doubleday, 1962)

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title: Shawn Williamson

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<mask> (born April 26, 1965) is a Canadian film and television producer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Early life
<mask> was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. <mask> began his career as a stage manager at The Arts Club Theatre in 1983 and has since produced live events, live television and television series, as well as feature films. Career
In 2001, <mask> started Brightlight Pictures and has since been developing, financing, and producing feature films and television series. He has filmed in a variety of international locations, including: Singapore, Croatia, Romania, France, England, Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Australia. Fifty Dead Men Walking (Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess) was produced as a Canada/UK co-production, filmed in Belfast, and opened with a Gala Premier spot at the Toronto International Film Festival. <mask> executive produced the feature film The Interview (Seth Rogen, James Franco) for Columbia Pictures, and Horns (Daniel Radcliffe), produced in conjunction with Mandalay Pictures and Red Granite Pictures.He also served as a producer on The Company You Keep (Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf) with Voltage pictures, 50/50 (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen), The Possession (Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kyra Sedgwick), White Noise (Michael Keaton), Passengers (Anne Hathaway, Patrick Wilson), and Wicker Man (Nicolas Cage). (2020)
 Sleeping with Danger (2020)
 Poisoned Love: The Stacey Castor Story (2020)
 Hearts of Winter (2020)
 A Doggone Christmas (2019)
 It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas (2019)
 A Homecoming for the Holidays (2019)
 Christmas Unleashed (2019)
 Christmas Town (2019)
 A Very Vintage Christmas (2019)
 Descendants 3 (2019)
 Family Pictures (2019)
 To Have and to Hold (2019)
 Harry & Meghan: Becoming Royal (2019)
 Bottled with Love (2019)
 Victoria Gotti: My Father's Daughter  (2019)
 Valentine in the Vineyard (2019)
 Jingle Around the Clock (2018)
 Welcome to Christmas (2018)
 A Twist of Christmas (2018)
 The Girl in the Bathtub (2018)
 Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance (2018)
 Frozen in Love (2018)
 Secret Millionaire (2018)
 Doomsday (2017)
 Yellow (2017)
 Royal New Year's Eve (2017)
 The Christmas Cottage (2017)
 Christmas at Holly Lodge (2017)
 Christmas Homecoming (2017)
 I Am Elizabeth Smart (2017)
 Marry Me at Christmas (2017)
 A Harvest Wedding(2017)
 Descendants 2 (2017)
 Little Pink House (2017)
 Nightmare Time (2016)
 A Christmas to Remember (2016)
 Christmas List (2016)
 Operation Christmas (2016)
 Who Killed JonBenét? (2016)
 Autumn in the Vineyard (2016)
 Twist of Fate (2016)
 Adventures in Babysitting (2016)
 Sandra Brown's White Hot (2016)
 All Yours (2016)
 Toni Braxton: Unbreak My Heart (2016)
 Evil Men (2015)
 The Hollow (2015)
 Just the Way You Are (2015)
 Aurora Teagarden Mystery: A Bone to Pick (2015)
 I Do, I Do, I Do (2015)
 Vow of Violence (2014)
 Damaged (2014)
 Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever (2014)
 The Christmas Secret (2014)
 Recipe for Love (2013)
 Stolen from the Womb (2013)
 The Color of Rain (2013)
 The Good Mistress (2013)
 Hats Off to Christmas! (2013)
 Let It Snow (2013)
 Scarecrow (2013)
 Mr Hockey: The Gordie Howe Story (2013)
 Profile for Murder (2013)
 The Trainer (2013)
 Twist of Faith (2013)
 Nearlyweds (2013)
 Finding Mrs. Claus (2012)
 The Wishing Tree (2012)
 Love at the Thanksgiving Day Parade (2012)
 Gone (2011)
 Battle of the Bulbs (2010)
 Shooting Gunless (2010)
 Mistresses (2009)
 A.M.P.E.D. (2007)
 Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep (2006)
 Bratty Babies (2005)
 Marker (2005)
 Johnny Total (2005)
 Cable Beach (2004)
 Mob Princess (2003)
 Dead in a Heartbeat (2002)
 Romantic Comedy 101 (2002)
 Till Dad Do Us Part (2001)
 Spinning Out of Control (2001)
 Leo's Journey (2000)
 Murder at the Cannes Film Festival (2000)
 Special Delivery (2000)
 Final Ascent (2000)
 Becoming Dick (2000)
 The Man Who Used to Be Me (2000)
 The Spiral Staircase (2000)
 Best Actress (2000)
 Ice Angel (2000)
 Heaven's Fire (1999)
 Don't Look Behind You (1999)
 The Darklings (1999)
 Catch Me If You Can (1998)
 Shari's Passover Surprise (1996)
 Lamb Chop's Special Chanukah (1995)

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Living people
Canadian film producers
Canadian television producers
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title: Stephen McPhail

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<mask> (born 9 December 1979) is an Irish former footballer and currently the sporting director of Shamrock Rovers in the League of Ireland Premier Division. A play-making central midfielder, McPhail started his career at Leeds United in the Premier League. He subsequently found success at Cardiff City, making over 150 appearances and being part of their promotion-winning 2012–13 Football League Championship side. McPhail was capped 10 times for the Republic of Ireland national football team, scoring one goal. Early life
<mask> was born in Westminster, London, and raised in Rush, Dublin, Ireland. Club career

Leeds United
McPhail started his career by coming through the youth ranks at Leeds United. His playing style led former Arsenal manager George Graham to christen him "the new Liam Brady".He began to make an impact on the first team during the 1997–98 season, making his debut in February 1998 against Leicester City, and went on to make several substitute appearances that campaign. The highlight of his debut season was a 50-yard lob pass to Leeds and future Cardiff City teammate Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, which some Leeds fans described as "one of the passes of the season". He started to become a regular for the side during the 1999–2000 season, after making several sub appearances, when he was given a long run in the first team squad. McPhail was rewarded with a new five-year contract at the Yorkshire club soon after. McPhail got his first Leeds goals in a league match against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on 19 December 1999. After manager David O'Leary left, Leeds went on to have several different managers over the next few years. During this time, McPhail was hampered by injury, making it difficult to break into the team under Terry Venables or his successor Peter Reid.He was loaned out to Millwall as a means of maintaining match fitness. A second loan, this time at Nottingham Forest, could have been made permanent as both McPhail and Forest manager Paul Hart felt the move would be beneficial to his career, but Leeds rejected Forest's bid. During his time at Leeds, McPhail was involved in the club's 2000–01 UEFA Champions League run, appearing in memorable games against the likes of Barcelona and Lazio as Leeds reached the semi-finals. Barnsley
McPhail left Leeds in July 2004 to sign for Barnsley on a free transfer, becoming the first international player from Ireland to sign for the club since Gary Fleming in 1990. McPhail made seventy-nine appearances for the Oakwell club in two seasons of League One football, the culmination of which coming with a victory over Swansea City in the League One Play-off Final at the Millennium Stadium. McPhail's Barnsley contract expired the following summer, and the midfielder departed the newly promoted club. Cardiff City
Cardiff City saw off competition from numerous other clubs to secure McPhail's services.<mask> was an ever-present for Cardiff during his first season in Wales, and impressed to such an extent that he was handed a longer-term deal the following July. During the injury-forced absences of club captain Darren Purse and vice-captain Riccardo Scimeca, McPhail stood in as the club's skipper. On 27 October 2007 he scored for Cardiff for the first time by finding the net in a 1–1 draw with Scunthorpe United. On 30 November 2007, after an indifferent opening to the Bluebirds' campaign, McPhail spoke to local paper the South Wales Echo, claiming that the team's poor start was "all my fault". McPhail found the net twice within the space of two months with goals against Hull City and Blackpool in the Championship. McPhail also had the honour of leading Cardiff City out at Wembley for the FA Cup Final, where City were beaten by a goal to nil by Premier League side Portsmouth. The start of the 2008–09 season saw McPhail make his one hundredth appearance in all competitions for Cardiff in a 1–1 draw with Doncaster Rovers on 16 August.Two months later, he completed a centenary of league appearance in a 2–1 defeat against Wolverhampton Wanderers. On 23 September, Cardiff met rivals Swansea City in a League Cup encounter at the Liberty Stadium in the first South Wales derby to take place in seven years. <mask> was sent off in the 75th minute for a second bookable offence, as Jordi Gomez's goal won the tie for Roberto Martínez's Swansea. <mask> was dismissed once again when the two sides met at the same venue in the league, again for collecting two yellow cards. Cardiff manager Dave Jones publicly criticised McPhail, stating that "he probably cost us all three points", in his post-match press conference. McPhail picked up an injury early on in the 2009–10 season, keeping him out of the side for one month. Returning to the side on in the league encounter with Reading, <mask> was sent off for a foul on Jem Karacan.Following the end of his suspension, <mask> returned in a thumping 6–1 win against Derby County at Cardiff City Stadium, playing a part in four of City's goals. Four weeks later, he fell victim to another injury while playing against Nottingham Forest. He was originally scheduled to be out for between six and eight weeks but, on 20 November 2009, he was diagnosed with lymphoma, the disease forcing him to miss a considerably longer period. <mask> returned to Cardiff's starting eleven on 5 February 2010 in a 5–1 defeat to Newcastle United, playing 75 minutes before being substituted. In the summer of 2011, <mask> changed his number to 37, the number he wore in his first season as a professional with Leeds United. After missing the first month of the 2011–12 season, <mask> returned in a Football League Cup game against Leicester City, to be taken off after 29 minutes with a groin injury. He returned from the injury in October, when he made the bench on 18 October against Peterborough United.Despite a difficult season for McPhail (he again missed a large proportion of City's matches with illness), he was awarded the club's Clubman of the Year Award at the season's end. McPhail was restricted to just two cup appearances in 2012–13, with manager Malky Mackay declaring midway through the season that McPhail was available for a short-term loan. He was released at the end of the 2012–13 season. Sheffield Wednesday
On 19 September 2013, McPhail joined Championship side Sheffield Wednesday on a contract running until January 2014. Shamrock Rovers
On 13 February 2014, Shamrock Rovers announced that they had signed <mask> on a contract for the 2014 season. McPhail scored on his debut in the 2014 Setanta Sports Cup and made his league debut on the opening day of the 2014 League of Ireland season. On 5 July 2014, <mask> was sent off in a derby day win against St Pat's.In his first season McPhail made 19 league appearances for the Hoops. McPhail retired from playing in October 2016; and shortly afterwards was appointed Sporting Director of Shamrock Rovers. International career
McPhail played in the 1996 UEFA European Under-16 Football Championship scoring the winner in a group game against Poland in May 1996 and played for the Republic of Ireland national under-19 football team in the 1997 UEFA European Under-18 Football Championship finals in Iceland. He received his first senior call up in May 2000 when manager Mick McCarthy selected him in the squad for a match against Scotland. McPhail currently holds 10 caps for the Republic of Ireland national football team and has also played for the Ireland under-21 side earlier in his career however he has not earned a full cap for Ireland since a match against Nigeria in 2004. Due to some good form at Cardiff he had publicly declared his hopes of returning to the international scene due to the return of an Ireland B team. In October 2006 he was named in the Republic of Ireland B squad for a match against Scotland B and captained the side in a 0–0 draw.In May 2008, new manager Giovanni Trapattoni selected McPhail for his first squad for the friendly games against Serbia and Colombia. His only goal for Ireland came on 11 June 2000 against South Africa in a 2–1 win in the 2000 U.S. Cup. International goals
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Honours
Leeds United
FA Youth Cup: 1996–97

Barnsley
League One Play-off: 2005–06

Cardiff City
FA Cup: Runner-up 2007–08
Football League Championship Play-off: Runner-up 2009–2010
Football League Cup: Runner-up 2011–12

Individual
 Cardiff City Clubman of the Year: 2012

Personal life
<mask> suffers from Sjögren's syndrome and Raynaud's phenomenon. See also
 List of Republic of Ireland international footballers born outside the Republic of Ireland

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Republic of Ireland profile at Soccerscene

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title: Olivia Laing

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<mask> (born 14 April 1977) is a British writer, novelist and cultural critic. She is the author of four works of non-fiction, To the River, The Trip to Echo Spring, The Lonely City and Everybody, as well as an essay collection, Funny Weather, and a novel, Crudo. In 2018, she was awarded the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for non-fiction and in 2019, the 100th James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Crudo. In 2019 she became an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Early life and education
<mask> grew up in Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire. She enrolled at Sussex University to study English, but dropped out to live on a road protest in Dorset. At the age of 20, she spent three months living alone on an abandoned farm near Brighton, an experience she has described as being formative.In her twenties, Laing trained as a medical herbalist. Career
Between 2007 and 2009, <mask> was Deputy Books Editor of The Observer. She writes on art and culture for The Guardian, frieze and New Statesman and has written catalogue essays for many contemporary artists, including Derek Jarman, Chantal Joffe, Wolfgang Tillmans and Andy Warhol. <mask> is the author of four books of nonﬁction, each mixing cultural criticism and memoir with elements of biography, psychoanalysis, and travel writing. Her first book, To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface, was published in 2011. Walking the length of the Ouse, the river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941, Laing reflects upon Woolf's life and work and, more generally, upon the relationship between history and place, and the difficulties of biography. The book was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and the Dolman Best Travel Book Award.The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking (2013), a ﬁnalist for both the Costa Biography Award and the Gordon Burn Prize, employs a similar tack. Travelling across America, Laing explores the difficult relationship between creativity and alcoholism, placing her own experience growing up in an alcoholic family alongside the lives of male alcoholic writers such as John Cheever, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Carver and Ernest Hemingway. In the book, she praises literature's “power to map the more difficult regions of human experience and knowledge.” According to the judges of the Windham-Campbell Prize, "this power to map the difficult, the shameful, and the grotesque, as well as the beautiful and transcendent, is inherent in her own work." Her third book, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone, was aided by research Laing undertook as a recipient of the 2014 Eccles British Library Writer Award and was published in 2016. It was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. It has been translated into eighteen languages. Examining her own experience of solitude during a period living in New York, Laing considers how the culturally stigmatised condition of loneliness provides new insights into the work of numerous artists for whom the creative act became a means of exploring solitude and forging companionship, among them Andy Warhol, Edward Hopper, Henry Darger and David Wojnarowicz.The result is a merging of inner and outer realities, a revelatory exploration of the intense feelings of shame that loneliness can provoke as well as a vivid portrait of 1970s and 1980s New York at the peak of the AIDS crisis. <mask>'s first novel, Crudo, is a roman-à-clef about the politically turbulent summer of 2017. Written in real time over seven weeks, the novel is also an homage to Kathy Acker, on whom the protagonist is based. It was a New York Times Notable Book of 2018, and was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize. In 2019, Crudo won the 100th James Tait Black Memorial Prize. According to the fiction judge, Dr Alex Lawrie: "This is fiction at its finest: a bold and reactive political novel that captures a raw slice of contemporary history with pace, charm, and wit." Writing in The New Yorker, Alexandra Schwartz described Crudo as "a work of autofiction that captures the apprehension of the present moment."In New Statesman, Sarah Ditum wrote that <mask> "uses her style like a magician uses sleight-of-hand, palming away a hinted-at revelation while your attention has been directed towards the dazzling arc of her sentences". Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency was published in 2020. It is a collection of essays, reviews and other published work that <mask> wrote for a variety of publications including frieze, BOMB and The Guardian. <mask>'s sixth book, Everybody, examines the body and its discontents by way of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich. It explores the liberation movements of the twentieth century, examining the work and lives of a variety of figures, including Nina Simone, Susan Sontag, Andrea Dworkin and Malcolm X. According to the Financial Times, "Laing’s gift for weaving big ideas together with lyrical prose sets her alongside the likes of Arundhati Roy, John Berger and James Baldwin. In other words, she is among the most significant voices of our time."Awards and honors
2014 Eccles British Library Writers Award
2018 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize
2019 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Crudo

Bibliography

Non-Fiction
 To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface (Canongate, 2011)
The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking (Canongate, 2013)
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Canongate, 2016)
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency (Picador, 2020)
Everybody: A Book About Freedom (Picador, 2021)

Fiction
Crudo (Picador, 2018)

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External links
 Author website
 ft.com
 Guardian review of Crudo
 New Statesman review of The Lonely City
 Observer review of The Trip to Echo Spring
 An interview with <mask>ng, buzzfeed

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title: Bill Phillips (first baseman)

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William B<mask> (April 30, 1857 – October 7, 1900), also known as "<mask>", was a Canadian professional baseball first baseman from the mid-1870s until the late 1880s. From 1879 to 1888, he played for three major league teams; the Cleveland Blues of the National League (NL) from 1879 to 1884, the Brooklyn Grays of the American Association (AA) from 1885 to 1887, and the Kansas City Cowboys of the AA in 1888. A native of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, he has the distinction of being the first Canadian to play in the major leagues. As a batter, <mask> finished in the top-ten among league leaders on multiple occasions, including triples four times, and games played, at bats, doubles, runs batted in (RBIs), and extra base hits three times each. Additionally, as a fielder, he finished among the defensive leaders for the league's first baseman in double plays for three consecutive years, and twice finished first in putouts and fielding percentage. He died in Chicago at the age of 43. He was later enshrined into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 1988 for his accomplishments, and is considered by some to be greatest Canadian first baseman in baseball history.Early years
<mask> was born in April 1857, to a large family of English heritage, that consisted of nine siblings, two brothers and seven sisters, and a cooper father. Known as "Willie" to his family, he had likely began his interest in the game of baseball while still in his hometown of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, considering there were at least nine amateur baseball clubs organized and playing there during the early 1870s. Canadian journalist Peter McGuire claims the <mask> family moved from Saint John in 1877, due to a major fire, which burned much of the city. However, according to Alfred Henry Spink, founder of the Sporting News, <mask> was playing baseball in the Chicago area at earlier date. It is certain the family settled in Chicago in the mid to late-1870s as <mask> was playing for a top amateur team of the area called the Pastime club  In 1877, he played professionally for an independent team in Winona, Minnesota, the Clipper Club. The club lasted just 29 games, and joined the Minneapolis Browns of the League Alliance (LA) in May. He played with the Browns into mid-August, then joined another LA club, the Janesville Mutual, later that month for a four-day stretch.<mask> joined independent Forest City club of Cleveland, Ohio in 1878, and in 65 games had a batting average of .296 to lead the team. The next year, the Cleveland team joined the NL, which began <mask>' major league career. Career

Cleveland
The Forest City team of Cleveland joined the National League for the 1879 season as the Cleveland Blues, and <mask> made NL debut on May 1, becoming the first native Canadian to play in the major leagues. In his first NL season, he led the league's first basemen in games played with 75, was sixth in the league with 365 at bats, while leading the Blues in runs scored, and hits. In the 1880 season, his batting average dropped from .271 in 1879, to .256; however, he finished in the top-ten among the league leaders in games played with 85, which was first among first basemen, was fifth in the league with 10 triples, and led the league in double plays. On June 12, the Blues were the victim of the first recorded perfect game in history, thrown by Lee Richmond of the Worcester Worcesters. In that game, <mask> hit what appeared to be a single to right field, only to be thrown out at first base by the shallow-playing right fielder Lon Knight.<mask> continued his consistent play in 1881, when his 85 games played led the league, and he finished second in the league with 10 triples, as well as top-ten totals in extra-base hits with 29, and at bats with 357. However, his batting statistics declined, in both 1882 and 1883, his batting average dipping to a low of .246 in 1883, but he did finish eighth in league with four home runs in 1882, and he again led all first basemen in double plays. In 1884, when teammates Fred Dunlap and Jack Glasscock jumped to the Union Association, he attempted to fill the void. Although he batted .276, the highest average on the Blues' team, achieved his highest career statistical totals in nearly all batting categories, it was not enough, as Cleveland finished 49 games out of first place. The seventh-place finish by the Blues, along with the decline of fan support, resulted in the financial instability of the franchise, and it folded after the season. Brooklyn

Following the demise of the Blues, the Brooklyn Grays of AA signed their former manager, Charlie Hackett, along with <mask> and six other Blues' players, including and the team signed many Cleveland's best players, including <mask> and Germany Smith. In <mask>' first season with Brooklyn, he established his highest seasonal batting average of his career with .302, which was the seventh highest in the league, and led all first basemen in putouts, and fielding percentage.Additionally, his on-base percentage of .364 placed in the top five among AA hitters, he led his team in RBIs with 63, slugging percentage, and triples. He continued his success for Grays 1886, establishing his highest seasonal career totals in games played with 141, which led the AA, and hits with 160, which was fifth among the league leaders. In 1887, he became the second Canadian baseball player to surpass 100 RBIs in a season, when he finished with a total of 101, Tip O'Neill having done so in 1886 with the St. Louis Browns. He led the league in fielding percentage among first basemen for the second time, and his 34 doubles were sixth in the league. Final years
<mask> was sold to the Kansas City Cowboys during the off-season to make room for Dave Orr. By the end of the 1888 season, <mask>' abilities began to decline at a rapid pace, which brought about sympathy among the baseball community. Years later, Charles Comiskey recalled that when he was the manager for the St. Louis Browns, instructing his pitchers to throw easy-to-hit pitches for <mask> so that his public image would remain intact.The 1888 season was <mask>' last at the major league level, and while he had his lowest seasonal batting average of .236, he again led the league in putouts. He returned to Canada to play one more season of professional baseball, with Hamilton Hams of the International League. However, he batted just .245, which signaled the end of his playing career. <mask> never married, and he died on October 7, 1900 in Chicago at the age of 43, of syphilitic locomotor ataxia, and he is interred at Graceland Cemetery. <mask> was enshrined into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 1988. Career statistics
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Cleveland Blues (NL) players
Hamilton Hams players
Janesville Mutual players
Kansas City Cowboys players
Major League Baseball first basemen
Major League Baseball players from Canada
Minneapolis Browns players
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title: Carly Findlay

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<mask>  (born 1981) is an Australian writer, speaker, and online influencer. <mask> describes herself as an 'appearance activist', and has been outspoken on a number of disability-related issues. She has been particularly vocal on the right to privacy of children with a disability as well as the importance of representation and inclusion of disabled people both in general life, and particularly in fashion. <mask> makes use of social media to document her love of fashion, food, as well as the treatment, physical pain, and ableism she faces because she has ichthyosis, a rare genetic disorder that affects her skin and hair. She has built a business and personal brand around her identity as a disabled woman. Biography

Early life
<mask>'s parents courted illegally for four years in South Africa during the Apartheid and moved to Australia in order to marry in 1981. Her mother Jeanette was classified as coloured South African, while her father Roger was an Englishman.<mask> was born on 8 December 1981 in Albury, New South Wales, three weeks pre-mature and was diagnosed with a form of the genetic disease ichthyosis: congenital ichthyosiform erythroderma. Education
The <mask> family moved from Albury to a small village Walla Walla before she started preschool. <mask> attended Walla Walla Primary School and when she was 10 years old was diagnosed with a different form of ichthyosis, Netherton syndrome through genetic testing. <mask> attended Murray High School in Albury and, during her final year, started working at a local Kmart department store. <mask> recalls feeling more comfortable with hospital staff than her fellow students. <mask> studied at La Trobe University in Wodonga and in 2002 graduated with a Bachelor of eCommerce. She moved to Melbourne in 2003 to work for the Australian Public Service and completed her Masters of Communication from RMIT University from 2005 to 2012.Career
From February 2003 to November 2017, <mask> was employed by the Australian Tax Department and from September 2016 to May 2017, held the position of Communication Coordinator for People with Disability Australia Inc. In 2012 and 2013, <mask> had three encounters with taxi drivers that lead her to make a complaint to the Victorian Taxi Commission and the Australian Human Rights Commission. The drivers in questions refused to transport Findlay, making comments on her appearance, alleged intoxication, and smell, and claiming she would damage their vehicle. After the third incident, <mask> lodged a complaint with the taxi company as did the hotel concierge who booked the taxi for her. When no action was taken, she complained to the Victorian Taxi Commission and the Australian Human Rights Commission. <mask> has had a number of speaking gigs, both individually and as a part of event panels including Women of Letters, opening for Julia Gillard at Layne Beachley's Women in Leadership luncheon, Progress 2017, University of Western England, ProBlogger, Melbourne Writers Festival, Emerging Writers Festival, Dangerous Ideas around Disability and the Royal Melbourne Hospital. <mask> also regularly appears on podcasts and radio programs.<mask> has made a number of media appearances that placed her in the spotlight and helped establish her position as a disability and appearance spokesperson. In 2017 <mask> appeared on the ABC television series You Can't Ask That and Cyber Hate with Tara Moss, and in 2018 she appeared on Channel Ten's The Project in response to an interview with Jon Faine on ABC Radio. On 28 March 2018, <mask> had appeared on ABC Radio's morning show to discuss microaggressions and disability. During the interview, the host Jon Faine described <mask> as looking like a “burns victim” and having a face that wouldn't “be good at Halloween”, before asking about her sex life. Faine's line of questioning has been described by commentators and the public as “offensive”, “disrespectful” and “inappropriate”, while they described <mask>'s reaction as “composed” and “polite”. Faine later apologised. The incident was later cited by sacked ABC boss Michelle Guthrie as causative to her firing by the ABC Board.Guthrie later appealed the decision to fire her and reached an out of court settlement with the ABC. <mask> attributes most of her success to her appearance on You Can't Ask That. In 2018, <mask> started promoting her upcoming book at a number of writers festivals across Australia, including the Feminist Writers Festival, Bendigo Writers Festival and at five events during the Melbourne Writers Festival, including a spoken word performance as part of the Quippings: Disability unleashed theatre group. <mask> is currently employed in the role of Access and Inclusion Coordinator for the Melbourne Fringe Festival one day a week as well as providing customised disability awareness, social media and blogging training to organisations. She co-hosts a podcast called Refreshments Provided with Jason Scott Watkins. Access to Fashion
As a self-proclaimed fashion lover, <mask> was dissatisfied with the lack of representation people with disabilities have in the media and fashion landscape. Propelled by her own experience of exclusion and elitism in fashion, in July 2018 she announced the first-ever disability-inclusive event to be held as part of Melbourne Fashion Week."We're not treated the same when we go into stores. For me, I am sometimes not even spoken to. They think I am not going to want their clothes or their service, or they might be embarrassed to be seen with me,” <mask> said. 'Access to Fashion - Disability on the Runway: an Exploration of Disability Inclusion in the Fashion Industry' was held on 1 September 2018, and included a panel discussion as well as a runway show. It featured a number of models and fashion designers with disabilities. Writing
<mask> was a writer from a young age, and started her self-titled blog in 2009. <mask>'s blog details significant events in her life, her experience of life with ichthyosis, and her commentary as an appearance activist.<mask> has written for a variety of online and traditional media, including the ABC, SBS, Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, The Age, Essential Baby, Kidspot, Ravishly, Frankie Magazine, and Mamamia. After a journalist dubbed <mask> an appearance activist, she claimed the title and has since written on a range of topics related to appearance diversity and disabilities in general. Her writing also appears in anthologies - Growing Up African in Australia (edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke), Women of a Certain Rage, and Me Too - Stories from the Australian Movement; as well as in Bec Sparrow's Ask Me Anything and Tara Moss' Speaking Out. She was also included in 200 women who will change the way you will see the world. Representation
A common theme of <mask>'s work is the importance of representation of people of diverse appearance in the media, fashion, and general life. She takes “back the [ableist] gaze through social media” and her blog, using them as a platform to promote her brand, her love of fashion, ableism and the treatment and pain she experiences in association with her condition. Part of <mask>'s push for representation is the need for disabled people to control how their stories are told, stopping disability being a tragedy or a burden to be overcome, and a push against so-called inspiration porn.“In fairy tales, the characters who look different are often cast as the villain or monsters. It's only when they shed their unconventional skin that they are seen as 'good' or less frightening. There are very few stories where the character that looks different is the hero of the story ... I've been the hero of my story - telling it on my own terms, proud about my facial difference and disability, not wanting a cure for my rare, severe and sometimes confronting skin condition, and knowing that I am beautiful even though I don't have beauty privilege.”

Privacy
The right to privacy for both children and adults with disability is an important facet of <mask>'s writing. <mask> has said she is grateful to her parents for not sharing her story without her consent and has taken issue with individual parents and parenting groups who have “overshared” their children's stories. She explored this topic in one of her performances at the 2018 Melbourne Writers Festival. Identity
For <mask>, disability is a more central aspect of her identity than her racial background and she embraces the term 'disabled person' rather than 'person with a disability'.“Often when I write about disability and use the term 'disabled', people (strangers) correct me. They do so as they see disability as a bad thing ... Many disabled people see disability as part of our identity - just like race, sexuality, religion, gender etc. and that's ok. And many disabled people don't, and that's ok too. We can choose how to identify. And 'disabled' and 'disability' are not bad words.”

Findlay says that she did not identify as having a disability until her mid-twenties, but doing so has given her a platform on which to build her brand, a sense of confidence and a community. “Giving myself the labels of 'disabled' and 'chronically ill' has been very empowering.I feel great sense of belonging – and that's as big a relief as a diagnosis is. It's given me pride. I am proud to belong to an amazing, talented, diverse, passionate community that's committed to selflessly improving the lives of others.”

Say Hello
After receiving five publication offers, on 3 July 2017, <mask> signed a book deal with Harper Collins. 'Say Hello' was launched in January 2019. <mask> wrote that “Say Hello will be the book I needed to read when I was younger. I didn't have any role models with my condition until I searched the internet in my teens. There were no memoirs on ichthyosis – only medical textbooks with people's faces blacked out.”

The book is expected to be a memoir of <mask>'s life experience as a woman with ichthyosis as well as her journey to identifying as a disabled person and the struggles and confusion she experienced before reaching that point.<mask> hopes the book helps those who also have ichthyosis, their parents, young women and teachers. “There was no one in media or books who looked like me, or to tell me it's ok to not want to change my appearance, and I didn't know whether I'd find love – love with another or love for myself. It's time to write that book. To be the person <mask> needed.”

Growing Up Disabled in Australia

<mask> edited Growing Up Disabled in Australia - part of Black Inc Books' 'Growing Up...' anthology series. It was released on 2 February 2021. Growing Up Disabled in Australia is the fifth book in the highly acclaimed, bestselling Growing Up series. It includes interviews with prominent Australians such as Senator Jordon Steele-John and Paralympian Isis Holt, poetry and graphic art, as well as more than 40 original pieces by writers with a disability or chronic illness.Awards
<mask> was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in the 2020 Australia Day Honours for "service to people with a disability". Other awards:
 2010 Yooralla Media Awards - Best Online Commentary
 2011 Australian Public Service Australia Day Award
 2011 Finalist in Best Australian Blogs – Australian Writers Centre
 2012 Finalist in Best Australian Blogs  – Australian Writers Centre
 2012 Layne Beachley Aim for the Stars grant
 2013 Yooralla Media Awards - Best Online Commentary
 2013 Kidspot Voices - Best Personal Blog
 2013 BUPA Health Activist Award for Positive Life Change
 2013 Writers Victoria Write-ability fellowship
 Nominee for a 2013 Pride of Australia Medal
 Nominee for a 2013 Global Genes Project Champion of Hope award
 2014 Australian Financial Review and Westpac Australia 100 Women of Influence Awards
 2014 Finalist in Best Australian Blogs – Australian Writers Centre
 2014 Participant in The Guardian's Diverse Writers Program
 2016 Second place winner in the disability category of the Australian Centre for Women in Leadership
 2019 shortlisted in The Horne Prize for her essay titled In Sickness and In Health - on the social cost of health and migration policies that are fuelling deportations. The Horne Prize is run by The Saturday Paper and Aesop Foundation
 2019 joint recipient of the Lesley Hall Scholarship run by Arts Access Victoria

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21st-century Australian women writers
21st-century Australian writers
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Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
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title: Csaba Ferenc Asztalos

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<mask> (born February 17, 1974 in Baia Mare) is a politician of Hungarian ethnicity in Romania and an ex-member of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania. He is currently the president of the National Council for Combating Discrimination, Romania's anti-discrimination and equality body. He speaks Romanian, Hungarian and English. Education

<mask> completed high school in Baia Mare, at the Hungarian-language section of Mihai Eminescu High School, where he specialised in philology. Between 1993 and 1997, he studied law at the University of Oradea. Later, he undertook post-graduate studies at the David Oligvy National School of Political and Administrative in Bucharest, and in 2003 was a doctoral candidate in international law at the University of Bucharest. In 2002, he was appointed to the National Council for Combating Discrimination, and became president of the institution in 2005.Political activity
On November 21, 2006 CNDC (National Council for Discrimination Combating) accepted the petition submitted by Emil Moise on exposing the religious symbols in the public schools. The CNDC’s ruling, then called the Emil Moise vs Ministry of Education case, has provided the following: “The Ministry of Education has to develop and implement within the reasonable terms an internal regulation that would regulate the presence of the religious symbols in the public educational institutions. This internal regulation should be based on the following principales:
 Should ensure the right to education and access to culture, based on the egality principal;
 Should respect the rights of the parents to ensure the children education based on their religious and philosophical beliefs;
 Should respect the laic statute and the religion autonomy;
 Should ensure the liberty of the religion, consciousness and beliefs of all the children, based on the egality principal;
 The religious symbols should be exposed within the religious education hours and in the areas designated exclusively to the religious education. The Head of the CNCD, <mask> <mask> <mask> said, "[By this ruling], we have recognized the relationship between the state and religions in Romania, we have not touched upon the historical recognition of Christian contributions to the formation of the Romanian people. Now, we make an appeal to the state, through the Ministry of Education, to take responsibility for what is happening in schools in this regard. "On June 11, 2008, the High Court of Cassation and Justice decided that the presence of icons in schools is legal, basically canceling the CNCD's decision. <mask> expressed his opinion on the religious classes taught in Romanian schools, deplored the Church's relationship with the State, which would violate the students' right and freedom of conscience.According to him, "if it were recognized (as legitimate) that religion can only be optional, religion teachers would no longer be permanently employed in schools, but only through temporary contracts per one school year" and " the pupils' enrollment from the office to the religion classes – that is, by the state – violates the freedom of conscience, the right of parents or the legal guardian to ensure that their child is educated according to their own beliefs [because] no person in Romania is obliged to answer a question about to his belonging to a cult." In June 2013, following the attempt carried out by the Parliamentary Commission to amend the new Constitution to make legal marriage just "between a man and a woman" (changing the current form: "between spouses"), basically prohibiting same-sex marriages, failed, The Commission also resumed the vote on the proposed day-earlier amendment providing for protection against discrimination based on sexual orientation, which was rejected. <mask> <mask> together with other members of civil society reacted, publicly condemning the commission of political interests and discrimination against sexual minorities. He said that the new amendments (which would have forbidden same-sex marriages) "are brought to  manipulate, precisely to incite, precisely to serve purposes other than a real problem" and that "at the time which we channel the  society hate through acts such as the Constitution only to, for example, have a quorum in the Constitution [...] is not normal." In an interview for the Adevărul newspaper in June 2013, he stated that "there is a risk that the CNCD will be politically engaged". He argues that the members of the CNDC college, proposed by PSD and PNL, vote the decisions on the petitions submitted based on the existing political interests. In October 2013 <mask> declared for Hotnews that "I am ashamed of this CNCD decision.It confirms my fears and my alarm signal that the institution can make political decisions." He referred to the institution's failure to sanction the discriminatory affirmations of some politicians, the PNL MP Alexandru Băişanu being one of the cases. Incidents
On October 10, 2012, <mask> <mask> was attacked on a street in the center of Bucharest by a group of four people who threatened him, sharply and injured him. He refused to comment on the incident for the moment; then filed a complaint with the Capital Police and gave an interview in which he said he received anonymous letters threatening him and his family. A group of NGOs addressed an open letter to Prime Minister Victor Ponta asking for his physical integrity and the start of an investigation. They express "deep concern about the media attacks directed against the National Council for Combating Discrimination (CNCD), respectively the psychological and physical, but also the media," to the president of this institution. UDMR leaders publicly condemned aggression against the CNCD director.In the same letter to the prime minister, it is also stated that the attack "took place just a few days after the public statements of the institution, represented by Mr. <mask> on the racist slips registered at the level of Steaua football club. “We believe that this attack as unacceptable and with serious negative effects on institutions that protect human rights in Romania, since most likely the motivation behind these acts is directly related to the mandate, role and decisions adopted by the Board of  Directors of CNCD". The NGO group, gathered under the umbrella of the Anti-Discrimination Coalition in Romania, asked the Premier to publicly condemn the intimidation act, which has happened. References

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CV of Csaba Ferenc Asztalos at the National Council for Combating Discrimination's website

Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania politicians
People from Baia Mare
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title: Claudio Tiribelli

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<mask> (born 6 October 1946) is an Italian hepatologist best known for his studies on bilirubin and in particular on Kernicterus, a bilirubin-induced neurological damage. Biography
<mask> was born in Venice, Italy on 6 October 1946. He graduated summa cum laude in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Padua. During his Ph.D. he studied at the University of Trieste as research clinical fellow. In 1980 he started his activity as professor of medicine. From 1980 to 1985 he was assistant professor of medicine, from 1985 to 1988 research associate, from 1989 to 2008 he was professor of medicine, specializing in biochemistry applied to medicine, and 2008 he was appointed professor of gastroenterology at the University of Trieste, until his retirement in 2016. He was research fellow at the Department of Pharmacology, University of Groningen in 1982, a visiting scientist at Polytechnic University, New York, NY, USA in 1989, a visiting professor, University of Toronto, Canada in 1994.Since 2019, Tiribelli is visiting professor at Charles University, Prague Czech Republic. Tiribelli also had an intense clinical activity. In 2001 he become director of the Liver Research Center of Trieste, and then in 2010 he became director of the Liver Clinical Center, based in the Trieste Teaching Hospital, where in 2013 he was appointed head of the entire medical department. In 1980 Tiribelli created Fondo Studi Fegato (Liver Studies Found), which in 2008 became Fondazione Italiana Fegato - Italian Liver Foundation, a no-profit research institution focused on liver and hepatic diseases, based in Trieste with worldwide collaborations and exchanges of students and scientists. <mask> is scientific director of the foundation. For his international scientific activity, in 2011 he was awarded of the Laurea Honoris Causa by the Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the following year again he obtained the Laurea Honoris Causa from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina. In 2017 was awarded by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation of Argentina of the Premio de Cooperación Internacional en Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación "Luis Federico Leloir" - Award for International Cooperation in Science, Technology and Innovation granted very selectively to foreign scientists who gave a great contribution to the scientific international cooperation – Premios Leloir.Since 1972 Tiribelli is married with Rita Russo and has a son, Mario who is an associate professor of hematology at the University of Udine Medical School. Scientific activity

Since the very beginning Tiribelli was fascinated by bilirubin, the yellow compounds which gives the yellow color the sclera and skin when increased for genetic condition or clinical liver disorders. This love lasted all his scientific life and nor he is regarded as one of the few world experts in the field. Based on his expertise he founded Bilimetrix® which develop the firs point-of-care device to measure bilirubin in neonates preventing a timely diagnosis of severe neonatal jaundice and a proper treatment. Due to his clinical activity, linked with research interests, he is active in translational activity in several liver disorders as fatty liver and hepatocellular carcinoma. Together with his longstanding research associate Stefano Bellentani he designed and performed the Dionysus Study, the first project exploring the prevalence and incidence of liver diseases in the general population. He is coordinating a large group of researchers (PostDocs, PhD fellows, senior researchers) located in the hub lab at the Italian Liver Foundation in Trieste and spread around the world.The international programs <mask> is coordinating forces him to cross the Equator 14 times in 2019 (before the COVID pandemic). Fondazione Italiana Fegato – Italian Liver Foundation
In 1980 the Fondo Studi Fegato (Liver Studies Found) was founded, renamed in 2008 Fondazione Italiana Fegato ("FIF", Italian Liver Foundation) a no-profit organization primarily involved in the field of molecular research applied to the liver and its diseases (Translational Hepatology). FIF actively interacts with several national and international scientific organizations and hosts every year PhD and post-doctoral researchers, international fellow researchers, and undergraduate students from University. In 2020, the scientific production of the Italian Liver Foundation was 35 full papers, 21 reviews, and 2 book chapters. <mask> is scientific director of the foundation and coordinates the scientific activity of the senior scientists and the main current research lines at the foundation, which are:

Bilirubin in neurological damage including bilirubin-induced neurological damage in neonatal hyperbilirubinemia
Bilirubin as modulating molecule in metabolic disorders (obesity, diabetes) and degenerative neurological disease (Parkinson and Alzheimer)
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)

International cooperation
Major efforts have been also given to the international cooperation among FIF and liver research centers around the world. These activity led to the signature of operational MoUs with several countries as Mexico (Medica Sur), Brazil Sociedade Brasileira de Hepatologia), Vietnam (Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Min City), India (ILBS Institute of Liver & Biliary Sciences), Indonesia (Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology) among the others. Of particular relevance the cooperation with Argentina elicited in the creation of the first center for criobiology in South America Centro Binacional (Argentina-Italia) de Investigaciones en Criobiología Clínica y Aplicada (CAIC) established in 2009, also due to a grant of the Region Friuli Venezia Giulia.CAIC was joined by the Liver Transplant Program of Fundacion Favaloro. Another very active project is that involving DOST Department of Science and Technology and PCHRD Philippine Council for Research and Development of the Philippines, with the creation of PhD and sandwich fellowships for Filipino students at FIF and the creation of the Filipino Liver Network together with University of the Philippines in Manila.

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title: Joshua Key

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<mask> "Josh<mask> is a United States Army deserter, who fled while on leave from the Iraq War, and is a current resident of Canada. He is the author, with Lawrence Hill, of The Deserter's Tale, a book chronicling his service in Iraq and his subsequent departure from military life. Personal life
<mask> was born in 1978 in Guthrie, Oklahoma, which is located just outside Oklahoma City. At age 20, he married Brandi Johnston, with whom he has four children. She initially joined him in moving to Canada, but later divorced him and returned to the US with their children. Military service and desertion
In 2002 <mask> enlisted in the United States Army. He attended basic training and was stationed in Fort Carson, Colorado.He was deployed to the Middle East in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. "<mask> served as a combat engineer for eight months in Iraq 2003." "Mr. <mask> had told the IRB that while in Iraq with a unit of combat engineers, he took part in at least 200 raids on civilian homes." When he returned home on leave, he deserted the Army in November, 2003. <mask> states he holds no regrets about deserting the US Army, as illustrated on the back cover of The Deserters Tale. In the book <mask> gives a short summary of his own life prior, during and after his tour of duty and subsequent desertion. In the book <mask> claims to have witnessed many troubling acts: systematic vandalism of Iraqi homes during house raids, murder of an Iraqi child, and sexual abuse of innocent women, all purportedly committed by American soldiers and officers.After deserting the military, <mask> spent 14 months in hiding in the US before going to Canada. Life in Canada
He fled to Toronto, Ontario, Canada on March 8, 2005, and 3 days later made a claim for asylum as a conscientious objector seeking refugee status. First hearing at Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board

Negative IRB decision: Oct 20, 2006
He had a hearing at Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB), represented by Jeffry House, but the Board rendered a negative decision on Oct 20, 2006. He appealed to the Federal Court. Successful appeal: Canada's Federal Court Ruling of July 4, 2008
On July 4, 2008, <mask> won a Federal Court appeal forcing the IRB to re-examine his claim for refugee status in Canada. The IRB was ordered to take another look at <mask>'s failed bid for asylum in an unprecedented court ruling that could affect scores of other U.S. soldiers, now in Canada, who have refused to fight in Iraq. In the decision the Federal Court found the IRB made mistakes in turning down <mask>'s claim for asylum.While the earlier board deemed him credible, it declined his claim for refugee status on the grounds he was not required to systematically commit war crimes. The earlier board rulings deemed that it was not important enough that he had to violate the Geneva Conventions. Federal Court Justice Robert Barnes disagreed with that earlier analysis. "Officially condoned military misconduct falling well short of a war crime may support a claim to refugee protection," Barnes wrote. Military action that "systematically degrades, abuses or humiliates" either combatants or non-combatants could provide such support, he said. Prior to Justice Barnes' ruling, and after turning down several similar asylum claims, the refugee board had consistently held that the United States is a democracy, which affords deserters due judicial process. However, the Federal Court said the board should hear evidence on whether deserters can rely on the American government to treat them fairly regardless of its status as a democracy.On July 14, 2008, a Los Angeles Times editorial referred to the July 4 ruling from Canada's Federal Court with these words:

...we should take a second look at our procedures for dealing with soldiers who allege human rights violations -- before they become deserters…[If] we would prefer not to hear shameful allegations from our own deserters and be judged by our neighbors, we cannot lightly dismiss expressions of moral outrage... The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's July 4, 2008 coverage of the story said that there is now a possibility that he "could qualify as a refugee." Second IRB hearing: June 3, 2009
On June 3, 2009, <mask> had a new hearing in front of the IRB. Ken Atkinson, the immigration board member who heard <mask>'s case, reserved his decision. Lawrence Hill was present at this hearing, while supporters held a vigil outside. He was represented by attorney Alyssa Manning. Negative IRB decision: July 30, 2010
On July 30, 2010, Ken Atkinson of the IRB made a decision which rejected granting refugee status to <mask>.Atkinson stated, "I find that the claimant is neither a . . . refugee nor a person in need of protection." Atkinson went on to say, "I find that there is adequate state protection in the USA and the claimant has not taken all reasonable steps to pursue the available state protection." The IRB made this statement even after the Federal Court had previously instructed the IRB to hear evidence on whether deserters can rely on the American government to treat them fairly (see above). The negative ruling meant the Canada Border Services Agency could deport <mask>. <mask> said in a telephone interview that he is hopeful the Federal Court of Appeal would agree to hear his case, allowing him to stay in Canada. Three months later, on 22 October 2010, Wikileaks released documents on the Iraq War which dealt, in part, with civilian deaths. <mask> praised these leaked documents as supporting his refugee claim.In 2016, <mask> was granted temporary permission to work and receive government health care while his case continues to be reviewed. See also
 List of Iraq War Resisters
 Canada and Iraq War Resisters
 Nuremberg Defense
 Jeremy Hinzman

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References

External links
 Co-Author of The Deserter's Tale, Lawrence Hill's website
 A critical review of the book, with excerpts

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  by Janette Luu, the host for CANOE Live, a local TV program on Sun TV in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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American conscientious objectors
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