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<mask><mask> (March 19, 1938 – April 3, 2017) was a Marin County, California prosecutor and Superior Court judge. <mask> was primarily known for his role in the Marin County Civic Center shootout in which he was taken hostage in a courtroom, along with Judge Harold Haley and three female jurors, by Jonathan Jackson and three inmates from San Quentin State Prison in what is widely speculated to be a failed attempt to free his brother, George Jackson, and the other two Soledad Brothers. Haley, Jonathan Jackson, and two of the inmates were killed during the escape attempt, and <mask> was paralyzed from the waist down. <mask> was a native of Great Falls, Montana. His father was <mask>, and his step-mother was Vera T<mask>. <mask> and his family moved to San Francisco, California when he was nine years old, but he frequently returned to Montana during the summers to work on his uncle's cattle ranch. <mask> graduated from San Francisco's Riordan High School.After earning an academic scholarship to the University of San Francisco in 1955, he received a bachelor's degree in political science. <mask> received another scholarship and graduated from the University of San Francisco School of Law in 1961. He joined the State Bar of California in 1962, then worked in private practice and as a deputy county prosecutor until 1969 when he was promoted to assistant district attorney. <mask> was also a member of the United States Air Force Reserve from 1962 to 1968. <mask> married Haley's niece, Maureen, around 1960. They were married for 57 years had two sons. He was an avid fisherman.Marin County Civic Center shootout

On the morning of August 7, 1970, <mask> was an assistant district attorney for Marin County prosecuting the case of James McClain, an inmate at San Quentin prison who had been charged with assaulting a prison guard. <mask> was questioning Ruchell Magee, another inmate at San Quentin whom McClain had arranged to be a witness, when Jonathan Jackson interrupted the court proceedings. In the barrage of gunfire that followed during the escape attempt, <mask> was shot in the spine and paralyzed from the waist down. A ballistics expert would later testify that <mask>'s spine was severed from a bullet fired from a San Quentin guard's .30 caliber carbine. The following day, photographs of the perpetrators with their hostages, including <mask>, appeared on the front pages of newspapers around the nation. An initial report indicated that he was seriously wounded in the back. A UPI report released the day after the shooting indicated that <mask> was in grave condition with two bullet wounds in the chest.Another UPI report from the same day indicated that <mask> was wounded in the chest and spine and quoted him as telling District Attorney Bruce B. Bales that he grabbed a gun from the driver and shot three of the kidnappers. According to Bales, <mask> murmured to his wife: "Judge Haley was a saint. I got three of them." Two days after the shootout, <mask> remained in critical condition at Marin General Hospital following surgery for bullet wounds in his back and was described as a "key witness in the question of who fired first in [the] gun battle". <mask> was reportedly shot three times. In addition to the bullet that entered through his back and severed his spine, another nicked his heart and a third pierced his lungs. <mask> was reportedly told by doctors that he would need 6 to 12 months to recuperate, however, he returned to work on September 14, 1970 - five weeks after the shooting.He claimed that his recovery was hastened by "vigorous exercise and the fear of boredom". The wheelchair-bound district attorney was reported to avoid photographers and refuse interviews. In December 1970, <mask> was credited as saving the lives of the three women jurors and named "peace officer of the year" by the Marin County Peace Officers Association. In July 1971, <mask>' grand jury testimony from the previous fall was released. Questioned by Marin County District Attorney Bruce Bales, he indicated that it was Magee who shot Judge Haley. Angela Davis trial

During the 1972 Angela Davis trial, Maria Elena Graham, one of the three women hostages, testified that <mask> told the gunmen "not to do anything foolish" but was forced to the floor with the others in the courtroom. Graham told of how Haley, <mask>, and the three jurors were wired together and forced out of the courthouse and into the escape van.She said that there, just prior to shots being fired, she heard <mask> shout: "For God's sake - don't shoot!" Graham reported that while she was sprawled on the floor of the van, <mask> reached over her head and grabbed a revolver from Jackson. A few days later, the recently promoted Judge <mask> recounted his version of what happened that morning. According to <mask>, someone in the back of the courtroom (Jackson) stated "Hold it right there. That's enough." He described Jackson's appearance and commented that he was holding a handgun. <mask> said: "The people in the courtroom, including myself and the guards, were instructed to get down on the floor.I got down on the floor where I was seated, stretched out." He reported that he kept his eyes on the bench and watched McClain approach Haley. <mask> said that McClain asked Jackson if he had brought the tape, then Jackson produced a carbine from under his raincoat while moving forward to hand the pistol to McClain. He went on to state that a shotgun was pulled from Jackson's bag, then taped around Haley's neck with the barrel under his chin. <mask> explained that McClain ordered Haley to call the sheriff and that McClain eventually told the sheriff: "We have the judge. If you don't do as we say, we'll kill him and the people on the jury." According to <mask>, the gunmen spent several minutes discussing which hostages they should take with them.<mask> told the court that Magee said: "Let's not take any of them. Let's kill them all here." He quoted McClain has replying: "Cool it. Don't lose your cool." <mask> testified that while laying on the courtroom floor, he heard McClain say to the other gunmen: "We're not taking any kids." McClain then came over to him and said: "You're a good man. We're taking you along."According to <mask>, McClain smiled at him in the corridor outside the courtroom and said: "We're revolutionaries, but you knew that all along, didn't you?" In response to the prosecutor's questioning, <mask> said that he twice heard Jackson allude to a time element in their schedule. (<mask> described being tied to the three women hostages. - another reference states all five were tied together) As the gunmen and hostages gathered outside the getaway van, <mask> said he asked McClain to free the three women hostages but the inmate refused. In describing the attempted getaway, <mask> outlined the position of the occupants in the van. Jackson was in the driver's seat, McClain was crouched on the floor beside him, <mask> was behind McClain, Haley was behind <mask>, and Christmas was in the back of the van. According to <mask>, the van came to a sudden stop and Jackson stuck his revolver outside the window.He reported that he heard either one shot or two shots in quick succession, then Jackson pulled his bloodied hand back into the van. <mask> testified that he immediately turned to Haley, under whose chin Magee held a sawed-off shotgun, and described how the right side of the judge's face appeared to slowly pull away from his skull. <mask> explained that he turned back towards Jackson, grabbed his gun from his hand, then fired a shot or two in his direction. He said he then shot McClain (who was also in the front of the van) in his back, turned and fired in the direction of <mask> near the rear of the van, then finally shot Magee in the chest. <mask> reported that he attempted to shoot Magee again when the gun ran out of bullets. Under cross-examination, Davis' attorney Leo Branton Jr. immediately drew from <mask> that he was not shot by Jackson or any of the three inmates. Branton also pointed out some minor inconsistencies in <mask>' story, and got him to admit that he could not tell which of the two identical .357 magnums on the table he had used.As Haley had also been hit by a .357 slug in the heart, Branton attempted to reconstruct the events within the van to show that <mask> accidentally shot the judge - and that his death throes caused the shotgun held by Magee to discharge. The ballistics expert would later demonstrate that <mask> shot who he said he shot and the .357 held by Christmas shot Haley. <mask> would also testify that he did not hear any demand for the release of the Soledad Brothers. Joseph J. Murphy, a San Quentin Prison sergeant, would testify that he removed a carbine that was "sticking up" and blocking access to <mask>. Ruchell Magee trial

On January 22, 1973, <mask> would recount his story again in the trial of Ruchell Magee. Magee, who had been thrown out of every previous session of the trial, was reported to have sat quietly through <mask>' testimony while never taking his eyes off of him. According to <mask>, Magee shouted prior to the shooting, "Let's kill 'em all now", and that McClain had replied, "Let's cool it, keep your cool, everything's cool."He would again confirm that Magee was holding the sawed-off shotgun when it discharged and killed Haley. On April 3, 1973 [verify date], Superior Court Judge Morton R. Colvin declared a mistrial after the jury announced for the fifth time that it was deadlocked on reaching a verdict on charges of murder and kidnapping. One member of the jury, Hugh Chalmers, stated that the panel did not accept <mask>' testimony. Chalmers remarked: "We think that what happened in that van was not as the pain-ridden Mr. <mask> thought they happened. We feel that the judge was already dead when the shotgun went off. I think Mr. <mask> was honest, but I think his story was twisted." Magee eventually pleaded guilty to aggravated kidnapping and was sentenced to life imprisonment.Professional career and judicial office
In 1971, <mask> successfully prosecuted a homeowner who rigged a .22 caliber pistol as a booby-trap that wounded a teenager burglar. The California Supreme Court later upheld the conviction of assault with a deadly weapon and ruled that a spring gun may not be used to defend a home against burglary. This ruling is frequently cited as an example of case law pertaining to self-defense. During the course of the Davis and Magee trials, <mask> became a municipal court judge and later a California Superior Court judge who presided over a number of cases involving high-profile individuals. Municipal court
Two years after the Marin County Civic Center shootout, California Governor Ronald Reagan appointed <mask> a municipal court judge. His role in municipal court was to handle misdemeanors, some civil suits, and the initial proceedings of felony cases. In 1973, <mask> ordered Glenn Yarbrough to pay $350 per month after the singer pleaded no contest to charges of failing to provide child support.<mask> received brief national publicity in 1975 for sentencing petty offenders to writing out thousands of times their promises not to violate various misdemeanor laws. He claimed that this type of punishment fit the crime and served as a good deterrent as the offenders would be jailed for hours at a time while completing their sentences. Grace Slick, the lead singer of Jefferson Starship, appeared before <mask> in municipal court on multiple occasions in 1978. In March, <mask> imposed probation on Slick who had earlier been convicted of drunk driving. When arrested for public drunkenness three months later, she pleaded "no contest" to violating the terms of the probation. <mask> then sentenced Slick to two years probation, with the caveat that she would be jailed if she drank alcohol during that period. He also ordered her not to leave the state, and to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings for six months.In 1982, <mask> accepted an innocent plea in municipal court from Phil Crane, a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives and a former U.S. presidential candidate, who had been charged with driving while intoxicated. Superior court

<mask> was elected a superior court judge in 1986. As a Marin County Superior Court judge, <mask> presided over a 1987 jury trial in which Matthew Kelly, the founder of the rock band Kingfish, filed a $10 million lawsuit against Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann. In 1991, <mask> set bail at $500,000 for pornography pioneer Jim Mitchell until he could stand trial for the shooting death of his brother, Artie Mitchell; Mitchell was also ordered to surrender his passport and remain in the Bay Area. In 1994, famed forensic psychiatrist Martin Blinder was sued by a former lover for "professional negligence, assault and battery, sexual abuse, and inflicting emotional distress." Later, when the woman repeatedly failed to appear in court, <mask> dismissed the suit and ordered her to pay $13,000 in costs. As part of Church of Scientology v. Gerald Armstrong, <mask> presided over a legal dispute in 1995 between the Church of Scientology and Gerald Armstrong, a former member and employee of that organization.Armstrong had previously settled a civil suit against the COS for $800,000 with the stipulation that he would not divulge information he had gained as a church insider. Finding that Armstrong had violated the terms of the settlement, <mask> later ordered Armstrong to pay the COS $100,000 and issued an injunction ordering him to stop speaking about Scientology. Armstrong's refusal to comply with previous court rulings prompted <mask> in 1997 to issue a warrant for Armstrong's arrest that is still outstanding. In 2004, Armstrong would file a document in Marin County Superior Court asserting that <mask> conspired with the Church of Scientology against him to violate various Constitution Rights and that his orders were illegal. As of 1995, <mask> was one of three judges who had been appointed by the Marin County Superior Court to specialize in California Environmental Quality Act cases. Retirement and death
<mask> retired from the bench in 1998. He died on April 3, 2017 due to "natural causes".According to his wife, he suffered from kidney problems, pneumonia, and other complications from his paralysis. Notes

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<mask> involvement with Church of Scientology v. Gerald Armstrong
Gerald Armstrong's summary of Church of Scientology v. Gerald Armstrong
Gerald Armstrong's legal archive of Armstrong IV

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20th-century American judges
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California state court judges
Military personnel from California
Municipal judges in the United States
People from Great Falls, Montana
People from San Rafael, California
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Superior court judges in the United States
University of San Francisco School of Law alumni

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title: Ernie Blenkinsop

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<mask> (20 April 1902 – 24 April 1969) was an English professional footballer who played as a defender at left back. Regarded as one of the best full-backs of his generation, he began his career with local amateur side Cudworth Village. He joined Hull City in 1921; however, after one year with the club, he signed for Sheffield Wednesday, helping the club win promotion to the First Division before going on to win two Football League titles between 1929 and 1930. He was sold to fellow First Division side Liverpool in 1934 but his spell with the team was severely disrupted by injury. He later finished his professional career with a season at Cardiff City. During his career, he made over 450 appearances in the Football League and also attained 26 caps playing for England, setting an team record for consecutive appearances which stood until 1957. Early life

<mask> was born in Cudworth, near Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England on 20 April 1902 to <mask> and <mask> (née Green).One of seven children, he attended St. John's School. At the age of thirteen, he followed his father and older brother Herbert into work in the coal mine, working at nearby Brierley Colliery. A cave in at the site nearly resulted in his death, diving to the ground as part of the mine collapsed and burying him in debris. <mask> later stated his belief that if he had remained standing the debris would have killed him. Club career

Cudworth Village
At the age of fifteen, <mask> began playing local football for Cudworth Village in the Senior Division of the Barnsley Association League alongside his brother. By his late teens, he was regarded as the star player of the side, earning 30 shillings a week, and helped them reach the final of the Barnsley and District Challenge Cup during the 1920–21 season. After appearing in the semi-final, he was forced to sit out a replay after opponents Wombwell Main registered a complaint that he had played despite being suspended.The claim was upheld resulting in Cudworth being fined and the match was replayed, Cudworth winning 2–1 to advance to the final. They met Monkwell in the final, played at Oakwell, suffering a 2–0 defeat but a reporter from the Barnsley Independent commented that Blenkinsop had "shone in the middle line." Hull City and Sheffield Wednesday
In 1921, several players from Cudworth were  attracting attention from professional clubs, including <mask> who was scouted by Doncaster Rovers. However, he went on to sign for Hull City, the transfer fee was reported to be £100 and a barrel of beer for his teammates. <mask> himself received a signing on fee of £10 and saw his weekly wages rise to £5 a week but also insisted on seeing out his notice at Brierly Colliery, only to be turned away by the pit manager who feared a work injury could disrupt his transfer. He was brought to the club by manager Percy Lewis, who had spotted Blenkinsop playing for Cudworth. In later life, <mask> donated eight of his international caps to Lewis as a gift after the manager underwent an operation, in thanks for his part in advancing <mask>'s career.The caps were displayed in Lewis' shop that he set up using funds from a benefit match held in his name. After less than two full seasons and only 11 first-team appearances for Hull City, he was spotted by Sheffield Wednesday boss Bob Brown whilst playing in a reserve fixture as a forward. Brown promptly took him from East to South Yorkshire on 20 January 1923 for £1,250, converting him into a full-back. Making his debut in a 4–0 defeat to Bury on 27 January 1923, Blenkinsop became a major force behind the rise of the Hillsborough club from struggling at the foot of the Second Division to being promoted as champions at the end of the 1925–26 season, being ever present in his first full season and missing only one match in their promotion winning season. They followed this up by becoming back-to-back champions of the First Division in 1928–29 and 1929–30, Blenkinsop making 41 and 45 appearances respectively. He played in Sheffield Wednesday's 2–1 defeat by Arsenal in the Charity Shield at Stamford Bridge in October 1930. During his eleven-year spell with Wednesday, he made over 400 appearances in all competitions, scoring five times, and was the club's most capped in player in history until his record was surpassed by goalkeeper Ron Springett.He remains the club's most capped outfield player of all time. Liverpool and Cardiff City
<mask> was transferred to fellow First Division side Liverpool for £6,500 in March 1934 by Wednesday manager Billy Walker, a decision which caused anger among some Wednesday fans. Liverpool manager George Patterson hoped to recreate the England full-back partnership <mask> and Tom Cooper had together, adding Copper to his squad six months later. <mask> made his debut on 17 March 1934 in a 4–1 victory over Birmingham City at Anfield. During a 2–1 victory over Derby County on 24 November 1935, he suffered a serious cartilage injury that was believed to have been career threatening at the time. In January 1935, Liverpool looked to use <mask>'s experience despite his injury by appointing him as a non-playing captain for a league match against Blackburn Rovers with the remit of supporting and advising his teammates from the side of the pitch. However, Football Association (FA) guidelines did not permit club representatives to coach players along the boundaries of the pitch and the match referee was instructed to intervene if Blenkinsop attempted to influence play.After undergoing surgery, he returned to fitness and kept his place as club captain for the 1935–36 season. After retaining his captaincy for the 1936–37 season, <mask> suffered another serious cartilage injury in a Merseyside derby against Everton that ruled him out for the remainder of the season. At the end of the season, a clause was added to his contract that stipulated that if he was not a regular in Liverpool's first team at the end of September 1937, he would be free to leave the club. Having appeared in only two matches in the opening months of the 1937–38 season after being displaced by Benjamin Dabbs, he was placed on the transfer list by mutual consent. After 71 appearances in a red shirt, on 26 November 1937, completed a transfer to Welsh club Cardiff City in the Third Division South. He made his debut for the club on 4 December 1937 in a 3–2 victory over Millwall but his appearances over the course of the season were sporadic, making eleven appearances in all competitions. At the end of the season, he retired from playing but took up a coaching role with the club before leaving a year later following the appointment of Cyril Spiers as manager.He moved north to Derbyshire, where he played for Buxton. He then returned to Yorkshire, representing Halifax Town, Bradford Park Avenue and Bradford City as a wartime guest. International career
<mask> caught the eye of the Football Association selectors in 1928 who choose him to play for England in a friendly match against France on 17 May 1928, at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Colombes, Paris. He helped the side record a 5–1 victory. In his 21st appearance for the national side, he was handed the captaincy of England for another friendly on 9 December 1931 at Arsenal's Highbury ground. The visitors were Spain, with England winning 7–1. He went on to captain England five times in total, including his final cap against Scotland, winning four and losing the other.All of his caps came in consecutive England fixtures; playing a total of 26 matches between 17 May 1928 and 1 April 1933. This record was subsequently beaten by Roger Byrne who appeared in 33 consecutive England games from his debut to his death in the Munich Air Disaster. Personal life
Blenkinsop married Winifred Stewart at Wadsley Parish Church in Sheffield on 1 June 1926. They went on to have two children together, Beryl and Barry. After retiring from professional football, he worked as an iron foundry labourer and after the war, became licensee of the Sportsman public house at Crosspool, Sheffield and remained so until his death four days after his 67th birthday in April 1969. Career statistics

Honours
Sheffield Wednesday
 Football League Second Division winner: 1925–26
 Football League First Division winner: 1928–29, 1929–30

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title: Harold Tarbolton

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<mask> FRIBA (1869–1947) was a 19th/20th century British architect, mainly working in Scotland. He was affectionately known as Tarrybreeks. In later life he went into partnership with Sir Matthew Ochterlony to create Tarbolton & Ochterlony. He was involved in electricity schemes from at least 1902, and ended his career overseeing several hydro-electric schemes in Scotland. Life

He was born in Nottingham in 1869, the son of <mask>, a civil engineer, and his wife, E. M. Stanfield. The family moved around and he was mainly educated at Chigwell in Essex. He was articled to train as an architect with George Thomas Hine around 1885.After training he joined the office of Gerald Horsley in London. Here he was able to also study at the Royal Academy Schools from 1893 to 1895. He appears to have also spent some time during the same period at the University of Bonn in Germany. In 1895 he set up practice at 7 Frederick Street in Edinburgh with Sydney Tugwell who had worked with him in London. The partnership ended by 1897 and he then was asked to join the office at John Kinross to help with work at Manderston House. In 1900 he moved residence to 39 Northumberland Street in Edinburgh's Second New Town. In 1907 he replaced Henderson in the firm of Henderson & Hay.He was elected RIBA in 1904. He was a Governor of the Edinburgh School of Art and of Heriot-Watt College. In 1923 he employed Lawrence Harrower Smart to represent the firm as job architect on site for Bermuda Cathedral. In 1926 the Edinburgh office relocated to 4 St Colme Street on the Moray Estate in the west end of the city. In 1932 he merged with his former junior colleague Matthew Ochterlony to create Tarbolton & Ochterlony. However, he appears to have had joint projects from 1924 onwards. In 1938 he succeeded George Washington Browne as Royal Fine Art Commissioner,  a role he served until death.He was consulting architect to both St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth and Oban Cathedral. In 1944 Tarbolton & Ochterlony became architectural advisors to the Scottish Hydro Electric Board. They created the schemes for Loch Sloy, Pitlochry, Loch Faskally and Tummel-Garry. Ochterlony died before the schemes were begun. Tarbolton saw the schemes built but did not live to their being commissioned. He died of a cerebral thrombosis at his home, 3 East Castle Road in the Merchiston district of Edinburgh on 31 July 1947. Family
On 9 February 1897 at St John's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh, he married Beatrice Dudgeon Gulland (d.1943), second daughter of Charles Gulland of Millfield, Falkland in central Fife.Principal Works
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title: Tracey Spicer

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<mask>  (born 25 June 1967 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian newsreader, Walkley Award winning journalist and advocate. She is known for her association with Network Ten as a newsreader in the 1990s and 2000s when she co-hosted Ten Eyewitness News in Brisbane, Queensland. She later went on to work with Sky News Australia as a reporter and presenter from 2007 to 2015. In May 2017 Spicer released her autobiography, The Good Girl Stripped Bare. She was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia "For significant service to the broadcast media as a journalist and television presenter, and as an ambassador for social welfare and charitable groups". Education

From 1980 to 1984, Spicer attended the private Soubirous and Frawley Colleges in bayside Scarborough, 30 kilometres north of Brisbane. In 1987, Spicer graduated from the Queensland Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Business (Communications) with a major in journalism.Career

Spicer began her career at Macquarie National News providing reports to the Brisbane station 4BH, before moving to Melbourne radio station 3AW as morning news editor. Spicer moved on to television: first for the rural network, Southern Cross Television, and the Nine Network. The Network Ten station in Melbourne later hired Spicer as a local correspondent and then co-host of the First at Five News in Brisbane (with Glenn Taylor and Geoff Mullins). In 1995 she moved to Sydney to present the National Weekend News bulletins, and late night news until it was taken off air in 2005. Spicer remained with Network Ten until the end of 2006. In late 2006, after 14 years with the network, Spicer was dismissed after returning from maternity leave when her second child was two months old. In a 10-page letter of demand served to Network Ten, Spicer claimed she had been discriminated against since giving birth to her first child in 2004.The case garnered attention in the media, with speculation she was fired because of her age; Network Ten strongly denied allegations of discrimination and said it was related to ongoing restructuring of the news division and related cost efficiencies. Spicer threatened to take the case to the Federal Court, but eventually settled with the network. She signed off for the final time on New Year's Eve 2006, beginning work with Sky News Australia four days later. Spicer worked as a Sky news presenter until leaving in 2015. Spicer has hosted the Ethnic Business Awards, which is a national business award that highlights and celebrates migrant and Indigenous excellence in business, for 11 years in a row (2008-2018). Spicer writes the Mama Holiday column for Traveller Magazine’s Sunday edition, focusing on family holidays. Spicer was previously a weekly op ed columnist with Wendy Harmer’s The Hoopla from 2011 to 2015 and travel writer and ambassador for Holiday with Kids Magazine from 2009 to 2014.She was a columnist with the Daily Telegraph newspaper. Since August 2015, Spicer has been an occasional contributor to ABC TV’s The Drum and currently works as a freelance writer, speaker, media trainer and broadcaster through her two media companies, Spicer Communications and Outspoken Women. Spicer produced a documentary for the World Wildlife Fund, World Vision and other non-government organisations about the plight of women in Bangladesh, Kenya, Uganda, Papua New Guinea, and India. In 2018 Spicer, Lorna Knowles, Kate McClymont, Alison Branley and Joanne Puccini were nominated for a Mid-Year Walkley Award in the Women’s Leadership in Media division for their joint investigation of Don Burke. Advocacy and views

Spicer is an ambassador for World Vision, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the Queensland University of Technology's Learning Potential Fund and the Penguin Foundation, and Patron of the NSW Cancer Council, the newborn care unit at the Royal Hospital for Women, the Life's Little Treasures Foundation and the National Premmie Foundation. She is also an Ambassador for Dying with Dignity, and is the face of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research’s research into pancreatic cancer, the disease responsible for her mother's death. In January 2011, Spicer interviewed anti-vaccination campaigner, Meryl Dorey (Australian Vaccination Network now Australian Vaccination-Skeptics Network) on 2UE.Citing an editorial in the British Medical Journal which confirmed there was now ‘clear evidence’ that the now discredited research linking autism with the MMR vaccine, undertaken by Andrew Wakefield, was conducted unethically and based on falsified data, Spicer asked Dorey to concede the AVN's "scare campaign" was based on "fraudulent and misleading information". When Dorey tried to direct listeners to her AVN website, Spicer ended the interview prematurely by terminating the call.. And in December 2011, in an article for the Daily Telegraph, Spicer became a public advocate for childhood vaccination when she wrote of her frustration with the growing anti-vaccination lobby. In a 2010 Daily Telegraph article, Spicer urged politicians to approve the use of "medical marijuana". In June 2014, Spicer delivered a TEDx talk for Southbank Women in Brisbane, Queensland. In 2015, Spicer featured in a short documentary, Let’s Talk About Breasts. In 2015, she became an ambassador for KidsMatter, an Australian mental health and wellbeing initiative focused on primary schools and early childhood. Spicer hosted KidsMatters's Starting School videos.In the same year, she was appointed as ambassador for Autism Spectrum Australia. In May 2017, Spicer addressed the Sydney Institute on the topic “Ways Forward for Women in the Workplace”. In her speech, Spicer argued quotas and targets are insufficient to address gender inequity in the workplace. Spicer was the MC for the 2017 International Women's Day Events in Brisbane. In October 2017 after the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations made news, Spicer announced that she was investigating powerful Australian men in the media.. She became a vocal #MeToo campaigner on Twitter and encouraged people involved in the Australian entertainment industry to share their stories of sexual harassment in the workplace. The ABC's investigative unit joined Spicer and she created a co-production with Fairfax Media. "These organisations have the most robust resources to uncover the structures protecting the guilty and punishing the innocent."Spicer, Kate McClymont, Lorna Knowles and Alison Branley, won the 2018 Walkley Awards in the print/text journalism and Television/Video Current Affairs Short (less than 20 minutes) categories, for their investigation into Don Burke, who was the first to be exposed by the company. On Australia Day in 2018 she was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia "for significant service to the broadcast media as a journalist and television presenter, and as an ambassador for social welfare and charitable groups". Spicer reflected, "While conditions have improved in the TV business since I initiated legal action against Network Ten, more subtle forms of pregnancy discrimination permeate many workplaces. So, while we have policies and procedures in place, there remains a rump of cultural resistance to the idea of 'working mothers'. Together with Melinda Schneider, Spicer launched NOW Australia on 25 March 2018. NOW Australia is "a service to help those who've been sexually harassed, assaulted or intimidated at work". A month long crowd funding campaign was launched on the same day.NOW Australia has enlisted thirty Australian celebrities including Tina Arena, Deborah Mailman, Abby Earl and Missy Higgins to act as ambassadors. Controversy

In 2019, she was accused of breaching the privacy of #MeToo victims by failing to redact the names and identities of victims who had come forward during the filming of her #MeToo TV series Silent No More. The controversy further intensified when Spicer's lawyer sent defamation warning letters to those who spoke out online about these privacy breach concerns. Writing

On 1 May 2017, Spicer released her autobiography,The Good Girl Stripped Bare, published by ABC Books and Harper Collins, described as ‘part memoir and part manifesto’. In 2016 Spicer contributed to the report, “Mates over Merit”, a study of gender differences in the Australian media. Spicer’s contribution to the design, analysis and promotion of the WiM survey were recognised by the Walkley Foundation as one of three achievements supporting her nomination for the Walkley’s Women’s Leadership in Media award. Spicer has contributed stories to the books Unbreakable by Jane Caro and Father Figures by Paul Connolly.<mask> <mask> appeared in 3 events at the 2017 Brisbane Writers Festival in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Awards

Spicer was named the 2016 QUT Alumni Service Award Winner, in recognition of her advocacy for the QUT Learning Potential Fund, which provides scholarships to students whose financial circumstances might prevent them from pursuing higher education. Spicer also sits on the judging panel of The Caroline Jones Women in Media Young Journalists Award. On Australia Day in 2018 she was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia "For significant service to the broadcast media as a journalist and television presenter, and as an ambassador for social welfare and charitable groups." In October 2018 Spicer was named winner in the social enterprise and not-for-profit category of The Australian Financial Review 100 Women of Influence awards. On 22 November 2018 Spicer won the Walkely awards in the print/text journalism and television/video current affairs short (less than 20 minutes) categories, with Kate McClymont, Lorna Knowles and Alison Branley for their investigation into Don Burke. 2019 New South Wales Woman of the Year in recognition of her "contribution across NSW to industry, communities and society."2019 Sydney Peace Prize awarded to the #MeToo movement to be accepted by Spicer and Tarana Burke on 14 November 2019. Personal life

Spicer is married and has two children. References

External links
 traceyspicer.com.au

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<mask>, also known as Viscountess Ridley (born April 1958), is a British academic who is Professor of Visual Neuroscience and Dean of Advancement at Newcastle University. Her research involves the study of the interaction between colour and light, and how these are interpreted by the human brain. Career
Her educational background within physics, medicine and neuroscience led to her appointment as a lecturer at Newcastle University in 1991, later becoming Professor of Visual Neuroscience. In 2003 <mask> was acting Head of the Division of Psychology, Brain and Behaviour (Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering) and then interim Head in 2007. She was involved in development of the new School of Psychology in the University's Faculty of Medical Sciences. In 2004 she was co-founder with Colin Ingram of the Institute of Neuroscience and its co-director until 2014. In 2012 she was involved in founding the Centre for Translational Systems Neuroscience at the University, part-funded by the Wellcome Trust.<mask> is now its Director as well as Dean of Advancement at Newcastle University. The focus of her research is on human visual perception, specifically how brains create and stabilise colour so that people see colours, often in different ways. This makes use of physics, psychology and neurobiology and she has developed technologies and algorithms to investigate colour constancy and perception. Her research has been applied in several very different areas including some medical conditions, artwork and exhibitions and also quality control of food. Her research group has also studied differing colour preferences among young men and women. <mask> and colleagues participated in discussion about the science behind the 2015 social media event #the dress where people disagreed on whether it was black and royal blue, or white and gold in colour. The Newcastle scientists considered it from the aspect of individual perception of colour constancy.Awards and honours
<mask> is a member of the Scientific Consultative Group, National Gallery, London and was the scientist trustee of the gallery from 2010 until 2018. She is a member of the Optoelectronics Committee of the Rank Prize Funds. She is a member of the Advisory Board of Current Biology, the Editorial Board of Journal of Vision, and the Board of Directors, the Vision Sciences Society. She is a member of the Advisory Board to the GestaltReVision Methusalem Programme, held by Johan Wagemans at KU Leuven in Belgium. In 2020 she was the guest in an episode of The Life Scientific on BBC Radio 4. Early and personal life
Hurlbert was interested in science from a young age and was supported by her family. As a teenager she was interested in both mathematics and the brain.She studied at Princeton University, graduating in 1980 with a bachelor's degree in Physics. In 1982 she was awarded a Marshall scholarship and took a Part III Diploma in Theoretical Physics followed by an MA in physiology at Cambridge University. She was awarded a doctorate from MIT in 1989 in the area of brain and cognitive sciences and the following year gained an MD from Harvard Medical School. She then moved back to the UK and held a Wellcome Trust Vision Research Fellowship at Oxford University working with Andrew Parker. <mask> is married to Matt Ridley and they have two children. Selected Publications

Papers, Commentaries, and Articles

 <mask> A. (2019) Challenges to Color Constancy in a Contemporary Light.Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 30 186-193. Crichton S, Shrestha L, <mask> A, Sturm B. (2018) Use of hyperspectral imaging for the prediction of moisture content and chromaticity of raw and pretreated apple slices during convection drying. Drying Technology 36 804-816. Aston S, <mask> A. (2017) What #theDress reveals about the role of illumination priors in color perception and color constancy. Journal of Vision 17(9).Brainard, David H and <mask>, <mask>. (2015) Colour Vision: Understanding #TheDress. Current Biology 25 (13):R551-4. Mackiewicz M, Finlayson GD, <mask> AC. (2015) Color Correction Using Root-Polynomial Regression. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 24(5), 1460-1470. Brainard DH, <mask> AC. (2015) Colour Vision: Understanding #TheDress.Current Biology 25(13), R551-R554. Aspell JE, Tanskanen T, <mask> AC. (2005) Neuromagnetic correlates of visual motion coherence. European Journal of Neuroscience  22(11), 2937-2945. <mask>, A.C.  (2007) Quick Guide: Colour Constancy. Current Biology 17 (21): R906-907. Hurlbert A.(2001) Trading faces. Nature Neuroscience 4(1), 3-5. Bloj MG, Kersten D, <mask> AC. (1999)  Perception of three-dimensional shape influences colour perception through mutual illumination. Nature 402:877-879. <mask> A. (1998)  Illusions and reality-checking on the small screen.Perception 27:633-636. <mask> A. (1997)  Primer:  Colour vision. Current Biology 7(7):R400-R402. <mask> AC. (1996)  Colour vision:  Putting it in context. Current Biology 6(11):1381-1384.<mask> AC. (1991)  Visual perception:  Deciphering the colour code. Nature 349:191-193. <mask> A. (1986) Formal connections between lightness algorithms. Journal of the Optical Society of America A 3:1684-1693. <mask> A, Poggio T.  (1986) Do computers need attention?Nature 321(6071):651-652. Book Chapters

 <mask>, <mask> (2021). Colour and Vision. In Vision, Darwin College Lecture Series 2019. Cambridge University Press. <mask>, A. and Owen, K. A. (2015).Biological, cultural, and developmental influences on color preference. In  Handbook of Color Psychology, Andrew J. Elliot and Mark D. Fairchild, Editors, Cambridge University Press. Pp 454-480. <mask>, A. C. (2013). The Perceptual Quality of Colour. In The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Experimental Phenomenology : Visual Perception of Shape, Space and Appearance. Ed: L. Albertazzi.pp 369-394. <mask> A. (2004)  Optical Illusions. In:  Brown Th G, Creath K, Kogelnik  H, Kriss MA, Schmit J, Weber MJ (eds). The Optics Encyclopedia. Volume 3. Wiley-VCH.Hurlbert AC. (1998)  Computational models of colour constancy. In:  Walsh V, Kulikowski J (eds). Perceptual Constancy:  Why things look as they do. Cambridge University Press. pp 283-321. <mask> A, Poggio T.  (1988) Making machines (and artificial intelligence) see.Daedalus, Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences :   Winter. (Re-published as “The Artificial Intelligence Debate”, MIT Press, Cambridge)

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<mask> (c. 815 – 16 December 867) was the Frankish Duke of Friuli from 846. His name is alternatively spelled Everard, Evrard, Erhard, or Eberard; in Latinized fashion, Everardus, Eberardus, or <mask>us. He wrote his own name "Evvrardus". He was an important political, military, and cultural figure in the Carolingian Empire during his lifetime. He kept a large library, commissioned works of Latin literature from Lupus Servatus and Sedulius Scottus, and maintained a correspondence with the theologians and church leaders Gottschalk, Rabanus Maurus, and Hincmar. Family
<mask> was from an illustrious Frankish family, though his parentage is debated. His marriage to the daughter of Emperor Louis the Pious cemented his eminent position at the Frankish court.Children (with Gisela, daughter of Louis the Pious)
 <mask> (c. 837 – 840)
 Ingeltrude (837 or 840 – 870), possibly married Henry, Margrave of the Franks
 Unruoch III (c. 840 – 874)
 Bèrenger (c. 845 – 924), King of Italy
 Adélard (d. 874)
 Rudolf (d. 892)
 Heilwise (b. 860)
 Gisèle (d. 863)
 Judith of Friuli (died ca. 881), first married Arnulf I of Bavaria, second married Conrad II of Auxerre. Disputed parentage
Paternity theories
His father was Unruoch II. "His father was Berengar, the son of Count Unroch." "After other authors, Unroch, the grandfather of Saint Evrard, should have been the Duke of Frioul." "Alas, some have written that Saint Evrard had for his father Carloman I, the brother of Charlemagne.""His grandfather was, it is said, the Count Unroch who was leaving the court of Charlemagne and signatory to the will of the emperor." Maternity theories
His mother was Engeltron of Paris, a daughter of Begue, Count of Paris. "As for his mother, she was, Buzelin says, the daughter of Didier, king of the Lombards." Education
Although a layman, <mask> was not only literate but possessed an extensive library, which is detailed in his will. He acted as a patron for the theologian and heretic Gottshalk of Orbais. Warlike exploits and role as mediator under Louis the Pious
As soon as his age permitted him to carry arms, <mask> took part in numerous military expeditions. Named Duke of Friuli and Count or Marquis de Trévise, in Italy, he defended his country against invasion by the Bulgars and managed to completely drive them from the peninsula—825-830.He rendered service unto Louis the Pious that was still more distinguished. During the tragic years (830-839) where the emperor had suffered at the hand of his son's revolt the most undignified treatment, Count <mask> remained inviolably loyal. He exercised his influence in Lothair's sphere (the elder son of the emperor) to bring about a reconciliation between father and son. It is certain that it was on his counsel in 839 that Lothaire went to Worms to implore the pardon of his father. Marriage and life at Cysoing
In return for his services, the emperor Louis the Pious gave Count Evrard the highest honor possible: the hand of his (acknowledged) daughter, the Princess Gisèle, in marriage. Gisèle, a woman of piety and virtue, was the daughter of Louis le Débonaire and his second wife, the empress Judith. Among the rich domains the Princess brought with her in her dowry, Count Evrard found the fisc of Cysoing.One gives the name fisc, in this age, to large, rural properties separate from the royal domains; that is, to sorts of farms with a residence for the master and homes for settlers. The Royal Fisc of Cysoing, situated at the center of the country of Pèvele, was one of the most beautiful in the region. The stay seemed so agreeable to Saint Evrard and the Princess Gisèle that they made it one of their regular residences. Already, in the century before (in 752), the little hamlet established on the royal fisc of Cysoing has been made famous through the martyrdom of Saint Arnoul. Saint Arnoul, a courageous warrior, who was, it is said, the father of Godefroid, Bishop of Cambrai-Arras, had been attached to the court of a noble lord, his relative. "His virtues and his merits were so radiant that God accorded his prayers more than one miracle during his life. He became even more glorious through his martyrdom."He was so devoted to his master that he eventually died for him thus attaining martyrdom. Saint Arnoul was already honored at Cysoing when Saint Evrard and Princess Gisèle went to take possession of their domain. His relics were conserved there. Cysoing therefore had a church, or less a chapel that was without doubt the same chapel as the royal fisc. Saint Evrard, at Cysoing, had a chaplain named Walgaire. They (Evrard and Gisèle) decided to found a monastery at Cysoing. The project was long and difficult, and was not complete at the time of Evrard's or Gisèle's deaths.The monastery was initially made in honor of Saint Saveur and Mary (mother of Jesus). The religious lived there under canon law in a community with all the rigors of the cloister. Their special function was singing solemnly in the church. They maintained public prayer. Saint Evrard was known to enjoy singing with the choir. After his later campaigns in the defense of Italy, the remains of Pope Callixtus I were re-interred in the Abbey at Cysoing. Character
<mask> organized his home in a way so perfectly that it was more like a monastery than a castle.He was seconded in this task by his pious wife, Gisèle, who dedicated herself to the education of their many children. The poor and ill were sure of finding not only security at Cysoing, but also help and protection. The social question of the time, that of serfs, also preoccupied Saint Evrard. He had freed a good number. In their testimony, he expressly refrained from impeding their liberty. He never forgot those who he didn't free, and tried to improve their lots. Though he was a courageous and formidable, he worked all his life for peace.His private virtues were no less remarkable. In his elevated position, he strove to preserve modesty and humility, to avoid splendor and arrogance. His zeal for the glory of God, to spread the Truth, to convert the infidels, was celebrated throughout the Church. Also, his piety, his taste for ceremonies of worship, his devotion to the saints, and his respect for the precious relics was apparent in his every act. Pacifier
<mask>'s activity was not limited to the royal fisc of Cysoing, as he involved himself freely with matters of other domains and the empire in general. Emperor Louis the Debonaire went to die (840) and the war, a cruel war without mercy, exploded between the Emperor Lothaire and his two brothers, Louis the German and Charles the Bald. <mask> strongly deplored this fighting/battling and fratricide and made all efforts to bring it to an end.After the bloody battle of Fontenay (25 June 841), he left the ambassadorial envoy of Lothaire near that of Lothaire's brothers for peace negotiations. The preparatory conference took place in 842 at Milin, near Châlons in Champagne. It was decided to divide the empire between the three brothers. The negotiators, among which Evrard could be found, were charged with making the partitioning equitable/fair. It was not before August 843 that they presented their report to the three kings at Verdun. Wars with the Saracens
The negotiations ended and peace was re-established between the three brothers, Saint Evrard left in haste for Italy. Italy was under threat from "African Saracens".These Saracens had been named as helpers, in 842, by the Duke of Benevento and they would soon become a threat to regimes throughout the peninsula. They menaced Rome and pillaged it many times. Saint Evrard, in his position as Duke of Friuli, was made a captain/leader of the resistance. The war wore on for several years and ended in 851 with the defeat of the Saracens. "Evrard has a reputation for being both a courageous soldier and able leader throughout these battles. In the tradition of Charlemagne, Evrard forced the vanquished to convert to Christianity, meritoriously teaching them the Gospel, himself." Testament and death
Sometime after this solemnity, <mask> returned to Italy.We find him in 858 among the ambassadors whom the emperor Louis the Younger, son of Lothaire, sent to Ulm, near his uncle Louis the German. After this date, we know nothing more about <mask> until his testament or will, whose authenticity is certain and in which we are given information on the life of <mask>. This will was made in Italy, at Musiestro Castle, in the county of Trévise, in 867. <mask> and his consort meticulously recorded not only their lands and possessions within a prepared will, but the identities and relationships of family members and neighboring royals. With the agreement of his spouse, Gisèle, <mask> portioned his goods among his seven children. The eldest, Unroch, got all properties in Lombardy and Germany. The second, Berengar, got Annappes with its dependencies less Gruson and the other properties in the Hesbaye, of and in the Condroz.The third, Adélard, got the lands of Cysoing, Camphin, Gruson and Somain, with charges and respects of all the properties of the Abbey in these regions. The fourth, Rodolphe, got Vitry-en-Artois and Mestucha, except for the church at Vitry which was given with the Abbey at Cysoing. The three daughters of <mask>, Ingletrude, Judith and Heilwich, got various other domains : Ermen, Marshem, Balghingham, Heliwsheim, Hostrenheim, Luisinga, Wendossa, Engerresteim. <mask> had another daughter who carried the name of Gisèle, her mother. But she was dead at the time of his testimony. The testimony split equally the jewels and ornaments of the saint, the precious objects of his chapel and the books of his library. It is dated 867, the 24th year of the reign of Lothaire's son, Louis the Younger.<mask> died the same year, 16 December. Canonisation
<mask> was later canonised as a saint, and his feast day is on 16 December. References

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Translation of <mask> and Gisela's will into English (pdf)
Catholic.org (English)
 www.amdg.be (French)
 Medieval Lands Project on <mask>, Duke of the March of Friulia

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title: Albert Abrams

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<mask> (December 8, 1863 – January 13, 1924) was a controversial American physician, well known during his life for inventing machines, such as the "Oscilloclast" and the "Radioclast", which he falsely claimed could diagnose and cure almost any disease. These claims were challenged from the outset. Towards the end of his life, and again shortly after his death, many of his machines and conclusions were demonstrated to be intentionally deceptive or false. Biography
<mask> was born in San Francisco December 8, 1863, although other dates have also been reported. On October 8, 1878, he inscribed at Medical College of the Pacific, worked as an assistant of Prof. Douglass and Prof. Hirschfelder, and got a medical degree on October 30, 1881. Then he went to Heidelberg, Germany, and graduated there in November 1882

before undertaking further studies in London, Berlin, Vienna, and Paris. According to Wilson, <mask> was awarded an M.D.by the Cooper College in 1883. He served on the teaching staff of the College for a total of fourteen years: five years (1885–1889) as Demonstrator of Pathology; four years (1890–1893) as Adjunct to the Chair of Clinical Medicine and Demonstrator of Pathology; and five years (1894–1898) as Professor of Pathology. He was elected vice-president of the California State Medical Society in 1889 and was made president of the San Francisco Medico-Chirurgical Society in 1893. In the beginning of the 1900s he had become a respected expert in neurology. From 1904 he was president of the Emanuel Polyclinic in San Francisco. <mask> published numerous books from 1891 to 1923. He died January 13, 1924, from a broncho-pneumonia in San Francisco.Practice

Heidelberg doctorate claim
<mask> was accused of fraudulently claiming a medical qualification from the University of Heidelberg; However documents from Archive of University Heidelberg confirm that <mask> received a medical degree there on 21 November 1882. In <mask>' view, American medicine was dominated by physicians with excessive admiration for German doctors and researchers. In earlier writings, he insulted physicians by calling them "Dr. Hades" or "Dr. Inferior", by comparing their looks to typhoid and other germs, and by making fun of various abstruse therapies that at the time were considered "scientific" by the medical establishment. In a poem that he wrote on balloon therapy, for instance, the doctors take their patients up in the air but do not know how to bring the balloon down again. The poem ends with the lines: But they never came back. That's why we confess / Aëronautic therapy is not a success.Spondylotherapy
<mask> developed a medical technique called spondylotherapy, which was inspired by chiropractic and osteopathic ideas. The basic principle is the stimulation of nerves originating from the spinal cord, which can trigger reflex actions on viscera or inner organs. The stimulation is performed by controlled concussion with a plexor / pleximeter combination directly on the spinous processes, by sinusoidal electric currents or by application of ice. <mask> published the book Spondylotherapy in several editions between 1910 and 1918. A simplified version of spondylotherapy was first published by Alva Emeey Gregory, M.D. in 1914. Electronic Reactions of <mask>

Abrams promoted an idea that electrons were the basic element of all life.He called this ERA, for Electronic Reactions of Abrams, and introduced a number of different machines which he claimed were based on these principles. The machines
The Dynomizer looked something like a radio, and <mask> claimed it could diagnose any known disease from a single drop of blood or alternatively the subject's handwriting. He performed diagnoses on dried blood samples sent to him on pieces of paper in envelopes through the mail. Apparently <mask> even claimed he could conduct medical practice over the telephone with his machines, and that he could determine personality characteristics. The Dynomizer was big business; by 1918, courses in spondylotherapy and ERA cost $200 (about the same purchasing power as $3,150 in 2014); equipment was leased at about $200 with a monthly $5 charge thereafter. The lessee had to sign a contract stating the device would never be opened. <mask> explained that this would disrupt their delicate adjustment, but the rule also served to prevent the <mask> devices from being examined.He then widened his claims to treating the diagnosed diseases. <mask> came up with new and even more impressive gadgets, the "Oscilloclast" and the "Radioclast", which came with tables of frequencies that were designed to "attack" specific diseases. Clients were told cures required repeated treatments. Dynomizer operators tended to give alarming diagnoses, involving combinations of such maladies as cancer, diabetes and syphilis. <mask> often included a disease called "bovine syphilis," unknown to other medical practitioners. He claimed the Oscilloclast was capable of defeating most of these diseases, most of the time. By 1921, there were claimed to be 3,500 practitioners using ERA technology.Conventional medical practitioners were extremely suspicious. In the 1970s, Bob DeVries, a product designer for Hewlett-Packard, had a chance to repair an old Oscilloclast (1934). It was owned by a lady, whose father had been a president of Abrams' Electronic Medical Foundation and improver of their devices; she had several such devices and believed that electric therapy to be beneficial, from her own experience. DeVries not only restored the old oscilloclast to working order, but also developed a transistorized version for his client, which they called a "Pulsed Oscillator". Investigation
The dispute between <mask> and his followers and the American Medical Association (AMA) was intensified. Defenders included American radical author Upton Sinclair and the famously credulous Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Resolution of the dispute through the intervention of a scientifically respected third party was pursued.Scientific American magazine decided to investigate Dr. <mask>' claims. Scientific American was interested in the matter as readers were writing letters to the editor saying that <mask>' revolutionary machines were one of the greatest inventions of the century and so needed to be discussed in the pages of the magazine. Scientific American assembled a team of investigators who worked with a senior <mask> associate given the pseudonym "Doctor X". The investigators developed a series of tests and the magazine asked readers to suggest their own tests. The investigators asked Doctor X to identify six vials containing unknown pathogens. It seems likely that Doctor X honestly believed in his Abrams machines; in fact, he allowed the Scientific American investigators to observe his procedure. Doctor X got the contents of all six vials completely wrong.He examined the vials and pointed out that they had labels in red ink, which produced vibrations that confounded the instruments. The investigators gave him the vials again with less offensive labels, and he got the contents wrong again. The results were published in Scientific American, and investigators continued their work. <mask> offered to "cooperate" with the investigators, but always failed to do so on various pretexts. <mask> never actually participated in the investigation, and in ERA publications asserted he was a victim of unjust persecution. Debunking
An AMA member claimed to have sent a blood sample to an <mask> practitioner, and got back a diagnosis that the patient had malaria, diabetes, cancer and syphilis. The AMA member then claimed the blood sample was in fact from a Plymouth Rock rooster.The AMA member failed to document or provide witnesses for this claim. Similar samples were sent to other <mask> practitioners, and a few found themselves facing fraud charges in court. In a case in Jonesboro, Arkansas, <mask> was called to be a witness, but he died of pneumonia at age 60 shortly before the trial began in January 1924. After his death, investigators with the Food and Drug Administration opened some of the doctor's boxes. One produced a magnetic field, similar to a doorbell; another was a low-powered radio wave transmitter. Psychologist Donovan Rawcliffe claimed that <mask>' devices had no scientific validity but his successors had "founded a good many special clinics in the United States and their number has by no means diminished in the ensuing years." Selected publications
<mask>, <mask> (1895).Transactions of the Antiseptic Club. New York: E. B. Treat. [A fictional comedic work on the state of the medical profession]

See also
 Cults of Unreason by Christopher Evans
 Elizabeth Holmes
 Health fraud
 Royal Raymond Rife

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References
 Fishbein, M., The Medical Follies: An Analysis of the Foibles of Some Healing Cults, including Osteopathy, Homeopathy, Chiropractic, and the Electronic Reactions of <mask>, with Essays on the Anti-Vivisectionists, Health Legislation, Physical Culture, Birth Control, and Rejuvenation, Boni & Liveright, (New York), 1925. Hale, A.R., [http://www.soilandhealth.org/03sov/0303critic/030315cults/cults-toc.htm  "These Cults"]: An Analysis of the Foibles of Dr. Morris Fishbein's "Medical Follies" and an Indictment of Medical Practice in General, with a Non-Partisan Presentation of the Case for the Drugless Schools of Healing, Comprising Essays on Homeopathy, Osteopathy, Chiropractic, The Abrams Method, Vivisection, Physical Culture, Christian Science, Medical Publicity, The Cost of Hospitalization and State Medicine, National Health Foundation, (New York), 1926. Further reading
 The Work of Dr. <mask>. A four-part article series in the journal Mind and Matter: March, June, September and December 1966.External links
 The Medical Messiahs, chapter 7 – James Harvey Young, PhD
 The Radionic Association
 Radionics: A Patient Survey by Tom Lafferty
 Radionics in the Skeptic's Dictionary
 The Radionics Healing Guide

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title: L.A. Meyer

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Louis A<mask> (January 1, 1942 – July 29, 2014) was a Maine author. Writing under the name L.A<mask>, he was best known for his young-adult historical series The Jacky Faber Adventures, also known as the Bloody Jack series. He also wrote two children's picture books and was a painter. He and his wife owned an art gallery called Clair de Loon in Bar Harbor. Personal life
L.A<mask> was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania and spent most of his career in Corea, Maine. His father was an Officer in the U.S. army, so he spent much of his childhood moving around with his family. He attended 12 different schools before graduating high school in Fort Myers, Florida.After finishing university at the University of Florida, in Gainesville, <mask> earned a B.A. in English literature. Later he enlisted in the U.S. Navy for 4 years. While in the Navy, he married his college sweetheart, Annetje Lawrence (in 1966). They had two sons, Matthew and Nathaniel. Like their father, both men are painters and teachers. Annetje  was also a teacher before dedicating herself to the family's businesses and researching historical points for her husband's novels.Since 1984, he and his wife owned an art gallery called Clair de Loon in Bar Harbor, where they sold matted and framed prints of his artwork. Clair de Loon closed in November 2013 due to <mask>'s illness. Biography
<mask> grew up on U.S. Army bases in Germany and the American east coast, attended high school in Pennsylvania and Florida, college in Florida, and then hitchhiked through Mexico and the American Southwest before joining the military. During the Vietnam War <mask> joined the U.S. Navy, stating in interviews that he joined the Navy to avoid death in a foxhole. He became an officer after four months, and was assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet. He saw no combat during his tour of duty, which included ports of call in Italy, France, Spain, and Malta. <mask> received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from the University of Florida in 1964.He took graduate art courses at Columbia University in 1970 and received an MFA in Painting in 1973 at Boston University's Master of Fine Arts program. Before graduating from Boston University, <mask> had already written two children's picture books for Little, Brown and Company. He also worked as a floor sweeper, social worker, and high school art teacher. <mask> died due to complications caused by Hodgkin's lymphoma on July 29, 2014, in Ellsworth, Maine. Jacky Faber books
<mask> invented the idea for the character of Jacky Faber while listening to British and Celtic folk music on a local community radio station in his workshop. <mask> describes the moment on his website:
...the host of the program plays a long string of early nineteenth century songs that feature young girls dressing up as boys and following their boyfriends out to sea, the most well known of these being Jackaroe and Cana-di-i-o. These songs generally end up with the girl being found out quickly and threatened with being thrown overboard, but all ends happily when she either marries the boy or the captain.It occurred to me, however, to wonder what it would be like if the girl, instead of seeking to be with her lover, connives to get on board a British warship in order to just eat regularly and have a place to stay, her being a starving orphan on the streets of early 1800s London. What would she have to do to pull off this deception for a long period of time? What if she goes through the changes of adolescence while on board in the company of 408 rather rough men and boys, and her not having much of a clue as to what is happening to her? What if this ship goes into combat and she has to do her dangerous duty? And, finally, what if she falls in love with one of the boys and can never tell him of her female nature? I started making notes and seven months later Bloody Jack was done. <mask> stated in several fan interviews that the final book in the series would be titled She Will Play the Wild Rover No More, a name adapted from a line in the folk ballad "The Wild Rover", and hinted that the book was already completed and "deep in a vault," though he further stated that he did not know how many more books would be in the series.In August 2013, <mask> announced the publication of the final installment under the slightly altered title Wild Rover No More. The book was published posthumously in November 2014. Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber Over the Hills and Far Away (2012)
 Boston Jacky: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Taking Care of Business (2013)
 Wild Rover No More: Being the Last Recorded Account of the Life and Times of Jacky Faber (2014)

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 Female Warrior Folk Ballads, list of traditional songs and chanteys featuring women who went to sea as men

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<mask> (born July 7, 1968) is an American author, editor, and literary critic. Initially associated with the New Weird literary genre, <mask> crossed over into mainstream success with his bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy. The trilogy's first novel, Annihilation, won the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards, and was adapted into a Hollywood film by director Alex Garland. Among <mask>'s other novels are Shriek: An Afterword and Borne. He has also edited with his wife Ann VanderMeer such influential and award-winning anthologies as The New Weird, The Weird, and The Big Book of Science Fiction. <mask> has been called "one of the most remarkable practitioners of the literary fantastic in America today," with The New Yorker naming him the "King of Weird Fiction". <mask>'s fiction is noted for eluding genre classifications even as his works bring in themes and elements from genres such as postmodernism, ecofiction, the New Weird and post-apocalyptic fiction.<mask>'s writing has been described as "evocative" and containing "intellectual observations both profound and disturbing," and has been compared with the works of Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, and Henry David Thoreau. Personal life

<mask> was born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania in 1968, and spent much of his childhood in the Fiji Islands, where his parents worked for the Peace Corps. After returning to the United States, he spent time in Ithaca, New York, and Gainesville, Florida. He attended the University of Florida for three years and, in 1992, took part in the Clarion Writers Workshop. When VanderMeer was 20, he read Angela Carter's novel The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, which he has said "blew the back of my head off, rewired my brain: I had never encountered prose like that before, never such passion and boldness on the page." Carter's fiction inspired VanderMeer to both improve and be fearless with his own writing. In 2003, <mask> married Ann Kennedy, then editor for the small Buzzcity Press and magazine the Silver Web.They have two cats. One is named Neo. Writing

Early career

<mask> began writing in the late 1980s while still in high school and quickly became a prolific contributor to small-press magazines. During this time <mask> wrote a number of horror and fantasy short stories, some of which were collected in his 1989 self-published book The Book of Frog and in the 1996 collection The Book of Lost Places. He also wrote poetry—his poem "Flight Is for Those Who Have Not Yet Crossed Over" was a co-winner of the 1994 Rhysling Award—and edited two issues of the self-published zine Jabberwocky. One of <mask>'s early successes was his 2001 short-story collection City of Saints and Madmen, set in the imaginary city of Ambergris. Several of <mask>'s novels were subsequently set in the same place, including Shriek: An Afterword (2006) and Finch (2009), the latter of which was a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novel.In 2000, his novella The Transformation of Martin Lake won the World Fantasy Award. <mask> has also worked in other media, including on a movie based on his novel Shriek that featured an original soundtrack by rock band The Church. The band Murder By Death likewise recorded a soundtrack for Finch, which was released alongside a limited edition of the book. <mask> also wrote a Predator tie-in novel for Dark Horse Comics called Predator: South China Seas and worked with animator Joel Veitch on a Play Station Europe animation of his story "A New Face in Hell". The Southern Reach Trilogy

In 2014, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy, consisting of the novels Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance. The story focuses on a secret agency that manages expeditions into a location known as Area X. The area is an uninhabited and abandoned part of the United States that nature has begun to reclaim after a mysterious world-changing event.<mask> has said that the main inspiration for Area X and the series was his hike through St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge. The Other Side of the Mountain by Michel Bernanos is among the books <mask> has cited as also having had an influence. The trilogy was released in quick succession over an 8-month period, in what has been called an innovative "Netflix-inspired strategy." The strategy helped the second and third books reach the New York Times Bestseller list, and established <mask> as "one of the most forward-thinking authors of the decade." The series ended up being highly honored, with Annihilation winning the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards for Best Novel. The entire trilogy was also named a finalist for the 2015 World Fantasy Award and the 2016 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis. Annihilation was also adapted into a film of the same name by writer-director Alex Garland.The film stars Natalie Portman, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Oscar Isaac. Recent work

In 2017 VanderMeer released Borne, a "biotech apocalypse" novel about a scavenger named Rachel trying to survive both a city "plunged into a primordial realm of myth, fable, and fairy tale" and a five-story-tall flying bear named Mord. As with the Southern Reach trilogy, the novel was highly praised, with The Guardian saying, "VanderMeer’s recent work has been Ovidian in its underpinnings, exploring the radical transformation of life forms and the seams between them." Publishers Weekly said the novel reads "like a dispatch from a world lodged somewhere between science fiction, myth, and a video game" and that with Borne Vandermeer has essentially invented a new literary genre, "weird literature." Paramount Pictures has optioned the film rights to Borne. In August 2017 VanderMeer released the novella The Strange Bird: A Borne Story. The stand-alone story is set in the same world as Borne but featuring different characters.Dead Astronauts, a stand-alone short novel set in the Borne universe, was released on  December 3, 2019. <mask>'s upcoming novels include Hummingbird Salamander, which is set ten seconds into the future and deals with "bioterrorism, ecoterrorism, and climate change," and a young adult series called Jonathan Lambshead and the Golden Sphere. He is also working on a story called "The Three," based on the dead astronauts mentioned in Borne, along with another Southern Reach story. Critical reputation

<mask> has been called "one of the most remarkable practitioners of the literary fantastic in America today," with The New Yorker naming him the "King of Weird Fiction." <mask>'s fiction is noted for eluding genre classifications even as his works bring in themes and elements from genres such as postmodernism, ecofiction, the New Weird and post-apocalyptic fiction. <mask>'s fiction has been described as "evocative (with) intellectual observations both profound and disturbing" and "lyrical and harrowing," with his mixing of genres producing "something unique and unsettling." <mask>'s writing has been compared with the works of Jorge Luis Borges, Kafka, and Thoreau.Literary criticism and editing
<mask> is a frequent writer of critical literary reviews and essays, which have appeared in numerous publications including The Atlantic, The Washington Post Book World, Publishers Weekly, and other places. For a number of years he was a regular columnist for the Amazon book-culture blog and has served as a judge for the Eisner Awards, among others. He has been a guest speaker at such diverse events as the Brisbane Writers Festival, Finncon in Helsinki, and the American Library Association annual conference. In 2019, <mask> was a judge for the National Book Award for Fiction. <mask> has also edited a number of anthologies. He won a 2003 World Fantasy Award for Leviathan, Volume Three, a collection of genre-bending stories he edited with Forrest Aguirre. He and Mark Roberts were also finalists for the same award the next year for the anthology The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases.Most of his recent anthologies have been collaborations with his wife, <mask>, the Hugo-award-winning former editor of Weird Tales. These anthologies include The New Weird, a collection of stories from New Weird authors; Last Drink Bird Head, a charity anthology benefiting literacy; The Weird, a World Fantasy Award winning collection of weird fiction; Time Traveler's Almanac, an anthology of time-travel fiction; Fast Ships, Black Sails, a pirate fiction anthology; and the Locus Award winning The Big Book of Science Fiction. <mask> is the founding editor and publisher of the Ministry of Whimsy Press, which he set up in the late 1980s while still in high school. The press is currently an imprint of Wyrm Publishing. One of the Ministry'''s publications, The Troika by Stepan Chapman, won the Philip K. Dick Award in 1997. Teaching

In addition to editing and writing, VanderMeer has also been involved in teaching creative writing. One of the projects he is involved with is Shared Worlds, an annual two-week program that aims to teach creative writing to teenagers.<mask> has also taught at the Clarion Workshop and at Trinity Prep School. In addition to his teaching, <mask> has also written guides to creative writing such as Wonderbook, which won a BSFA Award, a Locus Award, and was nominated for a Hugo and World Fantasy Award. Awards

<mask> has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award 14 times. He has also won an NEA-funded Florida Individual Writers' Fellowship, and, the Le Cafard Cosmique award in France and the Tähtifantasia Award in Finland, both for City of Saints. He has also been a finalist for the Hugo Award, Bram Stoker Award, International Horror Guild Award, Philip K. Dick Award, and many others. Novels such as Veniss Underground and Shriek: An Afterword have made the year's best lists of Amazon.com, The Austin Chronicle, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Publishers Weekly, among others. Chambers)

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 The Book of Frog (1989)
 The Book of Lost Places (1996)
 City of Saints and Madmen: The Book of Ambergris (2001)
 City of Saints and Madmen (2002, substantially expanded from the 2001 edition)
 City of Saints and Madmen (2004, expanded from the 2002 edition)
 The Day Dali Died (2003)
 Secret Life (2004)
 Why Should I Cut Your Throat?(non-fiction, 2004)
 VanderMeer 2005 (promotional sampler, 2005)
 Secret Lives (2006)
 The Surgeon's Tale and Other Stories (with Cat Rambo, 2007)
 The Third Bear (2010, Tachyon Publications)
 Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy: Annihilation; Authority; Acceptance (2014)

Short fiction
 "Mansions of the Moon" (2001) in Nemonymous 1
 "My Report on the Secret Life of Shane Hamill" (2006) in Eidolon I (ed. Jonathan Strahan, Jeremy G. Byrne)
 "Fixing Hanover" (2008) in Extraordinary Engines and reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Steampunk (2012) ed.

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title: Richard Riemerschmid

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<mask> (20 June 1868 – 13 April 1957) was a German architect, painter, designer and city planner from Munich. He was a major figure in Jugendstil, the German form of Art Nouveau, and a founder of architecture in the style. A founder member of both the Vereinigte Werkstätte für Kunst im Handwerk (United Workshops for Art in Handcrafts) and the Deutscher Werkbund and the director of art and design institutions in Munich and Cologne, he prized craftsmanship but also pioneered machine production of artistically designed objects. Life and career
Riemerschmid was born in Munich, the sixth of nine children of Eduard Riemerschmid, who headed the Munich distillery founded by his father Anton Riemerschmid, and his wife Amalie. After completing his Abitur at the Wilhelmsgymnasium in 1886 and military service in the army, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich under Gabriel Hackl and Ludwig von Löfftz from 1888 to 1890 and then worked as an independent artist and architect. He began as an Impressionist and Symbolist painter. He produced advertising of various kinds on commission, including series of pictures for albums for the Stollwerck chocolate company of Cologne, one called "The Seasons" (Jahreszeiten) for Album No.4 of 1899. He was a co-founder of the Vereinigte Werkstätten für Kunst im Handwerk (United Workshops for Art in Handcrafts) (1897 or 1898, originally Dresdner Werkstätten für Handwerkskunst, later Deutsche Werkstätten für Handwerkskunst and now Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau) and the Deutscher Werkbund (1907), which he headed from 1920 to 1926. From 1913 to 1924, he was director of the Munich Kunstgewerbeschule (which merged with the Academy of Fine Arts in 1946), and from 1926 to 1931 was a professor at and the director of the Kölner Werkschulen (an art and design college which was a forerunner of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne). He played an important role in the 1922 German Handcrafts Exhibition in Munich. He published books on art education. Riemerschmid paved the way for the modern artistic handcrafts movement. Influenced by the English Arts and Crafts movement, he created furniture, carpets, fabric and wallpaper designs and glass and porcelain pieces.In all of these his guiding principles were "objective clarity and purpose, solid craftsmanship and the use of simple, inexpensive materials". He created several interior designs, including for the Munich Kammerspiele (1900/01). With Joseph Maria Olbrich and his friend and colleague Bruno Paul, he designed the 30 luxury cabins of the fast ocean liner SS Kronprinzessin Cecilie, launched in 1906, at the time one of the most ambitious and successful German passenger vessels, and he, Paul, and Johann Poppe, house designer for the North German Lloyd Line, were to have co-designed the interiors of the never finished SS Columbus of 1914. The furniture in his 1899 show interiors was praised for its style, for varying the repetitive verticals by adding a diagonal note to the framing of a glass-fronted cabinet and having chairs taper upwards from a broad base, and above all for remaining true to simplicity. He began designing furniture because he could not find what he wanted for his flat after his marriage. In 1903-04 he designed a dinner and coffee service for Meissen porcelain, part of their attempt to incorporate art nouveau designs; it was well received by the critics but did not sell well, although some were also sold through the Workshops. It has been reissued as Blaue Rispe (blue meadow-grass).Riemerschmid designed the site plan, the factory and some of the housing for Hellerau (now part of Dresden), which was the first garden city of the English type to be built in Germany. As an architect, he is known particularly for his houses: his own house in Munich, the Villa Fischel in Kiel, the Fieser villa in Baden-Baden, and the Frank villa in Göttingen and country house in Witzenhausen, and for the uncompleted "Walddorfstraße" workers' housing complex in Hagen, Westphalia, although his major contribution to Jugendstil architecture was his interior for the Munich Schauspielhaus (playhouse; later the Kammerspiele). At the United Workshops in Hellerau, Riemerschmid developed a programme of machine production of art furniture. For example, a chair in his "music room" exhibit at the German Art Exhibition in Dresden in 1899 was so popular, the Workshops immediately placed it in production, it was also being manufactured and sold by Liberty's the next year, and it was widely copied. He subsequently expanded this to the production of house kits. One such house, ordered in 1922 at an exhibition and erected in 1923 in Rodenkirchen near Cologne from 4,000 parts, mostly wood but including tiles and heating stoves, was disassembled and stored in Leverkusen in 1978. In 1984 the State of North Rhine-Westphalia declared it a landmark, and research revealed that it was the only example of the model ever built.A grandchild of the original purchaser had the pieces moved in 2004 to Simbach am Inn, Bavaria and reassembled there at considerable cost, assisted by the Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz (German Foundation for Landmark Protection). In 1895, Riemerschmid married the actress Ida Hofmann. They had four children. In 1910, his sister Frieda became the second wife of Karl Schmidt-Hellerau, the founder of the United Workshops. After the Nazi regime came to power in 1933, Riemerschmid was forced out of the Werkbund, and in 1943 Hitler forbade the award of the Goethe Medal for Art and Science to him as urged by Albert Speer. However, he did receive the medal on 20 July that year. He is buried in the cemetery at Gräfelfing, which he laid out in 1913.His drawings are in the architectural museum at the Technical University Munich and his other papers in the German Art Archive of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg. The Richard-Riemerschmid-Berufskolleg, a vocational school in Cologne, is named for him in memory of his direction of the Kölner Werkschulen. Selected works
 1898-1906: Personal villa in the style of an English cottage, Pasing, Munich. Later extensions: studio and connecting building. Furnishings removed in 2010. 1899: "Music salon" interior, shown at the German Art Exhibition in Dresden
 1900: "The art-lover's room" interior, shown at the Paris Exposition of 1900
 1901: Interior design of the Schauspielhaus (later the Kammerspiele) in Munich (architect: Max Littmann)
 1902–1903: Fieser villa in Baden-Baden
 1904: "Rector's room at the Industrial School in Nuremberg" interior, shown at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis
 1904–05: Fischel villa in Kiel
 1905: Rudolph villa in Dresden (destroyed)
 1905–06: Sultan villa in Grunewald, Berlin, commissioned in 1904 by Berlin industrialist Adolf Sultan, father of pianist Grete Sultan; demolished 1965. Berlin: Reckendorf, [1917]
 Künstlerische Erziehungsfragen.Flugschriften des Münchner Bundes. 2 vols. Munich: Müller, 1917, 1919

Honours
 1914: Geheimrat, Kingdom of Bavaria
 1924: Geheimer Regierungsrat, Bavaria
 1943: Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft
 1951: City of Munich architecture prize
 1952: Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz (Commander)
 1952: City of Munich grand prize for art
 1954: Honorary membership in the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
 1955: Honorary doctorate in engineering, Technische Hochschule Stuttgart, now the University of Stuttgart

References

Sources
 Michaela Rammert-Götz. <mask>mid, Möbel und Innenräume von 1895-1900. Schriften aus dem Institut für Kunstgeschichte der Universität München 22. Munich: Tuduv, 1987. Bernhard Graf.<mask>mid, Bayerischer Architekt zwischen Jugendstil und Werkbund. Documentary. Bayerischer Rundfunk 2006
 Maria Wüllenkemper. <mask>mid: "Nicht die Kunst schafft den Stil, das Leben schafft ihn". Regensburger Studien zur Kunstgeschichte 6. Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 2009. Detlef Lorenz.Reklamekunst um 1900. Künstlerlexikon für Sammelbilder. Berlin: Reimer, 2000. Thomas Nitschke. Die Geschichte der Gartenstadt Hellerau. Dresden: Hellerau, 2009. External links

 Examples of his art and design at ArtNet
 Examples of his work and biography from Grove Art Online at MOMA
 Textilarbeitersiedlung Walddorfstraße, Themenroute 9 - Industriekultur an Volme und Ennepe, Metropoleruhr
 Das Richard-Riemerschmid Berufskolleg in Köln

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