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Most Objectivist thinkers are ‘little known’ outside of Objectivist circles so I will post a list of the ones I know.Objectivist Intellectual’s Biographies (85) last updated 10/14/18 (not complete)Amesh AdaljaMD, 2002, American University of the CaribbeanDr. Adalja, a board-certified physician in infectious disease, critical care medicine, emergency medicine and internal medicine, specializes in the intersection of national security with catastrophic health events. He publishes and lectures on bio-terrorism, pandemic preparedness and emerging infectious diseases. He has been a guest on national radio and television programs.John AllisonMBA, Management, 1974, Duke UniversityMr. Allison is president and CEO of the Cato Institute. He was previously chairman and CEO of BB&T Corporation, the 10th-largest financial services holding company headquartered in the United States. During Allison’s tenure as CEO from 1989 to 2008, BB&T grew from $4.5 billion to $152 billion in assets.Carl BarneyCarl Barney is a businessman who, among other business activities, owns and manages several private business colleges.Rituparna BasuBS, Biology, 2010, Pennsylvania State UniversityMs. Basu is a health care policy analyst at ARI. Her work has appeared in publications such as Forbes and The Daily Caller, and she has been interviewed on radio and TV programs, internationally. Ms. Basu has briefed congressional staffers and speaks regularly at university campuses, including Georgetown, Emory and Temple.Ben BayerPhD, Philosophy, 2007, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignDr. Bayer teaches philosophy at Loyola University New Orleans. His research focuses primarily on questions about the foundations of knowledge and the freedom of the will.Robert BegleyRobert Begley is a writer for The Objective Standard. He is the founder and president of the NY Heroes Society, an organization dedicated to promoting heroism in the culture. Robert is also a judge in Anthem, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged essay contests. He was the host and producer for the Manhattan Cable TV program, The Voice of Reason. Robert is currently writing a book about the history of New York heroes.Michael S. BerlinerPhD, Philosophy, 1970, Boston UniversityDr. Berliner is the founding executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute and served as co-chairman of ARI’s board of directors. He is editor of "Letters of Ayn Rand", "Understanding Objectivism" and a recent biography of operetta composer Emmerich Kálmán. Dr. Berliner taught philosophy and philosophy of education for many years at California State University, Northridge.ANDREW BERNSTEINPhD, Philosophy, 1986, City University of New YorkAndrew Bernstein holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Graduate School of the City University of New York. He has taught at Hunter College, the New School for Social Research, Pace University and Marymount College, where he was chosen Outstanding Faculty Member for 1995. He currently teaches at the State University of New York at Purchase, where he was selected Outstanding Faculty Member for 2004.Dr. Bernstein has lectured at universities across the United States, including at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, the United States Military Academy at West Point and many others; and at philosophical conferences both in America and abroad. He is the author of The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic and Philosophic Case for Laissez-Faire, to be published in the spring of 2005 by University Press of America. His first novel, Heart of a Pagan, was released in 2002. He is currently writing Objectivism in One Lesson, an introduction to the philosophy of Ayn Rand. His website is Andrew Bernstein | Philosopher and TeacherDr. Bernstein is the author of "The Capitalist Manifesto" (2005), "Objectivism in One Lesson" (2008), "Capitalism Unbound" (2010), "Capitalist Solutions" (2011), and of numerous essays. He is currently writing “Heroes and Hero Worship” for the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism. Dr. Bernstein lectures widely on Ayn Rand’s novels and Objectivism.DAVID BERRYD.M.A., Composition, 2002, University of South CarolinaDavid Berry is an associate professor of music. He teaches courses across a wide range of historical and theoretical musical subjects including film music. He is a recorded and published (BMI) composer with performances of his music in America and Europe in both fine art and popular music genres.CRAIG BIDDLEB.A., Fine Arts, 1988, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityCraig Biddle is the author of Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts That Support It and is currently writing another book, Good Thinking for Good Living: The Science of Being Selfish. In addition to writing, he lectures on the Objectivist ethics and teaches workshops on thinking in principles. Editor and Publisher of “The Objective Standard”Specialties: Ethics, ObjectivismHARRY BINSWANGERPh.D., Philosophy, 1973, Columbia UniversityDr. Binswanger is the author of The Biological Basis of Teleological Concepts, the editor of The Ayn Rand Lexicon and co-editor of the second edition of Ayn Rand’s Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology. Dr. Binswanger is a professor of philosophy at the Ayn Rand Institute’s Objectivist Academic Center and is a member of ARI’s board of directors. He is currently working on a book on the nature of consciousness.Dr. Binswanger is the author of "How We Know" and "The Biological Basis of Teleological Concepts", the editor of "The Ayn Rand Lexicon" and co-editor of the second edition of Ayn Rand’s "Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology". He is an instructor of philosophy at the Ayn Rand Institute’s Objectivist Academic Center and a member of ARI’s board of directors.TORE BOECKMANNWriterMr. Boeckmann has written and lectured extensively on Ayn Rand’s fiction and philosophy of esthetics. He edited for publication Rand’s The Art of Fiction. His own fiction has been published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. He is currently writing a book on Romantic literature.Thomas A. BowdenSpecialties: Legal issues, physician-assisted suicide, abortion rights, mandatory community service.Mr. Bowden, an attorney in private practice in Baltimore, Maryland, taught at the University Of Baltimore School Of Law from 1988 to 1994. Author of a booklet against multiculturalism, “The Enemies of Christopher Columbus,” he has also published op-eds in the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Philadelphia Inquirer, Portland Oregonian, Los Angeles Daily News, Minneapolis Star Tribune, and Charlotte Observer. He is a former member of the board of directors of The Association for Objective Law, a non-profit group whose purpose is to advance Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand, as the basis of a proper legal system. In that connection, Mr. Bowden has filed amicus curiae briefs in the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal for the Second and Third Circuits, challenging mandatory community service for high school students on legal and moral grounds.YARON BROOKPh.D., Finance, 1994, University of Texas at AustinDr. Brook is president and executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute. A former finance professor, he has published in academic as well as popular publications, and is frequently interviewed in the media. He has appeared on CNN, Fox News Channel and PBS among others. On college campuses across America and in the boardrooms of large corporations, he has lectured on Objectivism, business ethics and foreign policy.Dr. Brook is executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute. He is the coauthor of the national best-seller “Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government” and a contributing author to both “Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea” and “Winning the Unwinnable War: America’s Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism.”ANDY CLARKSONMBA University of MarylandMr. Clarkson is a decades-long Objectivist He has focused on researching the history of ideas and published The Impact of Aristotle Upon Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Cultures : A Compilation of Notes and Quotes From A Variety of Sources Plus Commentary, published in December 2016.PAT CORVINIPh.D., Electrical Engineering, 1995, University of California at Santa BarbaraDr. Corvini recently left a twenty-year career in semiconductor optoelectronics to work full time in the history of science and mathematics. She lectured on Archimedes at the 2003 Objectivist Summer Conference.SUSAN CRAWFORDB.S.N, Nursing, 1982, Marymount College, VirginiaSusan Crawford is a registered nurse. She has given two parenting courses and wrote the pamphlet “The Reading Habit/Money Management.” Susan is married to Jack Crawford and the mother of two sons, Jason and DavidERIC DANIELSPh.D., American History, 2001, University of WisconsinDr. Daniels is a visiting assistant professor of history at Duke University’s Program on Values and Ethics in the Marketplace. He has lectured at summer conferences and to numerous Objectivist community groups. He is an alumnus of ARI’s Objectivist Graduate Center (precursor to the Objectivist Academic Center). A contributor to the Oxford Companion to United States History, he is currently working on a book about American politics andDr. Daniels works at LePort Schools, teaching science and history, and as a curriculum developer. Previously, he was a professor at Clemson, Duke and Georgetown Universities. Dr. Daniels has published book chapters and articles on antitrust, individualism and economic freedom.John DennisPhD, Psychology, 2010, University of Texas at AustinDr. Dennis teaches at Catholic University in Milan, University of Perugia and University of Alberta. His research on motivation is funded by the EU and Templeton Foundation. He is a licensed psychologist trained in CBT. In 2013 Dr. Dennis started Melioravit, a scientific communication company that helps researchers get funded, published and cited.Robert van DortmondMSc in Applied Physics, Delft University of Technology; Executive Program, Stanford Graduate SchoolMr. van Dortmond teaches entrepreneurship at the University of Amsterdam/The Amsterdam Centre for Entrepreneurship. He is an active mentor, shareholder and board member of various startups. He speaks on Ayn Rand’s ideas and is an advisory board member of ARI Europe of which he was one of the initiators.Dianne DuranteSpecialties: Esthetics, painting, sculpture, homeschooling.Dr. Durante is a freelance writer on art and current events. She has lectured on painting and sculpture at Objectivist conferences; several of these lectures are available on tape from the Ayn Rand Bookstore. She has also just finished a book on New York sculpture, Forgotten Delights: The Producers. Dr. Durante and her husband homeschool their daughter in Brooklyn, NY.Alex EpsteinSpecialties: Current Affairs, racism, and moral defense of businessmen.Alex Epstein is an Objectivist speaker and writer living in Richmond, VA. His Op-Eds have been published in dozens of newspapers around the country, including The Houston Chronicle, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Miami Herald, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Washington Times. He is also a regular contributor to The Intellectual Activist, a monthly magazine analyzing political and cultural issues from an Objectivist perspective. Mr. Epstein holds a BA in philosophy from Duke University, where he was editor and publisher of The Duke Review for two years.STUART MARK FELDMANM.A., Art, 1975, Rowan University, New JerseyStuart Feldman works in bronze, stone and wood, creating sculptures of the human figure expressing man’s most noble and inspiring qualities. A former instructor at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, he is cofounder of the Schuylkill Academy of Fine Art, in Philadelphia. His sculptures are held in private collections, and he has created a number of commissioned pieces.ROBERT GARMONGPh.D., Philosophy, 2002; University of Texas at AustinDr. Garmong is a graduate of the Objectivist Graduate Center, and has lectured on philosophy at many Objectivist conferences. He is the author of “J.S. Mill’s Re-Conceptualization of Liberty,” currently under submission to publishers. Dr. Garmong teaches philosophy at Texas A&M University and at Texas State University.MARILYN (GEORGE) GRAYB.S., Child Development, 1961, Iowa State UniversityMarilyn George is a retired Montessori teacher, school owner and administrator. She holds teaching certificates from both the American Montessori Society and the International Association of Progressive Montessorians and was a Montessori teacher for twenty-five years. She owned, administered and taught for ten years in her own school, which had an international reputation for excellence. She taught Montessori courses at Seattle University for more than ten years and has consulted for schools nationwide. Marilyn has been ballroom dancing since she met Ted Gray at a conference in 1989, at her first lesson, and today they compete at the Silver level.Debi GhateLLB, Law, University of Calgary, 1995Ms. Ghate is vice president of Education and Research at the Ayn Rand Institute, where she heads up a variety of educational and policy-related programs. She is also director of the Anthem Foundation for Objectivist Scholarship, an organization that supports academic scholarship based on Ayn Rand’s work.Onkar GhatePhD, Philosophy, 1996, University of CalgaryDr. Ghate is senior fellow and chief content officer at the Ayn Rand Institute. He specializes in Rand’s philosophy, Objectivism, and is ARI’s senior instructor and editor. He publishes and lectures on Rand’s philosophy and fiction, including application of Objectivism in the culture, and has been a guest on national radio and television programs.GENA GORLINPhD, Clinical Psychology, 2012, University of VirginiaMs. Gorlin has two years of experience conducting individual psychotherapy with anxious and depressed young adults. Her research has been published in highly regarded academic journals. She is also a graduate of the Objectivist Academic Center and a former board member of The Undercurrent, a national campus publication.Allan Gotthelf (deceased)Specialties: Love, self-esteem, happiness, Objectivism, AristotleAllan Gotthelf is emeritus professor of philosophy at The College of New Jersey. He is an internationally recognized authority on the philosophy of Aristotle, with many scholarly publications. He has lectured on Objectivism and Aristotle — including their views on love and sex, self-esteem, and individual happiness — throughout North America and in Europe and Japan. He has been a visiting professor at Swarthmore College, Georgetown University, Oxford University, Tokyo Metropolitan University, and most recently, the University of Texas at Austin. In 1987, Dr. Gotthelf was one of the founders of the Ayn Rand Society; a professional organization affiliated with the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, and has headed it since 1990. He enters his second year as Visiting Professor of Historyand Philosophy of Science (HPS) at the University of Pittsburgh. Prof. Gotthelf holds the Pitt Fellowship for the Study of Objectivism, funded by the Anthem Foundation and he will be working throughout the year on various projects in connection with his Fellowship. He is the author of On Ayn Rand (Wadsworth Publishing, 2000), the best-selling book in the Wadsworth Philosophers Series.4-19-2007 from his website:Visiting Professor, under the university's new Fellowship for the Study of Objectivism (Member: Classics, Philosophy and Ancient Science Program). A specialist on Aristotle's biology and philosophy, and on the philosophy of Ayn Rand, Gotthelf is emeritus professor of philosophy at The College of New Jersey, and has taught on a visiting basis at Swarthmore, Oxford, Georgetown, Tokyo Metropolitan, and the University of Texas at Austin. He is a life member of Clare Hall Cambridge, and was a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Gotthelf is author of On Ayn Rand (Wadsworth Philosophers Series, 2000); co-editor of Philosophical Issues in Aristotle's Biology (Cambridge 1987); editor of Aristotle on Nature and Living Things (Pittsburgh 1985); and has prepared for publication D.M. Balme's posthumous editions of Aristotle's Historia Animalium (Cambridge 2002, Cambridge MA 1991). His collected Aristotle papers will by published next year by Oxford University Press, under the title: Teleology, Scientific Method, and Substance: Essays on Aristotle's Biological Enterprise. He is currently working on several Aristotle projects and an extended study of Rand's theory of concepts, essences, and objectivity.TED GRAYB.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1965, Northeastern University;M.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1971, Brooklyn Polytechnic InstituteTed Gray, an engineer, has been dancing since his teens. They both consider dancing primarily a social and romantic activity. Occasionally, they enter amateur dance competitions. As a couple they have given many formal and informal group lessons—at home, at conferences and on a cruise ship. Ted is a mechanical engineer with forty years experience in design and analysis of structures, and prevention of vibration. He is an amateur student of history, enjoying especially the biographies of great Americans and the history of technology. He has been a student of Objectivism for thirty-eight years.Hannes HackerSpecialties: history and politics of the space program, science and technology.Mr. Hacker graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a BS degree in aerospace engineering in May 1988. He earned a MS degree in aerospace engineering at the University of Texas at Austin December 1990. He has eleven years of space-flight operations experience including work on the space shuttle, international space station and commercial communications satellites.DAVID HARRIMANB.S., Physics, 1979, University of California at Berkeley;M.S., Physics, 1982, University of Maryland;M.A., Philosophy, 1995, Claremont Graduate University, CaliforniaDavid Harriman is the editor of Journals of Ayn Rand and a senior writer for the Ayn Rand Institute. He has lectured extensively on the history and philosophy of physics. He is currently developing the physical science curriculum at VanDamme Academy and working on two books: one demonstrating the influence of philosophy on modern physics (The Anti-Copernican Revolution) and the other presenting Leonard Peikoff’s theory of induction (Induction in Physics and Philosophy).David HolcbergSpecialties: Environmentalism, science, capitalism. David Holcberg holds a degree in civil engineering and is a senior writer for the Ayn Rand Institute.JONATHAN HOENIGCommunications and Philosophy, 1999, Northwestern UniversityMr. Hoenig manages Capitalistpig Hedge Fund, LLC. A former floor trader, his first book, Greed Is Good, was published by HarperCollins. Mr. Hoenig has written for publications including The Wall Street Journal, Wired andMarketWatch: Stock Market News - Financial News. He was named one of Crain’s Forty Under Forty and appears regularly on Fox News Channel.Gary HullSpecialties: Philosophy, multiculturalism, business ethics, education.Dr. Hull is director of the Program on Values and Ethics in the Marketplace at Duke University. His op-eds have been published in numerous newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Orange County Register, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Chicago Tribune. He has made numerous television and radio appearances to discuss Ayn Rand’s philosophy, multiculturalism, affirmative action, the Elian Gonzalez affair, sex, ethics, politics. He has lectured on Ayn Rand’s philosophy at conferences around the world and, as a member of the Ayn Rand Institute’s Speakers Bureau, has spoken at universities across the country, including Harvard, Michigan at Ann Arbor, Wisconsin at Madison, Texas at Austin. Dr. Hull is the author of A Study Guide to Leonard Peikoff’s book Objectivism: the Philosophy of Ayn Rand, and is co-editor of The Ayn Rand Reader (Penguin/Plume, 1999), a collection of fiction and non-fiction writings by Ayn Rand.MARTIN F JOHANSENMS, Computer Science, 2009, University of OsloMr. Johansen is a PhD research fellow at SINTEF, the largest independent research institute in Scandinavia. He is currently completing his PhD studies at the University of Oslo as part of an international research project on software testing.Elan JournoBA, Philosophy, 1997, King's College, LondonMr. Journo, director of policy research at ARI, is completing a book on American policy toward the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. His 2009 book, “Winning the Unwinnable War,” analyzes post-9/11 U.S. foreign policy. His writing has appeared in “Foreign Policy,” “Journal of International Security Affairs” and “Middle East Quarterly.”ELLEN KENNERPh.D., Clinical Psychology, 1992, University of Rhode IslandDr. Kenner, a clinical psychologist, has taught university courses in introductory psychology, abnormal psychology and theories of personality. She gives talks on romance, self-improvement, psychological self-defense, parenting and communication skills. She is in her eighth year as host of the nationally syndicated radio talk show The Rational Basis of Happiness®.Ryan KrausePhD, Strategic Management and Organization Theory, 2013, Indiana UniversityDr. Krause is an assistant professor at Texas Christian University’s Neeley School of Business. He researches corporate governance and has published in “Academy of Management Journal,” “Strategic Management Journal” and “Journal of Management.” His research has been covered by the “Wall Street Journal,” “USA Today,” “Businessweek” and Fox Business Network.Andrew LaymanAndrew Layman is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft where he works on Internet and database technologies. Prior to joining Microsoft in 1992, he was a Vice President of Symantec Corporation and original author of the Time Line project management program.Peter LePort, M.D.Specialties: Medicine, free market reform of healthcare, medical savings accountsDr. LePort, a full-time surgeon, lectures nationwide on free market reform in healthcare, particularly on the benefits of medical savings accounts. He is a member of the board of directors of Americans for Free Choice in Medicine. He co-wrote a healthcare reform proposal that discusses voluntary, tax-free medical savings accounts and high-deductible personal health insurance and which includes a method to privatize Medicare. He earned his medical degree from Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, and is a former assistant professor of surgery at that institution. He is a member of the Faculty of the American College of Surgeons and of the Orange County Surgical Society.Andrew LewisPostgraduate Diploma of Philosophy, 1994, University of Melbourne, AustraliaMr. Lewis has studied philosophy at the Objectivist Academic Center, the University of Melbourne and the University of Southern California. He worked with Leonard Peikoff on his radio show, has lectured at Objectivist conferences, and is principal at VanDamme Academy, where he teaches a three-year history curriculum covering ancient, European and American history.JOHN LEWIS (deceased)Ph.D., Classics, 2001, University of CambridgeDr. Lewis is assistant professor of history at Ashland University, where he holds an Anthem Fellowship for Objectivist Scholarship. He is Assistant Professor of History in the Department of History and Political Science. He has published in several professional journals, and has been a visiting scholar at Rice University and Bowling Green State UniversityEDWIN A. LOCKEPh.D., Industrial Organizational Psychology, 1964, Cornell University.Dr. Locke is Dean’s Professor of Leadership and Motivation (Emeritus) at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is internationally known for his research and writings on work motivation, leadership and related topics, including the application of Objectivism to psychology and management. He is a senior writer for the Ayn Rand Institute and has published numerous op-eds.Keith LockitchPhD, Physics, 1999, University of Wisconsin at MilwaukeeDr. Lockitch is an ARI fellow and director of advanced training. In addition to speaking and writing for ARI on issues related to energy, climate and environmentalism, he teaches writing for the OAC and has developed courses on Ayn Rand’s ideas and novels for a variety of audiences.ROBERT MAYHEWPh.D., Philosophy, 1991, Georgetown UniversityDr. Mayhew is associate professor of philosophy at Seton Hall University. He is the author of Aristotle’s Criticism of Plato’s Republic and The Female in Aristotle’s Biology and the editor of Ayn Rand’s Marginalia, Ayn Rand’s The Art of Nonfiction, Essays on Ayn Rand’s “We the Living” and (forthcoming) Ayn Rand’s Q & A. He has completed a book on Ayn Rand’s HUAC testimony and is preparing for publication a collection of essays on Ayn Rand’s Anthem.Arline MannArline Mann is an attorney. She is vice president and associate general counsel of Goldman, Sachs & Co.John P. McCaskey, Ph.D. in history, is the founder and chairman of the Anthem Foundation for Objectivist Scholarship. He spent twenty years in the computer business, most recently as founder of Epiphany, Inc., before returning to academia in 2001. He studies and teaches history and philosophy of science at Stanford University.Scott McConnellSpecialties: Volunteerism, Communism in America, Ayn Rand's life. Mr. McConnell is a former literature teacher and high school English teacher. He has a BA in behavioral sciences and worked in Hollywood as a script reader. He has given several lectures on Ayn Rand's life.Shoshana MilgramPhD, Comparative Literature, 1978, Stanford UniversityDr. Milgram, associate professor of English at Virginia Tech, specializes in narrative fiction and film. She has lectured on Ayn Rand at Objectivist and academic conferences and has published on Ayn Rand, Hugo and Dostoevsky. Dr. Milgram is editing the draft of her book-length study of Ayn Rand’s life (to 1957).Ken Moelis. Mr. Moelis is founder and chief executive officer of Moelis & Company, a global investment bank that provides financial advisory, capital raising and asset management services to a broad client base including corporations, institutions and governments. Mr. Moelis has over thirty years of investment banking experience. Prior to founding Moelis & Company, he worked at UBS from 2001 to 2007, where he was most recently president of UBS Investment Bank and, previously, Joint Global Head of Investment Banking. Mr. Moelis serves on the University of Pennsylvania Board of Trustees, the Wharton Board of Overseers, the Board of the Tourette Syndrome Association, and the Board of Governors of Cedars Sinai Hospital.Jean MoroneyCertificate, 1996, Objectivist Graduate Center, Ayn Rand Institute;MS, Psychology, 1994, Carnegie Mellon University;MS, Electrical Engineering, 1986, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMs. Moroney is president of Thinking Directions, a business that develops and teaches methods in applied psycho-epistemology. She has given her flagship course, Thinking Tactics, to corporate and public audiences across North America. She is writing a book titled “Smarter: How to Achieve Your Goals When Nothing Goes as Planned.”Adam Mossoff is Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law. He is also Co-Director of Academic Programs and a Senior Scholar at the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property at George Mason, which he co-founded in 2012. He teaches and writes in the areas of patent law, trade secrets, trademark law, property law, and internet law. He has published extensively on the theory and history of how patents and other intellectual property rights are fundamental property rights. His article on the very first patent war, the Sewing Machine War of the 1850s, has been widely cited in today's public policy debates concerning patent litigation, patent licensing, and patent pools. He has testified before the Senate, and he has spoken at numerous congressional staff briefings, professional association conferences, and academic conferences, as well as at the PTO, the FTC, the DOJ, and the Smithsonian Institution. He is Co-Chairman of the Intellectual Property Committee of the IEEE-USA, and he is a member of the Amicus Committee of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Public Policy Committee of the Licensing Executives Society, and the Academic Advisory Board of the Copyright Alliance. ADAM MOSSOFF is an expert in patent law and property theory. He has published numerous law review articles and book reviews on topics in legal philosophy, patent law, and property law, including in law reviews at the University of Arizona and UC-Hastings, and in the interdisciplinary law journal, the University of Chicago Law School Roundtable. He was a visiting lecturer and John M. Olin Fellow in Law at Northwestern University School of Law, where he taught a seminar on property theory. Immediately prior to coming to MSU College of Law, he clerked for the Hon. Jacques L. Wiener, Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Professor Mossoff graduated from the University of Chicago Law School with honors in 2001. He has a M.A. in philosophy from Columbia University, where he specialized in legal and political philosophy, and a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Michigan, where he graduated magna cum laude and with high honors in philosophy. Hi is now an Associate Professor of Law at George Mason University School of LawSpecialties: Philosophy of Law, Constitutional Law, Intellectual Property Rights, Patent RightsJ. PATRICK MULLINS is a doctoral candidate in the history department of the University of Kentucky. He is in the last stages of writing his doctoral dissertation with the help of a generous grant from the Ayn Rand Institute.Travis NorsenSpecialties: Physics, science, history and philosophy of science, science education.Mr. Norsen is a physics and philosophy double-major at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, CA. He is currently attending his final year of a PhD program in physics at the University of Washington in Seattle. Mr. Norsen is also a former adjunct instructor of physics at DigiPen Institute of Technology in Redmond, WA.JOHN E. OPFER, who still tops the list of Amazon Reviewers on the CyberNet Scoreboard, is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Ohio State University where he specializes in cognitive and developmental psychology. Nowadays he's too busy reviewing his research findings to review books. His work at OSU's Concepts and Learning Lab explores how young children form and change their concepts, such as concepts of living things and number. His website is at <Department of Psychology - John Opfer> where you will find links to several of his fascinating papers.Michael PaxtonMFA, 1984, New York UniversityMr. Paxton directed the world premiere of Ayn Rand’s Ideal (1989) and adapted and directed a dramatic presentation of Anthem (1991). His documentary, Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life, won an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Satellite Award for Best Feature Documentary. He teaches production design and film history at the Art Institute in Hollywood.Lee PiersonPhD, 1982, Psychology, Cornell UniversityDr. Pierson, director of the Thinking Skills Institute at Fairleigh Dickinson University, teaches students and business professionals how to keep any thought process moving toward its goal by activating the right knowledge as needed. He has a long-standing interest in and recently participated in life-extension research.AMY PEIKOFFJ.D., 1998, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law;Ph.D., Philosophy, 2003, University of Southern CaliforniaDr. Amy Peikoff is an Anthem fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is teaching undergraduate courses in ethics and epistemology. Her writings on legal and philosophical issues have appeared in academic journals and leading newspapers. She has taught for the Objectivist Academic Center and lectured for Objectivist organizations and at conferences. Visiting Fellow at Chapman University’s Law School.Leonard PeikoffPh .D., Philosophy, 1964 New York UniversityFrom 1957 until 1973, Peikoff taught philosophy at Hunter College, Long Island University, New York University, the University of Denver and the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.After that, he worked full-time on The Ominous Parallels (published 1982) and gave lectures across the country. He gave courses on Ayn Rand's philosophy regularly in New York City, which were taped and played to groups in some 100 cities in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. In addition, he spoke frequently before investment and financial conferences on the philosophic basis of capitalism.Dr. Peikoff, who is a naturalized American citizen, was born in Winnipeg, Canada, in 1933. His father was a surgeon and his mother, before marriage, was a band leader in Western Canada. He has been a contributor to Barron's and an associate editor, with Ayn Rand, of The Objectivist (1968-71) and The Ayn Rand Letter (1971-76).He is author of Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (Dutton, 1991), the definitive statement of Objectivism.Steve PlafkerJ.D., 1973 USCPh.D., Math, 1966 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISBS, MATH, MIT, 1961Dr. Plafker is a retired Los Angeles County deputy district attorney. His teaching experience includes teaching law to law students and to undergraduates. Before becoming a lawyer, he taught mathematics at Tulane University. He is a founder and member of the Board of Directors of The Association For Objective Law (TAFOL).Richard RalstonSpecialties: Ayn Rand’s life, Objectivism (General), Projects of the Ayn Rand Institute, Volunteerism, Foreign Policy, Journalism and MediaAfter serving seven years in the U.S. Army, Mr. Ralston completed an M.A. in International Relations at the University of Southern California in 1977. He then began a career in newspaper publishing and direct marketing. He has been the circulation director and publisher of The Christian Science Monitor, a radio producer, a national television news business manager, and a book publisher. As an independent direct marketing consultant, his clients included IBM, British Airways, CNN, and the Los Angeles Times. His book Communism: Its Rise and Fall in the 20th Century was published in 1991. Mr. Ralston is now Managing Director for the Ayn Rand Institute.JOHN RIDPATHPh.D., Economics, 1974, University of VirginiaDr. Ridpath (York University, retired) writes and speaks in defense of capitalism, and on the impact throughout Western history—including the American Founding era—of the ideas of the major philosophers. A recipient of numerous teaching awards, and nominee for Canadian Professor of the Year, he continues to lecture throughout Europe and North America.Jonathan Paul Rosman, MDSpecialties: Medicine, psychiatry.Dr. Rosman is a board certified psychiatrist, with additional qualifications in the subspecialties of addiction psychiatry and forensic psychiatry. Prior to entering full-time private practice in California in 1989 he was an assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. For several years, Dr. Rosman has been a psychiatric consultant to the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California, and is the psychiatric consultant to the Sleep Disorders Center at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, California. He is also medical director for the Eating Disorder Center of California, a private, intensive outpatient clinic in Brentwood, California, devoted to the treatment of patients with anorexia and bulimia.Dr. Rosman is a published writer and lecturer on various aspects of psychiatry. Dr. Rosman's theoretical orientation is broad-based, drawing on and integrating aspects of cognitive-behavioral, short-term psychodynamic and biologic theories with Objectivist epistemological principles. He practices as both a psychotherapist and a psychopharmacologist.GREG SALMIERIB.A., Philosophy, 2001, The College of New JerseyPhD, Philosophy, 2008, University of PittsburghDr. Salmieri is a philosophy fellow at the Anthem Foundation and co-secretary of the Ayn Rand Society (a professional group affiliated with the American Philosophical Association). He teaches at Rutgers University. He has published and lectured on Aristotle and Ayn Rand and is co-editor of forthcoming books on both thinkers.Richard M. SalsmanSpecialties: Banking, free market economics, economic forecasting, capitalism, investmentsRichard M. Salsman is president and chief market strategist of InterMarket Forecasting, which provides quantitative research and forecasts of stocks, bonds, and currencies to guide the asset allocation decisions of institutional investment managers, mutual funds, and pension plans. He is the author of numerous books and articles on economics, banking, and forecasting from a free-market perspective, including Breaking the Banks: Central Banking Problems and Free Banking Solutions (American Institute for Economic Research, 1990) and Gold and Liberty (American Institute for Economic Research, 1995). Mr. Salsman’s work has appeared in The Intellectual Activist, the New York Times, Investor’s Business Daily, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Barron’s. From 1993 to 1999, he was a senior vice president and senior economist at H. C. Wainwright & Co. Economics. Prior to that he was a banker at Citibank and the Bank of New York. Mr. Salsman is an adjunct fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research and the founder of The Association of Objectivist Businessmen.Lee Sandstead received his B.A. Philosophy/B.S. Mass Communication from Middle Tennessee State University in December 1996, when he was awarded the prestigious award for “Outstanding Magazine Journalism Graduate.” He has studied art history at the University of Memphis’ graduate program, and most recently, the art history doctoral program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York City. He is a popular writer/photographer/lecturer of art-historical subjects. He has delivered almost 50 keynote lecture-addresses to such prestigious institutions as: Yale, Duke, University of Michigan, Penn State, NYU and the Academy of Realist Art in Toronto. Articles of his have been published in numerous journals, and his photography has been seen in publications such as: The New York Times, Fortune, and Ms. Magazine. He currently teaches art history at Montclair State University and is author of the forthcoming book on American master-sculptor Evelyn Beatrice Longman (1874-1954DINA SCHEIN FEDERMAN (deceased) is completing her article on "Integrity in The Fountainhead_" for ROBERT MAYHEW's upcoming collection of essays. She will also be delivering two lectures at the European Objectivist conference in London this month. Her writing projects include severalarticles on Virtue Ethics, a movement in academic ethics.DANIEL SCHWARTZBA, Liberal Arts, 2006, St. John’s CollegeMr. Schwartz is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at UC San Diego, where he is working on a dissertation titled “Baconian Foundationalism and the Problem of Certainty.” He specializes in early modern philosophy and the history of the philosophy of science.PETER SCHWARTZM.A., Journalism, 1972, Syracuse UniversityPeter Schwartz is the founding editor and publisher of The Intellectual Activist. He is the editor and contributing author of Ayn Rand’s Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution, and is chairman of the board of directors of the Ayn Rand Institute.Thomas ShoebothamMM, Orchestral Conducting, 1996, University of New MexicoMM, Cello Performance, 1992, Eastman School of MusicMr. Shoebotham is music director of the Palo Alto Philharmonic. Previous conducting engagements have included Berkeley Opera, Opera San José, Peninsula Symphony Orchestra and many other groups. He has lectured on music, taught in school music programs and performed numerous recitals as a cellist and pianist over the last twenty years.Stephen SiekPhD, Musicology, 1991, University of CincinnatiDr. Siek, professor emeritus at Wittenberg University, has recently publishedEngland’s Piano Sage: The Life and Teachings of Tobias Matthay. For many years he has lectured and written about the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright, including a scholarly study of Wright’s 1909 home for Burton Westcott in Springfield, Ohio.BRIAN P. SIMPSONPhD, Economics, 2000, George Mason UniversityDr. Simpson is a professor at National University in San Diego. He is author of the book Markets Don’t Fail! and he has a number of papers published in academic journals. He is currently working on another book titled “Money, Banking, and the Business Cycle,” which he hopes to publish soon.Steve SimpsonJD, 1994, New York Law SchoolMr. Simpson is director of legal studies at the Ayn Rand Institute. A former constitutional lawyer for the Institute for Justice, he writes and speaks on a wide variety of legal and constitutional issues, including free speech and campaign finance law, cronyism and government corruption, and the rule of law.Aaron SmithPhD, Philosophy, 2010, Johns Hopkins UniversityDr. Smith is an instructor at the Ayn Rand Institute where he teaches in the Objectivist Academic Center and the Summer Internship program. He lectures for ARI and develops educational content for the Institute’s e-learning programs.Tara SmithPhD, Philosophy, 1989, Johns Hopkins UniversityDr. Smith, professor of philosophy at the University of Texas, holds the BB&T Chair for the Study of Objectivism and the Anthem Foundation Fellowship. She has published books on values, virtues, and individual rights. Her latest, “Judicial Review in an Objective Legal System,” is forthcoming in fall 2015 (Cambridge University Press).MARY ANN SURESM.A., Art History, 1966, Hunter College, New YorkMary Ann Sures taught art history at Washington Square College of N.Y.U. and at Hunter College. She applied Objectivist esthetics to painting and sculpture in a ten-lecture course, “Esthetics of the Visual Arts,” which was written in consultation with Ayn Rand. Her philosophical approach to art history is presented in “Metaphysics in Marble” (The Objectivist, February/March, 1969). She is co-author with her (late) husband Charles of Facets of Ayn Rand (published by the Ayn Rand Institute), memoirs of their longtime friendship with Ayn Rand and her husband Frank O’Connor.C. BRADLEY THOMPSONPh.D., History, 1993, Brown UniversityC. Bradley Thompson is the BB&T Research Professor at Clemson University and the Executive Director of the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism. He has also been a visiting fellow at Princeton and Harvard universities and at the University of London.Professor Thompson is the author of Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea and the prize-winning book John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty. He has also edited The Revolutionary Writings of John Adams, Antislavery Political Writings, 1833-1860: A Reader, co-edited Freedom and School Choice in American Education, and was an associate editor of the four-volume Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. His current book project is on the ideological origins of American constitutionalism.Dr. Thompson is also an occasional writer for The Times Literary Supplement of London. He has lectured around the country on education reform and the American Revolution, and his op-ed essays have appeared in scores of newspapers around the country and abroad. Dr. Thompson's lectures on the political thought of John Adams have twice appeared on C-SPAN television.LISA VANDAMMEB.A., Philosophy, 1994, University of Texas at AustinLisa VanDamme is the owner and director of VanDamme Academy, a private elementary and junior high school in Laguna Hills, California. She specializes in the application of Objectivism to educational theory. Her previous lectures on homeschooling, hierarchy and the teaching of values will be included in a forthcoming education anthology featuring Leonard Peikoff’s “Philosophy of Education.”Don WatkinsBA, Business Administration, 2005, Strayer UniversityMr. Watkins is a fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute. He is the author of “RooseveltCare: How Social Security Is Sabotaging the Land of Self-Reliance” and coauthor, along with Yaron Brook, of the national best-seller “Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government.”KEITH WEINERPh.D., Economics, 2012, New Austrian School of Economics (non-accredited)Dr. Weiner is the founder and CEO of Monetary Metals, a company on a mission to pay interest on gold, and the president of the Gold Standard Institute USA.He makes the economic arguments, as well as the moral, for a free market in money and credit. There has never been an unadulterated gold standard in history, as all governments (including the U.S.) have regulated and interfered with banking, even when other enterprises were unshackled. Today our monetary system is failing, and Keith describes the mechanics in detail, why making the passionate case for gold as the money of free markets.He is also the founder of DiamondWare, a software company sold to Nortel in 2008.Glenn WoiceshynSpecialties: Education, ethics, environmentalism, science, politics.Mr. Woiceshyn is currently developing curriculum and teaching materials for grades 4 to 6 based on his understanding of Objectivism and his experience in "homeschooling" his son and other children. As a freelance writer, Mr. Woiceshyn's op-eds have appeared in numerous newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, Houston Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer, Baltimore Sun and Miami Herald.JAANA WOICESHYNM.B.A., 1983, Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration; Ph.D., Organization and Strategy, 1988, University of Pennsylvania (Wharton School)Dr. Woiceshyn is an associate professor at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. She has taught business ethics and strategic management to undergraduate, MBA and executive MBA students and to various business audiences since 1987.BARRY WOODPh.D., History of Art and Architecture, 2002, Harvard UniversityDr. Wood is curator of the Islamic Gallery Project at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. He has lectured and published on subjects ranging from Persian poetry to Web design.Darryl WrightSpecialties: Ethics, political philosophy, ObjectivismDarryl Wright is associate professor of philosophy at Harvey Mudd College, a member of the Claremont Colleges consortium. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Michigan in 1991, and his A.B. in philosophy from Princeton University in 1985. Dr. Wright has published scholarly articles and/or lectured on the history of ethics, early twentieth-century philosophy, value theory, coercion, and other topics in philosophy.

[note: Western NY is a region of Upstate NY]First 30 seconds:We are part of the Industrial Heartland of the North. This region is currently, due to federal and global reasons, experiencing decline in industrial production. This means we do not have the huge manufacturing centres we had several decades ago. Many corporations nationwide, especially in the so-called Rust Belt have gone under due to changing markets.“We can’t decline because we were never that great” - BullocksOur area is wonderful. Ive been to many so called better off areas in the states. They arent better. They have more crime, more commercialism, less freedom, higher prices, less space, less community spirit; we ought to be a part of Canada by comparison.30–41 crumbling infrastructure. There is some truth here, but it is also a federal and nationwide problem. This is pretty much an issue across the US, and its not more of an issue here than elsewhere.The part that is real however, is probably potholes. We live in a Northern climate. What happens when you take water, ice and snow and combine with asphalt? you get cracking and erosion. Thus we have a yearly construction season.40–60“stop watching your weight”again, obesity is a national/ global issue. but obesity levels arent generally that high in our region. its higher than some places and countries, but far lower than various other regions in the US. We also have more access to fresh groceries, organic, etc. in most of Upstate, with the exception of perhaps the Capital District and some of the other urban areas. Many of us have “more” healthy diets.“there is no fancy part of is” bullocks again and wth.If your idea of fancy is Times Square, then sure. Any New Yorker from any place in the state avoids Times Square. But as far as fancy places go, we have plenty. Whether you mean attractions, restaurants or whathaveyou. If you want quality food, Ive found plenty of better restaurants Upstate than ones touted as amazing in the city. We have restaurants with better atmosphere, service, food. We have attractions, from wineries to Niagara Falls, to gorges and pristine mountains and lakes. You want a floating cruise? You can get one on the Erie Canal, or many of our lakes. Casinos, check, we ve got those. Performances from far and wide? Check, we ve got those.-this part is bullocks.1:00“theyre fond of their booze”while i think this is true, to whatever extent, its also not much of a statement. When I ask people Upstate what they want to do for fun, they usually respond with some kind of activity, something active, some kind of game, cooking, something interesting. When I am Downstate, the response is typically “lets drink/ go to a bar,” as tho no other options for fun exist.Ive never known any police officer Upstate to drink while on duty. I have seen corruption in the police however, including instances of an underage person drinking and driving and getting off via a hick police officer. This was utterly unacceptable to me. I have strong doubts about the education/ability/corruption levels of much of the police force across the US.“Wings”yes, we (Upstate NY, specifically Buffalo) are the home of wings.Ive never had better wings anywhere else.I dont eat them with ranch or blue cheese. [Though I do eat the accompanying cellery with blue cheese]I honestly feel hesitation buying wings outside of NY/NE. In my experiences, the quality and sauce is usually lack-lustre or obnoxiously poor. (& wildly overpriced to top it off)We re also the home of potato chips just fyi. [maybe sorry about that, but you know youve enjoyed a few]1:15the panel has the population counter running down at an alarming rate. In the video it displays around 60k, Utica easily has the capacity for 120k+ and was once one of the top 100 cities in the US.*Utica, last one out, turn out the lights* was a local phrase describing this rapid depopulation of the city center. Many of Utica’s factories are abandoned. Much of the population however is still in the surrounding area. Some are counted with Utica’s metro area, others are not, due to the proximity of Utica and Syracuse and the way measurement for metro areas occurs.Utica is underpopulated, but it’s no longer losing population. It’s been slowly regaining population for the past decade and has several promising new industries. Utica is also known for it’s food scene. Local foods such as Half-Moon Cookies [not to be confused with the superficially similar Downstate Black-&-Whites], Utica Greens, Chicken Riggies, Tomato Pie, are some popular local dishes. Utica has a wide immigrant community, notably Italians have a strong foundation in the city, but S./SE. Asian, Latin America, S.E/E. European, Irish immigrants also make large contributions to the area. We also produce Saranac draft beer and sodas, you probably know this brand if you live in N. America. South of Utica, though not quite in the Utica realm, is Chobani. The #2 Yoghurt producer of the United States.So, this panel is dated, but wasnt inaccurate in the recent past. I dont find this panel offensive, and the colour scheme was fitting. But we have new things going on, it would be better to focus on the now.Buffalo Bills panel.I honestly know nothing of US sports. I follow national teams for soccer, ice-skating, snowboarding, sometimes tennis. Somenof my friends are big into Hockey even.On the mention of sports however, Baseball is from Upstate NY, Cooperstown is home of the Baseball Hall of Fame. It is a wonderful area. Though, I dont care for baseball personally. Youll also find plenty of fancy restaurants. Apparently many of our local products are mind-blowing for tourists. It explains why I feel lack-lustre reactions to what I often eat in the city, even when its supposed to be “amazing”.Halloween Panelwhile Sleepy Hollow in the days of the legend may have been Upstate New York territory, today it is decidedly inseperable from the city and squarely in the central part of Downstate.Still, Halloween and autumn are a special time in Upstate. Many people come to tour our rolling hills, mountains, lakes and autumn leaves, we are the #2 apple producer in the US, and we grow plenty of pumpkins as well. Nevermind that, we grow a lot of maize. What is maize good for in autumn? Yes. All those wondefull halloween activities. Let’s just say we live up the season, and it’s a great place for Halloween, Thanksgiving or Fall in general.Come enjoy and celebrate the seasons with us.MVCC - Mohawk Valley Community College [Utica]I won’t lie, I dont think of this as one of our finer schools. In Herkimer, just next door, we have the better sibling HCCC - Herkimer County Community College, one of the best ranking community colleges across the US. “Harvard on the hill”1:33 Kodak, one of the largest camera/print producers in the world and a world leader for half a century, local to Rochester, Upstate NY. The company has been in dire straights struggling to redefine itself in the digital age. Kodak, a name synonymous with film, and inventor of the digital camera, is a poor loss for the area.IBM in Binghamton has had similar woes, tho IBM seems to have found it’s niche.1:45 I have no idea why he is going on disability. Many people refuse government assistance, or are unaware of government programmes and services available to them.1:46 I dont understand why borsch is included in this line dance. Its a Russian food. My area has a lot of Slavs, but we are minorities in most of the state. Albeit there are more slavs in NY than many other states, especially the South where WASPs and african americans seem to be the ubiquitous majority.I have no idea what that raccoon is.I would have included a frog, Big Frog 104 is/was a popular station. And the mascot is well-known.The orange is for Syracuse. Ive met a lot of Syracuse fans. I think it makes sense.The opioids, were a major issue this past decade with hospital overprescription and addiction, combine that with the great recession and the effects that had on smaller communities who suffered long after the obama administration declared the recession over [& trust me, this pissed them off. akin to having a burning building and declaring to the firefighrers, job done, lets go home, fire is out — while the smoke and flames engulf the other half of the building, mind you, there are real live living people in there getting burned alive] However, now, the majority of opioids issues have moved to larger urban centres. The demographic on this has shifted and this is dated. note: most drugs are from NYC, and its another reason we have issues with the city. the opiod crisis was the only notable regional crisis we ve had i can name. while in nyc or seattle, herroin, cocaine, lsd and other hard drugs are in easy supply and with low-social barriers. we arent so accepting of hard drugs. the opiod crisis started due to the medical industry where people had trust in healthcare providers.Lotto is relatively popular. Its most popular amongst blue-collar workers. Its supposed to help pay for the education system, but NY has been mismanaging funds and people are unhappy about this. We care a lot about education.End clip going into Buffalo“can’t make it anywhere but you can make it here. “Our people are very welcoming. [unless you give off NYC/Downstate vibes]. We dont think homelessness is acceptable. We will help you out as complete strangers. If your car is broken, we will do what we can to help you get it running, no charge, no catches. We ll sit there with you until its working. I dont know if you can make it here not being from here or not. But we are friendly and youll fall in love with our hospitality and warm welcoming natures. We’ll make sure you dont die…Snowfall on Buffaloyes. All the areas close to the Great Lakes get high snowfall (due to Lake effect snow). 7″ over a two-day snowfall was enough to cause panic and empty the shelves of every store in Seattle. We laugh. 7″ we wouldnt expect a delay.Bennedict Arnold Fought here BabyI have no idea what he is trying to imply. I know Bennedict Arnold is synonymous in US english with traitor. (albeit, looking at his story a bit more objectively and not part of the nationalist mythology narrative, its a crazy overproportioned story) Still, I have no idea what he is trying to imply. Regardless, maybe we should join Canada! We do have a lot in common with them. Oh right, one more thing we produce metric tonnes of, we [and Vermont + Maine] produce a crud tonne of maple syrup. If you can afford real syrup [& we can] the odds are high it came from us.Overall thoughts:The video is just trying to take a dump on our region. It didnt try or have any intent at any of the good in our areas and is just full of biases and mostly inaccuracies. There s some truth to various points, but its all exagerated. I did enjoy the Utica scene, even though it is dated. And the halloween clip was good. But it should not be taken as any kind of serious representation of our region.I do really want wings after finding that wings shot from my phone. (for the record my bmi is well below national average) Im downstate right now, and havent found so good a location…

The author from the U.K. pissed me off big time when he took a big one on this — as I gave him an elaborate response, Raphael Merriman as this one trying to open an old wound of the factions. I had pulled out anti-Brit slurs to insult him as I suggested he took a piss on a memory of my friend Elmer. I caught those who were co-publishers who appeared with me on Dark Gothic Resurrected: Autumn 2007 shitting on this one.Feeding The “Dogs” as this was written by a Primitive Catholic Priest who will invoke “Drink your own piss and eat your own dung” as a blog entry. He bitched because of my use of the word “fuck” and told him you preach Ephesians to a monkey that doesn’t understand English or written language.This voiceless understands a gestured rooted in Philosophy — Angry monkey gives the middle finger during his morning bath (no really one just cannot make this up.) I discuss Cabbie on A lovecraftian kind of writing, here — as I relate about yelling at Ralphie. He was pissed when I tweeted the gesture to author Four And 20 Blackbirds author.I will go into detail about some of my more powerful outings — as I mentioned I cannot say just one being the most powerful. The roster as a whole illustrated how one has a mask they wear. This well — it’s similar the brooding photograph that’s my editor photo in silhouette behind in front of one of the towers. That photo was for some people was pure nightmare fuel when paired with The Pattern Of Diagnosis as I took the photos for this during the daytime in the Medical District. I found this; UnFundy Meme Generator as it does drive what I wrote home. I found others having anti-Arabic attitudes; or hiding behind Christianity to resurrect Jim Crow Laws."If a person reads The Cabbie Homicide, is there ANY grounds for that person to criticize it, any aspect at all that you would accept criticism over?"Well this is not exactly an easy question to answer as I have more than one short story that applies; in 2004 — The Fandom Writer. Noted by a few places — *snicker* as this one underestimated the venom of this. The equal to RationalWiki shows the “Pissed at us” response when RationalWiki placed many on the spot. There are many that would answer the question being one presented, but hands down Wandering In Darkness and The Pattern Of Diagnosis.This was the one where I saw an entire fandom of fannish fabulists pissed when it emerged. Creative Nonfiction recognized The Pattern Of Diagnosis as they seen Issue Five in one form. I brought this into the independent publishing circles along with those in the New Weird. The story is paired with my friend Leper’s first album; and this track. Agony (feat. Jyro), by Argyle Park as this was a side project that torqued the Evangelical community because how dark it was.When introducing the known piece, having friends who never heard a single explicit term uses — these friends who I was at College Church with, they wanted me to write more. During the era I had The Pattern of Diagnosis introduced I was connected with the Boondocks creator on MySpace. Safe to say it was a guess him doing BET Sucks took cues from when I wrote The Fandom Writer, it’s a guess.What’s the word, Churchy urban dictionary has a very harsh term as I almost asked my former classmate this. I revealed she was just a foodie blogger who never got into the hard reporting.The other story that also applies to this question is discussed on this website, How can a fiction author avoid romanticizing mental illness? as I do a presentation that illustrated the long standing stigma between Evangelical and Mental Illness.Thrash Metal act Deliverance was playing intense catch-up when they addressed the subject. Metallica is easy the experts on the mental health subject for many years as it’s their nightmare fuel trope.In 2011, Wandering in Darkness from as linked on Pinterest (More From A Library Of Unknown Horrors.) Then you have this sleeper, untitled johnny alien story, from 2007 as I will show the link to character creator, johnnyalien, as he was a classmate from high school in 1990–1994. My more diabolical horror stories when I invoke Literature / The Chew Toy. The Roster over the years will say this is a Pacione Trope as Freakier than Fiction.Wandering In Darkness I did the chew toy to a former guidance councilor who actively fucked me over when I was 16. I did this on an epic level as the fictionalized Dean was based on the real one in the era. I took cues from after '80s Teen Flick Director John Hughes Dies and adverted Hollywood Chicago (the fictionalized area that lampshades the North Shore.)My roster will joke, “this is the Pacione trope.” I interweave Asshole Victim, Conspiracy Kitchen Sink as this is the collective trope of the roster over the years and heavy doses of Real Life / Humiliation Conga. I invoke with this, The Things One Finds, as the response from the direct aim well priceless huckster blocked me both on Facebook and Twitter.Eric Hovind after engaging him my first science fiction outing had a literary dissonance an ironic echo of an event back in 1990 over in New Lenox, Illinois. Some of the tropes I invoke are as old as dirt but they re-emerged in the 1980’s and realized in the 1990’s. The Fandom Writer employed The Chew Toy as I didn’t realize the trope had a name.The approach was my most complex in terms of the range of subjects I approached in this one. The best creative nonfiction piece I did is The Pattern of Diagnosis and The Cabbie Homicide: October 13, 1993 as I wrote everything from memory in 2002. I found this, Without Question or Pause on the website where I parked a short story based upon a classmate’s character he was developing for a comic book.I ask those who toy with the show. It’s a guess how much do they know the terminology in Chicago such as “DIBS” or “ASSWIPE” as they have ties to Chicago-only slang as are some of these. “DIBS” in Chicago is when you shovel snow from your parking place and place a lawn chair or some object in front of it. This tweet shows the real response of my classmate from the era who is serving life in prison.https://t.co/OmN8AyBg2J If you mock this one, you am going to say you don't have the balls to read the @chicagotribune articles from the era #nightmarefuel inducing @tvtropes #creepypasta codifier as it was a yerexample of it. @iHorrorNews and @AsmithChicago #TBT #darkerandedgier pic.twitter.com/QEj2XuE5sx— Nickolaus Pacione (@nickwashere1976) February 23, 2018I will see some from the Evangelical circles pull this, FICTITIOUS BOOKS OF THE BIBLE. I don’t spout when I wrote my output though characters will have some undercurrents but not forcing it on the reader. I have seen the King James Only types pull copypasta of King James Scripture on Wattpad. It’s more effective when I don’t spout every other verse as I did this in college. When I was doing my website in 1997 I got shit because I didn’t sound churchy .It’s part of the reason when I was going to church when I was 17–19 years old. I didn’t get my ass kicked though the first time going to The Metro, they found a hardcover NIV on me in my backpack. I commented, “What did you expect someone carrying a loaded gun?”At the time I wrote The Pattern of Diagnosis, I just befriended Leper as he was doing a gig at a church my then room mate was doing a giveaway for. The vibe was extremely similar to what he does as it had the shadowy undertones going for it. I proved I not only held my own with Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft in both namesakes. With Issue Five, I held my own with Matt Carroll reported on the case.I learned from that. As I had seen those from Pacific Garden Mission. Noted I heard one of them would say they don’t read any other authors than The Bible, Unshackled! would have The Pattern Of Diagnosis under fire because of the R-rated language. One of the insults to the triage nurse referring to her as a “harpie.”The Cabbie Homicide invoked an argument with an evangelical horror author because of my open use of the word as there’s the articles like this. Why I Don't Use the F-Word — as I seen the facebook postings that I find pretty funny, “I love Jesus but I cuss a little.”I relate to those who have said “fuck” than those who never cussed at all. The Pattern of Diagnosis is noted for some uses of “fuck” in the story as the story I wrote that became this as it had the c-word in there.Why are we uncensored? as I relate on my company page when it came to possible contributors — churches gave dirty looks to “Cusser.” I find Christians who cuss extremely funny. I find great humor when they do because it reflects a real honesty as The Apostle Paul when he did one of his letters in the New Testament — he used the Greek equal to the word “Shit.”The Pattern of Diagnosis I had pointed out to a few who were from the Evangelical set the story though has strong language like it’s urban literature counterparts. It has strong Evangelical ties as I was with two Assemblies of God congregations in Bloomingdale and Wheaton as a then girlfriend attended the Bloomingdale congregation. Both stories would piss off as Urban Dictionary: Fundie would define IFBs. Who are the Independent Baptists, and what do they believe?Six Degrees of Separation as this blog entry the humor site Stuff Fundies Like shared. I explained with The Pattern of Diagnosis. I mention the Good Neighbor Parable in passing without quoting it word-for-word. I found a modern image illustrating this as The Pattern of Diagnosis seen it played up in form of an African-American male nurse giving me his blue Reebok joggers as I was photographed in them.In 2007, I was showing my first namesake project before I was scammed by a serial plagiarist as I had the joggers on at the time. When I introduced The Ethereal Gazette: Issue Five to both CreateSpace then to TheBookPatch.com I had presented the parable from Luke 10:25-37 - Modern English Version in the Editor’s Lounge. I edited the numbers out to make it presented like it would appear in a magazine article in the modern era to help bring readers into a sense of perspective. This took on new personalities when I re-affirmed in 2007.I did this a takeaway in the center of the two column introduction without the numbers (to present it as a magazine column format) but as a solid narrative of two paragraphs. On A Publisher's Confessional with The Pattern Of Diagnosis: 8 Years Later tag I took the readers on Tumblr further into the news stories and the history of Oak Lawn.What I Learned (And Regret) From My Time On The Boston Globe's 'Spotlight' Team. Matthew S. Carroll in 2007 was I did not realize he was still part of The Boston Globe at the time. Noted as the news report he was covering became a film in 2015 —Spotlight (2015) spoke of the scandal as it reached the Inland North region in the era.The Ethereal Gazette: Issue Five is noted for bringing two from Edgar Allan Poe: FanFiction Archive on the fifth issue. The two joined the roster, for the first time one seen FictionPress and FanFiction together in the same TOC, after they saw my short story Spectral Exile. Issue Five was noted for being the completion of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Stylus as it’s noted for the quote from Poe on the back cover.The Pattern Of Diagnosis was one of those I wrote with a lot to prove; as it was a standout of my catalog. Known as it’s often the story other stories are often compared to. I weighed in on this blog entry, Transcript for “Why Fanworks Should Be Celebrated.” I had mixed attitudes to those who engage in doing content from established copyrighted characters. I also looked for other modern versions of the parable mentioned in passing — but what I did I didn’t quote word for word. The Pattern Of Diagnosis complimented a few members on the Issue Five roster, Flight of the Cosmonaut, an Ebook by David Wright as he was part of Tabloid Purposes 3. Each contributor had some form of theology as well as a well rounded literary background though Independent Baptists will be royally pissed.If Jesus Told The Story of the Good Samaritan Today - Biblical Faith and Society as this minister relates as I commented on his wordpress location of the blog. This wattpad piece I found, as he’s also a Philosophy student in college — Ponder: Did God Create the Universe? (Intelligent Design) as I was discussing The Pattern Of Diagnosis in part to a few in Disqus. I also commented on this which appeared sometime in recent years — God's Not Dead (Movies) as this one is a piece from this. I will point out as someone handled this with some I will say delicate. I asked her what she made of the King James Only Movement; and those who do fanworks based off The Duggars treat them like a Philosophy examination.Andrew Boughton and Steven Morgan came after reading The Pattern Of Diagnosis. Tragic Wrath who was on the cover of Insomnia Magazine was the first to see this story as it was done, as she noticed how quite real it was. The short story that was in the magazine she was on the cover of was brought back stateside in my first namesake project. The church I was with in 1994, in recent years became this — Mosque takes over former Wheaton church. I pointed out with Muslims as defined on Urban Dictionary; DuPage Muslim as they were truly neighbors with us as kids.It attributed to having Zahid as the lead author on Issue Five. Amazon.com: The Asylum. This is his post-Ethereal Gazette released projects as he made the channels during the 2004 era on Cyber-pulp then to Tabloid 3. He and Dagstine came on Issue Five.The painting below was found on this blog, Compassion and the EU Referendum as the blogger discusses the parable. I found a story on FanFiction which emerged around the time The Pattern Of Diagnosis was published the second time, Through the Eyes of A Thief.I am going to point out with this — it’s noted for telling the narrative through first person through the eyes of one of the thieves hanging from the cross. When I wrote this in 2007 — I told those who were of certain factions in the Evangelical population.As one points out — (i.e young earth creationist/Independent Baptist) that I am not going to give a damned Sunday-school answer when it came to my output; as I seen a few in Mason City, Iowa, do this. As 2010, had this blog, Science and Southern Baptists Agree on Something as the said sect above zeroed in on Billy Graham. CLE Articles as this website’s followers took direct aim at me along with some of my correspondents.You have this one on named Israel Booker on Wattpad who is doing what I call the fundie (see definition 16 of this one as Stuff Fundies Like reports on the weirdness of the King James Only congregations. The blog did an entry about the same church a year later, much like I did the blog in 2014, King James Only Examined) version of Copypasta.After further research they would coin the writer of The Book of Luke and The Book of Acts, Luke The Physician: with "Medicine for the Souls." It could be noted he could been the first investigative journalist. Though the knowledge of medicine in that era was in it’s infancy so it’s suiting I present this with how I speak about The Pattern of Diagnosis. One who is reading this; can find it in DARK GOTHIC RESURRECTED---FALL '07 as well. Though the story itself was overshadowed by the lead author’s scientific abomination.I had caught a Something Awful goon known as Robert L. Baupader aka RLBaupader on VampireFreaks and DeviantArt putting his name on three of my outings. Including The Pattern of Diagnosis as I caught a rival author defending him for doing it.I retorted, “You give your students a passing grade for plagiarizing your rivals in the industry.” The Pattern Of Diagnosis I ran through irl.me and the result was David Foster Wallace.I went looking for his material online to analyse it. Good People by him was published around the time when the known piece was making the rounds. Pattern was about to be introduced on The Ethereal Gazette. I noticed the eerie similarity between me and Wallace when I did this. I didn’t look into his material in 2006–2007 at the time when the story was first written.Urban Dictionary: Creative Nonfiction is finally defined on Urban Dictionary as I introduced the form to the independent small press circles in 2004. I was noted for doing this treatment with Gothic Horror atmospheres. It was Lee Gutkind who introduced this form in the 1990s but I gave it it’s much darker tone in 2002.I toyed with the style in 1997 — it wasn’t as evident as I did in the 2000s as The Cabbie Homicide, Observations From An Abandoned Seminary, Memoir Of Cuba Road, Apt. #2W and The Pattern of Diagnosis then An Eye In Shadows were introduced. I never imagined that Issue Five would gain the approval and impress Gitane Demone. Back in the mid-1990s, she was photographed with my ex-room mate during the era of when it was written. Leper caught the attention of Mick Mercer in 2011 as he taught me how to do The Ethereal Gazette. He was following me when I was the maintainer of the LiveJournal Goth Community.The Pattern of Diagnosis became quite distinct of the three as it references the play the church I was a part of off and on for two years. Heaven's Gates, Hell's Flames — Reality Outreach Ministries Inc was responsible for the presentation. I do a blog presentation of the play with the story’s blog tag on Tumblr.It will surprise readers about this, Category Films based on newspaper and magazine articles, as this is relatively young. This is the darker side of Chicago cinema as a lot of the nerve-shattering films are right from articles in Chicago Tribune. On my personal profile I have this from 2014, Paranoia of Small Towns as it speaks about some of my contemporaries from small town climates. Noted who don’t understand the scope of the creative nonfiction work I did in 2006. I caught a rival accusing me of being derivative. I didn’t do fictional villages like what DC Comics did when they developed Superman or Batman.This story became a landmark in the journalism known as Citizen journalism as one can find other examples. As found within The most insightful stories about Citizen Journalism – Medium.. Noted I was able to track down newspaper articles talking about doctors who were making house calls in 2006. My blog An Author's Blog rivaled many of the major New Media with fact checking I did. I used major news sources such as The Guardian, Fox News and Dark Documentaries when I did some of my entries. I learned how to be an investigative from my alumni who were journalists and some wrote on news papers. I had shared some of my own buzzfeed contributions in this presentation too.Nickolaus Pacione as one can see the article A Question Of Celebrity then Post: Scarring People For All Time.As this particular piece held it’s own with Matt as he was with the mag, I speak of some of the former friends from the era on medium. Matt Carroll started contributing to medium about the same time as I appeared. It also had a scary turn when one realized three of my friends died under 40 between 2007 into 2010. Kristopher P. Kemp (1974-2009) and childhood friend, Elmer O Aleman (1975-2010) as they were both 34.Elmer had me thinking of picking a few Latino writers and attributed to discovering Alex in 2005, as he came to Issue 3 then came to Issue Five. As the Pakistani classmates, attributed to publishing Zahid Zaman in 2006 with Tabloid 3 as he came to Issue Five as the lead author.The classmates who are of color had me picking Steve Morgan and later the contributors of Issue 7. He returned for Issue 11 then the reboot of the first namesake and having Mike Pringle on namesake 2. The accusations some of the factions of the industry would make, (i.e. calling me a racist, that’s the biggest misconception.)If I was a racist I wouldn’t have done Issue Five the way I did the. Pointed out with the publication; this reflected where I grew up more than anything as the House of Pain E-Zine alumni knew not to dismiss this one. The church I was with for a stint in the summer of 1994, Wheaton Christian Center when they were in Glendale Heights attributed to publishing African-American authors. In 2004 I wanted to do this but couldn’t find any who could free up their submissions — this article as I found. A word in advance — just to warn the folks on Quora one of the images is a mindscrew.And They’ll Know We Are Christians By .. has a few images that invoke a real mindfuck. It reminds me of my former classmate who responded when the word “fuck” was thrown at her as this minister on his blogs use the word “piss.” Sometimes it’s not always about the altar call. My classmate aka the pastor’s wife expected me to include this with every single one of my outings — When Altar Calls Don't Work points out sometimes it turns off the subject.Since everyone retained their original copyrights to the stories, Amazon.com: Write or Die eBook: Steven Morgan contains the story from the Gazette as it starts on page 33. Steve gave The Ethereal Gazette: Issue Five it’s true urban element as it complimented The Pattern Of Diagnosis and the story that Alex Rivera contributed.Years later — he became known for this blog, The Aeon Eye Blog as he was no slouch when it came to Lovecraftian Horror and Urban Literature.Holden's Counterpart, which is a creative nonfiction work that plays up like a crossover between Catcher in the Rye and The Twilight Zone. Noted for putting those who do bricks of work where the character isn’t theirs as in an established copyrighted character from either a book, TV Show or Video Game — Fanfiction.net (see Definition 8 for this. FanFiction regulars really don’t like Creative Nonfiction invading the website. They try to come up with something derogatory for creative nonfiction practitioners.)Pattern was written on Thanxgiving Weekend 2006 on Microsoft Works then it was saved as a .doc attachment. I had this printed out as a paper manuscript as I was making the rounds with it in December of 2006. I queried for submitting creative nonfiction so I could submit it to Dark Gothic Resurrected. When I queried, she saw An Eye In Shadows in a work of progress stage. So she agreed to let me send The P ‘o D as it was a reprint from my own magazine.This would be the screen cap of the table of contents as she used the old preview system from 2004–2007 on Lulu to publish this. As of the 2010’s, she moved the future publications to CreateSpace to present —- this is bing search of the lead story, His Touch of Ice. I saw the preview but looking for the vomit button when I saw this. Then you have the congregation I weighed in on having this, KJV 1611 which was the church I examined when I did the 2014, blog entry.Known the church examined in the blog as King James Only Examined where their pastor, Rev Frank Gale Noyes is in the pearly gates. These congregations and other legalistic types would parrot Ephesians 4:29 as you point out “drink your own piss and eat your own dung.” The lead author on the issue can’t even give this literary eyesore away.This blog entry gave the 2006 era story and published in 2007 a bit more power because I point out no one speaks like the era. This blog pointed out the Problems with the Language of the King James Version. As then one will see those who are like Gail Riplinger who make weird claims such as having a hidden dictionary.Paraphrase that in Libre Office and you will have some of the modern uses of profanity; there’s power in the word “Fuck.” The eyebrows will truly be raised as one pointed out, the Apostle Paul used the Greek counterpart to what’s known as the word “shit.” The contention with the mainline evangelicals with The Pattern Of Diagnosis is the swearing present in the pages; I am not going to lie to the reader - it’s a hard R for language.I never imagined when I wrote this in 2006. That I eventually would end up banging heads with the King James Only and IFB establishment; challenging Moral guardians."Skubala?" The Apostle Paul Uses the Word "Shit" in the Bible — this will cause a stir as Coach Culbertson invoked full artistic freedom in an Evangelical form. Some as I had friends like this — 27 Sure Signs You Grew Up Evangelical as chronicled on BuzzFeed. Some of them gave me very weird looks because I had Stephen King books, swear, secular heavy metal, and R-rated horror films in the house.The Pattern of Diagnosis combined Gothic Horror, Urban fiction (as Steven Morgan introduced this to Issue Five. Also some notice my take on Gothic Horror had the vibe too,) and Atmospheric elements with creative nonfiction. Noted as it’s the one with the most Evangelical of the output. The Cabbie Homicide: October 13, 1993 is the creative nonfiction successor to The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe as one can see the stronger punch of The Cabbie Homicide.Especially; when they’re read back-to-back as the latter is more dialog driven. How to Write Gothic Fiction as one can look at this when applying it to creative nonfiction as you will have The Stygian Memoir approach.As in 2007, when he did Coach’s Midnight Diner: Jesus Vs. Cthuhu Edition encouraged contributors to be quite uncensored as two went for broke and went for the “fuck” word. When I found the first anthology it was as I was finishing up Tabloid Purposes IV and shopping around some material; I picked this up on a whim and said, “Holy shit — these guys are hardcore!”@RLBaupader pay attention the two on the right; @jaysonblair7 are you watching? #journalism101 catching a fraud. . pic.twitter.com/fEc9yES2C4— Nickolaus Pacione (@nickwashere1976) January 22, 2016I had tapped Jason Blair to catch Baupader with his plagiarism as a few were skeptical about the real authorship of this story. I explained the story was still had the paperclip attached from when I was making rounds in 2006 with it. I pointed out to a journalist who is connected to a professor who saw a scandal in Wheaton because she sported a Hijab. I explained to him that this story appeared in my magazine as teletype font with the photo of Cook County Hospital hugging the text of one of the pages.This would be the story in the pages of my mag as this is one of the versions that were in the flesh and blood form. I pointed out if those who celebrate this getting plagiarized they don’t have a heart. Some of the factions I pointed out had did the damned hashtag #makenickyunpublished over what I pointed out.I had caught Ramsey Campbell accusing me of lifting from David Foster Wallace. I pointed out to him this — I analyzed my story and seen one of his as it had a similar result on I Write Like. David Foster Wallace’s short story and The Pattern of Diagnosis were from the same era; but I didn’t see Wallace’s story until 2015 when I reintroduced Issue Five to TheBookPatch.com. I had caught a few with a download of the magazine appearance out east then dismantled the pdf just.This was so Baupader can put his byline on it and change the title to The Pattern of a Hypochondriac. Caustic during the 2007 era had tried to railroad Issue Five as in recent years he kicked the bottle as he was a boozing drunk during the era Issue Five was first published. He had me on his shitlist on VampireFreaks because I was the one who said, “Retire you fucking drunk!”It came from what he pulled on THE GOTH SCENE and chicago_gothic in 2007 where I famously banned him when I was the maintainer — noted where Scary Lady Sarah and I had a falling out. I also pointed out in 2010 she had a missed chance to learn more about me from a post-punk performer I grew up with back in the 1980s into the 1990s.. Then an epic feud was invoked with a plagiarizing DJ from Something Awful when I was tossed from LiveJournal in 2008. DJ took over and made it a shell of what it was in 2002–2003.If Matt Pathogen shut his mouth in 2007; Issue Five may had gotten a lot bigger and more recognition — it deserved a lot more exposure. I tested this out on Fuzzie Bunnies of Death members while I was doing a signing with buddy who just put a book out himself in this era. I gave Ig a copy of Tales of the Talisman 2.4 as a way of thanking him.Between his e-mails and my phone conversation with my late grandmother, giving me what would become The Pattern of Diagnosis and the story this stemmed from called Chronic Disease. My room mate in the era, had purchased Edison Records as during the era I wrote The Pattern of Diagnosis. As the stories of mine in Tales of the Talisman I learned how to mold the wax records.He told me when I published this he said there was a lot more than what I revealed when I wrote this. He pointed out she ignored the voicemails I left her and was snowed from cough medicine. My time with with two churches from the 1994 era — one of them wasn’t pleased with referring them. Well in all truth attributed to the potent nature of The Pattern Of Diagnosis.The two respective churches had both housed Immigrant founders as he had a different approach than their downstate American counterparts. I suggest before one approaches the creative nonfiction yarn, visit Oak Lawn Patch on facebook to get some insight on the region.Then you have this scathing blog about Oak Park, IL blog as one wonders of the era of The Pattern of Diagnosis as the story played up in parts of this region. When one has Hemingway and the creator of Tarzan from this region, one will see something interesting invoked when the respective story plays up.