As this will be the first TAM I will be able to attend, I am plenty excited for it. This year the much under-rated author Susan Jacoby is keynoting. Jacoby wrote The Age of American Unreason and many other books and I am very much looking forward to her address.
Wikipedia is not a place where you get to advertise, it is not a personal brag page. Wikipedia is where secondary sources (not your personal website) backs up claims. Wild claims like how you have solved missing person cases using only your psychic powers needs backing up.
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