The 'X' Zone Broadcast Network

Elena Kagan - Fifty and Fabulous - She won't be the first Jewish person on the High Court, nor will she be the first woman, but if confirmed, Elena Kagan could become a symbol of what today's 50-something women are - powerful and proud of it. Sonia Fuentes, a founder of the National Organization for Women (NOW), says, "She's a brilliant woman who at fifty is bringing a wealth of incredible credentials to the Court. What she would bring, if appointed, is that she would be the 3rd woman on the Court out of nine-that would be a first." Sonia Fuentes is a feminist activist, public speaker and attorney and was the first woman attorney in the Office of the General Counsel at the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission). She is the author of "Eat First -- You Don't Know What They'll Give You, The Adventures of an Immigrant Family and Their Feminist Daughter." - www.erraticimpact.com/fuent

The Summer of Superheroes and the Making of Iron Boy - Mary Webb is a former newspaper reporter and current high school English teacher, who lives in Patterson, LA. Mary Webb has written for The San Antonio Express-News, The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune, The (Monroe, LA) News-Star, The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal, The Associated Press' Denver Bureau, The (Houma, LA) Courier, and The Denton Record-Chronicle. Currently, she teaches English and Speech at Westgate High School in Iberia Parish. Previously, she also taught English I at Patterson High School in St. Mary Parish, as well as in Morgan City, LA and in Dallas, TX. She lives in Patterson, LA with her husband Corwin and their two children, Quentin and Jory, the subjects of The Summer of Superheroes and the Making of Iron Boy. This is her first published novel. Mary is a graduate of Xavier University of Louisiana where she received a bachelor of arts in Mass Communication with a concentration in print journalism. - www.createspace.com/3458326

Orange Picnic - Deborah (Donaldson) Chamberlain began her writing career when she was in seventh grade, crafting improbable chapters about unexpectedly meeting, along with her friends, the musical group The Beatles, who, of course, fell madly in love with naive school girls from another country. If someone asks Deborah about those stories, it will surely bring a smile as she remembers how silly those writings were, but she'll also mention that it was rather gratifying when friends waited breathlessly for her to finish the next chapter. The writing bug bit again after Deborah was selected to be one of a group of annual Community Columnists for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Even though not all of the reader comments were supportive, most were. It was a thrill to have one of her columns read aloud by one of the on-air talents, to a wide and diverse audience on radio station WTMJ-AM. But one of the most enjoyable writing assignments was her contribution to Confessions of Shameless Dating when Deborah recounted how she and her sister were able to wrangle Free Drinks All Night. Deborah's professional career has involved her in marketing, advertising and public relations, leading her to start her own firm, Donaldson Media & Marketing Services, LLC. Deborah earned a Masters of Arts degree in Mass Communication from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. While in graduate school, Deborah was also a teaching assistant for the chairman of the Mass Communications department. After a few years gaining experience in the advertising industry, she taught classes in media, principles of advertising and consumer behavior, part-time for several other universities. The mother of a graduate from the Northwestern University School of Communications, Deborah watched her daughter mirror her footsteps when Becca wrote a press release for her high school's Box Out fund-raiser. To Deborah's chagrin, the Associated Press picked up Becca's article, while Deborah has yet to break into that honored group. And, while thinking about those early Beatles stories is embarrassing, Deborah still hopes to one day meet Paul McCartney so she can apologize to him in-person for those silly love stories.

Mindfulness and The Art of Choice: Transform Your Life - Dr. Karen Sherman, a licensed psychologist in New York, has been in private practice for over 20 years. Her focus is relationships/marriage and helping people achieve their greatest potential. Karen is the author of "Mindfulness and The Art of Choice: Transform Your Life" which enables people to let go of conditioned responses and empower them to make their own choices; the co-author of "Marriage Magic! Find It, Keep It, and Make It Last," and a contributor to "101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life, Vol. 2," writing a chapter about overcoming stress and "The Power of Persistence." She's a featured writer on Yahoo Personals, a relationship blogger for ThirdAge.com, and writes the "Disputes" column for Hitchedmag.com. Karen also conducts workshops, teleseminars and speaking engagements. She's a frequent guest on national radio and her expert opinion has appeared in numerous publications. Additionally, she was a former relationships expert on the "Bo Griffin Morning Show," and a marriage expert on ClubMom.com. Her memberships include American Psychological Association, American Counseling Association, Nassau County Psychological Association. She's certified as a Nationally Board Certified Counselor and a National Family Life Educator and belongs to The National Registry for Marriage Friendly Therapists. She serves on the undergraduate Psychology Dept. at CW Post University. Her web sites, www.drkarensherman.com or www.ChoiceRelationships.com

Helping Companies Become Success Stories! - Lynn has helped nearly 800 small business clients globally achieve success through the creation of highly competitive business models, new media integration, print and eBook publishing. In the early 1980s, she established a management consulting practice in Los Angeles, lived abroad in the early 1990's and founded Smart Site® in 1994. She has also provided management training to private companies, investment banks, and conducted business clinics based on her books and other writing at UCLA, CA State University, the Supercomputer / World Trade Centers in San Diego; the International Management School, Warsaw University, Russian State University, Moscow, Russia; and professional membership organizations and book signings shown on the left. In addition to being a published business author and entrepreneur, she has assumed many leadership roles. - www.smartsite.com

World of Unexplained Mysteries - Dr Peter J. Shield PhD, Author, Adventurer and Archaeologist, has been described as one of the world's most fascinating men. He has been a television and radio host, and a former resident of Australia, the United Kingdom and 20 plus other countries. He has resided in the United States for over 17 years. As an archaeologist Peter worked on excavations on the island of Malta, the setting he chose for his first novel,"In the Image of his God - The Curse of The Shroud by PJShield); a historic fiction surrounding the sacred Shroud of Turin. In his senior years, Dr. Shield counts photography, golf, and the companionship of beautiful young ladies (which prompted his latest work - a guide to seniors wishing to date younger partners "Senior's Guide To The Dating Game") among his leisure interests. Peter now resides back in Las Vegas and has just tied the knot with partner number 7! - www.pjshield.com

Open To Hope - Finding Hope After Loss - Diana Doyle is an Australian who spends ten months of the year living in Los Angeles and the other two in Australia with her husband Peter and her eight year old daughter Dempsey. Diana is a nurse and has worked as a Manager in the health care field, although hasn't worked since giving birth to her two children eleven years ago. She is currently studying to become a counselor so she can work in the grief counseling field. In three years Diana lost three important family members to different deaths over a thirty-six month period. Her sister, then her mother, then the most incompressible loss of all, the death of her four year old daughter Savannah. She is an Ambassador to the Make a Wish Foundation in California and volunteers at The Let it Be Foundation. Diana has co-written a memoir about her journey through grief and survival and is hoping to have it published as her passion in life is to help others who are facing adversity in all walks of life. This has inspired her to start the popular blog; http://sunshineinabluecup.blogspot.com Diana has also published articles on the websites www.opentohope.com and www.hellogrief.com about her life experiences.

Susan Collins, is an internationally acclaimed dowsing teacher, Keynote speaker and workshop leader. She uses traditional dowsing tools as well as the power of heart and thought to detect and transform non-beneficial Earth, Environmental, Psychic and Other energy patterns. She has presented at many international and regional conferences across North America, the UK, in Italy, Japan and in the Middle East and was featured in “The Resonance”, a feature-length documentary on extraterrestrial presence on our planet and on FiveD TV https://fived.tv/ . Susan has a dynamic, global consulting practice and is the author of a successful series of books on dowsing techniques. She is a Past President of the Canadian Society of Dowsers (2003- 2006) was named Dowser of the Year in 2006 and is founder of www.InternationalDowsers.org . She is an ordained Metaphysical Minister. More details at www.dowser.ca. Contact: [email protected]

XZRS: RICHARD FREEMAN - Cryptozoologist by XZBN

The Economic Role of Space - Howard Bloom, a Visiting Scholar at New York University, is founder of the International Paleopsychology Project, executive editor of the New Paradigm book series, a founding board member of the Epic of Evolution Society, and a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the National Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Society, the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, The International Society of Human Ethology, and the Academy of Political Science. He has been featured in every edition of Who's Who in Science and Engineering since the publication's inception. Bloom has taken an unusual approach to the study of mass moods and cultural convolutions. He started out normally enough, building his first Boolean algebra machine at the age of twelve, becoming a dedicated microscopist that same year, codesigning a computer which won a Westinghouse Science Award before he left grade school, and being granted a private brainstorming session with the head of the Graduate Physics Department of The State University of New York, Buffalo, at the age of thirteen. By sixteen he was a lab assistant at the world's largest cancer research center, the Roswell Park Memorial Research Cancer Institute, where he helped plumb the mysteries of the immune system. And before his freshman year of college he designed and executed research in Skinnerian programmed learning at Rutgers University's Graduate School of Education. Then came an act of academic heresy. After graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from New York University, Bloom turned down four graduate fellowships and embarked on a 20-year-long urban anthropology expedition to penetrate what he calls "society's myth-making machinery"--the inner sanctums of politics and the media. During his foray into "the dark underbelly of mass emotion" he edited a magazine which won two National Academy of Poets prizes, founded the leading avant-garde art studio on the East Coast, was featured on the cover of Art Direction Magazine, then gave up listening to Beethoven, Bartok, and Mozart to become editor of a rock magazine. Using correlational studies, focus groups, empirical surveys, ethnographic expeditions into suburban teen subcultures, and other scientific techniques, Bloom more than doubled the publication's sales, and was credited by Rolling Stones' Chet Flippo with having founded a new genre--the heavy metal magazine. Seeking still further ways to infiltrate modernity's mass mind, Bloom formed a public relations firm in the music and film industry and won the confidence of those whose territory he'd invaded. The payoff in knowledge proved invaluable. Bloom worked with Michael Jackson, Prince, John Cougar Mellencamp, Kiss, Queen, Bette Midler, Billy Joel, Joan Jett, Diana Ross, Simon & Garfunkel, The Talking Heads, AC/DC, Billy Idol, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Run D.M.C., Simply Red, and the heads of many a media conglomerate. He was adept at spotting new subcultures, entering them, and helping their members achieve their goals…a skill which gave him an inside role in the rise of rap, disco, and punk rock. - www.howardbloom.net