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Alvin Toffler coined the phrase "electronic cottage" in the 80's. Futurist Frank Ogden carried the concept further. From his high-tech houseboat in Vancouver harbour, he is wired to the world by computer, phone, cable and phone modems, satellite, infra-red transmissions and CD-ROMs. The Financial Post describes Frank as a "20th Century visionary" and calls his ideas "outrageous", an ideal combination of qualities for a life of profitable nonconformity. From Papua New Guinea to the high-tech jungles of silicon, satellites and photons, Frank has a reputation for innovation and originality. In 1979, he began monitoring 200 satellites and 2,000 data banks, to provide a video clipping service for forward thinkers wanting information on new and relevant business developments. Now Ogden circles the globe as consultant to companies and countries, preparing people to trek along the fast track. "A bulldozer of change is charging over the planet," he says. "And if you're not part of the bulldozer, you'll become part of the road." Born in 1920, Ogden was educated in Canada and the United States and served as a flight engineer during World War II. Unflaggingly energetic and curious, he graduated to a dizzying array of jobs flying airplanes and helicopters and selling aircraft (He is currently checked out as Pilot-In-Command in 55 different flying machines), real estate and housewares. During the 1960s, he joined a medical team researching LSD at Hollywood Hospital, and he crossed Canada by helicopter to celebrate the country's centennial. He also helped found Canada's first think-tank, taught at the Ontario College of Art and the New England School of Art in Boston, and managed a Montreal radio station, leading it boldly into progressive rock. He was also a founding member of the World Future Society in Canada.While studying voodoo in Haiti and establishing a think-tank for the Prime Minister of the Bahamas, Ogden recognized the link that exists between primitive thinking and high tech. "Everything in life is information. So-called primitive cultures have known this for thousands of years," he explains. "Voodoo priests get their information through a hierarchy of gods; we get ours through a hierarchy of technology." Such concepts as these have made Frank a celebrity speaker on the conference circuit, where he outlines the electronic and information revolutions of the current and coming decades. Frank suggests a future of teleports, limited labour unions, as more people become self-employed, and body implants to make cyborgs of us all. Audiences praise him because "he shakes people up and gets us thinking about the future!" In 1989, Frank was elected a Fellow of the Explorers Club; an elite group of adventurers including mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary and astronaut John Glenn. Frank travels continuously -- to present seminars and to research the latest in technological, educational, business, communications, political, social and environmental developments. He is at home on the untamed equatorial plains of East Africa and in the high-tech toy stores of Tokyo. From his Vancouver houseboat, Frank conducted the first two international seminars via satellite and fibre-optic technology, for Australia's Telstra Communications Network in Sydney and Melbourne. His recent CD-ROM, Dr. Tomorrow's Cyberspace University, has received top ratings in the United States. Long before the World Wide Web became popular, Ogden opened a "page" there for global access. His cyberspace address is: www.drtomorrow.com. Frank has been profiled on numerous television and radio stations and in newspapers and magazines around the globe, including, CNN's Futurewatch; PBS Television's New Tech Times in the U.S.A.; CBC's National TV show Profiles, with host Peter Gzowski; the Christian Science Monitor TV show World Monitor; Australia's TV 7 show Eleven AM; and CTV's Canada AM. As well, interview articles have appeared in Forbes ASAP, Leaders; Cryptych; Maclean's; Easy Livin

Stephen Bassett is a leading advocate for ending the 62-year government imposed truth embargo regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race. He is a political activist, commentator and columnist. He is the executive director of the Paradigm Research Group and the Political Action Committee X-PPAC, creator of the Paradigm Clock and executive producer of the X-Conference. His work has been extensively covered by the media. - www.paradigmresearchgroup.org

Highly Unlikely UFO Sighting in Cleburne, Texas Christmas Day, December 25 2009 Fact or a Hoax - Jason Leigh, who is no stranger to the UFO community, claims to have seen a rather large UFO on the evening of December 25th 2009. Although he did not contact any member of the established media, he did send out information to the UFO community and to us at The 'X' Zone. We deliberately did not contact Jason right away to see who else would surface claiming to have seen this UFO. No one else did. If this sighting, which is smeared all throughout the internet in UFO sites, Rob was the only member of the media who said that he did not believe Jason about his sighting. Listen to the podcast and send us your comments to [email protected]. Jason's website is www.jasonleigh.org

X Minus One was a science fiction radio series on NBC from April 1955 through January 1958. The show feature stories written by some of the big names in 1950s science fiction, like Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, and Issac Asimov. The X Minus One series followed in the footsteps of another great sci-fi series called Dimension X which appeared on the airwaves in 1950-51. Some of the X-1 shows were later rebroadcast on X Minus One. X Minus One truly was one of the forefathers of the science fiction television/radio age. Each X Minus One starts with this intro, to the sound effects of a rocket lifting off: Countdown for blast-off. X Minus 5, 4, 3, 2, X Minus 1, Fire. From the far horizons of the unknown come transcribed tales of new dimensions in time and space. These are stories of the future. Adventures in which you will live in a million could-be years on a thousand maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Corporation in cooperation with (Galaxy Magazine, then Astounding Science Fiction) presents . . . . X Minus One.

The truth is so hard to find… Since Biblical times man has witnessed and recorded strange manifestations in the sky and speculated on the possibilities of visitors from another world. Today, from the skies of California, the fields of Kansas, the rice patties of the Orient, the airlines of the world, come persistent reports of UFO's-Unidentified Flying Objects, which we have come to know as flying saucers. UFOs are real. 12,000+ case files reported to the U.S. Air Force from 1947 to 1968 of these, 701 are still classified as true unknowns. An extraordinary 95 percent of all Americans have at least heard or read something about Unidentified Flying Objects, and 57 percent believe they are real. Former US Presidents Carter and Reagan claim to have seen a UFO. At present, the United States government does not officially investigate UFO sightings. UFOs are unidentified flying objects, but no one really knows what they are. Many researchers have theories about what UFOs might be, but because no one can examine a UFO in a scientific laboratory, all of these ideas are really only educated guesses. 95 to 98% of all sightings can be easily explained by experts. We can offer a definition of UFOs, however, that you may find useful when you study the subject: A UFO is the reported sighting of an object or light seen in the sky or on land, whose appearance, trajectory, actions, motions, lights, and colors do not have a logical, conventional, or natural explanation, and which cannot be explained, not only by the original witness, but by scientists or technical experts who try to make a common sense identification after examining the evidence. UFOlogists-and private UFO organizations are found throughout the United States. Many are convinced that the US Government, and particularly CIA, are engaged in a massive conspiracy and cover-up of the issue. The idea that CIA has secretly concealed its research into UFOs has been a major theme of UFO buffs since the modern UFO phenomena emerged in the late 1940s. All kinds of people see UFOs. It does not matter whether you are rich or poor, educated or uneducated, young or old. In fact, many people who report seeing UFOs were not even looking for them when they had their sighting. The chances for seeing a UFO are greater for those people who live in small towns or in the country and are outside late at night. Although most of us have never seen a UFO personally, some colleagues of ours say that their interest in UFOs was sparked by seeing a UFO when they were children or young adults. Many UFO researchers argue that UFOs have appeared throughout history. There are many myths, legends, and stories that tell of strange things seen in the sky or beings who came from the sky to help humans develop civilization. Because modern scholars cannot directly check the facts of these stories, it is impossible to determine if these are accurate reports of true events. Caution should be taken when evaluating many UFO news items -you are encouraged to investigate and research information pertaining to UFOs or stories so that you may draw your own conclusions. - http://hickmanreport.angelfire.com

Families are having lavish parties for their centurion loved one and a fact checkers always looking for the oldest living human among us. Now according to Wikipedia the longest documented lifespan is that of Jean Calmet of France. She was from 1875 to 1997 which means she died at the age of 122 years and 164 day but is that truly the case? Ben Abba is here to tell us differently. He claims that there are people walking among us today that have reached well beyond, and I am talking WELL BEYOND that number. " - www.benabba.com

Jeff Peckman is Director of the EXTRA Campaign ballot initiative to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission in Denver, Colorado. His initiative was certified Nov. 30 for the August 2010 election in Denver. Jeff's innovative ballot initiatives have attracted national and international media attention. He also writes a top-ranked column for Examiner.com as the Denver UFO Examiner. [http://www.examiner.com/x-2024-Denver-UFO-Examiner] Jeff is currently on the Advisory Board of the Institute for the Study of Galactic Civilizations. He was moderator of the Institute's Galactic Gathering Conference on Extraterrestrial Civilizations last September in Denver. Jeff also talks at to civic organizations with a presentation titled "Are You Ready to Meet and Greet People from Other Planets? http://www.extracampaign.org

Bestselling author James Rollins uses his medical background and scientific knowledge to write novels that meld cutting edge science and technology with history and religion, and which are as authentic and smart as they are entertaining. In his new stand-alone thriller, ALTAR OF EDEN (on sale 12/29/09), he looks at the brave new world of genetically modifying animals and "human performance modifications," manipulating the human brain to produce better soldiers. A former veterinarian, Rollins looks at "genetic throwbacks" or atavism, the phenomenon where a genetic trait, lost for generations, suddenly reappears. In ALTAR OF EDEN one of the many creatures featured is a python born with reptilian limbs, a throwback to a time before the snake's ancestor lost its legs. Rollins thought he invented the creature but a couple of months ago he stumbled upon an article in a scientific journal that showed a Chinese snake born with a fully functional reptilian limb poking out of its flank. For the curious, a quick Google search will bring up a picture of this snake. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/6187320/Snake-with-foot-found-in-China.html - www.jamesrollins.com

To understand what Richard is about is to experience a cross section of gift, knowledge, experience and success that sets him apart from the overwhelming number of psychics, paranormal investigators, spiritual experts, healers and the like. The evolution of his special and unique gifts is the story of doors opening through dynamic spiritual interplay and opportunities that occurred in tandem bringing the true nature of spirituality and its many roles in our lives. Honoring all that is "good" and to change that which could be better in all endeavors of the human experience is at the heart of his work. Richard is considered among the most multi-gifted, multi-experienced psychics and problem solvers in all phases of the human experience. Who else may assist to improve one's corporate environment, bring blessings, provide messages from spirit, assist victims of spiritual oppression, dehaunt people and places, provide spiritual healing, and help others embrace their own gifts? We know of no others. Rarely is an individual empowered to clarify and teach the interconnection between our thoughts, activities, creation, and ultimately our success. It has been said that Richard helps bring forth the supernatural in each of us. We all respond to spiritual and physical laws whether or not we are aware of or believe in them. Great thinkers and leaders throughout time have worked with these threads of truth to bring about advances in individual and group consciousness. Through his gifts, guidance, faith, and humor, Richard possesses the unique ability to integrate these threads, creating ideas and solutions that transcend ordinary boundaries. We are in a tug of war between divine light and ignorance in our ever-expanding consciousness, and Richard is working to make that evolution happen more quickly and emphasizing this through light over ignorance; however challenging this may be. Richard's work include facilitating this process in gifted and caring people to advance the condition of all fellow beings, our planet, our faith, and our footprints in time - this is neither an easy or trivial task, but can be an experience wonderful beyond imagination. - www.richardpjackson.com

Gillian Holloway is the author of four books on dream analysis and taught for16 years at Marylhurst University near Portland Oregon, where she teaches ground-breaking courses on Dream Psychology and Intuition Research. Dr. Holloway is a popular guest on radio and television; she is a veteran of more than 400 interviews, including ABC's 20/20. Her work with dreams has been featured in Self, Health Magazine, Cosmopolitan, The Washington Post, and The New York Times Health Blog. Her research into recurring and anxiety dreams has spanned more than 20 years, and she has amassed a database of 30,000 dream cases. - www.lifetrks.com