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On September 30, 2010,
Conversations with American Heroes at the Watering Hole features a conversation
with Lieutenant Art Adkins, Gainesville Police Department, about his new book
Power Grid
.


 


Program Date: September 30,
2010


Program Time: 1600 hours,
PACIFIC


Topic: Power Grid


Listen Live:




http://www.blogtalkradio.com/lawenforcement/2010/09/30/power-grid


 


About the Guest


Lieutenant


Art Adkins

is a 29 year veteran of law enforcement.  He began his law enforcement career on
the Fort Lauderdale Police Department and then joined the



Los Angeles Police
Department
.  During his 12 years with the


Los Angeles Police
Department
he attained the rank of sergeant. 
Lieutenant


Art Adkins

returned to Florida to finish his law enforcement career with the


Gainesville Police
Department
.  He has worked a variety of
assignments including patrol, detectives, administration, vice, bunco-forgery. 
Moreover, as a sergeant he has supervised both investigative and administrative
police units.  Lieutenant


Art Adkins

is the author of The Oasis Project and his newest book Power Grid. 


 


According to the description
of Power Grid, “Slade Lockwood, retired LAPD Deputy Chief and hero of The Oasis
Project, returns in Power Grid to grant the cryptic wishes of a dying man.
Trying to discover a secret power source which may have constructed
architectural wonders of antiquity and destroyed Atlantis 11,000 years before,
Slade finds that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. Cast into an arena
of international intrigue, he races against time and around the world to unravel
the mystery of Power Grid and to keep it out of the hands of corrupt government
officials and nations intent on turning an ancient technology into a modern
weapon of war. As the clues to Power Grid are revealed, will Slade succeed in
his mission to make the secrets of the past remain in the past? The future of
the Earth may well depend on it.”


 


About the Watering Hole


The Watering Hole is


police

slang for a location cops go off-duty to blow off steam and talk about work and
life. 
Sometimes funny; sometimes serious; but,
always interesting.


 


About the Host


Lieutenant Raymond E. Foster was a
sworn member of the


Los Angeles Police
Department
for 24 years.  He retired in
2003 at the rank of Lieutenant.  He holds a bachelor’s from the Union Institute
and University in


Criminal Justice

Management and a Master’s Degree in Public Financial Management from California
State University, Fullerton; and, has completed his doctoral course work.
Raymond E. Foster has been a part-time lecturer at California State University,
Fullerton and Fresno; and is currently a


Criminal Justice

Department chair, faculty advisor and lecturer with the Union Institute and
University.  He has experience teaching upper division courses in law
enforcement, public policy,


law enforcement technology

and


leadership

Raymond is an experienced author who has published numerous articles in a wide
range of venues including magazines such as Government Technology, Mobile
Government, Airborne Law Enforcement Magazine, and Police One.  He has appeared
on the History Channel and radio programs in the United States and Europe as
subject matter expert in technological applications in law enforcement.


 


Listen, call, join us at the
Watering Hole:




http://www.blogtalkradio.com/lawenforcement/2010/09/30/power-grid


 


Listen from the Archive:




http://www.americanheroesradio.com/power_grid.html


 


Program Contact Information


Lieutenant Raymond E. Foster,
LAPD (ret.), MPA





editor@police-writers.com


909.599.7530


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2405 Police Books

September 20, 2010 - Police-Writers.com
is a website that lists books authored by state and local law enforcement
officials. In September 2010, Lieutenant Art Adkins released his second book,
Power Grid, bringing the total number of books listed by state and local police
officers to 2405.  Currently, the site lists 1098 state and local law
enforcement officials from 468 state and local law enforcement agencies who have
written 2404 books.


 


Additionally, the site
maintains separate listings on federal law enforcement officials, corrections
officers, civilian police employees and police authors of the United Kingdom,
Canada, Australia and India.


 


About Art Adkins


Lieutenant


Art Adkins

is a 29 year veteran of law enforcement.  He began his law enforcement career on
the Fort Lauderdale Police Department and then joined the



Los Angeles Police
Department
.  During his 12 years with the


Los Angeles Police
Department
he attained the rank of sergeant. 
Lieutenant


Art Adkins

returned to Florida to finish his law enforcement career with the


Gainesville Police
Department
.  He has worked a variety of
assignments including patrol, detectives, administration, vice, bunco-forgery. 
Moreover, as a sergeant he has supervised both investigative and administrative
police units.  Lieutenant


Art Adkins

is the author of The Oasis Project and his newest book Power Grid. 


 


About Power Grid


According to the description
of Power Grid, “Slade Lockwood, retired LAPD Deputy Chief and hero of The Oasis
Project, returns in Power Grid to grant the cryptic wishes of a dying man.
Trying to discover a secret power source which may have constructed
architectural wonders of antiquity and destroyed Atlantis 11,000 years before,
Slade finds that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. Cast into an arena
of international intrigue, he races against time and around the world to unravel
the mystery of Power Grid and to keep it out of the hands of corrupt government
officials and nations intent on turning an ancient technology into a modern
weapon of war. As the clues to Power Grid are revealed, will Slade succeed in
his mission to make the secrets of the past remain in the past? The future of
the Earth may well depend on it.”


 


More Information




http://www.police-writers.com


 


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American Heroes Press Top Stories September 18-19, 2010

Army Casualty


Read On




http://terrorism-online.blogspot.com/2010/09/army-casualty_18.html


 


POWs/MIAs Honored, Remembered at NAS
Whidbey Island


Naval Air Station Whidbey Island
hosted a Prisoner of War/Missing in Action (POW/MIA) Recognition Day ceremony at
the POW/MIA Sentinel Memorial on the Seaplane Base, Sept. 17.


Read On




http://military-online.blogspot.com/2010/09/powsmias-honored-remembered-at-nas.html


 


Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and
the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945


I didn’t jump into the book as an
expert in Naval or World War II history. The book was recommended to me as a
well-told and captivating story. I found it to be just that.


Read On




http://military-online.blogspot.com/2010/09/sea-of-thunder-four-commanders-and-last.html


 


Acting Out: Outlining Specific
Behaviors and Actions for Effective Leadership


The author of Acting Out: Outlining
Specific Behaviors and Actions for Effective Leadership, Michell P. Weinzetl has
the best mix of academic credentials and real-world leadership experience. The
book reflects his strong academic command of the subject matter as well as his
practical work-a-day experience. Moreover, the book his well-written, cited and
edited.


Read On




http://leadership-online.blogspot.com/2010/09/acting-out-outlining-specific-behaviors.html


 


An Organizational Foundation for the
Future


The modern world has become a place
of constant change and transformation. In this environment, success depends on
how well organizations recognize and adapt to change. Management theorist Tom
Peters put it very well when he said that the most successful organizations in
the future will be the ones that "thrive on chaos."


Read On




www.police-writers.com/organizational_foundation.html


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Courage and Sacrifice – A Historical Novel

On October 14, 2010,
Conversations with Heroes at the Watering Hole will feature a discussion with
former Marine Corps Artillery Officer and novelist Gerald Gillis.


Program Date: October 14, 2010


Program Time: 1700 hours,
Pacific


Topic: Courage and Sacrifice –
A Historical Novel


Listen Live:




http://www.blogtalkradio.com/lawenforcement/2010/10/15/courage-and-sacrifice-a-historical-novel


 


About the Guest


Gerald Gillis, USMC, is “a
native of Atlanta, GA, married and the father of three grown children. He is a
graduate of the Univ. of Tampa (MBA) and the Univ. of Georgia (BBA). After
college, he served for three years as an artillery officer in the Marine Corps,
with duty stations in the U.S. and Okinawa/mainland Japan. He then worked as an
executive in the medical-devices industry where he later traveled extensively,
both foreign and domestic. He became a full-time novelist in 2009. Shall Never
See So Much is my second novel. His first novel was published twenty-five years
ago, and did reasonably well, but he decided that his business career would
better accommodate educating my kids and paying the mortgage than a career as a
neophyte novelist. Hence, his writing career has resumed after a bit of a
hiatus. Gerald Gillis is a member of the American Legion and several Marine
Corps-related associations. Gerald Gillis is the author of Shall Never See
So Much.


 


According to the description
of Shall Never See So Much (released in March, 2010), it “is an
historical novel about a brother and sister in the year 1968. The brother is a
Marine officer serving in Vietnam at the time of the Tet offensive, and the
sister works on the campaign of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy as RFK makes his
ill-fated bid for the presidency. It is a story about courage and sacrifice, and
the affects of those times on what could be considered a typical American
family. It is not so much a war novel as it is about a time in history when the
nation was at war, sometimes even with itself. It was recently awarded a Readers
Favorite award for its historical fiction category.”


 


About the Watering Hole


The Watering Hole is


police

slang for a location cops go off-duty to blow off steam and talk about work and
life. 
Sometimes funny; sometimes serious; but,
always interesting.


 


About the Host


Lieutenant Raymond E. Foster was a
sworn member of the


Los Angeles Police
Department
for 24 years.  He retired in
2003 at the rank of Lieutenant.  He holds a bachelor’s from the Union Institute
and University in


Criminal Justice

Management and a Master’s Degree in Public Financial Management from California
State University, Fullerton; and, has completed his doctoral course work.
Raymond E. Foster has been a part-time lecturer at California State University,
Fullerton and Fresno; and is currently a


Criminal Justice

Department chair, faculty advisor and lecturer with the Union Institute and
University.  He has experience teaching upper division courses in law
enforcement, public policy,


law enforcement technology

and


leadership

Raymond is an experienced author who has published numerous articles in a wide
range of venues including magazines such as Government Technology, Mobile
Government, Airborne Law Enforcement Magazine, and Police One.  He has appeared
on the History Channel and radio programs in the United States and Europe as
subject matter expert in technological applications in law enforcement.


 


Listen, call, join us at the
Watering Hole:




http://www.blogtalkradio.com/lawenforcement/2010/10/15/courage-and-sacrifice-a-historical-novel


 


Listen in Archive




http://www.hitechcj.com/americanheroesradio/courage_sacrifice.html


 


Program Contact Information


Lieutenant Raymond E. Foster,
LAPD (ret.), MPA





editor@police-writers.com


909.599.7530


 


 


On October 14, 2010, Conversations
with Heroes at the Watering Hole will feature a discussion with former Marine
Corps Artillery Officer and novelist Gerald Gillis.


Program Date: October 14, 2010


Program Time: 1700 hours, Pacific


Topic: Courage and Sacrifice – A
Historical Novel


Listen Live:


http://www.blogtalkradio.com/lawenforcement/2010/10/15/courage-and-sacrifice-a-historical-novel


http://events.linkedin.com/Courage-Sacrifice-Historical-Novel/pub/424092


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American Heroes Press Top Stories September 14, 2010

Modern Science Reveals Secrets of
2,500-year-old Mummy


A powerful image of the face of a
2,500-year-old Egyptian mummy at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art has been
created by special agents/forensic artists from the federal Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), as unveiled today at the Museum. In an
unusual collaboration, ATF agents worked with a Kansas City cardiologist and a
Nelson-Atkins curator to scientifically analyze the physical characteristics of
the mummy, named Ka-i-nefer.


Read On




http://criminal-justice-online-courses.blogspot.com/2010/09/modern-science-reveals-secrets-of-2500.html


 


Wounded Troops Challenge Obstacle
Course


They run road races and compete in
triathlons. They climb mountains, kayak through rapids and ski on snow and
water.  They are America’s wounded warriors -- veterans who continue to inspire
by their resilience and will to overcome any obstacle placed before them.


Read On




http://military-online.blogspot.com/2010/09/wounded-troops-challenge-obstacle.html


 


POW/MIA Corridor Opens


Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
Michele Flournoy will host the opening of the Prisoner of War/Missing in Action
Corridor on Wednesday, Sept. 15 at 2:30 p.m. EDT at the Pentagon, third floor, A
ring, between the 6th and 7th corridors.


Read On




http://military-online.blogspot.com/2010/09/powmia-corridor-opens.html


 


Justice Department Files Lawsuit
Alleging Religious Discrimination Against the City of Walnut, California


The Justice Department announced
today that it has filed a lawsuit against the city of Walnut, Calif., alleging
that the city violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act
of 2000 (RLUIPA), when, in 2008, it denied a conditional use permit to the Chung
Tai Zen Center so that it could build and operate a Buddhist house of worship at
property it then owned in the city.


Read On




http://criminal-justice-online.blogspot.com/2010/09/justice-department-files-lawsuit.html


 


Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces
Additional Charges Against Two U.S. Citizens Alleged to Have Provided Material
Support to al Qaeda


PREET BHARARA, the United States
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that additional
terrorism charges were filed against U.S. citizens WESAM EL-HANAFI and SABIRHAN
HASANOFF in a Superseding Indictment for allegedly providing material support,
including money and computer assistance, to al Qaeda. The case is assigned to
U.S. District Judge KIMBA M. WOOD, and the defendants are scheduled to be
arraigned on the Superseding Indictment on September 16, 2010, at 10:30 a.m.


Read On




http://terrorism-online.blogspot.com/2010/09/manhattan-us-attorney-announces.html


 


“Round Island Row” in honor of DC3
Bruckenthal


In 2004, Damage Controlman 3rd Class
Nathan Bruckenthal became the first Coast Guardsman killed in action since the
Vietnam War while serving in Iraq. Nate Bruckenthal was an inspiration both to
his shipmates and the Long Island, N.Y. community that he called home. Nate’s
influence on one group of Long Islanders was so strong that they set out earlier
this summer to honor the fallen Coastie with a row around Long Island in support
of the Wounded Warrior Project.


Read On




http://military-online.blogspot.com/2010/09/round-island-row-in-honor-of-dc3.html


 


Library of Congress Provides Online
Content For Scholastic’s Re-Launch of Dear America Series


The Library of Congress is providing
historical content from its vast and unparalleled collections to enhance a new
interactive website for Scholastic’s Dear America historical fiction book
series.


Read On




http://leadership-online.blogspot.com/2010/09/library-of-congress-provides-online.html


 


Soldier Selected for Medal of
Honor to Address Media Live from Italy


Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta,
2nd Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, will
address the media live via satellite from Vicenza, Italy, at 12:30 p.m. EDT,
Sept. 15, in the Pentagon Briefing Room (2E973).  On Sept. 10 the White House
announced Giunta will receive the Medal of Honor and further details on the
presentation ceremony will be released at a later date.


Read On




http://military-online.blogspot.com/2010/09/soldier-selected-for-medal-of-honor-to.html


 


Today in the Department of
Defense


Secretary of Defense Robert M.
Gates hosts an honor cordon to welcome Russian Minister of Defense Anatoly
Serdyukov to the Pentagon at 10 a.m. EDT.  The cordon will be held on the steps
of the Pentagon River Entrance.


Read On 




http://military-online.blogspot.com/2010/09/today-in-department-of-defense.html


 


Terrorism, safety and situational
awareness


When the first aircraft struck the
World Trade Center what were your thoughts?  Was terrorism your first thought? 
Or, was your first thought more like How could that happen?  The first crash
caught most people trying to figure out what human or mechanical error could
have caused the crash.  However, a little over 15 minutes later and the instant
Flight 175 came into view we knew we were under attack.  As the jet slammed into
the South Tower of the World Trade Center our view changed and the response of
police and fire personnel to the WTC and the other incidents changed.


Read On




http://www.police-writers.com/situational_awareness.html


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