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
909.599.7530
police booksSeptember 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
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
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
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
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
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
