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HERE TO EXPLAIN THE VITAL ROLE OF MILITARY POLICE, IS SERGEANT FIRST CLASS RAUL LOPEZ, A U-S ARMY RESERVE MILITARY POLICE INSTRUCTOR.

GUEST BIO:

SFC Lopez is originally from Naranjito, PR. and enlisted in the United States Army on 17 November 2009. He completed Basic Combat Training at Fort Jackson, SC in April 2010 and Advanced Individual Training at Fort Leonard Wood, MO in July 2010 which included Heavy Equipment Construction Repairer training. SFC Lopez’s’ assignments include: 448th FSC Co, Ft. Buchanan, PR; 301st MP Co, Ft. Buchanan, 215th MP Det, Ft Buchanan, PR, 166th RSG, Ft. Buchanan, PR, 368th MP Co, Guam. He is currently assigned to The Army School System as a ALC Instructor, Jolon, CA. SFC Lopez assignments include, Gunner, Driver, Team Leader, Squad Leader, Section Leader, Operations Sergeant, Protective Services Agent and currently ALC Instructor.

SFC Lopez earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminal Justice from University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ. SFC Lopez military education includes: Basic Leader Course, Advanced Leaders Course, Senior Leader Course, Heavy Equipment Construction Repairer Course, Basic Military Police Course, Interment Resettlement Course, Protective Services Training Course, Basic Anti-Terrorism Officer Course, Conventional Physical Security Course, Unit Movement Officer Course, Combatives Level 1, Common Faculty Development Program Instructor Course, Master Fitness Trainer, Company Leaders Course, Battle Staff NCO Course, Unit Training Plan Course, Master Resilience Trainer.

SFC Lopez’s awards and decorations includes, ARCOM (4OLC), AAM (1SLC, 1OLC), MUC, AGCM, ARCAM (2OLC), NDSM, AFSM, HSM, MOVSM, GWOTSM, GWOTEM,

NOPDR (Numerical “3”), ASR, OSR (Numerical “2”), AFRMM ((Numerical “2”), NATOMDL, ASUA, ACM-CS, Drivers Wheeled Mechanic’s Badge, Army Basic Instructor Badge.

SFC Lopez is working towards getting the Army Senior Instructor Badge as well as completing his master’s degree within the next 24 months.

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The H2F System is an Army-wide program used to improve and prepare Soldiers for the increasingly challenging environments and adversaries they face in this modern era. It includes five disciplines of physical and non-physical readiness such as:

 Physical: building strength, speed, endurance
 Sleep: supporting behaviors that provide optimal brain function
 Nutrition: recognizing optimum food/drink to meet physical and non-physical demands
 Mental: adapting successfully through adverse situations
 Spiritual: creating practices to build resilience in times of stress & hardship
The Double Eagle Fitness Challenge is a 12-week Army Reserve program that includes:
 Cardiovascular exercises
 Strength/resistant training
 High intensity interval training (HIIT)

The new system is designed to bring a cultural change to Soldiers’ perceptions of training for the demands of close combat while building agile, adaptable, and fit troops. Army Reserve Soldiers in various locations, with varying schedules, use the program’s templates as guideposts for their progression of Soldier Readiness.

The program also provides education, coaching, mentoring, messaging, and outreach to improve, restore and maintain the readiness, resilience, and performance of the Total Army.
Learning more about this top-notch health and fitness program can also equip average Americans with the skills to be their best in the new year.

Join Sergeant Major Robert M. Setter, who developed the Double Eagle Fitness Challenge. He’ll discuss the importance of fitness training for Soldiers and how everyday Americans can gain an advantage in their own health and fitness programs by learning about the Army Reserve approach.
What can you tell us about the Army Reserve’s new health and fitness system and why it’s being introduced now?
Can you provide details about the H2F system?
How can Americans learn from these programs to improve their health and fitness?
What are the main goals the U.S. Army Reserve hopes to achieve with the H-2-F system and where can everyone learn more about it?

Sergeant Major Robert M. Setter
U.S. Army Reserve Command CIO/G6 Sergeant Major
Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Sergeant Major Robert M. Setter is a native of Garnett, Kansas. He enlisted into the U.S. Army in November 1993 and attended Basic Combat Training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, followed by Advanced Individual Training at Fort Gordon, Georgia, where he graduated as the Distinguished Graduate.
Sergeant Major Setter’s assignments include leadership positions at the United States Army Reserve Command, Fort Bragg, NC; Cyber Center of Excellence, Fort Gordon, GA; Human Resources Command, Ft Knox, KY; Military Intelligence Training Support Command, Ft Belvoir, VA; Military Intelligence Readiness Command, Ft Belvoir, VA; Office of the Chief, Army Reserve, Ft Belvoir, VA; Army Reserve Careers Division, Ft Gillem, GA; United States Army Reserve Command, Ft McPherson, GA; 84th Training Command, Ft McCoy, WI; 646thArea Support Group, Madison, WI; 88th Regional Support Command, Ft Snelling, MN; 21st Theater Sustainment Command, Germany; 388thMedical Logistics Battalion, Hays, KS.
Sergeant Major Setter’s military education includes Information Systems Operator-Analyst Course (Distinguished Graduate); Primary Leadership Development Course (Commandant’s List); Basic Noncommissioned Officer Course (Distinguished Graduate, Leadership Awardee); Advanced Noncommissioned Officer Course(Distinguished Graduate, Leadership Awardee); United States Army Sergeants Major Course – Class 67. He holds an Associate of Science Degree in Computer Science from Grantham University (Summa Cum Laude) and has earned industry certifications of Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Security+, Network+, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), and Certified Software Manager (CSM).
Sergeant Major Setter’s awards and decorations include five Meritorious Service Medals, eight Army Commendation Medals, three Army Achievement Medals, the Army Staff Badge, the Signal Corps Regimental Association’s Order of the Mercury, and other typical awards and ribbons commensurate with his rank and time in service.
Sergeant Major Setter and his wife Lecia have been married for more than 22 years and have three children.

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ARMY RESERVE WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ITS 112-YEAR HISTORY, A WOMAN IS THE LEADER OF THE U-S ARMY RESERVE.
LIEUTENANT GENERAL JODY DANIELS HOLDS THE TITLE OF CHIEF OF ARMY RESERVE AND COMMANDING GENERAL, U-S ARMY RESERVE COMMAND.

SHE JOINS US NOW DURING NATIONAL WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH, TO TALK ABOUT HER HISTORIC ROLE, AND TO RECOGNIZE THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE MILITARY.

GUEST BIO
Lt. Gen. Jody J. Daniels 34th Chief of Army Reserve and 9th Commanding General, United States Army Reserve Command LTG Jody J. Daniels assumes duties as the 34th Chief of Army Reserve and 9th Commanding General, United States Army Reserve Command, July 28, 2020, after most recently serving as the Commanding General, 88th Readiness Division, Fort Snelling, Minnesota. She was born in Rolla, Missouri and is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University where she earned a B.S. in Applied Mathematics (Computer Science). She holds a M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) as well as a M.S. in Strategic Studies from the United States Army War College. Daniels’ command assignments include commanding general of the 88th Readiness Division; commander of the 87th Army Reserve Support Command (East) where she also served as the deputy commanding general, United States Army Reserve Support Command, First Army Division (East); commander of the Theater Support Command, Fort Belvoir, Virginia; commander of the 2200th Military Intelligence Group; commander of 1st Battalion, 417th Regiment, 1st Brigade (Basic Combat Training), 98th Division (Institutional Training); and commander, Headquarters and Service Company, 524th Military Intelligence Battalion. Her key staff assignments include chief of staff, U.S. Army Forces Command; assistant deputy chief of staff G-2, office of the deputy chief of staff, G-2; deputy director and director, intelligence and knowledge development directorate (J2) for U.S. Africa Command; and assistant chief of staff for U.S. Africa Command. She completed a Civil Affairs deployment as the G-5, operations officer, Kosovo Forces/Allied Rapid Reaction Corps, Operation Joint Guardian. She also deployed to Iraq and served as the chief of plans and integration and later as the director for intelligence (J2) for the Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq. In her civilian career, Daniels was previously the Director of Advanced Programs for Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Laboratories (LM ATL). Prior to that, she was the Director of the Contextual Systems Laboratory and was a manager and engineer in LM ATL’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. She has served on the Defense Advanced Research Programs Agency Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Review Board, on the ISAT Steering Committee, and Drexel University’s Computer Science Department Advisory Board. Daniels is a graduate of the Engineer Officer Basic, Military Intelligence Officer Basic and Advanced, and the Civil Affairs Officer Advanced courses. Her awards and decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, three Legions of Merit, Bronze Star Medal, five Meritorious Service Medals, Joint Service Commendation Medal, four Army Commendation Medals, Joint Service Achievement Medal, two Army Achievement Medals, and the Combat Action Badge. She is married to COL(R) John McCarthy and has a grown stepdaughter, Shannon McCarthy.

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BIO
Haley Johnson is a First Lieutenant currently stationed at Fort Benning, GA assigned to 14th CSH working on the Mother-Baby Unit at Martin Army Community Hospital. Her first duty assignment was Joint Base San Antonio where she worked at the hospital’s Bone Marrow Transplant Unit prior to her compassionate reassignment to Fort Benning in 2019. She is a first generation college student and attended Kennesaw State University in Georgia on a national ROTC scholarship in 2012. During her ROTC career she attended Airborne school and competed on the Georgia Tech’s Ranger Challenge Team. She graduated with her nursing degree and started active duty December of 2016. She has competed in many fitness and physique sport competitions over the years and most recently competed on season two of NBC’s “The Titan Games”. The televised fitness competition series is hosted by The Rock and this season premiered May 25, 2020. 1LT Johnson appears on four consecutive episodes, 9,10,11, and 12. It was at the casting for this show that she met her now husband and they both welcomed a new baby into their lives this year.

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In order to determine where people in America are most content with their lives, WalletHub compared more than 180 of the largest U.S. cities across 30 key indicators of happiness. The data set ranges from depression rate to income-growth rate to average leisure time spent per day.

Top 20 Happiest Cities in America
1. Fremont, CA 11. Bismarck, ND
2. Plano, TX 12. Fargo, ND
3. San Jose, CA 13. Lincoln, NE
4. Irvine, CA 14. San Francisco, CA
5. Madison, WI 15. Overland Park, KS
6. Sioux Falls, SD 16. Santa Clarita, CA
7. Huntington Beach, CA 17. Oceanside, CA
8. Scottsdale, AZ 18. Glendale, CA
9. Santa Rosa, CA 19. Anaheim, CA
10. Pearl City, HI 20. Cape Coral, FL

Key Stats
• Miami, Hialeah, Fort Lauderdale and Pembroke Pines, Florida, all have the lowest depression rate, 12.50 percent, which is 2.3 times lower than in Charleston, West Virginia, the city with the highest at 28.90 percent.

• Laredo, Texas, has the lowest number of suicides per 100,000 residents, 4.78, which is 7.3 times lower than in Cheyenne, Wyoming, the city with the highest at 34.80.

• Fremont, California, has the lowest separation & divorce rate, 15.06 percent, which is 3.2 times lower than in Detroit, the city with the highest at 48.13 percent.

• Overland Park, Kansas, has the lowest share of adults sleeping less than 7 hours per night, 25.60 percent, which is two times lower than in Detroit, the city with the highest at 50.10 percent.

• Cheyenne, Wyoming, has the lowest average commute time, 14.40 minutes, which is 2.9 times lower than in New York, the city with the highest at 41.20 minutes.

To view the full report and your city’s rank, please visit:
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Please let me know if you have any questions or if you would like to schedule a phone, Skype or in-studio interview with one of our experts. Feel free to embed this YouTube video summarizing the study on your website. You can also use or edit these raw files as you see fit. Full data sets for specific cities are also available upon request.
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HISTORY OF EARTH ANTHEM VERSE
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EARTH ANTHEM
The Earth Verse sung to the melody of The Star Spangled Banner, words by Stephen Longfellow Fiske

The Evolution of a Song-A Brief History

The Star Spangled Banner was written as a poem by Francis Scott Key on the deck of a small boat September 14, 1814, as he observed the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British during the War of 1812. After having already burned Washington, D.C. the British entered the harbor intent on sacking Baltimore. Inspired by the heroic American stand which turned back the powerful British Fleet, and by the sight of the American flag still flying after a day and night of heavy rocket exchange, Key jotted down some lines on an envelope and wrote out the verses when he later returned to shore. It was published the very next day on a handbill entitled, Defense of Ft. McHenry, and quickly met with wide public approval.

The melody to which the stanzas were written was that of an English drinking song, To Anacreon In Heaven. Anacreon was the convivial Greek poet whose verses celebrated love and wine, and who became the patron saint of The Anacreontic Society, a gentlemen’s club, whose enthusiastic and bawdy meetings had gained quite a reputation, and from whence the song became popular. To Anacreon In Heaven was sung in the taverns of Colonial America, and by 1814 was an American standby. To that tune, in 1798, Tom Paine had written a patriotic verse,Adams and Liberty, which became well known around the young nation.

But when Francis Scott Key’s verses were tacked on the doors of Baltimore’s taverns, his song was heartfully sung as a celebration of victory in war and national pride. As the popularity of Key’s song grew, the original Anacreontic song, Paine’s version, and other attempts to write verses (including one by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes), were forgotten and Key’s most popular verse, The Star Spangled Banner, became the favorite national song. In 1931, Congress officially designated it as the United States National Anthem.

Now, in the ongoing folk tradition of adding new verses to old songs, visionary singer, songwriter Stephen Longfellow Fiske brings the evolution of the song to the global perspective of the 21st century, blending democratic ideals, peace, and environmental harmony with his Earth Anthem.

A descendant of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Stephen is a poet in his own right, and has produced nine albums of his music. His most recent CD, Earth Anthem, How Do You Want Your World? features Stephen’s acapella/string arrangement of Earth Anthem, as well as ten other songs of peace, environmental, spiritual and social concerns. The CD has been getting rave reviews and is being well recieved by the buying public. Stephen and his partners are currently building Earth Anthem Enterprises to help promote Earth Anthem and create a socially responsible business serving a sustainable future.

Earth Anthem Video
“In Stephen’s new CD, he sings about what’s universally important for our planet and all people, strong voice, great musicality, combined with splendid arrangements. I give this CD my highest recommendation”
– Ed Begley, Jr. (actor, environmentalist)

“Stephen’s songs go beyond inspiration to act as a wise and passionate guide to the path and ways of peace. Stephen sings of a new way and a new day for humanity”
– Kristin Norton (Coalition for World Peace)

“The definitive songbook for the 21st century peace movement, heartfelt tunes, powerful honest lyrics crying out for justice, tolerance, and peace. Earth Anthem will join ‘This Land Is Your Land’ in America’s roster of incredible folk songs.”
– Stephen Rodhe (attorney at law)

” … an affirmation of planetary healing. I feel as though I can hear the earth saying, Thank you!.”
– Nancy Pearlman (trustee, Cal State University)

“…a wonderful reminder of our interconnectedness, a great collection of songs from a great human being and talented artist.
– Rev. Dr. David W. Randle

“Listen for yourself and then think about giving someone the gift of ‘Earth Anthem’. Make a difference in shaping the new world by turning someone onto the real evolutionary, revolutionary music.”
– Alan Hutner and Elizabeth Rose (hosts, Transitions Radio Magazine, Santa Fe, New Mexico)

To Purchase:
The Holiday Gift Package Set (2 CDs, Book & Poster):
Available by Check or Money Order ONLY:
Mail Check or Money Order payable to “Stephen L. Fisker” in the Amount of $50.00.
(Includes Shipping and Handling & Sales Tax)
Please Note which 2 CDs you would want.
Mail To:
Fiske Music/Publications
635 California Ave., Venice, CA 90291, USA
Phone: 310-396-8205
Email: stephen@stephenfiskemusic.com

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