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Did u hear? # 39: Free college tuition, Crime stats, & Medicare scams · Challenges of Faith Radio Program

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Challenges of Faith Radio program. I'm Gerry mccantz.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining like Technowledge God and you are
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Speaker 1: a listener on the Did you hear number thirty nine?
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Speaker 1: And speaking of did did you hear about the fifteen
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Speaker 1: states that you can move to that offer free college
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Speaker 1: tuition no matter what you earn? Did you hear about
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Speaker 1: that most Americans are filling the major pension of wallets,
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Speaker 1: from the price of eggs to high home prices, and
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Speaker 1: the bottom line comes into sharper view for families with
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Speaker 1: children who want to go to college. Did you know
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Speaker 1: that the average cost of college in the United States
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Speaker 1: is thirty eight thousand, two hundred and seventy dollars per
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Speaker 1: student per year, which includes TUIs and fees, books, supplies,
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Speaker 1: and room and board, according to the Education Data Initiative.
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Speaker 1: Did you know that? Did you hear? That's one hundred
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Speaker 1: and fifty three thousand and eighty dollars over four years.
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Speaker 1: And to take home that eye watering amount of money
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Speaker 1: after taxes, the person paying for college must earn roughly
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Speaker 1: one hundred and nine nine hundred and sixty six dollars
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Speaker 1: before Uncle Sam and the state get their cut. Assuming
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Speaker 1: a combined federal and state tax rate of about nineteen
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Speaker 1: point nine percent. Did you hear Did you hear that
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Speaker 1: parents don't need to start taking an extra job and
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Speaker 1: putting away every single penny to put their kids through college,
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Speaker 1: because there are fifteen states in the United States that
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Speaker 1: offer free college tuition for anywhere from two to four
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Speaker 1: years with no income requirements. Did you know that Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada,
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Speaker 1: New Mexico, Rhode Island, Tennessee and West Virginia. Did you
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Speaker 1: hear about the six regional US banks that warned customers
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Speaker 1: that your debit card information may have been access Customers
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Speaker 1: are urged to deactivate the old cards and get new
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Speaker 1: ones immediately. Six US banks based in Massachusetts have sent
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Speaker 1: letters to their customers warning them that their debit card
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Speaker 1: information has potentially fallen into Froster's hands, forcing them to
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Speaker 1: get new ones. These regional banks, most of which had
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Speaker 1: branches in and around the Boston area, all foul letters
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Speaker 1: with the state government. The effective banks include Eagle Bank,
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Speaker 1: The Village Bank, Savers Bank, Webster five, Watertown Savings Bank
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Speaker 1: and mainstream main Street Bank. Did you hear about? It
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Speaker 1: turned toward trust, which is very important in any relationship.
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Speaker 1: Senator Grassly sent letters demanding accountability from the FBI over
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Speaker 1: inaccurate national crime statistics. After initially claiming violent crime decreased
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Speaker 1: one point seven percent in twenty twenty two versus twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty one, Grassly rebuilt that the FBI, like a thief
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Speaker 1: in the night, quietly revised its figures to reflect a
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Speaker 1: four point five percent increase in crime in twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 1: Grassly is raising questions about how the FBI gathers its
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Speaker 1: crime data and why the timing of its release in
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Speaker 1: correction was so suspect. The FBI has yet to retract
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Speaker 1: its October to twenty twenty three press release highlighting the
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Speaker 1: false data. Health News a new study publishing journal Cancer
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Speaker 1: Links over twenty commonly used agricultural chemicals to increase prostate
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Speaker 1: cancer risks. The research found that chemicals such as five
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Speaker 1: p S eight may be pronounced in it correctly, which
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Speaker 1: is the act of ingredient in roundup, and two four
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Speaker 1: dash D are linked to elevate prostate cancer rates when
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Speaker 1: used on farms. The researchers examined chemical use in US
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Speaker 1: counties and compared it to prostate cancer rates. Fourteen years later,
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Speaker 1: drone correlation with chemicals widely applied in farming and even
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Speaker 1: home gardens. Simon Soreson study co authors stand for researchers
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Speaker 1: say it many pesticides have not been sufficiently studied for
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Speaker 1: their potential carcynogen effects, particularly in relation to prostate cancer.
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Speaker 1: Did you hear about it, Madenane Hocomb of the Philadelphia Tribune. Right,
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Speaker 1: sitting at your desk all day may put you at
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Speaker 1: greater risk for heart disease, even if you work out
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Speaker 1: in your spare time, according to new research. Okay, those
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Speaker 1: of you who'd just been sitting and sitting and sitting,
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Speaker 1: irrespective of your age, our findings really emphasized the importance
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Speaker 1: of avoiding excess sitting, whether or not you're physically active,
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Speaker 1: say at first. Study author doctor Enzim, a cardiology fellow
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Speaker 1: at Bringham and Women's Hospital in Boston. While there is
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Speaker 1: a general understanding that sitting too much is likely bad
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Speaker 1: for your health, there's a need for more research to
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Speaker 1: understand the exact risks in the guidelines for what qualifies
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Speaker 1: as too much sitting, said doctor Keith ds, Associate Professor
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Speaker 1: of behavior Medicine at Columba University Medical Center. He was
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Speaker 1: not involved in the research. This study was particularly helpful
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Speaker 1: investigator sitting because of his large semple size and the
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Speaker 1: methodology and employee d is say it. Researchers looked at
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Speaker 1: data from nearly ninety thousand people who weren't a meter
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Speaker 1: for a week and compared this centerati an active time
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Speaker 1: with later diagnosis of conditions like stroke, heart attack, and
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Speaker 1: heart failure in later years. According to a study published
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Speaker 1: in the Journal of American College of Cardiology, we were
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Speaker 1: really recommended as many pieces of people as possible voice
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Speaker 1: sitting more than ten point six hours a day. That's
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Speaker 1: not a hard and fast threshold, but we think it's
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Speaker 1: the reasonable first step for guidelines and public health improment intervention.
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Speaker 1: If you sit in an office all day and commute
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Speaker 1: to and from work, those ten and a half hours
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Speaker 1: of sitting can add up quickly. The answer may not
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Speaker 1: be to get a standing deaths. While standing is certainly
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Speaker 1: not sitting, being still in one place like that doesn't
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Speaker 1: give your muscles the movement they need to officially break
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Speaker 1: down sugars and lip its. He said a bike or
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Speaker 1: treadmill desks may help. He said you can also try
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Speaker 1: to see if small meetings can be had over a walk.
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Speaker 1: The important things to add movement into your day in
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Speaker 1: a way that makes sense for you and your schedule
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Speaker 1: and DS added he recommended getting up and walking for
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Speaker 1: just a few minutes every half ho hour to an hour,
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Speaker 1: or when you finish one task before moving to the next. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: the data suggested a good workout at the end of
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Speaker 1: the day won't necessarily undo the problems caused by long
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Speaker 1: bouts of sitting. Sometimes we think we can completely make
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Speaker 1: up for some of the unhealthy behaviors we have by
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Speaker 1: going out and going for a run. Said. What we
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Speaker 1: can say from the findings is that moderate to vigorous
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Speaker 1: physical activity, so that's running a brisk walk, is not
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Speaker 1: sufficient to neutralize the harmful effects of sitting. But don't
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Speaker 1: be disheartened about activity. Exercises. Steal always a good idea
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Speaker 1: and benefits many people in so many ways. Now, I
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Speaker 1: know you've heard about the recalls of the carrots after
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Speaker 1: E Coli outbreak kills one sick and thirty nine others,
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Speaker 1: and the alert affects Walmart, Target, Whole and baby carrots
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Speaker 1: sold to some of the nation's biggest supermarkets have been
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Speaker 1: recalled over a daily E. Coli outbreak that is killed
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Speaker 1: one and left nearly forty others. Six grim Way Farms
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Speaker 1: excuse me recalled as organic whole and organic baby peel
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Speaker 1: carrot because the vegetable may have been contaminated with Suga
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Speaker 1: shiga as i slow now, according to the FDA Federal
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Speaker 1: Drug Administration. While the effected carrots will no longer be
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Speaker 1: available in grocery stores, the produce company warned people may
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Speaker 1: still have them in their kitchens. Now, look in your kitchen. Now.
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Speaker 1: You can get up right now and go look in
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Speaker 1: your kitchen. If you happen to be out and abound
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Speaker 1: and you're listening to Challenges Favor radio program like many
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Speaker 1: of you do, make sure when you get home look
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Speaker 1: in your refrigerator. Grim Way Farms issued a recall after
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Speaker 1: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that their
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Speaker 1: organic carrots may be associated with the latest outbreak again.
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Speaker 1: Stores that sell the company's produce across the United States, Canada,
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Speaker 1: and Puerto Rico includes Walmart, Target, Whole Foods Market Trader Joe's, Kroger's, Alberson's, Publics,
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Speaker 1: and Food Lions. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission issue
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Speaker 1: warnings and recalls. New Cosmo USA recalls combination natural gas
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Speaker 1: and carbon monoxide alarms due to failure to alert consumers
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Speaker 1: to the presence of natural gas and to the risk
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Speaker 1: of carbon monoxide poisoning. Don't you want to know, especially
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Speaker 1: when you are sitting, lying down sleeping? Hallmark recalls cat
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Speaker 1: vane Christmas tree ornaments due to risk of mode exposure.
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Speaker 1: Don't you want to know about that? Medical King recalls
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Speaker 1: about two hundred and twenty two thousand adult portable bed
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Speaker 1: rails due to serious entrapment and efficia hazards. One death reported.
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Speaker 1: Stoke recalls Yo Yo strollers due to injury hazard, especially
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Speaker 1: for the babes. Paradukes recalls children's pajamas due to burn
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Speaker 1: hazard violation of federal flammability regulations for children's sleep wear.
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Speaker 1: Did you hear about any of that? Kira A. Crown
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Speaker 1: at the Federal Trade Commission, she put out an argent
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Speaker 1: about avoiding scams during the Medicare's open enrollment appyramids. Okay,
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Speaker 1: older folks looking to make changes to your medicare coverage.
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Speaker 1: Now's the time Medicare opens. The Roman period started October
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Speaker 1: fifteenth and goes into December seventh, But as you compare
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Speaker 1: your coverage options, keep an eye out for scammers. They
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Speaker 1: know about open enrollment too. Scammers often pretend to be
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Speaker 1: for Medicare or connected to Medicare to try to steal
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Speaker 1: your money or your personal information. They might contact you
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Speaker 1: and say they need your Medicare bank account or credit
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Speaker 1: card number for your new Medicare card. That's a scam.
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Speaker 1: Medic card Medicare sends this card you absolutely and automatically
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Speaker 1: for free. Scammers might also say they need your Medicare
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Speaker 1: number for a medical equipment claim you don't remember making.
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Speaker 1: That's a scam too, They want to found fake claims
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Speaker 1: using your Medicare number. Stay clear of these and other
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Speaker 1: Medicare scams during open enrollment and any other time. Don't
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Speaker 1: give your personal information to someone who contacts you unexpectedly
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Speaker 1: and claims to be for Medicare because Medicare will never
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Speaker 1: unexpectedly call, email, texts, or message you on social media
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Speaker 1: to ask for your Medicare, social Security or bank account numbers.
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Speaker 1: They won't. They also won't try to sell you anything
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Speaker 1: or tell you to pay for your Medicare car. That's
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Speaker 1: always a scam. Do not trust your caller ID. Your
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Speaker 1: call ID might show Medicare's name or phone number, but
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Speaker 1: caller ID can be faked. It could be anyone calling
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Speaker 1: from anywhere in the world. And if you think a
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Speaker 1: call might be real, hang up and call one eight
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Speaker 1: hundred Medicare to find out and also report Medicare impersonators
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Speaker 1: and other Medicare scams. And one add one eight hundred Medicare.
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Speaker 1: There's one eight hundred sixty three three four to two
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Speaker 1: two seven gray For some hacking news, you said, gear,
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Speaker 1: we just got there talking about scams and recalls and
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Speaker 1: health and trusts. Don't you want to know? According to
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Speaker 1: the Hacker News, about seventy thousand domains hijacked by sitting
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Speaker 1: Ducks attacks, multiple threat actors have been found taking advantage
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Speaker 1: of an attack technique called sitting ducks to hijack legitimate
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Speaker 1: domains for using them in phishing attacks, an investment fraud
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Speaker 1: scheme for years. Sitting ducks exploit misc misconfigurations and a
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Speaker 1: Web Domains domain name system DNS settings to take control
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Speaker 1: of it. Of the nearly eight hundred thousand vulnerable registered
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Speaker 1: domains over the past three months. Of proctly nine percent
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Speaker 1: of seventy thousand have been subsequent crinently hijacked. You're searching
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Speaker 1: for work. You've got a job, a dream job offer
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Speaker 1: on LinkedIn. It may be from Iranian hackers. Say what?
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Speaker 1: Oh wait mine hold no, this is the did you
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Speaker 1: hear segment? Say what? The Iranian thread actor, known as
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Speaker 1: THA four or five five, is targeting LinkedIn users with
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Speaker 1: enticing job offers intended to trick them into running a
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Speaker 1: Windows based malware named snail resin. The attacks have been
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Speaker 1: observed targeting the aerospace, aviation, and defense industry since at
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Speaker 1: least September twenty twenty three. Interesting the tactics overlap with
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Speaker 1: that of the notorious North Korea based Lazras group. Worked
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Speaker 1: WRTE targets Israel with same coin wiper work. A Middle
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Speaker 1: Eastern threat actor affiliated with HAMAS has orchestrated cyber espionage
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Speaker 1: operations against the Palestinian Authority, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt,
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Speaker 1: as well as carried out disruptive attacks usibly target Israeli
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Speaker 1: entities using same coin wiper. The destructive operations were first
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Speaker 1: flag at the start of the year, shrink Locker decryptor release.
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Speaker 1: Romanian cybersecurity company Bitdefender has released a free cryptor to
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Speaker 1: help victims recover data using the shrink locker ransomware. First
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Speaker 1: identified earlier this year. Shrink Locker is notable for its
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Speaker 1: abuse of Microsoft's BitLocker utility for encrypting fouls as part
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Speaker 1: of extortion attacks targeting entities of Mexico, Indonesia, and Jordan.
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Speaker 1: Did you hear about the exciting Brethren news? Earliest Jesus
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Speaker 1: is God inscription found in Israel deemed greatest discovery since
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Speaker 1: the Dead Sea Scrolls? Did you hear about it? The
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Speaker 1: earliest inscription declaring Jesus as God deemed their greatest discovery
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Speaker 1: since the Dead Sea Scrolls, was uncovered beneath the floor
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Speaker 1: of an Israeli prison and is now on display in
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Speaker 1: the United States. Believers follows of Jesus Christ. Did you
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Speaker 1: hear anything about it? The eighteen hundred year old mosaic
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Speaker 1: discovered by an inmate of the Maghetto prison, features the
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Speaker 1: ancient Greek writing the God loving a Keptos has offered
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Speaker 1: the table to God Jesus Christ as a memorial. The
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Speaker 1: five hundred and eighty one square foot moaic decorated the
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Speaker 1: world's first prayer haul in two thirty a d confirming
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Speaker 1: Christians believe Jesus was born the son of God from
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Speaker 1: the very beginning the Maghetto mosaic. Mosaic also included some
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Speaker 1: of the earliest images of fish, which experts believe referenced
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Speaker 1: the story in Luke chapter nine, verse sixteen, when Jesus
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Speaker 1: multiplied two fish to feed a crowd of five thousand people.
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Speaker 1: The floor has been hidden under the prison since it
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Speaker 1: was discovered in two thousand and five, and now you
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Speaker 1: know it's almost twenty twenty five, but it has now
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Speaker 1: been lent to a museum in our nation's capital until
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Speaker 1: July twenty twenty five. Wow. Carlos Campo, CEO of the museum,
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Speaker 1: held the mosaic as the greatest discovery since the Dead
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Speaker 1: Seas grows. Whise colleagues noted it was the most important
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Speaker 1: archaeological discovery for understanding the early Christian Church. We truly
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Speaker 1: are among the first people to ever see this, to
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Speaker 1: experience what almost two thousand years ago, were put together
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Speaker 1: by a man named Rudis. The incredible craftsmen who laid
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Speaker 1: the flooring here Campo said. At the opening of the exhibitions,
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Speaker 1: the Curiate of the Pmusicians said, the mosaic presents groundbreaking
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Speaker 1: physical evidence of the practices and beliefs of early Christians,
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Speaker 1: including the first archaeological instance of the phrase God, Jesus Christ.
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Speaker 1: The Meghetto mosaic was found in the Jesaree Valley, where
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Speaker 1: Christians believe the final battle of the biblical army Geddon
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Speaker 1: in the Book of Revelations will occur. The excavation, conducted
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Speaker 1: by archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority IAA, took four
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Speaker 1: years to recover the five hundred and eighty one square
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Speaker 1: foot mosaic floor. The mosaic included the name of the
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Speaker 1: Roman officer who commissioned a taw during the Roman occupation
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Speaker 1: of Judea. Researchers suggested that could prove Romans coexisted with
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Speaker 1: Christians to some degree, despite the numerous stories of war
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Speaker 1: and slaughter at the time. An inscription on the mosaic
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Speaker 1: read Genius, a Roman officer having sought honor from his
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Speaker 1: own money, has made the mosaic. The team also found
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Speaker 1: a nearby Roman camp, providing more support of the peace
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Speaker 1: between the two groups. The prayer hall or church was
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Speaker 1: likely abandoned and covered up because the Roman Empire's sixth
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Speaker 1: legion was transferred to Transjordan, a region located to the
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Speaker 1: east of the Jordan River. The Mosaic also contained the
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Speaker 1: names of five women, highlighting the important role women play
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Speaker 1: in the church. Bobby Duke, director of the Scholars Initiative
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Speaker 1: at the Museum of the Bible, said this is arguably
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Speaker 1: one of the most important archaeological discoveries for understanding their
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Speaker 1: early Christian Church. For example, the Mosaic underscores the crucial
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Speaker 1: role of women in the early Church by the fact
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Speaker 1: that five women are mentioned in it by name. Well,
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Speaker 1: when you get in the Word of God the Bible,
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Speaker 1: you see aut that the great roles that women have played. Truly,
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Speaker 1: the Mosaic presents the wealth of new data for Church historians,
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Speaker 1: like the Dead Sea Scrolls did for Bible scholars. The
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Speaker 1: I the I A A said, there isn't any information
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Speaker 1: They explained why these women were mentioned, but it is
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Speaker 1: highly unusual because God wasn't typically asked to remember individuals.
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Speaker 1: Why they were clearly important to the community. The inscription
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Speaker 1: does not tell us whether they were patrons of the community,
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Speaker 1: or martyrs or arnor for some other reason. The Museum
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Speaker 1: of the Bible said, well, do your own independent research,
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Speaker 1: and when you get into words you look for all
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Speaker 1: the women that stood out. Do your own independent research.
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Speaker 1: I know, y'are you should all right? Clothing Scripture John
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Speaker 1: fourteen six, Jesus said, not your pastor your friend, not
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Speaker 1: your pew member, not your family member, not your husband,
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Speaker 1: your wife, wife or husband, boyfriend, a girlfriend, girlfriend a boyfriend,
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Speaker 1: not a politician. Whoever comes your hearten mind. The Imman
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Speaker 1: Rabbi priests him a teacher. Jesus said to him, I
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Speaker 1: comes to the Father except through me.