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Defense Dept. Opens Formal Inquiry Into Senator Mark Kelly (John Ismay/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/us/politics/mark-kelly-defense-department-inquiry.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p135#a251217p135

With the tax-free money in a health savings account, a person can pay for eyeglasses or medical exams, as well as a $1,700 baby bassinet or a $300 online parenting workshop.
Those same dollars can’t be used, though, to pay for insurance premiums — or for most health related necessities such as baby formulas or toothbrushes
HSAs are tax shelters for the rich, masquerading as healthcare insurance.
Donald Trump and some Republicans are pitching the accounts as an alternative to …

Health Savings Accounts, Backed by GOP, Cover Fancy Saunas but Not Insurance Premiums - KFF Health News
Health savings accounts can be used to cover medical expenses, tax-free. But while wealthier Americans are using them to pay for gym equipment, cedar ice baths, and hemlock saunas, poorer Americans can’t use them to pay their skyrocketing health insurance premiums.

Copenhagen-based Formalize, whose compliance software serves organizations in 80 countries, raised a €30M Series B co-led by Acton Capital and Blackfin Tech (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/10/28/formalize-raises-eur30m-to-a…

Formalize raises €30M to advance compliance solutions across Europe
Copenhagen-based Formalize has raised €30 million in a Series B co-led by Acton Capital and Blackfin Tech, with participation from West Hill Capital and CIBC Innovation Banking. The company has raised €50 million to date.Across Europe, organisations face an increasingly complex, interconnected regulatory landscape, with evolving rules reshaping expectations for information security, resilience, and reporting across industries and regions. Formalize, addresses this with a single platform…

Dobbins among 3 Broncos starters out vs. Chiefs https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46968732/broncos-leading-rusher-jk-dobbins-vs-chiefs-foot-injury

Reading Heschel Today: Resonances and Dissonances (The Inaugural Interfaith Lecture Honouring Professor Edward K. Kaplan (Z”L)
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ResearchGate: Publishers Take Formal Steps to Force Copyright Compliance A summary of…
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RE: https://mastodon.nl/@bert_hubert/115699682952591075
'Het wordt wel interessant om te zien of het EDIC zelf het goede voorbeeld gaat geven, zegt Hubert. "Hosten ze video's bijvoorbeeld op PeerTube in plaats van op YouTube? Gaan ze werken met Microsoft-formulieren voor inschrijvingen of hebben ze een alternatief? Wordt hun website gehost bij Amazon Azure of in eigen beheer?'
Terechte vraag van @… ... Niet alleen woorden doen er toe.

Benders Decomposition for Passenger-Oriented Train Timetabling with Hybrid Periodicity
Zhiyuan Yao, Anita Sch\"obel, Lei Nie, Sven J\"ager
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09892 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.09892 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.09892
arXiv:2511.09892v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Periodic timetables are widely adopted in passenger railway operations due to their regular service patterns and well-coordinated train connections. However, fluctuations in passenger demand require varying train services across different periods, necessitating adjustments to the periodic timetable. This study addresses a hybrid periodic train timetabling problem, which enhances the flexibility and demand responsiveness of a given periodic timetable through schedule adjustments and aperiodic train insertions, taking into account the rolling stock circulation. Since timetable modifications may affect initial passenger routes, passenger routing is incorporated into the problem to guide planning decisions towards a passenger-oriented objective. Using a time-space network representation, the problem is formulated as a dynamic railway service network design model with resource constraints. To handle the complexity of real-world instances, we propose a decomposition-based algorithm integrating Benders decomposition and column generation, enhanced with multiple preprocessing and accelerating techniques. Numerical experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the algorithm and highlight the advantage of hybrid periodic timetables in reducing passenger travel costs.
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Reading Heschel Today: Resonances and Dissonances (The Inaugural Interfaith Lecture Honouring Professor Edward K. Kaplan (Z”L)
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ResearchGate: Publishers Take Formal Steps to Force Copyright Compliance A summary of…
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Haiti, lacking oil, is the poorest nation in the hemisphere
and probably the most dangerous.
That’s why the State Department issued a “Do Not Travel” order.

Simultaneously, however, the Trump administration insists it’s safe enough to force around 350,000 Haitians legally living and working in the United States to return home by next month.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services issued formal notice that Haitians will be stripped of their temporary protected stat…

350,000 Haitians are being sent home. That’s cruel.
The Trump administration is rescinding temporary protected status for 350,000 of them on Feb. 3.