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Trump wields his ‘secret weapon’: College accreditation
Trump and his allies are using college accreditation to exert pressure on colleges and universities,
an effort that threatens the independence of accreditors and the stability of the institutions they approve.

Accrediting agencies, which have existed for more than a century, determine whether colleges meet standards of quality
by evaluating every aspect of their finances, operations and student achievement.

Trump wields his ‘secret weapon’: College accreditation
The administration is trying to make good on Trump’s campaign promise to use accreditation, a critical stamp of approval for colleges, to remake higher education.

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ABYSS III: Observing accretion activity in young stars through empirical veiling measurements
Serat Saad, Marina Kounkel, Keivan G. Stassun, A. Roman-Lopes, Carlos G. Rom\'an-Z\'u\~niga, Jinyoung Serena Kim, Jonathan C. Tan, R. Lopez-Valdivia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09826

ABYSS III: Observing accretion activity in young stars through empirical veiling measurements
Stellar accretion plays an important role in the early stages of stellar evolution, particularly in Classical T Tauri Stars (CTTSs). Accretion of a CTTS can be related to different physical parameters such as effective temperature (T$_{\text{eff}}$), age, abundance of hydrogen, etc. We can infer how accretion works by examining it across different wavelength regions. Accretion can be traced using veiling, a parameter that measures how excess emission from accretion affects the photospheric spec…

LPO: Towards Accurate GUI Agent Interaction via Location Preference Optimization
Jiaqi Tang, Yu Xia, Yi-Feng Wu, Yuwei Hu, Yuhui Chen, Qing-Guo Chen, Xiaogang Xu, Xiangyu Wu, Hao Lu, Yanqing Ma, Shiyin Lu, Qifeng Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09373

LPO: Towards Accurate GUI Agent Interaction via Location Preference Optimization
The advent of autonomous agents is transforming interactions with Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) by employing natural language as a powerful intermediary. Despite the predominance of Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) methods in current GUI agents for achieving spatial localization, these methods face substantial challenges due to their limited capacity to accurately perceive positional data. Existing strategies, such as reinforcement learning, often fail to assess positional accuracy effectively, …

"On July 5, the day after the Texas floods hit, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) received 3,027 calls from survivors and answered 3,018 of them, about 99.7%, according to Maxine Joselow of the New York Times. But that day, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem did not renew the contracts for four call center companies that answered those calls. The staff at the centers were fired. The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or about 35.8%. On Monday…

July 12, 2025
On July 5, the day after the Texas floods hit, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) received 3,027 calls from survivors and answered 3,018 of them, about 99.7%, according to Maxine Joselow of the New York Times. But that day, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem did not renew the contracts for four call center companies that answered those calls. The staff at the centers were fired. The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or about 35.8%. On Monday, July 7,…

Sagt mal … ich musste mal eine Weile lang Messreihen grafisch darstellen. So Anfang der 2000. Ich benutzte damals Gnuplot, R fasste gerade so langsam Fuß und ich habe es bis heute nicht geschafft, mich damit zu beschäftigen. Dann war ich lange weg von solchen Auswertungen, aber es zeichnet sich ab, dass ich in Zukunft wieder öfter Messreihen grafisch darstellen muss. Gibt es dazu „modernere“ Werkzeuge als Gnuplot? Ich brauche nur Darstellung (PNG/JPG reicht), keine statistische Auswertung.…

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The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): VII. Testing accretion mechanisms from disk population synthesis
Beno\^it Tabone, Giovanni P. Rosotti, Leon Trapman, Paola Pinilla, Ilaria Pascucci, Alice Somigliana, Richard Alexander, Miguel Vioque, Rossella Anania, Aleksandra Kuznetsova, Ke Zhang, Laura M. P\'erez, Lucas A. Cieza, John Carpenter, Dingshan Deng, Carolina Agurto-Gangas, Dary A. Ru\'iz-Rodr\'iguez, Anibal Sierra, Nicol\'as T. Kurtovic, …

The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): VII. Testing accretion mechanisms from disk population synthesis
The architecture of planetary systems depends on the evolution of the disks in which they form. In this work, we develop a population synthesis approach to interpret the AGE-PRO measurements of disk gas mass and size considering two scenarios: turbulence-driven evolution with photoevaporative winds and MHD disk-wind-driven evolution. A systematic method is proposed to constrain the distribution of disk parameters from the disk fractions, accretion rates, disk gas masses, and CO gas sizes. We fi…

Outrage continues to grow against U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem over her response to the deadly floods that ravaged Texas last week.
According to a Friday report from The New York Times,
more than two-thirds of phone calls to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from flood victims went unanswered
after Noem allowed hundreds of contractors to be laid off on July 5, just a day after the nightmare storm.
According to The Times, this dramatical…

'Unforgivable': FEMA Missed Thousands of Calls from Texas Flood Victims After Noem Fired Contractors | Common Dreams
FEMA missed two-thirds of calls from Texas flood victims after DHS Sec. Kristi Noem allowed hundreds of call center employees to be fired. "They are intentionally breaking government," said Sen. Chris Murphy.

The IDF has begun preparations to establish a humanitarian zone that will accommodate 350,000 Gaza residents.
The zone will be established in southern Gaza in line with a cabinet decision on Saturday night, implementing the humanitarian separation plan aimed at distinguishing Gaza residents from Hamas terrorists.
At Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's insistence, the establishment of humanitarian zones will also proceed during any ceasefire, should one occur.
According …

Report: Israel considering partial withdrawal, ceasefire to be announced over weekend
According to the Saudi channel A-Sharq, the Israeli delegation has refused to withdraw from areas captured after March 2. Meanwhile, the IDF has begun