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Philadelphia’s Academy of Natural Sciences closes after nearly 200 years

Philadelphia’s Academy of Natural Sciences closes after nearly 200 years

Published by Sam Flores

The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum’s dinosaur skeleton exhibits have been popular with generations of children, since they first were exhibited in 1868. Andrew Stelzer for NPR hide caption toggle caption i Andrew Stelzer for NPR PHILADELPHIA — Every weekend for the past month, the sidewalk in front of the Natural Academy of Sciences has simultaneously felt like a festival, a funeral, and a science fair. On the Museum’s final Friday, there was a line of attendees waiting to get in; Activists circulating petitions and flyers to “Save the Academy”; and a museum educator showed off a giant salamander skull and a rare coat of pangolin scales. For Philly area kids, visiting this place has been a rite of passage for generations. So when word dropped on September 1st that the nearly 200-year-old museum was closing at the end of the month, thousands of families began a wistful pilgrimage, to make one final visit. “This is a very special place, for my family and also me growing up,” said Alexandria McCormick, who was visiting with …

Rogers Closes .1 Billion Maple Leafs Sports Stake Acquisition

Rogers Closes $3.1 Billion Maple Leafs Sports Stake Acquisition

Published by Daniella Wilson

Cable TV and telecom giant Rogers Communications has picked up the remaining 25 percent stake in Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment it did not already own to become the sole owner of the company behind the Toronto Maple Leafs and Toronto Raptors pro sports teams. Rogers took its ownership stake in MLSE to 100 percent after paying CAN$4.35 billion (US$3.1 billion) to Kilmer Sports for its minority stake. Rogers in 2024 picked up a 37.5 percent ownership stake in MLSE for CAN$4.7 billion. MLSE includes local Toronto franchises in Major League Soccer and the Canadian Football League, the city’s Scotiabank Arena and a concert venue partnership with Live Nation. Rogers will create a new business unit, Rogers Sports to combine MLSE and the Toronto Blue Jays. And Keith Pelley, while remaining as president and CEO of MLSE, will after an interim period return as president of Rogers Media, a post he held until 2015 when he departed to become the new commissioner and CEO of the PGA’s European Tour. In early 2024, Pelley left the …

Local newspaper where Harold Evans began closes after 171 years in print

Local newspaper where Harold Evans began closes after 171 years in print

Published by Sam Flores

Local independent newsbrand Tameside Reporter is closing its print edition after 171 years of publication. The local paper is looking to redistribute its existing staff to sister titles Glossop Chronicle, Oldham Reporter and Tameside Radio to produce online news, sport and entertainment content, as digital, video and audio are given higher priority. Press Gazette understands redundancies were made earlier this year at Tameside Reporter by owner Not Really Here, but further redundancies are not planned with the “pause” of Tameside Reporter. The weekly print paper was priced at £1 and was the only local print newspaper in Tameside, Greater Manchester. Investigative journalist Harold Evans started his career at the Ashton-under-Lyne Reporter in 1944, which later became the Tameside Reporter. In his autobiography, Evans said the title had 14 editions when he joined and 80,000 weekly readers. ‘Unsustainable in its current format’ A decline of local advertising and rising print and operating costs have been cited as the driving cause of the paper’s decision to cease print. Tameside Reporter shared a statement with Press Gazette: “We …

Glendale brush fire closes the 2; O.C. blaze consumes 200 acres

Glendale brush fire closes the 2; O.C. blaze consumes 200 acres

Published by Sam Flores

The northbound Glendale Freeway was closed briefly for a small brush fire Wednesday afternoon while, to the south, fire crews battled a blaze in Orange County that quickly consumed more than 200 acres. Authorities responded to the Glendale blaze, dubbed the York fire, next to California 2 near Round Top Drive around 4:50 p.m Wednesday, said Fire Department spokesperson Jamie Stewart. The fire, initially reported by the department as a quarter-acre “topography driven fire with no wind,” grew to 2 acres, Stewart said. According to the California Highway Patrol, shortly after 5 p.m., the Fire Department asked law enforcement to briefly shut down all lanes of the northbound 2 so a water tanker could be transported to battle the York fire. The full closure lasted about three minutes, said Sgt. Christian Stevens, a CHP spokesperson. But as of 6 p.m., two lanes of the northbound Glendale Freeway were still closed, as were the York Boulevard and Colorado Boulevard northbound on-ramps. No reopening time has been set, according to Stevens. Stewart said around 100 Fire Department …

Colombia’s Museo de Arte de Pereira Closes from Earthquake Damage

Colombia’s Museo de Arte de Pereira Closes from Earthquake Damage

Published by Jenni Sidey

As workers race against the 72-hour, so-called golden window to rescue survivors from collapsed buildings following Monday’s devastating 7.4 earthquake in northern Colombia, the region’s museums are also in serious jeopardy. On Monday evening, Alejandro Garces, a curator at the Museo de Arte de Pereira, posted photos on Instagram of the damage sustained to the museum that is located about 220 miles west of Bogotá and is the principal art institution for the states of Caldas, Risaralda, and Quindío, which together form the “Zona Cafeteria” or the country’s coffee triangle. Source link

The Psychedelic Window Always Closes

The Psychedelic Window Always Closes

Published by Jenni Sidey

Danny emerged from a guided psilocybin session lit up in a way he’d never been in years of therapy. He’d spent his whole life believing that if he ever stopped performing, he’d disappear, that his worth was his output. For five hours, that belief simply let go of him. He saw his kids’ faces. He understood, in his body, that he was already enough. He wept. He called it the most important day of his life. He thought he’d figured out the answer to his life’s problems, but I knew better… I’d seen this over a hundred times before. If he didn’t do the work, he’d be back to where he started within a few weeks. (Danny is a composite drawn from numerous people I’ve worked with.) If you’ve done psychedelic work or sat with someone who has, you know this story. The mountaintop, and then the slow, baffling slide back down. And here’s the part almost everyone misses: That slide is not a failure of willpower, or proof the experience was fake. It’s biology …

Cactus Taquería closes Hollywood location after 34 years

Cactus Taquería closes Hollywood location after 34 years

Published by Sam Flores

Husband and wife Mario Tornel and Martha Silva are no strangers to the American dream. They have lived it since 1992, the year they opened Cactus Taquería on Vine Street, right below the apartment where they were raising their children, Marlo and Adrianne. But the Hollywood taquería, which gained a loyal customer base for its no-frills tacos and burritos served late, was forced to shutter this week due to neighboring nonprofit and landlord Project Angel Food’s plans to demolish the building and expand its operations. Cactus Taquería no. 1 opened in its current 400-square-foot location in 1994, after the Northridge earthquake caused severe damage to its original outpost down the street. A cactus-shaped sign on the roof read “best tacos” and glowed neon green after sundown, making the shop instantly recognizable. Tornel and Silva followed up with Cactus Taqueria no. 2 in Koreatown in 1998. They operated those two stores for more than a decade before expanding to locations in Studio City, Encino and Sherman Oaks. Owners and husband and wife Mario Tornel and Martha …

LangSmith Engine closes the agent debugging loop automatically — but multi-model enterprises still need a neutral layer

LangSmith Engine closes the agent debugging loop automatically — but multi-model enterprises still need a neutral layer

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Enterprises building and deploying agents have a problem: it’s taking their engineers too long to find out that an agent made a mistake, and the loop has continued to perpetuate, especially without a human at every step.  LangSmith, the monitoring and evaluation platform from LangChain, launched a new capability in public beta that could make that issue more manageable. LangSmith Engine automates the entire chain by detecting production failures, diagnosing root causes against the live codebase, drafting a fix and preventing regression. It does this in a single automated pass.  LangSmith Engine gives AI engineers a faster path to triage, but it launches into a crowded field: Anthropic, OpenAI and Google are all pulling observability and evaluation into their own platforms. LangSmith Engine looks at failures LangChain said in a blog post that the typical agent development cycle starts by tracing the agent to understand what it’s doing, followed by identifying gaps, making changes to the prompts and tools, and creating ground-truth datasets. Developers then run experiments and check for regressions before shipping the agent.  …

Zurich’s Galerie Philipp Zollinger Closes After 7 years

Zurich’s Galerie Philipp Zollinger Closes After 7 years

Published by Jenni Sidey

After seven years in Zurich, Galerie Philipp Zollinger will cease operations, its founder announced today on Instagram. “I have always believed in hoping for the best while preparing for the unexpected,” Zollinger said in a statement. “A few months ago, I wrote to you about resilience and flexibility. At the start of this year, I was prepared to once again invest the time, energy, and conviction required to push the gallery forward. I wanted to believe in a recovering market and a path toward growth.” Source link

India’s Snabbit closes M round as investor interest in on-demand home services heats up

India’s Snabbit closes $56M round as investor interest in on-demand home services heats up

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Snabbit, an Indian on-demand home services startup, has closed a $56 million funding round, confirming TechCrunch’s earlier report. Co-led by Susquehanna Venture Capital, Mirae Asset Venture Investments’ Unicorn Growth Fund, and Bertelsmann India Investments, the company’s Series D round values the Bengaluru-based startup at around $350 million, according to a person familiar with the matter. That’s up from $180 million about six months ago. Existing investors Nexus Venture Partners and Lightspeed also participated, alongside FJ Labs. The company has raised about $112 million in total. Founded in 2024, Snabbit said it is now processing over 40,000 jobs daily across a network of more than 15,000 workers in five cities, offering services such as cleaning, dishwashing, and laundry as demand for rapid, on-demand home services grows in urban India. The startup said the amount it loses on each order has fallen about 50%, while its customer acquisition costs have shrunk roughly 65%. Snabbit’s fundraise comes as investor interest in India’s on-demand home services sector heats up, with rival Pronto also in talks to raise fresh capital …