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Some fans at rival schools have welcomed the Bears by mocking them as far-left radicals online, bringing the culture wars to the already scorched-earth digital battlefield of college football memes. “By taking it on from a satirical lens, I think it let a lot of Cal fans take ownership of that label and allow us to embrace it on our own terms. And simultaneously, it pokes fun at how other fans across the country have historically perceived the university." Cal fans embraced a “Calgorithm” challenge by taking to social media to support just about every hot-button issue that’d boil the blood of any conservative culture warrior. Le, the Cal fan, said he’s hopeful the football-fueled meme culture war could lead fans to better understand each other.

Persons: Cal’s, Miles Goodman, he’d, ” Goodman, “, ”, Nam, MAGA, Le, ” Le, Cal Organizations: UC Berkeley’s Golden Bears, Atlantic Coast Conference, Bears, Auburn, NBC, Cal, FSU, Florida State Seminoles Locations: Berkeley , California, Florida

☆ Brazilian mayoral candidate hits opponent with a chair during live debate
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-16 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

During Sunday’s debate among six hopefuls, candidate José Luiz Datena, a TV presenter, exploded when opponent Pablo Marçal, a far-right influencer, said Datena was not man enough to hit him as he had previously threatened. Datena had threatened to hit Marçal in a prior debate when Marçal raised a 2019 complaint of sexual harassment against Datena by a coworker. Datena throws a chair at Pablo Marçal (not seen) during a debate on Sunday. A half dozen pollsters announced new surveys to gauge the fallout from Sunday’s debate in the city of 11.5 million people. Pablo Marçal left the debate to seek medical attention after the altercation.

Persons: São Paulo, José Luiz Datena, Pablo Marçal, Datena, Marçal, Ricardo Nunes, Guilherme Boulos, Nunes, pollster, Marina Uezima, ”, Andre Cesar Organizations: Reuters, Reuters “, NBC Locations: São, Brazil’s, Eurasia

☆ Mayoral debate in Brazil turns ugly as candidate attacks rival with chair, live on TV
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-16 | by ( Ivonne Valdés | Cnn En Español | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A mayoral debate in the Brazilian city of São Paulo turned ugly when one of the candidates attacked a rival with a chair. Video from the debate, broadcast live on Sunday by TV Cultura, shows a tense exchange between José Luiz Datena and Pablo Marçal before Datena swings the chair at his counterpart. Datena later told TV Cultura that he had attacked Marçal – who required hospital treatment for his injuries – because he had brought up old sexual harassment allegations against Datena that were dismissed several years ago. “He came with a case that was archived, that was not even investigated by the police because there was no evidence. TV Cultura said it regretted the incident and had pressed ahead with the discussion in accordance with the rules after the other candidates agreed.

Persons: CNN —, São Paulo, José Luiz Datena, Pablo Marçal, Datena, Marçal –, ” Datena, Marçal, Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, Guilherme Boulos, Marina Helena, Ricardo Nunes, Tabata Amaral, “ Pablo Marçal, ”, Paulo, CNN’s Michael Rios Organizations: CNN, TV Cultura, Libanês Locations: Brazilian, São

☆ Keys to the Pool, Not the Room
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-16 | by ( Elaine Glusac | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Cadie Carroll and two college friends planned a recent weekend reunion in Sedona, Ariz., they booked a vacation rental to have more space than a hotel room and to be able to cook, something they enjoyed doing together at the University of Texas. The only thing missing was a swimming pool. For that, they booked a day at L’Auberge de Sedona where, for $100 each, they gained access to the resort pool, complimentary valet parking, lunch and a sound-healing session, part of a roster of daily activities that passholders have access to. “It felt fancy, like we were getting the five-star treatment,” said Ms. Carroll, 31, a logistics consultant in El Segundo, Calif.Day passes to resorts can be a thrifty traveler’s splurge or a local’s daycation. While the concept isn’t new, it’s grown rapidly in the wake of the pandemic as hotels, still recovering from the tourism collapse, seek to monetize their underused spaces such as pools, spas and even meeting rooms.

Persons: Cadie Carroll, ”, Carroll Organizations: University of Texas Locations: Sedona, Ariz, L’Auberge, El Segundo, Calif

☆ Our Pandemic Puppy Brought Pure Joy. Losing Him, Pure Heartbreak. - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( Margaret Renkl | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The first good thing about Rascal was his wiggling, leaping “You’re awake!” greeting at the start of every day. Because the second good thing about Rascal was his irrepressible joy. There is no gratitude like the gratitude of an animal rescued from a life of pain and fear and hunger. The third good thing about Rascal was his undimmed delight in what may have been the first real home he ever had. He turned laundry folding into a game of keep-away, and then a game of tug of war.

Persons: Rascal Organizations: Metro Animal Control Locations: Nashville

☆ Does a Smash Hit Like ‘Lion King’ Deserve a $3 Million Tax Break?
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Jay Root | Michael Paulson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

There is no greater success story on Broadway than “The Lion King.” It is reliably among the top-grossing stage shows in New York, where it has brought in nearly $2 billion over its 26-year run; its global total is five times that amount. The musical’s producer is the theatrical division of the Walt Disney Company, an entertainment industry behemoth that earned $89 billion in revenue during its last fiscal year. And yet, the show was one of roughly four dozen productions that have received millions of dollars in assistance from New York State under a program designed to help a pandemic-hobbled theater industry in New York City. Over the three years since the program was established, New York State has bestowed over $100 million on commercial Broadway productions.

Organizations: Walt Disney Company, New York, New York State Locations: New York, New, New York State, New York City

☆ Opinion | Rita, Anita, My Mother and Me
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-11 | by ( Deborah Paredez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Some Latina mothers teach their daughters how to spoon masa or plátano onto a corn husk or banana leaf when making tamales or pasteles. My Latina mother taught me to love musicals. Perhaps it’s because, like all musicals, “West Side Story” is a complex form of representation that revels in both its messiness and its marvelousness. My mother was showing me a diva who could move across these imposed limits. Many of us have cataloged and condemned the musical’s depictions of criminal youth and blatantly sexual women all speaking in exaggerated accents.

Persons: Barbra Streisand, Fanny Brice, Diana Ross, Rita Moreno, Anita, ” Organizations: Broadway Locations: “, America

☆ Could decaf coffee cause cancer? Experts weigh in
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-04 | by ( Kristen Rogers | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Here’s what experts and the FDA say about this clause in the modern context, and what you should know about the safety of decaf coffee. “There is more information on the toxicity of methylene chloride and the levels at which it causes this toxicity,” she added. Then there is the Swiss Water Process, which decaffeinates the beans by soaking them in warm water. The Clean Label Project, an organization that tests consumer products for hidden industrial and environmental contaminants, has detected methylene chloride in several brands of coffee. What you can do nowWhether or not the FDA eventually bans methylene chloride is a decision that could take years.

Persons: Maria, Monique Richard, ”, Richard, wasn’t, ” Richard, Richard said, Dunkin Organizations: CNN, Food and Drug Administration, Occupational Safety, Health Administration, National Institutes of Health’s, Toxicology Program, Environmental Protection Agency, World Health Organization, Environmental Defense Fund, FDA, US Centers for Disease Control, EPA, Federal Food, Nutrition, maté Locations: California, Tennessee

☆ Red rice yeast: Japan orders recall of ‘beni koji’ products over suspected link to four deaths
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-28 | by ( Himari Semans | Chris Lau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

All three supplements contain “beni koji” - rice fermented with red yeast – an ingredient said to lower cholesterol levels that is traditionally used in food seasoning and preservation, and rice wine production. Kobayashi Pharmaceutical’s website says its beni koji products use a strain of bacteria in fermentation that does not produce citrinin. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Thursday said the government was investigating the deaths and the suspected link to beni koji, adding it was prepared to act. Across the Taiwan Strait, the island’s Food and Drug Administration ordered distributors to suspend the import of more than 150 products containing beni koji, including those made by Kobayashi. And in Singapore, authorities recalled a sparkling sake, a type of rice wine, by Kyoto-based Takara Shuzo, which uses beni koji in its production.

Persons: Kobayashi, beni koji, Benikoji, Kobayashi Pharmaceutical’s, “, Fumio Kishida, ”, Takara Shuzo, beni Organizations: Tokyo CNN, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Wednesday, Kobayashi Pharmaceutical, CNN, Weibo, Drug Administration Locations: Japan’s, Osaka, beni, Asia, China, Japan, Taiwan Strait, Singapore, Kyoto

☆ 16,000 plastic chemicals exist, many of them hazardous and unregulated, report says
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Sandee Lamotte | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

And with new plastic chemicals entering the market all the time, it’s been difficult for regulators and policy makers to determine the scope of the problem. Now, for the first time, researchers have pulled together scientific and regulatory data to develop a database of all known chemicals used in plastic production. It’s a staggering number: 16,000 plastic chemicals, with at least 4,200 of those considered to be “highly hazardous” to human health and the environment, according to the authors. Although grouping would capture about 1,000 of the most toxic chemicals in plastics, Wagner said, that still leaves about 2,600 chemicals that still need to be regulated. Missing hazard dataIn addition to the massive number of toxic chemicals, the report found that detailed hazard information is missing for more than 10,000 of the 16,000 chemicals.

Persons: it’s, It’s, “, ”, Martin Wagner, Wagner, Philip Landrigan, Landrigan, Matt Seaholm, ” Kimberly Wise White, ” Wagner, ” Landrigan, Tasha Stoiber, Stoiber, Jane Houlihan Organizations: CNN, Norwegian University of Science, Technology, Program, Global Public Health, Global, Planetary Health, Boston College, – Monaco, Plastics, Human, Plastics Industry Association, American Chemistry Council, International, United Nations Environment, Global Plastics, Environmental, Healthy Locations: Trondheim, United States

☆ Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo may be gearing up for an epic ‘method dressing’ press tour of ‘Wicked’
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-11 | by ( Christy Choi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —The stars of the new “Wicked” movie appear to be gearing up for an epic “method dressing” press tour, having opted for color-coded looks on the Oscars red carpet Sunday night in Los Angeles. Cynthia Erivo wore a bewitching emerald-green custom leather Louis Vuitton gown with structured ruffle sleeves and train, as a nod to her, well, “wicked” character Elphaba. Cynthia Erivo arrives at the Oscars channeling her character Elphaba, Wicked Witch of the West in the fictional world of Oz. Erivo and Grande even attended the 2024 Super Bowl in custom Louis Vuitton jerseys. “There’s always that incredible pressure because it’s so beloved,” Grande told Oscars pre-show co-host Vanessa Hudgens on the red carpet.

Persons: Cynthia Erivo, Louis Vuitton, Elphaba, Ariana Grande, Giambattista Valli —, Glinda, Oz, Jordan Strauss, Laverne Cox, Erivo, Michelle Yeoh, Madame Morrible, Galinda, ”, Oz ”, Gregory Maguire’s, Dorothy Gale, Tony, Jon M, Chu, Elphaba Thropp, Glinda Upland, Timothée Chalamet, Florence Pugh, “ Barbie, Margot Robbie, movie’s, “ There’s, ” Grande, Vanessa Hudgens, we’ve, ” Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth, “ Congrats, ” Menzel, Instagram Organizations: CNN, Broadway, Super, Erivo, “ Locations: Los Angeles, Grande

☆ Inside Project Espresso, Amazon's secretive and painful reset of its big healthcare bet
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-09 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

It already shut down the Amazon Care telehealth service in 2022, while disbanding Haven , a joint healthcare venture, in 2021. She said Amazon's healthcare business continues to grow and receive positive customer feedback. Less focus on senior healthcareAnother idea One Medical recently explored was to put less focus on the senior healthcare business. Still, for some One Medical employees, Amazon’s scrutiny is leading to growing frustration. “As Trent Green communicated to employees, One Medical employees will not return to physical offices at this time.

Persons: Big, Samantha Kruse, ” Kruse, Andy Jassy Chelsea Jia Feng, Neil Lindsay, ” Amazon’s Kruse, Amazon's Kruse, Lindsay, ”, Amir Dan Rubin, Kruse, Amazon’s, “, Trent Green Organizations: Business, Amazon, Care, Amazon Health Services, Amazon's Pharmacy, Amazon Health, Iora Health, Iora, “ Locations: New York, Minneapolis, St, Petersburg , Florida, Francisco

☆ Leaked email shows Amazon's One Medical will shut down several offices and move the CFO to a new role
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Amazon’s One Medical is undergoing significant changes, following this week’s layoffs that cut hundreds of jobs . One Medical will also look for ways to take advantage of Amazon’s own corporate office space going forward. Green also announced in the email that Bjorn Thaler, One Medical’s CFO, will transfer to a new role that reports directly to Amazon’s healthcare boss Neil Lindsay. As part of the move, One Medical executives and teams across finance, legal, and technology will report to Amazon’s healthcare business, reflecting a tighter integration between the two companies. Amazon’s spokesperson said the reorganization will help One Medical better leverage Amazon’s resources and provide employees with more opportunities across Amazon’s healthcare business.

Persons: Trent Green, Green, Bjorn Thaler, Neil Lindsay, Thaler Organizations: Business, Amazon, Medical, State, “ Locations: New York City , Minneapolis, St, Petersburg, Francisco, Tri, New England, Maryland, Virginia, Pacific Northwest, Southwest, Southern California, Texas

☆ Why the controversial mullet is having a moment
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Fawnia Soo Hoo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Long hair, don’t careThe “modern day” mullet largely originates from David Bowie’s genre-defining and gender-norm defying persona, Ziggy Stardust, Glasscock said. “People from the Continental Congress wore what we would read as a full metal, 1992 mullet,” said Glasscock. (“Hockey hair” was, meanwhile, a popular synonym for mullet at the time, given its prominence among players and fans.) Devin Yalkin/Courtesy A24While playing Kerry Von Erich in “The Iron Claw,” White also wore his dynamic, sweeping mullet off-set — but not entirely by choice. “I was like, ‘I’m sorry, here’s a ponytail holder.”But that dedication may have played an integral part in a mullet revival kicking off 2024.

Persons: Von Erich, ”, Napoleon Bonaparte’s, Paul Barras, Ridley Scott’s “ Napoleon ”, Jessica Glasscock, Tahir Rahim, Napoleon, Aidan Monaghan, Paul Mescal’s, Kristen Stewart’s, Von Erichs, David, Harris Dickinson, Kerry, Jeremy Allen White, Kevin, Zac Efron, They’re, Natalie Shea Rose, hairdos, Rose, David Bowie’s, Ziggy Stardust, Glasscock, Vivienne Westwood, Malcolm McClaren, David Bowie, Aladdin, Joseph, Michael Putland, Procopius, Bowie, Suzi Ronson, “, Yamamoto, “ Bowie, ” Glasscock, “ Napoleon ”, Francesco Pegoretti, Pegoretti, Tahir, mullets, Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Siffred Duplessis, Duran Duran, Bono, —, ’ ” Glasscock, Joe Namath, Nicolas Cage’s, Air ”, David Spade’s, Joe, Rambo, Von Erich mullets, Taghizadeh, Harry, Paul Mescal, Adam, Andrew Scott, Zoe Clare Brown, Mescal, ’ ”, Brown, Devin Yalkin, Kerry Von Erich, ” White, ” Rose, I’m, “ There’s Organizations: CNN, Apple, Globe, Lone Star State, Continental Congress, Sporting, New York Jets, Air Locations: Ridley, Texas, London, Celtic, Nez Perce, Roman, France, Barras, United States

☆ Amazon’s health push is a too-costly prescription
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Robert Cyran | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Snag is, primary care tends to be a recipe for burning cash. Drugstore chains have been buying up primary care companies in the hope of steering patients to their stores. Prime members can add up to five additional memberships to the same plan at $6 a person. The primary care provider had 836,000 members at the end of last year, with practices in two dozen metropolitan areas. It had over 200 million members worldwide as of April 2021.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Jonathan Guilford, Sharon Lam, Aditya Sriwatsav Organizations: REUTERS, Reuters, Amazon, Amazon Web Services, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Telecom, AT, Time Warner, Thomson

☆ Pedro Pascal drops by ‘SNL’ to help Bad Bunny nail his monologue
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( Alli Rosenbloom | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

The “Last of Us” actor told Bad Bunny in the bit that he can win the audience over by sharing an “embarrassing” photo of himself. Taking Pascal’s advice – sort of – Bad Bunny showed a steamy photo of himself striking a pose while wearing nothing but a towel. Pascal hosted “SNL” in February alongside musical guest Coldplay. Bad Bunny pulled double duty on Saturday’s episode, serving as the host and musical guest. “SNL” returns next week with comedian Nate Bargatze as host and the Foo Fighters as the musical guest.

Persons: Pedro Pascal, ” Pascal, ”, Bad Bunny, Pascal, Marcello Hernández, Chloe Troast, Coldplay, Bunny, Mick Jagger, Lady Gaga, “, “ SNL ”, Nate Bargatze Organizations: CNN, SNL, “ SNL, Foo Fighters

☆ Risky biotech M&A therapy will heal more fractures
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Jonathan Guilford | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +8 min

NEW YORK, Oct 19 (Reuters Breakingviews) - How can a suitor offering $1 billion see eye-to-eye with a seller asking for $2 billion? Such contingent value rights, or CVRs, are a way to get around the inherent uncertainty of an unproven drug. Its $74 billion takeover of Celgene in 2019 included a $6.4 billion payout dependent on a trio of drug approvals. There have been only 27 biotech market debuts this year, raising $2.2 billion, according to LSEG data. Given the nagging fissures in valuation perspectives, however, more dealmakers are apt to try this risky M&A therapy.

Persons: Schulman, Sidley, Bristol Myers, Myers, CVRs, Andrew Weisenfeld, IPOs, ”, Dan Lepanto, biopharma, Eli Lilly’s, Bristol Myers Squibb, Jeffrey Goldfarb, Sharon Lam, Streisand Neto Organizations: Reuters, Dow, Marion Laboratories, LyondellBasell Industries, Mirati Therapeutics, JPMorgan, Sanofi, Health Partners, Nasdaq Biotechnology, Reuters Graphics Reuters, Reuters Graphics, Leerink Partners, Therapeutics, Public, Bristol Myers, U.S . Food, Drug Administration, Thomson Locations: Celgene, Genzyme, U.S

☆ Metro Bank: Colombian billionaire Jaime Gilinski Bacal takes control of struggling UK lender
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Hanna Ziady | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

London CNN —Jaime Gilinski Bacal, a Colombian banking and real estate entrepreneur, has taken control of Metro Bank as part of a bigger rescue deal to fill a hole in the UK lender’s finances. Metro Bank said in a statement late on Sunday that it had raised £325 million ($396 million) from investors, split between £150 million ($183 million) of equity and £175 million ($213 million) of debt. Metro Bank’s shares were trading 22% higher Monday but have still lost 55% so far this year. The Bank of England welcomed the deal, which will also see Metro Bank refinance £600 million ($731 million) of debt, causing losses to some bondholders. Metro Bank CEO Daniel Frumkin said the deal “marks a new chapter” for the lender, which has reported losses for several years.

Persons: London CNN — Jaime Gilinski Bacal, Stock, Daniel Frumkin, Gilinski, Forbes, Gilinski Bacal, Dorita, Fitch Organizations: London CNN, Metro Bank, Lloyds, Barclays, BCS, HSBC, —, Metro Bank’s, Bank of England, Fitch, Bank Locations: Colombian, America

☆ A Local’s Guide to Portland, Maine and Beyond
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Jessica Battilana | Richard Pedaline | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But Maine’s desirability is nothing new. More recently, the state’s creative spirit has resulted in a dynamic food scene. Kazeem Lawal, the owner of the clothing and accessories store Portland Trading Co., moved from New Jersey to Portland 14 years ago, and has witnessed its stratospheric growth from a small port town to a destination city. “It’s a bit like the Brooklyn of 20 years ago, with old and new coexisting,” he says. “and it’s continuing to grow and evolve, as all cities should and do.”

Persons: Portland’s, Kazeem Lawal, ”, “ Organizations: Artists, of Crafts, Portland Trading Co Locations: Ogunquit, Deer, Rockland, Portland, New Jersey, “, Brooklyn

☆ Tiananmen musical: Broadway star quits US show during China tour
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Nectar Gan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —A Broadway star has withdrawn from a musical about the Tiananmen Square protests weeks before its debut in the US – while he is on a concert tour in China. “I have withdrawn from the musical Tiananmen,” Piser said in a brief signed statement on Instagram. His manager Dave Brenner told CNN “there was a creative difference” that caused the actor to back out of the Tiananmen musical. Piser’s announcement came a day after his role in the Tiananmen musical was reported by Playbill, an American magazine for theater fans. The rehearsals for the Tiananmen musical start in Phoenix on September 5, according to Rose, the lead producer.

Persons: Zachary Noah Piser, “, ” Piser, Piser, –, Dave Brenner, Wu’er, ”, Jason Rose, ” Rose, Wu'er, Nicholas Kamm, Evan Hansen, Rose, Xi Jinping, Kaixi Organizations: CNN, Tiananmen, “, The Phoenix Theatre Company, Playbill, Getty, Broadway, Communist Party Locations: China, Phoenix , Arizona, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Phoenix, American, Washington , DC, Nanjing, Chengdu, Shaanxi, Taiwan

☆ A Local’s Guide to Majorca
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Gisela Williams | Richard Pedaline | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

T’s new monthly travel series, Flocking To, highlights places you might already have on your wish list, sharing tips from frequent visitors and locals alike. Majorca, the largest of Spain’s Balearic Islands, has been a classic summer destination for Europeans and Brits for decades. In the last few years, a number of artists and designers have left larger cities in Europe and moved to Majorca. For the first installment of our series of Flocking To travel guides, we asked four locals or frequent visitors to Majorca to share the places they love most. One word of advice for first-time visitors: Majorca sprawls across roughly 1,400 square miles (it’s about the size of Long Island), so if you’re planning on exploring, you might want to rent a car.

Persons: helipads, Frédéric Chopin, George Sand, Robert Graves, Laura Riding, Deià —, Gertrude Stein —, Joan Miró, Miquel Barceló, ikat Locations: Majorca, Balearic, Polish, French, Valldemossa, British, American, Deià, Barcelona, Palma ., Asia, Europe, Sóller, Palma’s Old, Long

☆ Plant-Based Plastics Gain Favor as Companies Pursue Sustainability Goals
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Dieter Holger | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +6 min

Plant-based plastic, that is. However, the environmental benefits of plant-based plastics are increasingly appealing to companies promising to use more sustainable materials by the end of the decade. Plants absorb the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide, which cuts the greenhouse-gas emissions from making bioplastics to at least half that of fossil-fuel-based plastics. A Lululemon shirt containing plant-based nylon. Only plant-based plastics that are chemically identical to fossil-fuel–based versions can enter the existing and growing recycling infrastructure.

Persons: Bioplastics haven’t, Michael Carus, “, ” Carus, Eastman, Chris Killian, bioplastics, Warby Parker, ”, Biden, Manav, olefins, Dow, bioethylene, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis, Haley Lowry, Dieter Holger Organizations: Sustainable Business, Kodak, U.S . Defense Department, European, dieter.holger Locations: China, Japan, biomanufacturing, U.S, Iowa

☆ Pedro Pascal visits Margate art show dedicated to him, only to find he can't get in
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Lianne Kolirin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

London CNN —When a Hollywood star like Pedro Pascal visits a small English coastal town like Margate, it should be a big deal. But the Emmy-nominated actor received none of the celebrity treatment one might have expected on Sunday when he turned up at an art exhibition dedicated to him. Accompanied by art podcasters Robert Diament and Russell Tovey, “The Last of Us” actor found that the exhibition was actually closed. I’d love for Robert to bring him along when we’re actually open.”One of the paintings of Pedro Pascal by artist Heidi Gentle Burrell in the Margate exhibition. Jessica Rhodes RobbBritish actor Tovey and art gallery director Diament present an art podcast called Talk Art.

Persons: Pedro Pascal, Robert Diament, Russell Tovey, “, Pascal, Heidi Gentle Burrell, PEDRO PASCAL, Burrell, Robert, we’re, Jessica Rhodes Robb, Tovey, Diament, it’s, ” Robb, We’ll, Pedro, Jessica Rhodes Robb Chilean, Joel Miller, Din, ” Tovey, Banksy Organizations: London CNN, Margate, Independent, CNN Locations: Margate, HBO’s, London, Kent

☆ Analysis: Stelara patent deal puts J&J back on path to $57 bln 2025 revenue forecast
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Patrick Wingrove | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Stelara, introduced in 2009, has been J&J’s top-selling drug since 2019, with sales reaching $9.7 billion in 2022. J&J is forecasting $57 billion in pharmaceutical sales by 2025 after reducing its previous view of $60 billion in April, citing currency dynamics that hurt its pharmaceutical business in 2022. That would add around $4.6 billion to average estimates for pharmaceutical sales, as long as no biosimilars enter the market before 2025. Amgen said last month the confidential settlement it signed with J&J will allow it to sell its Stelara biosimilar no later than Jan. 1, 2025. “If no Stelara biosimilars enter in 2024, I think growth should continue at around 4% in 2023 and 2024,” Huynh said.

Persons: Johnson, Amgen, ”, Vamil, Trung Huynh, ” Huynh, Teva, biosimilar, Divan, Alvotech, Patrick Wingrove, Caroline Humer, Bill Berkrot Organizations: Amgen Inc, Analysts, Stelara, Reuters Graphics Reuters, Reuters, New, J, Credit Suisse, Food and Drug Administration, Alvotech’s, Thomson Locations: New Brunswick , New Jersey, Alvotech’s Reykjavik

☆ Broadway Musicians Object to David Byrne’s ‘Here Lies Love’
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Michael Paulson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

But Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians says its contract with the Broadway League requires the use of 19 musicians for musicals at the Broadway Theater. (The number of musicians required under the contract varies based on theater size.) The union says it is seeking to preserve jobs for musicians and quality for theater lovers. “We’re not going to stand by and let this happen,” said Tino Gagliardi, the local’s president and executive director. The request is to be assessed by a panel that includes neutral observers as well as representatives of the Broadway League and the musicians’ union; it is not clear how long that process will take, and the ruling can be appealed to arbitration.

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