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☆ Composting could be set for U.S. boom, and it needs one, decades behind recycling
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-29 | by ( Cheryl Winokur Munk | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Some states, municipalities and private-sector companies are pushing to make composting as commonplace as recycling. Yet data from the Environmental Protection Agency shows little residential food waste is composted in the U.S. — 3.7% as of an April 2023 report. These include at-home options, curbside bins, drop-off locations and private valet services that pick up food waste from multi-family homes. Thousands of composting facilities neededFranciosi said his organization has been fielding more calls from municipalities that are interested in composting, but funding challenges remain. Another challenge is the dearth of composting facilities.

Persons: Scott Smithline, Jenny Grant, Frank Franciosi, Stacy Savage, Franciosi, Grant, Lauren Organizations: PepsiCo, Environmental Protection Agency, California Department of Resources Recycling, Zero, Local Locations: U.S, Vermont, California, Europe, REA, New York City, Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten

Five players from Canada's 2018 world junior team have taken a leave of absence from their current clubs in recent days amid a report that five members of that team have been asked to surrender to police to face sexual assault charges. The NHL Players' Association declined to comment. In the meantime, members of the organization, including Flyers players, will not be commenting any further. Hockey Canada has made wholesale changes after a scathing independent report and lost major sponsors in the nearly two years since this and other scandals emerged. Nike last year permanently ended its partnership with the organization after earlier pausing it, along with other sponsors, given the heavy criticism of Hockey Canada leadership.

Persons: Michael McLeod, Cal Foote, Carter Hart, Dillon Dube, Alex Formenton, Formenton, McLeod, Foote, Sandasha Bough, Daniel Briere, “, Bill Daly, Daly, ” Daly, Hart's, Briere, ” Briere, “ We’re, ”, Lindy Ruff, Dube, Dillon, ” Formenton, Scott Smith, Dan Gelston, John Wawrow, ___ Organizations: NHL, New Jersey Devils, Philadelphia Flyers, Calgary Flames, Flyers, Swiss, HC Ambri, Devils, NHL Players, Association, Hockey Canada, Globe &, London Police, The Associated Press, Associated Press, London police, Flames, Ottawa Senators, Switzerland's National, Hockey, Nike, AP, AP Hockey Locations: Europe, Swiss, Canada, London , Ontario, Toronto, Detroit, Colorado, Newark , New Jersey, Hockey Canada, Voorhees , New Jersey, Buffalo , New York

☆ Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Best Buy, Seagen, Union Pacific and more
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-27 | by ( Pia Singh | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Union Pacific — Shares rose 9.5% after the company said CEO Lance Fritz would have a successor named this year. Best Buy — The retailer slipped 1.5% in the premarket after being downgraded to market perform from outperform by Telsey Advisory Group. The Wall Street firm said it expects high inflation and rising interest rates to weigh on Best Buy's 2023 sales and profits. The Omaha-based company used $2.855 billion to buy back shares in the quarter. Alliant Energy — Shares dropped more than 3% after the company reported that it intends to offer $500 million of its convertible senior notes due 2026.

☆ Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Union Pacific, Fisker, Tesla, Zillow and more
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-27 | by ( Alex Harring | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Union Pacific – Union Pacific's stock nearly 10% after the company announced that its current CEO would step down in 2023. Fisker – Shares of the electric vehicle startup surged more than 27% after Fisker maintained its 2023 vehicle production target and said it spent less than anticipated in 2022. To be sure, the company posted a larger-than-expected loss and revenue miss for the fourth quarter, according to StreetAccount. Alphabet — Google's parent company gained 0.6% after Bank of America reiterated its overweight rating, citing the technology giant's opportunities within artificial intelligence. Zillow — The online real estate platform gained 2.4% after JPMorgan initiated coverage of the stock with an overweight rating.

☆ Ketamine is being sold as a depression wonder drug. For some, it's making everything worse.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Anna Silman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +42 min

The infusions at the ketamine clinic in his West Texas hometown were a Christmas gift from his grandmother. About five years ago, more and more of my friends started using ketamine recreationally. IV ketamine treatment centers charging $400 to $2,000 an infusion popped up all over the country. "Ketamine used as directed in an appropriate clinical setting very rarely leads to any dependence," Mindbloom says on its website. Like Nadia, most of the people I interviewed said when they started using ketamine, they didn't think it was possible to become dependent on it.

☆ How to avoid winter sports injuries
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Melanie Radzicki Mcmanus | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Sprains, strains, dislocations and fractures were common but also concussions and other head injuries. In fact, head injuries make up 20% of the roughly 600,000 ski- and snowboarding-related injuries that occur annually across North America, according to a study published in The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. “Certainly, we worry the most about head injuries,” said Dr. Brian Cole, an orthopedic surgeon at Chicago’s Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush. “You’re less likely to have a catastrophic ligament tear or fracture this way.”Common injuries by age and sexSome winter sports injuries are more common in people of a certain sex or age. Cole sees a lot of sledding injuries in his younger patients, snowmobiling injuries in middle-aged men and downhill skiing injuries in women, especially torn ACLs in the knee.

While going through a costly divorce earlier this year, Cavanaugh's flood insurance coverage lapsed. Many people in the small coastal community, which faces the Gulf of Mexico southwest of Fort Myers, did not have flood insurance coverage. It appears that, despite an increased occurrence of devastating flood events, a declining percentage of people nationwide have flood insurance policies. Chuck Larsen / SantivaChronicle.com via APOne significant issue is that many homeowners assume a typical homeowner's insurance policy covers floods. The average cost of flood insurance from the National Flood Insurance Program is $995 a year, according to Forbes Advisor analysis.

☆ Hockey Canada Leaders Step Down in Wake of Sexual-Assault Settlement
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Paul Vieira | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Scott Smith, who stepped down as CEO of Hockey Canada, in Ottawa this summer. OTTAWA—The chief executive and the board of directors at Canada’s governing body for hockey stepped down Tuesday, after some of Canada’s biggest corporations severed financial relationships with the organization in response to its handling of sexual assault allegations. Hockey Canada said the resignations are in recognition of “the urgent need for new leadership and perspectives.” The organization will hold votes for members to elect a new board no later than mid-December.

☆ Hockey Canada CEO has left organization, board of directors stepping down
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Frank Pingue | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Oct 11 (Reuters) - Hockey Canada said on Tuesday Chief Executive Scott Smith has left the organisation and all board members have agreed to step down as the national governing body faces increased scrutiny over its handling of sexual assault allegations. An interim management committee will be put in place, which will guide the national governing body until no later than a newly constituted board appoints a new chief executive to lead the organization, Hockey Canada said in a statement. The board will not seek re-election and will fulfil its duties until a new board is elected. Smith, who has worked for Hockey Canada in various roles since 1995, said in July less than a month after taking over as CEO that he had no plans to resign from his position. As recent as last week, Hockey Canada's interim board chair, who resigned over the weekend, defended the current leadership in place at the national governing body while speaking during a parliamentary committee meeting.

☆ Fidelity Is Rolling Out Four New Bond Model Portfolios
▼ + stars: | 2020-01-15 | by ( Rebecca Ungarino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Investment management giant Fidelity is adding more fixed-income model portfolios to its menu of products available to financial advisors. While Fidelity doesn't charge advisory fees for the model portfolios, it charges investment management fees for the underlying funds. AdvertisementInvestment-management giant Fidelity is adding more fixed-income model portfolios to its menu of products available to financial advisors. Fidelity's model portfolios are available on so-called turnkey platforms for advisers, including its own offering. AdvertisementA growing marketFidelity already offers bond model portfolios to the advisers it serves through its institutional asset management business.

Persons: iShares, —, Larry Fink, Fink, Charles Schwab, Schwab, TD, Brian Snyder That's, Scott Smith, Smith, BlackRock's Fink, Russell Investments, Michelle Seitz, Russell, Seitz, — Bradley Saacks Organizations: Fidelity, BlackRock, Service, Fidelity Investments, REUTERS, Cerulli Associates, Business, Bank of America, Natixis, JPMorgan, Merrill Lynch Wealth Management Locations: Broadridge, Boston , Massachusetts

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