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From the Editor's Desk The blind skateboarder challenging misconceptions about sight and sport | CNN Dan Mancina is a skateboarder whose jaw-dropping videos rack up hundreds of thousands of views. He has a loyal following on Instagram, all eager to see him landing jumps and all sorts of skillful tricks. Mancina also happens to be blind - and videos of him using his white cane as he boards inspires curiosity and admiration from fans around the world. "I've lost my vision slowly throughout my life," he told CNN Sport, explaining that it wasn't until his mid-20s that his condition - a neurodegenerative eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa - started to affect his dayto-day life, stopping him from driving and biking. Continued here TradeBriefs: Newsletters for Decision-Makers! Our advertisers help fund the daily operations of TradeBriefs. We request you to accept our promotional emails. Want the newsletters, without the promotional mailers? Get an (ad-free) subscription to TradeBriefs Premium for just $2 per month. Access to premium content | No advertisement mailers Work Why Businesses Fail with Extinct Content Marketing Why Businesses Fail with Extinct Content Marketing Let me start by saying, that Im a Millennial. Now, I can only guess what youre thinking, Whats this job flip flopper know about the business world? I can understand that thought, but Im also one who understands technology and marketing in this highly digital age. I [] Work Today's Powerball jackpot is expected to hit a record $1.9 billion | CNN "This Powerball game is delivering exactly what our players want," Powerball Product Group Chairperson Drew Svitko said in a statement prior to Saturday's drawing. "We are witnessing history in the making with this $1.6 billion jackpot! What's also exciting is that this run has already created millions of winners, including nearly 100 players who have won prizes worth $1 million or more." � � � � � � � � � � � � � � Work North Korea makes no mention of ICBM in report on more than 80 missile tests | CNN "North Korea conducted a nuclear test after demonstrating its ability to strike the US mainland," Shin said. "But Hwasong-17 tests are failing, so it seems that North Korea is launching so many missiles because it is in a desperate situation and in a hurry to prove itself." Work Disney overtook Netflix as the streaming leader, and is expected to widen its lead Jon Swartz is a senior reporter for MarketWatch in San Francisco, covering many of the biggest players in tech, including Netflix, Facebook and Google. Jon has covered technology for more than 20 years, and previously worked for Barron\'s and USA Today. Follow him on Twitter @jswartz. � Work How Participating in Philanthropy Can Positively Affect Your Business Now, more than ever, startups and business owners are looking to incorporate charitable giving and philanthropy into their business models. Rather than viewing charitable giving as a drop in profits, businesses are reframing philanthropy as a benefit to their companies rather than a loss. The logical beginning to your charitable endeavors is to select an [] Work Drought, not lithium mining, is drying out Chile's largest salt flat Lithium mining has been blamed for the drying out of a region in the Andes where the metal is naturally found but drought may be the culprit instead � Work Ukraine in danger of running out of air defenses as Russia launches relentless drone attacks Russia has bombarded Ukraine over recent weeks with a tide of cheap Iran-supplied drones which are destroying the country's energy infrastructure. Work Poor countries aren't causing the climate crisis. They want rich countries to pay for their damage | CNN Loss and damage will be center-stage at the UN climate summit this year, as low-emitting countries inundated with floods and extreme heat are demanding developed nations pay up for this damage. � Work Goldman Sachs says China is still 'months away' from reopening Goldman Sachs says China is still 'months away' from reopening Work Most Seoul Halloween crush victims were women South Koreas Halloween tragedy reveals women may be more vulnerable in crowd disasters. � Work The Secret to Being Lucky Everything happens for no reason. Work The dads spreading love to stop fights in school Dads on Duty are a team of fathers who patrol a school in the US. � Work Why Luke Bryan Chose To Partner With Jockey For Their Outdoors Collection Now through the end of the year, Jockey will donate sales from the collection to adoptive and foster families in the US, a cause that Jockey has supported since 2005 through their Foundation. The items make for the perfect Christmas gifts, and can be purchased at Jockey.com/Outdoors, Jockey retail stores, BassPro.com (coming soon), and at select retailers in 2023. Work Russia-Ukraine war live news: Zelenskiy warns of mass attacks on power grid; Kyiv mayor raises prospect of evacuations The US national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, held secretive talks with top Russian officials in hopes of reducing the risk of nuclear conflict, the Wall Street Journal has reported. It cited US and allied officials as saying that Sullivan held previously undisclosed conversations in recent months with the Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov and the Russian security council secretary Nikolai Patrushev, Sullivan's counterpart. The White House declined to comment on the report. � Work Delaware woman wins two six-figure lottery prizes in several days Lottery winnings are taxed like regular income in most of the US – but Delaware is a notable exception. There, such winnings aren’t subject to the state income tax rate of 6.6%, making Delaware one of the best places to win the lottery. Work Devialet launches a high-end portable speaker But don’t hold your breath for Devialet headphones as the company is not sure it would be a strategic move. “When you go outside, people moved on from headphones to wireless earbuds,” Lebouchard said. Work After 40 million app downloads, PhotoRoom raises $19 million “By focusing intently on user needs, Matthieu and Eliot have created a product that stands out from the rest. The importance of online photography is immense and PhotoRoom has both the traction and the ambition to become a market leader,” Balderton Capital partner Bernard Liautaud said in a statement. Work Imran Khan: Pakistan's top court orders police to investigate shooting Pakistan's government denies claims by the former PM that it was behind the shooting. Work What is Social Entrepreneurship and Why are So Many Choosing This Path? The world is changing, and evolving in ways we never imagined. From technology, to the job market, to the way we communicate, our society is a vastly different place than it was just a few decades ago. While some may agree to disagree on if thats a good or bad thing, entrepreneurship has evolved in [] Work A startup building software to encrypt messaging tools such as Slack just raised $11 million from Molten Ventures. Check out the 17-slide pitch deck Worldr used to secure the round. The company gives its customers full control over their data and claims to increase security, with a focus on compliance and auditing. Work British minister arrives in Taiwan to talk trade with Tsai and others Greg Hands says trading boost with the island is part of Britains post-Brexit tilt towards the Indo-Pacific. Work Twitter will ban unlabelled parody accounts, says Elon Musk The site's new owner says accounts failing to specify they are parodies will be permanently suspended. Work Japan's Lasertec rises above headwinds from U.S.-China chip war Key equipment maker to cutting-edge chips looks beyond downturn: CEO Work Pakistan 'long march' to resume as wounded Imran Khan wins sympathy Recovering from shooting, ex-PM to address protesters online at first Work Foxconn woos fleeing workers with US$70 subsidy as exodus hits iPhone capacity Foxconn is offering workers who fled its Zhengzhou compound a subsidy of US$70 to return to work as the worlds largest iPhone factory tries to limit fallout from a Covid-19 lockdown. Work This biotech stock soared 20% last week and analysts are giving it another 36% upside The stock bucked the general trend of global stocks declining last week, with the MSCI World Index dipping around 2% for the week. Work The Troubling Trends Pointing to a Severe Flu and RSV Season Its still early, but a number of factors are pointing to a bad season for viruses Work Sunday Review: Bruce Springsteens Only The Strong Survive A Joyous Celebration Of Timeless Soul Classics What makes Only The Strong Survive such an effective collection is the diversity of the songs Springsteen selects. The most important trait for any great covers project is that you feel the artist\'s love for the songs. And from the opening \"Only The Strong Survive\" through the closing \"Someday We\'ll Be Together,\" all 15 songs ring out with Springsteen\'s enthusiastic passion for these great songs. Work Twitter will ban unlabelled parody accounts, says Elon Musk However, Mr Musk has insisted that the firm\'s stance towards harmful material remains \"absolutely unchanged\". UN human rights chief Volker Turk wrote him an open letter, warning that Twitter had a responsibility to avoid amplifying harmful content. Work Elon Musk bans impersonation without parody label on Twitter raising questions about free speech commitment On Sunday, after calling for bans of impersonators without a parody label, Musk also tried shift the focus away from free speech. He wrote, \"Twitter needs to become by far the most accurate source of information about the world. That\'s our mission.\" Work Democrats confront their nightmare scenario on election eve as economic concerns overshadow abortion and democracy worries | CNN Politics High inflation has also always been a toxic force that brews political extremism and tempts some voters to be drawn to demagogues and radicals whose political creed is based on stoking resentment and stigmatizing outsiders. Work Video: Ukraine is trying to solve mystery of missing soldiers | CNN Work The Iowa teen who killed her alleged rapist and was sentenced to probation has escaped from custody | CNN "She was a victim in this situation," Brown, now a criminal justice reform advocate, said of Lewis. "Not only is she going to have to serve time in a facility but, over the next five years, anything that she does can trigger her having to serve a 20-year sentence. So,she's not truly free." Work Video shows glowing object fall from the sky | CNN Work Within an hour, 3 separate shootings left 1 dead and 5 injured in Boston. Police are investigating whether the shootings are connected | CNN "Having six people within an hour, period, in multiple locations throughout the city is a terrible thing, no matter what time period it is, whether it's the worst crime period or one of the better ones in our history." Cox said during a news conference on Sunday night. "The only thing more troubling is our phones aren't ringing off the hook from people telling us what happened or what they might have seen or heard." Work This has quickly become the key issue at COP27 -- and the most difficult to resolve | CNN "For countries not on the front line, they think it's sort of a distraction and that people should focus on mitigation," Avinash Persaud, special envoy to Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, told CNN. "If we had done mitigation early enough, we wouldn't have to adapt and if we'd adapted early enough, we wouldn't have the loss of damage. But we haven't done those things." Work Boston Bruins rescind contract with Mitchell Miller after NHL deems him ineligible to play in league | CNN "I deeply regret the incident and have apologized to the individual. Since the incident, I have come to better understand the far-reaching consequences of my actions that I failed to recognize and understand nearly seven years ago," he said. "To be clear, what I did when I was 14 years old was wrong and unacceptable. There is no place in this world for being disrespectful to others and I pledge to use this opportunity to speak out against mistreating others." Work Billionaire GOP Donor Won't Back Trump In 2024: 'Its Time To Move On' OpenSecrets says Griffin has ponied up $67 million, all for conservatives, in the 2022 federal election cycle. He’s behind only progressive benefactor George Soros ($126 million) and right-wing donor Richard Uihlein ($77 million). Work Investigators Now Tracking Pricey Gifts To Trump During Presidency: Report The probe into the gifts comes in the wake of an FBI search in August of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and resort, where agents removed several boxes of documents, including classified and even top-secret information that was supposed to be turned over to the National Archives at the end of Trump’s term. Work Mehdi Hasan Exposes GOP's 'Straight-Up Gaslighting' On Key Election-Night Issue . @mehdirhasan explains the hurdles facing election workers as they tally early voting and mail-in ballots. Most of those hurdles came straight from Republican lawmakers. pic.twitter.com/0ffYEzggFv Work National Park Service Begs Visitors: Please Stop Licking These Psychedelic Toads “The toad’s whole purpose is to reach your highest potential,” he told the New York Post last year, saying he first tried it as a dare when he was a “wreck” but has since improved. Work Right-Wingers Erupt Over Trump's Ron DeSantis Name-Calling Just Before Midterms Stone is the one who apparently cooked up the new nickname. Just last month, he warned “Ron DeSanctimonious” in a post on Telegram that it would be “treachery” if he ran against Trump for the GOP presidential nomination. Stone called DeSantis an “ingrate,” who he claimed owes his position to Trump’s support. Work A total lunar eclipse is happening Tuesday and it won't happen again for 3 years The phenomenon causes the moon to appear red, often nicknamed a \"blood moon.\" During a lunar eclipse, what little sunlight that\'s left passes through Earth\'s atmosphere to get to the moon. The more cloudy or dusty the atmosphere is, the redder the moon looks. Work This biotech stock soared 20% last week and analysts are giving it another 36% upside Work 'The old UK growth model is dead': What a long-term weak pound means for Britain \"A U.K. that is not dependent upon greater London generating 34% of GDP, with the north and west living-off transfers, is a better U.K. It will just take time, imagination, and investment to get there.\" Work Ukraine looks to technology to help rebuild its economy amid Russias onslaught There are signs that sentiment from tech investors to Ukraine is improving, though. Last month, Horizon Capital, a Kyiv-based VC firm, raised $125 million for a startup fund aimed at backing Ukrainian founders.  Work Taxation is a blunt instrument, IATA chief Willie Walsh says: 'The carrot is far more effective than the stick' There are major concerns in some quarters that an increased uptake of SAF could, among other things, result in significant deforestation and create a squeeze on crops crucial to the production of food, an issue Walsh touched upon earlier this year. Work The K-pop ETF hasn't been doing well, but its creator says Korean content is at an 'inflection point' In the nearer term, Lee of Hana Financial Group said that Hybe, the group behind BTS, may bottom out sometime around December, when the group\'s plans for enlisting in South Korea\'s military are finalized. Work IMF chief says rich countries alone can 'never close' the funding gap for climate change \"We have to recognize that we are way behind where we should be to protect the wellbeing of our children. If you look at this decade — 2020 to 2030 — we have to cut emissions by somewhere between 25% and 50% and emissions are still growing,\" Georgieva added.  Work The Ukraine war is deepening Russias ties with North Korea as well as Iran "This purchase [of North Korean munitions] indicates that the Russian military continues to suffer from severe supply shortages in Ukraine due in part to export controls and sanctions," Patel said. Work Jacqui Lambie and David Pocock oppose Labor rushing through workplace bill Officials told the hearing they had met with RepuTex to gain an understanding of the assumptions that underpinned the modelling of power prices but they had made no judgment about Reputex's figures. Work Queensland election watchdog warns intrusive public review bill will have chilling effect "Of course we'll listen very closely to what the committee says, and I understand what the ECQ's saying. But it's before the committee, [so] we look forward to the report." Work Watered down legal concerns included in robodebt briefing for Scott Morrison, inquiry hears Birrer said another issue was a "demanding and difficult leadership environment" with "aggressive and demanding leadership". He said this conduct was, according to the recollections of others, "inappropriate". Work Sri Lankan cricketer Danushka Gunathilaka denied bail in Sydney court on rape charges Sri Lanka bowed out of the T20 tournament on Saturday night after losing their final match to England. Gunathilaka has played nearly 100 T20 and one-day internationals for Sri Lanka as well as a handful of Tests. Work Orthodox church of Ukraine allows worshippers to celebrate Christmas on 25 December In his latest outburst on Friday, he said Russia’s “sacred goal” in Ukraine was to stop the Devil, or the “supreme ruler of hell”, as he called him. He dubbed Ukrainians as “a large pack of barking dogs from the western kennel”. Work Occupied Kherson loses power, as Kyiv mayor urges residents to prepare for total blackouts “Probably, there will be no light in Beryslav until the city is completely de-occupied,” he said in a Telegram update on Sunday night. “It is impossible to promptly repair the lines – there is a lack of specialists, equipment, and the Russian invaders will not allow this to be done.” Work We worked alongside our worries: Myanmar resumes hot-air balloon festival Tin Mar Lwin, 41, was beaming on Sunday night after sending off her balloon, which was decorated with a huge red and gold Buddha seated on a lotus leaf. "I want the situation to be stable like this," she told AFP of her country. "I want peace. I'm hoping for it. I'm happy coming to this event." Work Ryanair half-year profits soar to record 1.2bn amid strong flight demand He added that the company was not worried about the impact of a recession on Ryanair's position, likening it to lower-cost options such as the supermarket Aldi and the furniture store Ikea, which he said "always grow stronger in a recession". Work Rishi Sunak under fresh pressure over Gavin Williamson as new allegation emerges UK politics live I try to monitor the comments below the line (BTL) but it is impossible to read them all. If you have a direct question, do include "Andrew" in it somewhere and I'm more likely to find it. I do try to answer questions and, if they are of general interest, I will post the question and reply above the line (ATL), although I can't promise to do this for everyone. Work Grant Shapps joins condemnation of Gavin Williamsons abusive texts "It's very clear how you are going to treat a number of us which is very stupid and you are showing fuck all interest in pulling things together," one message said. "Don't bother asking anything from me." Work Biden fights to stop midterms defeat as Republicans poised for sweeping gains Trump, himself 76, appears likely to announce his candidacy sooner rather than later, even if his anointed candidates have a bad night. At a rally on Thursday night supporting Republican candidates in Iowa, he declared: “ Get ready that’s all I’m telling you – very soon. Get ready.” Work Aviation calls on UK government to subsidise Jet Zero push Work Russias aviation industry defies sanctions to remain airborne Keep abreast of significant corporate, financial and political developments around the world.Stay informed and spot emerging risks and opportunities with independent global reporting, expertcommentary and analysis you can trust. Work Frances far-right seeks to move from political fringe to mainstream Get local insights from Lisbon to Moscow with an unrivalled network of journalists across Europe,expert analysis, our dedicated ‘Brussels Briefing’ newsletter. Customise your myFT page to trackthe countries of your choice. Work Gold Fields rules out increasing offer for rival Yamana Work Cathie Wood Offloads Nvidia Ahead of Third-Quarter Earnings Shares of the Santa Clara, California-based company have been part of Wood’s portfolios since Ark began in 2014, along with electric-car maker Tesla Inc. Ark funds held more than 1.38 million Nvidia shares as of Sept. 30, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Work Disadvantages of Roth IRAs Every Investor Should Know Work Dollar Wobbles, Stocks Rise Defying Weak Sentiment: Markets Wrap Markets will watch the latest US inflation reading on Thursday after the core consumer price index rose more than forecast to a 40-year high in September. Even if prices begin to moderate, the CPI is far above the Fed’s comfort zone. Work Gold Fields will not make counter-bid for Yamana Gold By Reuters Work Apple's Update is Likely to Reinforce Investor Concerns - Analysts By Investing.com Work UFC fight subject of probe after suspicious betting Bookmakers and bettors who communicated with ESPN had differing opinions on what took place Saturday. Some were convinced that Minner threw the fight, while others believed the bets were based on leaked information that Minner was hurt severely and shouldn\'t have been fighting. 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