European regulators on Tuesday took a step closer to letting the Boeing 737 Max fly again, publishing a proposed airworthiness directive that could see the aircraft cleared within weeks after being grounded for nearly two years over deadly crashes. The publication of the directive by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) opens a 28-day public consultation period after which the agency will review the input and then approve the aircraft for flight. It said the step signals “its intention to approve the aircraft to return to Europe’s skies within a matter of weeks”. Regulators around the world grounded the Max in March 2019, after the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines jet. That happened less than five months after another Max flown by Indonesia’s Lion Air plunged into the Java Sea. A total of 346 passengers and crew members on both planes were killed. The move by the EASA, which is based in Cologne, Germany, comes after the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) already cleared the Boeing 737 Max earlier this month. “EASA made clear from the outset that we would conduct our own objective and independent assessment of the 737 Max, working closely with the FAA and Boeing, to make sure that there can be no repeat of these tragic accidents, which touched the lives of so many people,” said EASA Executive Director Patrick Ky in a statement. Investigations into the accidents revealed a primary cause in both cases was a software function programme known as the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System or MCAS. EASA said its inquiry began with a review of the MCAS but went far beyond. “I am confident that we have left no stone unturned in our assessment of the aircraft with its changed design approach,” Ky said. “Each time when it may have appeared that problems were resolved, we dug deeper and asked even more questions. The result was a thorough and comprehensive review of how this plane flies and what it is like for a pilot to fly the Max, giving us the assurance that it is now safe to fly.” EASA said one “fundamental problem” of the MCAS, which was intended to make the aircraft easier to handle, was that many pilots did not even know it was there. The airworthiness directive seeks to address that human factor, proposing not only changes to the aircraft design but also requiring a mandatory training programme for pilots, including flight simulator training. The European directive requires the same changes as those mandated by the FAA, so there will be no software or technical differences between jets operated by American or European carriers. But EASA also explicitly gives flight crews more leeway to intervene to override automatic systems, and mandates, for the time being, that the aircraft’s autopilot should not be used for certain types of high-precision landings. from https://taxi.nearme.host/europe-taxis-towards-clearing-boeing-737-max-for-flight-europe-news-al-jazeera/
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European regulators on Tuesday took a step closer to letting the Boeing 737 Max fly again, publishing a proposed airworthiness directive that could see the aircraft cleared within weeks after being grounded for nearly two years over deadly crashes. The publication of the directive by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) opens a 28-day public consultation period after which the agency will review the input and then approve the aircraft for flight. It said the step signals “its intention to approve the aircraft to return to Europe’s skies within a matter of weeks”. Regulators around the world grounded the Max in March 2019, after the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines jet. That happened less than five months after another Max flown by Indonesia’s Lion Air plunged into the Java Sea. A total of 346 passengers and crew members on both planes were killed. The move by the EASA, which is based in Cologne, Germany, comes after the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) already cleared the Boeing 737 Max earlier this month. “EASA made clear from the outset that we would conduct our own objective and independent assessment of the 737 Max, working closely with the FAA and Boeing, to make sure that there can be no repeat of these tragic accidents, which touched the lives of so many people,” said EASA Executive Director Patrick Ky in a statement. Investigations into the accidents revealed a primary cause in both cases was a software function programme known as the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System or MCAS. EASA said its inquiry began with a review of the MCAS but went far beyond. “I am confident that we have left no stone unturned in our assessment of the aircraft with its changed design approach,” Ky said. “Each time when it may have appeared that problems were resolved, we dug deeper and asked even more questions. The result was a thorough and comprehensive review of how this plane flies and what it is like for a pilot to fly the Max, giving us the assurance that it is now safe to fly.” EASA said one “fundamental problem” of the MCAS, which was intended to make the aircraft easier to handle, was that many pilots did not even know it was there. The airworthiness directive seeks to address that human factor, proposing not only changes to the aircraft design but also requiring a mandatory training programme for pilots, including flight simulator training. The European directive requires the same changes as those mandated by the FAA, so there will be no software or technical differences between jets operated by American or European carriers. But EASA also explicitly gives flight crews more leeway to intervene to override automatic systems, and mandates, for the time being, that the aircraft’s autopilot should not be used for certain types of high-precision landings. from https://taxi.nearme.host/europe-taxis-towards-clearing-boeing-737-max-for-flight-europe-news-al-jazeera/ For the better part of a year, the novel coronavirus has put many aspects of life on hold — or on Zoom. But for those with enough money to spend, not even a deadly, contagious virus is reason to let their wanderlust go unsatiated. Instead, they can take a trip along the California coastline, stopping for a private Michelin-starred tasting menu, a wine tasting with a vintner, a coastal bike adventure with a naturalist, a private sunset yacht excursion, or a tour of the LA art scene with a Getty Museum curator. This is just one set of possibilities offered by the new partnership of luxury travel company All Roads North and luxury community Exclusive Resorts. Together, they deliver discreet, nearly private seven- to nine-night excursions that connect the dots between some of Exclusive’s properties in a given region. These trips further isolate these wealthy travelers from the hoi polloi, a longstanding trend that has become all the more pronounced amid the COVID-19 pandemic, where exposure and survival rates have been so heavily influenced by income level. Such experiences, of course, don’t come cheap. This trip costs in the mid-to-high four-figure range, plus the $1,400 per night fees for stays at Exclusive Resorts locations. But for the affluent traveler, it seems to be money well spent. Exclusive Resorts is aptly named, a closed membership club with fewer than 4,500 members, each of whom pays $150,000 for the 10-year privilege of staying in one of the 400 two- to five-bedroom private residences the club manages in desirable locations around the world. All Roads North is a Los Angeles-based boutique travel agency that creates private itineraries for American road trips featuring insider access to unique one-on-one guides, experiences, and locations. These companies have a shared vision, of sorts. Both cater to upscale clients who want to maximize the impact of their vacation time while minimizing the tedium of planning. Both are predicated on privileging privacy and solitude. And both are oriented around providing attentive, concierge-level services. Working together, each expands on the strengths of the other, to elevate and further encapsulate the bubbled travel experience these clients demand. Exclusive Resorts provides a curated cohort of vacation-ready single-family homes, and All Roads North provides a literal and figurative pathway to and from properties like these, and expands the offerings of available local activities. “We have a lot of members who want to travel still, but they don’t want to fly, and a lot of families who are working remotely and can be anywhere,” said James Henderson, CEO of Exclusive Resorts, working from one of his company’s properties in California’s wine country instead of his home in the San Francisco area. “All Roads North’s itineraries allow members to travel at their own pace, in their own vehicles, and to provide our members with things to do when they’re on our properties.” All Roads North founder Sam Highley concurred. “We’ve always tried to provide private homes for our clients while they’re traveling, but it’s difficult to vet private homes and know that they’re going to meet our clients’ needs and standards. Now, having access to Exclusive Resorts’ network of fully-serviced private homes, it provides a great synergy.” The idea here is to offer the ultimate private road trip experience — no hotels or large group settings, just private homes and private guides and tours — to insulate the wealthy traveler, and offer experiences not available in other ways or settings. “This works for people who are very frequent travelers who want to go to new places,” said Henderson. “Also for people who aren’t good planners, as it takes away that issue and gives them time to relax.” The COVID-19 pandemic has elevated this need for enjoyable isolation, making this kind of travel even more appealing to the target demographic. “People are really gravitating toward membership-based clubs, because they afford safety, privacy, and trust,” said Henderson. “Our members have a deep trust that we will keep them informed and keep them safe.” Milton Pedraza, the CEO of The Luxury Institute, a research and consulting firm that focuses on the upscale market, agrees. “Affluent people are very much drawn to private travel right now, to finding places to go where they can seclude themselves with family and friends: private air travel, chartering yachts, villa rentals, places where you can really have the place to yourself and cocoon in a beautiful, luxurious space,” he said. “But people also want discovery, adventure, and entertainment. They don’t just want to isolate in a home.” This sense of cautious exploration, coupled with the difficulty in traveling internationally, has highlighted domestic travel for many wealthy people, continuing a trend amongst this segment that predated COVID. “Seeing America together is something that a lot of affluent families had on their bucket list, but never did,” said Pedraza. “Now, people are finding a way to do it.” Yet this cohort is not staying in elegant lodges, spa resorts, or even boutique hotels. “People are less wanting to stay in bigger properties where they’ll have more contact with other guests,” Highley said. “The most popular locations for our clients right now are private homes or properties structured as cabins or cottages, with wide open spaces, where people can get back to nature.” These travelers are also often moving around less once they reach their destinations. “Whereas previously we might have had a two-week trip with five locations, and three nights in each place, we’re now seeing people asking for two week trips with just two or three locations,” Highley said. And more of these trips are beginning and ending in proximity to clients’ primary residences. “We’re starting to focus more on trips that are natural loops, that don’t require flying,” Highley added. “Trips that start and end from home.” Moreover, instead of going out for dinner, exercise, and activities, vacationers in this elite realm are bringing the experiences in, inviting (and often conducting virus screenings on) private chefs, private trainers, private guides, even private doctors. Membership in a selective club, especially one like Exclusive that requires conformity to specific personal protection and safety protocol for all members and workers, also affords new social opportunities, even during the pandemic. “Our members love to connect with each other, and we see that as one of the things we can do with this partnership with All Roads North,” says Henderson. “They don’t want to wait in lines, they don’t want to have a lot of exposure to people, they don’t want to share dining rooms.” But they’re willing to accept small group experiences with each other, with people they see as, quite literally, inside their club, both demographically and psychographically. This means that while large group travel — the hardest hit sector of the category, and often the most affordable — might struggle to recover, wealthy people will still long for interaction. With each other. “One thing we’re looking at is, what does the next generation of private travel, or travel with a small group of strangers, look like in a year or 18 months?” Highley said. He spoke of putting together small group experiences that are available only to Exclusive Resorts members. “They have a pretty well-vetted, small membership,” Highley says. “So if you’re going to travel with a group, that would be a group that would probably come back pretty early, a like-minded group of people.” This could afford new levels of private experiences that may expand the leisure divide between the haves and the have nots. “Renting out an amazing oceanfront space on a dock with a private seafood chef, that may not work for a family of four,” Highley says. “But if you’ve got 10 Exclusive Resorts members, that can start to make sense financially and provide for this underlying need to connect.” Pedraza sees this as an emergent trend for the future, even beyond the pandemic. “While we may still go back to larger open tours,” he says, “I think this idea of cocooning while mixing safely will endure, especially amongst the wealthy.” Join the conversation about this story » from https://taxi.nearme.host/covid-19-has-ushered-in-a-new-kind-of-vacation-the-ultra-exclusive-road-trip-for-the-uber-wealthy-traveler/ It’s more important than ever to stay informed – Get free LeicestershireLive alerts direct to your inbox
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These days money has not exactly been burning a hole in people’s pockets. The ongoing coronavirus pandemic lockdown has seen many shops close, an accelerating move to contactless payments and a rise in online shopping. This means we have been using less and less hard cash. Some people may still have the £20 paper notes stashed in a purse or wallet. They may worry that time is running out to exchange them, reports TheMirror. In February this year, the Bank of England released a new, polymer £20 note to replace the existing paper ones. If you’ve not quite got round to spending any paper £20 notes – there is some good news. The Bank of England has said that unspent paper £20 notes are still legal tender. “Don’t worry, you can still use the paper £20 note for now,” the Bank of England’s site reads. The better news is there’s no rush to spend them – with the Bank promising a 6-months notice before they are withdrawn. That means you have until at least April 2021 to spend them in shops. Even after then you can still exchange them for new £20 notes. With the expiry of the paper £5 and £10 notes, a string of banks and the Post Office gave people extra time to pay paper notes into their accounts – even when they stopped being legal tender. And there’s one way to guarantee to get your old £20 note swapped – head to London and pop into of the Bank of England itself. That phrase “I promise to pay the bearer on demand” is something that doesn’t have a time limit on it, the Bank told Mirror Money. The Bank of England’s head office in London’s note exchange desk lets anyone with an out of date note swap it for a current one – meaning anyone with an old note can head there and swap their paper tenners. In fact, even if a note’s ripped, smashed or otherwise vandalised, as long as there’s enough left to identify what it was, they will swap it for a new one. To exchange your banknotes in person you can take them to the following address: Bank of England from https://taxi.nearme.host/when-the-old-20-note-expires-and-how-long-you-have-left-to-use-it-leicestershire-live/ The win over the Foxes saw the Reds set a new club record by extending their current run of consecutive home league games unbeaten to 64. An own goal from Jonny Evans was followed up by clinical headers from Diogo Jota and Roberto Firmino to put the champions level on points with Premier League leaders Tottenham Hotspur. Read on for a summary of the boss’ post-match press conference… 6⃣ 4⃣ consecutive home league games unbeaten – a new club record HOME https://t.co/Nw7FxQuXqN — LFC (Liverpool FC) On whether it was a perfect night on many levels… Yeah, until Naby left the pitch. You are right: the game was really good. We had to play really good because otherwise you would have no chance and the boys did it from the first second. We controlled the game, we passed the right passes, moved in the right spaces, offered direction, used these offers. So, a lot of things were really, really good. We scored two goals after a set-piece but a lot of good football moments in a really, really good performance. On how pleased he was to see Firmino find the back of the net… Very. I think you saw it earlier than me, I only saw it once now that obviously he had the new record as well for closest no goal or whatever with the goalline technology. So, congratulations! But, of course, we were really happy and relieved. He deserved it so much. He played a super game, was so important for us tonight again and you could see in the face of all the players when he scored that everybody thought, ‘Yes, exactly the right goalscorer.’ On there being 30 passes in the build-up to Jota’s goal and his incredible start… Absolutely. But especially this goal, he couldn’t have scored without an outstanding cross from Andy Robertson. What a situation in the whole build-up. All these passes and then I think it was Joel to Robbo. Albrighton tries everything to win the battle, the little challenge there and Robbo is really good first contact. Then a sensational cross, super move from Diogo. Yes, he’s a good player – that’s the reason why we signed him. On what the new club record says about his team… Look, my problem is that in the moment I spoke so much about football, I have so much to think about how we can play the next game and things like this. So it doesn’t feel it. Maybe it’s not right but there will be a moment, for sure, in the future when I think back – and hopefully it will be a different number and not only 64. But it’s absolutely incredible, but it’s all about the boys. It’s really difficult to achieve something like this but when you think about how tight a lot of games were then it doesn’t happen just like this. You have to really dig in for that and the boys did that. I said it a few times before, we really enjoy playing here. It’s our ground, it’s our home, everything feels home – even when the people are not here. It doesn’t feel right but we have to do it and we are happy that we can play. So, what the boys put out there on the pitch performance-wise is absolutely incredible and it’s the only reason for the number. Obviously it’s pretty tricky and pretty difficult to set records for this incredible club because our fathers or grandfathers, they were obviously pretty good. So having this record now, I’m happy for the players but it doesn’t feel like a big moment, to be honest, because we play on Wednesday and that’s actually my only concern at the moment. from https://taxi.nearme.host/liverpool-3-0-leicester-city-jrgen-klopps-reaction-liverpool-fc/ Thailand is active in attracting foreign movie makers to the Land of Smiles, and has been for decades. Many well known movies have been either partially or totally filmed in Thailand. From ‘The Killing Fields’ to ‘Around the World in 80 Days’. Here is our list of the Top 10 English-language movies that were at least partly made in Thailand. There’s also some excellent Thai-language films made in Thailand in one of the most prolific film industries in the world. But that’s a list for another day. Lights, camera, ACTION… Su su! The Railway Man (2013)A Colin Firth movie made partly in Thailand (also ‘Bridget Jones – The Edge of Reason’, 2004), ‘The Railway Man’ is a 2013 British–Australian war film directed by Jonathan Teplitzky. The movie also starred Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine, and Stellan Skarsgård. The movie follows a tortured soul and his traumas as an ex-POW who was interred and tortured by Japanese troops in camps around the Thai Burmese border. He returns later in life to Thailand confront his demons. From ‘The Telegraph’… “One of the most striking things about the terrain through which the “Death Railway” linking Thailand to Burma passed, is its extraordinary beauty. Much of the scenery is classically south-east Asian: lush and tropical, fringed with rugged, mountainous mystery. It is the stuff of travellers’ dreams. But as ‘The Railway Man’, the latest film to throw light on one of history’s darker chapters reveals, it is also the stuff of nightmares”. The Hangover II (2011)Hardly high art but a successful sequel to the original ‘Hangover’ starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Ken Jeong. The film was filmed almost entirely in Bangkok and around Phang Nga Bay including Phulay Bay, A Ritz-Carlton in Krabi. The film gives you the impression that you turn left in Bangkok, travel an hour or so, and arrive in Phang Nga Bay. Also the unlikely situation where you jump on a speedboat in Bangkok and arrive in Krabi on one tank of fuel! The reality is you would have to travel all the way south, around Singapore and then north through the Malaca Straits, a journey of three or four days. The plot… well, anything and everything goes wrong! Tattoos, ladyboys, drugs, kidnapping, car chases, fingers chopped off. That’s about it. In 2011 an Australian stuntman who was injured whilst filming in Bangkok sued Warner Bros. The case was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum. The film had a budget of US$80 million but returned nearly $600 million. Good Morning Vietnam (1987)‘Good Morning, Vietnam’ is a 1987 American military comedy-drama film written by Mitch Markowitz and directed by Barry Levinson. The movie is set in Saigon in 1965, during the Vietnam War. The movie was a major star-vehicle for Robin Williams as radio DJ Adrian Cronauer on Armed Forces Radio Service. Plot, briefly… man becomes DJ on official military radio station in Saigon. DJ is widely popular with the US troops but very unpopular with some of the military bosses. Man meets woman, man falls for woman, woman’s brother is a Viet Cong pimp. The film is famous for Williams’ radio broadcast scenes which were largely improvised. It was a critical and commercial success; for his work in the film, Williams won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. ‘Good Morning, Vietnam’ was one of the most successful films of the year, becoming the fourth highest-grossing film of 1987. The film was shot almost entirely in Bangkok. Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and Man with the Golden Gun (1974)We throw these two Bond films into the same posting but extensive sequences in both were filmed in and around Phang Nga Bay in Southern Thailand. Ko Tapu, a limestone monolith standing all by itself, has become a major tourist attraction in the Bay and has even been renamed James Bond Island in honour of it’s backdrop performance in the Roger Moore ‘Man with the Golden Gun’. Probably one of the most boring of the Bond franchises but, hey, it spawned a whole new tourism attraction for the region! ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’ was the 18th James Bond film, this time with Pierce Brosnan with a license to kill. The Ho Chi Minh City scenes were shot in Bangkok and Phang Nga Bay, pretending it was some other asian location. Heaven and Earth (1993)Heaven & Earth is a 1993 American biographical war drama film written and directed by Oliver Stone and featuring a stellar cast including cranky Tommy Lee Jones, Haing S. Ngor, Joan Chen and Hiep Thi Le. It is the third and final film in Stone’s Vietnam War trilogy, which also includes ‘Platoon’ and ‘Born on the Fourth of July’. The film was shot in Thailand as the Vietnamese government had decided Oliver Stone liked to depict their country in a negative light (it took them Stone’s two other films to figure that out). Town shots are filmed around Old Phuket Town and many of the wider shots of open paddocks and fields were filmed around Krabi. The film was based on the books ‘When Heaven and Earth Changed Places’ and ‘Child of War’, ‘Woman of Peace’, which Le Ly Hayslip wrote about her experiences during and after the Vietnam War. It was a box office flop earning only $5.9 million on a budget of $33 million. Air America (1990)‘Air America’ was a 1990 American action comedy directed by Roger Spottiswoode with Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. as Air America pilots flying missions in Laos during the Vietnam War. All the ‘Laos’ shots were shot in Thailand. Plot: When the protagonists discover their aircraft is being used by government agents to smuggle heroin, they must avoid being framed as the drug-smugglers. Budgeted at $35 million, the production involved 500 crew shooting in 49 different locations in Thailand, London, and Los Angeles. Principal photography began on October 3, 1989 and ran for five months but the crew were called back six months later to film a new ending. The producers rented 26 aircraft from the Thai military, although some of the stunt flyers refused to perform some of the stunts, with 60-year-old veterans being drafted for some of the more nuanced aerial shots. Sidenote: PepsiCo wanted the filmmakers to use a fictional soda rather than show opium being refined at their abandoned factory. The Killing Fields (1984)Not only a film made mostly in Thailand but also an Academy Award winner and a fitting story of the so-called Asian holocaust – the reign of terror by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia between 1975 and 1979 where up to 2.5 million citizens were systematically starved, over-worked or killed. The film focusses on two journalists, Cambodian Dith Pran and American Sydney Schanberg. It was directed by Roland Joffé and produced by David Puttnam. Sam Waterston played Schanberg, Haing S. Ngor as Pran, Julian Sands as Jon Swain, and John Malkovich as Al Rockoff. At the 57th Academy Awards it received eight Oscar nominations; including Best Picture. It won three, most notably Best Supporting Actor for Haing S. Ngor, who had had no previous acting experience. Directer Roland Joffé said, of Haing S. Ngor’s performance… “Haing had been acting his whole life – you had to be a pretty good actor to survive the Khmer Rouge”. From Roland Joffé… “We shot those scenes in the countryside outside Bangkok. Lots of very realistic looking corpses had been laid out. It was all very disturbing: you’d get a crawling feeling up your back during shooting. And there was a real panic when a farmer’s wife went out early in the morning and got a total shock when she saw them, poor woman”. The Beach (2000)The Beach is a 2000 British-American adventure drama film directed by Danny Boyle and based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Alex Garland. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Canet and, Robert Carlyle. It was partly filmed around Phuket Town and Koh Phi Phi Leh. Producers got a lot of heat for bulldozing and landscaping sections of Ko Phi Phi Leh beach to make it more “paradise-like” including clearing some of the coconut trees and grass. Local environmentalists weren’t going to put up with that! The lawsuits dragged on for years. In 2006, Thailand’s Supreme Court upheld an appellate court ruling that the filming had harmed the environment and ordered that damage assessments be made. Producers had made an allowance for repairing any damage but the 2004 Asian tsunami did its own ‘alteration’ of the beach. The crappy old On On Hotel in Phuket Town, depicted in the movie, has had a major make-over since and now a very swish boutique hotel worth visiting anytime. Did You Know? Ewan McGregor was cast as the main character before leaving due to disputes with the director. It was speculated that Director Danny Boyle was offered additional funding under the condition that DiCaprio be cast and his British character turned into an American (would have been more fun to hear Leonardo doing a British accent). Around the World in 80 Days (1956 and 2004)A grand Hollywood epic and a personal passion project for the, then, Mr Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Todd. The epic picture was directed by Michael Anderson and produced by Mike Todd’s company who financed the film by selling his Todd-AO 70mm film format. Admittedly, if you blinked, you’d miss the portions of the movie filmed in Thailand. A 2004 version, starring Steve Coogan and Jackie Chan, had segments also filmed in Thailand, posing as a Chinese village. It was a flop. Here’s an excerpt from Wikipedia about the original 1956 production… Filming took place in late 1955, from August 9 to December 20. The crew worked fast (75 actual days of filming). The picture cost just under $6 million to make, employing 112 locations in 13 countries and 140 sets. Todd said he and the crew visited every country portrayed in the picture, including England, France, India, Spain, Thailand and Japan. According to the Time magazine review of the film, the cast including extras totalled 68,894 people; it also featured 7,959 animals, “including four ostriches, six skunks, 15 elephants, 17 fighting bulls, 512 rhesus monkeys, 800 horses, 950 burros, 2,448 American buffalo, 3,800 Rocky Mountain sheep and a sacred cow that eats flowers on cue.” There is also a cat, at the Reform Club. The wardrobe department spent $410,000 to provide 74,685 costumes and 36,092 trinkets. The Impossible (2012)Shot in 2012 and directed by Juan Antonio Bayona. Hard to leave out this one out as the story was about Phuket, Khao Lak and the Andaman Sea’s largest natural disaster – the Asian tsunami of 2004. The story revolves around a British family staying in Khao Lak for their Christmas holidays. The movie starred Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts. Many Phuket extras were enlisted as extras for the movie. If we had one criticism about this film it would be the focus on the single family whilst the disaster killed up to 250,000 who were never referred to in the film. Honourable mentionsThe ‘Special Thanksgiving’ Award ‘Mechanic: Resurrection’ (2016). One big turkey. Probably better off un-resurrected. The ‘Blink and you’ll miss it’ Award ‘Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith’ (2005) Shot in 2005, directed by George Lucas, the finale of the original six Star Wars episodes. There were a few scenes filmed around Krabi Province to represent the Wookie home planet ‘Kaashyyk’. By the time the CGI crew got their hands on the original footage you’d be hard pressed to recognise the scenery. ‘Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason’ (2004) A 2004 sequel of ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’ and directed by Beeban Kidron that reunites the same cast members: Renée Zellweger as Bridget Jones, Colin Firth as Mark Darcy, and Hugh Grant as Daniel Cleaver. This time, the movie’s plot takes them to Bangkok (some scenes were shot along the infamous Soi Cowboy), to Phuket International Airport, Nai Yang Beach, and Panyee Island in Phang Nga Bay. An exhaustive list of big movies made mostly or partly in Thailand, . Keep in contact with The Thaiger by following our from https://taxi.nearme.host/only-taxis-travelling-to-and-from-bangkok-airports-can-charge-for-luggage-the-thaiger/ It’s more important than ever to stay informed – Get free LeicestershireLive alerts direct to your inbox
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It has almost been a year since Chanel Platts said her final goodbyes to her mother, Debbie, who died on Christmas day. Debbie Platts was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2018 at the age of 43. The diagnosis came as a shock to her family as she was healthy and showed no symptoms. For her daughter Chanel, life changed overnight. Now, almost 12 months after her mum’s passing, the 25-year-old is learning to ‘piece herself back together’. “My mum hadn’t been poorly and she was quite healthy so it was a complete shock to us at the time. “But her main concern was us – she wanted me and my sisters to have the support we needed,” Chanel told LeicestershireLive. ‘Mum was so precious and beautiful’Chanel lived at home with her mum and her mum’s husband, Sam while her two sisters lived with their partners. “We are all around the same age, we’re all young adults but I was still really dependent on my mum so when we found out, it was almost like a role reversal overnight. “All of a sudden, I was looking after her,” she said. The 25-year-old said she didn’t have a father figure but Sam, her mum’s husband also stepped into that role “almost overnight too”. Debbie had chemotherapy treatment after she was diagnosed, but sadly, by the end of the year, the cancer had spread to her brain. “That’s when she deteriorated quite rapidly. She regressed and almost became like a child. “In some ways, it was a bit easier when it got to that point because before when she was forgetting things, it was harder to lift her up emotionally. “When she regressed further, we didn’t have to explain everything to her,” she said. Chanel added: “Sometimes, when people are really unwell, they can become angry or confused, and rightly so. But mum – was just so precious and beautiful.” The 25-year-old recalled special moments with her mum during her last year. “One day, while we were watching TV, mum’s eyes lit up at a dancing sloth from a sofa advert and she just had to have it,” Chanel said. “I looked for it everywhere and when I finally got it she just loved it. She took it with her everywhere.”. Debbie took her toy sloth with her to the LOROS hospice, where she was looked after in the weeks before she died. Nearly a year on, Chanel has spent a year grieving and coming to terms with losing her mum and “best friend”. She said: “For a while you’re on autopilot but then as the months go but you start to break bit by bit and I really did hit a low point.” After her mum’s initial diagnosis, Chanel began working part-time to take care of her, alongside Sam. But as her conditioned worsened, Chanel eventually left work altogether. The then, 23-year-old adapted to a new lifestyle and learned to stifle her feeling while caring for her mum. “Everything changed, even me as a person – including what I liked and didn’t like or what I felt like doing. “So when the funeral was over and eventually things started to quiet down, I had to find myself again and learn about this new version on myself. I just thought, “where does that leave me now?”,” she said. Since Debbie passed away, Chanel said that her belongings have been left as they were. “Mum’s bag is still where she left and so are her shoes. But we will get to that in our own time,” she said. After leaving her previous job, Chanel returned to a new job last week and said she was learning to grieve “outside of her comfort zone where there are triggers everywhere”. As Christmas approaches, she and her family are hoping to make it as special as they can, despite the difficulties they have faced while grieving in the lockdown. This year Chanel is supporting LOROS Hospice’s Winter Warmer raffle, something she felt her mum would be proud of. “Supporting LOROS, who were so good to mum in the weeks before she died as well as to us, really helps me. By raising awareness of their great work I get to talk about mum and how amazing she was.” Before she died, Debbie wrote a popular blog, called the ‘Nurse with the Big (C)urse’, which she used to tell her cancer story with positivity and humour. “She helped people through her blog and I wanted to continue her good work, her positivity,” says Chanel. “I think that’s her legacy and I’ll try to carry that on as much as I can.” from https://taxi.nearme.host/family-picking-up-the-pieces-almost-one-year-after-mother-of-three-died-on-christmas-day-leicestershire-live/ It’s more important than ever to stay informed – Get free LeicestershireLive alerts direct to your inbox
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Planet earth reached an unwelcome milestone just days ago, as the Covid-19 disease passed beyond one full year since the first known cases were recorded. Over a year has now passed since the deadly virus started spreading, and while efforts to produce a vaccine seem to be heading in a positive direction, there is plenty about coronavirus that we still do not know. For example, there is still some confusion as to what the symptoms of the virus are – with some more common than others. Members of the public can only get a coronavirus test through the NHS if they have one of the more common symptoms – along with those who live in pilot areas for mass testing. However, many experts list some less common symptoms that can be attributed to the virus, though these are not all currently found on the NHS website. So, what are the main symptoms of Covid-19, and what are some of the less common indicators? Main symptomsAccording to the NHS and Public Health England, there are three primary symptoms that might indicate that a person has coronavirus. These are: Anyone who experiences one or more of these is advised to book themselves an appointment for a test, and to remain at home until the result is received. It is also well worth pointing out that some of these symptoms are associated with other illnesses such as colds and flu, and though it is crucial to get a test, these symptoms do not automatically mean that a person has coronavirus. What are the other symptoms?Many leading medical bodies, including the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) in North America, suggest that there are a few other symptoms to watch out for. These are as follows:
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There are unconfirmed reports that some individuals who have tested positive for Covid have experienced unusual swelling/rashes on their fingers and toes. However, this has not yet been confirmed. What’s more, many of these symptoms appear far more commonly as a result of other ailments. But, individuals who are suffering from long lasting symptoms of the virus have reported that muscle ache and fatigue are especially common. Anyone experiencing Covid-19 symptoms can find out more information, including how to book a test, by clicking here. from https://taxi.nearme.host/every-known-symptom-of-coronavirus-listed-from-the-main-indicators-to-the-less-common-side-effects-leicestershire-live/
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Neal Ardley admits Chesterfield’s decision to sack their manager has thrown a spanner in the works ahead of Notts County’s trip to Derbyshire on Saturday. Ardley had scouted the Spireites in the build-up to the game, only for Chesterfield to sack John Pemberton with the team 21st in the National League after losing six of their first eight games. “I don’t know what to expect from them,” he said. “I watched three games of theirs yesterday and so did my analysis guy and then he messaged me to say the manager had gone. “I always try to focus on us. Yes we’ll look at the shape of the opposition but if I can’t get my group right and motivated, if we can’t get that then we probably we won’t get the points anyway.” Notts go into the game in 12th place, still smarting from conceding a late, calamitous equaliser to FC Halifax Town on Tuesday night. Ardley says late errors are more likely when a team is not winning consistently. “If you look at it you would do it differently every time. We were trying to be clever in the corner,” he said. “The things that happened wouldn’t happen in 99 times out of 100. We had grafted to what would have been a tough 1-0 away win. “When you have a moment like that it changes everything. “When you are winning games, winning gets easier. When you aren’t winning it gets more alien, a bit more difficult. “You get too many people back and invite pressure. When momentum is there you believe you’ll get the second goal. “It’s not something I can give the team. I told them results will come.” While teams in the EFL have this week been allowed to name up to nine substitutes, in the Championship at least, and use five, National League sides have stuck with the traditional three subs from five named rule. Ardley vehemently opposes that and hopes league chiefs will change their minds. “I asked for it before the season started. I asked why we still had five subs,” he said. “I’m sure it’s a financial issue. I asked how many managers were consulted. “I wasn’t consulted. If you have seven subs and use four that helps. “It means you can put youngsters on the bench. As a manager, we go without a goalie some games because sometimes you need cover in other areas. “It seems wrong. A lot of the time our league goes in line with the EFL. “I’d like to think they would follow suit. I asked for it this season because it’s five or six weeks shorter. I feel the welfare of the players would benefit with more subs. “I hope they change their mind. I’d be happy to have seven subs and only use three. “You always need to keep one sub in the back pocket in case a player goes down or gets cramp. I only want it for the welfare of the players.” from https://taxi.nearme.host/notts-county-manager-neal-ardley-demands-national-league-rule-change-ahead-of-chesterfield-game-nottinghamshire-live/ Liverpool appear to be 50-50 as to whether they’ll be lining up with season internationals or under-15s this weekend. Hopefully a few niggly injuries clear up… Skipper expected to sit out SundayNot what you need: another injury, this time the captain forced to miss out against the team currently occupying our spot at the top of the Premier League table. Jordan Henderson missed England’s midweek game and came home early, with his groin injury not expected to be hugely serious…but enough to keep him out at the weekend. That’s according to the Times, who say he’ll join Van Dijk and Gomez as absentees, while Trent is set for three more weeks out too. Thiago and Fabinho to be fit? Wijnaldum and Keita for midfield? At least two of them have been missing recently and Curtis Jones was a bit sore for the U21s too… Super SadioArsenal striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has named our No. 10 as the pick of the players from the entirety of Africa, saying Sadio Mane is the player he, and other Africans, look up to. Talking to Stades, Aubameyang called Mane a “wild animal” on the pitch – we’re taking that as a positive due to his power and determination – and picked him out as the favourite of the entire Continent. “Sadio is the player of the Africans. He’s also the type of players every manager would like to have in their team. Like all African players in the Premier League, we tease each other, joke before and after each game. “Sadio, once kick off has taken place, he’s a wild animal. I have a lot of respect for him, because after what you see on social media and the news, he’s someone who’s done a lot for his native village”. Bizarrely, Auba also noted that despite being a Gabon international he loved watching Senegal play and do well due to another former Liverpool forward, one we like far less than Mane: El-Hadji Diouf. Games on the way back!International week is officially over, so what’s in line for the Reds next? Quickfire LFC newsAround the PremQuestionable decision of the dayWhere do you stand on this? Rangers players Jordan Jones and George Edmundson attended a party after a match in breach of Covid-19 guidelines. They have been suspended by the Scottish FA for seven matches each. Clearly there’s more than just football at play here, but is it harsh, fair or leniant? Should an example be set? Should this be a standard-bearer for all future disciplinary matters involving social matters such as racism? Tell us in the comments… Tweet of the dayThis close to perfection. This is why I watch football https://t.co/Nzp1F3bZlZ pic.twitter.com/uYfAPb3Oo0 What we’re readingA name you didn’t expect to read today: The ex-Red from Houllier’s era still going strong and playing into a fourth decade Worth watching tonightBrazil’s Serie A is about the only legit league with a game on tonight! Vasco da Gama vs Fortaleza at 10pm GMT. If you’re lucky you may catch a glimpse of Yago Pikachu. 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