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The family of New Zealander Jacob Marx, who died after being crushed by a large metal sign in London, is struggling to come to terms with the death of the well-loved man.
It took five people to haul the sign off Marx after he was felled in a freak accident while walking down a popular northwest London retail street.
Marx, a 27-year-old lawyer from Gisborne, died later in London's University College Hospital.
The former King's College Auckland pupil, who had been working in London since late last year, suffered a massive heart attack at the scene. London police have launched an investigation.
David Marx described his youngest brother as "a wonderful person, a special part of our family, and a much loved friend and partner".
"Losing him so quickly and so far away is very hard for us to come to terms with. We thank everyone for the love and kind support we've received as we try to grapple with what has happened," he said in a statement today.
"We'd also like to thank the emergency services and people in Camden who came to Jacob's aid and tried to help save him.
"It means a lot to us that, despite him being so far from home, people did their best to look after him."
The family were making arrangements to have his body returned to New Zealand.
The hoarding blew off betting shop William Hill in Camden Rd about 5pm Monday (local time or Tuesday morning NZT), leaving Marx with major head and other injuries.
"Every effort was made to resuscitate him at the scene and on the way to University College Hospital," a London Ambulance Service spokeswoman said.
Tributes for the victim, including a New Zealand flag, had been left outside the William Hill.
One card called him "Jacko".
Another read: "This is not how it was supposed to go. We had so many good plans and so many good memories. I promise never to forget you."
Police cordoned off the area and forensics officers examined the scene. Health and safety investigators also entered a flat above the shop to take photographs of the metal sign.
A William Hill spokeswoman said there was an urgent investigation under way and it was still establishing facts and liaising with authorities.
A pensioner who lived above the betting shop said pigeon spikes fitted to the shop roof just before Christmas may have caused some structural weakening.
David Preston, 68, said he was in the kitchen of his house when he heard what sounded like an explosion.
"I didn't know what to think - I thought it could have been the gas," he told The Daily Mail.
"I looked outside and saw this poor guy lying there...
"It is just tragic to think about, such a young life."
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Marx, who graduated from the University of Auckland, had been working for international law firm Minter Ellison Rudd Watts in New Zealand before transferring to its Sydney offices, practising in its insurance and corporate disputes division.
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Another potential early-season event to be held in Dallas?
May 1, 2013, 9:28 AM EST
Dallas really wants to find a way to kick off the 2013-2014 college hoops season.
Last December, reports came out that Michigan State AD Mark Hollis was looking to try and schedule an event where four games would be played simultaneously at Cowboy Stadium to kick off the year. We haven't heard much about it since, mainly because it's not a good idea, but late on Tuesday night, ESPN's Jason King reported that bd Global — the same company that hosted the Texas-UCLA game at Reliant Stadium in Houston last season — was looking to hold a multi-game event at American Airlines Arena, the home of the Mavericks.
No names were given as to potential participants, but there could be as many as four games being played and upwards of half of the participants could be Big 12 schools.
"We want this to serve as the tip-off to the season," bd Global president Brooks Downing told King. "The plan is to generate a lot of excitement and hype about college basketball in the city that's hosting the Final Four."
I like this idea.
I'm always a fan of more marquee games being played early in the season. Let's just hope that Downing is smart enough to create more intriguing matchups than last year's Texas-UCLA game. That was played in an empty football stadium — 2,797 fans showed up, which is a good number for a high school game — and was a thoroughly horrendous game to watch.
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English National Opera: The Marriage of Figaro
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London Coliseum - English National Opera (ENO) 3 minutes walk from Pret A Manger
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The Gospel According to the Other Mary
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Monday 27 December 1999
Instead, she cajoled me to set off after supper, when the lights over the six-lane thoroughfares were pulsing and whirling, threatening to set off epileptic attacks in hapless drivers such as me.
Santa Claus is a dubious character in such a devout Roman Catholic country as Mexico. A paper recently fulminated that, thanks to US commercialism, Santa Claus wears a plush furred suit instead of sacred vestments. The saintly bishop had permutated into "a fat clown with the chapped cheeks of a heavy beer drinker, the big stomach of a bon vivant, the nose of a drunk" and the "boots of a gendarme".
The article regretted that too many Mexican children do not direct letters for gifts to the Christ child any more but to this interloper from the North Pole. Santa Claus "usurped the name and the personality of St Nicholas", the piece concluded. "Let's not permit him to usurp the place of Christ."
In most of Latin America Santa is viewed as an oddball Yankee interventionist. Last week in Chile street children mugged a Santa who had been hired to deliver chocolates to an office party when he failed to dole any out to them. They stoned the 23-stone man and made off with his duffle bag.
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We are taking a day trip to Salzburg. We want to leave early in the morning and take the fastest train so that we have as much time in Salzburg as possible. Is there a difference between the bayern ticket and RailEurope?
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Bayern ticket: a specific day ticket of Deutsche Bahn you can actualyl ride on included trains with restrictions:
RailEurope: a company that sells various train tickets and passes. It is a company, not a ticket, got it?
You can look up train availability here: http://www.bahn.com. Plug in Salzburg and wherever in Germany you are starting from.
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The Bayern ticket (daypass)at 27€ round trip is your absolute best deal.
DB (German Railways) sells the Bayern ticket and other tickets too. The fastest trains (EC, Railjet or RJ) take about 1:30 or 1:40 minutes each way. Standard price at DB is €144 for two round trip for these trains. But advance-sale savings fares at the DB website run as low as 58€ for two round trip on the same fast trains (you must ride the trains you book at purchase - no changes allowed.) Buy them 92 days in advance for the best available prices (that's when they first go on sale - and prices go up from there as tickets sell.)
RailEurope is a private re-seller of DB tickets that will normally charge you much more than DB does for the same tickets.
The Bayern ticket restricts you to using the regional trains - but many of these trains to Salzburg and back are DIRECT trains that take just under two hours each way. NOT that much more time than the fast trains, considering the hugely discounted price.
You CAN leave early, early in the morning with the Bayern Ticket if you travel on Saturday or Sunday. On weekdays, you can use it only after 9 am.
The Bayern ticket can be purchased at any station in Germany on the day of travel. There is no benefit to buying it in advance.
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Does anyone have a list, or could we create one, of the herbs that can be used in beer as a substitute for the preservative qualities of hops? And how they are utilized to best access these properties.
So far I know Yarrow has all of the antimicrobial/antiseptic qualities of hops, and that you boil the leaves in much the same way, but I was hoping there would be others as well.
Some of the herbs I'm already planning on using in my upcoming experiments in Gruit: Licorice, Spruce tips, Ginger, Anise, and in at least one I will be using Yarrow
Best and first stop would be GruitAle.com for recipes and bits to get ready for GruitDay.com on 1 February.
Some great links would be this Herb and Recipe List:http://beermumbo.com/gruit-ale/
Gruit history:http://imbibemagazine.com/Gruits
WSJ Review on some fantastic gruits and their builds:http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/...44733005355570
And why not a bit from the Mad Fermentationalist:http://www.themadfermentationist.com...it-recipe.html


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Joe Galante isn't one to shrink from a challenge. From a quick rise from budget analyst in RCA's New York offices to becoming the youngest head of a major Nashville label in 1982, he's charted a successful course in a business fraught with pitfalls.
This time last year, he was taking on another challenge - bringing Sony Nashville and the RCA Label Group under the same umbrella. The former Sony Nashville was absorbed by RCA Label Group, which was reborn as Sony BMG Nashville, headed by Galante. Sony BMG Nashville includes country labels Arista Nashville, BNA, Columbia Nashville and RCA Nashville, as well as Provident Music Group, a Christian music company.
Merging operations isn't an easy business and he acknowledged the process wasn't seamless. Galante sat down with the Business Journal to talk about his role as chairman of the country music label group and where the music business in Music City is heading.
NBJ: How is the RCA Label Group and Sony Nashville combination working out?
Galante: In any kind of merger you go through that uncomfortable period where people get to know one another and cultures start to mesh. The first few months were rather rocky because you're in the middle of a fiscal year and the BMG side of the house had a full plate. Then we kind of took our eye off our ball to look at the other ball to be in the same court. There were quite a bit of rough moments in the sense of just trying to get people together.
Unfortunately, one of the things that happened that kind of illustrates it: We were all basically on this floor, and the way it was set up when we had Sony is they were on the first floor, we were on the third floor. All of a sudden we had to start moving offices and doing construction, and that took us about five months. So virtually the company was split up on three floors, when it used to be on one, which made communication very difficult in a crucial period of time.
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We just returned from what is becoming an annual trip to Santa Fe with a group of friends. We drove from Denver on Saturday, Dec 22--stopping in Trinidad, Colorado for lunch at Nana and Nano's Italian Deli--which has some of the best red sauce I've ever had and wonderfully tender meatballs. The weather was sunny and it took about 6 1/2 hours (with an hour for lunch).
Where we stayed--El Rey Inn on Cerrillos Road--http://www.elreyinnsantafe.com/ Our room had a small kitchen, a fireplace and lots of light. Since we had a somewhat larger room, it was the gathering place place for our group for cocktails etc.
Where we ate--Saturday--Tomme--http://www.tommesf.com/ one of our friends joined us--a casual, almost industrial looking space with fantastic food--we enjoyed oysters on the half shell, a pork belly appetizer w/quail egg; Japanese sea bass, with gnocchi, spinach, olives; fried chicken, elk steak; tres leches panna cotta, chocolate pudding among other dishes--the chef is Joseph Wrede who had the wonderful restaurant, Joseph's Table in Taos a few year ago
Sunday--lunch--the Swiss Bakery--http://www.swissbakerysantafe.com wonderful pastries made in house, a nice selection of breakfast and lunch dishes
Monday--lunch--La Boca - http://labocasf.com/ tapas are their thing and it is one of our favorite restaurants--two of our friends were with us and the four of us shared quite a few dishes and a bottle of the white wine that was on special (a Spanish white, I believe)--some of the highlights--a bruschetta with mushrooms, fried egg, truffle sauce that has been on the menu since they opened; grilled artichokes (just the fresh hearts/trimmed stems) with goat cheese, mint and orange; grilled pear salad with leaf lettuce, shards of a hard cheese and a balsamic dressing; a deconstructed taco, grilled chicken skewers, fries with garlic aioli, pots de creme, blood orange tart--it was like a party!
Christmas Eve--our traditional dinner at Maria's New Mexican Kitchen for tamales and one of their 500? types of margaritas http://www.marias-santafe.com/
Christmas brunch at the Anasazi restauant--http://tinyurl.com/7tdfmuu - the restaurant was very busy and even though we had a reservation, evidently people at the table we were going to get were not leaving--so we were offered the library--which was great--fireplace, Christmas, privacy, large table with wonderful leather chairs--a memorable meal, to say the least
What we did
10,000 Waves Japanese Spa http://www.tenthousandwaves.com/ on Sunday afternoon--three of us did a private tub for an hour (the waterfall tub0 then had various spa services--I had the yasuragi head and neck treatment and the ashi anma foot massage--heavenly--my husband had a massage (we had a couples' treatment room) and our friend had massage, yasurage, and salt glow
On Monday, we visited the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum--http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/ ; the Gerald Peters Gallery http://www.gpgallery.com/ which has many museum-quality works and a couple of galleries in the railyard area--Tai Gallery (gorgeous baskets made by Japanese masters) and LeWallen Contemporary Gallery
The guys did the farolito walk up Canyon Road on Christmas Eve and we all enjoyed the hot tub at El Rey and gatherings in our room to exchange gifts, visit and toast to Christmas and friendship,
We returned home on Wednesday in lovely sunny weather. In fact, the weather was good the whole time we were there--just a little snow on Chistmas Eve - very appropriate.
Christmas in Santa Fe with friends
We just returned from what is becoming an annual trip to Santa Fe with a group of friends. We drove from Denver on Saturday, Dec 22--stopping in Trinidad, Colorado for lunch at Nana and Nano's Italian Deli--which has some of the best red sauce I've ever had and wonderfully tender meatballs. The weather was sunny and it took about 6 1/2 hours (with an hour for lunch).
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Sounds like a slice of heaven, New Mexican style!!
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It sounds wonderful to me, too! Wasn't the snow on Christmas Eve perfect! I'm glad to hear about your dinner at Tomme -- deserves another try I believe. So happy Joseph left The Palace earlier this year and started his own place here in SF. We really enjoyed dining at Joseph's Table in Taos.
The library at Anasazi is so cozy and beautiful -- how wonderful you were able to get it for Christmas! It's a great spot that not many know about and especially the cozy fireplace room next door.
(Have you heard United will start service into Santa Fe from Denver May 2013?
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Haven't heard about the United changes. Might be a possibility in the future--though we would miss Nana and Nano's red sauce.
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Thanks for the report marty. Sounds like you have a nice tradtion started. I have a question about the El Rey Inn. Can one walk to the plaza from there?
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I would not walk from El Rey to the Plaza. It is about 3 miles with at least half of it having no sidewalks.
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Thanks marty.
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Sounds like a nice trip! Do you know how long the Christmas lights stay up?
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I do not know how long the lights stay up--sorry
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Thanks for posting. It sounds like a really nice trip.
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Thanks for sharing, glad you enjoyed your stay! Sounds like a wonderful holiday tradition with great friends and family. Santa Fe is wonderful all year around, but it is truly magical during the holiday season. In the future, visit www.santafe.org for information on lodging, dining, and events.
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Rarotonga, one of the Cook Islands, is tiny, its lagoon sharkless and its forests virgin - a perfect Polynesian paradise. But what will be the long-term effects of France's nuclear tests in the area? Peter Walker reports
Sunday 10 September 1995
OF ALL the "high islands" of Polynesia, Rarotonga is the most gentle and serene, and also the least well-known. Until it came to the world's notice in the last few months as the nearest neighbour to the nuclear testing grounds in French Polynesia, no one ever thought much about the place. Even now, its protests to France, and its appeals to Britain for support as a fellow Commonwealth member whose head of state is the Queen, simply go unanswered.
Yet Rarotonga, the main island of the Cooks group, merits our attention, if only for the fact that there is something particularly sweet-tempered about the place. It lacks the boisterous aggression of Samoa, the hauteur of Tahiti, the melting-pot hustle of Hawaii. On our first night there, arriving after midnight, we went for a stroll down the high-hedged lane which is the island's main highway. Two huge dogs came out of the dark to bark at us.
"Sit!" I shouted, more or less in desperation. They sat. We could hear their tails swishing gently on the gravel.
Two motorbikes went past, then came back and stopped in front of us. We could see the villainous stubble and broken teeth of the men barring our path. "Where are you going?" they asked. Did we want a ride home? Could they take us out on the lagoon tomorrow?
There between the dark hedges, one thing was already pretty clear: despite the volcanic peak looming above us, and the Southern Cross flaring away above that, Rarotonga is, in its own way, as calm and mannerly as Dorset. The next morning a hen clucked and walked in the back door of our motel unit; there were rumours of a crab the size of a dinner plate living by the swimming pool outlet. And that was as near to a hint of menace that this island could offer. "A week is too long there," friends who had been there before warned us. "There's nothing to do and nowhere to go."
At first it looked as if they might be right. This is not a holiday for the stern-hearted. The island is tiny - 25 miles in circumference. You can take a bus clockwise round the island in an hour, and then, to unwind, take the other that goes anticlockwise. The lagoon is clean and sharkless, the forest verdant and virgin. A kind of suburban calm hangs over the tin roofs and the church steeples. And then, suddenly, something drops away beneath your feet - and you realise that you are in the heart of a very old, very small and unique culture, even a civilisation in some senses of the word. Unlike similar islands in the Caribbean or Indian Ocean this is not the home of a settler or slave culture. It lies at the centre of the Polynesian triangle, an area larger than Eurasia, through which the Spanish sailed for two centuries without sighting a human being. And alone of the five branches of the Maori race (the others are in Hawaii, Easter Island, Tahiti and New Zealand) Rarotonga has not been overwhelmed by Euro-peans. As soon as you arrive you notice the expressions - on the faces of the immigration clerk and the customs man and the policewoman who sells you a driving licence - a kind of calm, self-possessed melancholy that can be seen in Gauguin portraits but nowhere else today in Polynesia
We were up early (jet-lagged) on the first morning and soon were lost - quite a feat in itself on Rarotonga. Looking at the map I saw we were on the Ara Tapu, the "sacred road" built by the great Polynesian hero and explorer Toi in the ninth century. Up and down the road in the early light, people were up raking and sweeping with ardour.
"What's it all about, all this raking?" we asked a woman, who with two sons and a languorously beautiful daughter of 14 was hard at work.
"We don't like rubbish," she said, looking sternly at a few delinquent leaves under what is apparently the worst culprit, the purple avocado tree. Along the verge small pyramids of leaves stood marshalled into the distance. At the same time, a chorus of lawn mowers began to hum. The English cult of the lawn has a serious rival in the South Pacific. The meanest hovel stands in a quarter acre of perfectly kempt greensward. Further down the road, at one of the four or five palaces that are the residences of the various ariki or paramount chiefs - big, dark-doored, deep-verandahed houses through which wonderful dynastic disputes swirl - we counted five boys motor-mowing across the lawns simultaneously.
Across the road by the lagoon was a plaque saying that this was the place where the Great Fleet that colonised New Zealand set sail about 1350 AD. The Great Fleet theory goes in and out of fashion so often among historians that I could not remember whether to believe this or not.
As in Bali, many gardens in Rarotonga contain a grave or two, some with a roof over them so that the tomb itself makes a shaded seat. "I suppose it's nice for the dying to know they're not going far from home," I said to another islander we met across a hedge. "Only the loved ones stay here," she said briskly. "Only the ones we love."
"What about the others?"
"Off to the cemetery." (Perhaps it is this prospect which accounts for the eerily low crime rate here.)
"Who's in that one?" I asked, pointing at a grave in the garden behind her.
"That's our grandson. He died 11 November last year."
"I'm sorry... What happened?"
"He fell out of a tree. He was a coconut climber, that boy! He must have slipped and then he fell. He was 16." She pointed to a row of shockheaded palms, 70-80ft high, bending in the breeze. One was missing - the one the boy had fallen from. It lay sawn up in the long grass.
For nearly 500 years the people on this little island were in a perpetual and complicated state of civil war. The stone maraes or meeting places, where speeches were made and wars were planned, were destroyed by the London Missionary Society but the competitive spirit of the islanders survives. Churches - there are at least 10 different, mostly Christian, sects on the island - sports clubs and even the hotels and motels provide a focus for local rivalries. Our motel had a large floating population of locals and its own team of dancers and drummers. Everyone is perfectly pleasant towards the foreign guests, whom they regard not as people there to be served but as charming strangers who have unaccountably dropped in to pay for everything.
The music and dancing are more athletic than erotic, with the girls flicking their hips from side to side in a furiously speeded up hula, while the drumming sounds in short violent crescendos, like a man beating on the door to warn you the house is on fire. The worst part, of course, is when the troupe turns to the audience to get some white, or papa'a, up on stage. However there was a ready supply of Swedes and Swiss happy, indeed anxious, to make fools of themselves.
Like most mid-ocean islands, Rarotonga has no wild animals; even the bird life is scanty. The forests, however, have never been milled, and better still, never will be - the islanders are aware of the disastrous effects of deforestation on steep tropical land. In the forest, according to the guidebook, lives a rare-ish native starling, the Oo-oi, whose call is "Oo-oi", and also a wood dove which goes "O-oo-ooo-oooo" and which, the guidebook states firmly "is always further away than it sounds".
One afternoon we went for a walk into the mountains. On the way out of town we passed passed the Govern-ment Statistics Office: emerging from its lower doors, like two enormous bananas, were the twin hulls of an ocean-going canoe wrapped in yellow plastic. For some reason the Department of Statistics owns the only garage large enough to house this vessel.
Months later - this time on BBC breakfast television - I saw an identical craft setting off from Rarotonga heading east in a deep swell. The wooden 72ft long vaka, with a crew of 17, was sailing to Mururoa to face the navy of France protecting the nuclear test zone reactivated by Mr Chirac. The absurd disparity between this craft, lost intermittently in troughs between the waves, and high-tech French frigates packed with commandos, did not frighten the Cook Islanders. They were back on a sea route across Polynesia which they have used for two millennia.
Our walk took us out of town, through a village which was fast asleep or deserted except for some hectic piglets; beyond that rose the forest. We had been told that the track was an "easy climb". This was untrue. We hauled ourselves up by the roots of trees vertically for a mile or two. Then we reached a clearing on a narrow plateau, on which stood an odd circular pile of stones about waist high: it was hard to tell whether this was a man-made or natural accretion. The rain stopped, and looking down we could see sunlight appear on the treetops below. A dove called: "O-oo-ooo". Another, further off, answered. Above, the clouds drifted away to reveal a pinnacle of black stone.
From that angle by the cairn, there was something familiar about its silhouette: it looked uncannily like the statues on Easter Island. This steeple of rock dominates the skyline from many parts of Rarotonga and, like headlands and pinnacles throughout Polynesia, had once been worshipped as a god. Could it be that migrant Rarotongan adventurers, reaching Easter Island 3,000 miles away and then unable to get home, had built their moai in evocation of the shape above us?
Well, the island lends itself to this sort of wild fancy. Rarotongans, like Basques and Hungarians, endlessly ponder the origins of their race. In the week we were there I was told that their ancestors came from: India, Java, Taiwan, Israel, Peru. The grandson of the first Prime Minister, whom we met out cycling and who had studied at Cambridge, was able to recite 48 generations of his genealogy, which makes Burke's Peerage sound like the week in review.
Rarotonga being in the middle of nowhere, aircraft come and go at crazy hours. We were to leave at 5.30 in the morning. At 4am I went down to the lagoon for a last glimpse, looking eastward in the direction of Mururoa, site of the French nuclear tests, though I did not know that at the time. The moon still shone, the palms were black, surf was breaking whitely on the reef. There seemed to be a figure standing out on the reef as well. But who? Why? The scene seemed oddly remote and inaccessible. Perhaps, like the wood dove, the reality of Polynesia is always further away than it seems. !
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