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They're apparently also asking for help retrieving stuff, so I was vaguely
thinking of helping out this weekend; there are videos here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7922342.stm
& here:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090304.wvcollapse0304/V
ideoStory/VideoLineup/News
this is part of the new subway project, which has had a lot of trouble: cost
overruns were recently blamed on delays caused by archaeologists (doesn't
take a brain surgeon to figure out that there is a lot of archaeology in the
middle of Cologne, & that they should have planned for it better at the
beginning; hiring 4 or 5 German firms to "manage" the excavations by hiring
student workers at 400 euros/month didn't help much, either [students are
allowed to work enough hours to earn 400 euros without losing their student
status, which would mean having to pay for unemployment insurance & income
tax, among other things; unfortunately most of the people on my wife's crew
were not even studying archaeology...]; there should be a major scandal
because local firms even undercut a bid by a Polish university... & there
have been various rumours of serious health problems among some of the
excavators [mercury poisoning, etc.], etc., etc.), so now I'm wondering how
they'll manage to blame the collapse on... archaeologists (had to cut back
on health & safety precautions because of all those cost overruns because of
the cut-budget archaeology...)...
they're still not sure whether anyone has died: 2 are apparently missing,
but with the weather, chances don't look good...
-----Original Message-----
The archive office in Kon (Cologne) has collapsed killing at least two
persons and much of German's greatest urban archive (undamaged during
WW2) may have been lost- makes the case for digitisation. I was going to
vist the city this weekend but had to cancel holiday due to sick cat.
Masive new stoneware catalogue of Cologne and Frechen stoneware has also
been published by the city museum service while I remmber- can send
details if anyone wants.
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