Manuel Herz Architects
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Manuel Herz Architects is an office for architecture and urban planning, based in Basel, Switzerland and Cologne, Germany. Amongst the recently constructed buildings is the Jewish Community Center of Mainz, the mixed-use building ‘Legal / Illegal’ in Cologne, and a museum extension (with Eyal Weizman and Rafi Segal) in Ashdod, Israel. Current projects include housing projects in Cologne, Zürich and Lyon [...]
Rail passengers in Europe-wide protest against night train cuts | World news | The Guardian
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Thousands of rail travellers are gathering across Europe for a weekend of protests to highlight the drastic phasing out of night trains across the continent.
From Geneva to Madrid and Copenhagen to Vienna, train enthusiasts will hope to put pressure on European rail providers and politicians to reverse a decision they say will annihilate arguably one of the most efficient, environmentally sustainable and convenient ways of travelling.
Protests kicked off on Friday morning in Geneva, where demonstrators turned up in their pyjamas at 7am, and will continue throughout the weekend at the central stations of Madrid, Berlin, Vienna, Paris, Dortmund, Copenhagen, Odense, Basel and Hamburg. The demonstrations are due to culminate in Berne on Sunday in a late-night pyjama party to which protesters will bring camp beds.
Campaign group Back on Track is calling for more investment in a rail network that it says in the past epitomised the best of the European project – efficient, accessible, cross-border traffic – but has been neglected by rail operators who blame the rise of low-budget airlines for a fall-off in traffic.
Action en faveur des trains de nuit à la gare Cornavin
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Ils sont une poignée, ce vendredi matin à la gare Cornavin. En pyjamas ou peignoirs, pantoufles aux pieds et peluches en mains. A l’appel de l’association actif-trafiC, le petit groupe a manifesté pacifiquement pour le retour des trains de nuit. Une pétition vient d’être lancée en faveur de ce mode de transport écologique et sympathique en Europe, où il disparaît petit à petit au profit des liaisons par trains à grande vitesse ou par avion. « Une coalition européenne, « Back on track », s’est créée pour sauver ce type de voyages, explique Thibault Schneeberger, cosecrétaire d’actif-trafiC. Le mouvement est continental. Pour notre part, nous lançons une pétition sur le plan national pour dénoncer la disparition progressive des trains de nuit, notamment en Suisse. A Genève, il n’y en a plus aucun, les derniers ayant cessé de fonctionner en 2012. »
entre le Paris - Berlin et le Copenhague - Amsterdam qui sont supprimés, on va devoir faire de l’avion cet été ! heureusement, le Berlin - Malmö fonctionne encore.... mais seulement jusqu’à début août (tant pis, on montra voir @reka une autre fois)
The Amazing Sky Calendar That Ancients Used to Track Seasons - Facts So Romantic
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The Nebra Sky Disk photographed in Basel, Switzerland, in 2006Dbachmann via Wikipedia Henry Westphal is tired. It’s July 4, 1999, a Sunday. He and a friend are climbing the Mittelberg or “Central Hill,” a small mountain near Nebra, in central Germany. Both men know of ancient ruins located here. Equipped with two metal detectors, they hope to find something of value. Westphal stops to rest for a couple of minutes. It’s a hot day and he’s out of shape. Suddenly his metal detector starts beeping wildly. He brushes some leaves aside with his shoe but can’t make out anything. The detector’s display reads, “OVERLOAD.” With a pick, Westphal scrapes at the dry ground. Under a few inches of soil, the pick hits something hard several times. Together the two treasure-hunters dig a small pit. They find (...)
Novartis lies threaten our lives : Act Up-Basel launched to declare the war on pharma - Actup - Basel
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Tomorrow in New Delhi, the next hearing of the case brought by the Basel-based pharmaceutical firm Novartis against the Indian government is scheduled to take place. Novartis is challenging a critical health safeguard – section 3(d) of Indian Patents Act in the Supreme Court of India – to secure monopoly control over its life-saving cancer medicine, Glivec. In essence, Novartis wants section 3(d), which requires stringent evidence of proof of significantly enhanced therapeutic efficacy if a modification of an existing pharmaceutical entity is to receive new patent protection, to be reinterpreted to allow routine “ever-greening” of minor modifications to existing medicines resulting in additional 20-year patent monopolies. If Novartis wins this case, the ability of India to produce cheap generic medicines of slightly modified molecules will be strongly affected as it will set a precedent for all future patent applications.
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