[ELECTRON] OPPOSE TUITION FEES Thursday 3.00PM at the Royal Concert Hall steps on Buchanan Street.

[David Kerr]

Hi Clive,

The organisers of these events would be more deserving recipients if you do
decide to ram the Christmas tree somewhere.

GLASGOW’S GEORGE SQUARE TO HOST ‘GLAM IN THE CITY’ CONSUMER EVENT...
http://www.britevents.com/whats-on/lanarkshire/glasgow/glam-in-the-city/117290/

Cadbury Spots v Stripes George Square 21/22nd August
http://www.spotsvstripes.com/events_glasgow_overview.aspx

Kind regards,

David Kerr


The ice rink and the art show.  I'm trying to think of other events
that are held there during the year.  There was talk for a while of
moving the central monument to the side to make it a more open space
and also moving the cenotaph down to the other end (where it was
supposed to be built in the first place) but they all petered out.
The cost would have been enormous but just the central monument moving
would have made a much larger open space for public activities.
The Christmas activities in the square are popular and bring a bit of
life to the square.  I'm not sure they're as profitable to the
operators as they'd like.
Yes, George Square IS classed as a park and maintained by the parks
department.  You don't need to claim it back.  It's freely open most
of the year for people to sit on and have their lunch as many do.
It's planted areas are maintained regularly if anyone even bothers to
look.  It makes sense to have at least a few events there during the
year though, since it is a nice central location
I should mention that it's me who puts up the Christmas lights on
George Square (yes the battered old 20-year-old ones) so if you do
hold a protest and anyone vandalises the lights at ground level then I
will personally ram the entire George Square Christmas tree up their
arse.  :)
For the geeks amongst you (here's the actual electronic bit), the only
Christmas lights on George Square that aren't now LED based are the
swinging bells, nativity spots and the angel floodlights.  We've been
gradually refitting the old frames with good quality LED tubelight
with an immediate power reduction of 75% and a considerable increase
in brightness over the old (and troublesome) tungsten tubelight.  The
new stuff is so sensitive that the leakage through the dimmer snubber
networks was enough to make them light dimly when they're supposed to
be off!  We had to add small resistive packer loads to shunt the
leakage enough to turn them off completely.  All the lights are
controlled via dimmers on a DMX network to make everything operate in
sync.
Most significant new bit to look for this year is the column which is
now lit entirely with warm white LED (top and base) with a few strings
of xenon strobe caps to add some sparkle.  The sleigh and reindeer
have also been converted to LED with a sudden resultant power drop
from almost 40A to just 6A!  (made things a lot easier for me).

On 23 November 2010 02:09, M.Hersh <m.hersh at elec.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
> Slightly off-topic for this list, but there are also issues of reclaiming
> George Square.  It used to be one of 3 places in Glasgow where there was
an
> automatic right to stage protests and you did not require police
permission.
>  It now seems to have been taken over by a range of commercial activities
> and we have lost this community ownership of it.  Also tuition fee events
> are Wednesday, not Thursday,
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