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

Tue Nov 23 14:38:02 UTC 2010

To the list moderator,

Appreciate the email was too big for the list so I've posted the info directly to Paola, so just to let you know there's no need to forward it to whole list, should you wish to.

If anyone else should want the info from the blog, please contact me off-list rather than clog up the list.

All best,
Leigh

On 23 Nov 2010, at 13:52, Paola Di Maio wrote:

> Leigh
> the post is unavailable, do you have a copy of this info somewhere other than NING?
> 
> P
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> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Variant <variantmag at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
> This would be the same George Square that's been 'mortgaged' to Barclays Bank, please see: 
> 
> http://roominthecityconference.ning.com/profiles/blogs/george-square-mortgaged-to
> 
> The blog posts above stress the extent to which neoliberal restructuring affects all of us, solidarity is needed now as ever. 
> 
> All best,
> Leigh
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 23 Nov 2010, at 13:25, David Kerr wrote:
> 
>> 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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