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

Tue Nov 23 14:45:05 UTC 2010

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On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Variant <variantmag at btinternet.com> wrote:

> To the list moderator,
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> 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.
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> If anyone else should want the info from the blog, please contact me
> off-list rather than clog up the list.
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> All best,
> Leigh
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> On 23 Nov 2010, at 13:52, Paola Di Maio wrote:
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> Leigh
> the post is unavailable, do you have a copy of this info somewhere other
> than NING?
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> 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
>>
>>
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>>
>> 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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