On Dry Well Lane in Beijing in 1953, Chen Shujuan and Lin Shaolong marry. A year later their son, nicknamed Tietou (Iron Head), is born. The Party is everywhere: Mao’s photograph, loud-speaker announcements, visits from the neighborhood committee. Shaolong dies in a reform camp; a close family friend, who protects Shujuan and her son partly out of guilt for lying to authorities about Shaolong, succumbs to malnutrition; a confrontation with the Red Guard leads to injury, imprisonment and death. Shujuan’s love for Tietou sustains her, and the child’s blue kite embodies hope: “I can make another for you,” says Tietou’s dad; by the end, Tietou promises this to a small child
Frdrique is a rich and beautiful woman who picks up a female street artist called “Why”. It is December and they go to her villa in Saint Tropez, which is inhabited by a couple of odd gay men. Both women fall for the local architect Paul Thomas. However Why says that she is not interested in him, so Frdrique invites him to move into the villa.
A workshop on Blender will be held at Swathanthra Software Learning Institute, Vylasseri Road, Palarivattom from 28th August, 2010(Saturday) at 9:30 AM to 28th August, 2010(Saturday) at 4:30 PM.
Details
Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License(more at blender.org).
A class on GIMP will be held at Swathanthra Software Learning Institute, Vylasseri Road, Palarivattom from 29th August, 2010(Sunday) at 9:30 AM to 29th August, 2010(Sunday) at 4:30 PM.
Details
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a free software program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. (more at gimp.org)
qKochi, a quiz club in Cochin, will have quiz meet at IMS, Ravipuram on 21st August, 2010(Saturday) at 4:00 PM.
About qKochi
qKochi is a small but growing group devoted to spreading the joy of quizzing. We had our first meeting of 5 people at Subhash Park. I was present at that meeting
We bounce questions of each other at our meetings(happen every couple of weeks or so). At every meeting we have one or two members playing the role of the quizmaster.
More Information
For more information, visit our group or contact Arun Cherian +91-9995835810
Inkscape Training is being held at SLI, Palarivattom on 05 Sep 2010, 10:00 AM. This is a 6 hours event – so it ends at 05 Sep 2010, 04:30 PM.
An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more.It also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.
hCalendar
Inkscape Training at SLI, Palarivattom
(05 Sep 2010, 10:00 AM to 05 Sep 2010, 04:30 PM)
ILUG Cochin will be conducting a meet this sunday(22nd Aug, 2010). The meeting is from 2:30 PM to 5:00 PM. The agenda for the meeting is Conducting Free Software Workshops and the technical pesentation will be .
Details
We start of with our regular discussion on the concepts and philosophy of
the Free Software Movement and related topics.
Important Points for Discussion
Standards
Free/Open Standards
File Formats
Free Software, Open Standards, Free/ Open File formats
Agenda(ii): Conducting Free Software Workshops.
Free Software Workshops are happening almost everywhere. We will try to
discuss on the the important aspects of organizing small to large scale
Free Software Workshops, especially the community perspective.
Technical Discussion
Attendees will discuss and/or present topics of interest. They will share
their knowledge by handling small sessions to make up the Technical Session
part of the Meeting. See previous meeting details for topics discussed
during last meeting.
Venue
Jay’s Internet Club,
IInd Floor, AMI Trust Building,
Broadway Enclave
Broadway,
Kochi-682031
i.e. Behind Penta Menaka, On top of SBT Treasury wing,
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Cochin Arts and Communications will be showing Philippe Claudel’s I’ve Loved You So Long on 13th August, 2010(Friday) at 6:30 PM.
Plot
After fifteen years in prison for murdering her son Pierre, the former medical doctor Juliette Fontaine travels to Lorraine to live on probation with her younger sister La and her family. The bitter, introspective and reclusive Juliette has spent her sentence without any visitors and totally forgotten by her family and now she has problems interacting with her brother-in-law Luc and her nieces. She has to visit every other week her probation officer Captain Faur and seeks a job to rebuild her life. As days go by, Juliette gets closer to the family of her sister and befriends Luc and La’s friends, specially Lea’s colleague Michel. She slowly changes her behavior until the day La discovers the truth about the death of Pierre.
Want to make a difference in the world you are living in? Ever felt the need to help people less privileged than you? Or do you want to be part of one of the coolest NGOs in India? This is your chance. Make A Difference(MAD) is recruiting once again.
Make a Difference(or MAD) is an NGO of young volunteers working to providing quality education to many unprivileged children. MAD began four years ago in Cochin. In a few years, we have spread to ten cites in India and teach over 2500 children. We provide an easy platform for college students and young professionals to reach out and make a difference.
MAD volunteers teach English and computer to kids in orphanages, street shelters, poor homes, and other child-support establishments. The syllabus MAD uses focuses on communication skills, computer skills and personality development.
If you are interested, mark this date on your calendars. 15 August. Independence Day. MAD Cochin will be holding a recruitment drive that day. If you wish to join us, register at http://makeadiff.in/joinmad.php – you’ll get a call from one of our volunteers with more details.
So – what are you waiting for? Register. Attend. Make a Difference.
