Cochin marathon ‘Heart Miles’ will be conducted on the world heart day – September 26. It will cover 25 kilometres. The event starts at Marine Drive and goes through the Shanmugham Road, Durbar Hall Road, Jos Junction, Shipyard, Thevara, Naval Base, Mattanchery Wharf, Port Gate, Vyttila, Palarivattom and ends at the Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium, Kaloor.

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EPLFC aka Ernakulam Public Library Film Club will be showing Michael Haneke’s Hidden on 5^th September, 2010(Sunday) at 10:00 AM.

Plot

Guilt. Anne and Georges Laurant have a book-lined Paris townhouse, jobs at a publishing house and as the host of a high-brow talk show, and a teenage son, Pierrot, who’s on the swim team. Their dinner parties sparkle, but there’s tension. They have little to say to each other: Anne may be on the verge of an affair with a close family friend, and Pierrot is monosyllabic and out with friends some evenings. There’s new strain when they begin to receive tapes of their home under surveillance–tapes accompanied by childlike drawings of a boy and blood. Anne and Georges are unnerved, dreams give Georges a clue, but he shares little with Anne. What part of himself and his past has he kept hidden?

Hidden Trailer

Details for Hidden

• Title: Hidden
• Director: Michael Haneke
• Rating: 7.3
• Year: 2005
• Tagline:
• Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
• Color: Color

EPLFC Announcement

EPLFC or Ernakulam Public Library Film Club will be screening Yimou Zhang’s Not One Less on 2^nd September, 2010(Thursday) at 6:00 PM.

Plot

In a remote mountain village, the teacher must leave for a month, and the mayor can find only a 13-year old girl, Wei Minzhi, to substitute. The teacher leaves one stick of chalk for each day and promises her an extra 10 yuan if there’s not one less student when he returns. Within days, poverty forces the class troublemaker, Zhang Huike, to leave for the city to work. Minzhi, possessed of a stubborn streak, determines to bring him back. She enlists the 26 remaining pupils in earning money for her trip. She hitches to Jiangjiakou City and begins her search. The boy, meanwhile, is there, lost and begging for food. Minzhi’s stubbornness may be Huike and the village school’s salvation.

Not One Less Trailer

Details for Not One Less

• Title: Not One Less
• Director: Yimou Zhang
• Rating: 7.5
• Year: 1999
• Tagline:
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Color: Color

EPLFC Announcement

EPLFC aka Ernakulam Public Library Film Club will be showing Zhuangzhuang Tian’s The Blue Kite on 29^th August, 2010(Sunday) at 10:00 AM.

Plot

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

Details for The Blue Kite

• Title: The Blue Kite
• Director: Zhuangzhuang Tian
• Rating: 7.6
• Year: 1993
• Tagline:
• Genre: Drama
• Color: Color

EPLFC Announcement

EPLFC or Ernakulam Public Library Film Club will be screening Claude Chabrol’s Bad Girls on 26^th August, 2010(Thursday) at 6:00 PM.

Plot

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.

Details for Bad Girls

• Title: Bad Girls
• Director: Claude Chabrol
• Rating: 6.9
• Year: 1968
• Tagline:
• Genre: Drama, Mystery
• Color: Color (Eastmancolor)

EPLFC Announcement

qKochi, a quiz club in Cochin, will have quiz meet at IMS, Ravipuram on 21^st 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.

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ILUG Cochin will be conducting a meet this sunday(22^nd 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

WordPress Workshop is being held at SLI, Palarivattom on 15 Aug 2010, 09:30 AM. This is a full day event.

Welcome to Swathanthra software Learning Institute. SLI Cochin is a  software training centre providing high quality training for ‘Free softwares’.

Source

WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. We like to say that WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine.

Over 25 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.

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Cochin Arts and Communications will be showing Philippe Claudel’s I’ve Loved You So Long on 13^th 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.

I’ve Loved You So Long Trailer

Details for I’ve Loved You So Long

• Title: I’ve Loved You So Long
• Director: Philippe Claudel
• Rating: 7.7
• Year: 2008
• Tagline:
• Genre: Drama, Mystery
• Color: Color