Teeming with chatrooms, online discussion groups, and blogs, the Internet offers previously unimagined opportunities for personal expression and communication. But there's a dark side to the story. A trail of information fragments about us is forever preserved on the Internet, instantly available in a Google search. A permanent chronicle of our private lives—often of dubious reliability and sometimes totally false—will follow us wherever we go, accessible to friends, strangers, dates, employers, neighbors, relatives, and anyone else who cares to look. This engrossing book, brimming with amazing examples of gossip, slander, and rumor on the Internet, explores the profound implications of the online collision between free speech and privacy.

Daniel Solove, an authority on information privacy law, offers a fascinating account of how the Internet is transforming gossip, the way we shame others, and our ability to protect our own reputations. Focusing on blogs, Internet communities, cyber mobs, and other current trends, he shows that, ironically, the unconstrained flow of information on the Internet may impede opportunities for self-development and freedom. Longstanding notions of privacy need review, the author contends: unless we establish a balance among privacy, free speech, and anonymity, we may discover that the freedom of the Internet makes us less free.

Rural enterprise network (REN) is association of rural entrepreneurs. These are people who drives real India. They works in the villages. They are self employed people, who along with them drive the economy of the villages. REN works to highlight problems of rural entrepreneurs

Introduction to Basic Rural Technology program (IBT) developed by Vigyan Ashram, Pabal offers an innovative and sustainable solution to tackle the challenge of rural unemployment. This unique model of vocational training has evolved from twenty five years of grass-root efforts and has been tested in twenty high schools.

The IBT training program is based on a natural system of learning i.e. 'Learning by doing in a real-life situation'. It equips high school students in basic technology skills in engineering, agriculture and animal husbandry, energy and environment. The program is spread over three years of high school education (grade 8th through 10th).

The IBT Program has received wide acclaim nationally and internationally. The National Institute Of Open Schooling and Education Dept , Government of Maharashtra has recognized the course as a complementary program in high schools.

Vigyan Ashram is a center of Indian Institute Of Education (IIE) Pune. A scientist turned educationalist Late Dr.S.S.Kalbag started Vigyan Ashram in 1983 to find out solution to the problems in education.

For us “Vigyan” means ‘Search of Truth’ and “Ashram” symbolises ‘Simple living and High thinking for us, a organization where all are equal, it’s a modern version of old Gurukul system’

Over the year Vigyan Ashram develops a complete program for giving training to the youth in rural and urban areas. Vigyan Ashram developed several innovative technologies and successfully commercialized them by training school dropouts.

To increase the pace and quality of our education delivery system, ashram adopted new information technology.

Many Govt and Private organization and individual donor supported the programs of ashram. Few of the organization which supported us are “CAPART (Min of rural Development), “Dept of Science & Technology” “Sir Dorabaji Tata Trust” “Hindustan Lever” "Lend-A-Hand-India", "Association for India's Development (AID)", "ASHA for Education", "MHRD "etc.

Trustees of the Indian Institute Of Education looks after the management of Vigyan Ashram with the help of “Program Organising Committee”. The committee comprises of Dr. Chitra Naik (Chairperson IIE, Well know Educationalist), Dr. Waghmare (Ex-Professor, IIT Kanpur), Mr. Vijay Kumar (M. Des), Mr. Sunil Kulkarni (B. Tech Agri), Mr. Ashok Kalbag (M. Tech) and Yogesh Kulkarni (Executive Director) & Mrs. Mira Kalbag..

Vigyan Ashram is located in village Pabal approx 70 kms from Pune. Its situated on Rajgurunagar - Shirur Road. Population of Pabal is @ 10000. There are several small hamlets attached to Pabal which make Pabal central market place.

Pabal is drought prone and its truly representative Indian village. Idea of establishing Vigyan Ashram at Pabal is whatever we do at Ashram can be replicated in any part of the country

The Internet was born under the idea that information had to be shared and easy to find. Today, more than 30 years later, the problem isn't sharing information but finding it. Information that is hard to find is not very useful. There are many sites on the Java Language but we believe that none of then provide a good way to keep in touch with the fast moving pace surrounding the enormous variety of features that the Java Language provides.

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The main objective of this site is to provide an alternative to Search Engines that frequently produce irrelevant or duplicate links, and other so called "resource" sites that simply list URL's with no explanation or organization.

We've gone out of our way to ensure you won't get buried 20 levels deep in this site. While we want to provide you with some historical perspetive on the evolution of the Java Language, we do not want to give you out of date and useless information.

This site has the ambitious goal of providing you with all the information available on the Java Language, whether is J2SE, J2EE or J2ME.

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This book is an expedition through the considerations above the standards that come from practical experience in implementing a SOA. It is a practical book for the practitioner. The goal is to make the implementation of a SOA simpler and to encourage more people to deploy their own SOA.

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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is being built in a circular tunnel 27 km in circumference. The tunnel is buried around 50 to 175 m. underground. It straddles the Swiss and French borders on the outskirts of Geneva.

It planned to circulate the first beams 10th September 2008. First collisions at high energy are expected about a month later with the first results from the experiments soon after.

Cool website for MIND SPARK event. Font could be a little bigger though

Video by the Production team displaying the activities they did for the competition

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