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Video: The Primal Screen Comes Home

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Video: The Primal Screen Comes Home
In order for any business to work, you need three things. Makers, consumers, and money. In TV … And here TED provides an extraordinary example, more than two billion views of smart, engaging, important ideas shared in talks and slides. Audiences want …
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New ideas, veg sav and fishpaneer, up for grabs to boost food sector
It said, "The technology is simple and can be easily adopted". The two-day conclave was organized to identify, support and encourage young agri-students and entrepreneurs with high potential in business start-ups in agriculture. Speaking on the …
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Rsam to Join Third-Party Risk Management Leaders at the Shared Assessments …
As OCC guidelines place greater emphasis on continuous risk management practices, Rsam enables organizations to create a repeatable process that goes beyond simple vendor risk management and moves towards proactive, continuous third-party risk …
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1 Million Cups comes full circle on two-year anniversary

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1 Million Cups comes full circle on two-year anniversary
In addition to startup founders sharing how 1 Million Cups further propelled their businesses from two years ago, creators of the program itself reflected on Kansas City's heritage. "If you look back historically at the people who've shaped Kansas City …
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Pampering Your Tastebuds with Worthy Beef Jerky
What was previously a temporary small side business became an extremely promising startup with a team of 10 members (including Alex himself) that manage the company we now know as “Worthy Jerky.” When putting together the team, Alex identified that …
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At Brandeis, Students Learn to Build a Startup in Three Days
“This is turning the business school into a pressure cooker for entrepreneurial ideas,” said professor Ben Gomes-Casseres, who teaches international business at Brandeis and is one of several mentors who oversee the three-day hackathon. “They work …
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Get Distribution or Die Trying
Obviously, this makes a lot more sense in a business-to-business sense but it can also work in a consumer play under the right circumstances. Partnerships for distribution should revolve … This is actually more important than you think as a lot of …
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Film Biz Can Learn a Few Things From the Music Industry When It Comes to Piracy

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Film Biz Can Learn a Few Things From the Music Industry When It Comes to Piracy
You mean I have to get into my car, park, and the movie doesn't start when I want it to? We've got what everybody wants in the music business: all-access streaming. … And what they choose is superstar talent — the blockbuster syndrome. Superstar …
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Seeking Silver Linings in Emerging Markets
Starting in late February — when pro-Russian forces began taking control of the Crimean peninsula, leading to Moscow's annexation of that part of Ukraine — Russian stocks lost as much as a fifth of their value and the group ended the quarter down …
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Mark Hinson column: Some folks forget their social skills when it comes to …

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Mark Hinson column: Some folks forget their social skills when it comes to …
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg smiles in this office in Palo Alto, Calif. He's the guy who let the genie out of … So, had the NSA finally caught up to me as I shoveled organic-squash casserole into a box at the hot bar? Surely the statute of …
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Please, Microsoft, don't put Windows XP to sleep on April 8 – the world isn't …
Anyway, the point is, if you have a friend or family member who's still running Windows XP, help them upgrade to Windows 7 as soon as possible. In case you were wondering, Office 2003 also has the same EOL/EOS date — but unless you're in the habit of …
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Illegal Immigration in Arizona Comes into Focus

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New York, NY (PRWEB) February 15, 2012

Every year since 2001, no less than 150 mummified and decomposed bodies of illegal immigrants have been discovered in remote areas of Arizonas Sonoran Desert. With his latest work “Left Behind” documentary photographer Jonathan Hollingsworth delivers a sobering look at the illegal immigrants who do not survive the Arizona border crossing and the personal effects they have left behind.

To drive the transformation of the work into book form, a Kickstarter campaign with video (http://kck.st/wPJ7cI) for “Left Behind” has been launched.

The series takes the viewer on a journey through the day-to-day operations of the Pima County Forensic Science Center in Tuscon, AZ, which faces the task of analyzing and storing the border crossers’ remains, archiving their possessions and, hopefully determining their identities. Attention is also given to Green Valley, AZ through the examination of belongings left on the desert floor by migrants awaiting road-side pick-up at night.

This book is important for a number of reasons, said Jonathan Hollingsworth, creator of the project. It is a way of humanizing the immigration issue we face in our country. It points to how desperate these individuals are to escape their circumstances and start a new life. Essentially this book stands as a kind of memorial to people who died alone, without ceremony and who often are still unknown.

Betting on the promise of crowd-sourced funding through Kickstarter, the first edition of “Left Behind” will include 1,500 9×12 casebound copies, spanning 112 pages with 65 four-color plates, in the fall of 2012.

About the Artist

Jonathan Hollingsworth is a documentary and fine art photographer in New York City. His work has been exhibited across the United States and has been published in The Sunday Times Magazine (UK), Photo District News and GUP. Follow him on Twitter @HollingsworthJD and join the conversation with #LeftBehindBook.

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