Film composer Chris Hajian has made a living creating dozens of soundtracks for film, documentary and television for 25 years — an industry always beset with brutal competition, which has in recent years been many-times compounded by pressures faced by all media: copyright law that is stacked against artists, and digital technology that renders paying for music all but obsolete. Nielsen reports that on-demand streaming jumped 93 percent in 2015, when Roseanne Cash told PBS she was paid $104 for 600,000 downloads from sites like Pandora and Spotify.

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The retail giant is betting that customers will trust its value orientation and not comparison shop, in a move that will likely cut the number of sale events other retailers will hold in order to compete with the online giant. Meanwhile, with its experiments with home food delivery and bookstores, Amazon is attacking competitors on multiple fronts.

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Could the protests held against nuclear energy in the 1970s be giving way to the current marches in favor of the carbon-free power source? With the announced closure of Northern California’s Diablo Canyon, the modern environmental movement has sent its foot soldiers to battle. But can they win?
Ever since Pacific Gas & Electric Co. agreed last to close the state’s one remaining nuclear power plant, there has been a backlash against those environmental groups that have forced the shutdown that would occur in nine years — a facility that now cranks out 2,160 megawatts of clean energy. 

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The house of the future is being sold in the most old-fashioned way imaginable: By pounding the pavement and working the phones. So why are some of silicon valley’s sharpest investors suddenly interested?

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In 2004 General Stanley McChrystal was appointed head of Joint Special Operations Task Force for the US military in Iraq.  He subsequently recorded his experience in Teams of Teams published in 2015.

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Putting aside the discussion over potential screen sizes, design echoes of previous handsets, and the tweaks to Samsung’s Android UI, the upcoming phablet from the South Korean manufacturer has one key advantage over the rest of the Galaxy family which will help it stand out in the internal competition with the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge.

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Here are seven individuals or organizations that are curating the best information on workplace transformation online.

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