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☆ Audiences are still discovering John Carpenter's cult classic 'Prince of Darkness' 35 years later
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Mike Calia | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

John Carpenter is the king of Halloween. A lucrative new trilogy of "Halloween" sequels to his 1978 original just wrapped up with "Halloween Ends," which Carpenter helped score and executive produce. But this year, one of Carpenter's more obscure movies, "Prince of Darkness," which teems with insects and metaphysical dread, is having a moment and finding new audiences. The movie's 35th anniversary was just last weekend, in the heart of the peak time for scary movies. That's quite a turnaround for "Prince of Darkness," which critics panned when it was released in 1987.

☆ 'Black Adam' wants to be a Marvel movie, but can't leave the Snyder era behind — and it highlights the mess that DC Studios' new bosses will have to sort out
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Travis Clark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

There are a lot of Snyder-esque moments in "Black Adam," particularly when it comes to slo-mo action sequences and an overall somber tone. Johnson's Black Adam is a serious-faced anti-hero who isn't afraid to kill a lot of people. "Black Adam" is the perfect encapsulation of both the last nearly decade of DC movies and what the franchise wants to be in the future. For all of its troubles, the DC movie universe had at least seemed to be course correcting. The director, Jaume Collet-Serra, doesn't so much as put his personal touch on it as borrow familiar touches from past Snyder-directed DC movies.

☆ I run an 8-figure biscuit business that started as a side gig. Here's how I caught the attention of major distributors like Whole Foods and Costco.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Kimanzi Constable | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Ayeshah Abuelhiga, 36, started selling biscuits in 2014 as a side hustle while consulting full time. A customer asked if she would consider selling frozen dough so they could bake the biscuits at home. The day after, I drove a big ice chest filled with frozen biscuits to the stall before work. Two hours later, I got a call from my chef asking whether we had more frozen biscuits at the off-site kitchen because we had sold out. The company turned over eight figures last year, and Target, Publix, Safeway, Costco, and Aldi all stock our frozen biscuits.

Oct 18 (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) workers have so far voted 150 to 76 against forming a union at their upstate-New York warehouse, with more ballots to be counted as of Tuesday morning. At ALB1, the retailer's fulfillment center in Castleton-on-Hudson, employees had the chance to decide whether to join the Amazon Labor Union in the company's fourth union election of the year. The longer-established Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union also was unable to organize an Amazon warehouse in Alabama this year, though that result is not yet final. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterThe ALU is now managing the fourth Amazon union vote count of 2022 after tackling various challenges. More than 50% of voting Amazon workers would have to opt to join the ALU for the upstate-New York facility to unionize.

☆ Amazon workers' ballots to be counted Tuesday in retailer's 4th union vote this year
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Jeffrey Dastin | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

At ALB1, the retailer's fulfillment center in Castleton-on-Hudson, hundreds of employees had the chance to decide whether to join the Amazon Labor Union. The longer-established Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union also was unable to organize an Amazon warehouse in Alabama this year, though that result is not yet final. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterThe ALU is now heading in to the fourth Amazon union vote count this year after tackling various challenges. Just this month, it petitioned to hold a union vote in an Amazon warehouse in Southern California, and it backed a staff protest of work conditions in Staten Island following a fire; Amazon suspended some workers afterward. A simple majority of valid ballots submitted by Amazon workers will determine if the upstate-New York facility unionizes.

☆ The U.S. and China need to resume talks over Taiwan — away from the public eye, says think tank
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-30 | by ( Charmaine Jacob | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The United States and China need to reopen dialogue over the Taiwan issue — but such a conversation should take place discreetly, an analyst said. Cross-strait tensions between China and Taiwan have become "increasingly dangerous" ever since U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Taiwan visit in early August, he added. On top of that, China announced in the same month that it had shelved military and climate talks with the United States. Taiwan is a self-ruled democracy, but Beijing considers the island part of its territory and a breakaway province. "The Chinese have pulled down the dialogue in the aftermath of Pelosi's visit.

☆ Performance evaluations at Amazon are so predatory and opaque, they drove me to quit. Here's how I navigated the worst weeks of my career.
▼ + stars: | 2022-01-20 | by ( Patrick Mcgah | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

The system is so opaque it took reporters from The Seattle Times and Insider for actual Amazon employees to find out what it entails. The first rule of Focus is: You do not talk about FocusIn February, after my team's performance evaluations, my manager told me I'd been rated as a low performer. He told me the company policy is not to inform employees they are on Focus unless they ask directly. My manager didn't agree with the decision, but the director of engineering had the final say. A spokesperson for Amazon said the company regularly reviews performance ratings and other people processes to ensure they are fair and effective.

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