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LOS ANGELES -- A small-batch box set of film, music and memorabilia will be released to celebrate the 10th anniversary of “Michael Jackson’s This Is It,” the movie that captured Jackson’s final concert rehearsals before his death. Only 1,000 numbered copies will be made of the set that is available for presale at the Jackson online store and will be released on Dec. 11, Sony Music and the Jackson estate announced Friday. Each will include four LPs on translucent-blue vinyl, a 3-D Blu-Ray disc of the film, a 60-page coffee table book and a ticket for a July 24, 2009 concert at O2 Arena in London that was never held because Jackson died 18 days before the shows was scheduled to begin. The film, which had the highest global box office gross of any concert documentary, was released in theaters that October, the first of several posthumous projects the Jackson estate would produce. It was culled from the rehearsal footage … [Read more...] about ‘Michael Jackson’s This Is It’ gets box set after 10 years

“There’s a number of hurdles, but I’m eternally optimistic.” Work still to be done includes convincing Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority it is safe for pilots to fly for more than 19 hours, and negotiating a new pay deal with pilots. Qantas has said “productivity gains” were needed to make the routes viable. However the union representing Qantas’ international pilots has signalled it will not be swayed by the promise of new aircraft and routes, while also questioning whether enough data is available to fully understand the risks of pilot fatigue on such long flights. Mr Joyce said Qantas intends to maintain capital expenditure at about $2 billion a year as it introduces 109 Airbus A321neos to the fleet of its low-cost subsidiary Jetstar, and also starts replacing its 75 domestic workhorse Boeing 737s over the next decade. New jets to operate Sunrise flights sit outside of that forecast spending however. The aircraft that could … [Read more...] about Qantas boss Joyce ‘optimistic’ new ultra-long haul routes will happen

Loading The deal did however pave the way for Catalano to buy Fairfax's regional newspaper arm Australian Community Media for $125 million. He was backed by billionaire investor and friend Alex Waislitz. He has had control of ACM for more than three months. Many observers believe it is not performing strongly – a safe bet given most regional media companies are struggling to overcome audience shifts to digital platforms and a soft advertising market. But what does Catalano do next? Mergers There's no escaping what Catalano said one month ago when he sat on stage and described his own industry as being in a crisis. Regional news organisations, he told a crowd of industry professionals at an annual publishing event in Sydney, need to push the government to abolish the one-to-a-market rule for television and remove TV licence fees. Loading The suggestion was particularly surprising because ACM does not have television interests. At least, not yet. His comments clearly … [Read more...] about Cat and mouse: What is Antony Catalano up to this time?

The most recent research laying waste to the claim that women’s lack of confidence accounts for their failure to break the glass ceiling comes from Alison Wynn, a research associate at the Stanford VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab, whose paper, Pathways toward Change, was published this month in the influential journal Gender & Society. Wynn’s research found that employer programs that aim to address women’s lack of confidence through mentoring place the blame for women’s inequality – and the responsibility for addressing it – on individual women, rather than structures, which ultimately makes them ineffective. “They’re rooted in the belief that if … women can be taught to behave more assertively and demonstrate valued skills (through mentorship), then perhaps gender inequalities can be reduced,” Wynn wrote in an article about the research for the Harvard Business Review. “But this thinking fails to do … [Read more...] about Why not to be sucked in by the ‘confidence industrial complex’

"There tends to be an inverse relation between the honesty and the litigiousness of the company. Maybe it's because the only weapon you have is the pocketbook." A string of Australian companies have been targeted by offshore short sellers over the past year. And at least two have referred their claims to regulators. Treasury Wine Estates, the owner of Wolf Blass and Penfolds wine labels referred claims against it to the Australian Securities and Investment Commission in August. Rural Funds Group (RFF), which is taking legal action against Texan short seller Bonitas Research in the NSW Supreme Court, confirmed that it has also lodged a complaint with the regulator. WiseTech is the first ASX-listed target by J Capital which has previously focused on Chinese groups. J Capital, which is run by former Labor candidate for the federal seat of Wentworth, Tim Murray, claimed in a research note released on Wednesday that WiseTech had overstated its profits by $116 million — or 178 per … [Read more...] about WiseTech critic defiant on claims against $10bn tech giant