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?The latest news is that millionaire Scrooge McDuck decided to break his
self-imposed pact of silence on this topic and limited himself to answering
three questions at a press conference in Anaheim, California. Although not
directly related to the Disney corporate scandals, the first question
reflected global curiosity in respect of this individual?s unmatched
personal fortune. Asked the journalist, ?What was your secret for becoming
so wealthy??
The famously ill-humored McDuck dryly answered, ?It?s very
simple. I?ve always spent less than I earned and multiplied the
difference?.
The second question, straight to the bull?s eye of the
interview?s core topic, was ?Are you a Disney Corporation shareholder??
Uncle Scrooge replied, ?I have been a small shareholder in the past, since,
given the nature of my professional involvement with the company, I never
wished to be a major shareholder, in order to avoid potential conflicts of
interest. On becoming aware of the appalling quality of the company?s
Corporate Governance, I tried to convince the members of the board that this
policy would not add value to the company and that, on the contrary, it
would destroy share value. Since I was unsuccessful, in line with Client
Theory, I sold my stock and bought shares in another company that
implemented good Corporate Governance practices?. The last question put to
McDuck, who was clearly anxious to depart, was ?What would be your advice to
multiply the difference between earnings and expenditures?? Clearly
exasperated and making his exit, he answered ?By diversifying investments
and, in the case of stock, by only buying from companies with a high level
of Corporate Governance.
A very good afternoon to you all?.

The interview above wasn?t wrote by an Disney Artist.
It was wrote by a corporative governance expert and professional councelor
in some brazilian enterprises Mr Luciano Carvalho Ventura.

The Stock Market confidence is needed for all investors and companies
operations, but despite of this, it?s not difficult to read in journals bad
news about corporative governance.
Luciano Ventura thinked about a Uncle Scrooge "interview" to help comment
about a bad news with the Disney Company in one his newsletter, posted to
executives around the world.

More than the message about corporative governance in the interview, we need
to see that an character identified by many people as acting in the 50?s,
old, dead or by many brazilians identified only with the childrens universe,
was able to act in an modern times situation with sucess.

For me is umconfortable to see Uncle Scrooge identified as a childrens age
character. The childrens world is full of new character and the promotion
action less is the born to create a confusion : Childrens think that Disney
histories are too much complex and adults don?t read Disney histories
because they think it is for children.

I ask for your attention for the next point : Why many people (like me )
keeps on working inside glass panels buildings, with ?unpleasure? and hard
jobs ? There?s nothing better to earns the life ?
Because the business world is a very motivating world ! And the Disney world
is the only that show so good the business world.

So, in a world when to have some fun we need to enter in war equipments like
flights or military trucks, got exaustive fisically fightings, to operate
guns, missiles, arh, kill enemies, why not to have some fun trying go over
the breakeven point ?
Why not show this Disney skills with promotional actions ?

Another suggestion for the Disney artists : In our days, traditional and
classical stolens are very rare. Why not to invite Mickey, with his justice
sense, to investigate situations in a governance corporative world ?

Think about !

Despite the surname, Luciano Ventura hasn?t family links with Fernando
Ventura, this last a Disney artist. Both of them only know about each one
work by this job.

Now, the Luciano Ventura full text, who runs a specialized
governance corporative company in s?o Paulo, and wrote another
newsletter, with Donald Duck.

Alexandre Saramelli

http://www.lcvco.com.br/english/lcvnews05-01-02.htm

The Walt Disney Corporation will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary as it
struggles to recover from its own corporate scandals.

At the beginning of May 2005 the world?s first and largest theme park,
created by the unrivalled genius of Walt Disney, Disneyland in Anaheim,
California, will celebrate its 50th anniversary. The festivities to
continue for 18 months will not be limited to California, but will extend to
the World Disney Resort in Florida, the Tokyo Disneyland in Japan, the Paris
Disneyland Resort, and the Hong Kong Disneyland, this last to be inaugurated
in December 2005.

However, all these celebrations are being held in an environment of
successive corporate scandal in the US courts. This is due to the abysmal
quality of the Corporate Governance practiced by the Disney Corporation,
chiefly in respect of the conflict of interests of the Chairman of the
corporation?s Board of Directors and the majority of its members. There is
the case brought by investors nearly ten years ago at the State of Delaware
Supreme Court against the members of the company?s Board of Directors,
allegedly for the fact that the latter frequently and deliberately ignored
shareholder interests. Since then, new data has emerged, such as service
agreements at exorbitant prices drawn up by companies owned by members of
the Disney Corporation?s Board of Directors. Michael Eirner, the leader of
this fraudulent operation, who masked all these irregularities, for over
twenty years ran one of the world?s best known trademarks, is about to be
replaced at which time he will, finally, be required to render accounts of
his actions to the US courts of justice.

The latest news is that millionaire Scrooge McDuck decided to break his
self-imposed pact of silence on this topic and limited himself to answering
three questions at a press conference in Anaheim, California. Although not
directly related to the Disney corporate scandals, the first question
reflected global curiosity in respect of this individual?s unmatched
personal fortune. Asked the journalist, ?What was your secret for becoming
so wealthy?? The famously ill-humored McDuck dryly answered, ?It?s very
simple. I?ve always spent less than I earned and multiplied the
difference?. The second question, straight to the bull?s eye of the
interview?s core topic, was ?Are you a Disney Corporation shareholder??
Uncle Scrooge replied, ?I have been a small shareholder in the past, since,
given the nature of my professional involvement with the company, I never
wished to be a major shareholder, in order to avoid potential conflicts of
interest. On becoming aware of the appalling quality of the company?s
Corporate Governance, I tried to convince the members of the board that this
policy would not add value to the company and that, on the contrary, it
would destroy share value. Since I was unsuccessful, in line with Client
Theory, I sold my stock and bought shares in another company that
implemented good Corporate Governance practices?. The last question put to
McDuck, who was clearly anxious to depart, was ?What would be your advice to
multiply the difference between earnings and expenditures?? Clearly
exasperated and making his exit, he answered ?By diversifying investments
and, in the case of stock, by only buying from companies with a high level
of Corporate Governance. A very good afternoon to you all?.

Hi all!

Here are the comic book sales for Gemstone for August 2005:

Top 300 Comics:
219. Uncle Scrooge #345 4,794
228. Donald Duck and Friends #331 4,395
233. Mickey Mouse and Friends #280 4,077
238. Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #660 3,831

Top 100 Graphic Novels:
21. Donald Duck Adventures #13 2,762
26. World of the Dragonlords 2,576
36. Mickey Mouse Adventures #5 2,284

Too bad DDA isn't a regular top 10 book anymore. Sales are good, but not
great. And MMA seems to be proving that a Mouse book will never sell close to what
a Duck book will. I don't think even Gottfredson reincarnated, would change
that. In better news, Yay for Dragonlords. :)

http://www.icv2.com/articles/home/7534.html

http://www.icv2.com/articles/home/7535.html

Derek Smith

I'd like to get in touch with the Danish and Swedish
translators of the Scandinavian Egmont Hall of Fame
series. Actually I already know that AC Siveb?k is
the Dane in question, and have his mail address, but
who's the Swede? Is it you, Stefan Di?s? Could you
please mail me privately?

Thanks
Nils Lid Hjort

Hello.

I'm preparing the illustrations for a small article that I'm writing, but
I'm missing one. More specifically, I need a cover scan of "Kalle Anka" no.
1/1948.
It doesn't have to be a very big scan. As far as I remember, there is a
small reproduction of that particular cover on the dust jacket of "Den
kompletta argangen 1948". That would suit my purpose nicely.

In return you will get my eternal gratitude.

Kind regards
Niels

Thanks!!

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Fra: H.W.Fluks at telecom.tno.nl [mailto:H.W.Fluks at telecom.tno.nl]
Sendt: 26. september 2005 14:08
Til: NHH at ra.sa.dk; dcml at stp.lingfil.uu.se
Emne: RE: A little bit of help needed from the Swedish Donaldists

Niels:

> I need a cover scan of "Kalle Anka" no. 1/1948.

I have one here:
http://dd50.inducks.org/xned1952.html

(Oddly enough, this scan is not on outducks.)
--Harry.

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Greetings,
does any of you, by any chance, know what the Egmont English name of Indiana Pipps, Goofy\'s adventorous cousin from Italian stories, is?
According to INDUCKS, he\'s been participating in at least ONE Egmont-story, and I assume that he had an English name at some point in that process. If any of you know what it is, it would be of GREAT help to me.
Olaf
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