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Batman has all the gadgets Bruce Wayne's resources can buy, but he doesn't have one thing nearly every other blockbuster has: 3-D.
Director Christopher Nolan made the 2-D vs. 3-D choice easy for fans seeing The Dark Knight Rises, the finale of his superhero trilogy that began with 2005's Batman Begins and continued with 2008's wildly praised The Dark Knight.
Nolan is not a fan of digital 3-D, which essentially has turned a fleeting 1950s cinema gimmick into a multi-million-dollar value-added tax on fans who decide they want to put on the glasses and see a film with the illusion of depth.
With Avatar and other early hits in the digital 3-D era, studios took in two-thirds or more of their revenue on that third dimension, which costs a few dollars more than 2-D screenings. The 3-D fever has cooled since, with movies now typically earning well under half of their income in 3-D, sometimes as little as a third.
That still means a lot of extra cash on a movie that nets hundreds of millions at the box office, but Nolan never considered following the crowd and going 3-D on Batman.
"The question of 3-D is a very straightforward one," Nolan said in a recent interview. "I never meet anybody who actually likes the format, and it's always a source of great concern to me when you're charging a higher price for something that nobody seems to really say they have any great love for.
"It's up to the audience to tell us how they want to watch the movies. More people go see these films in 2-D, and so it's difficult data to interpret. And I certainly don't want to shoot in a format just to charge people a higher ticket price."
The choice this week as The Dark Knight Rises opens is whether to see it in a regular theatre or in a huge-screen IMAX cinema, a format once reserved mainly for documentaries but whose Hollywood possibilities Nolan greatly advanced with a splashy IMAX release on The Dark Knight.
Nolan shot nearly half of his Batman finale using bulky IMAX cameras, whose frame is about 10 times the size of a standard movie camera. He also insisted that distributor Warner Bros. release The Dark Knight Rises in at least 100 IMAX cinemas that can project it on film rather than in the digital format that has been gradually replacing celluloid.
The expanded use of IMAX makes for a consistent Dark Knight trilogy whose scale has grown with each film, while shooting in 3-D on the last one would have been out of step with the first two, the filmmakers say.
"It would have been inappropriate and somewhat gimmicky to have Dark Knight Rises in 3-D," said Christian Bale, who stars as Batman. "It seemed that we should continue in the vein that we had started. I think Chris recognises the need for spectacle, but for him, IMAX is the spectacle that he believes will draw people out."
Anne Hathaway, who co-stars as Catwoman, said she saw Avatar in 2-D and 3-D at a regular cinema and again in 3-D at an IMAX theatre. The IMAX experience was the best.
"It was a lot of information to take in, but I could get lost in the visuals a bit more," Hathaway said. "When you have a filmmaker like Chris or in that case like James Cameron, who pays such amazing attention to detail with the visuals, why not give yourself more space to enjoy it in?
The giant screens, the clarity provided by the larger frame size and the ineffable warmth that purists insist film provides over digital make the IMAX film experience the best way to see the movie, Nolan said. Like 3-D, IMAX costs more - nearly US$20 (NZ$ 25) a ticket for evening shows in some cities.
Fans are getting their money's worth, though, Nolan said.
"People who are lucky enough to find those venues are going to see something they can't see anywhere else and will have never seen before, frankly," Nolan said. "I know that I can give the audience something that I really believe is going to give them added value when they see the movie."
Nolan said he's open to shooting in 3-D one day, but only if it would enhance the story. He considered converting his 2010 blockbuster Inception to 3-D, saying the added dimension might have been a nice fit with the film's dreamscapes. But he dropped the idea because there was not time to do a quality 3-D conversion.
While generally not a 3-D fan, Nolan likes seeing what other filmmakers do with the format, which until now has been used largely on action films and animation. Martin Scorsese earned raves for the 3-D on Hugo and says he wants to shoot only in three dimensions from now on.
Nolan recently saw footage of Baz Luhrmann's 3-D The Great Gatsby, coming out in December with Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire. He figures he'll see that one in 3-D because it looks like a wild trip where "you're going to be inside Baz's head."
"I'm fascinated to see what he's going to do, but I don't want any filmmaker to be pushed into doing something they don't want to," Nolan said. "3-D did not feel like the right thing for this movie."
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It has been a while since an MSI motherboard has shown its face in our labs. While we have missed their great products, we are happy as always when anyone sends us something good to test, and MSI has done that again with their K8N Diamond Plus motherboard.
MSI's commitment to high quality, feature packed overclocking motherboards continue here again with the nForce 4 SLI x16 chipset. As we have seen, the speeds available to the avid overclockers in our overclocking section are great, with a new BIOS and further voltage tweaks, this board could be one of the best boards out there.
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Home > Press > New Nanotechnology Deskbook: First to Explore Impact of Law and Regulation on Nanotechnology -- Existing Environmental Law Can Embrace Promise of Nano
Materials manufactured to nanoscale can make microprocessors faster, sunscreen more protective, oil drilling bits harder, and rocket propellant more powerful. Because these nanotechnology products are unprecedented today, there is a great debate about how to regulate them under current environmental laws, some of which are more than 30 years old. How the debate unfolds may slow or restrict the commercial use of nanomaterials - and limit their benefit to industry and consumers. Revolutionary new nanotechnology manipulates material structures measured in nanometers - one billionth of a meter, or approximately 1/100,000 the width of a human hair.
"Now is the time to think through a regulatory strategy that will advance the nanotechnology revolution while addressing concerns about its effects on human health and the environment," says Tracy D. Hester, a partner in the environmental law practice of Bracewell & Giuliani's Houston office. "The debate over nanotechnology is already in full swing."
Mr. Hester's innovative work integrating environmental law and nanotechnology has led to his co-authorship, along with Lynn L. Bergeson, of the Environmental Law Institute's new Nanotechnology Deskbook. The book is the first general resource to analyze and comprehensively describe the impact of environmental law and regulation on nanotechnology.
Some environmental groups have called for a moratorium on the use of nanomaterials until their safety and environmental sensitivity can be determined. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is pursuing increased use of voluntary testing and stewardship by industry. Meanwhile, entrepreneurs and large corporations are speedily exploring the unique properties and benefits of nanomaterials and looking to market them quickly and safely.
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That's hardly enough of an increase to spark a new round of upgrades, but C|Net quotes an analyst with the Microprocessor Report as saying that G5s could be making their way to a portable sometime soon. From C|Net:
Motorola said it is now producing samples of a 1.42GHz PowerPC processor, a chip analysts say might soon find its way into the PowerBook, Apple's high-end laptop. Motorola said the chip has a typical power consumption of less than 20 watts, a level that makes it suitable for laptops. The chip also contains multimedia instructions that are required for chips that Apple bills as G4 processors.
"It certainly would be a fit for a portable Mac," Mercury Research analyst Dean McCarron said. "It's obviously up to Apple whether they would do that versus using an IBM (chip)."
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"I doubt it would be later than July or August," said Peter Glaskowsky, editor in chief of Microprocessor Report. "If everything had been just on a slightly different schedule we might have seen them at Macworld."
Apple is already using that lower-power chip in its rack-mounted Xserve G5.
There's more information in the full article at C|Net.
The Mac Observer Spin:Apple would be hard-pressed marketing a speed bump from 1.25 GHz (or 1.33 GHz) to 1.42 GHz in the PowerBook line. Few would trade in their old PowerBook G4 models for such an increase, limiting sales of such a rev mainly to those who would have bought one anyway. With most product cycles, a substantial part of Apple's sales go to Mac users upgrading their Macs, and without that, the company's sales would definitely suffer.
So what's a multibillion dollar company to do? We have little doubt that Apple has this all planned out without any help from us, but we definitely hope there is a G5 PowerBook in the works. Apple could offer a small MHz increase in its PowerBook line if it moved from the G4 to the G5. That might be necessary, as the fastest G5s will definitely be too hot and power-hungry to plunk into a mobile form factor, but the G5 name has a lot of cachet, and that will help move lots of PowerBooks. Time will tell, and we look forward to seeing how this works out.
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Everyone loves a good book. Whether it is fiction, autobiography, comedy or just reading about your favorite subject, getting your book in front of readers and having it become a bestseller is one of the keys to successful writing. It isn't as difficult as you might think, but it will be worth it once you see you name in print on the next bestseller list!
Darcie Chan is one author who knows the trials of getting her book "The Mill River Recluse" out to readers. She sent queries to more than 100 literary agents and most rejected it. Darcy Chan eventually opted to self-publish and promote "The Mill River Recluse". She bought some ads on websites that target e-book readers, paid for a review and priced her book at 99 cents to encourage readers to try it. Her strategy worked. She is now receiving a steady stream of monthly income. To date Darcie Chan has sold about 413,000 copies and has made around $113,000 before taxes.
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Recipe: Mexican lasagna
May 27, 2011 at 10:09 am | Mobile Reader | Print
1 can (10 3/4 ounces) condensed cheddar cheese soup
1/4 cup milk
1 package (about 1 ounce) fajita seasoning mix
1 pound ground beef
1 can (10 3/4 ounces) condensed golden mushroom soup
1/2 cup water
1 tablespoon chili powder
1 1/2 teaspoons dried oregano leaves, crushed
12 corn tortillas (5-to 6- inch)
Chopped tomatoes (optional)
Sliced green onions (optional)
Stir cheese soup, milk and half the fajita seasoning in medium bowl until mixture is smooth.
Cook beef in a 10-inch skillet over medium-high heat until well browned, stirring often to separate meat. Pour off any fat.
Stir mushroom soup, water, chili powder, oregano and remaining fajita seasoning in skillet and heat to a boil. Reduce heat to low. Cook for 5 minutes. Remove skillet from heat.
Place 3 tortillas in the bottom of a 2-quart shallow baking dish, overlapping slightly. Spread 1 cup beef mixture over the tortillas. Repeat layers twice. Top with remaining tortillas. Spread the cheese soup mixture over the tortillas.
Bake at 350F for 30 minutes or until hot and bubbling. Let stand for 10 minutes. Sprinkle with the tomatoes and onions, if desired.
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Editorial: State shouldn't pay workers at salary level of previous job
During the recent legislative session in Olympia, some senators tried to pass a bill to ensure the following in state government:
An employee who is reallocated to a job class with a lower salary range or who is appointed to a position with a lower salary range as a result of a layoff action is paid a base salary based on the salary range of the employee's new job class without regard to the employee's previous salary.
That's all there was to Senate Bill 6591. And it failed.
What's so controversial about paying someone for the work they do, rather than the work they used to do? Well, nothing if you're in the private sector, where jobs are downsized, right-sized and otherwise scrutinized in an effort to cut costs. Even if business leaders choose to overpay their demoted workers, it doesn't affect taxpayers or government services.
Nobody likes a pay cut, but keeping the same pay defeats the purpose of streamlining operations to save money. And yet, enough lawmakers were swayed by the "unfairness" and "hardship" of that bill to defeat it. As a result, more than 400 state employees are eligible to make more money than their job classification calls for, according to legislative reporter Jordan Schrader of the News Tribune in Tacoma. Employee unions have secured this benefit in their labor contracts, and managers can choose to extend it to non-union workers, too.
Schrader's analysis found that affected employees are paid, on average, $6,000 above the top scale for their jobs. Many former managers are getting from $15,000 to $20,000 more. One tops $30,000.
This practice of giving demoted workers higher pay than colleagues doing the same work is a perfect example of the alternate universe of public pay and benefit packages. Consider the rationale given to the News Tribune by Matt Zuvich, a lobbyist for the Washington Federation of State Employees:
"I think a lot of times (with) deck reshuffling, you still have a person there that has all the experience and all the capabilities that they did five minutes ago."
Sure, but they're not doing that job anymore.
He goes on to say, "I think that it isn't their fault that management or the Legislature or whoever has decided that they're going to (move the) deck chairs around."
No, it isn't their fault. Just as it wasn't the fault of millions of workers who were laid off or demoted in response to the Great Recession. The ripple effect from that is now being felt in government, as lagging tax revenue has caused large budget cuts, layoffs and decisions to consolidate agencies and streamline services. This reorganization isn't meaningless, so the Titanic metaphor isn't apt. The whole point is to balance the budget and avoid hitting future icebergs.
For instance, the Department of Enterprise Services was formed by consolidating several agencies, including the state printer. Many of those workers were reclassified into lower-paying positions but got to keep their old salaries.
It's hard to fathom that lawmakers could support this practice, which adds $2.5 million to the state payroll each year, while cutting off aid and services to much more vulnerable people.
It needs to end.
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9/12 1:28 p.m. A caller said an unknown subject was ringing the doorbell and sitting on her porch.
9/12 2:30 p.m. Several juveniles appeared to be drinking and smoking by the river.
9/12 3:43 p.m. A man was upset about a band playing at Burgerville, because his wife was trying to sleep.
9/13 1:43 p.m. Kids appeared to be trying to start a fire at the skate park on Parker Road.
9/13 9:40 p.m. A caller said someone was upset with her and her boyfriend, believing they had stolen his soup.
9/13 10:37 p.m. A suspicious looking vehicle with juveniles inside making a lot of noise was seen near the 2500 block of Crestview Drive.
9/14 3:04 p.m. A caller suspected a scam when two men came to her door and asked for donations toward care packages for troops. The men were advised that they needed a permit to continue going door to door.
9/15 2:36 a.m. A caller claimed to have been punched in the face by a man. Police found no crimes.
9/15 9:43 a.m. A person was seen laying along the side of the road near Interstate 205 and Highway 43.
9/15 6:19 p.m. A man with 10 bags of groceries was stepping into traffic and drinking alcohol from one of the bags near Mark Lane and Willamette Drive.
9/16 6:29 p.m. A woman said her ex-husband came to her home, demanded a TV and pushed her out of the way.
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9/16 8:03 p.m. A man said his girlfriend came home drunk and started punching him.
9/16 8:23 p.m. A caller had been receiving letters on his vehicle, and most recently found a note in a plastic bag with handcuffs in it.
9/16 8:52 p.m. A man said his daughter was being harassed by a man who kept coming into the room.
9/16 10:13 p.m. A caller said he heard a woman saying let go of me and bumping around near the 19100 block of Willamette Drive.
9/18 1:20 p.m. A suspicious looking vehicle with two men inside had been parked at Safeway for at least an hour.
9/18 4:29 p.m. A man said he felt his life was in danger until a neighbor moved out.
9/18 8:56 p.m. A man said his 16-year old daughter was being harassed on Facebook.
9/18 10:58 p.m. A caller said someone had been whistling in her backyard for 15 minutes.
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9/15 5:24 p.m. Jewelry was stolen from a home in the Bolton area.
9/16 12:56 p.m. A shoplifter was apprehended at Market of Choice.
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New Delhi: The BCCI on Wednesday officially confirmed that the third ODI between India and West Indies will be held at Kanpur`s Green Park Stadium on November 27.
BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel said in a statement that the opening two ODIs against the West Indies to be held at Kochi and Vishakhapatnam will be day-night affairs, while the third ODI at Kanpur will be day game.
The third ODI at Kanpur will start at 9:00 am and conclude at 4:45 pm, the statement read.
Kanpur and Baroda were in contention to host the final ODI of the series.
Kanpur`s Green Park Stadium will thus host an international match after three years with the last one being a Test match between India and Sri Lanka which the hosts comfortably won.
Since then Green Park hasn`t hosted a single international match although it remained UP Ranji team`s one of the home grounds till date.
The closest it came to hosting an international game after that was a Test match against Australia earlier this year which was not granted after Cricket Australia`s recce team returned unhappy with its preparations.
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C.T. Fitzpatrick is a value investor through and through, but with one important distinction. "We don't buy cheap stocks," says the manager of the $1.1 billion Vulcan Value Partners fund. "We look for quality businesses we want to own and wait until they get cheap."
While it sounds simple enough, the strategy isn't just a matter of screening for companies that fit well-defined criteria. It's a dance of patience and precision. Or, to borrow an analogy from one of his favorite pastimes, "it's about reading the water and knowing when to strike," says Fitzpatrick, who recently celebrated his 50th birthday fly-fishing in Spain. "When the conditions are right, you can catch some really big, beautiful fish."
Fitzpatrick's investment career started in earnest 25 years ago when, after a stint on Wall Street and business school at Vanderbilt University, he went to work at Southeastern Asset Management in Memphis. Working alongside lauded value manager Mason Hawkins for 17 years, Fitzpatrick learned the craft of value investing.
C.T. Fitzpatrick's Vulcan Value Partners has turned in an impressive three years, thanks to Fitzpatrick's patience. Photo: Stan Kaady
While he's grateful for his time at the firm, best known for its Longleaf Partners funds, Fitzpatrick had his own aspirations and investment ideas. Meanwhile, he and his wife—a fellow Southerner he met at a New York restaurant when they were both looking for "a decent plate of collard greens"—wanted to move back to Alabama. In 2007, he quietly opened Vulcan Value Partners in Birmingham, initially managing separate accounts, then launching two mutual funds in 2010. Today, working alongside 32 employees, he manages more than $8 billion in assets.
Assets have come to the firm quickly, but Fitzpatrick says the lion's share of his investors aren't chasing results, as good as they may be. His Vulcan Value Partners fund (ticker: VVPLX) is up an average of 22% a year over the last three years, putting it in the top 1% of large growth funds. The $1 billion Vulcan Value Partners Small Cap (VVPSX), though in the red for this year, also ranks at the top of its peer group over the last three years. Nevertheless, Fitzpatrick closed the fund to new investors late last year. "Small-caps are pretty overvalued right now," he says. "We're not going to buy silly stuff because assets are coming into the fund."
Most of the 30-some holdings in the Vulcan Value Partners fund are marked by their ability to consistently churn out free cash. On average, the stocks in his portfolio generate more free cash flow than they produce in stated profits, he says. (In other words, they often have expenses, such as depreciation, that reduce earnings, but don't require an actual outlay of cash.) While the investment mandate is relatively broad—medium and large companies, including some based outside the U.S.—Fitzpatrick is a stickler about the green stuff. "If a company doesn't generate free cash flow," he says, "there is no further analysis."
Companies that are worthy of further analysis are added to an "MVP" list of about 500 holdings, whose valuations they update and track at least quarterly. If valuations prove constant, the Vulcan team will strike—when the price is right. Stocks get serious consideration when their free cash flow yields rises above the firm's estimate of fair value yield. "There are companies that I've personally followed for my entire career, waiting for the chance to buy," he says.
Vulcan Value Partners
|Total Returns*
|% Of
|Top 10 Holdings
|Aberdeen Asset Mgmt.
|Discovery Communications
|Franklin Resources
|Nasdaq OMX Group
|*All returns are as of 07/31; three- and five-year returns are annualized.
**As of 06/30.
Sources: Vulcan;Morningstar
Case in point: InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), the largest hotel company in the world by room count. Fitzpatrick started watching from the sidelines in the 1990s when the company, named Bass at the time, began shifting its focus from real estate and focusing instead on franchising and long-term management agreements. The stock eluded him a few times, including during the financial crisis when "there were other things we liked that were even cheaper, including Boeing BA 0.3492162036318485% Boeing Co. U.S.: NYSE USD129.31 0.45 0.3492162036318485% /Date(1464296455988-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2553459 AFTER HOURS USD129.47 0.159999999999997 0.12373366328976877% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 32815 P/E Ratio 17.479993511409106 Market Cap 82085236087.0428 Dividend Yield 3.371742324646199% Rev. per Employee 598494 More quote details and news » (BA) and Starbucks SBUX 0.25385312783318226% Starbucks Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD55.29 0.14 0.25385312783318226% /Date(1464296400322-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 9339558 AFTER HOURS USD55.35 0.0600000000000023 0.10851871947911014% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 112150 P/E Ratio 32.71597633136095 Market Cap 80789238581.6956 Dividend Yield 1.4469162597214686% Rev. per Employee 84679 More quote details and news » (SBUX)," says Fitzpatrick.
Then, finally, in late 2011 a window opened, and Fitzpatrick got in for about $20 a share. The stock has since doubled, but Fitzpatrick isn't going anywhere. "They have a beautiful stream of free cash flow," he says, "and it's getting better all the time."
Fitzpatrick goes into all positions with a five-year horizon, minimum, but he'll lighten up or double down on holdings as the stocks swing higher and lower. In some cases, he'll trim a holding to make room for a competitor with equally good prospects.
In August 2011, for instance, Fitzpatrick lightened up on MasterCard MA -0.07257646448937273% MasterCard Inc. Cl A U.S.: NYSE USD96.38 -0.07 -0.07257646448937273% /Date(1464296466411-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1718840 AFTER HOURS USD96.38 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 19434 P/E Ratio 29.03012048192771 Market Cap 105932472746.842 Dividend Yield 0.7885453413571281% Rev. per Employee 874602 More quote details and news » (MA) to make room for shares of Visa V -0.07589172780166961% VISA Inc. Cl A U.S.: NYSE USD79 -0.06 -0.07589172780166961% /Date(1464296588270-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4176187 AFTER HOURS USD79.14 0.140000000000001 0.17721518987341772% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 107850 P/E Ratio 27.998298837538986 Market Cap 188528408383.475 Dividend Yield 0.7088607594936709% Rev. per Employee 1263720 More quote details and news » (V), which he bought at $85 after the latter's stock price was hit hard by legislation to cap debit card fees. MasterCard's stock was relatively immune since its U.S. business is focused on credit cards. Three years later, Visa's stock is trading around $214 a share, but Fitzpatrick thinks neither company has reached its limit. "They have a global duopoly," he says. "Their only real competitor is cash, and cash doesn't advertise." As more transactions move from cash to plastic, both companies should grow faster than global gross domestic product. Meanwhile, they have little or no overhead: "They don't build factories," Fitzpatrick says. "They don't have inventories."
THE THEME OF RECURRING revenue carries over to technology. Top holding Oracle ORCL -0.448542237727386% Oracle Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD39.95 -0.18 -0.448542237727386% /Date(1464296581807-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 7420179 AFTER HOURS USD39.87 -0.0500000000000043 -0.2002503128911139% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 153820 P/E Ratio 19.679802955665025 Market Cap 166534096288.003 Dividend Yield 1.5018773466833542% Rev. per Employee 281508 More quote details and news » (ORCL), for example, has software subscriptions that make it a "huge cash-flow machine," he says. Fitzpatrick moved into the stock in June 2012, when it was trading near $27 over concerns that the company would lose market share to "snappy" cloud-based competitors. The stock is now above $40, but Fitzpatrick thinks the market isn't giving Oracle due credit for shifting more of its business to the cloud. "They are cannibalizing themselves, which is the right thing to do," he says.
The same goes for Apple AAPL 0.793013451114234% Apple Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD100.41 0.79 0.793013451114234% /Date(1464296400248-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 55212109 AFTER HOURS USD100.54 0.13000000000001 0.1294691763768549% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1118650 P/E Ratio 11.169076751946607 Market Cap 545661074087.165 Dividend Yield 2.2706901703017626% Rev. per Employee 2050050 More quote details and news » (AAPL), which Fitzpatrick bought in April 2011 at $50 (split adjusted) a share. While growth for the giant isn't what it used to be, it was unduly punished over fears that other smartphone and tablet makers would snag market share. "This is a company that is not going to allow itself to be rattled," says Fitzpatrick, who trimmed his holding when Apple's market value reached $700 billion in September 2012, and added some back when it fell to $400 billion last year.
The same can be said of his investors, who have provided steady capital to execute his ideas, "even when owning Apple a year ago seemed stupid," he says. Without them, he says, he'd be skunked.
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The Office Junior - Part 12 by mistermonster
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A Family Betrayal Chapter 36 by HawkriderRated 84.7%, Read 7656 times, Posted Mon 10th of August 2015
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My Daughter The Drug Dealer by fbaileyRated 84.7%, Read 65671 times, Posted Sat 15th of March 2008
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