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This is the type of recipe that will cause hardcore foodies to bristle and run for the exits. True, hot dogs are not the stuff of which their dreams are made, so I can't blame them. There are, however, occasions when nothing is quite as satisfying as good old-fashioned grub, so, I'll clear a path and hold the doors for them as they leave the room. I've been mulling what to make for Super Bowl Sunday and I've finally got a fix on what I want to serve. Last year, I did variations of those dishes I lovingly call Asian junk food. There were plates of egg rolls, crab rangoon, barbecued pork and dumplings, as well as bowls of fried noodles served with a warm apricot dipping sauce. This year, mainly because Chinese New Year is also barrelling down on us, I decided I'd head down Mexico way and do a Southwestern feast. Robb Walsh developed a recipe for Sonoran hot dogs that I've wanted to try for the longest time and I thought they'd be perfect for Super Bowl Sunday. I did a test run tonight and am comfortable enough with the results to share the recipe with you. This is a dish that is, for the most part, assembled rather than cooked. You'll have to heat the oven and a frying pan, but the time consuming elements of this dish can be purchased ready made and simply layered into warm and waiting buns. I have access to Mexican bakeries where bolillos, the Mexican version of a torpedo roll, can be purchased. They are a perfect bun for this outrageous hot dog. They are thick enough to hold ingredients without disintegrating, but small enough to prevent the filling from being upstaged by the bread. I realize that most of you don't have access to specialty bakeries, so the best route for you to take is to buy sturdy, but soft, buns that are approximately the same size as your hot dogs. As long as the hot dogs don't sit too long before serving you'll be fine. Good hot dogs are important and those that "answer to a higher authority" would be an excellent choice to use here. You will also find these much easier to make if you use a really thin-sliced bacon. Hassles with layering can be avoided if you have everything set to go before you begin cooking the hot dogs. The original recipe calls for pan grilling the wieners on a comal, the griddle on which tortillas are cooked. I cooked mine under the oven broiler to simplify things and contain the mess. It works perfectly, as long as you rotate the hot dogs so all their surfaces cook. I really think you'll like these. I hope you'll give them a try. Here's the recipe.
Sonoran Hot Dogs...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite inspired by Robb Walsh
3 tablespoons mayonnaise
1 teaspoon Tabasco or other hot sauce
Juice of 1 large lemon
8 all-beef wieners (fat ones work better than long ones)
8 slices extra-thin bacon
8 torpedo rolls or bolillos
1/2 cup warm refried beans
1 cup guacamole
1/2 cup grated jack or cheddar cheese
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup chopped tomato
1/2 cup Salsa Verde
1) Mix mayonnaise, Tabasco, and lemon juice and put into a squeeze bottle.
2) Wrap hot dogs with bacon slices, covering completely. Grill or broil them, rolling hot dogs until bacon is crunchy on all sides, about 7 minutes.
3) Cut a pocket into buns to form a "boat" and toast them in oven or on a grill.
4) When hot dogs are cooked, divide beans and guacamole among eight rolls, spooning them inside pocket and spreading on either side of rolls. Spread cheese down the middle. Using tongs put one piping-hot bacon-wrapped hot dog into pocket of each roll. Top each with onions and tomatoes. Spread Salsa Verde across top. Apply mayonnaise blend in squiggles over tops of hot dogs. Yield: 8 servings.
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Struggles with the Image (1988)
Struggles with the Image: Essays in Art Criticism, Toronto: YYZ Books, 1988.
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Struggles with the Image was published in 1988 and collected a selection of my writing from 1980 to 1984, that is, the period when I was most active as an independent writer. As I explained in the Introduction:
To write is to incur debts. But to make this introduction a reading of my writing and not a history of writing-having-read (Bataille, Derrida, etc.) is to project a trajectory where these names in the texts punctuate a conceptual strategy and critical structure. My overarching intent here is not to provide a content or continuity to these essays, let alone a justification, so much as to display certain moves, which is to say criticism is always an issue of displacement. The choice of articles reflects those in which moves took place. These articles are primarily critical, theoretical as we used to say, rather than expository or descriptive. Yet the structure of the book indicates a change of tactics: the articles in Parts I and II literally displace each other's positions; while those reprinted in Part III attempt to develop a pertinent project from article to article.
What is "outside" the texts gathered here is a beginning—an orientation that marks a stance and sets the writing, initially, against the work of art (in the form of a critique), and sends it off on its own, as a drift from art in an excess of writing: an exit. This set-up reacted against the positional logic, in viewing or interpretation, the one mirroring the other, of the spectator in front of the image/work and of writing as secondary commentary to the full presence of the work of art. Formed initially on Derrida's critique of presence and Adorno's principle of nonidentity, this critique of identity (and structure) led to a contract between writing and viewer against the work (as its exclusions), each of which was to become performative (against its exclusions). The position of the viewer coming to speech became the model for criticism. Hence the concentration on "effect," on the "body" and "speech," and on the demand for a "content" that issued from this fissure of structure. Hence an enactment in Peripheral Drift and the articles "The Death of Structure," "Terminal Gallery," "Reading and Representation in Political Art" of the language of"eccentricity and difference," and of a concept of criticism verging on iconoclasm and opening to a recognition of the violence of criticism. These articles and effects, then, pre-figure the essays from 1980 that begin this collection.
If "Exits" condenses this history, even to the spacings of its writings, "Violence and Representation" leads to a return: exit and return through a renewed convention of representation. With a shift of terms from "content" to "representation," a passage is made from a critique of representation to its valuation. Violence unexpectedly played a role. Both René Girard and Georges Bataille forced a recognition of the mutual grounding of violence and representation in each other as a means of realizing representation's necessary social nature and "activist" (in Bataille's words "contagious") qualities. Representation can lead to action, "action" understood as an inducement of the excluded viewer to the social register. On the analogy of the individual magnified to the level of the "crowd," this potential of representation fulfills itself in a public "iconoclasm"—a type of critique—directed against the images and spectacles presented to it by capitalism. Since every spectacle implies a specific political formation, representation has a political dimension. And since struggles with the image is also a struggle over the image, this project saw its continuation in the articles "Notes on the Sumptuary Destruction of Leaders" and "Image of the Leader, Function of the Widow," which, however, are not republished here.
If the occasional essays "Exits," "Violence and Representation" and "Breach of Promise" are "examples" of a fictional facing or speculative arrest before the work of art, they were, all the same, turnings in my writing that underlie all my other criticism. The contemporaneous theoretical articles of the section "From Drift to Dialogue" chart their same passage.
That subtitle, "From Drift to Dialogue," indicates a narrative from Barthes to Bakhtin channeled through Bataille's excess, Lyotard's "death instinct," Deleuze's machinic set-ups, and Austin's speech acts. The critique of identity passing through the issue of content arrives at a more formalized study of representation ("Language and Representation"). That formalism, however, is bifurcated on every level. Value resides in the validation of a local practice; it also calls for the type of critique acted out in "Editorials." That is, on the one hand, concern for the role of the viewer on the part of criticism ends in attention to the nuances of representation; on the other hand, critical license pursues a path that culminates contradictorily in the demand for "work at its word." Representation carried over to the local resulted, as well, in research on reference and reception, terms under which a preliminary history of contemporary Canadian art was attempted. Against all the evidence of the critique of the referential fallacy and the"structural revolution of value," reference was seen to be a means of relay of work and audience to some sort of real social dimension.
This book opens with essays from 1980, a year that marked the intersection of a double "crisis." One was the problematic play between art and criticism: the exit from art.The other was a recognition of the unequal exchange of an art community on the edge of the discourse of power, the periphery of its reception, in other words, the crisis of a culture of reception. This second "crisis" did not immediately announce itself; instead it worked itself through other demands. Theoretical "intensities" operate on different registers and move along trajectories at different speeds. No more is this true than in the conflict in one body of writing between the theoretical and "non-theoretical," the latter which was to become the basis for a local history. "Crisis" operated as a code word to indicate a lack: the lack of a history of contemporary Canadian art. As a recurring structure, this lack was to be articulated in the very real terms of crises of socio-economic cycles (Mandelian and Innisian) in which Canada was very particularly set. A local history was to be constructed, but it could be constructed only under certain constraints which were the conditions of our history. I labelled these conditions the "semiotics of reception." "Colony, Commodity and Copyright" set the direction, which was followed through in "Editorials" and "Axes of Difference," even though those articles addressed other issues as well. While being a culture of reception, Canada was so positioned historically that the negative features of reception allowed a positive comprehension of the economic conditions of late capitalism and the semiotic conditions of postmodernism. We could treat both a logic and a history; but since this history is a lack, semiotics partakes of a symptomology. This lack is registered through its symptoms: its images. Hence a shift of attention from the language structuring of the institution of art (for example, in "Editorials" and elsewhere) to the image under the conditions of ideology and communication ("Subjects in Pictures").
Curating called a halt, both to these projects and temporarily to my practice as a critic. With that shift of practice, the object itself is changed. If curating, however, could be seen to be a type of writing, a writing with objects, then one has the concrete means to demonstrate that history which is lacking. But it is not simply a matter of the presentation of objects. What became an interrogation in my writing, complementary to this history, can be seen in curating to be this: the practice of the (re)constitution of the event.

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The internal-combustion car was the dominant form of personal transportation in the U.S. for most of the 20th century, and that is still the case today.
But electric cars are gaining momentum, and they could lead to even more drastic changes in the car industry than just the abandonment of fossil fuels.
Imagine if your grandchildren not only didn't fill gas tanks—but didn't own cars at all.
Electric powertrains will enable other technologies that could spell the end for individually-owned cars, argues Navigant Research senior research director John Gartner in a recent article for EV World.
Many analysts have argued that the combination of electric power, autonomous driving, and carsharing and ridesharing services will profoundly change how people use cars.
Gartner argues that electric powertrains will be "the lever for this change" because they complement those new technologies and services.
The array of sensors and processors required for self-driving cars draw a considerable amount of electricity, and a fully-electric powertrain can more easily provide this, he says.
The same would theoretically be true of the numerous connectivity features that would give people relieved of the duty of driving something to do—and potentially make sharing services more efficient.
Increased use of carsharing and ridesharing services could shift more volume to the roads from public transit, Gartner notes.
This could actually increase traffic congestion and vehicle emissions in urban areas.
Fleets of electric cars would cut down on emissions, while connectivity features could be used to network them together and coordinate their movements.
Cars used in sharing services will still have higher annual vehicle-miles traveled (VMT) than today's individually-owned cars, which will likely shorten their lifespans.
However, that could have the positive effect of an increased supply of used electric-car battery packs, which could be re-purposed for energy storage, says Gartner.
Stationary battery packs can be used to store energy from solar panels for later use, or to balance electricity grids.
BMW plans to offer a home energy-storage system that uses re-purposed "second-life" battery packs, while General Motors and Nissan have experimented with the concept in commercial applications.
Higher VMT could also require more frequent replacement of cars, helping to soften the blow of falling new-car sales brought on by sharing services, says Gartner.
Yet carmakers plan to do more than just supply vehicles to sharing services.
BMW and Daimler already operate their own carsharing services, while GM is investing in ridesharing service Lyft and has its own "mobility" brand called Maven.
Ford plans to transform itself from a car company into a "mobility company" by looking at ridesharing and other potential sources of revenue beyond car sales.
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Since time is such a valuable resource for individuals and organisations it is worth evaluating just how effectively and efficiently it is being used on a regular basis.
About five years ago we stopped our daily newspaper, the Independent, and stopped listening to BBC Radio Four Today programme in the morning. It seemed then, and it is even more the case now, that there are better ways of getting immediate information and knowledge.
The problem with both those sources of interest is that someone else chooses what it is that you focus upon. The daily newspaper has its front-page headline and the words are created to attract attention. But if the subject is bird flu, for example, and you have absolutely no interest in bird flu, then you have already wasted time taking input that you don't want or need.
It is the same with a radio news programme. Somebody else chooses the topics that you are going to listen to. Contrast this with, for example, the BBC news website where you can scan across vast amounts of headline data in seconds. Then you can choose the topics that you want to study in more detail.
In business, the same principal applies. We must look critically at how we use technology because some of it wastes prodigious amounts of both time and energy. But what matters is that the data computers can and do produce is used to help the senior team in meeting, discussing and deciding upon jugular issues in a positive, timely and proactive way.
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This Squirrel with Sunflower Card was created in anticipation of fall arriving. I know it's still a month away but I can't wait. I used the sketch at Tuesday Morning Sketches for the card design. The Sunny Squirrel digital image is by Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps and I colored it with Copic markers. Keeping with the fall theme, I selected patterned papers from Bo Bunny (yellow polka dot) and Stampin' Up! (retired Color Me Autumn dsp). I added some candy dots for detail but decided not to use a sentiment to keep the occasion options open. That's it! Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your day!
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Speaker: Charles A. Coulombe
Topic: Angels, Demons and the Unseen
Mass is either before, at 9AM or after at 11AM.
This is the Q&A to the Theology on Tap event on Sept. 6. One hears a lot about these things to-day - but what does the Church teach? Are Angels real? Do we have Guardian Angels? Do we become Angels when we die? Who is St. Michael? What about exorcisms? Can someone really be possessed? Are there such things as ghosts? Bring your questions from the Tap talk and find out at the Perk discussion onSeptember 18!
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Last Wednesday I finally released the automated mutual fund and financial goal tracker. It took close to 4 months, 17 version changes, and 3 rounds of beta testing to bring it to a reasonably respectable shape.
This is the first time I sought help from readers to test a calculator before posting it. What a difference it made! Several readers took the trouble of not only extensively testing it with their own mutual fund holdings, they tested the file under different limits to check for errors and if suitable error messages were in place.
They sent me detailed descriptions of the issues involved with screenshots for me to understand. They feedback was so incisive that I nearly scuttled the project! But for them, I would have lost face and reputation if I had released the tracker on my own.
The least I can do to acknowledge their efforts and thank them is to list their contributions. So here goes. I have compiled this from memory and from my email records. Apologies if I have left out any name, it is inadvertent.
- Bharat Shah tested the tracker with several of his own holdings and pointed out errors in listing of returns when trying to create fund records. He probably spent the most time playing with the tracker!
- Syamanatak Pati spotted Excel VBA bugs, corrected them himself and found new ways to use the sheet. He also suggested several crucial improvements to the user interface. I had to restructure the entire summary page thanks to him! He was instrumental in insisting that the facility to add transactions to SIP holdings is a MUST. He is also behind the 'consolidate' sheet in the file.
- A Krishna Kishore tested the tracker for suitable error messages. A step as important as checking for correctness in fund value and units.
- Mohammad Idris Khilji tested the lump sum entry sheet and a 'manual entry' sheet (now removed). Implementing his feedback made a big difference to the way lump sum entries are currently structured.
- Pushkar Sapre tested the sheet with his dividend reinvestment holdings and pointed out other issues in the interface. He was kind enough to share with me details of his holdings so that I could check them later. His feedback also made a telling difference in the way the sheet handles dividends.
- Raghav Nagarajan a CFP, and founder Rupeevest noted errors in the SIP entry sheet. Thanks to him I was able to include a host of error messages.
- Vandhana Rajendran was quite forthright in her analysis calling the tool 'cumbersome' :(. I agree … to an extent! She also made useful observations about the summary page.
- Gururaj Rudagi, perhaps the first to start using the final version. He located a bug after I posted the final version (now corrected). Earlier he had sent detailed notes on his findings that gave me confidence about the tracker.
- Anand Gadiyar, suggested I include closed-ended funds and ability to handle NFOs in the SIP and lump sum entry sheets
- Dr.G.M.Ajit was instrumental in getting the capital gains calculator in shape insisting that I include LTCG with indexation.
- Raj Singh gave me confidence that things were in order.
- Sundaram Anathankrishanan could not test the file as he did not have the requisite Excel version (2007). However, I must acknowledge his eagerness and kind words of motivation.
- Thanks to the many others who took the file from me. Testing such a file requires time. I entirely understand if you could not find it for providing your feedback. It is never too late to let me know how you feel about the sheet!
Thank you very much.
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Log In and Add $225.67 +0.11 (+0.05 %) (As of 09/23/2019 01:45 PM ET) Add Compare Today's Range$225.07Now: $225.67▼$226.5050-Day Range$212.61MA: $223.99▼$240.925052-Week Range$140.40Now: $225.67▼$242.00Volume37,382 shsAverage Volume1.85 million shsMarket Capitalization$99.90 billionP/E Ratio28.25Dividend Yield1.62%Beta0.47 ProfileAnalyst RatingsAdvanced ChartDividendEarningsFinancialsInsider TradesInstitutional OwnershipHeadlinesOptions ChainSEC FilingsSocial Media Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on RedditShare on StocktwitsPrint this articleShare by Email American Tower, one of the largest global REITs, is a leading independent owner, operator and developer of multitenant communications real estate with a portfolio of approximately 171,000 communications sites. Industry, Sector and Symbol Stock Exchange NYSE Industry Real estate investment trusts Sub-IndustrySpecialized REITs SectorFinance Current SymbolNYSE:AMT Previous Symbol CUSIP03027X10 CIK1053507 Webhttp://www.americantower.com/ Phone617-375-7500Debt Debt-to-Equity Ratio4.13 Current Ratio0.49 Quick Ratio0.49Price-To-Earnings Trailing P/E Ratio28.25 Forward P/E Ratio29.42 P/E Growth1.84 Sales & Book Value Annual Sales$7.44 billion Price / Sales13.43 Cash Flow$7.5906 per share Price / Cash Flow29.73 Book Value$13.38 per share Price / Book16.87Profitability EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year)$7.99 Net Income$1.24 billion Net Margins19.30% Return on Equity24.75% Return on Assets4.08%Miscellaneous Employees5,026 Outstanding Shares442,680,000Market Cap$99.90 billion Next Earnings Date10/29/2019 (Estimated) OptionableOptionable AMT Rates by TradingView Receive AMT News and Ratings via Email Sign-up to receive the latest news and ratings for AMT and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter. American Tower (NYSE:AMT) Frequently Asked Questions What is American Tower's stock symbol? American Tower trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "AMT." How often does American Tower pay dividends? What is the dividend yield for American Tower? American Tower announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, September 16th. Stockholders of record on Friday, September 27th will be given a dividend of $0.95 per share on Thursday, October 17th. This represents a $3.80 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.68%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, September 26th. This is a positive change from American Tower's previous quarterly dividend of $0.92. View American Tower's Dividend History. How will American Tower's stock buyback program work? American Tower declared that its board has approved a share buyback program on Friday, December 8th 2017, which authorizes the company to repurchase $2,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to repurchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are usually an indication that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued. How were American Tower's earnings last quarter? American Tower Corp (NYSE:AMT) announced its earnings results on Wednesday, July, 31st. The real estate investment trust reported $0.96 EPS for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.87 by $0.91. The real estate investment trust earned $1.89 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.83 billion. American Tower had a net margin of 19.30% and a return on equity of 24.75%. American Tower's revenue was up 6.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $1.74 EPS. View American Tower's Earnings History. When is American Tower's next earnings date? American Tower is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, October 29th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for American Tower. What guidance has American Tower issued on next quarter's earnings? American Tower issued an update on its FY 2019 earnings guidance on Wednesday, July, 31st. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $8.32-8.32 for the period. What price target have analysts set for AMT? 16 analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for American Tower's stock. Their forecasts range from $164.00 to $253.00. On average, they expect American Tower's stock price to reach $204.7143 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 9.3%. View Analyst Price Targets for American Tower. What is the consensus analysts' recommendation for American Tower? 16 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for American Tower in the last year. There are currently 10 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for American Tower. Has American Tower been receiving favorable news coverage? Media stories about AMT stock have been trending somewhat negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm rates the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. American Tower earned a daily sentiment score of -1.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the real estate investment trust a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for American Tower. Who are some of American Tower's key competitors? Some companies that are related to American Tower include CROWN CASTLE IN/SH SH (CCI), Prologis (PLD), Simon Property Group (SPG), Equinix (EQIX), Public Storage (PSA), Welltower (WELL), Equity Residential (EQR), AvalonBay Communities (AVB), SBA Communications (SBAC), Ventas (VTR), DIGITAL RLTY TR/SH (DLR), Realty Income (O), Essex Property Trust (ESS), Weyerhaeuser (WY) and Boston Properties (BXP). What other stocks do shareholders of American Tower own? Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other American Tower investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Walt Disney (DIS), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Boeing (BA), Mastercard (MA), Visa (V), Starbucks (SBUX), AT&T (T), Alibaba Group (BABA) and Netflix (NFLX). Who are American Tower's key executives? American Tower's management team includes the folowing people: Mr. James D. Taiclet Jr., Chairman, Pres & CEO (Age 58)Mr. Thomas A. Bartlett CPA, Exec. VP & CFO (Age 60)Mr. Edmund DiSanto, Exec. VP, Chief Admin. Officer, Gen. Counsel & Sec. (Age 66)Mr. Amit Sharma, Exec. VP & Pres of Asia (Age 69)Mr. Igor Khislavsky, Sr. Director of Investor Relations Who are American Tower's major shareholders? American Tower's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (12.99%), BlackRock Inc. (7.13%), BlackRock Inc. (7.13%), Edgewood Management LLC (1.91%), Cohen & Steers Inc. (1.75%) and Akre Capital Management LLC (1.62%). Company insiders that own American Tower stock include Amit Sharma, Craig Macnab, David E Sharbutt, Edmund Disanto, Gustavo Lara, James D Taiclet Jr, James D Taiclet, Jr, Joann A Reed, Olivier Puech, Pamela D A Reeve, Raymond P Dolan, Robert D Hormats, Robert Joseph Meyer Jr, Robert Joseph Meyer, Jr, Samme L Thompson, Steven C Marshall, Thomas A Bartlett and William H Hess. View Institutional Ownership Trends for American Tower. Which institutional investors are selling American Tower stock? AMT stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Jennison Associates LLC, Winslow Capital Management LLC, Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD, Cohen & Steers Inc., Renaissance Technologies LLC, Daiwa Securities Group Inc., Nan Shan Life Insurance Co. Ltd. and Janus Henderson Group PLC. Company insiders that have sold American Tower company stock in the last year include Amit Sharma, Craig Macnab, David E Sharbutt, Edmund Disanto, Gustavo Lara, James D Taiclet Jr, James D Taiclet, Jr, Joann A Reed, Olivier Puech, Pamela D A Reeve, Raymond P Dolan, Robert D Hormats, Robert Joseph Meyer Jr, Robert Joseph Meyer, Jr, Samme L Thompson, Steven C Marshall, Thomas A Bartlett and William H Hess. View Insider Buying and Selling for American Tower. Which institutional investors are buying American Tower stock? AMT stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Nuveen Asset Management LLC, BlackRock Inc., BlackRock Inc., Prudential Financial Inc., APG Asset Management N.V., California Public Employees Retirement System, Invesco Ltd. and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. View Insider Buying and Selling for American Tower. How do I buy shares of American Tower? Shares of AMT can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab. What is American Tower's stock price today? One share of AMT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $225.67. How big of a company is American Tower? American Tower has a market capitalization of $99.90 billion and generates $7.44 billion in revenue each year. The real estate investment trust earns $1.24 billion in net income (profit) each year or $7.99 on an earnings per share basis. American Tower employs 5,026 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About American Tower. What is American Tower's official website? The official website for American Tower is http://www.americantower.com/. How can I contact American Tower? American Tower's mailing address is 116 HUNTINGTON AVE, BOSTON MA, 02116. The real estate investment trust can be reached via phone at 617-375-7500 or via email at [email protected] MarketBeat Community Rating for American Tower (NYSE AMT)Community Ranking: 3.2 out of 5 ( )Outperform Votes: 818 (Vote Outperform)Underperform Votes: 459 (Vote Underperform)Total Votes: 1,277MarketBeat's community ratings are surveys of what our community members think about American Tower and other stocks. Vote "Outperform" if you believe AMT will outperform the S&P 500 over the long term. Vote "Underperform" if you believe AMT will underperform the S&P 500 over the long term. You may vote once every thirty days. This page was last updated on 9/23/2019 by MarketBeat.com StaffFeatured Article: Market Perform


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The following was published at www.thecarrycamp.com as a letter of encouragement to men struggling with infertility for Father's Day (2015). You can access the original post here, and highly encourage anyone walking through the hard road of infertility (men and women) to explore this most excellent of non-profits.
Men, this Fathers' Day I want to give you permission to be helpless. I know you're quite practiced in supporting your wife through the trauma of Mother's Day, but you likely gloss over or avoid your own unmet longings on Father's Day. Like me, you may not even feel much of that longing until you've exhausted every possible option (and there are many) to "fix the problem" of childlessness through solutions natural, medical and voodoo. Even so, my hunch is that we men all have at least one experience in common: helplessness.
READ: Genesis 22:1-19
Abraham is me… Abraham and Sarah were infertile and old when God first told them that they would have a son. And by "old" I don't mean "in their mid-to-late thirties." Abraham was pushing 100 and Sarah was 90 years old at the time (Gen 17:16-17). They had exhausted every option, including Sarah forcing her husband to sleep with the maid to conceive at least one heir for their family (Ishmael), so when God told them they would have children at that age, they laughed in His face. That's right, Abraham was the first person in recorded history to "ROFL." Isaac (whose name appropriately means "he laughs") was Abraham and Sarah's heir, the fulfillment of their deepest longings, their only beloved son and the living embodiment of God's promise to bless them so abundantly that it would culminate with a nation's-worth of descendants (Gen 12:1-3).
The only thing that could surpass their love for the God who gave them this incredible gift was the gift itself: Isaac. God's command to sacrifice their son was atest of Abraham's love for Him (v1). Do you love Me more than your son whom I gave you? Or do you love the Gift more than the Giver?
Can you imagine Abraham's utter helplessness? God follows through in His promise to satisfy Abraham's deepest longing, and then wants to take it away!
If I hesitate to pray for children (and I often do), it is because I fear exactly this. I doubt not that God is able, but that He is willing to give us so great a gift. I fear that God is withholding children from us to test our love… and that we're failing that test.
Abraham is NOT me… Subtle clues in Genesis 22 show that Abraham didn't share this fear. He told his servants that they would both return (v5). He told Isaac, who was perplexed by the startling lack of a sacrificial lamb, "God will provide for himself the lamb" (v8). Abraham was both trusting that God would be faithful to His fulfilled promise in Isaac, and obedient in following God's command to sacrifice him. He knew that God would not – could not – contradict His promises, and even tied his son to the woodpile and sharpened his knife in preparation (vv9-11), all while fully expecting God to intervene on his behalf.
God, help me! I don't understand… What are you doing? How do I reconcile your promise with my reality? Having faith does not preclude feeling helpless. 'What the hell is going on?' is quite different from 'God, what are you doing?' Both wrestle with feeling helpless, but the latter also expresses faith that God is able and willing to be with us in the midst of it.
Whereas before Abraham laughed in the face of God's promise to provide, now he says "Here I am" knowing God has already and will continue to provide.
Jesus is (the true and better) Isaac… If the greatest possible expression of Abraham's love for God was in not withholding his only beloved son (Isaac), the greatest possible expression of God's love for us is in not withholding His only beloved Son (Jesus).
God the Father, who enjoyed infinitely-close relationship with His Son from eternity past, experienced our same loss and unmet longing of childlessness (on an infinitely greater scale) while Jesus hung from the cross. Rather than test our love for Him, He gave us His Son as a test of His love for us.
More than anything else I have created in this universe, you are most important to me. You are the greatest gift I could give myself. The only way I can express how especially fond I am of you is to sacrifice my own Son on your behalf. I became Sonless so that you would become my son.
Jesus is with me… This does not mean that God will give us children if we "let go and let God" or "just have enough faith" (feel free to punch anyone who tells you that). While I don't know if I will ever be a father, I do have a Father who knows what that's like. While, in the midst of my helplessness – to give my wife what she longs for and have a son or daughter of my own – I can't fathom why God hasn't answered my prayers, I can rule out why not: It cannot possibly be because He doesn't love me, nor that He doesn't hurt with me. His Son on a cross rules that out completely.
I still feel helpless. I still don't know if God will give us children. But I do know that I can face unmet longings with well-founded hope that it's possible, and trust that He is with me through it all.


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As I imagine most people reading this will have seen by now, this year's Hugo Award winners were announced over the weekend at Renovation. You can see the full list of winners at Locus here, you can find all the voting and nomination stats in one PDF here, and if you feel so inclined you can watch a recording of the ceremony here.
Congratulations, of course, to all the winners. None of my personal favourites went home the winner in the fiction categories (although Best Novella, at least, was a sufficiently strong shortlist that almost any of the nominees would have been a good winner) but I was particularly pleased with three categories: Best Fanzine, in which Chris Garcia and James Bacon won for The Drink Tank; Best Fan Writer, in which I was delighted to see Claire Brialey win at last (particularly because she writes with equal facility about the experience of being an sf reader and fan, and about sf itself -- we've been lucky to publish a few of her reviews here); and Best Editor Short Form, in which Sheila Williams' win was long overdue, given that Asimov's has provided two-thirds of the winners and nominees in the short fiction categories over the last five years.
Commentary elsewhere:
- Abigail Nussbaum: "That day in late summer when SF fandom blearily pries open its sleep-glued eyes after a long and dimly-remembered evening, and looks dizzily about itself to see just how bad the damage is..."
- Adam Whitehead: "The Hugo Awards Get It Wrong. Again"
- Aiden Moher: "Bottom line, it's an old men's club that rewards the same people too consistently, doing the entirety of the genre an injustice"
- Andrew Wheeler: "Hugo voters, I am very disappointed in you. You have one year to do better than this, or There Will Be Consequences"
- Cheryl Morgan: "This year we have had more people than ever participate in the process, and guess what? Yes, the results are more populist. What did you expect?"
- Ian Sales: "So the Hugo results are in and… ho-hum"
- Jamie Todd Rubin: "We're all winners when it comes to the Hugo awards"
- Jed Hartman: "I think my favorite thing about the Hugos is seeing winners being appreciative of the award, and there was even more of that than usual last night"
- Jason Sanford: "I just wonder if anyone will care about these Hugo fiction winners a decade or two from now"
- John Scalzi: "Point is, yes, people are bitching about the Hugo results. When do they not? Let everyone have their fun and we'll all meet back here next year for more of the same."
- Kat Howard: "No day is an appropriate day to try and cast tarnish on the shiny rocketship trophies"
- Larry Nolen: "The Hugos rarely appeal to me; I typically place much more value to the World Fantasy Awards and that certainly shall be the case this year"
- Mike Glyer: "Inside the 2011 Hugo voting statistics"
- Nicholas Whyte: "I guess I can't complain too much"
- Shaun Duke: "I wasn't terribly disappointed by the majority of the selections"
- Visions of Paradise: "Rather than make subjective qualitative comments on whether I agree with the recent Hugo Awards, I would like to discuss the individual histories of the winners"
- Yendi: "the transparency of the Hugos is something I really, really love"
- Discussion at Tor.com
- Discussion at io9
- Discussion at James Nicoll's LJ
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Luis & Kristalyn // Bountiful Utah Wedding
Today is Luis & Kristalyn's Bountiful wedding and that means I get to post their GORGEOUS bridals!!!! YAY!! I am seriously doing a happy dance and I might not have slept as well last night knowing I get to post these in the morning. First off I want to say Kristalyn and her mom have such great faith! The weather man said all week that it was going to be UGLY for the bridal session. Like rain, thunder and storms. But with their faith, it ended up being perfect. In fact we scheduled them for 6:30 but Kristalyn called me and said, can we start at 3:00 instead, just in case in rains. That was totally intuition right there. If we had started at 6:30 there would have been no way the session would have happened. It was perfect timing for all of us. I am seriously so glad she called me. Another thing, Kristalyn is a serious trooper. While most girls would instantly stop at the site of rain, she totally went with it! I was so thrilled over that, because I really wanted to capture their beautiful love! If you look closely on some of the images you will see rain in the background or on Luis' jacket. They are such troopers and it paid off. I mean look at how stunning these two are, and perfect as well.
These two are a match made in heaven and absolutely perfect for one another. I am seriously so impressed by the maturity of their relationship and their deep care for each other. The way they look at each other is of enduring love. Kristalyn is gorgeous inside and out and has a gorgeous smile. Luis has this suave look to him. Both have this intuitive instinct that puts you at ease. They know how to make people feel comfortable and loved. I seriously cannot express to you their kind hearts and souls.
Kristalyn's dress is from Elizabeth Cooper Design, which again is one of my favorites. Her trunk shows seem so fun! Her dresses are affordable and gorgeous!
I was so thrilled they asked me to be their photographer and I can't wait to post their wedding day photo's next week! Keep a look out!


text: Mohali: Openers Murali Vijay and Manan Vohra produced excellent batting performances as Kings XI Punjab posted their first win of the season, outclassing Rising Pune Supergiants by six wickets in their Indian Premier League (IPL) match at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium here on Sunday. This was the first win for Punjab this season. They suffered a poor start as they were beaten comprehensively in both their earlier matches. Pune, who are in their debut season in the IPL, suffered their second defeat. The visitors had an excellent start to their campaign when they thrashed defending champions Mumbai Indians by nine wickets in the tournament opener. But they lost their second game to fellow IPL debutants Gujarat Lions by seven wickets. Needing 154 runs for a win in front of their home crowd, Vijay and Vohra saw Punjab off to an excellent start with a couple of half-centuries each. Vijay was the top scorer for Punjab with 53 runs off 49 deliveries, hitting five boundaries and two sixes. Vohra was in equally good form at the other end, smashing 51 runs off 31 balls with seven well-stroked boundaries. Leg-spinner Murugan Ashwin brought Pune back into the game when he removed Shaun Marsh, Vijay and David Miller in quick succession. But Glenn Maxwell plundered 32 runs off just 14 deliveries to seal the issue for Punjab. The star Australian batsman fittingly hit the winning runs when he smashed Thisara Perera for a boundary. Murugan Ashwin ended with figures of 3/36 while fellow spinner Ankit Sharma (1/27) also claimed a wicket. Earlier, opener Faf du Plesis batted through the innings to post a gritty half-century as Pune reached 152/7 after electing to bat first. The South African right-hander scored 67 runs and was involved in two crucial partnerships with Kevin Pietersen and Steven Smith before falling in the final over of the innings. His 53-ball innings was studded with eight hits to the fence. For Punjab, medium-pacer Mohit Sharma bagged three crucial wickets for figures of 3/23. His fellow pacer Sandeep Sharma was also very economical, returning 2/23 in his four overs. Pune's other opener Ajinkya Rahane (9) showed glimpses of form, stroking two well-timed boundaries during his brief 11-ball stay at the crease. The 27-year-old was unlucky to be dismissed in single digits when his mistimed attempt to play a Sandeep Sharma delivery to the onside led to an inside edge onto the stumps. Pietersen joined du Plesis in the middle and proceeded to play the anchor's role with a run-a-ball 15 as the Proteas T20 skipper kept up a healthy run rate from the other end. The added 55 runs between them off 35 deliveries. After Pietersen and Thisara Perera went back in quick succession, Smith and du Plesis bolstered the innings with a 63-run partnership. Smith contributed 38 runs off 26 balls before a clever change of pace from Mohit Sharma forced him to mistime an attempted big hit and David Miller pulled off a relatively easy catch. If Pune fans had hoped to see their skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni produce some of his trademark slam bang shots, they were left disappointed as the visitors lost three wickets in the final over to finish their innings in a rather tame fashion.