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Q: Keras - weighted average of tensors If I've n tensors T_i of shape (?, k), and one tensor U of shape (?, n), how can I get the tensor (?, k) that is equal to sum(T_i * U[i]) ?
I've tried writing a layer to do so:
class WeightedAverage(_Merge):
    """Layer that computes a mean between samples in several tensors according to weights computed in another tensor.
    E.g. if applied to k tensors `a_0` and `a_k` of shape `(batch_size, n)`, and a tensor `b` of shape `(batch_size, k)`
    the output will be a tensor of shape `(batch_size, n)`
    where each entry `i` will be the dot product between
    `sum(a_j[i] * b[j] over j)`.
    """
    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
        self.weight_tensor = None
        super(WeightedAverage, self).__init__(**kwargs)

    def _merge_function(self, inputs):
        if self.weight_tensor is None:
            raise ValueError('A `WeightedAverage` layer should have a weight layer')
        shape = inputs[0].get_shape().as_list()
        k = shape[1]
        n = len(inputs)
        all_inputs = K.reshape(Concatenate()(inputs), (-1, n, k))
        return K.reshape(K.batch_dot(all_inputs, self.weight_tensor, axes=(1, 2)), (-1, k))

    def call(self, inputs, weights):
        if weights.shape[1] != len(inputs):
            raise ValueError('A `WeightedAverage` weights layer should have as many'
                             'outputs as there are inputs.')
        shape = weights.get_shape().as_list()
        self.weight_tensor = K.reshape(weights, (-1, 1, shape[1]))
        return super(WeightedAverage, self).call(inputs)

that I called with:
x = WeightedAverage(name="weightAverage")(Ts, weights=U)

however that fails with a rather long tensorflow trace:
W tensorflow/core/framework/op_kernel.cc:993] Invalid argument: You must feed a value for placeholder tensor 'input_1' with dtype float
   [[Node: input_1 = Placeholder[dtype=DT_FLOAT, shape=[], _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/gpu:0"]()]]
W tensorflow/core/framework/op_kernel.cc:993] Invalid argument: You must feed a value for placeholder tensor 'input_1' with dtype float
   [[Node: input_1 = Placeholder[dtype=DT_FLOAT, shape=[], _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/gpu:0"]()]]
W tensorflow/core/framework/op_kernel.cc:993] Invalid argument: You must feed a value for placeholder tensor 'input_1' with dtype float
   [[Node: input_1 = Placeholder[dtype=DT_FLOAT, shape=[], _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/gpu:0"]()]]
W tensorflow/core/framework/op_kernel.cc:993] Invalid argument: You must feed a value for placeholder tensor 'input_1' with dtype float
   [[Node: input_1 = Placeholder[dtype=DT_FLOAT, shape=[], _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/gpu:0"]()]]
W tensorflow/core/framework/op_kernel.cc:993] Invalid argument: You must feed a value for placeholder tensor 'input_1' with dtype float
   [[Node: input_1 = Placeholder[dtype=DT_FLOAT, shape=[], _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/gpu:0"]()]]
W tensorflow/core/framework/op_kernel.cc:993] Invalid argument: You must feed a value for placeholder tensor 'input_1' with dtype float
   [[Node: input_1 = Placeholder[dtype=DT_FLOAT, shape=[], _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/gpu:0"]()]]
W tensorflow/core/framework/op_kernel.cc:993] Invalid argument: You must feed a value for placeholder tensor 'input_1' with dtype float
   [[Node: input_1 = Placeholder[dtype=DT_FLOAT, shape=[], _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/gpu:0"]()]]
W tensorflow/core/framework/op_kernel.cc:993] Invalid argument: You must feed a value for placeholder tensor 'input_1' with dtype float
   [[Node: input_1 = Placeholder[dtype=DT_FLOAT, shape=[], _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/gpu:0"]()]]
W tensorflow/core/framework/op_kernel.cc:993] Invalid argument: You must feed a value for placeholder tensor 'input_1' with dtype float
   [[Node: input_1 = Placeholder[dtype=DT_FLOAT, shape=[], _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/gpu:0"]()]]
W tensorflow/core/framework/op_kernel.cc:993] Invalid argument: You must feed a value for placeholder tensor 'input_1' with dtype float
   [[Node: input_1 = Placeholder[dtype=DT_FLOAT, shape=[], _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/gpu:0"]()]]
W tensorflow/core/framework/op_kernel.cc:993] Invalid argument: You must feed a value for placeholder tensor 'input_1' with dtype float
   [[Node: input_1 = Placeholder[dtype=DT_FLOAT, shape=[], _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/gpu:0"]()]]
W tensorflow/core/framework/op_kernel.cc:993] Invalid argument: You must feed a value for placeholder tensor 'input_1' with dtype float
   [[Node: input_1 = Placeholder[dtype=DT_FLOAT, shape=[], _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/gpu:0"]()]]
W tensorflow/core/framework/op_kernel.cc:993] Invalid argument: You must feed a value for placeholder tensor 'input_1' with dtype float
   [[Node: input_1 = Placeholder[dtype=DT_FLOAT, shape=[], _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/gpu:0"]()]]
W tensorflow/core/framework/op_kernel.cc:993] Invalid argument: You must feed a value for placeholder tensor 'input_1' with dtype float
   [[Node: input_1 = Placeholder[dtype=DT_FLOAT, shape=[], _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/gpu:0"]()]]
W tensorflow/core/framework/op_kernel.cc:993] Invalid argument: You must feed a value for placeholder tensor 'input_1' with dtype float
   [[Node: input_1 = Placeholder[dtype=DT_FLOAT, shape=[], _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/gpu:0"]()]]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/client/session.py", line 1022, in _do_call
    return fn(*args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/client/session.py", line 1004, in _run_fn
    status, run_metadata)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/contextlib.py", line 66, in __exit__
    next(self.gen)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/framework/errors_impl.py", line 466, in raise_exception_on_not_ok_status
    pywrap_tensorflow.TF_GetCode(status))
tensorflow.python.framework.errors_impl.InvalidArgumentError: You must feed a value for placeholder tensor 'input_1' with dtype float
   [[Node: input_1 = Placeholder[dtype=DT_FLOAT, shape=[], _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/gpu:0"]()]]
   [[Node: batch_2_1/moments/sufficient_statistics/Gather/_519 = _Recv[client_terminated=false, recv_device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/cpu:0", send_device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/gpu:0", send_device_incarnation=1, tensor_name="edge_9178_batch_2_1/moments/sufficient_statistics/Gather", tensor_type=DT_FLOAT, _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/cpu:0"]()]]

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "train.py", line 118, in <module>
    cnn.fit(n_epoch=N_EPOCH, batch_size=BATCH_SIZE, generating=args["generate_data"])
  File "/home/ubuntu/models/model.py", line 125, in fit
    epochs=n_epoch
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/keras/engine/training.py", line 1507, in fit
    initial_epoch=initial_epoch)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/keras/engine/training.py", line 1156, in _fit_loop
    outs = f(ins_batch)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/keras/backend/tensorflow_backend.py", line 2269, in __call__
    **self.session_kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/client/session.py", line 767, in run
    run_metadata_ptr)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/client/session.py", line 965, in _run
    feed_dict_string, options, run_metadata)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/client/session.py", line 1015, in _do_run
    target_list, options, run_metadata)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/client/session.py", line 1035, in _do_call
    raise type(e)(node_def, op, message)
tensorflow.python.framework.errors_impl.InvalidArgumentError: You must feed a value for placeholder tensor 'input_1' with dtype float
   [[Node: input_1 = Placeholder[dtype=DT_FLOAT, shape=[], _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/gpu:0"]()]]
   [[Node: batch_2_1/moments/sufficient_statistics/Gather/_519 = _Recv[client_terminated=false, recv_device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/cpu:0", send_device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/gpu:0", send_device_incarnation=1, tensor_name="edge_9178_batch_2_1/moments/sufficient_statistics/Gather", tensor_type=DT_FLOAT, _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/cpu:0"]()]]

Caused by op 'input_1', defined at:
  File "train.py", line 103, in <module>
    weather_model = load_model(args["helper_model"])
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/keras/models.py", line 246, in load_model
    model = model_from_config(model_config, custom_objects=custom_objects)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/keras/models.py", line 314, in model_from_config
    return layer_module.deserialize(config, custom_objects=custom_objects)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/keras/layers/__init__.py", line 54, in deserialize
    printable_module_name='layer')
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/keras/utils/generic_utils.py", line 140, in deserialize_keras_object
    list(custom_objects.items())))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/keras/engine/topology.py", line 2450, in from_config
    process_layer(layer_data)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/keras/engine/topology.py", line 2419, in process_layer
    custom_objects=custom_objects)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/keras/layers/__init__.py", line 54, in deserialize
    printable_module_name='layer')
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/keras/utils/generic_utils.py", line 142, in deserialize_keras_object
    return cls.from_config(config['config'])
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/keras/engine/topology.py", line 1242, in from_config
    return cls(**config)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/keras/legacy/interfaces.py", line 88, in wrapper
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/keras/engine/topology.py", line 1337, in __init__
    name=self.name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/keras/backend/tensorflow_backend.py", line 431, in placeholder
    x = tf.placeholder(dtype, shape=shape, name=name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/ops/array_ops.py", line 1502, in placeholder
    name=name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/ops/gen_array_ops.py", line 2149, in _placeholder
    name=name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/framework/op_def_library.py", line 763, in apply_op
    op_def=op_def)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/framework/ops.py", line 2327, in create_op
    original_op=self._default_original_op, op_def=op_def)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/framework/ops.py", line 1226, in __init__
    self._traceback = _extract_stack()

InvalidArgumentError (see above for traceback): You must feed a value for placeholder tensor 'input_1' with dtype float
   [[Node: input_1 = Placeholder[dtype=DT_FLOAT, shape=[], _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/gpu:0"]()]]
   [[Node: batch_2_1/moments/sufficient_statistics/Gather/_519 = _Recv[client_terminated=false, recv_device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/cpu:0", send_device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/gpu:0", send_device_incarnation=1, tensor_name="edge_9178_batch_2_1/moments/sufficient_statistics/Gather", tensor_type=DT_FLOAT, _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/cpu:0"]()]]

Exception ignored in: <bound method Session.__del__ of <tensorflow.python.client.session.Session object at 0x7ff0256cf550>>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/client/session.py", line 582, in __del__
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'status' referenced before assignment
*** Error in `python3': corrupted size vs. prev_size: 0x00000000021b4ac0 ***
Aborted (core dumped)


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Trojans both brace for, embrace Ga. Southern run
Troy defensive linemen, linebackers excited to face such a run-oriented offense like Eagles have
Trojans both brace for, embrace Ga. Southern run Troy defensive linemen, linebackers excited to face such a run-oriented offense like Eagles have Check out this story on montgomeryadvertiser.com: http://on.mgmadv.com/1iWOgLN
A. Stacy Long, Montgomery Advertiser Published 7:20 a.m. CT Nov. 12, 2015 | Updated 3:00 p.m. CT Nov. 12, 2015
Georgia Southern runningback Matt Breida runs the ball during an NCAA college football game Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015, against Texas State. (Josh Galemore/Savannah Morning News via AP)(Photo: AP)
TROY — There was a certain amount of eagerness in their eyes and their words, though none of them licked their lips or rubbed their hands in hungry anticipation.
Two Troy Trojans defensive linemen and a linebacker, asked how they felt to face an offense like they'll face Saturday, said they were definitely excited.
After regularly having to chase after receivers, chase down quarterbacks and watch the ball thrown over them, they'll have little need to worry about such Saturday.
Georgia Southern, to put it mildly, runs the ball.
"As a D-lineman, that's what we love," Troy's Garrett Peek said. "We love all the physical games, the contact and everything. Not crazy about the spread teams. We have to do a lot more running that way.
"Teams like Georgia Southern, we look forward to those games."
Troy's Garrett Peek says defensive linemen appreciate the challenge of facing a triple-option offense, particularly one as good as Georgia Southern's. Stacy Long
There's some bravado in Peek's statement, and it's not a crack toward Georgia Southern.
But running the ball with such regularity, at least to a football purist like many linemen are, qualifies as "big-boy" football.
"We know what they're going to come at us with, and they know that we know that," Troy defensive end Tyler Roberts said.
"Basically, it's 'Here's what we're going to do. Can you stop it?'"
Troy defensive end Tyler Roberts says he is excited about the challenge of facing a triple-option attack as prodigious as Georgia Southern's. Stacy Long
Need to see the numbers?
How does 386.2 rushing yards per game sound? How about comparing that to 492 total passing yards for the season?
"It gets my blood flowing a little bit," Troy linebacker William Lloyd said. "Playing a team like that — knowing that's their first priority, knowing that's what they want to do — puts us in position to stop it.
"It should be fun."
Troy linebacker William Lloyd says playing a triple-option team like Georgia Southern is "exciting. It gets my blood flowing." Stacy Long
Georgia Southern's leading rusher, Matt Breida, averages 91/2 yards per carry and has scored 13 touchdowns. Each of the Eagles' next six runners averages at least 5 yards per carry.
Breida's 144.8 yards per game exceeds leading receiver B.J. Johnson's total yards for the year. Johnson has 133.
"They've been successful all year running the ball," Peek said. "It's going to be crucial as a D-line for us to be able to play the run and do well like we have most of the season at stopping the run.
It's going to be a different test for us. We'll be a little more involved this game."
Troy linebacker William Lloyd says he is excited to face a run-first team like Georgia Southern. Stacy Long
The Trojans say their September game against Division I-AA Charleston Southern gave them a small preview of what they'll see Saturday, though this will be at a fiercer level.
"My biggest issues are we can do everything right and they've still got good enough players for you to not be able to tackle them," Troy defensive coordinator Vic Koenning said. "If we don't do things exactly right, then you have no chance."
Troy defensive coordinator Vic Koenning says the Trojans have to be near-perfect to limit Georgia Southern's triple-option. Stacy Long
Troy cornerback LaMarcus Farmer says the defensive backs also face special challenges with Georgia Southern's triple-option. Stacy Long

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Muslim Blood and Al-Aqsa
by Bassam Tawil
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6756/muslim-blood-aqsa
We all know perfectly well that Al-Aqsa mosque is in no danger. Ironically -- I am ashamed to admit it -- thanks to the Israel Police, Al-Aqsa is the safest mosque in the Middle East.
Today we sacrifice both our sons and daughters on the altar of empty slogan -- lies such as "Al-Aqsa mosque is in danger," in the vain, blasphemous notion that omnipotent, omniscient Allah needs us to die as martyrs for his sake.
Muhammad's hadith says one drop of Muslim blood is more valuable than the Kaaba in Mecca, so the same must be true for the stones of Al-Aqsa, which is less holy to Islam than the Kaaba.
The hypocrisy and politicization of Islam has led our sheikhs deliberately to misinterpret verses in the Qur'an, and in that way we disrespect the words of Allah. There are clerics present Islam as a hideous religion bent on murder and paganism, and on sanctifying the stones of Al-Aqsa mosque more than the lives of faithful Muslims.
The Qur'an promises the Children of Israel that they will return to the land of Israel from the four corners of the earth... so we should have greeted their return as living proof of the words of Allah and the realization of the prophecies of Muhammad. Instead, we fight the Jews, which means we fight the wishes of Allah.
The Qur'an tells us that the Jews are the chosen people and the inheritors of the land, so why do our religious leaders deny it and refuse to admit that the Qur'an does not name or even hint at "Palestine" or "Palestinians?"
If the Jews had come without divine intervention, they would not have been able to overcome the Arab armies that attacked them during the wars after that. Their victory was proof that Allah was on their side.
When the Second Caliph, Omar bin al-Khatab, conquered Jerusalem, he and his advisor Caab al-Akhbar (a Jew who converted to Islam) both affirmed that the location of the Temple of the Jews had been on the Temple Mount, next to today's Al-Aqsa mosque.
When we claim that Jesus was a Palestinian, we make ourselves an international laughing stock.
According to a hadith attributed to the Prophet Muhammad (S.A.A.S), "One drop of faithful Muslim blood is more valuable than the entire Kaaba." However, as far as the Palestinian national religious leadership is concerned, the words are meaningless. In their unclean hands and with their perverted agenda, Muslim blood has become a political pawn in the game of "attack the Jews."
The recent bloodshed in the Palestinian territory and inside Israel, particularly Jerusalem, based on the claim that "Al-Aqsa mosque is in danger" -- and the fatal stabbings of Jews by knife-wielding Palestinians -- are cruel examples of how Hamas and the Islamic Movement's clerics distort the words of Allah (S.W.A.T.) and the Prophet, and present Islam as a hideous religion bent on murder and paganism. They seem to care more about the stones of Al-Aqsa mosque than about the lives of faithful Muslims.
Under cover of the slogan "Al-Aqsa mosque is in danger," the Palestinian Authority (PA), Hamas and PLO leaders, as well as Israeli Arab Knesset members and the Islamic Movement in Israel, send innocent young Palestinians to murder Jews at a time when we all know perfectly well that Al-Aqsa mosque is not danger. Ironically -- I am ashamed to admit it -- thanks to the Israel Police, Al-Aqsa is the safest mosque in the Middle East.
We all remember how, during the war last summer, the Hamas leadership gave the order to fire rockets at Jerusalem. They might easily have hit Al-Aqsa mosque and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Hamas nevertheless ordered the rockets to be fired. And we all see how our brother Arabs and Muslims blow up mosques and churches full of worshippers throughout the Middle East, while the Israel security forces safeguard Al-Aqsa and the churches in Jerusalem. Not only that, but, unlike the rule of Jordan before 1967, the Israelis allow freedom of worship for followers of all religions at all the holy sites throughout the country, especially in Jerusalem.
The hypocrisy and politicization of Islam has led our sheikhs deliberately to misinterpret verses in the Qur'an, and in that way we disrespect the words of Allah. There are clerics who present Islam as a hideous religion bent on murder and paganism, and who care more about the stones of Al-Aqsa mosque than about the lives of faithful Muslims.
The Qur'an tells us the Jews are the chosen people and the inheritors of the land, so why do our religious leaders deny it and refuse to admit that the Qur'an does not name or even hint at "Palestine" or "Palestinians?"
The Qur'an promises the Children of Israel that they will return to the land of Israel from the four corners of the earth, so we should have greeted their return, especially during the first half of the last century, as living proof of the words of Allah and the realization of the prophecies of Muhammad. Instead, we fight the Jews, which means we fight the wishes of Allah while killing our own children and denying the miracle of the return of the Jews to their country. Our feeble claim is that they are not the Children of Israel because those spoken of in the Qur'an do not exist. How can we expect any intelligent person to believe that?
If the Jews had come after the ravages of the Second World War -- starving refugees, weak, alone, frightened -- without divine intervention, they would not have been able to overcome the Arab armies that attacked them after the declaration of the State of Israel and during the wars after that. Their victory was proof that Allah was on their side. By denying it, we turn Muhammad into a liar (Allah forbid!) and say he was not a true prophet, and that the Qur'an's prediction of the return of the Jews was not the word of Allah.
Denial of the existence of the Temple of the Jews on the Temple Mount is the height of Muslim hypocrisy and a distortion of both Jewish and Muslim history. We forget that, according to our historians, when the Second Caliph, Omar bin al-Khatab, conquered Jerusalem, he and his advisor Caab al-Akhbar (a Jew who converted to Islam) both affirmed that the location of the Temple of the Jews had been on the Temple Mount, next to today's Al-Aqsa mosque.
When we Palestinians deny that the Jews are the descendants of the Children of Israel in order to deny Allah's promise to give them the blessed land, we turn ourselves into the descendants of the Canaanite and Jebusite who lived in the land of Israel at the time of Moses, may he rest in peace. He and Joshua bin Nun conquered the land and killed them, down to the last one. They were infidels whose deaths were ordered by Allah. Our attempt to claim them as our forefathers, and therefore as assets, is shamefully nothing but stupidity.
We know that some of those who live in our villages are Jews who converted to Islam after the Muslim conquests beginning in the 7th century, and most of us are the descendants of foreign workers who came to British Mandate of Palestine from the various Arab countries in the wake of the Zionist enterprise. By trying to trace our "ancestry" to the Canaanites, we lie to ourselves and demonstrate our silliness and self-deception to the world. And when we try to claim that Jesus was a Palestinian, we make ourselves an international laughing stock.
In that way we return to the days of the jahiliyya, the time before Islam, when we buried our female babies alive in the sand lest they become whores. Today we sacrifice both our sons and daughters on the altar of empty slogan -- lies such as "Al-Aqsa mosque is in danger," in the vain, blasphemous notion that omnipotent, omniscient Allah needs us to die as shaheeds [martyrs] for his sake. Muhammad's hadith says one drop of Muslim blood is more valuable than the Kaaba in Mecca, so the same must be true for the stones of Al-Aqsa, which is less holy to Islam than the Kaaba.
The attempt by Hamas and the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel to incite another intifada based on the nonsense that "Al-Aqsa mosque is in danger" has two objectives: one is to fire up a religious war of Muslim against Jew, like ISIS; the other is the Qatar-funded Muslim Brotherhood's desire to create public unrest that will lead to the overthrow of the Palestinian Authority.
The Islamists have also been stupid in their timing, creating an unnecessary and unreal crisis at a time when the entire Arab world is engaged in destroying itself, as Shi'ites kill Sunnis and Sunnis kill Shi'ites, creating millions upon millions of refugees to top off the hundreds of thousands of Arabs killed during the so-called Arab Spring. The people of the Middle East do not have the time to deal with the useless fabrications of Sheikh Ra'ed Salah, leader of the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel.
Mahmoud Abbas and the rest of the Palestinian Authority's upper echelons have been blind to Hamas's cunning plots to end Fatah's hold on the West Bank. What happened to the PA in Gaza when Hamas took over in 2006-2007 will happen again in the West Bank; Mahmoud Abbas and his crew will be thrown off the highest buildings in Ramallah or executed with a bullet to the back of the head.
If in fact Hamas does take over the West Bank, our lives will become nightmares because like the Gazans, we will have to obey the orders of the Hamas Islamic Emirate. Then the dream of a Palestinian state will evaporate forever -- because a terrorist Islamic emirate, a twin to the one in the Gaza Strip, will be universally unacceptable.
As for the Jews, once again we have played into their hands. They again destroy the houses of killers who are too stupid to understand anything beyond the incitement and hatred they absorb from the mosques, the Palestinian media and the social networks. By following ISIS, all they are doing with their knives is cutting the future Palestinian state to shreds. The time has come for us to realize that using knives (shibrie) against the Jews will not yield us even a sliver of land (shiber), and we have to change our strategy. We need to talk to the Israelis and get our Palestinian state by peaceful means. They will give it to us: they have offered to do so many times already -- otherwise we will not get it at all.
Bassam Tawil is a scholar based in the Middle East.
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mjazzguitar • Dec 31, 2015 at 14:05
It is true that the Quran says that Israel is for the Jews. Since Israel did not exist at the time the Quran was written, logically speaking, this has to refer to a future Israel. Muslims who deny Israel's right to exist are denying the Quran and Islam.
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terry • Nov 11, 2015 at 23:08
You are truly a scholar and a man of wisdom and peace. God bless you and your family
Bat-Ami Hensen • Nov 2, 2015 at 15:31
It is so heartening to read articles such as this, and put a name to just one of the multitudes of Muslims who refuse to have their faith distorted and its reputation undermined by hate-filled fanaticism. More than ever, the world sorely needs contributions of the benevolent best of all spiritual traditions; and Islam has much to offer.
I think of how, thousands of years ago, Ismael and Isaac came together to bury their father Abraham. Showing some respect for our interwoven heritage and faith traditions, by inviolably burying the bloody hatchet, is way overdue. Together, we can reach - and sustain - promised lands flowing with the milk of human kindness and the honey of abiding love.
Mike • Nov 1, 2015 at 19:07
You speak the truth.
You're becoming a Muslim Zionist. Nothing wrong with that, but you'll be accused of it, I'm sure. It's interesting to see. You are not alone. There are also many Christian Zionists.
I hope that some on the Palestinian side are also listening to you.
Let's not forget that the USA and Japan get along well now. I'm sure that if you can convince Palestinians to give peace a chance, a lot of Israelis will quite happily jump on. What I'm afraid of is that in the current climate, the Palestinians who agree with you are likely to leave the area altogether, leaving the extremists in control.
David Ashton • Nov 1, 2015 at 17:34
There are different interpretations of the Qur'an and Hadith. Others will find clear opposition to the Jews and Christians, never mind infidels not of the Book, therein. All should encourage peaceful co-existence between people of different faiths, but there remains a case for a self-governing Jewish cultural state remaining in the Palestine region, with its security assured, but without expanding further into Arab lands. Also, Europe and the former Christendom should retain their non-Muslim character. No-one can expect to get 100% of their wishes in life; and the "Abrahamic" communities should settle for less, with minimal friction internally and externally. Easier said than done, but with modern weapons and communications, Armageddon is just around the corner, and most of us are not apocalyptic fanatics who welcome another holocaust.
beth • Nov 1, 2015 at 10:39
So much of this is very informative and interesting. I do hope that you can spread the idea of peaceful resolutions and stopping of incitement with crazy lies. The Israelis want a future and would be thrilled to have the Palestinians join them in a future of their own.
A couple comments puzzled me:
"As for the Jews, once again we have played into their hands."
The current stuff in no way plays into Jewish hands. They didn't ask for the incitement to stabbings. Their counteractions against those who do it, isn't a "playing into their hands." They'd just as well leave everyone alone and not have to counteract anything. In the same way a murderer wasn't playing into the police's hands.
Towards the end, I see alliance to Fatah or at least a desire not the have the West Bank turn into Hamas. While Hamas is terrible and shouldn't be in charge of anything anywhere... Fatah is not so wonderful either. I hope that in any way possible, those who simply want to follow that last paragraph and make a peaceful negotiation and future, become in charge. Question is how do people outside the West Bank support that?
All the thoughts on Islam and it's relationship to the Jews returning is most helpful. It'd be wonderful if others thought about this and started to recognize Israel. For the creation of a tiny sliver of a nation, the Middle East could get a "little brother" who'd be thrilled to help everyone's future shine brighter.
Mark Matthias • Oct 31, 2015 at 23:43
Bassam has written a very honest article here. The questions he asks cry out for honest answers. Yet one is compelled to look deeper and reckon the reality of how Islam started. When Moses prophesied that another prophet would come after him; follow Him -- he was clearly speaking of Jesus Christ/Son of God. When Jesus showed up it was obvious why Moses pointed to Him. His life was like nothing any finite mind could have imagined.
When Muslims say that Jesus will point to Mohammad as the one to follow; Jesus (of all people) will kill the Jews -- it not only makes absolutely no sense, it reveals the routine, subjective editorializing of the Bible to suit the personal agenda of Muslims. Comparing their lives makes Islam fall apart.
To see the waste of life over the centuries based on the conflict between the original Religion and all others, has been grievous.
Dacritic Mark Matthias • Nov 2, 2015 at 00:22
Brilliant. I agree with you completely. Bassam is honest, he tries his best to be honest with us, and I also hope now he be honest with himself. He can go back and study Islam deeper and like you said, especially how Islam began and how it began to spread. I would like someone as Bassam for a friend if he allows me the honour, but Bassam, Muhammad himself, the example for all Muslims today (Surah 33:21), was unfortunately the one who started all this Jew-hating that you see permeating the Muslim world.
JHR • Oct 31, 2015 at 21:34
As long as so-called Palestinian people continue to get their welfare checks from US, Israel and others, why should they drop their murderous hate-filled Jihad and go out and get jobs and rebuild the land?
TARIQ KHAN • Oct 31, 2015 at 17:41
In the Quran it is clearly written that ISRAEL belongs to Bani Israel only. Sad as it is that Assyrians, Romans, Christians, Muslims occupied this land. But Muslims never claimed it as their motherland. Muslims requested Jews to come back and live in Israel. Why the issue of the holy place for JEWS, CHRISTIANS, MUSLIMS is not being settled peacefully. Palestinians are Arabs, they may be accommodated in Arab Countries or may live peacefully in Jewish State Of Israel. There is a need that Christian-Muslim religious scholars should sit with Jewish religious scholars and settle the issue. Politicians+Military Leaders must be ignored.: TARIQ KHAN.
Joseph Kelly (Kedoiri) TARIQ KHAN • Oct 31, 2015 at 21:41
I am a true Bene Israel. My Jewish forefathers stayed both in Bagdad and Iran for 2,000 years of exile. Being born in Jewish in India, and serving in the Israeli army I speak fluent Hebrew, Iraqi Arabic and Urdu. My Great Grandfather's name in Iraq was Abdullah, and I lived up to 16 years of age in 'Mohammed's' building opposite Byculla Station in Mumbai. I have the moral capacity to speak. Muslims who fight Allah's will be destroyed
God said, 'The 4th time, I will destroy Damascus.' Due to Assad's so-called resistance axis, God (Allah) has eviscerated Syria. Also, by fighting Israel, Allah has made Israel strong and powerful, and Muslim states as failed states.
Dov Grauman • Oct 31, 2015 at 17:22
Bassam Tawil understands what is happening to the Arabs in Israel. What he fails to understand is that there will never be a Palestinian state. There are no Palestinians. How can a non-existent people have a state in a land that belongs to a people who have existed for thousands of years? It is simply not going to happen. I don't know what Mohammed "prophesied" but whatever he said it was nothing new.
BlueStarPR • Oct 31, 2015 at 14:38
Thomas Sowell wrote about the special attributes of "Cosmic Justice" as compared with regular justice. This seems to fit the greater Palestinian narrative well: "In short, to promote cosmic justice, they must misrepresent what is happening as violations of traditional justice -- as understood by others who do not share their vision. Nor do those who make such claims necessarily believe them themselves.
As Joseph Schumpeter once said: "The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie."
The next thing the idealist will do is character assassination. All those who disagree with the great vision must be shown to have malign intentions, if not deep-seated character flaws." http://www.tsowell.com/spquestc.html
Harvey • Oct 31, 2015 at 14:28
A true summing up of the hatred that is preached about the Jews from the mosques and Arab leaders around the world. Until as the author clearly states, the Arabs and their proxies realize Israel's right to exist where it is there will be further bloodshed with no change.
Michael Shapiro • Oct 31, 2015 at 13:53
As a subscriber to Gatestone I regularly read your column. Your commentary is a breath of fresh air... unbiased, hopeful and politically fair
where so many others are not. If only more Muslims had your audacity and strength to say what really needs to be said...
In the context of today's reality, your remarks about the Children of Israel vis-a-vis The Koran are amazing... If this is true, then the nearly 100 years of hatred and animosity between Arab & Jew have been an unnecessary waste to say the least.
Could you please send me the relevant chapter and verse where this is stated in the Koran? Do appreciate...
Peter Terry Michael Shapiro • Nov 1, 2015 at 22:11
Dear Michael:
In the popular English translation of Yusuf Ali:
Surat al-Ma'idah 5:20-21
Remember Moses said to his people: "O my people! Call in remembrance the favour of Allah unto you, when He produced prophets among you, made you kings, and gave you what He had not given to any other among the peoples.
"O my people! Enter the holy land which Allah hath assigned unto you, and turn not back ignominiously, for then will ye be overthrown, to your own ruin."
Surat al-Isra 17:101-104
To Moses We did give nine Clear Signs: ask the Children of Israel: when he came to them, Pharaoh said to him: "O Moses! I consider thee, indeed, to have been worked upon by sorcery!"
Moses said "Thou knowest well that these things have been sent down by none but the Lord of the heavens and the earth as eye-opening evidence: and I consider thee indeed, O Pharaoh, to be one doomed to destruction!"
So he resolved to remove them from the face of the earth: but We did drown him and all who were with him.
And We said thereafter to the Children of Israel "Dwell securely in the land (of promise)": but when the second of the warnings came to pass, We gathered you together in a mingled crowd.
Gideon Marx • Oct 31, 2015 at 12:51
Whether you like it or not, the Palestinian strategy of creating political violence is working. It prevents Jews from praying on the Temple Mount. The High Court would be hard pressed to prevent Jews from praying if there was no violence -- look at the split court decision of 1969. If the court rules praying is allowed nothing will stop the Religious. Only the violence, the stabbings, prevent it. Give Abbas some respect. He knows what he is doing.
steven L • Oct 31, 2015 at 11:57
Every one has his/her definition of G-D even if for many he/she does not exist. G-D for many is at the origin of life.
Those who destroy life, and human in particular, destroy the fundamental manifestation/expression of life.
For Islamists, destroying human life is a creed. Islamists are by definition ANTI G-D.
George • Oct 31, 2015 at 11:24
And yet again I take my hat off to you for doing so. It is very brave indeed to speak such truths from where you are sitting!
Jeanne • Oct 31, 2015 at 11:11
I've seen quotes from the Qur'an about the Jews being compared to pigs and apes and something about them behind a tree so kill them. How does that get reconciled with Jews returning to the land and being the chosen people of Allah?
2) I attended a Ramadam dinner (arranged by the local Jewish and Muslim community) and one of the ladies explained to me that Islam revered the Jewish Torah and the Christian Bible. If she is correct, then I'm more confused by the genealogies ascribed. Noah and his family populated the whole earth after the flood. One of his sons was the ancestor of Terah, father to Abram (later Abraham). Abram fathered Jacob (ancestor to the Jews) and Ishmael (father to the Arabs). Why is it necessary or even relevant to rewrite history since both Christian Bible and Jewish Torah tell the same story? Does the Qur'an have a different version?.
One last question: is there an English translation of the Qu'ran you would recommend as being most well translated and, if possible, understood? (Example: Catholic translation of Torah exceptionally well done)
Thank you for taking the time to reply
Dajjal Jeanne • Nov 3, 2015 at 05:27
Trees and stones calling Muslims to kill Jews hiding behind them in not in the Qur'an, it is in the hadith. Sahih Bukhari Volume 4, Book 52, Number 177 and Sahih Muslim Book 041, Number 6985.
I use the Hilali/Khan translation which is generally accurate but not the most explicit. Download it from archive.org. Compare it to Shakir, Pickthall & Abdullah Yusuf Ali. Supplement it with Tafsir al-Jalalayn. For greater detail use Tafsir Ibn kathir. See multiple prallel trnslations at Islam Awakened.
Open the Qur'an and read 9.29, then turn back to 7.167. With those verses fresh in mind, go to qtafsir.com and search for "will kill the Jews".
To plumb the depths of Bassam's cognitive dissonance, open the Qur'an to 13.41 and read it carefully.
This book list is neither complete nor up to date but most of the links will work. it can help you to build your library.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/254741668/Book-List Note: you can not get Risala or The Quranic Concept Of War from Amazon and you can't get al-Tabari except from Amazon you want volumes 6...12. Use the In His Own Words appendix in the back of The Prophet Of Doom being cautioned that Winn's Qur'an quotes are melded from five translations and will not match any exactly.
Vivienne Leijonhufvud • Oct 31, 2015 at 10:29
An objective article. Sadly Mr. Tawil, the majority of Moslems don't share your peaceful attributes. I know there is a vast difference between Sufism and the rest of Islam? Indeed so much difference Sufism can only be recognized and respected as a doctrine or belief in the one G-d. As you point out, stoning and burying baby girls and refusing to accept women have rights or to protest them against rape, accused of adultery (usually a result of rape) lack of education for girls, stating women's testimony must be backed up by four men -- flies in the face of civilization in the 21st Century. Either this is part of the Koran or it isn't? Mohammed -- and with due respect to you Mr. Tawil -- has shown to be on analysis of his personality based on early childhood trauma to be less than normal. It is true, not every Arab Moslem & Jew hate each other wishing the other dead. The whole world now is subjected to this unholy version of the Koran however hard one tries to reconcile the words of the Koran. I have to say the Koran indeed came from both the Torah and the New Testament. Today it is difficult to take the Koran as an Holy book subject to many interpretations by various Arab tribes. Thank you again Mr. Tawil for this beautiful piece I have shared on Twitter and FB.
unique • Oct 31, 2015 at 10:25
Excellent article. At least one person in the Middle East understands what Hamas and Abbas are doing to their people.
It is such a shame that human life does not mean anything to Hamas and Abbas.
When you have a people like those that follow what they think is the Islamic Religion from the beginning of time and continue to teach hate and kill one another, one wonders, is there really a chance for peace ???
Marta Mikey Fid • Oct 31, 2015 at 08:23
Excellent and very courageous analysis.
Ben J. Hendriks • Oct 31, 2015 at 08:14
An eye opener. The best article I've read in over a year with important new information. You should send it to all major weeklies so they cannot claim they don't know and continue to back the aggressive Palestinians.
Elisheva • Oct 31, 2015 at 08:08
I know you believe what you write is the truth. Unfortunately, there appear to be Muslims worldwide with a different belief system.
Barry Leonard Werner • Oct 31, 2015 at 06:10
Thank you Bassam, your essay inspires me to believe, not just hope, that Muslims and Jews can indeed live together as a family of cousins in peace and mutual cooperation.
More than that. I want you to know, Bassam, that I've met Arabs and Muslims at various times in my adult life, in Israel and in the US. I have learned to respect them and I want my adopted country, Israel to benefit from having them as citizens.
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The bipartisan organization is attracting some of the most ideological members in Congress. "In this anti-Washington environment members should do anything they can to be able to say in a TV ad that they aren't part of the problem," said one GOP strategist.
Members of Congress gather for a Make Government Work rally on Capitol Hill.
WASHINGTON — The bipartisan group No Labels casts itself as a way forward to help fix partisan rancor on Capitol Hill and has a membership list that can often read like a "who's who" of politically vulnerable representatives who want to be thought of as reach-across-the-aisle types.
But with record-low approval ratings for Congress and a growing anti-Washington electorate, far right and left members are eagerly lending their names to the No Labels cause and checking the "bipartisan" box on their political resumes.
Conservatives like Reps. Kerry Bentivolio, Mick Mulvaney, and Scott DesJarlais are now members of the group, as is North Carolina Republican Rep. Mark Meadows, who recently spearheaded a letter to GOP leadership saying the House should attach defunding of Obamacare to a must-pass spending bill. Democrats like Rep. Keith Ellison, and Jim Moran — who usually lend their name to more progressive causes — are also members.
"We're thrilled to have very strong conservatives as well as very progressive liberals. Our intent all along has been to represent the entire ideological spectrum," said No Labels co-founder Mark McKinnon, a former aide to President George W. Bush. "Washington is polarized and so is the country. We're not going to get a lot of traction unless we get the entire spectrum on board. The broader the representation the more likely it is we'll break the gridlock."
In interviews with a dozen Republican and Democratic aides and strategists (none of whom wanted to be named), a distaste for the organization that began in December of 2010 was palpable and viewed widely on the Hill as a way for members to cloak themselves in bipartisanship without having to vote that way.
But supporters and members of the group say that political moderation, winning elections, or even getting really big bipartisan pieces of legislation done in Congress, was never really the point.
Vermont Rep. Peter Welch, a No Labels co-chair and a liberal who regularly teams up with Republicans, said that if the outcome is a more productive and civil discourse between members of Congress, it doesn't really matter what people's motivation is in joining.
"Some members will be there because they are bridge-builders, and some members will be there because it's a somewhat painless way that will allow them to appear as bridge-builders," he said. "But on the practical level you start establishing relationships."
He pointed to his work with Mulvaney, the South Carolina conservative, as just one example. The two disagree on practically everything, but have worked together on trying to cut some defense spending.
"The whole point of No Labels for me is to spend as much or more time on where you have common agreement, than where you disagree," he said. "All of us in D.C. have various motivations for what we do. All of us are aware about how any action we take is going to affect our political prospects… The bottom line is that if you've got a nucleus of people who say their effort is to reach across party lines, that's a good thing. There's comfort in numbers in politics."
The group describes itself as an organization working to bring together people of the "left, right and everything in between as long as they are willing to collaborate with one another to seek a shared success for America." Eighty-two members of Congress have become No Labels "problem solvers," and have agreed to meet regularly to "build trust across the aisle."
They've released a dozen principles for getting Congress to work again, (in fact the plan is called, "Make Congress Work!"), including ideas like no negative campaigns against incumbent members and requiring members to sit with a member of the opposite party during joint sessions.
"It's imminently lampoonable: What does it mean for members to sit together at the State of the Union, really?" said Connecticut Democrat Jim Himes, who hails from a moderate district. "You can take a lot of shots at it, but if all we do is build some friendships that's actually a step in the right direction."
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"No Labels just protects the status quo in Washington by giving a good label and a good headline to vulnerable incumbents in their local newspaper," one Democratic strategist said. "It should be called 'Nice Labels' 'cause they just make incumbents look good without getting them to do anything."
A Republican strategist agreed that No Labels gave cover to vulnerable members, but saw the silver lining in it.
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Musings on Markets: Trillion Dollar Toppers: Market Triggers, Value Drivers and Pricing Catalysts!
In the last few weeks, the market capitalization of Apple and Amazon each hit a trillion dollars, a threshold not seen before in public markets. Predictably, that has drawn press attention and commentary about what this moment means for markets, investors and the companies themselves. As readers of this blog know, I have followed both companies and valued them for more than two decades, and this is as good a time as any to see how they got to where they are today, and what the future holds for each company. I will do that in my next post, but in this one, I want to look at the far more basic question of whether hitting a trillion dollar value (or a hundred billion or a billion or any other number) should matter to investors.
Does the market capitalization rising above a trillion dollars change Amazon or Apple as companies? After all, $1,000,000,000,000 is only a dollar higher than $999,999,999,999 and nothing is changed fundamentally in either company by the event. That said, as human beings, we do make more of a fuss around some numbers than others, especially with age and birthdays. In some cases, the fuss is merited, as when you turn eighteen, since you will be able to vote and be treated as an adult in the legal system, or sixty five, since you may be entitled to your pension and social security benefits. In others, it is a concocted milestone, as is the case when you turn thirty or forty or fifty years old, since little changes in your life, as a consequence.
Investors also seem to endow some numbers with more weight than others, sometimes with reason, and sometimes without. When a publicly traded company's stock price drops below a dollar, it is often punished, often because it risks being delisted, putting liquidity at risk. When the stock prices rises above $1,000, the company may come under pressure to do a stock split, because it has become "too expensive" for retail investors to buy. With young, privately owned companies, getting a pricing of more than a billion dollars gets you unicorn status, though it not clear what that branding entitles you to, other than a little public attention. Within corporate finance, there are similar triggers built around revenues and profits, with management contracts tied to revenues reaching a billion dollars or EBITDA cresting one hundred million. Collectively, I will call these market triggers, and the focus of this post is to examine how much attention we should pay to them, if any.
Before we embark on the discussion on whether, and if yes, how much attention to pay to market triggers, note that the degree to which these triggers matter varies widely across investors. While some investors view them as side games, there are others who build much of their investing around market triggers. Value investors, and especially those raised on the classics, scoff at price triggers as distractions from their focus on earnings and moats but they often have their own triggers, based upon earnings or book value. In contrast, a great deal of technical analysis, as an investment philosophy, is built on triggers, many built around price per share. Support and resistance lines, the cresting of which have long been viewed as an indicator of future price movements, are based upon prices that may reflect the company's past history but often have no intrinsic basis. Similarly, chartists often pay heed to historical high and low prices for the stock, arguing that cresting either number could have consequences for future returns. Many technical indicators are built around price or volume metrics with rules of thumb that often have no fundamental justification.
With stock splits, where the share count changes in proportion to existing holdings, and nothing fundamentally changes about the company, the market not only reacts positively to the split but these stocks continue to do better than expected in the months after.
When a stock approaches its 52-week high, there is some evidence that the high price acts as a barrier, making it more likely that the stock will go down than up.
There is some evidence that support and resistance lines have price effects; one study focusing on exchange rates concluded that pricing trends in currency rates are more likely to be interrupted at support and resistance lines.
A general study of technical analysis (and price patterns) concludes that technical indicators, such as head-and-shoulders and double bottoms do have a price impact, though it is unclear that you can make money of these price movements.
In short, much as you may be inclined to dismiss technical research as baseless, there is evidence that past price paths can drive future returns.
Some researchers have managed to convince themselves that the market behavior is consistent with an efficient market, with the rationale that these actions operate as signals about future fundamentals, thus explaining the price changes. A stock split, we are therefore told, is a signal to markets that companies feel that they have the cash flows to sustain higher dividends in the future, translating into higher value. I find most signaling stories to be unconvincing, reflecting almost desperate attempts to reconcile a belief in efficient markets with market behavior that is not consistent with that belief. In my experience, market triggers often affect stock prices, sometimes substantially, and it has little to do with signals. Rather than dismiss these triggers as irrational and useless, I need to understand them better, with the intent of separating ones that may be able to incorporate into my investing from those that I am better off ignoring.
In the pursuit of understanding why market triggers matter, I find it useful to go back to a contrast between pricing and value that I have talked about before, and draw a distinction between value drivers and price movers.
Value effects: If a market trigger has an effect on one or more of the three drivers of value, which are cash flows, growth and business risk, it can affect value. Revenue or earnings triggers set by companies can have an effect on value, if management compensation is tied to them. With some corporate borrowings, there are covenants tied to stock prices or earnings, the violation of which may lead to consequences for the firm, sometimes taking the form of higher interest expenses and sometimes a change in control. With convertible bonds and preferred shares, the conversion price can become a trigger for a change in value, if it results in a significant increase in shares outstanding and in debt ratios. Consider the grant that Tesla's board of directors gave Elon Musk in March 2018, where he will get billions of dollars in shares and options in the company, if he can deliver on a variety of targets, some related to market capitalization and some to operating performance. Specifically, the board of directors has listed 12 market capitalization tiggers, each of which can result in shares being granted to Mr. Mush, and 16 operating triggers, with eight relating to revenues and eight to EBITDA. For a Tesla investor, meeting each of these thresholds will be a cause for mixed feelings, joy that revenues, EBITDA and capitalization are increasing, tempered by dilution occurring at the same time.
Pricing effects: If a market trigger has an effect on market mood or momentum, it can affect prices, even though it has no effect on fundamentals. For instance, the argument that technical analysts use for paying attention to support lines, often based upon historical prices, is that when a company's stock price drops below its support line, it creates a negative psychological effect that can cause more selling, with prices falling even further. A pricing trigger can also have a liquidity effect, which can affect prices. This has often been the rationale used by some companies, especially those with high priced shares, for stock splits, arguing that retail investors are more likely to trade a $100 stock than a $1000 stock, and that the increased liquidity can translate into higher prices. The liquidity story can also be used the push by many start-ups to get to unicorn status, since doing so may attract more venture capital money, which, in turn, can push up pricing. Finally, there is the herd effect, where crossing a pricing or value trigger can lead people who have been sitting on the sidelines to act, pushing up prices if they decide to buy and pushing down prices when they sell.
Gap (Catalyst) effects: There is a third and more subtle effect from market triggers, which comes from the attention garnered by crossing even an arbitrary threshold. This is especially the case with smaller and lower profile companies, which can often be ignored by investors and analysts, in a market where larger and higher profile companies garner the bulk of coverage. To the extent that these companies are being mispriced, the attention leading from hitting a trigger can lead to a reassessment of the company and perhaps a closing of the gap. Note that this reassessment can cut in both directions, with unnoticed strengths coming to the surface, and increasing the prices of some companies, and unnoticed weaknesses being unearthed in other companies, resulting in prices dropping.
This framework can be used to judge whether and why market triggers can affect prices. Some do so, because they have value consequences, some because they affect mood and liquidity, some because they are attention gatherers and some because they have all three effects. Most pricing and volume indicators used by technical analysts, for instance, are pure pricing effects, but since the name of the game in pricing is to gauge shifts in mood and momentum, that is understandable. With companies that have management options and convertibles outstanding, crossing some price barriers can create value effects, by diluting share ownership. With companies that have been operating under the radar, a market trigger can lead to more attention being paid to the company, leading to a closing in gaps between value and price.
So, what effect will crossing the trillion-dollar threshold have on Apple and Amazon? Neither company has options or convertibles that will unlock at the trillion dollar capitalization and thus there should be no value effect. There may be a pricing effect, but it is not clear in which direction. On the one hand, you can argue that for some long term holders of the stock, crossing the trillion dollars may be a culmination of a long and successful journey, leading to selling. On the other hand, there are others who may have resisted both stocks as overpriced, who may decide that this is the time to capitulate and buy the stock. As two of the most widely tracked and followed companies in the world already, it is not likely that there will be any major reassessments in either company, on the part of stockholders, nullifying the gap effect. There is one potential black cloud that comes with the increased attention, at least for Amazon, which is that the company's success may be drawing the attention of anti-trust and regulatory authorities, perhaps putting a crimp on its future growth plans globally. I will return to that issue in my next post.
If you are a trader: The essence of trading is that you are playing the pricing game, and to the extent that you are, your success will depend upon how well you can ride the trend and how quickly you spot changes in momentum. Thus, it does not surprise me that charting and technical indicators are built heavily around these triggers. If you are a good trader, and I believe that they are some, your strength is in assessing how these triggers change mood and getting ahead of the market on these shifts.
If you are a value investor: As someone focused on value, your first instinct may be to ignore market triggers, viewing them as a distraction from your central mission of valuing companies based upon their fundamentals, and then buying undervalued stocks and selling overvalued ones. While I understand that focus, I think that you should consider incorporating pricing triggers into your value mission for two reasons. The first is that a few of these triggers have value effects and ignoring them will mean that you are mis-valuing companies. The second is that to make money as a value investor, you not only have to get value right, but you have to trust the market to correct its mistake, by moving price towards value. Since the latter is often out of your control, I believe that one of the keys to being a good value investor is finding catalysts that can cause the price correction. If market triggers can operate as catalysts, incorporating them into your investment process can unlock the value mistake that you have found.
I am a value investor, albeit one with perhaps a broader definition of what comprises value than some old time value investors, but I do look at pricing triggers, especially with small cap, lightly followed and emerging market companies. Thus, if I value a stock at $6 a share and it is trading at $4.10/share, but its historical low price is $4 (the support line), I may wait to buy it, hoping for one of two outcomes. The first is that it hits the support line and does not drop below it, signaling a positive shift in momentum, indicating that this would be a good time to buy. The second is that it drops below its support line, resulting in a negative shift in momentum and more selling, allowing me to buy the stock at an even lower price. Thus, while my primary decision of whether to buy or sell a stock is driven by value judgments, the question of when to do it can be affected by market triggers.
I own shares in Apple and I don't own any (right now) in Amazon, and I have explained why in prior posts on both companies. With my Apple shares, I have been rewarded well over my almost three-year holding period, and the question then becomes whether the trillion dollar market capitalization should make a difference in whether I continue to hold the shares. With Amazon, I saw little reason to buy the stock a few months ago, as I noted in this post, where I argued that it was a great company but not a great investment. The question then becomes whether market capitalization crossing trillion dollars changes that assessment. The final judgment has to wait until the next post, where I will revalue both companies, and look at whether the trillion-dollar trigger has made a difference.
Do you think that Apple benefited when it split its stock 7-to-1? One could argue that its inclusion into the DJIA and other price-weighted indices, plus the trend towards passive index investing, could've played a role in its current market valuation since there are a large number of funds that track these price-weighted indices.
Thank you for your insightful and stimulating blog entry.
The framework that you are offering on these so-called market triggers seems to add incrementally to Chapter 12 News and Narratives in your book 'Narratives And Numbers'.
I still need a bit of brainpower concerning the three subcategories for the 'market trigger effects' that you used in your framework. While I think I understand the concepts of 'value effects' and 'pricing effects', I currently stumble a bit about the name and location/arrows of the 'gap (catalyst) effects' in the framework and I guess, I need some help.
'Value and price effects' seem to be present whenever a 'driver' of intrinsic value or price is affected, respectively. Thus, these effects are defined as by which of the 'conventional six listed drivers' triggers their effect for a potential value or price adjustment. With respect to the graphic representation, I would thus almost be inclined to consider placing the effect boxes right below their respective 'conventional drivers' – as there seems to be a direct and logical connection.
The gap (catalyst) effect seems to be currently defined as news that has an attention garnering capacity, independent of the 'six conventional drivers', potentially triggering a major revaluation.
While I completely understand, that this is an important category, I think a name such as 'behavioural number trigger' or 'attention grabbing effect' could be alternate considerations. This could possibly simplifying the intuitivity of the concept for some readers. The gap effect seems to be not so much about closing or widening the gap or how over- or undervaluation is adjusted in the calculations. The key seems here to be rather: the stimulation of a re-evaluation or first evaluation. I think rating agencies sometimes deliberately define and use numeric and non-numeric red flag indicators that may trigger a new rating process for their clients. The gap effect seems to go beyond this on many dimensions.
Also, intuitively, I favor currently to see the 'gap effect' mostly as a special kind of the 'price effect'. After all, incremental information is the secondly listed driver of price. News on numbers to which we attach a symbolic meaning, rationally or not, is incremental information. Having said this, it is understood, that the same piece of news can equally have a 'value effect', if it effects one of the three listed value drivers.
'The Gap' can be readjusted from both sides. Thus, I would possibly consider putting the position of the 'gap effect' box in-line with the other two effects, directly below the two boxes with the drivers.
With respect to the arrows, I would consider deleting the direct connecting arrow between the 'gap effect' and 'The Gap' and rather putting arrows between the 'gap effect' and the value and price effect boxes, each arrow pointing outward.
Again, I might not yet have fully understood the three categories. In any case, these are currently my thoughts. Thanks for sharing your insightful and stimulating posts.
Prof., Have you recently valued Microsoft? Would love to get your thoughts as the company hit 'Refresh' over the past 4+ years.
Have you recently valued Microsoft? Would love to get your thought as the company hit 'Refresh' for past 4+ years.
I have one slight disagreement with your methodology for calculating the implied ERP, which I think is quite material and runs through a lot of how to think of intrinsic value, and your recent posts on valuation.
1) When you drop your growth from year 5 to the long term, your payout ratio also changes (1-g/ROE). For a constant ROE, you will have much higher levels of cash to distribute. To be internally consistent, you would have to grow out your earnings as before, but have a materially higher payout ratio for the terminal year as you're growing at a lower rate.
2) Related to that you, are implictly assuming that ROEs stay where they are into perpetuity, and that there is no convergence to the COE, which is also incorrect. If ROE = COE in perpetuity, then the growth rate for the terminal year is a moot point, as in an internally consistent terminal value/payout calculation, the growth rate won't impact the terminal valuation.
In a model built to incorporate these (simply by changing the payout ratio in the terminal year, and assuming ROE = COE), you get a model that is pretty much not at all sensitive to interest rates or indeed the terminal year's growth. If interest rates go from 2 to 4%, and ERP drops from 6% to 4%, the model's intrinsic value output will remain the same -- intrinsic value doesn't change.
In your model, in the same scenario, intrinsic value actually goes down because you have a static COE and a declining terminal growth rate -- so less cash flows discounted at the same level, so naturally a lower intrinsic value. This is a problem. It would be great to get your thoughts on this... thank you again and all the points here are from your own teachings!


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2. Get a screwdriver and loosen the screw that secures the stopper to the floor. Carefully remove it and make use of a good flashlight to take a look inside the pipe. Use a drain rod or a wire coat hanger to hook out any visible ball of hair or scum that cling onto the walls of the tube. Don't forget to dispose of these things properly because you surely do not want them to get inside the system again.
3. When you've hooked all the waste materials out of the pipe, turn the tap or shower on and check if the problem has been resolved.
4. If the problem persists, use a plunger. Simply position the rubber right on top of the bathroom floor drain and start plunging. The compressed air that you'll blast inside the drain pipe can help dislodge the clog. You can do this for fifteen repetitions and then test the drain again.
5. If the pipe is still clogged, go get your plumbing snake. Carefully insert the wire into the opening. Turn the crank clockwise to push it further down the pipe and wait until it touches on a solid object.
6. When you feel resistance, you've already located the blockage. Keep on turning the crank and pushing the wire in to break the clog into smaller pieces. When the pipe is clear, carefully pull the plumbing snake out and dispose of the waste materials that you'll hook out.
7. Turn the tap or shower on again and perform a test to ensure that the clog has been eradicated. If the problem is solved, put the trap or stopper back into place and secure it with the screw.
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Samsung executives find themselves embroiled in political scandal and controversy in South Korea after the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye. (Courtesy photo)
Samsung's 'Trial of the Century' may impact Silicon Valley — and liberals living in it
Seung Y. Lee
Mar. 13, 2017 12:00 a.m.
As a Korean-American, I am still reeling from South Korean President Park Geun-hye being ousted from her office after the Constitutional Court upheld her impeachment. For the 77 percent of Koreans who said they supported the impeachment right before the verdict, this was the culmination of a young democracy overcoming its first major challenge.
Rule of law worked in South Korea, thanks to an aggressive investigative media, a persistent show of peaceful street protests, a National Assembly which responded to its people and a court system which sought to keep the impeachment trial fair and swift. For any Korean over 30 years of age, it was a shocking change from the military dictatorships of yore.
So how does this relate to Silicon Valley? Bigly, for those of you projecting the Korean impeachment to your own heart's desire. The impeachment is the end of the first act in what may be a three-part overhaul in South Korea. And Samsung is going to be a major player in the upcoming acts.
The de-facto head and crown prince of Samsung, Jay Y. Lee, was arrested and indicted as a part of the impeachment trial for bribery charges. Lee is accused of embezzling $36 million to Choi Soon-sil, Park's close confidant who secretly made presidential decisions on behalf of Park. He also is charged with illegal transfer of property abroad and perjury before Parliament, among other crimes.
Four other heads of Samsung face similar charges. They all formally denied the charges in a preliminary hearing last Thursday.
For those currently using a Samsung product or are Samsung fanboys, this trial is not going to end your services or discontinue your favorite gadgets in the short-term. Samsung Electronics is a subsidiary of the larger Samsung empire, and its CEO was not part of the trial. Even if the throne is empty because Lee sits in jail, the octopus-like conglomerate, or chaebol in Korean, will soldier on.
Dubbed the "trial of the century" in South Korea, there is a huge public hunger among Koreans right now to push back against the old political and economic order that have both elevated the country into the developed world and suppressed other economic means to make a successful living. They just took down the old political order, a conservative president who won her election largely because she is the daughter of the military dictator responsible for the economic miracle. Now, they smell blood on overturning Samsung, the largest chaebol in South Korea.
Even with public pressure, it is unclear if Lee and the four executives will be tried. But their odds are not looking good, especially with the impeachment. With Park out of office, she is stripped of all presidential powers and now is subject to prosecution for the Samsung trial. If she has incriminating evidence against Lee, she may spill it to save herself from jail time.
If Lee is found guilty, it raises interesting questions about Samsung's future. The conglomerate has been paving the way for years to allow a smooth dynastic transition from Lee Kun-hee, who is ill after a heart attack in 2014, to Jay Y. Lee. While there are other family members to carry over, it muddles the dynastic line and the relative stability that comes with it than, say, a board-run company like Apple or Facebook.
But a deeper implication is if the South Korean government will use a possible conviction of Lee to break up Samsung. There are 80 Samsung compartmentalized companies within the chaebol, and that is their source of strength. This blow will not discontinue the newest Galaxy phone model or dilute the quality of its LED TVs and computers, but this may weaken Samsung's global leverage to compete with Apple, Dell and Sony. And Samsung's decline in the electronics market is a significant shakeup that will make waves in Silicon Valley.
But let's take a step back and just admire this moment of what happened in South Korea. They achieved history already, but the fight is not over. For those in the United States who believe the current democracy cannot work, I hope there's a lesson or two to take away.
The Examiner's own Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez broke the story that San Francisco's district attorney is investigating Uber's Greyball program, a tool covertly used to identify and evade local authorities trying to monitor any illegal activities.
Supervisor Aaron Peskin believes this is an "obstruction of justice"—and I agree. The New York Times piece that unveiled the Greyball program was explosive. We all knew, to varying degrees, that Uber is callous about authorities and plays loose with the rules, but the revelation still shocked the industry.
Uber said publicly that they won't use Greyball anymore. But that is not good enough. The time for apologies and assurances have past. I hope the district attorney finds more truths about Greyball with the ongoing investigation because San Franciscans deserves it now.
The Nexus covers the intersection of technology, business and culture in San Francisco and beyond. Write to Seung at seungylee14@gmail.com.
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Nikita Koloff defeated Magnum T.A. in Charlotte, North Carolina to win their best of seven series 4-3 and capture the NWA United States Heavyweight title.
The championship had been vacant since May, after Magnum TA was suspended for losing his temper and striking NWA president Bob Geigel.
Koloff started off by winning the first three matches of the series, but TA had rallied back to tie the series at 3-3, giving fans hope heading into this deciding match.
Note: It's a doubly historic day for Nikita Koloff – as one year later, on August 17th, 1987, he defeated Tully Blanchard to win the NWA World Television championship.


Nucleonica has been invited to give a series of short "hands-on" training courses at the 5th International Summer School 2013, Operational Issues in Radioactive Waste Management and Nuclear Decommissioning from 9-13 September at the JRC's centre in Ispra, Italy.
Nuclear Decommissioning is recently emerging as an important step in nuclear power plants' life cycle and as a crucial factor in public acceptance of nuclear power generation. At the end of the operational life of the first generation of nuclear power plants, an effective nuclear decommissioning process and management of its radioactive and nuclear waste will prove to be vital. From a technical point of view, a thorough analysis of radioactive waste production routes is needed in order to manage waste safely for workers, the public and the environment. This process needs to be applied to research, medical applications and industrial activities such as mining and processing of radioactive ores, as well as electrical power generation.
An effective characterisation and management of waste includes appropriate environmental monitoring and the application of sound principles of the waste cycle. This includes policy, regulatory issues, radiation protection, human resources management and aspects of stakeholders' involvement.
This year, the course is organised around several technical sessions and will feature five visits to JRC-ISPRA's laboratories that are involved in decommissioning and nuclear and radioactive waste management. During these visits, participants will be invited to assist in some real measurements.
The Nucleonica training sessions will form one such "laboratory" where participants can learn how to use Nucleonica applications effectively in this area.


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Karsten Greve (born 15 September 1946 in Dahme, Brandenburg, Germany) is a German art dealer, publisher and owner of Galerie Karsten Greve in Cologne, St Moritz, Paris and formerly Milan, specialized in the international postwar avant-garde, contemporary art and photography.

In 2014, Greve was listed as one of Artnet News' Most Admired Art Dealers  and was included in Blouin's Art + Auction 2012  and 2013  Power 100 list and has been referred to as one of Europe's most influential art dealers.

Life and career
Karsten Greve was born in Dahme, Germany. The middle child of three sons of a medical doctor, he attended school in Berlin and Siegen. He studied Law and Art History in Cologne, Lausanne and Geneva. As a student, he began to build his own art collection, acquiring his first painting by Cy Twombly in 1966. By the age of 23 he had bought works by Twombly, Beuys, Fontana, Yves Klein, de Kooning, Cornell, and Kounellis. In 1970, together with Rolf Möllenhof (born 1939, Chemnitz), he directed the Möllenhof/Greve Galerie. In 1972, he became the sole proprietor of Galerie Karsten Greve in its original Cologne Lindenstraße location, debuting with an Yves Klein solo exhibition of his Anthropometry series. In 1989, Karsten Greve opened a second space in Paris, in 1994 a third location in Milan (closed 2002) and another in St Moritz in 1999.

Karsten Greve has an interest in vintage design furniture and is an avid collector of items by the likes of Robert Mallet-Stevens, Le Corbusier and Pierre Chareau. He acquired a part of the  in . Karsten Greve is married and the father of three children.

Significance in the art world
Karsten Greve was among the first to set up an exhibition space in the Marais in Paris during the late 1980s and was also the first to open a gallery in St Moritz.

During a career of 40 years as an international art dealer, Karsten Greve significantly contributed to the worldwide recognition of artists such as Louise Bourgeois – as the first to exhibit her in Europe  - John Chamberlain, Lucio Fontana, Jannis Kounellis, Piero Manzoni and Cy Twombly, of which up to two thirds of the works in today's market were sold by him initially. His intimate friendships with these artists provided the basis for his programme, which is defined by the international avant-garde after 1945.

Karsten Greve on meeting Cy Twombly for the first time: "It was 1969. I was 23 and had just opened a gallery in Cologne. He was living in Rome, in a 16th-century palace that had no names on the door. I eventually figured out where he lived. I went to his apartment a couple of times and rang the bell but he never answered. Eventually, he heard from others that a crazy young German wanted to meet him and he let me in."

Karsten Greve earned a reputation for his carefully curated presentations at art fairs and museum quality exhibitions  and has been lauded for his ability to recognize the relevance of artist's work long before their rise to international recognition.

Greve curated a Cy Twombly solo show at the 1996 São Paulo Biennale. From 1997 to 2003 he was chair of the Art Cologne jury. He was also part of the Art Basel selection committee and the FIAC selection committee.

Greve holds the Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana (Cavaliere Ufficiale), which he received in December 1998.

Philanthropy
Karsten Greve supports the Jewish National Fund (קרן קימת לישראל, Keren Kayemet LeYisrael) in its environmental efforts and afforestation project. In 2013 he made a donation of 1 Mio. Eur to enable the expansion of the Deutsches Romantik-Museum in Frankfurt am Main, after the City of Frankfurt surprisingly dropped out as a donor. In 2015 he was one of the donors who gifted the Leiko Ikemura sculpture Usagi Kannon to the Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst  in Cologne. He gifted the Lucio Fontana work Natura to the Museum Ludwig and Pierre Chareau furniture  to the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Cologne.

References

External links
  Interview with Greve.
 Galerie Karsten Greve website

1946 births
Living people
People from Dahme, Brandenburg
German art dealers
German publishers (people)
German art collectors
20th-century art collectors
German expatriates in Switzerland
University of Cologne alumni
University of Lausanne alumni
University of Geneva alumni


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