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News: Alex Garland Is Not Interested In Making Annihilation Sequel
Based on Jeff VanderMeer's best-selling Southern Reach Trilogy, Annihilation was written and directed by Alex Garland. It is available on Blu-ray and DVD today and it's the type of film that has garnered a considerable fanbase that would definitely love to see him make a sequel. Speeking to IndieWire, Garland said that's never going to happen. He said that:
"I've got no objection to someone else doing that, but I'm not interested in the idea of a sequel. I feel like we made this movie and this is the movie we made."
He continued:
"When the thing is done, I am done with it. I instantly start moving on, so I don't even have an opinion on an Annihilation sequel. All the way through I was clear with everyone, from the studio to the cast, I told everyone that I didn't really see it as part of a franchise. My goal was to make this film and do the best job I can. I didn't even conceptualize it as the start of a trilogy. Sequels are just not something I'm interested in doing. It's like when you don't like steak, you don't make the decision not to eat steak, you just don't eat steak. I just don't do sequels."
Garland said that his desire to not make sequels is due to his creative process, which is often a "push-back" against his previous film. He stated that:
"Ex Machina was very zoned in and specific. It had a very small cast. It's effectively one location. There were four people, and often each scene included only pairs. In Annihilation, you often have five people in a scene at once. It was the opposite."
His new project is sci-fi television series Devs, which FX has given a pilot order, looks to be the opposite of Annihilation. Garland wrote the pilot episode and will also be directing it, as well as serving as an executive producer.
"In Devs, which will be produced by FX Productions, a young computer engineer, Lily, investigates the secretive development division of her employer, a cutting-edge tech company based in San Francisco, which she believes is behind the disappearance of her boyfriend."
The series consists of 8 episodes that Garland has written that tells a complete story, but could be carried on. He said that:
"If they (FX) want to carry it on, I guess they could… it's a self-contained story though. There's ways you could carry it on. Hopefully shooting in about six months. I've started talking about casting, locations, practical stuff like that."
"Annihilation was a very kind of internal, intuitive kind of filmmaking. Devs has a very specific kind of scientific and philosophic argument embedded within it," Garland told IndieWire. "Devs has this very rigorous argument to it. Telling you what that argument is now would undermine the series, but it has a central and very locked down argument embedded within it. Annihilation has a fever dream aspect to it. Devs does not."
Annihilation was written and directed by Alex Garland (Ex Machina, 28 Days Later), and stars Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny and Oscar Isaac. The Book's synopsis is:
"Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; all the members of the second expedition committed suicide; the third expedition died in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another; the members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within months of their return, all had died of aggressive cancer.
This is the twelfth expedition.
Their group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.
They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—they discover a massive topographic anomaly and life forms that surpass understanding—but it's the surprises that came across the border with them, and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another, that change everything."
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A local girl's take on the good life in Omaha, Nebraska and beyond
About Brandi
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I'm no sports reporter. There are days I WISH I was.. like today.. at 'the K'… cheering on the Kansas City Royals in Game 7.. yes, this is one of those days 🙂 Yes, sports reporters get to witness some incredible moments from amazing vantage points, but they are also some of the hardest working guys in TV News. Andy Kendeigh, Thor Tripp and Matt Lothrop shoot their own material, write their own material, write their own sportscasts, and are often on set, anchoring, after working all day covering games and stories out in the field. They don't 'sit back and watch the game'; they are keeping track of stats, editing while the game is in progress, and thinking about how they'll present it all. While fans watch and enjoy, sports guys (and ladies) work 20-hour days to bring those moments to the rest of the world.
They also know a RIDICULOUS amount of information about sports. I'd like to think I know the game of baseball.. I love gymnastics.. I like football a whole lot.. but I'm no sports reporter. I'm a sports reporter wannabe at best.
When I started profiling former Huskers as part of this Throwback Thursday series, I turned to our sports guys and my husband, ALSO a former sports photojournalist in TV News, to see who they wanted to hear from.
SEVERAL gave me this guy's name.
#5, Nebraska Quarterback Jammal Lord, photo courtesy Nebraska Athletics
Even if you don't know the ins and outs of this game, you can see this guy was impressive on the college football field by looking at his stats. Lord made the record books for total offense in a season and in a career. He set a record at Nebraska for a rushing quarterback in a single game and in a season. His name appears among Nebraska's greats at the position, Eric Crouch and Tommie Frazier.
Nebraska's last true option quarterback also marked the end of an era. As he left Nebraska at the end of 2003, so did his Head Coach Frank Solich, fired after a 9-3 season.
WHAT IF? What if they didn't have that 7-7 season in 2002? What if there hadn't been a coaching controversy? What if Lord, who only had 2.5 seasons on the field after a torn PCL in his knee, had gotten all four years as starting QB?
Lord tells me he has no regrets about his time as a Husker.
"No, not at all. I had fun at Nebraska," Lord told me by phone last month. "I loved the coaches I had from Coach Solich to Coach Gill. Those guys were role models. They showed me tough love and I needed that."
Thanks to Lord's alma mater, Bayonne High School, for the photos
Husker nation again had high hopes for Lord as a pro player, drafted in the 6th round in 2004 by the Houston Texans. He played safety, wide receiver, cornerback, eventually retiring from pro football with the Abilene Ruff Riders of the Indoor Football League in 2007.
Lord then returned to his roots and the place where he developed his passion for football. He became a football coach at his Alma Mater, Bayonne High School in Bayonne, New Jersey. COACHING became his new passion, a role that eventually brought him back to Nebraska, coaching at Concordia High School alongside his friend, Steve Warren.
"I miss it every day, everything about football," Lord told me. "I miss coaching, the kids, helping the kids out. Just seeing them grow."
During those coaching days, even now, it's hard to not miss PLAYING the game, too. Lord says his favorite game came his junior year at Texas A&M. John Oakey's Aggies had the Huskers on the ropes in the 3rd quarter, down 31-14. Lord and Nebraska charged back and WON 38-31, at the time, tying the school record for the biggest comeback in football history. Jammal Lord was named Team Captain the following season.
"Just going out, playing hard and winning games," said Lord. "I miss my friends, mainly."
Today, Lord is a long way from the friends he made in Lincoln, Houston, Bayonne and Omaha; he's working in the oil fields of North Dakota.
WHAT?!?! For anyone asking the same question I did when I heard that, a quick Google search reveals the average annual salary of an oil worker in ND is more than $110,000.
"A friend of a friend had a business here, offered me a job," said Lord. "I said never! Then I caved in."
It's hard not to like this guy in talking to him on the phone. In that answer and in so many others, he laughed throughout. You could 'hear' his smile on other end. Jammal Lord seems like a guy who truly enjoys life, whether he's making a comeback on the football field or anywhere else. He has a passion for life, just as he does for football.
And he still has that love for the Huskers.
"I like all of them," he said of today's players. "I like Ameer, he's doing his thing right now. I like Tommy. I'm biased for the quarterback position, you know what I mean?"
What about Coach Pelini, Lord's then Defensive Coordinator who took over head-coaching duties in Lord's last game with Nebraska at the Alamo Bowl?
"LOVE him. Love him," said Lord. "Just the passion, he has passion for his kids. He has passion for the game of football."
Finally, to Husker fans who, like so many sports guys do, remember Jammal Lord and hold him as a Husker favorite, he's got a message for you, too.
"I love you. You're number one in my book," said Lord. "I had fun down there. It was a great time. I love the fans, I love the stadium. GO BIG RED!"
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Allan Schur says:
So very good Brandi!!! *…as usual" Good background. Good update. GREAT insights. And always interesting.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH, Allan! You are the first to comment on one of these 'Throwback' blogs–THANK YOU!
I'm glad to see Jammal doing well. I always respected him for how he always layed it on the line… he was one durable, tough kid! I remember Pelini referring to him as a stallion in '03 when he was the DC.
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Jammal was a warrior. Always loved watching him play … that game against TAMU was epic. Good luck to him and I hope he gets back into the game if he gets an opportunity.
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The echo parakeet, the world's rarest parakeet species, has been saved by the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust.
The world's best zoos offer face-to-face encounters with some of the most fascinating and rare creatures on the planet--an experience that few people will ever be able to pursue in the wild. Unlike the cramped cages that housed animals in sideshow spectacles of the past, the modern zoo has elevated habitat emulation to an art, carefully recreating animals' natural environments and offering them challenging activities to reduce boredom and stress. The evolution of zoos has also included programs dedicated to protecting endangered species, both in captivity and in the wild. Zoos accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) participate in Species Survival Plan Programs that involve captive breeding, reintroduction programs, public education, and field conservation to ensure survival for many of the planet's threatened and endangered species.
AZA conservation breeding programs (also known as captive breeding programs) are designed to augment populations of endangered species and avoid extinction via regulated breeding of animals in zoos and other approved facilities.
One of the primary challenges facing captive breeding programs is maintaining genetic diversity. If a captive breeding population is too small, inbreeding may result, leading to health problems that negatively affect the species' survival. For this reason, breeding is carefully managed to ensure as much genetic variation as possible.
The goal of reintroduction programs is to release animals that have been raised or rehabilitated in zoos back into their natural habitats. AZA describes these programs as "powerful tools used for stabilizing, re-establishing, or increasing in situ animal populations that have suffered significant declines."
In cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the IUCN Species Survival Commission, AZA-accredited institutions have established reintroduction programs for endangered animals such as the black-footed ferret, California condor, freshwater mussel, Oregon spotted frog, and other species.
Zoos educate millions of visitors each year about endangered species and related conservation issues. Over the past ten years, AZA-accredited institutions have also trained more than 400,000 teachers with award-winning science curricula.
Field conservation focuses on the long-term survival of species in natural ecosystems and habitats. Zoos participate in conservation projects that support studies of populations in the wild, species recovery efforts, veterinary care for wildlife disease issues, and conservation awareness.
AZA sponsors a landing page on the National Geographic Society's Global Action Atlas, featuring worldwide conservation projects associated with participating zoos.
According to the IUCN, conservation breeding and reintroduction have helped prevent the extinction of six out of 16 critically endangered bird species and nine out of 13 mammal species, including species previously classified as Extinct in the Wild.
Today, 31 animal species classified as Extinct in the Wild are being bred in captivity. Reintroduction efforts are underway for six of these species, including the Hawaiian crow.
A study recently published in the journal Science supports the establishment of specialized zoos and a network of captive breeding programs that target species facing an acute risk of extinction.
According to the study, "Specialization generally increases breeding success. The animals can be 'parked' at these zoos until they have a chance of survival in the natural environment and can then be returned to the wild."
Endangered species breeding programs will also help scientists better understand population dynamics critical to the management of animals in the wild.


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Netflix's Titletown High: Everything about Grayson Leavy and His Relationship with Zoey Watson
Entertainment Dawn Williams August 31, 2021 5 Mins read
Netflix's new docuseries, Titletown High, has brought in a huge audience with the daily lives of the athletic students of Valdosta High School. The series follows the high school football team from the town that is nicknamed "TitleTown," for its sports legacy, and the dramas surrounding them.
Among the athletic teens, Grayson Leavy, a sophomore and the team's tight end, stands out for his involvement in a love triangle in Season 1.
The show did not give final closure to his relationship with Zoey Watson. So, are they still together? What is Grayson doing after the show? Let's explore these questions through this article.
Where is Grayson Leavy Now?
Grayson Leavy, age 16, was born and raised in Valdosta, Georgia. He was always surrounded by football and soon dreamed of becoming a Wildcat one day.
However, as time passed, Grayson began to realize that his parents couldn't afford to send him to college by themselves, so he worked hard to get a good scholarship.
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In the first season of Titletown High, there comes a point where Grayson comes in close contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19, over thanksgiving break.
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This incident led him to miss two vital playoff games despite performing well in the first one.
It was less than two weeks after that when Grayson tested negative for COVID-19 and wasted no time to return to practice. Catching up on his missed out practice, Grayson was all ready for the semi-finals and was able to play in the game. However, the Wildcats did not advance to the state championships.
Grayson will be playing in the majority of games this year alongside other Wildcats. Besides football, the teenager also enjoys soccer, wrestling, and swimming, according to his Instagram posts.
Grayson Leavy and Zoey Watson: Are They Still Together?
Alongside the show's plot around the football team, Titletown High provided some exposure to Grayson's romantic life, which shows a love triangle with Zoey Watson and Lenley Gross.
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Grayson and Zoey met when they were only kids and had started a young relationship at some point. However, due to the stresses of high school, the two found it better to split and remain friends.
After that, Grayson started "talking to" Lenley Gross and eventually made things official with her. But, there were rumors growing that Grayson and Zoey were still a thing; besides, Zoey never denied that she still loved Grayson.
Things took a turn when Grayson kissed Zoey and admitted that he was not ready to commit to Lenley. When he was faced with the decision to choose one between the two girls, Grayson picked Zoey, finally ending things with Lenley.
When Grayson was isolating after exposure to COVID-19, Zoey chose to quarantine with him. This soon led to the two rekindling their young love as they both shared their confessions of "I love you"s.
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Currently, it is not clear if Grayson and Zoey have continued their romantic relationship. According to the pictures on their Instagram, they do spend time together alongside friends. The latest picture was on August 19, 2021, when the two attended a concert together.
While they have not given official status to their relationship in the public, the show might eventually address their romance.
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News reports speculated that the defense would suggest that Jackson gave himself the overdose when the doctor left the room, but the first crime was possessing propofol in the first place. Propofol acts at specific receptors in the brain, changing their activity and affecting brain function. What it is is a general anesthetic. It does this in a dose-dependent fashion, meaning the more medication you give, the more brain function changes. ! Propofol infusion syndrome Prolonged infusion of propofol doses exceeding 4mg/kg/hour may result in potentially fatal effects, including metabolic acidosis, arrhythmias, cardiac failure, rhabdomyolysis, hyperlipidaemia, hyperkalaemia, hepatomegaly, and renal failure. In fact, Neverland was barely his home at … Propofol is not a suitable alternative as to obtain a sufficient dose of lipid would require a propofol overdose. 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It's different from any other type of walk in nature that you have ever experienced.
Calm walks of no more than one kilometer, immerse in nature, lasting from 2 to 3 hours.
There will be a series of "guided suggestions" that will support the awakening of your senses and will allow you to establish a nature connection.
3. HAVE A MORE RELAXED, CALM AND CONSCIOUS PERCEPTION OF WHAT SURROUNDS YOU.
4. BE ABLE TO ENJOY PROVEN HEALTH BENEFITS.
Parc Natural de la Serra de Collserola, Barcelona.
Alex is a certified guide to Forest therapy, Trainer and Mentor of guides. Alex is the founder of the Instituto de Baños de Bosque and the Instituto de Banhos de Floresta de Portugal and collaborated as a consultant specialist in the expert group on Human Health and Well-being to the Forest Europe, Ministerial Conference on the Protection of forests in Europe.
Alex is the author of "Sentir el bosque: La experiencia del Shinrin-Yoku (baño de bosque)", Grijalbo, edited by Penguin Random House Editorial Group.
"Great experience! Alex is a very good guide; very professional, knowledgable and sensitive. It was my first forest bath and Alex made us feel very comfortable. The "walk" was well organised and explained, and our group connected very well with the forest as well as each other. Thank you for a wonderful experience, I will definitely sign up for another one soon!"
"Increíble experiencia! Si disfrutar de un baño de bosque con Alex no es suficiente para conectar con la naturaleza y todos tus sentidos, tener la suerte de aprender las técnicas para mejorar la experiencia a través de un workshop de todo un fin de semana es ya brutal. Un verdadero placer que pienso repetir en breve."
What is a forest bathing walk?
A forest bathing walk is a calm walk of no more than one kilometer, immerse in nature, lasting from 2 to 3 hours.
What is the Nature Based Stress Reduction and Wellbeing program (NBSRW)?
It's a forest bathing workshop focus into learn tools to prevent and reduce stress and improve well-being through nature connection where you will learn techniques to connect with nature. It combines the practice of forest baths with theoretical content.
What could I get from these activities?
Forest bathing walks and workshops are wellness activities. They are therapeutic practices that improve your mental, physical and immunological health. You will slow down and, likely, earn some tools for your daily life.
How is this different from a hike?
From the therapeutic point of view, through the senses, in a calm way, and moving consciously we will open a space of listening and acceptance that requires attention. They are not intended to perform physical exercises.
I'm not very fit, does this matter?
The forest bathing walks are designed to slow down and suitable for all levels of fitness. However, if you have a specific health condition please mention it on the registration form.
Our programs are suitable for rain or sun. We will hold our programs through all types of weather, if, by doing it so, this will not be hazardous or unsafe.
What should I bring to the forest bathing walk?
Water bottle (recommended 1.5 liters) and some snacks.
Do I need any special clothing or equipment?
Clothing and footwear appropriate for weather conditions. We recommend waterproof boots.
How many people are in one activity?
Maximum of 20 people for forest bathing walks and 10 for the workshops.
What happens if you or I cancel the walk?
In case of cancellation, the client will be informed as soon as possible. After cancellation you will receive a total refund for all the value paid to date or, if you prefer, alternative dates.
In case of cancellation of reservation by the client, the total refund of payment will be done when cancellation is made 48 hours prior to the date of the activity.


I happen to be an highly optimistic person. That's a good thing.
Sometimes, my less optimistic friends think the world is a terrible place to live in. Thankfully, they're wrong, so I can cheer them up by pointing out solutions to the problems they perceive. Given this ability, I think I'd make a great volunteer at one of those teen help hotlines. The problem is, none of them wants my help! Well, none that I could find in my area, anyway.
You see, I never donate to charitable organizations. I think it's dumb to give an organization money so that someone else can help people out and get paid for it. I say, cut the middle man! Let me give you a hand instead.
And you know what they replied? "Great, we do have some volunteer positions available. Your task would be to call people and ask them for donations. Interested?"
They really don't want us concerned citizens to help. Like everybody else, they just want our money.
And of course, being the resourceful optimist that I am, I've got a solution to that. And of course, being the enthusiastic developer that I am, my solution involves building a website.
An ordinary charitable organization would use its website to tell you about its plans for solving the problems of the world, and to request your "help" (that is, your money) for implementing that plan. On my hypothetical website, I would ask you about your plan for solving the problems of the world. And I would show you the plans of the other users, so you can contact them and contribute if you think the plan is worth trying.
Most importantly, the plans would be highly detailed. Where ordinary charitable organizations would merely draw a pie chart showing how they allocate your money, our plans would tell you exactly which actions we want to see performed, and why each action contributes to (a sub-goal which contributes to a sub-goal which contributes to) resolving the issue at hand, say, "ending world hunger".
One of the reasons for using such detailed plans is to convince visitors that our plan will actually succeed. I think there is a tendency to assume that, by default, big organizations know what they are doing, and we can't compete with that bias unless we show that we know what we are doing.
And for those of us who don't know what we're doing, we can always ask for the help of our creative contributors. As a project grows, it should become more and more complete, more and more plausible, and attract more and more contributors. If it doesn't, then it probably wasn't a very good idea to begin with.
The other reason for writing highly detailed plans is to keep track of progress. At the most-detailed level, a plan should consist of concrete actions which individuals can perform. That way, resourceful visitors who are convinced by a plan will be able to contribute by performing the concrete action, and ticking it off as completed.
And what this means, is you don't even have to wait for me to implement the aforementioned website. If you have an idea that could change the world, then just use your favourite issue tracking system, and start organizing issues into a concrete plan. Easy enough, right? The world has plenty of good things as it is, like I've claimed.
Well, have fun making the world a better place. Good luck!
well-foundedness, part 2 of 2: code is data. or is it codata?
Whether it is represented as finite strings or as finite trees, code is finite, and thus code is data, not codata. That should settle the question.
Except, of course, that's not really the question I wanted to ask. In my very first post, I warned that manipulating code as raw strings or trees was a bit primitive, and I've since been taught an alternative: higher-order abstract syntax. For the purpose of this post, that basically means I'm representing the code using a function instead of a data-structure.
With data-structures, proofs are usually done using structural induction (see part 1). But when using a function to represent code, what could be its internal structure? What are its substructures?
The clue lies in the exponential notation for function types. But first, remember the familiar multiplicative notation for, well, product types. If (a, b, c) is a value of type A × B × C, then b would be a substructure of type B. That seems reasonable. Now, consider a function λx. f x of type A → B. The exponential notation for this type is BA = B × B × ... × B, with one occurrence of B per inhabitant of A. If these inhabitants are (a0, a1, ...), then an alternate representation of our function could be (f a0, f a1, ...). This expanded form contains exactly the same information as the lambda notation, it's just a lot more verbose, especially when A has infinitely many inhabitants.
Seeing this explicit notation, an immediate conclusion is that for any value a of the appropriate type, the (value corresponding to the) application f a is a substructure of f. Wow! It was totally unexpected for me. That's why I'm writing about it. To share my excitement. But don't get too excited yet: there's a warning coming up.
I have mildly motivated our search for substructures in functions with the relatively exciting perspective of creating a structural induction proof whose decreasing structures include functions. Well, I hope you're not that motivated, because you can't do that. Function application isn't well-founded at all, at least in some languages. Take the identity function, for example. In Haskell, it is possible to apply the identity function to itself. The resulting substructure, obviously, will be the identity function. But that substructure also has the identity function as a substructure, and by continuing to recur in this fashion, we will never reach a base case. The proof will instead go on, forever, in an infinite regress.
Uh? I hope you're surprised! How could structural induction work with all of those other kinds of substructure relations, yet fail with this one? What's so special about functions?
Let's pause to ponder the presumed absurdity of an infinitely-nested structure. Take lists, for example. They are finite because after a finite number of elements, we reach the end of the list. An infinitely-nested list would go on forever, cons after cons, never reaching an end. While this would be absurd in most programming languages, infinite lists are actually commonplace in Haskell... So maybe functions aren't so unique after all!
Functions and infinite lists are examples of codata, and induction is indeed known not to work with those. Expressions of infinite depth do not have a terminating evaluation; the evaluator can't even read the entire input! I hear we're supposed to use "coinduction" instead, but I can't comment on that technique yet. What I can say, however, is that even though Haskell allows data and codata to mix, it's apparently a bad idea, and there are languages with type systems strong enough to prevent it. In these languages, there are two distinct types for lists, but I haven't seen a distinct type for "cofunctions" yet. I suspect that a function must be codata whenever some of its possible return values are.
Well, I bet you've heard enough about well-founded and non-well-founded structures (data and codata) for your entire life. But personally, I think I'm just getting started.
well-foundedness, part 1 of 2: who cares?
If you're like me, you've often heard of well-foundedness, but never really bothered to learn what it really meant nor why it's important. If you're like most people, on the other hand, then you've never even heard the word and you couldn't care less. Well, go ahead, skip this post. You'll be back and eager to learn once you try and fail to read part 2.
...see? I told you you'd be back. Since you're presumably only interested in understanding enough about well-foundedness in order to follow part 2, I might as well use the same example: a little expression language for evaluating numerical expressions such as 2 + 3 * 4.
Since there are no looping constructs in this simple language, it's reasonable to expect evaluation to always terminate. It's possible to prove so using traditional induction, say, on the height of the expression tree. Induction arguments are routine in mathematics, and thus the previous statement is usually all that is needed in order to convince another mathematician that the eval function always terminates; but since today's post is about different kinds of induction, I'll flesh out the proof so you can see the difference.
There are other versions of the above argument which are equally valid. For example, instead of the expression depth, we could use the expression size, meaning the number of constructors (Lit, Add and Mul) used to construct the expression.
This metric is also smaller for e1 and e2 than for Add e1 e2 and Mul e1 e2, so the induction step will succeed.
The two variants I have discussed so far use numbers (depth, size) to argue termination. The idea is that the base case proves the statement to be true when the number is one, and then the induction step can use this fact to prove that the statement is also true when the number is two. This new fact can in turn be used to prove the statement when the number is three, after which we can handle case four, then case five, and so on. In the end, we'll have a proof for all numbers, meaning that expressions of all sizes and depths have a terminating evaluation.
An alternative view of induction is to begin with a statement with a particular number, say five, about which we are actually interested. The induction step gives us a conditional proof of the statement, which depends on the statement to be true for the number four. But the statement is true for the number four, because it's true for three, because it's true for two, because it's true for one. And the statement is true for one because the base case proves so.
This second view is even a bit more "efficient" than the first, because we don't actually need to decrement so slowly. Add (Lit 2) (Mul (Lit 3) (Lit 4)), of size 5, has a terminating evaluation because Lit 2 and Mul (Lit 3) (Lit 4), of sizes 1 and 3, also terminate; the first by the base case, the second because Lit 3 and Lit 4 terminate. The last two expressions had size 1 and are also proved to terminate by the base case. Notice that we managed not to discuss expressions of size 2 and 4 at all.
Using the more efficient version, we see that the proof for n doesn't need to recur on n-1, but can actually use any m as long as m < n. We can generalize further. Even though induction traditionally uses the less-than relation of natural numbers, it is totally possible to find other suitable relations. Structural induction, for instance, says that the expression e1 is less than expression Add e1 e2 because the latter contains e1 as a sub-expression.
This structural less-than is very different from the numerical less-than. For one thing, the numerical less-than is total, meaning that given two numbers, one of the two is going to be smaller than (or equal to) the other. With structures such as Add (Lit 1) (Lit 2) and Mul (Lit 3) (Lit 4), neither is contained within the other, so the structural less-than isn't total. But while our intuitive, everyday notion of ordering seems to require totality, the notion isn't required by the induction principle.
One notion which is required, however, is (you guessed it) well-foundedness. The property basically states that when recurring on smaller and smaller values, we will hit the base case after finitely many steps. This is required: otherwise, the proof could go on and on and on without the sceptics even being convinced.
Speaking of sceptics: are you convinced that well-foundedness is a useful concept now?


As you hustle about, a healthy meal is probably the last thing you think about. The following tips can help you eat when your on the go. Restaurants With tempting menus, large portions, and a festive atmosphere, it's easy to skip healthy eating. It's okay to splurge every now and then, although you'll pack on a lot of weight if you make it a habit.


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Q: Can I set types to the World context in cucumber? I am starting a new cucumber-selenium project in Typescript, and I would like to store Driver in the world context. The problem is that if I set it as in here, the Driver type is not accessible to step definitions.
Meaning that in my first step
Given('First step', async function () {
  this.driver.get('http://vacuumlabs.com')
})

the object driver has type any, because this is of type World and not CustomWorld. Is there a way I can change that?
I am using
    "@types/cucumber": "6.0.1",
    "cucumber": "^7.0.0-rc.0",

(because @cucumber/cucumber resolves this as any)

A: setting world type
Seems like this can be done in two ways...
Given('I am setting World type', async function (this: MyWorldType) {
  ...
})

or
Given<MyWorldType>('I am setting World type', async function () {
  ...
})

defining world type
So it would be something like this...
import { World as CucumberWorld } from '@cucumber/cucumber';
import { Driver } from 'selenium';
import { OtherCustomThing } from 'custom-things';

export interface MyWorldType extends CucumberWorld {
    driver: Driver;
    myOtherCustomAttribute: OtherCustomThing;
    ...
}

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Every year, the Chinese New Year is about a month off from the regular, Gregorian New Year. This year is the year of the Rooster and it is going to be on January 28, while the "Spring Stand" is on February 3.
In Feng Shui, the "Spring Stand" is a particularly big deal, even more so than the Traditional New Year. This is so because February 3 is the midpoint between the Winter Solstice (December 21) and the Spring Equinox (March 21). This is the official time when the Yin-ness of winter ends and the Yang-ness of spring begins. Hence the definition: "The end of Yin, the beginning of Yang" (hence the term "Spring Stand").
It means that the energy of the previous year is fully exhausted and that as of February 3, the New Year's new, vibrant energy is going to come in, like a newborn baby.
Also don't forget to attend my Free, Live, 1 Hour Online Webinar for the 2017 Feng Shui Forecast, the Year of the Rooster, on January 28 at 11 AM, PST. If you have not registered for it yet, you can do so Here.
And don't forget to attend our 1 hour, Live Online Webinar on the 2017 Feng Shui Forecast, the Year of the Rooster, on February 3 at 11 AM, PST. The session is Free, but you do need to Register Here to receive the log in link.


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Transcript: Nightly Business Report – May 13, 2019
BILL GRIFFETH, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT ANCHOR: Stocks plunge. China strikes back with retaliatory tariffs, wiping out about $1 trillion in market value worldwide.
SUE HERERA, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT ANCHOR: Caught in the middle. A small New Jersey manufacturer is pulling back on growth plans as it tallies the cost of tariffs on its business.
Price fixing accusations. A sweeping lawsuit claims generic drug companies conspired to inflate prices and their stocks fall sharply.
Those stories and much more tonight on NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT for Monday, May the 13th.
HERERA: Good evening, everyone. And welcome.
What a way to start the week, stocks fell sharply at the open and stayed there, as tensions flared when China slapped new tariffs on U.S. goods. The fear is that a heightened and prolonged trade fight between the world`s two largest economies could hurt global growth and could have a very broad impact.
So, let`s get right to the closing numbers. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 617 points to 25,327. The Nasdaq was lower by 265 points. And the S&P 500 fell 69.
Kayla Tausche starts us off tonight with the latest developments on the U.S./China trade war.
KAYLA TAUSCHE, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT CORRESPONDENT: Both the U.S. and China are arming themselves with new weapons as the trade war drags on. China says it will slap new tariffs on $60 billion in U.S. goods from light bulbs to peanuts to beef. As the U.S. targets the remaining $300 billion in goods China sends to the U.S. each year that has so far been spared.
President Trump says he hasn`t decided yet whether to launch those tariffs.
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We have another $325 billion that we can do if we decide to do it.
TAUSCHE: As tensions heat up, there`s room for some goodwill. China`s new tariffs don`t take effect for three weeks. President Trump is now pointing to the G-20 meeting at the end of June in Japan where he`ll meet China`s President Xi.
TRUMP: Maybe something will happen, we`re going to be meeting, as you know, at the G-20 in Japan. That will be I think probably a very fruitful meeting.
TAUSCHE: The next several weeks will be critical, with the treasury secretary saying he plans to keep talks open.
REPORTER: When will you go to Beijing?
STEVEN MNUCHIN, TREASURY SECRETARY: We`re working on dates, nothing confirmed yet.
TAUSCHE: China may be sharpening other tools too. State paper "The Global Times" says it could stop purchasing farm and energy products, cut back on orders of Boeing (NYSE:BA) planes and possibly dump treasuries.
Mnuchin dismissed that idea.
REPORTER: Will China continue to buy our debt?
MNUCHIN: I assume so. It`s a great investment.
TAUSCHE: Despite the volatile market reaction to the tit for tat, President Trump says he loves the position the U.S. and its economy are in. And negotiators continue to say he`ll walk away if any deal doesn`t produce permanent change.
GRIFFETH: And as Sue mentioned, the trade tensions resulted in some very strong selling on Wall Street today. Bob Pisani takes a look at the market`s ugly mood.
BOB PISANI, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT CORRESPONDENT: Trade tensions flared up today, putting serious pressure on stocks. The Dow is plummeting more than 700 points at its low, but closing well off of that. Stocks were down overnight, but they turned even lower prior to the open when China announced it will raise tariffs on $60 billion of U.S. imports beginning June 1st. But these new higher tariffs will largely hit farmers and affect thousands of products. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Boeing (NYSE:BA), Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT), led the Dow lower here, all three are down about 20 percent or more from their recent highs.
Stocks did come off their lows late in the day on a few comments from both U.S. treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and President Donald Trump saying trade talks were still on going, that`s not much of the market to go on. Why is this?
Because the trade wars have suddenly become very real. We not only have higher tariffs on existing goods, we have a very specific China response targeting U.S. agriculture products, with possible other measures to come.
That`s taken a tool at commodity prices. So, for example, soybean futures, they plummeted to their lowest levels in more than a decade. And cotton prices are also coming under pressure. We`ve had talk of the U.S. expanding tariffs to all China imports which would particularly target the technology field. One reason Apple`s down 5 percent today.
But for many, the damage is already done. Retailers are getting hit because their input costs are about to rise. So, names like Macy`s (NYSE:M), Gap (NYSE:GPS), Nordstrom (NYSE:JWN), Lbrands, they all closed at new 52-week lows today.
HERERA: More now on Boeing (NYSE:BA) and the bond market, both of which Kayla mentioned in her report. The editor of the Chinese newspaper "The Global Times" tweeted: China may stop purchasing U.S. agricultural products and energy, reduce Boeing (NYSE:BA) orders and restrict the U.S. service trade with China. Many Chinese scholars are discussing the possibility of dumping U.S. treasuries and how to do it specifically.
A Boeing (NYSE:BA) spokesperson says that the company is confident the U.S. and China will continue trade discussions and come to an agreement that burn fits both U.S. and Chinese manufacturers and consumers. Nonetheless, the stock fell more than 4 1/2 percent.
GRIFFETH: And what about that line in the Chinese editor`s tweet about China selling U.S. treasuries? Now, China is the biggest buyer of our debt. What would happen to interest rates and our economy if it started selling those treasuries?
Joining us tonight, Bill Adams is senior economist with PNC Financial Services Group.
Bill, thanks for joining us tonight.
WILLIAM ADAMS, PNC FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP SENIOR ECONOMIST: Thanks for having me, Bill.
GRIFFETH: It`s considered highly unlikely they would think about selling too many of their treasuries. But what do you think — isn`t it interesting they even brought it up in this street? What do you think would happen if they did start thinking about selling in size?
ADAMS: I think if we did see a large sale of treasuries by China`s central bank, we would see treasury bonds fall, yields move higher over a short period of time. But I think after that, it`s likely that the Federal Reserve would intervene in the treasury market and buy treasuries. That`s what the whole point of quantitative easing was. If they saw yields moving in a direction that was out of line with their goals for the U.S. economy, I think the fed has the tools to bring interest rates back where they want them.
HERERA: Art Cashin, down on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange with UBS, suggested that perhaps a worst case scenario would be if China just stayed out of the auction and didn`t buy any more U.S. treasuries. What do you make of that scenario?
ADAMS: I actually — I think China has already stepped back quite a bit from financing the U.S. government. Chinese foreign exchange reserves, peeked at around $4 trillion U.S. dollars a few years ago. And now, they`re down to around $3 trillion U.S. dollars.
So, China has already changed from being a net buyer to a net seller over a multiyear time horizon. And the ten-year government bond yield is only 2.4 percent right now, and the U.S. economy continues to grow.
GRIFFETH: But again, we don`t want to panic anybody, there is highly unlikely the Chinese would sell too many of their treasuries, why is that? Let`s explain that.
ADAMS: China owns treasuries, not because they like the U.S. government or they want to finance it, but because it`s an insurance policy against a shock to the Chinese financial system. Treasuries are a risk free asset in the United States. And the U.S. dollar is the world`s reserve currency.
So, having treasuries is a buffer against bad things happening outside of China and affecting the Chinese financial system. With this conflict between the United States and China and down side risk to global growth, all the more reason China doesn`t want to tear up its insurance policy today.
GRIFFETH: Bill Adams with PNC Financial Services Group, again, thanks for joining us tonight, Bill.
ADAMS: Thanks for having me.
HERERA: The tariffs already in place have not been kind to a manufacturer in New Jersey. Contessa Brewer took a trip to Piscataway to measure the impact on the business firsthand.
CONTESSA BREWER, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT CORRESPONDENT: A long line of products facing a long list of tariffs. Strato designs and manufactures equipment for the railroad and transportation industry, but the tariffs are derailing plans for growth.
Many of the finished parts are made in China and sent to the U.S. They were just slapped with a tariff increase now totaling 25 percent. It will cost this small company in central New Jersey $14 million over 15 months.
And buying all American isn`t an option.
SUSAN DIEHL, STRATO COO: The problem is, we can only — the industry is only supplying about 30 percent of the products necessary for the industry domestically.
BREWER: These parts will equip San Francisco`s public transit system known as BART. It will pick up the additional costs of the tariffs, which means taxpayers and riders are footing the bill. Strato is hiking prices as much as 10 percent and passing that along with railroad customers.
DIEHL: It forces the railroads to do, is pass the cost on to the shippers. The shippers have to pass the cost on to the consumer, and that`s every one of us.
BREWER: Like thousands of other American businesses, Strato is searching for ways to cut costs as it absorbs the rest of the tariff impact. Its workforce has declined 10 percent. And employees here are worried because their bonuses depend on the company`s growth. And Strato has significantly slowed its expansion.
DIEHL: We`ve invested about $30 million in the last five years in new product development. We are pulling that way back at this point in time. And it`s just — it`s slowing the development for the industry.
And the economy is going in the right direction. It`s growing. The rail system needs to grow with it.
BREWER: Those stuck in the middle of a global trade war are just hoping something will spark a change.
In Piscataway New Jersey, Contessa Brewer, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT.
GRIFFETH: As you can imagine, the Federal Reserve is watching how this tariff spat plays out and how it may affect the economy. And right now, market expectations for a rate cut are changing.
Steve Liesman has more.
STEVE LIESMAN, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT CORRESPONDENT: In the wake of new tariffs for President Trump on Chinese goods and Chinese retaliation on U.S. goods, markets are now pricing in a quarter point cut from the Federal Reserve by October, and maybe as soon as September.
The probabilities in the Fed fund markets now price a 50 percent chance of a cut by September, 60 percent by October, 75 by December, and 90 percent by January 2020.
But for one Fed official, it`s too soon to make that call.
NEEL KASHKARI, MINNEAPOLIS FED PRESIDENT: I`m hopeful that cooler heads will prevail and this won`t go down a very nasty path. Obviously, it`s the worst case scenario, and its ever increasing tariffs for an extended period of time. That could change things. That could have a real effect on U.S. GDP growth. But right now, I`m not seeing it. So, I`m for one, in a wait- and-see mode.
LIESMAN: Gauging the economic impacts of tariffs are hard enough. The Federal Reserve also has to weigh the probabilities on the outcome of negotiations, whether or not there`s a deal, how long tariffs could be in place, how equity markets respond in the impact of lower stock prices, and the effect of all this on business confidence and capitol spending.
The J.P. Morgan writes that the trade war could hold global capital spending growth to zero this year and dampen Chinese GDP by 0.8 percent. The escalation of the conflict could also amplify an easing bias that is rate cuts across the globe.
All of this leads Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) to forecast serious easing by the Federal Reserve of interest rates. If the trade battle lasts three to four months, Morgan economists see more Chinese stimulus and 50 basis points or half a percentage point of cuts from the Fed.
For NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT, I`m Steve Liesman.
HERERA: So, with Fed expectations changing and the market selling off, is now the time to get defensive?
Joining us is Jack Ablin, founder, partner and chief investment officer at Cresset Capital.
Welcome back, Jack. Nice to see you.
JACK ABLIN, FOUNDER, PARTNER & CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER, CRESSET CAPITAL: Nice to see you, Sue.
HERERA: There are some expectations that this will be a long fight. And others say maybe a little bit on the shorter side. You say stay put for now as an individual investor, why is that?
ABLIN: Yes, I`m not ready to pull my hair out quite yet, Sue.
I think there are three stages of down drafts. There`s a technical one which we`re currently in. Then there`s one, what I would call cyclical which starts impairing the global economy. And then there`s systemic, one we had to endure back in the financial crisis.
The good news here is, we can take systemic downturn off the table. So, now, the question is, are we in a technical downdraft, which perhaps there`s a 10 percent downside risk to or something more cyclical, where now these tariffs start to impact economic growth globally and that the down draft could be, you know, a little more severe?
You know, there`s no evidence yet that this war is going to just continue on to start impairing economic growth.
GRIFFETH: Right.
ABLIN: And so, for my perspective, I`d say, we`re still in that technical phase and probably worth just standing pat for now.
GRIFFETH: So, you`d stand pat. But would you buy with some of the declines we`ve seen in the last two weeks?
ABLIN: Yes, I mean, for those investors who are sitting on the sidelines, it`s a couple of easier ways to get into the market would be those parts of the market that are somewhat insulated from the vagaries of these kinds of tariffs, and that would be U.S. small caps. They would tend to do better as these tariffs escalate, because they tend to do most of their business here domestically. Certainly, a focus more on services rather than goods could also be another way to play it.
Another would be REITs. REITs are generally considered U.S. based. Pretty much just real estate. Now, they are expensive. But they have done pretty well as a defensive play in this kind of environment.
And then lastly, master limited partnerships, MLPs, again, domestically focused income oriented, and they are cheap. But keep in mind, they are tethered to the global crude market. And so, if we do see a selloff in crude, they`ll likely go along with it. But again, they`re cheap enough that there`s a push in there and a decent yield.
HERERA: Jack, thank you so much. Jack Ablin with Cresset Capital.
Still ahead, 44 states, a handful of drug companies and one sweeping lawsuit.
GRIFFETH: Back to Boeing (NYSE:BA). That company is not only dealing with China right now, but also the fallout from those two deadly 737 MAX crashes. One of the planes that went down belonged to Ethiopian Airlines.
And tonight in an NBC News exclusive, the CEO of that airline says that he`s not sure what the future holds for his company and for the airplane maker.
TEWOLDE GEBREMARIAM, ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES CEO: I cannot fully that the airplane would fly back on Ethiopian Airlines. It may if we are fully convinced and if we are able to convince our pilots, if we are ever to convince our traveling public, because, you know, all our headlines have grounded the airplane. But in our case, beyond grounding the airplane, we have this tragic accident just a couple months ago. So, it takes a lot of efforts to convince everybody that the airplane is safe. But beyond that, I think we have to convince ourselves, and we want to do that.
GRIFFETH: He added that if his airline does fly those jets again, they`ll be the last to do so.
HERERA: Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) already under pressure from a trade war with China got more bad news today. The Supreme Court will allow an antitrust class action lawsuit to move forward after a group of iPhone owners accused Apple`s app store of being a monopoly. The opinion says consumers have the right to sue the company, it does not accuse Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) of violating the law. The stock fell nearly 6 percent in today`s session.
GRIFFETH: And it was a tough day in the marketplace for some drug makers. Forty-four states have now filed a massive lawsuit accusing a number of pharmaceutical companies of conspiring to inflate generic drug prices. Teva was hit the hardest among that group, down almost 15 percent today. Mylan (NASDAQ:MYL) and Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) were also named in that lawsuit.
Meg Tirrell has the details.
MEG TIRRELL, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT CORRESPONDENT: The generic drug industry exists to make medicines less expensive. After patent protection expires on branded drugs, generic drug makers compete to bring cheaper copies to market. At least that`s how it`s supposed to work. A new lawsuit for more than 40 states alleges generic drug makers instead conspired to drive prices up, sometimes as much as 1,000 percent.
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong detailed the allegations in an interview with "60 Minutes".
WILLIAM TONG, CONNECTICUT ATTORNEY GENERAL: I think what we`ve come upon is that the generic drug industry is the largest private sector corporate cartel in history.
TIRRELL: The news drove stocks of generic drug makers down sharply Monday. The suit is a broader version of one filed in 2016 involving 15 generic drugs. It alleges that 20 generic drug manufactures including Teva, Mylan (NASDAQ:MYL), Novartis` Sandoz, a Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) unit, and others, quote: embarked on one of the most egregious and damaging price-fixing conspiracies in the history of the United States.
The number of drugs, more than 100. The cost to consumers, the lawsuit claims, billions of dollars.
TONG: It`s devastating. It affects health insurance premiums and health insurance plans, it impacts Medicare and Medicaid. And it is a chain reaction that drives up the price of American health care to a natural heist.
TIRRELL: The drug companies denied the allegations, and the generic drug trade group, the association for accessible medicines, further points out that generic drug prices have declined over the last three years, the lawsuit mainly focuses on activity from 2013 to 2015. But it`s clearly spooked Wall Street.
DAVID MARIS, WELLS FARGO SECURITIES: Depending on what it could be, this could be problematic or really problematic.
TIRRELL: The lawsuit seeks damages of penalties and return of profits from the alleged price fixing. And the states say the investigation is ongoing.
HERERA: Tariffs are another thing that Ford and GM have to worry about in China. And that`s where we begin tonight`s "Market Focus".
Auto sales in China fell for the 10th straight month in April, falling nearly 15 percent, from the same month a year ago. Ford`s China`s car sales fell 37 percent last year, while GM slipped 10 percent. Today, GM fell 3-1/2 percent to $36.58. Ford was off 3 percent to $10.08.
The CEO of Bed, Bath and Beyond is stepping down from the company effective immediately. This comes as activists investors are pushing for changes at the retailer after sluggish sales. The CEO is also resigning from the board. Shares of Bed, Bath were down more than 4 percent to $15.08.
GRIFFETH: Nielsen is reportedly pulling out all the stops to keep its last remaining bidder, Advent International, at the bargaining table by lowering its asking price. "The New York Post" says the offer could be as much as $20 billion. And the ratings company agreed to push back the deadline to June after Advent needed more time to conduct its due diligence on this. Nielsen shares fell about 3-1/2 percent today to $23.75.
And following a disappointing debut on Friday, Uber shares continue to decline today. Some investors are questioning if the ride-sharing company may take the same path as rival Lyft whose shares are down by nearly a third since it became public a few months ago. Today, Uber shed nearly 11 percent to $37.10.
HERERA: It is Infrastructure Week. Events are being held across the country with the focus on rebuilding and modernizing portions of America`s infrastructure. Tonight, we take a look at the drive to be less reliant on the electrical grid. Home builders are leading the charge, using the latest technology to build large developments that use no energy at all.
Diana Olick is in Irvine, California.
DIANA OLICK, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT CORRESPONDENT: From the outside, these look like your basic California condos, 44 units. But inside, they`re actually zero. Net zero, meaning they produce as much energy as they use.
STEVEN HILTON, MERITAGE CEO: The multifamily is more challenging, because you don`t have as much space for, you know, solar collectors. It`s a tighter site. The land is more constrained, so it`s a lot more complicated to execute.
OLICK: Meritage (NYSE:MTH) is the first large scale production builder to move into multifamily net zero with this complex in Irvine. It`s all electric, using energy efficient lighting, appliances and HVAC and heat pump water heaters. It`s built using spray foam insulation, not just in the attics, but in the walls, making the interior much tighter, so heating and cooling are more efficient.
On the roof, high efficiency solar panels. The development is using new rules from the state`s public utility commission that allow output from a community solar system to be distributed to individual homeowners throughout the complex.
Even sunny California isn`t sunny every day. So, when the sun is shining, the solar system produces more energy than is needed and that energy is sold back to the utility company and the homeowner gets a credit. So, on dark rainy days, they use that credit and the bill comes out to net zero.
HILTON: And f you have no utility bills, that`s going to allow you to buy more house, and people are excited about that.
OLICK: High demand for housing like this will in turn reduce the demand on electricity for the nation`s electric grid and infrastructure.
ANDREW MCALLISTER, CA (NASDAQ:CA) ENERGY COMMISSIONER: So, it`s not just about distributed solar. It`s about our buildings being responsive. So utilizing renewable energy when it`s available in our buildings, and not utilizing grid energy when it`s not very low carbon.
OLICK: The condos are slightly more expensive up front. But the utility savings pay that back in seven years of ownership, to pay back to the electrical infrastructure and to the planet is priceless.
For NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT, I`m Diana Olick in Irvine, California.
GRIFFETH: And coming up, why global trade tensions are putting the multibillion dollar art market to the test.
HERERA: It is springtime in the art auction market. But this year, rising tensions between the U.S. and China could dampen one of the most lucrative seasons for that industry.
Robert Frank explains.
ROBERT FRANK, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT CORRESPONDENT: It is the biggest test of the year for the global art market. More than 2,000 pieces totaling between $1.5 billion and $2 billion set to be auctioned off by Sotheby`s, Christie`s and Phillips this week.
The big question: will the trade war, market swings and China slowdown scare away the big bidders. Chinese buyers accounted for 29 percent of all global auction sales.
Of the top 20 lots sold at Sotheby`s last year, six went to Asian buyers, so China is critical for the growth of the art market. But all collectors will be keeping a close eye on the stock market as well.
TAD SMITH, SOTHEBY`S CEO: The biggest risk to the art market is the same risk to the equity markets. It`s the same risk to the other things. It`s black swans, challenges on macro or political level. There`s not anything more focused on art than anything else for an equity or bond holder.
FRANK: Many of the top trophies this week came from estate sales. The estate of S.I. Newhouse, the former chief of Conde Nast, is selling the most expensive piece Jeff Koons` rabbit sculpture. It is considered Koons` masterpiece. He only made four. This is the last in private hands.
It`s expected to sell for $50 million to $70 million at Christie`s, even though it remains highly controversial.
ALEX ROTTER, CHRISTIE`S CHAIRMAN, POST-WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART: That was such a shocker when Jeff first exhibited in 1986. People were thinking he`s out of his mind. People called it outer-worldly, alien, awful, everything. So, it was a really radical sculpture.
FRANK: Christie`s also selling this piece by Robert Rauschenberg titled Buffalo II. It comes from the state of Beatrice Mayer, one of the heiresses to the Sara Lee (NYSE:SLE) fortune. And it`s expected to sell from between $50 million and $70 million.
And Sotheby`s will sell one of Monet`s famous grainstack paintings for over $55 million.
And if you`re in the market for a Koons animal sculpture but don`t have $70 million to spare, you can pick up his elephant at Sotheby`s for a mere $2 million to $3 million.
For NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT, I`m Robert Frank at Christie`s in Manhattan.
GRIFFETH: And before we go, a final look at the day on Wall Street. Big selloff to start the week with the Dow down 617 points, Nasdaq was lower by 269, the S&P 500 down 69 points today.
HERERA: What a day.
GRIFFETH: Yes.
HERERA: That does it for NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT tonight. I`m Sue Herera. Thanks for joining us.
GRIFFETH: I`m Bill Griffeth. Have a great evening. We`ll see you tomorrow.
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