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Josh Hawley Has a Populist Revolt to Sell You
The Missouri senator's new book, 'The Tyranny of Big Tech,' destroys the notion that any Republican is willing to rein in corporate power.
Jacob Bacharach May 18, 2021
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) takes notes during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing concerning the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol. Pool / Getty Images
Facebook had seen enough. The social media company long resisted pressure to take action against a sitting U.S. president, but in the aftermath of the 2020 election, after months of fictitious claims about stolen votes and massive fraud that culminated in the MAGA faithful storming the U.S. Capitol, it finally decided to suspend President Donald Trump's account — a decision upheld May 5 by the company's "oversight board."
Part Supreme Court, part Star Chamber, the oversight board chastised Facebook for its contingent, "indefinite" ban and gave the company six months to make a permanent decision. But whether you welcomed the ban as a long-overdue corrective to a pandemic of misinformation or a chilling suppression of political expression, the whole ruckus highlighted the inescapable power and ubiquity of Big Tech.
Enter Sen. Josh Hawley (R‑Mo.), who has made it his mission to break up this loose agglomeration of Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon and Apple that has transformed our once variegated and anarchic internet into a series of walled gardens. These corporations are due a reckoning, Hawley reasons, and in his new book, The Tyranny of Big Tech, he makes the case that he is the man for the job.
Following the events of January 6, a pantomime of insurrection that began with shocking violence before dissipating in confusion and recrimination, Hawley found himself on the outs with many of the people who enabled his rise. The junior senator from Missouri had been one of the earliest (and loudest) members of Congress to boost a series of bogus claims that had animated the would-be putsch to restore the outgoing president to power. And just before the mob attacked the Capitol, Hawley was photographed pumping his first in their direction, egging them on.
David Kennedy, the Stanford professor who wrote the foreword to Hawley's first book, Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness, now professes befuddlement that one of his best students could go so astray. John Danforth, the former Missouri senator who recruited Hawley to run for his seat, has called the decision "the worst mistake I've ever made in my life." George Will, whom Hawley emulated as a young conservative columnist and who supported Hawley's senatorial bid, has called for Hawley to wear "a scarlet 'S' as a seditionist." All of these po-faced reassessments are at once comical and tragically ironic — the howls of towering egotists suddenly realizing that the fellow who'd been kissing their asses all these years was doing so for his own damn benefit.
Hawley is not as intelligent as his elite mentors seem to think he is, but he is undoubtedly a skilled opportunist. Before the Capitol riot dimmed his star somewhat, he had even begun to make inroads as a Trumpist that Democrats on the corporate-skeptical Left might be able to work with. Although his votes often belied his real loyalties — Hawley supported Trump's tax cuts, for example — he was a reliable rhetorical ally for a growing coalition of writers, iconoclastic economists and politicians clustered under the broad umbrella of anti-monopoly advocacy.
The Tyranny of Big Tech is less a book than it is a pamphlet. (Like so many hastily published conservative titles, its 200 pages are padded out with notes — mostly links — and a slim index.) While Hawley wrote the book prior to the events of January 6, his act of incitement prompted Simon & Schuster to cancel its release, and the senator threatened to sue the publisher, calling its decision "Orwellian." The conservative Regnery Publishing then stepped into the breach and published the book instead. (In a delicious twist that speaks to our age of corporate consolidation, Regnery's books are distributed by none other than Simon & Schuster.)
The book is divided into three sections: a hilariously potted history of American political economy and monopoly; a middle section detailing the many abuses, real and imagined, of the Big Tech firms; and a brief conclusion that includes a chapter titled "What Each of Us Can Do." (Not much, apparently.)
The first section, a mix of conservative mythmaking and middle school civics, is by far the most bracing. In Hawley's telling, America was a nation composed entirely of rock-ribbed yeomen until John Pierpont Morgan invented monopolies and ushered in the Gilded Age. Teddy Roosevelt fought valiantly to bust the country's trusts but was ultimately unable to solve the infernal problem of capital concentration. Then the great villain of this tale, Woodrow Wilson, came into office and created a system that Hawley calls "corporate liberalism." The term is hazily defined but roughly analogous to what neo-reactionaries and the alt-right used to call "The Cathedral" — a nefarious cabal of university presidents, corporate personnel departments and unelected government experts.
Hawley doesn't seem to care that the 28th president of the United States can't reasonably be cast as a "rootless cosmopolitan," or that Wilson pursued his own antitrust measures in the form of the Clayton Antitrust Act and the creation of a Federal Trade Commission. For the Missouri senator, Wilson was the final nail in the coffin of the Republic, and The Tyranny of Big Tech draws a straight and uninterrupted historical line from his administration to Mark Zuckerberg.
The middle portion of the book is largely, though not entirely, unobjectionable. Hawley's policy proscriptions — curtailing the tracking of individuals and their online activities by tech firms, establishing stricter rules for access to social media by children and adolescents, banning infinite scrolling mechanisms, dividing up Big Tech firms and heavily scrutinizing acquisitions in the sector — are reasonable. And while he predictably conflates the right to speak with the right to have a platform, private firms now control so much of what we consider the public square that Hawley's complaints about free speech have some merit, oleaginous though they may be.
Like many conservatives, however, Hawley also wants to repeal "Section 230" of the Communications Decency Act, which he mistakenly believes has incentivized "woke" tech companies to censor conservative voices. In fact, Section 230's broad liability exclusions for platforms protects controversial expression, and the moment these companies become responsible for what users post on their sites and networks, they will almost certainly begin to censor, ban and police content much more aggressively than they do already.
Anti-monopolism is enjoying a certain faddish resurgence in American political discourse. (Somewhat amusingly, it is particularly popular online.) Idiosyncratic pundit Matt Stoller and the American Prospect's David Dayen, for example, have both recently published infinitely more rigorous studies of monopoly in America — although, like Hawley, both may evince a somewhat naïve faith in the power of market competition to deliver just results to workers and consumers. (Stoller has been deservedly criticized for his silence on Hawley after enthusiastically embracing the senator prior to January 6.) Democrats, at least on the left flank of the party, are increasingly and vocally displeased with Big Tech.
Does this mean there's an opening for a bipartisan alliance to rein in these corporations? In a word, no. Hawley gestures at the imbalance between "labor and capital," but actual workers hardly appear in the book, and the book's discussion of labor unions is confined to a single footnote. Hawley claims that capital pays too small a share of taxes but neglects to mention that he has supported legislation that reduced that tax burden or that he has publicly called for a complete elimination of the inheritance tax — another means of addressing accumulated capital.
"Corporate liberalism" may be the bogeyman of The Tyranny of Big Tech, but Hawley seems much more concerned about "liberalism" than actual corporations. Indeed, his anti-corporate posture is unconvincing in part because he is only willing to target tech, and not any of the other equally disastrous concentrations of corporate power in Big Pharma, Big Ag and numerous other sectors.
Toward the end of his book, Hawley writes that the "Founders knew that aristocracy is a political decision, a decision by the upwardly mobile of society to rearrange things for their benefit." The Founders, of course, knew no such thing, and the notion that being "upwardly mobile" is compatible with aristocracy reflects a silly misunderstanding of the term. For all his stentorian trumpeting of the "common man," a phrase that other reviewers have noted appears more than 30 times in the book, it is plain that Hawley is not concerned with social hierarchy or democracy. He's mad that the wrong people have power and social influence.
Hawley hopes you will blame the liberal gatekeepers when your tweets go un-liked and your kids don't respond to your conservative memes on Facebook. Mostly, though, he hopes you will feel as flattered by his fawning attention as his now-regretful mentors once did and support the only guy in America who really cares: Josh Hawley.
Jacob Bacharach is a novelist and critic. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pa. and Blacksburg, Va.
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President Hassan Rouhani Saturday morning (local time) made the remarks among Iranian professors and university students residing in America.
He said that during the course of the past year a stable and calm atmosphere has been established in Iran's economic scene, adding, "A hopeful and joyful society has been established in Iran and it is the government's duty both to preserve the people's hope and to provide opportunities for the people's rapid progress."
Dr.Rouhani said that the presence of educated and elite Iranians abroad is an asset for the country that shows the realities of Iran in other countries.
President Rouhani added: "When the people have hope in their hearts they view the future brightly, everything works fine, and in this while the government's job is to provide the appropriate conditions for smooth progress of the affairs."
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A pastor from the First Baptist Church in Nicholasville is doing more than just preaching the word of God, he's also writing it down.
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For the past 20 years, Radford said he felt the desire to be a published author, and he said the sprit of the lord had been telling him to write the books.
"My purpose is to be a blessing to others, after I'm gone and while I'm here," Radford said. "So I put it in writing."
For a year, Radford said he spent five days a week writing, citing some 162 different passages of scripture.
"Jump Start Your Day With the Lord" parts one and two are daily readings that contain only some of these writings. Radford said he expects to fill at least seven more books. Each one will contain the scriptures, explanation of those scriptures and questions to contemplate.
Radford's three books can be purchased directly from him for $12 to $13, or they can be found online at Amazon or Xulon Press, the publisher of the books.
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A quiet trail winds among towering trees behind Chesapeake Arboretum. Parents chatter as they gather their children together in strollers and carriers for an outdoor adventure organized by the local branch of Hike it Baby, a national organization started two years ago by a group of moms in Portland, Oregon.
Since then Hike it Baby has become a national platform for family hiking with branches in 135 cities. The organization's goal is to encourage parents to go outside and hike with their children as a way of staying active. "We believe that our world would be a better place if all parents stepped outside at least once a week for a walk in nature with their new baby," their mission statement says. "Hike it Baby's goal is to support you and your family in doing that."
Support is exactly what they do. For parents like myself, the hiking group offers a break from the isolation of parenthood by bringing people together who share a love for the outdoors. The Hampton Roads' branch organizes hikes every week in a variety of locations, each promising unique experiences. Everyone is welcome to join from parents to other family members and friends.
"Our chapter has been around for about four months," said branch lead Whitney Dills, one of four enthusiastic women who started the local branch. "The three other branch leads and myself started lead training at the beginning of May this year and had the group out hiking by the beginning of June. It took off pretty quickly!"
The branch's Facebook group already has over 900 members, and hike attendance has also grown since the group first started. Every hike has at least a few new faces.
"The feedback has been amazing because we offer a variety of different hikes," explained Whitney. "[For] people who want to get back into shape...people who just want to stroll and chit chat...hikes for kids who need to run out their energy...! We have so many regulars who come back to the same hikes week after week, and each time they leave with smiles on their faces. I think that speaks volumes."
Some parents may be reluctant to get out and get exercise because of the cost or scheduling, but Hike it Baby charges nothing to participate.
"Gyms, mama and baby work out groups, those can be very costly and not affordable for many parents," Whitney said. "We are 100 percent free. Our number one goal is to get families out of the house and into nature. As parents, it's easy and isolating to fall into a routine at home, only leaving the house to grocery shop or the occasional play date."
This isolating habit can worsen postpartum depression and leave parents feeling down. That's why Hike it Baby was founded: to give parents an alternative to the baby blues by getting them out and hiking rather than sitting and sulking.
"I definitely think it keeps us active! We have hikes almost every day of the week, sometimes multiple hikes a day. We have hikers who are out with us four or five days a week," said Whitney. "Being outside with a community of like-minded, friendly people is addicting. For me, on the days we don't hike, I find myself wishing we were hiking!"
For most members, Hike it Baby quickly becomes a healthy addiction. They go on their first hike, and whether they try to be the quiet one at the back of the pack or a leader at the front, they all become part of the family by the time the trail comes full circle.
"It's super hard to step out of your comfort zone and try something you might not normally try. All I can tell them is to just try one hike," said Whitney. "Pick an easy, kid-led, slow hike and just do it. It's ok if you're shy or you don't know anyone there. We've all been there. We've all worried about being the newbie, but that feeling goes away quick. You stop being the newbie about the time we get done with welcome circle, and then you're one of us."
As parents mingle in the parking lot of the Chesapeake Arboretum before the hike, Graycn Brink, 6, picks flowers and stuffs them into her mother's sunglass case. This is her first Hike it Baby excursion, and she is excited to take a little memento back home with her. Her mother, Cat Brink-Flahaunt, already knows this won't be their last hike with the group. Cat loves being outside and active with both her daughter and ten-week-old son, Levi Flahaunt.
"I want to participate as much as possible," said Cat. "It's hard some days to leave the house with a newborn so if we can't some days, then I won't beat myself up. That's one thing I like about the group: no expectations. But on the days we have ourselves together, I know we have a great activity with nice people waiting for us."
New moms can find it easier to stay home rather than to get out and about. You have to dress the baby, check the diaper bag, then maybe re-dress him from a spit-up incident or diaper explosion. Leaving the house isn't always simple. Exercising, especially when you need to line up child care, can be even harder, which makes these hikes the perfect solution.
"It's a positive for me to get out and get exercise," said Cat. "I hate the gym, but hiking is a great way to get sneaky exercise because it's fun. My daughter is not a sports kid, which is totally fine, but I would still like her to get outdoors."
Many parents worry about the way children today focus on technology rather than playing outside. Kids don't have as much face-to-face interaction nor do they get enough physical activity and fresh air, all of which are important to their development. But social groups like Hike it Baby encourage kids to make new friends, and when they do, they often become more motivated to step outside.
"I look forward most to the social aspect as I love for my kids to have friends," explained Cat. "Watching my daughter make a new friend today after literally just stepping out of the car made my heart so happy—totally what I was hoping for! And I hope as my son grows, he gains a great set of little friends, too."
Toward the back of the trail, Hike it Baby regular Kayla Klein wrangles her three boys as they start down the path. You can see the excitement on their faces as the hike heads away from the road entrance and further into the woods.
"They all enjoy the hikes, my older two in particular wake me up asking what hike we're going on today. It's become a part of our daily routine," said Kayla.
"I seriously can't believe how much has changed since I've started Hike it Baby," continued Kayla. "After I left the Navy I was in a 'funk' and pretty much sat around feeling sorry for myself. I saw someone post about the group on a local yard sale site. I watched for a few weeks and decided to take the plunge. The atmosphere is amazing, friendly, and non-judgmental. Not only are we all more healthy, but it's nice to tell my husband at the end of the day that we actually did something. It's such a community."
Hike it Baby's community stance is one of its most popular ideals as no one gets left behind. Parents deal with a variety of challenges—from teething tantrums to clumsy accidents—that can strike when least expected. Most of the hikers have been there before or will be soon enough, but all are willing to help.
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Machado: Open source genomics data integration framework.
Title Machado: Open source genomics data integration framework.
Authors Mudadu, Mde Alvaren, Zerlotini, A
Journal Gigascience
BACKGROUND: Genome projects and multiomics experiments generate huge volumes of data that must be stored, mined, and transformed into useful knowledge. All this information is supposed to be accessible and, if possible, browsable afterwards. Computational biologists have been dealing with this scenario for more than a decade and have been implementing software and databases to meet this challenge. The GMOD's (Generic Model Organism Database) biological relational database schema, known as Chado, is one of the few successful open source initiatives; it is widely adopted and many software packages are able to connect to it.FINDINGS: We have been developing an open source software package named Machado, a genomics data integration framework implemented in Python, to enable research groups to both store and visualize genomics data. The framework relies on the Chado database schema and, therefore, should be very intuitive for current developers to adopt it or have it running on top of already existing databases. It has several data-loading tools for genomics and transcriptomics data and also for annotation results from tools such as BLAST, InterproScan, OrthoMCL, and LSTrAP. There is an API to connect to JBrowse, and a web visualization tool is implemented using Django Views and Templates. The Haystack library integrated with the ElasticSearch engine was used to implement a Google-like search, i.e., single auto-complete search box that provides fast results and filters.CONCLUSION: Machado aims to be a modern object-relational framework that uses the latest Python libraries to produce an effective open source resource for genomics research.
DOI 10.1093/gigascience/giaa097
Alternate Journal Gigascience
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Snake venom worth Rs 1.5 crore seized, three arrested in Bengal
They have been booked under sections of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, Rajoria said, adding an investigation is on to ascertain the source and destination of the snake venom.
By: PTI | Malda (wb) | January 4, 2020 3:34:51 pm
Snake species differ, so does venom.
Three persons have been arrested in West Bengal's Malda district with snake venom worth approximately Rs 1.5 crore in the international market, police said on Saturday.
Acting on a tip-off, a police team arrested the trio from a hotel in English Bazaar town on Friday night and recovered the snake venom which was stored in a glass container, district Superintendent of Police Alok Rajoria said.
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Q: Cleaner way to convert dd-mm-yyyy to mm-dd-yyyy format in Javascript I have this date as string with me 15-07-2011 which is in the format dd-mm-yyyy. I needed to create a Date object from this string. So I have to convert the date in dd-mm-yyyy to mm-dd-yyyy format.
What I did is the following.
var myDate = '15-07-2011';
var chunks = myDate.split('-');

var formattedDate = chunks[1]+'-'+chunks[0]+'-'+chunks[2];

Now I got the string 07-15-2011 which is in mm-dd-yyyy format, and I can pass it to the Date() constructor to create a Date object. I wish to know if there is any cleaner way to do this.

A: That looks very clean as it is.

A: Re-arranging chunks of a string is a perfectly "clean" and legitimate way to change a date format.
However, if you're not happy with that (maybe you want to know that the string you're re-arranging is actually a valid date?), then I recommend you look at DateJS, which is a full-featured date handling library for Javascript.

A: Depends what you mean by cleaner
var myDate = '15-07-2011';
var chunks = myDate.split('-');
var formattedDate = [chunks[1],chunks[0],chunks[2]].join("-");

Some would say this is cleaner, but it does essentially the same.

A: var formattedDate = chunks[1] + '-' + chunks[0] + '-' + chunks.pop();

A: If you wanted to you could cut down on some variables.
var date = '15-07-2011'.split('-');
date = date[1]+'-'+date[0]+'-'+date[2];

If you want a one liner
var date = '15-07-2011'.replace(/(\d*)-(\d*)-(\d*)/,'$2-$1-$3')

A: var c = '01-01-2011'.split('-');
var d = new Date(c[2],c[1]-1,c[0]);

A: I'll add my opinion that your solution is perfectly valid, but if you want something different:
var myDate = '15-07-2011';
myDate.split('-').reverse().join('-');

Will give you '2011-07-15' which, although not exactly what you asked for, will be parsed properly by Date

A: I wrote a library for parsing, manipulating, and formatting strings named Moment.js
var date = moment('15-07-2011', 'DD-MM-YYYY').format('DD-MM-YYYY');

A: Try
myDate.format("mm-dd-yyyy");

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Q: how to loop through a database table and select everything with the same "type". Using php and sql I am trying to loop through all the tables in my database and select everything that has the same type. The following code works expect it only prints out the first entry it finds. For example if someone selects "chicken" to view recipes from it pulls out the first chicken recipe in that the database and thats it. I need it to loop through and get all recipes with type chicken. I have looked up different ways to approach this and none have worked. The for loop I tried using in this one is wrong as well so if anyone has a good approach for this please let me know! Also in my html code all the category's have the same name of "cate" but different values. If that helps.
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

        <?php
        $db_server = "server";
        $db_username = "name";
        $db_password = "pass";

        $con = mysql_connect($db_server, $db_username, $db_password);
        if (!$con) {
            die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
        }

        $database = "Recipes";

        $er = mysql_select_db($db_username);
        if (!$er) {
            print ("Error - Could not select the database");
            exit;
        }
        //take info from search and looks through the database for recipe
        $cate = $_POST['cate'];
        $query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM Recipes WHERE type ='$cate'");
        $row = mysql_fetch_array($query);
        for($row=1; $row <=$cate; $row++){
        ?>

                    <?php

                    print $row['title'];
                    ?>

 Ingredients:

                    <?php
                    print $row['num_of_1'] . " ";
                    print $row['measure_1'] . " ";
                    print $row['ingredient_1'] . " ";
                    print ("
");
                    print $row['num_of_2'] . " ";
                    print $row['measure_2'] . " ";
                    print $row['ingredient_2'] . " ";
                    print ("
");
                    print $row['num_of_3'] . " ";
                    print $row['measure_3'] . " ";
                    print $row['ingredient_3'] . " ";
                    print ("
");
                    print $row['num_of_4'] . " ";
                    print $row['measure_4'] . " ";
                    print $row['ingredient_4'] . " ";
                    print ("
");
                    print $row['num_of_5'] . " ";
                    print $row['measure_5'] . " ";
                    print $row['ingredient_5'] . " ";
                    print ("
");
                    print $row['num_of_6'] . " ";
                    print $row['measure_6'] . " ";
                    print $row['ingredient_6'] . " ";
                    print ("
");
                    print $row['num_of_7'] . " ";
                    print $row['measure_7'] . " ";
                    print $row['ingredient_7'] . " ";
                    print ("
");
                    print $row['num_of_8'] . " ";
                    print $row['measure_8'] . " ";
                    print $row['ingredient_8'] . " ";
                    print ("
");
                    print $row['num_of_9'] . " ";
                    print $row['measure_9'] . " ";
                    print $row['ingredient_9'] . " ";
                    print ("
");
                    print $row['num_of_10'] . " ";
                    print $row['measure_10'] . " ";
                    print $row['ingredient_10'] . " ";
                    print ("
");
                    ?>

 Instructions:

                    <?php
                    print $row['instructions'];
                    print ("
");
                    ?>

            Like this Recipe? Rate It!
            <input type = "submit" value = "Good Ramen" />

Add a Comment:

        <textarea name = "comment" rows = "10" cols = "100" > </textarea>

        <input type = "submit" value = "Add Comment" />

 Comments:

        <?php
        $comment_query = ("SELECT *");
        while ($comment_query) {
            date_default_timezone_get('UPC');
            print ($row['username'] . " ");
            print ($row['date_added']);
            print ($row['comment']);
            print ("
");
        }
        }
        ?>

A: Your loop should be like so:
for($row=0; $row < count($row); $row++){

A: Its very hard to say but try to replace the for loop
for($row=1; $row <=$cate; $row++){

with while loop
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($query)){

A: hello you have to do this
 for ($row = mysql_fetch_array($query) ) and you ll access to your fields like $row[fields] the thing is every time theres a row the loop for will run
 PS : they say that querin a db in a loop its not a good idea


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Memories Can Distort the Brain's GPS
Two independent studies in rats find grid cells, which form the brain's map, are more plastic than thought and are subject to the influence of reward.
Emma Yasinski
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In the 1970s, scientists discovered that certain neurons in the hippocampus—an area of the brain involved in learned and memory—would fire in response to particular locations. They were called "place cells," explains Charlotte Boccara, a researcher at the University of Oslo. "They were deemed important for spatial representation . . . a bit like the 'You Are Here' signal' on a map."
But it wasn't until 2005 that researchers discovered the brain's grid cells, which they believed function as that map. These cells, found adjacent to the hippocampus in the medial entorhinal cortex (MEC), self-organize into a pattern of hexagons that serve as coordinates to help animals make sense of their surroundings and the signals from our place cells.
A pair of studies published today (March 28) in Science suggests that this map may not be as rigid as once thought. The experiments demonstrated that, in rats at least, the cellular activity within these grids changes as the animals learn and remember where they can find food rewards.
"These are wonderful studies," says György Buzsáki, a neuroscientist at New York University who was not involved in either of them. "When ideas converge from multiple, different directions, and they converge and come to the same conclusion, the result is always stronger."
See "Demystifying the Brain's GPS"
In the first study, Boccara, then a researcher at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, and her team placed rats one by one in a cheeseboard maze, a flat board drilled full of holes. They hid three food rewards in different holes then scattered food dust over the entire surface so the rats would not be able to sniff their ways to the reward. The rats explored the maze until they found the prizes and repeated the task until they learned to go straight to the food instead of foraging. The next day, the researchers conducted the same experiment but changed the locations of the rewards.
During the task, the team recorded the activity of neurons in the MEC as well as in the hippocampus. As the rats learned where to find the rewards, the pattern of activity in the grids shifted. If, for example, the reward had been on the rat's right side, the neuronal activity increased on the right side of the grid.
"It deformed the grid, a bit like a black hole that would suck the grid nodes towards it," says Boccara. "Grid cells integrate a lot of information which is not purely spatial."
She says she was surprised to see the grid cells remained distorted the next day, but the place cells seemed to be more plastic, bouncing back to their original patterns.
A diagram of grid cells distorting in the direction of a learned reward
Image courtesy of Charlotte Boccara
Far away at Stanford University, neurobiologist Lisa Giocomo and her team wondered if these same grid cells might also integrate and encode information that came along with the geographical location of a reward, like a sound signifying food was coming.
Giocomo and her team recorded activity in the MEC while rats foraged in an enclosure similar to the cheese maze for randomly scattered cereal. In the first version of the experiment, the rats were placed in a black box to forage. Next, they ambled around an otherwise-identical white box in the same position in the same room. In the white box they foraged for food until they heard a tone, which, over repeated trials, they learned would indicate that a food reward had appeared in a particular unmarked location in the box.
As a control, some rats foraging in the white box heard a tone but were not given a food reward.
In the rats that learned to remember the auditory cue and the reward location, the pattern of grid cell activity rotated and deformed. These changes only occurred in the rats that learned that the tone signaled food.
"The presence of this task alone was enough to basically evoke a completely new map of space," says Giocomo. "That was very surprising to me."
The grids were not distorted the same way they were in the first study, but they "changed in a way that would indicate that the animal was creating a new map of space," says Giocomo. "They were the same kind of changes that you would see if an animal went into, say, a totally different room. We only saw that when the animals had to engage in this goal-directed navigation."
See "Mapping Humans' Mental GPS"
In both studies, grid-cell activity increased when the rats were closer to the reward zone. Cellular activity in the hippocampus, which was only measured in the first study, increased as well.
"What's notable about these papers is that that rigid structure that's been typically observed when recording from these cells actually is somewhat malleable," says Alexander Johnson, a behavioral neuroscience researcher at Michigan State University who was not involved in the studies. He says both experiments "suggest that these so-called grid cells are far more plastic than we originally thought. . . . "It changes based upon the goals within the environment."
Future studies will explore how information might be consolidated during sleep, how different spatial maps could overlay one another, and the effects of different types of rewards or even deterrents on the grid.
Buzsaki adds that he hopes "there will be many more of these experiments, that will bring together multiple modalities and more variations and many more tasks in the same animal."
C. Boccara et al.,"The entorhinal cognitive map is attracted to goals," Science, 363:1443–447, 2019.
W.N. Butler et al., "Remembered reward locations restructure entorhinal spatial maps," Science, 363:1447–452, 2019.
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Electronic Structure of the CuCl2(100) Surface: A DFT First-Principle Study
Sherin A. Saraireh1and Mohammednoor Altarawneh2,3
Academic Editor: Shafiul Chowdhury
Received13 Mar 2012
Accepted11 Jun 2012
Published30 Jul 2012
First-principle density functional theory (DFT) and a periodic-slab model have been utilized to investigate the structure of the CuCl2(100) surface. Structural parameters of the bulk CuCl2 are reported and compared with the experimental values. The structure of the CuCl2(100) is calculated using a ( 2 × 2 ) supercell. Structural parameters in terms of bond lengths and bond angle are calculated. Electronic properties of the CuCl2(100) surface are investigated by calculating the density of state (DOS) and the projected density of state for a slab containing five layers.
Copper plays a prominent role in many fields. This is primarily due to its unique mechanical properties and excellent electrical and thermal conductivity. Its applications spans heating and cooling piping, heat exchanging, electrical appliances, architecture, and catalysis [1–6].
Adsorption of halides on metallic surfaces is of particular importance due to their relevance for many industrial processes and its role in the formation of notorious environmental pollutants such as dioxins [7]. Central to a comprehensive understanding of various phenomena such as corrosion, electrodeposition, and catalytic cycles is addressing adsorption of chlorine on copper surfaces on a precise atomic-scale.
Motivated by its diverse application, the chlorine-copper interaction has attracted great deal of experimental [8–14] and theoretical [15–18] studies. Mounting experimental evidence shows a strong interaction between Cl and Cu atoms as evident from electron diffraction (LEED) [8], normal-incident X-ray standing wave (NIXSW) [9], surface-extended X-ray adsorption fine structure (SEXAFS) [10, 11], shadow-cone-enhanced secondary-ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) [6, 12], and Scanning Tunnelling microscopy (STM) [13, 14] methods. STM studies found that the chlorine molecules adsorb dissociatively on the Cu(111) surface, leading to formation of various well-ordered phases. It is also found that Cl atoms prefer to adsorbs onto face-centered cubic (fcc) hollow positions over the hexagonal close-pack (hcp) hollow, bridge, and top positions [13, 18].
Computational data for the Cl/Cu(111) system based on cluster [15] or a periodic DFT-based calculation [16, 17, 19] has been presented by different groups Doll and Harrison [16], Migani et al. [17], and Peljhan and Kokalj [19]. It was found that the preferred adsorption of the Cl atoms is the face-centered cubic (fcc) [16]. Peljhan et al. presented an extensive DFT calculation of Cl adsorption on Cu(111), considering a wide range of Cl coverages ranging from 1/16 to 1 ML. The strong interaction between Cl and Cu atoms results in the formation of two distinctive different materials; namely, CuCl and CuCl2. The crystal structure of the CuCl2 follows a base-centered monoclinic space group C2/m [20–22]. As demonstrated by Burns and Hawthrone [23]. Cu atoms are positioned in an axially distorted octahedral environment with four equatorial nearest neighbors Cl atoms and two axial Cu atoms.
First-principle simulation, based on density functional theory (DFT), is now one of the key tools for studying and developing a key understanding of solid surfaces. DFT calculations can provide an atomic-based insight into the detailed bonding arrangement of structures, their energetic stability, and charge densities. To this end, this contribution investigates the electronic structure of the Copper (II) chloride, CuCl2, mainly in the (100) surface orientation.
The calculations reported in this paper have been performed using the plane wave pseudopotential density functional theory (DFT) method as implemented in the VASP program [24–27]. The generalized gradient approximation (GGA) for exchange and correlation as developed by Perdew and Wang (PW91) [28] was used to perform the spin-polarized calculations. Projector augmented wave (PAW) potentials [24, 25, 29] are used to represent the ionic potentials. A unit cell comprising four atomic layers has been employed together with a vacuum thickness of at least 14 Å to separate each slab from its neighboring images along the 𝑧 -direction (normal to the surface). The three top-most layers of the slab were allowed to fully relax. The Brillouin-Zone (BZ) integrations were performed using automatic generation of (3 × 3 × 1) and (5 × 5 × 1) 𝑘 -point set of Monkhorst-Pack random sampling [30]. Total energy was converged to an accuracy of 1 × 10−3 eV. Deployed energy cut-off was set at 300 eV. The choice of this value, stems from the maximum value of the kinetic-energy for the Cl and Cu atoms, that is, 280 and 273 eV, respectively.
3.1. Bulk Properties
CuCl2 forms a base-centered Monoclinic Bravies lattice. As shown in Figure 1, each Cu atom is in an axially distorted octahedral environment with four equatorial nearest neighbors Cl atoms and two axial Cl atoms. The lattice constants were determined (as illustrated in Table 1) by plotting the variation in the energy with respect to the volume of the unit cell of bulk CuCl2. The lattice constants of bulk CuCl2 are compared with calculated data in reference [19] and experiment data in references [23, 31] in Table 1. This comparison shows that our results are in a relative good agreement with those of earlier experiment and computational studies.
Comparison of our calculated properties of the bulk CuCl2 bulk with previous calculated data [19] and experiment data [23, 31].
Unit cell of CuCl2. In online version, green circle represent Cl atoms while red and violet circles represent Cu atom.
The calculated total density of states (DOS) and atomic-projected DOS (pDOS) for bulk CuCl2 are presented in Figure 2; Figure 2(a) shows the Density of state (DOS) of the CuCl2 bulk, while Figure 2(b) shows the projected density of state for Cu atom and Figure 2(c) shows the projected density of state for Cl atom.
Density of state (DOS) of the bulk of the CuCl2; (a) total DOS, projected DOS (PDOS) of (b) Cu atom and (c) Cl atom.
There are two distinct bands in the valence region (Figure 2(a)). The Cu band (predominantly Cu 3d and little contributions of Cu (3p and 4s)) occupies the region (0 to −5) eV, and the Cl band (predominantly Cl (3s and 3p)) occupies that of (−14 to −15) eV. The surface state band resides just above the Fermi level where two regions are highlighted. The first one is in the region from 3.0 to 7.0 eV, while the second one is from 7.5 to 9.0 eV. The first region above the Fermi level is predominantly the empty state Cu 4s and the contribution in this region from Cu 3p and Cl (3s and 3p) is minimal (see Figures 2(b) and 2(c)). The second region above the Fermi level is predominantly the state Cu (3d and 3p) and Cl (3s and 3p).
3.2. CuCl2(100) Surface
A supercell of the CuCl2(100) is constructed from the optimized bulk unitcell and also based on the data in [21, 22, 32]; the unit cell is shown in Figure 3. This unit cell is a base-centered Monoclinic with one Cu atom located in the center of each base and four Cl atoms in the corner of each base. The Cu atom has four nearest neighbors Cl atoms in the same plane (plane of a and b) and two Cl atoms in c direction.
the unit-cell of the CuCl2(100) surface: it is distorted in the (c) direction, which represents the height. In online version, green circles represent Cl atoms, while red circles represent Cu atom.
Test is performed using automatic generation of (3 × 3 × 1) and (5 × 5 × 1) 𝑘 -point set of Monkhorst and Pack. For each optimization using these two schemes, the total energy was converged to an accuracy of 1 × 10−3 eV and the forces on each ion to an accuracy of 0.015 eV Å−1. A test using (5 × 5 × 1) 𝑘 -point changed the total energies of the (3 × 3 × 1) 𝑘 -point by a only few meV. All the calculations discussed here are using a 3 × 3 × 1 𝑘 -point grid (unless otherwise specified).
Transformation upon building the surface can be viewed in terms of the relaxation, that is, the change in interatomic distances and angle 𝐵 between optimized bulk unit cell and the extended surface. We found that Cu-Cl distances become longer in the extended surface than the bulk one by only 0.009 Å. While the angle 𝐵 on the unit cell unit cell varies between 117° in the bulk and 111.3° in the surface (as shown in Figure 3). It is worthwhile also mentioning that optimized surface retains the symmetry exhibited by the unit cell. A noticeable difference in 𝑐 and 𝑎 lattice constants could be rationalized based on the shortcoming of standard DFT methods in descrying states relating to long-term weak interactions (Van der Walls type) [33, 34].
The surface has a space group C2/m (as shown in Figure 3) the same as that of the CuCl2 bulk. Unit cells are shifted from each other by 4.06 Å. The super-cell of the surface is illustrated in Figure 4; the top and side views are also shown in Figure 5. All bond lengths and bond angles are illustrated in Table 2 based on Figure 5(b). The distance between each two atomic layer is 3.212 Å. The surface has been optimized also by the (5 × 5 × 5) 𝑘 -point set, and some of the bond lengths and bond angles are illustrated also in Table 2 based on Figure 5(b). As can be noticed from Table 2, some of the bond length shrinks slightly by 0.02 Å while the others stay the same. Also some of the bond angle did not change, while the others changed by only 0.2°. Angle 𝐵 in the unit cell illustrated in Figure 3 becomes smaller also by 0.8°.
Calculated structural parameters of the CuCl2(100) surface using (3 × 3 × 1) and (5 × 5 × 1) 𝑘 -point set of Monkhorst and Pack, angle 𝐵 is the one in the unit cell as in Figure 3.
(a) Side view of the (2 × 2) unit-cell of the CuCl2(100) surface and (b) side view of the (2 × 2) unit-cell of the CuCl2(100) surface but the atoms in Figure 4(b) are rotated with small angle to show the atoms in each layer. The (b) direction is perpendicular to both (a) and (c). The unit-cell is distorted in the (c) direction, which represents the height.
(a) Side view and (b) top view of the CuCl2(100) surface; Figure 5(a) shows part of the surface in Figure 5(b) but rotated to show the structure. Dimensions are in angstrom.
3.3. Electronics Properties
The electronics properties of the CuCl2(100) surface are investigated by calculating the density of state (DOS) for a slab containing five layers using the automatic generation of (3 × 3 × 1) 𝑘 -point. Figure 6 shows the total DOS and projected DOS of the surface. The investigation of the DOS shows that there are three main regions in the valence band below the Fermi level (0 eV in Figure 6(a)). The first and second regions occupy the regions of (−2 to −6) eV and (−6 to −8) eV. These two regions are manly composed of Cu 3d (Figure 6(b)), with a little contribution of Cl 3p, but the Cu (4s and 3p) and Cl 3s states are minimal (Figures 6(b) and 6(c)).
Density of state (DOS) of the CuCl2(100) surface: (a) total dos, (b) projected DOS (PDOS) of the surface Cu atom, and (c) projected DOS (PDOS) of the surface Cl atom.
The last region in the valence band is starting at −17 eV; it is composed of Cl 3s states. The conduction band has two distinct regions starting at 1.5 eV with a wide of approximately 2.5 eV for each one. Each of these regions has small peaks at 3.2 eV and 5.2 eV, respectively. The first region is predominantly Cu (4s and 3p) and Cl (3s and 3p), while the second region is predominantly of Cu 4s and the Cl (3s and 3p).
The structural, electronic properties of bulk and (100) surface of CuCl2 were investigated by means of periodic quantum chemical calculation based on the first-principle DFT approach. For the bulk, the comparison of optimized structural parameters with experimental and previous DFT study shows that the lattice constants are in a good agreement. The supercell of the CuCl2(100) surface showed to be axially distorted in the 𝑧 direction. The interlayer distance, all the bond lengths, and the bond angle are calculated.
Total and projected Density of State (DOS) for the bulk and the extended surface is calculated. For the (100) surface, the valence band is having two regions: the first one composed of Cu (3d) and Cl (3p), while the second region is composed of Cl (3s) states. The surface states above the Fermi level are composed of manly Cu (4s and 3p) and Cl (3s and 3p). An extension to this work is to study the adsorption and dissociation of small molecules such as H2 and H2O on this surface.
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Biografia
Nato a Chicago e cresciuto a Cleveland, Ohio, figlio di Anita Jeanine Williams e Tyrone Howard, proviene da una numerosa famiglia multirazziale di origini afroamericane e bianche. La sua bisnonna materna era l'attrice teatrale Minnie Gentry. È cresciuto senza la figura paterna, a causa di un episodio di razzismo che ha coinvolto il padre, Tyrone Howard, sfociato in un accidentale omicidio, per il quale il padre ha scontato molti anni di carcere. All'età di 16 anni si emancipa dalla famiglia e a 18 si trasferisce a New York con l'intento di diventare attore.

Howard decide di intraprendere gli studi universitari; nonostante la bassa valutazione scolastica al liceo viene ammesso alla facoltà di ingegneria chimica del Pratt Institute con un esame di ingresso speciale. Dopo due anni abbandona gli studi, per dedicarsi alla recitazione. Sostiene un provino per partecipare alla sit-com I Robinson, ma quando la scena che lo vedeva protagonista viene eliminata, l'attore reagisce molto male tanto da essere allontanato dal set.

Cinema e televisione

Debutta nel 1992 partecipando alla miniserie televisiva The Jacksons: An American Dream, incentrata sulla vita della famiglia Jackson, dove Howard ha interpretato il ruolo di Jackie Jackson. Il suo debutto cinematografico avviene nel 1993 nel film di Ted Demme Poliziotti per caso, in seguito colleziona una serie di partecipazioni televisive fino al 1995 quando si fa notare nei film Dollari sporchi e Goodbye Mr. Holland. Per la sua interpretazione nel film The Best Man ottiene i primi riconoscimenti cinematografici, tra cui un NAACP Image Award come miglior attore non protagonista e una candidatura agli Independent Spirit Award nella medesima categoria.

Successivamente recita nei film Big Mama, Angel Eyes - Occhi d'angelo e Sotto corte marziale. Nel 2004 recita nel film premio Oscar Crash - Contatto fisico, per cui ottiene altri premi tra cui un National Board of Review Award per la miglior performance maschile. Dopo aver recitato in Ray di Taylor Hackford, nel 2006 viene candidato all'Oscar come miglior attore per la sua interpretazione in Hustle & Flow - Il colore della musica. Oltre alla candidatura all'Oscar, ottiene una candidatura al Golden Globe, ai Screen Actors Guild Award e agli Independent Spirit Award.

Nel 2005 recita nel film di John Singleton Four Brothers - Quattro fratelli, mentre nel 2007 recita al fianco di Jodie Foster ne Il buio nell'anima. Nel 2008 interpreta il ruolo di James "Rhodey" Rhodes nel film Marvel Iron Man, al fianco di Robert Downey Jr.. Howard non viene confermato nei successivi sequel per motivi finanziari, e viene sostituito da Don Cheadle. Nel 2008 debutta a Broadway interpretando Brick nell'adattamento de La gatta sul tetto che scotta di Tennessee Williams diretto da Debbie Allen. Il cast è composto interamente da attori afroamericani, tra cui James Earl Jones, Phylicia Rashād e Anika Noni Rose.

Nel 2009 recita in Fighting di Dito Montiel, di cui è co-protagonista al fianco di Channing Tatum. Sempre nel 2009 presta la voce al personaggio di James, padre della protagonista Tiana, nel film d'animazione della Disney La principessa e il ranocchio. Nel 2010 entra nel cast della serie televisiva Law & Order: LA, quinto spin-off di Law & Order - I due volti della giustizia, nel ruolo del vice procuratore Jonah "Joe" Dekker. Nel 2011 recita con Charlie Hunnam, Patrick Wilson e Liv Tyler nel thriller Punto d'impatto, di cui è anche produttore. Nello stesso anno interpreta il ruolo di Nelson Mandela in Winnie Mandela, film biografico sulla vita di Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, interpretata da Jennifer Hudson.

Nel 2012 è tra gli interpreti di Red Tails, film che racconta le gesta degli Tuskegee Airmen, il primo squadrone della United States Army Air Force composto unicamente da afroamericani, durante la seconda guerra mondiale. Nel 2013 recita nei film Dead Man Down - Il sapore della vendetta, The Butler - Un maggiordomo alla Casa Bianca e Prisoners. Nel 2015 fa parte del cast della serie televisiva musicale della Fox Empire, creata da Lee Daniels e Danny Strong. Howard interpreta il ruolo di Lucious Lyon, magnate di una potente casa discografica. Nello stesso anno recita in un'altra serie televisiva della Fox Wayward Pines, creata da M. Night Shyamalan, dove interpreta il ruolo di Arnold Pope, sceriffo della cittadina che dà il nome alla serie. Inoltre appare nel videoclip di Ghosttown, singolo di Madonna, dove l'attore tra le macerie di una città fantasma sopravvissuta all'apocalisse balla un sensuale tango con la cantante.

Musica
Nel settembre 2008 Howard pubblica l'album di debutto Shine Through It, sotto l'etichetta Columbia Records. Tutte le undici tracce che compongono l'album sono state prodotte da Howard e Miles Mosley. Howard è autore di tutti i brani, quattro scritti in collaborazione con Mosley e uno, il singolo Sanctuary, scritto con Ilsey Juber. L'album è posizionato alla numero 6 della Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.

In precedenza Howard aveva collaborato alla colonna sonora del film Hustle & Flow - Il colore della musica, interpretando diverse canzoni tra cui It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp, che ha vinto l'Oscar alla migliore canzone. Nella serie televisiva Empire ha cantato Shake Down insieme a Mary J. Blige, conosciuta diversi anni prima sul set del videoclip Be Without You, la canzone della Blige pubblicata nel novembre del 2005.

Vita privata
Howard vive fuori Filadelfia a Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania. È stato sposato tre volte e ha 5 figli. Ha sposato la prima moglie, Lori McCommas, nel 1989, dalla quale ha avuto due figlie, Audrey e Heaven, e un figlio, Hunter. La coppia ha divorziato nel 2003, per poi risposarsi nel 2005 e divorziare nuovamente nel 2007. L'ex moglie è una testimone di Geova e ha cresciuto i tre figli secondo le regole del movimento religioso.

Nel gennaio 2010 Howard si è sposato con Michelle Ghent, ma il matrimonio è durato poco più di un anno. La Ghent ha presentato istanza di divorzio nel febbraio 2011, presentando una denuncia per violenza domestica e ottenendo un ordine restrittivo nei confronti di Howard. Il loro divorzio è stato finalizzato nel maggio 2013.

Nel novembre 2013 sposa la terza moglie Mira Pak (conosciuta anche come Miranda). Nel gennaio 2015, è stato annunciato che sono in attesa del loro primo figlio insieme, il quarto per Howard. Nello stesso anno, dopo aver dato alla luce Qirin Lo, Howard e la Pak divorziano. Nel 2016, dopo la fine della loro relazione, nasce il secondo figlio dell'ormai ex coppia, Hero.

Filmografia

Attore

Cinema
 Poliziotti per caso (Who's the Man?), regia di Ted Demme (1993)
 Lotto Land, regia di John Rubino (1995)
 Dollari sporchi (Dead Presidents), regia di Allen Hughes, Albert Hughes (1995)
 Goodbye Mr. Holland (Mr. Holland's Opus), regia di Stephen Herek (1995)
 L'allenatrice (Sunset Park), regia di Steve Gomer (1996)
 Johns, regia di Scott Silver (1996)
 Double Tap, regia di Greg Yaitanes (1997)
 The Players Club, regia di Ice Cube (1998)
 Spark, regia di Garret Williams (1998)
 Butter, regia di Peter Gathings Bunche (1998)
 Il piano era perfetto (Best Laid Plans), regia di Mike Barker (1999)
 Valerie Flake, regia di John Putch (1999)
 The Best Man, regia di Malcolm D. Lee (1999)
 Big Mama (Big Momma's House), regia di Raja Gosnell (2000)
 Love Beat the Hell Outta Me, regia di Kennedy Goldsby (2000)
 Sesso ed altre indagini (Investigating Sex), regia di Alan Rudolph (2001)
 Angel Eyes - Occhi d'angelo (Angel Eyes), regia di Luis Mandoki (2001)
 Glitter, regia di Vondie Curtis-Hall (2001)
 Sotto corte marziale (Hart's War), regia di Gregory Hoblit (2002)
 Biker Boyz, regia di Reggie Rock Bythewood (2003)
 Love Chronicles, regia di Tyler Maddox-Simms (2003)
 Crash - Contatto fisico (Crash), regia di Paul Haggis (2004)
 Ray, regia di Taylor Hackford (2004)
 Hustle & Flow - Il colore della musica (Hustle & Flow), regia di Craig Brewer (2005)
 The Salon, regia di Mark Brown (2005)
 Four Brothers - Quattro fratelli (Four Brothers), regia di John Singleton (2005)
 Animal - Il criminale (Animal), regia di David J. Burke (2005)
 Get Rich or Die Tryin', regia di Jim Sheridan (2005)
 Idlewild, regia di Bryan Barber (2006)
 Pride, regia di Sunu Gonera (2007)
 The Hunting Party, regia di Richard Shepard (2007)
 Il buio nell'anima (The Brave One), regia di Neil Jordan (2007)
 La musica nel cuore - August Rush (August Rush), regia di Kirsten Sheridan (2007)
 Awake - Anestesia cosciente (Awake), regia di Joby Harold (2007)
 Un nuovo marito per mamma (The Perfect Holiday), regia di Lance Rivera (2007)
 Iron Man, regia di Jon Favreau (2008)
 Fighting, regia di Dito Montiel (2009)
 Punto d'impatto (The Ledge), regia di Matthew Chapman (2011)
 Little Murder, regia di Predrag Antonijevic (2011)
 Winnie Mandela, regia di Darrell Roodt (2011)
 Red Tails, regia di Anthony Hemingway (2012)
 On the Road, regia di Walter Salles (2012)
 La regola del silenzio - The Company You Keep (The Company You Keep), regia di Robert Redford (2012)
 Comic Movie (Movie 43), registi vari (2013)
 Dead Man Down - Il sapore della vendetta (Dead Man Down), regia di Niels Arden Oplev (2013)
 The Butler - Un maggiordomo alla Casa Bianca (The Butler), regia di Lee Daniels (2013)
 Prisoners, regia di Denis Villeneuve (2013)
 In the Woods, regia di Jennifer Elster (2013)
 The Best Man Holiday, regia di Malcolm D. Lee (2013)
 Sabotage, regia di David Ayer (2014)
 House of Bodies, regia di Alex Merkin (2014)
 Lullaby, regia di Andrew Levitas (2014)
 St. Vincent, regia di Theodore Melfi (2014)
 Cardboard Boxer, regia di Knate Lee (2016)
 Tempo limite (Term Life), regia di Peter Billingsley (2016)
 Acque buie (Cut Throat City), regia di RZA (2020)

Televisione
 The Jacksons: An American Dream – miniserie TV (1992)
 Tall Hopes – serie TV, 6 episodi (1993)
 Living Single – serie TV, 1 episodio (1994)
 Coach – serie TV, 1 episodio (1994)
 Otto sotto un tetto (Family Matters) – serie TV, 1 episodio (1994)
 Getting By – serie TV, 1 episodio (1994)
 La famiglia Brock (Picket Fences) – serie TV, 2 episodi (1994)
 The O.J. Simpson Story – film TV, regia di Jerrold Freedman (1995)
 New York Undercover – serie TV, 1 episodio (1995)
 Shadow-Ops – film TV, regia di Craig R. Baxley (1995)
 Sparks – serie TV, 40 episodi (1996-1998)
 Mama Flora's Family – film TV, regia di Peter Werner (1998)
 NYPD - New York Police Department (NYPD Blue) – serie TV, 2 episodi (1998-1999)
 King of the World – film TV, regia di John Sacret Young (2000)
 Boycott – film TV, regia di Clark Johnson (2001)
 Fastlane – serie TV, 1 episodio (2002)
 Street Time – serie TV, 13 episodi (2003)
 Soul Food – serie TV, 2 episodi (2002-2003)
 Lackawanna Blues – film TV, regia di Ruben Santiago-Hudson (2005)
 Con gli occhi rivolti al cielo (Their Eyes Were Watching God) – film TV, regia di Darnell Martin (2005)
 Wifey – film TV, regia di Reginald Hudlin (2007)
 Law & Order: LA – serie TV, 16 episodi (2010-2011)
 Law & Order - Unità vittime speciali (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) – serie TV, 1 episodio (2011)
 Hawaii Five-0 – serie TV, 1 episodio (2012)
 Wayward Pines - serie TV, 15 episodi (2015-2016)
 Empire – serie TV, 102 episodi (2015-2020)
 Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams – serie TV, episodio 1x05 (2017)

Videoclip
 Foolish – Ashanti (2002)
 Be Without You – Mary J. Blige (2005)
 Sanctuary – Terrence Howard (2008)
 Ghosttown – Madonna (2015)

Doppiatore
 Iron Man (2008) - videogioco
 La principessa e il ranocchio (The Princess and the Frog), regia di Ron Clements e John Musker (2009)

Produttore
 Love Beat the Hell Outta Me, regia di Kennedy Goldsby (2000)
 Pride, regia di Sunu Gonera (2007)
 Punto d'impatto (The Ledge), regia di Matthew Chapman (2011)

Teatro
 La gatta sul tetto che scotta (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) (2008)

Discografia

Album
 2008 - Shine Through It

Singoli
 2008 - Sanctuary

Riconoscimenti
 2006 – Premio Oscar
 Candidatura al Miglior attore protagonista (Hustle & Flow - Il colore della musica)
 2006 – Golden Globe
 Candidatura al Miglior attore in un film drammatico (Hustle & Flow - Il colore della musica)
 2000 – Independent Spirit Awards
 Candidatura al Miglior attore non protagonista (The Best Man)
 2006 – Independent Spirit Awards
 Candidatura al Miglior attore protagonista (Hustle & Flow - Il colore della musica)
 2005 – National Board of Review Awards
 Migliore performance rivelazione maschile (Crash - Contatto fisico, Get Rich or Die Tryin' e Hustle & Flow - Il colore della musica)
 2013 – National Board of Review Awards
 Miglior cast (Prisoners)
 2006 – MTV Movie Awards
 Candidatura alla Miglior performance (Hustle & Flow - Il colore della musica)
 Candidatura al Miglior bacio (Hustle & Flow - Il colore della musica)
 2005 – Satellite Awards
 Miglior attore in un film commedia o musicale (Hustle & Flow - Il colore della musica)
 2005 – Screen Actors Guild Awards
 Candidatura al Miglior cast (Ray)
 2006 – Screen Actors Guild Awards
 Miglior cast (Crash - Contatto fisico)
 Candidatura al Miglior cast (Hustle & Flow - Il colore della musica)
 2014 – Screen Actors Guild Awards
 Candidatura al Miglior cast (The Butler - Un maggiordomo alla Casa Bianca)

Doppiatori italiani
Nelle versioni in italiano dei suoi lavori, Terrence Howard è stato doppiato da:
 Andrea Lavagnino in Law & Order - Unità vittime speciali, Law & Order: LA, The Butler - Un maggiordomo alla Casa Bianca, Sabotage, Wayward Pines, Empire, Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
 Fabrizio Vidale in Iron Man, Fighting, Comic Movie, Hawaii Five-0
 Pasquale Anselmo in The Best Man, Street Time, Red Tails
 Riccardi Rossi in Hustle & Flow - Il colore della musica, Dead Man Down - Il sapore della vendetta
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University of Singapore & Grab launch S$6m AI lab to solve urban issues
The lab was created in a bid to alleviate urban transport pressures
By CIO-Asia Staff
CIO	 Jul 20, 2018 1:30 am PDT
Kristo Vedenoja
The National University of Singapore (NUS) has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) lab with Grab – a Singapore-based ride-hailing app – to solve the city's traffic and congestion problems.
Announced earlier this week, the partnership is the first of its kind, with Grab being the first commercial partner of the institution's AI lab.
The alliance will see both companies make a joint investment of S$6 million in order to analyse real-world transport challenges in the region.
The lab will use data from Grab's platform – which operates in 225 cities in eight South-east Asian countries – to track traffic patterns and congestion hotspots. The aim: to address concerns surrounding mobility in the region.
Located at the Innovation 4.0 building in NUS, the lab will house 28 researchers who will work on various AI projects to improve the efficiency of transport in the city.
The plan is to conduct research in Singapore and South East-Asia and then expand to other areas in need of reshaping.
The research will also benefit Grab customers as researchers will be looking at creating algorithms to improve accuracy in mapping pick-up points and improve overall safety by analysing driver behaviour.
This should improve travel time to customers and improve overall efficiency.
NUS is also committed to training PhD students in order to keep developing AI talent in the region.


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Stuart Martin Explains How Army Of Thieves Expands the Army of the Dead Franchise: Exclusive Interview
Posted by Kevin Thomas | Oct 30, 2021 | Interviews, Movies, News | 0
Army of the Dead was a smash hit for Netflix, and with its prequel Army of Thieves on the horizon, actor Stuart Martin (who plays Brad in the film) described how that film expands upon its predecessor in an interview with The Illuminerdi.
Check out an excerpt of our interview with him below.
The Illuminerdi Interviews Army of Thieves' Stuart Martin and Guz Khan
The Illuminerdi. ,,,We talked a little bit about working with Matthias Schweighöfer as a collaborator, but how does this movie really expand the Army of the Dead franchise?
Stuart Martin: What excited me most about the setup of the films, and how we jump into this, is it's a completely different genre. As Guz said, it's a genre mashup, we don't move in the same vein and have to go, "Right, we have to build on this, we have to make it bigger. We have to have more zombies, we have to have a bigger set." It's a total genre mashup.
We've got heist film European based in Germany, with romantic comedy fairytale vibes. That, to me, was really exciting, because I don't quite think I've seen that in a universe. That's how I want to see a universe expanded. I want to see something that sits over there in the timeline, and there, where else can you go with that? Do you have a straight up romantic, do you have a straight up indie? Where do you go with that? I think it's really exciting.
You can check out the full interview above.
Army of Thieves is a prequel to Army of the Dead following safe-cracker Dieter (played by Matthias Schweighofer, who also directs Thieves) as he joins a group of criminals out to crack 3 legendarily impenetrable safes while a zombie apocalypse rages across the world.
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The film stars Schweighofer, Nathalie Emmanuel, Ruby O. Fee, Stuart Martin, Guz Khan, Jonathan Cohen, and Noemie Nakai among others. It is written by Shay Hatten with a story by Hatten and Zack Snyder (the latter of whom directed Army of the Dead), and produced by Zack Snyder, Deborah Snyder, Matthias Schweighofer, Michael Scheel, Dan Maag, Frank Kusche, Weley Coller, Misha Bukowski, and Christian Angermayer. You can check out Army of the Dead and Army of Thieves on Netflix now as well as read the rest of our interview here.
What do you think of Stuart Martin's comments regarding Army of Thieves? Are you excited for the prequel film and the other announced installments in the franchise? Have you seen Army of the Dead? Let us know in the comments below and on our Twitter.
KEEP READING: STUART MARTIN REVEALS HIS FAVORITE ARMY OF THIEVES SCENE TO SHOOT IN EXCLUSIVE NEW INTERVIEW
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Kevin Thomas is a film-loving college graduate who has been writing film reviews since age 10. He approaches life with a sense of humor and optimism and lives in Georgia with his 2 dogs.
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