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The official closing of the Eurasian Culture Week in London!
October 6th was the final day of the Eurasian Culture Week and was filled with the most eventful and vibrant events.
The beginning of the day was marked by the presentation of Caroline Walton's book "My Cossack Family". Caroline Walton is an award-winning author of books about the countries of the former Soviet Union. In the book, she describes her personal experiences in Russia and Ukraine and question what people in the West can learn from these countries. She explores the spiritual qualities that allowed people to survive unimaginable difficulties in the twentieth century.
After the presentation of the book, all guests of the event were able to enjoy the art exhibition "Peaks of Asia". The exhibition "Peaks of Asia" caused a real stir among the British residents, so it will last a few more days, despite the official closing of the Culture Week. Romford expects a new exhibition next year to immerse into the culture and painting of the countries of the Eurasian region.
In the afternoon, the Orzu Arts Theater hosted the presentation dedicated to Nurym Taibek's (Eurasian Creative Guild member) book, "Love for all, hatred of no one", which tells about the true meaning of life of Ahmadi Muslims. This is the first popular science publication that vividly and interestingly describes a religious phenomenon, which is the World Ahmadiy Movement in Islam.
At the end of the day, a traditional dinner and a certificate awarding ceremony were held for all official participants of the Culture Week. After that, the participants and guests were able to enjoy a theatrical performance by Orzu Arts, the first British Central Asian theater troupe promoting Central Asian stage art and folklore with British and international actors.
We would like to thank all the official partners of the Eurasian Culture Week for their support and assistance: Premiere Cinemas Romford, Orzu Arts Theater Bar, Rossotrudnichestvo London, The Center of Contemporary Art of Tajikistan, The Mercury Shopping Center and British-Kazakh Society.
We also want to express our sincere gratitude to Gulzada Hamra and Olesya Shibaeva for the invaluable help and support in conducting and organizing all the events throughout the six days of the Eurasian Culture Week.
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Black hat. Black cat. And a black broom to match. Thank you, dear Wicked Witch of the West, for a uniform that lives in infamy! And the froggy grin skin? That's sooooo yesterday! (And let's face it, who has time these days to clean up after flying monkeys?) Why was Dorothy to get the amazing ruby red slippers and Elphaba was shod like an ole fashioned school marm?
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MemC3: Compact and Concurrent MemCache with Dumber Caching and Smarter Hashing
Bin Fan and David G. Andersen, Carnegie Mellon University; Michael Kaminsky, Intel Labs
This paper presents a set of architecturally and workload inspired algorithmic and engineering improvements to the popular Memcached system that substantially improve both its memory efficiency and throughput. These techniques—optimistic cuckoo hashing, a compact LRU-approximating eviction algorithm based uponCLOCK, and comprehensive implementation of optimistic locking—enable the resulting system to use 30% less memory for small key-value pairs, and serve up to 3x as many queries per second over the network. We have implemented these modifications in a system we call MemC3—Memcached with CLOCK and Concurrent Cuckoo hashing—but believe that they also apply more generally to many of today's read-intensive, highly concurrent networked storage and caching systems.
Bin Fan, Carnegle Mellon University
David G. Andersen, Carnegle Mellon University
Michael Kaminsky, Intel Labs
author = {Bin Fan and David G. Andersen and Michael Kaminsky},
title = {{MemC3}: Compact and Concurrent {MemCache} with Dumber Caching and Smarter Hashing},
booktitle = {10th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 13)},
isbn = {978-1-931971-00-3},
address = {Lombard, IL},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi13/technical-sessions/presentation/fan},
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by Matthew Caesar
Modern data center environments are subject to some of the largest and most extreme workloads of any computing system that has ever existed. At the same time, they are also subject to some of the most extreme performance requirements. With interactive services (gaming, financial services) increasingly moving to the cloud, and as use of cloud computing continues to grow, the challenge faced by data center operators in designing low-latency systems at scale and low cost will continue to worsen.
To address this challenge, the authors of this paper propose MemC3. MemC3 is a low-latency memory-based distributed object caching system for data center and other networked environments. MemC3 provides a hash-table-like API, enabling queries. When placed as afront end before services like databases or web servers, MemC3 reduces network traffic and also load on the services.
Now, nothing I've described so far is actually new. This problem has already been identified and solved by a widely used system called Memcached. Memcached has reached a high level of maturity and industry acceptance, being used by sites such as Youtube, Wikipedia, Facebook, and Twitter. However, MemC3 provides a phase change in how these sorts of systems are built. The authors present a set of algorithmic and engineering improvements to Memcached that offer a surprisingly large performance improvement. The fact that the authors were able to achieve such enormous performance gains in a system that is of such core importance to so many modern web services is a testament to thecleverness and insight behind the work.
At the same time, MemC3 leaves several avenues open for future work in this space. First, MemC3 may have a locking bottleneck in some settings, as the core algorithms of the paper rely on serialize all writers. This is totally fine for the read-oriented workloads considered by the paper, which are common in many settings, but could harm performance for more write-intensive workloads. The workloads used in the paper are also synthetic, leaving some open questions about how well the approach would work in real-worlddeployments. Also, while Cuckoo hashing improves memory usage, it can worsen lookup performance, as it increases the raw lookup path length and makes inserts more costly (that said, the in-hash table tag optimization appears to eliminate most of this cost).In addition, the authors only consider one design; it maybe interesting to investigate what other alternatives are available and whether Cuckoo hashing is the best option amongst them.
Another interesting question might be a study of which contributions in this paper are providing the benefit. For example, how much of the benefit comes from CLOCK, rather than cuckoo hashing? From the results (Figure 8 and Table 3) we can see that simply changing LRU to Clock can significantly improve system performance, even without using cuckoo hashing (that said, moving to Cuckoo+CLOCK is even better). This may be an interestingresearch question in itself—Cuckoo hashing is more complex and expensive than chaining—is it possible to achieve a high load factor with a simple mechanism? Or is there a fundamental tradeoff between write complexity and space utilization? In addition, the paper (quite understandably) does not provide a performance comparison with all related works in this space, including works like Mastree, and other works that shard data across cores, which seem related. Moreover, as the authors point out, none of the techniquesare new in themselves (though the program committee felt there was substantial novelty and cleverness in their combination and optimizations). In addition, the program committee wrestled with the fit of this paper for NSDI, being more about a system that is used by a network rather than saying much about "networked and/or distributed systems." It is arguably somewhat out of scope as its primary contributions are in the design of concurrent data structures.
Now, there's no way the authors could have addressed all these things in one paper. But it is clear that there is more work to be done in this space and more papers to write. In some sense, the authors have opened a door into a whole new area of interesting researchquestions. What kind of other algorithms could be used in place of Cuckoo hashing? What is the right way to design distributed object caching architectures? Caching as a mechanism is used in many environments and the authors' contributions seem quite fundamental;are there other environments where Cuckoo hashing can provide performance benefits? It is also worth noting the authors have released a full implementation of their hash table library on github (https://github.com/efficient/libcuckoo), which may provide a usefulplatform to begin investigating such questions.
In addition to making solid technical contributions to a high-impact problem, and achieving surprisingly good results, the paper leads to as many questions as it answers, something the program committee appreciated and felt was the mark of a truly excellent piece of work. If you're leafing through the NSDI papers and trying to decide which to read, I would highly recommend this one, it's exciting and easy to read, yet with impressive technical depth and insight.


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Despite Being Married, Miley Cyrus Says She's Still 'Sexually Attracted To Women'
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Singer Miley Cyrus may be married to actor Liam Hemsworth but she still feels attraction for other women due to her outspoken "pansexuality."
In an interview with Elle magazine for the August issue, the notably flamboyant abortion advocate said that her marriage to Hemsworth is "unique" and "complex," admitting that she still feels a sexual attraction toward women despite being in a "hetero relationship."
"I think it's very confusing to people that I'm married. But my relationship is unique," Cyrus told Elle. "And I don't know that I would ever publicly allow people in there because it's so complex, and modern, and new that I don't think we're in a place where people would get it."
"I mean, do people really think that I'm at home in a f***ing apron cooking dinner?" she continued. "I'm in a hetero relationship, but I still am very sexually attracted to women. People become vegetarian for health reasons, but bacon is still f***ing good, and I know that. I made a partner decision. This is the person I feel has my back the most. I definitely don't fit into a stereotypical wife role. I don't even like that word."
Expanding on her hatred for the word "husband and wife," Cyrus pointed to her parents as great examples, likening the traditional pairing to a "cigarette commercial from the '50s.
"They were always partners. That's why I like that word," she said. "'Husband and wife' sounds like a cigarette commercial from the '50s to me. I think about the song 'Stand By Your Man' a lot, and how it was one of my mom's favorites. Did she even realize what it's saying? Like, he's going to get drunk and cheat on you, and when he comes home, you stand by your man because at the end of the day, he loves you. He's just a man."
Cyrus admitted that once she awoke to her sexuality at age 18, she had trouble donning the blonde wig to play her character Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel. "The minute I had sex, I was kind of like, I can't put the f***ing wig on again. It got weird."
In the same interview, the pop singer said she enjoys fully being sexual in her musical performance, which often involves twerking her body in extraordinarily tight outfits. She says this empowering has never been intended to arouse the sexual appetites of men.
"At this time of my life, I feel the most powerful I've ever felt," she said. "I like the way being sexual makes me feel, but I'm never performing for men. They shouldn't compliment themselves to think that the decisions I'm making in my career would have anything to do with them getting pleasure. I don't think that because some guy thinks I'm hot he's going to buy my record. It doesn't help me.
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Miley Cyrus has been campaigning heavily for the pro-abortion cause in recent months with the passage of multiple pro-life laws in states such as Georgia and Alabama.
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Visits to pediatricians on the decline
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 21, 2020 - Commercially insured children in the U.S. are seeing pediatricians less often than they did a decade ago, according to a new analysis led by a pediatrician-scientist at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
But whether that's good or bad is unclear, the researchers say in the study, published today in JAMA Pediatrics.
Head collision rates at World Cups similar but women received more medical assessments
TORONTO - Female and male soccer players had similar rates of head collision events during elite tournaments such as the World Cup but half of the female players involved received medical assessments, compared with only one third of the impacted male players, according to research led by St. Michael's Hospital of Unity Health Toronto.
Designer-defect clamping of ferroelectric domain walls for more-stable nanoelectronics
A UNSW study published today in Nature Communications presents an exciting step towards domain-wall nanoelectronics: a novel form of future electronics based on nano-scale conduction paths, and which could allow for extremely dense memory storage.
FLEET researchers at the UNSW School of Materials Science and Engineering have made an important step in solving the technology's primary long-standing challenge of information stability.
Domain walls are 'atomically sharp' topological defects separating regions of uniform polarisation in ferroelectric materials.
New self-assembled monolayer is resistant to air
Organic self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) have been around for over forty years. The most widely used form is based on thiols, bound to a metal surface. However, although the thiol SAMs are very versatile, they are also chemically unstable. Exposure of these monolayers to air will lead to oxidation and breakdown within a single day. University of Groningen scientists have now created SAMs using buckyballs functionalized with 'tails' of ethylene glycol.
Mars' water was mineral-rich and salty
Presently, Earth is the only known location where life exists in the Universe. This year the Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to three astronomers who proved, almost 20 years ago, that planets are common around stars beyond the solar system. Life comes in various forms, from cell-phone-toting organisms like humans to the ubiquitous micro-organisms that inhabit almost every square inch of the planet Earth, affecting almost everything that happens on it.
Light-up wheels: Unique organic light-emitting molecular emitters
Osaka, Japan - A team including researchers from Osaka University has produced a new molecular emitter for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). Using rational chemical design with U-shaped synthetic building blocks, the scientists were able to arrange the electron donors and acceptors into a large ring called a "macrocycle." The wheel-shaped molecule could potentially be used not only in OLEDs but also in tiny, energy-efficient chemical sensors in the future.
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A new study by Flinders Criminology analysed existing links between legal online activities and cybercrime- for example, how viewing online pornography progresses to opening illegal content, and motivations to evolve from online gaming to hacking.
Kazan University chemists teach neural networks to predict properties of compounds
The international team works on a computational model able to predict the properties of new molecules based on the analysis of fundamental chemical laws. The project was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (title "Using AI methods for the planning of chemical synthesis").
Researchers solve protein structures to fight asthma
Biophysicists from the MIPT Center for Molecular Mechanisms of Aging and Age-Related Diseases have teamed up with colleagues from Canada, the U.S., Japan, France, and Germany to shed light on the structure and functioning mechanism of the CysLT receptors, which regulate inflammatory responses associated with allergic disorders. Their findings are reported in Nature Communications.
Avatar worms help to identify factors that modify genetic diseases
Often, patients from the same family and carriers of the same genetic mutation, develop a disease differently. This disparity may be due to the existence of mutations in other secondary genes, which influence the onset and progression of the disease caused by the main mutation. As an example, members of a family who are carriers of the same mutation may show symptoms of the disease at age 20, and others at age 50. Knowing what factors influence the onset and development of the disease would help a better prognosis and the application of preventive treatments.
Glutamate in the brain has unexpected qualities, researchers show with new analysis method
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and Gothenburg University in Sweden have achieved something long thought almost impossible - counting the molecules of the neurotransmitter glutamate released when a signal is transferred between two brain cells. With a new analysis method, they showed that the brain regulates its signals using glutamate in more ways than previously realised.
Changing cancer care, one organoid at a time
WINSTON-SALEM, NC - JAN. 20, 2020 - A patient-specific tumor organoid platform developed by Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) researchers and their cancer center colleagues could someday take the guessing game out of immunotherapy treatments. The hope is that, one day, these tumor organoids will be used to personalize patients' treatments, to focus on those that will best help them fight their own cancer.
Wisdom of the crowd? Building better forecasts from suboptimal predictors
Tokyo, Japan - Researchers at the University of Tokyo and Kozo Keikaku Engineering Inc. have introduced a method for enhancing the power of existing algorithms to forecast the future of unknown time series. By combining the predictions of many suboptimal forecasts, they were able to construct a consensus prediction that tended to outperform existing methods. This research may help provide early warnings for floods, economic shocks, or changes in the weather.
On the edge between science and art: Historical biodiversity data from Japanese 'gyotaku'
Historical biodiversity data is being obtained from museum specimens, literature, classic monographs and old photographs, yet those sources can be damaged, lost or not completely adequate. That brings us to the need of finding additional, even if non-traditional, sources.
Biodiversity observations are made not only by researchers, but also by citizens, though rather often these data are poorly documented or not publicly accessible. Nowadays, this type of data can be found mostly with online citizen science projects resources.
Laser diode emits deep UV light
Nagoya University scientists, in cooperation with Asahi Kasei Corporation, have succeeded in designing a laser diode that emits deep-ultraviolet light, according to research published in the journal Applied Physics Express.
"Our laser diode emits the world's shortest lasing wavelength, at 271.8 nanometers (nm), under pulsed [electric] current injection at room temperature," says Professor Chiaki Sasaoka of Nagoya University's Center for Integrated Research of Future Electronics.


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Neil Stockwell has worked as a fruit and veg trader at Queens Market in Newham for 30 years – and he is furious at Sir Robin Wales, the borough's New Labour mayor.
"There's nothing wrong with this market – the problem is that Sir Robin Wales wants to run it into the ground," he told Socialist Worker.
Lindsey German first pledged support for the campaign to save Queens Market when she ran for London mayor four years ago.
She was invited back there last Saturday to see how the campaign against the developers was getting along.
Pauline Rowe, secretary of Friends of Queens Market, says the vibrant grassroots campaign scored a victory in 2006 when it managed to scare off the Asda supermarket group that was eyeing up the site.
But St Modwens, the private developers that bought the market from the council, still plans on redeveloping the site and building luxury flats there.
The two sides have been locked in an awkward stalemate since then.
Some of the stall holders have since become demoralised and are now trying to cut a deal with St Modwens.
But others are holding firm against plans to turn a popular and multicultural community facility over to the development sharks.
Meanwhile the market has continued to trade – and although it is visibly tattier than four years ago, the sense of community pride and determination to fight are still there.
"It's obvious that people are struggling and that this Labour council isn't doing anything to help them," Lindsey told Socialist Worker.