Although alcohol intake is an established risk factor for overall breast cancer, few studies have looked at the relationship between alcohol use and breast cancer risk by subtype of breast cancer. While some studies have shown alcohol use is more strongly related to risk of hormone receptor-positive (estrogen receptor and/or progesterone receptor-positive) breast cancer, not many have looked at breast cancer risk by histology, or whether a tumour is ductal – in the milk ducts or lobular, in the milk-producing lobules.

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“We found in earlier studies that middle aged and older people who drank two cups of water right before eating a meal ate between 75 and 90 fewer calories during that meal. In this recent study, we found that over the course of 12 weeks, dieters who drank water before meals, three times per day, lost about five pounds (2.27 kilograms) more than dieters who did not increase their water intake.”
“People should drink more water and less sugary, high-calorie drinks. It’s a simple way to facilitate weight management.”

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Donald W. Mueller Jr., chairman of IPFW’s department of engineering, says the school’s new civil engineering program and retention push may help lure students to engineering careers.

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‘Tons of résumés’

Meanwhile, figures at Trine University in Angola seem to indicate a better success ratio.

Trine had 67 engineering students graduate last year and has 87 freshmen pursuing the major this fall.

Engineering Resources Inc. credits Trine for many of its local hires.

“They’ve been great to work with,” said Kurt Heidenreich, president of Engineering Resources, 9835 Auburn Road in Fort Wayne.

“Right now, we have tons of résumés from all over to pick from, but when the economy turns around, we’ll have trouble getting candidates, I’m sure.”

Beggars can’t be choosy, so the choice between working in northeast Indiana and going unemployed is a no-brainer. But when this recessionary era ends, larger metropolitan areas will be the first pick for many students, Heidenreich said.

“Unless you have something keeping you here, like a family, most young people want to go to the bigger markets,” he said. “When they get a little older and settle down, they may look at Fort Wayne because it’s a great place to raise kids.”

Some students might view regions such as northeast Indiana as less cosmopolitan than other places, but “once they get here they’re usually surprised at what we have,” Busse said.

“They’re looking for cultural activities, but they find out we have that and our cost of living is good,” he said.

James Welch is a civil engineer and 2009 graduate of IPFW. He is married and has an 11-month-old son.

“I kind of wanted to go, but my wife wanted to stay here because her family is in Ohio,” said the 28-year-old, also a Buckeye State native.

Welch said some of his former classmates simply didn’t “realize that engineering is lot of hard work” and dropped it for other fields of study. A combination of long hours and demanding coursework results in some students bailing out of the major, he said.

Fort Wayne business and regional advocates don’t like to hear that. During the Vision 2020 Regional Economic Summit in June, about 1,000 attendees tried to flesh out ways to encourage students to take up high-skill jobs.

Steel Dynamics is trying to do its part. The company gave $300,000 to establish a state-of-the-art energy engineering laboratory at Indiana Tech. The lab will provide students with equipment for instruction in alternative energy sources like wind, solar, geothermal, hydrogen fuel cells, ethanol and other biofuels.

Professor Dave Aschliman, dean of the college of engineering and computer sciences at Indiana Tech, said some engineering students are intrigued by the profession because of its potential benefits to society, particularly infrastructure.

“I see a growing interest by students of all ages to do something about the environment,” he said. “They feel they can have an impact as an engineer.”

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PLEASANT GARDEN — For a month, Pamela O’Leary was duped into thinking she had found her Romeo.

The 54-year-old Pleasant Garden woman met a deployed U.S. soldier online in July. He was muscular. He wrote her poetry. He said he believed in God and that faith had brought them together.

Over dozens of late-night e-mails and online chats, O’Leary developed strong feelings for him. Maybe, just maybe, she thought, this guy was the one.

Then things got odd.

He asked her to pay a courier in Ghana $2,000 for plane tickets, a deal that would bring him — and her, by default — part of a $3 million payoff from Iraq.

O’Leary came to her senses. It was a scam.

This case is one of many, the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command said, in which people who claim to be in the military serving overseas take advantage of lonely souls online.

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The perpetrator often assumes the name of a legitimate, deployed service member and takes a photograph from the Internet to create a false identity.

The scammers cruise online dating sites, looking for victims and chatting their way into their hearts before going for their wallets.

According to military officials, the scam often involves a request for money to purchase special laptop computers, international telephones and transportation fees for the deployed soldier so the relationship can continue.

The scammer asks the victim to send the money through a third party.

“We’ve even seen instances where the perpetrators are asking the victims for money to purchase leave papers from the Army or help pay for their flight home so they can leave the war zone,” said Chris Grey, a spokesman for the Army CID, based at Fort Belvoir, Va.

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Grey said the scam has its roots in earlier military-type schemes that have developed over the past decade.

At the height of the Iraq war, such scams involved people seeking assistance “getting millions out of Saddam’s castle” or “getting gold out of the country.”

“They have morphed from earlier scams,” Grey said. “They have found new ways to exploit people’s emotions and steal their money.”

The scams have reached around the globe, including an Australian woman who paid $4,000 for “leave” tickets so a soldier could visit her.

Another woman took out a second mortgage and lost $28,000 over a man she never met.

According to the U.S. Army CID, they haven’t found actual members of the armed forces involved in the schemes — other than having their names and photos used online. Some scam reports have involved the names and photographs of military members who died in Iraq and Afghanistan.

CID has created task forces to investigate the cases. But the work is difficult because many scammers use untraceable e-mail addresses routed through numerous countries and Internet cyber cafes that often don’t record computer use.

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Grey said the Army’s jurisdiction for such cases stops once it is shown the scammer is not a legitimate member of the military or the case goes out of the country.

“These perpetrators often come from other countries, most notably from Ghana, Angola and Nigeria,” Grey said.

“(They) are good at what they do and quite familiar with American culture, but the claims about the Army and its regulations are ridiculous.”

O’Leary became skeptical about her relationship early on, when she didn’t get direct answers to questions.

The man said he fell out of a patrol vehicle in London and needed money for prescriptions. But he couldn’t explain why the military wouldn’t pay for his treatment.

He also introduced himself to her as Staff Sgt. Mark Revera, an enlisted man.

But in a matter of days referred to himself as a captain.

He claimed to not have access to his banking and credit accounts, and he would find excuses not to call her.

There were many red flags, O’Leary said. But she pushed them aside. He wrote her love letters and poetry with the promise that he would retire and be with her.

Then he said he needed money for a courier to get $3 million out of Iraq — payment for work he and others had done for an oil company. O’Leary, the “love of his life,” was to get some of the payoff once it arrived stateside.

It was the money he promised her to build their life together. He was going to marry her because “you bring me a love I have never known before,” he said.

He pushed for her to e-mail “diplomats” who would help get the money from the oil job out of the country. She did, giving them personal information that included her phone number.

Last weekend, she pawned nearly $400 in jewelry and was looking to obtain a cash advance on her credit card. She wanted to believe him and was about to send the money.

But she stopped short.

“I was doubtful, but I was hopeful,” O’Leary said. “The more I looked at the pictures he sent, the more attracted I got. He was doing spiritual poetry, and I don’t know what book it came from, but he had all the lines that grabbed my heart.”

O’Leary has since cut off contact with the man and is trying to get her jewelry back. But she still receives harassing phone calls — more than 30 calls last weekend alone — from a man with a foreign accent demanding that she send him the money.

She wants other women to be cautious of online relationships and of men who seem too good to be true.

“I haven’t felt like that about a man in a long time and it felt good,” O’Leary said. “It felt good to feel that good and happy and joyful that somebody cared and maybe they were going to come, retire and be with me.”
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Dryad is an ongoing Microsoft Research project dedicated to developing ways to write parallel and distributed programs that can scale from small clusters to large datacenters. There’s a DryadLINQ compiler and runtime that is related to the project. Microsoft released builds of Dryad and DryadLINQ code to academics for noncommercial use in the summer 2009.

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It looks like Dryad is ready to take the next step. Microsoft is planning to move the Dryad stack from Microsoft Research to Microsoft’s Technical Computing Group. The plan is to deliver a first Community Technology Preview (CTP) test build of the stack in November 2010 and to release a final version of it running on Windows Server High Performance Computing servers by 2011, according to a slide from an August 2010 presentation by one of the principals working on Dryad.

*Freely available for academic and commercial use

*Only a subset of the stack (http://connect.microsoft.com/DryadLINQ)

*Production of the stack underway (Transferred to technical team, CTP by this November, RTM in 2011 on top of HPC

But wait, there’s one more thing. (Actually, there are three more things.)

The Dryad stack is getting more detailed as the researchers continue to work on it. Here’s the existing Dryad stack diagram:

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Here’s an updated version of the stack diagram from the aforementioned August 2010 presentation by one of the Dryad team members:

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The Dryad layer of the stack handles scheduling and fault-tolerance, while the DryadLINQlayer is more about parallelization of programs.

The latest Dryad stack diagram includes mention of a new distributed filesystem, codenamed TidyFS, for parallel computation with Dryad. This file system “provides fault tolerance and data replication similar to GFS (the Google File System) or the Cosmos store.” (Cosmo, according to the previous stack diagram, was the codename for the Dryad file system which complemented the NT File System. TidyFS is either the new name for Cosmos or its successor, I’d say.)

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There’s also a set of related data-management tools, codenamed “Nectar.” I found a white paper from Microsoft Research on Nectar, which explains its purpose this way:

“In a Nectar-managed data center, all access to a derived dataset is mediated by Nectar. At the lowest level of the system, a derived dataset is referenced by the LINQ program fragment or expression that produced it. Programmers refer to derived datasets with simple pathnames that contain a simple indirection (much like a UNIX symbolic link) to the actual LINQ programs that produce them.”

There’s one more new Dryad-related codename worth noting: “Quincy.” Quincy is a scheduling system for distributed clusters. (Quincy, Wash., also happens to be the location of one of Microsoft’s major datacenters.)

Microsoft is continuing to step up its work in the HPC space, hoping to ice out Linux in that arena. The Softies are seemingly counting on Dryad to keep up their momentum both on premises, with Windows Server, and in the cloud with Windows Azure in its datacenters.

But wait, there’s one more thing. (Actually, there are three more things.)

The Dryad stack is getting more detailed as the researchers continue to work on it. Here’s the existing Dryad stack diagram:

Here’s an updated version of the stack diagram from the aforementioned August 2010 presentation by one of the Dryad team members:

(click on the image to enlarge)
The Dryad layer of the stack handles scheduling and fault-tolerance, while the DryadLINQlayer is more about parallelization of programs.

The latest Dryad stack diagram includes mention of a new distributed filesystem, codenamed TidyFS, for parallel computation with Dryad. This file system “provides fault tolerance and data replication similar to GFS (the Google File System) or the Cosmos store.” (Cosmo, according to the previous stack diagram, was the codename for the Dryad file system which complemented the NT File System. TidyFS is either the new name for Cosmos or its successor, I’d say.)

There’s also a set of related data-management tools, codenamed “Nectar.” I found a white paper from Microsoft Research on Nectar, which explains its purpose this way:

“In a Nectar-managed data center, all access to a derived dataset is mediated by Nectar. At the lowest level of the system, a derived dataset is referenced by the LINQ program fragment or expression that produced it. Programmers refer to derived datasets with simple pathnames that contain a simple indirection (much like a UNIX symbolic link) to the actual LINQ programs that produce them.”

There’s one more new Dryad-related codename worth noting: “Quincy.” Quincy is a scheduling system for distributed clusters. (Quincy, Wash., also happens to be the location of one of Microsoft’s major datacenters.)

Microsoft is continuing to step up its work in the HPC space, hoping to ice out Linux in that arena. The Softies are seemingly counting on Dryad to keep up their momentum both on premises, with Windows Server, and in the cloud with Windows Azure in its datacenters.

Security experts will gather in Hong Kong next month as the city hosts the world’s first Interpol conference on information security.

Security experts will gather in Hong Kong next month as the city hosts the world’s first Interpol conference on information security.

The conference, to be held from September 15-17 at the police headquarters in Wan Chai, expects to see representatives from up to 188 Interpol member states discuss the increase in technology crimes.

Interpol, which has in the past held events with the Hong Kong authorities, invited the Hong Kong Police Force to co-host the event.

The news came as the police released the latest figures on technology crimes, showing sharp increases.

For the first half of this year, 840 such crimes were reported, up 39 percent from the same period last year.

Among them, 293 cases involved internet commercial fraud, which saw a 54 percent increase.

Most involved online purchases. In some cases, the seller did not receive payment after goods were sent.

In others, goods were not delivered, the police said.

The number of cases involving unauthorized access to computers also significantly increased by 71 percent to 192 cases.

The police said the public should be cautious as online transactions become more common.

The prevalence of virtual game crimes, in the same period under scrutiny, also increased by 7 percent to 202 cases. Predators also picked on online game players by hacking into their accounts to steal virtual weapons.

Senior superintendent Wong Ying- wai said it is important for the international community to cooperate in tackling internet crimes.

In a globalized world, no country can be left out, Wong added.

Technology crimes also affect both individuals and governments.

Serious security breaches can also hamper the normal operation of government, he said.

During the conference, security experts such as US Federal Bureau of Investigation cyber division assistant director Gordon Snow and mainland police representatives are expected to share their experiences.

The officiating guests are Hong Kong Police Commissioner Tang King-shing and Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble.

Security experts from the Hong Kong disciplinary force are expected to paticipate.

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