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A report released by Norton (Symantec), a leader in cybersecurity that develops antivirus, anti-malware, and other related products and software, demonstrates just how pervasive cybercrime is in today?s digital age. The report was the final product of 19,636 interviews of adults, parents, children, and teachers from 24 developed and emerging countries.

The report confirms that cybercrimes are becoming more common than normal ?offline? crimes. This may be due to the fact that cybercriminals are very difficult to find, even as they continue to commit more criminal acts. Norton found that there are approximately 1,000,000 cybercrime victims every single day of the year. This amounts to a cost to society in the amount of $388,000,000,000 ($388 Billion) in just 2011. Of that amount, $114 billion accounts for money actually stolen or money spent to resolve cybercrimes. The remaining $274 billion of that money is in the form of time and costs to victims dealing with cybercrimes. To give a better idea of the staggering size of cybercrime?s financial costs, Norton compares the $388 billion cybercrime cost to the global black market of marijuana, cocaine, and heroin combined at $288 billion. In fact, the sum of all global drug trafficking is valued at $411 billion, only $23 billion more than cybercrime costs.

Unfortunately, the spread of cybercrime is unlikely to slow down as the number of people using the Internet, computers, and especially mobile devices increases. Of those surveyed, 69% of all adults have been a victim of cybercrime, and of those, 65% were victims in 2011 alone. The report shows that the more time one spends online, the more likely they are to become a victim of cybercrime. This is supported by their results which show that 75% of ?millennials? (aged 18-31) have been victimized at some point compared to only 61% from the boomer generation. Usage of mobile devices to peruse the Internet is widespread and growing, with 44% of mobile device owners using their device to surf the Internet, and nearly 60% of millennials doing the same.

Even more disturbing is that the spread of cybercrime to these mobile users is just beginning. ?In 2011, 10% of all mobile device users online had fallen victim to cybercrime. Considering that the number of mobile users surfing the Internet is already large, and that the number will certainly go up as time goes on, it is safe to assume that mobile device related cybercrime is inevitably going to increase. ?In this society, even a minor increase in percentage of victimized users, will be a very large number of individuals affected.

Despite the staggering number of cybercrimes being committed on a yearly basis, the public perception of these crimes continues to underestimate how severe and common they are. ?Of the people interviewed, 44% had been a victim of cybercrime in the last year while only 15% had been a victim of some form of offline crime. That mean that cybercrime is nearly three times more common than ?off-line? crimes. The perception problem is that, of the people surveyed, only 31% thought that they were more likely to become a victim of cybercrime than offline crime.

This misconception helps explain why 40% of adults surveyed did not have an up to date security suite to protect their personal data. Not only are consumers not adequately protecting themselves online, but only 21% of actual victims reported the cybercrime to the police after becoming a victim. ?This perception that cybercrimes aren?t quite the same as offline crimes might be reinforced by the lack of avenues to get help after becoming a cybercrime victim. ?Of those who reported suffering both cybercrime and offline crime, 59% felt there were fewer ways to get help after the cybercrime.

It is clear from Norton?s Cybercrime Report that cybercrime is here to stay and should be considered a high priority by law enforcement and consumers who use the Internet. ?People must be educated about the risks associated with Internet use and encouraged to protect their personal information in this digital world. The next time you are about to log onto the Internet from your desktop or mobile device, take a moment to consider whether you have taken enough steps to protect yourself from cybercrime.

"Norton Cybercrime Report 2011: Painting a Dismal Picture"?was written by Sam?Imandoust, Esq. ?He serves as a legal analyst for the Identity Theft Resource Center. We welcome you to post/reprint the above article, as written, giving credit to and linking back to?www.idtheftcenter.blogspot.com.?

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FedEx and UPS Commit to Not Ship Research Mammals

Research beagles being air-freighted by Lufthansa before the carrier changed its policy. Image: PETA

By Meredith Wadman of Nature magazine

For researchers who rely on lab animals shipped from distant sources, and for the companies that breed them, the options are narrowing again. This week, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) will announce that it has obtained written assurances from the world?s two largest air-cargo carriers, FedEx and UPS, that they will not transport mammals for laboratory use. UPS says that it is also planning to further ?restrict? an exemption that allows the transport of amphibians, fish, insects and other non-mammals.

Neither company currently ships large numbers of lab animals. But PETA, an activist group based in Norfolk, Virginia, sought the carriers? written assurances as a way to foreclose alternatives for lab-animal breeders and their customers, who are increasingly being confronted with bans on transport by passenger airlines. ?FedEx and UPS were not transporting many or any animals, but we felt it was crucial to go to them and discuss this as we knew that facilities trying to send non-human primates and other species would be going to them soon, as more and more passenger airlines refused to do business with them,? says Kathy Guillermo, PETA?s senior vice-president for laboratory investigations.

The commitments will have a direct impact on some researchers. ?I am deeply concerned,? says Darcy Kelley, a neurobiologist at Columbia University in New York City, who studies neural and muscular systems involved in vocal communication in the frog Xenopus. The supply companies that Kelley uses ? Nasco in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin; Xenopus One in Dexter, Michigan; and Xenopus Express of Brooksville, Florida ? all ship the amphibians by air with UPS for next-day delivery. Losing access to the frogs because of shipping hurdles ?would set my research back years?, says Kelley. ?It takes Xenopus females two years to get to sexual maturity. And maintaining an animal colony is a very expensive proposition.? For those who study mammals, the FedEx and UPS policies may have little immediate impact. The two companies are not used to ship non-human primates internationally, says Michael Hsu, president of Shared Enterprises in Richlandtown, Pennsylvania, which maintains a macaque-breeding colony in Shanghai and imports research animals to the United States by air. In the United States, many other lab animals are domestically bred and shipped by truck. But although the FedEx and UPS declarations may be largely symbolic, they suggest that research advocates are failing to make the case for the use of lab animals, and they mark another success for groups such as PETA.

Many large passenger carriers will no longer transport non-human primates after being confronted by PETA and other animal activist groups (see Nature 483, 381?382; 2012). United Airlines and Air France are among the few that have not ruled out primate transport. Air Canada is petitioning the Canadian Transportation Agency for permission to stop the practice. Now, PETA is extending its campaign to other species and to cargo carriers. Non-air transport across international borders is also under pressure. In March, the last two ferry companies transporting laboratory rodents into the United Kingdom said that they were stopping the practice.

FedEx, based in Memphis, Tennessee, says that its commitment not to ship animals reflects a policy that is at least five years old. ?There was an active decision made that, especially here in the United States, that?s just not how we wanted to do business,? says Shea Leordeanu, manager of global public relations for the company. FedEx, the leading global cargo shipper, does occasionally transport animals ? for example, it delivered horses to the equestrian events at the London Olympics ? but only with special dispensation. Under such exemptions in recent years, as many as several dozen international shipments of research mice have traveled by FedEx annually, Leordeanu says. ?However, FedEx has not transported any mice at all in many months,? she adds, because customers have not requested its services.

UPS, based in Atlanta, Georgia, has limited animal shipments for more than a decade. With rare exceptions, it ships only amphibians, crustaceans, fish, insects, mollusks and certain lizards and turtles. ?We currently are in the process of putting procedures in place to restrict those shipments as well,? says Norman Black, director of global media services for UPS, but ?the fact that we?re considering restrictions doesn?t mean a flat ban?. The company?s policy, he says, is ?based both on our sustainability principles and on our marketing decisions. We do not consider animal shipments to be a target market for us, either economically or operationally.?

Losing the option of shipping frogs by UPS would be ?huge? for his company, says Burley Lilley, president of Xenopus Express, which serves around 100 academic customers throughout the United States. ?Part of the reason our business is so good and the animals get there alive is because we use UPS.?

Charles Hewett, executive vice-president and chief operating officer at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, says that less than 10% of the several million specialized mice that Jackson ships from its US locations each year travel by air; most are shipped domestically by 18-wheel truck. The laboratory also breeds highly requested strains of mice at facilities overseas, so that they can be delivered quickly by truck.

?We do not use FedEx, we do not use UPS and in fact we believe very strongly that our mice should only be handled by truckers who have been trained to understand the animals? requirements,? says Hewett.

Nonetheless, Hewett says he finds it ?troubling that the corporate leaderships of UPS, FedEx and others yield to the pressure of a small minority who overlook the importance of what we do for preventing, curing and treating human disease.?

For many of its international shipments, Jackson uses a contractor, Charles River Laboratories in Wilmington, Massachusetts, which did not respond to requests for comment. The PETA campaign has had an impact on Charles River in at least one instance. In 2010, less than 24 hours after PETA published a photo of beagles in the cargo hold of a Lufthansa airliner at New York?s JFK airport, the German airline said that it would no longer ship dogs and cats for research. The dogs were in transit from research-animal breeder Marshall BioResources in North Rose, New York, to a Charles River Laboratories facility in Scotland.

PETA says that it is systematically approaching every major cargo carrier in the world, putting pressure on both international and domestic shipments. In India, for example, the government?s National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), in Hyderabad, relies on Air India to ship specialized mouse strains to researchers and companies throughout the country. ?From Hyderabad to Delhi by train would take more than 30 hours? and require an attendant, says Madan Chaturvedi, dean of life-sciences research at the University of Delhi. Without Air India transporting the animals, research at his institution ?would definitely suffer?, he says.

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Polaroid XS7, XS20 and XS100 Sports Cameras run $69 and up, we snap away at Photokina (sample video)

Polaroid may not be the first name that comes to mind when you think of adventure-friendly video cams -- Contour and GoPro own that space, with Sony now making a heavy push of its own -- but the insta-film maker turned camera manufacturer now has a rugged lineup of its own. First off the assembly line is the XS7, a $69 cam that packs a waterproof housing (rated to 10 meters), 720p video capture and a 2-inch touchscreen. This model is as entry level as they come, and Polaroid reps said to expect to see it in stores like Toys 'R' Us. If you're slightly more serious about image quality, you might opt for the XS20, which packs a "professional" CMOS sensor, 720p shooting, a waterproof housing (20 meters) and a battery that's rated for up to 3 hours of use. It also includes a fixed lens with a 120-degree viewing angle that's surrounded by eight LCDs, for shooting in the dark. Finally, The XS100 is what you might consider to be Polaroid's flagship, with support for 1080p video, an adjustable frame rate, a 170-degree lens, an orientation sensor for auto rotation and a $200 price tag. All three cameras use microSD cards, but the XS100 also includes 32MB of internal storage, letting you store a small collection of 5-megapixel stills.

The sports-shooting trio may not blow you away spec-wise, and we also weren't floored by the design, but they weren't created to lead the market from a performance perspective -- Polaroid is playing up the cost angle here, and we don't blame them. Based on our quick test of the XS7, image quality was passable, but you're not going to want to use it for close-up shots as we did here. Even with the underwater housing removed, frames were either under or overexposed, generally unsharp and audio wasn't terribly clear. It's worth noting that we played with a pre-production sample, that'll run you just shy of $70 when it does hit stores. That said, if quality is key and you don't mind dropping a few hundred bucks, you'll probably be happier with a more established model. Because we're at a photo show and Polaroid was generous enough to let us take the XS7 for a spin, we figured there's no better way to demonstrate this camera's capabilities by using it to film our hands-on -- you'll find that video tour just past the break.

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Chicago teachers await vote that could end strike

Smaller, more subdued groups of teachers picket outside Morgan Park High School in Chicago, Monday, Sept. 17, 2012, as a strike by Chicago Teachers Union members heads into its second week. Mayor Rahm Emanuel said he will seek a court order to force the city's teachers back into the classroom. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Smaller, more subdued groups of teachers picket outside Morgan Park High School in Chicago, Monday, Sept. 17, 2012, as a strike by Chicago Teachers Union members heads into its second week. Mayor Rahm Emanuel said he will seek a court order to force the city's teachers back into the classroom. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Smaller, more subdued groups of teachers picket outside Morgan Park High School in Chicago, Monday, Sept. 17, 2012, as a strike by Chicago Teachers Union members heads into its second week. Mayor Rahm Emanuel said he will seek a court order to force the city's teachers back into the classroom. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

A handful of teachers picket outside Shoop Elementary School in Chicago, Monday, Sept. 17, 2012, as a strike by Chicago Teachers Union members heads into its second week. Mayor Rahm Emanuel said he will seek a court order to force the city's teachers back into the classroom. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Michael Grant, a parent of a Chicago public school student, is reflected in the glasses of teacher Yasman Vaughn as a handful of teachers picket outside Shoop Elementary School in Chicago, Monday, Sept. 17, 2012, as a strike by Chicago Teachers Union members heads into its second week. Mayor Rahm Emanuel said he will seek a court order to force the city's teachers back into the classroom. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

CHICAGO (AP) ? As they awaited a vote that could end Chicago's first teachers strike in 25 years, teachers were balancing their desire to get back to class with lingering doubts and questions about a proposed contract that could mean major changes to their pay and job security.

Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis said she expected union delegates to have a possibly lengthy debate when they reconvene Tuesday afternoon, two days after refusing to end the strike because they hadn't seen all the contract details.

Union leaders say trust has become a critical factor, given the strained relations with Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the school board, and that Emanuel's effort to get a judge to order the teachers back to class could become an obstacle.

"I'm desperately wanting to get back to my lab experiments with my kids," said Heath Davis, a seventh-grade science teacher who was picketing outside Goethe Elementary School on the city's West Side.

Davis was optimistic that Tuesday's vote could end the strike that has kept 350,000 students out of the classroom. But he said teachers still had concerns about the academic calendar, pensions and resources for special education, in addition to the more publicly discussed issues of tying teacher evaluations to student test scores and recalling laid-off teachers when schools close.

"We don't want to move too quickly," said Davis, a delegate who was consulting with other teachers at his school before deciding how to vote. "We want to make sure our questions are answered."

Tuesday's vote was not on the contract offer itself, but on whether to continue the strike. The contract must be submitted to a vote of the full union membership before it is formally ratified.

Some union delegates were taking straw polls of rank-and-file teachers to measure support for a settlement.

Craig Richmond, a counselor at Richard Yates Elementary School in northwest Chicago, voted to continue to the strike as a way to pressure the district on the closure of schools with poor performance or declining enrollment. The former music teacher has lost his job three times in such closures.

He described his action as a protest vote, but he recognized that continuing to strike could erode community support and do more harm than good.

"It's a huge gamble," he acknowledged. "The kids would lose out. It doesn't feel good to me to have that position."

Teachers have begun feeling pressure to decide quickly on the tentative contract that labor and education experts ? and even some union leaders ? called a good deal for the union after a long stretch of setbacks nationally for organized labor.

"It's risky to extend the strike when everyone was expecting the strike to be over," said Richard Kahlenberg of the Century Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington.

Irked by the union's two-day delay in voting on whether to send children back to school, Emanuel took the matter into court Monday. A judge has called a hearing for Wednesday to rule on the city's request for an injunction ordering the teachers back to work.

Lewis, making a round of media appearances Tuesday morning, said she did not believe the city's lawsuit would push teachers to move more quickly to end the strike.

"As matter of fact, if anything, it will push people in the other direction," she said.

Both sides have only released summaries of the proposed agreement. But outside observers said the tentative contract appears to be a win for the union's 25,000 teachers.

While teachers in San Francisco haven't gotten an across-the-board raise in years, for example, Chicago teachers are in line for raises in each of the proposed deal's three years with provisions for a fourth. In Cleveland, teachers recently agreed to the same kind of evaluation system based in part on student performance that Chicago has offered.

"The district went past the halfway mark," said Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality. "They got a pretty good deal."

Some union members in Chicago praised the school district's move on what percentage of test scores will be factored into teacher evaluations, reducing it from 45 percent to the 30 percent set as the minimum by state law. The deal also includes an appeals process to contest evaluations. The new evaluations would be phased in over the length of the contract.

The tentative contract calls for a 3 percent raise in its first year and 2 percent for two years after that, along with increases for experienced teachers. While many teachers are upset it did not restore a 4 percent pay raise Emanuel rescinded earlier this year, the contract if adopted would keep Chicago teachers among the highest-paid in the country.

In Chicago, the starting salary is roughly $49,000, and average salary is around $76,000 a year.

The city also won some things from the union in the proposed settlement. Emanuel gets the longer school day he wanted, and principals will have say over who gets hired at their schools, something the union fought. The district will be required to give some preference to teachers who are displaced, and the school district will have to maintain a hiring list and make sure that at least half of hires are displaced teachers.

"We made a lot of progress," said Susanne McCannon, who teaches art at Whitney M. Young Magnet High School. "I'd like to be back in the classroom, but I want to be back in the classroom with the best situation possible."

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Does having sex too early in a relationship cause it to fail?

By Lesley Lanir.

New York - Is it advisable to enter into sexual intimacy hastily if you want a long-lasting, quality relationship? Does living together lead to successful marriages? A Cornell University study on the effects of early sexual activity on the future of the relationship has been published recently in the Journal of Marriage and Family. The researchers of the article "The Tempo of Sexual Activity and Later Relationship Quality" reviewed data from nearly 600 married and cohabiting couples and found that rapid sexual involvement together with cohabitation affect the quality of long-term relationships. I contacted the lead author of the article, Professor Sharon Sassler of the Department of Policy Analysis & Management at Cornell University, New York about the findings. What was the aim of the review?

The aim of this study was to find out whether the speed of entry into sexual relationships among couples is associated with relationship quality since previous studies have suggested this.

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After reading the results of earlier research, we assumed that rapid sexual involvement would affect the matching process and relationship quality, especially if sexual dependencies replaced emotional compatibility as a primary basis for cohabitation and marriage.

What were the overall findings of your research?

Overall, our empirical results suggest that couples moved rapidly into sexual relationships and more than one third reported having sex within 1 month of the start of their relationships.

What are women?s views on the speed of entry into sexual activity?

We found that for women the speed of entry into sexual relationships was negatively associated with marital quality and that slowing things down may improve women?s views of overall relationship quality, particularly if commitment and intimacy are also improved. We also found that early sexual activity, may have greater symbolic value as an indicator of relationship commitment for women, regardless of whether the relationship is ??right?? for them - implied by the fact that women may be more sensitive to the quality of their relationship than men are.

What about men?

From the men?s perspective, the speed of entry into sexual activity was largely unrelated to the quality of the relationship.

So you are saying that men basically don't really care when the sex happens, as long as it happens?

Yes, I suppose you could put it like that :)

So does early sexual activity in relationships eventually lead to poor quality marriages?

The association between relationship tempo and relationship quality is largely driven by entry into cohabitation. That is, early sexual activity was linked to subsequent cohabitation and less satisfying marriages.

So early sexual engagement has a less detrimental effect on marriage than cohabitation?

The research review found that it's not necessarily the tempo to sexual involvement, per se, but yes, the rapid movement into shared living, which mediates the effect of rapid sex on most measures.

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So does this research suggest that there should be no sex or cohabitation before marriage?

No, that is not what the research wishes to suggest at all since the vast majority of young American adults do have sex or cohabit. This is a review of previous research about how long studies have said Americans wait to have sex. We haven?t found much evidence that entry into sexual relations has sped up in recent years - but other factors (such as cohabitation) have.

So is the main question of your research the effects of cohabitation on long term relationships?

Yes, we are trying to situate our research in the body of work that is exploring what effect cohabitation may have on marriage. We're not promoting abstinence or virginity pledges - just looking at potential contributing factors to stronger or weaker relationship quality. Yes.

What does research say about cohabitation?

Much of my research of late has focused on cohabitation, and we really do not know that much about how rapidly couples end up moving in together, or if that is occurring more rapidly than it used to in the past, as cohabitation becomes more normative. But relationships may be harder to get out of once couples are living together -- and many couples, especially those from less advantaged backgrounds (less education, jobs that pay less, from disrupted families who may not have the resources to subsidize their children's independent living) seem to move in with new romantic/sexual partners quite quickly. It could be that deciding to live together quickly doesn't leave couples enough time to figure out if they are on the same page regarding values, goals, the future. In my qualitative interviews, respondents who are cohabiting seem to confirm this by telling me that they have often not discussed the future before moving in, because it is just "too soon to do that."

So from the research can you assume that once couples are living together they may feel obliged to take the next step and get married?

No. The empirical evidence indicates that the duration of cohabiting unions is increasing, and the proportion of those that cohabit that go on to marry that partner has also declined over time.

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That is interesting ? living together may be making couples rethink?

Yes, it seems that it is time to reassess the belief that cohabitation is a "stepping stone" to marriage. While some couples may feel pressure -- whether from their own internal clocks or parental pressure - to wed if they are living together, many also express the strong desire to have various things in place before they do so - completed education, a stable job or career, money saved in the bank.

Concerns with "readiness" can therefore enable couples to delay tying the knot, particularly as the prerogative of proposals still remains largely a male responsibility.

So it isn?t the case of couples feeling obliged to get married because of cohabitation?

Some research, by Scott Stanley and colleagues, has suggested that cohabiting couples may "slide" into marriage and that men who do so are less dedicated and committed to their partners. But as the role of cohabitation changes, and fewer proceed into marriage, social pressure to get married may also decline.

My qualitative research suggests that men and women who are wary of marriage have ways to avoid taking that step. For the men, they can put off asking; for the women, expressing ambivalence about marriage is a key way to avoid forcing the issue, since men are not inclined to ask a woman they are not sure will say yes to their proposal.

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Eating well during pregnancy reduces baby's obesity risk regardless of mom's size

ScienceDaily (Sep. 17, 2012) ? If you are overweight and pregnant, your baby isn't destined to a life of obesity after all, according to a new research report published online in The FASEB Journal. In the report, a team of U.S. scientists show that modifying fat intake during pregnancy to a moderate level is enough to benefit the child regardless of the mother's size. Specifically, they found that a protein called "SIRT1" rewrites a developing fetus' histone code, which affects his or her "epigenetic likelihood" of being overweight or obese throughout his or her lifetime.

"We are finding that the cycle of obesity likely begins in the womb, however, we are also finding that obesity does not necessarily beget obesity," said Kjersti M. Aagaard, M.D., Ph.D., study author from the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. "A diet laden with fat changes the molecular machinery which chemically modifies the structure of the developing infant's genetic material. These commonly called 'histone code' changes are rewritten-at least in part-by SIRT1, which in turn, alters key regulators of fat and glucose metabolism in the infant. It is our hope that these early steps will in turn break the cycle of obesity in the generations to come."

To make this discovery, Aagaard and colleagues used three groups of pregnant primates. The first group ate a healthy pregnancy diet (13 percent fat), while the second group ate a high fat diet (35 percent fat) and became obese. The third group was kept on a high fat diet for several years, became obese, and then was put on a healthy diet. Researchers were able to tease apart the effects on the infant of being exposed during pregnancy to a healthy diet versus an unhealthy high fat diet. The sirtuins and the proteins, and the genes regulating glucose and fat metabolism were analyzed. Results suggest that the livers of infants exposed to the high fat diet, showed less SIRT1 and less sirtuin activity than in the control group. However, infants exposed to a healthy pregnancy diet in both lean and obese groups had restored sirtuin. To prove that SIRT1 was specifically chemically modifying the histone code, scientists created a dead enzyme version. Using high level mass spectrometry, it was discovered that while the live enzyme version of SIRT1 was very good at chemically modifying histone proteins (specifically "deacetylating" histone protein H3) the dead version was not.

"What this study shows once again is that eating a healthy diet while pregnant holds true, regardless of your size or shape," said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal. "Even if a woman isn't eating well before pregnancy, adopting good eating habits during pregnancy is still very good for the child and for her. This new report shows how diet affects offspring at the molecular level and points to new treatments for overweight people who were not fortunate enough to have mothers who ate well during pregnancy."

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? The government's monthly jobs report has become Washington's most anticipated and studied economic indicator, pounced upon by politicians, economists and journalists for snap judgments as the presidential election nears. But in the real world, most everybody else just looks around and figures things out for themselves.

Is that steel plant closing? Are Ford or General Motors rehiring? How much are those groceries? What's a full tank of gas going to run me? How much is our house worth? How's that 401(k) doing? When will I find another job? Will our college-educated daughter ever find work and move out.

These are the kinds of questions economists and pollsters say are on people's minds more than government statistics.

"People are not looking at these government reports to decide how the economy is doing, or how well they or their neighbors are doing. They know from their own daily experience," Democratic pollster Mark Mellman said.

"The flow of economic news matters," but only to supplement what their own eyes tell them, Mellman added.

Given that the unemployment rate hasn't dipped below 8 percent since the first month of President Barack Obama's term, Republicans are seizing on the new jobs numbers that come out the first Friday of each month. The GOP is using the fresh figures to batter the president and revive the question famously asked by Ronald Reagan in 1980: "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?"

"We're going in the wrong direction," asserts GOP nominee Mitt Romney. "This president ... doesn't understand what it takes to make our economy work. I do."

The latest numbers show a jobless rate of 8.1 percent for August, with monthly job creation an anemic 96,000, not enough to even match the growth in working-age population. It's doubtful the picture will improve much by Election Day. No president since Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s has won re-election with an unemployment so high.

Unemployment for Roosevelt was then about 15 percent, but falling from around 25 percent. Momentum and direction do count for something.

The economy has lost a staggering 8.8 million jobs in the downturn and has clawed back only 4.1 million. Just two jobs reports remain before the Nov. 6 election ? on Oct. 5 and Nov. 2 ? and they could be crucial to the outcome.

"To the average person, the economy is a very personal thing," says White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer. He said people look at different factors.

But which ones?

"Jobs is still No. 1," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics. "It's at the top of everyone's list. People might not know the government jobs number that comes out each month, but they see it every day in their lives." A close second right now, Zandi says, are gasoline prices, with the national average grazing $4 a gallon. But otherwise, inflation is generally muted.

Dan Connaghan, 69, a retiree in Traverse City, Mich., who supports Romney, agrees. "Unemployment figures don't have an effect on my vote." He questions their accuracy. But he also says there's one thing he knows for sure: "We're worse off than we were four years ago. No doubt about it."

Pollster Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center, said the government numbers "give people a basis of confirmation of their own sense about the economic issues that are the most important to them. And right now, it's jobs."

Only 10 percent of the people in a recent Pew survey consider today's economic conditions "excellent" or "good," Kohut said.

To homeowners, the value of their house ranks high. With nearly half the nation's adult population owning stocks and other securities, mostly through 401(k) and similar programs at work or in pension funds, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is paid some heed.

At its Friday close, the Dow marked its highest level since December 2007, the first month of the recession.

Other reports are more ominous.

The government reported this past week that the income of the typical American household has fallen to levels last seen in 1995.

Interest rates are also followed by many. When they're low, as now, it means individuals and businesses with good credit can borrow money at exceptionally low rates.

But there is a down side. For savers and seniors on fixed-income, there are paltry payouts on balances often drawing interest of 1 percent or less. This only adds to anxiety, particularly among baby boomers and other older Americans, especially given the softness in housing prices.

Jabril Shaikh, 27, of Milwaukee, works at a temporary job in the legal department at a JPMorgan Chase bank. He considers himself underemployed and says he works with a lot of lawyers who are deeply in debt but are only temporary workers. "It's really sad and frustrating ... but this is all I can get right now, you know?"

Leaning toward Obama, he said the unemployment rate will be a factor in his vote for president. But he's also taking into account other social issues.

Jonathan Ketcham, an Arizona State University associate professor who studies the link between local and state economies and presidential elections, said that, contrary to what many political operatives believe, voters are actually more influenced in their presidential decision by the national economy than by state or local conditions.

"We found that, going back to 1932, a state's unemployment rate had no ability to predict voting for president," he said. Furthermore, he said, despite the GOP four-year "are you better off" question, "we found that most people only pay attention to the most recent year, not to the past four years."

He said he views this as evidence that "people are rightly holding presidents accountable for the performance of the national economy." If true, that could be an important factor in this year's swing states that will likely determine the election outcome.

They're nearly evenly divided between states with jobless rates lower than the 8.1 percent national average, such as Ohio, Iowa, Virginia, New Hampshire and Wisconsin, and battleground states with higher rates such as Florida, Colorado, Michigan, North Carolina and Nevada.

Heading into the home stretch, Obama leads Romney in Florida, Ohio and Virginia, according to new post Labor-Day NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls.

"I think that in general, Obama's whole economic plan isn't working. Obviously people have been unemployed for a long time," said Rob Sheehy, 41, of Saukville, Wis., an information technology consultant who generally votes Republican. "I definitely do think it's time for a change and we need to try something else."

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Associated Press writers Paul Wiseman and Alan Fram in Washington, Carrie Antlfinger in Wisconsin and John Flesher in Michigan contributed.

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Most Bengali film buffs have an on-going love affair with French cinema. I am not one of them. But I did fall in love with the first French film I saw. It was a film made by Claude Lelouch in 1966, A Man and a Woman. It?s a simple love story between a race car test driver and a working mother. He, a divorcee with a young son and she, a widow with a young daughter. They meet at the children?s boarding school. They fall in love. The film is a beautiful romance of their love. Superbly shot and produced, it is a French classic. Even after almost three and a half decades the film remains etched in my memory. What was the magic? The sound: the theme track and the sound of a Ford GT 40.

It was the first time that I saw the Ford GT40 in motion. I was mesmerized. I remember seeing the film four times at Globe cinema in Kolkata in the space of a fortnight. Most of my friends thought I was infatuated with the beautiful Anouk Aimee, who starred in the film. It wasn?t the woman, it was the GT40. The sound of a high cammed V8 tearing down a cold early morning on a banked race track is a clip I can play in my mind over and over again. Thirty eight years later, I re-discovered the film again on a DVD and watched those frames all over again. Here are two frames from the film.

So what was about the Ford GT40 that not only mesmerized me but a whole generation?

The history of the Ford GT40 began as an attempt to beat a certain Italian automobile manufacturer at the grueling 24 Hours of LeMans race. Each June, some of the world's best in the automotive industry descend onto a town West of Paris called LeMans to compete in a 24-Hour endurance competition. This tradition began in 1923 and since has become the pinnacle of automotive racing that challenges speed, performance and durability. A select group of European marquees, Porsche, Ferrari, Jaguar, Bentley, and Alfa Romeo had since dominated the LeMans 24 hours race. Henry Ford II wanted to join this elite group.

So during the early part of the 1960's, Ford attempted to buy Ferrari for $18 million to run its international racing program. The purpose was to use Ferrari and its famous race car technology to help Ford achieve a LeMans victory. The negations unraveled and then Ferrari walked away from bargaining table in May of 1963. Enzo Ferrari gave no indication as to why he had decided his company was no longer for sale. He hadan agreement with Fiat that gave some financial backing to a cash strapped Ferrari, while preserving Ferrari's independance.
A frustrated Henry Ford II decided to build his own super-car and beat Ferrari at LeMans.

Roy Lunn was an Englishman who had began his career at Ford of Britain and later came to the United States in 1958. He had played a role in helping to create the 1962 mid-engined Ford Mustang I Concept. The vehicle was an aluminum-bodied, two-seater that was powered by a 1.7-liter 4-cylinder engine.
After the Mustang I, Roy Lunn along with Ray Geddes and Donald Frey turned their attention to a racing program. The car that Ford had conceived was similar to a Lola GT, being low and mid-engined. The Lola was designed and built by Eric Broadley in Slough, England and first displayed in January of 1963 at the London Racing Car Show. Broadley was running low on funds and consequently more than eager to join with Ford.

Borrowed from the Lola GT was the monocoque center section and aerodynamic design. It was longer, wider, and stronger with a rigid steel section. By April 1964 the first GT40 prototype was completed. The same month the GT40 was displayed to the public at the New York Auto Show. The first engine in these prototype cars was a 4.2 liter Ford V8, both block and heads were of aluminum, the engine was drying sumped, with IDA Webers. In this form the engine produced 350 BHP at 7,000 RPM and 275 lbs. ft of torque at 5,600 RPM and weighing dry 834 kgs. A non synchronized Colotti transaxle was used as this unit was thought to be the only transaxle capable of handling the engine's power.

During 1964, testing began and it became apparent that the rear of the car was light at speed; after two cars crashed they were repaired and taken to MIRA (Motor Industry Research Association) in the UK for the tail lifting problem to be remedied. Bruce McLaren and Roy Salvadori were the test drivers, who found that contrary to earlier wind tunnel test results, a spoiler across the width of the tail, forced the rear end down and cured the instability problem. Over the twelve months to 1965 Le-Mans, they tried 289 ci. and 325 ci. engines, improved brakes, early ZF transaxles etc and finally the definitive nose.

By mid 1965 and with the ZF transaxle, Ford decided that the GT40 had reached a sufficiently advanced state of design to go into limited production and build 50 GT cars to qualify them for the Production Sports Car Category.

The GT represented 'Grand Turismo' while the designation 40 represented its height, only 40 inches. The number 40 was added to the designation when the Mark II was introduced.

The Mark II, still built in England, was put through extensive testing which solved many of the stability issues. The now famous Carroll Shelby was brought onboard to oversee the racing program. He began by installing a 7-liter detuned 485bhp NASCAR engine that was more powerful and more reliable. The result was a vehicle that was much more stable and quicker than the Mark I. For the 1965 LeMans, the Mark II proved to be a stronger contender but resulted in another unsuccessful campaign.

The third generation of the GT-40, the Mark III, was introduced in 1966. Ford continued to fine-tune and prepare the GT-40 for LeMans. The GT40 led the race from the beginning. This lead continued throughout the evening and into the morning hours. By noon, all but three of the Fords entered had been eliminated. The three Ford GT40s were 175 miles ahead of their nearest competitors coming up to the finish. The lead driver, Ken Miles, was ordered by Ford to slow and let the other two team cars, one driven by New Zealander Bruce McLaren, catch up for the formation finish. He did so, and McLaren drove on past him to take the actual win. This victory marked the beginning of a four-year domination of the race.

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18-19 June 1966 - Le Mans (F): Round 7, International Manufacturers Championship. Round 7, International Sports Car Championship (Divisions II & III). Round 4, Challenge Mondial. Round 3, Endurance Triple Crown.

24 Hour duration in which 347 laps of a 8.364 mile/13.461 km circuit - 2906.226 miles/4677.110 kms were completed

Weather: Warm, dry, rain on Sunday

Pos Car # Drivers Car Entrant Laps Grid
1 2 Bruce McLaren/Chris Amon/Bob Grossman*/Dan Gurney* Ford Mk II [1046] Shelby American Inc. 360 4
2 1 Ken Miles/Denny Hulme/Lucien Bianchi*/Richard Thompson*/Lloyd Ruby*/Mark Donohue* Ford Mk II [1015] Shelby American Inc. 360 2
3 5 Ronnie Bucknum/Dick Hutcherson/A.J.Foyt*/Bruce McLaren*/Peter Arundell* Ford Mk II [1016] Holman & Moody 348 9

In 1967 Ford introduced the Mark IV to LeMans. It was an all-American GT40; the previous versions had been criticized as being English-built and fueled by monetary resources from America. This had not been the first attempt for an all-American team using an American vehicle to attempt to capture victory at LeMans. Stutz had finished second in 1928. Chrysler had finished third and fourth during the same year, 1928. In 1950 the first major attempt to win at Lemans was undertaken by a wealthy American named Briggs Cunningham. Using modified Cadillac's he captured 10th and 11th. His following attempts to win at LeMans included vehicles that he had built where he managed a third place finish in 1953 and fifth place in 1954. This had been the American legacy at LeMans.

Of the seven vehicles Ford entered in 1967, three crashed during the night time hours. When the checkered flag dropped it was a GT40 driven by Gurney/Foyt to beat out the 2nd and 3rd place Ferrari by only four laps.
For 1968 the FIA put a ceiling on engine displacement at 5 liters. Ford had proven that Ferrari could be beaten and an American team and car could win at LeMans. Ford left international sports racing and sold the cars to John Wyer.

This left John Wyer with no works cars to compete, so with sponsorship from Gulf Oil he further developed the Mk1 for the 1968 and 1969 seasons.
The developments in 1968 included wider rear bodywork to accommodate wider racing tires, with six spoke magnesium knock on wheels, more efficient Girling brakes, a very strong engine:- 400 BHP at 6,500 rpm and 385 lbs. ft of torque. In 1969 this was raised to 425 BHP at slightly lower revs of 6,250 and 396 lbs of torque at 4,750 rpm with a 302 ci. Engine.

The Ford GT40 again won Le-Mans in both 1968 and 1969; the remarkable fact was that the same chassis, P1075 won in both years. The final Le Mans 1969 win by the Icky/Oliver driving team was in the same car that had won the previous year. It had already won five World Sports Car Championship races before coming back to Le Mans.

This was the very first time that the same car had won Le-Mans twice and the feat was not repeated until the 80's when a Porsche 956 matched the record.

Speeds of 217 mph were recorded for the Ford GT40 at Le-Mans, which in 1969 was staggeringly fast - a lot of normal road cars did not get to 90 mph then, yet the road version of the Ford GT40 was capable of 165 mph.

In 1969 new FIA rules and regulations ultimately retired the GT40's from racing and ended the winning streak.

Ford had comprehensively beaten Ferrari four years running and settled a score. To those of us on a permanent drip-feed of high-octane racing petrol into our veins, the GT40 is the one car whose form will remain embedded in our memories. There was something intrinsically sexy about the GT40, and maybe it had something to do with the fact that it was a Ford. A name synonymous with normal road going cars that we use every day, so that anyone driving a Ford could relate to this magnificent machine.

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