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A strong year for Iranian film

New Year’s resolutions, as we know, don’t really work. But if you’re trying to reclaim your life from the greedy clutches of Facebook, Twitter and your smartphone these tips will help.

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By Caitlin Dewey

We are entering the month of Facebook deletions, of “lifehacks,” of “digital detoxes” designed to cure whatever social-media hangover you suffer from the year before.

Per the latest holiday poll from Marist, in fact, nearly half of all Americans will make New Year’s resolutions this year. Resolutions, as we know, don’t really work. But if you’re trying to reclaim your life from the greedy clutches of Facebook, Twitter and that ulti-mate siren — your smartphone — science sez these tips will help.

1. Don’t bring your phone to bed.Forty-four percent of American cellphone-owners sleep with

their phones next to the bed — which is possibly the worst thing you can do for your health while being prone/unconscious. For starters, looking at a phone before you go to bed exposes you to a specific frequency of blue light, which messes with your melatonin, which delays when you fall asleep. On top of that, bringing your phone into the bedroom could take a toll on your relationships. In a recent study published by the journal Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 62 percent (!) of women surveyed said their relationships suffered because their partner messed around on the phone during “couple leisure time,” otherwise known as the time when couples actually interact.

stupidly easy, science-based resolutions for people who spend too much time online

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2. X-out of your email when you aren’t check-ing it.

The average professional spends as many as 13 hours checking email each week, which isn’t just a gargantuan time suck: Studies show it can also hurt your productivity and mental health. According to a study out earlier this month, checking your e-mail all the time contributes significantly to stress. (That might, per some preliminary research out of Britain, have to do with the pressure to be “on” all the time.) That’s obviously not great outside the office, par-ticularly since a new survey by Pew suggests that, thanks to email and smartphones, US employees are increasingly working on their off-hours. But constant e-mailing can hurt your performance at work, too: Frequent pings from things like email and instant messaging divide your attention and slow your work.

3. Turn off the numbers on Facebook.If you find yourself checking Facebook, Instagram

or Twitter obsessively, the problem might not your inherent thirst to see every new tidbit your friends post — it might be more about metrics anxiety. In a paper released last November in the journal Computational Culture, the artist and academic Benjamin Grosser recounted the results of an experi-ment in which he let Facebook users log-on without seeing how many likes or comments any posts got. This basically short circuits the “feedback loop” — the psychological phenomenon that keeps you trawling for more likes — and, according to Grosser’s obser-vations — can help free users from compulsive use. There’s no fix for Twitter or Instagram, alas, but you can download Grosser’s Demetricator for Facebook.

4. Shelve your Kindle or iPad for printed books.Ereaders promise a wealth of conveniences: porta-

bility, trendiness, the promise of reading “50 Shades” on the metro without everyone else knowing what you’re getting up to. But when it comes to actually understanding and remembering what you read, sev-eral studies suggest that paper books have serious

advantages: Readers tend to approach them more seriously, for starters, and the tactile sensation of turning the page helps them navigate lengthier or more complicated texts. In August, a small labora-tory study of readers in Britain also found people remembered things better when they read them in a physical book. That’s not to say there’s anything wrong with your iPad, Nook or Kindle, of course — but if one of your goals for the year was to check out more novels, join a book club, or otherwise read more deeply, then the good old-fashioned library might be best for you.

5. Track the time you spend online.If you ever find yourself spending more time on

the Internet or your phone than you intended, know first that you’re not alone — and second, that this is a key symptom of Internet addiction. (Whoops!) Internet addiction is a real, serious behavioural prob-lem, analogous in some ways to compulsive gambling, researchers have found. But unlike casinos, which are easily avoided, the Internet is everywhere all the time — which makes addictive behaviours much more difficult to treat. Marc Potenza, a psychiatrist at Yale and a long-time researcher of Internet addic-tion, has advocated using technology against tech-nology addiction. In other words, download an app or browser extension that tells you how much time you’re spending online, like RescueTime or Moment. Just as a fitness-tracker can help you regulate how much you walk, and a calorie journal can help you eat healthier meals, an app like Moment can (a) make you aware of the problem and (b) show you how to change it. WP-Bloomberg

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If you ever find yourself spending more time on the Internet or your phone than you intended, know first that you’re not alone — and second, that this is a key symptom of Internet addiction.

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ABDULLAH AL MASUD

ABDULLAH AL MUAJJ

MUSSAMAT MALIHA AMIN

SALMA AKHTER SWEETY

FAIRUZ MAISHA

PRITAM GHOSH

ABRAR SHARIAR

NABILA AYUB

SAMIA SULTANA

FATIHA TUZ-ZAHRA

RAHIK AHMED

ADETY SARKAR

NAFIO FARHAN

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JISHAN AHMED

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TAHMINA AKHTER

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Bangladesh MHM School excels in exams

The result of JSC (Junior Certificate Examination)-2014 under the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Dhaka Bangladesh, was published recenlty. Bangladesh MHM School & College students have done very well in the exam. Twenty-nine students out of 79 got GPA 5.00 in Junior Certificate Examination-2014. The pass percentage is 100. Bangladesh MHM School & College has secured top position among all the foreign schools of Bangladesh. Principal Md Jashim Uddin hailed the scholars who had bagged the highest score of GPA 5.

Ideal Indian School holds Mathematics week

To commemorate the birth anniversary of the mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan, Ideal Indian School conducted GANIT week (Growing Aptitude in Numerical

Innovations & Training) in which hundreds of stu-dents demonstrated their mathematical and reason-ing skills.

A series of activities for various classes were organised for a week and the students participated with great zeal showcasing their talents in various fields. In keeping with the CBSE guidelines, school conducted an essay writing competition for class IV on the topic ‘A Day without Math’ in which Haneen Shamsheer (IV K) won the first prize and for class IX on the topic ‘Contribution of Ramanujan towards Mathematics’, in which Labeeba from IX F secured the first position.

In a quiz contest conducted by for classes X and XI, a team comprising Roshan Hegde, Athith Ramesh and Richelle bagged the first position. Power point presentations on Techniques of Vedic Mathematics were made by Maths teachers Md Sajid and Lubina Sadath. Origami and Poster designing competition was also conducted for classes VII & VIII on the topic ‘Maths in Daily Life.’ HOD of Mathematics Rafeeq Ahmed Siddiqui and Mrs. Khatija coordi-nated the activities.

The series of competitions held over the week defi-nitely increased and encouraged the interest of the students towards Mathematics and sure to reduce the fear of learning the subject.

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Students taking part in the quiz contest. Below: Poster making in progress.

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Punjab Musical Group (PMG) celebrated New Year with fun and frolic at Royal Udipi Restaurant. Chief Coordinating Officer of PMG Najakat Ali welcomed the guests. Also present at the function were Shahid Rashid, President, PMG, Bashir Ahmad Nailha, Ali Khan, Ahmad Mujeeb, Haleem Baig, Faheem Ejaz Khan, Zakat Khan and Nepali group singers Santosh Hasan Seedi and budding actress Aiswarya Murli.

Ebrahim Abdulla M H Al Hail inaugurated the Star Tech Mobiles and Computers showroom at the 01 Mall in Abu Hamour. Also present at the function was Asharaf Vavallatte, Chairman, Gold Star Business Group, Shajeer Kakoor, MD, Star Tech, Sayyid Misbah Tangal, Wasim of Al Mana group and other officials from Gold Star Group.

Grand Heritage Doha Hotel and Spa hosted Italian Football team, Juventus FC. Zeid Talhami, Director of Sales and Marketing said: “Grand Heritage Doha has been honoured to host one of the most prestigious Italian football clubs in the world. Our hotel is fully equipped to provide state-of-the-art health and fitness amenities to athletes who choose to stay with us, ensuring every team receives customised lodging requirements and meal plans.”

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By Candice Choi

Fast-food chains have a New Year’s resolution: Drop the junk. As people express dis-taste for food they think is

overly processed, McDonald’s, Taco Bell and other chains are trying to shed their reputation for serving reheated meals that are loaded with chemicals. That includes rethinking the use of artificial preservatives and other ingre-dients customers find objectionable.

“This demand for fresh and real is on the rise,” said Greg Creed, CEO of Yum Brands, which owns Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut.

During the presentation for analysts and investors last month, Creed said the company needs to be more trans-parent about ingredients and use fewer preservatives.

Recasting fast-food as “fresh” and “real” will be tricky, in large part because it’s so universally regarded as cheap and greasy. Another problem is that terms like “fresh,” ‘’real” and “healthy” have nebulous meanings, making it hard for companies to pin down how to approach transformation.

One way chains are looking to rede-fine themselves is by purging recipes of chemicals people might find unap-petising. Already, packaged food and beverage companies have reformulated products to remove such ingredients, even while standing by their safety. PepsiCo, for instance, said it would remove brominated vegetable oil from Gatorade after a petition by a teenager noted it isn’t approved for use in some markets overseas.

And fast-food chains are indicating they want to jump on the “clean label” trend too:

— Last month, McDonald’s USA

President Mike Andres outlined improvements the company is work-ing on, including the simplification of ingredient labels. Without provid-ing details, he said to expect some changes in early 2015. The remarks came after the company reported a 4.6 percent decline in US sales for November, capping two years of strug-gling performance.

“Why do we need to have preserva-tives in our food?” Andres asked, not-ing McDonald’s restaurants go through supplies quickly. “We probably don’t.”

—Subway, a privately held company that does not disclose sales, started air-ing TV ads on Thursday for its new chicken strips free of artificial pre-servatives and flavours. After suffering bad publicity, the company said earlier last year it would remove an ingredi-ent from its bread that an online peti-tion noted was also used in yoga mats. The ingredient, azodicarbonamide,

is approved by the Food and Drug Administration and widely used as a dough conditioner and whitening agent.

—Chick-fil-A said in 2013 it would remove high-fructose corn syrup from buns and artificial dyes from its dress-ings. A couple months later, it said it plans to serve only chicken raised with-out antibiotics within five years.

— Carl’s Jr last month introduced an “all-natural” burger with no added hormones, antibiotics or steroids. “We are obviously looking at other prod-ucts on our menu to see which ones can be made all natural as well,” said Brad Haley, the chain’s chief market-ing officer.

It’s not clear how far fast-food com-panies will go in reformulating recipes. But the nation’s biggest chains are fac-ing growing competition. In the latest quarter, customer visits to traditional fast-food hamburger chains declined 3 percent from a year ago, according to market researcher NPD Group. Fast-casual chains — which are seen as a step up from traditional fast-food — saw visits rise 8 percent.

Part of the appeal of fast-casual chains is that they position themselves as being higher in quality. Chipotle, which touts its use of organic ingredi-ents and meat from animals that were raised without antibiotics, said sales at established locations surged 19.8 per-cent in the most recent quarter. And Panera vowed this summer to remove artificial colours, flavours and preserv-atives from its food by 2016.

The ethos of wholesome ingredients

is increasingly being embraced across the industry. But not without some challenges.

Dan Coudreaut, executive chef at McDonald’s, has noted the difficulties in changing recipes. In an interview last year, he said McDonald’s is look-ing at ways to use culinary techniques to replace the functions of certain ingredients.

“If you take (an ingredient) out, what are you giving up?” he said.

Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said there are likely many cases where artificial preservatives or colours could be replaced with natural alternatives without significant costs. Since their functions vary, he said com-panies would have to evaluate recipes product by product.

“Sometimes, food additives can be crutches or insurance policies. If a food is frozen, germs aren’t going to grow. But preservatives might be added just in case, or they may be used just because their supplier has been using it for so long,” he said, adding that such changes are “not a big deal” in terms of the overall health.

Michele Simon, a public health law-yer and author of Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines our Health and How to Fight Back, also said getting rid of additives here and there won’t be enough to change the way people think about fast-food.

“That’s just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic,” Simon said. “These companies have a fundamental problem in who they are.” AP

Fast-food big resolution: Transform junk food image

McDonald’s, Taco Bell and other chains are trying to shed their reputation for serving reheated meals that are loaded with chemicals. That includes rethinking the use of artificial preservatives and other ingredients customers find objectionable.

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By Sarah Kaplan

For a moment, Susan Colantuono can only say “Holy cow,” when she thinks about how her life has changed since a presentation she gave last November was posted on the TED website. In the

three months since the video went up, the talk has been translated into 15 languages and viewed more than 1.7 million times. Colantuono has been bom-barded with LinkedIn requests and invitations to speak at conferences. An agent reached out asking for her book proposal (it hadn’t been written yet).

“Holy cow,” she says again.Colantuono, founder and chief executive of the

consulting firm Leading Women, was accustomed to speaking before crowds. She’s spent the past decade talking with groups of female professionals and at conferences of business executives about ways to get more women into positions of power. Still, it was rare for her talks to get posted online, especially by a channel that has more than 2 billion views.

But TED, the 30-year-old lecture series that focuses on technology, education and design, has made a mission of giving intellectuals their 15 — er, 18 — minutes of online fame. And it’s very, very good at it. The TED network of YouTube channels has more than 5.9 million subscribers — more than any other education channel and plenty of non-education ones (Coldplay, PlayStation, “Talking Animals”).

The notion, as TED’s motto goes, is that ideas are “worth spreading.” Why should the results of some-one’s research be confined to academic journals and 100-person lecture halls when there’s a whole world of Internet users eager to hear about them?

The TED team thinks it’s revolutionising edu-cation: “One person speaking can be seen by mil-lions, shedding bright light on potent ideas, creating intense desire for learning and to respond,” TED curator Chris Anderson said in a 2010 talk.

The series’s detractors say that these videos are a watered-down version of true learning — “mid-dlebrow megachurch infotainment,” in the words of University of California at San Diego profes-sor Benjamin Bratton, who gave a talk on the subject at a TEDx conference last year. (TEDx events are independently run offshoots of the main conference.)

So whether TED talks are in fact changing the world is a matter of debate. But for the kinds of people whose work tends to get featured at TED conferences — college professors, social scientists, computer programmers — having a talk go viral can change everything.

Take Susan Cain, a soft-spoken writer from New York who left a career as a corporate lawyer because of the profession’s emphasis on extroversion. She gave her TED talk on “the power of introverts” one month into a tour for her first book, Quiet. Though the book had done well on its own — it debuted at No. 4 on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list, it was the TED video that turned Cain into something of a celebrity.

“It just blew it out by many orders of magnitude,” Cain says.

Less than two years later, the video has been viewed more than 10 million times, and Cain is the inadvertent leader of a “Quiet Revolution” aimed at promoting the contributions of introverts. Now Cain, a self-described introvert, makes her liv-ing rallying followers to her “quiet revolution” — exactly the kind of hectic lifestyle she’d fled when she quit law. She’s well aware of the irony.

But perhaps she shouldn’t be surprised by it. Like the other most-viewed videos on the TED website (Cain’s ranks 12th), her speech exhibits that par-ticular mixture of personal narrative, theatrics, intellectualism and self-help-style inspiration that the lecture series has perfected. With titles such as “your body language shapes who you are” and “how

great leaders inspire action,” the most successful talks are life-hacks backed by social science.

Really, messages such as Cain’s are made for online video, says Kevin Allocca. The trends man-ager for YouTube and author of his own fairly suc-cessful TED talk (“Why videos go viral” has been viewed more than 1.6 million times), Allocca is an expert in what makes people click.

Although TED talks are somewhat more cer-ebral than the other viral videos he’s seen stream-ing through YouTube’s servers, they share some important qualities with, say, singing cat memes. They offer something unexpected (Jill Bolte Taylor, whose talk is ranked fifth, brings out an actual human brain in hers) and they are usable or par-ticipatory in some fashion (Pamela Meyer’s, No. 16, promises to teach you how to spot a liar). That unexpectedness factor makes you likely to click, and the participatory factor compels you to share.

Virality also depends on “tastemakers,” cultural icons with large followings who can introduce videos to a wider audience. TED, with its wonky optimism and millions of followers, fills that role perfectly.

“When you break down the behaviours, it makes a lot of sense,” Allocca told The Washington Post. TED content “is really made for Web-viewing

experiences.”That’s been the case for his talk, which Allocca

says has become a “calling card of sorts.” Search “why do videos go viral?” on Google and his talk comes up in two of the top three results. For some-one who hasn’t written a book or published research in scholarly journals, that seven-minute video is the most visible — and most viewed — display of his expertise. Allocca says many of the people who come to him looking for advice on how to create a shareable video cite his TED talk as the reason they found him.

Colantuono’s video, a 14-minute presentation in which she critiques the kind of career advice that’s traditionally given to women, has worked in much the same way. The talk is a year old — she had originally given it at a TEDx conference in Boston — and until September had gotten a modest 5,000 or so views.

But then TED, with its 5 million followers, re-posted the video on its own channel. Soon after came the flood of website comments, the interview requests, the emails from literary agents.

It’s a very particular kind of celebrity, one marked much more by appearances on NPR and invitations to conferences than pictures in Peoplemagazine and requests for autographs. Neither Cain nor Colantuono has been recognised outside of their academic context on, say, the subway or at the supermarket.

In fact, sometimes the opposite happens. Waiting in the taxi line at the end of another conference, an audience member chatted with Colantuono about how much she liked a talk, not realising she was speaking to the person who gave it.

Colantuono laughs it off. She never expected to be known in the first place. WP-Bloomberg

Susan Cain giving her Ted talk.

They speak, and millions listen, thanks to TED

The TED network of YouTube channels has more than 5.9 million subscribers — more than any other education channel and plenty of non-education ones (Coldplay, PlayStation, “Talking Animals”).

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By Celia Wren

What’s the con-nection between slasher flicks and the art of M.C. Escher? Both

inspired Iranian writer-director Shahram Mokri’s Fish & Cat, win-ner of a special award for innova-tion at the 2013 Venice Film Festival. The 134-minute thriller, which was shot, astoundingly, in a single take, involves an isolated lake, creepy woods, a group of camping students and a restaurant that may be serv-ing human flesh. But more striking than the movie’s plot is its uncanny chronology, in which time seems to double back on itself.

Tense scenes unfurl to the strains of ominous music: kite-flying gear mysteriously disappears; a pair of one-armed twins stalks around; a menacing-looking restaurateur car-ries what looks like a bag of bloody meat. Events recur, but from differ-ent angles, all without the camera work ever resorting to a cut.

“Time in this film is like closed

circles. Circles which in themselves have circles,” Mokri, 35, said in an email interview, noting that his intent was to give chronology the kind of logic-defying structure that certain Escher images give to archi-tecture, producing an effect that Mokri describes as “always so magi-cal to our mind.”

Fish & Cat is one of the highlights of the 19th annual Iranian Film Festival, beginning January 9 at the Freer Gallery of Art. (Mokri is scheduled to appear at the January 16 screening of Fish & Cat, which also airs on January 18.) Another festival highlight: Manuscripts Don’t Burn, by director Mohammad Rasoulof, who shot the thriller in 2013 despite being banned by Iranian authorities from filmmaking for 20 years.

“This is a very strong year,” said Tom Vick, curator of film for the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M Sackler Gallery. Fish & Cat, in particular, is “quite bril-liant,” he says.

“It’s not only the technical achieve-ment of managing to pull off this one-take film, but doing it in such

a compelling way,” with the camera moving all the time, said Vick, who curated the festival with Carter Long of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and Marian Luntz of Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts.

In a nod to a common suspense-drama trope, Fish & Cat opens with an announcement that the story is based on reality. In fact, Mokri said, the film draws on newspaper cover-age of a restaurant rumoured to be serving kebabs made of human flesh.

Mokri says he heard about the incident when he was a teenager and remembered it decades later while “looking for a story (in) which I could introduce a mood like American slasher films and also talk about today’s Iran society.” A society, he said, “always waiting for something horrible to happen.”

To prepare for the shoot, Mokri and his cast rehearsed extensively — a month in Tehran, where the director lives, and a month in northern Iran. They rehearsed, Mokri said, “just like a theatre performance — every single day.”

Still, on the first day of filming, an actor had a memory lapse, and the

shoot had to be aborted. But the next day it was successful.

Mokri said that at first it was dif-ficult to get Fish & Cat screened in Iran, in part because authorities had interpreted the mention of the year 1998, the movie’s reference to the restaurant scandal, as an allusion to a period of political killings in Iran. But after Hassan Rouhani (who has been described as a relative moder-ate) became president in 2013, “we had no problems, and we screened the film,” Mokri said.

Censorship was and is “very strong in Iran, both in terms of what you can make and what you can see,” Vick said. But more recently, he added, “because everybody can sneak around the rules and see things online or on satellite dishes,” Iranian directors have been able to enter more fully into dialogue with world cinema.

Mokri certainly seems glad to keep the dialogue going. He recently returned from India, where he served on a film festival jury. “I saw lots of Indian and Bollywood films, and I actually learned a lot,” he said.

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BOLLYWOOD NEWS

Bollywood in 2015: Watch out for epic costume dramasBy Subhash K Jha

From Bajirao Mastani to Mohenjo Daro — it looks like 2015 will be an epic year for Bollywood. Several filmmakers have lined up big budget

spectacles that go back in time.Here’s looking at the big budget epics of 2015:* Bajirao Mastani: Set in the 17th century, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s

quasi-historical featuring the Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela trio of Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone and Priyanka Chopra, is one of the most expensive Hindi films to be produced. Bhansali spares no expenses to tell the love story of Maratha Peshwa Bajirao and his liaison with his two wives.

* Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!: In this movie set in Kolkata of the 1940s, Dibakar Banerjee recreates the intrigue of the era through painstaking care for details. Sushant Singh Rajput changes his body language completely for the movie, said to be Banerjee’s most expensive film to date.

* Bombay Velvet: Ranbir Kapoor amd Anushka Sharma relive ‘Bombay’ in the 1960s in this large screen adaptation of Gyan Prakash’s Mumbai Fables. The bygone era of Mumbai was recreated in Sri Lanka. The film is reputed to have gone over budget.

* Hawaizaada: The period film features Ayushmann Khurrana in the role of a 19th century scientist and aviation pioneer Shivkar Bapuji Talpade. It is directed by Vibhu Puri.

* Mohenjo Daro: Ashutosh Gowariker’s fourth period film after Lagaan, Jodhaa-Akbar and Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey takes Hrithik Roshan back to the Indus Valley civilisation. With his modern body language, it would be interesting to see Hrithik turn the clock back to a time when perhaps there were no clock

HOLLYWOOD NEWS

Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting is not a ‘feminist’

Actress Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, who is reportedly pulling in $1m per episode on The Big Bang Theory, said she was never a “feminist”.

“It’s not really something I think about. Things are different now, and I know a lot of the work that paved the way for women happened before I was around... I was never that feminist girl demanding equal-ity, but maybe that’s because I’ve never really faced inequality,” she told Redbook magazine, reports people.com.

Cuoco-Sweeting, 29, who married husband Ryan Sweeting, 27, during New Year’s Eve 2013, said that she cooks for him “five nights a week.”

“It makes me feel like a housewife, I love that. I know it sounds old-fashioned, but I like the idea of women taking care of their men. I’m so in control of my work that I like coming home and serving him”.

“My mom was like that, so I think it kind of rubbed off,” she said.

Emma Stone enjoys staying at home

Actress Emma Stone says she likes to just relax at home when she’s not working. The 26-year-old had a busy 2014 as she starred as char-

acter Sally Bowles in the Broadway production of musical Cabaret and having lead roles in films The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Magic in the Moonlight and Birdman.

But Stone, who is in a relationship with actor Andrew Garfield, says her numerous acting roles don’t leave her much time for herself, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

Asked what she does in her spare time, she said: “I just stay at home. A few people come over and I watch movies and I read and that’s pretty much all I’ve got outside of work ... All I’ve been doing is work-ing (lately) so I haven’t been able to do that much outside of work”.

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Michael Douglas doesn’t like growing old

Actor Michael Douglas says that there is “nothing” he likes about growing older, but admits he is a more “patient” father to his younger

children. The 70-year-old star, who has 36-year-old son Cameron with ex-wife Diandra Luker and 14-year-old son Dylan and 11-year-old daugh-ter Carys with spouse Catherine Zeta Jones, says he is getting crankier with age, but believes he has finally figured out what is really important in life, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

“There is nothing I like about getting older, absolutely nothing. I guess the one thing is that when you’re younger you care what other people think. You waste a lot of energy trying to make a good impression on strangers. When you’re older, you focus all that energy on the people closest to you, your family.

“I have more time today than I had when I was a dad the first time around. Back then, my career always came first. Today that’s different. And I have a lot more patience,” he said.

Douglas insists he has no regrets about anything that has happened in his life. “It’s important to make mistakes as long as you grow from them.”

The “Wall Street” actor says fighting tongue cancer in 2010 has given him a new perspective on life.

“I’m very pragmatic about this stuff. I just wanted to deal with the problem at hand. I feel lucky to be around still. When you come out the other side, you feel really alive, with all this new energy. You make up for lost time,” he said.

Arijit makes his Tamil debut with Pugazh

Bollywood playback singer Arijit Singh has crooned his first Tamil number in upcoming film Pugazh, which features Jai Sampath and

Surabhi in the lead.“Arijit Singh of ‘Tum hi ho’ fame debuts in Tamil with a super melo-

dious love track. The melody begins with the lines ‘Neeye Vaazhkai Enbena’, written by Na Muthu kumar and Francis,” read a statement.

“We attach lot of pride in bringing him here,” added the statement.Two schedules of the film’s shooting have already been completed.Pugazh, a story of an underdog, will be completed with the third

schedule, which is expected to start soon.Produced by Sushant Prasad, the film is being directed by Manimaran.

Shruti Haasan set for six releases in 2015

The New Year is going to be extremely busy for actress Shruti Haasan, who is gearing up for the release of six films - four in Bollywood and

one each in Tamil and Telugu.In Bollywood, Shruti has Gabbar opposite Akshay Kumar, Rocky

Handsome and Welcome Back opposite John Abraham and Yaara oppo-site Vidyut Jammwal.

Down south, she has a yet-untitled Tamil and Telugu project each with Vijay and Mahesh Babu, respectively.

“She’s been working tirelessly, round the clock juggling between her film and brand commitments, while also making time for her music. Shruti has got a very interesting line up that spans various genres and ensures different looks and character graphs,” a source close to Shruti said.

Recently, she was signed on for yet-untitled Tamil-Telugu bilingual featuring actor Akkineni Nagarjuna and Karthi.

Babak Karimi (left) and Mona Ahmadi in Fish & Cat.

AVIATIONPLUS | SUNDAY 4 JANUARY 201510

HEALTH 11PLUS | SUNDAY 4 JANUARY 2015

By Shereen Lehman

Children who didn’t sleep well leading up to a scheduled surgery, or whose parents made a big deal of the pain the child would feel, did turn out to have worse pain after surgery,

according to a new US study.The authors say theirs is the first study to look

at both parents’ and childrens’ psychological factors before and after surgery that may influence pain, and it may lead to interventions that help kids who are prone to post-surgical pain.

“Millions of children have surgery every year and therefore the impact of surgery on children’s health is a very important issue nationally and worldwide,” lead author Dr Jennifer Rabbitts said in an email.

“Unfortunately, until recently little informa-tion is available on how kids do once they go home from the hospital after surgery, a time which can be very challenging for them and their parents,” said Rabbitts, a pediatric anesthesiologist with the Seattle Children’s Research Institute and the University of Washington.

“Many children continue to have problems with pain after surgery, but we were excited to find that some factors may help us identify before surgery which children could have more problems, so that we can help these families in advance,” she said.

For the study, which is published in The Journal of Pain, Rabbitts and her colleagues enrolled 60 children ages 10 to 18 who were about to undergo spinal fusion or surgery to repair chest deformities.

For seven days before their procedures, the kids wore sleep-monitoring watches and kept daily elec-tronic pain and sleep diaries.

In addition, kids and their caregivers (mostly their mothers) answered questions about pain characteris-tics, quality of life, anxiety and how they would likely respond to their child’s pain.

The last category of questions was intended to measure the parents’ tendency to “catastrophise” pain, meaning excessive worry and magnifying pain levels or the potential for pain.

Week-long follow up measurements were repeated about two weeks after the surgeries, while the kids were recovering at home.

Prior to their surgeries, the kids slept, on aver-age, about eight hours per night and more than 80

percent of them reported some pain. Their average quality of life score was about 74 out of 100.

After surgery, most kids reported moderate to severe pain that persisted for two weeks. About two-thirds took medications for pain relief.

The kids’ average quality of life score dropped to 60, mostly due to perceived changes in their physi-cal health.

The study team found that kids with shorter sleep duration or greater parental catastrophising before the surgery were more likely to have higher pain levels during recovery at home.

The children’s own anxiety levels and tendencies toward catastrophising pain before their procedures were not associated with higher levels of post-oper-ative pain.

However, kids who had higher anxiety before the surgery tended to report lower quality of life two weeks after their procedures.

“More research is needed before we can recom-mend specific interventions, but for now I would encourage families and doctors to discuss thoughts and expectations about pain after surgery, and options for managing pain,” Rabbitts said.

Dr Santhanam Suresh, a paediatric anesthesiolo-gist at Ann and Robert H Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago, called the study interesting and pains-takingly well done.

“What makes this different from most other pain studies is the fact that they were actually able to look at these patients prior to surgery for about a week, which adds a unique dimension to this study,” he said.

Suresh, who was not involved in the research, said he thinks parental anxiety can have a huge psycho-logical impact on the kids, and he often sees it in the recovery room.

“You see these anxious parents, and you can see the child will be complaining of a lot of pain,” he said.

Suresh said that being honest with parents about what to expect after the surgery might help alleviate some of the pre-operative anxiety.

“I think what we can do . . . is maybe come up with an index for parents to prepare their children for surgery, to get them acquainted with the issues,” he said.

SOURCE: bit.ly/13JpIOW The Journal of Pain, online December 22, 2014.

Reuters

Scientists create ‘repulsive’ materialJapanese scientists have developed a new mate-

rial whose properties are dominated by elec-trostatic repulsion — the same force that makes our hair stand on end when we touch a van gen-erator — rather than attractive interaction.

Up to now, man-made materials have not taken advantage of this phenomenon, but nature has. Cartilage owes its ability to allow virtually friction-less mechanical motion within joints, even under high compression, to the electrostatic forces inside it.

“Materials of this kind could be used in the future in various areas from regenerative medi-cine to precise machine engineering, by allowing the creation of artificial cartilage, anti-vibration materials and other materials that require resist-ance to deformation in one plane,” said Yasuhiro Ishida from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science in Japan.

The team found that when titanate nano-sheets are suspended in an aqueous colloidal dispersion, they align themselves face-to-face in a plane when subjected to a strong magnetic field.

The field maximises the electrostatic repulsion between them and entices them into a quasi-crys-talline structure, naturally orienting themselves face to face, separated by the electrostatic forces between them. Along with colleagues from the National Institute of Material Science and the University of Tokyo, the team created the new material.

The findings appeared in the journal Nature.

New insights into autism spectrum disorders

US researchers have identified a molecular network that comprises many of the genes

previously shown to contribute to autism spec-trum disorders. The findings provide a map of some of the crucial protein interactions that con-tribute to autism and will help uncover novel candidate genes for the disease.

“The study of autism disorders is extremely challenging due to the large number of clini-cal mutations that occur in hundreds of differ-ent human genes associated with autism,” said Michael Snyder, professor at the Stanford Center for Genomics and Personalised Medicine and the lead author of the study.

The researchers generated their interactome — the whole set of interactions within a cell — using the BioGrid database of protein and genetic interactions. “We have identified a specific mod-ule within this interactome that comprises 119 proteins and which shows a very strong enrich-ment for autism genes,” Snyder added.

Gene expression data and genome sequencing were used to identify the protein interaction module with members strongly enriched for known autism genes. The sequencing of the genomes of 25 patients confirmed the involvement of the module in autism; the candidate genes for autism present in the mod-ule were also found in a larger group of more than 500 patients that were analysed by exome sequenc-ing. The module identified is enriched in autism genes had two distinct components.

“One of these components was expressed throughout different regions of the brain. The second component had enhanced molecular expression in the corpus callosum. Both compo-nents of the network interacted extensively with each other,” Snyder said.

The results were published in the journal Molecular Systems Biology.

Agencies

Lack of sleep, parents’ anxiety may affect kids’ pain after surgery

TECHNOLOGYPLUS | SUNDAY 4 JANUARY 201512

By Caitlin Dewey

By all accounts, 2014 was a pretty ace year for genius Mark Zuckerberg and his ongoing takeover of the world.

Facebook celebrated its 10th anniver-sary in February and its 1.35 billionth

user just nine months after that. (Stop here for a minute, because that number is worth considering: 1.35 billion. Billion. OK, continue. )

Facebook acquired Oculus, makers of a much-touted virtual reality headset, and WhatsApp, the massively popular messaging app. The company launched a steady stream of its own apps, too: Paper, Slingshot, Mentions, Messenger, Rooms. In late July, Facebook released a mobile app to provide free basic Internet service in regions of the world lacking what so many of us take for granted; that’s since rolled out in Zambia, Kenya and Tanzania. And as if we needed further proof that the social network is a global powerhouse, the World Cup broke all-time records for the site: 350 million people posted about the games a total of 3 billion times.

And yet, even as Facebook strides boldly toward world domination, cracks have appeared in its once fresh-faced facade. Teens — the best indicator for Web zeitgeist — have fled the network for younger, hipper venues. In the past year, users have begun complaining about the insidious reach of algorithms, as well as the site’s every incremental change. A wave of anonymous apps has begun to erode the distinctly Facebookian notion that everything you do online should be tied to your real-life name.

Perhaps most damningly, for the first time since Facebook launched in 2004, someone made a go at an overtly, intentionally anti-Facebook network. Sure, Ello sputtered out in a span of months — but it gave voice to the concerns of a million wary Facebook users, first.

In the words of one industry analyst: “You look at Facebook and you say, ‘Wow, something really changed in 2014.’”

Much of this is, of course, nothing more than pre-dictable backlash to Facebook’s gargantuan growth. Only six or seven years ago, pundits were still dis-missing it as the fringe sandbox of college students; now the company — valued at more than $200bn — is as much a household name as Coca-Cola or Ford.

But the sheer number of controversies and culture wars that Facebook’s gotten tangled in over the past year would seem to suggest something more than run-of-the-mill contrariness in the face of change.

Users practically rioted over an A/B testing experiment that, they feared, “manipulated” their emotions and gave Facebook psychological powers it seemed destined to abuse. Soon after, they objected to Facebook’s forced rollout of a stand-alone mes-saging app — “creepy” and “invasive,” critics ruled — and a series of changes to the News Feed that, while arguably valuable, also increased the visibility of Facebook’s mysterious algorithmic filtering.

In May, Facebook rolled out an unabashedly nosy feature called “Ask,” which — practically speaking — encourages users to publish more personal details

than they might otherwise. A few months later, the site found itself clashing with drag performers, LGBT advocates and others over another type of personal detail: Facebook has long insisted that users oper-ate under their “real,” or legal, names regardless of the context.

From a business perspective, that policy makes sense: Your identity, with all the demographics and browsing data attached to it, is exactly what Facebook sells advertisers. But from any kind of per-sonal POV, that seems pretty crazy: It’s essentially Facebook — a largely automated, algorithmic, non-human entity — telling you who to be.

“You are the product that’s bought and sold,” intoned the widely shared manifesto of the social networking start-up Ello, which briefly billed itself as an ad-free alternative to Facebook. “We believe there is a better way.”

Ello is not the first or the only social network to challenge Facebook, of course — though it was the first to do so explicitly. A series of newly trendy anon-ymous apps, from Whisper and Secret to Yik Yak and newcomer After School, have all questioned the identity ethos at the heart of Facebook. On Whisper or Yik Yak, you do not have to be friends with your college professor or your cousin’s neighbor or your office cubemate; you do not have to share your rela-tionship status or your current location; you can be anyone or no one, and either is OK, and no one (or no thing) will tell you otherwise.

To members of Facebook’s LGBT exodus, that premise was enticing. (In the wake of the real-name spat with Facebook, users signed-up for Ello at a rate of 4,000 per hour.) But even to casual users, the promise of an empowering, validating social network — one that put users’ humanity before its own corporate concerns — was like straight-up manna. Tech writers were all too eager to anoint Ello the “Facebook-killer,” or predict it would “steal Facebook’s lunch.”

Ello has, of course, cycled out of the tech hype cycle just as fast as it cycled in. Facebook made nice with the LGBT community, ushering some of Ello’s

earliest adopters back into the FB fold; the site faded from Google searches and social mentions; a quick browse through Ello’s proffered model profiles shows that many have only posted once or twice in the past week. A Facebook killer, this is not.

But truth be told, maybe Facebook needs no killer: The site is doing quite enough damage to itself. Just last week, Facebook became embroiled in a new controversy after it pushed a celebratory “Year in Review” feature to all users’ pages. For the writer and Web consultant Eric Meyer, Facebook surfaced a photo of his recently deceased 6-year-old. (“It’s been a great year! Thanks for being a part of it,” the package’s tagline read, while partying clip art figures danced around Meyer’s daughter’s face.)

“Yes, my year looked like that. True enough. My year looked like the now-absent face of my little girl,” Meyer wrote on his blog. “And I know, of course, that this is not a deliberate assault. . . . Algorithms are essentially thoughtless. They model certain deci-sion flows, but once you run them, no more thought occurs. To call a person ‘thoughtless’ is usually con-sidered a slight, or an outright insult; and yet, we unleash so many literally thoughtless processes on our users, on our lives, on ourselves.”

It’s a criticism of Facebook, or at least an epiphany about Facebook, that many have apparently experi-enced this year: When human relationships and iden-tities are moderated by algorithm, particularly for profit, bad things happen. Inevitably! There are sim-ply more variables in life than a string of code could ever account for. There are too many shades and expressions of personal identity, too many internal irrationalities and inconsistencies, too many secrets and whispers and emotional baggage for an algorithm to encode. That shortfall can leave us feeling anxious. Or dehumanized. Betrayed by the site, even.

Of course, the hordes of people who left Facebook in 2014 didn’t usually articulate their concerns that way. A study out shortly before Christmas, by the research firm Frank N Magid Associates, found that 6 percent of high-schoolers abandoned the site in the past year. A much larger survey, this one conducted by the Pew Research Center last year, found that 61 percent of all Facebook users have taken long breaks from the network; asked why they went on hiatus, users most frequently said they were busy or bored or considered Facebook a “waste” of their time.

Facebook, unsurprisingly, sees itself in a different light. Early this month, the social network published a typically flashy, feel-good “year in review” for itself; the resulting video recounts the “moments, places and people that moved us in 2014” — a pretty bold claim, when you think about it, since Facebook is basically equating the stuff you post on Facebook with the stuff that matters most to you.

WP-Bloomberg

The year the world turned on Facebook

In the past year, users have begun complaining about the insidious reach of algorithms, as well as the site’s every incremental change. A wave of anonymous apps has begun to erode the distinctly Facebookian notion that everything you do online should be tied to your real-life name.

COMICS & MORE 13

Hoy en la HistoriaJanuary 4, 2010

1885: Dr Williams West Grant of Iowa performed the first successful operation to remove an appendix1965: T.S. Eliot, American-born Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright, died in London2007: Scientists reported evidence of lakes of liquid methane, ranging from 1-100km wide, on Saturn’s moon Titan2010: Large parts of northern China and South Korea were affected by the heaviest snowfall in 60 years

The Burj Khalifa, at 825m the tallest structure ever built, was opened in Dubai. It was named in honour of UAE President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Picture: Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS

ALL IN THE MIND Can you find the hidden words? They may be horizontal,vertical, diagonal, forwards or backwards.

ABSENCE, AMUSEMENT, BREAK, CAPER, CAREFREE, DIVERSION, ENJOYMENT, ENTERTAINMENT, ESCAPADE, ESCAPISM, EXCURSION, FESTIVITY, FIELD DAY, FREE TIME, FREEWHEELING, FROLIC, HOBBY, HOLIDAY, HONEYMOON, JAUNT, JUNKET, LEAVE, LEISURE, PASTIME, PICNIC, PLAY, PLEASURE TRIP, RECREATION, RELAXATION, RESPITE, REST, SPARE TIME, TIME OUT, UNWORRIED, VACATION.

Baby Blues by Jerry Scott & Rick Kirkman

Zits by Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman

Hagar The Horrible by Chris Browne

LEARN ARABIC

PLUS | SUNDAY 4 JANUARY 2015

Travelling by Sea

Of�ce Maktab

Company Šarika

The marine travel agency Wakalat safar ba�riyya

The sea is wavy Alba�rou ha'i�

The sea is calm Alba�rou hadi'

The sky is clear Alsama' �a�a

I want a two-way ticket Oureedou ta�karat �ahaban wa iyyaban

How many days will our journey last to France?

Kam yawman sayadoomou safarouna ila Faransa?

Give me a second class ticket Aç�inee ta�kara mina aldara�a al�ania

Note: ç = ‘a’ in ‘agh’ when surprised

HYPER SUDOKU

CROSSWORD

CROSSWORDS

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

How to play Hyper Sudoku:A Hyper Sudoku

Puzzle is solved

by filling the

numbers from 1

to 9 into the blank

cells. A Hyper

Sudoku has

unlike Sudoku

13 regions

(four regions

overlap with the

nine standard

regions). In all

regions the numbers from 1 to 9 can appear

only once. Otherwise, a Hyper Sudoku is

solved like a normal Sudoku.

ACROSS 1 Secret stash 6 Doorframe’s vertical

part10 Water, in Latin14 Buenos ___15 Dial button sharing the

“0”16 Big oafs17 Samsung Galaxy or

BlackBerry19 1953 Leslie Caron

musical20 Number after Big or top21 Two cents’ worth22 CBS police drama that

debuted in 200323 Be hot under the collar26 Green ogre of film28 Carriage puller31 Where oysters and

clams are served34 It’s beneficial37 Beneath39 “___ your head!”40 “That’s rich!”41 Devious trick

43 When repeated, a Latin dance

44 Turkish official45 Jimmy who works with

Lois Lane46 Worker with an apron

and a white hat48 Go carousing with a

drinker, say50 Archaeologist’s find52 Trails54 “Sic ’em!”58 Makes a pick60 Book of the world63 Guy’s date64 It’s beneficial65 What an optimist

always looks on68 ___ of Sandwich69 Comfort70 Witty Oscar71 Unit of force72 “___ the night before

Christmas …”73 Does as told

DOWN 1 Selects for a role

2 ’Til Tuesday singer Mann

3 Machine at a construction site

4 “Tell Laura I Love ___” (1960 hit)

5 Suffix with winning 6 Chief Justice Roberts 7 Individually 8 Hostess’s handouts 9 Fellow members of a

congregation10 Never-before-seen11 Easily made profit12 Hybrid citrus fruit13 In its existing state18 Dockside platform24 Start of many band

names25 Hurry, with “it”27 Melted cheese on toast29 Figure (out)30 Go in32 Tennis legend Arthur33 Backside34 Vengeful captain35 Long, involved story36 Abrupt left or right

38 All over42 Kindergarten learning47 Statute49 Give a hard time51 Mascara target53 Something to stick in a

milk shake55 Able to move well56 G.M. luxury car,

informally

57 Some German/Swiss artworks in MoMA

58 Newspaper think piece59 ___ on words61 Bart’s intelligent sister62 Years on end66 Number of points

scored by a safety67 Bro or sis

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

14 15 16

17 18 19

20 21 22

23 24 25 26 27

28 29 30 31 32 33

34 35 36 37 38 39

40 41 42 43

44 45 46 47

48 49 50 51

52 53 54 55 56 57

58 59 60 61 62 63

64 65 66 67

68 69 70

71 72 73

B A N J O M C M A N S I O NO L E I C C R A Z Y B O N ET O W N S D O N T P A N I CC H E X C U E D I N TH A R E M S H A K M A Y A

S E Q U E L M I N E RD S O R U N T B O N S A IR A R E G A S L A N T E R NE L A T E D W O R K A S EA L L E S H E B R E WM I E S B A B E Y A L T AL E X H E R S P O O RA M A R Y L L I S Z I P P ON A M E P L A T E A T E A MD E S M O I N E S P I Z Z A

How to play Kakuro:The kakuro grid, unlike in sudoku, can be of any size. It has rows and columns, and dark cells like in a crossword. And, just like in a crossword, some of the dark cells will contain numbers. Some cells will contain two numbers.However, in a crossword the numbers reference clues. In a kakuro, the numbers are all you get! They denote the total of the digits in the row or column referenced by the number.Within each collection of cells - called a run

- any of the numbers 1 to 9 may be used but, like sudoku, each number may only be used once.

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

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EASY SUDOKUCartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

Easy Sudoku PuzzlesPlace a digit from 1 to 9 in each empty cell so everyrow, every column and every 3x3 box contains allthe digits 1 to 9.

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Vice (2D/Action) – 7:15 & 11:30pm

Unbroken (2D/Drama) – 9:00pm

2Legend of the Never Beast (3D/Animation)

– 2:15, 3:30 & 4:45pm

Laggies (2D/Comedy) – 6:15pm

Iron Clad: Battle of the Blood (2D/Action) – 8:15pm

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P.K. (Hindi) (2D/Comedy) – 8:30pm

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Unbroken (2D/Drama) – 6:15pm

Cousins (2D/Malayalam) – 8:45pm

Vice (2D/Action) – 11:15pm

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Paddington (2D/Comedy) – 4:45 & 6:30pm

Iron Clad: Battle of the Blood (2D/Action) – 8:30pm

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3 Iron Clad: Battle of the Blood (2D/Action) – 2:30pm

Laggies (2D/Comedy) – 5:00pm

The Woman in Black (2D/Drama) – 7:00pm

Vice (2D/Action) – 9:00pm

Swelter (2D/Action) – 11:00pm

ROYAL

PLAZA

1

Legend of the Never Beast (3D/Animation) – 2:30pm

P.K. (Hindi) (2D/Comedy) – 4.15 & 10.45pm

Vice (2D/Action) – 7:00 & 9:00pm

2

Laggies (2D/Comedy) – 2:30 & 6:30pm

Legend of the Never Beast (3D/Animation) – 4:30pm

Unbroken (2D/Drama) – 8:30pm

Swelter (2D/Action) – 11:15pm

3 Unbroken (2D/Drama) – 2:30pm

Swelter (2D/Action) – 5:00pm

Iron Clad: Battle of the Blood (2D/Action) – 7:00 & 11:00pm

The Woman in Black (2D/Drama) – 9:00pm

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Fifty-one years ago, Arthur Lampitt of Granite City, Illinois, smashed his 1963 Thunderbird

into a truck. This week during sur-gery in suburban St Louis, a 7-inch turn signal lever from that T-Bird was removed from his left arm.

Dr Timothy Lang removed the lever Wednesday during a 45-minute operation. Lampitt, now 75, is recov-ering at home.

The St Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1EOtGa6) reports that the acci-dent broke Lampitt’s hip, drawing attention away from the arm, which healed.

A decade or so ago, his arm set off a metal detector at a courthouse. An X-ray showed a slender object the length of a pencil, but since it caused no pain or hardship, Lampitt was told to let it be.

He was moving concrete blocks a few weeks ago when the arm began to hurt for the first time.

“Everything was fine until it started to get bigger,” Lampitt’s wife, Betty, said. “The arm started bulging.”

Lampitt decided to have surgery. He initially wasn’t sure what was in the arm. He wondered if perhaps a medical instrument had been left dur-ing the emergency room visit in 1963.

He unearthed a collection of old photos of the mangled Thunderbird

taken by a friend at the scene. He noticed the metal blinker lever was missing from the left side of the steer-ing column. He figured that was it, and surgery at City Place Surgery Center in Creve Coeur, Missouri, confirmed it.

“Seven inches long,” Lang told Betty.

“Oh, my God,” Betty said.Lang said a protective pocket grew

around the lever.

“We see all kinds of foreign objects like nails or pellets, but usually not this large, usually not a turn sig-nal from a 1963 T-Bird,” Lang said. “Something this large often gets infected.”

Lampitt wasn’t sure what he’d do with the lever — maybe make a key chain out of it.

“We’ll figure out something, I am sure,” he said.

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Fifty-one years after accident, seven-inch car part found in arm

Arthur Lampitt shows off the 1963 Thunderbird turn signal that was embedded in his arm for 51 years.