Kanye West Debuts Dark 'Lost In The World' Video

West unexpectedly rolls out a late visual for his My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy track.
By Nadeska Alexis

Kanye West in his video for "Lost in the World"
Photo: Roc-A-Fella Records

Kanye West works in mysterious ways. Just when it seemed like all of his creative energy would be funneled into his upcoming G.O.O.D. Music compilation, the mad genius jumps back two albums, finally dropping a video for "Lost in the World," from his critically acclaimed 2010 album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.

Simply calling the new visuals from Kanye a "music video" might be a disservice, though, so let's say that 'Ye teamed up with fashion filmmaker Ruth Hogben to create a new mini movie. The black-and-white clip opens with a warning that "strobe effects are used in this video" — West clearly learned a lesson from the backlash that accompanied his "All of the Lights" video — before "Lost" flashes across the screen in a few different languages and, finally, the song's title is announced.

The dark clip plays up the desperation of the Bon-Iver-featured "Lost in the World," with a group of models dressed in sheer fabric (it wouldn't be a Kanye piece without some form of exposed skin) expressing their pain through dance.

West himself appears on a mirrored platform, which reflects the dark sky above, and as the video progresses, the looming structures overhead begin to part, revealing an ominous city skyline. During the drum-heavy breakdown at the end of the track, the models convulse into full synchronized dance, ending with one lingering shot of the pained expressions on their faces.

Kanye's aesthetic has continued to evolve over his last few projects, and this new clip seems to be an extension of the techniques he employed in the visuals for Watch the Throne's "N---as in Paris." The clip premiered on Friday (May 4) with no context, as Kanye's most recent releases are the G.O.O.D. Music singles "Mercy" and the "I Don't Like" remix, along with the solo track "Way Too Cold."

What do you think of Kanye's "Lost in the World" video? Tell us in the comments!

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@WalmartLabs? Crowdsourced Product Selection Contest Wraps, Charitable Bottled Water Wins

Walmart's attempt at crowdsourcing product selection has come to a close. The company has announced the winners of its?Get on the Shelf?contest, which was launched out of?@WalmartLabs,?the digital technology division of the retailer, earlier this year. You may know of?@WalmartLabs?as the startup-like group within Walmart which is now home to a number of acquired startups itself, including?Kosmix,?OneRiot,?Grabble,?and?Small Society. After 4,000 submissions and 1 million+ votes, the winners of the contest include charitable bottled water company HumanKind Water, San Francisco-based kitchen product PlateTopper, and the SnapIt Eyeglass Repair Kit.

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Helicopters scour Indian river for ferry survivors

Helicopters searched the banks of the Brahmaputra river in northeast India on Tuesday as hopes dimmed of finding survivors after a ferry sank, leaving more than 100 dead and about 100 missing.

Police said 105 bodies, including many women and children, had been recovered so far from the fast-flowing river in Assam state, where the ferry was split in two during a sudden storm late Monday afternoon.

Despite an operating capacity of 225, some 350 people were believed to be on the two-deck boat when it broke up mid-river in torrential, pre-monsoon rains.

Police said some 150 people were rescued or swam to safety. The ferry carried no lifeboats or lifebelts and the chances of picking up more survivors after a night in the water were remote.

Many bodies are thought to have been washed far downstream by the Brahmaputra, which flows into Bangladesh and then out into the Bay of Bengal.

Two helicopters scoured the river from above as soldiers and police reinforced rescue teams, but continued heavy rains severely restricted the search operation.

"The weather is inclement and the river is rough so the rescue efforts are being hampered," state police chief J.N. Choudhury told AFP.

Taleb Ali, a 35-year-old villager who survived the sinking, said passengers had begged the skipper to anchor the ferry at a sandbar when the storm hit mid-stream, but he refused.

"Then the storm became more intense and the boat split into two parts before sinking," Ali told AFP.

Local fishermen, who live with their families in tiny hamlets stretching along the Brahmaputra -- which has a reputation as a treacherous waterway -- combed the shores for survivors.

Arun Kalita, a 30-year-old road construction worker who swam to safety, said, "I could hear many people screaming for God's help but it was a turbulent river and the storm was very severe."

"No one could come and rescue them," he said.

Strong winds had uprooted trees, blocking roads leading to the disaster site and preventing some rescue teams from reaching the area.

The death toll could make the ferry sinking one of the worst in recent memory in South Asia, where such disasters are common due to lax safety standards, recklessness and overloading.

Survivors said many passengers had continued to board the ferry even after the last tickets had been sold.

The bodies of the victims were being kept at a local hospital.

The boat was on its way from Dhubri, some 300 kilometres (190 miles) from the state's main city Guwahati, to Fakirganj.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called the sinking a "tragedy" and announced compensation would be paid to the victims' families.

He said in a statement that he was "shocked and grieved to know about the loss of lives" and added that he had given instructions "for all possible assistance to the government of Assam in relief operations".

Assam state chief minister Tarun Gogoi told the NDTV news channel that the final death toll was not yet known.

"The priority is the rescue work," he said. "We will then have a full inquiry."

In one of the last major ferry disasters in India, at least 79 Muslim pilgrims drowned when an overcrowded boat carrying 150 people sank in the eastern state of West Bengal in October 2010.

In March this year, some 138 people died in neighbouring Bangladesh when an overloaded ferry carrying 200 people sank in the Meghna river southeast of the capital Dhaka.

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'Three Cups of Tea' a fraud? Judge dismisses lawsuit against Greg Mortenson.

A federal judge on Monday threw out a lawsuit by readers seeking damages from 'Three Cups of Tea' author Greg Mortenson. Parts of the nonfiction book are alleged to be fabrications.

A federal judge in Montana dismissed a lawsuit on Monday filed by four readers who charged ?Three Cups of Tea? author Greg Mortenson engaged in a massive fraud by claiming his bestselling books were works of nonfiction when some the events in the books are now alleged to be fabrications.

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US District Judge Sam Haddon threw the suit out and barred any attempt by the plaintiffs to refile the action.

?The imprecise, in part flimsy, and speculative nature of the claims and theories advanced underscore the necessary conclusion that further amendment [of the complaint] would be futile,? Judge Haddon said.

The judge?s action leaves unresolved what legal recourse, if any, ordinary readers might have against a bestselling author who promotes a fictitious story as fact.

The lawsuit sought to wage a nationwide class-action suit on behalf of millions of readers against Mr. Mortenson, his co-author, David Oliver Relin, his publisher, Penguin Group, and a nonprofit organization he set up to help build schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The suit said the author and others engaged in a pattern of racketeering to use fabricated or inflated claims in his books to help portray Mortenson as a hero to boost book sales and increase donations to the author?s nonprofit group, the Central Asia Institute.

Both of Mortenson?s books, ?Three Cups of Tea? and ?Stones Into Schools,? have been nonfiction bestsellers, earning more than $5 million in revenue. In 2009, he was named a finalist to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

The complaint said Mortenson and his co-defendants ?continued to misrepresent that the contents of ?Three Cups of Tea? and ?Stones Into Schools? were true, nonfiction accounts of what really happened, when, in fact, the contents were false and the accounts did not happen.?

?The enterprise?s fraudulent scheme was to make Mortenson into a false hero, to sell books representing to contain true events, when they were false, to defraud millions of unsuspecting purchasers out of the purchase price of the books, and to raise millions of dollars in charitable donations for CAI,? the suit says.

Lawyers for the readers had asked Haddon to block all future sales of the books and award readers three times the cover price of the book as well as other unspecified punitive damages.

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Hysterectomy not tied to greater depression risk

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women suddenly thrust into "surgical menopause" by hysterectomy don't have more severe mood symptoms than women going through gradual, natural menopause, a new study suggests.

Researchers who followed nearly 2,000 middle-aged women for 10 years found that those who had hysterectomies, with or without ovary removal, were as likely as women who went through natural menopause to experience depression or anxiety -- and for all women, those symptoms declined steadily within a few years.

"At least among women in midlife... mood symptoms don't seem to be a worry to take into consideration when making treatment decisions around hysterectomy and oophorectomy," said the study's lead author Carolyn Gibson, a researcher in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh.

Although past studies have shown a link between hysterectomy and risk for depression, Gibson and her fellow researchers say it's still hard to tell whether the procedure is to blame.

Also unknown is whether the symptoms of surgically-induced menopause are any different from those of women who go through menopause naturally.

Gibson told Reuters Health the topic is important, because hysterectomies are very common.

About 600,000 women in the United States have their uterus removed during a hysterectomy every year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The researchers say between 55 percent and 80 percent of women who undergo hysterectomy also have their ovaries removed -- a procedure known as oophorectomy.

Because a woman's ovaries generate estrogen, removing them induces menopause almost immediately.

Whether natural or induced, the change in a woman's hormone levels leading up to menopause, and in the years immediately afterward, often contributes to a range of symptoms, from anxiety and depression to insomnia and hot flashes.

To see whether a quick transition to menopause through surgery changes women's experience of the associated symptoms, Gibson's team turned to a database containing information on women's progression to, and through, the process.

They tracked about 2,000 women who were between 42 and 52 years old in 1996 and 1997, and were followed for more than ten years.

Over that period, 1,793 of the women went through menopause naturally, 76 had an elective hysterectomy and 101 had an elective hysterectomy and their ovaries removed.

All of the women were premenopausal at the beginning of the study and scored about the same on a scale that measures depression.

That scale goes from zero to 60 and, with higher scores representing more severe depression. A person with a score below 16 is not considered to be depressed.

For all three groups of women, depression scores decreased from the time they entered menopause to the end of the study period, and at about the same rates.

For those going through natural menopause, scores fell from 8.6 to 7.8. Those who had a hysterectomy saw their scores fall from 9.37 to 9.08, those who also had their ovaries removed went from 10.96 to 8.91.

Overall, the study shows depression symptoms in women who had a hysterectomy "declining in a very similar way as women who had a natural menopause," said Ellen Freeman, a research professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Freeman, who was not involved with the new study, told Reuters Health that it's important to know that the new study does not mean women will not be depressed after menopause -- just that the symptoms do decrease, and at about the same rate among women in each group.

Gibson and her colleagues write in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology that this suggests symptoms of depression and anxiety improve as women enter their postmenopausal years.

The authors note, however, that the results may not be applicable to the general population, such as those with a history of mood disorders.

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/Il6HmY Obstetrics & Gynecology, May 2012.

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