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Taylor Swift Just Dropped Her New Song, and It’s Her Darkest Yet – Glamour

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Stop everything you're doing right now: Taylor Swift just dropped her new single, and it's friggin' amazing.

It's called "Look What You Made Me Do," and it's by far Swift's darkest song yet. Listen to it, below:

The track is certainly a departure from Swift's 1989 sound ( and aesthetic ). She swaps anthemic choruses and sun-drenched hooks for a grimy, electro-tinged bass line. Lyrically, she's never been this director angry. " I don't like your little games. Don't like your tilted stage. The role you made me play of the fool. No, I don't like you," Swift snarls in the beginning of the track before crashing into the cool, techno chorus. "Oooh, look what you made me do," she repeats over and over with breathy intensity.

The climax of the song happens at the 2:50 mark, when Speak literally speaks, "I'm sorry, the old Taylor can't come to the phone right now. Why? Oh, 'cause she's dead!" If this doesn't signify the beginning of her new era, nothing does.

This new song is the culmination of six days of mysterious promo. Swift hinted new music was coming on Friday (August 18) when she blacked out her Instagram and Twitter pages . However, things really kicked into overdrive on Monday (August 21) when she dropped a video of a snake's tail on social media. Fans immediately took this as a reference to the snake emoji people started using to describe her after the Kim Kardashian-Snapchat debacle. (Remember that nonsense from 2016 ?) Swift followed this up with another snake video on Tuesdayand then a third one Wednesday morning.

And that's when it happened: At 12:30 P.M. EST Wednesday, Swift revealed the name of her album ( Reputation ), the cover art (see below), and its release date (November 10). She also included a message that her first single would drop Thursday night, and now here we are: in pop-music utopia.

So what can we expect from this new album? This single suggests Swift's new direction is darker and grittier than 1989, which took home the 2016 Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Fans should still expect a pop aesthetic, but one grounded in harder beats and sonics than, say, "Blank Space." We're definitely on board with that.

This new music is coming off the heels of Swift winning her countersuit against former radio DJ David Mueller. (If you're unfamiliar with that story, Swift claimed Mueller reached under her skirt and grabbed her bare bottom during a meet-and-greet in 2013. Mueller said the claims were false and sued Swift for $3 million in damages. Swift countersued for just $1and the court sided with her.)

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Utopia: why making fun of government is our favourite joke – The Sydney Morning Herald

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Attacking the government is rather like attacking Donald Trump: there's never any shortage of material and there's always a ready constituency of folks who will applaud you for doing it.

One wonders, however, at the artistic merits of going after such an obvious target. Is this preaching to the converted? Is it possible to come up with something that has not already been said?

Those questions are not answered by Utopia, a satirical look at the operation of government bureaucracy from Australia's Working Dog team. Commissioned by the ABC, Utopia takes a fly-on-the-wall look at life within the fictional Nation Building Authority as it oversees some of the nation's largest infrastructure projects.

Utopiasettles into a familiar pattern. Episodes usually begin with senior NBA bureaucrats Tony Woodford (Rob Sitch) and Nat Russell (Celia Pacquola) absorbed in the detail of a major infrastructure project. They are supported by a team of young staffers, who are invariably too preoccupied with the latest office fad a team dinner, a charity fun run, a new office couch to competently discharge their duties.

More trouble arrives in the form of government liaison officer Jim Gibson (Anthony Lehmann), aided by media manager Rhonda Stewart (Kitty Flanagan). Gibson is there on behalf of the Minister, who is anxious to proceed with the next shiny new "announceable". Woodford and Russell give frank and fearless advice. They point out major flaws with the policy. They suggest cheaper, more meritorious alternatives. Gibson and Stewart counter, in terms which make it clear that they and their political masters have no capacity to absorb policy detail and are entirely focused on buzzwords and political outcomes.

"The Minister doesn't care about your picky clauses he cares about nation building!" scolds Stewart.

The episode usually concludes with the revelation that the NBA's advice has been ignored and the Minister has implemented the policy anyway. Occasionally, the Minister himself makes a cameo appearance. He adds little to the narrative, other than to confirm that the government's priorities are those conveyed by buzzwords.

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Utopia's premise, that government policy is driven by spin and short-term political considerations, resonates in the current cynical climate.

However, the writers of Utopia make their point by reducing pivotal players in the policy formation process to idiots. The Minister, Gibson and Stewart are straw men, delivering obviously untenable arguments, which guide the viewer to thinkno one in government knows what they are talking about.

It's a lazy critique, but the writers get away with it because the viewers are entirely sympathetic.Lampooning "those clowns in Canberra" is hardly a controversial undertaking. Utopia strikes a chord with anyone who has had an experience with government inertia or organisational incompetence. It resonates with those who are concerned about the use of slogans and buzzwords as a substitute for real policy discussion.

Unfortunately, however, there is no depth in the analysis. The minister's a dope. His liaison officer is a used car salesman. The media manager is all spin. These characters are presented with as much human complexity as the Cookie Monster, which explains why Utopia falls flat. There is no dramatic tension because nothing is really at stake.

Utopia's writers have not made a serious attempt to explore the machinations of government and infrastructure delivery. Instead, they resort to the well-worn narrative of bungling bureaucracy and government incompetence, albeit updated for the 21st century with satirical attacks on Millennials and institutional political correctness.

This represents Utopia's best material. The staff themselves are a case study in misapprehension and wilful stupidity, which would not be out of place in the dining room of Fawlty Towers.

Once again, a swathe of the cast has been reduced to caricature, this time so that the writers can demonstrate the follies of faddishness and modern political correctness. Unfortunately youcan't orchestrate tension with a cast of one-dimensional characters. The greatest missed opportunity, however, is on the topic of infrastructure. Australian infrastructure delivery has had a notoriously tortured history. Every project is open to criticism: process, execution and strategic benefit. A project can be meritorious but poorly delivered and vice versa; the nuances are often lost in the heat of public debate. Even with the best of intentions and the best minds, infrastructure is rarely a clear-cut topic.

Utopia is redeemed however because it has delivered exactly what the audience was expecting to see. "The government" is everyone's favourite standing joke. It is therefore not surprising that Utopia has proved to be popular with its constituency.

RenuPrasad is a comedian and blogger. Twitter: @Renu_OZ

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First Listen: Hercules & Love Affair, ‘Omnion’ – NPR

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Anyone who's engaged disco with the same depth and seriousness that Hercules & Love Affair ringmaster Andrew Butler has, knows that by its nature and at its finest, this is a music of balances made in the spirit of losing one's balance. And among disco's glories is how these contrasting fundamentals play out: the celebratory and the elegiac, the social politics and personal emotions, pop songwriting and club functionality, the traditionally soulful and the technologically modern.

Since the beginning, Hercules & Love Affair records have not simply acknowledged these contradictory elements but aspired to find meaning in them. Where so much contemporary disco is an exercise in genre or affectation or worse, nostalgia for a utopia that never was Butler permeates his with more broadly accepted currency. Though it unabashedly began as a classicist's pop-house take on the contemporary dance-floor, and is still rooted in this world, H&LA music navigates the pathos of today's life through a panoply of voices and ideas representative of the gender-nonconforming diversity of Butler's community, tweaking and updating the norms throughout.

Omnion, H&LA's fourth album, continues tipping the scales in modernity's favor and disorienting the script. You actually have to take a step back from a track like "Rejoice," voiced by longtime collaborator Rouge Mary, to recognize it as a sibling of great gospel-disco numbers of yore. That's because the industrialized dirt of the mix percolating, sequenced keyboards, the synthetic chafe of the vocal filter, the screeching stabs of background voices is a new touch on sanctified old-school uplift. In more clichd hands, "Epilogue" would be a familiar type of album-closer, beatless and doleful, with Gustaph, another longtime H&LA vocalist, fronting a children's choir while offering broadly stroked social empathy. But here it sounds like the punctuation of a classic synthesizer sci-fi soundtrack and a love letter to The Resistance at the same time. Both speak to the production presence of New York techno engineer, Phil "The Butcha" Moffa, who is part of Omnion's secret sauce.

Contrast these progressive notes with Butler's ongoing desire to communicate through beat-wise pop songs, interpreted by nuanced, boldface voices. Sharon Van Etten's thoughtful confession floats through the synths and brass of the aspirational title track, damning gender pronouns and ascending a sugar-sweet, cloudy chorus. The Horrors lead singer Faris Badwan rides a thick bassline as he updates classic freestyle vibes on the sexually-charged and distant "Controller." Later on the album he recreates Pet Shop Boys synth-pop vibes with EDM production touches on the song "Through Your Atmosphere." Then there's "Are You Still Certain?," a collaboration with the Lebanese rock band Mashrou' Leila and its singer Hamed Sinno, which bumps pleasantly on a spine of soft keyboards, funk guitar and bonus percussion. The Arabic vocals, in the midst of all this extreme Western-centricity, is a wonderful surprise as well as a reminder that Beirut's disco scene was once the stuff of legends.

The clearest example of Butler's use of disco's paradoxes lies in a trio of songs at the album's center, all of which seemingly look beyond the rhythm of the night for their purpose. On "Fools Wear Crowns," the only Omnion track that Butler sings himself, and which, he confessed to Pitchfork, documents his escape from substance abuse, and "Lies," wherein Gustaph addresses something like a truth-telling conscience, the backbeats don't kick in until the tracks are a third of the way through, punctuating the ornamental role these beats serve with more explicitly diaristic purposes.

At first, the beat also seems secondary to "Running," a tour de force featuring the vocal trio Ss Ey and the Kirke String Quartet. Yet the sonics that stitch together this Butler lament are motley tribal electronics, swooping strings, the torch-soul incantations of Icelandic sisters and experiencing this counter intuitive fit is otherworldly.

What's contextually understandable about "Running" on Omnion dissolves when heard outside of the album which, in today's listening experience, all songs must, especially those by club-oriented artists. And while one imagines only the most adventurous DJ will find room in their set for "Running" maybe deep into a sunrise its balanced address of matters at once literal and metaphysical is a perfect modern expression of disco's timelessness.

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Calling all vegans: You can cruise and eat well with Oceania’s new menu – Los Angeles Times

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Vegans who set sail on Oceania Cruises can happily bypass the prime rib and salmon entrees on their next cruise. That's because the line's six ships now serve an extensive vegan menu and also offer vegan smoothie bars with cold-pressed raw juices.

Passengers can belly up to the raw juice and smoothie bar on the pool deck any morning and find choices such as tropical green smoothies, cold brew lattes, Coco Island juice, an acai berry bowl or a chia cashew yogurt bowl.

Oceania's new vegan menu, with more than 250 dishes, is featured in the ships' main dining rooms and includes appetizers, soups, salads, entrees and desserts. In addition, Oceania ships offer vegetarian, gluten-free and kosher meals too.

The line has also featured a spa cuisine menu for nearly a decade that coordinates with its Canyon Ranch SpaClub at sea concept. The program focuses on life balance, fitness and wellness.

The new vegan menu gives passengers five dishes and four sides to choose from at breakfast, including a Spanish tortilla dish with potatoes, onions and tofu; a vanilla waffle with fresh berries; apricot and pistachio muffins; cream of wheat or oatmeal; and sides such as grilled tomatoes, sauted mushrooms, vegan link sausage and Lyonnaise potatoes.

At lunch, guests might have a Tuscan-style bean soup, an Italian salad with assorted greens, roasted bell peppers and toasted garlic bread followed by a tofu and spinach-stuffed involtini (wrap) with pasta and olive tapenade sauce and a chocolate vegan-ricotta pie.

The dinner menu is a five-course meal that might include a quinoa salad and vegetable tartare, truffle-flavored parsnip soup, Thai red vegan curry with rice and a shortbread dessert with passion fruit cream and strawberries.

Info: Oceania Cruises, (855) 623-2642, or contact a travel agent

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Oceania Youth Futsal meet in Oct – Loop PNG

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Seven U-18 men and five U-18 womens teams will participate in the inaugural tournament with the winners of each category directly qualifying for the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Argentina.

There is no doubt each participating country is preparing for the event.

One of the countries that so passionate about Futsal game in the Pacific Islands is Solomon Islands.

Solomon Islands which has a history on Futsal and remains Oceania champions since the inception of the sport in Oceania loves to carry on the legacy set down by their National Futsal team.

Today the futsal game has inspired many youths to take part and one of the inspiring players is Elliot Ragomo.

Ragomo is now becoming a sport icon for many youths in Solomon Islands and with his recent history for making it to the professional level has motivated thousands of other young players to play futsal.

Solomon Islands sees the upcoming Youth Futsal Tournament as another chance for them to set another history by becoming the first champion at youth level and qualify for the Youth Olympic Games.

To achieve that Solomon Islands is putting together its national U-17 mens futsal team.

The team has been in top preparation in the last few weeks under the watchful eye of Solomon Islands veteran head coach, Dickson Kadau and the former Kurukuru, Stanley Puirana.

The team which consists of many of the upcoming young talented futsal players has been silently preparing at the Multi-purpose hall.

Team chaplain, Pastor Seru is optimistic about this team and is quite happy with the organized trip for the young boys.

At the moment we are organizing a trip to Australia for at least two weeks prior to the tournament in Auckland. Well be playing Dural U17, U19 and mens sides while also in preparation there, said Pastor Seru.

The team is expected to fly over at the end of September and is expected to spend two weeks at Dural Baptist Centre in Sydney as part of their preparation.

They will then fly to Auckland on the 1st of October and hopefully play one friendly match before the competition begin on the 4th of October.

The team is currently in its final phase of selection.

OFC Futsal and Beach Soccer Development Officer Paul Toohey said there will be an exciting time for the small-sided game.

Many of our Member Associations have been incorporating futsal into their development programmes over the past few years and for some it is their first ever participation in international futsal competition.

So its a really great opportunity for all the young players and their coachesto display the skills they have acquired, with the added incentive of Youth Olympic Games qualification giving the teams a concrete reward to work towards, Toohey said.

In the mens tournament American Samoa, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu have entered.

For the womens tournament the teams are New Caledonia, New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu.

OFC Competitions Director Chris Kemp said OFC is excited to have this event on the calendar for 2017.

We have seven teams confirmed for the mens tournament and five for the womens so we expect some exciting, competitive matches will be on the cards over the four days of competition, he said.

Kemp explained the match schedules cater for the different number of participating teams with the mens a straight round robin, while the womens is a round robin with a 3rdPlace Play-off and a final.

Given the uneven number of teams which have entered, we wanted to ensure that each of them got a maximum number of games, he said.

The draw for the OFC Youth Futsal Tournament will be held at OFC Headquarters in Auckland on Friday 25 August.

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Sinclair gets first pro title – Saipan Tribune

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Former CNMI junior player Colin Sinclair earned his first pro championships after ruling the doubles event in the Belgium F8 Futures held early this month in Eupen, Belgium.

Sinclair, who was born and raised on Saipan and made his mark in local tennis in the early 2000s, partnered with Great Britains Charles Broom in topping the 16-team tournament under the ITF Pro Circuit (European). The unranked Sinclair and Broom completed their stunning show in the clay court competition that offered $15,000 in prize money after beating No. 1 seed Tom Schonenberg of Germany and Colin Van Beem of the Netherlands in the finals, 4-6, 6-1, 10-5.

Before outlasting their foes in a super-tiebreaker third set, Sinclair and Broom needed only two sets each to eliminate their first three opponents. In the opening round, the CNMI-Great Britain pair pulled off an upset over No. 3 and Australias Adam and Jason Taylor, 6-2, 7-6 (5). Sinclair and Broom were then pitted against the unranked Billy Harris of Great Britain and Mateausz Terczynski of Poland and won, 6-2, 6-4, to march into the semifinals. In the battle for the finals berth at the lower half of the draw, Sinclair and his partner stunned another seeded duo in the Netherlands Gijs Brouwer and Jelle Sels, 6-4, 7-6 (4).

The former CNMI junior player and his British partner eventually kept their winning run in the Belgium F8 Futures as they bounced back from an opening set loss to Schonenberg and Van Beem by sweeping the last two.

Sinclair also joined the singles event of the tournament and won his first two matches in the main draw to make it to the quarterfinals. He defeated Qatars Jabor Al-Mutawa in the first round, 6-1, 6-2, and then topped Belgiums Romain Barbosa in the Round of 16, 6-4, 6-2, to move into the quarterfinals. Sinclair then missed a semis entry when he bowed to the hosts Christopher Heyman in the Round of 8, 3-6, 4-6.

The 22-year-old Sinclair has been a regular in the Belgium Futures, joining the series of tournaments since last year. In the Belgium F3 Futures held from July 3 to 9, he became the first CNMI player to gain world rankings in the ITF Pro Circuit after winning three matches in the qualifying draw and prevailing in his opening game in the singles main draw. With his successes in Belgium, Sinclair is now ranked No. 1,156 in doubles and No. 1,393 in singles. He got 18 ranking points for his doubles win and two in the singles in the Belgium F8 Futures.

Besides his busy schedule competing in Belgium, Sinclair managed to find time and suit up for Pacific Oceania in the 2017 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group III held last month in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He swept his four singles matches, starting the string of victories with a 6-4, 6-0 triumph over Syrias Kareen Al Allaf and following it up with wins over Sri Lankas Sharmal Dissanayake, 6-4, 6-4; Jordans Mohammed Almayani, 6-1, 6-0; and Turkemistans Isa Mammetgulyyev, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.

Meanwhile, CNMI Junior National Team coach Jeff Race said he was not surprise to see Sinclair excel as the latter has been working hard to improve his game since joining the ITF Pro Circuit in 2012 and competing in Australia, various states in the U.S., and in Belgium. Saipan Tribune contacted Sinclair to get comments about his victories in the Davis Cup and in Belgium, but has yet to respond at press time.

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Lee, Miyawaki win doubles title in ITF Pacific Oceania Junior Championships – Marianas Variety

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23 Aug 2017

NMI junior netters, Carol Lee and Malika Miyawaki topped the 16-and-under girls doubles to win the title in the ITF Pacific Oceania Junior Championships in Lautoka, Fiji.

After falling in the second set, No. 2 Lee and Miyawaki recovered their winning stance and defeated the tandem of top-seeded French Polynesias Naia Guitton and Samoas Eleanor Schuster, 6-2, 5-7, 10-5.

Lee and Miyawaki had an easy tour to the finals with a strong opener against Samoas Penina Kamu and Tongas Kava Taufa, 4-1, 4-0, and semi finals against Tongas Peata Fatai and Brookie Maasi, 4-0, 4-1.

Guitton and Schuster made it to the finals by dominating Vanuatus Rosalie Molballeh an Daisy Sipiti.

Fatai and Maasi took the third place over Molballeh and Sipiti, 4-2, 4-2.

In the 14-and-under girls doubles, No. 2 Conatsu Kaga and her sisters, Coume made it to the finals by surviving Solomon Islands Prudence Bird and Zorika Morgan, 4-1, 5-3, but lost to No. 1 New Caledonias Clara Cwajenbaum and Vanuatus Desiree Signo, 1-4, 2-4.

In the 16-and-under boys doubles, Robbie Schorr and Ken Song didnt make it to the finals. They bowed to top-seeded Vanuatus Marlin Hannam and Clement Mainguy, 0-4, 1-4.

In the 14-and-under boys doubles, only Sean Lee who partnered with FSMs Jerson Freddy made it to the finals.

They upset top-seeded Tuvalus Kelese Kofe and Vanuatus Maui Leflon, 4-1, 1-4, 10-8.

Lee and Freddy lost to No. 2 French Polynesias Manovali Elie and Moheari Polin, 2-4, 5(5)-4, 1-10.

Manovali and Polin defeated Jimin Woo and Seung Jin Paik, 4-2, 2-4, 10-8 in the semis.

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What are Oceania’s chances in the Rocket League World Championship? – The Roar

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5 facts about Seychelles you probably did not know – Independent Online

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Seychelles, an archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, off East Africa is paradise. It's home to numerous beaches, coral reefs and nature reserves, as well as rare animals such as giant Aldabra tortoises. Here are some facts you probably did not know about the country. 1: Bird Island houses the heaviest land tortoise named Esmeralda, weighing 303 kilograms.

2. The capital of Seychelles, Victoria, is the is the smallest in the world. Tourists can explore it within a day.

3: The native Coco de mer produces the heaviest (about 15kg) and largest seed in the world. The locals love it so much that there is literally one everywhere you look.

4: Breadfruit is very popular in Seychelles. It can be made into savoury or sweet dishes. Rumour has it that whoever eats it will return to Seychelles one day.

5: The Seychelles has some of the rarest endemic birds, including the bare-legged Scops-owl and greater painted-snipe.

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Let us back Seychelles – The People Online

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Let us join President Danny Faure on his mission to build the Seychelles that we want. Since taking over the Presidency last October, President Faure has been setting all the wheels in motion; to heal, to reconcile and bring the unity we all crave for among all Seychellois.

It is what Seychelles needs at this point in our history. Within Government, President Faure has been applying what he considers are the cardinal principles of his Presidency; Transparency, Good Governance and Accountability. He is also striving to improve service delivery within the civil service. The Head of State is sincere in whatever he does. He cannot be blamed if a few public officers fail to heed his call to improve their performance within the civil service. We need to back President Danny Faure, all the way if we want our Seychelles to move ahead. As he has frequently stated, Seychelles is greater than any of us.

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