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DAZN, the UK-based "Netflix of sports," is spending big on boxing to get a foothold in America. The subscription service announced on Wednesday a massive $365 million deal with Oscar De La Hoya's Golden Boy Promotions to stream boxer Canelo Alvarez's next 11 fights. The action starts on Dec. 15 when Alvarez fights Rocky Fielding at Madison Square Garden for the WBA Super Middleweight title.
Add the Golden Boy fights to a $1 billion deal DAZN made in May with Eddie Hearn's Matchroom Boxing for 32 fights and a 22-fight deal DAZN (pronounced "da zone") made with MMA promoter Bellator, and you see the strategy for DAZN's entry in America: combat sports.
Why combat sports?
"I think you start with the fact that boxing is already a sport that is a direct-to-consumer transaction," says John Skipper, the former ESPN president who is now DAZN's executive chairman. "At the highest level of boxing, people pay money to watch a fight. We are in the consumer business. We want a direct contract with consumers to watch sports, so it makes sense to start with a sport where people already do that."
Skipper knows a thing or two about buying sports broadcasting rights, though growing DAZN from the ground up is a very different proposition from running the "worldwide leader in sports." That start-up position is And indeed, he says that is DAZN's advantage in competing with incumbents like ESPN, which has seen some success with its new ESPN+ streaming service.
"I loved being at ESPN," Skipper tells Yahoo Finance. "They are the preeminent sports media company in this country, and what they are doing is protecting their flank and trying to transition into a new world. So I have nothing but admiration for what they're doing. On the other hand, I will tell you that it is really fun to be in a position where you are not trying to navigate a transition, where you can jump right into the future. The future of sports is going to be on streaming services, and that is all we [at DAZN] have to worry about. I don't have to worry about buying fights and then which one goes on cable and which one goes on my subscription service. We are a pure play. And we are buying content to put into a subscription service."
In other words, DAZN has an advantage over ESPN because it has no linear television channel to worry about. Or at least, that's Skipper's argument. DAZN, right now, has zero name-brand awareness in America. It's starting from scratch.
But having the best fights could help fix that right away.
"People are not going to subscribe to 40 different streaming services," Skipper acknowledges. "But it is sports that drove the adoption of pay television. It is a business which is declining in penetration, so as it declines in penetration, there will be people who have the opportunity to grow—like Netflix, like the new Disney package. And we believe sports is one of the things people have to have. There are very few have-to-have things. And there are content companies that don't have must-have content. Canelo Alvarez's fights are must-have content."
Soon enough, boxing fans will prove whether they agree.
Skipper also gives the caveat that DAZN is already established in certain markets. "We're a global business. We're building a business in Japan based on baseball, we're building a business in Italy with Serie A [soccer], we're building a business in Canada based on the NFL," he says. "Fighting is the entry point for our service in the U.S., but we fully intend to supplement fighting with other sports."
What's clear right now is that DAZN is willing to spend massively on content rights to lure subscribers. The parent company of DAZN is London-based Perform Group, which also owns a group of sports media sites including Goal.com and Sporting News. Last month, Perform Group quietly changed its corporate name to DAZN Group, which should make abundantly clear exactly where the focus at the company now lies.
Daniel Roberts is the sports business writer at Yahoo Finance and hosts the Sportsbook podcast. Follow him on Twitter at @readDanwrite.
Read more:
DAZN is launching in America in September with boxing, MMA
Perform Group spends $1 billion to stream boxing in America on DAZN
Sports media VC George Pyne: 'There's going to be a Rupert Murdoch of digital'
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Apparently, some people think science can be either conservative or liberal. Well, it can't. So why do the nuts over at Conservapedia think otherwise? What's more, why do they think creationists tend to win debates with 'evolutionists'?
Morris also said regarding the creation scientist Duane Gish (who had over 300 formal debates): "At least in our judgment and that of most in the audiences, he always wins."
You may be wondering, who the fuck is that guy? Well, that's Henry Morris, one of the founders of the Institute for Creation Research – an organization which does nothing but undermine science. Apparently, Conservapedians believes if they cite the opinion of a creationist on the issue of debating evolution that they have an air-tight case that creationists tend to defeat those EVILutionists in debates. This is about as valuable as those text polls FOX News took after the presidential debates where McCain apparently destroyed Obama, winning roughly 90% of the votes. What's more, the fact that even if there were some empirical way to measure debate winningness*, it wouldn't matter since, just as Hitler has no bearing on the truth value of evolution, the random opinions of anti-science mooks is rather irrelevant.
*Creationist would likely reject such a measure were it possible since they believe science to only be science when it gives them results they already like.
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A Tale of Two Opening Statements in the 34th House of Delegates District
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Andi Bayer Says Teachers Using "Anti-American" Materials
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Conservative Candidate Caught Stealing Campaign Literature
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Andi Bayer Says People of Color Don't Face Discrimination in Fairfax Because There Are Plenty of Ethnic Restaurants
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Fiat Chrysler eyes Peugeot, seeks strength in numbers
Automaker wants a partner to help with industry investments
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles said Wednesday it is in talks with French rival PSA Peugeot in its second bid this year to reshape the global auto industry at a time of heightened uncertainty for the sector.
A merger would create the fourth-largest automaker, with a combined market value of around $50 billion, and the potential for big savings in Europe just as the industry struggles with slowing sales and the need to invest heavily in technologies like electric cars.
But a deal does not help either in expanding in China, the world's largest market, where both are weak, analysts said.
In a statement, Fiat Chrysler said the discussions are "aimed at creating one of the world's leading mobility groups," but gave no further details.
The timing of any deal is unclear, but the Peugeot board was meeting Wednesday, said a person close to the discussions, on condition of anonymity.
Shares in Fiat Chrysler shot up nearly 9 percent, just a day before it releases its third-quarter earnings, while Peugeot shares surged 6 percent.
Fiat Chrysler has long been looking for a partner to help shoulder investments in the capital-heavy industry, under the view that companies that fail to consolidate would inevitably struggle. The push is even more urgent given the transition across the industry to electric cars and autonomous driving — technologies where Fiat Chrysler lags.
"We view the combination of these two companies as reasonable, given global competition, high capital intensity and industry disruption from electrified powertrain as well as autonomous technologies," says Richard Hilgert, an analyst at Morningstar Equity Research.
Fiat Chrysler's talks this year with another French carmaker, Renault, to create what would have been the third-largest automaker broke down over French government concerns about the role of Japanese partner Nissan and criticism from Renault's top union.
Analyst Ferdinand Duedenhoeffer, head of the Center for Automotive Research, said the French government is unlikely to play the spoiler role again, both because it would be an unpopular move and because its role in Peugeot is weaker.
But he said they would insist that inevitable job cuts not be made in France, which will expose Opel, which Peugeot bought in 2017, as the sacrificial lamb in any merger deal. Opel is based in Germany.
The real problem the carmakers face will be in China, which represents the future for most automakers.
"FCA and Peugeot are both lousy in China, they just lose money," Dudenhoeffer said. "I think they have to find a solution but it will be a big challenge."
Possibly complicating things, the Chinese government has a stake in Peugeot through Dongfeng Motors. Dongfeng, the Peugeot family, and the French state investment bank BPI France each have 12.23 percent of capital and 19.5 percent voting rights in Peugeot.
A merger could see the Chinese government take a role in a company that includes Chrysler, a U.S. industry icon. That comes on top of Fiat Chrysler's joint venture with another Chinese company, GAC.
"The Chinese government doesn't want to have a strong connection with an American company," Dudenhoeffer said, due to economic damage brought by the Trump administration's tariffs.


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Carmen Reinhart, centre right, deindustrialization, financial innovation, full employment, illegal immigration, jobless men, John Maynard Keynes: Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren, Kenneth Rogoff, labor-force participation, low skilled workers, mass immigration, moral hazard, Ronald Reagan, secular stagnation, Simon Kuznets, War on Poverty, women in the workforce, working-age population
Printed in the United States of America 16 17 18 19 20 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Christopher C. Demuth Sr. Mentor, Colleague, Friend Contents Acknowledgments Introduction PART 1: Men Without Work 1:The Collapse of Work in the Second Gilded Age 2:Hiding in Plain Sight: An Army of Jobless Men, Lost in an Overlooked Depression 3:Postwar America's Great Male Flight from Work 4:America's Great Male Flight from Work in Historical and International Perspective 5:Who Is He? A Statistical Portrait of the Un-Working American Man 6:Idle Hands: Time Use, Social Participation, and the Male Flight from Work 7:Long-Term Structural Forces and the Decline of Work for American Men 8:Dependence, Disability, and Living Standards for Un-Working Men 9:Criminality and the Decline of Work for American Men 10:What Is to Be Done?
That catastrophe is the collapse of work—for men. In the half century between 1965 and 2015, work rates for the American male spiraled relentlessly downward, and an ominous migration commenced: a "flight from work," in which ever-growing numbers of working-age men exited the labor force altogether. America is now home to an immense army of jobless men no longer even looking for work—more than seven million alone between the ages of twenty-five and fifty-five, the traditional prime of working life. The collapse of work for America's men is arguably a crisis for our nation—but it is a largely invisible crisis. It is almost never discussed in the public square.
Alas, adjustments for changes in the postwar population structure do not come close to "correcting away" the collapse in male work rates. Even after appropriate corrections, work rates for U.S. men have still undergone a stunning decline. I shall detail the particulars of this sad saga in the following pages. CHAPTER 2 Hiding in Plain Sight: An Army of Jobless Men, Lost in an Overlooked Depression MUCH CURRENT ANALYSIS of labor market conditions paints a cautiously optimistic—even unabashedly positive—picture of job trends. But easily accessible data demonstrate that we are, in reality, living through an extended period of extraordinary, Great Depression-scale underutilization of male manpower, and this severe "work deficit" for men has gradually worsened over time.
The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes
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anti-communist, bank run, banking crisis, collective bargaining, currency manipulation / currency intervention, Frederick Winslow Taylor, invisible hand, jobless men, Mahatma Gandhi, Plutocrats, plutocrats, short selling, Upton Sinclair, wage slave, Works Progress Administration
One of the state officers who did the best job was Frances Perkins, the industrial commissioner in New York. Perkins announced early in the year that joblessness in her state was "very serious"—worse than in fifteen years. Hoover's labor department blithely told the country that things would normalize, but as Time would note in February 1930, "Communists stirred hungry, cold, jobless men and women to demonstrations which required no statistician to interpret." Of the problems confronting the economy, the tariff threat seemed most urgent, and easiest to stop. There were disputes, but some said it was the heaviest tariff in American history. Yet Hoover egged the lawmakers on to complete the legislation.
Roosevelt's talk had had an aspect of self-fulfilling prophecy: because the first New Deal had not succeeded, many in the country believed that the United States was actually becoming the society of social classes that Roosevelt now described in his speeches. And they responded accordingly. Whereas in the old America of the 1920s the sight of so many jobless men had provoked shock and alarm, now people accepted it, telling themselves that at least things were better than before. The same held for stock traders, who had stopped measuring success against the marker of 1929. People told themselves that the fact that the stock average was moving upward was the best they could hope for, even though it remained so far from the 1929 high.
When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor by William Julius Wilson
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affirmative action, citizen journalism, collective bargaining, conceptual framework, declining real wages, deindustrialization, deliberate practice, desegregation, Donald Trump, edge city, ending welfare as we know it, fixed income, full employment, George Gilder, ghettoisation, glass ceiling, Gunnar Myrdal, income inequality, informal economy, jobless men, labor-force participation, labour market flexibility, low skilled workers, low-wage service sector, manufacturing employment, mass immigration, new economy, New Urbanism, pink-collar, race to the bottom, RAND corporation, school choice, The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, The Chicago School, upwardly mobile, urban decay, urban renewal, War on Poverty, working poor, working-age population, Works Progress Administration
Data from the UPFLS survey show that variables measuring differences in social context (neighborhoods, social networks, and households) accounted for substantially more of the gap in the employment rates of black and Mexican men than did variables measuring individual attitudes. Also, data from the survey reveal that jobless black men have a lower "reservation wage" than the jobless men in the other ethnic groups. They were willing to work for less than $6.00 per hour, whereas Mexican and Puerto Rican jobless men expected $6.20 and $7.20, respectively, as a condition for working; white men, on the other hand, expected over $9.00 per hour. This would appear to cast some doubt on the characterization of black inner-city men as wanting "something for nothing," of holding out for high pay.
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
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affirmative action, Cass Sunstein, crack epidemic, Credit Default Swap, deindustrialization, desegregation, dumpster diving, ending welfare as we know it, fixed income, ghettoisation, glass ceiling, Gunnar Myrdal, housing crisis, informal economy, Jane Jacobs, jobless men, late fees, mass incarceration, New Urbanism, payday loans, price discrimination, profit motive, rent control, statistical model, superstar cities, The Chicago School, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, thinkpad, upwardly mobile, working poor, young professional
"Man, they can get some hypes to do it for way less than that." Lamar's labor was cheap, but he knew there were better deals to be had. When the plumbing broke, the roof leaked, or rooms needed painting, savvy inner-city landlords did not phone plumbers, roofers, or painters. They relied on two desperate and on-hand labor pools: tenants themselves and jobless men. New landlords would speak of "knowing a good plumber." Experienced landlords would say they "had a guy." Lamar knew that Sherrena "had people" and doubted that she would let him stay. He did the painting anyway, having no better option. Buck frowned and stared at the snow. "Nah, pops," he said, disbelieving.
DuBois would have it, by a "psychological wage" that involved disparaging black people. See Black Reconstruction in America (Cleveland: Meridian Books, 1969 [1935]), 700. 11. The weight of the shame, sociologists have long thought, explained why many relationships fell apart in poor black neighborhoods. Especially for jobless men, the indignity of facing your family empty-handed built up to the point where abandonment became the lesser disgrace. To stay in a committed relationship was "to live with your failure, to be confronted by it day in and day out….In self-defense, the husband retreated to the streetcorner." Most single mothers had no street-corner reprieve.
Planet of Slums by Mike Davis
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barriers to entry, Branko Milanovic, Bretton Woods, British Empire, Brownian motion, centre right, clean water, conceptual framework, crony capitalism, declining real wages, deindustrialization, Deng Xiaoping, edge city, European colonialism, failed state, Gini coefficient, Hernando de Soto, housing crisis, illegal immigration, income inequality, informal economy, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Internet Archive, jitney, jobless men, Kibera, labor-force participation, land reform, land tenure, liberation theology, low-wage service sector, mandelbrot fractal, market bubble, megacity, microcredit, New Urbanism, Pearl River Delta, Ponzi scheme, RAND corporation, rent control, structural adjustment programs, surplus humans, upwardly mobile, urban planning, urban renewal, War on Poverty, Washington Consensus, working poor
In reality, urban unemployment is estimated to be between 8 percent and 13 percent. An unusually high percentage of redundant workers are women because, according to journalist Pamela Yatsko, the bureau chief for the Far Eastern Economic Review, "the government estimated that laid-off women would be less of a security threat than jobless men." Former female industrial workers — welders, lathe operators, and shipbuilders — are now forced to hunt for low-paying service-sector jobs as maids, waitresses, nannies, or street vendors.65 Yet Mao's ex-heroes of history retain, for the most part, the privileges of official urban status and usually some security of tenure.
Armed Humanitarians by Nathan Hodge
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Andrei Shleifer, anti-communist, Berlin Wall, British Empire, clean water, colonial rule, European colonialism, failed state, friendly fire, IFF: identification friend or foe, jobless men, Khyber Pass, kremlinology, land reform, Mikhail Gorbachev, old-boy network, Potemkin village, private military company, profit motive, RAND corporation, Ronald Reagan, Silicon Valley, South China Sea, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, too big to fail, walking around money
Lieutenant Katrina Lewison, a young West Point graduate from western Kansas and now a Black Hawk pilot, was one of the soldiers who unexpectedly found herself on a quasi-humanitarian mission. On paper, she was a platoon leader with the Sixth Battalion of the 101st Aviation; in practice, she was a construction boss, supervising a team of sixty Iraqi day laborers. Lewison's career in the construction business began on Mosul's unemployment line. Each day, hundreds of jobless men from Mosul would line up outside the front gate of the airfield where the helicopter unit was based. A minor local sheikh named Doctor Mohammed had presented himself to the division on the day it arrived in Mosul, sending out a handwritten note, in stilted English, that was hand-carried to the airfield by an elderly man.
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Robert D. Putnam
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assortative mating, correlation does not imply causation, deindustrialization, demographic transition, desegregation, ending welfare as we know it, epigenetics, full employment, George Akerlof, helicopter parent, impulse control, income inequality, index card, jobless men, low skilled workers, manufacturing employment, mass incarceration, meta analysis, meta-analysis, mortgage tax deduction, new economy, Occupy movement, Ralph Waldo Emerson, randomized controlled trial, school choice, selection bias, Socratic dialogue, The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, the built environment, upwardly mobile, Walter Mischel, white flight, working poor
Eighty years (and several cultural revolutions) later, it's still true that hard times deter and destroy marriages.50 On the other hand, in the 1930s the birth rate also fell sharply, and between 1920 and 1940 unwed births remained consistently low.51 In that era, men and women postponed procreation as well as matrimony. "No marriage license, no kids" was the cultural norm. Unlike today, desperately poor, jobless men in the 1930s did not have kids outside of marriage whom they then largely ignored. Today the role of father has become more voluntary, which means that, as Marcia Carlson and Paula England have put it, "only the most committed and financially stable men choose to embrace it."52 This important cultural shift matters a good deal for the sorts of families within which poor kids today are raised.53 Could changes in public policy or political ideology have had the perverse effect of undermining the conventional two-parent family?
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future by Joseph E. Stiglitz
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affirmative action, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, airline deregulation, Andrei Shleifer, banking crisis, barriers to entry, Basel III, battle of ideas, Berlin Wall, capital controls, Carmen Reinhart, Cass Sunstein, central bank independence, collapse of Lehman Brothers, collective bargaining, colonial rule, corporate governance, Credit Default Swap, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, Dava Sobel, declining real wages, deskilling, Exxon Valdez, Fall of the Berlin Wall, financial deregulation, financial innovation, Flash crash, framing effect, full employment, George Akerlof, Gini coefficient, income inequality, income per capita, indoor plumbing, inflation targeting, information asymmetry, invisible hand, jobless men, John Harrison: Longitude, John Markoff, John Maynard Keynes: Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren, Kenneth Arrow, Kenneth Rogoff, labour market flexibility, London Interbank Offered Rate, lone genius, low skilled workers, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, market bubble, market fundamentalism, mass incarceration, medical bankruptcy, microcredit, moral hazard, mortgage tax deduction, negative equity, obamacare, offshore financial centre, paper trading, Pareto efficiency, patent troll, Paul Samuelson, payday loans, price stability, profit maximization, profit motive, purchasing power parity, race to the bottom, rent-seeking, reserve currency, Richard Thaler, Robert Shiller, Robert Shiller, Ronald Coase, Ronald Reagan, shareholder value, short selling, Silicon Valley, Simon Kuznets, spectrum auction, Steve Jobs, technology bubble, The Chicago School, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, The Myth of the Rational Market, The Spirit Level, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, too big to fail, trade liberalization, transaction costs, trickle-down economics, ultimatum game, uranium enrichment, very high income, We are the 99%, wealth creators, women in the workforce, zero-sum game
In each case elites feared they would lose their position of power and privilege, and even their wealth, if they extended the voting franchise. Many of the efforts at disenfranchisement, now and in the past, have been directed at disenfranchising the poor; in the 1930s, pauper exclusion laws disenfranchised jobless men and women who were receiving relief.30 The political science scholar Walter Dean Burnham has detailed the long history of what he calls efforts at voter "demobilization" targeted at various groups: against urban workers, by upstate agrarians and small towners; against leftist parties, by the major parties; against populists, by the urban corporate elites; against the poor, by the middle- and upper-income groups.31 Many of these measures may be thought of as disenfranchisement by stealth.
Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood With Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour by Lynne Olson
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Alistair Cooke, Bretton Woods, British Empire, colonial rule, European colonialism, financial independence, full employment, imperial preference, indoor plumbing, jobless men, old-boy network, South China Sea, V2 rocket
Not infrequently, Winant would use his own money to pay a medical bill, cover an educational expense, or help start a business for an impoverished state resident or fellow World War I veteran who had asked for his help. During the Depression, he instructed the Concord police to allow transients to spend the night in the city jail, then feed them in the morning and send the bill to him. Walking to work, he would hand out all the money in his wallet to jobless men sunning themselves against the granite walls of the state capitol. Winant, said one friend, "carried the Christian injunction, 'Give all thy goods to feed the poor,' further than any person I have ever known." When he left office in January 1935, Winant's ideals and principles had won the endorsement of most of the state's legislators, regardless of party.
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
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active measures, affirmative action, agricultural Revolution, Albert Einstein, anti-communist, Bartolomé de las Casas, Bernie Sanders, British Empire, clean water, colonial rule, death of newspapers, desegregation, equal pay for equal work, feminist movement, friendly fire, full employment, God and Mammon, Howard Zinn, illegal immigration, jobless men, land reform, Mercator projection, Mikhail Gorbachev, minimum wage unemployment, Monroe Doctrine, new economy, New Urbanism, Norman Mailer, offshore financial centre, Plutocrats, plutocrats, profit motive, Ralph Nader, Ralph Waldo Emerson, RAND corporation, Ronald Reagan, Rosa Parks, Silicon Valley, strikebreaker, Telecommunications Act of 1996, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, transcontinental railway, union organizing, Upton Sinclair, very high income, War on Poverty, Works Progress Administration
Shouting that they must have food for themselves and their families, the invaders announced their intention to take it from the stores unless it were provided from some other source without cost. Detroit, July 9, 1931. An incipient riot by 500 unemployed men turned out of the city lodging house for lack of funds was quelled by police reserves in Cadillac Square tonight. . . . Indiana Harbor, Indiana, August 5, 1931. Fifteen hundred jobless men stormed the plant of the Fruit Growers Express Company here, demanding that they be given jobs to keep from starving. The company's answer was to call the city police, who routed the jobless with menacing clubs. Boston, November 10, 1931. Twenty persons were treated for injuries, three were hurt so seriously that they may die, and dozens of others were nursing wounds from flying bottles, lead pipe, and stones after clashes between striking longshoremen and Negro strikebreakers along the Charlestown-East Boston waterfront.


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Self-taping is the new normal but actors need to know that directors are not looking for immediate perfection, says Samuel West, they want people who can be flexible and are able to alter their performance in the audition room
Recently I directed The Watsons at Chichester Festival Theatre, the first time I had directed for a few years. I immediately noticed how auditioning had changed, and I'm not sure it's for the best. As an only occasional director, casting a group primarily in their 20s meant meeting a lot of actors who were new to me. I looked at their online showreels, which were almost universally excellent (bar the few who insist on a montage at the beginning; boring), to get a sense of their acting styles.
There's clearly a new generation of young actors of remarkable skill and truthfulness on camera, influenced by the best of US, Scandinavian and British television. That screen skill, though, doesn't necessarily translate to an ability to portray a character from a different period in a different style in the theatre. So a director has to meet them and find out if they can do it on stage.
The Watsons review at Minerva Theatre, Chichester – 'inventive adaptation of Austen's unfinished novel'
We didn't make any offers up front. We auditioned everyone, seeing about five people for each part in a cast of 16. The casting director, Charlotte Sutton, had an excellent knowledge of the piece, the register, and the talent concerned. She brought in people who, without exception, were worth meeting. Nobody wasted our time. And I learnt something from every audition: about the part, or about the play, and always about the person.
The audition process, over six days, 20 minutes at a time, was pretty good. Everybody seemed to like the play – and if "I loved it" is the ubiquitous response to my first question after a getting-to-know you chat, then fair enough: the beginning of an audition is not a time for expressing doubts.
What struck me as having changed from when I last directed a play was how remarkably well prepared people were for the scenes they had chosen. In one case, someone played a five-page scene, off-book, syllable perfect. But during the process, I noticed something less useful: while people arrive very well prepared, they sometimes aren't flexible about the performance they come in with.
I wonder if this might have something to do with the rise of the self-taping culture. Nowadays, actors can get calls to self-tape several times a week. Our lives, if we're lucky, become a constant round of learning, borrowing friends to read with, looking for blank walls to stand against, polishing those few lines until they shine. And that brings its own problems.
When you go on tape for a screen role without meeting the director, you try to film something immediately memorable, striking, something that will stand out from the dozens of others pouring in digitally from every corner of the world.
The actor directs themselves, possibly in great detail, so that every line is truthful, spontaneous, idiosyncratic, what you will. This self-direction isn't a bad thing. A film director may not want to bother giving you acting notes; many directors like talking about acting but many don't, and all of them have lots of other things to think about. Filming is expensive and fast; instead of rehearsal questions, what film and television mostly want from actors is footage.
But this is not how theatre works. For a start, the director is always in the room and is there to work with the actor. They don't want a finished article; they are (or should be) interested in process, not results – at least not immediately. Our currency in theatre is time, and though there often isn't enough of it, five weeks for a two-hour play always gives you room to explore.
I look for something other than immediate perfection in an audition: talent, niceness and rightness for the part, in that order.
I can think of nothing worse than casting somebody because they gave a perfect audition, then discovering they're unable to change it in any way
Talent goes at the top, because the process of rehearsals allows you to cast people who may not be able to play the part quite yet, but are talented enough to get there with time. I can think of nothing worse than casting somebody because they gave a perfect audition, then discovering they're unable to change it in any way. Rehearsals are for getting things wrong, not for getting things right. I don't pretend to have all the answers when we start on day one, and exploration is what makes rehearsal fun.
Niceness sounds twee, but it's vital. We don't want wankers, we don't want bad listeners, who come on with what sounds like a tape of their performance and expect you to fit the other speeches into their gaps. We want people who are present, who throw the ball back instead of holding on to it, whose performance will alter according to what the other actors give them. We want people who leave their narcissism and insecurity at the door. Nobody's making much money – you might as well have a good time. As part of an ensemble cast, I'm also looking for playfulness: Is someone open to new ideas even if those ideas might not turn out to be right? Can they go with a note they don't agree with for shits and giggles, just to see where it takes us? Often, I've said to someone I ended up casting: "I'm not sure that was a good note, but you took it very well."
So the only other thing I do in auditions, apart from getting to know the actor and hearing how they do it the first time, is give a simple note and see if they can take it. And very often, the people who were best prepared, and most reliably off-book, were the least flexible. They gave a beautifully shiny performance, I suggested a couple of small tweaks, and they did the beautifully shiny performance again, exactly as before. If self-taping is making this problem worse, young actors need to know. Because however good an actor is, if they can't take a note, I can't cast them.
My suggestion for agents and casting directors to pass on to actors is not to learn the material too well – of course, if you're dyslexic or find sight reading difficult, do as much work as you need to feel comfortable – but prepare to be flexible and alter your performance in the room.
Self-taping can also encourage actors only to think of their "sides". Once or twice, people arrived not having read the whole play. This is a deal-breaker. You must read the whole play, not least because every page you're not on may have something to say about your character.
Some of the time spent bashing that one scene until you are completely off-book could perhaps be better spent reading the whole play, finding out about the period, thinking of a couple of good questions to ask. But go sparingly: no director likes to hear complex theories from an actor about the themes or moods of the production, particularly when many of us may have fewer ideas about those than the person auditioning, at least so far. Have some questions, make some decisions, and be ready to change them.


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Canada and US Work Together for Canada's Youth
Youth in Canada will now have more opportunity thanks to a new private sector alliance between a group of independent Canadian business owners and Pomeroy Equitable Solutions LLC (PES), a US-based company that created the youth funding movement Swipe4TheKids.
Swipe4TheKids is a sustainable funding source for youth enrichment programs. Made possible by partnerships between businesses, their customers, and merchant services partner Eclypse Solutions, Swipe4TheKids allows vital programs to flourish and provides long-term benefits.Details


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Stand Out in a Crowd
Ways to Stand Out
Do you want to get noticed – by him, in particular? You may not even know who he is as yet, but once you start putting these sensuality secrets into action, he will reveal himself to you. Before you know it, you'll be off and dating with a man who understands sensuality.
So, how do you stand out in that crowd? There is a sea of bodies; a million eyes scanning, looking, searching, hoping to make contact. So, what can you do to stand out?
Patty Contenta uses sensuality. Our communication is 60% non-verbal and 40% verbal and of that 40%, only 10% of the communication is about the words you use. Think about that. The body really does talk. Check out the prior link too – it's about decoding a guy's body language.
Thus, we cannot not be communicating – at any one time in the day and in any place. We are always sending out messages. Patty uses sensuality to get her message across.
Have you considered sending sensual messages? It obviously works, once you get the hang of it, and stop feeling self-conscious about cultivating your curves – Patty's mantra.
Do you think a man should make the first move? It is old fashioned to think this, but if you are that way inclined, there are still ways to attract the guy, such that he can't help but make the first move (or so he thinks!).
Sensuality Secrets
Patty makes it look easy and Im sure you can too. She has loads of flirting tips and they are all based on personal sensuality.
Watch the video, try it out and go here to find out more about sensuality in action.
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Acclaimed Singer-Songwriter Jesse Cook Coming to Neptune Theatre on February 10th and 11th
Acclaimed Canadian guitarist, composer, and producer Jesse Cook is gearing up for a West Coast headlining tour, which will be stopping through Seattle for two days, on February 10th and 11th, at the Neptune Theatre.
Just this past September, Cook released his latest studio album, Beyond Borders, which debuted at #1 on the iTunes World Music Albums Chart and remained atop the chart for a week. The 12-track album features lead single "Double Dutch" (as well as "Hembra," whose official music video was shot in Cartagena, Colombia this past fall.
Living up to the album's title, the JUNO Award-winning musician's new record explores a sonic landscape unfettered by geography, ethnicity and musical styles to forge a unique world music hybrid. Recorded over two years in Toronto, Beyond Borders is the follow-up to 2015's One World. The new album places Cook in the driver's seat as he wrote, recorded and arranged the music, creating templates with deep emotional foundations before inviting collaborators to add nuance and shading to the compositions.
Tickets to the event are priced at $43.50, and can be purchased here for day one and here for day two.


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The Cruelty Free Beauty Box provide a subscription service to cruelty free beauty products with the aim of making cruelty free beauty easier to source and more accessible for everyone.
Here are my thoughts on the March box.
Pure Chimp – Natural Shampoo Bar
Pure Chimp sell affordable natural skincare and Japanese matcha. This shampoo bar comes with a note saying that if you've not used natural shampoo before it may take your hair a few weeks to adjust. Luckily for me, I switched to natural shampoo around three years ago so have already been through that hell!
The first thing I noticed when opening this was how fragile the product was. Several flakes of the bar had come away and quite a lot fell out when I unwrapped it. Luckily I was able to stick it back together after I had used it.
The fragrance had a gentle banana quality, but it did smell quite synthetic. I'm not sure if this was caused by the beer in it, but the scent of it overall is quite unusual.
I did love the fact that the shampoo bar is dome shaped which made it really easy to use. It lathers really well and left hair very clean.
My hair was also very soft and shiny after using and there's no leftover scent of beer or synthetic bananas!
Pure Chimp – Matcha Tea Sachet in Turmeric
I'm not usually a fan of matcha green tea but I brewed this up anyway and had another shot, so to speak.
This matcha tea is blended with turmeric, cinnamon and ginger which makes is sound like a nice warming autumn evening drink. I made the tea with almond milk.
I really wanted to like it. Ginger tea is one of my favourite autumn drinks and I really enjoy it during cold season. As hayfever season has fallen a little early this year I was hoping that it was going to give me the same comforting feeling.
Sadly it looks like me and matcha are definitely not to be and I couldn't manage more than a mouthful of it. But it dissolved into the milk quite well (apart from a little sediment at the bottom of the cup) and was quite frothy, so if you are a fan of matcha, this might be a good one for you to try.
Bellapierre Cosmetics Shimmer Powder in Starry Night
Bellapierre Cosmetics create on-trend, cruelty free make up which is free of harmful ingredients. The shimmer powders can be used as eyeshadow, cream eyeshadow, blush, eyeliner, lip colour, nail polish tinted mascara and bronzer. Starry Night is a deep blue colour and for this review I used it as an eyeshadow.
This was a lovely dark blue with a hint of shimmer that was quite gothic in its luck. I used it over a primer and it lasted throughout the evening without creasing or cracking. The shimmer is very subtle and I did expect more sparkle from the name but this did make a lovely eyeshadow. I thought it also really brought out the green in my eyes. This would probably also look lovely with brown and hazel eyes and could work with blue eyes if used with some gold to highlight the inner corners.
As with all loose powder make up it can get a little messy so you need to be careful that excess doesn't drop onto areas of the face you don't want the make up.
Native Unearthed Natural Deodorant Balm – Grapefruit and Tea Tree
Native Unearthed make effective natural deodorants created from ingredients you can find in your kitchen. This plant based dedorant has a zesty fragrance and neutralises odour while nourishing and moisturising skin.
This deodorant was really easy to use. The consistency was very soft which is nice as a lot of natural deodorants can be very dry and take quite a lot of faffing with to get them to melt into any kind of usable consistency. The product is a little grainy but this all melts away within seconds of application so didn't make any difference.
The fragance doesn't seem very strong in the jar, but when this has been applied and has melted into the skin there's a lovely citrusy hit which lasted all day without needing to reapply. The deodorant was also absorbed very quickly so there was no waiting around for it to dry.
The deodorant also has a nice cooling effect on the skin. Skin was also gently moisturised.
Tropika Skin Coconut Cleansing Oil
Tropika are a family business who create natural skincare for all the family. This cleansing oil promises to melt away all traces of make up and impurities including waterproof mascara. It is suitable for all skin types and can also be used to do a mini facial at home.
It was a little bit sceptical about this when I first applied it. The recommended four drops seemed to disappear straight into my skin leaving it slightly tacky. There was a release of a lovely tropical fragrance though.
Adding water did not produce the milky textured product promised and when using the cleansing oil it felt like I may as well be washing it with water. As this is safe for eyes I did use it to remove my eye make up as well and there was no sting or irritation there.
I rinsed the oil off not expecting much and was really amazed. All my make up just disappeared as it said it would and my skin was really soft and smooth with no trace of panda eyes. I'm thinking that my oily skin may have affected how the product worked so I had slightly different results to what expected but I was really impressed with the results.
Evolve Organic Beauty Hyaluronic 200
Evolve Beauty make organic, natural skincare, haircare and beauty products which are all vegan and cruelty free. This serum contains hyaluronic acid and pomegranate extract and is designed to hydrate, protect and plump up fine lines and wrinkles.
The serum is a gel formula which smells like Turkish delight. On contact with the skin it quickly transforms to a liquid which is quickly absorbed.
A small amount went a very long way and left my skin soft, smooth and matte. I have combination skin with a particularly oily T-zone and my skin was still matte in the morning which was quite impressive.
Looking forward to see what longer term use of this does.
My Product of the Month
This is the Native Unearthed Natural Deodorant Balm. The lovely fresh fragrance of this is lovely for the warmer weather we've been having as it's such a lovely summery scent.
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Introduction: Desk/Table Mounted Stationary Cup
Today I will show you how to mount a stationary cup (party drink cup) to a desk or table leg. I did this because my desk is small with limited space and it was always a pain scrounging for my preferred tools. Anyway this is cheap easy and fun. Enjoy!
Step 1: What You Will Need
Power drill
Phillips head screwdriver
Wood screw (any size)
Plastic cup
This instructable is for a wooden desk/table, so if you have a metal desk/table with steel legs you might want to use a nut and bolt.
Step 2: Marking Your Territory
After you have found that perfect screw and washer, you'll want to mark with a marker where you want to pre-drill your holes on the desk/table leg and the cup.
Step 3: Pre-drilling
Now that you have marked your positions, find the appropriate drill bit size you need to use and start pre-drilling! Carefully go in as deep as you think is necessary with the desk/table leg. And as with the cup I recommend carefully going in full speed with the power drill so you get sort of a nice clean hole.
Step 4: Screwing In
Now before we start screwing in, the cup has a rim around the top that could prevent the cup from sitting flush against the desk/table leg. So what I did was trim off part of the rim with a pair of scissors (see 1st photo). Now that we are ready, put your washer on the screw and thread it through the hole of the cup. The next thing is whether or not you want your cup at an angle like mine and if you're happy with that then start turning that screw in slowly into the desk/table with the Phillips head screwdriver until it's all the way in.
Step 5: The Hard Part
Now that you have completed all the easy steps, find out what stationary is your favourite and start filling! I hope you enjoyed this instructable and look forward to your responses. I take no responsibility for anyone who damages their property or themselves. Please take extreme care when using power tools. Thank you.
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This summer we will follow the readings from Luke which begin with Jesus setting his face toward Jerusalem. We know what happens in Jerusalem – Jesus will face the cross.
We will wonder what it looks like to follow Jesus on the way to Jerusalem and how the inevitability of the cross shapes our lives and actions. We will ask two basic questions to the stories in Luke.
1. What is Jesus saying, and how might we listen?
2. What is Jesus doing, and how might we imitate him?
We are always called to listen to Jesus, but there is a greater mystery to consider: How might we become like Christ. For in doing so we become Christian.
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Marjolein Frijling – Fogo Correndo – Lopend Vuur (Dutch)
Xanthe Gresham Knight – Epic Heroines from Ancient Persia
Thomas Kok – The Dark Side of Porn
Cené Hale – The Great Deception
George Elias Tobal – Kinderen van Aleppo (Dutch)
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Chicken Basics
Chicken Basics
Did you know that chicken is the most commonly consumed animal protein in the U.S.? According to the National Chicken Council, the popularity of chicken meat will continue to grow. Chicken consumption per capita has grown every year since 1960 and there is a predicted fourteen pound increase in chicken consumption per capita between 2009 and 2019. Additionally, chicken makes up the top two growing food trends based on servings in the restaurant industry in the form of chicken strips (+18%) and breaded chicken sandwiches (+6%) (NPD Group, Inc.). Chicken's popularity makes sense due to its versatility across global and ethnic cuisines and flavors, its taste, cost-effectiveness, nutrition and acceptability across all age groups. Even though chicken is so popular, there is still some confusion around common chicken terms and labels. Here we'll demystify some of these terms plus learn some fun facts about chicken's rise to fame.
Chicken History
Chickens were supposedly first discovered on the side of the road in Greece in the first decade of the fifth century B.C. They were first domesticated in China around 5400 B.C. for fighting then spread from modern-day India to the rest of the world 4000 years ago. The Romans were the first people to eat chickens for meat and considered it a delicacy in recipes like stuffed chickens and used the eggs for omelets. They used the whole animal and often stuffed their chicken with chicken brains! To avoid excess luxury, there was even a law passed in Roman times to limit chicken consumption to one per meal. The popularity of chicken meat fell with the Roman Empire and didn't become ubiquitous until the advent of large-scale industrial production in the 20th century. Modern breakthroughs allowed chickens to be raised indoors on a large scale. Chicken, like most animals, need sunlight to synthesize vitamin D. By fortifying chicken feed with vitamin D and other nutrients allowed them to be raised indoors and therefore protected from weather and predators using a controlled environment and diet. Up until that point, chickens were mainly used for their eggs. Now we can see chicken meat on menus at every meal across multiple applications.
Chicken Terms and Definitions
Even though chicken meat is so common, there are some terms that can be confusing to chicken-eaters. Here are definitions to some common terms found on packages and menus so you can be an informed chicken consumer:
- Free-Range: USDA approves this label on a case-by-case basis.
- Chickens have access to the outdoors for at least some part of the day (chickens decide if they want to go outside or not).
- If chickens are labeled as organic, they must be free-range; however, not all free-range chickens are organic. A specific free-range label is not required.
- Less than 1% of U.S. chickens are free-range.
- Natural: As defined by the USDA, no artificial ingredients, colors or chemical preservatives; minimally processed.
- Organic: the use of this label requires specific rules set by USDA; does not indicate safety, quality or nutritional attributes above conventional products.
- No Antibiotics Ever (NAE): a program that raises birds without the use of antibiotics and uses the NAE label.
- If a bird in an NAE program gets sick, proper actions are taken by trained veterinarians in the best interest of the bird. If antibiotics are used, the bird is removed from the NAE flock and packaged under a non-NAE label.
- In non-NAE chicken, USDA and FDA have strict monitoring and testing to ensure food does not contain antibiotic residue.
- No Hormones Added: FDA prohibits artificial or added hormones in any step of a chicken's life or processing and has done so since the 1950s. All chicken can be labeled "raised without hormones".
- All-Vegetable Diet/Vegetable Feed: chicken feed is primarily corn and soybean meal.
- Composition of animal feed is regulated by the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO).
- If the feed does not contain animal by-products, it can be labeled as "all-vegetable".
- Made in the USA: Most chicken sold in the USA is raised and processed in the USA (only a small amount comes from Canada).
- Dark Meat: has higher amounts of myoglobin in the muscles that are used more often (the thighs and drumsticks). Dark meat muscles use more oxygen so the meat has more iron.
- White Meat: has lower amounts of myoglobin so it is lighter in color (breast and wings).
- Natural Proportion: the final processed product has equal amounts of white and dark meat.
Chicken Meat Nutrition
Chicken is not only popular for its taste, but its versatility too. Chicken is also a nutritious protein source. All chicken meat is a great source of lean protein and the vitamins niacin, B6, biotin, and B12. Due to the higher content of myoglobin, dark meat is also a great source of iron. Dark meat chicken has slightly more fat but this feature gives the meat more moisture, flavor and texture. The fat in chicken is mainly found in the skin so removing the skin makes chicken very lean and nutritious.
Hopefully you now have more knowledge about chicken meat and labeling terms to share with your students and staff. Make sure to check out our website for our full-line of chicken products and delicious recipes to serve this on-trend protein in your food service.
By Camden Robbins, R.D., SNS
How the Chicken Conquered the World: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-chicken-conquered-the-world-87583657/#7AvbQdqEBCRhfgcl.99
National Chicken Council: https://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/


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Algerian investment program worth 262 billion US dollars attracts foreign suppliers The 9th electro, automation & energy from 23 to 25 February 2015 in Algiers According to ZVEI – the German Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers" Association, Algerian imports of power and electro-technology increased by 24.5 per cent within just four years. The Algerian government plans … Weiterlesen »
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Official pavilions from Spain, Benin, Germany and Italy at elec expo, EneR Event & Tronica Expo 2013 Fairgrounds in Casablanca According to GTAI – Germany Trade & Invest the Moroccan demand for electricity annually increases by six to eight per cent. Import dependency in the energy sector, consistently high demand in electricity generation and transmission … Weiterlesen »
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In his History of Nisabur, the Imam al-Hakim (r.a), author of the Mustadrak al Hakim, recorded that when Imam 'Ali al-Ridha' (r.a), son of Imam Musa al-Kadhim (r.a) entered Nisabur, he was riding inside a veiled enclosure upon a grey mule. When he entered the city's main marketplace, the two huffaz of ahadith, Imam Abu Zur'a ar-Razi (r.a.) and Imam ibn Aslam at-Tusi (r.a.), along with an uncountable number of students, stopped him and said, "O noble master, we ask you by the right of your noble and pure ancestors, to please expose your blessed face for us and narrate to us a hadith that you relate through your forefathers."
Imam 'Ali al Ridha' (r.a) stopped his servant and ordered the veil to be removed, and everyone gazed upon his noble face. He had two long braids which fell on his shoulders, and the populace was looking upon him, some screaming with joy, others crying with humility, others kissing the feet of his mule or rubbing their faces on the dirt in front of him, and their voices grew.
So the ahadith scholars said, "O people, lower your voices and listen to that which will benefit you, and do not annoy us with your voices." Imam Abu Zur'a (r.a.) and Imam at-Tusi (r.a.) readied themselves to record.
Imam 'Ali al Ridha' (r.a) began, "Our father, Musa al-Kadhim (r.a) narrated to us, from his father, Ja'far as- Sadiq (r.a), from his father, Muhammad al-Baqir (r.a), from his father, 'Ali Zayn al-'Abidin (r.a), from his father, Husayn (r.a) the martyr of Karbala, from his father 'Ali ibn Abu Talib (r.a), who said, 'My beloved and delight of my eyes, Rasulullah (s.a.w), said to me, Angel Jibril (a.s) said to me,
'Allah Most High Said: ''Laa ilaha il Allah' is My stronghold, whoever recites it enters My stronghold, and whoever enters My stronghold is safe from My Wrath.'''
Then noble Imam al Ridha (r.a) lowered the veil over himself and moved on, and those who had ink were writing and were counted to be above 20,000."
If people are impressed with the Golden Chain of Narrations of Imam Malik (r.a.) from Imam Nafi' (r.a.) from ibn 'Umar (r.a.), then this is the Diamond Chain of Narrations of healing and protection and blessing.
The Sufi Shaykh, Imam Abu al-Qasim al-Qushayri al-Shafi'i (r.a) said, "This chain of narrations reached one of the 'umarah of the Samaniya, so he had it written in gold ink and advised that writing to be buried with him. After he died he was seen in a dream and asked 'What did Allah Do with you?'
He replied, 'Allah Forgave me because of my utterance of Laa ilaha il Allah [There is no Divinity except Allah], and my conviction that Muhammad is Rasulullah, the messenger of Allah (s.a.w.).'"


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Chinese Hackers Target 27 Universities to Acquire Military Technology | #TpromoCom #China #Hacker #Hackers | Over two dozen universities in the U.S. and around the world have been singled out for access to maritime military research. (please scroll for more)
Dozens of universities have fallen victim to a cyberattack conducted by Chinese hackers attempting to steal information on military technology.
The University of Washington, the University of Hawaii and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are among at least 27 universities that have been targeted, reports ZD Net.
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The two teams will battle it out in the under-19 final at the BCI Stadium in Nikao on Saturday.
The Bears, after finishing the round-robin competition on top, made it through to the showdown without playing in the preliminary playoff.
The Bulldogs had to play against Ngatangiia Matavera Sea Eagles, scoring a 32-18 win in the semifinal last week to make the final.
The Bears may have a slight advantage heading into the match, as the side has had ample time to recover and prepare.
Nothing can be taken away from the Bulldogs however, who will be out to defend their U19 title.
"The Arorangi Bears had done enough to go straight to the finals with the other two playing a semifinal match last weekend which was won by the Titikaveka Bulldogs against their village neighbours the Ngatangiia Sea Eagles," said the Cook Islands Rugby League Association (CIRLA) competition coordinator Taua Benioni.
"The Bears seems to have the utmost advantage but you never know, this is finals time."
Benioni also said that the association faced a massive challenge running the U19 competition given the limited number of teams participating this year.
"It wasn't an easy task for CIRLA to maintain their under-19s grade as there were three clubs who managed to field a team – Bears, Bulldogs and the Sea Eagles. However, CIRLA still managed to give them as much game time as possible," Benioni said.
"At a time during the competition, the grade was put on hold for two weeks mainly because there were a number of junior players selected to attend a rugby tournament overseas.
"But the ones left behind still managed to slot in with their reserve teams for game time to ensure they maintained their quality in their battle for the title."
Apart from the U19 grade, there will also be a final battle for the season in the junior development programme.
"At 11am on Saturday, Aunty Lydia Nga and her organising team will have all juniors battling it out in their own means of grand finals rugby league.
"I encourage all team supporters, parents and friends to all be there for them and also to end their season on a high."
Gates will open at 10am. Entry fee is $5 for adults and a gold-coin donation for children.