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Jamey Jasta
The world of SWNK interviews isn't one I've forayed into much before, being a little on the real journalism side of things for me and a little intimidating initially. However, some times things come up that make you think you should probably just jump in and get on with it, so a few weeks ago I caught up with Jamey Jasta over the phone to talk Hatebreed and various other things.
Being the first telephone interview I've ever done, and with such a well known guy, I was a little nervous before he called and things seemed a little surreal, but Jamey was a nice guy and a pro at this interview stuff (the man knows how to plug a record by now, as you'll see), so he was easy to talk to. Our rather long conversation is what follows. Questions from me are highlighted in bold.
So, how are you then, man?
Doing great, thanks man. Here at Nuclear Blast headquarters in Germany, and everything's going good.
That's cool. I've seen your schedule for today, looks pretty busy.
Oh, yeah, yeah, haha. I instagrammed the photo and everyone was like holy shit, haha. Yeah, I had rappers, MMA guys, metal-heads. Everyone on my twitter responding, it was cool.
So to get straight down to the important stuff, you've got a new album coming out in January, is that your sixth full length album now?
Yeah, 'The Divinity Of Purpose', out January 26th.
I've been able to share the stage with Ozzy, and Kiss, and Slash. That shit was so cool.
Not many bands manage to produce so much material and have such a long career so this is a big deal for you guys, are you excited?
Yeah, we're very grateful, we truly are, and we've had a lot of second chances as a band, but even through the up's and down's and the line up changes and everything we've managed to maintain, you know, and this has been our career since 1997 so, you know, we're just feeling good. It's the right time for this record and we're proud of everything that's on it, from the artwork, to the lyrics, to the riffs. I mean, overall, I feel it's just a real quality record.
You've just sparked about seven different questions I want to ask you from that one response man, haha.
Well that was the point of this record, the title, the artwork and everything; to spark new ideas and new thoughts about all things surrounding Hatebreed you know. Just trying to stay with the positive themes but create new questions.
I get that. There's only so long you can write this music without needing new lyrical themes and ideas would you say?
Absolutely. I mean, it doesn't have to always come from this place of anger or resentment or frustration. Those all go very well with heavy music, but we're hitting on some new topics and older topics we've updated for the period of time this record was written in. So it's like, there's stuff that Hatebreed fans will be used to, which I think it's vital to include, but there's new stuff too.
Cool. So does the record title and the artwork contribute to any sort of religious content in the album?
No, but it was definitely to spark idea of the album's central character, be it the person listening to the record, myself or whoever, being involved in this tug of war. Be it with good and evil, or darkness and light, the ying and the yang or however you want to interpret it. I feel like we all have that angel on one shoulder and the devil on the other in certain situations in our lives and having a purpose can be what gets us through, having a purpose can be this spiritual thing.
Totally. That's what the hardcore scene is for me.
Yeah, I mean if music can give you this feeling you can't even put into words, it's almost like divine intervention in a way when you find a band or a record or a show that really mean's something to you.
I guess the title sums it up pretty neatly then, 'The Divinity Of Purpose'.
Yeah, for me, my purpose has changed all throughout my life, whether it was music or my daughter or my family, or other areas of my career or what have you. But you know, that's the beauty of art and music and film and books, something that you pick up can be instantly life changing, and this record is about sparking that thought. We just wanted to be a compass for people. We're not telling you where to go but on a compass you can see where each direction is.
So what do you think has contributed to the longevity of Hatebreed? Certainly not many bands manage to stay at the forefront of metal and hardcore for so long. Do you feel having original and new members in the band brings more to the table?
Yeah, definitely, and, you know, just trying to keep the consistency. Everyone knows how hard we work to keep the records consistent, and I think the constant touring has totally helped. You know, mixing up the tours we do has really helped us stay in the limelight. Especially in America where we've done everything from arena tours, club shows, festivals to really keep the name out there. We're also pretty consistent with a new record every 3 years or so, the DVD and the cover album, so we're still pretty active, and we've kept the message clear. Having such an inclusionary message and feeling welcome was what brought me to metal and hardcore and punk music when I was a kid so hopefully we've been able to carry that on ourselves.
Ah, so that's part of the reason behind the tours you guys do? Do you find you go down as well with different audiences to… say me for example? Like you guys just toured with Lamb Of God and Sylosis in the States, how do you go down with metalheads?
Oh yeah, that's definitely the reason we do such diverse touring. Like, we've done shows with Dropkick Murphy's, we've done shows with Offspring, The Deftones, we've done shows with Cannibal Corpse, you know, we've made it clear that we want to get out to as many people as physically possible, and we want our music and message to be heard. And we've been pretty unapologetic about that, so it's really helped us.
You've been quite consistent with the touring this year especially, I mean you're in Europe right now but I hear there's more in store for January too?
Yeah, we're in Europe in January and March too, we're doing Hammerfest in the UK as well, we're hitting some festivals through the mainland too like Groezrock and stuff, Summerbreeze, so we have a pretty full plate. We're going to start announcing stuff this week, one announcement a week probably for the next few weeks.
A pretty full schedule from right now then I guess up to the album coming out?
Yeah definitely, I mean as soon as that comes out, or someone leaks it or whatever, we're going to have to get out there and support it so…
There's nothing that makes us go 'Oh god, why have we gotta play this still.'
I really enjoyed it by the way. I've only had the chance to listen to it 3 times so far but it seems like just what you'd expect from a Hatebreed record. You know when you get to that point where you wonder whether a band is going to deviate from their time honored formula with their new record, but then you listen to it and you don't even remember the question?
Thanks man, I'm glad you dig it!
Well done for not doing anything.. weird, haha.
Haha, well no, we said we wanted to stick to 'If it aint broke, don't fix it'.
Definitely. I gotta confess I've never yet been able to see you guys play, but maybe I'll get to see you in the UK this year, or at Groezrock if I manage to make it out there again.
Well, we're doing Hammerfest and we might do some headline shows as well, we'll see, but we should know for definite in the next coming weeks.
Can I book your band please? Hahaha.
Speak to Paul Ryan, haha, I'm sure he could arrange it for you if you gave him a call.
So, where is left to tour with Hatebreed now? I'm sure you must have covered quite a few continents by now?
Yeah, we'd really like to do South Africa, and go back to South East Asia too. We've never been to China or Malaysia or India either. I'd quite like to do Russia and Iceland and stuff too, and there's quite a few of the Eastern European countries like Estonia we've never been to. The festivals out there are usually pretty crazy too. Like Romania, for example, when we played out there we were main support to Whitesnake and Judas Priest, which was awesome. That show was killer, but we'd really like to go back and headline, you know? So we'll hopefully do that soon, but we're lucky and the world is a big place, we're still looking forward to playing new spots.
So, maybe as a lead on from this question… snap decision, what's the worst show Hatebreed has ever played?
[Deep inhale of breath, pauses] Erm, the worst show Hatebreed has ever played… I would say… hmmm, that really is a tough question, but we're lucky cause we don't really have to play bad shows these days. Ermm…
Okay, well how about any stand out bad experiences then?
Hmmm, I'm trying to think…. Shit, I don't even know.
On this last tour.. Every show was really good on the Lamb Of God tour… and the Five Finger Deathpunch tour before that.
That band is insane, haha.
Erm, on the Five Finger Deathpunch tour we were playing huge arena's and shit it was crazy. That band is really big in the States. We took out Cannibal Corpse and Unearth in the States too, and we just did some shows with Whitechapel and All Shall Perish too. You know, one of the shows… we did Littlerock, in Arkansas, we headlined… erm, I wanna say it was in like 2009 or something. That was probably the worst show we ever played. Things just didn't come together for us or the crowd that night. But we went back and we played there on the Lamb Of God and FFDP tours and the shows were awesome, so you can't really judge a place from one show you know?
Okay, to make things even harder, what's the best show you've ever played then? Haha.
Erm, one of the best shows we've ever played was actually just in New York city with Lamb Of God and In Flames. We got one of the nicest welcomes, it was incredible. People were chanting Hatebreed before we went on and shit, and carried on after we'd finished. Really, it was awesome. The reaction was totally incredible. I think, coming off the back of the hurricane and all the issues.. It was like everyone came together for one really big night out, you know, one real big night of hardcore and metal. There was just like this magic in the air, this electric energy you could feel in the room.
That's really cool man. It's one of the things that keeps me involved with the music, the way it brings people together in times of need.
Yeah, I still get a smile on my face when I think about it, you know.
All current bias aside, do you have a favorite record or song from the back catalogue. Maybe one you really enjoy playing live?
Hmm, I always enjoy Doomsayer or Face What Consumes You. It's always really fun to do Never Let It Die too, cause of the crowd reaction. Hands Of A Dying Man is usually a really big song in the set too. We've just been playing all the Perseverance record in full on the 10 year anniversary tour too, so it was awesome to get to play Smash Your Enemies and old material from that record again. We're lucky that there's nothing in our catalogue that we're really ashamed of now or anything like that, we still dig our old material. There's nothing that makes us go 'Oh god, why have we gotta play this still.'
I suppose you suffer the other way really, when you have so much old material to choose from, it's difficult to get everything in there that you'd want to?
Yeah, we'll we're going to move up to a longer set for this Persistence tour in January, so we'll probably do 4 or 5 songs from every record at least now.
About an hour, hour and a half then?
Yeah, probably a 75/80 minute set nowadays.
There's not many bands who can carry off that long a set in this vein of music, but I suspect it'll work for you.
Yeah, we're super excited for this tour, we have some new big songs in the set, so we're able to mix it up nicely. Depending on the album that got people into Hatebreed, we're trying to provide something for everybody in the time we have.
I saw Black Dahlia Murder from side stage a couple of years ago, I feel so sorry for drummers in big metal bands once it gets past the hour mark, haha.
Hahaha, yeah, I bet he's working his ass off back there, give this guy a raise, haha.
People were chanting Hatebreed before we went on and shit, and carried on after we'd finished. Really, it was awesome.
To go further from your favorite song/record, what are you most proud of as an achievement, with Hatebreed or in life generally?
Probably…. my daughter, actually. I'm amazed by her everyday, you know. I really lucked out, I'm able to…. I've been blessed with a great family life, I really have. But the music is a huge blessing too, I'm proud of every single record, all our achievements, every tour. I've been able to share the stage with Ozzy, and Kiss, and Slash. That shit was so cool. Blue Oyster Cult, Motley Crue… We just played with Motley Crue, which was crazy, but it's great, you know, so much fun. You gotta love what you do and we really are so lucky to be able to do this.
That is insane actually thinking about it. I can't think of many other, you know, grass roots hardcore bands that are playing with Motley Crue and shit.
I know, it's awesome. So we just take it day by day and try not to count our blessings too much, be humble to people and treat everyone the way we'd wanna be treated.
So, I suspect you've been asked about this quite a bit already, but the whole CNN 'White Supremacist' thing earlier this year. How did that make you feel at the time, and how do you go about responding to something like that?
Well, we were lucky that our fans caught it quicker than we did, really, and bombarded them with Facebook posts and tweets and whatever, and we got the message out there quickly and clearly that this is not the case, this is shitty journalism on their part. I mean overall, all the publicity surrounding it ended up being positive for us because it just goes to show how die hard our fan-base is to really defend us like that and show that we have a positive message. We try to bring people together, not tear them down or apart, through music, you know. But every time you include the word 'hate' or anything like that… we have an album titled 'Supremacy', so maybe people who are ignorant are gonna think it has something to do with some kind of racist agenda, but it isn't. 'Deconstructivism' is taking a word back and using it for your own purpose and if anything, we've had a positive message from the beginning. I guess it's nice they apologized and acknowledged our work in the past, and that's all you can really expect when someone reports something false about you like that, a retraction and an apology.
Given the important subject matter we've just been discussing, is there anything else important to you that you'd like to discuss while we're on a serious note?
No, just you know, right now we're out here promoting the Divinity Of Purpose which is coming out January 25th. We're all super involved in social networking at the minute, trying to get the word out about the pre-orders and stuff, get people to go to Impericon and order for the UK and Europe, just, you know… for our fans to be active in social media, really. If you want to see us play somewhere, tell us. Tell the festival, tweet the promoters too, get our videos played on Kerrang and Scuzz, or request us on the BBC or other radio rock shows. We want our fans to be as active, supportive and involved with us as possible, so that's what we've been trying to work on recently….
…Oh, you know what there is one other thing. Recently I've been telling people about Unite The United on Ebay, all the funds go to Mitch Lucker's daughter. We donated some stuff, there's some signed Jasta and Kingdom Of Sorrow stuff up there. I've just been urging people to donate. I think you can go to SuicideSilence.net too and donate through there as well.
I'll make sure we get some links put on the bottom of this article for anybody who'd like to help in anyway at all. Tragic he had to go so young.
Yeah, he seemed like a really sweet guy, I mean I wasn't super close with Mitch or anything, but every interaction I ever had with him was really positive, and he was just a star of that genre, you know. Really charismatic guy, and just one bad mistake had an effect on millions of people, so it really is sad, and I hope that everybody can come together and give some much needed support to his daughter.
Over recent years there's been a huge resurgence of bands from the 80's and 90's playing re-union shows and tours. Does that get on your nerves at all, as someone who's been in a band that's been active for the best part of 2 decades now?
Well, no, you know.. if the fans wanna see it and if they can go out and make some money from it still then… more power to 'em, you know. I'll never tear somebody else down, thinking that it's gonna build me up. I know that, erm… you can't hate the player, you gotta hate the game, haha. With me, I believe in abundance and the more the merrier really. But it is important for people to support those bands that never gave up when things got tough and kept on through the worst to keep it alive, you know.
Are there any bands who've reformed your excited to see again?
You know, we did Resurrection Fest with At The Gates and that was killer. A whole generation of kids have missed them.
Unfortunately, I'm one of them, haha.
We opened for them back in '95 before they split too, and I love those guys, really talented. You wanna talk about inventive, talented metal musicians, it's those guys right there.
I've got another early band to ask you about too, remember Voorhees?
Oh, absolutely, yeah. We did one of our first tours with those guys.
They've just started playing shows again, last year or so, in the UK.
No way, that's killer!
Come play the UK with Voorhees please?
Hahaha, that would be funny. We had a great time with those guys, we played plenty of squats and just, dirty shitholes. That tour was DIY to the max.
Do you ever miss playing tiny shows in shit venues at all?
Haha, yeah, we did a lot of those. We did more than our fair share.
Yeah, I guess you earned that place on the big stage.
Any life lessons you've taken from being involved in the band?
You know what, just treat people with respect and how you'd wanna be treated. All the people you see on the way up are the people you see on the way down, whether it's a roadie or a lighting guy, or a sound man or a tour manager. It's a small community and at first we learned the hard way, you know. But for at least the last ten years we've been really professional and it's worked out for us. Other than that… I always tell people be careful now with the whole digital age thing. Think it through before you post things on Facebook or Twitter or whatever. All my social networking accounts are super positive, I try to never complain or post anything about politics or anything too personal on there cause I have like 60,000 people who listen to me on these things. I try to keep it uplifting and informative, you know.
That must be crazy, having that many people like a click away?
It's cool because I can spread the word about my stuff, and I've tried to keep that in mind since I got on this stuff in the end of 2009 that this is a conversation with people who support your art and music and tours and everything. A lot of metal-heads are like 'That's not metal, that's not hardcore, that's gay' cause there's plenty of 13 year old girls on there talking to Justin Beiber and stuff, but it's a direct, up-to-date way of communicating, I love it. I follow comedians and artists, sports personality's and stuff, actors and directors.. I've learned a lot of stuff really from social networking.
Team Jasta found me cause I tweeted your name earlier on today, haha.
See there you go, I have my guy Jordan, and Erin, he's a real cool kid, and my girl Kelly who does the stillborn one for my label. When you have a good team of people, it's great for getting the information out there, it's right at the click of a button.
So what's going on with the numerous side projects at the minute?
Nothing! No plans for anything, we're completely focused on Hatebreed at the minute besides a little tour I'm doing with Kingdom Of Sorrow. No new record just yet. We're just gonna do this one tour with that then all Hatebreed. I might do some Jasta shows in my downtime in 2013, but full speed ahead with Hatebreed.
A solid definitive answer there man.
Yeah, I think we did like 6 or 8 shows with Jasta this year, but other than that it's all supporting the Divinity Of Purpose, coming out January 25th in the Europe and UK, and the 29th in the states. So we're plenty busy for now.
Do you ever feel like Hatebreed's been pidgeon-holed to any particular sound, and that's why there are side projects?
Well, you know what, I think when Hatebreed became really popular on the back of Perseverance and The Rise Of Brutality, people that were critics, who didn't know anything about music, or at least hardcore and metal, were like 'I don't get it, is this guy just yelling, he's talentless, yada, yada, yada'. So with Jasta, that record was a little bit of my way of being like… fuck you, I can do other stuff and branch out, I'm not just a one trick pony. If people like it, they like it, if they don't, they don't, I'm just having fun getting outside my comfort zone a little bit and playing with ideas. I'm not reinventing the wheel, it's not a ground breaking thing, it's just something I did for fun and I'm lucky enough to be in a position to get a world-wide deal for that record, and it did okay, so… I only did a handful of shows and stuff though.
As a side project it's still not bad in it's own right though..
Yeah, and you know what, I just wanna…. Because there's no previous records, it's a completely different band, it's judged on it's own merits for the most part. I mean some people will say what they wanna say and that's fine, but for me, it was just about challenging myself and working with other song writers and artists. It was a painless process for me really. Zack Wilde is on there, Mark and Randy from Lamb Of God, Tim from As I Lay Dying, Phil from All That Remains, I mean I got to branch out and do some really cool stuff with that I don't normally get to do.
Yeah, that's a big list of names man, impressive. So with so much going on, how do you find time to check out new music? Is it just a case of the bands you see are the bands you play with?
Well, I'll be honest, I've not really had time recently, but we're doing……Oh shit, that's my next interview calling already, we've run over time!
Oh that sucks man. We can end it here though, seems that we've been chatting way longer than scheduled anyway.
Thanks, well I guess I'll answer this one.. With the next tour we're doing in the US we're giving support slots to local bands we like in each of the 21 cities. Promoters have submitted the bands and we're picking our favorites to have a local band on every show, and I'm using that as a good way of keeping my ear to the street, haha.
Right, can I do one last final question?
Sure, go for it.
Cro-mags or Leeway? [I actually had a bunch of these 2 choice questions to finish the interview, I'm a little disappointed I didn't get to do them all].
Oh, well, I'd say Cro-Mags, I think.
See I think I'm a Leeway guy.. Born To Expire!
Well, I think, they're both… Both of their first records are classics, and then both their second records are good, but not as good as their first so they're similar in that.
Very true. Anyway, I'll let you go man, still a load more interviews for you to do. Thanks so much for taking the time to speak to me to today.
No problem man, maybe see you in 2013 and have a good night!
If you'd like to donate to the fund for Mitch Lucker's daughter, you can visit www.suicidesilence.net
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Pim said on 2013-01-10
For a first interview.. Nice dude!
Onno said on 2013-01-10
nice interview!
XemonerdX said on 2013-01-10
Canonized said on 2013-01-10
Thank you for the kind words all 🙂
Tim said on 2013-01-12
Thanks Jamey Jasta, for reminding me I have no clue where my copy op Slaughter of the Soul is.
Just Killing Time said on 2013-01-13
Very decent for a first interview, good job Callum! Also cool you kept in the form of a conversation with all the euhms… and stuff in there. I'm too much of a stylist to ever do that myself, but it actually contributed to it being a great read.
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By Niamh O'Neill
The Electrifying Renaissance of Chess
In the difficult winter months of last year, Haseeb Iqbal, DJ, writer and creator of Chessidency, would get on his bike and cycle around London. The streets were empty. The breeze was icy. Wrapped in a warm scarf and thick gloves, he would find little squares to sit down in with a friend and play chess. 'It's one of those games where you completely zone into it,' Haseeb tells me. 'Even if it's two hours long, it's total zoning. Silence. Nothing else matters.'
Haseeb was one of hundreds of millions of people across the world that turned to the chess board over the pandemic. Over the last eighteen months, chess has undergone an electrifying renaissance: in the first lockdown, the sales of chess sets shot up over 200%; The Queen's Gambit became Netflix's most-watched scripted limited series, with 62 million viewers; Chess.com reported 192 million games were played in April 2020. According to a UN report, chess can improve mental health and ameliorate anxiety. Affordable and flexible, chess has resurged in popularity across the world.
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A version of chess was first developed in eastern India as a tool of military strategy around 1500 years ago. Each piece was rich in symbolism and poetic imagery. As the modern game then took off in Europe in 1000AD, it was used as an allegory for social classes and their roles in society. Arthur Willoughby, who has been playing chess since he was five, tells me how there is still a characterisation to each piece: 'a knight, for example, has a sort of, mischievous, adventurous-type character to it. The way it moves across the board- it can confuse you.'
He explains how there are more possible chess moves than there are atoms in the universe.Chess is many things; contemplation, competition, escapism. The game allows you to enter a flow state: a highly-rewarding condition of total immersion. You go beyond the point of distraction, where there is a complete fluidity between your body and your mind. 'I find it to be like a meditation,' Haseeb says. 'You absorb yourself within a strategic vacuum.'
As games can go on for several hours, chess is a feat of mental and emotional endurance; if you lose focus and make one bad move, you can condemn yourself to a checkmate. The longest game ever played in terms of moves was in a world tournament, and it went on for 20 hours. Frustratingly, it ended in a draw.
The Library Lounge at the Standard Hotel has warm yellow fires, brown leather chairs, and on every other Tuesday night, chess boards, everywhere you look. Haseeb, alongside friend and fellow DJ, Donna Leake, created Chessidency nights in June last year. Their intention was to provide a community space for people to play. The night reflects the pandemic's impact on changing the way we socialise; it is a relaxed atmosphere but a space where there is an excuse to interact with strangers. 'Chess is like a football match; it's a vehicle for people to come together,' Haseeb tells me. 'It's really cool to see this community form around something so unassuming.'
The event exploded, with over 100 people packing into the lounge every fortnight, to play chess and listen to vinyls, with enchanting interludes of live music, ranging from the piano, to the saxophone, to the Japanese flute. Apparently, people have even had romantic flings at Chessidency, bonding over their mutual love of the game.
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Chess has long been recognised as a symbol of intelligence. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union invested a lot of resources into cultivating their national talent in the game; the government sponsored tournaments to promote chess as a vehicle for international dominance.
Norman, the Syrian Chessman inBrick Lane (we do not own this image)
Chess has even been played in prisons in the UK to maintain mental agility amongst prisoners; recently, select inmates have been authorised to play an online global tournament this year using prison computers. Malcolm Pein, the chief executive of the charity, Chess in Schools and Communities, told the Guardian, 'Chess instils mental self-discipline, problem-solving skills…It has a positive effect on behaviour and relieves boredom and was a lifeline to some prisoners during lockdown.'
On a Sunday afternoon, strolling down a busy Brick Lane, I noticed a man sat in an armchair at a table, smoking a pipe and wearing a beret. A sign – "CHESS 4 FUN, FREE" – was propped up on the table next to two boards.
Known as the 'Umbrella Man' due to his selection of umbrella hats, Norman, who moved here from Syria in the 80s, has been setting up chess boards in the street for years. Anyone is welcome to join him in a quick-fire match. The atmosphere is intense, yet jovial. Spectators stand around, whispering encouragements. 'Chess is kind of like music,' Haseeb says, 'in that it doesn't matter where you're from; it's a universal language.'
This article was first published in our WELL-BEING print magazine of 2022
Header graphic by Anna Kimonova for LONDNR
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Obama Signs Law that Bans Those Annoying Online Ticket Bots
By Anneliese Mahoney | December 17, 2016
This week, President Barack Obama signed the appropriately and ironically named Better Online Ticket Sales (BOTS) act, which made it through the House and Senate last week. This bill will outlaw the use of those pesky ticket bots that buy up tickets on sites like StubHub and Ticketmaster, deployed by people who want to resell the tickets later at a higher price.
Laws against bots do exist in certain parts of the United States–for example, both California and New York have passed versions, but this law will forbid them nationwide. This law will make it illegal to use that kind of ticket-buying software, or to resell tickets with the knowledge that they were obtained using a bot.
This is a win for many in the entertainment industry, as there have long been many complaints about ticket bots. The presence of bots on ticket selling sites push prices up for fans, pricing many out. That's what happened with tickets to Adele, Beyonce, and Bruce Springsteen shows in 2016. Multiple celebrities have also spoken out against ticket bots, including Chance the Rapper and Lin Manuel Miranda.
Early in 2016, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office released a report about the abusive practices of ticket bots. NPR notes:
In one case, a single vendor was able to buy 1,012 tickets to a U2 concert at Madison Square Garden just one minute after they went on sale, even though the venue supposedly limited sales to four tickets per customer.
Even tickets to free events, such as Pope Francis' appearance in Central Park last September, are quickly acquired and resold at high prices on such sites, the report said.
And at least some of those sale sites are happy about the passage of the bill as well. A statement from Ticketmaster read:
On behalf of artists, venues, teams, and especially fans, Ticketmaster is pleased that the BOTS Act is now a federal law. Ticketmaster worked closely with legislators to develop the BOTS Act and we believe its passage is a critical step in raising awareness and regulating the unauthorized use of Bots.
So, next time you're trying to get tickets to your favorite show, never fear, the ticket bots will be gone.
Anneliese Mahoney
Anneliese Mahoney is Managing Editor at Law Street and a Connecticut transplant to Washington D.C. She has a Bachelor's degree in International Affairs from the George Washington University, and a passion for law, politics, and social issues. Contact Anneliese at amahoney@LawStreetMedia.com.
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MG MGB roadster, year 1974. Colour dark green combined with a black leathercloth interior and black carpet. Black vinyl soft-top, hood-cover and tonneau-cover. This beautiful MGB roadster was sold new in California USA. In the year 2001 the car was imported to the Netherlands. After arrival in the Netherlands the car was extensively restored. A photo report of the restoration is present. This MGB was purchased by the last owner in the year 2008, from then on, the car was serviced at Altena classic Service. All the service invoices are present. This fine MGB roadster is in very good condition! The bodywork shows a perfect panel fit, the original interior is in excellent condition and the car drives delightfully! The automobile is fitted with the original 'Rostyle' steel wheels, a MotoLita sports steering wheel with wood rim, a Stainless-Steel luggage rack, an oil-cooler and 123 electronic ignition. This is a very good specimen, ready for any adventure in the hands of a new owner!
The MG B was the first MG (Morris Garage) to be built of unitary construction bodywork. The MG B roadster was manufactured between 1962 and 1980. Early models can be recognized by the chrome bumpers, but because of American rules on safety, the later models were equipped with synthetic bumpers. The greater part was exported to the United States.
four-cylinder engine
capacity: 95 bhp. at 5400 rpm.
top-speed: 172 km/h.
gearbox: 4-speed, manual
weight: 935 kg. (GT 1040 kg.)
MG history
MG (Morris Garage) was set up by William Morris in the year 1923 to market a more sporty line of Morris models. Morris Production Manager, Cecil Kimber, was transferred from the factory in Cowley to Morris Garages (in Abington) to design MG's using Morris parts. MG production in Abingdon started in the year 1924. At the end of the 1930s, even normal passenger cars were introduced under the MG label.
The business flourished when in 1945, just after World War II, the sporty prewar MG TB and its successor the TC stole the hearts of the American soldiers. Numerous MGs were shipped to America where this type of motorcar was yet unknown.
Demand for the MG sports cars quickly rose in America, and most of the MGs were sold across the big pond in the years that followed. MGs were simple and well-built, affordable and easy to maintain. In 1952, Austin Motor Corporation merged with Morris Motors to form British Motor Corporation Ltd*.
In 1955, the pre-war TB and the post-war TC, TD and TF series with their pre-war designs were followed by the MG A roadster, which also became available as coupes after 1956.
In 1962, the successful MG A was followed by the even more successful and austerely but elegantly lined MG B. This series, too, mainly found its way to America. The MG B was available as roadster and as a 2+2 coupe, called the 'GT'.
As British Motor* had stopped the production of the Austin Healey, there was again the need for a six-cylinder sports car from this stable, which made the MG C see the light of day in 1967. It was an MG B with a six-cylinder engine. However, this car failed to live up to expectations as its road-holding and character were not of Healey's caliber. Eventually, Healey's successor was to come from the newly merged British Leyland* stable in 1968, and was called the Triumph TR6.
In 1973, a V8 variant of the MG B came onto the market: the MGB V8. This model had a powerful Rover 3.5 litre V8 motor and was to be built until 1976.
The MG B roadster and the GT were sold until 1980, and, under pressure from American legislation, were adapted with safety-enhancing and emission-reducing conversions during their last five production years. The resultant thick rubber bumpers and less powerful engines made these cars much less attractive. Meanwhile, Japan produced the Datsun 240 Z, and put an end to the British sports car hegemony in America.
In 1980, it was curtains for MG B. In the years after, some Austins did appear, 'dressed up' as MGs but we'd rather forget about them. Finally, in the 1990s, a worthy successor emerged in the form of the MG F, which is available to this day.
In the year 2001 BMW decided to get rid of Rover because they were losing lots of money because the British pound was too expensive as was manufacturing cars in England.
A group of investors bought Rover. They took over the entire model line and were able to work out the last details on the Rover 75 Tourer and market it. Next idea was to give MG a true rebirth; various Rover models were technically re-engineered, tuned and spiced up to make thru drivers cars of them, a sporty line of cars alongside the Rover middle-class luxury line.
Looking at the Rover/ MG cars and reading about them in the press we can tell that we have high expectations of the MG models to appear in the future.
British Leyland*
1968-75: BRITISH LEYLAND MOTOR CORPORATION, LTD
1975-78: BRITISH LEYLAND LIMITED
(in the merger of BRITISH MOTOR HOLDINGS with Austin-Morris and Jaguar interests in 1966)
and LEYLAND MOTOR CORP. LTD.
partly nationalized by the British government in 1975


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N Sea Oyster Company
With the dedication to raising, crafting, and sustaining oyster shells, that delivers a great taste of North Carolina seafood. N. Sea Oyster company, founded and owned by Conor MacNair, looks to maintain a positive impact on the environment. While also serving the local seafood market of Hampstead, North Carolina.
Hampstead, North Carolina
A small community town on the edge of North Carolina that is located between Wilmington and Jacksonville, North Carolina along route 17. Named after Hampstead, England, which is in the region of London.
Also known for having three golf courses named: Castle Bay, Olde Point Golf, and Iron Clad. As well as hosting an event each year on the last weekend in September called the North Carolina Spot Festival. Where thousands attend to raise money for schools and the community.
N Sea Oyster farm lies on the coast of Hampstead, North Carolina, close to Topsail Island. Where the nutrient waters wash over the farm twice a day from the tides to maintain a high saltine and healthy diet for the oysters they raise.
Topsail Island is a long barrier that separates the Intracoastal waterway from the ocean. The name is fashioned after famous pirates like Blackbeard, who were known to pillage the area of any ship going past the island.
By hiding in shallow waters, they would wait until merchant ships were close for them to strike. To prevent this from happening, merchant sailors created a technique where they would look for the topsails of their ship to identify them easily.
The Oyster Farming Process
Using a mixture of both Australian and French farming techniques. The sea oysters are grown on a 300-foot suspended longline. Where they endure a dry and tumble schedule, facing exposure to air to develop a thick and clean shell.
They are sorted and washed eight to twelve times a day before reaching an appropriate size to be sent to the market. After they have reached their appropriate size, they spend time in tide tumbling gear to be groomed to perfection.
Once the washing and grooming are done, each sea oyster is packaged by hand and then washed with seawater to ensure high quality, and to be ready to sell and ship to anyone ready to buy.
Farmers Market and Oyster Shipping
Not only can you order sea oysters from this farm. They also have other products that they sell here too. For example, the Dukes of Topsail Sound or Topsail oysters, which is either a sea oyster cocktail or select sea oysters that are packaged in either 12, 24, 36, 50, and 100 counts.
• The difference between the cocktail and select sea oysters is that the cocktail is recommended to everyone with a high salinity of 34 PPT (parts per thousand). Where the select sea oysters are the perfect balance of sweet and salty and better for cooking. It also has a high-medium salinity of 32 PPT.
They even offer rubber-dipped shucking gloves, and the Dexter Russel Oyster shucking knife for a low price of five and fifteen dollars respectively.
Fan of straw hats? N Sea Oyster company sells straw hats with their logo on them with adjustable string, with one size fits all, that makes it the perfect traveling companion. Even if you are not a fan of straw hats, they have classic snapbacks with a snap to adjust for size. Both products have been tested on the farm and the field.
If none of the other merchandise, besides the sea oysters, catches your attention. You can't go wrong with a T-shirt with the company logo ranging in sizes from extra small to 2XL.
Recipes and Oyster Eating Guide
If you're new to eating sea oysters and have no clue about what to do. N Sea Oyster has you covered with a few, recipes like the "Conor's Cast Iron Oyster Chowder," or "Conor's Oyster Sliders." If that doesn't interest you, then they provide you with a top-notch guide on how to open sea oysters called "Shucking 101."
N. Sea Oyster carters to special events and private parties. Creating opportunities for them to work closely with their guests and provide them with an amazing farming experience. Where they provide the sea oysters and do all the shucking and recycling of the shells. If you would like to know more, you can go to their website and fill out the form.
People have recommended trying out their raw oysters, with some talking about how nice the staff are to their customers.
If you ever find yourself in Hampstead, North Carolina, know that it's a small town with a short drive to Wilmington if you want to find endless dining and entertainment during your visit. However, before you do, it's recommended that you pay a visit to Topsail Beach.
There you can enjoy all your beach activities, like sunbathing, swimming, and fishing, to name a few, during your visit there. If not, you can also pay a visit to the historic Lea-Hutaff Island to explore, but it's only accessible by boat and is said to have a less crowded beach.
If, by the off chance, the infamous pirate Blackbeard caught your attention. Then it's recommended that you visit Missiles & More Museum at Topsail Island, North Carolina. Where you can learn about pirates and the secret missile assembly program that took place there years ago.
With so much to explore and you can't go wrong by paying a visit to N. Sea Oyster Company. With the farming experience and the amazing taste of raw oysters. To go along with the historic sights of their islands and beaches for all to enjoy.
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Apr 9;116(15):7192-7197. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1819989116. Epub 2019 Mar 25.
Lelieveld J1,2, Klingmüller K3, Pozzer A3, Burnett RT4, Haines A5, Ramanathan V6.
Department of Atmospheric Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany; jos.lelieveld@mpic.de.
Energy, Environment and Water Research Center, The Cyprus Institute, 1645 Nicosia, Cyprus.
Department of Atmospheric Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany.
Population Studies Division, Health Canada, Ottawa, ON K1A 0K9, Canada.
Department of Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1 9SH, United Kingdom.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0221.
Anthropogenic greenhouse gases and aerosols are associated with climate change and human health risks. We used a global model to estimate the climate and public health outcomes attributable to fossil fuel use, indicating the potential benefits of a phaseout. We show that it can avoid an excess mortality rate of 3.61 (2.96-4.21) million per year from outdoor air pollution worldwide. This could be up to 5.55 (4.52-6.52) million per year by additionally controlling nonfossil anthropogenic sources. Globally, fossil-fuel-related emissions account for about 65% of the excess mortality, and 70% of the climate cooling by anthropogenic aerosols. The chemical influence of air pollution on aeolian dust contributes to the aerosol cooling. Because aerosols affect the hydrologic cycle, removing the anthropogenic emissions in the model increases rainfall by 10-70% over densely populated regions in India and 10-30% over northern China, and by 10-40% over Central America, West Africa, and the drought-prone Sahel, thus contributing to water and food security. Since aerosols mask the anthropogenic rise in global temperature, removing fossil-fuel-generated particles liberates 0.51(±0.03) °C and all pollution particles 0.73(±0.03) °C warming, reaching around 2 °C over North America and Northeast Asia. The steep temperature increase from removing aerosols can be moderated to about 0.36(±0.06) °C globally by the simultaneous reduction of tropospheric ozone and methane. We conclude that a rapid phaseout of fossil-fuel-related emissions and major reductions of other anthropogenic sources are needed to save millions of lives, restore aerosol-perturbed rainfall patterns, and limit global warming to 2 °C.
Avoidable excess mortality rate from air pollution. Units: deaths per 1,000 km2/y. (A) Excess deaths that may be avoided by the phasing out of fossil fuels, and (B) by all anthropogenic emissions. (C) Relative contribution to excess deaths from fossil fuel use compared with all anthropogenic emissions. The dark-blue regions would profit more from removing fossil-fuel-related emissions, while the light-blue ones profit more from removing other pollution sources.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Apr 9;116(15):7192-7197.
Fractional precipitation changes at the surface. Effects from the removal of fossil-fuel-related and all anthropogenic pollution emissions in Asia, Africa, and Central America. Crosses denote areas where precipitation changes are not significant at the 95% confidence level.
Temperature changes at the surface from removing particulate air pollution. (A) Due to fossil-fuel-related and (B) due to all anthropogenic emissions. Pollution includes scattering and absorbing (e.g., black carbon) aerosols. Stippling denotes areas where the temperature changes are not significant at the 95% confidence level. presents the unavoidable net warming from removing air pollution as well as greenhouse gases.


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Pupil wellbeing, behaviour and attendance
School attendance and absence
Pupil absence figures for autumn 2009 and spring 2010
Schools Minister Nick Gibb welcomes the overall decrease in school absence rates and announces the Government's commitment to tackling underlying causes of absenteeism.
Department for Education and The Rt Hon Nick Gibb MP
Latest statistics for autumn term 2009 and spring term 2010 together show a decrease in overall and persistent absence rates in both primary and secondary schools compared with autumn term 2008 and spring term 2009.
Authorised absence rates decreased in both primary and secondary schools. Unauthorised absence rates increased in primary schools and decreased in secondary schools.
Schools Minister Nick Gibb said:
The small fall in the overall absence rate in all schools, and in unauthorised absence in secondary schools, is very welcome but the level of absenteeism in schools is still too high. It is crucial that children are not missing out on valuable lessons that could leave them vulnerable to falling behind.
The Government is committed to tackling the underlying causes of absenteeism, raising academic standards and ensuring every child can meet their potential, regardless of their background.
We are putting in place a series of measures to raise standards of behaviour, put teachers back in control of the classroom and ensure pupils understand that the authority of their school can extend beyond the school gates. We need to ensure that all pupils have the basic skills of reading, writing and maths before they leave primary school so they can cope with the new challenges of secondary school.
We are also introducing the first ever pupil premium to ensure pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds benefit from the same opportunities as their more affluent peers.


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import java.util.Arrays;

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    public final UpperProtocolType            protocol;
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        return new GeonetData(this.protocol, this.destination, this.trafficClass, sender,
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        return new GeonetData(this.protocol, destination, this.trafficClass, this.sender,
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    @Override
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    @Override
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import React, { Component } from 'react';
import PropTypes from 'prop-types';

class LiteralField extends Component {
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      name: this.props.name,
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  render() {
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}

LiteralField.propTypes = {
  id: PropTypes.string,
  name: PropTypes.string.isRequired,
  extraClass: PropTypes.string,
  value: PropTypes.string,
};

LiteralField.defaultProps = {
  // React considers "undefined" as an uncontrolled component.
  extraClass: '',
  className: '',
};

export default LiteralField;


June 13 Grand Forks ND - NOSA has reschedule the rained out May 25th Buffalo River Race Park race for Friday, June 27th. The race, sponsored by the Auto Finance Super Center, will be held on an off night for the NOSA sprints from River Cities Speedway due to the Greater Grand Forks County Fair being in town.
This race will be a bit unique for the Buffalo River Race Park as they typically hold their weekly program on Sundays. The NOSA sprints will highlight the show and will be accompanied by the INEX Legends, Pure Stocks and Hornets classes.
Discounted tickets can be purchased in advance for $17. Tickets are $20 at the door the night of the show.
Advanced discounted grandstand tickets are on sale for $17, they will be $20 at the door the night of the event. Tickets can be purchased in advance at the Nygaard Motorsports trailer or from NOSA officials.
NOSA will be returning to BRRP on July 26th for the All Star Circuit of Champions race. Last year, NOSA driver Thomas Kennedy captured the feature win, beating out the entire line up of All Star drivers.


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var url     = require('url');

function Globed(href, opts) {
  this.opts = opts || {};
  this.url = url.parse(href);
  if(!url.port)
    url.port = 8682;
};

Globed.prototype.rpc = function(method, params, callback) {
  this.request({jsonrpc: '2.0', method: method, params: params}, callback);
};

Globed.prototype.batch = function(cmds, callback) {
  var payload = [];
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    payload.push({jsonrpc: '2.0', method: cmds[i].method, params: cmds[i].params, id: i});
  this.request(payload, callback);
};

Globed.prototype.request = function(payload, callback) {
  request({uri: this.url.href, method: 'POST', json: payload}, function (error, response, body) {
    if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
      if(body.result)
        callback(undefined, body.result);
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    if(error) {
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        callback({message: "Could not connect to the globe server"});
        return;
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      console.log('globed error: unrecognized: '+JSON.stringify(error));
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      callback({message: "Invalid auth"});
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      if(body)
        console.log('globed error '+response.statusCode+': '+JSON.stringify(body.error));
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        console.log('globed error unknown');
      callback({message: 'Received an unrecognized error from the globe server'});
    }
  });
};

module.exports = Globed;


2 Are Avocados Good for You?
3.1 They've become super-popular. Here's the lowdown on how healthy they are.
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SpryNetwork (USA company that I work with sometimes) have a range of sites providing internet services including broadcast streaming, hosting and web-design. They wanted a site which is common to all sites to provide a focus point for support and client administration. For this I developed the SpryAdmin site which uses a modular concept to load the correct sections of the site for which the user, or admin staff, has access too (for example, looking for SpryCast support and is loads only SpryCast modules).
SpryAdmin is an extensive and highly inter-linked site which can provide client, billing and ordering details quickly and easily. It allows orders to be completed and new package created. Basically any aspect of the SpryNetwork can be controlled from this one site. It also uses SpryPanel to add FAQs and documentation, and I developed a Trouble Ticket system to allow support admin and clients to have online conversation in non-real time.


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Tapping into the unique properties of cloud computing and iOS 5, Epic Games is adding a clever new community feature to its Infinity Blade II action-fantasy game. Infinity Blade II: ClashMob lets players earn special rewards for working together on group challenges, with all gamers battling toward a common objective. The ClashMob feature is available as a free update for Infinity Blade II owners.
Imagine a monster worth one million points. You get 30 seconds to knock off as many of those one million hit points as possible, slashing and hacking the beast with your trusty blade. But while you're taking your hacks, hundreds or even thousands of other players might be taking their turns as well.
After your 30-second melee, you can kick back and watch the monster's status bar edging closer to completion as the community attacks add to a collective pool. If enough people do damage, the monster dies, and you get a (virtual) prize, like a new sword.
"Every day I go to bed scared. I keep pushing, keep innovating, keep staying on that bleeding edge — but the bleeding edge is scary." – Donald Mustard, ChAIR StudiosAnother challenge could be as simple as gathering as many bags of gold as possible in a specific area before time runs out. It's the mobile gaming version of an Easter egg hunt – exceedingly simple in concept, but potentially irresistible.
ClashMob speaks to an almost MMO-type experience, but thanks to the way iOS hooks into the cloud, game play can be asynchronous. That is, you can take turns at your own pace – one turn a minute, hour or even day, all at your own convenience.
"This distributed gaming is really in a lot of ways the future of entertainment," says Donald Mustard, the creative director of ChAIR, the Epic Games studio that develops the Infinity Blade series. "We can have shared experiences that aren't happening at the same time."
Another feature new to Infinity Blade II is MyMob, which lets you recruit friends on Facebook and Game Center to join you in a community challenge (and of course, reap the cumulative rewards at the end). Eventually, when you invite friends to join your mob or ask for help on a ClashMob on Facebook and Twitter, likes and retweets will also be counted toward accomplishing the challenge.
"Our goal is to create a massively social gaming experience," Mustard told Wired. "No one is really doing anything like this. It's a big experiment for us."
Mustard says the advent of the cloud has had a huge influence on mobile gaming. "It allows us to tap into all sorts of new ways we can approach and interact with the world and media," he said. And each time a new iOS device is released, the Infinity Blade team looks at CPU and memory usage to make sure its pushing the game and Apple hardware to their absolute limits.
Still, constantly pushing the boundaries of a mobile game isn't easy.
"Every day I go to bed scared. I keep pushing, keep innovating, keep staying on that bleeding edge – but the bleeding edge is scary," Mustard said. "There's nothing in front of you to look at as a model."
So what's next for mobile games?
"Over the next year or two, you'll the see the vast majority of games look at how they can utilize the unique features of the device – how they can use the touchscreen, GPS, the gyroscope, the front-facing camera," Mustard said. "By blending these things together, there are whole new genres of games to invent that we've never even thought of before."
Beyond that, gaming could take on a whole new shape. "I would love to blur the line between what's a game, what's a book, what's a movie, what's music – this uber, integrated entertainment experience," Mustard said. Infinity Blade is certainly on the path toward this, as the series has an e-book and an official soundtrack available for purchase.
The updated Infinity Blade II has been available for download since Wednesday night, and the first five clash mobs went live early Thursday. The update is free to those who already have the game, and for those that don't yet, the game is on sale for $5 in the App Store.
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The future opportunity to hunt wolves in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming would not automatically follow removal of wolves from the endangered species list if money for management becomes a problem between these states and the federal government. As of press time, all three states are expected to submit their plans for review to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in mid-November, and all three plans must be approved in toto before federal delisting can occur.
"If the states can present a management plan that will maintain [BRACKET "wolf"] numbers, we are more than ready to hand off the responsibility to them," says Ed Bangs, the head of the wolf reintroduction project for the USFWS. "We want to see wolf management that includes hunting." At least 10 breeding pairs have lived in each state for the past three years, satisfying a major criterion of delisting.
"One thing that could bring delisting to a halt, though, is the states' request for additional federal money to manage the wolves if delisting occurs," says Joe Fontaine of the USFWS's Helena, Montana, office. "Michigan and Wisconsin are doing a very good job of managing their wolves without any federal money [BRACKET "beyond basic wildlife allocations"]. Why do Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming need extra federal money?"
The one proposal that most likely would not pass federal approval is Wyoming's, heavily influenced by the livestock lobby, to consider wolves as trophy game animals in wilderness areas but apply a shoot-on-sight rule to them anywhere else, relegating them to varmint status. The USFWS would not comment on this, but such a plan would create a logjam in the delisting process. Montana's plan recognizes wolves as "a native species…[BRACKET "to be"] integrated as a valuable part of Montana's wildlife heritage."
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Duda Melzer took over RBS Group many years ago. When he started at the company, some people believed that the company was going to collapse. Debt levels were high, and many of the best employees were leaving for other companies. Duda Melzer decided to make drastic changes at RBS Group to be more competitive.
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But that experience didn't diminish Mrs. Flippen's willingness to try projects -- and even risk failure -- whether the materials were made of sugar and paint or digital displays and software. "How are you going to know what works if you don't step up to the plate and say I'll try it?" she asks. These days, Mrs. Flippen, age 30, applies that can-do spirit to trying out the latest digital products, tools, and processes, looking for pedagogical substance beneath the shiny bells and whistles. After seven years of teaching, experimenting with technology and (plenty) of memorable epic failures, she relishes how good technology has helped her students soar beyond their school's cement walls.
Mrs. Flippen has seen plenty of raw cement during her career. She has spent the majority of her teaching career at Georgia's Mill Creek High, a suburban Atlanta school of 3,500 where technology options are restricted mostly to the six computer labs throughout the building.
The one saving techno grace turned out to be that bane of parents' lives: students' cell phones. One of the first things Mrs. Flippen noticed at Charlottesville HS (CHS), a racially and economically diverse student population, is that students set priorities on having "amazing shoes and amazing cell phones." With this revelation in mind, she became one of only three teachers to allow cell phone usage in her classroom at CHS, a practice she championed at Mill Creek as well, even though the administration was "against technology and still taking up cell phones" while she was there.
Cell phone activities in Mrs. Flippen's class started simply enough -- for instance, spurring a race to look up certain information for example -- just to get students engaged with the subject. She reasoned that if students were so keen on having cell phones, they might also be keen on using them to complete some learning activity. One go-to, failure-proof exercise, she says, has been to ask students to translate a passage from Spanish to English or vice versa using Google Translate (mobile version), Yahoo! Babel Fish (just recently rolled into Microsoft Bing Translator ), and a paperback Spanish dictionary. The exercise is practical because students build vocabulary and shared understanding between the two languages and promotes critical thinking behind the accuracy and relevancy of digital versus physical information sources.
The traditional tools of school--pencils, textbooks, and the like--are "stuck in the 3D world," Mrs. Flippen notes. "In the digital medium you can have kids think outside of the box." Accordingly, the Spanish paperback dictionary is one of very few physical resources -- she estimates that 75% of her foreign language instruction is paperless.
She also handily avoids the dreaded "what are we doing today?" question by sending out an agenda the night or morning before class. Students appreciate the texts just as an adult might appreciate a courtesy note or email, she says. What's more, communicating outside of class has helped her establish deeper rapport with students.
Quite literally taking matters into her own hands, Mrs. Flippen has also created her own smartphone app using ibuildapp.com. The site allows users to build native (iOS/Android) or cross-platform (mobile web) apps in a matter of hours--and for no money out of pocket.
If you think that building an app is over the top, you could be right; good classroom pedagogy has not traditionally required app development. But imagine, for a second, what it would be like to start a new semester by bypassing the syllabus review in favor of downloading a class app: No paper bumbling and fumbling. Instant on-the-go access for students. And at least for that day, unlimited teacher cool points and student engagement. Mrs. Flippen is modest about the app she built, pointing out that she simply likes the fact that she can embed Quizlet flashcards in the app she has created.
When Mrs. Flippen's students have had access to desktop computers, she's turned to a number of Spanish-language instruction websites to support learning. She's a big fan of Wordchamp and its web reader application. (It allows students to travel within Wordchamp to an article she has selected and scroll over each word for a translation.) There's also Conjuguemos which is great for practicing grammar and verb conjugation, Prentice Hall Realidades which serves as a teaching resource, and Quia Web which she uses to administer formative and summative assessments.
She has also experimented with using ShowMe to flip her classroom, sending video lessons to YouTube. Holding her digital ship together is Edmodo, where Mrs. Flippen links to assignments and assessments and hosts chats around language.
For instance, since every Mount Vernon student has a laptop, Mrs. Flippen hopes to incorporate bell ringers through Google Docs as a way to simultaneously check for understanding and take attendance. Mount Vernon runs on Haiku LMS so she has to re-learn a lot of her Edmodo tricks, but she hopes to keep the tool in place as a social outlet for students. Even the "shyest kids will take a chance" when they realize they're in a safe environment, she observes.
Then there's 3D GameLab , a closed beta product from the edugeeks at Boise State University. Mrs. Flippen recently completed one of their teacher camps and received 60 free spaces to use with her students (sign up for the August camp here). 3D GameLab is a quest-based learning platform for teachers and students (don't fret if that sounds like gibberish; edsurgents can get up to speed with this nifty video ). She hopes to have her students embark on a new Spanish language quest each week.
True to her nature, Mrs. Flippen continues to seek out products that are tuned for her students, even taking a pass on popular products because their designs are either too immature for high school students, lack the metrics she needs or simply lack functionality that makes a product usable by older students.
Her advice for other teachers, who may hesitate to jump into the digital maelstrom is to start with something small and use it a couple of times. Identify a single pain point in the classroom, she recommends, and experiment with various solutions until one feels natural. Incorporating SMS in some capacity is a safe bet since most students have access and the technology is easy to use.
When a school lacks professional development for ad hoc use of technology in the classroom, Mrs. Flippen suggests Twitter and even Second Life as PD strongholds. And if that seems like a foreign land, just trying tapping on the virtual door of Cat Thexios's Second Life house for some virtual java and an edu-jam session. She may even offer to help you make sugar skulls.