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The Scorpions have announced a handful of the dates that will be included on their upcoming farewell tour. The summer run will include three U.S. stops this June. The band will appear in Holmdel, New Jersey; Columbia, Maryland; and Wantagh, New York. The German rockers also confirmed one fall gig at Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City on September 7.

The tour will support the band’s seventeenth studio album, Sting in the Tail, which is set for release on March 23. Fans who pre-order the album through iTunes will have a chance to purchase tickets before the regular on sale date, April 7.

You’ll be able to hear the Sting in the Tail stream for free right here at iknowjack.com starting tomorrow and don’t worry we’ll also keep you posted when The Scorpions annouce their Chicago date in the near future.

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Apparently McDonalds is going to start training employees in Japan using Nintendo DS. If only every job required a gaming console of some sort to train employees, we would definitely be taking our work home with us. The reasoning behind this is the  fact that employees already have experience using the DS. It an awesome incentive for 16-year-olds across the country to start working immediately! Maybe we can adopt this training method at JACK FM A.S.A.P!