World’s #1 DJ, Hardwell, Announces North American Dates For ‘I Am Hardwell’ Tour
LOS ANGELES, June 17, 2014 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — The internationally influential electronic music producer and DJ Hardwell took over Times Square in New York City today via multiple massive video screens to announce the North American dates for his I Am Hardwell World Tour. Named the world’s #1 DJ by the respected DJ Mag earlier this year, Hardwell will bring his electric live show to several cities across the U.S. and Canada including New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver, Miami and Chicago. A full list of tour dates is below. The I Am Hardwell World Tour is produced by ALDA Events and promoted exclusively by Live Nation in North America. Tickets go on sale Friday, June 27 in the U.S. and on Friday, July 4 in Canada. Rising star from the Netherlands, Dannic, will be joining the tour as a special guest. Tickets can be purchased through the Live Nation mobile app and at www.livenation.com.
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Hardwell fans who sign up at www.djhardwell.com/hwts will have first access to pre-sale tickets starting on Thursday, June 19 at 10:00 a.m. local time. Check www.djhardwell.com/hwts for further details. Citi® card members in the U.S. only will have access to pre-sale tickets beginning Monday, June 23 at 10:00 a.m. local time through Citi’s Private Pass® Program. For complete pre-sale details, visit www.citiprivatepass.com. American Express® Card Members in Canada only can purchase tickets before the general public beginning July 2 at 10:00 am local time. MTV Clubland Presents will also have a pre-sale for fans in the U.S. See below for further details.
I Am Hardwell World Tour – North American Dates
All dates, cities and venues below subject to change.
Additional dates to be announced.
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Oct. 31 |
Chicago, IL |
UIC Pavilion |
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Nov. 7 |
San Francisco, CA |
Bill Graham Civic Auditorium |
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Nov. 8 |
Los Angeles, CA |
The Forum |
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Nov. 10 |
Vancouver, BC |
Pacific Coliseum |
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Nov. 13 |
Miami, FL |
Klipsch Amphitheatre at Bayfront |
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Nov. 15 |
New York, NY |
Madison Square Garden |
MTV Clubland Presents will team up with Hardwell for his North American tour as the official media sponsor, delivering fans exclusive access to the artist via MTV Clubland fan ticket pre-sale, exclusive behind the scenes tour content, an MTV Clubland Hardwell-hosted episode, and more. MTV Clubland Ultimate Fan Experience will also give one super fan the chance to get up close and personal with Hardwell. The winner and their guest will not only meet Hardwell but also have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to hang out him in New York City when his tour wraps up at Madison Square Garden. His biggest fans know that Hardwell is a hardcore gamer and what better way to spend time with one of the world’s biggest music talents than to have that ultimate video gaming battle with him before the show. The winners will receive 2 tickets to the Madison Square Garden show on Nov. 15, 2 meet & greet passes at the show, a one hour video game battle session with Hardwell, 2 roundtrip tickets to New York City, a 2-night hotel stay and a $150 gift card. To enter, fans should visit: Hardwell.MTV.com beginning July 21 to find out more and how to enter! MTV Clubland is MTV’s weekly music series dedicated to EDM music, artists and culture.
In April 2013 Robbert van de Corput, also known as Hardwell, launched his most ambitious project to date when he unveiled his I Am Hardwell World Tour concept at Amsterdam’s Heineken Music Hall to a capacity crowd. A spectacle of unprecedented musical vision and production detail, the entire show was broadcast live to hundreds of thousands of fans around the world. After the successful kick off of his I Am Hardwell World Tour in Amsterdam last April, Hardwell has sold-out shows in 19 countries around the world including dates in Singapore, Guatemala, Istanbul, Tel Aviv, Bangalore, Mumbai, Lisbon and London, and is now poised to take over North America. Hardwell‘s new single ‘Arcadia’ with Joey Dale feat Luciana will be released worldwide on July 7 on Beatport.com and will be the first single taken from his new artist album which is scheduled for late 2014. Arcadia will be also featured on his new mix-album Revealed Vol. 5 which will be released June 20 on iTunes.
Dannic, the highly prodigious DJ and producer from the Netherlands, has already achieved a great deal since exploding onto the scene. Having now debuted for the first time at #74 in this year’s Top 100 DJ Mag poll, he is starting to harness the recognition he deserves. Dannic drew the attention of the spotlight early in his career thanks to a series of amazing mash-ups. He has since gone on to demonstrate a natural understanding of audio arrangement and structure, alongside possessing an impressive prowess as a peak-time performer, whose technical ability leaves club and festival audiences wowed each and every week. With his music remaining a staple in the sets of Tiesto, Avicii, Hardwell, Nicky Romero and Bingo Players, Dannic’s positions amongst his peers continues to soar.
For more information about the I Am Hardwell World Tour, visit:
www.iamhardwell.com
www.djhardwell.com
www.facebook.com/djhardwell
www.twitter.com/HARDWELL
Hardwell.MTV.com
www.youtube.com/robberthardwell
www.soundcloud.com/hardwell
For more information about Dannic, visit:
www.djdannic.com
www.facebook.com/djdannic
www.twitter.com/djdannic
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CentralNic Group plc Acquires the Caribbean’s largest registrar, Internet.BS
LONDON, June 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — CentralNic plc, (AIM: CNIC), the Registry Service Provider powering the sale of domain names through online retailers globally, is pleased to announce that it has acquired the business and certain of the assets of Internet.BS Corp (“Internet.BS”), registered in The Bahamas – the leading retailer of domain names in the Caribbean and one of the world’s top thirty domain name retailers (or “registrars”).
CentralNic listed on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange in September 2013 announcing its mission to enter markets in the Caribbean and Africa, both supporting local Country Code (“ccTLD”) operators with a world class registry solution, and ensuring that those Country Codes were made available to local populations through modern retail interfaces tailor-made for domestic markets across the two regions.
“The acquisition of Internet.BS’s business shows how serious we are about the Caribbean region,” said CentralNic CEO Ben Crawford. “Together with our existing registrar technology that powers retailers like buydomains.london and www.la, we now have a powerful multidomain registrar in the Group with Internet.BS, which already serves customers in eight languages and multiple currencies, and which we can deploy to enable individuals and businesses in the Caribbean and Africa to get online.”
The news follows last year’s announcement that CentralNic has partnered with the respected Africa.com, to support its development of a pan-African domain registrar. CentralNic’s Registry Service Provider division is supporting such quality new generic TLDs as .website, .college, .press, .host,. .wiki, .bar; DotBrand TLDs such as .etisalat and .theguardian, as well as the country codes .pw and .la.
For further information:
Mohammed Al-Ammouri (ccTLD Relations) +971 507 611 894
Ben Crawford (CEO)
+44 (0) 203 388 0600
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Successful Results for Letter Carriers’ 2014 Annual Food Drive
WASHINGTON, June 17, 2014 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — The annual food drive of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) collected almost 73 million pounds of food to help restock food banks, pantries and shelters around the country – an impressive result made all the more necessary by the slow-paced economy recovery and recent natural disasters.
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The effort on Saturday, May 10, gathered 72.5 million pounds of food – the 11th consecutive year the NALC drive has surpassed 70 million pounds of food collected. Several local NALC branches still are compiling their figures.
This year’s results bring the total to more than 1.3 billion pounds since the national drive began in 1992.
“This demonstrates the value of the unique postal network, which goes to 151 million addresses six days a week,” NALC President Fredric Rolando said. “It also shows the strong connection between letter carriers and the communities they serve – a bond that serves the nation well.”
The nation’s largest single-day food drive, the NALC effort is held annually on the second Saturday in May in 10,000 cities and towns in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Guam. From major metropolitan areas to small rural towns, residents put out non-perishable food donations on that day, which letter carriers collect as they deliver mail along their postal routes.
“Letter carriers see first-hand the needs in the communities where we work, and we’re honored to be able to help people in need by leading an effort that brings out the best in so many Americans,” President Rolando said.
Hunger affects about 49 million people around the country, including millions of children and senior citizens. Pantry shelves filled up through winter-holiday generosity often are bare by late spring. And, with most school meal programs suspended during summer months, millions of children must find alternate sources of nutrition.
“The Postal Service’s universal network makes it possible for us to provide this critically needed assistance,” NALC food drive coordinator Pam Donato said. “So, too, do the many groups who help.”
Carriers brought the food to local food banks, pantries or shelters, including many affiliated with Feeding America, which was a national partner in the drive, as were United Way, AARP Drive to End Hunger, Publix, Campbell Soup Co., the U.S. Postal Service, National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association, the AFL-CIO, Valpak, Valassis and Uncle Bob’s Self Storage.
Among the many local volunteer groups that helped the nation’s 175,000 letter carriers were the Salvation Army, Catholic Charities, National Guard units, American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars, Boy/Girl Scouts, various student groups, local Rotary Clubs, local and state AARP groups and local United Way volunteers.
Photos for this year’s food drive are available at the Flickr photo album: https://flic.kr/s/aHsjXtvEXq
The 280,000-member NALC represents letter carriers across the country employed by the U.S. Postal Service, along with retired letter carriers. Founded by Civil War veterans in 1889, the NALC is among the country’s oldest labor unions.
SOURCE National Association of Letter Carriers
Con Ed Utility Shutoff Warnings to Customers Hits Record High – More Than in Great Recession
NEW YORK, June 17, 2014 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — Nearly 1 million Consolidated Edison customers have faced the threat of having their home energy shut off this year while dealing with some of the nation's highest bills, a new analysis out today from AARP and New York's Public Utility Law Project (PULP) finds. That's more New York City residents at risk of having their power turned off than at even the height of the Great Recession, the analysis shows. Con Ed customers pay more than twice the national average for their electric rates.
In 2005, 722,635 Con Ed customers received shut off notices from January through April, and in 2009
that number soared to 840,886. But during the first four months of this year, on the heels of soaring home energy costs, 937,973 NYC residents have received "final termination notices." Across the State, the data tells a similar story: New Yorkers are struggling, and falling behind in their utility bills by a whopping $740 million – the highest in at least the last decade.
Legislation to create a utility watchdog in the form of an independent utility consumer advocate office, which would help consumers get a better deal when utility companies push for higher rates, is being stonewalled in Albany in the State Senate – as the industry flexes its muscle to kill the AARP-backed bill (S4550B).
"New York has a golden rule when
it comes to the utility game: those that have the gold make the rules. Residential consumers get left out of the equation and suffer vastly as a consequence," said Beth Finkel, State Director for AARP in New York State. "We need to change the game in New York to give residential consumers a fair shake, but the industry is doing everything it can to make sure that doesn't happen. Legislation to give consumers a fighting chance has passed the Assembly but is having real problems in the Senate at the hands of Senate Co-Leader Dean Skelos and his conference."
The legislation passed the New York State Assembly last month by a wide margin with a bi-partisan vote and is now being held-up in the Senate Conference led by Senator Dean Skelos; however, the bill is strongly supported by Skelos's Senate majority coalition governing partner, Senator Jeff Klein, and his
conference.
A recent AARP survey shows that from Buffalo to Syracuse, Plattsburgh to Poughkeepsie and Manhattan to Montauk, most New Yorkers 50 and older rate the strain of paying their heating bills this past winter as greater than that of paying their mortgages, rent or property taxes.
A 2013 AARP survey of Hispanic voters in New York City age 50 and over found that 73 percent of them are worried about their ability to pay their utility bills, with 31 percent saying that they are extremely concerned.
"Many customers are on payment plans, paying off prior arrears from bills they could not afford," said Gerald Norlander, Executive Director of PULP. "When new bills jump due to the volatile prices favored by the (utility-regulating) Public
Service Commission, customers fall behind again and miss the due date for their current bill, plus the installment payment on old arrears. The utility is then allowed to demand all past due amounts, demand late fees, and shut service off as a collection measure. This creates impossible situations, hardships and often hazardous conditions when less safe forms of energy are used. More can and should be done by utilities to make bills more stable and affordable to low-income customers and to minimize service interruption for bill collection purposes."
New Yorkers pay the highest average residential electric rates in the continental United States, nearly twice the national average according to the latest data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Con Ed customers pay more than twice the national average. New York is one of only a handful of states, and by far the
largest, without an independent advocate for its utility consumers. AARP says that's no coincidence.
Neighboring Connecticut's independent utility consumer advocate reported saving ratepayers $730 million in 2012 at a cost of $3 million – a 243-1 return on investment. California's advocate reported a 153-1 return. Across the United States, utility consumer advocates save Americans billions of dollars a year. AARP says New York should get on board.
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