Troy Warren

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Spotify Inks Multiyear Audio Content Deal With WWE Through The Ringer

Spotify Inks Multiyear Audio Content Deal With WWE Through The Ringer

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BY J. CLARA CHAN | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Digital The Ringer and WWE will launch an exclusive audio network and develop original content. Spotify has reached a multiyear audio content deal with WWE that will see The Ringer, a Spotify studio, and the wrestling company launch an exclusive audio network and develop original content for the streamer, the companies said on Wednesday. New podcasts created from the partnership will include MackMania, hosted by Evan Mack, and a narrative series produced by The Ringer founder Bill Simmons. WWE personalities and hosts will also use Spotify’s live audio feature, Spotify Greenroom, after every major WWE pay-per-view event, and final…
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Foo Fighters to Receive Global Icon Award at 2021 MTV Video Music Awards

Foo Fighters to Receive Global Icon Award at 2021 MTV Video Music Awards

Music,
BY KIMBERLY NORDYKE | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Music The rock group, up for three awards this year, will be the first to accept the honor, which has been presented at the MTV Europe Music Awards previously but never before in the U.S. The Foo Fighters has been tapped to receive the Global Icon Award and perform at the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards, organizers said Thursday. The honor recognizes an artist or band “whose unparalleled career and continued impact and influence has maintained a unique level of global success in music and beyond.” The honoree is someone who has “left an indelible…
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Back to school, teens and depression

Back to school, teens and depression

Health
By Laurel Kelly, Mayo Clinic News Network Troy Warren for CNT #Health Although depression can occur at any time in life, symptoms can differ between teens and adults With many teens heading back to school, peer pressure and academic expectations are once again a reality. These added pressures can cause ups and downs during what can be an already tumultuous time of life. For some teens, though, the lows are more than just temporary feelings. They’re symptoms of depression. Teen depression is a serious mental health problem. It affects how teenagers think, feel and behave, and it can cause emotional, functional…
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Why buying property in your kid’s college town may be a smart move

Why buying property in your kid’s college town may be a smart move

Real Estate
By Zach Wichter, Bankrate.com Troy Warren for CNT #RealEstate Growing trend has parents buying property for kid to live in as both a way to cut costs and as an investment Room and board at school can be a major expense for students who go away to get an education. Jeffrey Decatur, a real estate agent with RE/MAX Capital in Latham, New York, said he’s seeing a growing trend of parents buying property for their children to live in during school as both a way to cut costs and as an investment. He spoke to Bankrate about this strategy, and talked…
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Atlanta: New Airbnb hosts in Atlanta made more than $8 million in first half of 2021

Atlanta: New Airbnb hosts in Atlanta made more than $8 million in first half of 2021

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By Nancy Clanton, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Troy Warren for AtlantaNewsAndTalk.Com If you’re considering listing your extra space as a haven for pandemic travelers, you live in the right city to succeed Do you have an extra room or guest house? You might want to consider putting it to work. Airbnb reported Wednesday that new hosts with only one listing earned millions in the first six months of 2021. Nationwide, Airbnb said in a press release, 60% of these new hosts were women who collectively made more than $83 million. Senior citizens — people 60 years or older — earned more than…
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Austin: Angry parent rips mask off teacher’s face, superintendent says

Austin: Angry parent rips mask off teacher’s face, superintendent says

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By Avery Newmark, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Troy Warren for AustinNewsAndTalk.Com A teacher in a Texas school district was physically assaulted Monday when a parent ripped off her face mask, news outlets reported. “A parent physically assaulted a teacher by ripping a mask off her face, others yelling at a teacher to take off her mask because they could not understand what the teacher was saying while her face was covered,” Eanes Independent School District Superintendent Tom Leonard wrote in a statement Tuesday. “This type of behavior will not be tolerated in Eanes ISD. Our staff are on the front lines of this pandemic;…
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Gulf Coast’s beloved ‘Redneck Riviera’ now coronavirus hot spot

Gulf Coast’s beloved ‘Redneck Riviera’ now coronavirus hot spot

COVID-19, In The News
By JAY REEVES, Associated Press Troy Warren for CNT #COVID-19 GULF SHORES, Ala. — Tourists and servers alike dance atop tables and in the aisles at one restaurant on the “Redneck Riviera,” a beloved stretch of towns along the northern Gulf Coast where beaches, bars and stores are packed. Yet just a few miles away, a hospital is running out of critical care beds, its rooms full of unvaccinated people fighting for their lives. On maps that show virus “hot spots” in red, this part of the U.S. coast is glowing like a bad sunburn. And a summer of booming tourism…
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Chicago: Hundreds arrive for funeral of slain Chicago police officer

Chicago: Hundreds arrive for funeral of slain Chicago police officer

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By Don Babwin, The Associated Press Troy Warren for ChicagoNewsAndTalk.Com Hundreds of police officers from across Illinois and beyond have gathered for a funeral Mass to remember a Chicago police officer who was fatally shot earlier this month Scores of police officers stood to attention as the casket containing the body of a Chicago police officer fatally shot this month was carried into a South Side church for her funeral Thursday morning. A sea of officers in their dress blue uniforms formed outside St. Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel as mourners — including Mayor Lori Lightfoot, former Mayor Richard M. Daley,…
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NATIONAL SOFT ICE CREAM DAY – August 19

NATIONAL SOFT ICE CREAM DAY – August 19

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Troy Warren for CNT #Celebrations   NATIONAL SOFT ICE CREAM DAY National Soft Ice Cream Day on August 19th gives us a tasty way to cool off on a hot summer day. Whether you enjoy it in a bowl or on a cone, grab some soft serve and enjoy! Melting Ice Cream In 1934 on Memorial Day weekend in Hartsdale, New York, Tom Carvel had a flat tire. After pulling his ice cream truck into a parking lot, the businessman knew his product was melting. As vacationers drove by, Carvel sold the softened ice cream to them. Surprisingly, they loved…
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