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5 days ago
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Utley to compete against his former Phillies teammates in American Century Championship
On the latest episode of Phillies Talk, Chase Utley talks golf in Lake is playing against his former teammates and other celebrities. Utley to compete against his former Phillies teammates in American Century Championship originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
USA Today
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Historic Music Row studio where Johnny Cash recorded hits the market for $4.65M
The Music Row building where artists such as Johnny Cash and George Strait recorded songs is now on the market for $4.65 million. The studio at 1033 16th Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee is a landmark of music history. Once home to Emerald Sound Studio, the building was built in 1920 with another portion being added in the late 1970s expanding it to 8,500 square feet. Utley said he purchased the building on a 0.32-acre property in 2007. 'At the time I bought it, it was actually in bankruptcy,' said owner Mark Utley. 'It did need some work. We went in there with the intention of doing all the renovations.' Among its many landmark moments in music history, country music supergroup The Highwaymen recorded their 'Highwayman 2" album at Emerald Sound Studio in 1989. The group included Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson. The building now has three recording studios, multiple sound isolation and vocal booths, rooms for songwriting and areas with advanced sound dampening. 'It could probably be perfect for an artist, a publishing company or a record label,' Utley said. 'The building is in incredible condition and everything's been updated.' The soundproofing makes it perfect for someone looking to continue the building's connection to the music industry, according to Mike Jacobs, the Avison Young broker leading the listing. 'It may be another music producer that can just slide right in,' Jacobs said. 'One of the main points here is that they've got pretty advanced sound dampening in several of the rooms, and that is pretty rare.' In case you missed it: Nashville sees surge in millionaire renters, report finds Utley said the soundproofing not only blocks sound from leaving the room but protects recordings if anything outside happens. 'If you're in the middle of a big production and something would happen outside, it would not disturb it,' Utley said. This makes the building ideal for anyone working in the music industry, according to Jacobs. 'It is kind of a turnkey for the music business,' Jacobs said. On March 9, 1989, The Highwaymen were recording in one of the studios when shots were fired on the street below. Kevin Hughes, a country music chart director, was killed while getting into his car. Inside, the band did not hear the shots and had no idea that a murder had transpired just outside the studio. The band's harmonica player said no one heard the shots because of how well insulated the studio was and had no idea a murder occurred just outside. They only realized something had happened when one of the band members walked outside to smoke a cigarette and saw the police tape lining the street. In addition to the sound benefits of the building, Jacobs said it has a unique amount of parking. 'Not every building over there on Music Row has this type of parking, and he's got 17 parking spots,' Jacobs said. The wood inside the building is oak, and there are also hardwood floors that Utley said show the building was built in a different time. 'We want to get in the right hands because of the history,' Utley said. Many gold and platinum albums were produced over the course of the building's more than 100-year history. While Utley loves the building and its history, he said it is time for him to move on. 'I have a farm in Ohio and I live in Florida," Utley said. "My ex-wife is the co-owner and she doesn't live in the area now. We've just decided we want to pass it on to the next person. 'It's got all the modern amenities with the historic charm that you're not going to find in most places," he said.
Yahoo
08-04-2025
- Business
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AI Innovation Expert Jeremy Utley Joins Washington Speakers Bureau's Elite Roster
WASHINGTON, April 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Washington Speakers Bureau (WSB) announces the addition of Jeremy Utley—Stanford adjunct professor, bestselling author of Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters, and host of Beyond the Prompt: How to Use AI In Your Company—to its exclusive lineup of thought leaders and experts. Utley, named to the Thinkers50 Top Ten Innovation Leaders list, brings over 15 years of experience teaching innovation to more than a million students. His groundbreaking approach to AI and creativity has made him a sought-after advisor to CEOs looking to transform their organizations through innovative thinking and AI integration. "Jeremy Utley's ability to bridge the gap between AI and real-world business challenges makes him exactly the kind of forward-thinking voice our clients seek in today's rapidly evolving landscape," said Ryan Heil, President of WSB. "His unique ability to translate cutting-edge AI research into practical, actionable strategies makes him an invaluable resource for organizations navigating the intersection of human creativity and artificial intelligence." Utley's speaking engagements focus on several key areas, including "More Chat, Less Bot: How Humans Unleash the True Power of AI in Innovation," "Making AI More Human," and "Ideaflow: How Individuals, Teams, and Organizations Achieve Breakthrough Results." His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, NPR, and The Financial Times. A self-described "recovering spreadsheet enthusiast," Jeremy Utley's journey from finance to design thinking exemplifies his core belief that creativity is a learnable skill—one that can be amplified through AI-human collaboration. As a Stanford educator, innovation advisor, and General Partner at Freespin Capital, Utley brings a multifaceted perspective to the evolving innovation landscape. Utley joins WSB at a critical moment when organizations worldwide are seeking guidance on how to effectively implement AI technologies while fostering human creativity and collaboration. For more information or to learn more about Jeremy Utley's speaking topics, please visit: About Washington Speakers Bureau WSB is the world's largest talent agency solely focused on the corporate speaking and lecture circuit. With over 40 years of experience, we have represented the best keynote speakers from a variety of fields, from presidents and prime ministers to Fortune 100 CEOs, athletes, coaches, authors, and thought leaders. Our relentless focus on integrity, discretion, and care for our speakers and clients makes us the first choice for the world's pre-eminent speakers. Contact: 833.972.8255 info@ View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Washington Speakers Bureau Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
14-03-2025
- Politics
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How a Republican Plan to Cut Universal Free School Meals Could Affect 12 Million Students
This article was originally published in Chalkbeat. Every school in Kentucky's LaRue County provides free breakfast and lunch to any student who wants it. It's been that way for a decade, ever since the federal government launched a program allowing LaRue County Schools, and thousands of other districts nationwide, to skip the paperwork asking how much families earn. In these communities, lots of kids already receive other kinds of assistance for low-income families. Federal officials saw a way to make the subsidized meals program more efficient: Cover meal costs based on how many children are in similar assistance programs, rather than verify every family's income. Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter But LaRue County Schools won't be able to do that anymore if sweeping changes to social programs proposed by congressional Republicans become law. GOP lawmakers say they want to ensure only eligible families get help and that taxpayer dollars are reserved for the neediest students, so that federal subsidies for school meals remain sustainable. But by one estimate, the Republicans' plan would affect nearly a quarter of the students in the nation's public schools. Research has found that universal free school meals can boost school attendance, increase test scores, and decrease suspensions, likely because it eliminates the stigma students often associate with the free meals. Taking them away from students on a large scale could also have downstream effects on everything from families' household budgets to local unemployment. Stephanie Utley, the LaRue County district's director of child nutrition, said that inevitably, fewer kids would eat school meals, either because their families no longer qualify for free breakfast and lunch or because they cannot produce documents to verify their income. When fewer kids eat school meals, it's harder for districts to cover their costs. To save money, Utley would likely swap higher-quality foods for cheaper ones, she said. Apples and beef from local farms would go. The high school would serve fewer salads — they'd be too labor-intensive to prep. And a popular chicken breast sandwich would become a ground chicken patty. Utley may have to lay off staff, too, she said, which would hurt the rural community's economy. 'We're the biggest restaurant in town,' she said. 'It would be a nightmare.' Republican lawmakers are considering a trio of proposals to help offset tax cuts sought by President Donald Trump that would be 'devastating' to children and schools, said Erin Hysom, the senior child nutrition policy analyst for the nonprofit Food Research & Action Center. One proposal would dramatically increase the share of students who need to be enrolled in aid programs — such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families — for schools to be eligible to serve free meals to all kids through the Community Eligibility Provision. Right now, schools need to show 25% of students are enrolled in those kinds of assistance programs to participate in community eligibility. The House Republican proposal would raise the share to 60% — higher than the threshold has ever been. That would kick more than 24,000 schools off of community eligibility, and some 12 million students would no longer automatically qualify for free meals, Hysom's organization estimated. Essentially, only communities where nearly every child qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch could serve free meals to all kids. 'They've really moved the needle to the upper echelon of poverty,' Hysom said. 'You couldn't get any higher than that.' Another proposal would require all families who don't automatically qualify for free school meals through programs like SNAP to submit documents to verify their income with their application. That would burden families and schools with time-consuming added paperwork. Schools could end up cutting staff who serve food and work on school menus to hire more people to process applications. Together, those changes would save $12 billion over 10 years, according to the list of proposals circulated by U.S. Rep. Jodey Arrington, the Republican chair of the House budget committee. A third proposal would change how families qualify for SNAP and likely make over 1 million students no longer automatically eligible for free school meals. That would increase the paperwork burden even more. All of that would make it more costly for states with universal free school meals to run their programs, because they rely heavily on federal reimbursement. Some states were already weighing whether they could afford to keep up free meals for all. These three proposals are part of a process known as budget reconciliation that GOP lawmakers are using to make long-term changes to federal spending and revenue. As of Wednesday, Congress was considering a separate, stopgap budget that would keep funding essentially flat for the Agriculture Department, which pays for the school meal program, through the end of September. School staff and child nutrition advocates are taking the House's budget reconciliation proposals seriously. The Trump administration has already cut a $1 billion Agriculture Department program that helped schools buy food from local producers. If fewer kids have access to free meals at school, more families would likely struggle to afford groceries at home. Many families who don't qualify for free meals struggle to pay for food. This school year, a family of four qualified for free school meals if they made under $40,560 a year. When schools eliminated free school meals for all following the pandemic, there was a surge in unpaid school meal debt, an issue school staff say will only intensify if these proposals go through. Right now, schools typically have to verify the family's income for 3% of their applications. If schools had to check income for every application, the burden would be enormous, school staff and child nutrition advocates said. Many families who eke out a living working multiple jobs would have a hard time gathering up all the required documents to show how much they earn. Though children can participate in the school meals program regardless of their immigration status, undocumented parents may be afraid to hand over personal documents when Trump is threatening mass deportations. 'Eligible children are going to fall through the cracks,' Hysom said. Many schools are already facing financial pressures from higher-than-usual food and labor costs, a 2024 survey of nearly 1,400 school nutrition directors showed. On top of that, schools are navigating new and stricter requirements for how much salt and sugar can be in food served by schools. Schools have to buy most of their food from American sources, but if Trump puts certain tariffs in place for the long term, that could create new financial constraints. 'Cost is absolutely a concern,' said Diane Pratt-Heavner, a spokesperson for the School Nutrition Association, which represents school nutrition directors and conducted the survey. 'When avocados or tomatoes from Mexico become much more expensive, that will cause an increase in demand for domestic produce, and an increase in price, as well.' Shannon Gleave, the president of the School Nutrition Association, understands the need to make sure the school meal program runs as it should. In Arizona's Glendale Elementary School District, where Gleave is the director of food and nutrition, kids can speed through the lunch line because everyone qualifies for free meals. But staff scan student ID badges to make sure each kid only takes one meal, and that children with dietary restrictions get the right food. Upping the verification requirements a little could work, she said. But verifying 100% of applications 'is not an efficient use of time.' 'There is no way my existing staff could do that now,' she said. 'You have to figure out a way to be good stewards of resources, but also look at the amount of administrative burden that it's going to entail.' This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Chalkbeat is a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools. Sign up for their newsletters at
Yahoo
05-03-2025
- Yahoo
Women indicted for murder in child abuse case
HONOLULU (KHON2) — Two women from Oahu have been indicted for the death of a three-year-old girl and are facing multiple charges, including second-degree murder and kidnapping. Former prison guard pleads guilty to sexual abuse of inmates Janae Perez, 26, and Ashleigh Utley, 34, are accused of starving and dehydrating three-year-old Sanai Perez-Riviera, leading to her tragic death. The two women are also facing charges for abusing other children in the household through similar neglect. Both Perez and Utley are being held without bail at the Oahu Community Correctional Prosecuting Attorney Steve Alm called the case 'heartbreaking' and said the decision to hold the women without bail highlights the seriousness of the crimes. He also expressed concerns over existing laws that don't do enough to protect children from severe abuse, like starvation. Alm had introduced bills this year to address these gaps, but they didn't fully pass. If convicted, Perez and Utley could face life in prison for the murder charge, along with additional time for kidnapping and assault. Download the free KHON2 app for iOS or Android to stay informed on the latest news Both are also facing extended sentences due to prior offenses. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
