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Barry Didato Joins Rä Foods as President

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Wednesday, September 20, 2023
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SOUTHLAKE, Texas, Sept. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Rä Foods, a pioneer in food tech and functional foods, today announced that Barry Didato recently joined the company as its President, overseeing all company operations, spearheading strategic initiatives, and commercializing their intellectual property at scale.

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  • SOUTHLAKE, Texas, Sept. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Rä Foods, a pioneer in food tech and functional foods, today announced that Barry Didato recently joined the company as its President, overseeing all company operations, spearheading strategic initiatives, and commercializing their intellectual property at scale.
  • Most recently, he served as the Vice President, Strategy of EatWell Investment Group (EWG.CN) a publicly traded plant-based foods investment company focused on agribusiness, foodtech, and CPG brands.
  • With Barry's leadership, we're confident we'll expand our leadership position as a food pioneer while taking Rä Foods and the industry to the next level."
  • "Ra Foods co-founders Jeff Sholl and Sue Harlander have built a great team and a wonderfully differentiated intellectual property product portfolio that I am now privileged to lead," said Barry Didato, President of Rä Foods.

Security Properties Announces Transition of Bob Krokower to Vice Chair of the Board

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Tuesday, August 1, 2023
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Within his tenure, Security Properties acquired and developed over 250 properties and completed transactions totaling more than $10.8 billion.

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  • Within his tenure, Security Properties acquired and developed over 250 properties and completed transactions totaling more than $10.8 billion.
  • Paul Pfleger, Founder and Chair of the Board of Security Properties, shared his support for the transition.
  • Reflecting on his time as CEO, Bob Krokower shared, "It has been a privilege to lead Security Properties and witness its remarkable growth.
  • Byrnes remarked about Bob Krokower, "Bob has been an incredible leader and mentor throughout my journey at Security Properties.

Gradient Adds Creative Technologist Wei Wu to Its Team of Innovators Redefining Marketing

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Thursday, May 11, 2023
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Gradient Experiential, a full-service experiential marketing agency, welcomes Wei Wu as Creative Technologist.

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  • Gradient Experiential, a full-service experiential marketing agency, welcomes Wei Wu as Creative Technologist.
  • Her professional and educational pedigree make her an excellent addition to Gradient's team of creative pioneers.
  • The Gradient team seeks minds that can think creatively and pragmatically — people who can simultaneously focus on a given project's details and the larger experience.
  • The move comes as Gradient continues to build a high-caliber team of power players and fluid thinkers to deepen interactions between their clients and consumers through impactful brand experiences.

Newly Released WSP Book Unlocks Key Climate Strategies for Organizations

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Wednesday, May 3, 2023
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'Future Ready: Your Organization's Guide to Rethinking Climate, Resilience and Sustainability' illuminates how climate change is reshaping the way we plan, design and build more sustainable communities.

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  • 'Future Ready: Your Organization's Guide to Rethinking Climate, Resilience and Sustainability' illuminates how climate change is reshaping the way we plan, design and build more sustainable communities.
  • NEW YORK, May 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - WSP USA, a leading engineering, environment and professional services consultancy, has advanced its commitment to help organizations become Future Ready® with the release of an essential book that explores how organizations can rethink their climate mitigation and resilience practices for greater impact.
  • The book, published by Wiley, is co-authored by Alastair MacGregor, executive business line leader for Property and Buildings at WSP; and Tom Lewis, a climate, resilience and sustainability consultant.
  • "Future Ready: Your Organization's Guide to Rethinking Climate, Resilience and Sustainability" is now available for purchase at Amazon.com , BarnesandNoble.com and other online retailers.

'Breaking Barriers', a new sculpture by artist Ivan Toth Depeña, commemorates the life of Jack Trice, Iowa State University's first African-American athlete

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Thursday, February 23, 2023
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Created by artist Ivan Toth Depeña (Depeña Studio), 'Breaking Barriers' contemplates the idea of strength, struggle and absence that coincide with Jack Trice's legacy. The sculpture's location at the entrance of Trice Stadium on Iowa State University's campus, challenges sports fans and students by increasing the awareness of a significant, historical event imbued by actions surrounding racial injustice. On a monumental scale, the sculpture intends to invoke the spirit of perseverance, memory/reflection and subsequent contemplation regarding our current state of unrest surrounding the subject of inequality.

Key Points: 
  • CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Created by artist Ivan Toth Depeña (Depeña Studio), 'Breaking Barriers' contemplates the idea of strength, struggle and absence that coincide with Jack Trice's legacy.
  • The central monument consists of a large scale, white volume which has been fractured and broken through by the visage of Jack Trice.
  • The story of Jack Trice:
    The night before his first and, tragically, his last college football game, Jack Trice was separated from his teammates.
  • Ivan Toth Depeña is an artist based in Charlotte, NC, after having lived and worked in Miami, FL and New York, NY.

New Wildlife Crossing Fund Will Raise $500 Million to Combat the Biodiversity and Climate Crisis By Accelerating the Building of Wildlife Crossings Across the World

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Wednesday, February 15, 2023
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Wildlife Federation's #SaveLACougars campaign and an expert set of committed partners are celebrating the launch of The Wildlife Crossing Fund – a campaign that aims to accelerate the building of wildlife crossings across California, the United States, and the world and reconnect lands for our collective future. The fund has set a fundraising goal of a half a billion dollars from private philanthropy to leverage with public dollars and advance the building of these critical infrastructure projects – launching an extraordinary public private partnership.

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  • In addition to the National Wildlife Federation, founding partners behind the movement include the California Natural Resources Agency, Dayna Bochco, and ARC: Animal Road Crossings.
  • The Wildlife Crossing Fund is part of the legacy that the beloved P-22 mountain lion leaves behind.
  • The Wildlife Crossing Fund follows a successful private-public partnership and decade- long effort that resulted in the building of the world's largest crossing in Los Angeles.
  • The National Wildlife Federation is America's largest conservation organization with over 6 million supporters nationwide, uniting all Americans to ensure wildlife thrive in a rapidly changing world.

International Media Mogul Roderick M. Sherwood III Added to RYU Apparel Inc. (OTCQB: RYPPF) Advisory Board

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Wednesday, August 10, 2022
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Mr. Sherwood III received an AB degree with Honors and Distinction from Stanford University and an MBA degree from Harvard Graduate School of Business.

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  • Mr. Sherwood III received an AB degree with Honors and Distinction from Stanford University and an MBA degree from Harvard Graduate School of Business.
  • Mr. Sherwood brings significant experiences and talent to the advisory board including but not limited to being the Co-Founder, Co-Chairman & Chief Executive Officer for Cinmoi NA (including CineMoiWorld).
  • He is also the Chairman of Multivision Media International and a member of the Board of Advisors of the Stanford Disruptive Technology & Digital Cities Program.
  • Our advisory board additions add invaluable experience to the RYU leadership within this space.

Lexia Learning’s Founder, Robert Arthur Lemire, Dies at Eighty-Nine

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Wednesday, June 22, 2022
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Lexia Learning, a Cambium Learning Group company, is saddened to announce that the companys founder, Robert A. Lemire died on Wednesday, June 8, 2022.

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  • Lexia Learning, a Cambium Learning Group company, is saddened to announce that the companys founder, Robert A. Lemire died on Wednesday, June 8, 2022.
  • In 1992, Lexia expanded its mission to serve not only readers with dyslexia but all readers from beginners and inclusive of struggling readers.
  • Before founding Lexia, Lemire ran his own one-person investment-advisory firm, Lemire and Co., which he started in the mid-1970s.
  • The Cambium family of companies includes: Cambium Assessment, Lexia Learning, Learning A-Z, Voyager Sopris Learning, ExploreLearning, Time4Learning, and Kurzweil Education.

IFMA Foundation Partners with SDI to Launch 2022 Eric Teicholz Sustainability Facility Professional® (SFP®) Partner Supply Chain Scholarship Program

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Friday, April 22, 2022
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The latest program created by the IFMA Foundation is related to the impact of supply chain on FM's ability to maintain their facilities and critical assets. As the world emerges from the pandemic, FM organizations have a unique opportunity to drive significant, sustainable operational improvements while reducing costs and waste systemically. Within this scope, it's important for FM leaders to expand their focus to include supply chain value creation -- focusing not only on purchase price for their critical spare parts and supplies, but also on optimizing the total cost of ownership of their facilities including maximizing technician productivity, increasing asset uptime, and improving their customer in-store experience.

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  • BRISTOL, Pa., April 22, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- SDI, the leader in digital supply chain control tower solutions, announced this week that they are partnering with the IFMA Foundation to launch the Supply Chain Scholarship Program as part of the Eric Teicholz Sustainability Facility Professional (SFP) Scholarship Program.
  • The goal of the SFP Partner Program is to provide additional opportunities to a generation of facility management (FM) leaders committed to environmental best practices through better supply chain management.
  • The latest program created by the IFMA Foundation is related to the impact of supply chain on FM's ability to maintain their facilities and critical assets.
  • With awards starting in 2022, the SFP Partner Supply Chain Program is the result of collaboration between IFMA and SDI, The Digital Supply Chain Company.

MetaMetrics Partners With SoapBox Labs to Offer Edtech Companies Voice-Enabled Reading Assessments

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Monday, March 21, 2022
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"The Lexile Framework has, for years, provided parents, educators -- and learners -- with understanding and insights to unlock reading potential at nearly every level," said Dr. Martyn Farrows, CEO, SoapBox Labs. "Measurement of oral reading fluency is such a natural and important application of our voice technology. We are immensely proud to have our voice engine validated by a partner as fundamental and iconic to literacy learning as MetaMetrics, and to partner with them as we create a new era of literacy assessment."

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  • "For decades, we've imagined the vast potential for speech recognition technology when it comes to measuring a child's reading fluency.
  • In evaluating SoapBox Labs' technology, MetaMetrics researchers found a very high correlation between the SoapBox voice engine and human annotators when assessing for oral reading fluency, surpassing their rigorous criteria for approved partners.
  • To learn more about this partnership and the future of voice-enabled assessments of oral reading, register for the webinar, " SoapBox Labs + MetaMetrics: Rethinking reading assessment with the Lexile Framework for Oral Reading and kid-specific voice technology ," on April 19, at 11 am ET/4 pm GMT.
  • SoapBox Labs was founded by Dr. Patricia Scanlon, whose popular TEDx talk explains how voice technology can "transform a child's reading journey."