Let's put into perspective what Aurora Cannabis Inc.'s (TSX:ACB) trailing twelve month price to sales ratio actually means.
Reported by Motley Fool 16 hours ago.
At 135-Times Sales, Cannabis Valuations Make No Sense Whatsoever
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Everyyoung to cooperate with Materialise
Everyyoung BioDimension, a provider of customized design services for medical auxiliary devices, will cooperate with Materialise to introduce the Belgium-based firm's medical software solution Mimics and related training programs to strengthen its capability of developing medical 3D printing, according to Aurora.
Reported by DigiTimes 10 hours ago.
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Can Aurora Cannabis Inc. Recapture its Autumn Momentum?
Insiders are selling Aurora Cannabis Inc. (TSX:ACB), but the company is well positioned for growth looking ahead to the new year.
Reported by Motley Fool 6 hours ago.
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Onica Acquires Sturdy Networks and NetBrains, Expanding its Position in IoT, Serverless, and Application Refactoring AWS Solutions
Acquisition will help customers transform their businesses using the cloud
LOS ANGELES (PRWEB) December 12, 2017
Onica, one of the largest and fastest-growing Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Consulting and Managed Service Partners, today announced its acquisitions of Sturdy Networks, LLC and NetBrains, Inc. The company now boasts more than 250 AWS certifications, 9 competencies, and a customer base consuming over $150 million of AWS services a year.
“We have long held Sturdy and NetBrains in high regard due to their forward-thinking technical strength,” said Stephen Garden, CEO of Onica, which recently spun out of CorpInfo with a $20 million growth equity investment. “Coming together with Sturdy and NetBrains allows us to support customers with a broader set of capabilities, fully capitalizing on AWS innovation to transform their businesses using the cloud.”
The expertise added by Sturdy and NetBrains will help Onica customers cloud-enable apps and reap the full economic benefits of moving to the AWS platform. Specifically, Onica expects to immediately bring more value to its customers by leveraging Sturdy and NetBrains’ proven capabilities in cloud-native application development, IoT applications, and serverless solutions.
Additionally, the company is expanding its ability to support usage of Amazon SageMaker, Aurora Serverless, AWS Fargate, and other compelling products, helping its customers maximize the continuous stream of opportunities brought by serverless innovation. Expectations for the newly formed company are high. Gartner has predicted strong growth for the future of cloud services, with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) leading the way at 36.6 percent growth in 2017, reaching $72.4 billion by 2020.
Tolga Tarhan, founder of Sturdy and now CTO of Onica said, “I’m excited to harness the strengths of our combined technical teams. The enhanced breadth and depth of talent and expertise will give us an unprecedented ability to build and deploy innovative products and solutions for our customers.”
Other founding members of the Sturdy and NetBrains management team now joining Onica’s senior ranks are Amir Kashani, VP of Engineering and Ginger Siedschlag, Head of Program Management.
NetBrains, Inc. was established as a product oriented software development company in 2009. Company leaders quickly saw the benefits of AWS and expanded into DevOps services for cloud deployments leading to the partnership and formation of Sturdy Networks, LLC. Sturdy has been at the forefront of AWS innovation with a focus on cloud-native application development using serverless technologies such as Lambda and a booming practice around the Internet of Things (IoT).
Onica joined the AWS Partner Network (APN) in 2013. The company has led some of the fastest, most complex migrations onto the AWS Cloud and is poised for significant growth in the months and years to come. Since raising $20 million in funding from Sunstone Partners, Onica has embarked on significant investment and expansion around its managed cloud services platform, which has now become a global support operation backed with custom developed operations tooling.
“Onica appreciates and understands how AWS innovates at lightning speed, and we are determined to continually reinforce our expertise for the benefit of our growing customer base,” remarked Garden. “The news we announced today is just the tip of the iceberg.”
About Onica Group LLC
Onica (onica.com) is a cloud consulting and managed services company, helping businesses enable, operate, and innovate on the cloud. From migration strategy to operational excellence and immersive transformation, Onica is a full spectrum integrator, helping hundreds of companies realize the value, efficiency, and productivity of the cloud.
About Sturdy Networks, LLC
Sturdy Networks, LLC (sturdy.cloud) is a cloud enabler based in Irvine, California. The company designs, implements, and maintains cloud infrastructure for SaaS offerings, cloud-connected devices, mobile apps, and IoT solutions. Sturdy serves clients by providing enterprise software, consumer-facing applications, medical devices, and industrial automation solutions. Founded in 2012 to focus on cloud migration, automation, deployment, and architectural design, Sturdy is recognized by AWS as a Premier Consulting Partner in the APN, a member of the AWS Commercial Reseller Program, and is an AWS DevOps, Healthcare, and IoT Competency Partner.
About NetBrains, Inc.
NetBrains, Inc. (netbrains.com) focuses on helping businesses understand and solve their technology challenges. They are an experienced team of software engineers that specialize in product management, product-oriented software engineering, and the Internet of Things. Reported by PRWeb 5 hours ago.
LOS ANGELES (PRWEB) December 12, 2017
Onica, one of the largest and fastest-growing Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Consulting and Managed Service Partners, today announced its acquisitions of Sturdy Networks, LLC and NetBrains, Inc. The company now boasts more than 250 AWS certifications, 9 competencies, and a customer base consuming over $150 million of AWS services a year.
“We have long held Sturdy and NetBrains in high regard due to their forward-thinking technical strength,” said Stephen Garden, CEO of Onica, which recently spun out of CorpInfo with a $20 million growth equity investment. “Coming together with Sturdy and NetBrains allows us to support customers with a broader set of capabilities, fully capitalizing on AWS innovation to transform their businesses using the cloud.”
The expertise added by Sturdy and NetBrains will help Onica customers cloud-enable apps and reap the full economic benefits of moving to the AWS platform. Specifically, Onica expects to immediately bring more value to its customers by leveraging Sturdy and NetBrains’ proven capabilities in cloud-native application development, IoT applications, and serverless solutions.
Additionally, the company is expanding its ability to support usage of Amazon SageMaker, Aurora Serverless, AWS Fargate, and other compelling products, helping its customers maximize the continuous stream of opportunities brought by serverless innovation. Expectations for the newly formed company are high. Gartner has predicted strong growth for the future of cloud services, with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) leading the way at 36.6 percent growth in 2017, reaching $72.4 billion by 2020.
Tolga Tarhan, founder of Sturdy and now CTO of Onica said, “I’m excited to harness the strengths of our combined technical teams. The enhanced breadth and depth of talent and expertise will give us an unprecedented ability to build and deploy innovative products and solutions for our customers.”
Other founding members of the Sturdy and NetBrains management team now joining Onica’s senior ranks are Amir Kashani, VP of Engineering and Ginger Siedschlag, Head of Program Management.
NetBrains, Inc. was established as a product oriented software development company in 2009. Company leaders quickly saw the benefits of AWS and expanded into DevOps services for cloud deployments leading to the partnership and formation of Sturdy Networks, LLC. Sturdy has been at the forefront of AWS innovation with a focus on cloud-native application development using serverless technologies such as Lambda and a booming practice around the Internet of Things (IoT).
Onica joined the AWS Partner Network (APN) in 2013. The company has led some of the fastest, most complex migrations onto the AWS Cloud and is poised for significant growth in the months and years to come. Since raising $20 million in funding from Sunstone Partners, Onica has embarked on significant investment and expansion around its managed cloud services platform, which has now become a global support operation backed with custom developed operations tooling.
“Onica appreciates and understands how AWS innovates at lightning speed, and we are determined to continually reinforce our expertise for the benefit of our growing customer base,” remarked Garden. “The news we announced today is just the tip of the iceberg.”
About Onica Group LLC
Onica (onica.com) is a cloud consulting and managed services company, helping businesses enable, operate, and innovate on the cloud. From migration strategy to operational excellence and immersive transformation, Onica is a full spectrum integrator, helping hundreds of companies realize the value, efficiency, and productivity of the cloud.
About Sturdy Networks, LLC
Sturdy Networks, LLC (sturdy.cloud) is a cloud enabler based in Irvine, California. The company designs, implements, and maintains cloud infrastructure for SaaS offerings, cloud-connected devices, mobile apps, and IoT solutions. Sturdy serves clients by providing enterprise software, consumer-facing applications, medical devices, and industrial automation solutions. Founded in 2012 to focus on cloud migration, automation, deployment, and architectural design, Sturdy is recognized by AWS as a Premier Consulting Partner in the APN, a member of the AWS Commercial Reseller Program, and is an AWS DevOps, Healthcare, and IoT Competency Partner.
About NetBrains, Inc.
NetBrains, Inc. (netbrains.com) focuses on helping businesses understand and solve their technology challenges. They are an experienced team of software engineers that specialize in product management, product-oriented software engineering, and the Internet of Things. Reported by PRWeb 5 hours ago.
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These are 2017’s biggest real estate transactions in Aurora
The Dec. 29 print edition of Business First will contain complete listings of all 2,797 high-end real estate deals in Erie County between Oct. 1, 2016, and Sept. 30, 2017. (A high-end transaction is defined as any deal worth $250,000 or more.) We’re providing a two-week online preview of this mammoth yearend edition, offering breakdowns of the top 50 deals (all worth more than $250,000) in 10 major communities within the county. The focus today is on Aurora. Click on the View Slideshow button…
Reported by bizjournals 4 hours ago.
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Digital Health Innovators Stephanie Peng and Raymond Lee Join Vida Health To Scale Digital Therapeutics For Large Employers
New hires to play key role in Vida’s enterprise expansion.
SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) December 12, 2017
Vida Health, a digital therapeutic platform that helps employees overcome chronic physical and behavioral health problems, today announced the hires of Stephanie Peng, formerly of Livongo, and Raymond Lee, formerly of Proteus Health, as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Product, respectively.
Peng and Lee will play critical roles as Vida Health continues to grow in the enterprise market and build out its suite of evidence-backed clinical programs to address chronic conditions.
“Stephanie and Raymond are both pioneers in the digital health space and they bring extraordinary value to Vida,” said Stephanie Tilenius, CEO of Vida Health. “Their backgrounds give them an intimate understanding of the challenges and opportunities of our industry, and they couldn’t be joining at a better time. Their insights will guide us as we continue to build out our product and expand our footprint in the market.”
Stephanie Peng has built her career leading financial and operational functions at several successful digital health and consumer technology companies, including Livongo. Her experience in the digital health space and working with fast growing technology companies will guide Vida as the company grows rapidly.
“Vida is on the precipice of something huge,” said Stephanie Peng, CFO of Vida Health. “The product, the science, and the demand are all culminating at the same time. Vida is poised to capture this unique moment in time and ensure that digital therapeutics for chronic disease are effective and ubiquitous. I’m excited to apply my background to help the company scale.”
Raymond Lee most recently served as VP of Product and Design at Proteus Digital Health, where he launched the world’s first fully-integrated digital medicine service offering. His experience leading product innovation teams internationally gives him a breadth and depth of experience that Vida Health will leverage to develop a best-in-class solution.
“Behavioral science is the most effective way to improve health outcomes for patients with chronic disease. Vida understands that better than anyone,” said Raymond Lee, VP of Product at Vida Health. “Working with Vida’s extraordinary product team to continually bake in the best behavioral science into our model is going to have huge impacts on health, particularly when applied at the enterprise level.”
Vida combines digital therapeutics with health coaching and therapy to uniquely address comorbidities, helping individuals prevent, improve, and overcome multiple physical and behavioral health conditions simultaneously. Vida addresses over 20 conditions and offers clinically validated digital therapeutic programs for prediabetes, diabetes, stress, resilience, anxiety, depression, hypertension, asthma/COPD, and weight loss.
Vida Health is currently deployed by leading employers and healthcare companies. Enterprise customers include eBay, Steelcase, FICO, West Marine, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Duke University School of Medicine, Stanford Medicine, Aurora Health Care, and Partners Healthcare.
To learn more, visit http://www.vidahealth.com or find us at the J.P. Morgan Health Conference from January 8-10, 2018 in San Francisco, California.
About Vida Health
Vida is your health transformation partner. We help employees or members overcome chronic physical and behavioral health problems, once and for all.
We offer digital therapies for multiple chronic conditions, including anxiety, depression, diabetes, prediabetes, and obesity. Our therapeutic programs combine evidence-based clinical programs with expert human coaching and therapy, and are delivered through our easy-to-use mobile app.
Behavior science and machine learning are our underpinnings. Our therapies are designed to drive behavior change and produce lasting results. We leverage data science to personalize the experience to each user, increasing program engagement and effectiveness.
Our array of evidence-based digital therapies enables us to address individuals with comorbidities, treating them across multiple chronic physical and behavioral health conditions.
We are trusted by Fortune 1000 companies, major national payers, and large providers to help employees and members overcome their most persistent health challenges.
Vida can help anyone transform their health. Visit us online at http://www.vida.com.
Vida. True Health. Reported by PRWeb 4 hours ago.
SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) December 12, 2017
Vida Health, a digital therapeutic platform that helps employees overcome chronic physical and behavioral health problems, today announced the hires of Stephanie Peng, formerly of Livongo, and Raymond Lee, formerly of Proteus Health, as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Product, respectively.
Peng and Lee will play critical roles as Vida Health continues to grow in the enterprise market and build out its suite of evidence-backed clinical programs to address chronic conditions.
“Stephanie and Raymond are both pioneers in the digital health space and they bring extraordinary value to Vida,” said Stephanie Tilenius, CEO of Vida Health. “Their backgrounds give them an intimate understanding of the challenges and opportunities of our industry, and they couldn’t be joining at a better time. Their insights will guide us as we continue to build out our product and expand our footprint in the market.”
Stephanie Peng has built her career leading financial and operational functions at several successful digital health and consumer technology companies, including Livongo. Her experience in the digital health space and working with fast growing technology companies will guide Vida as the company grows rapidly.
“Vida is on the precipice of something huge,” said Stephanie Peng, CFO of Vida Health. “The product, the science, and the demand are all culminating at the same time. Vida is poised to capture this unique moment in time and ensure that digital therapeutics for chronic disease are effective and ubiquitous. I’m excited to apply my background to help the company scale.”
Raymond Lee most recently served as VP of Product and Design at Proteus Digital Health, where he launched the world’s first fully-integrated digital medicine service offering. His experience leading product innovation teams internationally gives him a breadth and depth of experience that Vida Health will leverage to develop a best-in-class solution.
“Behavioral science is the most effective way to improve health outcomes for patients with chronic disease. Vida understands that better than anyone,” said Raymond Lee, VP of Product at Vida Health. “Working with Vida’s extraordinary product team to continually bake in the best behavioral science into our model is going to have huge impacts on health, particularly when applied at the enterprise level.”
Vida combines digital therapeutics with health coaching and therapy to uniquely address comorbidities, helping individuals prevent, improve, and overcome multiple physical and behavioral health conditions simultaneously. Vida addresses over 20 conditions and offers clinically validated digital therapeutic programs for prediabetes, diabetes, stress, resilience, anxiety, depression, hypertension, asthma/COPD, and weight loss.
Vida Health is currently deployed by leading employers and healthcare companies. Enterprise customers include eBay, Steelcase, FICO, West Marine, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Duke University School of Medicine, Stanford Medicine, Aurora Health Care, and Partners Healthcare.
To learn more, visit http://www.vidahealth.com or find us at the J.P. Morgan Health Conference from January 8-10, 2018 in San Francisco, California.
About Vida Health
Vida is your health transformation partner. We help employees or members overcome chronic physical and behavioral health problems, once and for all.
We offer digital therapies for multiple chronic conditions, including anxiety, depression, diabetes, prediabetes, and obesity. Our therapeutic programs combine evidence-based clinical programs with expert human coaching and therapy, and are delivered through our easy-to-use mobile app.
Behavior science and machine learning are our underpinnings. Our therapies are designed to drive behavior change and produce lasting results. We leverage data science to personalize the experience to each user, increasing program engagement and effectiveness.
Our array of evidence-based digital therapies enables us to address individuals with comorbidities, treating them across multiple chronic physical and behavioral health conditions.
We are trusted by Fortune 1000 companies, major national payers, and large providers to help employees and members overcome their most persistent health challenges.
Vida can help anyone transform their health. Visit us online at http://www.vida.com.
Vida. True Health. Reported by PRWeb 4 hours ago.
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2018 Alaska TourSaver® Makes Alaska Travel and Adventures More Affordable
There are more than 110 offers included in the booklet, which sells for $99.95.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (PRWEB) December 12, 2017
Is 2018 the year to finally will visit Alaska? Cruise rates are more affordable and there are very competitive airfares between the “Lower 48” and Alaska. But what can travelers do about the high cost of tours, transportation and accommodations?
The cost of shore excursions, fishing trips, glacier cruises and train rides add up quickly. After 20 years of publication, more than 80,000 travelers have used the Alaska TourSaver® travel coupon book to hedge the cost of Alaska adventures. There are more than 110 offers included in the booklet, which sells for $99.95 (it’s also available as an App on for iPhone/iPad). Most offers are two-for-one/buy-one-get-one-free, but there are several “bonus offers” for other popular trips. With more than $17,000 in travel savings, there are tours and adventures that appeal to a wide variety of tastes.
The Alaska TourSaver® book is organized into regional areas: far north, southcentral (including Anchorage), the inside passage (Juneau and Ketchikan) and western Alaska. Here are some popular offers:
Far North:· Riverboat Discovery. Take a paddlewheel riverboat for a ride on the Chena River!
· Gold Dredge 8: Guaranteed gold! Visit a vintage gold dredge and learn about the mining history of Fairbanks.
· Borealis Basecamp northern lights viewing: see the aurora from the comfort of your own private cabin, laying in bed!
Inside Passage:· Helicopter flightseeing with a landing on the Taku Glacier from Era Helicopters.
· Take a zipline through the rainforest in both Juneau and Ketchikan with Alaska Canopy Adventures.
· Go fishing in Juneau with Alaska Galore Tours.
· Hop aboard a float plane to see Misty Fjords National Monument in Ketchikan with Taquan Air.
Southcentral:· ALL ABOARD the Alaska Railroad between Anchorage and Seward, Fairbanks, Talkeetna and Denali Park
· Heli-picnic at the Sheldon Mountain House on the slopes of Denali.
· Take a glacier and wildlife cruise in Kenai Fjords National Park with Major Marine Tours
· Catch halibut and salmon in Homer, Seward or along the Kenai River with Ninilchik Charters
· Hike on a glacier, go flightseeing and stay overnight in the heart of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park with Kennicott Glacier Lodge.
Western Alaska:· Fly from Anchorage to Nome on Alaska Airlines and get a tour of Nome, Alaska (with overnight option) from Explore Tours
· Take a all-day tour in Katmai National Park to the Valley of the 10,000 Smokes.
Travelers can explore the Alaska TourSaver website using the “travel savings calculator” to see how much can be saved on trips with the coupon book. Online, there’s also a full list of the offers in the book.
The App version of the Alaska TourSaver® allows travelers to chose from four different versions: Statewide, Inside passage, Southcentral/Interior or Juneau (iPhone/iPad only).
Although it’s up to travelers to make their way to Alaska to take advantage of the TourSaver, free travel tips are available at AlaskaTravelgram.com. SIgn up for the free email travel newsletter online. Reported by PRWeb 4 hours ago.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (PRWEB) December 12, 2017
Is 2018 the year to finally will visit Alaska? Cruise rates are more affordable and there are very competitive airfares between the “Lower 48” and Alaska. But what can travelers do about the high cost of tours, transportation and accommodations?
The cost of shore excursions, fishing trips, glacier cruises and train rides add up quickly. After 20 years of publication, more than 80,000 travelers have used the Alaska TourSaver® travel coupon book to hedge the cost of Alaska adventures. There are more than 110 offers included in the booklet, which sells for $99.95 (it’s also available as an App on for iPhone/iPad). Most offers are two-for-one/buy-one-get-one-free, but there are several “bonus offers” for other popular trips. With more than $17,000 in travel savings, there are tours and adventures that appeal to a wide variety of tastes.
The Alaska TourSaver® book is organized into regional areas: far north, southcentral (including Anchorage), the inside passage (Juneau and Ketchikan) and western Alaska. Here are some popular offers:
Far North:· Riverboat Discovery. Take a paddlewheel riverboat for a ride on the Chena River!
· Gold Dredge 8: Guaranteed gold! Visit a vintage gold dredge and learn about the mining history of Fairbanks.
· Borealis Basecamp northern lights viewing: see the aurora from the comfort of your own private cabin, laying in bed!
Inside Passage:· Helicopter flightseeing with a landing on the Taku Glacier from Era Helicopters.
· Take a zipline through the rainforest in both Juneau and Ketchikan with Alaska Canopy Adventures.
· Go fishing in Juneau with Alaska Galore Tours.
· Hop aboard a float plane to see Misty Fjords National Monument in Ketchikan with Taquan Air.
Southcentral:· ALL ABOARD the Alaska Railroad between Anchorage and Seward, Fairbanks, Talkeetna and Denali Park
· Heli-picnic at the Sheldon Mountain House on the slopes of Denali.
· Take a glacier and wildlife cruise in Kenai Fjords National Park with Major Marine Tours
· Catch halibut and salmon in Homer, Seward or along the Kenai River with Ninilchik Charters
· Hike on a glacier, go flightseeing and stay overnight in the heart of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park with Kennicott Glacier Lodge.
Western Alaska:· Fly from Anchorage to Nome on Alaska Airlines and get a tour of Nome, Alaska (with overnight option) from Explore Tours
· Take a all-day tour in Katmai National Park to the Valley of the 10,000 Smokes.
Travelers can explore the Alaska TourSaver website using the “travel savings calculator” to see how much can be saved on trips with the coupon book. Online, there’s also a full list of the offers in the book.
The App version of the Alaska TourSaver® allows travelers to chose from four different versions: Statewide, Inside passage, Southcentral/Interior or Juneau (iPhone/iPad only).
Although it’s up to travelers to make their way to Alaska to take advantage of the TourSaver, free travel tips are available at AlaskaTravelgram.com. SIgn up for the free email travel newsletter online. Reported by PRWeb 4 hours ago.
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Man turned himself into police after Monday night shooting at Arapahoe County apartment complex
Man turns himself into police after shooting on the border of Denver and Aurora sent another man to the hospital.
Reported by Denver Post 3 hours ago.
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InventHelp Inventor Develops Device to Make Microwave Interiors Spotless
InventHelp, a leading inventor service company, is working to submit Microwave Cleaner to companies for their review.
PITTSBURGH, PA (PRWEB) December 12, 2017
Finding it a difficult hassle to clean the inside of my microwave regularly, an inventor from Aurora, Colo., decided that there should be a quicker, easier and more efficient way of performing this task.
The patent-pending MICROWAVE CLEANER enables a user to clean the interior of a microwave in an alternative manner. It removes accumulated food particles and dried splatter more efficiently, which prevents strain and hassle.
Designed to save time and effort, the MICROWAVE CLEANER is suitable for all microwaves, making it beneficial to the general population.
The original design was submitted to the Denver office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 16-DVR-1004, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com. -https://www.youtube.com/user/inventhelp Reported by PRWeb 3 hours ago.
PITTSBURGH, PA (PRWEB) December 12, 2017
Finding it a difficult hassle to clean the inside of my microwave regularly, an inventor from Aurora, Colo., decided that there should be a quicker, easier and more efficient way of performing this task.
The patent-pending MICROWAVE CLEANER enables a user to clean the interior of a microwave in an alternative manner. It removes accumulated food particles and dried splatter more efficiently, which prevents strain and hassle.
Designed to save time and effort, the MICROWAVE CLEANER is suitable for all microwaves, making it beneficial to the general population.
The original design was submitted to the Denver office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 16-DVR-1004, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com. -https://www.youtube.com/user/inventhelp Reported by PRWeb 3 hours ago.
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Canada cannabis companies duke it out in hostile takeover bid
CanniMed Therapeutics Inc. is raising new concerns that securities laws may have been violated by Aurora Cannabis Inc.'s C$582 million ($453 million) offer.
Reported by Denver Post 22 hours ago.
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The high price to pay for Aurora, Advocate to maintain own CEOs, HQs
The plan by Aurora Health Care and Advocate Health Care to maintain co-CEOs after merging will mean they’ll pay a combined $12 million annually for CEOs Jim Skogsbergh and Dr. Nick Turkal.
Reported by bizjournals 22 hours ago.
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Bruce Brown, Lady Bird, the City of Trees, and the 96-MPH Caponord: An Appreciation
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Over the weekend, I saw Greta Gerwig’s much praised Lady Bird. The release of that film was probably the biggest thing to hit my sleepy, sprawling burg of Sacramento since the Kings arrived from Kansas City in 1985. The movie was filmed here and set during the the protagonist’s final year of high school in 2002–2003, nine years after I was a starry-eyed senior set to head off to the Bay Area for college, and more than half a decade before everybody had a smartphone. Sacto native Gerwig touches on the importance of magazines at what was perhaps the last possible moment before the World Wide Web ruled everything. For those raised prior to an era of always-on digital access, the feeling of cultural isolation could be acute. Glossies like Spin, Details, and newsprint zines in the vein of Maximumrocknroll were a window into another world. I’d read up, wander across the street to the original Tower Records, and try something out. But before I fell into the world of music and lifestyle books, BMX magazines were my first key to another, seemingly richer world. Go—a short-lived successor to BMX Action and Freestylin’ put together by a talented crew that included Spike Jonze and Jackass director Jeff Tremaine—turned me on to the music of DC hard-core stalwart Ian MacKaye. Without punk rock, my career path wouldn’t have led me to Car and Driver. But Go might not have existed at all were it not for Bruce Brown, who died Sunday at the age of 80. In essence, I owe Mr. Brown the last 30 years of my life.
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Bruce Brown, camera in hand, during the filming of The Endless Summer.
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He’s best remembered for his seminal surf documentary The Endless Summer, which I first saw in seventh-grade science class, around the same time I was devouring BMX rags and spending hours convincing my parents to let me go out and race. In one retrospective on the sport’s early days in the 1970s—which may have appeared in BMX Action—racers including Stu Thomsen discussed having their minds blown by the opening credits in Brown’s 1971 motorcycle doc, On Any Sunday. In it, a pack of kids tear around a kid’s-bike-sized motocross course on Schwinn Stingrays, crashing, pulling wheelies, jumping, and making motorcycle sounds. Shortly thereafter, organized bicycle motocross races sprung up, because what kid hasn’t pretended his bicycle is a motorcycle at some point? When I finally got around to seeing On Any Sunday, I was immediately smitten. Mert Lawwill and Malcolm Smith are inspired protagonists, the cinematography—rudimentary by today’s standards, but advanced for its day—still enthralls, and Brown’s good-natured California-cornpone narration lays out the action in a way that even the layman can enjoy. It’s not just a great motorcycle movie; it’s a great movie, period.
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Brown, fundamentally, was a harbinger of good, a DIY magician who brought his cinematic works to the masses and, in doing so, made the seemingly impenetrable accessible. In the early days of his surf films, he’d barnstorm up and down the West Coast, showing his movies in high-school gymnasiums, narrating them in real time. Sensing that he had something bigger with The Endless Summer, he tried to secure wider distribution. When the majors said no, that it wouldn’t play beyond the niche of edge-of-the-continent surf rats, he rented a theater in whitebread Wichita, Kansas, and sold it out. And sold it out again. And again. Finally, the distributors took notice. The success of the landmark surf film paved an easier path for On Any Sunday, allowing Brown to secure funding from Steve McQueen, who figures prominently in the Elsinore Grand Prix section as well as the famous final sequence, during which he, Smith, and Lawwill bomb through the countryside and roost around on a Southern California beach.
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A few years back, I asked Mark Wahlberg whether he preferred Easy Rider or On Any Sunday. He chose Easy Rider, and that sort of tells you all you need to know about Mark Wahlberg.
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In one form or another, on bikes or in cars, I’ve sampled many of the motorized pursuits Brown runs through during the course of On Any Sunday, and although my heart lies with flinging a bike sideways through a corner while my steel-shod left boot skips along the ground, a couple of gnarly wrecks at a recent trip to Rich Oliver’s Mystery School have me reconsidering flat-track shenanigans, given my suddenly brittle 42-year-old frame. Long-distance touring, a discipline not covered in Brown’s film, is ultimately where I’ve found my niche, but in motorcycling, if you’re not at least something of an omnivore, you’re invariably missing out on something great.
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For all of Sacramento’s foibles, it makes a case for itself as perhaps the best city in America to live in if you’re a motorcyclist. There’s year-round riding weather. It has less traffic than Los Angeles or San Francisco, but it’s clogged up enough to enjoy the feel-good benefits of lane splitting, which, of course, is only legal in California. What’s more, there are phenomenal, quiet roads within an hour’s ride in just about any direction. Sears Point and Thunderhill are 90 minutes away, there’s speedway racing up the hill in Auburn, Sacramento Raceway offers a dragstrip, and it’s only three hours to Laguna Seca. The Hangtown Classic is a legendary motocross event (covered by Bruce’s son, Dana, in On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter), and, of course, there’s the storied Sacramento Mile, which serves as the coda to the flat-track portion of the original movie.
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When I heard Brown had died, everything fell away. Lady crushes, clerical business, chores that desperately needed doing. All I wanted to do was get on my motorcycle, as going for a ride felt like the only fitting tribute and perhaps the only way to alleviate the empty thud in my chest. I only had a couple of hours, so I figured I’d run down into the California Delta. In Lady Bird, Gerwig’s camera lingers pretty hard on the rivers in Sacramento. The geographic picture she paints of the place roughly parallels the town’s footprint before the war. It has now been decades since this place wasn’t an agglomeration of cities and unincorporated areas stretching halfway across the Central Valley. Her decision makes a lot of sense, as much of the infill and expansion that led to our very own mini-megalopolis fundamentally paralleled the rise of the internet. I imagine one day, perhaps in my lifetime, you’ll be able to drive clear from Colfax in the Sierra Nevada to Gilroy, south of San Jose—a distance of nigh on 200 miles—without once truly leaving an urban area. Although the city has crept inexorably south, following the Sacramento River down toward its mouth at Suisun Bay is a quick way to escape the sprawl. Ironic, in that the river itself was the original transit corridor between San Francisco and Sac during the Gold Rush.
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The Capo at the edge of Panamint Valley. Note obscene selective-yellow lights.
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Awash in thought, I got on the Aprilia Caponord Rally I bought back in October. I’d picked it up at Moto International in Seattle, on my way home from an office visit to Ann Arbor. Just before I rode away, Dave Richardson, the face of the shop for 25 years and a man deeply beloved and respected in the Moto Guzzi community, told me that it was the last motorcycle he’d ever sell. I knew he was retiring, but the idea that this was the final bike he’d usher out of that little dealership on North Aurora meant that I needed to put it to good use. So far, I’ve put nearly 6000 miles on the clock, riding it through seven states in two months. The motorcycle itself turned out to be a dead-end design for the Noale-based Piaggio division. The smooth, rowdy 90-degree 1200-cc twin wouldn’t pass Euro 4 emissions regulations, and Aprilia had only built about 5000 Caponords in total since the bike was introduced in 2013. My bike is a leftover 2016 model, hardly the only such motorcycle in Aprilia dealer inventory. Do the math. Making the bike pass Eurosmog wasn’t worth the effort.
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Down on power compared to Ducati’s Multistrada or KTM’s big ADV machines and lacking the dealer network, aftermarket support, and reputation of BMW’s category-defining R1200GS, the Capo’s adventure-touring variant is nonetheless the best mile-eating motorcycle I’ve been on. For my build, anyway, it fits better than the outgoing Gold Wing. It outplushes a Harley FL (buy my 2015 Ultra Limited, please) and will smoke it through a corner or in a straight line. The Capo offers the same sort of sporting comfort as a BMW RT, but without the bland efficiency of the latest Bavarian boxer twin. Say what you will about Italian quality, the salami set seems almost incapable of building naturally aspirated engines that don’t delight. Its default velocity is 96 miles per hour. Start the bike, twist the throttle, let out the clutch, look down at the speedo, and it will invariably read 96. Why do I need more power? Who are these KTM-riding maniacs? To bring this back around, I hold Brown somewhat responsible for the fact that I currently own five motorcycles, one of which always goes 96 miles per hour.
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I pointed the Ape west, then south, chasing a Duc and a Hog down I-5, and popped off at Twin Cities Road. The “twin cities” in question are the humble hamlets of Walnut Grove and Locke, not much more than growths on the eastern levee of the Sacramento River. To be fair, Walnut Grove does feature a drawbridge and an auto-repair shop that often features interesting classic Benzes and Lamborghinis in the window. And Locke was the subject of the first novel by my perennial homecoming date, the American Book Award–winning Shawna Yang Ryan. The haze drifting up from the devastating Thomas fire—a whopping 300 miles to the southeast—hung brown as the sun dipped toward the Coast Range, but the valley air was still clear enough to make out the shape of Mount Diablo in the distance, off across the farms and marshland that separate the river from Fairfield.
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Mert Lawwill, Malcolm Smith, and Steve McQueen during the filming of On Any Sunday.
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Eighty-odd years ago, when Locke was still a town built and run by Chinese immigrants rather than standing as a monument to the Chinese immigrants who built it, my grandfather and his work buddies would drive down the levee to gamble here. One night, the infamous tule fog rolled in. It’s one of California’s meteorological curios, one perhaps even more deadly than the fire-pushing Santa Ana and Diablo winds, given the severity of the automobile accidents that its zero-visibility soup causes. Sometimes, it will inundate the valley from Redding in the north, all the way down past Pumpkin Center, 450 miles south. Anyway, the young AT&T engineers got stuck in the stuff after a night at the tables. One unlucky sod, presumably with a few drinks in him for fortitude, was tasked with standing on the car’s running board, making sure the driver didn’t dump them into the river on the 25-mile drive back up to Sacramento. Riding back from Las Vegas a month ago, I found myself caught in the stuff. Upping the power on the 13,000 lumens worth of selective-yellow lamps I’d installed on the Aprilia did nothing to improve the situation. I didn’t expect it to, but when things are uncertain and you’ve got a rheostat, you invariably wanna twiddle with it. With twiddling having proven itself fruitless, I fell back on my dad’s advice: Keep a truck’s taillights just barely in view.
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It’s a primitive mode of travel at that point; no motorcycle technology developed in the past 46 years was going to help much, save perhaps ABS if things suddenly went pear-shaped. Fumbling forward in the fog, chasing a dim light. That was life in a pre-internet Sacramento. And, I suspect, plenty of other towns in America. There was no one grand font, no place you could go for the inside scoop. You had to piece it together out of rumor, innuendo, going out and seeing shows, meeting people, catching movies, and perhaps by getting lucky at Tower. Life was a series of hyperlinks that loaded at what, in retrospect, seems like an absolutely glacial pace. Now and then, however, there’d be a supernova moment that would allow so much else to fall into place. Nirvana on the radio. Bruce Brown bringing the possibility of a different sort of life to kids in landlocked towns.
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· Bad Buggies and Ballyhoo: Bashing through the Desert in VW-Powered Off-Roaders
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· Escape to Baja: Three Blissed-Out Days Touring Mexico on a Harley-Davidson
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· Niken a Go Go: Yamaha’s Radical New Three-Wheeled Sportbike
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I rode home up the river as the sun set, toward the great silver water tower that used to read “City of Trees.” Gerwig’s languorous shots of the river flitted through my mind as the river itself turned gold, then faded to purple in the waning light. The visions of riparian quiet fought for mental space with Brown’s footage of Malcolm Smith ripping across a dry lake down in Baja, Cal Rayburn putting a streamliner on its side at Bonneville, and Mert Lawwill leaving home in that rad old Econoline on Torq-Thrusts, XR750 in the back, off on a futile quest to defend his AMA Grand National title. Then it all jelled into one great historic, present mass. What was once disparate was suddenly all of a piece. Time slips forward and fragments reassemble themselves in your mind as needed. A nice drive in a good car helps the pieces mesh more harmoniously, but taking that same trip on a bike somehow amplifies the experience exponentially.
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At the end of The Endless Summer, Brown, in voice-over, says simply, “This is Bruce Brown. Thank you for watching. I hope you enjoyed my film.”
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No, Bruce. Thank you.
- Reported by Car and Driver 21 hours ago.
Over the weekend, I saw Greta Gerwig’s much praised Lady Bird. The release of that film was probably the biggest thing to hit my sleepy, sprawling burg of Sacramento since the Kings arrived from Kansas City in 1985. The movie was filmed here and set during the the protagonist’s final year of high school in 2002–2003, nine years after I was a starry-eyed senior set to head off to the Bay Area for college, and more than half a decade before everybody had a smartphone. Sacto native Gerwig touches on the importance of magazines at what was perhaps the last possible moment before the World Wide Web ruled everything. For those raised prior to an era of always-on digital access, the feeling of cultural isolation could be acute. Glossies like Spin, Details, and newsprint zines in the vein of Maximumrocknroll were a window into another world. I’d read up, wander across the street to the original Tower Records, and try something out. But before I fell into the world of music and lifestyle books, BMX magazines were my first key to another, seemingly richer world. Go—a short-lived successor to BMX Action and Freestylin’ put together by a talented crew that included Spike Jonze and Jackass director Jeff Tremaine—turned me on to the music of DC hard-core stalwart Ian MacKaye. Without punk rock, my career path wouldn’t have led me to Car and Driver. But Go might not have existed at all were it not for Bruce Brown, who died Sunday at the age of 80. In essence, I owe Mr. Brown the last 30 years of my life.
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Bruce Brown, camera in hand, during the filming of The Endless Summer.
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He’s best remembered for his seminal surf documentary The Endless Summer, which I first saw in seventh-grade science class, around the same time I was devouring BMX rags and spending hours convincing my parents to let me go out and race. In one retrospective on the sport’s early days in the 1970s—which may have appeared in BMX Action—racers including Stu Thomsen discussed having their minds blown by the opening credits in Brown’s 1971 motorcycle doc, On Any Sunday. In it, a pack of kids tear around a kid’s-bike-sized motocross course on Schwinn Stingrays, crashing, pulling wheelies, jumping, and making motorcycle sounds. Shortly thereafter, organized bicycle motocross races sprung up, because what kid hasn’t pretended his bicycle is a motorcycle at some point? When I finally got around to seeing On Any Sunday, I was immediately smitten. Mert Lawwill and Malcolm Smith are inspired protagonists, the cinematography—rudimentary by today’s standards, but advanced for its day—still enthralls, and Brown’s good-natured California-cornpone narration lays out the action in a way that even the layman can enjoy. It’s not just a great motorcycle movie; it’s a great movie, period.
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Brown, fundamentally, was a harbinger of good, a DIY magician who brought his cinematic works to the masses and, in doing so, made the seemingly impenetrable accessible. In the early days of his surf films, he’d barnstorm up and down the West Coast, showing his movies in high-school gymnasiums, narrating them in real time. Sensing that he had something bigger with The Endless Summer, he tried to secure wider distribution. When the majors said no, that it wouldn’t play beyond the niche of edge-of-the-continent surf rats, he rented a theater in whitebread Wichita, Kansas, and sold it out. And sold it out again. And again. Finally, the distributors took notice. The success of the landmark surf film paved an easier path for On Any Sunday, allowing Brown to secure funding from Steve McQueen, who figures prominently in the Elsinore Grand Prix section as well as the famous final sequence, during which he, Smith, and Lawwill bomb through the countryside and roost around on a Southern California beach.
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A few years back, I asked Mark Wahlberg whether he preferred Easy Rider or On Any Sunday. He chose Easy Rider, and that sort of tells you all you need to know about Mark Wahlberg.
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In one form or another, on bikes or in cars, I’ve sampled many of the motorized pursuits Brown runs through during the course of On Any Sunday, and although my heart lies with flinging a bike sideways through a corner while my steel-shod left boot skips along the ground, a couple of gnarly wrecks at a recent trip to Rich Oliver’s Mystery School have me reconsidering flat-track shenanigans, given my suddenly brittle 42-year-old frame. Long-distance touring, a discipline not covered in Brown’s film, is ultimately where I’ve found my niche, but in motorcycling, if you’re not at least something of an omnivore, you’re invariably missing out on something great.
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For all of Sacramento’s foibles, it makes a case for itself as perhaps the best city in America to live in if you’re a motorcyclist. There’s year-round riding weather. It has less traffic than Los Angeles or San Francisco, but it’s clogged up enough to enjoy the feel-good benefits of lane splitting, which, of course, is only legal in California. What’s more, there are phenomenal, quiet roads within an hour’s ride in just about any direction. Sears Point and Thunderhill are 90 minutes away, there’s speedway racing up the hill in Auburn, Sacramento Raceway offers a dragstrip, and it’s only three hours to Laguna Seca. The Hangtown Classic is a legendary motocross event (covered by Bruce’s son, Dana, in On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter), and, of course, there’s the storied Sacramento Mile, which serves as the coda to the flat-track portion of the original movie.
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When I heard Brown had died, everything fell away. Lady crushes, clerical business, chores that desperately needed doing. All I wanted to do was get on my motorcycle, as going for a ride felt like the only fitting tribute and perhaps the only way to alleviate the empty thud in my chest. I only had a couple of hours, so I figured I’d run down into the California Delta. In Lady Bird, Gerwig’s camera lingers pretty hard on the rivers in Sacramento. The geographic picture she paints of the place roughly parallels the town’s footprint before the war. It has now been decades since this place wasn’t an agglomeration of cities and unincorporated areas stretching halfway across the Central Valley. Her decision makes a lot of sense, as much of the infill and expansion that led to our very own mini-megalopolis fundamentally paralleled the rise of the internet. I imagine one day, perhaps in my lifetime, you’ll be able to drive clear from Colfax in the Sierra Nevada to Gilroy, south of San Jose—a distance of nigh on 200 miles—without once truly leaving an urban area. Although the city has crept inexorably south, following the Sacramento River down toward its mouth at Suisun Bay is a quick way to escape the sprawl. Ironic, in that the river itself was the original transit corridor between San Francisco and Sac during the Gold Rush.
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The Capo at the edge of Panamint Valley. Note obscene selective-yellow lights.
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Awash in thought, I got on the Aprilia Caponord Rally I bought back in October. I’d picked it up at Moto International in Seattle, on my way home from an office visit to Ann Arbor. Just before I rode away, Dave Richardson, the face of the shop for 25 years and a man deeply beloved and respected in the Moto Guzzi community, told me that it was the last motorcycle he’d ever sell. I knew he was retiring, but the idea that this was the final bike he’d usher out of that little dealership on North Aurora meant that I needed to put it to good use. So far, I’ve put nearly 6000 miles on the clock, riding it through seven states in two months. The motorcycle itself turned out to be a dead-end design for the Noale-based Piaggio division. The smooth, rowdy 90-degree 1200-cc twin wouldn’t pass Euro 4 emissions regulations, and Aprilia had only built about 5000 Caponords in total since the bike was introduced in 2013. My bike is a leftover 2016 model, hardly the only such motorcycle in Aprilia dealer inventory. Do the math. Making the bike pass Eurosmog wasn’t worth the effort.
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Down on power compared to Ducati’s Multistrada or KTM’s big ADV machines and lacking the dealer network, aftermarket support, and reputation of BMW’s category-defining R1200GS, the Capo’s adventure-touring variant is nonetheless the best mile-eating motorcycle I’ve been on. For my build, anyway, it fits better than the outgoing Gold Wing. It outplushes a Harley FL (buy my 2015 Ultra Limited, please) and will smoke it through a corner or in a straight line. The Capo offers the same sort of sporting comfort as a BMW RT, but without the bland efficiency of the latest Bavarian boxer twin. Say what you will about Italian quality, the salami set seems almost incapable of building naturally aspirated engines that don’t delight. Its default velocity is 96 miles per hour. Start the bike, twist the throttle, let out the clutch, look down at the speedo, and it will invariably read 96. Why do I need more power? Who are these KTM-riding maniacs? To bring this back around, I hold Brown somewhat responsible for the fact that I currently own five motorcycles, one of which always goes 96 miles per hour.
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I pointed the Ape west, then south, chasing a Duc and a Hog down I-5, and popped off at Twin Cities Road. The “twin cities” in question are the humble hamlets of Walnut Grove and Locke, not much more than growths on the eastern levee of the Sacramento River. To be fair, Walnut Grove does feature a drawbridge and an auto-repair shop that often features interesting classic Benzes and Lamborghinis in the window. And Locke was the subject of the first novel by my perennial homecoming date, the American Book Award–winning Shawna Yang Ryan. The haze drifting up from the devastating Thomas fire—a whopping 300 miles to the southeast—hung brown as the sun dipped toward the Coast Range, but the valley air was still clear enough to make out the shape of Mount Diablo in the distance, off across the farms and marshland that separate the river from Fairfield.
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Mert Lawwill, Malcolm Smith, and Steve McQueen during the filming of On Any Sunday.
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Eighty-odd years ago, when Locke was still a town built and run by Chinese immigrants rather than standing as a monument to the Chinese immigrants who built it, my grandfather and his work buddies would drive down the levee to gamble here. One night, the infamous tule fog rolled in. It’s one of California’s meteorological curios, one perhaps even more deadly than the fire-pushing Santa Ana and Diablo winds, given the severity of the automobile accidents that its zero-visibility soup causes. Sometimes, it will inundate the valley from Redding in the north, all the way down past Pumpkin Center, 450 miles south. Anyway, the young AT&T engineers got stuck in the stuff after a night at the tables. One unlucky sod, presumably with a few drinks in him for fortitude, was tasked with standing on the car’s running board, making sure the driver didn’t dump them into the river on the 25-mile drive back up to Sacramento. Riding back from Las Vegas a month ago, I found myself caught in the stuff. Upping the power on the 13,000 lumens worth of selective-yellow lamps I’d installed on the Aprilia did nothing to improve the situation. I didn’t expect it to, but when things are uncertain and you’ve got a rheostat, you invariably wanna twiddle with it. With twiddling having proven itself fruitless, I fell back on my dad’s advice: Keep a truck’s taillights just barely in view.
-
It’s a primitive mode of travel at that point; no motorcycle technology developed in the past 46 years was going to help much, save perhaps ABS if things suddenly went pear-shaped. Fumbling forward in the fog, chasing a dim light. That was life in a pre-internet Sacramento. And, I suspect, plenty of other towns in America. There was no one grand font, no place you could go for the inside scoop. You had to piece it together out of rumor, innuendo, going out and seeing shows, meeting people, catching movies, and perhaps by getting lucky at Tower. Life was a series of hyperlinks that loaded at what, in retrospect, seems like an absolutely glacial pace. Now and then, however, there’d be a supernova moment that would allow so much else to fall into place. Nirvana on the radio. Bruce Brown bringing the possibility of a different sort of life to kids in landlocked towns.
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· Bad Buggies and Ballyhoo: Bashing through the Desert in VW-Powered Off-Roaders
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· Escape to Baja: Three Blissed-Out Days Touring Mexico on a Harley-Davidson
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· Niken a Go Go: Yamaha’s Radical New Three-Wheeled Sportbike
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I rode home up the river as the sun set, toward the great silver water tower that used to read “City of Trees.” Gerwig’s languorous shots of the river flitted through my mind as the river itself turned gold, then faded to purple in the waning light. The visions of riparian quiet fought for mental space with Brown’s footage of Malcolm Smith ripping across a dry lake down in Baja, Cal Rayburn putting a streamliner on its side at Bonneville, and Mert Lawwill leaving home in that rad old Econoline on Torq-Thrusts, XR750 in the back, off on a futile quest to defend his AMA Grand National title. Then it all jelled into one great historic, present mass. What was once disparate was suddenly all of a piece. Time slips forward and fragments reassemble themselves in your mind as needed. A nice drive in a good car helps the pieces mesh more harmoniously, but taking that same trip on a bike somehow amplifies the experience exponentially.
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At the end of The Endless Summer, Brown, in voice-over, says simply, “This is Bruce Brown. Thank you for watching. I hope you enjoyed my film.”
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No, Bruce. Thank you.
- Reported by Car and Driver 21 hours ago.
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RE/MAX Realtor Troy Hansford Helps Sellers Sell During the Cold Winter Market
Colorado Realtor Troy Hansford, of RE/MAX Unlimited, lists the top three tips on how to sell a home in the winter.
DENVER (PRWEB) December 13, 2017
Spring and summer are widely considered the best house selling seasons, whereas the market tends to dramatically cool down in winter. “It can be hard to sell a home in the winter, and we currently have the lowest inventory that we’ve had all year, but demand is still very high,” said Realtor Troy Hansford, of the Troy Hansford Real Estate Team at RE/MAX Unlimited. “However, there are still ways to ensure your home sells in the slower winter months.”
To educate sellers on how to sell this winter, Hansford, who currently has a three-bedroom, two-bathroom hilltop listing at 515 Holly Street in Denver, shares the following three tips:
No. 1: Make the house shine. This includes cleaning the interior from top to bottom and decluttering. It is highly advisable to also hire a staging consultant. “No matter what time of the year, it’s important to have your home show its best,” stressed Hansford.
No. 2: Enhance curb appeal. The outside of the house is just as important as the inside, as it is the first thing a prospective buyer sees. “First impressions always count, and curb appeal still matters in the winter,” added Hansford. “Keep the lawn tidy, utilize seasonal landscaping and decorate, or not, as long as it’s at a reasonable level.”
No. 3: Incorporate professional photography. Many people these days make buying decisions online, which is why professional photography is imperative when selling a home. “If your home doesn’t grab the attention of a buyer online, they will move on to the next home for sale,” concluded Hansford.
About Troy Hansford, Troy Hansford Real Estate Team, RE/MAX Unlimited Colorado Licensed Broker Troy Hansford and his stellar real estate team specialize in Saddle Rock Golf Course homes, South East Aurora real estate and homes and neighborhoods around Cherry Creek schools. Troy serves Denver, Aurora, Centennial, Parker, Littleton, Highlands Ranch and Castle Rock, CO. He is also the specialist for anyone looking for Colorado golf course homes and Denver area country club properties. For more information, please call (303) 617-0607, or visit http://www.troyhansford.com. RE/MAX Unlimited is located at 3300 S. Parker Rd., Suite 100, Denver, CO 80014.
About the NALA™
The NALA offers small and medium-sized businesses effective ways to reach customers through new media. As a single-agency source, the NALA helps businesses flourish in their local community. The NALA’s mission is to promote a business’ relevant and newsworthy events and achievements, both online and through traditional media. The information and content in this article are not in conjunction with the views of the NALA. For media inquiries, please call 805.650.6121, ext. 361. Reported by PRWeb 10 hours ago.
DENVER (PRWEB) December 13, 2017
Spring and summer are widely considered the best house selling seasons, whereas the market tends to dramatically cool down in winter. “It can be hard to sell a home in the winter, and we currently have the lowest inventory that we’ve had all year, but demand is still very high,” said Realtor Troy Hansford, of the Troy Hansford Real Estate Team at RE/MAX Unlimited. “However, there are still ways to ensure your home sells in the slower winter months.”
To educate sellers on how to sell this winter, Hansford, who currently has a three-bedroom, two-bathroom hilltop listing at 515 Holly Street in Denver, shares the following three tips:
No. 1: Make the house shine. This includes cleaning the interior from top to bottom and decluttering. It is highly advisable to also hire a staging consultant. “No matter what time of the year, it’s important to have your home show its best,” stressed Hansford.
No. 2: Enhance curb appeal. The outside of the house is just as important as the inside, as it is the first thing a prospective buyer sees. “First impressions always count, and curb appeal still matters in the winter,” added Hansford. “Keep the lawn tidy, utilize seasonal landscaping and decorate, or not, as long as it’s at a reasonable level.”
No. 3: Incorporate professional photography. Many people these days make buying decisions online, which is why professional photography is imperative when selling a home. “If your home doesn’t grab the attention of a buyer online, they will move on to the next home for sale,” concluded Hansford.
About Troy Hansford, Troy Hansford Real Estate Team, RE/MAX Unlimited Colorado Licensed Broker Troy Hansford and his stellar real estate team specialize in Saddle Rock Golf Course homes, South East Aurora real estate and homes and neighborhoods around Cherry Creek schools. Troy serves Denver, Aurora, Centennial, Parker, Littleton, Highlands Ranch and Castle Rock, CO. He is also the specialist for anyone looking for Colorado golf course homes and Denver area country club properties. For more information, please call (303) 617-0607, or visit http://www.troyhansford.com. RE/MAX Unlimited is located at 3300 S. Parker Rd., Suite 100, Denver, CO 80014.
About the NALA™
The NALA offers small and medium-sized businesses effective ways to reach customers through new media. As a single-agency source, the NALA helps businesses flourish in their local community. The NALA’s mission is to promote a business’ relevant and newsworthy events and achievements, both online and through traditional media. The information and content in this article are not in conjunction with the views of the NALA. For media inquiries, please call 805.650.6121, ext. 361. Reported by PRWeb 10 hours ago.
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Aurora Cannabis vs Canopy Growth Stock: The Better Investment?
Choosing the Best Marijuana Stock
Marijuana industry players are fighting tooth and nail as they wage a battle based on “survival of the fittest.” In just one year, a bajillion new marijuana startups have propped up as they discover there’s immense money to be made in this young industry. Leading this battle are two “narwhals” of the north, *Canopy Growth Corp* (OTCMKTS: TWMJF) and *Aurora Cannabis Inc* (OTCMKTS: ACBFF). And if you’re a new investor torn between them–that is, Aurora Cannabis vs Canopy Growth stock– then you've landed at the right place.
Just as we have "unicorns" in the U.S. (a metaphoric moniker for companies.
The post Aurora Cannabis vs Canopy Growth Stock: The Better Investment? appeared first on Profit Confidential. Reported by Profit Confidential 8 hours ago.
Marijuana industry players are fighting tooth and nail as they wage a battle based on “survival of the fittest.” In just one year, a bajillion new marijuana startups have propped up as they discover there’s immense money to be made in this young industry. Leading this battle are two “narwhals” of the north, *Canopy Growth Corp* (OTCMKTS: TWMJF) and *Aurora Cannabis Inc* (OTCMKTS: ACBFF). And if you’re a new investor torn between them–that is, Aurora Cannabis vs Canopy Growth stock– then you've landed at the right place.
Just as we have "unicorns" in the U.S. (a metaphoric moniker for companies.
The post Aurora Cannabis vs Canopy Growth Stock: The Better Investment? appeared first on Profit Confidential. Reported by Profit Confidential 8 hours ago.
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Aurora Cannabis wins rights for licensing talks with CannaRoyalty
(Reuters) - Canadian medical marijuana maker Aurora Cannabis Inc has won the rights to negotiate a licensing deal with CannaRoyalty Corp that will allow it to sell a range of cannabis-infused consumer products.
Reported by Reuters 6 hours ago.
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Samson Switchblade flying car prepares for 2018 launch
Samson claims its Switchblade is the world's first flying sports car...
American company Samson claims that its 1.6-litre V4-engined Switchblade will be the world’s first flying sports car; it's priced from around £90,000
Samson Motors, a company based in Oregon, US, has announced that the Switchblade, which it claims is the world’s first flying sports car, is ready for launch in spring 2018.
The three-wheel Switchblade is more akin to conventional light aircraft than the ever-growing number of flying cars pitched in recent months, eschewing vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) due to a lack of infrastructure (landing and take-off points) and VTOL flying cars’ relative lack of range and speed.
*Read about Uber's flying car effort here*
With a cruising altitude of 13,000 feet and a 200mph top speed in the air, the two-seater features extendable wings and a retractable tail that fold out - either manually or electronically, if this currently-in-development option is specified - and extend for flight. The Switchblade's top ground speed is in excess of 100mph.
In ground mode, the car is 5.1 metres long, or the same length as the standard-wheelbase Mercedes-Benz S-Class. It’s around 330mm narrower, though, at just 1.8m wide. In flight mode, the Switchblade's length increases to 6.2m with the tail extended, while the wings fold out for a wingspan of 8.2m. The car’s takeoff weight is 794kg, or around a third more than the Ariel Atom.
Takeoff and landing distances are 335m and 488m respectively, and although the car’s 26ft wingspan doesn’t allow road-based takeoffs, Samson claims that the car will be able to be flown from regular airports. At around 80mph, the car takes off naturally if the wings are extended, says Samson.
The Switchblade is powered by an engine of Samson’s own creation: a 190bhp liquid-cooled 1.6-litre V4, which returns fuel economy of around 48mpg on the ground, running on 91 Octane fuel. In the air, it's around 9g/hr, giving a range of around 450 miles from the 113-litre fuel tank.
Transmission for driving is a five-speed unit.
A full driving licence is required to operate the car on the roads and a private pilot’s licence is required to fly it. US law dictates that 51% of the vehicle must be built by the owner, given its experimental/homebuilt classification. With Samson’s professional assistance, this can be completed in three weeks at a Samson Build Assist Centre.
Standard kit on the Switchblade includes a premium sound system with MP3 compatibility, a reversing camera, a digital instrument display and leather seats.
Safety kit includes a parachute for the whole vehicle, disc brakes front and rear, rollover protection and crumple zones front and rear. There’s enough space for golf clubs in the storage area, although Samson only specifies up to around 23kg for luggage.
*Airbus is getting in on the flying car scene - read more*
Prices for the Switchblade are targeted to start at around £90,000, although an extra £15,000 will be applied if owners opt for the Samson Build Assistance.
Three further variants of the machine are available: Snowbird, for colder climates; Trek, a more rugged version with heavier-duty landing gear and extra mounts for additional cargo; and Aurora, which combines the Trek and Snowbird packs.
Other flying car efforts include Uber's flying car, the PAL-V Liberty, now Geely-owned Terrafugia and Airbus's flying car. Reported by Autocar 3 hours ago.
American company Samson claims that its 1.6-litre V4-engined Switchblade will be the world’s first flying sports car; it's priced from around £90,000
Samson Motors, a company based in Oregon, US, has announced that the Switchblade, which it claims is the world’s first flying sports car, is ready for launch in spring 2018.
The three-wheel Switchblade is more akin to conventional light aircraft than the ever-growing number of flying cars pitched in recent months, eschewing vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) due to a lack of infrastructure (landing and take-off points) and VTOL flying cars’ relative lack of range and speed.
*Read about Uber's flying car effort here*
With a cruising altitude of 13,000 feet and a 200mph top speed in the air, the two-seater features extendable wings and a retractable tail that fold out - either manually or electronically, if this currently-in-development option is specified - and extend for flight. The Switchblade's top ground speed is in excess of 100mph.
In ground mode, the car is 5.1 metres long, or the same length as the standard-wheelbase Mercedes-Benz S-Class. It’s around 330mm narrower, though, at just 1.8m wide. In flight mode, the Switchblade's length increases to 6.2m with the tail extended, while the wings fold out for a wingspan of 8.2m. The car’s takeoff weight is 794kg, or around a third more than the Ariel Atom.
Takeoff and landing distances are 335m and 488m respectively, and although the car’s 26ft wingspan doesn’t allow road-based takeoffs, Samson claims that the car will be able to be flown from regular airports. At around 80mph, the car takes off naturally if the wings are extended, says Samson.
The Switchblade is powered by an engine of Samson’s own creation: a 190bhp liquid-cooled 1.6-litre V4, which returns fuel economy of around 48mpg on the ground, running on 91 Octane fuel. In the air, it's around 9g/hr, giving a range of around 450 miles from the 113-litre fuel tank.
Transmission for driving is a five-speed unit.
A full driving licence is required to operate the car on the roads and a private pilot’s licence is required to fly it. US law dictates that 51% of the vehicle must be built by the owner, given its experimental/homebuilt classification. With Samson’s professional assistance, this can be completed in three weeks at a Samson Build Assist Centre.
Standard kit on the Switchblade includes a premium sound system with MP3 compatibility, a reversing camera, a digital instrument display and leather seats.
Safety kit includes a parachute for the whole vehicle, disc brakes front and rear, rollover protection and crumple zones front and rear. There’s enough space for golf clubs in the storage area, although Samson only specifies up to around 23kg for luggage.
*Airbus is getting in on the flying car scene - read more*
Prices for the Switchblade are targeted to start at around £90,000, although an extra £15,000 will be applied if owners opt for the Samson Build Assistance.
Three further variants of the machine are available: Snowbird, for colder climates; Trek, a more rugged version with heavier-duty landing gear and extra mounts for additional cargo; and Aurora, which combines the Trek and Snowbird packs.
Other flying car efforts include Uber's flying car, the PAL-V Liberty, now Geely-owned Terrafugia and Airbus's flying car. Reported by Autocar 3 hours ago.
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Will Aurora Cannabis Inc. Be Successful in Acquiring Cannimed Therapeutics Inc.?
Although the deal may not go through, both Aurora Cannabis Inc. (TSX:ACB) and Cannimed Therapeutics Inc. (TSX:CMED) have benefited from the recent takeover offer.
Reported by Motley Fool 22 minutes ago.
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Author Alejandro de Gutierre's "The Rat Tunnels of Isfahan" Wins Best of Los Angeles Award for “Best Emotionally-Engaging Book" 2017
Author Alejandro de Gutierre's book "The Rat Tunnels of Isfahan" won the Best of Los Angeles Award for “Best Emotionally-Engaging Book" 2017 according to Aurora DeRose, award coordinator for the Best of Los Angeles Award community (https://www.facebook.com/BestofLosAngelesAwards/).
LOS ANGELES (PRWEB) December 13, 2017
Alejandro de Gutierre decided to become a writer in July of 2014. He awoke one day that month, and realized that he LOVED music, but didn't love MAKING music, something he had been trying to do off and on for twenty + years. He jumped into his car and drove to the deserts of New Mexico and Arizona alone, and after an excruciating hike into the Grand Canyon, he bathed in the waters of a Colorado River tributary, and realized that what he really wanted to do was to tell stories. He has been diligently writing and learning about the craft of writing ever since.
His first book, THE RAT TUNNELS OF ISFAHAN, was published in Sept. 1, 2017, and opened to rave reviews. Book One of a trilogy, RAT TUNNELS has been described by some of its early readers as "emotionally engaging," and full of "great detail; Super nail-biting."
"The Rat Tunnels of Isfahan beautifully portrays the human struggle to survive in the direst situations. When all that you love has been stripped away, is freedom a dream or is it all you have left to cling to? The author’s unambiguous narration draws the reader in and I loved it." N. N. Light - Los Angeles, CA
"This book was a great start to a 3 part series. The writing is really descriptive and the author doesn't use the same word twice. You feel as though you are right there in the action. The story carries out well through its moments of calm followed by intense movement." Mark Reynolds - Westfield, MA
"A deep read! Such a feat for any writer to develop a complex character that the reader becomes invested in during such a short story, and Alejandro has succeeded in doing this. His robust research into Ancient Persia shows as he illustrates a realistic and visceral picture in the reader's head as the main character battles for his sanity and life." Baelaya G. - Salem, MA
The “Best of Los Angeles Award” community was formed three years ago and consists of over 3,700 professional members living and working in Southern California. It celebrates the best people, places and things in Los Angeles with a slogan “No Ads. No B.S. Only the Best.”
“The mission of the community is to celebrate the best of Los Angeles, and allow its community members to connect with other members who share the highest standards of quality and integrity,” said DeRose.
"I am honored to receive this award from the Best of Los Angeles," says Alejandro. "I worked hard to craft a gripping story about survival, and I can't wait to unveil the next two books in this series."
Book Two of this trilogy, named the "Scorpions and Silk" trilogy, will be published later in 2017, and Book Three in Spring of 2018. To learn more about Alejandro, visit http://www.degutierre.com/ Reported by PRWeb 26 minutes ago.
LOS ANGELES (PRWEB) December 13, 2017
Alejandro de Gutierre decided to become a writer in July of 2014. He awoke one day that month, and realized that he LOVED music, but didn't love MAKING music, something he had been trying to do off and on for twenty + years. He jumped into his car and drove to the deserts of New Mexico and Arizona alone, and after an excruciating hike into the Grand Canyon, he bathed in the waters of a Colorado River tributary, and realized that what he really wanted to do was to tell stories. He has been diligently writing and learning about the craft of writing ever since.
His first book, THE RAT TUNNELS OF ISFAHAN, was published in Sept. 1, 2017, and opened to rave reviews. Book One of a trilogy, RAT TUNNELS has been described by some of its early readers as "emotionally engaging," and full of "great detail; Super nail-biting."
"The Rat Tunnels of Isfahan beautifully portrays the human struggle to survive in the direst situations. When all that you love has been stripped away, is freedom a dream or is it all you have left to cling to? The author’s unambiguous narration draws the reader in and I loved it." N. N. Light - Los Angeles, CA
"This book was a great start to a 3 part series. The writing is really descriptive and the author doesn't use the same word twice. You feel as though you are right there in the action. The story carries out well through its moments of calm followed by intense movement." Mark Reynolds - Westfield, MA
"A deep read! Such a feat for any writer to develop a complex character that the reader becomes invested in during such a short story, and Alejandro has succeeded in doing this. His robust research into Ancient Persia shows as he illustrates a realistic and visceral picture in the reader's head as the main character battles for his sanity and life." Baelaya G. - Salem, MA
The “Best of Los Angeles Award” community was formed three years ago and consists of over 3,700 professional members living and working in Southern California. It celebrates the best people, places and things in Los Angeles with a slogan “No Ads. No B.S. Only the Best.”
“The mission of the community is to celebrate the best of Los Angeles, and allow its community members to connect with other members who share the highest standards of quality and integrity,” said DeRose.
"I am honored to receive this award from the Best of Los Angeles," says Alejandro. "I worked hard to craft a gripping story about survival, and I can't wait to unveil the next two books in this series."
Book Two of this trilogy, named the "Scorpions and Silk" trilogy, will be published later in 2017, and Book Three in Spring of 2018. To learn more about Alejandro, visit http://www.degutierre.com/ Reported by PRWeb 26 minutes ago.
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Los Angeles investment firm purchases Aurora complex for $96 million
The 600-unit community has 47 buildings.
Reported by bizjournals 22 hours ago.
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Woman’s body found inside Aurora apartment, homicide investigation underway
The discovery of a body, of a 57-year-old woman, found inside her Aurora home is being investigated as a homicide.
Reported by Denver Post 18 hours ago.
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