Author: Alfredo Casuso

Media contact: David Perry / (415) 676-7007 / news@davidperry.com

Windsurf Named Presenting Sponsor of Bay to Breakers 2025

New Era of Flow and Fun for San Francisco’s Most Iconic Footrace
On Sunday, May 18

17 April 2025, San Francisco, CA: A new wave of innovation is set to sweep across the streets of San Francisco: Bay to Breakers, the city’s most iconic and irreverent footrace, is thrilled to announce Windsurf as the Presenting Sponsor for the 2025 event. This year’s race will proudly bear the title: Bay to Breakers powered by Windsurf, taking place on Sunday, May 18.

Windsurf, a cutting-edge software company built for developers and powered by AI, was born in the Bay Area and shares a deep cultural connection with the race itself. As part of the new partnership, Windsurf aims to bring its signature “flow state” ethos—familiar to both runners and coders alike—to every step of the legendary 12K event.

“One of my favorite moments in the company’s early days was running Bay to Breakers with two other founding team members,” said Varun Mohan, CEO and Co-Founder of Windsurf. “We didn’t train for it. We just showed up and had a great time, and that experience stuck with us. So being part of the race now, as a sponsor, feels like a full-circle moment—one we’re excited to share with others.”

Anshul Ramachandran, Head of Product & Strategy and part of the Founding Team, added: “Bay to Breakers is probably the most representative of what SF is. It’s fun, exciting, and a little chaotic in the best way. Also, we as a company have come up in the Bay Area, out of Silicon Valley, with many of us having run the race before. It’s one of the only events that truly matches the same vibe we bring as a company. So for us, being part of this just makes sense.”

“Windsurf’s energy and vision are a perfect match for the creativity and spirit of Bay to Breakers,” said Phyllis Blanchard of Motiv Sports/Bay to Breakers. “From its roots in the developer community to its AI-powered tools that help people find their flow, Windsurf brings a fresh wave of innovation and authenticity to this time-honored San Francisco tradition.”

As Presenting Sponsor, Windsurf will be fully integrated into all aspects of the race experience, from pre-race communications and social media to on-course branding and exclusive activation zones. Runners can expect to “get their second wind” at the Windsurf Mile and enjoy a series of tech-forward, community-focused engagements throughout race day.

Bay to Breakers is a San Francisco original, known for its spirited race that has been a staple of the city since 1912. It brings together athletes, families, community members, and costume-clad participants for a 12K race from the San Francisco Bay to the breakers on the Pacific Coast. Bay to Breakers is a celebration of life, laughter, and the personality of San Francisco, embodying the city’s inclusive spirit and community engagement. During the annual Bay to Breakers Race, participants of all ages and abilities, and oftentimes in costume, line up on Howard Street a few blocks from The Embarcadero on the third Sunday in May – in 2025, May 18. The course travels west through the City and finishes at the Great Highway, where the breakers crash into Ocean Beach. It truly is a time-honored tradition and the quintessential San Francisco experience.

To learn more about Bay to Breakers or sign up for the fun, visit www.baytobreakers.com. For sponsorship or Corporate Teams information, email Alex Jee at ajee@motivsports.com.

About Windsurf:
Windsurf is a leader in AI-powered coding solutions, offering tools that blend collaborative, continuous AI assistance with developers’ workflows. With a mission to make software creation seamless and joyful, Windsurf helps teams ship faster and smarter with intuitive tools and AI-powered coding assistance. Headquartered in the Bay Area, Windsurf is built by developers, for developers. For more information, visit www.windsurf.com.

MEDIA ADVISORY – EARTH MONTH

Volunteer Programs at the Presidio: Spring Days of Service, Saturday, April 19, 9am – 12pm.
Earth Day in Action at Fort Scott, Rob Hill, and Restoration Sites Throughout the Presidio.

Media Contacts:
David Perry / (415) 676-7007 / news@davidperry.com
Lisa Petrie: / (415) 707-9489 / lpetrie@presidiotrust.gov

WHAT:
The Presidio Trust’s signature Earth Month volunteer event happens Saturday, April 19 as part of the larger “Spring Days of Service” campaign across the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Seventy five volunteers will work across four key habitat restoration sites to remove invasive species, to allow for native plants to thrive insupport of healthy ecosystems in a park that is both a national historic landmark and ecological preserve.

Media will have two distinct coverage options:
*   Fort Scott Parade Ground: Central meeting and check-in site, with great visuals of group activity in meadow restoration and interviews with the volunteer coordinator, biological technician and volunteers.
*   Rob Hill Dune Restoration Site: Strong nature visuals, interviews with volunteers and biological technician,  plus view the Silver digger bee’s spontaneous return thanks to these same stewardship efforts.

Visuals include:
– Volunteer groups weeding mulching, and planting
– Native plant beds and landscapes with views of the Bay
– Golden Gate Bridge and historic Fort Scott in the background

WHEN:
Saturday, April 19 from 9am to 12pm

9am – Opening Circle

9:30 – Spread out to different projects

11:45 – Closing Circle

WHERE:
Main media location recommended: Fort Scott Parade Ground, Presidio of San Francisco (1299 Storey Ave). Alternate location for visuals: Behind Rob Hill Campground (1475 Central Magazine Rd, limited parking; please contact in advance).

WHO:
Presidio Trust staff and volunteer leaders available for interviews include:
– Aricia Martinez Johnson, Volunteer Coordinator (Fort Scott)
– Dionisio Gamoso, Bioscience Technician (Rob Hill site)
Please coordinate interviews with David Perry in advance.

DAY OF CONTACT: David Perry, (415) 676-7007

Volunteer projects in the Presidio are led in coordination with the NPS, the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy and the Presidio Trust. For more information and the full list of Spring Days of Service projects, visit: https://www.parksconservancy.org/volunteer/earth-day-and-spring-days-service-2025. For ongoing Presidio Trust projects please visit here: https://presidio.gov/support/volunteer

Blog overview and event highlights also available at: https://presidio.gov/explore/blog/earth-month-activities

About Volunteering in the Presidio. 
Between 1994 and 2024, volunteers have donated more than 867,000 hours of service.To learn more about the various volunteer opportunities, visit presidio.gov/volunteer.

About the Presidio + Presidio Trust.   
The Presidio is one of America’s most visited national park sites, located within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Spanning 1,500 acres next to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, the Presidio is among the most biologically diverse parks in America. Historically a home to native peoples and a military post under three flags, its facilities have been reinvented as museums, restaurants, hotels, homes, and offices. The Presidio Trust is the federal agency that stewards the Presidio, in partnership with the National Park Service and with support from the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. The Trust sustains the Presidio by leasing homes and workplaces and offering visitor amenities. Learn more at presidio.gov.

###

media contact: David Perry & Associates, Inc / (415) 676-7007 /news@davidperry.com 

April 30,  Palm Springs Author David Church’s The Magi Solution, available for sale to the public

Thrilling Final Chapter in the author’s acclaimed Edison Trilogy

www.edisontrilogy.com

“A high-octane alt-history caper where real figures from history go head-to-head with evil in ways you absolutely never saw in your high school textbooks.” – Literary Titan (5 of 5 stars)

10 April 2025 – Palm Springs, CA: Forget the Ides of March, it’s Beltane on April 30 that might send you underneath the sheets. That’s when, according to pagan mythology, the membrane between the physical and spirit realms is at its thinnest. It’s a day for witches, seances, and Palm Springs author David Church’s critically-acclaimed “Thomas Edison and the Magi Solution”: the perfect time for the world’s most famous inventor to save the world, with a little help from some equally well-known friends.   The book is available online via Amazon as well as Church’s site www.edisontrilogy.com.

“If you ever wondered what would happen if Indiana Jones met Thomas Edison, crossed paths with Groucho Marx, and then all three went on a mission to save the world from Hitler—with a dash of sci-fi and the occult thrown in—you’re in for one wild ride,” raved Literary Titan. “It’s for the dreamers, the sci-fi nerds, the WWII buffs, and anyone who loves a bold swing.”

“Thomas Edison has always fascinated me, not only because of his world-altering inventions but because of his fascination with the afterlife,” says Church, 70, whose “Edison Trilogy” is now complete with the new book. “That, added to my love for, and intense study of, history, specifically WWI and WWII, is what inspired these books. “Plus, as a screenwriter, I’m eager to see the trilogy have a second life in film or streaming.”

The first two installments – “Thomas Edison and the Purgatory Equation” and “Thomas Edison and the Lazarus Vessel” – have earned critical praised and a wide fan following for his “free-wheeling, enjoyable blend of real history, derring-do adventure and early cinematic comedy” — Kirkus Reviews.“Thomas Edison and the Purgatory Equation”  is the untold saga of Thomas Edison’s greatest invention: a machine designed to penetrate the barrier between life and death. Edison is accompanied on his metaphysical quest by John Dawkins, his heroic, young assistant with a tragic past, Emily Auburn, a Ziegfeld Follies showgirl and her wise-cracking rehearsal pianist, the teenage George Gershwin. Destiny propels them from the mind-boggling marvels of Edison’s secret library to the Captiva Island compound of the Seminole Indians, to the frontlines of the Great War where they journey into the dark heart of the dead zone and wage a decisive battle for the soul of mankind.

In “Thomas Edison and the Lazarus Vessel”, Edison is assisted by his long-time colleague John Dawkins, Emily Auburn and George Gershwin as they reunite to realize Edison’s final invention, the simu-dermis, a manufactured vessel of skin capable of housing a soul and allowing the dead to rise again. Accompanied by their new companions, Groucho Marx and Eleanor Roosevelt their quest propels them from the Hollywood dream factory, to the metaphysical vortex of Sedona, Arizona, to the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair, and finally to Andros Island in the Bermuda Triangle, where they battle a cabal of terrorists and come face to face with one of the greatest villains in human history.

“ ‘It’s lovely over there,’ were the last words of Edison –  arguably the most famous inventor of all time,” Church explains. “As he lay dying, he seemed to glimpse into another world, a world that he believed with which he could communicate via a device he called the spirit phone. That’s the stepping off point for my entire trilogy.”

In the trilogy’s final chapter, “Thomas Edison and the Magi Solution,” Church takes the reader on a rollicking hold-onto-the-seat-of-your-pants literary rollercoaster. The seminal inventor’s quest for life beyond the grave has him partnering with other historical figures such as Noel Coward, Winston Churchill and the infamous occultist, Aleister Crowley, as he saves the world from Adolf Hitler, the Nazis and Satan himself.

“Edison’s genius wasn’t just about invention—it was about seeing possibilities where others saw limits,” says Church. “I’ve always been captivated by how his work continues to ripple through history. With The Magi Solution, I wanted to explore the profound ways his legacy intersected with the challenges of war and the enduring human spirit. Concluding this trilogy has been deeply rewarding, and I hope readers find it as thrilling and thought-provoking as I did writing it. Literally, Edison ‘lit the way’ for everything that came after.”

A former advertising executive, Church has written for publications as wildly diverse as Soap Opera Digest and Interview, authored an environmental children’s book, Larue and the Brown Sky (illustrations by Toby Bluth), co-authored the cult-musical, Judy’s Scary Little Christmas (with Jim Webber and Joe Patrick Ward) and developed a variety of films for United Artists, CBS and NBC, including Psychic Housewife, and Saving Grace. David is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Writers Guild of America West.

“You’ve never read a World War II story like this one,” says John Hanc, award-winning journalist and author of The Coolest Race on Earth. “Church’s ability to bring historical characters to life as disparate as Noel Coward and Adolf Hitler continues to amaze. This final book in the Edison Trilogy is exhilarating.”

“The epic conclusion of the Edison Trilogy delivers the voltage,” agrees Larry Dean Harris, Artistic Director, Strong Words.” It’s been a perilously entertaining adventure for our heroes, both fictional and factual, but David Church has saved the zest for last to deliver a deliciously satisfying finale behind enemy lines and beyond our expectations.” 

Thomas Edison and the Magi Solution opens in the Spring of 1945. As World War II comes to an end, John Dawkins, Edison’s intrepid former assistant, is summoned by an ailing President Roosevelt to investigate a terrifying secret report that Adolf Hitler, faced with certain loss, has made an unholy deal with the Devil to annihilate the world.  Along with his wife, Sophie, an ace newspaper reporter, and their ten-year-old son, Joshua, John journeys to war-ravaged London to join forces with theatrical playboy (and undercover agent) Noel Coward. Along the way, they are reunited with the reincarnated spirit of Thomas Edison. Together, they embark on a final, death-defying adventure that propels them from the ruins of Dresden to the bizarre mysteries of the Fuhrer’s bunker, to the bowels of Hell itself.  All in all, it is a journey to find ‘the Magi’ – the only three souls left on earth who can stop Hitler’s satanic endgame.

“Everyone loves a trilogy,” laughs Church, noting that the triangle and pyramid are classically strong geometric forms. “After this, I’m not sure which historical character I might re-discover and thrust into an adventure. But since my Edison books have opened the door to the afterlife, the field is wide open.”For more information about the Edison Trilogy, visit www.edisontrilogy.com and to preorder The Magi Solution, go to https://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Edison-Solution-David-Church-ebook/dp/B0DPRDZL4G