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About Global Services International, Inc.
Global Services International (GSI) is a recently established Energy Efficiency Solution Company utilizing state-of-the-art Solid-State LED Lighting Systems and Control Sensors, along with Machine to Machine infrastructure that promotes energy conservation while reducing energy consumption costs.
GSI's overall strategy, to be at the forefront of this fast-emerging dynamic global market, begins with assembling a diverse team of proven professionals and committed partners with expertise in each aspect of a vertically integrated Value Supply Chain (VSC). The VSC can be defined as the process of designing, engineer...
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This news release contains "forward-looking statements" as that term is defined in Section 27A of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Statements in this release which are not historical are forward-looking and include any statements regarding b...
Save up to 70% on the well-edited women's designer clothing collection at A'Maree, 2241 W. Coast Hwy., Newport Beach, at their winter clearance sale through Feb. 5. Call (949) 642-4423.
For gorgeous furniture and home decor at up to 80% off, stop by the Ebanista Furnishings sample sale from Monday through Friday at the Laguna Design Center, 23811 Aliso Creek Road, No. 127, Laguna Niguel.
Are you a practicing or would-be professional photographer in need of equipment? Stop by 10662 Garden Grove Blvd., Garden Grove, on Saturday and Sunday during business hours for a studio liquidation sale. Items for sale include a master railing system with four light lifts for $800 (retails for more than $3,000), a six...
It's a big weekend for those planning home renovations. For Home Depot-type merchandise at excellent prices, stop by a warehouse liquidation sale at 23151 Alcalde Drive No. C-11, Laguna Hills from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Products include power tools, name brand doors and windows, mouldings, office furniture, exte...
Nearby, a stair company is having their own warehouse sale of wood and iron balusters and newels, mouldings, office equipment and decor, tools and parts from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at 23291 Peralta Drive, B-4, Laguna Hills. Cash and carry.
Got plumbing? A massive warehouse sale for professional-grade tubs, faucets, sinks, toilets and more will be from 6 a.m. to noon Saturday only at Plumbing Concepts, 22951 La Palma Ave., Yorba Linda. Call (714) 692-3890.
For appliances, consider a new open-box source for Samsung products like televisions, refrigerators, washers, dryers and monitors at 151 W. Orangethorpe Ave., Placentia, open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays. Call (714) 572-3129.
Freebie of the Week: Bundle up the kids and take them from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday to Pittsford Park, 21701 Pittsford Drive, Lake Forest, for the city's annual SnowFest. Carnival rides, bounce houses and a free snow play area are planned, as well as a sledding area for a small fee, but hurry if you want to sled: Les...
Have a hot sale tip, or know about a great local business that you think deserves a little attention? Contact the O.C. Bargainista at candicebaker@gmail.com. And remember — never pay retail!
In upstate New York, Chenango Forks O'Connor and Hamilton families find surprise DNA connection.
Every year on her birthday, Heather O'Connor Bodine's adoptive mother would ask, "I wonder what your mother is thinking today?"
She was referring to Bodine's biological mother, whom neither of them had ever met.
Suzanne O'Connor was always more curious about her adopted daughter's background than she was. Bodine, who now lives in Endicott but grew up in the Chenango Forks area, never thought much about it.
She didn't even bother putting her information in the New York State Department of Health Adoption Information Registry, like so many adoptees do when they turn 18.
Had she done so, long before the 43-year-old turned to DNA to find out more about her family's health history, she would've known sooner that her biological mother was looking for her.
She lived in the area, her three other children attended Chenango Forks schools, and Bodine and her half-brother, who are a year apart, knew each other in high school — but not knowing they were siblings.
"It is bizarre," Bodine said.
Since Bodine and her husband, Steve Bodine, had their 4-year-old son, Andrew — Heather Bodine also has two older stepchildren — she's grown more interested in knowing her medical history.
She ordered AncestryDNA's testing kit — recommended by other members of the New York adoptees Facebook group she's joined — and six weeks later, Ancestry matched her with several people who were likely second or third cousins.
She sent a message to one of them, who then agreed to pass along Bodine's email address to her father's cousin — Bodine's biological mother.
It was a little nerve-wracking, Bodine admits. "You never know how people are going to react."
But Bodine's half-siblings had long known of her existence.
"I had known all my life growing up that I had a sister out in the world somewhere," Bodine's half-sister Susan Kleitz said, "but didn't know where."
And when Robert Hamilton, Bodine's half-brother, heard they may have found her, he dug up his high school yearbook and took another look at Bodine's photo.
"Looking at Heather's yearbook photo, there was little doubt," he said, "nearly the spitting image of our mother when she was roughly 18."
Just before Easter, inside the vestibule of TGI Fridays in Vestal, Bodine and her mother, Catherine Hamilton, met for the first time since Bodine was a newborn. Facebook searches and profile photos helped give them each an idea of what the other looked like, but that moment was surreal.
"I never in a million years thought I would find them," Bodine said of her biological family. "That's just not how my luck works."
In the coming weeks she'd meet up with her half-brothers at the Central New York Maple Fest in Marathon, where Robert Hamilton said they spent most of their time cross-referencing high school memories and "catching up," then met her half-sister at Port Dickinson Community Park. With siblings came a host of new nieces a...
On Jan. 9, 1976, a baby girl who her mother named Sarah Jane was born at UHS Wilson Medical Center. The baby's father was from California, her mother had not yet met the man she would marry later that year, and Sarah was placed for adoption.
Meanwhile in Binghamton, Thomas and Suzanne O'Connor, who were already parents of an adopted son and longing to add a daughter to their family, held a photo of the same baby girl given by the adoption agency, though they weren't told her name.
They named their new daughter Heather and took her home.
Though her adoptive father, Thomas O'Connor, died when she was 5, Bodine grew up in a loving home with her older brother, Timothy — who was also adopted — and her mother, first in Binghamton, then in Chenango Bridge. They'd move a few times during her childhood, but Bodine's mother committed to paying the extra out-of-...
Shortly after Bodine was placed for adoption, her biological mother married Ron Hamilton, and together they had three children — Rob, Susan and Sean — raising them not far from the home where Bodine grew up.
"I just think it’s crazy that we all were so close together and never knew it, and to think about how many times our paths have crossed before and just didn't know it," Kleitz said. "Something like out of TV or the movies."
As a young girl, Bodine remembers those early Saturday mornings when, through the heating grate her bedroom wall shared with her parents', she'd hear sounds of movement — sure signs her father was awake.
Rather than go back to sleep, she'd quietly teeter out to meet him, and they'd slip out for breakfast together while the rest of the house slept.
After her father died, Bodine's mother went back to school for a business degree. She got a job as an office manager to support her family and somehow never missed one of her kids' swimming or track meets. Her kids knew she was there, too, hearing her cheering voice.
"She never skipped a beat," Bodine said. "she was awesome."
Suzanne O'Connor died in 2011, and Bodine says had she been around for this family discovery, "she would've been ecstatic."
Merging families comes with its own unique learning curve, Bodine has found.
With her siblings, she clicked right away. They have similar interests, including a love for rock music, and Bodine sees a physical resemblance.
"It's amazing how similar we all are," she said. "Even though we didn't grow up together, we all act alike."
Bodine described her mother as an energetic, loud woman. Her biological mother is more reserved. Bodine and Hamilton are just nearing the first anniversary of when they met as adults, while Bodine and her mother, Suzanne, fostered their relationship over decades.
It's not a simple relationship. It's complicated and disruptive, but extremely welcome for this family.
"There is enough in all of our lives that keeps us busy, but now we have a few more people to share that with," Robert Hamilton said. "Since it is only coming up on one year of reuniting, we are still writing these new pages of our history, but I foresee plenty more interactions, invites and celebrations."
Bodine had the family over for a Mother's Day cookout in the Bodines' sprawling yard in the spring, and this winter, all the siblings and grandchildren gathered at the fire station where Bodine's siblings are volunteer firefighters to have group portraits taken together, a Christmas gift for their mother.
"Thank God for this DNA kit. I'm glad I did it," Bodine said. "I'm so thankful."
New cultural politics, also known as the “new cultural Left,” threaten to harm the national ethos, the Democratic Party and manipulate a culturallyconservative black electorate. For most Americans, the danger of the new cultural left remains an abstract dilemma, but it will soon take center stage during this current pr...
New cultural politics are a product of postmodernity and poststructural literary theory. Poststructuralism uses language to subvert otherwise traditionally accepted truth claims; claims that traditionally have stabilized American social order. On the other hand, postmodernism is a culture that creates myths in order to...
An example of postmodernity and poststructuralism appeared in a recent Inside the Beltway article in The Washington Times, explaining why Democrat Zell Miller, a senior senator from Georgia, is dissatisfied with contemporary American culture. Mr. Miller often publicly speaks against deteriorating and diminishing Americ...
Those who are influenced by the cultural left’s worldview will more than likely vote for a liberal agenda in the fall. What is the political strategy for the new cultural left? Their strategy, in part, is to use leftist counter culture (i.e., the Super Bowl’s infamous halftime show) as a vehicle to deconstruct traditio...
What is at stake here? The heart and soul of the American nation is at stake, and how the electorate responds in the fall will further determine our national value system. As former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan once controversially stated, the nation’s citizenry is in cultural war. Where is this cultural war rag...
New-Left cultural politics mostly have been an intellectual phenomena limited to the academy. In fact, most people are unaware that, for decades, many college and university professors have been affiliated with socialist politics, if not Marxist. Consistently they have espoused their views, shrewdly using “academic fre...
It seems that the new cultural left mostly targets black Americans, who traditionally vote for the Democratic Party. They overpoweringly supported the Democratic Party in the 2000 presidential election, giving nearly 91 percent of their votes to Al Gore.
Yet, data demonstrate that the black America has far more in common with the Republican Party. The Pew Research Center conducted a poll from September to October 2003 that reports, “Voters who attend religious services regularly favor re-electing Bush by strong margins, while those who rarely attend religious services ...
The largest battleground is the current presidential election and how the electorate votes will determine the future of Western civilization. Left- leaning Americans, those who were not offended by the Super Bowl’s halftime fiasco, will more than likely vote Democratic. But those who are deeply offended by the same eve...
The Rev. Joseph Evans is senior pastor at the Mount Carmel Baptist Church in Washington.
The snow was heavy on that night 60 years ago.
The only alternative to riding all night long in a dirty, unheated bus to the next concert gig was a tiny airplane.
Shortly after takeoff, however, the plane carrying Buddy Holly, along with Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson, disappeared into a snowy cloud.
Holly’s torn, mangled body was found a few hours later in a frozen Iowa cornfield a little past midnight on February 3, 1959.
I was a 12-year-old kid at the time.
For Buddy Holly fans like me, it seemed that all was lost, a feeling immortalized in Don McLean’s classic song.
As an artist, Buddy Holly was only with us for 30 months, between 1957 and 1959, but in that short period, Holly’s innovation and keen musicianship made him the Mozart of rock music and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.
Virtually everything we hear on recordings and see on video and the concert stage can be traced to two icons: Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly.
Elvis, the quintessential star, soon forsook rock for slow ballads and mediocre musical films.
He threw back the boundaries of rock’n’roll, gave substance to its shivery shadow, transformed it from a chaotic cul-de-sac to a highway of infinite possibility and promise.
To call someone who died at the age of 22 “the father of rock” is not as farfetched as it might seem.
The songs Holly wrote and performed are rock ’n’ roll classics.
They remain as fresh and potent today as when they were recorded over 60 years ago.
“That’ll Be the Day,” “Peggy Sue,” “Rave On,” “Heartbeat” and others have been springboards of inspiration for countless budding musicians.
As a songwriter, performer and musician, Holly is the acknowledged progenitor of nearly every world-class rock talent to emerge in our lifetime: The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen and others admit his influence.
Holly was one of the first musicians to produce his own work. This allowed him to pioneer various techniques, including being one of the first to accompany the rock beat with strings. He also pioneered double tracking, which future stars capitalized on. Double tracking, which uses two tape recorders, allowed Holly to s...
Unfortunately, the complexity of Holly’s songs was not fully appreciated by American audiences, but songs that didn’t make the American charts were often major hits in Great Britain.
One crucial detail sets Holly apart from Presley and other rock progenitors. Whereas they had all become solo performers by the time they emerged on the scene, Holly came to stardom fronting a group, the Crickets. He and the Crickets’ guitar/bass/drums lineup became the prototype for every rock band that followed.
In March of 1958, Holly and the Crickets toured Great Britain (something Presley never did), bringing him face to face with many of his disciples. His famous television appearance on Sunday Night at the London Palladium held some budding musical talent in a trance.
Several years later, Lennon and McCartney formed the Beatles (originally the “Beetles” in honor of the Crickets) and wrote and performed their own songs, as had their hero, Buddy Holly.
Holly was the first rocker to break through based on ability, energy and personality. Whereas Elvis attracted a mostly female audience, Holly’s fans were equally mixed between the sexes. Holly was homely and wore glasses. And Reginald Dwight (better known as Elton John) ruined his eyesight wearing black horn-rims in im...
As he took steps toward creating revolutionary music, Holly also rebelled against the apartheid that had divided white rock artists from blacks. He recorded one track (“Early in the Morning”) with a full gospel choir and another (“Reminiscing”) with the blues saxophonist King Curtis.
Shortly before his death, Holly was planning to produce other artists (such as Ritchie Valens, Paul Anka and the newcomer, Waylon Jennings) and open a recording studio in London.
After his death, Holly’s influence and songs remained pervasive.
The Beatles continued what Holly had begun, multiplied his effect and became the greatest entertainment act of all time. Paul McCartney later acquired the publishing rights to all of Holly’s songs and inaugurated the celebratory Buddy Holly Week.
Buddy Holly died with little realization of what his legacy would become. Yet he changed the course of history and filled our torn times with melodies that transcended the era in which they were written.
This article was posted on Sunday, February 3rd, 2019 at 5:51pm and is filed under Music.
5:35 AM: A big Seattle Fire response is checking out a slide reported on the Highland Park Way hill near Holden. So far, they’re reporting no vehicles or structures involved, but some of the slide material is actually on the road. One texter reported a power outage; none has shown up on the Seattle City Light map yet. ...
5:42 AM: We have a crew headed that way. Meantime, more outage reports, mostly from Puget Ridge. And traffic is being kept off the hill. SFD crews are assessing the slide and whether it’s moving.
5:51 AM: Our crew has arrived and confirmed the road closure. Via scanner, we’ve heard that multiple power poles are “leaning” but intact. The slide is across most of HP Way at at least one point and though most of the SFD units are being dismissed because no rescuing is needed, the closure continues.
6 AM: City Light info for residents says 2,000 customers (homes and businesses) are out.
6:20 AM: SCL and SDOT are at the slide. If you are using Roxbury as an alternative, be aware that the 8th/Roxbury signal is reported to be out – and remember that intersections with nonfunctioning signals become all-way stops. Metro Route 131 is rerouted since it otherwise would use the HP Way hill. Some have reported ...
6:43 AM: Our crew at the scene has been told the closure will likely last at least through the entire morning commute – City Light is still working to locate the downed live wires, and until that’s done, engineers can’t assess the slide, which will have to be done before cleanup.
7:32 AM: City Light says via Twitter that the peak of the outage was 2,008 customers (homes/businesses) and that service has been restored to all but 380 customers. The hill remains closed.
7:49 AM: For those who asked about Sanislo Elementary on Puget Ridge, our crew went over to check. It does NOT have power but it IS open – the principal tells us that word of the outage didn’t get around in time for any other decisions to be made, and students started arriving. They’re hoping it won’t be too much longe...
8:26 AM: We’ll have some daylight photos shortly – the slide is out of cameraphone range but co-publisher Patrick Sand is headed back with images taken via long lens. He reports that it looks like a “tangled mess,” mostly across the uphill lanes, though somewhat obscured by fog. No update yet on how long it will take t...
We’ll continue to update here for now – if it looks like this is going to last for hours longer, we’ll switch to a midday update at some point.
10:23 AM: Thanks to commenters for reporting that most of the rest of the outage has ended – the SCL map confirms that. What we’re awaiting now is an update on how long the Highland Park Way hill is likely to remain closed.

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