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BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: This is our annual look back at the major stories in religion and ethics during the year now coming to an end. We do this with the help of Kevin Eckstrom, the editor of Religion News Service; with E. J. Dionne of the Brookings Institution, the Washington Post, and Georgetown University; and with Kim Lawton, managing editor of this program. We begin with Kim's reminder of the top news of 2009.
Click here to view Kim Lawton's review of the top religion stories of 2009.
ABERNETHY: There was an enormous number of enormous issues, all at once confronting this country and especially President Obama.
KIM LAWTON, managing editor, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly: Exactly. I think he took office amid this great optimism and reality set in pretty quickly of the many complex things that need to be done.
ABERNETHY: E.J., at Oslo, when he received the Nobel Prize and spoke about going to war…
E.J. DIONNE, Brookings Institution: In fact, Obama could have evaded the paradox of a president who has just sent 30,000 troops into Afghanistan and getting the Nobel Peace Prize. Instead, he embraced that paradox, and he gave what I think is one of the most powerful arguments for a just war approach to foreign policy that we have heard from a president in a long time, perhaps ever. You could hear the echoes of Reinhold Niebuhr's Christian realism. A lot of us have talked about how Obama is a Niebuhrian. I think you saw it very clearly there. He also, in a way, was bringing us really back to a kind of Truman-Roosevelt sort of liberalism out of the late 1940s, where there were echoes of the Four Freedoms in that talk. I think it's rare that you get a president sort of laying out the moral assumptions behind his choices, but that's what Obama did in that speech.
ABERNETHY: Christian realism—how do you define that?
DIONNE: Christian realism is sort of based on the idea that it's the obligation of human beings to try to bring justice to a sinful world. It acknowledges human failure. It acknowledges the utopias cannot be built on this earth, but it asserts that human beings have the capacity to make things better, and that human beings have to make choices — some of them very, very difficult.
ABERNETHY: And that human beings have the capacity to make things worse, too.
E. J. Dionne
DIONNE: Quite. I think there was a kind of moral humility in that speech, where Obama was not celebrating the need to go to war. He was talking about it as a tragic necessity. That is, again, not something you often hear from a president of the United States, who often has to call men and women to war.
LAWTON: I find it interesting that while, as E.J. said, there is this philosophical, and some would say theological, underpinning in that speech, it really disappointed a lot of religious liberals who did not want to see a build-up in Afghanistan and were concerned about the president using some of these concepts to, in fact, bolster a war effort.
DIONNE: But I think that's really an old argument between just war liberals and pacifists. Pacifists have a consistent ethic on war, but it's not the same as the one held by just war theorists. What was interesting was that Obama said, "Look, I am in a different position than Gandhi or Martin Luther King, because I am the leader of a nation." I thought that was a very interesting moral distinction he chose to make.
LAWTON: Again, the realism.
KEVIN ECKSTROM, Editor, Religion News Service: I think one of the interesting things that the Oslo speech pointed out was the comfort in the ability that this president has in speaking in religious terminology. You saw that when he was in Cairo speaking to the Muslims he invoked the Koran and the Prophet Muhammad. And when he was at Notre Dame speaking to the Catholics he talked about Catholic social teaching. And when he is accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, he is talking about war and peace and sin and human frailty. So this is a president who is very comfortable using religious language.
ABERNETHY: And you don't get the impression—at least I don't—that there is anything forced about this. It seems to come naturally.
ECKSTROM: That's right. Part of the reason why he was able to speak, I think, so clearly to the Muslim world is because he has Muslims in his own family. So there is a naturalness and an authenticity there that I don't think you see very often in very many politicians.
ABERNETHY: But in the Muslim world outside this country, how do we stand? After Cairo there was such enthusiasm for what Obama said, and then there was this escalation in Afghanistan.
ECKSTROM: It's a little bit of a mixed bag, because I think American Muslims here at home felt very gratified by the things that he was saying. It's important to note, I think, that in Cairo he was not just speaking to the Muslim world. He was not just speaking to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, but he was talking to the folks here at home, Muslims who have pretty much had to go underground for a good part of this decade, and now they are sort of re-emerging in political life I think he was speaking to them. But as we saw with Fort Hood, in the shootings there, they have some serious problems of their own that they're going to have to deal with in terms of home-grown extremism.
DIONNE: By the way, it is intriguing that President Bush came under a lot of criticism for using religious language. In fact, in some ways, a more liberal or progressive president may be invoking religious language even more than Bush did, albeit in a very particular way. But on the Cairo speech, it got an enormously positive response from the Muslim world, and then the president ran head-on into the difficulties resolving the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. I think that was one of the real failures of the year for the president. Maybe it wasn't something he could succeed at, but I think he had sort of expected the Israelis to do certain things It was probably unrealistic to expect that. Having done that and made some effective promises to the Palestinian leaders, they felt let down. So he really is, if not back to square one, awfully close. I think it's going to be one of his real challenges in the coming year, to try to restart some process.
ABERNETHY: After the shootings at Fort Hood and after the five Muslim young men from northern Virginia ended up in Pakistan, apparently wanting to join the Al Qaeda, has there been some increase, Kim, in the concern that most people in this country have about Muslims in this country?
LAWTON: That's the concern the Islamic community has. They're very worried about how they're being perceived outside, as well as being worried about what's happening within their midst and among their own young people So I am hearing a lot of Muslim leaders, U.S. Muslim leaders, saying we need to do a better job of combating some of the hate speech that is out there. Especially online, they need to do a better job of talking about their view of Islam, which they think is being distorted by a lot of extremists. So they are very worried about how all of this is affecting not only the outward stuff, but their own internal problems as well.
DIONNE: When Fort Hood happened, I got an e-mail from this fine officer I've gotten to know, where he said, "This was a terrible, tragic problem" because, on the one side, clearly some folks, somewhere along the line, had fallen down on the job in protecting the troops from this shooter. On the other hand, he said, "I have troops under me who are Muslim, who are very loyal Americans, and we have to keep a balance here of preserving security for our troops without sort of throwing into one pot all of these Muslim American soldiers who are very loyal to the country."
ABERNETHY: Let me turn your attention to some of the social issues of the year, especially abortion coming back with such strength, and that debate as part of the health care debate, and the issues around gay marriage, homosexuality. Talk about that, Kim.
Kim Lawton
LAWTON: There's a lot to talk about. There was a lot of activity on both of those issues. Certainly, the issue of abortion, we saw that moving to the center, especially in the health care debate. Of course, some of the tensions were already heightened. You had the murder of Dr. Tiller in his church, a doctor who performed abortions. Then you had an abortion opponent who was murdered while holding anti-abortion signs. So some of the rhetoric and the tensions had already been heightened. I think in the health care debate you saw that issue really putting a big challenge on people that wanted to have health care reform, even the U.S. Catholic Bishops, who said, "We want to see health care reform , but not if in any way it includes funding for coverage of abortions."
ECKSTROM: Abortion has always been one of those issues that's been kind of a litmus test for politicians: How do you stand on that one issue? And that sort of translates into how people view your larger profile. But I think what was interesting this year was that it became a litmus test, if you're a politician, for your respect for people of religious faith who don't support abortion. So if you supported health care that included some sort of abortion provision, then all of a sudden you obviously didn't respect people of faith who are opposed to it. So it became, I think, even more of a litmus test this year.
DIONNE: Especially about the health care fight, in a broad sense, both sides had agreed ahead of time that they weren't going to fight about abortion, and then they had a fight about abortion. The agreement was neither side would use the health care debate to push beyond existing law, the Hyde Amendment, which essentially prohibits government funding for abortion except for a case of rape, incest, and where a mother's life is at stake. But then they couldn't agree on what it meant to preserve the status quo. The House passed the Stupak Amendment, which essentially said any insurance policy sold on the exchange that might get government subsidies, none of them could cover abortion. Then the Senate came up with another compromise which essentially said if you get coverage in your policy, you're going to have to pay for it separately — a tiny amount of money. What's amazing is they finally did seem to settle it. We'll see this play out at the beginning of the year, but it shows how persistent this fight is when you can't even agree on the definition of the status quo.
LAWTON: This has been a challenge for President Obama, who in his big speech at Notre Dame, for example, said we're going to find common ground on abortion. Everybody was expecting a big statement or some kind of thing on common ground on abortion. I think the end of the year showed that it's tough to find common ground there.
ECKSTROM: Even within your own party.
LAWTON: Exactly.
ABERNETHY: What about the gay issues, especially in the churches?
LAWTON: Looking at it in the religious denominations, it proved to be a huge challenge. Generally speaking, as more states legalized gay marriage, that put a challenge for religious clergy: Do you perform a same-sex wedding if your national denomination doesn't approve of that? And so there were a lot of tensions at the local level for clergy. I think, on a denominational-institutional level, we saw the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, a mainline denomination, lifting its ban on clergy who are in relationship. They only had allowed celibate gay clergy in the past. And, of course, the Episcopalians and the Anglicans are still fighting about this issue. This summer the US Episcopalians said gays and lesbians are eligible to be bishops. This is something the international Anglican Communion that the US church is part of said we don't want to see you move forward on this. And the U.S. church said we're moving forward anyway. Indeed, Los Angeles has elected a lesbian bishop. Her election must be still confirmed, but it has put enormous new tensions on the worldwide Anglican Communion.
ECKSTROM: The fights within the churches are really a proxy for a larger fight within society over this issue. We saw that this year over gay marriage. It's hard to remember that this year saw the birth of gay marriage in Iowa, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Connecticut, and also the District of Columbia. So it's not just that the churches are fighting about this, but they are fighting a version of a national fight.
ABERNETHY: In all this, what's going on internationally? What's going on with these social issues? It's happening against the background of a recession that's having profound effects on the churches, denominations, as well as on everybody else.
DIONNE: What's striking about this year is that there was an occasion where we might have had a very large moral argument about the nature of capitalism, about what kind of capitalism do we want to have, what are the responsibilities of people in the finance sector. We had some of that debate. Pope Benedict came out with a very strong encyclical that, in some ways, put him to the left of President Obama. But I think we didn't have the larger debate that you might have expected, partly, I think, because we were numb, numb from the economic troubles, desperate to make sure that we didn't fall off the precipice into something much deeper. But I don't think this is over yet. I think we are destined to have a larger moral debate about the nature of capitalism and how we want it to work.
Kevin Eckstrom
ABERNETHY: I've been astonished that there wasn't more visible, and perhaps even violent, protest about the bailout of the big financial institutions at a time when, at the Main Street level, everyone was suffering so much. It seemed to me if it had been the days of the civil rights movement, or the anti-Vietnam War movement, there would have been people in the streets. That didn't happen. Well, it did happen on the right, didn't it?
DIONNE: I think you've got an essentially progressive president in power. There's been some grumbling on the progressive side that President Obama hasn't been tough enough on Wall Street. I think that grumbling will continue, and I think he's going to respond to it. But given that you have a progressive president in power, it's not surprising that this populism has taken a sort of conservative or right-wing form and is directed less against Wall Street than the government bailing out Wall Street. That just may be a natural result of where politics are at the moment.
ABERNETHY: Kevin, there's some Vatican news, pope news.
ECKSTROM: There is. This was sort of, I think, a watershed year for the pope in that you saw the real contours of his papacy emerge. He is sort of doing things on his own timetable, for his own reasons, regardless of what people are going to say. So he's going to welcome back traditionalists, even if one of them turns out to be a Holocaust-denying bishop. He's going to find shelter for the Anglicans, even if it's going to upset interfaith or ecumenical relations. And, as we ended the year, he's going to move Pope Pius XII, the World War II pope who is accused of not doing enough to save Jews, he's going to move him one step closer to sainthood. So it's almost like either the pope doesn't care what people are going to say, or he doesn't know. But he sort of is doing things on his own timetable.
DIONNE: I think he'd make this a lot more palatable to a lot of people if he were also moving to canonize Pope John XXIII — one of the great heroes to progressive Catholics. I think one of the things it says about the organization of the Vatican, some of these things seem to happen when one part of the Vatican acted without another part of the Vatican knowing that it had acted. This was particularly the case with the Saint Pius XII Society, where there were parts of the Vatican that didn't really realize they were moving this quickly. Some folks in the Vatican said we could have told him about the problem that he was going to have with this Holocaust-denying bishop, if someone had just told us that this was going on.
ECKSTROM: The Christian Unity Office really didn't know about his outreach to the Anglicans to offer them shelter. So it's almost like the left hand doesn't quite always know what the right hand is doing.
LAWTON: That's been a problem with the Vatican for a long time now. That's not unique to this papacy. I think one of the differences is the personality. You see the differences between John Paul II and the great love and just positive feelings that he generated. Benedict doesn't have that same kind of charisma, so I think he gets criticized for some of the same things that happened under the John Paul II papacy.
ABERNETHY: Let me ask you all a question. Did you see any signs in this year past that tell you something about how the whole religious enterprise is doing? Is it getting stronger? Is it getting weaker? Is it just kind of rolling along? Sixteen percent of people in the polls say they are unaffiliated. What do you see? Is there anything that can tell you about the health of religion in the United States?
DIONNE: Sometimes I think only God knows what the health of religion is in any given any country. I think what you're seeing is that the old story is still true: that compared to other wealthy, industrialized countries we are still an exceptionally religious nation. But I think you're also seeing, in some of the surveys, particularly among young people, perhaps the rise of a certain amount of secularism, or perhaps just disaffiliation from religious traditions. Young people are often less engaged in religious activity than older people, but this seems to be a change over time. I think that's going to be something to watch, because you may have among young people a kind of sorting out that had not happened among older people. You do have a very significant number of highly religious young people, but some other young people who might in the past have been believing doubters or doubting believers, but still engaged in religious institutions, are now pulling back altogether. At least that's a hypothesis that I think we're going to follow for a while.
LAWTON: The old categories don't fit as strongly as they used to. People are moving around a lot more. That doesn't necessarily they're becoming less religious. Even the unaffiliated very often are deeply spiritual or even deeply religious; just not within a particular box that the old categories used to put them in.
ABERNETHY: As you look back, let me ask you whether you see some things from your perspective now that didn't seem to get the attention when they were happening that they deserve, they were underreported.
ECKSTROM: There are two very interesting cases in Oregon and in Wisconsin about faith-healing deaths, where children who were denied medical care died and their parents were put on trial. In Wisconsin, the parents were sentenced to probation; in Oregon, the parents basically got off. And there is a third case coming up in 2010 in Oregon. But there is a really interesting clash between personal beliefs and public responsibility, and it's not going away, so there'll be more to watch on that.
DIONNE: I think the activities of President Obama's faith-based office, how he's changed and hasn't changed what President Bush did in this area, is probably an underreported story, but it is underreported because I think this is exactly the way the administration wants it. I think that they have been very determined, in the first year, not to make waves in this area, to be reassuring to people, and so the underreporting of this story is probably a victory for the administration.
LAWTON: I really watched a growing religious coalition, a very diverse coalition, on nuclear nonproliferation. It's not something people really paid a lot of attention to, but there are evangelicals who are taking this on as an issue, sort of like they did on the environment. I am seeing the same thing, mainline denominations, even the Catholic Church and evangelicals coming together saying we are really worried about this issue.
ABERNETHY: Thanks to Kim Lawton and to Kevin Eckstrom and E. J. Dionne. A wonderful discussion. Thanks very much. Happy New Year to you and to our viewers.
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Every six months, around May 1st and Nov 1st, OpenBSD makes an official software release. To accompany this free software released on the internet, we make artwork and music. This artwork emblazoned CDs and posters up until version 6.0, after which we stopped producing product and only release software on the internet.
Past releases also had shirts printed along with them.
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Amazon MMO New World delivers yet more environment images, requests alpha testers
By Rick Lane 2018-10-01T10:39:33Z
Grist for the mill.
Amazon has released another set of images from its upcoming player-driven MMO New World. Revealed on Twitter as part of the #screenshotsaturday hashtag, the images provide a further glimpse of the detailed environments Amazon is trying to create.
This time, the images depict a windmill, a moonlit river and, ah, a big tree. It would've been great to see a sword fight or a fortress being blown up or something, but oh well—they are at least pretty. Amazon put out a similar batch of screenshots last week, which also included a neat time-lapse video showing off the day/night cycle.
New World is a fantasy MMO centring around the discovery of a new continent. It's a player-centric experience, in which players band together to build castles and other structures, setting quests for one another, and of course fighting over territory. Sam went hands-on with it in August, stating that the game "leverages the retail giant's AWS cloud computing services to let potentially thousands of players share a massive environment."
In addition to the new screens, Amazon has put out another call for people interested in the game to sign-up for alpha testing. To do this, you need to visit the game's website and click the "Alpha Sign Up" button. From there, you login to your Amazon account and click "Email me".
If you're accepted into the Alpha Testing program, Amazon will notify you with details at some point down the line. In the meantime, have a look at the latest batch of images below.

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Here he comes to save the day! Party-producing superhero Mark Baker turns it out for his annual Gay Days Orlando roster of revelry.
Here's the situation: Dr. Octopus and his evil band of henchmen have stolen the Statue of Liberty and are demanding the unconditional surrender of New York City as ransom. Your assignment for the Daily Bugle is to document this story of a lifetime on film. So you don a pair of 3-D glasses and set out onto the streets in an experimental 12-passenger motion simulator called The Scoop to watch Spider-man battle his archenemy while traveling through a whirling vortex of three-dimensional special effects. Your adventure culminates when a bad guy pushes your vehicle off one of the buildings, sending you spiraling down 20-stories before Spider-man rushes to catch you and save the day.
This may not sound like your typical Circuit party experience, but then again, there's nothing typical about Gay Days weekend in Orlando or any of the parties Mark Baker produces. Living in Orlando since the early 80s, Baker has utilized the experience and creativity he gleans from his television production day job to create some of the most unique and spectacular events the Circuit has ever seen. What else would you expect from someone whose motto is: Beyond belief is where this party begins!
This year Baker has lined up seven major soirees during the weekend - spanning from Friday, May 31st into the early morning hours of Monday, June 3rd - which will feature massive spectacles, fantastic settings, and the turntable talents of DJs Abel, Don Bishop, Lydia Prim, Tracy Young, Barry Harris, Brett Henrichsen, and Susan Morabito and performances by party divas Circuit Mom and Power Infiniti. With just a few weeks left before the magical weekend commences, we caught up with the party powerhouse to discuss his Midas touch, the inspiration behind building better bashes, and why you shouldn't dare miss this year's Gay Days weekend.
How did you get into promoting parties?
I was working for Disney in show production. Then I got into directing TV commercials. In 1996 I went to my first circuit party and I was like, I can do that. Gay Day weekend was just starting to get going as far as the big parties and we had the opportunity to do a late-night party at [Friday's] Front Row [Sports Grill].
What it your philosophy behind making a good party great?
Circuit parties have become much more entertainment-oriented as gay people have integrated into the mainstream of society. When we design the parties, we think, What's the best thing we can do that the audience will find most entertaining for the amount of money they spent.
Do you go to other parties to check out what's going on?
I do a little bit. I always like to double-check what we're doing against other parties. I think that the market is kind of saturated, and some parties that are not so good are seeing a drop in attendance. I think if you want to compete in the market or keep your market share, you've got to produce something that's bigger and better for people so that they want to keep coming back. Whatever your attendance is this year is more based on how a party was last year and what people said about it.
You've maintained a great reputation and that definitely helps.
We spend a lot of time and energy making it the best it can be. We go through tons of ideas for parties. I always ask myself, Are the people coming to this party going to find this entertaining?
How do you go about choosing the DJs?
That is one area where you look to other parties - reputations, what people are saying, what's the buzz about DJs. For Gay Day weekend, DJs who have more of an up, brighter sound really work better.
You've worked with Abel for the Colosseum parties since the beginning and he's back this year, right?
Correct. He's back this year. That fits in the adage of: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Every year there's the new kid on the block, the new hot name that's come up. But Abel's been around for a while and if you ask anybody who's come to the Colosseum parties - whether they've cared for Abel's playing at other parties - every year he just blows everybody away with the music.
Why did you move the party to Friday night?
The only problem with the Colosseum party is that at Hard Rock Live we maxed out at the 3,500 person capacity last year, but we had 5,000 people trying to get in. So we thought that by moving it to Friday, we could still handle our audience. The great thing about the Stars party [at Universal Studios Islands of Adventure] is that the maximum capacity is 6,000. So now we've created an event that can handle the Sunday night crowd. It was strictly a numbers thing.
When a nearly round-the-clock schedule is offered, like during Gay Day weekend, what do you think the party promoter's responsibility is for his or her guests in terms of health and safety since many people try to attend all the parties?
We've got MedEvent. This is not just for circuit events - we do other types of events during the year from art festivals to whatever. This is probably from an insurance standpoint - because as many people as you may have at circuit parties, you can have an art festival on a hot summer day and people pass out from heat exhaustion. At special events, you have a lot of people there and you have to have the appropriate medical staff to deal with the situation. That's true at any special event.
The circuit has come under a lot of fire from the mainstream media recently because of certain health issues. That obviously affects your job - how much do you worry about that? And do you think the circuit's in jeopardy or that everything's sort of leveling out?
I think that people are tending to be a little more responsible. I think that's affected the parties we do - the type of music we choose is very up, the shows we do are very up and the locations have very fun things to do. We really have not had any major problems. But as a promoter, do you worry about it? Of course you worry about it. I mean, you take all the precautions you can and you have people there on standby so that if there is a situation, you've got the resources to address it immediately. Yeah, we have ambulances on standby, but we also make sure all the cables are taped down. We address all the safety issues at any special event, not just the health stuff.
How many people work for your production company?
In Orlando, we hire really great special events people who have worked for a lot of theme parks - they take the week off and come work for us. We hire a production manager, a technical director, production assistants - it's on a per-project basis and it's always expanding. We have a project manager for each of the parties. We probably have like 15 people who work for us during that weekend managing the events. They're not people that do other jobs like realtors or something else during the week - they do special events all the time, that's all they do. With Hard Rock Live, they've got the door staff and bar people and they manage the venue. We're just there to put the shows up, to make sure all the technical stuff works and to interface with their company.
What should excite people about the Groove parties?
The Groove is an amazing nightclub at Universal Studios. It's part of the CityWalk complex which is also where Hard Rock Live is. It's one of the most beautiful nightclubs ever built. It's a daytime event at a really bright, architecturally cool nightclub with balconies that overlook CityWalk.
How about the Colosseum Party on Friday?
It's a hybrid circuit party with shows that interconnect. With my background in television, I thought of doing it like an entertainment show with a script for the entire night. So we rehearse it, we work out the flaws and then we perform it for people. It's a different way of doing a party - it's a more thought-out entertainment experience. It's also been voted best circuit party of the year on TheCircuitDog.com three years in a row. We've come up with some brilliant new ideas for this year that are going to blow people away.
And Magic Journeys at Arabian Nights?
We're moving the main dance floor into the performance stadium so the party's about four times as big as it was last year. We've got a 5,000 sq ft dance floor plus a huge area outside. The event is organized to comfortably hold 4,000-5,000 people.
This is the first year for the Stars party, right?
Yes. It's hosted on Marvel Superhero Island at Islands of Adventure, which has the most amazing thrill rides. The rides will be open until 11:00pm. We'll also have an amazing fireworks show at 9:30pm set to circuit music. Afterwards, people can head over to the 22,000 sq ft Soundstage 54 for the dance party.
Everybody over the years has gone to Universal and said, We want to do a party at Islands of Adventure or on Universal property. In the past, Universal has not been receptive to doing any third-party promotions. Last year they had a management change and decided they were interested in doing an event. They came to me and said, Listen, we've talked to everybody and you have a really good reputation. Everybody's come to us [asking to do a party], but what we'd like to do is offer you the party first at Islands of Adventure. So we worked with their Special Events Department and came up with the Stars party.
Are you affiliated with the Reunion parties at the Hyatt Hotel?
I'm not affiliated with the guys, I mean, they're my buddies from Tampa. We had actually gone to the Hyatt when we were looking to move the late-night parties closer to the Disney area. The Hyatt had a great space, but they said, You know, we're really not interested in 2,000-3,000 people who are not hotel guests showing up on our property at 3:00 in the morning. In the meantime, some of my buddies who had done Reunion in the past [also] contacted the Hyatt. They said, We'd love to host your group, but we've talked to the guys over at Arabian Nights next door and they would love to host your parties.
Let's talk about the other events that you do, like during Winter Party in Miami. It must have been very different for you to work with a non-profit party's limited budget?
With a benefit party, the budget is so important because the goal of the party is to raise money for whatever the group is, whether it's DHRF [Dade Human Rights Foundation], or in the case of White Party, Care Resource [White Dreams at the Miami Seaquarium]. So are your budgets more limited? Yes they are. And that was one of my only concerns when we started to go into that area - I know what people expect of me. [So I asked myself], If we start doing something with a limited budget, can we live up to our reputation? It's always a struggle, but with non-profit groups, companies are usually willing to give you a break on how much they're charging you. So a lot of times, we're able to do some pretty cool stuff that doesn't cost nearly as much.
What about other events during the year in other cities?
We've certainly been approached. I've really been careful about choosing projects where I thought that we could do something really cool, something really different from what we've done before. My real job is directing TV commercials. It's a full-time thing, but it's usually two-week projects, so I can stop doing that for a while when the parties are coming up. It's nice to do other things so that when I come back to doing the circuit parties, it's fresh again.
I do freelance work for a lot of different companies - [commercials for] Disney, Universal, McDonalds. I also do shows for Nickelodeon. I was doing this one show - a pilot for Fox TV - kind of an updated version of Unsolved Mysteries. It didn't get picked up, but during the course of doing that, we did a lot of stuff with liquid nitrogen and special effects that I had really never been exposed to. So I got a really good handle on pyrotechnics, liquid nitrogen, all the special effects stuff that they used in the show. Of course, while doing all that, you go, Gosh, now that would be a really cool show for one of the parties.
Any chance you'll do something up here in New York?
Maybe. We've been approached. I'm just waiting for the right opportunity.
Would you ever want to make this more of a full-time job or do you like things the way they are?
I kind of like the balance of it. I like doing the parties because they're really fun for us, but it's nice to go off and do other things to keep yourself kind of fresh. It's enough of a full-time job already, but I really like the other things that I do, too.
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The Flow Of Power
by learnlivewirec | Jul 31, 2021 | Uncategorized | 0 comments
Welcome back to the lineman blog, where we go over all things electricity, and how it's transmitted. Today we are going to go over the flow of power. How exactly does power get generated? After it's generated, how does it get transmitted, and stepped down to be used in your home? Well today, we're going to find out. So without further ado, let's go down to business.
How power is generated.. Let's start at the source, how is power generated? There are many forms of power generation, we have green sources such as windmills, solar, hydro ect… Then we have natural gas, coal, and nuclear power. Most of U.S. and world electricity generation is from electric power plants that use a turbine to drive electricity generators. In a turbine generator, a moving fluid—water, steam, combustion gases, or air—pushes a series of blades mounted on a rotor shaft. The force of the fluid on the blades spins/rotates the rotor shaft of a generator. The generator, in turn, converts the mechanical (kinetic) energy of the rotor to electrical energy. Different types of turbines include steam turbines, combustion (gas) turbines, hydroelectric turbines, and wind turbines. – shorturl.at/ckB25
From source to system.. Now that the power has been generated, it has to be transferred to the consumer. This transfer happens via power lines, more importantly, transmission lines. The bare wire conductors on the line are generally made of aluminum (either plain or reinforced with steel or composite materials such as carbon and glass fiber), though some copper wires are used in medium-voltage distribution and low-voltage connections to customer premises. So the power comes from the generation plant, into a substation. Substations transform voltage from high to low, or the reverse, or perform any of several other important functions. … A substation may include transformers to change voltage levels between high transmission voltages and lower distribution voltages, or at the interconnection of two different transmission voltages. The electrical current is then boosted in the substation to 69kv and above depending on the system's needs. The flow of electrons then makes its way to the destination.
Substations and distribution.. Once the electrons have made their journey via transmission lines, they enter another substation. Here, transformers step down the high voltage lines into usable volts. The lines carrying this voltage are called distribution lines. The distribution network is simply the system of wires that picks up where the transmission lines leave off. These networks start at the transformers and end with homes, schools, and businesses. Distribution is regulated on the state level by PUCs and PSCs, who set the retail rates for electricity in each state. Distribution poles have something called transformers on them. A transformer is an electrical apparatus designed to convert alternating current from one voltage to another. It can be designed to "step up" or "step down" voltages and works on the magnetic induction principle. These are the "round can" looking things you see all over the poles. These allow you to step the voltage down from 12-470/7200 systems, into usable 120/240 volts that your home needs to run on. Note not all distribution levels are 12-470 /7200 volts, this is just a common level.
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Q: proc surveryselect sample defined verus sample received I am using the following code
proc surveyselect data = tmp method = urs sampsize = 500 seed = 100 out = out_tmp; run;

However when I look at the logs I am getting 491 records. My tmp dataset has 30,000 records. Need help to understand why the 9 records are getting dropped. I played around with changing the seed value and I am getting around 470 to 495 records per random seed but never get an absolute 500. Referred to the documentation and URS option means "unrestricted random sampling, which is selection with equal probability and with replacement". Probability being equal has no impact however, replacement terminology , I understand as, a record could be present more than once, which is what I am aiming for.
What I do not understand is why does the drawn sample stops are at number less than the 500 i have specified?
Thanks for the help.

A: The issue is you're failing to quite understand how URS works - I recommend a look through the documentation.
Take this (extreme) example:
          proc surveyselect data=sashelp.cars method=urs out=sample_cars sampsize=10000 seed=100;
          run;

 NOTE: The sample size, 10000, is greater than the number of sampling units, 428.
 NOTE: The data set WORK.SAMPLE_CARS has 428 observations and 16 variables.
 NOTE: PROCEDURE SURVEYSELECT used (Total process time):
       real time           0.02 seconds
       cpu time            0.03 seconds

Here I ask for 10,000 (out of 428 total records!), and get... 428 records.  The important detail to pay attention to is the NumberHits variable.  That says how many times each record was sampled.
If you want one record output for each hit, meaning you want those duplicates, you can add outhits to your PROC SURVEYSELECT statement.  From the documentation on URS:

For unrestricted random sampling, by default, the output data set contains a single copy of each unit selected, even when a unit is selected more than once, and the variable NumberHits records the number of hits (selections) for each unit. If you specify the OUTHITS option, the output data set contains m copies of a sampling unit for which NumberHits is m; for example, the output data set contains three copies of a sampling unit that is selected three times (NumberHits is three). For information about the contents of the output data set, see the section Sample Output Data Set.

Here is my example modified to do just that.
          proc surveyselect data=sashelp.cars method=urs out=sample_cars sampsize=10000 seed=100 outhits;
          run;

 NOTE: The sample size, 10000, is greater than the number of sampling units, 428.
 NOTE: The data set WORK.SAMPLE_CARS has 10000 observations and 16 variables.
 NOTE: PROCEDURE SURVEYSELECT used (Total process time):
       real time           0.01 seconds
       cpu time            0.01 seconds

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Sebastien Tellier To Take On X-Factor At Eurovision
He'll represent France...
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15:37 7th March 2008
Sebastien Tellier will represent France at this years Eurovision Song Contest, it's been revealed.
Tellier's entry will be 'Devine', a track which appears on his recent studio album, 'Sexuality'.
The Frenchman will face stiff competition from Britain's entry Andy Abrahams – a former X-Factor contestant – who was chosen by public vote last week.
As previously reported, Ireland will be represented at this years Eurovision by a puppet.
Dustin The Turkey has been a household name in the country ever since he made his debut on RTE in the early 90s.
This year's Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Belgrade on May 24th.
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The trade turnover between China and Uzbekistan set a new record by passing the mark of $6.4 billion last year, Trend reports via Podrobno.uz.
Jin Yulong, advisor on trade and economic issues of the Embassy of China in Uzbekistan, spoke about new realities of economic cooperation between two countries.
She said that Uzbekistan has every chance of becoming the main supplier of agricultural products to China.
Chinese consumers increasingly prefer vegetables and fruits from Uzbekistan which are characterized by excellent taste and rich in trace elements, she added.
Development of cooperation with the regions of Uzbekistan is among the priority. For instance, a number of promising projects have been implemented in the Fergana region with companies from many provinces of China. There are 38 joint ventures and 24 foreign enterprises with the participation of Chinese capital in this region.
Yulong underlined that one of the important areas of joint investment agreements between Uzbekistan and China is the construction of small and medium-sized hydropower plants. Agreements on the construction of alternative energy sources were reached during the visit of Uzbek President to China.
Moreover, Yulong noted that Uzbekistan has been attractive to Chinese investors and entrepreneurs before, but it was quite difficult to attract them to this territory due to the lack of necessary conditions.
Nowadays, countries are considering many joint innovation projects. During his first visit to China, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev chose equipment from one of the largest Chinese state-owned companies Huawei to implement the Safe City project.
As a result, Huawei Consumer Business Group is already cooperating with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan in this direction. However, the project has been transferred to the Ministry for the Development of Information Technologies and Communications of Uzbekistan now.
The project will provide the creation of parks, gardens, squares, alleys for hiking, cycling and introduce the efficient public transport system using modern technological solutions.
There are more than 1,120 enterprises with the participation of Chinese capital operating in Uzbekistan, covering oil and gas, textile, agricultural, chemical and building materials industries.
Almost every one of them felt positive changes in the economic and investment policy of Uzbekistan which contributes to the expansion of business cooperation and creation of new industries. In general, the total amount of Chinese investment in Uzbekistan amounts to $7.8 billion since the establishment of diplomatic relations.


School assemblies can sometimes be tedious and boring for students, but Christmas assemblies are fun and exciting. The more creative the better when it comes to Christmas assemblies, but that isn't to say the traditional ideas won't also work. Christmas is a time to have fun and enjoy others' company, an idea that's promoted easily with a Christmas assembly.
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Congress passes bill forcing tech companies to disclose foreign software probes
The U.S. Congress is sending President Donald Trump legislation that would force technology companies to disclose if they allowed countries like China and Russia to examine the inner workings of software sold to the U.S. military.
The legislation, part of the Pentagon's spending bill, was drafted after a Reuters investigation last year found software makers allowed a Russian defense agency to hunt for vulnerabilities in software used by some agencies of the U.S. government, including the Pentagon and intelligence services.
The final version of the bill was approved by the Senate in a 87-10 vote on Wednesday after passing the House last week. The spending bill is expected to be signed into law by Trump.
Security experts said allowing Russian authorities to probe the internal workings of software, known as source code, could help Moscow discover vulnerabilities they could exploit to more easily attack U.S. government systems.
The new rules were drafted by Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire.
"This disclosure mandate is the first of its kind, and is necessary to close a critical security gap in our federal acquisition process," Shaheen said in an emailed statement.
"The Department of Defense and other federal agencies must be aware of foreign source code exposure and other risky business practices that can make our national security systems vulnerable to adversaries," she said.
The law would force U.S. and foreign technology companies to reveal to the Pentagon if they allowed cyber adversaries, like China or Russia, to probe software sold to the U.S. military.
Companies would be required to address any security risks posed by the foreign source code reviews to the satisfaction of the Pentagon, or lose the contract.
The legislation also creates a database, searchable by other government agencies, of which software was examined by foreign states that the Pentagon considers a cyber security risk.
It makes the database available to public records requests, an unusual step for a system likely to include proprietary company secrets.
Tommy Ross, a senior director for policy at the industry group The Software Alliance, said software companies had concerns that such legislation could force companies to choose between selling to the U.S. and foreign markets.
"We are seeing a worrying trend globally where companies are looking at cyber threats and deciding the best way to mitigate risk is to hunker down and close down to the outside world," Ross told Reuters last week.
A Pentagon spokeswoman declined to comment on the legislation.
In order to sell in the Russian market, technology companies including Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co, SAP SE and McAfee have allowed a Russian defense agency to scour software source code for vulnerabilities, the Reuters investigation found last year.
In many cases, Reuters found that the software companies had not informed U.S. agencies that Russian authorities had been allowed to conduct the source code reviews. In most cases, the U.S. military does not require comparable source code reviews before it buys software, procurement experts have told Reuters.
The companies had previously said the source code reviews were conducted by the Russians in company-controlled facilities, where the reviewer could not copy or alter the software. The companies said those steps ensured the process did not jeopardize the safety of their products.
McAfee announced last year that it no longer allows government source code reviews. Hewlett Packard Enterprise has said none of its current software has gone through the process.
SAP did not respond to requests for comment on the legislation. HPE and McAfee spokespeople declined further comment.
Reporting by Joel Schectman; Additional reporting by Jack Stubbs in Moscow
Yale psychiatrist: Trump using racism as a coping mechanism as his mental state rapidly deteriorates
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump continued to attack the young congresswomen of color nicknamed "The Squad," after he was criticized for saying the women should go back to their own countries, even though all four are U.S. citizens. Now, he's doubling down.
On Twitter Wednesday he called the women "left-wing cranks." He added that they were free to leave if they don't like America.
Raw Story spoke with Dr. Bandy X. Lee about the President's racist tirades against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ayanna Pressley (D-ILL).
Lee is a forensic psychiatrist and an expert on violence at Yale School of Medicine. She helped launch a public health approach to global violence prevention as a consultant to the World Health Organization and other United Nations bodies since 2002. She is author of the textbook, "Violence: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Causes, Consequences, and Cures," president of the World Mental Health Coalition, and editor of the New York Times bestseller, "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President."
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New York band Girl Skin have recently been holed up in a rental house in Maine recording their sophomore record, having hauled over all their equipment and gotten to work. "It was a really beautiful trip," says frontman Sid Simons, "and we were also very blessed to be right next to Moosehead Lake so every time we would take a break we'd jump in the water or take a canoe out."
This idyllic setting proved the idea setting for the band to solidify their sound. Where their debut record, Shade is on the Other Side, proved a bold introduction – recorded in Simons' bedroom using limited tools and instruments – this new longplay boasts a more honed sound that sees soulful grooves loop around darker, brooding undertones. Cue their newest offering, You're a Freak, a stirring strung-out ballad that explodes into beautiful fuzz. "This song is a celebration for all of the beautiful freaks and the gorgeous outsiders," says Simons. "[It's] probably the oldest on the record, I recorded the stems of the song when I was still a teenager living in my parents' basement. The female vocal on the song is actually my Mum [laughs]."
The track comes with an accompanying video (premiered here) shot by Sam Centore that sees Girl Skin take over an abandoned gymnasium in the basement of an old church in Brooklyn, NY, turning it into their own private performance space. "It had a very eerie and ghostly feeling," Simons explains, "The acoustics down there were incredible and we were thinking sometime in the future we'll put on a DIY show in that space when everything starts opening back up."
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Funny Girl (1968) - (Movie Clip) Hello, Gorgeous!
Fanny Brice (Barbra Streisand) enters Ziegfeld's New Amsterdam theater for a moment of reflection and a famous line, in the opening scene from William Wyler's Funny Girl, 1968.
Funny Girl -- (2001 Re-issue Trailer)
Comedienne Fanny Brice (Barbra Streisand) fights to prove that she can be the greatest star in the musical Funny Girl (1968).
Funny Girl (1968) -- (Movie Clip) The Name's Arnstein
Fanny (Barbra Streisand) is surprised by a backstage visit from Nick Arnstein (Omar Sharif) who helps her through a speedy negotiation with Keeney (Frank Faylen) in William Wyler's Funny Girl, 1968.
Funny Girl (1968) -- (Movie Clip) People
Discussing, with suitor Nick Arnstein, his many conquests, Barbra Streisand (as Fanny Brice) performs her signature song "People," by Jule Styne and Bob Merrill, in producer Ray Stark's Funny Girl, 1968.
Funny Girl (1968) -- (Movie Clip) I'm The Greatest Star!
Not-yet famous Fanny Brice (Barbra Streisand) tries to explain her talents to Keeney (Frank Faylen), launching into "I'm the Greatest Star," by Jule Styne and Bob Merrill, in an early scene from Funny Girl, 1968.
Funny Girl (1968) -- (Movie Clip) I'd Rather Be Blue
Having wrecked the roller-skating number and won over the crowd, Fanny (Barbra Streisand) segues into a nervous rendition of "I'd Rather Be Blue" by Billy Rose and Fred Fisher in Funny Girl, 1968.
Funny Girl (1968)-- (Movie Clip) My Friend The Show Stopper!
Fanny (Barbra Streisand) tries to explain to Florenz Ziegfeld (Walter Pidgeon) why she had to appear as a pregnant bride in the wedding number in William Wyler's Funny Girl, 1968.
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Gregory Allan Lazzarato
(1992-04-20) April 20, 1992 (age 29)
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Gigi Loren Lazzarato Getty[1] (née Lazzarato, born Gregory Allan Lazzarato; April 20, 1992),[2] known professionally as Gigi Gorgeous Getty,[1] is a Canadian YouTuber, socialite, actress, and model.
In 2008, Lazzarato began uploading video blogs onto streaming platform YouTube as Gregory Gorgeous.[3] Her videos achieved popularity and established an online following. During the following years, Lazzarato uploaded regularly to the channel along with creating and starring in the reality programThe Avenue (2011–13). Following a brief hiatus, she gained media attention after coming out as a transgender woman in 2013, and began going by Gigi Gorgeous.[4][5] During 2014, Lazzarato personally documented her gender transition through social media profiles, notably through videos revolving around cosmetic procedures, which obtained viral status. In 2016, an incident involving Lazzarato being deported from Dubai due to her status as a transgender woman, resulted in widespread media coverage. Lazzarato was the subject of This is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous (2017), a Barbara Kopple-directed documentary that followed life going through gender transition. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to have a limited theatrical release and several accolades including a Streamy.
Besides personality work, Lazzarato has dabbled in acting and modeling work. Her performance credits include starring in fellow YouTuber Shane Dawson's short film I Hate Myselfie (2015) and its sequel, along with guest appearances in television series Project Runway All Stars, Me and My Grandma, Good Work, and Trailblazers, amongst others. Through modeling, Lazzarato has appeared on the covers of Paper and FASHION, been featured in spreads for Galore, Kode, Refinery29, and Out and served as a frequent muse of August Getty Atelier. In 2019, she authored the book He Said, She Said: Lessons, Stories, and Mistakes From My Transgender Journey.
She was born Gregory Allan Lazzarato,[6][7] the child of Judith Lazzarato (née Belding) and David Lazzarato, a business executive who served as independent director of The Stars Group, chief executive officer of Craig Wireless, and chief financial officer of Alliance Atlantis.[8] She is of Italian, Lebanese, English and French heritage and she was raised in the Roman Catholic faith.[2][9][10]
As a young adult, Lazzarato was a nationally ranked diving champion.[9][11][12] She first attended St. Francis of Assisi School and later Mississauga's Iona Catholic Secondary School,[13] as well as George Brown College. At George Brown, she began to study fashion, but eventually left the college to focus on a YouTube career. Lazzarato's mother, Judith, died of leukemia on February 3, 2012, at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto.[14]
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2008–13: Beginnings on YouTube[edit]
Lazzarato operated a makeup tutorial YouTube channel that began in 2008 while in the eleventh grade, when a friend mentioned seeing a makeup video by Michelle Phan on YouTube.[15] Lazzarato first came out at age 16, identifying at the time as a gay male.[3][16] Since transitioning, her YouTube channel started to include more vlogs, fashion, and lifestyle videos.[17][18]
On January 18, 2011, Lazzarato announced The Avenue, a YouTube-based reality series. The show premiered on March 15 of that year on YouTube with distribution by Blip. The show's last episode aired on April 14, 2013.
2014–16: Gender transition and appearances[edit]
Lazzarato was awarded the LogoTV Trailblazing Social Creator Award in 2014 for being an advocate on behalf of LGBT youth. She frequently attends BeautyCon conventions to meet with fans and sit in on panels about makeup techniques and the cosmetics industry.[19] Lazzarato has modeled for designer Marco Marco, and walked in the 2014 and 2015 Marco Marco Fashion Shows.[20]
Lazzarato has used internet celebrity status to bring awareness to transgender issues, the LGBT community, and anti-bullying.[21][22] Her image was featured in a montage of transgender celebrities in the ABC20/20 documentary about Caitlyn Jenner's transition.[23][24]
In early 2015, Lazzarato starred in fellow YouTuber Shane Dawson's debut short film I Hate Myselfie as Amber. Lazzarato later reprised the role of Amber in I Hate Myselfie 2.[25]
In June 2015, it was announced that Lazzarato had teamed up with singer Miley Cyrus and had joined Cyrus' Happy Hippie Foundation's Marie Claire "#InstaPride" campaign.[26] The campaign included a series of photos and an announcement by Cyrus that they were working on a secret project. The project later turned out to be a spread in the magazine Marie Claire featuring them both.[27][28] Lazzarato signed a partnership with 'Too Faced Cosmetics' in which Lazzarato starred in the cosmetic commercial film "Better Than Sex" which premiered on July 9, 2015. At the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, Lazzarato, along with a group of drag queens, introduced Miley Cyrus for the debut performance of Dooo It! from Cyrus's new album Miley Cyrus and her Dead Petz.
In September 2015, Lazzarato had a two-page spread in People magazine.[29] She appeared on Entertainment Tonight as a special guest that same month.[30] Lazzarato was featured in Kylie Jenner's app "Kylie" that feature several make up tip videos.[31] On September 18, Lazzarato won the Streamy Award for "Best Beauty Series".[32] It was announced on October 7 that she would star in Adam Lambert's video for her song "Another Lonely Night".[33][34]
2016: Dubai incident[edit]
On August 9, 2016, Lazzarato was detained in the United Arab Emirates. Her passport taken by airport officials and immigration officers at the Dubai International Airport. She was denied entry to Dubai for "imitation of women by men", as the government does not recognize Lazzarato's identification as gender, even though, according to Lazzarato, "The gender on my passport states female and not male." The "imitation of women by men" is illegal in the UAE, and violators can face up to a year in jail.[35] She was released after being detained for five hours.[36][37]
The "#JusticeForGigi" hashtag surfaced on Twitter, with fans and supporters calling for Lazzarato's release and a reform in anti-LGBTQ laws.[38] It was not the first time a transgender person was detained in Dubai. In 2014, two Brazilian transgender women were also detained and had their passports taken.[39] Lazzarato, before leaving Dubai for Sweden, responded to the incident by calling for equality and legal protections for LGBTQ people.[40]
2017–present: This is Everything[edit]
In January 2017, the documentary This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous, starring Lazzarato, directed by Barbara Kopple premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.[41] On June 11, Gorgeous watched the documentary with Katy Perry on Perry's four-day livestream event, Katy Perry Live: Witness World Wide.
In June 2017, Lazzarato was named to the Time Magazine list of the 25 most influential people on the Internet.[42]
In 2019, Lazzarato published a memoir, titled He Said, She Said: Lessons, Stories, and Mistakes From My Transgender Journey.[43][44] In October 2019, Lazzarato announced a makeup collection coming out with Ipsy in November 2019. The collection features various beauty products related to makeup.
In October 2014, Lazzarato began dating Cory Binney, the half-brother of drag queen Alaska Thunderfuck. They met at a club and started dating from then on. They were on and off and broke up in around May or June 2015, which inspired one of Lazzarato's most viewed videos titled "Single Life (My Break Up)", a music video to "What the Hell" by Avril Lavigne. It is now one of Lazzarato's top 5 most viewed videos of all time with 7.5 million views. They got back together in July 2015 before officially breaking up in November 2015.[45][46] Lazzarato, who had previously identified as a gay man[3] and then later bisexual,[47] came out as a lesbian in a YouTube video on September 14, 2016.[48] Lazzarato began dating Nats Getty, an heir and member of the Getty family, shortly after meeting him at Paris Fashion Week while working as a model for Getty's brother, August Getty.[49] In March 2018, Getty proposed to Lazzarato at the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte in France.[50] On July 12, 2019, Lazzarato and Getty married in a private ceremony at Rosewood Miramar Beach in Montecito, California.[51] Guests at the wedding included Ariadne Getty, Caitlyn Jenner, Teri Hatcher, Moj Mahdara, Justin Tranter, Bonnie McKee, Grace Helbig, Hannah Hart, and Trisha Paytas.[7] The couple were given toasts by Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom, and Governor Gavin Newsom of California.[7] On April 9, 2021, Lazzarato identified herself as pansexual, after releasing a YouTube video, explaining how she "didn't fall in love with Nats because of his gender, but the person that he is."[52]
Lazzarato is a practicing Roman Catholic and describes herself as religious.[53]
Transition[edit]
Lazzarato came out as a transgender woman in December 2013. Since then, she has undergone electrolysis, tracheal shave, hormone replacement therapy, facial feminization surgery, rhinoplasty, and breast augmentation.[54] In March 8, 2014, Lazzarato legally changed her name to Gigi Loren Lazzarato.[6]
In a September 2015 issue of People, Lazzarato credited "transgender model and performing artist Amanda Lepore and the death of my mother for sparking my transition."[55]
Filmography[edit]
Film[edit]
Indicates a film or show appearance that has not yet been released.
2015 I Hate Myselfie Amber Short film [56]
Better Than Sex Gigi Short film [57]
I Hate Myselfie 2 Amber Short film [58]
2017 This is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous Herself Documentary [41]
Television[edit]
Music videos[edit]
Awards[edit]
2014 Trailblazing Social Creator Logo TV Awards Herself Won
2015 Best Beauty Series Streamy Awards
2016 Best Beauty Series Nominated
2017 Youtuber of the Year Shorty Awards Won
Best Feature Streamy Awards This Is Everything
Best Documentary Nominated
Most Compelling Living Subject of a Documentary Critics' Choice Awards Herself
(for This Is Everything) Won
2019 United Award Streamy Awards Herself Won
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By Mike Salinero
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In a deal being hailed as one of the biggest industrial park transactions in Orlando market history, Chicago-based Blue Vista Capital Management paid $49 million for the American Industrial Center in Longwood.
The seller was The Woods Group, according to a deed signed Jan. 17 and filed Monday in Seminole County. The group, headed by Daniel J. Woods, sold the park and associated buildings through affiliates American Industrial Center Ltd. TWG I, American Industrial Center IX LLC and Woods Family Properties DJW LLC.
Woods could not be reached for comment. Rachel Woolf, head of investor relations for Blue Vista, said the company does not comment on its purchases.
Chicago-based Blue Vista Capital Management paid $49 million for the 820,000-square-foot American Industrial Center in Longwood. (Marcus & Millichap)
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Mandel and Nicholas Hanson, senior associate with Marcus & Millichap, represented Blue Vista Capital and Logistics Investment Management in the purchase.
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