Work began on the ship last autumn and G-GAT staff came off site in December 2002.

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Trials have already been undertaken through the Jazz Cafe's website and the site for the Astoria's G-A-Y club night.

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At CNN content partner Mashable, a blog that got its start focusing exclusively on social media and saw its popularity rise as Facebook's did, the staff geared up by creatin g an IPO-inspired playlist on music site Spotify (which, perhaps not coincidentally, is accessible only through a Facebook account).

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Du Zeyong, the union official, was fired and stripped of his party membership due to "severe violation of Socialist morality, " according to the local city government official news site, only three days after the video purporting to be of him wearing the G-string began making the rounds on social media.

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