The anticipation before a date is a magical thing for any guy: the butterflies, the excited
buzz, the hours of research to figure out what brand of cologne her dad wears so that
you can buy the exact same one…
wait, what?
"It's not as weird as it looks."
"Still weird."
Okay, so your guy probably doesn't check off every item on this list before he shows up
at your door on Saturday night.
But when it comes to preparing for a date, there's a decent chance he's done at least
one of the following.
Man-scaping
They might not go this far to achieve peak smoothness down below, but many guys spend
some time deforesting their nether-regions, just in case things get hot and heavy.
In a poll of 2,000 adults, "tidying pubic hair" was among the top three priorities for
male respondents' pre-date prep, including a three percent outlier of dudes who get a
full Brazilian in anticipation of the big night.
Buying new undies
That's right, fellas: shave it off, then cover it up.
The second of the top three priorities for men who were getting date-ready?
Forking over some cash for a nice, fresh pair of underpants.
And according to scientists, this isn't just a question of being too lazy to do laundry;
another study conducted by Debenhams department store revealed that "the average man only
buys new underpants when he is about to start a new relationship" — perhaps because, just
like our cinematic hero Bridget Jones, he knows that a good first impression is all
about the base layer.
"There's nothing to be embarrassed by, I'm wearing something quite similar myself!"
Hit the gym
Whether it's because they can't bear to skip leg day or because they're hoping to impress
you with their healthy habits, squeezing in a workout before a date is a must for lots
of men.
Of course, if you exercise regularly, this makes perfect sense from a scientific standpoint:
that self-esteem and endorphin boost you get from hitting the gym will float you through
your date on a cloud of kick-ass confidence.
Wear her dad's cologne
Okay, so there's only one confirmed instance of a guy having done this — and we only
know about it because he made it into a confessional meme on Buzzfeed.
"What's that terrible smell?"
"I don't know, I should get moving!"
But bizarre as it sounds, the man who tries to smell just like your dad is just following
the science; in a study done at the University of Chicago, research revealed that women unwittingly
prefer the smell of men who have similar genes to their dads.
However, this has a complex basis in evolutionary biology and genetic markers in our immune
systems — and nothing to do with whether your dad preferred Old Spice or Brut.
Play digital detective
In a world where people often connect online before they ever meet in person, some guys
will turn to the internet to try to prevent a Fatal Attraction-style unhappy ending.
One suitor told Elite Daily,
"I do a quick Google search before the date, and if I find out anything bad, like she was
arrested or seems strange, I cancel right before."
But this is one pre-date practice that the experts don't endorse.
One professor of psychology at Northwestern University explained, "You're trying to suss
out: Will this person and I have a connection?
Actually, there is no evidence that we can assess that online.
You think you know what you want, but what you really need is to sit across from each
other and get a beer."
So unless it turns out their date has a criminal record for bunny-boiling, this is one ritual
guys might be better off skipping.
Warm up those conversation skills
Guys are just as terrified of awkward silences as anyone, and many of them will spend their
pre-date hours making sure they've got something to talk about.
The most nervous men might study the art of making small talk like they would a college
textbook, or even take lessons from a dating coach.
But even guys who are just looking for more interesting things to talk about than the
weather might come armed with a list of ice-breakers to keep the conversation rolling.
Do some manual labor
Although the infamous "hair gel" scene from There's Something About Mary is pure fiction,
the fact is, some guys do swear by the practice of pleasuring themselves prior to a possible
romantic encounter.
And they may be onto something!
According to some sex experts, getting down with your bad self isn't just a way to relieve
those pre-date jitters, but is also "linked with a lower risk of prostate cancer," and
we can all agree that less cancer is a good thing.
So, maybe this one isn't so weird after all.
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More WWE RELEASES?! | WrestleTalk News Nov. 2017 - Duration: 4:29.
Hello and welcome to the WrestleTalk News - I'm Oli Davis.
WWE Releases Since October 29th, six wrestlers have been
released from WWE: Emma, Darren Young, Summer Rae, Sawyer Fulton, Leo Gao and James Ellsworth.
And now, after a week of sudden squashes or people turning on their henchmen/tag team
partners, it feels like another slew of WWE releases could be on the way.
Singh Brothers WWE Update Thankfully, after their beatdown from Jinder
Mahal on this week's Smackdown, the Singh Brothers appear to be OK.
Although PWInsider reported there have been backstage discussions about replacing them
as part of Jinder's act, it's expected they'll go to 205 Live or NXT instead of
being released from the company.
And their positions are safe for the immediate future, with them revealing on Twitter that
they're working WWE's live event dates this weekend in South America still very much
with Mahal: "Walking into Peru tonight & reminding you
to throw your Two's up.
🇵🇪 Your future TWO TIME @WWE CHAMPION, The Modern Day MAHARRRRRRRAJA!
#WWEClashOfChampions #WWEPeru" Jim Johnston Released
Sadly, one person who does appear to have been released, though, is legendary WWE music
composer Jim Johnston - the man behind the entrance music for Stone Cold Steve Austin,
Chris Jericho, The Rock, Randy Orton, Kane, Triple H, Bret Hart, Big Show, Mr. McMahon,
The Undertaker - practically every single one of your favourite wrestler themes from
pre-2011 WWE.
And Stephanie McMahon's.
The news comes from ThemeTitan on Twitter, the self-proclaimed 'original community
of WWE entrance theme fans', first tweeting: Jim Johnston has been released by WWE and
then following up with a longer statement, where they claimed WWE decided "not to renew
his contract that expired today…" and that "this was a forced release as Jim was
very keen to keep working with the company".
ThemeTitan allege Johnston's release "has been the ongoing will of Neil Lawi, John Alicastro
and Michael Lauri for some time…[as] John and Michael wanted to totally overhaul WWE's
musical output and replace all Jim Johnston creations with their own."
John Alicastro and Neil Lawi are the songwriting duo CFO$, who have been with WWE since 2012,
and are behind the entrance themes of Shinsuke Nakamura, Bobby Roode, Samoa Joe and more.
And we're still not done with the potential WWE releases…
Lio Rush WWE Status Lio Rush officially signed with WWE on August
21st with much fanfare from the independent scene, and he debuted on NXT in October.
But he hasn't wrestled on TV for over a month since, and it seems to be because of
some considerable backstage heat.
When WWE released Emma just days after her two losses to Asuka, Rush angered the locker
room by tweeting: "I guess these are the things that happen
when you're not TRULY ready for Asuka RETROSPECTIVELY APPROPRIATE CLOWN FACE EMOJI
Emma had only lost her job hours before, and the wrestling world roundly criticised him
for making the joke.
Lio reportedly came very close to getting released there and then, but him immediately
deleting the tweet and posting an apology is thought to have saved him from also being
cut.
PWInsider then confirmed that the reason Rush hasn't been seen in NXT since is "exactly
what you think it is - the Emma tweet."
Now Reddit user RichardMagpies has pointed out Rush has removed all WWE and NXT wording
from his Twitter profile, and he also wasn't at Wednesday's NXT tapings for the next
month's worth of TV.
Eva Marie removing WWE references from her social media foreshadowed her eventually leaving
the company, but Karl Anderson recently doing the same never amounted to anything.
A fan on Twitter, however, has revealed Rush is - at least right now - still on the NXT
tours, appearing at last night's live event in Lakeland.
Will we get Cody Rhodes vs Daniel Bryan at a Ring of Honor event next year?
And there's been some big NXT news!
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(police sirens)
(keyboard clicks)
(police sirens)
- [Interviewee] I keep joking with people, going, "I read on the internet, there's actual,
"there's other games for PS4, besides Grand Theft Auto.
"Is that true or is that like a, a rumor?"
(laughter)
You know, 'cause that's the only thing I play.
- [Interviewer] No Destiny for you, or--
- No we've lost a couple players to Destiny,
so that's sort of a sore spot.
(laughter)
("A Lonely Man")
- [Knox] Jester, are you going straight for the bag?
- [Jester] Yes I am. Good job.
("A Lonely Man")
(gunfire)
(grunting)
(splashes)
(bubbling)
- Hey, yo, my ball! I'm sorry.
("A Lonely Man")
(gaming chatter)
(laughter)
- [Knox] Man they are like, rushing,
there's like four of them comin' around.
- [Wizard] Yeah, I turned right into them. Son's of bitches.
("A Lonely Man")
- [Interviewer] Wait, wait. Are you telling me you were
allowed fly internationally with moonshine?
(laughs)
- Yeah. You know, I'm from Tennessee,
come on, it's not natural everywhere?
(laughter)
So, DJ wanted some, he's my crewmate,
I gotta bring him the moonshine.
- [Interviewer] You gotta do it.
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Lizzy Greene & Riele Downs' Q&A w/ Duncan the Cat as Tinselpaws! 🐱🎄 | Tiny Christmas | Nick - Duration: 1:42.
Hello everyone, we're Riele Downs and Lizzy Greene
and we're sitting down with the star of Tiny Christmas,
Duncan The Cat AKA Tinsel Paws.
We know you have a super busy schedule but let's cut to the chase.
How did you get into show business?
- Wow, that's fascinating, I never knew... - Truly inspiring story.
Tell us about your process of getting in to character.
[cat purring]
- Oh my gosh, I do that too! - Oh really? That was beautifully said.
So what was your reaction when you heard you got the part?
[cat purring]
- Me too! - Wow, oh my gosh, that's crazy!
You know, for me, the chase scene was especially fun.
[music playing]
Ahh!
Ahh!
Ahh!
Your acting was so convincing!
Pretending that you wanted to hurt us and all.
Oh, so funny.
But we all loved working together, right, Duncan?
[cat purring]
What was the best part of working on this film?
[cat purring]
- Thank you, thank you, that's so sweet. - Oh, what a compliment!
Well Duncan, this was a thrill today.
Just getting to know you better was so truly inspiring.
Don't miss Duncan's groundbreakingly purrrfect performance in Tiny Christmas.
Give it up for Duncan!
Seriously, someone get this guy an Oscar.
- A Grammy! - Really, a Grammy?
He doesn't even sing, but a Grammy!
Anything!
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Liberal Federal Court Tells Trump That By January 1, 2018, He Must Follow Barack Obama�s
Policies And Allow� If not for activist judges intent on stalling
every single agenda item on the Right, the Democrats would be sorely in need of some
serious therapy.
At present, at least one political action party is responsible for judge shopping and
halting every Trump initiative so far this year.
Not a single agenda item has gone unchallenged.
Compare that with Barack Hussein Obama whose agenda items (especially those that were far-Left
in nature) breezed through Congress with nary a whimper of defiance from 99% of the Swamp
RINOs.
There is a reason, after all, why John Boehner had to bow out and passed the baton to Ryan.
He was wildly unpopular in his own party and had never kept his many promises to fight
Obama�s agenda.
One of the holdover policies has been in the cross-hairs of the president for a few months
and is certainly not popular among Republicans and Independents.
The issue is transgenders in the military.
There is a conventional wisdom that says that the military, of all branches of the government,
should be immune to social experimentation in the form of integrating gender blurring-of-the-lines
verbiage and behavioral criteria for service members.
A federal judge has just informed the White House that the president must enforce Obama�s
signature legacy order and begin allowing transgenders into the military by January
1st!
The Hill:
A federal court on Monday issued a clarification that the U.S. military must take transgender
service members by Jan. 1, after partially blocking President Trump�s transgender policy
in an earlier ruling.
Last month, a judge on the U.S. District Court ruled that the president�s order to ban
new transgender recruits from joining the military � as well as potentially expelling
current members � cannot be enforced while the case is being reviewed in court.
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly wrote that her injunction means that the military must continue
to follow the policies established by former President Obama�s �June 30, 2016 Directive-type
Memorandum,� which allowed transgender individuals to enlist beginning on Jan. 1.Any action by
any of the Defendants that changes this status quo is preliminarily enjoined,� Kollar-Kotelly
wrote in the Monday memo.
The ruling came after Trump issued a presidential order in August that the military stop enlisting
transgender people and not use funds to pay for gender transition-related surgery.
The memo also gave Defense Secretary James Mattis a six-month deadline to assess the
role of transgender troops who are currently serving in the U.S. military.In August, the
judge released a lengthy memo accompanying her ruling in which she said the plaintiffs
in the case, the National Center for Lesbian Rights and GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders,
are likely to succeed by arguing that the president�s transgender ban violates their
Fifth Amendment right to due process.
The two groups sued in August on behalf of six unnamed service members and two recruits.The
Democrats are crystal clear on what it wants to achieve by the end of President Trump�s
term and that is a complete rejection of every single agenda item, regardless of its merits
or virtues.
A great political cartoon I saw sums it all up.
The strip depicted the Fake News Industrial Complex watching an announcement by Trump
about supporting or not supporting Roy Moore of Alabama.
The headline on one newspaper read, �Trump Supports Child Molester Roy Moore!� while
the other read, �Trump Turns Back on his Party Candidate!� The point is that the
FNIC has already written pre-conceived notions about what the president will say and do,
and you can bet that all of them will be negative.
In this case, the narrative for Trump and transgenders was already written months ago.
When an �awkward moment with a water bottle� is a headline, there�s nothing more that
can save a corrupt and intellectually dishonest media.
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A Supermoon Trilogy – Presented by Science@NASA
Mark your calendars: a series of three supermoons will appear on the celestial stage
on December 3, 2017, January 1, 2018, and January 31, 2018.
A supermoon is a Moon that is full when it is also at or near its closest point in its orbit around Earth.
Since the Moon's orbit is elliptical, one side (apogee) is about 30,000 miles (50,000 km)
farther from Earth than the other (perigee).
Nearby perigee full Moons appear about 14% bigger and 30% brighter
than full Moons that occur near apogee in the Moon's orbit.
"The supermoons are a great opportunity for people to start looking at the Moon,
not just that once but every chance they have!"
says Noah Petro, a research scientist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
It's hard for our eyes to distinguish these small changes in size
when the Moon is high amidst the vastness of the night sky.
But any time you catch a full Moon as it rises or sets,
while it's suspended low on the horizon beaming through the silhouettes of trees or buildings,
its apparent size might make you do a double-take.
You almost feel as though you could reach out, grab the glowing orb, and drop it into your coffee cup.
Even more so if it's a supermoon.
If you can catch only one episode of the supermoon trilogy, catch the third one. It will be extra special.
First of all, the January 31st supermoon will feature a total lunar eclipse,
with totality viewable from western North America across the pacific to Eastern Asia.
The Moon's orbit around our planet is tilted so it usually falls above or below the shadow of the Earth.
About twice each year, a full Moon lines up perfectly with the Earth and Sun
such that Earth's shadow totally blocks the Sun's light, which would normally reflect off the Moon.
"The lunar eclipse on January 31 will be visible during moonset.
Folks in the Eastern United States, where the eclipse will be partial,
will have to get up in the morning to see it," notes Petro. "But it's another great chance to watch the Moon."
The Moon will lose its brightness and take on an eerie, fainter-than-normal glow
from the scant sunlight that makes its way through Earth's atmosphere.
Often cast in a reddish hue because of the way the atmosphere bends the light,
totally eclipsed Moons are sometimes called 'blood Moons.'
"We're seeing all of the Earth's sunrises and sunsets at that moment reflected from the surface of the Moon,"
says Sarah Noble, a Program Scientist at NASA headquarters.
The January 31st supermoon will also be the second full Moon of the month.
Some people call the second full Moon in a month a Blue Moon, that makes it a super 'blue Moon.'
Blue Moons happen every two and a half years, on average.
With the total eclipse, it'll be a royal spectacle indeed: a 'super blue blood' Moon.
Sometimes the celestial rhythms sync up just right to wow us.
Heed your calendar reminders. On the three dates marked,
step out into the moonset or moonrise and look up for a trilogy of sky watching treats!
To learn more about the many wonders of the Moon, go to moon.nasa.gov.
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Converted Car Garage to Artists Home, Studio & Gallery | Modern Townhouse in Florence - Duration: 13:03.
Hey guys, welcome back to GoDownsize where we talk downsizing, simple living
and we also do amazing house tours! So this week we're visiting Sven and Silvia
and they are amazing artists - Sven is an architect, Silvia is a painter and they
have this amazing townhouse it's actually a former car garage that they
converted into their living slash studio space. So I really hope you enjoy this little gem!
My name is Silvia, Silvia Cardini, and I'm a painter and my partner is Sven Hebeler
and he's an architect and we decided to come here to stay here and we
rebuild everything for having a big space for living together with our child
So the point was first to have a big room with light because for us it's very
important to have a beautiful light inside and a lot of choices was also about
- our, or my, paintings here - Yes, the house was build around
the paintings from Silvia
Yeah so when we chose the colors and to have some open space and a
central place to live together and two bedroom one to front side one to the backside
- divided from this living place - it's like the heart of the home in the middle
Yeah exactly!
The house before was built so here is the ingress then there
a bathroom here long corridor and here a closed room and we have decide to clean
all these walls and make the heart of the house with a big room. We cook, we study with our son
And we have a big table so we can eat with a lot of people
This is the kitchen!
And, you know, the point was to
have everything in just one spaces to have it more practical
so we have all this stuff.
We have two fridges because this one is too small
Everything is just here here, and we use our dishes or glasses or everything here
It's quite comfortable for cooking here. The difficultly in this project was
to make custom furnitures because the room is very closed, very little
So we have to build and design all the cabinets so we don't lose space.
Everything is a normal-size, you don't have anything like smaller appliances -
No, it's normal size and also with the fires and all the stuff is
you know with the dish machine everything so there's a normal life you know?
So in this case we decide to have this wood big wood and for having
just one color and one material because one of the point of the project was to
have not so much materials and not so much colors and all so much things
because - for us - if you have too much things this the space is coming small you know?
The colors is giving from the paintings from Siliva.
And here is the history from our family with the older pictures photos
This is a lamp, you know?
You can see the history from our family in all the pictures.
The sculptures are from Sven and Matteo, too!
This is our bedroom
So this is, you know our closet, and Sven also in this case I decide to design
also to the other two with wooden so is all the stuff of the family you know
Clothes and everything also here we have paintings and the wall with our life you know
This is the final projects of universities for Sven. It's a port in Castilian Adela Biscaia
And this is the other room, it's our child's room
So this is the room with the
child and the bed and also here the space is not so big but we have I think everything
- yeah how many square meters? - this is nine square meters
So we decided to have here everything books and games just in a wall
- We have another... - Closet?
- Yes, so with everything inside
We decided to put this as a wooden floor but
it's coming from construction was yes the construction the yellow panels of
wood to make walls with concrete
This is a ladder form the fire police, yeah it's an original one!
This is a little room for friends and here you can see
this beautiful view from the hills of Tuscany
This is a small bathroom but with everything we decided to have all
concrete and gray and to have bath too - and I think it's comfortable more
comfortable than just a shower in particular for child you know it's so
built you can open the part here and this to put on big furnitures yeah so it
attaches here
But you have to move this library
But it's all open, you can open all this part
So this is downstairs and we decided to have a big space here all the space is
open as before. We work usually as a studio is an artist studio and an
architectural studio too
And in the in this first part you know we have too something for for staying with friends
and as a living room
it's another space and so we can drink something or smoking if we want and
having our time, and while the children sleeping the night yeah
We had before another kind of door because it was a wooden door and we have no light here no
so much light and we need that windows is coming from north is very good for me
but we need also another part of light yeah so we decided to change the door
It was a car garage, and the cars would go in here. We have the windows here can keep open
in the summer time and we have another door and it was before with also with
the garages there was just before. We decided to build just this
And we you know we designed the space, it was important to put every book and everything but
also because the inside we have - I have - all my stuff for painting
So this is my supply closet.
It's full! Of course!
Sometime ago I had a studio in another place and it was a
quite big studio with other artists too but it's not good for me for working
because I like I really like to work in the same place where I live
I chose and I try to find this kind of situation to have studio and home in a
same build and for me is really great also because here we have two you know
two floors so it's a different kind of life that you stay here when I when I am
upstairs I am at home and when I downstairs I'm at studio
It's not completely the same thing, you know?
We have this table you could put out this one and you have a wall again
because sometimes we have exhibitions or events here everything is empty for
exhibit our works and also sometimes also with friends and you know
all the boxes you could change the position
- And we have wheels, we could move everything here - You go inside through this door here
Are there any negatives about choosing to live smaller?
Sometimes perhaps we would
just love to have another room or a garden or something bigger of course but
I think it's also easier for cooking and cleaning and everything
And I think it's not bad, no it's not bad
I don't know about you guys but I love how they converted that downstairs workshop that were formerly
used for cars into a studio
that was beautiful, had beautiful light and they can also use it as a space
tonight to hang out with friends and they have it separate from the private
area upstairs I love how they took out all the walls and just open up the space completely
As always I'll leave link in the description so you can go and check
out this wonderful family on their websites and see more of their amazing
work I hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you guys back here next week where we
have another exciting video coming up, bye!
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21 SAVAGE - Before They Were Famous - UPDATED - Issa BIO - Duration: 11:18.
BEFORE 21 Savage would hit number two on the billboard hot 200 with Issa Album and number
one on the rap charts with Without Warning
Before he dropped tracks like X, Bank Account and No Heart
BEFORE 21 Savage would shack up with Amber Rose, and collaborate with the likes of Metro
Boomin, Drake, the Migos, Mike Will, Future, DJ Khaled, Rich Chigga, and Post Malone
BEFORE The Slaughter King would opt for a 'Death Before Dishonour' Tattoo on his forehead
and a dagger between his eyes.
21 Savage grew in East Atlanta, where he witnessed his father dealing crack as far back as he
can remember.
At 14 he began selling drugs himself.
He also got his hands on a gun and brought it to school with him in the 7th grade to
teach a kid who was talking shit not to be messing around.
This incident eventually got him kicked out of every middle school in the county.
So this gave him more time to work on his street hustle.
Through his teens he would build a tight knit gang known as '21', and they would also hook
up with the Bloods.
He was dealing out of his home and fathered two kids.
Then on his 21st birthday he and his best friend Johnny got shot.
21 Savage took six bullets including one in his hand and in his neck but managed to make
it out alive.
His best friend wasn't so lucky.
It was then he decided he would need to find a new career and began taking rapping seriously.
Within a year and half he would blow up online and make it onto the XXL Freshman Class List.
What's going on guys my name is Michael McCrudden documenting the life and career of 21 Savage
here for you on Before They Were Famous.
You guys requested this vieo.
Let me know as always who you want me to document next.
21 Savage was born Shayaa Bin Abraham Joseph on October 22, 1992.
He was born in the Dominican Republic, but raised in Dacatur, a rough and tough neighbourhood
outside of Atlanta Georgia.
He grew up with four brothers and six sisters, although his younger brother, Tayman passed
away in a shooting that took place after a drug deal.
Shayaa's mother, Heather, was a rock of stability in his life, while his father was crack dealer.
His uncle was killed in front of their home, shot twice in the head when he was only 11
years old.
21 Savage has said it many a time that Atlanta is a savage town, with people getting shot
up.
I'd go into more detail about his family tree and friends but the dude has lost a ton of
people.
Shayaa grew up listening to his idol Gucci Mane, Lotto Savage, Mookie, Madri
Gra, Freaky DSMG.
His favorite albums included Me, My Momma and Them Roaches, Live From Da Carter, Gucci
Mane's "East Atlanta 6" and his favorite of all is Gucci's "Sun Valley".
He spent his whole life robbing and hustling on the street getting started as far back
as he can remember, he got his own hands on weed and began turning a profit at 14.
While in the seventh grade at Stone Mountain Middle School, he had some beef with another
dude and when he caught word that they were planning to jump him, he decided to bring
a pistol with him to school.
The crew didn't need to jump him anymore, instead they just snitched on him and Savage
got expelled from school.
His mom wasn't happy and told him it was only a 10 day suspension so he eventually went
back to school, but he got in a fight in the hallway with that same dude.
From there, 21 savaged bouced between the Dekalb Youth Development Center and alternative
school.
One time, 21 remembers that someone once left a snickers bar on his cot, which was a common
practice to test if a kid is soft.
His response was to try to beat up the very next kid that entered the room.
But 21 lost that fight.
He was so small at the time, that he had gotten the nickname Lil Man.
He returned to more regular schooling in Gwinnett County in the 9th grade.
There, he played football while on probation but some messing around with some chicks on
a school bus got him kicked out again and this time he was kicked out of attending any
school in the county.
By now he had already established for himself a pretty successful business selling weed
out of his mama's house.
This would eventually expand to include selling crack and committing robberies.
Things were going pretty good, he was able to eventually buy his mom a car and then get
her an apartment.
I think he kept the house.
His close boys all adopted the number of 21 as their gang name and at 16 opted for 21
tattoos, Savage got his on the side of his face.
At 19, his crew, including Johnny, Larry, Krusha, Rock, Lil B, CJ his bro Tayman got
involved with the Bloods but Savage states that he is cool with a lot of Crips, and he
doesn't care much for the long lasting rivalry and stories between the two gangs and refers
to that as an old school mentality.
Business must have been going well because he managed to father two kids that he states
today are his motivation.
He had done some dabbling with rap having made one song with his brother and had got
his hands on a mac computer and a microphone.
Then his brother Tayman robbed a house and found a better computer and microphone so
Savage set those up in his room.
On his 21st birthday, he and two of his friends, Johnny and Larry, went to pick up drugs, but
the situation quickly unfolded into what Shayaa now believes it was a hit.
Bullets started flying and he took six before he was able to return fire.
His friends Johnny and Larry didn't make it.
Not only that, Larry's mother was killed as well.
Shayaa now a father had a lot of thinking to do while he recovered in the hospital.
They also hooked him up with Percasets, and those delicious pain killers he hasn't been
able to get off them just yet.
He decided that his best bet at a future of success and staying alive would be if he forced
his energy into rapping.
A few things had changes, for one 21 Savage had adopted the moniker of Savage which he
came up with while setting up his Instagram account, also he was no longer taking any
shit from no one.
21 Savage got to work, he had some money which provided him with the time but he had no label,
no marketing team, no promotion team he just worked hard and spoke of the real street life
that he had lived through.
But, sadly, it wasn't over.
If you don't know the story of 21's knife tattoo, it's a sad one.
He and his brothers had agreed to get a dagger tatted between their thumb and their index
finger, just like Tony Montana.
But, 21's younger brother Tayman rushed out and opted to have it tatted between his eyes.
All of a sudden tragedy struck again.
His little brother Tayman was killed on March 19, 2014.
Savage hadn't yet gotten his dagger and opted to get his between his eyes in tribute to
his brother.
Savage also paid homage to his departed friends, Johnny, Larry, and his mother, Tamika, with
a giant tattoo featuring their names across his chest.
21's dark trap anthems like "Picky," the DJ Plugg-produced single soon became a niche
classic among Atlanta locals for its shaky, intoxicating energy.
Soon his mixtape The Slaughter Tape was dropped in 2015.
Followed by Free Guwop, Slaugher King and then in 2016, he would hooked up with Metro
Boomin for Savage Mode.
Savage Mode would include singles, No Heart, and X, which featured Future.
Both those tracks would be certified double platinum.
Also in 2016, 21 would be featured on XXL's Freshman Class List.
The exposure would help develop even more buzz for him in the hip hop community, and
21 would soon go on to feature on tracks by artists like Drake, Mike Will, Post Malone,
Big Sean, Rich Chigga, and many others.
In 2017, he would drop Issa Album, which hit number two on the billboard hot 200, the US
RnB and Hip Hop Chart, and the US rap chart.
His second studio album, Without Warning, with Offset and Metro Boomin, would follow
the same year.
It hit number 4 on the Hot 200, 2 on the RnB and Hip Hop chart, and number one on the US
Rap chart.
21 Savage would also be making headlines in 2017 for his relationship with Amber Rose,
but according to him, that relationship goes back way longer than we all know about.
And from the looks of things, the relationship's been going pretty well.
The two recently bought each other matching diamond encrusted watches.
There have been engagement rumours, and she bought him a fifty thousand dollar promise
ring.
(Check out Rich Life DB for Loyalty ring 21)
On top of that, there are other signs the relationship is healthy.
21 Savage says she has gotten him into some healthier habits, like taking vitamins and
drinking water.
And she told TMZ,
"I demand sex every day from my boyfriend...It's very healthy."
As for the rest of the story, well, we'll have to wait and see, because this is Before
They Were Famous.
My name is Michael McCrudden and we are working through all your requests on who to do next.
Let me know who you'd like to see featured on the channel.
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Pop Up Stand Up: Times Square Edition | TBS - Duration: 1:30.
We made it.
It's another episode of Pop Up Stand Up.
[APPLAUSE]
I'm on a bus.
This is my hell.
Please give it up for the very funny Alingon Mitra.
I live in Brooklyn.
I have roommates.
They're 23.
That's how many I have, 23.
[LAUGHTER]
It's such an aggressive city.
Like everybody here, they just like bump into you.
They be like, hey, man, watch where you're going.
Never been that aggressive.
[HORN HONKS]
Am I good?
This is what I'm talking about.
Even like the light posts are aggressive in New York City.
If I bump into you, I say I'm sorry.
And I just move away to a different city.
I'm done.
I'm done.
No good apartments in New York City-- every one you get shown,
there's something horribly wrong with it.
She'll be like, oh, it's a beautiful apartment.
It's got high ceilings, stainless steel appliances.
The only thing, you're going to have to share a bathroom.
Oh, that's OK.
And that bathroom is in a building eight blocks away.
[LAUGHTER]
ALINGON MITRA: Thank you so much.
[APPLAUSE]
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Rockwell B-1 Lancer - US Supersonic Heavy Strategic Bomber [Review] - Duration: 7:31.
The Rockwell B-1 Lancer is a supersonic variable-sweep wing, heavy bomber used by the United States
Air Force. It is commonly called the "Bone". It is one of three strategic bombers in the
USAF fleet as of 2017, the other two being the B-2 Spirit "Stealth Bomber", and the B-52
Stratofortress.
In the early 1990s, following the Gulf War and concurrent with the disestablishment of
SAC and its reassignment to the newly formed Air Combat Command, the B-1B was converted
to conventional bombing use. It first served in combat during Operation Desert Fox in 1998
and again during the NATO action in Kosovo the following year. The B-1B has supported
U.S. and NATO military forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. The USAF had 66 B-1Bs in service
as of September 2012. The B-1B is expected to continue to serve into the 2030s, with
the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider to begin replacing the B-1B after 2025. The B-1s currently
in inventory will reach the end of their service lives by 2045.
Unlike the B-1A, the B-1B cannot reach Mach 2+ speeds; its maximum speed is Mach 1.25
or 1,530 km/h, but its low-level speed increased to Mach 0.92 or 1,130 km/h. The speed of the
current version of the aircraft is limited by the need to avoid damage to its structure
and air intakes. To help lower its radar cross section, the B-1B uses serpentine air intake
ducts and fixed intake ramps, which limit its speed compared to the B-1A. Vanes in the
intake ducts serve to deflect and shield radar emissions from the highly reflective engine
compressor blades.
The B-1's main computer is the IBM AP-101, which is also used on the Space Shuttle orbiter
and the B-52 bomber. The computer is programmed with the JOVIAL programming language.
The B-1's defensive electronics include the Eaton AN/ALQ-161A radar warning and defensive
jamming equipment, which has three sets of antennas; one at the front base of each wing
and the third rear-facing in the tail radome. Also in the tail radome is the AN/ALQ-153
missile approach warning system.
Beginning in 2014, the B-1 was used by the U.S. against the Islamic State in the Syrian
Civil War. From August 2014 to January 2015, the B-1 accounted for eight percent of USAF
sorties during Operation Inherent Resolve. The 9th Bomb Squadron was deployed to Qatar
in July 2014 to support missions in Afghanistan, but when the air campaign against IS began
on 8 August, the aircraft were employed in Iraq. During the Battle of Kobane in Syria,
the squadron's B-1s dropped 660 bombs over 5 months in support of Kurdish forces defending
the city, one-third of all bombs used during OIR during the period, killing some 1,000
ISIL fighters. The 9th Bomb Squadron's B-1s went "Winchester", dropping all weapons on
board, 31 times during their deployment. They dropped over 2,000 JDAMs during the 6-month
rotation. B-1s from the 28th Bomb Wing flew 490 sorties where they dropped 3,800 munitions
on 3,700 targets during a six-month deployment. In February 2016, the B-1s were sent back
to the U.S. for cockpit upgrades.
As part of a USAF organizational realignment announced in April 2015, all B-1B aircraft
are to be reassigned from Air Combat Command to Global Strike Command effective 1 October
2015.
On 8 July 2017, the USAF flew two B-1 Lancers near the North Korean border in a show of
force amid increasing tensions, particularly in response to North Korea's 4 July test of
an ICBM capable of reaching Alaska.
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS: Crew:
4 (aircraft commander, copilot, offensive systems officer, and defensive systems officer)
Height: 10.4 m Wing area: 181.2 m²
Empty weight: 87,100 kg Loaded weight: 148,000 kg
Max. takeoff weight: 216,400 kg
Fuel capacity, optional: 37,900 L fuel tank each in 1–3 internal
weapons bays
Powerplant:4 × General Electric F101-GE-102 augmented turbofans
Dry thrust: 77.4 kilonewton each Thrust with afterburner: 136.92 kilonewton
each
PERFORMANCE: Maximum speed:
At altitude: Mach 1.25 or 1,340 km/h at 12,000 m altitude
At low level: Mach 0.92 or 1,100 km/h at 60–150 m altitude
Range: 9,400 km Combat radius: 5,543 km
Service ceiling: 18,000 m Rate of climb: 1,731 m/min
Wing loading: 816 kg/m² Thrust/weight: 0.38
ARMAMENT:
Hardpoints: 6 external hardpoints for 23,000 kg of ordnance
and 3 internal bomb bays for 34,000 kg of ordnance.
Bombs: 84× Mk-82 Air inflatable retarder general
purpose bombs 81× Mk-82 low drag general purpose bombs
84× Mk-62 Quickstrike sea mines 24× Mk-84 general purpose bombs and others..
Previously up to 24× B61 or B83 nuclear bombs could be carried.
Number built: B-1A: 4
B-1B: 100
Unit cost: US $283.1 million
in 1998 (B-1B)
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Look Which Celebrity Just Left America�Trump Supporters Tell Her �STAY Out!�
It�s nothing new for self-righteous egotistical celebrities to complain about President Trump.
Because Hollywood is infested with virtue-signalling liberals, they frequently criticize the man
millions of Americans respect.
During the election, many of these numbskulls threatened to leave the country.
Apparently the would not have been able to stay in America, if Trump became President.
Most of them were lying.
Trump has been in office for a year and they are all still here.
Much to the disappointment of us all.
But it looks like one of the B-listers who complained about Trump is finally leaving!
It only took a royal wedding.
From Business Insider: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are engaged.Clarence
House reported on Monday that the couple will marry in Spring 2018 and will live in Nottingham
Cottage at Kensington Palace�
A statement from Ms. Markle�s parents, Thomas Markle and Doria Ragland, wished the couple
�a lifetime of happiness.�
Ah yes, a lifetime of happiness.
Let�s hope this marriage lasts longer than her first one.
You might remember Markle (or not) for her small roles on TV.
And her attacks against Donald Trump.From The Mirror:
Prince Harry�s rumoured love interest Meghan Markle has threatened to leave America if
Donald Trump becomes president.
The actress also branded the Republican nominee as �misogynistic� as she tore into him
during an interview on the Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.
The 35-year-old Suits star made her opinion on the controversial figure clear while appearing
on the show on May 4.Protocol dictates that members of the British Royal family must remain
politically impartial.
Oops.
I guess this gal�s toxic politics are bleeding into Royal family policy.
Rumors are swirling that Trump might not be invited to the wedding.
Oh my God!
What are we going to do?
As if the President has the time in his busy schedule it watch a spoiled, entitled man
get married.
The upside to all this is at least one leftist actor is leaving the U.S.
According to reports, she won�t be acting anymore.
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"When I Am Up There Dancing, I'm Connecting A Spiritual Past To A Spiritual Presence." - Duration: 6:34.
The first time I ever got up on a box and danced and had my first dollar stuffed into
a speedo, I was hooked.
I love to dance, first of all, but when you're dancing on a dancefloor, you're either dancing
with one person or the people who are just around you, which is fine.
But when you're up on an elevated platform, you're dancing with everybody.
I always knew that if i could get up on another level and dance, that I can dance all night.
And that's the way it's been since that first time at the Bistro in Chicago, when
I got up there and had my first dollar - which I still have, by the way.
This has been going on throughout my whole life.
One day, I was walking down Seventh Avenue South and I walked past this printing firm
and there was a coffee table.
Someone - just seeing it through the glass from the outside sidewalk - someone picked
up this thing on the coffee table and opened it up.
I thought, what is that?
And I stopped.
I saw them doing that, and I thought, that is the coolest thing I've ever seen.
So I went in and picked it up and started playing with it.
This was really cool, so I asked the people behind the desk, "What is this?"
And they said, "Oh, somebody who works here picked that up at a shop over on Greenwich
Avenue."
I just thought, that would be kind of a neat thing to dance with maybe.
So I went to that shop on Greenwich Avenue.
He not only had the ball, but he had it in a glow-in-the-dark variety.
This one was like this dark blue, that I'd seen, but he had a glow-in-the-dark - with
all the ultraviolet lights, it could really be something.
So I bought it, took it home.
Of course, being the ingenious gay that I am, I decided to add mirrors to it, too.
So on all the pivot points, I put little mirrors, which makes me essentially a human disco ball.
I decided to take it out for its first time out for the Black Party, at the Black Party
at Roseland Ballroom.
I remember getting on stage.
I was kind of at the back of the stage, because there are a lot of people up there dancing,
and waiting for a good song to come on.
All of a sudden, I don't remember what the song was, but I thought this it, this is the
one.
And it seemed like - I love the universe, the way it works - but people just sort of
parted to allow me to move to the front.
And I did and I started dancing with it but held it small until the music blew and I then
blew with this and started spinning it.
I was unprepared for the response because all of a sudden, all of these hundreds of
people and thousands maybe just stopped and they were all pointing.
What I didn't realize was that spinning this ball around, it looks more like I'm
spinning a ball of light than anything solid.
And of course, people on drugs and that so they're high anyway, but they're seeing
this guy up there dancing with this.
It was like the missing piece.
I'd been dancing like this all these years with nothing in my hands.
So it was like I'd trained myself for this and it was a natural extension of me.
That was probably about twenty years ago.
So throughout the twenty years, I've done this is so many places.
It's an energy thing for me.
I've done this on - we go on gay cruises now and I'm referred to as the "man with
the ball," which always worry - makes me sound like I've got one big testicle.
But it's still, you know, I'm the "man with the ball."
I've been on the streets here in New York and people come up and say, "Excuse me,
are you the man with the ball?"
So I guess this is part of my legacy and I don't mind it because I enjoy being the
man with the ball.
As I've gotten into my advanced years now, I do have in the back of my mind, when's
the time to quit?
When have they seen of me enough?
When are they saying, oh my god, get her down from there with that damn ball?
But as recently as last year, we were at the rapido in Amsterdam, and I looked down and
there's this beautiful cherubic face with a beard and had these sparkling eyes and going
like this to me.
So I leaned down.
He says, "Promise me something."
I didn't even know who he was but I said, "Sure.
Sure.
What?"
He said, "Promise me you'll never stop doing that."
I said, "Okay!"
So now I've made a promise that I won't.
My husband, Eric, says that "Between Michael's ball and his mouth, we meet everybody."
It's true.
Some of our best friends are people who came up to me because of the ball.
So some of the closest people in our lives now have all started with the ball.
For me, parties, circuit parties, the whole thing is a spiritual experience.
It is communing not only with these people out here - and this is the other part of it,
the metaphysical part of it - I never go out dancing without talking to my buddies on the
other side.
When I am up there dancing and connecting with these people, I know that I am connecting
with those people, too, and that they're just coming through me and I'm spreading
them out and then pulling the others in, and I'm connecting a spiritual past to a spiritual
presence.
And that's what I'm doing out there.
I feel like I'm a conductor.
And the ball just makes it a little easier because it's an attention-getting thing.
I know there must be people who look at me and say, "Oh my god, does he ever have a
need for attention!"
It isn't that at all.
It's the fact that it's the only place where I am fed by this spiritual energy constantly
and I can't not do it.
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After having come out, not to my parents, just come out in the gay world, I know my
parents noticed a shift in my activities, a shift in my friendships.
These are two very good, kind, loving people who are devoted to their religion and devoted
to their children.
So, you really don't want to ask too many questions in that situation because maybe
they're starting to get an inkling about that I might be gay but probably wouldn't
even discuss it with themselves.
There came a time when I was coming home from college for the weekend.
I think I took a bus home and my dad picked me up at the bus station.
On the way home, he told me about a telephone call he had gotten at work.
A gentleman who did not identify himself had said, you know, "I just want you to know
that your son is being seen around town with known homosexuals and you should do something
about this before they turn him into one."
So, you know, I was taken aback a little bit.
But I said immediately, "Well, Dad, I am a known homosexual myself.
I'm gay and I know that I'm gay."
He didn't seem shocked by this information.
He jumped in immediately and said, "I love you.
Your mother and I love you.
We're there for you.
We don't really understand how this happened."
So when we got home, we sat down with my mother, too, because obviously she was privy to this
information as well.
The three of us sat down and discussed.
I didn't give them many details at all but that I'm gay, I'm happy being gay, this
is who I am.
So their initial response was to send me to a therapist.
I went for one visit.
It was a Catholic therapist, too, you know, so.
He actually told my parents that he thought I was quite well-adjusted and that they probably
shouldn't worry much about me, which was a blessing.
From that point on, their reaction was more containment.
And that's the way it would stay for a long time.
I would bring friends home from college or after I moved away out of Louisville, I'd
bring boyfriends home.
They accepted everyone that I ever brought through the front door.
They were kind, gracious.
Never wanted to know what the relationship was, really.
I'm sure they must have known.
They loved all these guys that I brought home.
I think it probably made them happy that I did have people in my life, but of course
they wouldn't ask questions and it stayed that way for close to twenty years, probably.
Until my partner - I got into a long term relationship and, of course, I would bring
him home all the time.
His name was Chase, and they knew him very well.
About five years into the relationship, he was diagnosed with HIV and full-blown AIDS
all at the same time.
And I knew this was a point where, okay, you know, we have to get real with each other
now.
So I sat down and wrote a very long letter to them.
I remember the first line was "Oh my God!
A letter from Mikey!
What's wrong?"
So I said, "Nothing's wrong, really, but I have things I need to tell you about."
The phone rings and they're both on.
One's on one extension, one's on the other.
They were so supportive.
They asked questions, actually, because they weren't prone to asking questions.
And they asked questions about Chase, how is he doing.
They responded very well.
Again, these are two very kind, loving people.
And they had grown also.
And my father as well, too, it opened the door.
He was never really that comfortable talking about it.
But one time, when I came home on a weekend and he - I was taking him to work.
I don't remember what triggered the conversation, but all of a sudden, he said, "You know,
I want you to understand.
A parent can't love one child more than another, but," he said, "I want you to
understand that I know that you've had a more difficult row to hoe than most people."
And he said, "I want you to know how proud I am of you for how you've lived your life."
And I realized later that I could have probably opened up the dialogue much earlier than I
had.
But you just don't know these things.
And as long as things were going really well between us, you know, I just didn't feel
a need.
I think it would be important to understand your parents first, because not everyone can
be upfront with their parents, and to understand that there might be consequences, negative
consequences.
It did bother me that there was so much of my life that I didn't share with them, and
I realized that I probably could have much earlier than I did.
So I would say sooner rather than later is what I would tell most people who are thinking
about coming out to their parents.
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Early 1960s: Seeing The Word "Gay" In A Magazine "Changed My Life Instantly." - Duration: 3:36.
So when you're a little gay boy, you don't know it, really, that you're a little gay
boy.
There's no word detached it.
You just know that there's something different about you.
I certainly did.
I remember coming home from school on the first day, first grade, and my parents, or
maybe it was my older brother, asked me, you know, "What little girl do you like?"
Now, I knew that I really liked a little boy in the class and he was really cute - blonde
hair, blue eyes.
But I also knew that I couldn't answer honestly.
I knew at that age I had to cover up.
I picked out the cutest little girl in class and said her name.
This is the 1950s and you didn't grow up with the "Will and Grace" or anything like
that so there was nothing that you can attach to.
I remember probably when I was about 12 years old, I'd say 12 or 13, we'd get Look Magazine
every week.
It's a big magazine with pictorials.
They had one issue that was devoted to the American male.
I remember paging through this magazine and I opened it up to this article, and what stopped
me probably was a very handsome man with an earring, I'd never seen anything like that
before.
And the title of the article was "The Sad Gay Life of the Homosexual."
Didn't mean anything - gay, homosexual didn't really mean anything to me.
But I started reading and reading, and all of a sudden it was like a bolt of lightning
to me.
Homosexual.
That's it!
That's it!
They're men who like men.
It changed my entire life instantly.
I had a name.
I had - this is me!
This is me!
A homosexual.
And gay, I saw the word "gay," too.
Obviously, the article wasn't a very positive one with a title like that, but the focus
of the article really was on how these were very unhappy people.
I do remember reading it.
I digested the information but none of it really meant anything to me.
None of it went to my core.
What went to my core of where the truth is really kept was that there was a word "homosexual"
and there was a word "gay" and it described me.
I don't really even remember all the negative things they said about these sad, depraved
creatures of the night.
What I really remember was that they talked about men going to gay bars in New York and
San Francisco.
So I knew right then and there when I was old enough to leave Louisville, I would pack
up my bags and move to either San Francisco and New York because one of the gay bars was
in San Francisco and the other one was in New York.
In my mind, you know, there were so few of us that there would be one and the other.
So I knew that eventually I would get one of those cities.
Little did I know, I found this out when I came out at 17 years old, there were three
gay bars in Louisville, Kentucky, alone!
Who knew?
That was really my, you know, my beginning of understanding who I was and what I was
and that I wasn't alone.
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How to Throw a Holiday Dinner Party on a Budget - Duration: 3:13.
Hey, y'all it's your girl Haley. I'm the girl behind Brewing Happiness
Which is a health and happiness website with recipes for all definitions of health. And today
I am here to talk to you about how to create a cheap and
beautiful and delicious
dinner party for the holidays for your friends and family.
So we're gonna kind of talk about all aspects of the dinner party and how to make those affordable
And I've also attached an example dinner party menu
And then we're gonna talk a little bit about just generally how to make dinner parties a little bit more
cost-effective. So the first tip I have for your dinner party is to thrift your plates.
I would say go to your local Goodwill or thrift store and find some
$2 plates that you can use maybe you find a set or maybe you just get a bunch of plates that speak to you and
use those.
Don't stress over
not having the right plates. It can be
really cheap to go get some fun festive plates at your local thrift store. The second tip
I have is it can be really cost effective to decorate your tablescape with
leaves, like eucalyptus or evergreen leaves. Or the other thing I really like to do to add some really nice fun
holiday decoration is to go to my local Dollar Tree and find a
bunch of decorations there and say I don't necessarily love
exactly how they look I buy gold spray paint and I
Spray it all gold or silver or something like that so you can make things look uniform
and you can make things look really nice and fancy that are actually very cheap. The third rule for having a
cost-effective dinner party is to make it BYOB.
Alcohol is another super expensive thing to add on to a full menu for a dinner party
So I would say don't take on that cost ask other people to bring their own alcohol.
And you just focus on the food and focus on the table and bringing people together.
Tip number four, and this is a big one, is to serve soup as your main dish. Soup is really filling
it's really delicious and
it's pretty cheap. I have two examples of soups that I use at my holiday parties
one is a meatless black-eyed pea soup, and the other is a lentil and sweet potato chili.
I think both are really delicious, really easy to make and
will definitely satisfy people. Tip number five is to go meatless for your dinner party.
I promise with a hearty soup
no one is gonna miss a meat based protein. The last tip is to not go overboard with desserts.
So maybe you repurpose some gifts put them on a nice tray and let other people try the gifts that you've gotten or you make
one kind of cookie and that's it. The holidays are already packed with enough cookies, so don't go overboard there
So I think with those six tips you can have an amazing dinner party for your friends or family
And it will not cost you a lot of money. Again,
I've added an example dinner party menu, with the cost breakdown, so you can check that out
I hope that you have a beautiful holiday. As always, follow me on social media @brewinghappiness
I will see you guys next time. Bye!
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New Year's Eve 1969: First Gay Kiss, On A Riverboat In The Snow. - Duration: 6:18.
Having come out in Louisville in 1969, I was 17 going on 18.
Obviously, I couldn't get in to any gay bars in Louisville.
We had our little hang outs where clusters of twinkies - although we didn't have that
word then but that's what we were - hung out at little restaurants and outside bar areas.
But I really wanted to get into a gay bar.
I just really wanted.
And we found out that there was a cruise New Year's Eve going out of Cincinnati.
For some reason, since it was on a riverboat on the river, we can get on at 18.
And this was New Year's Eve going from 1969 to 1970.
So we made a plan to go up to this floating gay bar, essentially, on the Ohio River.
I concocted this crazy story to my parents - I still living at home at the time - about
going out to a New Year's Eve party and then we were going to stay out late so we
can go to mass the next morning.
You know, being a good Catholic boy, and because that's a holy day of obligation - January
1st - so you're supposed to go to Mass anyway.
So I concocted this whole story so that I can be out late enough and have a reason to
be out late enough so that I could get home at like 6 or 7 in the morning.
So we pile into the car, all my twinkie friends and I, and off we go to Cincinnati.
And we get on this riverboat and it's everything I imagined it to be because there're gay guys
everywhere.
My little Louisville world is very small and then suddenly there were big city guys in
this place.
So we take off on the river and it was a beautiful night, it was so much fun, New Year's Eve
on a riverboat with surrounded by nothing but gay guys.
And it started snowing.
It was magical because we're going out and looking out and seeing all the snow.
I met this one boy.
As I recall, I was standing close to the bar and and feeling very good about myself because
I had - this was the year of the chocolate brown shirt and I have my chocolate brown
shirt and my striped flares and - hey, it was 1969 - he came up to me and just started
talking.
I'm sure he was the aggressor more than I was because I was in unchartered territory.
We hung out for most of the time together.
As I recall it was getting close to the midnight hour for New Year's Eve.
That's when I suppose he took me by the hand and took me out to the front of the boat,
out under the bow of the boat.
In my mind, it was at that midnight hour, I'm not certain that it was, but in my mind
it was a new year's eve kiss.
And I standing on the bow of this floating gay bar riverboat on Ohio River with snow
swirling all around us, I couldn't imagine anything much more romantic than that.
Well, there is a downside to the snow, however, because by the time we finally got back into
shore, it was a really coming down and there was no way we can get back to Louisville,
Kentucky.
It's about a two hour and ten minute drive under regular circumstances, Problem is, obviously,
I have to call home and tell my parents, you know.
I did.
An older gentlemen got us a hotel room, which was very kind of him.
We piled into this this one room in a hotel.
I had to call my parents and tell them I wasn't coming home.
I still, I could hear, my mother answered the phone, but I could hear my father in the
background, "What the hell is he doing in Cincinnati?"
So I don't remember exactly what I told them.
Something to the effect of well, you know, the party wasn't going well and my friends
had some friends in Cincinnati and there was a party in Cincinnati so we just decided to
go there.
Of course, nothing about a gay riverboat.
So that was my job my first gay kiss on New Year's Eve in the snow on the bow of a riverboat
on the Ohio River.
To be in a place where I was surrounded by nothing but other gay men was monumental for
me.
You know, it's like, you know, a flower finding it soil.
I had understood that this was my environment and the proverbial duck to water.
I just - I felt at home, you know.
When you feel misplaced because you don't quite fit in and then suddenly you're in an
environment where you do fit and everybody is there supporting you and you're supporting
them - it was a watershed moment for me.
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Late 1980s: "When I Think I Have A Problem, I Think Back To That Time For Randy." - Duration: 8:01.
It was the mid-to-late 80s and my best friend Randy had been sick for quite a while.
It was clear he was dying.
We'd lived together in Louisville, we'd live together in Chicago, we'd lived together
in San Francisco.
We were always best friends, never lovers.
But he stayed in San Francisco, I moved to Boston.
So we had a coast-to-coast friendship at that point.
He was living out there with his boyfriend at the time, but his boyfriend was not capable
of taking care of Randy in his advanced stages of AIDS.
So I flew out to the West Coast to help him wrap things up and essentially take him back
home to Louisville to die.
This was what so many gay people faced at the time.
We set Warren up in a new apartment, got him all situated, moved all of Randy's things
in there, and then Randy and I set off for Louisville.
As we waited to board, I made a tactical error.
We should have boarded first but because he was moving so slowly at that point, we waited
till the end.
As we boarded the flight, the first thing that registered to me was the horrified look
on the flight attendants' faces.
This was San Francisco in the late 80s.
Clearly, Randy didn't have one of the acceptable diseases like cancer, leukemia, he had AIDS.
There was no question about it.
It was a time when people didn't really understand the disease or how it was spread.
So we turned to go down the aisle and it seemed like every face on that plane was watching
us.
When we got to our aisle, our row, the gentleman in the aisle seat got up and made way for
us to sit down.
I quickly grabbed his barfbag and put it in my pocket because I wanted to make sure I
was prepared.
I needn't have worried, he didn't return.
He found some place else to sit on the plane.
I remember looking at Randy sitting in his window seat, all hunched over.
This was a man who was four years my junior who at this point looked 40 years my senior.
This shriveled, little, old man sitting next to me, I could hardly believe was my friend
Randy.
Got him to Louisville and he went right into the hospital with pneumocystis.
Usually, when that happens, when you were that far advanced with pneumocystis, it's
the end.
He had a wonderfully supportive family, terrific people, and we were all in the hospital room
constantly with him.
And I remember sitting at his side and looking into his eyes and wondering when - how many
minutes were left.
He was looking at me and a tear escaped out of his eye and I wiped it off with my finger,
and then I looked down at my finger and remembered that I had a papercut on that same finger.
And the thought that - oh my God - could I contract HIV from a tear from my best friend's
eye?
It was like this horrible treasonous thought, and yet I did remember wiping it off on my
pants leg and feeling much smaller for the action of doing that.
He was days from dying and then all of a sudden, as happened with this disease, he suddenly
started getting better.
He was responding to whatever treatment they were giving him.
The pneumocystis went away.
He started getting better.
He started getting stronger.
I went back to Boston.
He stayed with his parents.
He was getting better and better and better.
At the same point, Warren, out in San Francisco, his boyfriend that we had set up in the apartment,
was diagnosed with AIDS.
So Randy picks up and moves back to San Francisco to take care of Warren this time.
And Warren wasn't the fighter that Randy was, so Warren went downhill really fast.
So Randy moved into the apartment that we had rented for Warren, and all of Randy's
things were in there.
During their relationship, Randy had asked many times about his family.
And he said, "I have nothing to do my family."
He said, "They're bible-thumping Christians from Southern California."
And that's all Randy knew about them.
Well, unfortunately, when Warren took a turn for the worse in the hospital, the hospital
had next-of-kin information and phoned the parents in Southern California, who didn't
even know their son was gay, that he was dying of AIDS.
So the mother and sister came up from Southern California.
Didn't want to even know that Randy existed, but they moved into the apartment with Randy.
And one day, when he was out, they locked him out.
They had the locks changed and locked him out of his own apartment that he had rented
for Warren, full of all his own things.
To make matters worse, one day when Randy was there - like I said, you never knew whether
death was imminent or whether someone was going to bounce back - and he left Warren
one evening when he was still alive and as well as could be expected.
And Warren died that night.
They notified the parents, the parents came - or the mother and sister came for the body.
Loaded up a U-Haul with all of Randy's belongings and disappeared into Southern California,
and left Randy, with AIDS, with a dead and vanished lover, and homeless.
I think sometimes, when I think I have a problem, I think back to that time for Randy and the
strength and fortitude that it took for him.
I remember being in Boston when all of this happened.
There was nothing I could do for him.
A friend took him in.
He stayed out in California and continued to do okay.
We'd talk on the phone every day.
I remember talking to him and he said, "I don't know what to do with my life.
I'm feeling better.
I don't know if I am going to live.
I don't know if I'm going to die."
I said, "This is Sunday night.
What do you usually do with your Sunday nights?"
I knew the answer to this.
He said, "Well, Warren and I would always go to the beer bust at the Eagle."
I said, "Go to the beer bust at the Eagle.
Do something normal."
"Okay," he said, "I'm going to go to the Eagle and I'm going to wear my white
oxford cloth shirt and jeans and penny loafers."
Because that was his favorite outfit and Warren would never let him wear that to the Eagle.
He went to the Eagle and he's standing out there among all that leather and jeans.
And across that crowded space, he sees a man in a white oxford cloth shirt, jeans and penny
loafers.
And there's this instant attraction.
His name is Art.
He went home with Art and spent of his life with Art, until he died.
And then Art died two years later.
It was an incredibly cruel story that, apart from dying, had a very happy ending because
he was loved and cared for for the last two years of his life by a man who absolutely
adored him who he absolutely adored.
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Early 1980s: Fear Of Death "Gave Me A New Freedom That I'd Never Had Before." - Duration: 4:10.
In the early 80s, people started dying all around you.
If you were gay, people were dying.
I started having friends getting sick and dying one after the other.
You couldn't avoid it.
If you were out and gay in the 80s, this was happening all around you.
I think a lot of people don't realize there was no HIV test for quite some time, so you
never knew whether you had it or not.
And I made the assumption that with friends dying all around me, I'd be next.
Anything that they'd done, I'd done.
No one really knew exactly what was causing this, but I knew that I was in maybe the last
year of my life or so.
I was certain of it.
It actually gave me a new freedom that I'd never had before.
A freedom that was based in the fear of dying but then also - maybe not even the fear of
dying, just the reality of dying.
Everybody else was dying, so my turn - it was just a matter of time.
So I dramatically changed my life.
So I quit my job, sold the BMW and changed my life dramatically and started my own little
business, store design business, and it actually started going quite well.
I was surprised at that.
What was more surprising was that I wasn't getting sick, which was good news, but I kind
of changed my life to accommodate dying soon, and it seemed like I wasn't dying.
Eventually, when the HIV test was developed, I still didn't take it because there was
no treatment.
So what was the use of knowing if there was no treatment?
So I still didn't want to know.
But it gave me an appreciation for life in the moment that I hadn't had before.
It was always about planning.
I was very driven in my early career.
I had to be a vice president by the time I was 30, and I was a vice president by the
time I was 30.
I had to have this, I had to have that.
I had a great apartment, I thought, in Chicago, but ended up in Boston, so then I lived in
a beautiful apartment in Beacon Hill in Boston.
All these things that I thought were important suddenly weren't important anymore because
of what I had to do in my lifestyle to support all of that.
So then I shifted my lifestyle and I found out I could still keep the apartment in Beacon
Hill.
I didn't want the BMW anymore because owning a BMW in Boston - which means "Break My
Window" - was a nightmare.
So I learned a lot about living in the present, because that's all you have, really, if
you're convinced that you have no future.
Eventually when I did finally take the test, I was HIV negative.
So it seemed that while everyone else was dying, I wasn't going to.
So I again sort of adjusted my life, but never went back to the insecurity of having to have
a real job and I thought, I'm going to stay self-employed.
I lived really for today and as long as I felt I was taking care of today, tomorrow
would be fine.
And when I get to tomorrow, I'll deal with tomorrow as today.
So that was really the gift that AIDS gave me.
It took an awful lot away, an awful lot of friends, loved ones.
I miss them all today.
But the one thing that it gave me was the ability and the understanding of living life
in the moment and living today for today.
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Post-It Note Snaps Man Out Of Grief: "The Laughter Was As Uncontrollable As The Crying." - Duration: 7:12.
My partner Chase died October 23, 1993, which was 10 years to the day that we met.
I had, after that point, sort of receded behind the walls of our Beacon Hill apartment.
Having lost Chase, my best friend Randy, and dozens of friends before them left me with
sort of a paralyzing numbness.
I cried all my tears and packed it away for the winter, you know, behind those walls,
and really just stopped feeling anything.
You know, feeling was just too difficult at that time.
I had Chase's body cremated and I'd gotten several notices from the crematorium to pick
up Mr. Leon's ashes.
I just couldn't do it.
I guess it was the finality of the situation but I just couldn't make myself go out into
the cold, brutal Boston fall/winter and pick those ashes up, so they just stayed where
they were.
They were in four boxes because Chase had requested that his ashes be disposed of in
four different places.
I could foresee a future where I was going to have to divide ashes into four and I wanted
no part of such a thing, so I asked them to do that.
So they were holding those four boxes in South Boston somewhere and I was doing my best to
just avoid the whole ash situation.
Christmas was approaching and, as I said, I was just so depressed.
Christmas is my favorite time of year.
I was always of the "If it doesn't move, decorate it" school of decorating, crazy
with Christmas.
Chase wasn't as much so, but he enjoyed the fact that I enjoyed it so much.
Well, it was just me and I started realizing I didn't buy any Christmas presents that
year, I didn't bake any cookies, I just didn't do all the things that gave me so
much joy usually.
When I realized I wasn't going to have a Christmas tree, I got even worse.
I had never had a Christmas without a Christmas tree and I thought, well, that's what you're
going to do for yourself.
Go out and get a Christmas tree.
So I went out and got a Christmas tree.
I put it up, started decorating.
I had all of the boxes of stuff out.
I had carols on.
I had mulled cider.
If I planned ahead, I may would have invited people over and it would have been better,
but I hadn't.
So I wouldn't have been there, wallowing in self-pity, but that's just what I was
doing - wallowing in self-pity.
I remember just getting partially done and I just sat down on the chair, ornaments in
hand and surrounded by this mess.
I don't know how long I'd been that way and the doorbell rang.
I couldn't imagine who it was, but we had a garden apartment so I had to go outside
into the garden and open the big gate that I'd been hiding behind for months.
There was this skinny man, all dressed in black, of course, with - a Dickensian-looking
man, right out of central casting for somebody who would be told to bring ashes.
There were four boxes in his hands and I recognized them immediately.
Chase's ashes.
So I walked back into the house and closed the door and sat down where I was before the
doorbell rang, with those four boxes.
They were all like little cubes about that big, four of them, just resting heavily in
my lap.
All of that pent up grief that I'd just been storing just all came out at that moment.
At possibly the worst moment of my life, through the bleariness of all this crying, I looked
down at those boxes, just holding them in my arms, and I noticed a little yellow Post-It
note on top of one of them.
I just kind of wiped my eyes and read it.
Clearly it was meant to be removed before the boxes were delivered.
It said, "Deliver four boxes of Leon to Michael Anastasio."
This struck me as funny.
In the midst of all that crying, Chase had a great sense of the absurd, and all of a
sudden, it was like I was seeing that note through his eyes.
"Deliver four boxes of Leon."
That was his last name, Chase Leon.
Four boxes of Leon.
All of a sudden, I started chuckling.
And then I started laughing.
And then suddenly, the laughter was as uncontrollable as the crying had been.
It was like I had released so much grief that all of a sudden, this one little post-it note
that some little office worker must've written out and stuck on there saved my life.
I think probably what it did was it resurrected him for a minute because I saw the note through
his eyes.
Four boxes of him.
Just the thought of four boxes of Chase - too funny.
I looked around that room and - it may sound corny or whatever - but it was like everything
in that room came to life suddenly.
There was so much death and dying and sadness in that room, and then all of a sudden, it
just sparkled with life.
Everything, everything that I saw, it was just like he was in every molecule around
me.
It was just this beautiful experience where suddenly everything had been about death and
suffering, now everything was life.
I got out the prettiest wrapping paper that I had, wrapped all of them - very good gift
wrapper - wrapped them all.
Best ribbon that I had and tied them up and made these beautiful, four beautiful bows,
and I put those four boxes of Leon under the Christmas tree.
And that was my Christmas that year.
It was that little Post-It note.
I'm not sure what I would've done without that little Post-It note, but it changed everything
for me and it seemed like that was my hurdle.
I had to get rid of that grief somehow, and those four boxes arriving - you know, if I
was looking for something to pick things up, getting for boxes of your deceased lover's
ashes while you are decorating a Christmas tree is not going to cheer you up, but the
Post-It note did.
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1971: Drag Queens In Louisville "Widened My Scope Of What I Was Comfortable With." - Duration: 6:42.
I went to school at University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky.
So it would have been around 1970, 71.
And it had a gay bar - The Living Room - that I knew I had to get into that gay bar somehow.
I met a guy that was very clever at changing license - driver's license birthdates.
So he worked on mine and made me 21 years old, even though I was only - maybe I was
19 by then.
So I get to go to my first gay bar.
The gay bar was on Main Street - that's where the front door was.
I don't think anyone ever used the front door of that bar because it was on Main Street.
The back faced a parking area which was dark, and that's where everyone parked.
And the first thing that I found out was - I was driving - he instructed me to back the
car into the wall because he said - we didn't have front license plates in those days in
Kentucky, we only had rear license plates - you had to back the license plate up to
the building so that it couldn't be read because police would apparently ride down
behind the gay bar and take down the license numbers and put you on the list of suspected
homosexuals.
This was terrifying to me because the car that I was driving was registered to my father,
whose name is also Michael, just like mine.
So I could see something really terrible would happen, so I would always make sure that that
license plate couldn't be read.
So I go into the gay bar for my first time, and in those days the gay bars were usually
a Paris whorehouse motif, or an English hunt motif, or a Cowboy bunkhouse, you know, that
sort of thing, on the main level.
And then they always had a floor upstairs or downstairs, and whichever one it was was
where the dancing was and the shows, if they happen to have drag shows.
And so it was at The Living Room where I met my first drag queens.
My two best buddies were like the Mutt and Jeff of drag queens.
Wilfred was about, I'd say, 6-foot-4, African American.
Couldn't've weighed more than 150 lbs.
I don't know what it is about tall guys who want to go in drag, but always, you know,
it seems like the taller you are, the more likely it is you're going to want to be
in drag.
And then his little buddy, who I think's name was Leo, was about 5-4, also African
American.
And they were just - I was fascinated by these two because I'd never met any drag queens,
and in or out of drag, they were a hoot.
So I remember one time when Wilfred said he had something very special planned where he
was doing a show.
He said that I had to be there that night, so I showed up that night.
It was probably 1970 and the Broadway show "Pearly" was on Broadway, a musical.
And there was a number from it called - I hadn't heard it before - called "I Got
Love" that Melba Moore sang.
So Wilfred's on stage with a tiny spotlight just on his head and starts out very quiet,
very slow, "He thinks I'm afraid," you know, it's very soft.
And all of a sudden, it's one of those songs, it's Broadway, one of those songs that just
blows out into this, "I got love, I got love, I got love."
I had never seen such a performance before.
I had seen drag queens perform and they were just up there lip-syncing, but this was a
flat-out performance.
It changed my idea of what drag performances could be.
He was very good.
So that was a fun experience that I had with Wilfred and his "I Got Love" performance.
I also learned from them the bane of existence for a drag queen in those days, especially
if you're a big drag queen like Wilfred, was getting shoes that fit.
Nowadays I'm sure it's easy with the internet and that, but big feet, little women's shoes.
I learned the terms "shrimp" and "biscuit."
"Shrimp" was when your foot was too big and it curled over the ends of the shoes and
it looked like shrimp.
And then, with the sandal back, with the heel that hung over the back, and that was "biscuit."
And to this day, I've never forgotten those terms because they're so descriptive, you
know, "shrimp" and "biscuit."
And they would talk about each other, "Oh she's giving us much shrimp and biscuit."
But they did - my drag queen association in those days really kind of open my eyes to
a world and accepting people in the gay world who were so different from the way I was,
and appreciating them and enjoying them and just, again, widening my scope of what I was
comfortable with.
Often times, I hear, you know, in the gay world, "Oh, this person's too nelly."
I think sometimes, within the gay world, we tend to group maybe a little bit too closely
together with certain subgroups within the gay world.
I'm so happy that my horizons were expanded at a young age and I came to realize that
being gay is not monolithic.
We're not all the same.
The same-sex attraction, maybe, the same - but within that, there's so many different types.
Watch a gay pride parade and you can see that.
Every type you can imagine.
And so I think that it's - the important part of that story to me is just the level
of acceptance of other gay people who aren't like me.
So I think that's probably the most important thing.
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Rockwell B-1 Lancer - US Supersonic Heavy Strategic Bomber [Review] - Duration: 7:31.The Rockwell B-1 Lancer is a supersonic variable-sweep wing, heavy bomber used by the United States
Air Force. It is commonly called the "Bone". It is one of three strategic bombers in the
USAF fleet as of 2017, the other two being the B-2 Spirit "Stealth Bomber", and the B-52
Stratofortress.
In the early 1990s, following the Gulf War and concurrent with the disestablishment of
SAC and its reassignment to the newly formed Air Combat Command, the B-1B was converted
to conventional bombing use. It first served in combat during Operation Desert Fox in 1998
and again during the NATO action in Kosovo the following year. The B-1B has supported
U.S. and NATO military forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. The USAF had 66 B-1Bs in service
as of September 2012. The B-1B is expected to continue to serve into the 2030s, with
the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider to begin replacing the B-1B after 2025. The B-1s currently
in inventory will reach the end of their service lives by 2045.
Unlike the B-1A, the B-1B cannot reach Mach 2+ speeds; its maximum speed is Mach 1.25
or 1,530 km/h, but its low-level speed increased to Mach 0.92 or 1,130 km/h. The speed of the
current version of the aircraft is limited by the need to avoid damage to its structure
and air intakes. To help lower its radar cross section, the B-1B uses serpentine air intake
ducts and fixed intake ramps, which limit its speed compared to the B-1A. Vanes in the
intake ducts serve to deflect and shield radar emissions from the highly reflective engine
compressor blades.
The B-1's main computer is the IBM AP-101, which is also used on the Space Shuttle orbiter
and the B-52 bomber. The computer is programmed with the JOVIAL programming language.
The B-1's defensive electronics include the Eaton AN/ALQ-161A radar warning and defensive
jamming equipment, which has three sets of antennas; one at the front base of each wing
and the third rear-facing in the tail radome. Also in the tail radome is the AN/ALQ-153
missile approach warning system.
Beginning in 2014, the B-1 was used by the U.S. against the Islamic State in the Syrian
Civil War. From August 2014 to January 2015, the B-1 accounted for eight percent of USAF
sorties during Operation Inherent Resolve. The 9th Bomb Squadron was deployed to Qatar
in July 2014 to support missions in Afghanistan, but when the air campaign against IS began
on 8 August, the aircraft were employed in Iraq. During the Battle of Kobane in Syria,
the squadron's B-1s dropped 660 bombs over 5 months in support of Kurdish forces defending
the city, one-third of all bombs used during OIR during the period, killing some 1,000
ISIL fighters. The 9th Bomb Squadron's B-1s went "Winchester", dropping all weapons on
board, 31 times during their deployment. They dropped over 2,000 JDAMs during the 6-month
rotation. B-1s from the 28th Bomb Wing flew 490 sorties where they dropped 3,800 munitions
on 3,700 targets during a six-month deployment. In February 2016, the B-1s were sent back
to the U.S. for cockpit upgrades.
As part of a USAF organizational realignment announced in April 2015, all B-1B aircraft
are to be reassigned from Air Combat Command to Global Strike Command effective 1 October
2015.
On 8 July 2017, the USAF flew two B-1 Lancers near the North Korean border in a show of
force amid increasing tensions, particularly in response to North Korea's 4 July test of
an ICBM capable of reaching Alaska.
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS: Crew:
4 (aircraft commander, copilot, offensive systems officer, and defensive systems officer)
Height: 10.4 m Wing area: 181.2 m²
Empty weight: 87,100 kg Loaded weight: 148,000 kg
Max. takeoff weight: 216,400 kg
Fuel capacity, optional: 37,900 L fuel tank each in 1–3 internal
weapons bays
Powerplant:4 × General Electric F101-GE-102 augmented turbofans
Dry thrust: 77.4 kilonewton each Thrust with afterburner: 136.92 kilonewton
each
PERFORMANCE: Maximum speed:
At altitude: Mach 1.25 or 1,340 km/h at 12,000 m altitude
At low level: Mach 0.92 or 1,100 km/h at 60–150 m altitude
Range: 9,400 km Combat radius: 5,543 km
Service ceiling: 18,000 m Rate of climb: 1,731 m/min
Wing loading: 816 kg/m² Thrust/weight: 0.38
ARMAMENT:
Hardpoints: 6 external hardpoints for 23,000 kg of ordnance
and 3 internal bomb bays for 34,000 kg of ordnance.
Bombs: 84× Mk-82 Air inflatable retarder general
purpose bombs 81× Mk-82 low drag general purpose bombs
84× Mk-62 Quickstrike sea mines 24× Mk-84 general purpose bombs and others..
Previously up to 24× B61 or B83 nuclear bombs could be carried.
Number built: B-1A: 4
B-1B: 100
Unit cost: US $283.1 million
in 1998 (B-1B)
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Effective Leadership to Rapid Growth - Duration: 4:34.
Let's talk about leadership. Leadership it's such a cliche word it's a word that
people are so sick of hearing because it's been around forever and there's
lots of books and people that teach and talk about it that don't really
understand what goes into creating an extraordinary brand a world-class team
and a group of people that perform at a level that no one ever believed possible
but when you truly understand the meaning of leadership and you commit to
it as a way of life I'm talking about in your family at home in your community in
the way that you run your teen division or even your company it has the power to
help you achieve all of your goals and dreams and today's quick tip I'm going
to be talking about leadership as your core business growth strategy and how it
can help you to achieve massive growth in this next year so if you are someone
that wants to achieve big leaps in your growth in your income and your profits
in the coming year I want you to put leadership front and center in your plan
for how you're going to get there and what I want you to be thinking about as
it relates to leadership is not only having the right people and believing
and and making it enough of a core focus in your business to make sure you have
your seats filled with people that are competent capable and invested in
achieving the goals in each opportunity and each role that you have and that you
need but also that you're investing every single day in becoming a better
leader I always say a company begins with a culture of one and what that
means is one person in a company has the power to transform and create waves that
go out for miles about how that company operates how that team or division
performs and how each individual person that they touch and interact with invest
or doesn't invest in the growth and the profits and hitting the goals within
that team or company so if you'd like to see much better performance from your
people I want you to personally invest in becoming a better leader what we
don't realize a lot of times is most of the things that were frustrated about
with our teams come back to us unfortunately fortunately I've put
together an immense amount of training for you some
amazing audios and PDFs and videos that are going to help you get ten times
better results with the people that you're interacting with whether they're
contractors full-time part-time you name it and you can get that by texting in
big ROI to four four two two two it's all one word all you do is pull up the
text message function on your phone you type in big ROI in the comments as far
as what the message is and then you put four or four two two two as the person
that you're sending it to when you do that you're gonna be asked to send in
your email as a response and then we will begin to send you these amazing
resources I've heard from people that in as little as a day when they started
listening to these trainings that they could see the interactions on their team
changing the feedback the investment level and you can too so textin big ROI
two four four two two two two get a hold of those trainings now here's the thing
that culture of one that I mentioned earlier can begin with something as
simple as simple as you making a commitment to becoming a better leader
by focusing on better communication more open collaboration with your team
showing them how much you believe in them trust them and know that they can
achieve the goals at hand and giving them the space and autonomy to do that
while also holding them accountable and I want to mention holding them
accountable because this is one of the things that I find business owners and
leaders struggle with the most what you follow up and follow through on is what
your team is going to see as important so when you roll things out and then you
don't consistently follow up on them your team perceives that as something
that is no longer important to you so make sure you truly understand the most
important things that you want to achieve and that you're following up
with your team on that daily or at least weekly so that you're planning the scene
consistently in their mind as to what is important where does my focus need to go
and so that they have a clear interpretation of what the priorities
are this is the biggest tip I can get from I can give to you in terms of
seeing an immediate performance improvement in the people that work for
you now if you want more tips just like this
you can text in big ROI two four four two two two but remember
one of the number one things that needs to be in your business growth strategy
for next year is a focus on leadership thanks so much
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Can I File Chapter 13 To Save My Home After Filing Chapter 7? - Duration: 2:08.
I just got a discharge in Chapter 7. So, I've gotten rid of all those bad, unsecured
debts, but I'm nervous because my home is in foreclosure. Can I file a Chapter 13 now
to save my home? My name is Ron Drescher. I'm an attorney practicing bankruptcy and
creditor's rights. Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, and the good news is almost
everywhere you go, you are allowed to do that. We call that Chapter 20 in the bankruptcy
world. Plus, you've done a Chapter 7, now you're going to add a Chapter 13 and 7+13
is 20, and it's typically a valid and legitimate way to deal with your problems. Why might
you do this instead of doing a Chapter 13 in the first place? Well, your debt may exceed
the debt limits that are allowed in Chapter 13 and, so you get rid of those debts and then
you qualify for Chapter 13 and so then you can go ahead and file it and save your home.
Sometimes, you don't think you're going to need to do a Chapter 13 cause you're working
on a loan modification with your servicer and you think that's going to go through but
then it turns out for whatever reason it doesn't go through. So, you need to do the Chapter 13,
so you can cure the arrears over 36 to 60 months and enjoy the benefits that you get from the
automatic stay in Chapter 13. My name is Ron Dresher. I'm an attorney practicing bankruptcy
and creditor's rights and if you are kind of confused about whether you should file
a Chapter 7 or a Chapter 13 or first one then the other, please pick up the phone and
call me. I would love to hear from you.
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DIY výroba vianočného mydla |AurelRaw - Duration: 1:57.
*music*
Hi guys, welcome back to my channel
And today I am gonna show you how 2 make original xmas soap
we´ll need white glycerin, some jar, needles and xmas essencial tea
Put your needles into the jar a throw the glycerin on it
After putting it into the fridge put on that one more sheet of white glycerin
Then put your xmas tea to the remaining glycerin a put it into the jar
we´ll create buetifull ombré effect
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Izamal (The Yellow City)- Yucatan's Most Beautiful Pueblo ? - Duration: 10:15.
What is going on members of the Barrio
Jon coming to you from our Airbnb in Merida, Mexico
And we are running a little bit late
We're about to take our first guided tour of this trip
In the Yucatan
We're going to be going to a spot called Izamal
Which is a colonial city
It's one of those Pueblo Magico's
Really really amazing spots to visit
In Mexico
This is going to be through GetYourGuide.com
So if you want to take the exact tour we're about to take
I'm going to put all the information in the description
Down below
I think the vans here
We've got to get going
Took us about 1 hour
We have made it to Izamal
The Yellow City
And as you saw in some of those shots
Absolutely everything here is painted yellow
Before we tour the actual city itself
We're going to stop at a pyramid here
Our guide told us that it would be best to do it
Earlier in the day
We also have some cloud cover
I think this is an excellent idea
We're going right there
They have their own pyramid
In the city itself
Kinich Kak Moo
First impression of the city
It's beautiful
It's beautiful with all the yellow everywhere
It's like in the photos we saw right
It's exactly like every picture
This site is even older than Chichanitza and Uxmal
Older than Chichanitza and Uxmal and probably a lot of people have never heard of it
Izamal is considered a magic town in the country
And the first that was declared as a Magic Town
In 2001.
Look we just missed the lizard
Iguana.
Remember we did that video
You saw. What's the Mayan word for Iguana?
Tolok.Tolok.
There's one constant with all of these vlogs in the Yucatan
It's ruins
Lots and lots of ruins
Everywhere
And I don't know if I was expecting to walk this much
And climb this much
At this point in the morning
But we are going to do it
We are going to climb that pyramid Right in front of us
These steps don't bother me
It's those steps up there that could be a little bit of a problem
So..
Which way to the top?
Hands, hands.
Look folks this is how you climb an old Mayan pyramid
Just like that
Made it.
Wahoo.
This is what you get from the top
We're going to the gym later
You wish
We broke a pretty good sweat
Just climbing up and down
Now we're going to head to the town
To start touring Izamal
As you can see, everything in this city is Yellow
And our guide Josue was saying the reason is because
Pope John Paul The Second
Visited here in 1993
And after that
Everything was painted yellow
In honor of that visit
This is one of those towns
Where if you have a camera
You just can not put it down
Period
We've entered the convent
Here in town
And when you google Izamal
You 100% first will see
This iconic structure
Yellow everywhere
And as I just spin around
Very very peaceful
Nice place to be
And it seems like something is about to happen
You can hear, people are starting to play instruments
Let's go find out
They are shooting fireworks here
We have stumbled onto something going on
El VIP. They set this up for me?
Didn't they?
Oh yeah for sure.
You set this up for me?
You guys set this up?
VIP VIP
Fireworks.. crazy things going on everywhere
Guys let's go
Alright now Adriana is going to explain
Exactly what you guys just saw
Their is a virgin called
The Lady Of Izamal
And from November 19th to December 11th
I think
It's their celebration
So they are having activities every day
And this one was one of them
If you see this video in time.
Apparently December 8th
Is the big day here
Try to come to Izamal on December 8th
For the most festivities
Now I understand why they had all of the festivities
Set up outside the carnival
Like atmosphere
Right now we're going to try to walk to a local market
To find something sweet to eat
I was just kidding
We're not going to eat something sweet
We're actually going to eat something
Unique instead
Deer tacos
Taco de Venado
I did get that pronunciation right, Taco De Venado
Yes.
Perfecto.
It tastes like Beef.
But maybe more tender.
And what did you get a Panucho
A Panucho. Of course
Now we're going to take a romantic carriage ride
Around Izamal
I know Adriana is so excited about this right?
Yes.
We just put the top down
Now we're riding in our carriage convertible
Our pink cadillac
Yeah
I thought Merida was laid back
I think Izamal is 5x more laid back than Merida
Minus that loud motorcycle
Our 30 minute carriage ride is over
It's actually included in the price of the tour
Just another reason to take this tour
And actually getting to see more of the city
From the carriage was neat
I also would recommend
Biking around here
I think if you rented a bike you could see probably about the same amount of stuff we saw
On the carriage
Last stop on this tour is going to be lunch
Also included in the package
Hola
This where the tomato from the salsa comes from
And all the meat is grilled right here
Muchos gracias
We're starting with your favorite
Sopa de Lima
Yes
We are eating as much sopa as we can
Because we won't find it anywhere else in the country
Very difficult to find sopa de lima
Outside of the Yucatan
Our food has arrived
And it is very Yucatecan
Obviously as you can tell by this place
I got Pok Chok
And she has filet? Filete
Filete.
Both are pork dishes
Let's take a look
I've heard of Pok Chok but I've never actually had it before
And we were showing you the lady making it before
And here is Adriana's
We'll try both
It's really good
I was going to give you some but..
No?
First bite of Pok Chok
Very good, very tender
I'm not usually the biggest pork fan
When it comes to eating it outside of a taco
But the little orange on top
They grilled it just a few minutes ago
In that other room
This is excellent
It's always fun filming yourself in a crowded restaurant
People here must think i'm the biggest Narcissist ever
That's Jon doing nothing
And this is Adriana
Si?
Is that what you just said?
Yes. Exactly
Alright members of the Barrio
I'm not someone that normally enjoys taking tours
I prefer to do things myself
I'm a pretty independent traveler
But in this case
It was actually nice having Josue with us
The entire day
Driving us from Merida
Back and forth
Giving us some of the history around this place
And that restaurant
Was probably the best Yucatecan Food
I've had so far
And i'm not just saying that
Because it was included in the tour
I actually didn't think
It would be that good
If you want to take this tour to Izamal
I'm going to leave a link in the description
You can do the exact same tour with GetYourGuide.Com
This city is absolutely beautiful
You can even take your own time , come here.
Don't do a tour. And just walk around.
Whatever is easier for you
Hope you enjoyed all the footage
Thank you so much for watching
And remember
All of my videos in the Yucatan
Are going on my Yucatan Playlist
So try to check them all out when you get a chance
Appreciate it.
Take care guys
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