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Conor McGregor is one of the most dominant fighters alive.

A two-division champion in UFC, McGregor now finds himself as the king of combat sports, living a lavish life and getting ready for the biggest fight of his career 12 rounds in a boxing ring against the undefeated Floyd "Money" Mayweather and the likely nine-figure payday that will come with it.

But while McGregor is a natural to the superstar life, it wasn't something he was born into. Coming from a working-class family from the suburbs of Dublin, McGregor found his way through childhood gyms, a stint as a plumber's apprentice, and eventual worldwide fame as the most "Notorious" fighter on the planet, and the biggest name in the UFC.

Below we take a look a McGregor's rise to the top of the world.

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Buying a pair of jeans these days is a lot different than it used to be. Sure, you can find some basic denim if thats what youre into, but theres also plenty of weird AF types of pants to choose from. Were still not over Topshops clear knee jeans (just in case you wanted to show off your kneecaps but maybe not get them wet?) or the bare butt jeans from Vetements, providing easy access to your booty at all times.

It seems as though ASOS has hopped on the bizarre jeans trend, as they recently introduced their high waisted straight leg jeans with open back and theyre exactly what they sound like. The pants have a half-moon shaped cutout in the back (with a line of fabric down the middle), pretty much guaranteeing that youll sport a stylish plumber's crack wherever you may go.

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We have just one question about these pants. OK, scratch that, we have a lot of questions. But the biggest mystery seems to be: If were showing off our butts in our jeans now, does that mean we need butt facials? Or at least a DIY butt skin-care routine? Wait what Instagram filter looks best on the butt? Ugh, this is stressful.

Fortunately, weve already put together a guide for dealing with butt acne (AKA buttne). Some of the go-to tips recommended by dermatologists? Avoid tight-fitting clothing (especially while sweating), dont over-scrub, and rely on gentle exfoliants to keep your skin smooth and hydrated.

If youre brave enough to try these latest butt-jeans, you can snag em for$60 on ASOSs website. Of course, all butts are perfect the way they are, but if you happen to find out which Insta filter gets your booty the most likes, be sure to let us know.

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In the space of four short years, Conor McGregor has grown accustomed to the trappings of luxury that have accompanied his rise through the ranks of mixed martial arts.

But the 29-year-old multi-millionaire Irishman, who faces Floyd Mayweather in a cross-combat superfight on Saturday, insists he has never forgotten his humble beginnings.

Hand-to-mouth existence

Until he was discovered and signed by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in 2013, McGregor was eking out a hand-to-mouth existence.

The former apprentice plumber was on the dole as he attempted to make a name for himself on the Irish mixed martial arts circuit.

Its mind-blowing. But I never forget the struggles. I never forget where I came from. I never ever forget the hard times, McGregor says.

When things were really bad I didnt have a pot to piss in. Really, nothing. Im not a stupid guy and it was hard standing in the dole queue.

McGregors life now, as he contemplates Saturdays bout with Mayweather, could not be more different.

Private jets, tailor-made suits and multi-million-dollar purses feature regularly in his life.

He owns a luxury yacht which he christened The 188 a reference to the amount of his 188 weekly benefits cheque before his career took off.

I pinch myself because I am surrounded by luxury. But make no mistake its luxury built on sacrifice, McGregor explained.

Initially, McGregors family had attempted to steer him away from fighting, encouraging him to work as a plumbers apprentice during his teens.

I hated every minute of it, McGregor recalled. You were talking 14 or 15-hour days.

I was getting ordered around, getting people their lunch, all this crap. I just thought, This life isnt for me, Im going to pack it in. Im going to chase my dreams.

Winning streak

A mixed early start to his career in Ireland was followed by an eight-fight winning streak between 2011 and 2012.

In 2013, UFC chief Dana White signed him to a multi-fight contract and the worlds dominant mixed martial arts circuit had its next star.

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People may grieve in different ways, but Tom McDonalds way of paying tribute to his late friend is especially unique.

McDonalds friend from childhood, Roy Riegel, was a devoted baseball fan and an exceptionally talented plumber. He also passed away in April 2008.

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Originally, the retired New York City transit authority worker had planned on sprinkling his buddys remains on the fields but he soon figured out that he wouldnt be allowed to leave ashes on a baseball green.

So instead of dirtying up the fields, McDonald started depositing his friends ashes in a way that was only fit for a plumber: flushing them down the stadium toilets.

While the tribute may seem a little vulgar, McDonald figures that its a more personal homage to his buddy and its more permanent.

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If you're waiting longer these days to get an appointment with an electrician, plumber or carpenter, don't blame it only on summer vacations.

There's a growing shortage of these skilled workers that perform essential jobs at major construction sites and inside customers' homes. Even in a strengthening economy, more experienced and older trade workers are retiring.

Unfortunately, there aren't enough younger people poised to take their places.

That has to change because left unchecked, this could blossom into an acute skilled worker shortage that touches everyone. It will mean higher costs or delays for those building new office towers, rehabbing houses or merely dealing with annoying, everyday emergencies like clogged toilets and sinks.

Some local schools, unions and companies are working to ease the labor crunch. That's an important mission, and more organizations need to get on board.

"This could be a very large problem," says Mark Klein, co-president of Lincolnshire-based Klein Tools, which makes products for the electrical industry and electricians. "It's a huge supply and demand issue."

A recent survey of more than 600 union and nonunion electricians found that 56 percent said more experienced electricians are leaving the field, compared with 44 percent in 2015, according to an analysis of independent research commissioned by Klein.

What's more, 40 percent of those asked say they are concerned there won't be enough qualified electricians available in the coming years to meet demand.

A similar dynamic is running through plumbing, carpentry and other construction-related trades where the median worker age is over 40 years old and the need for new workers is building, according to the Washington D.C.-based National Association of Home Builders.

Why did this job crunch happen?

The Great Recession and subprime mortgage meltdown of the late 2000s and early 2010s took a toll. The economic disaster meant a loss of nearly 1.5 million construction-related jobs, with hundreds of thousand workers leaving the field for good. Many independent contractors also went out of business.

Those construction businesses that endured didn't spend much-needed cash on mentoring or recruiting new workers. Unions, which also were reeling from related economic hardships, cut back on paid apprenticeships. That kept many young people out of the trade job pipeline.

But there's another hurdle to attracting new workers: lack of exposure to the trades at an early age.

As high school shop classes and other related "build-it-yourself" experiences are being taken out of curricula, students don't get much hands-on exposure to making stuff and problem-solving.

Nor do they get a chance to envision the trades as a career option versus a four-year college degree.

We need to appreciate that some people have a talent for working with their hands and solving those daunting difficulties that come with creating and fixing things.

As someone who has a hard time switching on the snowblower and comes from a family that could repair mostly anything mechanical, I've long admired those abilities.

Lately, there's been a burgeoning effort to recruit younger people to fill these important positions. Increasingly, it's across-the-board with higher education, business and unions stepping up to do the sales pitch that says, barring other Great Recession calamities, an enduring and good-paying career is possible.

Taking part are area community colleges, including the City Colleges of Chicago. The system's Dawson Technical Institute, part of Kennedy-King College, offers programs in carpentry, plumbing, electric line work and more.

In a few weeks, the Chicago-based Plumbers Local 130 is opening a state-of-the-art training center that will expose apprentices to "real world" construction scenarios and plumbing issues. The center also will focus on how to work with "green" technology and rainwater harvesting, says James Coyne, business manager of the 6,000-member local.

For its part, Klein is investing $2 million over five years in union and business programs that develop training, scholarships and an endowment that provides tools to upcoming electricians.

This is all good but it's only a start.

More local unions, companies and educational institutions have to come to the rescue. They must push themselves to be more creative and inclusive than ever before, opening the trades further to women and minorities.

And as Plumbers Local 130 is showing, there's also a need to emphasize new ways of doing the jobs, one that offers greater rewards by stressing emerging environmental and technological advances.

At the same time, it would be great if more experienced workers, retired or not, took a while to mentor and teach students about their crafts sort of what the federal government-backed SCORE volunteer network does to advise small business owners.

Let's get going. We can't wait much longer for a new wave of electricians, plumbers and carpenters to arrive.

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British Dictionary definitions for plumber Expand

a person who installs and repairs pipes, fixtures, etc, for water, drainage, and gas

Word Origin

C14: from Old French plommier worker in lead, from Late Latin plumbrius, from Latin plumbum lead

a weight, usually of lead, suspended at the end of a line and used to determine water depth or verticality

the perpendicular position of a freely suspended plumb line (esp in the phrases out of plumb, off plumb)

(prenominal) (informal, mainly US) (intensifier): a plumb nuisance

in a vertical or perpendicular line

(informal, mainly US) (intensifier): plumb stupid

(informal) exactly; precisely (also in the phrase plumb on)

(transitive) often foll by up. to test the alignment of or adjust to the vertical with a plumb line

(transitive) to undergo or experience (the worst extremes of misery, sadness, etc): to plumb the depths of despair

(transitive) to understand or master (something obscure): to plumb a mystery

to connect or join (a device such as a tap) to a water pipe or drainage system

Word Origin

C13: from Old French plomb (unattested) lead line, from Old French plon lead, from Latin plumbum lead

Word Origin and History for plumber Expand

late 14c. (from c.1100 as a surname), "a worker in any sort of lead" (roofs, gutters, pipes), from Old French plomier "lead-smelter" (Modern French plombier) and directly from Latin plumbarius "worker in lead," noun use of adjective meaning "pertaining to lead," from plumbum "lead" (see plumb (n.)). Meaning focused 19c. on "workman who installs pipes and fittings" as lead water pipes became the principal concern of the trade. In U.S. Nixon administration (1969-74), the name of a special unit for investigation of "leaks" of government secrets.

"lead hung on a string to show the vertical line," early 14c., from Old French *plombe, plomee "sounding lead," and directly from Late Latin *plumba, originally plural of Latin plumbum "lead (the metal), lead ball; pipe; pencil," a word of unknown origin, related to Greek molybdos "lead" (dialectal bolimos) and perhaps from an extinct Mediterranean language, perhaps Iberian.

early 15c., "to sink" (like lead), from plumb (n.). Meaning "take soundings with a plumb" is first recorded 1560s; figurative sense of "to get to the bottom of" is from 1590s. Related: Plumbed; plumbing.

"perpendicular, vertical," mid-15c., from plumb (n.). The notion of "exact measurement" led to extended sense of "completely, downright" (1748), sometimes spelled plump, plum, or plunk.

early 15c., "to sink" (like lead), from plumb (n.). Meaning "take soundings with a plumb" is first recorded 1560s; figurative sense of "to get to the bottom of" is from 1590s. Related: Plumbed; plumbing.

"perpendicular, vertical," mid-15c., from plumb (n.). The notion of "exact measurement" led to extended sense of "completely, downright" (1748), sometimes spelled plump, plum, or plunk.

Slang definitions & phrases for plumber Expand

noun

verb

To botch; ruin: I tho't I plumbered it (1930s+)

adverb

Completely; entirely; stone: What he said was plumb silly

[1748+; fr notions of exact extent and precision associated with the plumb bob or sailor's plumb line (for measuring depth of water), ultimately fr Latin plumbum, ''lead'']

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The driver of a plumbing truck joined a chase involving another pickup Thursday morning on narrow and winding streets northeast of downtown Los Angeles.

The chase began in the Altadena area after officers responded to a man who called authorities from several locations saying that he needed some type of medical assistance. The driver sped away when officers first found him on the 210 Freeway in the San Gabriel Valley.

Officer continued following the driver on the 210 Freeway before he exited onto streets in the Eagle Rock and Glassell Park areas northeast of downtown Los Angeles. The driver came to stop with officers behind him outside a house at about 8:30 a.m., refused to get out, then took off again.

He encountered an unoccupied green and logo-emblazoned pickup belonging to the Right Price Rooter service parked in the middle of the street, but squeezed between the truck and another vehicle to continue into the hillside neighborhood. The plumbing pickup driver could be seen running from a nearby property to the pickup before chasing the driver for several blocks.

NBC4 has reached out to the plumbing service for comment.

The chase eventually came to a stop in the 3100 block of Weldon Avenue and a standoff ensued when the driver entered a house. At least four people were escorted by law enforcement officers from the house. The man's brother told NBC4 he was recently hospitalized and planned to turn himself in, which he did early Thursday afternoon.

"We were there to determine whether he was a danger to himself or others," said LAPD Officer Liliana Preciado.

The driver was arrested on suspicion of felony evading.

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This Southern boy found a new home in North Platte and loves it as much as his hometown.

Albert Kelly was born and raised in South Carolina, but has called North Platte home since 1978.

I was born in a small community called Olympia, right outside the city limits of Columbia, South Carolina, Kelly said. It is a town about the size of Hershey.

His family came from blue-collar stock and were hard workers.

My mom was a homemaker; she kept us under control, Kelly said. My dad was a plumber about 90 percent of the time. We had four or five cotton mills that supported the community and Dad would work in the cotton mills sometimes.

The homes were built by the corporation that owned the cotton mill.

Most of the community was blue-collar labor, Kelly said. Back in those days, thats how it got developed. They called (the workers) Lint Heads. That was from the seeds and cotton and all getting in their hair. So we were proud Lint Heads. We were a proud people.

Kelly said he had three sisters, two older and one younger than him.

After high school, Kelly joined the Air Force and when he got out 10 years later, he decided to move to North Platte.

I got out of the military in 1978 in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and moved here, Kelly said. My wife is from North Platte. She and I were both in the Air Force. Thats where we met, in the Air Force, down in Biloxi, Mississippi.

After Theresa and Al got married, they visited North Platte from time to time.

The first time I came to Nebraska I fell in love with it, Kelly said. I didnt think you could ever see this many miles without a tree.

Theresa and Al agreed to move to North Platte to raise their family.

Because when I found out about North Platte and the state of Nebraska, I said, this is it, Kelly said. Its a good education state, so we raised our children here. We always said when they got big wed head back down South, but here we are.

Kelly took a plumbing apprenticeship job when they moved to North Platte.

I started working for Aupperle Plumbing, Kelly said. The VA paid for him to give me a job and I learned a trade there.

From Aupperles, Kelly worked for North Platte Plumbing and then went to Union Pacific for 3 years.

I got laid off from UP and went to work for the hospital (Great Plains Health), Kelly said. I worked for them for 16 years until I retired on June 23. I was the master plumber there for the hospital in the engineer department.

Theresa and Al have two boys.

One is Albert, hes named after me so we call him Bert, and then Danny is my youngest and he owns his own plumbing shop in North Platte, Kelly said. Bert is in Virginia working for General Dynamics.

The Kellys have three grandchildren.

We have two grandboys my youngest son has two sons and my oldest boy has a girl, Kelly said. We always say shes Gods gift to us because when they were in England they were told they couldnt have any children.

Kelly said his son and daughter-in-law tried and tried and couldnt get pregnant.

So (my son) decided to tell his company he wanted to move back to the United States, and they moved to Virginia, Kelly said. And six months later, his wife was pregnant with a little girl. Shes 5 years old now. God is wonderful.

Kellys favorite hobby is golf.

My oldest son was stationed in England, and when he would come home, he and my youngest son would go golfing, Kelly said. When they did that, Dad didnt go because Dad didnt golf.

So Kelly figured he needed to learn the game.

I figured a good way to spend more time with my kids was to take up golf, Kelly said. And I did and now Im golfing and they dont.

Kellys favorite thing about North Platte is that it is similar to his hometown.

I guess its the small town, the people, Kelly said. You can walk by people and theyll always speak to you. Where I grew up in the South it was like that and thats what made me; every time I think about my home in South Carolina and this being my home in Nebraska, I couldnt ask for a better place.

Kelly rides motorcycle as a hobby as well.

Its hard to say where I would like to go in Nebraska that I havent been to because I ride motorcycle all over the state, Kelly said. Im a member of two groups, the American Legion Riders and then I ride with the Patriot Guard of Nebraska. So, I think Ive visited most of Nebraska.

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Girlfriend tests plumber boyfriend with scantily-clad model whose taps don't work but will he be tempted to cheat? The Sun The footage of his encounter with the honeytrap girl starts when he is sent to a house as part of his plumbing job, believing he is meeting with a customer. When he arrives he is greeted by Alison, a model wearing nothing but underwear and a skimpy robe.

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