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Friends is an American television sitcom, created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which originally aired on NBC from September 22, 1994, to May 6, 2004, lasting ten seasons. Starring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer, the show revolves around six friends living in Manhattan. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television. The original executive producers were Kevin S. Bright, Marta Kauffman, and David Crane.
Kauffman and Crane began developing Friends under the title Insomnia Cafe between November and December 1993. They presented the idea to Bright, and together they pitched a seven-page treatment of the show to NBC. After several script rewrites and changes, including a second title change to Friends Like Us, the series was finally named Friends.
Filming took place at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California. All ten seasons of Friends ranked within the top ten of the final television season ratings; ultimately reaching the No. 1 spot with its eighth season. The series finale on May 6, 2004, was watched by around 52.5 million American viewers, making it the fifth most watched series finale in television history, and the most watched television episode of the 2000s decade.
An arena is an enclosed area, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theater, musical performances, or sporting events. The word derives from Latin harena, a particularly fine/smooth sand used to absorb blood in ancient arenas such as the Colosseum in Rome. It is composed of a large open space surrounded on most or all sides by tiered seating for spectators. The key feature of an arena is that the event space is the lowest point, allowing for maximum visibility. Arenas are usually designed to accommodate a large number of spectators.
The term arena is sometimes used as a synonym for a very large venue such as Pasadena's Rose Bowl, but such a facility is typically called a stadium, especially if it does not have a roof. The use of one term over the other has mostly to do with the type of event. Football (be it association, rugby, or gridiron) is typically played in a stadium while basketball and ice hockey are typically played in an arena, although many of the larger arenas hold more spectators than do the stadiums of smaller colleges or high schools. There are exceptions. The home of the Duke University basketball team would qualify as an arena, but the facility is called Cameron Indoor Stadium. Domed stadiums, which, like arenas, are enclosed but have the larger playing surfaces and seating capacities found in stadiums, are generally not referred to as arenas in North America. There is also the sport of indoor American football (one variant of which is explicitly known as arena football), a variant of the gridiron-based game that is designed for the usual smaller playing surface of most arenas; variants of other traditionally outdoor sports, including box lacrosse and futsal/indoor soccer, also exist.
[Verse One]
Now listen the kid with the new found vision
sound Christian, the old me found missing
I don't miss him I'm on a mission
Commissioned by an Author who's telling iller stories then John Grishom
Mind twistin, you would think it was this then
He's known for flipping the script and giving them something different
For instance isn't death irreversible-
But the instant you're found in Him now it isn't
How terrific how He fixes our afflictions, the epitome of all out altruism
All to Him is going all I have cause all I owe
I don't deserve Him at all y'all I know
All the woes, all the burdens of time
Combined and loaded down on one man's mind
Is all too kind and light of a situation
In light of the one eternal dilemma that man is facing
Try leaving the land of the living
And stand before the Lamb without having your sins forgiven
This is a no win situation, unless you know Him cause then your placed in
Relationship that's safe so when it's all over
Just know that it's just beginning for those who call upon Jehovah
We'll take off this flesh and put on fresh type skin
We don't know what we'll be but we'll be just like Him
Through out all the centuries, all who've fallen to sleep
Whether burned at the stakes or sawn into pieces of lost in the deep
Or tossed into steep pits and left for dead
They'll lift their heads and all get to breath then
Looking back at this life won't even add up
Compared to eternity earth won't even matter
So death is not my enemy anymore, it's only a key to a door
So hit me with a shotty a Maserati a pestilence or sword
Me absent from the body means I'm present with the Lord
[Chorus x2]
If Christ is not risen, we won't rise with Him
If He's not returning, we won't fly with Him
But since He's risen and since He's returning
We'll be living with Him in heaven for eternity
[Verse Two]
The truth has been cited
We've learned after Christ' return the bride & the groom are united
With His introduction, to show sin's destruction
This body of corruption puts on incorruption & shares His perfection
Receive the life He gives & see Him like He is like His mirror's reflection
He'll soothe in love, no tear ducts, hair plugs, or airbrush
Removal of the worst of infirmities
With Christ the Lord in paradise-
Restored & have our life's applaud in worship eternally
The R without Eric B & them, Regenerated from our legacy of sin inherently
Within plus He's the resurrector
Who brings us back like rewind wheel it up selecta
Rude boy derelicts fiery lake inherited
While what must I do to be saved becomes rhetoric
Not a relevant question
Cuz Christ righteousness sliced our beef like a delicatessen
When God's done assembling
No need for the r for restrains but the r that remains for the remnant
We'll proceed from the White throne, to an eternal life zone
Thru His gates we'll breeze like a cyclone
To kick it with Christ who paid iniquities price & He'll sit as the light
Enthroned & this home is the city of life
It's the earth's new edition like Ronny, Bobby, Ricky & Mike
Just day for us to live in
Never have a good night that God blessed like his name was Russell Simmons
It will be splendid, sin's not remembered
All cuz He rendered sin's debt rescinded