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Season 3 Of The Friends Sitcom

Saturday, August 14th, 2010

The One Where No One’s Ready: Ross has an important night but no one else is ready to go. Joey and Chandler fight about chairs and clothes. Joey spills humus on Phoebe’s dress. Monica hears an old message from Richard and thinks that it might be new; she leaves him a message which she then tries to erase, but just makes it worse. Rachel can’t decide what to wear; Ross gets angry and Rachel decides not to go… unless he drinks the fat.

The One With The Flashback: Prompted by a question from Janice, the group has a flashback revealing events which occurred three years earlier: Chandler searches for a roommate; Cute Naked Guy puts on weight; Phoebe secretly moves out of Monica’s apartment; The bar is closing to make way for a coffee shop; Mr. Heckles could play the oboe; Rachel contemplates her upcoming marriage to Barry; Mr. Heckles could be Chandler’s new roommate; Ross is happy that Carol has found a new friend — Susan; One of the lifeguards dismantles a nuclear device; “Almost” relationships are revealed between Joey and Monica, Monica and Chandler, Chandler and Rachel, Ross and Phoebe.

The One With The Racecar Bed: Monica and Phoebe shop at the store owned by Janice’s soon-to-be-ex-husband, and Monica ends up with the wrong bed. Rachel and Ross have dinner with her father, which doesn’t go well; the next day at brunch, Ross and Dr. Green find something to bond over. Gunther broods over Rachel. Joey Teaches a class–”Acting for Soap Operas”. While trying to return the bed, Joey and Monica see Janice kissing her husband.

The One Where Chandler Can’t Remember Which Sister: Joey astounds the gang with a card trick. Chandler, depressed over his break-up with Janice, fools around with one of Joey’s sisters at Joey’s birthday party; but afterward can’t remember which sister; he visits the Tribianni family, hoping to figure it out, but only gets himself into trouble–by kissing the wrong one. Rachel meets Mark, who gets her an interview at Bloomingdale’s; Ross worries about Mark’s motives. Phoebe dates the noisy guy from upstairs, who seems to charm himself out of any situation.

The One Where Ross And Rachel Take A Break: Phoebe dates a diplomat who doesn’t speak english; she convinces Monica to double with them so the translator will have a date. Chandler and Joey gawk at the Xerox girl, who invites them both to a dance club. Ross interrupts Rachel’s late night emergency at the office, leading to a fight; Rachel wants to take a break. Ross goes to the club and ends up kissing the Xerox girl.

The One With The Hypnosis Tape: Rachel gives Chandler a hypnosis tape to help him quit smoking; however, the tape was designed for women–and it works all too well. Phoebe’s brother, Frank, announces that he’s getting married–to his home economics teacher, who is much older; Phoebe tries to break it up and enlists help from Ross and Joey. Monica gets asked out by a customer at the diner, who turns out to be a millionaire; they go out for pizza… in Italy.

The One With The Tiny T-Shirt: Monica continues to date Pete but is still not attracted to him; he thinks she might change her mind. Joey gets a lead part in a play, but can’t stand the female lead… until he realizes he likes her. Mark asks Rachel out. Rachel asks Ross to come over, but just so she can return some of his stuff; Ross gets upset and demands all his stuff back, including a tiny t-shirt that Rachel likes to sleep in. Later, Ross finds out Rachel is going on a date with Mark and spies on them through Chandler’s peep-hole. Phoebe ponders Spiderman.

The One With The Screamer: Phoebe waits on hold so she can have her phone repaired before the warranty expires. The gang goes to Joey’s play on opening night. Rachel dates Tommy, who seems pretty nice… except when he starts screaming at people; however, only Ross witnesses this behavior and can’t convince anyone else. Joey’s play gets bad reviews, prompting the director to break up with Kate; Joey and Kate spend the night talking and falling in love. Kate gets a job offer in L.A. and decides to leave.

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The Legacy Of Japanese MMA Great Kazushi Sakuraba

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

A pro fighter faces the most difficult decision of his life when contemplating the prospect of retirement. Unfortunately, too many hang on well past the time when they can compete at the highest level only serving to diminish their legacy and damage their health. MMA is no different than boxing in this respect, and following his brutal knockout loss to Melvin Manhoef at DREAM 4 Japan’s legendary Kazushi Sakuraba appears to fit the description of a fighter who needs to call it quits but is unwilling to do so.

While MMA has exploded in popularity in the United States, there’s not one individual fighter who can be credited with the boom. In Japan, however, Sakuraba is widely acknowledged to have brought the sport to the mainstream of that country’s popular culture. His legendary feud against the Gracie family, highlighted by his epic 90 minute war with Royce Grace at PRIDE’s 2000 GP event, elevated him well past superstar status into the realm of national hero.

While Sakuraba’s resume certainly justifies the reverence with which hes held by the Japanese fight community, hes not really done anything to build on that legacy for several years. His last truly significant victory was a submission win over former UFC light heavyweight champ Quinton Rampage Jackson and his last victory over what can be considered a quality opponent in his prime was against Kevin Randleman in late 2003.

Boxing pundits frequently speak of a fighter’s age in terms of ‘ring years’. For that reason a younger fighter who has endured a series of grueling fights against high level opponents can be considered ‘old in ring years’, while an older fighter who has taken an easier path is considered ‘young’ by the same metric. Under this evaluation, there’s no doubt that Sakuraba has to be considered old in ‘ring years’. His 90 minute battle with Royce Gracie alone took a significant toll on Sakuraba, and he continued to face high level opponents after that.

Furthermore he’d frequently find himself across the ring from much larger superstars, his popularity and fearlessness producing matchups that could never get sanctioned in the US but are commonplace in the wild wild west environment of Japanese fighting. The quality of opposition he faced is staggering”Royce Gracie and several other members of the legendary family, Wanderlei Silva, Mirko Cro Cop, Vitor Belfort, and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira stand out as the most impressive names on his record. Unfortunately and not surprisingly, he had difficulty when stepping up in class against heavier fighters and most of these matchups resulted in losses by brutal knockout or other type of stoppage.

Despite his recent setbacks, Sakuraba has made no indication that hell be retiring anytime soon. Hopefully, this decision doesn’t put his long-term health and future well being at risk.

Ross Everett is a freelance sports writer and highly respected authority on sports betting odds comparison. He writing has appeared on a variety of sports sites including sportsbooks and betting odds portal sites. He lives in Las Vegas with three Jack Russell Terriers and a kangaroo. He is currently working on an autobiography of former energy secretary Donald Hodell.

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Bobby Hull: The Golden Jet

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

‘The Golden Jet’ Bobby Hull was the most feared goal scorer of the’60′s and’70′s and arguably the greatest left wing to ever play professional hockey. Along with teammate Stan Mikita, Hull made the Chicago Blackhawks one of the NHL’s true offensive powerhouses. He and Mikita were the first NHL players to use curved stick blades, which made his already wicked slapshot even more difficult to stop. This was a very significant development in pro hockey, and now its rare to find a player that plays with the flat stick blade that was once commonplace before Hull and Mikita’s revolutionary modification.

Hull was born and raised on a dairy farm near Belleville, Ontario. As a teenager it was obvious that he was on a fast track to NHL stardom, and he joined the Chicago Blackhawks not long after his 18th birthday. He would finish second in the leagues rookie of the year balloting in his first season and within a couple of years would become one of the NHLs marquee superstars. In’61, he played an important role in the Blackhawks’ Stanley Cup championship victory.

In’66, Hull broke a hallowed NHL scoring mark by becoming the first player to net more than 50 goals in a season. His 51st goal broke the record of 50 goals held by Montreal Canadien greats Bernie Boom Boom Geoffrion and Maurice Rocket Richard. Hull would go on to score 54 goals in the’66 and would surpass that mark by scoring 58 in’68. These numbers aren’t surprising in light of his slapshots deadly speed and accuracy–Hull’s shot was once clocked at a mind boggling 118 MPH!

Hulls tenure with the Chicago Blackhawks ended in’72, when he jumped to the upstart World Hockey Association (WHA). Initially, Hulls response that he would jump ship for a million bucks was an offhanded joke but when the WHA ownership agreed to contribute to that sum thinking that it would provide instant credibility for the league it became a reality.

The NHL attempted to prevent Hulls jump to the WHA via litigation, but eventually he would join the Winnipeg Jets and resume his offensive dominance. On a line with Swedish superstars Ulf Nilsson and Anders Hedberg called The Hot Line, he led the Jets to two league championship AVCO Cup victories. In’77, he set a new professional hockey record with 77 goals in a season which surpassed Phil Espositos’70-71 mark of 76 by a single goal.

Injuries and chronic knee trouble would finally spell the end to Hull’s career in the WHA’s final season of’79-80. He would briefly attempt a comeback with the New York Rangers in’81, but when he proved ineffective in preseason eventually retired for good.

Modern fans may be more familiar with Hulls third son, Brett Hull, who earned NHL superstar status in his own right. Like his dad, Hull was a prolific goal scorer with a scary slapshot and will be inducted into the Hall of Fame this year.

Hull is still in good health and splits his time between Canada and Chicago, IL. He currently serves as a PR ambassador for the Blackhawks organization. He is expected to formally induct his son into the Hall of Fame at the ceremonies later this summer.

Ross Everett is a well known freelance writer who covers travel, poker and NFL football handicapping. He is a consulting handicapper for Anatta Sports where he is responsible for providing daily free sports picks. In his spare time he enjoys fine dining, fencing and deep sea diving. He lives in Southern Nevada with four dogs and a pet coyote.

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Social Viewpoint Influenced By Celebrity Pictures

Sunday, July 4th, 2010

When taking a look at celebrity bikini pictures most people can have the most exciting responses. Standard responses can vary from, ‘Oh seem how lovely her dress is, I wonder who the designer is’ to ‘Oh my God she has gotten so significantly do the job completed and you can’t tell me those are real’.

We locate these photographs helpful in so numerous distinct means, contradictory methods. To come across out what the latest fashions and flare the greatest or, most popular people anyway are wearing so we are able easily to copy them. In the exact same time look for flaws that probably the most popular of exhibit so as to bring them down or maintain them at our typical level.

They have flaws and complications like us and as a result are no superior than us; so if they may be famous or worthwhile adequate for their image to wind up in a media resource of some sort, than so are we regular daily human beings.

This sort of thinking can the a practical tool within the so-called ‘pursuit of happiness’ in respect to employing it being a reflection of our individual shortcomings and therefore knowing what actions we could consider in order to strengthen our private lives. This will consider very much out people a and does consider courage since it calls for much self-criticism due to the fact with out self-criticism there cannot be any self improvement.

What is it saying about us in we search and criticize the above average achievements of the human being like us. A human currently being who despite having weaknesses like ours they have been nevertheless able to accomplish some fairly great points. For your sake of argument, let us just ignore ‘pop-culture’ frauds shall we.

If the whole is only as excellent as sum of all it’s parts then, since it relates to a culture, each individual really should practise significantly self-criticism in order to locate ways to improve themselves and therefore perhaps their culture. This surely would be a better state of mind than merely relying on others, for example in authority to do the many work for you.

We can basically make a single of two options. We are able easily to take a look at the ‘icon’ and discover flaws and issues to criticize, usually following the life of the subject matter on the photo inside hope that we will see them fall so we can feel better about our personal failures. Because it has been mentioned, ‘We put our idols on a pedestal so as to see them fall of.’ Just one should admit that that is actually the easiest solution to go. We don’t need to acquire any responsibility for our stay at all, but for the downside it truly is, actually the coward’s way out.

Alternatively we can recognise that there may be generally to perform in our life, and ore to accomplish. We are able to use the movie star inside picture as an example of what is usually completed, what might be accomplished. What a single man or woman can do, another man or woman can do. That’s the way to stay. ‘Do not go quietly into that goodnight, rage, rage with the dying in the light’ as the poet wrote. Oh well, it is greater than sitting around performing practically nothing.

We use these hot celebrity pictures as a fountain of information on the latest fashions and all the details it entails; and as a fountain of criticism that reassures us that the people are human beings like us. More celeb pics and info now on on http://www.female-celebrity-pictures.com

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Memories Of A Champion: Alexis Arguello

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Nicaraguan boxing legend Alexis Arguello was found dead of an apparent suicide in his home in early July. At the time of his death, he served as mayor of Nicaragua’s capital city.

Known for his class outside the ring as much for his tenacity inside the ring, hes best known to casual fight fans for his epic war in’82 with Aaron The Hawk Pryor when he moved up in weight after dominating at lighter weight classes. Though Arguello would lose via–th round knockout (amid some controversy due to an apparent mystery drink offered to Pryor by his trainer Panama Lewis) it was a thrilling toe to toe battle that even the most knowledgeable boxing experts remember fondly to this day. Ring Magazine not only named it Fight of the Year, but later would dub it Fight of the Decade. Promoter Bob Arum offered these thoughts on Pryor/Arguello:

“It was a brutal, brutal fight. That was something I will never, ever forget as long as I live. That was one of the most memorable fights I ever did.”

While the first Pryor fight may have brought him the most mainstream notoriety, boxing cognoscenti are aware that Arguello is arguably the best lightweight and junior lightweight in the history of the sport. Arguello would end his career with an astounding 82-8 record with 65 knockouts and championships in three different weight classes.

Ironically, Arguellos career didn’t get off to a good start and he lost his debut in’68 via first round TKO. He won his next three fights, before losing again via unanimous decision to another lower tier foe in his native country. After that, he seldom lost again and would go on to be respected as one of the best pound for pound fighters of his day. He was at his best against his toughest adversaries including Ray Mancini, Bobby Chacon and Ruben Olivares. Bob Arum remembered him not only as a great fighter, but as a great man:

“Not only was he one of the greatest fighters I’ve ever seen, he was the most intelligent fighter. He was a ring tactician. Every move was thought out. And he was a wonderful, wonderful person.”

The articulate, intelligent Arguello was also a quote machine on the fight game and how champions should conduct themselves. Here, he speaks of his attitude toward his opponents:

“Of course after the fight you want to make sure that you’re okay and so is the other guy, its a brotherhood in there, so you want to make sure everyone is okay after the war is over.”

Arguello would frequently admonish boxers who didn’t show the same respect for the sport or their status as champion:

“When you won that title you should know now that you are representing a whole country or nation with your actions and you are now in a glass house or under a microscope and you better be ready to make your people proud.”

Most importantly, Arguello loved boxing and sought to protect it from those who would undermine its greatness:

“I respect boxing because it has given me so much and thats why I will never allow anyone to mistreat the sport of boxing if I can help it.”

While the modest, dignified Arguello would never say it himself, that was for from a one sided debt–he also gave immeasurably to the sport of boxing with his grace, intelligence, talent and toughness.

Ross Everett is a widely published widely published freelance sports writer and respected authority on sports betting odds comparison. He writing has appeared on a variety of sports sites including sports news and betting odds portal sites. He lives in Las Vegas with three Jack Russell Terriers and a kangaroo. He is currently working on an autobiography of former interior secretary James Watt.

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