title: The Blue Angel

text: Critic Andrew Sarris remarks on the irony of this singular director-actress relationship: "Josef von Sternberg is too often subordinated to the mystique of Marlene Dietrich...the Svengali-Trilby publicity that enshrouded "The Blue Angel" – and the other six Sternberg-Dietrich film collaborations – obscured the more meaningful merits not only of these particular works but of Sternberg's career as a whole."


title: The Blue Angel

text: After arriving at Berlin's UFA studios, Sternberg declined an offer to direct a film about Rasputin, the former Russian spiritual advisor to the family of Czar Nicholas II. He was intrigued, however, by a story from socialist reformer Heinrich Mann entitled "Professor Unrat" ("Professor Filth") (1905), which critiques "the false morality and corrupt values of the German middle class" and agreed to adapt it.


title: The Blue Angel

text: The narrative of Mann's story was largely abandoned by Sternberg (with the author's consent), retaining only scenes describing an affair between a college professor of high rectitude who becomes infatuated with a promiscuous cabaret singer. During the filming, Sternberg altered dialog, added scenes and modified cast characterizations that "gave the script an entirely new dimension." The Professor's descent from sexual infatuation to jealous rage and insanity was entirely the director's invention.


title: The Blue Angel

text: In order to maximize the film's profitability, "The Blue Angel" was filmed in both German and English, each shot in tandem for efficiency. The shooting spanned 11-weeks, from 4 November 1929 to 22 January 1930 at an estimated budget of $500,000—remarkably expensive for a UFA production of that period.


title: The Blue Angel

text: During filming, although he was still the nominal star of the film (with top billing), Jannings could see the growing closeness between Sternberg and Dietrich and the care the director took in presenting her, and the actor became jealous, engaging in histrionics and threatening to quit the production. "The Blue Angel" was to be his last great cinematic moment; it was also one of UFA's last successful films. Film historian Andrew Sarris comments on this double irony:


title: The Blue Angel

text: "The Blue Angel" was scheduled for its Berlin premiere on 1 April 1930, but UFA owner and industrialist Alfred Hugenberg, unhappy with socialist Heinrich Mann's association with the production, blocked release. Production manager Pommer defended the film, and Mann issued a statement distancing his anti-bourgeois critique from Sternberg's more sympathetic portrayal of Professor Immanuel Rath in his movie version. Sternberg, who declared himself apolitical, had departed the country in February, shortly after the film was completed and the internecine conflict emerged. Hugenberg ultimately relented on the grounds of financial expediency, still convinced that Sternberg had concealed within "The Blue Angel" "a parody of the German bourgeoisie."


title: The Blue Angel

text: The film proved to be "an instant international success." Dietrich, at Sternberg's insistence, was brought to Hollywood under contract to Paramount, where they would film and release "Morocco" in 1930 before "The Blue Angel" would appear in American theatres in 1931.


title: The Blue Angel

text: "The Blue Angel", ostensibly a story of the downfall of a respectable middle-age academic at the hands of a pretty young cabaret singer, is Sternberg's "most brutal and least humorous" film of his "œuvre". The harshness of the narrative "transcends the trivial genre of bourgeois male corrupted by bohemian female" and the complexity of Sternberg's character development rejects "the old stereotype of the seductress" who ruthlessly cuckolds her men.


title: The Blue Angel

text: Film historian Andrew Sarris outlines Sternberg's "complex interplay" between Lola and the Professor:


title: The Blue Angel

text: Biographer John Baxter echoes this the key thematic sequence that reveals "the tragic dignity" of Rath's downfall:


title: The Blue Angel

text: When Rath, in a jealous rage, enters the room where his wife, Lola, is making love to the cabaret strongman, Mazeppa, Sternberg declines to show us Rath – now a madman – at the moment he is violently subdued by the authorities and placed in a straitjacket. Sternberg rewards the degraded Professor Rath for having "achieved a moment of masculine beauty [by] crowing like a maddened rooster" at Lola's deception: "Sternberg will not cheapen that moment by degrading a man who has been defeated." Sternberg presents "the spectacle of a prudent, prudish man blocked off from all means of displaying his manhood except the most animalistic." The loss of Lola leaves Rath with but one alternative: death.


title: Ashley Cain (footballer)

text: He made his professional debut for Coventry City as a substitute on 13 April 2009 in a 0–0 Football League Championship draw with Charlton Athletic. He signed a one-year professional contract with the club in July 2007. He made his first start for the club on 12 August 2009 in a League Cup defeat to Hartlepool United.


title: Ashley Cain (footballer)

text: On 26 November 2009, Cain signed on a one-month loan with Conference Premier side Luton Town, making just one substitute appearance in a 0–0 draw at Chester City, although his only appearance for the club would later be wiped from the record books after Chester folded later in the season and their record was expunged.


title: Ashley Cain (footballer)

text: On 19 February 2010, Cain joined Conference league leaders Oxford United on a one-month loan after scoring a hat-trick in the first 45 minutes against them in a mid season friendly match. He then had a trial with Port Vale in April 2010.


title: Ashley Cain (footballer)

text: At the end of the 2009–10 season Coventry City told Cain he was surplus to requirements and he was subsequently released. He signed for Mansfield Town on 26 July 2010. Halfway through the season Cain established his place in the team.


title: Ashley Cain (footballer)

text: On 22 June 2011, Cain was picked up by Conference Premier side Tamworth. He was joined at the club the same day by former Coventry City teammate Liam Francis, who signed from Hednesford Town.


title: Ashley Cain (footballer)

text: In January 2012 his contract was cancelled by Tamworth and he joined Telford on a permanent basis. He was released by the club in May 2012.


title: Ashley Cain (footballer)

text: In June 2012, Cain signed for CS Gaz Metan Mediaș after a successful trial period. He played in three trial games, scoring three goals and getting four assists. This attracted big name teams in the Romanian Liga 1 such as CFR 1907 Cluj. Gaz Metan quickly decided to negotiate a contract and take Cain on a pre-season tour. During his first game for them he suffered a complete rupture of his right Achilles tendon, which would keep him out for the rest of the season, so he returned to England to receive treatment and recover. Because of this injury, he had to leave the club.


title: Ashley Cain (footballer)

text: Cain's daughter, Azaylia Diamond Cain, died on 24 April 2021, at eight months old. She was diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukemia at eight weeks old. Prior to her death, Cain and his partner, Safiyya Vorajee, had raised more than £1.5m to fund for her specialist treatment in Singapore. Cain expressed grief over her death on social media. In May 2021, he and Vorajee announced that they were starting a charity in their daughter's name to fight childhood cancer.


title: Decay chain

text: In nuclear science, the decay chain refers to a series of radioactive decays of different radioactive decay products as a sequential series of transformations. It is also known as a "radioactive cascade". Most radioisotopes do not decay directly to a stable state, but rather undergo a series of decays until eventually a stable isotope is reached.


title: Decay chain

text: Decay stages are referred to by their relationship to previous or subsequent stages. A "parent isotope" is one that undergoes decay to form a "daughter isotope". One example of this is uranium (atomic number 92) decaying into thorium (atomic number 90). The daughter isotope may be stable or it may decay to form a daughter isotope of its own. The daughter of a daughter isotope is sometimes called a "granddaughter isotope".


title: Decay chain

text: The time it takes for a single parent atom to decay to an atom of its daughter isotope can vary widely, not only between different parent-daughter pairs, but also randomly between identical pairings of parent and daughter isotopes. The decay of each single atom occurs spontaneously, and the decay of an initial population of identical atoms over time "t", follows a decaying exponential distribution, "e", where λ is called a decay constant. One of the properties of an isotope is its half-life, the time by which half of an initial number of identical parent radioisotopes have decayed to their daughters, which is inversely related to λ. Half-lives have been determined in laboratories for many radioisotopes (or radionuclides). These can range from nearly instantaneous (less than 10 seconds) to more than 10 years.


title: Decay chain

text: The intermediate stages each emit the same amount of radioactivity as the original radioisotope (i.e. there is a one-to-one relationship between the numbers of decays in successive stages) but each stage releases a different quantity of energy. If and when equilibrium is achieved, each successive daughter isotope is present in direct proportion to its half-life; but since its activity is inversely proportional to its half-life, each nuclide in the decay chain finally contributes as many individual transformations as the head of the chain, though not the same energy. For example, uranium-238 is weakly radioactive, but pitchblende, a uranium ore, is 13 times more radioactive than the pure uranium metal because of the radium and other daughter isotopes it contains. Not only are unstable radium isotopes significant radioactivity emitters, but as the next stage in the decay chain they also generate radon, a heavy, inert, naturally occurring radioactive gas. Rock containing thorium and/or uranium (such as some granites) emits radon gas that can accumulate in enclosed places such as basements or underground mines.


title: Decay chain

text: The quantity of isotopes in the decay chains at a certain time are calculated with the Bateman equation.


title: Decay chain

text: All the elements and isotopes found on Earth, with the exceptions of hydrogen, deuterium, helium, helium-3, and perhaps trace amounts of stable lithium and beryllium isotopes which were created in the Big Bang, were created by the s-process or the r-process in stars or stellar collisions, and for those to be today a part of the Earth, must have been created not later than 4.5 billion years ago. All the elements created more than 4.5 billion years ago are termed "primordial", meaning they were generated by the universe's stellar processes. At the time when they were created, those that were unstable began decaying immediately. All the isotopes which have half-lives less than 100 million years have been reduced to % or less of whatever original amounts were created and captured by Earth's accretion; they are of trace quantity today, or have decayed away altogether. There are only two other methods to create isotopes: "artificially", inside a man-made (or perhaps a natural) reactor, or through decay of a parent isotopic species, the process known as the "decay chain".


title: Decay chain

text: Unstable isotopes decay to their daughter products (which may sometimes be even more unstable) at a given rate; eventually, often after a series of decays, a stable isotope is reached: there are about 200 stable isotopes in the universe. In stable isotopes, light elements typically have a lower ratio of neutrons to protons in their nucleus than heavier elements. Light elements such as helium-4 have close to a 1:1 neutron:proton ratio. The heaviest elements such as lead have close to 1.5 neutrons per proton(e.g. 1.536 in lead-208). No nuclide heavier than lead-208 is stable; these heavier elements have to shed mass to achieve stability, most usually as alpha decay. The other common decay method for isotopes with a high neutron to proton ratio (n/p) is beta decay, in which the nuclide changes elemental identity while keeping the same mass and lowering its n/p ratio. For some isotopes with a relatively low n/p ratio, there is an inverse beta decay, by which a proton is transformed into a neutron, thus moving towards a stable isotope; however, since fission almost always produces products which are neutron heavy, positron emission is relatively rare compared to electron emission. There are many relatively short beta decay chains, at least two (a heavy, beta decay and a light, positron decay) for every discrete weight up to around 207 and some beyond, but for the higher mass elements (isotopes heavier than lead) there are only four pathways which encompass all decay chains. This is because there are just two main decay methods: alpha radiation, which reduces the mass by 4 atomic mass units (amu), and beta, which does not change the atomic mass at all (just the atomic number and the p/n ratio). The four paths are termed 4n, 4n + 1, 4n + 2, and 4n + 3; the remainder from dividing the atomic mass by four gives the chain the isotope will use to decay. There are other decay modes, but they invariably occur at a lower probability than alpha or beta decay. (It should not be supposed that these chains have no branches: the diagram below shows a few branches of chains, and in reality there are many more, because there are many more isotopes possible than are shown in the diagram.) For example, the third atom of nihonium-278 synthesised underwent six alpha decays down to mendelevium-254, followed by an electron capture (a form of beta decay) to fermium-254, and then a seventh alpha to californium-250, upon which it would have followed the 4n + 2 chain as given in this article. However, the heaviest superheavy nuclides synthesised do not reach the four decay chains, because they reach a spontaneously fissioning nuclide after a few alpha decays that terminates the chain: this is what happened to the first two atoms of nihonium-278 synthesised, as well as to all heavier nuclides produced.


title: Decay chain

text: Three of those chains have a long-lived isotope (or nuclide) near the top; this long-lived isotope is a bottleneck in the process through which the chain flows very slowly, and keeps the chain below them "alive" with flow. The three long-lived nuclides are uranium-238 (half-life=4.5 billion years), uranium-235 (half-life=700 million years) and thorium-232 (half-life=14 billion years). The fourth chain has no such long lasting bottleneck isotope, so almost all of the isotopes in that chain have long since decayed down to very near the stability at the bottom. Near the end of that chain is bismuth-209, which was long thought to be stable. Recently, however, bismuth-209 was found to be unstable with a half-life of 19 billion billion years; it is the last step before stable thallium-205. In the distant past, around the time that the solar system formed, there were more kinds of unstable high-weight isotopes available, and the four chains were longer with isotopes that have since decayed away. Today we have manufactured extinct isotopes, which again take their former places: plutonium-239, the nuclear bomb fuel, as the major example has a half-life of "only" 24,500 years, and decays by alpha emission into uranium-235. In particular, we have through the large-scale production of neptunium-237 successfully resurrected the hitherto extinct fourth chain. The tables below hence start the four decay chains at isotopes of californium with mass numbers from 249 to 252.


title: Decay chain

text: The four most common modes of radioactive decay are: alpha decay, beta decay, inverse beta decay (considered as both positron emission and electron capture), and isomeric transition. Of these decay processes, only alpha decay changes the atomic mass number ("A") of the nucleus, and always decreases it by four. Because of this, almost any decay will result in a nucleus whose atomic mass number has the same residue mod 4, dividing all nuclides into four chains. The members of any possible decay chain must be drawn entirely from one of these classes. All four chains also produce helium-4 as alpha particles are helium-4 nuclei.


title: Decay chain

text: Three main decay chains (or families) are observed in nature, commonly called the thorium series, the radium or uranium series, and the actinium series, representing three of these four classes, and ending in three different, stable isotopes of lead. The mass number of every isotope in these chains can be represented as "A" = 4"n", "A" = 4"n" + 2, and A = 4"n" + 3, respectively. The long-lived starting isotopes of these three isotopes, respectively thorium-232, uranium-238, and uranium-235, have existed since the formation of the earth, ignoring the artificial isotopes and their decays created since the 1940s.


title: Decay chain

text: Due to the relatively short half-life of its starting isotope neptunium-237 (2.14 million years), the fourth chain, the neptunium series with "A" = 4"n" + 1, is already extinct in nature, except for the final rate-limiting step, decay of bismuth-209. Traces of Np and its decay products still do occur in nature, however, as a result of neutron capture in uranium ore. The ending isotope of this chain is now known to be thallium-205. Some older sources give the final isotope as bismuth-209, but it was recently discovered that it is very slightly radioactive, with a half-life of .


title: Decay chain

text: There are also non-transuranic decay chains of unstable isotopes of light elements, for example those of magnesium-28 and chlorine-39. On Earth, most of the starting isotopes of these chains before 1945 were generated by cosmic radiation. Since 1945, the testing and use of nuclear weapons has also released numerous radioactive fission products. Almost all such isotopes decay by either β or β decay modes, changing from one element to another without changing atomic mass. These later daughter products, being closer to stability, generally have longer half-lives until they finally decay into stability.


title: Decay chain

text: In the four tables below, the minor branches of decay (with the branching probability of less than 0.0001%) are omitted. The energy release includes the total kinetic energy of all the emitted particles (electrons, alpha particles, gamma quanta, neutrinos, Auger electrons and X-rays) and the recoil nucleus, assuming that the original nucleus was at rest. The letter 'a' represents a year (from the Latin "annus").


title: Decay chain

text: In the tables below (except neptunium), the historic names of the naturally occurring nuclides are also given. These names were used at the time when the decay chains were first discovered and investigated. From these historical names one can locate the particular chain to which the nuclide belongs, and replace it with its modern name.


title: Decay chain

text: The three naturally-occurring actinide alpha decay chains given below—thorium, uranium/radium (from U-238), and actinium (from U-235)—each ends with its own specific lead isotope (Pb-208, Pb-206, and Pb-207 respectively). All these isotopes are stable and are also present in nature as primordial nuclides, but their excess amounts in comparison with lead-204 (which has only a primordial origin) can be used in the technique of uranium–lead dating to date rocks.


title: Decay chain

text: The 4n chain of Th-232 is commonly called the "thorium series" or "thorium cascade". Beginning with naturally occurring thorium-232, this series includes the following elements: actinium, bismuth, lead, polonium, radium, radon and thallium. All are present, at least transiently, in any natural thorium-containing sample, whether metal, compound, or mineral. The series terminates with lead-208.


title: Decay chain

text: The total energy released from thorium-232 to lead-208, including the energy lost to neutrinos, is 42.6 MeV.


title: Decay chain

text: The 4n + 1 chain of Np is commonly called the "neptunium series" or "neptunium cascade". In this series, only two of the isotopes involved are found naturally in significant quantities, namely the final two: bismuth-209 and thallium-205. Some of the other isotopes have been detected in nature, originating from trace quantities of Np produced by the (n,2n) knockout reaction in primordial U. A smoke detector containing an americium-241 ionization chamber accumulates a significant amount of neptunium-237 as its americium decays; the following elements are also present in it, at least transiently, as decay products of the neptunium: actinium, astatine, bismuth, francium, lead, polonium, protactinium, radium, thallium, thorium, and uranium. Since this series was only discovered and studied in 1947–1948, its nuclides do not have historic names. One unique trait of this decay chain is that the noble gas radon is only produced in a rare branch (not shown in the illustration) but not the main decay sequence; thus, radon from this decay chain does not migrate through rock nearly as much as from the other three. Another unique trait of this decay sequence is that it ends in thallium rather than lead. This series terminates with the stable isotope thallium-205.


title: Decay chain

text: The total energy released from californium-249 to thallium-205, including the energy lost to neutrinos, is 66.8 MeV.


title: Decay chain

text: The 4n+2 chain of uranium-238 is called the "uranium series" or "radium series". Beginning with naturally occurring uranium-238, this series includes the following elements: astatine, bismuth, lead, polonium, protactinium, radium, radon, thallium, and thorium. All are present, at least transiently, in any natural uranium-containing sample, whether metal, compound, or mineral. The series terminates with lead-206.


title: Decay chain

text: The total energy released from uranium-238 to lead-206, including the energy lost to neutrinos, is 51.7 MeV.


title: Decay chain

text: The 4n+3 chain of uranium-235 is commonly called the "actinium series" or "actinium cascade". Beginning with the naturally-occurring isotope U-235, this decay series includes the following elements: actinium, astatine, bismuth, francium, lead, polonium, protactinium, radium, radon, thallium, and thorium. All are present, at least transiently, in any sample containing uranium-235, whether metal, compound, ore, or mineral. This series terminates with the stable isotope lead-207.


title: Decay chain

text: The total energy released from uranium-235 to lead-207, including the energy lost to neutrinos, is 46.4 MeV.


title: Scalar field

text: In mathematics and physics, a scalar field is a function associating a single number to every point in a space – possibly physical space. The scalar may either be a pure mathematical number (dimensionless) or a scalar physical quantity (with units).


title: Scalar field

text: In a physical context, scalar fields are required to be independent of the choice of reference frame, meaning that any two observers using the same units will agree on the value of the scalar field at the same absolute point in space (or spacetime) regardless of their respective points of origin. Examples used in physics include the temperature distribution throughout space, the pressure distribution in a fluid, and spin-zero quantum fields, such as the Higgs field. These fields are the subject of scalar field theory.


title: Scalar field

text: Mathematically, a scalar field on a region "U" is a real or complex-valued function or distribution on "U". The region "U" may be a set in some Euclidean space, Minkowski space, or more generally a subset of a manifold, and it is typical in mathematics to impose further conditions on the field, such that it be continuous or often continuously differentiable to some order. A scalar field is a tensor field of order zero, and the term "scalar field" may be used to distinguish a function of this kind with a more general tensor field, density, or differential form.


title: Scalar field

text: Physically, a scalar field is additionally distinguished by having units of measurement associated with it. In this context, a scalar field should also be independent of the coordinate system used to describe the physical system—that is, any two observers using the same units must agree on the numerical value of a scalar field at any given point of physical space. Scalar fields are contrasted with other physical quantities such as vector fields, which associate a vector to every point of a region, as well as tensor fields and spinor fields. More subtly, scalar fields are often contrasted with pseudoscalar fields.


title: Scalar field

text: In physics, scalar fields often describe the potential energy associated with a particular force. The force is a vector field, which can be obtained as a factor of the gradient of the potential energy scalar field. Examples include:


title: Asami Sato

text: Unlike many characters in the world of "The Legend of Korra", Asami is not able to "bend", or telekinetically create, control and manipulate any of the four elements: water, earth, fire or air/wind. She is the only child of the wealthy industrialist Hiroshi Sato, who invented the "Satomobile" and whose company, Future Industries, is headquartered in Republic City. Asami is a trained engineer, skilled pilot and driver, and competent unarmed combatant.


title: Asami Sato

text: Asami has been well-received with publications. Many reviewers were content with her growth past being a love interest for Mako, and felt the relationship was not worth reviving. However, reception to her relationship with Korra was mostly positive.


title: Asami Sato

text: Asami was initially conceived to be a duplicitous spy for the Equalist movement - antagonists in the first season - embedded within Team Avatar. However, the character became so well-liked by co-creators DiMartino and Konietzko that they rewrote her to be a friend to Korra, and ignorant of her father's Equalist activities. DiMartino remembered that he and Konietzko "knew" they needed "a character who wasn't a bender" after they decided on the nonbender revolution storyline. Konietzko also floated the idea to the writing team that Asami might be bisexual "before the audience had ever laid eyes on" either her or Korra, but initially shelved the idea, assuming Nickelodeon would not allow it to be aired. This decision would be reversed after season two.


title: Asami Sato

text: An early script for the last episode of the first season, "Endgame", featured Asami joining the United Forces, a military in the universe of "The Legend of Korra", at the end of the episode. The script was reworked sometime before the confirmation of the second season. Bryan Konietzko's design of Asami was based on the idea of an actress from the "Golden Age" of Hollywood in the world of "Avatar", and her hair was inspired by that of Rita Hayworth, an American actress famous in the 1940s. Konietzko wrote that Asami's resemblance to the character Lust from the 2009 anime series "" was coincidental, as he had not seen the series at the time of Asami's design in 2010. Konietzko had previously had difficulty drawing women and chose to design Asami by himself, wanting a challenge.


title: Asami Sato

text: Asami's initial character design, from when she was meant to be an Equalist spy, was left unchanged after co-creators DiMartino and Konietzko rewrote her to be an ally instead. Her design led viewers to speculate that the character would be a "femme fatale" when she first appeared. After it was revealed that she was not an Equalist spy, "The A.V. Club" noted that "it turns out that Asami's not bad—she's just drawn that way."


title: Asami Sato

text: Throughout the first three seasons of "The Legend of Korra", Asami consistently is seen wearing a red and gray jacket, dark red turtleneck dress, pink leggings and black boots. In her introductory episode "The Voice in the Night", Asami is also seen wearing formal attire, two different dresses, one while on her initial date with Mako and the other while attending a gala with him. Asami is also seen during the first season wearing a suit whenever involved in actual combat, which she retains throughout the series and wears the most during the third season when journey with Team Avatar. Her coat, which debuted in the season two (2013) episode "Rebel Spirit", was based on one Konietzko saw on a Japanese fashion website. She is only seen wearing the coat during the second season.


title: Asami Sato

text: The character was given a slightly different design in the fourth and final season of the series, which was revealed via a trailer for the season in September 2014. Asami was shown to have a different hairstyle, different clothing and grown in height. Her design went through a series of revisions, which included appearances with a hat and different hairstyles. DiMartino wrote that he loved the final version of her fourth season appearance, finding it to be a "nice balance of formal business attire and fashion-forward elegance." Entertainment Monthly wrote that while her appearance had changed, she still retained "the image of a businesswoman not to be messed with". Noriel Espinueva of Hallels felt the character looked "even more mature", adding that the design change contributed to the narrative that much had changed during the three-year gap between the third and fourth seasons of the series. "The A.V. Club" found her clothing to be more business-oriented than her previous attire and her hair to be worn in a similar manner to her mother.


title: Asami Sato

text: Asami is voiced by Seychelle Gabriel. Gabriel's first involvement in the "Avatar" franchise was portraying Yue in "The Last Airbender". Gabriel initially remembered Asami's name due to it sounding like "salami". Gabriel was announced to be playing the role in March 2011, along with the rest of the main cast for the first season. Gabriel received "The Legend of Korra" scripts days before recording and was surprised by Asami turning against her father, calling it a "really weird situation to wrap your head around" as Asami had lost both of her parents. Gabriel was well-aware of the comparisons between Asami and Batman, having seen an Internet meme highlighting this and she and her parents were supportive of the friendship between Asami and Korra. She especially liked that they were two girls who did not let "a guy get between them", feeling that they were stronger together as well. While listing actors that he felt bore a resemblance to the characters of "The Legend of Korra" and could potentially play them in a live-action film, Tommy DePaoli of "Moviepilot" mentioned her as a suitable candidate, writing that Gabriel "would make an impeccable Asami."


title: Asami Sato

text: Asami Sato first appears in the series in the season one episode "The Voice in the Night", wherein she meets Mako by hitting him with her moped in a minor traffic accident. Recognizing him as the captain of the pro-bending team "Fire Ferrets", she invites him out to dinner by way of apology. A fan of pro-bending, she offers to become the team's sponsor. She meets Korra at a gala thrown in her honor by Tarrlok, commenting that Mako had told her much about her and making Korra jealous. On a date with Mako in Republic City Park, she expresses her trust in him while resting against him. She was a supporter of the "Fire Ferrets" and visible in attending their matches. Without running it by her father, Asami offers Mako and his brother Bolin a place to stay at her father's estate in the aftermath of an Equalist attack on the Pro-bending Arena. Asami takes the brothers and Korra to a racetrack to watch the test-driving of the Satomobiles. Noticing Korra's excitement in seeing them, she takes her on a ride while at the same time racing against one of the drivers, encouraging her to "mix it up sometimes." This is the first time Asami and Korra are mutually friendly to each other. Asami's mother is later revealed to have been murdered during a triad robbery of their mansion when she was six years old. Her father, Hiroshi Sato, maintained a hatred of all benders thereafter - this is his motivation for joining the Equalists, an anti-bending movement that served as the antagonistic group of season one. Upon discovering her father's role, Asami joins with Korra, Bolin, and Mako, to form Team Avatar, turning against her father. This leads to a battle against Hiroshi Sato and his mecha, during which her father attempts to kill her. With Bolin's help, she defeats and captures Hiroshi. Asami's relationship with Mako faces difficulty when she becomes suspicious of him having romantic feelings for Korra when he only briefly addresses her before continuing his search for her, leading her to wonder why he is so concerned. She questions Bolin about it and presses the evasive earthbender about his brother, who he reveals previously shared a kiss with Korra. Following the group finding her, she confronted Mako over their kiss and when he tried to schedule their conversation for another time, she alluded to the possibility of breaking up with him before they could do so. She shows her disappointment with Mako exclusively, not blaming Korra for the deterioration of their relationship. Mako later pulls her aside to express how much he cares for her. In response, Asami relates her own positive feelings for him and kisses him on the cheek, ending their romance on a good note.


title: Asami Sato

text: Between seasons one and two, and following her father's imprisonment, Asami assumes control of Future Industries. With the reputation of the company in tatters, Asami needs to collaborate with the entrepreneur Varrick to save her company from bankruptcy. However, Varrick is later found to be committing acts of violence, fraud, and theft to entangle the Republic in the Water Tribe Civil War. After Varrick is arrested, the deal is nullified, and Asami regains full control of her company. Future Industries becomes an economic powerhouse; Asami herself becomes an urban planner, leading the reconstruction of Republic City's infrastructure after the physical return of Spirit World creatures to the human world. She briefly resumes her relationship with Mako after confiding in him in the midst of his investigation of the stolen shipment of mecha tanks, though she initially apologizes before he reassures her and the two relive their first date as he was arrested by officers who had incriminating evidence on him after interviewing the arrested Triple Threat Triad members, Asami learning and being shocked that he had explosives and a detonator in his back room and being unsure of what to believe when he blames Varrick. Asami chooses not to visit Mako in prison due to its location reminding her of her father and instead spends time with his brother Bolin and later Korra, who forgot her breakup with Mako after being attacked by a dark spirit and losing a part of her memory. When the three go to pick up Mako from jail, Asami becomes angry with him for not telling Korra that they were in a relationship again. Asami is a participant in the civil war between the Southern and Northern Water Tribes, steering a battle ship she had acquired from Varrick as she picks up a distress signal from the Southern Water Tribe rebels, though she and the others opt to continue towards the Southern Water Tribe where she suggests herself acting as a diversion by launching an aerial assault, which she carries out and is eventually brought down by Desna and Eska, Korra's twin cousins. After being apprehended and while imprisoned alongside the others, she is freed by Bumi and accepts Korra's request to fly her father Tonraq so he can seek treatment for his injuries. Remaining there with Tonraq, Katara and Tonraq's wife Senna, Asami watches over Jinora and learns after she wakes that the others are safe and Korra has saved the world, relieving her.


title: Asami Sato

text: Throughout season three, Asami and Korra's friendship deepens. During a ride in Asami's car, the two engage in a friendly but honest discussion about Mako, whom they had both dated. They express happiness and relief that their "rivalry" over Mako did not destroy their friendship. This is the first time Korra refers to Asami as a "girlfriend", although at this point the term is not used romantically. When Korra decides to seek out new airbenders, Asami joins her team and also provides a Future Industries airship for them to use in their search. From that point on Asami and Korra spend a significant amount of time with each other, seeking out new airbenders, fighting against bandits and investigating a faction known as the Red Lotus. After both being captured by Earth Kingdom forces, they work as a team to escape from the Earth Kingdom airship where they were being held captive, resulting in the airship crashing into a desert. Asami is able to design a sand-sailer from the wreckage, which she, Korra, and their former captors collaborate to build. Following an attack from the Red Lotus on the Northern Air Temple, Asami volunteers to watch over Korra's body when Korra visits the Spirit World in an attempt to contact the leader of the Red Lotus, Zaheer. The final battle in "Venom of the Red Lotus" at the end of season three leaves Korra wheelchair-reliant. Asami becomes her day-to-day caretaker during the first phase of her recovery.


title: Asami Sato

text: In the fourth season, it is shown that Korra's recovery process takes three years, which she mostly spends at the South Pole. Asami is the only member of Team Avatar with whom Korra maintains contact during this time, as they write to each other about their fears and vulnerabilities. During this time, Asami designs the airbender wingsuits seen throughout the season, which are built by Future Industries. While Korra is absent, Asami meets with her jailed father, Hiroshi Sato. Asami reveals that she has been receiving but not reading her father's prison letters, and demands that he stop trying to reconcile. However, the relationship thaws as Hiroshi apologies, acknowledges his crimes, and expresses his pride in Asami, stating that Asami was the "greatest thing he ever created". Out for dinner with friends, Asami accidentally reveals that she and Korra had maintained correspondence, despite Korra's silence with everyone else, provoking resentment from Mako and prompting him to demand, "What's been going on between you two?" Also, when Asami reveals she has visited her father, Korra objects, asking if Asami really feels Hiroshi could be trusted. Asami angrily responds that she is well aware of her father's capabilities, and asserts that it is not Korra's place to second-guess her after being away for three years. Midway through season four, as the threat from Kuvira - now self-proclaimed founder of the Earth Empire - builds, Asami is summoned to Republic City Hall and ordered to work with Varrick to find a way to counter Kuvira's growing military threat. Asami agrees reluctantly, reminding Varrick she has not forgotten his past betrayals. Asami also reunites with her father, Hiroshi, who is allowed out of jail temporarily for the same purposes. As they prepare for a last-stand defensive effort, Asami tells her father she loves him, a sentiment he immediately returns. Hiroshi Sato dies in the battle, saving his daughter in an act of self-sacrifice, validating Asami's acceptance, and completing their reconciliation arc. Afterward, Asami has a private conversation with Korra, in which Korra apologizes to Asami for their years apart and Asami reveals how she could not have coped with the loss of her father and Korra on the same day, the two settling on taking a vacation together in the Spirit World. Korra and Asami later step into the spirit portal, turn to face each other, hold both hands and gaze into each other's eyes as the camera swings upwards into the portal, officially signaling the start of their romantic involvement.


title: Asami Sato

text: In part one, Korra and Asami spend time in the Spirit World exploring their romantic feelings for each other. The pair travel to the Southern Water Tribe to reveal their relationship to Korra's parents, both of whom are happy and supportive upon hearing the news, though Tonraq warns Korra that the rest of the world may not be as accepting of a same-sex relationship. Upon returning to Republic City, the couple meet tycoon Wongyong Keum who plans to form an amusement park on the land surrounding the Spirit Portal. Asami loses her temper, recalling Kuem's shady dealings with her own father, and orders him to leave. Asami begins drawing up plans for new housing developments for the people who have displaced following Kuvira's assault, which President Raiko agrees to help fund along with Future Industries and Varrick Industries. At Air Temple Island, Korra and Asami receive advice from Kya on their relationship and the history of how same-sex relationships have been viewed in their world. Asami helps the Air Nomads when the Triple Threat triad, on Keum's orders, attempt to drive them away from the Spirit Portal. Asami is nearly killed in the fighting, distracting Korra and allowing a dragon-eel spirit to attack the Triple Threat's new leader, Tokuga. In the aftermath of the battle, Korra kisses Asami out of relief, leading to Mako, Bolin, Jinora and Opal discovering their relationship. Three weeks after Tokuga's defeat, Korra told Asami she is in love with her, and Asami said she feels the same way about Korra.


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text: In March 2015, Bryan Konietzko posted previously unseen artwork of Korra and Asami embracing, entitled "Turtle-duck Date Night". The art was announced to be sold as an exclusive print for "The Legend of Korra / Avatar: The Last Airbender Tribute Exhibition" at Gallery Nucleus and that its proceeds would be donated by Konietzko to an LGBTQ suicide prevention hotline. After same-sex marriage was declared legal in all 50 states of the U.S., Konietzko posted a rainbow version of the artwork. Asami appears in "The Legend of Korra" books "Revolution" and "Endgame", two novels that together adapt the first season of the series.


title: Asami Sato

text: Raised in wealth and luxury, Asami is introduced as a sweet, caring, and independent young woman capable of handling adverse situations; she has trained in self-defense combat since childhood, and is "more than able to take care of herself". Throughout the series, she maintains a collected and mature presence in the cast, using her wealth and abilities both to defend Republic City and to help others, defying both the daddy's little girl and bratty teenage daughter tropes. In a collection of highly emotional personalities, Asami is described by "The A.V. Club" as the "brains" of "Team Avatar 2.0." Asami's independence and strength of character leave her unafraid to stand up for her beliefs. She sides with her bender friends against her father, Hiroshi Sato, after he was revealed to be integral part of the anti-bender Equalist movement - a decision "The A.V. Club" referred to as "stone cold". After the events of the first season, Asami Sato evolved into a major in-universe business leader and was revealed to be a genius engineer/inventor, comparable with Bruce Wayne. DiMartino specifically compared her post-season one background and capabilities - although not personality - to those of Batman.


title: Asami Sato

text: Hallmarked through much of the series by her equanimity, Asami is naturally a very logical and forward thinking person, never allowing her emotions to cloud her judgement, and seldom maintains grudges over time. She never holds generalized prejudice against benders, despite losing her mother as to a murderous triad firebender in her childhood; she harbors little long-term ill will towards Mako after their romantic breakup, remaining friends after a period of upset - she even shows little animosity towards Korra after the Avatar 'stole' her then-boyfriend Mako. Instead, she develops a deeper friendship with Korra - so much so that the two become romantically involved in season four. The major exception to this theme is the resentment Asami carries against her father, Hiroshi, for both his emotional betrayal and physical attempt on her life. She musters no sympathy or forgiveness toward him for several years, preferring to keep him out of her life, and refusing his attempts at reconciliation. However, after receiving a heartfelt apology from jail, and coming through correspondence to understand how much he was suffering from his own guilt, she eventually forgives him, echoing familial-reconciliation themes exhibited throughout "The Legend of Korra".


title: Asami Sato

text: Asami is shown to be a practical thinker and a capable engineer, able to repair and construct vehicles and other period technology with limited resources, such as when she improvised a makeshift sand-sailer using materials from a destroyed airship. She is also a skilled Pai Sho player, proving to be an effective strategist. Although she is a non-bender, Asami is highly proficient in hand-to-hand combat, a result of her father having her to be trained by the best self-defense teachers in Republic City from an early age after the death of her mother so that she would always be able to defend herself. Her weapon of choice is an electrified glove, which she typically uses to incapacitate her opponents. Asami is particularly nimble in combat, once eluding attacks from five chi blockers before using her electrified glove to stun them all. Additionally, Asami is Team Avatar's de facto machine operator. Asami is an excellent automobile and moped/motorcycle driver in a technological period where that is new, having learned through test-driving her father's Satomobile line of vehicles; she taught Avatar Korra to drive, as well. Asami can also pilot airships, and operate other machinery such as motorboats, sand-sailers, and forklifts. Having assisted her father in operating their company before assuming engineering and management responsibilities, she has developed a keen eye for discerning high quality design and construction from subpar work, and utilizes this knowledge to further Team Avatar's goals in episodes such as season three's "Long Live the Queen".


title: Asami Sato

text: Asami Sato's role in the series has been met with acclaim. As an engineer and leader in a STEM field, Asami has been praised as an inspiration for young girls to pursue a career in such fields, particularly by LGBT-friendly commentators and fans. While initially criticized as underdeveloped, the character was praised for growing beyond her initial depiction as an apparent romantic foil into a successful CEO. Tyler Edwards of "The Artifice" called her "a great example of a formidable woman", citing her status as the only main character without bending abilities and her compensating by using her martial arts and technology in place of it. Zach Blumenfeld of "Paste" ranked Asami as the 7th best character from the "Avatar" universe, noting that Asami is "badass" and displays "immense emotional maturity" throughout the series.


title: Asami Sato

text: The character's initial role as the romantic rival to the series' protagonist, Korra, was also called into question. While Max Nicholson of IGN enjoyed the rivalry, other reviewers felt that Asami was more likeable and sympathetic than Korra, making it difficult to root for the latter. Reviewer Jason Krell criticized the brief reintroduction of the Asami-Mako relationship in Season 2. Krell commended the character for not prioritizing the relationship when "more important things were at stake", but felt Asami "should know better than to take Mako back for a second time." Noel Kirkpatrick wrote that he did not understand why either Asami or Korra had been interested in Mako "aside from the fact that he's the only single dude around who wasn't Bolin."


title: Asami Sato

text: The depiction of the character's complex relationship with her father also received praise. Nicholson expressed that her falling out with her father Hiroshi Sato would make a "compelling moral struggle" and compared their relationship to that of "" Zuko and his father . Asami's interactions with her father after he redeems himself in the fourth season were seen as "poignant scenes". The scene prior to his sacrifice, in which she realized he would soon be killed, was viewed as "heartbreaking".


title: Asami Sato

text: The depiction of a romantic relationship between Asami and Korra in the show's final moments received widespread praise. "Vanity Fair" praised the writers for taking "a tired dynamic between two women and turn[ing] it into something fresh and exciting," while "Polygon" wrote that by portraying Korra and Asami as bisexual, the series even avoided the error of assuming sexual orientation to be a strict divide between "gay" and "straight". Some reviewers felt that the two characters complemented each other well as a couple, with Korra's brashness balancing Asami's calm nature. Joshua Rivera of "Entertainment Weekly" praised the ending scene, writing that after struggling with their legacies, Korra and Asami have rejected the world's expectations of them so as to make their own destiny.


title: Asami Sato

text: Korra and Asami's relationship has also been noted for being a "landmark moment for American and family animation."


title: Asami Sato

text: "The Advocate" included Korra and Asami in their 2017 list of "35 LGBT Characters Who Redefined Family TV", noting that the series "ended on a note that changed family television forever." In 2018, "io9" ranked the series finale's reveal of Korra and Asami's relationship #55 on its list of "The 100 Most Important Pop Culture Moments of the Last 10 Years".


title: Asami Sato

text: Among the critics who viewed the pairing negatively, E. Steven Burnett of "Christ and Pop Culture" wrote that the depiction of a same-sex relationship "hijacks Korra's story in service of social causes to the detriment of its own creative storytelling." Daniel Rodrigues-Martin of "Geeks Under Grace" agreed that the pairing was a detriment to the characters and story, opining that there was no foreshadowing of a romantic relationship between the two characters until the series' final moments.


title: Asami Sato

text: In response to criticism that the relationship was thrown in to appeal to fans who "shipped" Korra and Asami, Konietzko pointed out that any decision they made regarding Asami's romantic life could be interpreted as caving to a specific group of fans who supported Asami being paired with a certain character, and claimed that at the end of the day, the creators went for the relationship that felt right to them. He also suggested that anyone who felt the relationship was not adequately foreshadowed had watched the last two seasons only expecting to see heterosexual relationships. "Gay Star News" agreed that the romantic relationship between Asami and Korra has been heavily foreshadowed. Prior to the airing of the series finale, the two characters had drawn comparisons to Aang and 's relationship in "Avatar: The Last Airbender".


title: Asami Sato

text: Prior to the reveal of the romantic relationship, there was a positive reception to the friendship between Asami and Korra, the two being viewed as "perfect partners" in that their personalities and abilities complemented each other. "The Mary Sue" noted Asami's role in Korra's recovery from PTSD, while "The A.V. Club" pointed out that Korra only writing back to Asami out of all her friends showed the strength and growth of their relationship. The relationship was praised for having realism, including depictions of disagreements between the two. Nicholson called the friendship his "favorite character dynamic" of the third season. On the other hand, Juliet Kahn of "ComicsAlliance" did not understand what "binds" Asami and Korra together due to Asami's underdeveloped personality.


title: Double Dutchess

text: Double Dutchess is the second studio album by American singer and rapper Fergie. It was released on September 22, 2017. The album is the singer's first to be released under her own imprint, Dutchess Music, in a partnership with Retrofuture Productions and BMG Rights Management, and first since her solo debut, "The Dutchess" (2006). Promotion for the album began with the release of the album's first single "L.A. Love (La La)" in late 2014. "M.I.L.F. $" was released as the second single from the album in July 2016, followed by the release of "Life Goes On" in November that same year. "You Already Know" was released as the fourth single on September 12, 2017. The album includes collaborations with Nicki Minaj, YG, Rick Ross, and Fergie's son Axl Jack.


title: Double Dutchess

text: After concluding two worldwide tours with the Black Eyed Peas in support of "The E.N.D." (2009) and "The Beginning" (2010) from 2009 to 2011, Fergie decided to take a break from the group to concentrate on her solo career, mentioning that she had begun writing on her own for her second studio album – a follow-up to "The Dutchess" (2006) – although she didn't want to "rush anything out." She made her comeback as a solo artist in June 2013 with the song "A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (All We Got)", which was included on the soundtrack of Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby" (2013). Featuring rappers Q-Tip and GoonRock, the track experienced commercial success. In August 2013, Fergie gave birth to her first son with husband Josh Duhamel, Axl Jack. This was followed by an announcement that the singer was in the beginning stages of recording her sophomore solo set in January 2014, scheduled for an early 2015 release. She stated in an interview with radio host Ryan Seacrest that the Black Eyed Peas bandmate and longtime collaborator will.i.am would be handling the production.


title: Double Dutchess

text: Fergie sought to assume more prominent creative control over the album, having co-produced 12 out of 13 tracks on the record and co-written all of them. She stated: "Becoming a mom and getting pregnant reset me. I just got on my game. I've never taken on this much responsibility and I kept wanting to make it better and better. I wanted to strive for greatness," adding, "You have to at a certain point just let go and say, 'This song is done.'" That first resulted in "L.A. Love (La La)", a DJ Mustard-produced song with hip-hop and pop influences reminiscent of her first record that was released on September 30, 2014. Amid moderate success and mixed reactions to the single, work on the album continued, with Mike Will Made It, RoccStar and Philip "Hardwork" Constable all expected to be involved. About the sound of the record, RoccStar said it was ""The Dutchess" mixed in with Rihanna", with more edge and ahead of the current musical movement. Charlie Puth revealed he worked with Fergie on a song he defined as a 2015 "My Humps", but it did not make the final cut. Despite previous reports, the singer announced in June 2015 that she was still putting the finishing touches on the album and had moved out of her own house to do so without any disruptions. She spent some time located in the Morning View Studios living facility, situated inside a mansion on a secluded estate in Malibu, the same location where parts of "The Dutchess" were recorded about nine years earlier.


title: Double Dutchess

text: In January 2016, a video of dancers dancing to "Like It Ain't Nuttin'" surfaced online along with a still of the video, suggesting the track could be the new lead single off the record. A month later, a demo for the song was leaked. In the meantime, Fergie's husband Josh Duhamel slipped in an interview that the album would be titled "Double Dutchess" and most likely be out in March of that same year. At that point, due to overall frustration, she had decided to do a video for every song to make up for so many delays. Fergie revealed she had gotten off to Paris and London to shoot art for the album and had shot several videos to coincide with the launch. One of the directors for these videos was Ben Mor, who had worked with the singer previously on the visuals for "I Gotta Feeling" and "Don't Stop the Party".


title: Double Dutchess

text: Fergie performed "You Already Know" and "Love is Pain" live for the first time during her Rock in Rio Lisboa performance on May 20, 2016. Interludes with new songs "Just Like You" and "Hungry" were also used, while the latter had its video snippet uploaded to Fergie's Instagram account that same day. A new teaser titled "Hungry (1st Byte)" was uploaded to Fergie's Vevo channel on June 9, 2016, being followed by "Hungry (2nd Byte)" on June 22, which also confirmed the rumored album title. A few days later it was officially announced that a new song titled "M.I.L.F. $" would be released; produced by Polow da Don, it was made available for purchase on July 1, 2016. Fergie was inspired to write the empowering song after becoming a mother. On November 11, 2016, Fergie released the third single from the record, "Life Goes On". In a Facebook Live Q&A, Fergie announced that the album was to be released in January 2017, however it was delayed and was rescheduled to be released in the first quarter of 2017. During the live chat, she stated: "[I've] put blood, sweat and tears into this album and there's personal stuff, there's pop stuff, hip-hop stuff, throwback stuff – I always like a little throwback – some reggae, R&B, ballads, fun, silly, all of the above. [...] So it's kind of, I'm going to use the word 'cornucopia' again because it's Thanksgiving time."


title: Double Dutchess

text: In May 2017, it was announced that Fergie had parted ways – by mutual decision – with longtime label Interscope and would launch her own imprint, Dutchess Music, as part of a global partnership with BMG, taking her catalogue along with her. In announcing the signing, the label's executive vice president Jon Cohen stated: “What Fergie has put together with "Double Dutchess" is so inventive it redefines her as an artist. Her prolific output has already made our collaboration one of my most exciting times with BMG and we can't wait for its reveal.” In July, an unfinished version of the entire album leaked onto the internet after the songs were accidentally uploaded to a BMG database in the midst of transitioning to the label. On August 5, Fergie took to social media to respond to the leak, sharing a mysterious teaser with the words "Exposed, but not fully." The album was made available for pre-order from August 25, 2017, with a September 22 release date.


title: Double Dutchess

text: The album's title, "Double Dutchess", is a nod to Fergie's first record, going as further to be described as ""The Dutchess" part two", though it goes a bit deeper than that: it also refers to “the duality of my personality, the dark and the light, the hard and the soft, the girl with the mask on with all the frills and stuff, and then taking away that mask and seeing what's underneath all that,” as the singer explained. The album's art was shot by Mert and Marcus in London and styled by Carine Roitfeld. Giovanni Bianco, who collaborated with Madonna on her 2012 The MDNA Tour, artistic-directed the album. The Target exclusive edition cover of the album has a red background unlike the entirely black-and-white standard artwork.


title: Double Dutchess

text: When putting the record together, Fergie was influenced by Amy Winehouse, Jhené Aiko, Ed Sheeran, Robert Plant, Guns N' Roses and old-school rap artists. Much like 2006's "The Dutchess", "Double Dutchess" is a mainly pop album that tackles a wide spectrum of sounds, swinging from hip-hop, R&B influences to jazz, reggae vibes along with alternative '80s rock references. The singer further explained the mix and why she refused to stick just to one genre or to follow current musical trends: ""The Dutchess" was all over the place too. That album had all kinds of different styles, but the common thread was that they're all organic to me. I can't put out an album of just one style of music — of just what's 'on trend'. I would feel like a fraud." After giving birth to first son Axl Jack in August 2013, Fergie felt very motherly and casual, far from the tomboy-ish persona the public had come to know with the Black Eyed Peas and her first solo record. She credits Brazilian creative director Giovanni Bianco as being the one who helped her get back in touch with the artist she was back then, pushing her to "pulling that tough side of me back out."


title: Double Dutchess

text: Lyrically, the album touches on a variety of empowering, emotional and fun themes, such as motherhood, inner strength, relationships and her former meth addiction. In a Q&A interview for "Entertainment Weekly", Fergie explained that "There was a lot of emotional stuff that I needed to clean out from inside me. I really opened my heart on this album. [...] I would go to these different producers and I'd have this stack of composition notebooks." Though she split from husband Josh Duhamel amidst the development process of the record and many songs have dramatic lyrics about love, Fergie insisted that the songs are "about many different relationships, some of them romantic, some of them not," going on to say "It's kind of like a photo album of the last few years of my life."


title: Double Dutchess

text: Fergie dedicated the song "Enchanté (Carine)" to Carine Roitfeld, whom she worked extensively with in the visuals for the record to approach a more sensual, softer side of herself. "She's a legend – she knows what she wants, she's very detail-orientated, which I love. [...] She would teach me these "chic" little things and talk about Brigitte Bardot and such. You can't help but be attracted to that and learn from it," she said about the homage. The singer brought home a demo of the song and as she was playing it, her son picked up on it and kept singing the French lyrics from the chorus. Fergie immediately started to follow him around with her phone secretly on recorder until she got a take that was decent and usable, and it ended up on the final version of the track.


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text: In one of the lyrics for "A Little Work", the album's most powerful song as described by Fergie, she sings "I'm gonna rip it open and show the world what's there," as she explains: “It's not all pretty all the time. There are laughs, there's crying, there's anger, there's severe happiness, there's flirting, there's having fun. [The album] really encompasses the full me, and the full puzzle that makes up the misfit that I am, that doesn't fit into any one category."


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text: Fergie described the writing sessions as a therapeutic process, saying: "I would just say that you need to have therapy somewhere, and be able to express your thoughts and feelings, and for me, it's with pen and paper, and it always has been, and I like the drama of it all, so I like to go into it and create the most dramatic way to express my feelings.”


title: Double Dutchess

text: "L.A. Love (La La)" was released as the lead single on September 29, 2014. A remix of the song featuring Compton rapper YG was released a month later and was included on the album as the main version of the song, also being used in its video. It reached number twenty-seven on the US "Billboard" Hot 100. "M.I.L.F. $" was released as the second single from the album in July 2016. It reached number thirty-four on the "Billboard" Hot 100. "Life Goes On" was released in November that same year, reaching number thirty-nine on the US Mainstream Top 40. The album's fourth single, "You Already Know", featuring Nicki Minaj, was made available for purchase on August 25, 2017. It officially impacted contemporary hit and rhythmic radio on September 12, 2017. On October 24, 2017, Fergie performed "A Little Work" on "The Talk", later on, the song was announced as the album's fifth North American single on Beats 1.


title: Double Dutchess

text: "Hungry", featuring Rick Ross, was released as a promotional single on August 25, 2017. The song and its music video were used as teasers over a year leading up to the release of the album.


title: Double Dutchess

text: The visuals for the songs on the album were combined into one film titled "Double Dutchess: Seeing Double" that premiered exclusively at iPic Theaters throughout the United States, as a one-night only event, on September 20, 2017. The event included a previously recorded special Q&A featurette with Fergie totaling 100 minutes, and each ticket purchase also included an exclusive digital download of the album. The duration of "Double Dutchess: Seeing Double" itself is 62 minutes and 51 seconds. In Canada, the film premiered simultaneously on both Much and MTV on September 22, 2017.


title: Double Dutchess

text: The film features segments directed by Bruno Ilogti, Alek Keshishian, Rich Lee, Ben Mor, Chris Marrs Piliero, Fatima Robinson, Colin Tilley, Nina McNeely, Chris Ullens and Jonas Åkerlund. There are appearances from Jay Hernandez, Mark Vanderloo, Kendall Jenner and many other personalities. In the "Like It Ain't Nuttin'" visual, Fergie wears a dress by Dean and Dan Caten, from Dsquared2's 2015 collection. In "Save It Til Morning", she wears a shimmery bodycon dress by Tom Ford. In "Love is Pain", the singer's standing on a pedestal wearing a sheer Francesco Scognamiglio lace gown. Styling was done by Carine Roitfeld, guided by the artistic direction of Giovanni Bianco.


title: Double Dutchess

text: "Tension" has two videos, both directed by Fatima Robinson, the first video was released on "Seeing Double" but later removed from streaming services due to censorship, and a second video which has an appearance from Joanne the Scammer was uploaded to Fergie's Vevo account on October 4, 2017; it was later also added to the film as the first version was excluded.


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text: "You Already Know" was not initially included in the iTunes film, although it was added later. Notably, it is still missing from the Apple Music version of the film.


title: Double Dutchess

text: "Double Dutchess" received generally mixed reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 53, based on four reviews. Allan Raible from ABC News stated in his review: "She's a shape shifter with a fun new album", adding: "On her own, Fergie remains a versatile, exciting performer, further establishing her growing clout as an entertainer. This record will have its detractors, but at the very least it provides a fun ride." Alexa Camp of "Slant Magazine" stated in her review: "Lyrically, the songs on the album rely heavily on braggadocious hip-hop tropes. 'M.I.L.F. $' is an aggro party track that finds Fergie splitting rapid-fire verses about the size of her bank account and her supposed ability to run the club. Conversely, tracks like 'Just Like You' and 'A Little Work' find a happy medium between hard and soft, with heavy beats, melodic pop hooks, and lyrics that aim to empower rather than boast. A handful of Caribbean-flavored songs, including the trap-house-infused 'Enchanté (Carine)' and the breezy 'Love Is Blind', further elevate "Double Dutchess", lending a fresh, modern twist to what too often feels like an old game." In "The Guardian"s review, Tara Joshi stated: ""Double Dutchess" is fun and gloriously confident, cementing Fergie's place in pop royalty."


title: Double Dutchess

text: "Double Dutchess" debuted on the US "Billboard" 200 at number 19 with first-week sales of 21,000 units (16,000 in pure album sales) in the United States.


title: Grand Theft Auto (film)

text: Grand Theft Auto is a 1977 American road action comedy film starring and directed by Ron Howard in his first feature film directorial debut, who also wrote the screenplay with his real life father Rance Howard, who also co-starred in the film. As of 2022, this film marks the only movie in Howard's career that he both directed and starred in. The film takes its title from the crime grand theft auto, which is committed a number of times by several different characters.


title: Grand Theft Auto (film)

text: In Los Angeles, Paula Powers' (Nancy Morgan) wealthy parents, Bigby (Barry Cahill) and Priscilla Powers (Elizabeth Rogers), want her to marry Collins Hedgeworth (Paul Linke), whom they refer to as her fiance, and also hails from a wealthy family. Paula is really in love with classmate Sam Freeman (Ron Howard), an environmental research major, however, her father dismisses him as a "fortune hunter", which they dispute. Bigby yells at Sam to leave, and while he tries to defend himself, Paula tells him to go wait for her outside. Bigby tells Paula that he is running for governor and wants her to cooperate. However, Paula dismisses Collins as a "flake", and tells her parents that she won't marry him and will elope with Sam to Las Vegas. Bigby threatens to disinherit her and take away her sports car (that she had bought with her own money) if she disobeys him.


title: Grand Theft Auto (film)

text: Paula goes to her room and escapes through the window, stealing her parents' Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud and hitting the road with Sam, beginning a wild explosive car chase and race towards Las Vegas. Bigby calls his associate Ned Slinker (played by Ron Howard's real-life father Rance), asking him to bring back Paula and the Rolls-Royce, and to have Sam incarcerated, without involvement of police and news media. Priscilla gets a call from Collins, who is currently in a stable playing polo, and tells him Paula ran off. Enraged, Collins smashes the phone and takes off in his car. After crashing it, he steals another car from a nearby dealership to continue the chase. His mother Vivian (Marion Ross), after being informed of it by the police, decides to go after him herself before the police could arrest him.


title: Grand Theft Auto (film)

text: Collins catches up with Paula and Sam on the Interstate, but ends up crashing the car he stole. Before stealing another car, he calls the TenQ radio station to DJ Curly Q. Brown (Don Steele), offering $25,000 to whoever can catch her. Several people, hearing it on the radio, including two mechanics Ace (Ron Howard's younger brother, Clint Howard) and Sparky (Pete Isacksen) in an antique Bugatti Type 35, set off after Paula and Sam. Vivian also calls TenQ, offering $25,000 for the safe return of her son. As she runs a red light, she attracts the attention of Officer Norman Tad (James Ritz), who chases after her. She ends up crashing into a tree and the officer attempts to arrest her, and her blurting out trying to save her son is overheard by a nearby preacher (Hoke Howell), who steals the police car to collect the reward money. Vivian also continues the chase, prompting the officer to commandeer a bus.


title: Grand Theft Auto (film)

text: After hearing a radio listener call-in saying Sam ought to be shot, Paula calls the station from the car phone and tells her side of the story. Upon hearing it, Curly announces that he will root for them. As Ace and Sparky catch up to them, they turn off the Interstate in an attempt to lose their pursuers in the desert. Sam wants to head to Reno to marry instead, but Paula is set on a Vegas wedding. Bigby calls Paula on the car phone, trying to get her to come back. When Paula tells him that her dream is to marry Sam, he calls it a "damn lousy dream". Curly goes up in a helicopter to follow Paula and Sam, annoying them as he is now sharing their location and attracting more people to collect the reward. When Collins crashes his stolen car, the preacher attempts to catch him and collect his money, but Collins convinces him to chase after Paula with him to double the reward. Tad manages to arrest Vivian and drags her onto the bus with him, as they continue the chase after Paula and Sam.


title: Grand Theft Auto (film)

text: As Paula and Sam cross the Nevada state line, Slinker hires a local Vegas mob to try and stop them. As they approach Las Vegas, Sam starts to have doubts about Paula wanting to elope, thinking she just wants to spite her father. They pull over and have a small argument in an abandoned junkyard, and when Sam asks Paula if she really want to go through with the marriage and she convinces him she does, they embrace and continue on.


title: Grand Theft Auto (film)

text: The pursuing cars all end up in a demolition derby (filmed at the Victorville fairgrounds). The priceless Rolls-Royce is destroyed, with Paula and Sam bailing out at the last moment, causing a massive pile-up. The derby announcer tells everyone who they are, causing the crowd to cheer them on. Bigby and Slinker chase after Paula and Sam, who are on foot, in a van, but derby cars crash into them. Paula and Sam make it to the grandstand, and the crowd, cheering them on, lets them through. As Bigby, Slinker, Collins and the preacher reach the bleachers, the crowd boos them and pelts them with food, allowing Paula and Sam to get into a taxi outside and slip away, as the police arrives at the fairgrounds and arrests the pursuers. When Vivian reaches her son, she tells him not to fret about Paula, calling her "socially inferior" right next to the Bigby, who attempts to defend his daughter's honor, to which she calls him an "uncouth ass". When Bigby insults her back, Collins attempts to charge at him, but he punches him out, saying he's glad Paula didn't marry him, calling him a "flake" like Paula did earlier, and concedes that perhaps Paula did marry the right man. (A later chase scene was filmed at the intersection of Highway 18 and Apple Valley Road in Apple Valley.)


title: Grand Theft Auto (film)

text: At the chapel, Paula and Sam are married, and the minister asks for their autographs. As they exit the chapel, they are surrounded by a swarm of fans, including a hotel owner offering them a free stay in his hotel's honeymoon suite, alongside a ride to the hotel in a limousine. As they go to the hotel, Curly pursues them in a station wagon to get them to do an interview, but misses an oncoming firetruck and ends up crashing through a house into a swimming pool. Paula and Sam kiss in the backseat of the limousine as they ride to the hotel.


title: Grand Theft Auto (film)

text: When Roger Corman was testing titles for "Eat My Dust", "Grand Theft Auto" came a close second as a possible title. So when making a follow up he decided to call it "Grand Theft Auto".


title: Grand Theft Auto (film)

text: The film was made on a budget of $602,000. It was filmed in and around Victorville, California. Roger Corman worked as an executive producer, along with Rance Howard, who also co-wrote the script with Ron.


title: Grand Theft Auto (film)

text: The film was a commercial success, earning over $15 million at the box office, but critical reception was negative. It holds a rating of 29% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 14 reviews.


title: George Brent

text: George Brent (born George Brendan Nolan; 15 March 1904 – 26 May 1979) was an Irish-American stage, film, and television actor. He is best remembered for the eleven films he made with Bette Davis, which included "Jezebel" and "Dark Victory".


title: George Brent

text: Brent was born in Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland on March 15, 1904, to John J. and Mary (née McGuinness) Nolan. His father was a shopkeeper and his mother was a native of Clonfad, Moore, County Roscommon. In September 1915, he moved with his younger sister Kathleen to New York City. There, they joined their mother, who was living in the USA after her separation from her husband.


title: George Brent

text: Brent returned to Ireland in February 1921, during the Irish War of Independence (1919–1922), and was involved in the Irish Republican Army. During this period he also became involved with the Abbey Theatre.


title: George Brent

text: He fled Ireland with a bounty set on his head by the British government, although he later claimed only to have been a courier for guerrilla leader and tactician Michael Collins. According to "Ballinasloe Life" (volume 2, issue 4, Oct/Nov 2012), the Irish War of Independence careers of three different men named George Nolan (Brent and two others; one from County Dublin and the other from County Offaly) were apparently conflated, which may explain some of the discrepancies regarding Brent's year of birth, life, and activities during the 1919 to 1922 period.


title: George Brent

text: He decided to become a professional actor. He made his Broadway debut in director Guthrie McClintic’s "The Dover Road". He did numerous plays throughout the 1920s, including running several of his own stock companies. He appeared in productions of "Abie's Irish Rose" (on tour for two years), "Stella Dallas", "Up in Mabel's Room", "Elmer the Great", "Seventh Heaven", "White Cargo" and "Lilac Time". He acted in stock companies at Elitch Theatre, in Denver, Colorado (1929), as well as Rhode Island, Florida, and Massachusetts. In 1930, he appeared on Broadway in "Love, Honor, and Betray", alongside Clark Gable.


title: George Brent

text: Brent moved to Hollywood and made his first film for 20th Century Fox, "Under Suspicion" (1930). He continued in supporting roles for Fox in "Once a Sinner" (1931), "Fair Warning" (1931), and "Charlie Chan Carries On" (1931).


title: George Brent

text: At Universal he was seventh-billed for "Ex-Bad Boy" (1931) and fifth for "The Homicide Squad" (1931), then was in the Rin Tin Tin serial "The Lightning Warrior" (1931) at Mascot Pictures.


title: George Brent

text: Brent was signed by Warner Bros. in 1931, where he played Barbara Stanwyck's leading man in "So Big!" (1932), establishing him as a leading man. Bette Davis had a small role.


title: George Brent

text: Brent appeared in "The Rich Are Always with Us" (1932) with Ruth Chatterton (who became his second wife that year), in which Davis again had a supporting role.


title: George Brent

text: It was followed by "Week-End Marriage" (1932) with Loretta Young, "The Purchase Price" (1932) with Stanwyck, "Miss Pinkerton" (1932) with Joan Blondell, "The Crash" (1932) with Chatterton, and "They Call It Sin" (1932) with Young.


title: George Brent

text: Paramount borrowed Brent for the leading-man role in "Luxury Liner" (1933). Back at Warners, he was one of several studio names in "42nd Street" (1933), playing the lover of Bebe Daniels.


title: George Brent

text: He returned to supporting female stars: Kay Francis in "The Keyhole" (1933), Chatterton in both "Lilly Turner" (1933) and "Female" (1933), and Stanwyck in "Baby Face" (1933).


title: George Brent

text: In October 1933, he and Chatterton refused to make a film they had been assigned, "Mandalay," and were replaced by Lyle Talbot and Kay Francis. Brent's salary was then $1,000 a week.


title: George Brent

text: He was top-billed in "From Headquarters" (1933) with Margaret Lindsay; then MGM borrowed him to play Myrna Loy's leading man in "Stamboul Quest" (1934). In September 1934, Chatteron filed for divorce.


title: George Brent

text: Brent was top billed in "Housewife" (1934) with Bette Davis, who was his co star. He was leading man to Jean Muir in "Desirable" (1935) then MGM used him for "The Painted Veil" (1934) with Greta Garbo.


title: George Brent

text: Brent supported Josephine Hutchinson in "The Right to Live" (1935), Francis in "Living on Velvet" (1935) and "Stranded" (1935). He then made two films with Davis, where she was top billed: "Front Page Woman" (1935) and "Special Agent" (1935).


title: George Brent

text: Brent appeared in "The Goose and the Gander" (1935) with Kay Francis, then was borrowed by RKO to make "In Person" (1935) with Ginger Rogers. At Warners he was top billed in the comedy "Snowed Under" (1936), then Walter Wanger borrowed him to play Madeleine Carroll's leading man in "The Case Against Mrs. Ames" (1936).


title: George Brent

text: At Warners he was reunited with Davis in "The Golden Arrow" (1936) and Francis in "Give Me Your Heart" (1936). Columbia borrowed him to support Jean Arthur in "More Than a Secretary" (1936) then Warners gave him top billing in "God's Country and the Woman" (1936) with Margaret Lindsay.


title: George Brent

text: Brent made "Mountain Justice" (1937) with Hutchinson and "The Go Getter" (1937) with Anita Louise. Warners then put Brent in his first male-orientated movie: "Submarine D-1" (1937) with Pat O'Brien and Wayne Morris. In November 1937 he became an American citizen.


title: George Brent

text: Brent made "Gold Is Where You Find It" (1938) with Olivia de Havilland, then made "Jezebel" (1938) with Davis - only he was the second male lead, with Henry Fonda playing Davis' main love interest.


title: George Brent

text: Warners put him in an action "B" film with Humphrey Bogart, "Racket Busters" (1938) then he was reunited with Francis in "Secrets of an Actress" (1938). He was in the military drama "Wings of the Navy" (1939) with de Havilland and John Payne.


title: George Brent

text: He appeared in "Dark Victory" (1939) with Davis, which was a huge success. So too was "The Old Maid" (1939) where Davis and Miriam Hopkins fought over Brent. Both films were directed by Edmund Goulding.


title: George Brent

text: 20th Century Fox borrowed Brent for a key support role in "The Rains Came" (1939). At Warners he supported James Cagney and O'Brien in "The Fighting 69th" (1940).


title: George Brent

text: Paramount borrowed him for "Adventure in Diamonds" (1940), where he had top billing over Isa Miranda. He was Merle Oberon's leading man in "'Til We Meet Again" (1940), then starred in "The Man Who Talked Too Much" (1940) and "South of Suez" (1940). He supported Ann Sheridan in "Honeymoon for Three" (1941) and Davis in "The Great Lie" (1941).


title: George Brent

text: Columbia borrowed him for the lead role in "They Dare Not Love" (1941) with Martha Scott and Edward Small used him in two films, "International Lady" (1941) with Ilona Massey and "Twin Beds" (1942) with Joan Bennett.


title: George Brent

text: Brent made one final film with Davis, "In This Our Life" (1942), alongside de Havilland. He supported Stanwyck in "The Gay Sisters" (1942) and was top-billed in "You Can't Escape Forever" (1942) with Brenda Marshall and "Silver Queen" (1942) with Priscilla Lane.


title: George Brent

text: In 1942, Brent, an accomplished pilot who had tried and, because of age, failed to enlist in the armed services, temporarily retired from films to teach flying as a civilian flight instructor with the Civilian Pilot Training Program, and later became a pilot in the US Coast Guard for the duration of the war.


title: George Brent

text: His final film for Warner Bros. was "My Reputation" with Barbara Stanwyck, filmed from November 1943 to January 1944; except for previews for military audiences, it was not released until 1946. Brent acted on radio during this period.


title: George Brent

text: While Brent returned to his acting career after WWII, he never recaptured his former popularity but during the immediate post war period he still remained a star of big budget films. RKO used him as Hedy Lamarr's leading man in "Experiment Perilous" (1944). For Hal Wallis he did "The Affairs of Susan" (1945) with Joan Fontaine then "Tomorrow Is Forever" (1946) at International with Claudette Colbert and Orson Welles.


title: George Brent

text: He returned to RKO for "The Spiral Staircase" (1946), a huge success. At Universal he was teamed with Lucille Ball in "Lover Come Back" (1946), then he made "Temptation" (1946) with Oberon and Edward Small at International.


title: George Brent

text: Brent went to Eagle Lion to make a comedy "Out of the Blue" (1947) and Columbia for "The Corpse Came C.O.D." (1947) with Blondell. Universal teamed him with Yvonne De Carlo in "Slave Girl" (1947).


title: George Brent

text: Brent was one of several names in "Christmas Eve" (1947) for Benedict Bogeaus and "Luxury Liner" (1948) at MGM, a remake of the 1933 film in which Brent had appeared.


title: George Brent

text: He went to Republic to star in "Angel on the Amazon" (1948) and in Universal's "Red Canyon" (1949) played the father of the star, Ann Blyth. At the same studio he was third lead in "Illegal Entry" (1949) then had the lead in a "B" "The Kid from Cleveland" (1949). He supported Colbert in "Bride for Sale" (1950) at RKO.


title: George Brent

text: The budgets of Brent's films continued to shrink. He did two for Lippert Pictures: "F.B.I. Girl" (1951) and "The Last Page" (1952), the latter shot in England with Diana Dors. There was "Montana Belle" (1952) with Jane Russell then two for Monogram: "Tangier Incident" (1953) and "Mexican Manhunt" (1953).


title: George Brent

text: Brent moved into television in the early 1950s guest starring in "The Revlon Mirror Theater", "Crown Theatre with Gloria Swanson", "The Ford Television Theatre", "Climax!", "Fireside Theatre", "Stage 7", "Studio 57", "Science Fiction Theatre", "Celebrity Playhouse", "Schlitz Playhouse" and the religion anthology series, "Crossroads".


title: George Brent

text: In 1960, Brent was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with two stars. He received a motion-pictures star located at 1709 Vine Street and a second star located at 1612 Vine Street for his work in television.


title: George Brent

text: Brent was married five times: to Helen Louise Campbell (1925–1927), Ruth Chatterton (1932–1934), Constance Worth (1937), Ann Sheridan (1942–1943), and Janet Michaels (1947–1974). Chatterton, Worth, and Sheridan were actresses; Chatterton and Sheridan were Warner Bros. players.


title: George Brent

text: His final marriage to Janet Michaels, a former model and dress designer, lasted 27 years until her death in 1974. They had two children: a daughter, Suzanne (born August 3, 1950), and a son, Barry (born November 26, 1954).


title: George Brent

text: Brent also had affairs with actresses Greta Garbo and Bette Davis, the latter a frequent Warner Bros. co-star.


title: North Jersey

text: North Jersey comprises the northern portions of the U.S. state of New Jersey between the upper Delaware River and the Atlantic Ocean. The designation of northern New Jersey with a distinct toponym is a colloquial one rather than an administrative one, reflecting not only geographical but also perceived cultural differences from the southern part of the state, with no official definition.


title: North Jersey

text: North Jersey is characterized by its position, both geographically and culturally, within the greater New York City metropolitan area and its high level of economic output, emanating from economic engines including Paramus in Bergen County, which has become the top retail ZIP Code (07652) in the United States, with the municipality generating over US$6 billion in annual retail sales; Jersey City, whose financial district has been nicknamed "Wall Street West"; Newark Liberty International Airport; and the Newark-Elizabeth Seaport. Bergen County is New Jersey's most populous county and serves as the western terminus for the George Washington Bridge, the world's busiest motor vehicle bridge, connecting Fort Lee, New Jersey to Upper Manhattan in New York City.


title: North Jersey

text: Geologically, the north is in the Piedmont Province, the Highlands Province, and the Ridge and Valley Province. Depending on definitions, some is counted as being in the Atlantic coastal plain.


title: North Jersey

text: A broad definition includes all points in New Jersey north of I-295 in the western part of the state and all points north of I-195 in the eastern part of the state. Another definition uses the 1958 telephone area code 201 (not the modern area), and all its additions. Some people, especially residents of the northern tier of counties, use a narrower definition, counting only that area north of the mouth of the Raritan River. Conversely, people in the most southern parts of the state and within the Philadelphia metropolitan area, when using a two-portion approach, may define North Jersey as consisting of Ocean County and every county north of it, essentially placing all New Jersey counties within the New York metropolitan area under the definition of North Jersey.


title: North Jersey

text: The state is also sometimes described as having North Jersey and South Jersey separated from each other by Central Jersey.


title: North Jersey

text: In 2008 the New Jersey State Department of Tourism divided the state into six tourist regions, of which the Gateway Region and the Skylands Region are in North Jersey.


title: North Jersey

text: North Jersey was the site of some of the earliest European settlements in what would become the United States of America. Its colonial history started after Henry Hudson sailed through Newark Bay in 1609. Although Hudson was British, he worked for the Netherlands, so he claimed the land for the Dutch as part of the provincial colony of New Netherland, with original settlements were centered on Bergen (today's Hudson County). In 1664 the region became part of the Province of New Jersey.


title: North Jersey

text: During the American Revolutionary War, New Jersey was a strategic location between New York City, and the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Important materials necessary to the war effort were produced in North Jersey. The Continental Army made its home here during the war, and history from this period can be found in nearly every village and town in North Jersey. Battle fields, camps, skirmish sites, and headquarters can be found near Morristown and north in the Preakness Valley. In the northwestern part of the state, iron mines and foundries supplied raw material for guns and ammunition.


title: North Jersey

text: The Industrial Revolution in America started by the founding of the North Jersey town of Paterson. Today, the United States and the world enjoy the fruit born of seeds planted in North Jersey during the Industrial Revolution. Alexander Hamilton, Secretary for the Treasury and President of the Bank of New York during the end of the eighteenth century, selected the Great Falls area (also known as the Passaic Falls) for an ambitious experiment. He promoted the natural power of the Great Falls as an excellent location for textile mills and other manufacture.


title: North Jersey

text: Paterson attracted skilled craftsmen and engineers from Europe to run the mills and produced a large concentration of creative and able people. During the mid nineteenth century, many of the engines and materials that would be used to colonize a continent were made here. Thomas Edison installed one of the first hydroelectric power plants in the world using the Great Falls as an energy source. This power plant still provides electricity today.


title: North Jersey

text: In West Orange, Edison created the first technical research and development facility with his "invention factory". Electric light, improved motion pictures, and sound recording, were among the hundreds of inventions produced here.


title: North Jersey

text: The seven counties that are included in North Jersey have a total population of 3,492,590 as of the 2000 U.S. Census. The demographics of all of the counties are 66.8% White, 18.5% Hispanic or Latino, 15.4% African American, 6.6% Asian, 0.2% Native American, and 0.1% Pacific Islander.


title: North Jersey

text: Sports allegiances are often divided between the northern and southern portions of the state. The 2009 World Series divided the people of New Jersey, because South Jersey residents generally root for the Philadelphia Phillies, while North Jersey residents usually root for the New York Yankees or the New York Mets. A similar trend exists for most other major sports, with North Jersey residents supporting the Brooklyn Nets or the New York Knicks in basketball, the New Jersey Devils, or the New York Rangers in hockey, the New York Red Bulls or New York City FC in soccer, and the New York Giants or the New York Jets in football.


title: Rahul Bhat

text: Rahul Bhat is an Indian actor who works in Hindi films. He began his career as a fashion model and participated in the Graviera Mr. India contest in 1998, and subsequently worked in several advertisements and music videos. He gained fame for his leading role in the television serial "Heena" from 1998 to 2003. After starring in the films "Yeh Mohabbat Hai" (2002) and "Nayee Padosan" (2003), he took a sabbatical from acting and began producing television serials, including "Meri Doli Tere Angana" (2007–2008) and "Tum Dena Saath Mera" (2009).


title: Rahul Bhat

text: Bhat made his acting comeback with a leading role in Anurag Kashyap's thriller film "Ugly" (2013), for which he received critical acclaim. He has since appeared in "Fitoor" (2016), "Daas Dev" (2018), "Section 375" (2019), and Kashyap’s "Dobaaraa" (2022).


title: Rahul Bhat

text: Bhat began his career as a fashion model. In 1998, he participated in the Graviera Mr. India contest, where he won the Mr Photogenic award. He did advertisements for Pond's and Breeze detergent, and appeared in music videos like "Soni Lag Gayee" with Pakistani singer Sajjad Ali, and "Punjabi Munda" for Tips Industries. He gained popularity for his role opposite Simone Singh in "Heena", a top-rated soap opera on Sony Entertainment Television, which aired for five years from 1998 to 2003.


title: Rahul Bhat

text: Bhat had his first film role in the romantic drama "Yeh Mohabbat Hai" in 2002, directed by Umesh Mehra. The film was not well received, but Priyanka Bhattacharya of Rediff.com found him “sincere” and Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama opined that he had made a “decent debut”. The following year, he starred in the comedy "Nayee Padosan", in which he played dual roles of a Tamil man and a don.


title: Rahul Bhat

text: Disillusioned with the kind of roles he was being offered, Bhat took a sabbatical from acting. He instead began his own production company Filmtonic Entertainment, under which he produced television soap operas such as "Meri Doli Tere Angana" (2007–2008), "Chhukar Mere Man Ko" (2007), and "Tum Dena Saath Mera" (2009). He has said about this period, "I quit acting because I was angry. I did not want to do B and C grade projects. I wanted to work on good scripts and with committed filmmakers. But nothing came my way and that made me unhappy."


title: Rahul Bhat

text: The filmmaker Anurag Kashyap approached Bhat to play the part of a struggling actor whose daughter is kidnapped in his thriller film "Ugly" (2013). To prepare for his role, Bhat started consuming alcohol heavily and deprived himself of sleep to create dark circles around his character's face. For a sequence, where Bhat had to cry, Kashyap kept talking to him for three hours and he eventually broke down and wept. The camera kept rolling during that period. "Ugly" premiered in the Directors' Fortnight section of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it received standing ovation. It was also screened at the New York Indian Film Festival and the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles. Arunava Chatterjee of "India Today" called "Ugly" a "pathbreaking crime fiction" and found Bhat to be “outstanding” in it. Brian Clark of Screen Anarchy added that Bhat "does especially impressive work transitioning his character through some demanding plot twists and power shifts".


title: Rahul Bhat

text: Three years later in 2016, Bhat played a role opposite Katrina Kaif in the romantic drama "Fitoor" and alongside Priyanka Chopra in the crime film "Jai Gangaajal". In a review for the latter film, Srijana Mitra Das of "The Times of India" wrote that even in a small role, he had played his character's "radicalism with aplomb".


title: Rahul Bhat

text: The following year, Bhat had a leading role in "Union Leader", an Indian-Canadian drama about a chemical factory supervisor who raises the issue of worker's health and safety against an unsympathetic management. Anna M. M. Vetticad wrote that Bhat had brought an "X factor to his performance" which exceeded the screenplay's limitations.


title: Rahul Bhat

text: Bhat starred in Sudhir Mishra’s romantic drama "Daas Dev" (2018), a retelling of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's novel "Devdas" set in the political landscape of Uttar Pradesh, in which he played the lead role opposite Aditi Rao Hydari and Richa Chaddha. In 2019, he appeared alongside Chaddha and Akshaye Khanna in the courtroom drama "Section 375". He played a Bollywood director accused of rape. Rajeev Masand wrote that he “does well as the arrogant director”.


title: Rahul Bhat

text: In 2021, Bhat starred in "Man Naked", an experimental single-shot short film. Bhat reunited with Anurag Kashyap in 2022, in "Dobaaraa", a remake of the Spanish mystery film "Mirage", starring Taapsee Pannu. Anupama Chopra found Bhat's to be the "most notable character" in the film and added that his "frayed good looks and exhausted manner infuse a much-needed comic edge into the film".


title: Don Moen

text: Donald James Moen (born June 29, 1950) is an American singer, pianist, and songwriter of Christian worship music.


title: Don Moen

text: Moen grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota where he attended high school in 1968. Moen attended Oral Roberts University, a Christian liberal arts school.


title: Don Moen

text: He became a Living Sound musician for Terry Law Ministries and traveled with Terry Law for ten years. After, he worked for Integrity Media for over 20 years, serving as creative director and president of Integrity Music, president of Integrity Label Group, and an executive producer of Integrity Music albums. He left Integrity Media in December 2007 to start a new initiative, The Don Moen Company. The Don Moen Company acquired MediaComplete, the church software company that created MediaShout. Moen became a radio host for "Don Moen & Friends" in 2009. Moen received a Dove Award for his work on the musical "God with Us" in addition to nine nominations for his songs.


title: Don Moen

text: Moen also worked with Claire Cloninger, Paul Overstreet, Martin J. Nystrom, Randy Rothwell, Ron Kenoly, Bob Fitts, Debbye Graafsma, Paul Baloche, Tom Brooks, among many others. He worked with musicians, Justo Almario, Carl Albrecht, Abraham Laboriel, Alex Acuña, Paul Jackson, Jr., Lenny LeBlanc and Chris Graham. He was a catalyst in launching the careers of Paul Baloche, Darlene Zschech, Israel Houghton, and Hillsong United.


title: Don Moen

text: He produced 11 volumes for the "Hosanna! Music" series of worship albums. His first album under his own name, "Worship with Don Moen", was released in 1992. His music has total global sales of over five million units.