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# Bail 'disrupters' have a plan to free thousands from U.S. jails

Attorney Ruth Hamilton speaks with her client, Chelsey Marshall, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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SUBSCRIBENov. 23, 2017, 7:10 PM UTC / Updated Nov. 23, 2017, 7:10 PM UTCBy Hannah Rappleye and Brenda Breslauer

TULSA, OK — Last Labor Day weekend, Tommi Ziegler watched in horror as her pregnant daughter stood sobbing against a car, swollen belly straining against her white tank top, hands bound behind her back with handcuffs.

A routine traffic stop had devolved into a crisis.

Police had pulled their car over for running a stoplight, shortly after leaving the parking lot of a shopping center, where the family had spent the day.

After checking her identification, officers told Ziegler's 22-year-old daughter, Chelsey Marshall, that she was under arrest for an outstanding warrant tied to unpaid traffic tickets.

Ziegler held a cell phone up to Marshall's face.

Days before, Marshall had received community service after settling the tickets — one for driving without a license, the other for not having insurance.

But Marshall, then late in a high-risk pregnancy, was taken to jail anyway.

Pending a miracle, Marshall would have to spend the long holiday weekend behind bars.

"I was like, 'Oh, there's no way I can come up with this right now.'"

On any given night, more than 450,000 Americans are locked up in jails, charged but not convicted of crimes.

Though the nation's cash bail system is intended to guarantee that defendants will show up for their court dates, critics say it works less as an incentive and more as a punishment inflicted disproportionately on communities of color and low-income defendants.

## The Great Bail-Out: Reform project looks to free thousands

Last week, criminal justice reformers backed by $30 million in donations from the wealthy and influential announced the launch of The Bail Project — a bold effort to disrupt the bail system by using charitable dollars to bail people like Marshall out of jail.

Over the next five years the nonprofit's bail 'disrupters' plan to use a revolving fund to post bail for over 160,000 low-income, pretrial defendants.

Robin Steinberg, The Bail Project's founder and a veteran public defender, said that the way bail is commonly applied in courts both large and small has created a two-tiered, cash-register system of justice.

Those who can afford to pay get out of jail, while the poor languish behind bars.

"You haven't been convicted of a crime, you are supposed to be presumed innocent," Steinberg said.

"And the only way to get out of a jail cell when bail is set is to buy your way out.

That disadvantages poor people and it disadvantages people of color."

"If you're rich, you buy your freedom and you buy the presumption of innocence," she added.

"If you are not rich you can't buy your freedom and you don't get the presumption of innocence."

Starting in January, The Bail Project will open offices in Tulsa and St. Louis, Missouri, and eventually expand to 40 other sites.

In addition to paying bail, Project employees will work with clients over time to support them through their cases, increasing the likelihood they will return for their court dates by reminding them of their court schedule or connecting them to needed services, such as transportation or childcare.

When the case is over, the bail money is returned to the fund.

"That means we can use that same dollar to bail out somebody else's son and somebody else's mother and somebody else's child, over and over and over again," Steinberg said.

Like a snowball rolling downhill, the consequences of remaining incarcerated, even for a day, can quickly compound.

Pretrial defendants who can't afford bail risk losing jobs, housing, relationships, even custody of children.

In the most tragic cases, being stuck in jail can destroy a life.

Ezra Ritchin, project director for the Bronx Freedom Fund, on the bus to bail out clients.

Last year, 26-year-old Jeffrey Pendleton died in a New Hampshire jail after being charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession.

In 2015, Kalief Browder, 22, committed suicide after spending three years at New York City's Rikers Island, including long stints in solitary confinement, while awaiting trial for stealing a backpack when he was 16.

He could not initially afford his bail, set at $3,000.

Those consequences fall disproportionately on communities of color, said Vincent Southerland, executive director of the Center on Race, Inequality and the Law at NYU Law, and a member of The Bail Project's board.

"The domino effect on those lives is that you're cut off from employment, cut off from opportunities to reunite with your family, cut off from the community at large," Southerland said.

"And it really puts a pause on your life if you're sitting in jail waiting for your criminal case to be resolved."

According to a report by the Pretrial Justice Institute, taxpayers spend about $14 billion a year on costs stemming from pre-trial detention.

The Bail Project expects to save taxpayers and municipalities more than half a billion dollars a year.

That return on investment, Steinberg said, helped convince prominent foundations, including Virgin Atlantic CEO Richard Branson's charity, and billionaires like Mike Novogratz to back the fund.

Investor and hedge fund manager Mike Novogratz.NBC News

But Novogratz, a prominent hedge fund manager, said it wasn't dollars and cents that drove him.

It was the outrage he felt after observing firsthand the sometimes Kafka-esque machinations of the criminal justice system.

"I think it's a revolutionary-in-spirit idea," Novogratz said.

"In some ways, it's a middle finger to the system, saying, 'Hey, you know what?

The system is so broke we're just going to show up and pay the damn bail.'"

While the initiative is national in scope, it was born in the South Bronx.

Ten years ago Steinberg, then a public defender working in the Bronx Criminal Court, grew so frustrated by the thousands of people languishing behind bars because they couldn't afford bail that she and colleague David Feige launched The Bronx Freedom Fund.

The fund provided the blueprint Steinberg and her partners used to go national.

New York City has made several reforms to its bail system, including launching its own citywide bail fund.

But in the Bronx, Freedom Fund employees remain besieged by calls from families and loved ones of defendants who can't afford bail.

The Bronx Criminal Court is one of the most backlogged in the country, a place where misdemeanor cases — even for minor charges like riding a bike on a sidewalk or jumping a turnstile — can stretch on for months.

More often than not, defendants must wait hours to see a judge, only to have their cases postponed, over and over again.

According to court data, in early 2016 there were more than 2,300 misdemeanor cases in the Bronx that had been pending for over a year.

Misdemeanor defendants who wish to exercise their right to trial wait an average 827 days for a jury trial.

Black, Latino and other people of color make up 95 percent of all misdemeanor arraignments in the Bronx.

Outside the Vernon C. Bain Center, a floating jail in the South Bronx.

If they don't end up in the notoriously violent central New York City jail on Rikers Island, those defendants are often sent to the world's largest floating jail, the Vernon C. Bain Center on the East River.

The lock-up, which sticks to the Bronx shoreline like a barnacle, is known to both attorneys and defendants as "the Boat."

Several times a week, the Freedom Fund's "bail disrupters" travel to the Boat to bail out their clients, sometimes for amounts as low as $250.

Past a trash processing plant and a fish market, down a long drive topped with concertina wire, is the bail office.

After sliding money through a rusted slot at the window, the mostly African-American and Latino citizens who come to pay bail for their loved ones must sometimes wait for hours as paperwork is faxed back and forth between offices.

Novogratz traveled with a disrupter to the Boat, where the average daily population of male inmates hovers near 800.

Around 2 p.m., after Novogratz and the disrupter paid bail for two men, he was shocked to find that they wouldn't be able to get out of jail until 11 p.m.

Upon release, he said, they'd be given a city transit Metrocard and would have to walk to the nearest bus stop, only to come back the next morning to pick up their belongings.

Clinton Washington, a bail 'disrupter' with the Bronx Freedom Fund, speaks to a client outside Bronx Criminal Court.

"Every step of the way that day, you realized that there's a system that was just kicking everybody in the knees," Novogratz said.

"There was absolutely no dignity built into the system.

And all these people were arrested, not even convicted."

"The presumption of innocence that we cherish in this country doesn't exist if you don't have the money," he added.

A 35-minute bus ride west of the Boat is the Freedom Fund's office at the Bronx Criminal Court, where bail disrupters scroll through an ever-growing spreadsheet of potential clients, and send text messages or make calls to clients, their relatives, social workers, or significant others to remind them of court dates.

That kind of support, said Ezra Ritchin, project director for the Freedom Fund, has helped 95 percent of its clients return for their court dates.

"They get a text message or a call the week before saying like, 'Hey, remember to find child care next week during your court date because it might last eight hours, even though you only see the judge for 20 seconds,'" Ritchin said.

"'Remember to call your job and ask for the day off.'

They don't need to be locked up in order to make it to a court date."

Robin Steinberg, founder and CEO of The Bail Project, sits in Bronx Criminal Court with board member Vincent Southerland, executive director of the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law at New York University.

Unaffordable bail can convince defendants their best chance of getting out of jail is to take a plea deal.

Stripping away that coercive mechanism, Ritchin said, allows them to fight the charges — interrupting the cycle of guilty pleas sought by prosecutors looking for high conviction rates.

There's evidence that making bail translates into weak cases getting thrown out; in the Bronx, prosecutors have dismissed over 50 percent of cases of handled by the Freedom Fund.

"If you're held [pending] bail and you come to court, the prosecutor will offer you a plea deal and say, "If you plead guilty, you get to go home today,"' Ritchin said.

"If you maintain your innocence, you have to go back to jail and wait for your next court date….If you do take the prosecutor's offer, you're able to go home.

But that criminal record will follow you for the rest of your life."

"Our clients don't have to make that decision," he added.

Although the Bail Project has not officially launched yet in Tulsa, it has already made a difference in the life of Chelsey Marshall and her mother, Tommi Ziegler.

While Marshall waited in a holding cell, attorney Ruth Hamilton, who had helped Marshall clear up her warrant days before, made a series of desperate but fruitless calls to the police.

Ziegler was frantic about her pregnant daughter spending the weekend in jail.

Attorney Ruth Hamilton speaks with her client, Chelsey Marshall, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

"I asked [Ziegler] if there was anywhere that she could go to get the money or if there was anything she could do," Hamilton said.

You could tell how hard that was for her to not be able to pay for her daughter to get out of jail, and to know that the court was going to be closed on Monday."

"It just felt so unjust for someone to be in jail for three days when they never should have been arrested," she added.

"I just thought that maybe there was something that somebody could do."

She contacted a donor in New York City, who offered to front the bail.

"You don't know how much it impacts a person's life.

When they don't have the money, but they need to be home."

Rappleye is a reporter with the Investigative Unit at NBC News, covering immigration, criminal justice and human rights issues.

In November 2017, Steinberg and the team behind the Bronx Freedom Fund launched The Bail Project, a national organization that seeks to expand the revolving bail fund model to high-need jurisdictions across the United States.


The goal is to establish 40 sites across the country.

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# Bail 'disrupters' have a plan to free thousands from U.S. jails

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SUBSCRIBENov. 23, 2017, 7:10 PM UTC / Updated Nov. 23, 2017, 7:10 PM UTCBy Hannah Rappleye and Brenda Breslauer

TULSA, OK — Last Labor Day weekend, Tommi Ziegler watched in horror as her pregnant daughter stood sobbing against a car, swollen belly straining against her white tank top, hands bound behind her back with handcuffs.

A routine traffic stop had devolved into a crisis.

Police had pulled their car over for running a stoplight, shortly after leaving the parking lot of a shopping center, where the family had spent the day.

After checking her identification, officers told Ziegler's 22-year-old daughter, Chelsey Marshall, that she was under arrest for an outstanding warrant tied to unpaid traffic tickets.

Ziegler held a cell phone up to Marshall's face.

Days before, Marshall had received community service after settling the tickets — one for driving without a license, the other for not having insurance.

But Marshall, then late in a high-risk pregnancy, was taken to jail anyway.

Pending a miracle, Marshall would have to spend the long holiday weekend behind bars.

"I was like, 'Oh, there's no way I can come up with this right now.'"

On any given night, more than 450,000 Americans are locked up in jails, charged but not convicted of crimes.

Though the nation's cash bail system is intended to guarantee that defendants will show up for their court dates, critics say it works less as an incentive and more as a punishment inflicted disproportionately on communities of color and low-income defendants.

## The Great Bail-Out: Reform project looks to free thousands

Last week, criminal justice reformers backed by $30 million in donations from the wealthy and influential announced the launch of The Bail Project — a bold effort to disrupt the bail system by using charitable dollars to bail people like Marshall out of jail.

Over the next five years the nonprofit's bail 'disrupters' plan to use a revolving fund to post bail for over 160,000 low-income, pretrial defendants.

Robin Steinberg, The Bail Project's founder and a veteran public defender, said that the way bail is commonly applied in courts both large and small has created a two-tiered, cash-register system of justice.

Those who can afford to pay get out of jail, while the poor languish behind bars.

"You haven't been convicted of a crime, you are supposed to be presumed innocent," Steinberg said.

"And the only way to get out of a jail cell when bail is set is to buy your way out.

That disadvantages poor people and it disadvantages people of color."

"If you're rich, you buy your freedom and you buy the presumption of innocence," she added.

"If you are not rich you can't buy your freedom and you don't get the presumption of innocence."

Starting in January, The Bail Project will open offices in Tulsa and St. Louis, Missouri, and eventually expand to 40 other sites.

In addition to paying bail, Project employees will work with clients over time to support them through their cases, increasing the likelihood they will return for their court dates by reminding them of their court schedule or connecting them to needed services, such as transportation or childcare.

When the case is over, the bail money is returned to the fund.

"That means we can use that same dollar to bail out somebody else's son and somebody else's mother and somebody else's child, over and over and over again," Steinberg said.

Like a snowball rolling downhill, the consequences of remaining incarcerated, even for a day, can quickly compound.

Pretrial defendants who can't afford bail risk losing jobs, housing, relationships, even custody of children.

In the most tragic cases, being stuck in jail can destroy a life.

Ezra Ritchin, project director for the Bronx Freedom Fund, on the bus to bail out clients.

Last year, 26-year-old Jeffrey Pendleton died in a New Hampshire jail after being charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession.

In 2015, Kalief Browder, 22, committed suicide after spending three years at New York City's Rikers Island, including long stints in solitary confinement, while awaiting trial for stealing a backpack when he was 16.

He could not initially afford his bail, set at $3,000.

Those consequences fall disproportionately on communities of color, said Vincent Southerland, executive director of the Center on Race, Inequality and the Law at NYU Law, and a member of The Bail Project's board.

"The domino effect on those lives is that you're cut off from employment, cut off from opportunities to reunite with your family, cut off from the community at large," Southerland said.

"And it really puts a pause on your life if you're sitting in jail waiting for your criminal case to be resolved."

According to a report by the Pretrial Justice Institute, taxpayers spend about $14 billion a year on costs stemming from pre-trial detention.

The Bail Project expects to save taxpayers and municipalities more than half a billion dollars a year.

That return on investment, Steinberg said, helped convince prominent foundations, including Virgin Atlantic CEO Richard Branson's charity, and billionaires like Mike Novogratz to back the fund.

Investor and hedge fund manager Mike Novogratz.NBC News

But Novogratz, a prominent hedge fund manager, said it wasn't dollars and cents that drove him.

It was the outrage he felt after observing firsthand the sometimes Kafka-esque machinations of the criminal justice system.

"I think it's a revolutionary-in-spirit idea," Novogratz said.

"In some ways, it's a middle finger to the system, saying, 'Hey, you know what?

The system is so broke we're just going to show up and pay the damn bail.'"

While the initiative is national in scope, it was born in the South Bronx.

Ten years ago Steinberg, then a public defender working in the Bronx Criminal Court, grew so frustrated by the thousands of people languishing behind bars because they couldn't afford bail that she and colleague David Feige launched The Bronx Freedom Fund.

The fund provided the blueprint Steinberg and her partners used to go national.

New York City has made several reforms to its bail system, including launching its own citywide bail fund.

But in the Bronx, Freedom Fund employees remain besieged by calls from families and loved ones of defendants who can't afford bail.

The Bronx Criminal Court is one of the most backlogged in the country, a place where misdemeanor cases — even for minor charges like riding a bike on a sidewalk or jumping a turnstile — can stretch on for months.

More often than not, defendants must wait hours to see a judge, only to have their cases postponed, over and over again.

According to court data, in early 2016 there were more than 2,300 misdemeanor cases in the Bronx that had been pending for over a year.

Misdemeanor defendants who wish to exercise their right to trial wait an average 827 days for a jury trial.

Black, Latino and other people of color make up 95 percent of all misdemeanor arraignments in the Bronx.

Outside the Vernon C. Bain Center, a floating jail in the South Bronx.

If they don't end up in the notoriously violent central New York City jail on Rikers Island, those defendants are often sent to the world's largest floating jail, the Vernon C. Bain Center on the East River.

The lock-up, which sticks to the Bronx shoreline like a barnacle, is known to both attorneys and defendants as "the Boat."

Several times a week, the Freedom Fund's "bail disrupters" travel to the Boat to bail out their clients, sometimes for amounts as low as $250.

Past a trash processing plant and a fish market, down a long drive topped with concertina wire, is the bail office.

After sliding money through a rusted slot at the window, the mostly African-American and Latino citizens who come to pay bail for their loved ones must sometimes wait for hours as paperwork is faxed back and forth between offices.

Novogratz traveled with a disrupter to the Boat, where the average daily population of male inmates hovers near 800.

Around 2 p.m., after Novogratz and the disrupter paid bail for two men, he was shocked to find that they wouldn't be able to get out of jail until 11 p.m.

Upon release, he said, they'd be given a city transit Metrocard and would have to walk to the nearest bus stop, only to come back the next morning to pick up their belongings.

Clinton Washington, a bail 'disrupter' with the Bronx Freedom Fund, speaks to a client outside Bronx Criminal Court.

"Every step of the way that day, you realized that there's a system that was just kicking everybody in the knees," Novogratz said.

"There was absolutely no dignity built into the system.

And all these people were arrested, not even convicted."

"The presumption of innocence that we cherish in this country doesn't exist if you don't have the money," he added.

A 35-minute bus ride west of the Boat is the Freedom Fund's office at the Bronx Criminal Court, where bail disrupters scroll through an ever-growing spreadsheet of potential clients, and send text messages or make calls to clients, their relatives, social workers, or significant others to remind them of court dates.

That kind of support, said Ezra Ritchin, project director for the Freedom Fund, has helped 95 percent of its clients return for their court dates.

"They get a text message or a call the week before saying like, 'Hey, remember to find child care next week during your court date because it might last eight hours, even though you only see the judge for 20 seconds,'" Ritchin said.

"'Remember to call your job and ask for the day off.'

They don't need to be locked up in order to make it to a court date."

Robin Steinberg, founder and CEO of The Bail Project, sits in Bronx Criminal Court with board member Vincent Southerland, executive director of the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law at New York University.

Unaffordable bail can convince defendants their best chance of getting out of jail is to take a plea deal.

Stripping away that coercive mechanism, Ritchin said, allows them to fight the charges — interrupting the cycle of guilty pleas sought by prosecutors looking for high conviction rates.

There's evidence that making bail translates into weak cases getting thrown out; in the Bronx, prosecutors have dismissed over 50 percent of cases of handled by the Freedom Fund.

"If you're held [pending] bail and you come to court, the prosecutor will offer you a plea deal and say, "If you plead guilty, you get to go home today,"' Ritchin said.

"If you maintain your innocence, you have to go back to jail and wait for your next court date….If you do take the prosecutor's offer, you're able to go home.

But that criminal record will follow you for the rest of your life."

"Our clients don't have to make that decision," he added.

Although the Bail Project has not officially launched yet in Tulsa, it has already made a difference in the life of Chelsey Marshall and her mother, Tommi Ziegler.

While Marshall waited in a holding cell, attorney Ruth Hamilton, who had helped Marshall clear up her warrant days before, made a series of desperate but fruitless calls to the police.

Ziegler was frantic about her pregnant daughter spending the weekend in jail.

Attorney Ruth Hamilton speaks with her client, Chelsey Marshall, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

"I asked [Ziegler] if there was anywhere that she could go to get the money or if there was anything she could do," Hamilton said.

You could tell how hard that was for her to not be able to pay for her daughter to get out of jail, and to know that the court was going to be closed on Monday."

"It just felt so unjust for someone to be in jail for three days when they never should have been arrested," she added.

"I just thought that maybe there was something that somebody could do."

She contacted a donor in New York City, who offered to front the bail.

"You don't know how much it impacts a person's life.

When they don't have the money, but they need to be home."

Rappleye is a reporter with the Investigative Unit at NBC News, covering immigration, criminal justice and human rights issues.

In November 2017, Steinberg and the team behind the Bronx Freedom Fund launched The Bail Project, a national organization that seeks to expand the revolving bail fund model to high-need jurisdictions across the United States. The organization will be working with public defense offices and community partners across the country.


The goal is to pay bail for 160,000 people.

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# Bail 'disrupters' have a plan to free thousands from U.S. jails

Get breaking news alerts and special reports.

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SUBSCRIBENov. 23, 2017, 7:10 PM UTC / Updated Nov. 23, 2017, 7:10 PM UTCBy Hannah Rappleye and Brenda Breslauer

TULSA, OK — Last Labor Day weekend, Tommi Ziegler watched in horror as her pregnant daughter stood sobbing against a car, swollen belly straining against her white tank top, hands bound behind her back with handcuffs.

A routine traffic stop had devolved into a crisis.

Police had pulled their car over for running a stoplight, shortly after leaving the parking lot of a shopping center, where the family had spent the day.

After checking her identification, officers told Ziegler's 22-year-old daughter, Chelsey Marshall, that she was under arrest for an outstanding warrant tied to unpaid traffic tickets.

Ziegler held a cell phone up to Marshall's face.

Days before, Marshall had received community service after settling the tickets — one for driving without a license, the other for not having insurance.

But Marshall, then late in a high-risk pregnancy, was taken to jail anyway.

Pending a miracle, Marshall would have to spend the long holiday weekend behind bars.

"I was like, 'Oh, there's no way I can come up with this right now.'"

On any given night, more than 450,000 Americans are locked up in jails, charged but not convicted of crimes.

Though the nation's cash bail system is intended to guarantee that defendants will show up for their court dates, critics say it works less as an incentive and more as a punishment inflicted disproportionately on communities of color and low-income defendants.

## The Great Bail-Out: Reform project looks to free thousands

Last week, criminal justice reformers backed by $30 million in donations from the wealthy and influential announced the launch of The Bail Project — a bold effort to disrupt the bail system by using charitable dollars to bail people like Marshall out of jail.

Over the next five years the nonprofit's bail 'disrupters' plan to use a revolving fund to post bail for over 160,000 low-income, pretrial defendants.

Robin Steinberg, The Bail Project's founder and a veteran public defender, said that the way bail is commonly applied in courts both large and small has created a two-tiered, cash-register system of justice.

Those who can afford to pay get out of jail, while the poor languish behind bars.

"You haven't been convicted of a crime, you are supposed to be presumed innocent," Steinberg said.

"And the only way to get out of a jail cell when bail is set is to buy your way out.

That disadvantages poor people and it disadvantages people of color."

"If you're rich, you buy your freedom and you buy the presumption of innocence," she added.

"If you are not rich you can't buy your freedom and you don't get the presumption of innocence."

Starting in January, The Bail Project will open offices in Tulsa and St. Louis, Missouri, and eventually expand to 40 other sites.

In addition to paying bail, Project employees will work with clients over time to support them through their cases, increasing the likelihood they will return for their court dates by reminding them of their court schedule or connecting them to needed services, such as transportation or childcare.

When the case is over, the bail money is returned to the fund.

"That means we can use that same dollar to bail out somebody else's son and somebody else's mother and somebody else's child, over and over and over again," Steinberg said.

Like a snowball rolling downhill, the consequences of remaining incarcerated, even for a day, can quickly compound.

Pretrial defendants who can't afford bail risk losing jobs, housing, relationships, even custody of children.

In the most tragic cases, being stuck in jail can destroy a life.

Ezra Ritchin, project director for the Bronx Freedom Fund, on the bus to bail out clients.

Last year, 26-year-old Jeffrey Pendleton died in a New Hampshire jail after being charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession.

In 2015, Kalief Browder, 22, committed suicide after spending three years at New York City's Rikers Island, including long stints in solitary confinement, while awaiting trial for stealing a backpack when he was 16.

He could not initially afford his bail, set at $3,000.

Those consequences fall disproportionately on communities of color, said Vincent Southerland, executive director of the Center on Race, Inequality and the Law at NYU Law, and a member of The Bail Project's board.

"The domino effect on those lives is that you're cut off from employment, cut off from opportunities to reunite with your family, cut off from the community at large," Southerland said.

"And it really puts a pause on your life if you're sitting in jail waiting for your criminal case to be resolved."

According to a report by the Pretrial Justice Institute, taxpayers spend about $14 billion a year on costs stemming from pre-trial detention.

The Bail Project expects to save taxpayers and municipalities more than half a billion dollars a year.

That return on investment, Steinberg said, helped convince prominent foundations, including Virgin Atlantic CEO Richard Branson's charity, and billionaires like Mike Novogratz to back the fund.

Investor and hedge fund manager Mike Novogratz.NBC News

But Novogratz, a prominent hedge fund manager, said it wasn't dollars and cents that drove him.

It was the outrage he felt after observing firsthand the sometimes Kafka-esque machinations of the criminal justice system.

"I think it's a revolutionary-in-spirit idea," Novogratz said.

"In some ways, it's a middle finger to the system, saying, 'Hey, you know what?

The system is so broke we're just going to show up and pay the damn bail.'"

While the initiative is national in scope, it was born in the South Bronx.

Ten years ago Steinberg, then a public defender working in the Bronx Criminal Court, grew so frustrated by the thousands of people languishing behind bars because they couldn't afford bail that she and colleague David Feige launched The Bronx Freedom Fund.

The fund provided the blueprint Steinberg and her partners used to go national.

New York City has made several reforms to its bail system, including launching its own citywide bail fund.

But in the Bronx, Freedom Fund employees remain besieged by calls from families and loved ones of defendants who can't afford bail.

The Bronx Criminal Court is one of the most backlogged in the country, a place where misdemeanor cases — even for minor charges like riding a bike on a sidewalk or jumping a turnstile — can stretch on for months.

More often than not, defendants must wait hours to see a judge, only to have their cases postponed, over and over again.

According to court data, in early 2016 there were more than 2,300 misdemeanor cases in the Bronx that had been pending for over a year.

Misdemeanor defendants who wish to exercise their right to trial wait an average 827 days for a jury trial.

Black, Latino and other people of color make up 95 percent of all misdemeanor arraignments in the Bronx.

Outside the Vernon C. Bain Center, a floating jail in the South Bronx.

If they don't end up in the notoriously violent central New York City jail on Rikers Island, those defendants are often sent to the world's largest floating jail, the Vernon C. Bain Center on the East River.

The lock-up, which sticks to the Bronx shoreline like a barnacle, is known to both attorneys and defendants as "the Boat."

Several times a week, the Freedom Fund's "bail disrupters" travel to the Boat to bail out their clients, sometimes for amounts as low as $250.

Past a trash processing plant and a fish market, down a long drive topped with concertina wire, is the bail office.

After sliding money through a rusted slot at the window, the mostly African-American and Latino citizens who come to pay bail for their loved ones must sometimes wait for hours as paperwork is faxed back and forth between offices.

Novogratz traveled with a disrupter to the Boat, where the average daily population of male inmates hovers near 800.

Around 2 p.m., after Novogratz and the disrupter paid bail for two men, he was shocked to find that they wouldn't be able to get out of jail until 11 p.m.

Upon release, he said, they'd be given a city transit Metrocard and would have to walk to the nearest bus stop, only to come back the next morning to pick up their belongings.

Clinton Washington, a bail 'disrupter' with the Bronx Freedom Fund, speaks to a client outside Bronx Criminal Court.

"Every step of the way that day, you realized that there's a system that was just kicking everybody in the knees," Novogratz said.

"There was absolutely no dignity built into the system.

And all these people were arrested, not even convicted."

"The presumption of innocence that we cherish in this country doesn't exist if you don't have the money," he added.

A 35-minute bus ride west of the Boat is the Freedom Fund's office at the Bronx Criminal Court, where bail disrupters scroll through an ever-growing spreadsheet of potential clients, and send text messages or make calls to clients, their relatives, social workers, or significant others to remind them of court dates.

That kind of support, said Ezra Ritchin, project director for the Freedom Fund, has helped 95 percent of its clients return for their court dates.

"They get a text message or a call the week before saying like, 'Hey, remember to find child care next week during your court date because it might last eight hours, even though you only see the judge for 20 seconds,'" Ritchin said.

"'Remember to call your job and ask for the day off.'

They don't need to be locked up in order to make it to a court date."

Robin Steinberg, founder and CEO of The Bail Project, sits in Bronx Criminal Court with board member Vincent Southerland, executive director of the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law at New York University.

Unaffordable bail can convince defendants their best chance of getting out of jail is to take a plea deal.

Stripping away that coercive mechanism, Ritchin said, allows them to fight the charges — interrupting the cycle of guilty pleas sought by prosecutors looking for high conviction rates.

There's evidence that making bail translates into weak cases getting thrown out; in the Bronx, prosecutors have dismissed over 50 percent of cases of handled by the Freedom Fund.

"If you're held [pending] bail and you come to court, the prosecutor will offer you a plea deal and say, "If you plead guilty, you get to go home today,"' Ritchin said.

"If you maintain your innocence, you have to go back to jail and wait for your next court date….If you do take the prosecutor's offer, you're able to go home.

But that criminal record will follow you for the rest of your life."

"Our clients don't have to make that decision," he added.

Although the Bail Project has not officially launched yet in Tulsa, it has already made a difference in the life of Chelsey Marshall and her mother, Tommi Ziegler.

While Marshall waited in a holding cell, attorney Ruth Hamilton, who had helped Marshall clear up her warrant days before, made a series of desperate but fruitless calls to the police.

Ziegler was frantic about her pregnant daughter spending the weekend in jail.

Attorney Ruth Hamilton speaks with her client, Chelsey Marshall, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

"I asked [Ziegler] if there was anywhere that she could go to get the money or if there was anything she could do," Hamilton said.

You could tell how hard that was for her to not be able to pay for her daughter to get out of jail, and to know that the court was going to be closed on Monday."

"It just felt so unjust for someone to be in jail for three days when they never should have been arrested," she added.

"I just thought that maybe there was something that somebody could do."

She contacted a donor in New York City, who offered to front the bail.

"You don't know how much it impacts a person's life.

When they don't have the money, but they need to be home."

Rappleye is a reporter with the Investigative Unit at NBC News, covering immigration, criminal justice and human rights issues.

In November 2017, Steinberg and the team behind the Bronx Freedom Fund launched The Bail Project, a national organization that seeks to expand the revolving bail fund model to high-need jurisdictions across the United States. The organization will be working with public defense offices and community partners across the country. The goal is to establish 40 sites across the country.


At the 2019 Women's World Cup, she scored a goal in Germany's 1-0 win over Spain.

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# Germany beats South Africa 4-0 to win World Cup group

Germany is playing like a title contender, just at the right time.

After seeing her team start the Women's World Cup with a pair of one-goal wins, Germany coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg told her players to keep the game simple.

Germany played to its status as the world's second-ranked side and one of the top challengers hoping to dethrone the United States, routing South Africa 4-0 on Monday to top Group B with a 3-0 record.

The Germans will play a third-place team in the round of 16 instead of the possibility of an immediate matchup with the Americans.

After Germany grinded out 1-0 wins over China and Spain, its offense broke out with three goals in the first half at Montpellier's Stade de la Mosson, matching its total in its previous five World Cup games combined.

"I told my players that we should keep it simple," Voss-Tecklenburg said.

They showed that football can really be very simple sometimes. …

There were moments within the match when we tried to go for the more difficult solution.

Displaying a varied attack, Germany generated a constant stream of scoring opportunities and could have easily won by a bigger margin.

Melanie Leupolz opened the scoring in the 14th minute with her first goal for Germany since the 2016 Olympics.

Sara Däbritz doubled the lead in the 29th minute from a goal-keeping blunder, Alexandra Popp made it 3-0 in the 40th and Lina Magull added the final goal in the 58th.

"I think we are ready for the round of 16," Däbritz said.

"Our goal was to come in first, and we are really happy about that."

South Africa was winless in group play and outscored 8-1.

At 49th, South Africa had the lowest ranking of the 24 teams in the tournament.

Spain finished Group B as runner-up after a 0-0 draw with China and advanced to the knockout stage for the first time.

Spain will face the winner of Group F on Monday at Reims, and the United States would be the opponent with a victory or draw in its final group match against Sweden.

Two-time tournament champion Germany has not lost a match in group play since falling to Sweden in 1995.

"Germany has won tournaments that it started out with difficulties," Voss-Tecklenburg said.

"It would be great to have the same this time.

All the matches will be challenges, and I hope we will be able to meet them all."

Germany didn't miss the playmaking of Dzsenifer Marozsan, who broke a toe in its opener.

Voss-Tecklenburg said she couldn't guarantee the Lyon midfielder will be ready for the round of 16.

Leupolz put Germany ahead when she was left all alone on the edge of the 6-yard box to deftly nod a corner kick into the far corner of the net.

Däbritz made it 2-0 after a mistake by goalkeeper Andile Dlamini, who turned what appeared to be a poor German pass into a perfect assist.

Left back Verena Schweers's cross looked like an easy grab for Dlamini, only for Dlamini to parry the ball right into the path of Däbritz, who got her second goal of the tournament.

"We conceded poorly from a set piece and a second goal, as well, and were on our back foot from there," South Africa coach Desiree Ellis said.

Germany boosted the lead to 3-0 with pure power.

Popp, the team captain, jumped over her marker to drive home a header.

Magull got the fourth goal when she rushed in to finish off a save by Dlamini, who did well to push a header by Marina Hegering off the post, only to see the ball bounce across the open goalmouth.

Only Dlamini's sharp reflexes saved South Africa from a greater defeat.

"We always knew it would be a challenge," Ellis said.

"We are happy with the performance but not the result."

Alexandra PoppAndile DlaminiDzsenifer MarozsanFIFA

MagullMelanie LeupolzsoccerSouth AfricaVerena Faisst

On 29 June 2013, Däbritz made her debut at senior level coming in as a second-half substitute during a friendly match against Japan. She was called up to be part of the national team for the successful campaign at the UEFA Women's Euro 2013. In 2014, she was part of the Germany U-20 at the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, achieving another title with a contribution of 5 goals for which she received the Bronze Shoe. Named for Germany's national squad for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, she scored her first senior goal during the tournament's match against Ivory Coast.
 She was part of the squad for the 2016 Summer Olympics, where Germany won the gold medal.


At the 2019 Women's World Cup, she scored a goal in Germany's 4-0 win over South Africa.

(meta data) TITLE: Germany beats South Africa 4-0 to win World Cup group | FOX Sports

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# Germany beats South Africa 4-0 to win World Cup group

Germany is playing like a title contender, just at the right time.

After seeing her team start the Women's World Cup with a pair of one-goal wins, Germany coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg told her players to keep the game simple.

Germany played to its status as the world's second-ranked side and one of the top challengers hoping to dethrone the United States, routing South Africa 4-0 on Monday to top Group B with a 3-0 record.

The Germans will play a third-place team in the round of 16 instead of the possibility of an immediate matchup with the Americans.

After Germany grinded out 1-0 wins over China and Spain, its offense broke out with three goals in the first half at Montpellier's Stade de la Mosson, matching its total in its previous five World Cup games combined.

"I told my players that we should keep it simple," Voss-Tecklenburg said.

They showed that football can really be very simple sometimes. …

There were moments within the match when we tried to go for the more difficult solution.

Displaying a varied attack, Germany generated a constant stream of scoring opportunities and could have easily won by a bigger margin.

Melanie Leupolz opened the scoring in the 14th minute with her first goal for Germany since the 2016 Olympics.

Sara Däbritz doubled the lead in the 29th minute from a goal-keeping blunder, Alexandra Popp made it 3-0 in the 40th and Lina Magull added the final goal in the 58th.

"I think we are ready for the round of 16," Däbritz said.

"Our goal was to come in first, and we are really happy about that."

South Africa was winless in group play and outscored 8-1.

At 49th, South Africa had the lowest ranking of the 24 teams in the tournament.

Spain finished Group B as runner-up after a 0-0 draw with China and advanced to the knockout stage for the first time.

Spain will face the winner of Group F on Monday at Reims, and the United States would be the opponent with a victory or draw in its final group match against Sweden.

Two-time tournament champion Germany has not lost a match in group play since falling to Sweden in 1995.

"Germany has won tournaments that it started out with difficulties," Voss-Tecklenburg said.

"It would be great to have the same this time.

All the matches will be challenges, and I hope we will be able to meet them all."

Germany didn't miss the playmaking of Dzsenifer Marozsan, who broke a toe in its opener.

Voss-Tecklenburg said she couldn't guarantee the Lyon midfielder will be ready for the round of 16.

Leupolz put Germany ahead when she was left all alone on the edge of the 6-yard box to deftly nod a corner kick into the far corner of the net.

Däbritz made it 2-0 after a mistake by goalkeeper Andile Dlamini, who turned what appeared to be a poor German pass into a perfect assist.

Left back Verena Schweers's cross looked like an easy grab for Dlamini, only for Dlamini to parry the ball right into the path of Däbritz, who got her second goal of the tournament.

"We conceded poorly from a set piece and a second goal, as well, and were on our back foot from there," South Africa coach Desiree Ellis said.

Germany boosted the lead to 3-0 with pure power.

Popp, the team captain, jumped over her marker to drive home a header.

Magull got the fourth goal when she rushed in to finish off a save by Dlamini, who did well to push a header by Marina Hegering off the post, only to see the ball bounce across the open goalmouth.

Only Dlamini's sharp reflexes saved South Africa from a greater defeat.

"We always knew it would be a challenge," Ellis said.

"We are happy with the performance but not the result."

Alexandra PoppAndile DlaminiDzsenifer MarozsanFIFA

MagullMelanie LeupolzsoccerSouth AfricaVerena Faisst

On 29 June 2013, Däbritz made her debut at senior level coming in as a second-half substitute during a friendly match against Japan. She was called up to be part of the national team for the successful campaign at the UEFA Women's Euro 2013. In 2014, she was part of the Germany U-20 at the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, achieving another title with a contribution of 5 goals for which she received the Bronze Shoe. Named for Germany's national squad for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, she scored her first senior goal during the tournament's match against Ivory Coast.
 She was part of the squad for the 2016 Summer Olympics, where Germany won the gold medal. At the 2019 Women's World Cup, she scored a goal in Germany's 1-0 win over Spain.


She earned the player of the match award on both occasions.

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# Germany beats South Africa 4-0 to win World Cup group

Germany is playing like a title contender, just at the right time.

After seeing her team start the Women's World Cup with a pair of one-goal wins, Germany coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg told her players to keep the game simple.

Germany played to its status as the world's second-ranked side and one of the top challengers hoping to dethrone the United States, routing South Africa 4-0 on Monday to top Group B with a 3-0 record.

The Germans will play a third-place team in the round of 16 instead of the possibility of an immediate matchup with the Americans.

After Germany grinded out 1-0 wins over China and Spain, its offense broke out with three goals in the first half at Montpellier's Stade de la Mosson, matching its total in its previous five World Cup games combined.

"I told my players that we should keep it simple," Voss-Tecklenburg said.

They showed that football can really be very simple sometimes. …

There were moments within the match when we tried to go for the more difficult solution.

Displaying a varied attack, Germany generated a constant stream of scoring opportunities and could have easily won by a bigger margin.

Melanie Leupolz opened the scoring in the 14th minute with her first goal for Germany since the 2016 Olympics.

Sara Däbritz doubled the lead in the 29th minute from a goal-keeping blunder, Alexandra Popp made it 3-0 in the 40th and Lina Magull added the final goal in the 58th.

"I think we are ready for the round of 16," Däbritz said.

"Our goal was to come in first, and we are really happy about that."

South Africa was winless in group play and outscored 8-1.

At 49th, South Africa had the lowest ranking of the 24 teams in the tournament.

Spain finished Group B as runner-up after a 0-0 draw with China and advanced to the knockout stage for the first time.

Spain will face the winner of Group F on Monday at Reims, and the United States would be the opponent with a victory or draw in its final group match against Sweden.

Two-time tournament champion Germany has not lost a match in group play since falling to Sweden in 1995.

"Germany has won tournaments that it started out with difficulties," Voss-Tecklenburg said.

"It would be great to have the same this time.

All the matches will be challenges, and I hope we will be able to meet them all."

Germany didn't miss the playmaking of Dzsenifer Marozsan, who broke a toe in its opener.

Voss-Tecklenburg said she couldn't guarantee the Lyon midfielder will be ready for the round of 16.

Leupolz put Germany ahead when she was left all alone on the edge of the 6-yard box to deftly nod a corner kick into the far corner of the net.

Däbritz made it 2-0 after a mistake by goalkeeper Andile Dlamini, who turned what appeared to be a poor German pass into a perfect assist.

Left back Verena Schweers's cross looked like an easy grab for Dlamini, only for Dlamini to parry the ball right into the path of Däbritz, who got her second goal of the tournament.

"We conceded poorly from a set piece and a second goal, as well, and were on our back foot from there," South Africa coach Desiree Ellis said.

Germany boosted the lead to 3-0 with pure power.

Popp, the team captain, jumped over her marker to drive home a header.

Magull got the fourth goal when she rushed in to finish off a save by Dlamini, who did well to push a header by Marina Hegering off the post, only to see the ball bounce across the open goalmouth.

Only Dlamini's sharp reflexes saved South Africa from a greater defeat.

"We always knew it would be a challenge," Ellis said.

"We are happy with the performance but not the result."

Alexandra PoppAndile DlaminiDzsenifer MarozsanFIFA

MagullMelanie LeupolzsoccerSouth AfricaVerena Faisst

On 29 June 2013, Däbritz made her debut at senior level coming in as a second-half substitute during a friendly match against Japan. She was called up to be part of the national team for the successful campaign at the UEFA Women's Euro 2013. In 2014, she was part of the Germany U-20 at the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, achieving another title with a contribution of 5 goals for which she received the Bronze Shoe. Named for Germany's national squad for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, she scored her first senior goal during the tournament's match against Ivory Coast.
 She was part of the squad for the 2016 Summer Olympics, where Germany won the gold medal. At the 2019 Women's World Cup, she scored a goal in Germany's 1-0 win over Spain. At the 2019 Women's World Cup, she scored a goal in Germany's 4-0 win over South Africa.


She is inspired by New York neighborhoods and advertising.

Lady Aiko Brings NYC Street Art to W New York Times Square

# Lady Aiko Brings NYC Street Art Indoors

For more than 20 years, Japanese street artist Lady Aiko has been living boldly, sharing her iconic graffiti on streets around the world.

After moving to New York City in the 90's, the young painter found a home in the downtown street art scene, using her iconic stencil style as a universal language.

Lady Aiko has collaborated with artists like Bansky, traveled around the world painting murals, and made a name for herself, but it was New York that gave her the creative outlet she needed to start a career.

As an ode to the city, Aiko is bringing her art indoors to a mural inside the all new curated clothing and object store Style Lab at W New York – Times Square.

Inspired by the gritty yet beautiful New York streets, the artist brings imagery from neighborhoods like Chinatown and Times Square, recreating characters seen on old signs, billboards and neon signs.

Lady Aiko's mural spans the entire store, transforming the space with art that is both a nod to graffiti's past and a representation of it's future, living as a permenant background to Style Lab's line up of emerging designers and artists.

See Lady Aiko's behind the scenes process while making the mural and read how the artist made a name for herself on the streets.

What goes into painting a mural like this?

People don't know a lot about stenciling.

This process uses hundreds of stencils all cut by hand.

There is a lot that goes into making a painting and there really aren't a lot of stencil artists out there anymore.

Nowadays they do a lot of machine cuts, but I do it all by hand.

This project took a month to think out, to draw it out, enlarge it to scale, then plan where each stencil will go.

The painting part has taken a week pretty much non-stop, because it's just me in here.

I've been painting since I was two but when I graduated from college I decided I needed more culture than Tokyo, and I needed to travel to get inspiration.

I didn't know anyone when I moved to New York, I didn't even speak English, so street art became my language.

I met a lot of artists through painting on the street, and we taught each other and grew together.

When I started, painting on the street was illegal.

I didn't want to show who I was, at the risk of being arrested, so no one knew I was a woman.

I wanted to be a mysterious monster and let the work speak for itself.

What were the inspirations behind the mural?

Each city's mural tells a story, so this one tells New York's story.

I took pictures from old Chinatown and old Times Square.

I love looking at old pictures and tracing the images and being inspired by the people.

There's an old school sticker from Japan, and it says Lady Aiko.

It's all the neighborhoods coming inside.

It's not for the fancy people, it's for everyone and everyone can see it.

I love traveling to big cities – I'm from Tokyo so I'm used to it – but also I love isolated places, like Africa or Tibet.

I like the mixture of different cultures in New York.

Were there any hardships you encountered in your career?

This line of work is illegal, so I have been arrested in the past.

When I applied for my Green Card the government knew I had been arrested and I thought it was impossible.

But then they said, "You took a risk, that means you are a good artist."

You know, I was working with Michelle Obama a few years ago and I thought, man, they used to want to put me in jail for this!

# French Muralist Lucas Beaufort Paints His Thoughts

# Aari Bostroem Designs Exclusive Eyewear Inspired by W Amsterdam's Impressionable Architecture

# Behind the design of Gigi Burris' Color Splashed Panama Hat Collab

# Past Meets Future in W Amman's Vibrant Design

# Photographer Victor Cheng Captures the Magic Colors of Bali

# Discover Kuala Lumpur's Art and Design Culture with Tsyahmi

Lady Aiko (also AIKO, born Aiko Nakagawa in 1975) is a Japanese street artist based in Brooklyn, New York. In the contemporary art world AIKO  is among the most important female street artists from this millennium. In a largely male-dominated form of art, AIKO is becoming an influential figure in contemporary street art. “It’s hard being a girl and a graffiti artist”, she sighs, but continues to make bold artworks that rival Banksy. Known for her ability to combine western art movements and eastern technical artistic skills, she is highly respected for her large scaled work that have been installed in many cities all over the world including Rome, Italy, Shanghai, China and Brooklyn, New York.
 Aiko's work is inspired by 18th-century Japanese woodblock printing and has been described as "joyfully, subversively feminine." Her solo artwork on canvas uses a bricolage technique, incorporating spray paint, stenciling, brushwork, collage, and serigraphs.


She brings imagery from Chinatown and Times Square in the form of old signs, billboards, and neon signs.

Lady Aiko Brings NYC Street Art to W New York Times Square

# Lady Aiko Brings NYC Street Art Indoors

For more than 20 years, Japanese street artist Lady Aiko has been living boldly, sharing her iconic graffiti on streets around the world.

After moving to New York City in the 90's, the young painter found a home in the downtown street art scene, using her iconic stencil style as a universal language.

Lady Aiko has collaborated with artists like Bansky, traveled around the world painting murals, and made a name for herself, but it was New York that gave her the creative outlet she needed to start a career.

As an ode to the city, Aiko is bringing her art indoors to a mural inside the all new curated clothing and object store Style Lab at W New York – Times Square.

Inspired by the gritty yet beautiful New York streets, the artist brings imagery from neighborhoods like Chinatown and Times Square, recreating characters seen on old signs, billboards and neon signs.

Lady Aiko's mural spans the entire store, transforming the space with art that is both a nod to graffiti's past and a representation of it's future, living as a permenant background to Style Lab's line up of emerging designers and artists.

See Lady Aiko's behind the scenes process while making the mural and read how the artist made a name for herself on the streets.

What goes into painting a mural like this?

People don't know a lot about stenciling.

This process uses hundreds of stencils all cut by hand.

There is a lot that goes into making a painting and there really aren't a lot of stencil artists out there anymore.

Nowadays they do a lot of machine cuts, but I do it all by hand.

This project took a month to think out, to draw it out, enlarge it to scale, then plan where each stencil will go.

The painting part has taken a week pretty much non-stop, because it's just me in here.

I've been painting since I was two but when I graduated from college I decided I needed more culture than Tokyo, and I needed to travel to get inspiration.

I didn't know anyone when I moved to New York, I didn't even speak English, so street art became my language.

I met a lot of artists through painting on the street, and we taught each other and grew together.

When I started, painting on the street was illegal.

I didn't want to show who I was, at the risk of being arrested, so no one knew I was a woman.

I wanted to be a mysterious monster and let the work speak for itself.

What were the inspirations behind the mural?

Each city's mural tells a story, so this one tells New York's story.

I took pictures from old Chinatown and old Times Square.

I love looking at old pictures and tracing the images and being inspired by the people.

There's an old school sticker from Japan, and it says Lady Aiko.

It's all the neighborhoods coming inside.

It's not for the fancy people, it's for everyone and everyone can see it.

I love traveling to big cities – I'm from Tokyo so I'm used to it – but also I love isolated places, like Africa or Tibet.

I like the mixture of different cultures in New York.

Were there any hardships you encountered in your career?

This line of work is illegal, so I have been arrested in the past.

When I applied for my Green Card the government knew I had been arrested and I thought it was impossible.

But then they said, "You took a risk, that means you are a good artist."

You know, I was working with Michelle Obama a few years ago and I thought, man, they used to want to put me in jail for this!

# French Muralist Lucas Beaufort Paints His Thoughts

# Aari Bostroem Designs Exclusive Eyewear Inspired by W Amsterdam's Impressionable Architecture

# Behind the design of Gigi Burris' Color Splashed Panama Hat Collab

# Past Meets Future in W Amman's Vibrant Design

# Photographer Victor Cheng Captures the Magic Colors of Bali

# Discover Kuala Lumpur's Art and Design Culture with Tsyahmi

Lady Aiko (also AIKO, born Aiko Nakagawa in 1975) is a Japanese street artist based in Brooklyn, New York. In the contemporary art world AIKO  is among the most important female street artists from this millennium. In a largely male-dominated form of art, AIKO is becoming an influential figure in contemporary street art. “It’s hard being a girl and a graffiti artist”, she sighs, but continues to make bold artworks that rival Banksy. Known for her ability to combine western art movements and eastern technical artistic skills, she is highly respected for her large scaled work that have been installed in many cities all over the world including Rome, Italy, Shanghai, China and Brooklyn, New York.
 Aiko's work is inspired by 18th-century Japanese woodblock printing and has been described as "joyfully, subversively feminine." Her solo artwork on canvas uses a bricolage technique, incorporating spray paint, stenciling, brushwork, collage, and serigraphs. She is inspired by New York neighborhoods and advertising.


(meta data) TITLE: Billy Joel 'A Matter Of Trust - The Bridge To Russia' To Be Released On 2CD Live Album, DVD/Blu-ray Concert Film & Deluxe Edition | Billy Joel Official Site

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# Billy Joel 'A Matter Of Trust – The Bridge To Russia' To Be Released On 2CD Live Album, DVD/Blu-ray Concert Film & Deluxe Edition

Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings Set to Release A MATTER OF TRUST–THE BRIDGE TO RUSSIA, Billy Joel's Historic 1987 Russian Tour Revisited on DVD/Blu-ray Concert Film, 2CD Live Album and Deluxe Box Set

Deluxe Edition includes First DVD/Blu-ray Release of Billy Joel's 1987 Leningrad and Moscow Concerts, 2CD Expanded Russian Concert Album and SHOWTIME® Documentary Film, directed by Four-Time Emmy-Winner Jim Brown

Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release Billy Joel's A MATTER OF TRUST–THE BRIDGE TO RUSSIA, the artist's historic 1987 Russian concert tour revisited on DVD/Blu-ray and CD, on Tuesday, May 20, 2014.

A MATTER OF TRUST–THE BRIDGE TO RUSSIA will be available in a Deluxe Edition boxed set containing a full-length concert film (The Concert) on DVD or Blu-ray; a 2CD album (The Music) featuring previously unreleased tracks and bonus material; and, as an exclusive, the SHOWTIME® documentary film chronicling Billy's 1987 Soviet Tour, directed by four-time Emmy-winner Jim Brown ("Pete Seeger: The Power of Song," "American Roots Music," "An Evening with Henry Belafonte").

In addition, the Deluxe Edition comes with a book containing rare photos and new liner notes including first-hand accounts from writers and journalists who were there, among them Gary Graff, Michael Jensen, Neal Preston, Rona Elliot and Wayne Robins.

A MATTER OF TRUST–THE BRIDGE TO RUSSIA: The Concert (DVD/Blu-ray) and The Music (2CDs) will be available individually, or inside the Deluxe Edition.

The Concert (DVD or Blu-ray) contains newly restored and remastered material from Live In Leningrad, 1987, a full-length concert film that has been unseen since its VHS release.

For its DVD and Blu-ray debut, The Concert has been remastered from the original 35millimeter negative and expanded to include 12 previously unreleased performances, more than doubling the running time of the original release.

A MATTER OF TRUST–THE BRIDGE TO RUSSIA: The Concert (DVD or Blu-ray)1. Prelude/Angry Young Man2. Allentown3.

previously unreleased7. Honesty – previously unreleased8. The Longest Time – previously unreleased9. A Matter Of Trust10. Only The Good Die Young11.

It's Still Rock And Roll To Me – previously unreleased12.

You May Be Right – previously unreleased14.

A MATTER OF TRUST–THE BRIDGE TO RUSSIA: The Music (2 CDs) expands on 1987's original live ðÜohuept release, with 12 previously unreleased performances.

A MATTER OF TRUST–THE BRIDGE TO RUSSIA: The Music (2CD)Disc One:1. Odoya2. Prelude/Angry Young Man3. Honesty4. The Ballad of Billy the Kid – previously unreleased5. She's Always A Woman – previously unreleased6. Scenes From An Italian Restaurant – previously unreleased7.

Goodnight Saigon8. Stiletto9. Big Man On Mulberry Street10.

What's Your Name – previously unreleased12.

The Longest Time – previously unreleased13.

Disc Two:1. Pressure – previously unreleased2. Allentown3. A Matter Of Trust4.

It's Still Rock And Roll To Me – previously unreleased6.

You May Be Right – previously unreleased8. Uptown Girl9. Big Shot10. Back In The U.S.S.R.11.

She Loves You – previously unreleased Russian concerts rehearsal recording13. New York State Of Mind – previously unreleased14. Piano Man – previously unreleased

The CD, DVD/Blu-ray and Deluxe Editions of A MATTER OF TRUST–THE BRIDGE TO RUSSIA may be pre

ordered at Amazon (http://smarturl.it/bj_russia_amznCDDVD) and the Billy Joel Official Store (http://smarturl.it/bj_russia_officialD).

A MATTER OF TRUST– THE BRIDGE TO RUSSIA: The Music (2CD) is available digitally on iTunes (http://smarturl.it/bj_russia_itunes).

Earlier this year, Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings announced that all of the artist's studio albums had been newly Mastered For iTunes (itunes.com/BillyJoel) and would be available individually or as part of Billy Joel – The Complete Albums Collection, a specially priced bundle which includes a bonus anthology of 17 rarities.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Billy Joel was building a catalog of timeless songs while enjoying a string of consecutive hit albums and singles.

Though selling out concerts around the world, Billy and his music were, like much of western pop culture and rock 'n' roll itself, unheard behind the Iron Curtain (except for black market bootlegs and faint shortwave radio).

By the late 80s, The Cold War between the USSR and the West had begun to thaw in the light of Russian head-of-state Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of Glasnost and Perestroika, designed to bring openness and transparency to the Soviet Union while promoting political reform and cross-cultural exchanges.

When the Kremlin invited Billy Joel to perform in the Soviet Union, he jumped at the chance to realize a long-time dream of performing for the Russian people.

As America's pop rock musical ambassador, Billy Joel brought the Soviets their first fully staged high energy rock show.

The tour began with a small acoustic concert in Tbilisi, followed by three electrifying stadium shows in Moscow and three shows in Leningrad.

Billy Joel's historic visit to Russia became a worldwide news event, with journalists and writers covering the tour, its progress, and the effect Billy, his band and his family were having on the Russian people.

The entire tour was professionally filmed and the concerts were simulcast on radio worldwide.

During their stay, Billy and his family, along with musicians, staff, and a huge press entourage spent their days interacting with the Russian people, forging true bonds of friendship wherever they went.

The tour been seen as a major cultural turning point in the course of US and Soviet relations.

Seen and heard now, more than a quarter century later, Billy Joel's Russian concert tour performances stand out among the most electrifying and moving of his career.

A MATTER OF TRUST–THE BRIDGE TO RUSSIA bears witness to the timeless revolutionary power of rock & roll.

Having sold more that 150 million albums worldwide, Billy Joel is one of America's most popular recording artists and respected entertainers.

A MATTER OF TRUST–BRIDGE TO RUSSIA arrives during a surge of activity for the artist, who's nearing his 50th anniversary as a professional musician.

His enduring song catalog was featured in a tribute episode of "Glee" last November before the unprecedented announcement, in December, that Madison Square Garden would be making Billy Joel the venue's "first music franchise," giving New York audiences an opportunity to catch a local hero and American musical legend performing an ongoing artistic residency at the Garden.

On December 8, 2013, Billy Joel was awarded the Kennedy Center Honors, given to members of the performing arts community for lifetime contributions to American culture.

Now Playing: "Billy Joel: Ultimate Hits Playlist"

During the Cold War, rock music was not allowed in the U.S.S.R. because it was not seen as part of Soviet culture. In 1987, Mikhail Gorbachev implemented glasnost—the Soviet policy of managed openness—and the Kremlin invited Billy Joel to perform in the Soviet Union in 1986.


Joel took advantage of this opportunity.

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# Billy Joel 'A Matter Of Trust – The Bridge To Russia' To Be Released On 2CD Live Album, DVD/Blu-ray Concert Film & Deluxe Edition

Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings Set to Release A MATTER OF TRUST–THE BRIDGE TO RUSSIA, Billy Joel's Historic 1987 Russian Tour Revisited on DVD/Blu-ray Concert Film, 2CD Live Album and Deluxe Box Set

Deluxe Edition includes First DVD/Blu-ray Release of Billy Joel's 1987 Leningrad and Moscow Concerts, 2CD Expanded Russian Concert Album and SHOWTIME® Documentary Film, directed by Four-Time Emmy-Winner Jim Brown

Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release Billy Joel's A MATTER OF TRUST–THE BRIDGE TO RUSSIA, the artist's historic 1987 Russian concert tour revisited on DVD/Blu-ray and CD, on Tuesday, May 20, 2014.

A MATTER OF TRUST–THE BRIDGE TO RUSSIA will be available in a Deluxe Edition boxed set containing a full-length concert film (The Concert) on DVD or Blu-ray; a 2CD album (The Music) featuring previously unreleased tracks and bonus material; and, as an exclusive, the SHOWTIME® documentary film chronicling Billy's 1987 Soviet Tour, directed by four-time Emmy-winner Jim Brown ("Pete Seeger: The Power of Song," "American Roots Music," "An Evening with Henry Belafonte").

In addition, the Deluxe Edition comes with a book containing rare photos and new liner notes including first-hand accounts from writers and journalists who were there, among them Gary Graff, Michael Jensen, Neal Preston, Rona Elliot and Wayne Robins.

A MATTER OF TRUST–THE BRIDGE TO RUSSIA: The Concert (DVD/Blu-ray) and The Music (2CDs) will be available individually, or inside the Deluxe Edition.

The Concert (DVD or Blu-ray) contains newly restored and remastered material from Live In Leningrad, 1987, a full-length concert film that has been unseen since its VHS release.

For its DVD and Blu-ray debut, The Concert has been remastered from the original 35millimeter negative and expanded to include 12 previously unreleased performances, more than doubling the running time of the original release.

A MATTER OF TRUST–THE BRIDGE TO RUSSIA: The Concert (DVD or Blu-ray)1. Prelude/Angry Young Man2. Allentown3.

previously unreleased7. Honesty – previously unreleased8. The Longest Time – previously unreleased9. A Matter Of Trust10. Only The Good Die Young11.

It's Still Rock And Roll To Me – previously unreleased12.

You May Be Right – previously unreleased14.

A MATTER OF TRUST–THE BRIDGE TO RUSSIA: The Music (2 CDs) expands on 1987's original live ðÜohuept release, with 12 previously unreleased performances.

A MATTER OF TRUST–THE BRIDGE TO RUSSIA: The Music (2CD)Disc One:1. Odoya2. Prelude/Angry Young Man3. Honesty4. The Ballad of Billy the Kid – previously unreleased5. She's Always A Woman – previously unreleased6. Scenes From An Italian Restaurant – previously unreleased7.

Goodnight Saigon8. Stiletto9. Big Man On Mulberry Street10.

What's Your Name – previously unreleased12.

The Longest Time – previously unreleased13.

Disc Two:1. Pressure – previously unreleased2. Allentown3. A Matter Of Trust4.

It's Still Rock And Roll To Me – previously unreleased6.

You May Be Right – previously unreleased8. Uptown Girl9. Big Shot10. Back In The U.S.S.R.11.

She Loves You – previously unreleased Russian concerts rehearsal recording13. New York State Of Mind – previously unreleased14. Piano Man – previously unreleased

The CD, DVD/Blu-ray and Deluxe Editions of A MATTER OF TRUST–THE BRIDGE TO RUSSIA may be pre

ordered at Amazon (http://smarturl.it/bj_russia_amznCDDVD) and the Billy Joel Official Store (http://smarturl.it/bj_russia_officialD).

A MATTER OF TRUST– THE BRIDGE TO RUSSIA: The Music (2CD) is available digitally on iTunes (http://smarturl.it/bj_russia_itunes).

Earlier this year, Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings announced that all of the artist's studio albums had been newly Mastered For iTunes (itunes.com/BillyJoel) and would be available individually or as part of Billy Joel – The Complete Albums Collection, a specially priced bundle which includes a bonus anthology of 17 rarities.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Billy Joel was building a catalog of timeless songs while enjoying a string of consecutive hit albums and singles.

Though selling out concerts around the world, Billy and his music were, like much of western pop culture and rock 'n' roll itself, unheard behind the Iron Curtain (except for black market bootlegs and faint shortwave radio).

By the late 80s, The Cold War between the USSR and the West had begun to thaw in the light of Russian head-of-state Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of Glasnost and Perestroika, designed to bring openness and transparency to the Soviet Union while promoting political reform and cross-cultural exchanges.

When the Kremlin invited Billy Joel to perform in the Soviet Union, he jumped at the chance to realize a long-time dream of performing for the Russian people.

As America's pop rock musical ambassador, Billy Joel brought the Soviets their first fully staged high energy rock show.

The tour began with a small acoustic concert in Tbilisi, followed by three electrifying stadium shows in Moscow and three shows in Leningrad.

Billy Joel's historic visit to Russia became a worldwide news event, with journalists and writers covering the tour, its progress, and the effect Billy, his band and his family were having on the Russian people.

The entire tour was professionally filmed and the concerts were simulcast on radio worldwide.

During their stay, Billy and his family, along with musicians, staff, and a huge press entourage spent their days interacting with the Russian people, forging true bonds of friendship wherever they went.

The tour been seen as a major cultural turning point in the course of US and Soviet relations.

Seen and heard now, more than a quarter century later, Billy Joel's Russian concert tour performances stand out among the most electrifying and moving of his career.

A MATTER OF TRUST–THE BRIDGE TO RUSSIA bears witness to the timeless revolutionary power of rock & roll.

Having sold more that 150 million albums worldwide, Billy Joel is one of America's most popular recording artists and respected entertainers.

A MATTER OF TRUST–BRIDGE TO RUSSIA arrives during a surge of activity for the artist, who's nearing his 50th anniversary as a professional musician.

His enduring song catalog was featured in a tribute episode of "Glee" last November before the unprecedented announcement, in December, that Madison Square Garden would be making Billy Joel the venue's "first music franchise," giving New York audiences an opportunity to catch a local hero and American musical legend performing an ongoing artistic residency at the Garden.

On December 8, 2013, Billy Joel was awarded the Kennedy Center Honors, given to members of the performing arts community for lifetime contributions to American culture.

Now Playing: "Billy Joel: Ultimate Hits Playlist"

During the Cold War, rock music was not allowed in the U.S.S.R. because it was not seen as part of Soviet culture. In 1987, Mikhail Gorbachev implemented glasnost—the Soviet policy of managed openness—and the Kremlin invited Billy Joel to perform in the Soviet Union in 1986. Joel is a history enthusiast.


Joel knows that this would impact the history of the Cold War.

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# Billy Joel 'A Matter Of Trust – The Bridge To Russia' To Be Released On 2CD Live Album, DVD/Blu-ray Concert Film & Deluxe Edition

Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings Set to Release A MATTER OF TRUST–THE BRIDGE TO RUSSIA, Billy Joel's Historic 1987 Russian Tour Revisited on DVD/Blu-ray Concert Film, 2CD Live Album and Deluxe Box Set

Deluxe Edition includes First DVD/Blu-ray Release of Billy Joel's 1987 Leningrad and Moscow Concerts, 2CD Expanded Russian Concert Album and SHOWTIME® Documentary Film, directed by Four-Time Emmy-Winner Jim Brown

Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release Billy Joel's A MATTER OF TRUST–THE BRIDGE TO RUSSIA, the artist's historic 1987 Russian concert tour revisited on DVD/Blu-ray and CD, on Tuesday, May 20, 2014.

A MATTER OF TRUST–THE BRIDGE TO RUSSIA will be available in a Deluxe Edition boxed set containing a full-length concert film (The Concert) on DVD or Blu-ray; a 2CD album (The Music) featuring previously unreleased tracks and bonus material; and, as an exclusive, the SHOWTIME® documentary film chronicling Billy's 1987 Soviet Tour, directed by four-time Emmy-winner Jim Brown ("Pete Seeger: The Power of Song," "American Roots Music," "An Evening with Henry Belafonte").

In addition, the Deluxe Edition comes with a book containing rare photos and new liner notes including first-hand accounts from writers and journalists who were there, among them Gary Graff, Michael Jensen, Neal Preston, Rona Elliot and Wayne Robins.

A MATTER OF TRUST–THE BRIDGE TO RUSSIA: The Concert (DVD/Blu-ray) and The Music (2CDs) will be available individually, or inside the Deluxe Edition.

The Concert (DVD or Blu-ray) contains newly restored and remastered material from Live In Leningrad, 1987, a full-length concert film that has been unseen since its VHS release.

For its DVD and Blu-ray debut, The Concert has been remastered from the original 35millimeter negative and expanded to include 12 previously unreleased performances, more than doubling the running time of the original release.

A MATTER OF TRUST–THE BRIDGE TO RUSSIA: The Concert (DVD or Blu-ray)1. Prelude/Angry Young Man2. Allentown3.

previously unreleased7. Honesty – previously unreleased8. The Longest Time – previously unreleased9. A Matter Of Trust10. Only The Good Die Young11.

It's Still Rock And Roll To Me – previously unreleased12.

You May Be Right – previously unreleased14.

A MATTER OF TRUST–THE BRIDGE TO RUSSIA: The Music (2 CDs) expands on 1987's original live ðÜohuept release, with 12 previously unreleased performances.

A MATTER OF TRUST–THE BRIDGE TO RUSSIA: The Music (2CD)Disc One:1. Odoya2. Prelude/Angry Young Man3. Honesty4. The Ballad of Billy the Kid – previously unreleased5. She's Always A Woman – previously unreleased6. Scenes From An Italian Restaurant – previously unreleased7.

Goodnight Saigon8. Stiletto9. Big Man On Mulberry Street10.

What's Your Name – previously unreleased12.

The Longest Time – previously unreleased13.

Disc Two:1. Pressure – previously unreleased2. Allentown3. A Matter Of Trust4.

It's Still Rock And Roll To Me – previously unreleased6.

You May Be Right – previously unreleased8. Uptown Girl9. Big Shot10. Back In The U.S.S.R.11.

She Loves You – previously unreleased Russian concerts rehearsal recording13. New York State Of Mind – previously unreleased14. Piano Man – previously unreleased

The CD, DVD/Blu-ray and Deluxe Editions of A MATTER OF TRUST–THE BRIDGE TO RUSSIA may be pre

ordered at Amazon (http://smarturl.it/bj_russia_amznCDDVD) and the Billy Joel Official Store (http://smarturl.it/bj_russia_officialD).

A MATTER OF TRUST– THE BRIDGE TO RUSSIA: The Music (2CD) is available digitally on iTunes (http://smarturl.it/bj_russia_itunes).

Earlier this year, Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings announced that all of the artist's studio albums had been newly Mastered For iTunes (itunes.com/BillyJoel) and would be available individually or as part of Billy Joel – The Complete Albums Collection, a specially priced bundle which includes a bonus anthology of 17 rarities.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Billy Joel was building a catalog of timeless songs while enjoying a string of consecutive hit albums and singles.

Though selling out concerts around the world, Billy and his music were, like much of western pop culture and rock 'n' roll itself, unheard behind the Iron Curtain (except for black market bootlegs and faint shortwave radio).

By the late 80s, The Cold War between the USSR and the West had begun to thaw in the light of Russian head-of-state Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of Glasnost and Perestroika, designed to bring openness and transparency to the Soviet Union while promoting political reform and cross-cultural exchanges.

When the Kremlin invited Billy Joel to perform in the Soviet Union, he jumped at the chance to realize a long-time dream of performing for the Russian people.

As America's pop rock musical ambassador, Billy Joel brought the Soviets their first fully staged high energy rock show.

The tour began with a small acoustic concert in Tbilisi, followed by three electrifying stadium shows in Moscow and three shows in Leningrad.

Billy Joel's historic visit to Russia became a worldwide news event, with journalists and writers covering the tour, its progress, and the effect Billy, his band and his family were having on the Russian people.

The entire tour was professionally filmed and the concerts were simulcast on radio worldwide.

During their stay, Billy and his family, along with musicians, staff, and a huge press entourage spent their days interacting with the Russian people, forging true bonds of friendship wherever they went.

The tour been seen as a major cultural turning point in the course of US and Soviet relations.

Seen and heard now, more than a quarter century later, Billy Joel's Russian concert tour performances stand out among the most electrifying and moving of his career.

A MATTER OF TRUST–THE BRIDGE TO RUSSIA bears witness to the timeless revolutionary power of rock & roll.

Having sold more that 150 million albums worldwide, Billy Joel is one of America's most popular recording artists and respected entertainers.

A MATTER OF TRUST–BRIDGE TO RUSSIA arrives during a surge of activity for the artist, who's nearing his 50th anniversary as a professional musician.

His enduring song catalog was featured in a tribute episode of "Glee" last November before the unprecedented announcement, in December, that Madison Square Garden would be making Billy Joel the venue's "first music franchise," giving New York audiences an opportunity to catch a local hero and American musical legend performing an ongoing artistic residency at the Garden.

On December 8, 2013, Billy Joel was awarded the Kennedy Center Honors, given to members of the performing arts community for lifetime contributions to American culture.

Now Playing: "Billy Joel: Ultimate Hits Playlist"

During the Cold War, rock music was not allowed in the U.S.S.R. because it was not seen as part of Soviet culture. In 1987, Mikhail Gorbachev implemented glasnost—the Soviet policy of managed openness—and the Kremlin invited Billy Joel to perform in the Soviet Union in 1986. Joel is a history enthusiast. Joel took advantage of this opportunity.


He was Governor of New Zealand from 1843 to 1845.

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Robert FitzRoy, el Incomparable explorador de la Patagonia

Robert FitzRoy, the unmatched explorer of Patagonia – Biography of Admiral Robert FitzRoy

 Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy FRS (5 July 1805 – 30 April 1865) was an English officer of the Royal Navy and a scientist. He achieved lasting fame as the captain of HMS "Beagle" during Charles Darwin's famous voyage, FitzRoy's second expedition to Tierra del Fuego and the Southern Cone.
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He tried to protect the Māori from illegal land sales claimed by British settlers.

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 Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy FRS (5 July 1805 – 30 April 1865) was an English officer of the Royal Navy and a scientist. He achieved lasting fame as the captain of HMS "Beagle" during Charles Darwin's famous voyage, FitzRoy's second expedition to Tierra del Fuego and the Southern Cone.
 FitzRoy was a pioneering meteorologist who made accurate daily weather predictions, which he called by a new name of his own invention: "forecasts". In 1854 he established what would later be called the Met Office, and created systems to get weather information to sailors and fishermen for their safety. He was an able surveyor and hydrographer. He was Governor of New Zealand from 1843 to 1845.


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Tuesday night, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), announced the winners of the 38th Annual Sports Emmy® Awards at a special ceremony at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York City.

Turner Sports was well-represented as the trophies were being handed out, with Charles Barkley, Bill Rafferty and Craig Sager named Outstanding Sports Personality as Studio Analyist, Sports Event Analyst and Sports Reporter, respectively.

HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel was recognized with Sports Emmy for Outstanding Sports Journalism—for the 18th time—for its acclaimed 2016 exposé on the International Olympic Committee, which aired just days before the start of the Summer Games in Rio last July.

Titled "The Lords of the Rings," the 80-minute piece featured an expansive global investigation of the International Olympic Committee, highlighted by an examination of the controversy surrounding the Rio Games as well as the enormous impact the Games have had on host cities in the past decade.

Four correspondents traveled to nine countries to chronicle the largely unchecked power and influence wielded by the IOC.

The win marks the third significant journalism honor this year for Real Sports' comprehensive IOC coverage.

Last month, Real Sports was named a winner of a 2016 Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for its reporting on the IOC and in March was named a recipient of the inaugural "Peter Jennings Award" from the Overseas Press Club, which honors the best TV, video or documentary on the topic of international affairs.

Real Sports also took home the Emmy for Outstanding Sports News Anthology, and HBO racked up wins for Outstanding Short Sports Documentary (State of Play); Outstanding Camera Work (Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Los Angeles Rams); and the Dick Schaap Outstanding Writing Award for HBO Boxing's Muhammad Ali: Only One.

You can watch "The Lord of the Rings" on HBO NOW and HBO GO.

WarnerMedia wins big at 40th annual Sports Emmy Awards

Goldberg has been awarded an Emmy for journalism 14 times (six at CBS News, eight at HBO). For his June 2000 segment "Dominican Free For All", in which he investigated corrupt Major League Baseball recruiting practices in the Dominican Republic, Goldberg won a Sports Emmy for "Outstanding Sports Journalism". He won that award again in 2005 for his story exposing Saudi Arabia's illegal use of young boys as camel jockeys, in 2008 for a story about post-concussion syndrome suffered by some former NFL players, and in 2009 for a story on "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel" about the slaughter of racehorses that were no longer making money for their owners.
 In May, 2011 Goldberg won another sports Emmy, this one for his story on the connection between head trauma suffered by athletes and a disease similar to ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. In April 2012, Goldberg won his 12th Emmy, this one for a report on the College Bowl Money Trail.


The Emmy was for an investigation of the International Olympic Committee.

Goldberg has been awarded an Emmy for journalism 14 times (six at CBS News, eight at HBO). For his June 2000 segment "Dominican Free For All", in which he investigated corrupt Major League Baseball recruiting practices in the Dominican Republic, Goldberg won a Sports Emmy for "Outstanding Sports Journalism". He won that award again in 2005 for his story exposing Saudi Arabia's illegal use of young boys as camel jockeys, in 2008 for a story about post-concussion syndrome suffered by some former NFL players, and in 2009 for a story on "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel" about the slaughter of racehorses that were no longer making money for their owners.
 In May, 2011 Goldberg won another sports Emmy, this one for his story on the connection between head trauma suffered by athletes and a disease similar to ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. In April 2012, Goldberg won his 12th Emmy, this one for a report on the College Bowl Money Trail. In May 2017, he won his 13th Emmy.


Mysore's inter-city public transportation includes rail.

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# Flight operations resume from Mysore Airport

The much-awaited flights from Mysuru under the Central Government's UDAN scheme resumed operations from the Mysore Airport last evening with Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha flagging of the Mysuru-Chennai TruJet flight.

Later, speaking Sinha said that the flights, which were grounded for some reasons, have once again started the flight operations.

MP Pratap Simha and a few other Ministers in the State Government are responsible for this initiative.

TruJet Managing Director Umesh has also cooperated to start the operations and in the coming days, more flights will be introduced.

In the second stage of UDAN scheme, along with Mysuru-Chennai sector it would connect Kochi in Kerala too.

Also, there is a demand for helitaxi service between Kempegowda International Airport and Electronic City in Bengaluru and it will be introduced shortly, he said and added for the country's progress under 'Sab Ka Saath Sab Ka Vikas' mantra, several schemes are being implemented with the cooperation of the people.

The runway has to be expanded at the Mysore Airport and if this happens then more flights can be introduced to Delhi and Lucknow and even it is possible to connect to Dubai.

If the land is made available then along with the expansion of runway, including underpass, several development works and basic facilities can be provided.

Every citizen in the country should be able to fly and this is the dream of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said Sinha.

District Minister Dr. H.C. Mahadevappa said that the State Government has released Rs. 89 crore in 2016-17 budget for tourism and industrial development.

Through this, the Government has cooperated for the development of the region.

The Government has acquired the land for the expansion, which will be handed over to the Centre, he added.

MP Pratap Simha said that before the Dasara commenced, the flight services had begin from Mysore Airport with the arrival of the flight from Chennai.

The Airport, which was closed for nearly two years has once again opened due to the cooperation of Jayant Sinha.

Also, due to the stress of PM Modi on tourism, the tier-2 cities are gaining importance, he added.

Lauding Dr. Mahadevappa's efforts, he said that only during election period, he (Mahadevappa) played politics but other times he was completely focused on development.

To upgrade the Mandakalli (as it is popularly called) Airport, underpass is very essential.

Hence, the State Government has to come forward to acquire the land and hand it over to the Centre, he requested Dr. Mahadevappa.

MLA G.T. Devegowda said the tourism industry and the tourists are going to benefit enormously due to the resumption of flights from Mysore Airport.

The Central and the State Governments have to extend financial support for the continuous flight operations, added the MLA.

Mayor M.J. Ravikumar, TruJet Airlines Managing Director Umesh, Regional Executive Director of Airports Authority of India (Southern Region)-Chennai S. Sreekumar, Mysore Airport Director Manoj Kumar Singh and others were present.

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Mysore City Corporation is responsible for the civic administration of the city, which is also the headquarters of the Mysore district and the Mysore division.
 It served as the capital city of the Kingdom of Mysore for nearly six centuries from 1399 until 1956. The Kingdom was ruled by the Wadiyar dynasty, with a brief period of interregnum in the 1760s and 70s when Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan were in power. The Wadiyars were patrons of art and culture and contributed significantly to the cultural and economic growth of the city and the state. The cultural ambiance and achievements of Mysore earned it the sobriquet "Cultural Capital of Karnataka".
 Mysore is noted for its heritage structures and palaces, including the Mysore Palace, and for the festivities that take place during the "Dasara" festival when the city receives a large number of tourists from around the world. It lends its name to various art forms and culture, such as Mysore Dasara, Mysore Painting; the sweet dish Mysore "Pak", Mysore "Masala Dosa"; brands such as Mysore Sandal Soap, Mysore Ink; and styles and cosmetics such as Mysore "Peta" (a traditional silk turban) and the Mysore Silk "sarees". Tourism is the major industry alongside the traditional industries.