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Citizenship by investment: Grenada
Grenada – the fastest way for getting the second citizenship
In most countries, that offer citizenship by investment, the term of obtainment of passport is from six to twelve months. In some cases, it is caused by procedure, in others – by popularity. Although this term cannot be even compared with a standard naturalization procedure, which may take from 2-3 years to decades, sometimes each day is valuable.
Grenada is different in this context – its program is designed in such a way that the second passport can be obtained in 60 days after submission of all documents. Plus the fact that the cost for some applicants may be much lower than in other jurisdictions.
What are the benefits of the second passport of Grenada?
Above all, the second passport of Grenada allows you to feel yourself more secure as well as to carry on business all over the world. As with a passport of any other neutral country, holders of passport of Grenada face less questions and are usually met more friendly.
The holders of passport of Grenada can visit the following countries without visa: Austria, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bermuda, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Bolivia, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Vanuatu, United Kingdom, Hungary, Venezuela, Eastern Timor, Haiti, Guadeloupe, Germany, Greece, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Denmark, Jersey, Commonwealth of Dominica, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Israel, Ireland, Island, Italy, Spain, Iran, Jordan, Cuba, Cayman Islands, Columbia, Costa-Rica, Cabo Verde, Kenia, Cambodia, Kosovo, Kiribati, Lao, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Martinique, Montserrat, Malawi, Mauritius, Madagascar, Micronesia, Mozambique, Macao, Malaysia, Maldives, Netherlands, Norway, Netherland Antilles, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niue, Isle of Man, Cook Islands, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Pitcairn Islands, Panama, Peru, Palau, Poland, Portugal, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Surinam, Seychelles, Swaziland, Singapore, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Slovakia, Slovenia, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos, Tanzania, Togo, Turkey, Tuvalu, Uganda, Falkland Islands, Philippines, Fiji, Finland, France, Central African Republic, Czech Republic, Chili, Sweden, Switzerland, Sri-Lanka, Ecuador, Estonia, South Korea, Jamaica.
Second, the most serious advantage of Grenada among its competitors is timeframes for issue of passport – around 60 days. An individual of any nationality can obtain passport here, then live here, and even vote.
Third, an applicant is not required to visit Grenada personally to obtain citizenship (the compulsory interview is not required). There are no requirements to live in Grenada as well.
Fourth, according to the program, the applicant is exempt from income tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax in Grenada.
How to get the second citizenship in Grenada
Citizenship by investment program in Grenada was re-opened in 2013. Now every person who wishes to invest funds into the state's economy can get the valid passport.
There are two ways of investment:
a) to invest funds into the country's development foundation controlled by the government; or
b) to acquire real property within a specified project.
The first way, fairly speaking, is not the prompt one (it includes two stages – obtaining permanent residence permit and then, after 12 months – citizenship). Instead, the second option is working and quite popular.
As a reward for investment into immovable property, the minimum amount of which is 350 000 US dollars, an applicant gets a share in a resort complex Mount Cinnamon – luxury hotel and residencies, which are being built at the moment. One should note, that an applicant owns the item indirectly. The purpose is to improve the economic efficiency of the item and make it a real investment.
Investor has right to stay in the hotel with a considerable discount and does not bear expenses for services – this is vested in a management company. Therefore, the investment into this resort complex is not only a way to get the second citizenship, but also a possibility to rest in an excellent place and even to make money.
After acquisition of share in Mount Cinnamon, an investor should own it for at least 4 years. It is 1 year shorter than in other programs of real property acquisition.
As in other programs, an applicant and his/her family should go through personal due diligence check (the citizenship may be given only at the government's discretion). An applicant does not have to pay extra money for such check - it is included into the amount of investment. Due diligence check for applicant's spouse costs 8 000, for children before 11 – 2000, for children from 12 to 17 years – 4000, for adult children from 18 to 25 (and parents older than 65) – 8000 US dollars.
Therefore, in case if your family consists of four persons, citizenship in Grenada may be very cost-efficient for you. It can also be faster and more available than on other islands.
For all questions related to citizenship by investment program of Grenada, please contact our specialists.


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A 40-year-old British man has died while working on the 2022 World Cup stadium in Qatar.
Organisers said the man, who is not named, died on Thursday working at Khalifa International Stadium.Cat named 'Turbo Joe' gets custom wheelchair after he was paralyzed below the waist
A statement from Qatar said: 'The relevant authorities have been notified and the next of kin has been informed. An immediate investigation into the cause of this fatality is under way and further details will be released in due course.
'The Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy shares our deepest condolences with the family for their loss.'
The man was an employee of a 'specialised German contractor', according to the BBC.Mother, 22, who 'murdered her three kids' appears overcome with grief as she's led to jail
A Fifa spokesman said: 'FIFA deeply regrets the loss of life following an incident at the Khalifa International Stadium site on 19 January. It is with great sadness that we send our sincere condolences to the victim's family and colleagues. We have been informed that the local authorities and the Supreme Committee are investigating the exact circumstances behind the incident.'
In a report by Amnesty International in October, workers claimed they are subject to appalling living conditions, feel threatened by their superiors, have been lied to about their salary and feel trapped.
Fifa has denied these claims.
Metro.co.uk approached the Foreign Office for comment.
How many people have died during construction?
The number of deaths of worker building Qatar's stadiums was first brought to light in 2013.
A report by the International Trades Union Confederation, claimed there had been 1,239 deaths since construction begun in 2010.
The ITUC asked the embassies of Nepal and India, two countries which are the source of many of the migrant workers, to tally the number of deaths.
Deaths in Qatar
Indian = 717
Nepali = 522
Metro.co.uk has approached Fifa for updated figures

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Samsung Galaxy S4 has a 5″ 1080p Super AMOLED display (PenTile 441 ppi), a pseudo octa-core Samsung Exynos 5410 or quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 (depending on region), 2 gigs of RAM, up to 64 gigs of storage, and a 2600 mAh battery. Furthermore, the device features additional features such as floating touch and a 13 MP shooter featuring a revamped camera interface.
CyanogenMod team have released a new stable version of CM 13 for Galaxy S4. It is around 326MB in size and brings latest security updates, exclusive themes, wallpapers, short-cuts and many more value-added features to the former flagship phone. If you want to install this ROM on S4, follow the guide below.
Disclaimer: Follow the instructions at your own risk. If the device gets damaged, the writer or the owner of the site must not be held responsible.
Pre-requisites and Backing up your Galaxy S4:
- Create a Nandroid Backup
- Backup and Restore your Android smartphone via Desktop PC
- Backup/Sync and Restore contacts on Android smartphone
- Backup WhatsApp messages on Android Smartphone and Email
- Galaxy S4 must be rooted
- Custom Recovery like CWM or TWRP installed
- CM 13 zip file
- Gapps zip file
- Gapps Fix
Steps to install CM 13 ROM on Galaxy S4:
- Create a Nandroid backup from recovery, in case anything goes wrong.
- Download the CM 13 ROM zip file and Gapps zip file and transfer it to the phone.
- Switch off the phone and boot the phone into Recovery mode.
- Next, wipe the cache and the dalvik cache.
- Now go to "Install zip" and then "Select zip". Choose the CM 13 ROM zip file.
- Now again clear cache and dalvik cache.
- Go to "Install zip", then "Select zip". Choose the Gapps zip file.
- Perform steps 6 and 7 for Gapps fix.
- Then perform full data wipe task. To do so, click "Wipe Data/Factory Reset", then choose "Yes" on next screen to confirm.
- After the process is complete, reboot the phone.


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Create an ISession specific cache
Sometimes it is useful to create a cache specific to a particular session. I use this for pre-NH cache in my repositories that I can query with Linq before hitting NH sometimes. You could easily modify this to not be … Continue reading
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ModelStateDictionary and ParameterBinding
I laid this out in more detail on the forums here: http://forums.asp.net/p/1317154/2610342.aspx#2610342 I thought I'd mention it to this group so that people were aware of this difference between the interaction the old ParameterBinders and Rescues in version 4 and … Continue reading
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Josh Richards of West Yarmouth has been named the first executive director at Sail Cape Cod, according to a statement from the Hyannis-based nonprofit organization.
The native Cape Codder has done professional and volunteer work with local young professionals, the disability community and underserved youth populations, according to the statement. He serves on the board of the Community Leadership Institute, the advisory board of Cape Cod Regional Technical High School and the organizing committee for the Shape the Cape summit held by Cape Cod Young Professionals, of which he is a member.
Since 2012, Sail Cape Cod has worked to provide access to all without limitation as a community sailing organization affiliated with U.S. Sailing, according to the statement. It has developed the SeaLegs Adaptive Sailing Program, which helps all individuals gain access to sailing, regardless of their physical ability. It also offers community Learn to Sail programs, providing the opportunity for all Cape Codders and visitors to gain the skills and confidence needed to successfully sail on local waters.
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Feiyue is shoe brand originated from China but has since been adopted by the French. I have been searching high and low for an original pair. I finally managed to find them online for a very low price and they are an authentic pair from Taiwan. Definitely not one of those French manufactured bullshit.
As soon as the shoes arrive, I started Googling to check the authenticity of the shoes. Just in case. I discovered this website showing how China and French Feiyue are different.
Photo from HERE
Well yes the French version comes in many different designs and colors but honestly, if I wanted to buy hi-tops or fancy color-blocked sneakers, I might as well just buy them from Nike or Converse.
Feiyue is interesting for the history behind it (worn by the warrior and martial art experts). And god knows how comfortable they are on your feet.
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Aussie beauty Tash Oakley was spotted by the Daily Mail wearing one of our limited edition styles!
Monday Swimwear founders Tash Oakley and Devin Brugman swap slinky swimwear for casual chic style as they greet fans outside a Beverly Hills restaurant.
They were spotted partying at the Coachella festival's most exclusive parties. And it seems bikini bloggers Natasha Oakley and Devin Brugman are still enjoying their stay in California. They looked effortlessly chic while greeting fans outside the Il Pastaio restaurant in Beverly Hills on Thursday.
The Australian beauty kept it simple in a white shirt paired with matching jeans and black slip-on sandals. She styled her blonde hair loosely and accessorised with a designer sunglasses and a beige Gucci Dionysus bag.
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Leg spasms, also known as muscle cramps, are involuntary muscle contractions that fail to release, states the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Cramps affect skeletal muscles but typically occur in the hamstring, quadriceps and calf areas. Leg cramps can range from mild to moderate pain and last from a few seconds to 10 or more minutes. Cramps usually resolve without medical intervention. However, prolonged cramps may require medical intervention to determine the cause of the leg spasms.
Nerve Compression
The compression of nerves after they leave the spinal cord can cause leg spasms. Spinal nerve compression can create conditions that affect the spinal column, such as osteoarthritis, spinal tumors and herniated disks, according to MayoClinic.com. These conditions typically affect nerves that run through the legs, which may trigger leg spasms. Leg spasms usually worsen when sitting for long periods of time or doing strenuous physical activities. Individuals who experience frequent leg spasms may need to consult a physician for advice on spinal conditions that can trigger leg spasms.
Electrolyte Imbalance
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons explains that leg spasms may be caused by an electrolyte imbalance. Electrolytes are chemicals in the blood that regulate important body functions. When a person sweats during exercise, potassium, calcium and magnesium levels are depleted. Certain medications may also affect the chemical balance of these nutrients, which can create leg spasms. To prevent leg spasms, a patient should eat balanced meals to adequately supply nutrient levels and prevent leg spasms. Patients on medications may need to monitor their blood levels to ensure that electrolytes are balanced.
Poor Conditioning
Poorly conditioned muscles may contribute to leg spasms, reports the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Although researchers do not understand the exact cause of leg spasms, they believe that out-of-shape and weak muscles are more likely to cause muscle spasms. Muscles are bundles of fiber that relax and contract to move the joints and bones of the skeletal system. The signal to relax or contract is transferred by nerve cells that communicate with cells within the muscles. Poorly conditioned muscles lack muscle and nerve communication, which can alter normal nerve reflex functions, which can lead to leg spasms. Individuals who experience frequent leg spasms should participate in regular physical activity to reduce the likelihood of leg spasms and strengthen muscles within the leg region.


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I first learned of Central American Legal Assistance in the fall of 2009, from a letter mailed to my Brooklyn address that I read months after it was posted, having just returned from a long summer in Mexico. The letter was written by Betsy Plum, a CALA caseworker, and described the situation of a Guatemalan woman living in the metropolitan area who was in deportation proceedings while also seeking political asylum. In Guatemala, the woman had discovered that her romantic partner had been involved with men previously linked to the 1998 murder of the Guatemalan bishop and human-rights activist Monsignor Juan José Gerardi Conedera; in a 2001 trial, some of those men were sentenced to prison for that crime. The woman had unwittingly, though at close hand, overheard a conversation implicating at least two of them, including her partner, in a prison murder. (One of the men, Byron Lima Oliva, was murdered in prison, on July 18th of this year.)
Plum's letter, which shared only some of what her client knew, included names that would only be known to somebody familiar with the small, dangerous circle of convicted and alleged co-conspirators linked to the bishop's murder and other criminal activities—a mix of military men and civilians, some involved in arms and drug trafficking, some in and some out of prison, and one extremely powerful politician long suspected by some investigators of being the group's secret leader and protector. Alarmed by what she'd discovered about her partner's deepening entanglement with this group, the Guatemalan woman had sought to leave him. Months later, she was kidnapped, tortured, and repeatedly raped. A relative whom she was suspected of having told about what she'd witnessed was murdered. Through a subterfuge, she managed to escape her imprisonment and fled to the United States, where for a few years she lived the hidden life of an undocumented migrant, until she was detained by U.S. authorities.
I had reported on Bishop Gerardi's murder and the early stages of the investigation for this magazine, in 1999, and in 2007 I published a book, "The Art of Political Murder," on the case. I remember that when I finished reading Plum's letter I felt frightened, the way I always do over any suggestion or mention that seems to bring the men involved in Bishop Gerardi's murder close again. Plum asked if I'd be willing to be an expert witness at the Guatemalan woman's asylum hearing, and invited me to CALA to speak to the woman.
CALA is situated in a dreary, ungentrified part of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, near the Marcy Avenue J train stop. Since 1985, it has been housed in the basement of a flank of the Transfiguration Roman Catholic Church, on a block lined with uniform brownstones where Hasidic families live; the Transfiguration Church, its priests, and its small convent of nuns had a reputation for helping immigrants. An iron gate opens on a stairwell leading down to the covered entrance. The organization was founded by Anne Pilsbury, an attorney, and a nun, Sister Peggy Walsh. When I first visited, it had a staff of two or three attorneys, including Pilsbury, and a few caseworkers. There I met Plum, red-haired and freckled, then in her early twenties, and the equally fresh-faced, cheerful CALA attorney handling the case, a recent graduate of the University of Virginia Law School, Heather Yvonne Axford. I met Pilsbury, too. She had read "The Art of Political Murder"; she remembers that she'd marked a few passages, and had asked Plum, who is fluent in Spanish, to show these to the Guatemalan woman, to see if she knew the people mentioned in the book. "Boy, did she!" Pilsbury recalled.
I've stayed in touch with my friends at CALA ever since, though Plum has since moved on; following a year of master's-degree studies at the London School of Economics, she became the director of special projects at the New York Immigration Coalition. Now Pilsbury, an energetic, trim, blue-eyed woman who wears her white hair cut into a short, radiant bob, oversees a young staff of at least twelve, with seven attorneys. Every weekday, a steady stream of people, many of whom began their perilous journeys to the United States in the violent, impoverished Northern Triangle countries of Central America (El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala), make their way to that basement office to seek help—in a literal, legal sense—in finalizing those journeys. CALA provides counselling or legal representation on immigration matters to people in the greater New York area for free or at low cost. Their clients don't have to be Central American or from Latin America, but information networks lead immigrants from these regions who have legal issues to CALA. Nowadays, whenever I descend those steps into the very low-ceilinged waiting area, I always find it packed with mostly young Central American men and women and children.
At her hearing in federal immigration court, CALA's Guatemalan client easily won asylum; after we'd testified about why the woman would be in mortal danger if she were deported to Guatemala, the prosecutor declined to contest the case. But, despite being a legal resident, the woman still lives in fear. A few years ago, emissaries from Guatemala, apparently dispatched by her powerful tormentors, travelled to the U.S. to warn her to keep quiet. Many Americans might be surprised to learn how easily Central American and Mexican political and criminal figures, travelling with valid U.S. tourist or even residency visas, legally cross our borders in order to threaten potential witnesses or immigrants who, for one reason or another—because they have relatives back in their home country, for example—remain vulnerable to their power. Even I have received at least one menacing phone call in Brooklyn from a Guatemalan prison.
Donald Trump claims that Mexico has not sent us its "best people," while broadly slandering those who've come here as "rapists" and "criminals," but anyone with even a simple comprehension of the crisis that has befallen Mexico and much of Central America knows that Trump has it exactly backward. In fact, the "worst people" are often those who, officially or otherwise, run those countries: that is, corrupt politicians, economic élites, narco cartels, and also the legions of criminals whom those leaders protect via their complicity and impunity. This latter group includes cartel assassins, gang members, criminalized police and soldiers, so many of them actual career murderers and rapists that many regions have been turned into lawless infernos, inciting thousands upon thousands of their citizens to flee. The "best people" from those countries include the sorts of courageous men and women who crowd the waiting room of CALA's offices every day. That's always the first thing that Pilsbury and the rest of CALA's staff will tell you about their clients—how brave, hardworking, and devoted to their families almost all of them are.
CALA accepts a lot of political-asylum cases, and virtually every one could potentially buttress, at least circumstantially, a prosecutor's criminal case in a Latin American courtroom. But one of the most difficult challenges routinely faced by CALA's attorneys is that U.S. law limits asylum to those claiming flight from provable political persecution, but not flight from crime groups, however organized and deadly.
In the spring of 2015, during what turned into a long afternoon visit to CALA, Axford introduced me to two different people with asylum claims who happened to be in the office to speak with their attorneys. One was a woman in her early thirties, at most, who wore a frayed pink down jacket and gray sweatpants, and had been a police officer in her native Mexican city. She was strikingly attractive, and that was undoubtedly a cause of her staggering misfortune. Her parents and siblings were police, too, as was her boyfriend—not that this had prevented her supervisor from taking a liking to her, often assigning her to ride with him in his patrol car. That's what he did on the day that he allegedly orchestrated the ambush and assassination of his immediate superior, in order to seize his position. After the officer's ascension to the top of the force, she said, he brought her to a meeting at a ranch airstrip with narcos and a local politician who has since become a leading national political figure in Mexico. I can't prove that every part of her account is true, but I didn't suspect her of having mentioned the politician only to make a stronger case for herself; certainly nobody at CALA had initially recognized the politician's name, and if I hadn't been living in Mexico City for most of that year, I wouldn't have, either. The police commander raped her, the woman said. She managed to bring charges for sexual harassment against him—she had newspaper clippings to prove it—but things only got much worse for her afterward; her boyfriend was murdered, and she was kidnapped and brought to what she described as a fortified narco ranch, where she was repeatedly raped and tortured. Eventually, one of the police officers who came to the ranch recognized her and managed to free her. She fled north, leaving a young daughter behind with her parents. She related this history, including other twists and complications, with the deadened eyes and subdued, flat voice of a severe-trauma victim. CALA had helped her to enroll in a program for torture survivors at Elmhurst Hospital.
Trauma spoke through the next person I talked to in a different way: he could hardly get a sentence out without sobbing. He had gotten on the wrong side of the mayor and some other politically powerful men in a Guatemalan town. There, in the course of scrupulously fulfilling his duties as a tax inspector, he'd reported to national authorities the blatant tax evasion and other corrupt acts—including the attempts to bribe him—undertaken by those politicians. In reprisal, the tax inspector's own small businesses in that town were destroyed, and a hit was put out on him, but the assassins mistakenly killed his brother instead. With his entire family under threat, his young wife and children went into hiding. They had regularly changed their residence ever since to avoid being found, while he, having fled to the U.S., was now bogged down in asylum proceedings. (He has since obtained asylum and is in the process of bringing his family here.)
One reason Axford had especially wanted me to speak with those two clients that day was to show me a problem with asylum cases that CALA was currently facing. Each of the two had conceivably legitimate—that is, political—asylum claims, but they would probably have to wait a long time for court dates. Axford told me that while most of CALA's clients, several hundred at any given time, have to wait an average of two years for their cases to be heard, currently they had forty adult clients with their cases set, or "parked," in Axford's words, until November 29, 2019. On the orders of the Obama Administration, the decision had been made to "prioritize" another class of asylum cases ahead of all others, filling up immigration-court calendars for years: the tens of thousands of Central American children who, since the summer of 2014, flooded the Mexican-U.S. border regions, many turning themselves in to border-patrol and immigration officials as soon as they managed to cross over. Some arrived accompanied by mothers or older siblings, and many more did not. The idea behind the federal immigration courts' so-called rocket dockets for women and children, Axford explained to me, was to adjudicate their cases as quickly as possible. ("Because Central American women and children are some sort of threat to our national security???" she remarked in an e-mail.) Last spring, in CALA's office, Pilsbury showed me a long wall of shelves packed end to end with manila folders that she said were files for the hundreds of new cases of children and women fleeing Central America that the organization had taken on as clients in the past year.
Pilsbury, CALA's founder and director, was a country lawyer from Maine who went to Washington, D.C., in the early nineteen-eighties; she worked pro bono as an attorney in Hobson v. Wilson, an important legal case against the F.B.I. for its domestic spying against various Vietnam-era New Left groups. By then, Pilsbury had become an opponent of American military intervention in Central America, especially in El Salvador, and wanted to do something to help refugees. In those years, the Brooklyn Navy Yard was an immigrant-detention center, and the Transfiguration Church, led by it pastor, the Reverend Bryan J. Karvelis, paid bonds to help free detained people facing deportation; in 1984, there were roughly twenty-five Central American refugees living in the convent rectory. Pilsbury decided to invest her legal fees from her victory in the Hobson case to start what became Central American Legal Assistance. Though CALA's first staff was comprised of just Pilsbury and two nuns, it is secular. "CALA helps people regardless of religion or lack thereof," Pilsbury told me. "We do not have a 'religious agenda,' but we are working in the spirit of liberation theology's option for the poor."
During those first years at CALA, some of Pilsbury's prior assumptions were challenged: not all her clients were fleeing the notoriously violent U.S.-supported Central American armies; some were also fleeing forced recruitment into the guerrillas. "But I never expected it to take so long for our government to wake up to what was happening in Central America, and to stop funding militaries and wars, and stop blaming immigrants for trying to save their own lives," she said. "Thirty years later, I'm no longer so optimistic, I don't expect people here to learn from history anymore. Of course, you never stop hoping they will, when the lessons are so obvious."
The homicidal culture of the Mara gangs was first brought to Central America by gang members deported from U.S. cities and prisons. A 2009 coup in Honduras, supported by the Obama Administration, which unseated a democratically elected government, led to a steep rise in murders and lawlessness in that country. The U.S.-supported drug wars—to say nothing of U.S. drug consumption and arms dealing—have spurred widespread mass violence and fleeing populations in Mexico, too. U.S. policies in Central America—support for repressive regimes and armies, and for the Contra rebels in Nicaragua—spread death and destruction, and there were no sustained efforts at reconstruction. In some countries, like El Salvador and Honduras, the violence is worse now than in the war years. "Those of us who care about people on the wrong side of history just have to help case by case, person by person," Pilsbury said, when we spoke in her office last spring.
CALA's funding is, according to Pilsbury, "difficult and multi-legged." Clients pay small fees; salaries and rent are low; occasionally, the organization wins attorneys fees from successful federal court cases. The NY City Council recently increased funding for youth fleeing gang violence, and their families." The "Immigrant Justice Corps" is another recent source; founded "to address the lack of competent representation for indigent immigrants in removal proceedings," Axford explained, the Corps funds fellowships for newly graduated law students and places them with "reputable N.Y.C. nonprofits." CALA currently has three of its fellows on its staff.
Of course, it isn't only violence that triggers migration from Central America and Mexico. People cross illegally into the United States in search of better-paying work than is available in their own countries, or to be reunited with relatives who've made the journey before them. In some Guatemalan rural communities, people are virtually entrapped into undertaking the journey by unscrupulous loan sharks in league with often treacherous coyotes. "We represent people we think have a credible fear of persecution," Axford said. When I asked her how she can tell if a potential client is being truthful, she answered, "I think that's something that requires both experience and an intimate knowledge of country conditions. We talk to prospective clients in great detail about their claims, and, to be frank, it's usually very obvious when someone is not telling the truth because—unless they are some master storyteller—the story starts to fall apart pretty quickly when you get into the nitty-gritty of it." Staff members ask clients to provide or to try to retrieve whatever evidence there might be that could corroborate their claims: death certificates, newspaper articles, medical documents, court records. If a client has visible scars but no medical documents, Axford said, CALA works with doctors here who can "evaluate their scars and determine whether the scarring is consistent with how the person says they were injured." Axford explains to all potential clients, "in the gentlest way possible," that she is not the judge or la migra, and that she is only there to help them. "But I can only help if I know the whole truth." After nine years of experience, she has learned that "la verdad siempre sale en la corte"—the truth always comes out in court_._ She urges her clients to "start with the whole truth," the consequences of doing otherwise being potentially drastic. "I will say, however," Axford said, "that we have very little problem with lying clients." The journey to the U.S., up through Mexico especially, is so notoriously fraught with hardship and extreme danger that most people, especially those with children in tow, would be unwilling to risk it unless they really did feel caught in a "flee or die" situation.
Many of CALA's clients have fled conditions of violence so widespread and severe that, according to Axford and her colleagues, it should change how U.S. courts define warfare, and expand the definition of what is considered to be political persecution in asylum cases. In countries like El Salvador and Honduras, where the rule of law has broken down or been overwhelmed, the de-facto rulers are the Maras and those authorities, such as police, that the gangs have corrupted or intimidated into working for them. (Journalists such as El Salvador's Óscar Martínez have written with authority and power about that reality.) Parts of Guatemala remain under similar control. In Mexico, meanwhile, entire states are virtually ruled by notoriously sadistic organized-crime cartels such as the Zetas, who now probably earn more from various forms of human trafficking, kidnapping, and extortion rackets that prey on the Central American migrants who cross Mexico than from dealing narcotics. According to Mexico's leading immigration activist, Father Alejandro Solalinde, the cartels now exert absolute control over the Mexican side of the border with the U.S.
In accordance with U.S. law, the asylum claims of a client seeking refuge from such circumstances will often be rejected, and one of the most difficult parts of a CALA attorney's job is to make sure that a client has no illusions about what could happen. "You asked me yesterday how it feels to tell people they aren't eligible for relief and I deflected," Axford wrote to me in an e-mail in the spring of 2015. She continued:
Representing trauma survivors in removal proceedings is really hard—trying to negotiate this enormous space between your client's experience and an often inhumane system. But at least I feel like I am inserting myself in a productive way and making the whole thing a little less painful for my client. But when I am breaking the news to one of the many people with urgent reasons to leave and fear of return that their fear doesn't fit into the asylum box, I feel like a spokeswoman for this set of laws that I don't even fully agree with and I hate that. I tell myself that information is power and that empowering them with the knowledge that they have no grantable claim for protection will prevent them from being taken advantage of by some unscrupulous attorney. But it only helps a little. And sometimes you just take the case anyways because you don't have the emotional energy not to.
And so a young man who flees forced recruitment into a Mara in El Salvador or Honduras, who will be hunted down and killed for refusing to join, will usually—especially in U.S. courts outside of New York—have his case rejected as a form of asylum-worthy persecution. "We try to push who can fall within that asylum box, but there's a limit," Axford said. On the whole, though, CALA and other immigration lawyers and activists have recently had some success with the cases of Central American children who arrived here in the much-publicized recent "surges." The rocket-docket courts have been approving a much higher percentage of children for asylum than adults.
"I am almost always at one of those dockets, one to three times a week, so you are welcome to tag along if you want to check out the scene," Axford wrote to me, last spring. "My next one is Tuesday morning. I will be representing a young woman and her very cute 5 year old son who will proudly show you the scars on his arm from when he was shot by the Mara. These preliminary hearings are like criminal arraignments—about 50 women & children appearing for about five minutes each before one exhausted judge."
The upper story of the Immigration Court in Manhattan's Federal Plaza, where we met with a woman and her son whom I will call Juana and Carlos, was exactly as Axford had told me it would be—as crowded with small children and mothers and some fathers or other relatives as the first day at a kindergarten. Carlos, a little boy with a beaming, round face, wore a Tommy the Tank Engine knit cap on his head, and pulled his sweater down over his shoulder to show us the entry and exit bullet wound in his upper arm. He told us about the many days he'd spent in the hospital, with his mother at his side the entire time. When Carlos's father was mentioned, the little boy's disposition briefly darkened, and he audibly mumbled, "My father doesn't love me." For Axford, that was one more clue in the difficult matter of trying to find out what had truly occurred in a case involving a five-year-old victim who might be expected to testify in court. Later, Axford told me, "I've noticed that he gets nervous around men." It was true that he'd quickly become affectionate with my wife, Jovi, who was with us that day, but had seemed guarded with me. Heather wanted to find a psychologist to speak with Carlos. CALA staff suspected that it was his father who was mixed up with the Salvadoran Mara, and that the bullet that wounded Carlos had actually been intended for his estranged wife, and that Juana was withholding that information, probably out of fear of her husband and of the murderous Maras and their potentially long reach.
Juana still had relatives in El Salvador, and the Maras are even known to have clicas or members ensconced among the Salvadoran immigration communities in Long Island, where Juana and Carlos were staying with relatives who have legalized immigration statuses. During the brief hearing that day, the judge listened to Axford's crisp presentation with deference, and assigned Carlos and his mother a July date for their next hearing. The judge was not nearly so respectful toward some of the other lawyers, castigating them for seeming unprepared, and for lacking necessary documentation, to represent their clients. Some of these attorneys were the for-profit ones who advertise quick and sure solutions to immigrants' legal problems, charging high prices, and who reliably lose their cases.
CALA is clearly, as Pilsbury said when I asked her about it, "well thought of in the local legal community." On the other hand, Axford said, "Every time there's an article about our clients all the angry commentators come out to bash us for helping out the 'illegals.' Once, some guy left a handwritten sign on our front door about how we are harboring illegal aliens. In the current atmosphere I wonder whether we will see more of that, but so far we have not. God bless immigrant-friendly N.Y.C."
It wasn't until a little over a month ago, when I again was back in New York from Mexico and dropped in to visit CALA, that I learned of the outcome of Carlos and Juana's case. Despite Carlos's bullet wound, the judge hearing the case wanted documentary proof that they would be in danger, especially from the Maras and the father, if they were sent back to El Salvador. Juana had declared that she'd reported her husband to the police for domestic abuse ten years before. The judge insisted on legal documentation of that claim. Needless to say, migrants almost never bring such papers with them when they set out on their treks to the U.S.
In El Salvador, an old friend of Pilsbury and CALA, an American nun named Sister Judith, offered to help. But she had no idea where to begin. The people she dealt with in her search for documentation that proved Juana's claim were all friendly and helpful, Sister Judith told me, but she soon found herself on a long journey though a byzantine and slow-moving bureaucracy. First, she went to the prosecutor's office in the town of San Miguel, where they confirmed that a report by Juana had been made, but that the report itself wasn't in San Miguel anymore; it was, or should be, in an archive in the capital, San Salvador. They gave her a case number. In San Salvador, Sister Judith filled out papers requesting a copy of the report, but two weeks later her request was rejected, and Sister Judith was told that such a request had to come from Juana through a Salvadoran attorney or a Salvadoran consulate, with paperwork carrying the appropriate Salvadoran stamps. She received those papers nearly a month later, at the end of last August. On September 2nd, she submitted the authorization, along with a request for the report, to the prosecutor's office in San Miguel, which, in turn, submitted them to the office of the prosecutor in San Salvador. After a month, a copy of the report was finally sent to San Miguel from San Salvador; but in order to give Sister Judith a certified copy, they needed to have the original report; they couldn't give her a copy of their copy. It turned out that a San Miguel justice of the peace had the original report, and a week or so later Sister Judith received it; in mid-October, she e-mailed a scanned copy to Rebecca Popuch, the CALA staff attorney handling the case. Carlos and Juana were granted asylum just before Christmas last year, on December 18th. They were fortunate—fortunate to be represented by CALA, and to have encountered a finally sympathetic if exacting judge, and to be in a federal immigration courtroom in New York City, where judges are more likely to grant asylum claims than almost anywhere else in the country.
The Obama Administration deported 2.5 million people between 2010 and 2014, which is more than George W. Bush's did in eight years. In what has been denounced in the press and by human-rights groups as an astoundingly cruel effort to stem the flow of Central American refugees, especially children, the U.S. government has given the Mexican government at least eighty-six million dollars to stop migrants passing through that country and deport them back to their own countries in order to prevent them from reaching the U.S. border to claim asylum. The U.S. is paying Mexico to capture and deport young people fleeing endemic Central American violence, in many cases sending them back to an almost certain death. Because of U.S. pressure, the migrants are now even prevented by Mexican authorities from hitching rides across parts of Mexico on the freight trains collectively known as "The Beast"; this forces them to take even more dangerous routes. In the grass alongside the railways tracks, especially at favored jumping-on points, concrete posts have been planted to trip people as they run to climb aboard, sometimes causing them to fall under the wheels. I heard about this and other new obstacles while visiting migrant shelters in Mexico City, where I met one young man who'd recently lost a foot while trying to jump onto a train.
"The trip here is really, really hard," Axford said. Less sympathetic judges, she thinks, don't take into account what the people who've migrated have endured to get here. She tells the story of a client who "was one of very few female police officers in Honduras." While investigating the unsolved murder of a cousin, she discovered that one of her superiors had been involved in the crime. Multiple attempts on her own life followed, one of which resulted in the deaths of her patrol partner and another colleague. She alleges that she was raped repeatedly by one of her superiors. She realized she had to flee, but left her young daughter with her parents because she didn't want to bring her on the dangerous trip north. Later, in the U.S., she applied for a "Withholding of Removal" order when she found out that her parents had decided they could not take care of her daughter; she thought they had given her up to foster care and worried that the girl would be in a "very dangerous situation" involving her biological father. Even though the woman's legal situation in the U.S. was unresolved, she went back to Honduras to rescue her daughter, and brought her back, undergoing the arduous journey once again. What the policewoman did was clearly heroic. She won her case last month and can now work here legally.
"But sometimes a judge emphasizes the resolve of a survivor, and says we're lucky to have them as part of our country, and that's really healing," Axford said. "There are things to be idealistic about. It's part of what keeps you in the mix, on the front lines."


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Because of this new finding, the donor age pool, currently limited to donors 65 and younger, should be expanded to include donors up to 75 years of age. These are the conclusions of a study funded by the National Eye Institute (NEI) of the National Institutes of Health, and published in the April issue of the medical journal Ophthalmology.
"This pivotal study indicates that corneas from older individuals are just as successful when used for transplants as those from younger donors," says R. Doyle Stulting, MD, PhD, director, Section of Cornea, External Disease and Refractive Surgery at Emory Eye Center. "These study results will expand the donor cornea pool and make the scheduling of transplant procedures easier for both surgeons and patients."
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Gray squirrels continue to be found across Pennsylvania in sizeable numbers, and the black-phase gray squirrel isn't hard to find north of Interstate-80 and east of the Ohio line all the way into the state's northcentral counties. Fox squirrels also are becoming increasingly available as they continue to push east of the Appalachian Front and north through Pennsylvania's ridges and valleys.
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"Squirrel hunting is a great way to spend a fall afternoon, whether still hunting with a shotgun are sitting against a big tree with a .22 rifle," said Bob Boyd, the agency's Bureau of Wildlife Management assistant director. "It's a great time to be outdoors, and if you bring a young person along, it can be even better.
"It's rarely a difficult task to find squirrels, so schedule some time away from work - or your chores - and get out there for some of that hunting excitement and take in the colorful countryside. It's a 'can't miss' way to spend a fall day."
Pennsylvania's youth squirrel hunt will be held Oct. 6-12 and is open to youths 12 to 16 years of age who have successfully completed a hunter-trapper education course and are properly accompanied by an adult. A hunting license is not required to participate.
Hunters also are reminded that squirrels are listed as a game animal that can be pursued by youngsters participating in the new Mentored Youth Hunting Program, which permits those under the age of 12 to hunt under the guidance of a mentor. For more information about this new program, visit the Game Commission's website and click on "Mentored Youth FAQs" in the "Quick Clicks" box in the upper right-hand corner of the homepage.
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Facts from the Pennsylvania Game Commission: On Oct. 2, the Board of Game Commissioners will give final consideration to a proposal to place the northern flying squirrel on Pennsylvania's endangered species list, alongside the Delmarva fox squirrel.
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A first review of the book is now available online from
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Having written quite a few articles and made a number of open source and
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|April 22, 1999, 07:41 PM
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Not much excitement here, just picked up and old model 29 pump shotgun. It's a real rattletrap, but is it worth anything to collectors, or should I just toss it in the junk gun closet where it belongs?
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|April 22, 1999, 08:17 PM
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Those guns are of interest to collectors, but only if in very good condition. They are scarce (24k made) but Remingtons never did attract the money like Winchesters. Top dollar around $300-$400, extra for 32 in barrel and trap gun.
P.S. Never toss any gun. Never know when you might need an old junker that works.
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|April 22, 1999, 11:15 PM
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Thanks a lot for your reply! I haven't seen many shotguns exactly like it, and I thought it might be a "one of 1000 deal" or something. (wish wish)
Oh,yeah..don't worry, I wouldn't "toss" a gun, in fact I rather love junk guns. I usually look for more modern junk though!
thanks again,
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I am in the same boat you are. I like to old stuff. Just ask my wife. Your shotgun was made in two models, Standard Grade and Target Grade. Both are a hammerless, takedown model, 6 shot, five shell tubular magazine, (you must tactically top it off to make it a 6 shot.) Barrels came in 26" to 32" plain, chocked full, modified or cylinder bore. 7.5lb checkered istol grip stock and slide handle. Made fron 1929-1933.
Top $350.00
The Target model, Model 29T, has the same general specifications as the Model 29A, except has a trap style stock with straight grip, extension slide handle and vent rib. This model was discontinued in 1933. Top $375.00
|April 25, 1999, 08:41 PM
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Thanks Harley Nolan,
Yep, you are right on about the Remington. This one is like you described, but in pretty poor shape. It has an interesting recoil reducer and screw on choke also. I probably won't fire it much, since the barrel is adjusted all the way "tight" and still flops around in the receiver.
I just brought home a Mossberg model 44 D, .22 rifle..somebody ran over it and broke the stock off at the grip, and it is coated it rust. The bore was full of mud and now has pits in it. I think this rifle was introduced in '47 or '48 and ran for one year.
Gun Parts Corp. has a good deal on the stocks, and as for the rust-well it's in good hands.
Thanks again all, for the replies.
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On the way to
Guanaja we caught a nice Blackfin Tuna, and shared a feast of seared ahi
roll with Mandolin when we arrived.
We checked into
Honduras at Guanaja, but didn't explore the island. The weather was
rotten, and as soon as we were able we headed over to the mainland
(another overnight sail) to La Ceiba, for Neil to catch his flight to
the U.S. He had a week-long job with his old company, Pan Tim, helping
with the trade show in Las Vegas. Since we were still having problems
with our battery charging, Neil wanted us to be plugged into shore power
while he was away, which meant that Liv and I got to live in the luxury
of the Lagoon Marina! Up a jungle creek, with towering rainforested
peaks above, Lagoon Marina is beautiful. We were surrounded by the types
of lush foliage that you pay big bucks for at florists back home, a
gorgeous pool, beautiful facilities, pet parrots, and even other kids
for Liv to play with! Neil flew to Las Vegas, and Liv and I went on a
horseback-riding adventure.
We rode for
about 4 hours through the savannah and on the beach, crossing several
rivers, some of which came up nearly to the saddle. It was a really
great trail ride, with lots of different terrain and beautiful scenery.
Liv had her own horse to ride, and by the end of the ride she looked
like an expert!
After the ride, we went up into the mountains, just to
the edge of Pico Bonito National Park, to the Jungle Lodge for the
night. We slept in a beautiful, rustic, open-screened room to the sounds
of the night jungle and a creek babbling along below us (the cabin was
built right over a creek!). The next morning we hiked up into the
mountains. We saw Fiery-Billed Toucans and Mot-mots, as well as lots of
other wildlife. It was really fun!
When Neil
got home from his successful trip to Las Vegas, we worked on the boat a
bit. Our aft water tank had developed a leak along the top seam (it's
built-in fiberglass) and although we'd tried to reseal it it was still
leaking a bit, and causing the cabinet and the water inside the tank to
get moldy. Yuck. We ordered a collapsible water tank to be sent to Neil
in Vegas, and when he returned he installed it. He used a rasp bit on
the electric drill to cut away the tabbing on the internal baffle,
chiseled off the tabbing, and made sure there were no sharp edges. The
inside of the tank was gelcoated, so it was nice and smooth. The new
tank fit pretty well, and only reduces our water capacity by about 5
gallons. A satisfactory temporary fix to the problem. He also replaced
the pump body on the forward head (the second time we've had to do that
this trip, both head's pump bodies cracked. Why doesn't Raritan make them
just a little more robust?).
Finally we
headed back to the Bay Islands, to the big island of Roatan, where we
were to meet my Dad and his friend Pam. Unfortunately, their hotel was
on the north side of the island, and another cold front
("norther") was forecast, so we could not bring the boat
around. We stayed near French Harbor and they visited us on the boat. We
also spent a night at their hotel and had a lovely dinner with them.
They'd brought lots of things for us, including a new sailing hat for
Neil (he'd been continuing to wear his favorite old one, even though it
was in tatters!) and presents for Liv, including beads from her Nana.
Later in the week we went to the Iguana Farm at French Harbor and fed
the hundreds of iguanas that live there in sanctuary (they are hunted
for food on Roatan; in fact I believe we were served some at a roadside
"chicken" barbecue stand in West End later on! Tasted just
like chicken.... but I never saw chicken bones shaped like that...) and
watched the monkeys, parrots, Scarlet Macaws, fish, lobster and sea
turtles they have in pens.
We had a really fast, fun sail with Scott and
Pam down to West End before they left for the mainland and Copan. Mandolin
sailed at the same time we did, and we took photos of each other as we
raced along.
spent a few days in West End, which has fabulous snorkeling in crystal
clear water, but alas spearfishing is not allowed! One day we tried to
go over to the north coast, to the anchorage where my Dad's hotel was,
Hottest Sparrow, because the weather was calmer and we hoped to do some
fishing. Sailboats rarely visit the north shore, and we could get very
little information about the reef entries. We had to beat our way up the
coast and when we got to the cut in the reef, it was MUCH narrower than
we expected. The waves were about 4 feet and Neil was on the helm as I
looked from the bow for the cut. Neil saw the depth sounder go from 80
feet to 12 feet in a few seconds, and we turned just before we hit the
reef. I could see the cut, then, but Neil said that the waves were too
high and he didn't have enough steerage. The mouth of the cut was
probably only 50-60 feet wide. It was pretty scary, and we chickened out
and turned around and headed back to West End.
stopping briefly in the westernmost island of Utila to see the house our
friends on Macy had bought, we set out on another overnight sail.
Destination: Guatemala.
Next: Guatemala's
Rio Dulce and Tikal.