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Lieutenant Governor's Awards of Excellence in wine for 2009
A dozen wines emerged this year from 248 submitted for competition to win Awards of Excellence in the Lieutenant Governor's competition.
This competition began in 2003. It is one of the few wine competitions with no entry fee. It is open to all wines produced from British Columbia grapes.
The panel of judges (of which I am one) taste the wines blind. That is, we do not know who the producers are. We are supplied only with the variety and the vintage.
It is a tough competition. The maximum number of awards of excellence has been 12; in some years, it can be less. There are no second places.
This year's awards went to a broad range of producers, large and small. Some of the winning wines are remarkably affordable, proving that a top wine does not have come with a top price.
Here are the winners:
Bounty Cellars 2007 Pinot Blanc ($16.90). Bounty is low-profile winery in an industrial park not far from the Kelowna airport. Most of its business involves making private label wines. Recently, as an example, it released four private label wines for the University of British Columbia's alumni association. However, the winery does sell through private wine stores (see the Bounty website for a list).
CedarCreek Estate Winery 2006 Platinum Reserve Merlot ($40.10). Platinum Reserve is the top tier of CedarCreek's wines. That name was coined by Okanagan Wine Festival judges in the early 1990s who thought a CedarCreek Merlot was so good that they gave it the first and only platinum medal ever in that competition's history. I was a judge on that panel, too. If that was a good Merlot, this one is over the moon. My records are incomplete but memory tells me that CedarCreek has won previously.
Church & State 2006 Syrah ($26). Church & State currently has its wine shop in Saanich but most of its wines are made in the Okanagan with Okanagan grapes. The winemaker is Bill Dyer, an all-star consultant from California who previously was Burrowing Owl's winemaker. He made great Syrah there as well.
Howling Bluff Estate Winery 2006 Pinot Noir ($29.60). Howling Bluff is a new winery on Naramata Road, owned by former investment advisor Luke Smith. This will be a hard wine to find because only 140 cases were made and only nine are left at the winery. The good news is that Luke believes the 2007 Pinot Noir is even better than this winner.
JoieFarm 2007 Reserve Chardonnay ($30). JoieFarm is also a previous winner in the LG competition. The wine will be released in September and 425 cases were made.
JoieFarm 2008 Riesling ($27). JoieFarm made 1,000 cases of this wine. It should be more easily available in private wine stores.
Peller Estates 2007 Private Reserve Pinot Noir ($18.99). This wine is great value and it is widely available - even in B.C. liquor stores. This award should draw attention to how much Peller wines have improved over the past several vintages.
Road 13 Vineyards 2006 Fifth Element ($35.99). This red is an elegant blend of five grape varieties - four Bordeaux varieties and Syrah. This winery is also a repeat winner of this award.
Sandhill Wines 2007 Small Lots Syrah ($34.99). This wine has just been released. Consumers need to move fast to get some of this excellent Syrah - only 224 cases were made. It can be ordered through the website. Sandhill is another repeat winner.
See Ya Later Ranch 2008 Gewurztraminer ($17). It is only right that this wine wins an award. The See Ya Later vineyard is North America's largest single block of Gewurztraminer and obviously one of the best. The wine is available in VQA stores, among other places. This winery is a repeat winner.
Stoneboat Vineyards 2007 Pinotage ($24.90). Stoneboat is a small new Oliver winery that won an LG last year with a Pinot Noir. Pinotage, a variety created in South Africa, is made by only a handful of Okanagan wineries.
Wild Goose Vineyards 2008 Pinot Gris ($18.99). I have lost count of how many LG awards have been taken by this excellent winery at Okanagan Falls. It may be five by now. The best bet is to order directly from the winery.
Congratulations to all - and to the producers of the other wines. There were a lot of fine wines entered this years.


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Notice of Availability: Final Comprehensive Conservation Plan and Finding of No Significant Impact.
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce the availability of the Final Comprehensive Conservation Plan (CCP) and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for Sacramento, Delevan, Colusa, and Sutter National Wildlife Refuges (Refuges). The CCP, prepared pursuant to the National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act of 1997, and in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, describes how the Service will manage the Refuges for the next 15 years.
The CCP and FONSI are available now. The FONSI was signed On March 17, 2009. Implementation of the CCP may begin immediately.
You may view or obtain copies of the final CCP and FONSI/EA by any of the following methods. You may request a hard copy or CD-ROM.
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Sacramento, Delevan, Colusa, and Sutter National Wildlife Refuges are located in the Sacramento Valley of California, approximately 90 miles north of the city of Sacramento. The Refuges manage and protect wintering habitat for migratory birds and endangered and threatened species. The Refuges contain approximately 24,000 acres of critically important habitats for a great diversity of wildlife, particularly migratory birds. Over 40 percent of the Pacific Flyway waterfowl winters in the Sacramento Valley. The vast majority of wetlands in the Sacramento Valley have been converted to agricultural, industrial, and urban development. Remaining wetlands are intensively managed to optimize wildlife benefits.
The Draft CCP and Environmental Assessment (EA) were available for a 54-day public review and comment period, which was announced via several methods, including press releases; updates to constituents; and in the Federal Register (73 FR 42363, July 21, 2008). The Draft CCP/EA identified and evaluated four alternatives for managing Start Printed Page 29716the Refuges for the next 15 years. Alternative A was the no-action alternative, which described current Refuge management activities. Alternative B placed greater emphasis on biological resources than on visitor services. Alternative C (the selected alternative) provided an optimal balance of improved biological resource objectives and expanded visitor services opportunities. Alternative D placed greater emphasis on visitor services than on biological resources.
The Service received 75 comment letters on the Draft CCP and EA during the review period. The comments received were incorporated into the CCP when possible, and we responded to the comments in an appendix to the CCP. In the FONSI, Alternative C was selected for implementation and is the basis for the CCP. The FONSI documents the decision of the Service and is based on the information and analysis contained in the EA.
Under the selected alternative, the Refuges would achieve an optimal balance of biological resource objectives and visitor services opportunities. Habitat management and associated biological resource monitoring would be improved. Visitor service opportunities would focus on quality wildlife-dependant recreation distributed throughout the Refuges. In addition, environmental education, interpretation, wildlife observation, photography, and hunting programs would be improved and/or expanded.
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Margaret T. Kolar,
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It's countdown time! Exactly one (calendar) month from today, I will be running my first real destination race. And what a destination -- gorgeous Half Moon Bay, California. To make this "first destination race" experience even sweeter, the HMB Half Marathon will be my first race as a new member of the Oiselle Volée Team. Needless to say, I'm pretty excited.
The Half Moon Bay International Marathon is in its third year, offering runners their choice of 3 distances: a full 26.2 miles, a 13.1 option (that's where I'll be) or a free, family-friendly 5K. Registration is still open if you are interested in signing up!
Photo courtesy of Trip Advisor, stating "[a] mere 45-minute drive from San Francisco lies Half Moon Bay, an idyllic enclave and truly the perfect place to spend some time away from the big city." Sounds good to me!
The full and half courses both look absolutely incredible. From the HMB website:
The Full Marathon's unique course features approximately 70% paved bike trails and 30% packed-dirt trails, and offers amazing views from bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean at various locations. ....New in 2013, the Half Marathon course has been re-designed to eliminate the packed dirt trails and is 100% paved streets or bike trails.
The course is mostly flat with every little elevation change until mile 19 of the course (see chart below) and accordingly offers opportunities for fast times. Leave your climbing legs for the last few miles, as you run up the "Mavericks Hill"! The course is fully USATF certified and will serve as a Boston qualifier.
More course details here, including an elevation map.
Another exciting feature this year: Bart Yasso, Runner's World's "Chief Running Officer" is the special guest athlete for 2013, and will speak at the packet pickup on Sept. 28, host a pre-race run on the course and even greet runners as they come in to the finish. Bart's obviously been there/done that, having run marathons on all seven continents. His marathons literally total in the hundreds. Kind of a big deal. Nonetheless, he is incredibly engaged with the running community, being open to veterans and newbies like me alike. Earlier this month, I tweeted about HMB's Yasso announcement and was delighted to see that he acknowledged a number of HMB runners -- including me! -- to say he was looking forward to the event.
Twitter -- connecting people in 140 characters or less since 2006.
While I am generally a competitive person (if not a competitive runner yet, lol), this isn't my goal race for fall 2013. I am really fortunate that the timing worked out at all for me; my awesome Hubs is letting me tag along with him and some co-workers for a work conference held in San Francisco every year in September. Once I found out the dates of the conference, I searched around online for a race in the area the weekend before or the weekend after it (looking to maximize the not-cheap cross-country plane ticket as best I could). When I saw the pics of Half Moon Bay and found out about the size and course, I knew I found my kickoff race.
My plan for the HMB Half is to treat it like my long training run of the weekend with some pacing to be dictated by Coach based on where I am running a month from now, take in the ocean breezes and foggy morning air, enjoy the beautiful scenery and snap some awesome Pacific coastline pictures for you to enjoy here on the blog. Oh yeah -- and stay injury free; gotta watch my footwork on the bike trails for sure. I am a klutz when it comes to ankle rolls and tripping over my own feet.
Not knowing much about the race itself, I searched out some race reviews and found some good insight into HMB from the past two years. I read a GREAT post from the perspective of a HMB race volunteer here. Even if you aren't running HMB this year, these powerful words offer a different take than you might read in a race review as to his impressions of the runners as they came through the aid stations. Well done!
I also found some great reviews by Scott Dunlap of A Trail Runner's Blog (he did the full HMB in 2011; took some great on-course photos) and then again in 2012. Scott's experience as a speedy marathoner will be a lot different than my middle-of-the-pack half race, but he gave me a good idea of what race day is like and insight into the course and terrain.
By far the most comical of the HMB reviews I found came courtesy of Liz at Run, Fat Chick! Run! She blew her goal out of the water and PR'd in the 2012 HMB Half; I hope I enjoy the course as much as she did.
I'm excited for the HMB Half because it also kicks off the fall racing season for me, which -- fingers crossed to stay healthy and injury free -- should be a great learning experience for me, with significant improvements. I have been putting together my thoughts for a "fall 2013 preview post" that I hope to have finished and up on the blog soon; it will give you a better idea of where the HMB Half fits into my overall plan (i.e., the other races I have signed up for and my training efforts under the watchful and knowledgeable eyes of Coach Mark Hadley). While I have been keeping up with my training plan (the accountability and wisdom of coaches works wonders -- even when they are coaching from a distance), my blogging has frankly taken a back seat to work and life lately. I intend to do better at finding this balance!
What's your first race of the fall 2013 season?
Ever been to the San Francisco area? Half Moon Bay?
Any "can't miss" spots to eat, drink or be merry you'd care to pass along for our trip? Hubs and I have our favorites in the Bay Area, but we love trying new spots.


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Czech police wonder where bridge has gone
Police in the Czech republic are trying to find out who stole a 4 tonne railway bridge from the border town of Cheb.
The company which was responsible for looking after the bridge raised the alarm when, ever alert, they noticed that the bridge wasn't there any more.
The bridge was on a disused stretch of line just outside Cheb.
Martina Hruskova, a spokeswoman for the Czech police, commented to AFP: 'We are not sure if it was taken for personal use or for its scrap value.' Exactly what that 'personal use' might be was left unsaid.
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The purpose of the project "Cross-border transport CONNECTIONs and communications - the basis for improving quality of life in border areas" (CONNECTION) is to achieve balanced, long-term economic growth in the cross-border region by creating suitable conditions for the development of a sustainable transport network in the border zone. Also aims to achieve effective organization and management of transportation processes and networks, development of joint systems and approaches to create new cross-border schemes the route stimulating protection of the environment. Target groups will include ...
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The Ears solution was develop by a QinetiQ North America subsidiary and is known to the US Army as the Soldier Wearable Acoustic Targeting System (SWATS). Ears has already been selected by the US Army Natick Soldier Research, Development & Engineering Center (NSRDEC) to integrate the warfighter-wearable member of the Ears sniper detection family into Future Force Warrior (FFW). FFW is the Armys flagship Science and Technology initiative to develop and demonstrate revolutionary capabilities for Future Force Soldier systems. The entire Ears product family makes use of this unique sensor, which is currently combat-deployed with the Army in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Specializes in Northern Chinese cuisine and dim sum. A large selection of cold appetizers difficult to find elsewhere including thousand year old Egg and tofu salad, vegetarian duck, special ham with jelly fish and vinegar sauce, and pickled cabbage.
Mrs. C and I were in the ditch once again, and we spotted ND. We were about to abandon the queue to get in, when a booth became available. This place is a little nicer inside than most Chinese joints, and except for the hard wooden booth seat (no cushion?) it was fine. Clean too.
Our server was quick and made sure our cups were full, so no problem there. The tea was that weird rose-flavour that some places serve. I like po lai or ti quan yin.
The menu had lots of choices, and even featured pictures with the corresponding menu item number, so you could get an idea of what your dinner would look like. We had the mushroom wrapped in beancurd sheets as our cold appy, followed by steamed pork dumplings with a savoury broth inside. Then we enjoyed Beijing-style shredded pork with Chinese pancakes. These were fun because you could make little burritos out of them.
All the food was tasty, and the dumplings were especially notable. The pork and pancakes dish was good, but I have had better elsewhere. The mushroom/beancurd dish was a little better than average.
We managed to have a nice light meal for less than 25 bucks, so I say 'ho mei'!
Went there on a weekday night and not that busy, no reservation required. Ordered the pigs ears to start, a bit on the small side as there are clear noodles on the bottom to make the dish look bigger. The soup dumplings were just OK, only 5 per order so small too. Smoked tea duck was pretty good along with the stir fry rice cakes. Overall not too bad but there are better Shanghainese places out there. Comfortbable place with good service. A good mall option if you are near Aberdeen.
Food: Every dish we ordered was quite good. We had this rice dish that consisted of hard rice that is then mixed with tomato sauce at the table, this beef and mushroom wrap dish, xiao long bao, stir fried shanghai noodle and shanghai spring rolls. The spring rolls were a little greasy and nothing special and the xiao long bao were ok but every other dish was really tasty. Their tea was also really good - something I can't quite put my finger on...
Service: We were greeted immediately and taken to a nice comfortable booth seat in the corner of the restaurant. Service was expedient and attentive. Quick water and tea refills.
Ambiance: Clean with really nice decorations. Would def. recommend taking the parents here.
Overall: Would def return to try other dishes and bring my parents too!
It's been over a year since I've been back and quite disappointed to see that service, food quality, and value are slipping downhill and fast. Northern Delicacy has been resting on its laurels for too long, thinking perhaps their location within Aberdeen has got it made.
Food: northern dim sum and cuisine, ordered a-la-carte. Steam pork dumplings (xiao long bao) were of average sized, made fresh (thank goodness), and juicy enough. Fried pork buns were dry and lacking in meat filling. Dan Dan noodle was horribly made and was this tasteless soupy mess - how can a northern restaurant screw up on the dan dan noodles? Other small dishes items were mediocre to disappointing. Don't know if it's because we arrived at 1:00pm and got all the leftovers.
Service: seated right away because the restaurant was only half full. Waitress came by to take our order and food took quite a long time to arrive. We had to remind several staff who kept walking past us, for simple things like vinegar sauce, extra bowl or napkins.The staff appeared very pitiful working there and it shows.
Value: expensive for what you get. Relatively small portions combined with poorly executed food makes for low value-enjoyment level.
Ambiance/location: conveniently located in Aberdeen Centre and a quick hop away if you're heading for a Daiso run. If you can avoid Aberdeen though, you should as the parking lot is horrendously designed. Restaurant decor and seating arrangement are nicely laid out. For the 'wow' factor, there is a larger than life-sized terracotta warrior manning the entrance. Tables and chairs are showing their age and the overall appearance of the place is still presentable but looking a bit tired.
Unfortunately, this place is a pass.
This place has the juiciest pork dumplings! You eat it with one bite while its semi-hot and the juice will come exploding out, its such a good feeling! The braised tender pork belly is in a bowl of incredibly yummy sauce where you would be very satisfied with a bowl of rice! The daily soup is rich and flavorful, its served in a small pot, good for 2 servings. Must have the duck...the meat is moist and the skin is just crisp! The creamy custard pastry is another one of my favorites for dessert.
Had lunch on weekday, and there was a line up. Upon further review, noticed that they are understaffed. Empty tables but plates not cleared.
Had potstickers (bad, skin is too thick), Hot and Sour Soup (Very Good), Tea Duck (Very Good - Crispy and flavourful) and Steamed Dumplings (Xiao Long Bao - decent).
Nice decor - Chinese, yet modern. Pity it is understaffed. Food is good enough to warrant a return trip though.
We come here every few months. It's in a fairly convenient location as it is in Aberdeen Mall, so you can do some shopping before or after a meal at Northern Delicacy.
The decor is modern and clean, which is also why we usually come back. However, this last experience disappointed us. We order pan fried pea tips, dan-dan noodles, spicy beef noodles, siu-loong bao, and the sticky rice wrapped donut.
All of the dishes were very tasty. However, we nearly finished our meal and our sticky rice still hadn't arrived. We were about to cancel the order when the dish was finally brought to us. I took the first piece and bit into it, only to reveal a human hair!
I was thoroughly disgusted and (involuntarily) spat out the piece I bit off. I flagged down the manager and quietly, and nicely pointed out that there was a hair nestled in my sticky rice. I requested a replacement. He responded with a perfunctory, "Oh, sorry." A few minutes later, he plopped a new sticky rice on our table. No acknowledgment of the hair incident. We got our bill, and we were charged full-price for everthing.
We expected better from this restaurant. We were treated no better than if we visited some cheap hole-in-the-wall restaurant--at least there, we wouldn't have been charged the premium prices we had to pay.
Their dim sum spcial menu looked great. The quality was okay too, not too greasy and looking good. Although there were 3 people the total bill was very inexpensive. It came to about 26dollars. We were all very full and happy to leave. I will be back again probably. It sure was pretty good. Should try if you'd like to try something new.
My dining partner and i were deciding where to eat, we narrowed it down to seventh heaven and northern delicacy. My dining partner said it looked cooler so we went here. Ordered the juicy pork dumplings, pig knuckle, 2 bowls of noodles and a veggie dish. The food was great. The dough for the dumpling was strong enough to hold the juice and yet thin enough and doesn't taste doughy like some places i've tired. Their seafood noodle was great. They had a decent amount of seafood and the noodle was chewy (hand-made) The other dishes were tasty.
Ambiance: its really simple and yet it grabs your attention. The thing i dislike about it is that the washroom is not INSIDE the restaurant, its outside...which i didn't like
Service: The service was so-so, not great and not bad. When we pai in cash, we were waiting to get our change back but it never came, we over tipped them, which i didn't feel too good about cause the service wasn't great.
If you've ever come across weird stuff in your food, I have the motherload of all weird stuff: PUBIC HAIR. It was in our noodles and the guy just said "I'll get another bowl for you." We should've said "Give us a free meal!" But we did eat the other stuff which was fine. But still, it was disgusting to think about it!! And besides, there are better Siao Long Baos & other Shanghai dishes that are more worth it too!... in a couple small Vancouver East restaurants & one in Vancouver West (also small).
Seeing this was a new restaurant and heard some good words about it from a few friends, I decided to give it a try.
Food: Nothing special, we ordered mostly Dim Sum, but we could get it in any good Chinese restaurants.
Service: Horrendous! We went around 2:00pm. No one was standing at the front of the restaurant greeting customers, but then again, it was almost empty at that time. We got seated and we ordered our food. All was well up to this point. We were chatting away as we wait for what we thought had processed order. Only we got interrupted by a waitress all of a sudden: "Are you guys here to order food?". I quote her exact words! We were both surprised and felt offended.
As our food arrived, we noticed one plate was not what we had ordered. So we asked the waiters, who were all standing by the cashier laughing and chatting. I waved my hand, one came over, and she was holding on to the plate that we told her wasn't ours. Instead of apologizing and checking the order, she was standing there and gave us a senseless attitude. She was saying this dish was very similar to the one we request to replace and it's not going to make any difference. (The only difference is the dish we request to replace is $10 cheaper) We were both really taken back by what she said. Then another waiter came by and asked what the matter was. He didn't do anything more than just being nosy. Finally the manage walked towards our table and pulled them both away. I was about to scold the waitress in vain. Clearly they didn't have enough training. The waiters were imprudent and don't communicate well other than their gossips. Instead of filling up with Dim Sum we got fed up by their attitude!
Ambiance: Lean towards westernize designs more. A true Chinese restaurant would have big round tables. All tables were rectangular and a bit like Hong Kong Cafe style. No outside view.
I would go there for their food, but definitely not worth it if their service continues like that.
2nd time visiting this place. 1s time for dinner. I find lunch gets too busy and service is not as attentive. Decided to go for an early dinner tonight. Got seated right away. Waitress came around often to take away empty dishes and refill tea without asking. Had hot and sour soup. Great portion at $5.50 (servies 4). Steamed dumplings were excellent. Juicy on the inside. Dan-dan noodles were not too salty like some other places. Pan fried potstickers were ok. I think the dough was too thick for my liking. Handmade special fried noodles were tasty and not overly greasy.
Overall a great experience. Like I said, food arrived promptly and service was good b/c we arrived early. Not sure what it's like later on in the evening when it gets busy. Definitley would visit again for a quick bite to eat.
They don't open until 11 am - be aware. We had to wait for 1 hr at Starbucks downstairs but it was worth it. Each dish was well-prepared and it had very delicate taste. Not a regular Chinese restaurant where you leave feeling heavy and uncomfortable. We were pleasantly stuffed and the bill came just under $40. Very nice. Our friend just loved the decor as well.
Ate here during my mom's birthday and by many standard, we consider our mother to be the holy standard of wherever or not the place is good or not. And lets just say, it was wonderful.
The service in the restaurant was good, constant tea being served by wait staff, appetizers brought it on time with little waiting time and not so rushed that you felt compelled to eat and get out.
Food wise, it was awesome. I ate everything served to us, the food was really good and I personally enjoyed every dish. One of my highlights was the Ginger beef, Bamboo shoots and slices of beef sauteed with some green onions. It was really good, the rest of us didn't enjoy the chicken soup, thought it wasn't cooked long enough. I loved it though.
Overrall, a great place for its food.
We made reservations but the place wasn't even that crowded. A five-dish meal came up to about $70.00 for 6 people. you decide if that's good value or not. Fried rice is spicy, so if you can't deal with that then make sure you request otherwise. The dim sum is pretty regular, nothing extraordinary, I find. And I have been to my fair share of dim sum places in the Lower Mainland. Service wasn't all that great for this supposedly amazing restaurant. For example one of the waitresses took our almost finished dish and left without asking if we were done with it (we weren't done, so that was not a smart move). Tea refill was consistent, so points given for that. The manager (who looks a little like the Asian Bill Gates, which is not a bad thing) was kind in seating us at a table that wasn't blocked by this gigantic pole (you'd see it if you went/go there). I actually fancied the seafood fried rice, and the vegetable steam bun for vegetarians is not a bad choice. The ambiance was poor because it was very noisy, and it was hard to have a good conversation with the people I had lunch with. Based on the facts given, I hope you make the right choice. If you're looking for some average food with a decent price (of course, depending on what you find is decent) then I guess this is the place for you. I don't know if I'll be going back there again.
I came back to Northern Delicacy after my first trip and that one was really memorable. This time around things were a bit better. However, the food I think still lacks a bit compared to other restaureants of this type. The pork used in the steamed pork dumplings, potstickers and the Shanghai style noodles all had a strong freezer burn (Chinese: shuet may) taste to it which was really pleasant.
The service was up to par, maybe it was Friday and that was why the staff were a little underworked. There was a weird feeling when ate though because the staff would stare at you while you were eating. I guess too much attention is better than no attention right?
They replaced most of those old Chinese tea house chairs as they were one of the worst choices for seating. Just imagine yourself sitting on a chair with no seat just a piece of wood and no backing to it. Not going to be an amazing meal. The place looks nicely decorated. It may warrant a return some day.
The food here is really tasty!! All that was ordered had good flavor and cooked to perfection. Must try items are the Shanghai dumplings, broccoli w/egg white and seafood, dan dan noodles, braised pork hock, and seafood sauce with crispy rice. We will definetly return and try everything else. Service was alright but like most Asian restaurants you must wave your hand to get anyone's attention. If your not shy, then wave till your heart's content, someone will notice. Just don't snap your fingers.
Reservations are definitely recommended for this busy restaurant. We have eaten here 3 times and have yet to be disappointed. We stick with the spicy green beans, the xio long baos (steamed pork dumpings) and the seafood fried rice (warning it's spicy but you can request a non-spicy version). There's just something about the rice that is addictive. Can't pinpoint what it is but our friend thinks it's because the rice is cooked in chicken broth. It's never too hard or too mushy. We also ordered the sweet and sour fish but this is the only so-so dish. We only have it because our four year old likes it. Otherwise, we'd try something else instead. The prices are definitely on the high side considering the portion sizes. However it you value quality over quantity, then it's worth it. Dinner for three adults and a kid came to about $60 including tax and tip.
Ambiance is very nice except you must go out of the restaurant and around the mall corridor to use the w/c.
Service is efficient, our teacups were filled without asking and they were able to split the bill for us.
They deserve more than my 3-star rating - they're not haute cuisine, and there are no linen tableclothes, but for tasty, affordable food that a family can enjoy, they are super.
My family of three went to Northern Delicacy for dinner on a Saturday evening. We wanted to avoid the crowds, so we arrived at 5:40 pm, and were seated immediately. Within 20 minutes or so, the restaurant had become much busier, but there were still a few tables available.
FOOD: There was a wide variety of dishes available, and we enjoyed everything we tried. We had Shianghai spring rolls, spicy sour soup (excellent), steamed pork dumplings, dan-dan noodles with sesame, and hadmade fried noodles with vegetables. My son devoured both the spring rolls and the fried noodles, while my husband and I polished off the large pot of spicy sour soup. The dan-dan noodles were also very good, but avoid the broth if you don't care for spicy food.
SERVICE: We were seated promptly, and had no problems with service during our meal. Our server made small suggestions about the food (warning us about a spicy dish, for example), and offered forks if needed (we're caucasian). Some may find that last bit patronizing, but our son appreciated the offer.
AMBIANCE: Pleasant, but nothing extraordinary.
VALUE: We ate well, and were full when we left. Our bill came to $35 (including tax, but no beverages).
The food is enjoyable, even the tea and we would like to return more often however we never feel like we are treated fairly at this restaurant. On our last visit we saw a nice booth was available but the servers told us the specific booth/table was unavailable. However the guy right after us got the booth we wanted prior. It seems he was a more regular customer than us so eventhough we were there first and waited longer we didn't get the booth! Of course my dinner guest was furious and it really spoilt our meal because I heard nothing but bitching from him for at least 10 minutes which led to a huge fight in the restaurant. Hate this place. Always drama there.
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Lilith by John Collier (1887)
We have examined the paintings of John Collier previously:
However, one painting we did not look at was Lilith (1887). This painting, which is currently in the Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, is quite a large canvas (200cm x 104cm).
Lilith's mytholgical background is complex. Ultimately it is thought that her background is in Sumero-Babylonian legend which tells of a winged female demon who kills children and endangers women giving birth.
Babylonian terra cotta relief thought to depict llith (circa 2000BC)
In turn she is close to Lamashtu a Mesopotamian female demon who in turn is very similar to the Libyan Lamia; a female serpent demon we looked at in our piece on Herbert Draper.
Things get more complicated when later Jewish literature known as the midrash (designed to explain inconsistencies in the Old Testament) posits her as Adam's original wife created at the same time as him from the earth. In these stories Eve only appears on the scene later after Lilith walked out on Adam (Eve was a replacement, in essence). A 13th century Kabbalah text, the Sefer ha-Zohar ("The Book of Splendour") written by the Spaniard Moses de Leon (c. 1240-1305), is coy about why Lilith abandoned Adam. An earlier 11th century text (the Alpha Betha of Ben Sira (Alphabetum Siracidis, or Sepher Ben Sira)) is more explicit and says that it is because Lilith refused to have sex with Adam as he wanted to be on top. She said that she was equal to Adam and was not going to be submissive (sounds very like a particular Jewish young lady we used to know!).
It can be seen how such a woman would appeal to the Victorian appetite for evil women who attempt to dominate men. Later, in medieaval times she became more associated with the idea of a succubus and personified licentiousness and lust. Succubi would have sex with men in their sleep causing them to ejacualte in their sleep. This was used a as way of explaining wet dreams: how else could chaste members of the clergy wake up covered in spunk? Monks would sleep with a crucifix held over their genitals to ward of these succubi.
Lady Lilith (1864)
Lilith is, much more than Eve, the personification of destructive female sexuality. Music to the ears of Collier and his contemporaries who loved a bad woman. Dante Garbriel Rossetti had also done a painting of Lilith but she has nothing of the indulgent sensuality of Colliers version. Rossetti's symbolism is more subtle than Collier's. His painting, which depicts a modern Lilith not the mythological version, shows her surrounded by white roses, symbols of sterile passion and poppies, symbols of death. More tellingly, she is combing her long hair. To Victorians luxuriant, unbound hair on a woman was a symbol of vigourous sexuality; even wantonness. Rossetti's Lilith is spreading it and displaying it. Finally, she is presented as uncorsetted; the corset representing discipline and control over a woman's own sexuality
Colliers painting, from two decades later, doesn't feel the need for this symbolism as his Lilith is literally being embraced by sin, in the form of the snake. The log, unbound hair remains however.
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On February 14, 2018, the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, in Margarito Rodriguez Tovar v. Jefferson Sessions reinterpreted a section of the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) in a way which could help keep many immigrant families intact.
The Court overturned a decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) that the son of a US citizen father who had waited in line for a green card for many years be forced to leave the US for a decade or more.
Margarito Rodriguez Tovar was born in Mexico in 1983.
In 2000, at the age of 17, he entered the US. On April 30, 2001, his father, who was a lawful permanent resident, sponsored him for a green card. In 2005, the USCIS approved the family-based 2A visa petition.
In 2006, his father became a naturalized US citizen. The child's 2A priority date (minor, unmarried sons/daughters of lawful permanent residents) became current and, in 2008, he filed for adjustment of status under section 245i.
The USCIS denied his application on the ground that he had aged-out and that since the family-based 1st preference (adult unmarried sons/daughters of US citizens) priority dates were backlogged to 1992, his priority date would not become current for more than a decade.
He was placed under removal proceedings where he renewed his application for adjustment of status.
However, both the Immigration Judge and the BIA denied his application and ordered him to leave the US.
The IJ and the Board cited the BIA's published opinion in Matter of Zamora-Molina, 25 I. & N. Dec. 606 (BIA 2011). Zamora-Molina involved a similar fact pattern. The respondent's LPR mother had originally sponsored her child under the family 2A category, and became naturalized after the child's 21st birthday. The respondent argued that had the mother not naturalized, he could have utilized CSPA's "opt-out" provision and used the CSPA age formula to adjust his status under the 2A category. The BIA disagreed and held that since the mother had naturalized, the issue was whether the CSPA age formula applies to "immediate relatives" of US citizens. The section of law in question states that only if the parent naturalizes prior to the child's turning 21 can the child be considered an immediate relative of a US citizen. The BIA ruled that this referred to the child's biological age.
In Rodriguez Tovar, the 3-judge panel disagreed with the holding in Zamora-Molina andunanimously held that it would make no sense for Congress to punish a child simply because his sponsoring parent became a US citizen. They determined that the section of CSPA that refers to immediate relatives should be read to refer to a person's statutory (CSPA) age rather than to his/her biological age.
Applying the CSPA formula, Rodriguez Tovar's age would be under 21 (24 years when his priority date became current on June 1, 2007 minus the 4 years that the I-130 was pending before the USCIS), and he would be eligible to adjust his status to permanent resident as an immediate relative of a US citizen parent.
The opinion in Rodriguez Tovar succinctly states the rationale for the decision as follows:
"In sum, the government's position is that because
Rodriguez Tovar's father became a citizen, Rodriguez Tovar
must now wait decades longer for a visa than if his father had
remained an LPR. In the meantime the government seeks to
deport him to Mexico, with any future return subject to
unforeseeable modifications to the current immigration laws.
As we explain in the remainder of this opinion, the correct
interpretation of the statute does not lead to this absurd result,
but rather to his entitlement to an immediately available visa.
It remains to be seen whether the government will ask the Supreme Court to review this decision.
Updated 03-09-2018 at 05:23 PM by CShusterman
On June 9, 2014, the Supreme Court of the United States in Scialabba v. DeOsorio, in a 5-4 decision, reversed the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, and ruled that the automatic conversion clause of the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) does not provide benefits to most immigrant families.
As a result, tens of thousands of immigrant families will continue to be separated as parents and underaged children immigrate to the U.S. while sons and daughters who turned 21 years of age during the waiting process are forced to remain abroad, separated from their families.
The Court ruled that the automatic conversion clause was ambiguous and deferred to the highly-restrictive 2009 decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) in Matter of Wang.
We have explained in previous posts why we believe that the Boards decision in Matter of Wang is unreasonable and should not be accorded deference. However, the decision of the Supreme Court cannot be appealed.
The Court held that
The first clause of §1153(h)(3) states a condition that encompasses every aged-out beneficiary of a family preference petition. The second clause, however, does not easily cohere with the first. It prescribes a remedy that can apply to only a subset of the beneficiaries described in the first clause.
It deferred to Matter of Wang which restricts the persons who may benefit from CSPAs automatic conversion clause to aged-out beneficiaries of 2A family-based petitions.
The sons and daughters of our plaintiffs who are beneficiaries of family-based 3rd and 4th preference visa petitions do not qualify for automatic conversion or even for retention of their priority dates.
As the dissent points out, when the U.S. citizen sister of Norma Uy sponsored her and her family for green cards in 1981, Normas daughter Ruth was 2-years-old. However, after waiting in line with her parents for a green card for over 20 years, by the time that the family reached the front of the line, Ruth was over 21 years of age, too old to immigrate together with her family under Matter of Wang.
Going to the back of the 2B line isnt much of an option.
Because of the numerical restrictions in this category, the length of the 2B line is 28.7 years for persons born in the Philippines and 115.5 years for persons born in Mexico. So, as a practical matter, not receiving credit for the time that they spent waiting in line together with their parents, prevents sons and daughters of immigrants from reuniting with their families in the United States.
Is this really what Congress intended when they passed the Child Status Protection Act in 2002? Not according to the bipartisan group of Senators who submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court disputing the governments interpretation of the law.
Furthermore, what sense does it mean to subtract the time the visa petition was pending from all children of green card applicants, but apply the automatic conversion clause to only a small subset of children?
The petition for Norma Uy was approved the same day that it was filed. The reason that her daughter Ruth was over 21 years old when the priority date was reached is the 23 year waiting time for a sibling born in the Philippines.
What if Norma had a sister who was sponsored on the same day, and the sister had a son born on the same day as Ruth? Suppose the government took 10 years to approve the petition. Under the Supreme Courts decision, Ruths cousin would be able to subtract 10 years from his age when the priority date was reached, and unlike Ruth, he could immigrate with this family.
If the automatic conversion clause, unlike the subtraction clause, only protects a small subset of sons and daughters of immigrants, whether children are able to immigrate together with their families is akin to playing roulette in Las Vegas. Purely a matter of luck!
Now that the Supreme Court has ruled against immigrant families, Congressional action is necessary to restate in the most clear and unambiguous language possible the intent of CSPAs automatic conversion clause.
Our country should have an immigration system that unites families, not one which needlessly separates them.
Updated 06-09-2014 at 10:56 PM by CShusterman
We expect the Supreme Court to issue a decision on the nationwide class action lawsuit regarding CSPA, Mayorkas v. DeOsorio, very soon, possibly on May 19.
While we lawyers argue over the meaning of terms like "retention", "automatic conversion" and "appropriate category", the issue in this case can be summarized as follows: Are children who have stood in line for years, or ever decades, beside their parents waiting for their priority date to be current, entitled to get credit for this time, or, if they have "aged-out" during this time, must they go to the back of the line and restart the immigration process?
Bear in mind that the line is almost 30 years for unmarried sons and daughters from the Philippines and over 115 years for children born in Mexico. And that if they are forced to go to the back of the line, they cannot get married without losing their priority dates. So, as a practical matter, these sons and daughters will never be able to rejoin the parents under the government's argument.
Could Congress, in passing legislation whose purpose was to keep families together, have intended such a harsh result? Not according to the Senators who submitted a Friend of the Court Brief agreeing with our position in this case.
After all, for many years, the government has adhered to a regulation which provides that as a person converts from one preference category to another, they are never forced to go to the back of the line. Instead, they always receive credit for the time that they spent in line.
Let's say that a son's LPR mother sponsors him for a green card in the 2B category on July 4, 2000, and before his priority date becomes current, his mother naturalizes. Now he moves from the 2B line to the 1st preference line. He is not forced to restart the immigration process. Instead, he is given full credit for the time that he spend waiting in the 2B line. Later, if he marries before his priority date becomes current, both he and his wife as well as their children, all go to the 3rd preference line. The one thing that never changes is they are all entitled to the July 4, 2000 priority date.
The government has no problem with this concept. It has never maintained that the regulation enables the beneficiary or his wife and children are "line jumpers" who are displacing others. After all, it was the government which wrote this regulation and has enforced it for decades.
Why then does Justice Department argue in Mayorkas v. DeOsorio that children who stood in line together with their parents for many years and have been separated from them since before we sued the government in 2008, and the 6 years that have elapsed since then, are line jumpers?
Could it be that this line of argument is being used to mask the government's attempt to restrict the operation of CSPA so severely that the very families that the law was written to protect will now be separated forever?
I know that the Supreme Court Justices are way smarter than Yours Truly and I believe that they will order the government to finally implement CSPA as Congress intended.
Updated 05-05-2014 at 01:39 PM by CShusterman
On December 10, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments concerning who benefits from the "Retention of Priority Date" clause of the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA).
Hopefully, in the next few months, this matter will be settled once and for all, and sons and daughters of parents who immigrated years ago will, at last, be permitted to rejoin their families in the U.S.
Government's Argument
The government, having lost in the Court of Appeals, first addressed the Court:
"The Board of Immigration Appeals reasonably interpreted Section 1153(h)(3) when it ruled that creation of a new petition by a new petitioner did not qualify as automatic conversion of an existing petition to an appropriate family-sponsored category…"
However, various Justices let the government know that they were not persuaded:
Justice Ginsburg: "What about all the time this one child has been waiting? It gets no credit for that?"
Justice Alito: "…your reading of this statute gives (h)(3) a very, very narrow scope."
Justice Breyer: "…it's just unlikely that Congress meant (3) to apply to a…little molecule when there's the whole ocean."
Justice Sotomayor: "It would have been much, much simpler to say this is limited to F2A beneficiaries than to write it the way they did and say this is to everybody who ages out."
Justice Kagan: "…it seems as though you shouldn't be entitled to Chevron deference on that question, given what Wang said about it."
The government attempted to counter each of the above statements. It argued that the Court recognized that "deference is particularly appropriate in immigration contexts."
The government expressed concern about delays to persons waiting in the F2B line, but when questioned by Justice Breyer, it revealed that it was impossible to calculate how much of a delay that these persons would experience if the respondent's prevailed in this lawsuit.
Chevron Test
The issue in this case is whether the Court must give "Chevron deference" to an administrative decision interpreting a law, in this case, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) decision in Matter of Wang. Here, the Court uses the following two-step test:
Step 1 – "First, always, is the question whether Congress has spoken directly to the precise question at issue. If the intent of Congress is clear, that is the end of the matter; for the court as well as the agency must give effect to the unambiguously expressed intent of Congress."
Step 2 – [I]"f the statute is silent or ambiguous with respect to the specific question, the issue for the court is whether the agency's answer is based on a permissible construction of the statute." Chevron U.S.A. v. NRDC, 467 U.S. 837, 842–843 (1984).
Respondent's Argument
When it was his turn to address the Court, Mark Fleming, the attorney arguing the matter on behalf of the immigrant families, stated:
"The government began at Step 2 of Chevron, but I would submit that this case can and should be resolved at Step 1. The government is asking this Court to read the statute in a highly disfavored way such that it is not harmonious but at war with itself, and nothing in the language requires that..."
"…provision (h)(3) consists of one sentence, and that sentence consists of two parts separated by a comma. Before the comma, the language sets forth one and only one eligibility criterion. After the comma, the language sets forth two things that shall be done if the eligibility criterion is satisfied. Now, importantly, the government does not contend that there is any ambiguity in the language before the comma. Everyone agrees that it contemplates and includes all derivative beneficiaries. There's no dispute about that. And a bedrock rule at the Step 1 inquiry is that the Court reads the statute as a harmonious whole. That goes double when we're talking about a single sentence. So if there is a possible reading of this sentence that is harmonious with the clear opening clause that applies to all derivative beneficiaries under Step 1 of Chevron, that is the reading the Court gives to the statute."
Section 203(h)(3) - RETENTION OF PRIORITY DATE - If the age of an alien is determined under paragraph (1) to be 21 years of age or older for the purposes of subsections (a)(2)(A) and (d), the alien's petition shall automatically be converted to the appropriate category and the alien shall retain the original priority date issued upon receipt of the original petition.
Justices Kennedy and Scalia questioned how "automatic conversion" would operate. Justice Scalia was concerned that respondent's interpretation of the clause would permit an adult son or daughter to immigrate to the U.S. over his or her parent's objections.
Mr. Fleming explained that in the highly unlikely event that the parent did not want his son or daughter to join him in the U.S., he could refuse to sign an affidavit of support and they would not be able to immigrate.
Justice Kagan: "Based on -- another understanding of Chevron is sometimes Congress writes confusing statutes that point in two different directions at once, and then there's a choice. Does the Court make the best of it or does the agency make the best of it? And the agency knows a lot about the subject matter, and especially this agency, and so irrespective of whether Congress meant to delegate something in some very self-conscious way, this is a confusing statute, it's a kind of the muddle. The agency gets to do it."
Mr. Fleming responded that it was clear that (h)(3) applies to all derivative beneficiaries, and that it was very possible for the agency to interpret the words "retention" and "automatic conversion" in a matter which would implement the intent of Congress. Furthermore, "retention" and "automatic conversion" are deemed separate and distinct benefits by the statute. Even if the agency decided that automatic conversion was not possible in selected cases, the son or daughter would still be able to "retain" the priority date of the original F3 or F4 petition.
Justice Scalia: "Well, this is all upside down. I thought it's the agency that we deferred to. If it can be read in the way the agency wants, we affirm the agency's position."
In response to a comment by Justice Scalia that the two benefits, retention and automatic conversion, were conjunctive, not disjunctive, Mr. Fleming revealed that the government had, despite its arguments, been denying automatic conversion, but not retention, to F2A derivative beneficiaries from the date that CSPA was enacted (August 6, 2002) until 6 days before the government submitted its reply brief. This, he said, demonstrated that retention and automatic conversion can, and have been, implemented as separate benefits.
Justice Scalia remained unpersuaded.
Mr. Fleming ended his argument by declaring that even under Step 2 of Chevron, the BIA decision failed to draw a rational line between 2B beneficiaries, treating those with familial relationships with permanent residents more favorably than those with relationships with both U.S. citizens and permanent residents.
Government's Reply
"The Respondents were trying to put far too heavy a burden on the government in the Chevron deference case. So long as the agency has arrived at a reasonable reading of this very complicated statute, the agency is entitled to deference here."
"The government also expresses its concern with the possibility that a derivative beneficiary could "have a priority date somehow in their pocket that they could walk around with and use 20 years later when somebody filed a different petition on their behalf, an employment petition…"
Chief Justice Roberts: "Well, it's not so odd to say they've got a priority date in their pocket when the statute says the original priority date - they'll retain the original priority date."
While it is impossible to predict the final outcome of a case based solely on the oral arguments, I remain cautiously optimistic that the Supreme Court will ultimately agree with both the 5th and the 9th Circuit Courts of Appeals that the statute is unambiguous and that there is no need to defer to the flawed BIA decision in Matter of Wang. A decision may be forthcoming as early as February or March.
As recognized by many of the Justices, the government is arguing for a very restrictive reading of CSPA. Yes, the DOJ instead portrays itself as the defender of those in the F2B line and categorizes our clients as "line-jumpers".
What the DOJ conveniently overlooks is that CSPA created (h)(1) to allow all qualifying derivative beneficiaries who would, in the past, have "aged-out" and lost their place in line to immigrate together with their parents in a particular preference category. Under the government's reasoning, why are they are not "line-jumpers"? Congress simply made a policy decision to give sons and daughters who have waited for years in line for permanent residence together with their parents credit for their wait, and not send them to the back of the line. If is clear that (h)(3) extends this same credit to unmarried sons and daughters of permanent residents.
Could it be that the DOJ simply disagrees with these policy decisions?
If so, they should lobby Congress, not the Supreme Court, to change the law.
Updated 12-20-2013 at 01:45 PM by CShusterman
Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) in 2002, there was wide bipartisan support concerning the need to change the immigration law to prevent the separation of families during the waiting process.
Both the Senate and the House of Representatives passed the legislation unanimously, and it was signed into law by President Bush. One of the flaws in the immigration law that CSPA was designed to remedy was that when children turned 21 years old while waiting with their families for their green cards to be issued, they were no longer able to immigrate to the U.S. with their parents despite that the fact that they had waited in line for many years, even decades.
Congress established a two-step solution to this problem. First, in order to avoid family separation due to administrative delays, the number of days that a visa petition was pending would be subtracted from the childs age. If the resulting age was less that 21, the child could immigrate together with his parents. Second, if after this calculation the childs age was over 21, the child would retain the priority date of the original petition. That is, he would be given credit for the years spent waiting in line. Also, the petition would automatically convert to the appropriate category. In most cases, this would be the family-based 2B category, since the child was now the unmarried adult son or daughter of a permanent resident.
Seems simple enough, but nevertheless, we have been litigating this issue in the federal courts since 2008. The government maintains that the relevant provision is ambiguous and that courts should defer to a very restrictive interpretation of the law promulgated by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) in Matter of Wang in 2009. The BIA held that while the first step of the formula applies to derivative beneficiaries of all family-based and employment-based preference categories, the second step applies only to a tiny subset of family-based beneficiaries. This is a curious interpretation since both subsections of the law clearly apply to the same people. The only difference is that the first step applies to persons whose age, after performing the formula, is under 21 while the second step applies to those whose age is over 21.
The three U.S. Courts of Appeals which have issued precedential decisions regarding this issue all agree the language of the statute is unambiguous and, hence, there is no need to defer the BIAs decision. However, two courts (the Fifth Circuit in Texas and the Ninth Circuit in California) ruled that the statute unambiguously foreclosed the BIAs approach, whereas the other (the Second Circuit in New York) held that the statute unambiguously required it. The Solicitor General sought Supreme Court review, arguing that the laws language is ambiguous and that courts should defer to the BIA.
The language in dispute was first drafted by the Senate. The BIA, in Matter of Wang, curiously omitted any quotes from Senators when discussing the meaning of the disputed sentence. Wouldnt it be helpful if Senators from both parties could speak directly to the Justices of the Supreme Court as to the meaning of the statute that they authored?
On November 4, exactly that occurred. A bipartisan coalition of current and former U.S. Senators former Senator (now Governor) Brownback (R-KS), and Senators Feinstein (D-CA), Hatch (R-UT), McCain (R-AZ), Menendez (D-NJ) and Schumer (D-NY) submitted a legal brief to the Supreme Court. What does the brief say?
The Senators carefully explain Congress reasons for passing the CSPA, and clearly demonstrate the disputed subsection requires that the agency extend its benefits to all derivative beneficiary children.
The following quotes from the brief are helpful in understanding the purpose of the law.
On page 9, the Senators explain that
Only through the broad coverage of all derivative beneficiaries could the CSPA effectively protect family unity and award credit for the years that families had already waited.
The Solicitor Generals argument that the CSPA covers only beneficiaries of F2A petitions directly conflicts with the primary purpose for which the law was enacted. In enacting this legislation, Congress meant to correct the inequities of the pre-CSPA regime in full.
On page 16, the Senators dismiss the Solicitor Generals ambiguity argument in the strongest terms:
The Solicitor Generals Attempt To Manufacture Ambiguity Erodes Congresss Ability To Effect Its Will Through Clear, Unambiguous Draftsmanship.
On page 18, the Senators condemn the executive branchs attempt to rewrite the CSPA:
The Solicitor Generals continuing insistence that the CSPA is ambiguous raises serious institutional concerns. While Congress can and often does rely on agency expertise to fill intentionally placed gaps in statutory language, it does not typically give an agency carte blanche to rewrite statutory language that is clear simply because the agency declares that the statute contains tension. The Solicitor Generals attempt to read ambiguity into a statute simply because the requirements of the statute diverge from preexisting agency procedures undermines the authority of Congress. This Court should reject that attempt and reaffirm the agencys duty to carry out the mandates of a congressional statute.
Finally, on page 19, the Senators conclude that
In the face of such an unambiguous congressional mandate, the existence of alleged tension between the statute and preferred agency procedure is not sufficient to generate ambiguity where none exists. Congress has enacted a law that is clear on its face; the agency must act to faithfully carry it out.
The Senators brief is both forceful and convincing. Families which are impacted by this section of CSPA may wish to read the full brief of the Senators as well as the amicus briefs submitted by the Catholic Legal Immigration Network and by Immigration Advocacy Organizations.
The Solicitor General has until November 27 to submit a reply brief.
Our firm is co-counsel in the case, and the case will be argued in the Supreme Court by Mark Fleming, who specializes in appellate litigation at WilmerHale. The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on December 10, and a decision is expected in early 2014.
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Israeli police arrested a leading local activist over an attack on a gay youth
centre four years ago which left two people dead.
The suspect is said to be a well-known gay rights campaigner, though he has not been named by police. He is reported to have been detained for obstructing the investigation by not sharing information with police.
The arrest, along with those of three other unnamed people, comes just a day before Tel Aviv celebrates its annual gay pride festival.
Two people – Nir Katz, who was 27, and 16 year-old Liz Trubeshi – were killed when a gunman entered the Bar Noar club in August 2009 and began shooting, apparently randomly. The attack, which was initially thought to be a hate crime against the gay community, left dozens wounded.
Liz Trubeshi's father, quoted in the Israeli media, has called for the death penalty in the case. "It is good the suspects were arrested, but I will not be satisfied with a punishment that would allow them to walk free after 10 years in prison. They should be executed. A man who kills someone on purpose should be under the ground just like his victim. The arrest will not bring my daughter back," Eli Trubeshi said.
Nitzan Horowitz, a member of the Israeli Knesset, told the Haaretz newspaper that the arrests in the case were welcome. "The unsolved slaughter at the Bar Noar has cast a heavy shadow for almost four years, not just over the gay community, but over Israeli society as a whole," he said.
"Reactions to the murder by various people revealed the depth of hatred toward the gay community… It must be hoped that the law enforcement system has indeed managed to put its hands on those responsible for this terrible act."
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Last month, the Weeknd and his formerly independent XO collective announced their new partnership with Republic that will be cemented with the November 13 release of Trilogy. That includes all three of his popular mixtapes — House of Balloons,Thursday and Echoes of Silence — mixed and mastered, with the addition of previously unreleased songs.
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