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“I’m rolling empanadas as we speak,” Ari Schor tells me during his morning prep at Beba, the exceedingly popular Montreal restaurant he and his brother Pablo founded in 2019. The affable chef and co-owner laughs while he multitasks, interrupting our chat to receive an order of caviar from one of his suppliers. 

That relaxed, homey connection translates into the Beba experience, when guests fill the intimate, 28-seat dining room to enjoy Schor’s cooking. Inspired by his Argentinian homeland, his Jewish roots and his past experience as chef de cuisine at one of Montreal’s top French restaurants, Liverpool House, Beba is one of the city’s hottest eateries.

“When people walk into Beba, I want it to feel very warm. I want it to feel inviting,” Schor says. “The spirit is the same, no matter if people are coming in for a few plates or to make a night of it.”

Whether serving the empanadas his father taught him how to make (Schor attributes them to keeping the business going during the lockdown, along with their “Schor-dash” in-house delivery) or his upscale knishes with dollops of caviar, the roots of Schor’s innate hospitality come down to one thing: Shabbat dinners. 

Schor and his parents, along with his brother and co-owner Pablo, immigrated from Ushuaia, Argentina, the southernmost city in the world, to Winnipeg, Canada in 1997 as part of a recruitment program from the local Jewish Federation. (Ari had his bar mitzvah in Winnipeg a few months after arriving.) In Winnipeg, Shabbat dinners took on extra significance, as they’d never lived in a city with extended family before: aunts, uncles and cousins who had already settled in Winnipeg gathered around the table weekly, and it mattered. 

The traditional dishes the family enjoyed at those meals were shaped by many influences: the Syrian traditions of Schor’s maternal side, his father’s Ashkenazi roots and the Spanish and Italian influences of Argentinian cuisine, a byproduct of the immigration that underpins his life experience. 

“One of the first things we made at Beba was my family’s brisket,” Ari says. “But it’s not your traditional one, with onions; it’s braised in tomato sauce, with potato gnocchi on the side.” 

Schor’s dishes manifest the complex roots of his background and culinary interests, always underpinned by the open-armed welcome he learned at home. “We didn’t always have family close to us, but every time we’d visit our relatives in Buenos Aires, it was a big deal,” Schor says. “You have that host mentality worked into you from a young age, helping your mom set the table, and all the food that comes with it. It always feels like a special occasion, even if it’s just family coming over.”

Both boys eventually left Winnipeg to pursue their love of food and hospitality in some of Canada’s top restaurants in Montreal and Vancouver: Ari in the kitchen and Pablo front- of-house, honing his wine knowledge and mastering a range of innovative cocktails. When the brothers decided to move forward on the passion project of having their own restaurant, naming it after their elderly paternal grandmother, their Beba, was a shoo-in. (She still offers advice about Ari’s flan, one of Beba’s most popular desserts — though it’s his own recipe.)

“Our Jewish heritage seeps into the food, but it’s not necessarily ever going to be traditional,” Schor says. To wit, his artful Potato Knishes with Queen Kaluga caviar are but one example of the chef’s inspiration, playfulness and creativity. 

“Much is said about ‘elevating’ peasant dishes. This ain’t it. This is our culture. This is tradition,” he writes in an Instagram post dedicated to the story of Beba’s knish, a schmaltzy stretchy dough wrapped around unpeeled smashed potatoes and caramelized onions. They’re currently part of a five-course tasting menu on offer; Beba’s menu is dedicated to seasonality and changes on a frequent basis. Also on the menu is Iwashi Montadito — fatty, pristine Japanese sardines marinated in salt and vinegar are placed on a bed of butter, horseradish (instead of chrain) and chives atop a homemade sesame toast (mimicking a bagel) — a dish that nods to both Jewish and Spanish food. “Those sardines are only a few degrees of separation from schmaltz herring, but we’ve done it our way,” Schor says. 

Doing it their way, with a generosity of spirit, is a winning formula for Beba. “It’s more than just the food that makes a place Jewish; it’s leading by example for our team,” Schor says. “It’s our level of warmth, combined with professionalism, that make Beba unique. Both have to be there, and you can’t have one without the other.” 

Schor’s knish Instagram post says one more thing: “It tastes like home.” He’s right about that. 

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The best and worst places in the UK for a night out have been revealed – and we did not expect some of the results. Read on to find out where your university city ranks!

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Let's face it: the quality of a night out depends pretty heavily on where you are.

If your local nightlife options are mostly packed bars and clubs with eye-watering prices (*cough* London), it's not easy to properly enjoy the night – but if drinks are cheap, the music's pumping and the atmosphere's buzzing, then you've got yourself a night out to remember(ish).

New research has revealed the best university towns and cities for nights out, and the top 10 places in the UK have been revealed. Drum roll please...

You can make homemade pizzas for just £1.50 with our super easy recipe – this is ideal if you're looking for a quick meal to make at pre-drinks.

How the rankings for university nightlife were decided

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A lot of towns and cities in the UK boast some pretty great nightlife, so narrowing it down wouldn't have been easy – but these rankings, compiled by I Saw it First, focused on what students might look for, like how many pubs, bars and clubs there are in each area, and the cost of a night out there.

The rankings were worked out based on a number of factors, then calculated together to find overall winners. These factors were:

Nightlife options

Price of a pint

Cost of a taxi

Safety index

Number of takeaways (a very important one – and even better with free Deliveroo delivery).

Nightlife is one thing, but how does your uni rank for sustainability? Check out the league table of the most eco-friendly universities.

Best towns and cities by category

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Based on the factors used to measure places in this study, some university towns and cities have been revealed as being the best in particular areas, such as the price of drinks and safety.

For the number of nightlife options, London is crowned as the winner with 1,326(!) places to go on a night out.

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The cheapest pint prices are in Bolton and Lancaster at £2.50 (London might have more nightlife options, but its pints are recorded as costing twice that much).

The basic cost of a taxi is cheapest in Derby, but over 1km you'll find the lowest prices in Belfast.

St Andrews (where Prince William and Kate Middleton studied, no less) is said to be the safest student city.

And, for the most amount of takeaways, it's Birmingham!

Find out how one foody student recreates takeaways for only £2.

Top 10 uni towns and cities for nightlife

Rank Town/city 1 Huddersfield 2 Derby 3 Chester 4 Liverpool 5 Sheffield 6 Newcastle 7 Leeds 8 Stoke-on-Trent 9 Preston 10 Middlesbrough

Northern towns and cities in England are clear winners for nightlife in this study.

At number one is Yorkshire's Huddersfield, where a pint can cost you £3.05 and you have a pretty incredible 163 takeaways to choose from.

Is your uni town or city on there? We hate to break it to you, but it may have made it on to the list of 10 worst places for nightlife.

10 worst uni towns and cities for nightlife

Rank Town/city 52 Northampton 53 Portsmouth 54 Worcester 55 Cheltenham 56 Guildford 57 Gloucester 58 Dundee 59 London 60 Luton 61 Oxford

Having already seen the ones coming in proudly at the top of the rankings, these towns and cities didn't do quite so well...

These rankings aren't completely comprehensive, as 16 places were omitted from the study due to lack of data. But, out of the 61 places on I Saw it First's list, there are still some pretty interesting towns and cities coming in at the bottom 10 for nightlife.

Oxford may be very good for academia, but for nightlife? It's number 61 out of 61. Sorry, Oxford.

Have you tried these 11 easy cocktails to make at home? The list includes a Fluffy Duck and, for the name alone, we're sold.

As great as nights out are, we all love a night in with pals now and then. With our guide, you can host a stand-out dinner party on a budget.

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World’s First Custom-Built Cruise Ship For Alaska Successfully Delivered To NCL

Norwegian Cruise Line took delivery of the 168,028-gross-ton Norwegian Bliss, from Meyer Werft during a ceremony in Bremerhaven, Germany, marking the conclusion of an 18-month building period. In attendance were executives from Norwegian Cruise Line, including Andy Stuart, president and chief executive officer, Harry Sommer, executive vice president of international business development, Robin Lindsay, executive vice president of vessel operations for the 16-ship fleet, representatives from Meyer Werft including Bernard and Tim Meyer, managing partners of the German-based shipyard, and the ship’s captain and hotel director. Before cruising to Southampton, England to begin her transatlantic journey on April 21, Norwegian Bliss will showcase all she has to offer to her first guests during a two-day European inaugural preview cruise hosted by Andy Stuart and Harry Sommer.

Upon her arrival to the U.S. on May 3, the festivities for her U.S inaugural tour will commence with two-night preview events in New York, Miami, and Los Angeles, and will conclude with a grand christening ceremony and sailing from her first homeport at Pier 66 in Seattle, Washington on May 30. Following a three-day inaugural voyage with a call into the port of Victoria, British Columbia, she will return on June 2 and will then embark on her first seven-day voyage to Alaska.

“Norwegian Bliss is one of our most highly-anticipated ships to date, and today marks another exciting milestone for the newest and most innovative ship of our young and modern fleet,” said Andy Stuart, president and chief executive officer of Norwegian Cruise Line. “The Meyer Werft team, along with our operations teams, ship officers and crew members, has done an incredible job bringing Norwegian Bliss to life and we cannot wait for guests to experience all she has to offer.”

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“We’re happy to deliver another ship to Norwegian Cruise Line,” said Bernard Meyer, managing partner of Meyer Werft. “We are extremely proud of our partnership of over 15 years and are confident that the first ship custom-built for cruising to Alaska will exceed the expectations of their guests.”

Norwegian Bliss, the third ship in the line’s Breakaway Plus class, the most successful class in the company’s history, is the first cruise ship specifically designed with features and amenities for the ultimate Alaska cruising experience. On board, guests will be able to experience their favorite amenities by Norwegian Cruise Line, plus some new first-at-sea offerings. Norwegian Bliss will thrill and excite guests with the largest competitive race track at sea, a first for any North America-based cruise ship. The two-level electric-car race track sits at the top of deck 19, offering guests amazing views while twisting and turning at a speed of up to 30 miles per hour. After a thrilling ride, guests can then test their agility at the open-air laser tag course, or race side-by-side on the Aqua Racer waterslide at the expansive Aqua Park, with two multi-story waterslides, one of which extends over the edge of the ship and loops down to the deck below.

Aboard Norwegian Bliss, culinary enthusiasts can savor new exclusive specialty dining and bar concepts such as the debuting Texas smokehouse – Q, the cruise line’s first full-service Starbucks® store at sea, and Coco’s – a chocolate and sweet treats shop. At The District Brew House, guests can enjoy a variety of craft cocktails and beers, including local Seattle favorites from Red Hook Brewery.

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Continuing with Norwegian’s commitment to offering incredible entertainment across the fleet, Norwegian Bliss features new programming that includes the Tony Award®-winning Broadway musical, Jersey Boys, and ¡HAVANA! – an original musical theater show created and produced specifically for Norwegian Bliss. The creative group behind ¡HAVANA! include Tony Award®-winning director and choreographer Warren Carlyle, Cuban-American design duo Isabel and Ruben Toledo and features original songs by Cuban-American, Grammy-winning singer – Albita. Norwegian Bliss also features a new theatrical cocktail hour experience, Happy Hour Prohibition – The Musical that will transport guests to a New Orleans speakeasy on the eve of the Prohibition era. At The Cavern Club, guests can enjoy their favorite songs from The Beatles live with a talented cover band, in a setting inspired by the Liverpool Club where The Beatles famously performed countless times.

Guests on Norwegian Bliss can relax with a variety of accommodations including luxurious suites in The Haven by Norwegian®, studio staterooms for solo travelers with virtual ocean views, and plenty of connecting staterooms ideal for large groups and families. Two expansive observation lounges, one exclusively accessible for Haven guests, will offer cruisers uninterrupted views of the natural beauty of the sea and shore throughout their journeys.

Beginning June 2018, Norwegian Bliss will spend her summer cruising seven-day voyages to Alaska, and fall season cruising to the Mexican Riviera from Los Angeles. In winter of 2018, she will sail the Caribbean from Miami, and in the 2019 fall/winter season she will cruise from New York City to Florida, the Bahamas and Caribbean.

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John Lewis has come up with a unique way of allowing shoppers to try before they buy – by allowing them to spend a night living in the department store! The much-loved British retailer is opening up an apartment called The Residence in its London Oxford Street, Cambridge and Liverpool stores, so customers can test out products in a realistic atmosphere. The Residence at John Lewis will be the UK's first ever fully furnished in-store apartment, and will include a bedroom plus living and dining area decorated with the most-covetable new autumn products. There is also a fitted kitchen, study and indoor terrace at the Oxford Street store branch, offering views over Cavendish Square. Customers can apply for an overnight stay where they'll have private access to the apartment from 6.30pm to 9am the next day. The lucky shoppers will have 60 minutes of after-hours private shopping time with access to the whole department store, and a concierge on hand to ensure guests are comfortable and have their favourite Waitrose snacks at hand. Then, in the morning, they will have a delivery of a fresh Waitrose breakfast basket and newspapers, for the perfect wake-up before the store opens. Shoppers also have the chance to apply for private dining experiences at each of the stores. Once a week a customer will be able to host a dinner party for up to ten friends at the Oxford Street store, cooked by a private chef and served with cocktails made by their own mixologist. Or if you're in Cambridge or Liverpool, shoppers can apply to host their own private brunches. Every Saturday up to six guests can enjoy a two hour brunch that includes mimosas and your preferred table setting from the John Lewis collection. If this sounds like your dream come true, you'll have to get in quick as The Residence is open for one month only – from 16 September to 18 October. To apply for the chance to stay, visit the concierge team at the Oxford Street, Cambridge or Liverpool stores this weekend or next – 16-17 or 23-24 September. Customers will be selected at random at the end of each weekend to either sleepover or eat at the apartment.

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Opening Statement of Chairman Rob Portman

U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

Stopping the Shipment of Synthetic Opioids: Oversight of U.S. Strategy to Combat Illicit Drugs

May 25, 2017

(Remarks as Prepared)

** You can watch his opening statement here. **

I’ve called this hearing to address a crisis in our communities. And it’s getting worse, not better.  Our country is gripped by an opioid epidemic. 

It’s a crisis that doesn’t discriminate and can be found in every corner of my state.  Earlier this month, Police Officer Chris Green in East Liverpool, Ohio suffered a fentanyl overdose during a drug bust.  Even though the officer took the necessary precaution of wearing a mask and gloves during the bust, he still ended up with a small amount of powder on his shirt.

Like we all would, he brushed the powder off with his bare hand.  An hour later, he was rushed to the hospital after passing out from an overdose.  Officer Green was given one dose of Narcan on the scene, which is a drug used to reverse the effects of opioid overdose.  But Officer Green needed three more doses of Narcan at the hospital to revive him.

Fentanyl is a powerful drug that is killing Americans and putting our first responders at risk.  It is 30-50 times more powerful than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine. A lethal dose of fentanyl can be as little as two milligrams.  The number of Americans overdosing on fentanyl and its analogues has increased dramatically over the past few years.

In Cuyahoga County, Ohio alone, fentanyl was responsible for 394 overdose deaths in 2016 (out of a total of 608 drug overdoses).  And this year is worse.  Dr. Thomas Gilson, the Cuyahoga Medical Examiner we will hear from this morning, is projecting 581 fentanyl-related deaths out of 850 total fatal drug overdoses this year.  Many of these deaths are due to mixing fentanyl with Heroin and other drugs, leaving the user with no idea what they are taking.

An example of this is a new opioid cocktail referred to as “gray death.”  According to reports, gray death includes a mixture of heroin, fentanyl, carfentanil (an elephant tranquilizer), and U-4770, another highly potent synthetic opioid.  Heroin is the weakest drug in that entire mix.  This opioid cocktail is available on the street for $10 to $20.  Even though these drugs are selling for cheap, fentanyl has a high profit margin, making it appealing to the criminal drug dealer.

The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) estimates a kilogram of fentanyl can be purchased from a Chinese supplier for a few thousand dollars.  A kilogram of fentanyl could be used to make hundreds of thousands of pills with profits in the millions.  Bottom line, we need to stop the flow of illicit fentanyl.

According to U.S. law enforcement and drug investigators, China is the primary source of deadly fentanyl in the United States.  While fentanyl is smuggled into the United States from Mexico and Canada, it is primarily being shipped here, directly from factories in China.  It appears most of the fentanyl produced there is intended for export to our communities.  And there appear to be a number of Chinese-based websites ready to ship.

A google search for “fentanyl for sale” produces a number of websites where the drug – and many others – appear to be readily available.  On one website, you could purchase a gram of fentanyl for $250, but advertised “the more you buy, the less you pay” offering discounts for larger volumes.  To ease any concern about whether the purchaser would receive his order, the website guaranteed discreet shipment “with undetectable and careful packaging.”  While shipment was available to any number of countries, the website knew its audience and offered express delivery to the United States.

Many of these websites are so sure you will receive your shipment you are guaranteed another if the original is seized by law enforcement.  Several websites we reviewed made clear they exclusively used Express Mail Service or “EMS” as their courier.  EMS is the international postal service offered by members of the Universal Postal Union or UPU.  Packages delivered through EMS are passed to the United States Postal Service when they enter the United States.

We need to find out what we are doing to stop these drugs from exploiting our own streams of mail into our country.  Following 9/11, Congress identified weaknesses in international shipping standards as a significant problem, and made clear that requiring advanced electronic data would make our country safer.  But when Congress first legislated on this issue, it did so in a way that left a gaping loophole.

The Trade Act of 2002 mandated that commercial carriers provide advanced electronic information that could be used to identify certain packages being shipped into the United States.  In that 2002 legislation, Congress left an open question to the Secretary of Homeland Security and Postmaster General to decide if the Postal Service should be subject to the same requirement.  To date, no determination has been made, and our country is less safe as a result.

As such, the difference between the information that private commercial carriers are required to provide is very different from the Postal Service, but both serve the same function:  delivering packages.  At the same time, the Postal Service handles a much higher volume of international packages than the commercial carriers combined.

Prior to any shipment arriving in the United States, commercial carriers are required to electronically provide advanced data to CBP with basic information about the shipment, including:

the shipper’s name and address;

consignee’s name and address;

a description of the contents;

piece count; weight;

and value of the contents.

This information is transmitted to CBP and 47 other federal agencies at the National Targeting Center.  Based on this information, CBP targets suspect shipments for additional scrutiny and selects the packages it wants to inspect when they arrive in the United States.  Commercial carriers are also charged $1 per package by CBP which most commercial carriers pass on to the shipper.  None of this applies to the Postal Service.

All international packages shipped through the Postal Service are routed through five international service centers, with the New York center at JFK airport receiving overwhelmingly more packages than any other.  How the packages are processed is completely different at each center.  For the most part, CBP is tasked with identifying packages or shipments it wants to inspect and the Postal Service locates those packages or shipments and presents them to CBP. 

However, it isn’t that easy.  Due to the large volume of packages handled by USPS, the Postal Service is left to manually sort through large shipments trying to identify what CBP is looking for.  All internationally shipped packages are already required by the Universal Postal Union to have certain information attached to them including the: 

sender;

recipient;

a detailed description of the contents;

weight;

and value.

The problem is the information is not electronic or transmitted in advance, rendering it essentially useless.  The UPU has indicated it will require member countries to place a barcode on every package starting in 2018.  However, the shipper will not be required to load any electronic information on that barcode until 2020.  Realistically, the target date to implement this requirement is closer to 2022, but there’s no guarantee it will even happen by then.

For 15 years, the Postal Service has been on notice of the need to collect advanced electronic information about its packages.  We can’t wait any longer; Americans are dying every day from these poisonous drugs that are flowing into our country right now.  We have to stop it.

The Postal Service is trying to use electronic information at one of its International Service Centers to help CBP identify packages.  In that pilot program, the Postal Service is providing advanced electronic data to CBP for packages that weigh less than 4.4 pounds (or “ePackets”).  Once the Postal Service shares the information, CBP uses that information to identify the packages it wants to inspect.  The Postal Service then locates and presents those selected packages for inspection.

While this is a step in the right direction – after nearly 15 years of inaction – the results to date are lacking.  In December 2016, the Inspector General found:

the Postal Service failed to present all of the packages CBP selected for inspection; and

a substantial number of ePackets lacked any advance electronic data associated with it.

I understand the Postal Service has taken steps to remedy the issues of presenting packages to CBP for inspection and I look forward to hearing the details today.  But without advanced electronic data, we’ll continue to miss a significant portion of the packages.  Further, this pilot program is only happening at one location.  At the other four centers the Postal Service is stuck sifting through millions of packages trying to find a needle in a haystack.  We can’t continue like this.  We need more advanced electronic data, and we need it now.

I’ve been working in a bipartisan way to solve this problem.  Which is why I introduced legislation, the STOP Act, aimed to improve the advanced information that the Postal Service for international mail.   We’ve now got 16 cosponsors in the Senate, eight Democrats and eight Republicans.  In the House, Congressman Pat Tiberi of Ohio and Richard Neal of Massachusetts, Republican and Democrat, have introduced companion legislation and they now have 128 cosponsors.  But my larger focus today is getting input from this panel of witnesses so we have a clear understanding from all of the key stakeholders as we move forward.

I look forward to hearing from our witnesses today.

  from Rob Portman http://www.portman.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ContentRecord_id=D82EAF4D-1199-4D50-A929-F6A9148B45AA