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But some chinks have appeared in Orban's armor, giving hope to his opponents. |
In October he failed - despite a propaganda campaign costing an estimated 32-million euros ($34 million) - to persuade enough voters to validate his referendum on EU refugee quotas. |
Last month a group of young activists called Momentum Movement derailed Budapest's government-backed bid to host the 2024 Olympic Games with a referendum drive. |
Rather than giving in to a ballot, a rattled Orban denounced the "murder of a dream" and swiftly binned the bid. |
Buoyed by their success, Momentum have now set up a party targeting disillusioned "political orphans," the large pool of undecided voters estimated at around 50 percent of the 8.2-million electorate. |
However their rejection of cooperation with any other party does not bode well for a broad anti-Orban front. |
However Orban's setbacks have chipped away at the widespread belief that he is "omnipotent," according to political analyst Peter Kreko. |
"His hold on power has been mainly built on the lack of an alternative, and maintaining a stagnant paralysed opposition. Now at last there are some fresh dynamics." |
The Mayfair Mall in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, is near Milwaukee on the southeastern portion of the state. The mall offers myriad dining, entertainment and shopping options, including Macy’s, a movie theater, and Cheesecake Factory. If you're staying in the area, there are several hotels near the Mayfair Mall. |
Located less than half mile from the Mayfair Mall, the Radisson offers a complimentary shuttle to the airport for its guests. It features 150 guestrooms, restaurant, bar and café. Amenities include a fitness center, free Internet access, indoor swimming pool, hot tub, sauna and business services. |
The Holiday Inn Express Milwaukee-West Medical Center Hotel is located less than a half mile from the Mayfair Mall. It has more than 120 guestrooms and eight suites located on three floors. The hotel offers numerous business services, including conference rooms, high-speed Internet and audio-visual equipment. The hotel... |
Guests visiting the Mayfair Mall will find an Extended Stay Hotel located half a mile away. This affordable hotel has more than 120 guestrooms. It offers Internet and gym access for an additional fee. Parking is included in the cost of the room. Pets are allowed for an additional charge. |
Nearly two miles from the Mayfair Mall is the Crowne Plaza Milwaukee Hotel. It offers concierge services, laundry facilities and complete business services. There is a restaurant on site that offers room service. In addition to the restaurant, the Crowne Plaza has a bar. Guests can also enjoy the indoor pool, hot tub a... |
Gorman, Fitzalan. "Hotels Near Mayfair Mall in WI." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/hotels-near-mayfair-mall-wi-38939.html. Accessed 22 April 2019. |
Isaiah Wright's 59-yard punt return down the left sideline made it 28-0 in the second quarter and extended the Owls' streak of scoring a non-offensive touchdown in all six of their games this season. He caught a 19-yard TD pass for a 35-3 halftime lead. |
Russo's fourth scoring pass was a 31-yarder on a one-handed catch by Randle Jones in the third quarter. |
Hardin ISD is a school district in Hardin, TX. As of the 2017-2018 school year, it had 1,406 students. The school received an accountability rating of C. 46.5% of students were considered at risk of dropping out of school. 2% of students were enrolled in bilingual and English language learning programs. |
An average teacher's salary was $48,266, which is $5,068 less than the state average. On average, teachers had 13.2 years of experience. The average SAT score at Hardin ISD was 947. The average ACT score was 16.8. In the Class of 2017, 98.8% of students received their high school diplomas on time or earlier. |
Students in Hardin ISD are part of the Texas Education Agency’s Region 04. Students who started eighth grade in 2006 in this region had a college graduation rate of 22.2 percent. View a more comprehensive breakdown of the higher ed outcomes in Region 04. |
Advocate Andrea Johnson, a prosecutor with the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), has revealed to a panel of interviewers how former NPA boss Shaun Abrahams refused to heed a warning that he must deal with the “perception” of the NPA and how it works. |
The panel has been tasked with recommending to President Cyril Ramaphosa a new national director of public prosecutions (NDPP) to replace Abrahams. |
Johnson is the sixth candidate to be interviewed for the position. Interviews began on Wednesday and continued on Thursday morning. |
The prosecutor — who has tried high profile cases including those of convicted athlete Oscar Pistorius and corrupt top cop Jackie Selebi — is the deputy director of public prosecutions in Pretoria. She told the panel that while the prosecuting authority had grappled with political interference, she had warned Abrahams ... |
“When he was appointed I was a coordinator at PCLU (priority crimes litigation unit). He was the senior state advocate [in our office] at the time,” she said. |
“He gets appointed, he moves out of our office obviously, and at a stage when I was able to, I asked for a meeting with him. I remember sitting across from him and telling him: ‘I want you to please remember in your chair that perception is half the battle. Do not allow perception about the NPA and how we function to c... |
“He chose not to listen,” she recalled. |
Johnson told the story as she was grilled on political interference in the authority during her tenure as a prosecutor. She was asked why only Selebi was prosecuted, while others were allowed to walk free. She responded to the panel, saying Menzi Simelane — the former NDPP and director general in the department of just... |
“We had a president at the time who did not want us to proceed with that prosecution,” she said. |
However, Johnson told the panel that while there were concerns over the instability at the authority, the next NDPP would do better than his or her predecessors. |
“If I am appointed the national director, who the president is — and I say this respectfully — will not deter from the work I have to do. It will not deter from what the people in the NPA will be requested to do. That is the difference,” she said. |
The AJ understands the Slovakian-based property company has also shortlisted WilkinsonEyre and AHMM for the huge job and is also talking to David Chipperfield Architects – the practice behind a headline-grabbing 29-storey tower scheme for the site, which was approved in 2014. |
HB Reavis bought the plot, and the 1965 building currently sitting on it, for around £85 million from London & Regional and Chelsfield earlier this year. |
Although the developer refused to comment on the rumoured shortlist in the running to become the new ’design partner’ on the project, HB Reavis confirmed it was looking to work with a ‘world-class’ practice to reassess ‘the current consent’. A statement issued by the company also hints that it could yet proceed with th... |
A spokesperson said: ‘We are excited to be the owners of the Elizabeth House site – our fourth and largest major investment into London to date. Having only recently finalised the purchase we will take some time to properly assess the current consent and will be appointing a design partner to support this process. We a... |
Chipperfield first landed the project in 2010, when the practice was selected ahead of competition from Grimshaw and Hopkins. The firm subsequently submitted plans for two new buildings, one part 29-storey and part 14-storey, and another of 11 storeys. |
The contentious scheme, which proposes 132,000m² of new space, including 142 homes and a range of office and retail space, was eventually approved by Lambeth council in 2014. |
Earlier that year English Heritage and Westminster City Council failed in a High Court bid to stop the scheme. Although judge Justice Collins refused the legal challenge, he urged Lambeth to reconsider the scheme’s impact on the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey. |
In the same year, House of Commons speaker Betty Boothroyd accused the government of failing to protect the heritage of the Palace of Westminster by not calling the scheme in. |
The Chipperfield project is the latest in a series of proposals for the south London plot, including Allies and Morrison’s failed Three Sisters scheme, which was rejected by the government in 2009. |
The High Court has thrown out a legal challenge against David Chipperfield Architects’ proposed Elizabeth House scheme near Waterloo station, London. |
Lambeth Council’s decision to grant planning approval for David Chipperfield’s Elizabeth House has been slammed by the leader of English Heritage. |
The perspective of image 1/3 might be giving a slightly false impression of the overbearing mass - and grim blandness - of the Chipperfield final design that eventually gained planning approval, but the architectural talent of our times can surely produce far better than this. |
MISSOULA (AP) – A coroner’s inquest began Monday in the case of a Missoula police officer who shot a man to death after a chase through the city early on New Year’s Eve. |
The Missoula County sheriff’s office investigated the shooting and found that Officer Paul Kelly shot 20-year-old Kaileb Cole Williams in the head as Williams was strangling his girlfriend in the car. |
The sheriff’s office said police responded to a 911 call from Williams’ mother who said he had assaulted her and drove away with his girlfriend. |
Jurors heard testimony from officers involved, Williams’ girlfriend and saw video of the negotiation between officers and Williams before a single shot was fired. |
Williams’ girlfriend, Rita Daniel, testified that she did not believe the officer should be charged with a crime. |
Brookline's annual Town Meeting kicked off with a flurry of tree-related puns and the always-anticipated Town Meeting cookie selection before Town Meeting members dove into a lengthy review of the budget. |
During the first night of Town Meeting on May 22, members made their way through the first seven of 37 warrant articles before wrapping up for the night. |
Complete with a passionate debate on the Cypress Field renovation, a review of the $291,669,854 budget for fiscal year 2019 passed with 178 votes in favor and one against. |
Included in the budget was a series of special appropriations ranging from park projects to furniture upgrades. A $200,000 appropriation for a comprehensive study of Brookline’s zoning bylaws drew some questions from Town Meeting members. Planning and Community Development Director Alison Steinfeld assured Town Meeting... |
“Bottom line is, we need a readable, usable document,” she said. |
Transportation through town also got a nod in the budget with proposed funding of a South Brookline bus to the high school, $176,775 for bicycle access improvements and a little over $3.1 million for street rehabilitation. |
The heat picked up once Town Meeting reached the proposal to appropriate funds for the design of renovations at Cypress Playground and the athletic field. The project has been a source of heated debate among residents over installing artificial turf at the field. |
According to Parks and Recreation Commission member Nancy O'Connor, almost 2,000 people weighed in during scoping sessions on the project. |
"The opinions were truly split down the middle,” she said. |
One of the oldest parks in Brookline, the field is on the town’s books for renovation as part of the upcoming capital improvement plan, with the renovation set to be coordinated with the high school expansion and renovation. |
Those in favor of synthetic turf have argued that years of overuse and compaction have damaged the grass, causing the field to close more frequently due to weather and thus causing high school teams like the soccer team to miss games, as the TAB reported in December. |
“There comes a time when you are dealing with a park that gets heavy usage, grass it doesn’t hold up and it costs the town money,” said Precinct 5 Town Meeting member Phyllis O’Leary. |
After seeing the improvements at Harry Downes Field once the town installed artificial turf, O’Leary said she supports the installation of Astroturf. |
Arguing against synthetic turf, residents in the Cypress Field neighborhood have stressed that the field serves the neighborhood in many ways beyond athletics, as a destination for families, picnickers, those walking dogs and others. Those in support of grass argued that installing synthetic turf would eliminate those ... |
“We need to do a better job of balancing between the needs of athletic teams and the many diverse neighborhoods that enjoy this park,” said Precinct 6 Town Meeting member Brian Hochleutner. |
Ahead of Town Meeting, Hochleutner filed an amendment to prevent the town from spending funds to install synthetic turf at Cypress Field as part of the renovation. Following the hour-long debate, Town Meeting voted in support of Hochleutner’s amendment. |
As Town Meeting worked its way through the rest of the budget, questions shifted to diversity in town positions. |
Brookline Public Schools Superintendent Andrew Bott told Town Meeting members that the school district plans to hire an equity director who would focus on diversity and equity in Brookline’s schools. The position, Bott said, would have responsibilities similar to Lloyd Gellineau, the chief diversity officer for the tow... |
Looking beyond town jobs, Precinct 9 Town Meeting member Raul Fernandez ask what the town was doing to promote diversity among elected and appointed positions. |
Jewellery stocks — Titan, PC Jeweller and Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri (TBZ) — surged three to six per cent intra-day on Thursday before closing with gains of 0.5 per cent to three per cent. The rally was fuelled by the Reserve Bank’s announcement that banks could give gold on loan to jewellers. RBI also removed restrict... |
These moves follow removal of the 80:20 scheme (requiring jewellers to export 20 per cent of the gold they imported) in November 2014. These curbs were introduced in August 2013 to keep gold imports in check, which in turn was targeted to support the rupee and to address the current account deficit. |
Wednesday’s announcements will favourably impact jewellery companies' profitability, as their funding costs will come down, along with the need to pay cash upfront. However, the gains will vary, depending on the amount of current contribution from this scheme for each company. |
Stocks gave up the initial gains as a lot of these positives were already factored in. For instance, the gold-on-lease scheme was approved two to three quarters earlier, though it did not take off on-ground, due to lack of clarity among Customs authorities. The Titan management had complained about this to RBI. The new... |
With return of gold-on-loan, companies that earlier incurred interest costs of as much as 10 per cent on the amount invested in funding gold purchases for doing business will have to pay 4-4.5 per cent to banks for taking it on loan. This will enhance the return on capital employed (RoCE) of jewellery companies, believ... |
The curbs had impacted companies significantly leading to higher interest costs and lower return ratios. From almost zero in FY13, Titan’s debt grew to Rs 806 crore in FY14, that of PC Jeweller grew four times to Rs 1,004 crore and TBZ’s grew 35.5 per cent to Rs 568 crore. As a result, Titan's interest cost grew 72 per... |
Consequently, Titan, PC Jeweller and TBZ’s RoCE had compressed by a whopping 2,220 basis points (bps), 760 bps and 460 bps, respectively, to 14.9 per cent, 26.7 per cent and 37.2 per cent in FY14. In FY15, too, analysts expect these companies to witness RoCE contraction of another 200-400 bps. However, FY16 will see ex... |
Operationally, the premium on gold in the domestic market could come down, making gold sourcing cheaper. With less restrictions, companies will also be able to increase the pace of expansion. |
On the flip side, the demand for gold (including coins, etc) as an investment might not see a surge, given the weak gold prices in the past two years, falling inflation and better returns in other assets such as equities and debt. |
In this backdrop, most analysts remain positive on jewellery companies but prefer Titan in this space, given its strong brand positioning and larger size. |
The renowned pizza chain, already with a location in Chestnut Hill, is expanding its Boston area presence. |
And the Munch Madness winner is . . . |
Beloved Boston bakery Flour takes the cake over Sarma to clinch Munch Madness 2019. |
Where should you eat this week? |
Check out the Globe’s reviews of dozens of Boston-area restaurants. |
There are dishes you can order for under $20 at eateries. |
Her new book “Cooking with Scraps: Turn Your Peels, Rinds, and Stems into Delicious Meals,” revives the notion that stale bread, outdated produce, and cheese rinds are hidden treasures that should be put to use, not sent to the disposal or compost bin. |
The new corner store in the Treadmark building in Dorchester’s Ashmont section was slated to open two years ago, when a fire tore through the building during construction. |
It’s a robust and tart marmalade made from slowly simmered fresh lemons and threads of saffron. |
If you often cook a sole egg or an omelet for yourself, or are warming up a small amount, a mini GreenPan will be most useful. |
At last week’s BugFeast, guests weren’t just curious, they were hungry, swarming around trays full of food. But what will it take to get even more Americans to embrace this eco-friendly, healthy way to feed a rapidly growing world? |
The food and cultural center is scheduled to open in the coming months at the former Landmark Center on Park Drive. |
Cocktail extravaganza Thirst Boston takes place April 26-28, with seminars, parties, and, yes, plenty of imbibing at venues throughout the city. |
Restaurant news you can use. |
This is the larger, restaurant version of the popular Everett brewery, with table service, an efficient menu, comfy banquettes, and a coffee bar. Soon, there will be outdoor seating. |
Oven-poached salmon, and two fancy sides to impress your guests. |
At the annual Kapalua Wine and Food Festival, we find a love of all things local, a burgeoning movement to support and form alliances with small, artisan farmers, and a nod to ethnicity and home-style cooking. |
Though time-consuming, if you like to bake, homemade ricotta pie is worth the effort and the results are impressive. You can make the filling and the dough a day ahead. |
In this easy method, risotto for the Easter table is stirred briefly, then transferred to the oven to finish cooking, which does the work of constant stirring. |
Similar to a coffee rub, tea mixed with Meyer lemon zest toasts and forms a flavorful, crunchy crust that sticks to the lamb even after you snip off the strings. |
Bob’s version of the Italian sub belongs in my pantheon of meat marvels. |
The James Beard award nominee’s West Side establishment is mature, focused, and intimate. |
A microwave oven makes quick work of melting chocolate for decorating macaroons. |
Use a microplane-style grater to get the finest, fluffiest shreds of orange rind to add to the batter. |
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