National Geographic recently collected six places where you can unexpectedly meet tastes of each corner of the world. Welovebudapest.com reports that Europe is represented by Budapest in the article from three aspects. It seems like they were captivated by our food scene

The article recommends gastronomic adventures in different places by three aspects: they list the best neighbourhoods for food frenzy, getting fancy and DIY-s.

Regarding the best neighbourhood for food frenzy, they suggest that – especially if you only have a few days to spend in the capital – one should definitely spend it in the 7th district. There’s no reason to wander anywhere else since there are plenty of restaurants specialised for international cuisine in the Jewish Quarter. Furthermore, after your abundant meal, you can finish the gastro experience in a buoyant pub.

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Karaván is a paradise for food lovers with its yard full of street food trucks and delicacies. “Don’t leave without trying lángos, that is fried flatbread, usually topped with grated cheese and sour cream.” The writer also recommends visiting the New York Café, one of the world’s most beautiful coffeehouses. “The food holds its own against the ornate interior (think marble, gold leaf, and red velvet).” Naturally, the leading ruin pub, Szimpla Kert can’t be missing from the list. “This unique spot is one of Budapest’s “ruin pubs,” eateries housed in old and derelict buildings.”

Szimpla

Next up is the best neighbourhood to get fancy. The Castle District is one of the oldest parts of Budapest, where you can find amazing restaurants along the cobbled streets and cosy buildings. The writer highlights Alabárdos, founded in 1964, which is a perfect spot to try authentic Hungarian meals. “Ask for the secret chef’s-choice menu.” And if you’re a fan of caviar, then you should visit Arany Kaviár, an opulent restaurant specialised in Russian food.

Arany Kaviár

Lastly, when it comes to the best neighbourhood for Do It Yourself, Budapest markets and especially the Great Market Hall is recommended. The endless stands offer a wide variety of ingredients. “Make a pilgrimage here for local meats, cheeses, and produce, as well as spices (smoked paprika is a must), pastries, and souvenirs.”

Great Market Hall

Well, we couldn’t agree more: Budapest is a unique gastro destination which dazzles tourists with peculiar flavours.

Photos: www.facebook.com/AranyKaviárÉtterem, SzimplaKert, KardosIldikóPhotography

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Source: nationalgeographic.com.au / dailynewshungary.com

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Budapest, January 13 (MTI) – Further clashes with Brussels are expected this year on issues concerning migration and economic management, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview to public radio on Friday. Hungarians should have access to information about all public personalities and their sources of financing, he said.

“We’ll have to defend the country’s sovereignty,” the prime minister said.

Attempts by Brussels to curb national competencies on migration issues should be stopped, Orbán said.

Hungary has reinstated the detention of asylum seekers, a step which clearly conflicts with EU policy but necessary due to heightened terror threat in Europe, he said. Laws that make terrorism easier to carry out should be changed for reasons of self defense, he added.

Of the second “battle”, Orbán said Brussels was increasingly interfering in economic management. Citing matters such as energy prices, taxes and wages, he insisted this tendency must be stopped.

Orbán highlighted measures to cut household utility fees, saying the scheme must be protected in light of EU plans to harmonise energy fees, thereby taking price-setting out of the hands of national governments. This would put an end to Hungary’s centralised measures to cut utility fees, he warned.

Orbán dubbed 2017 the “year of revolt”. EU member states will openly and unrelentingly oppose EU policies which “covertly or overtly” deprive them of their competencies, Orbán said. French presidential candidate Francois Fillon’s programme is “revolutionary” and opposed to EU immigration policies, among others, Orbán said.

This year will bring serious strain between policies aiming to protect national policymaking and the EU tendency to curb it, he said.

“Western reasoning is defined by frustration,” Orbán added. The West has been used to setting norms for eastern European countries in terms of modernising and democracy. “And now, they are failing: their indices are bad and ours are good because we do not do things their way. They do not want to admit our way works better”, he said. Instead of facing reality, western countries “keep on playing the same old record”, he added.

Commenting on Visegrad Four cooperation, he said that during the Hungarian presidency starting in July he would attempt to further deepen cooperation within the group. Referring to Hungarian-Polish relations, he said “solidarity is working well”, citing Hungary’s stand in the European Union on the issue of coal mining in Poland’s favour and Warsaw’s backing for Hungary in efforts to have the VAT on internet services reduced to 5 percent.

Orbán said government economic policies were bearing fruit and “a change is slowly happening in people’s lives resulting from the work-based economy”. Everybody has the opportunity to work, unemployment is rapidly falling, wages are growing and taxes and contribution payments are being cut, Orbán said. Commenting on the shortage of labour, he said this showed that investment in Hungary was continually expanding.

Referring to the extreme cold weather currently experienced in Hungary, he asked homeless people to use the available shelters. He added that more places are available than the number of homeless.

The prime minister said Hungary’s energy reserves were sufficient to guarantee the country’s operation, adding that the scheme to cut household utility fees meant that energy bills were now “tolerable”.

Orbán: Sources of financing for public personalities should be made transparent

In response to a question about NGOs, Orbán said in an interview to public radio Kossuth that “we live in a world today” where attempts to influence are frequent in all countries and by almost all countries.

He cited the example of the US during the presidency of Barack Obama which had developed many varied methods for trying to exert influence around the world.

“I could tell you about it in length … we have seen it all in the recent period, including the most primitive methods to exert influence,” Orbán said. He added that since the US was an ally he would not focus on the past. Orbán said he trusted that such attempts by the US would not be made in the future.

The opportunity should be given to all Hungarian citizens to find out where public personalities receive funding from, whether from Hungary or abroad, the prime minister said. In the case of foreigners, it is also important to know whether they are subject to certain expectations.

“We want transparency,” Orbán said, adding that Hungarians have the right to understand “the system of manipulation that attempts to exert influence on our everyday political life.”

Commenting on President-elect Donald Trump, he said a new style of US leadership is about to start. While the outgoing Obama administration has been “globalist”, the next one would not prevaricate or overcomplicate, Orbán said. The Europeans will need to readjust to the new attitude and new system of relations, he added.

In response to a question about a future US visit, Orbán said no concrete details are as yet publicly available.

Photo: MTI

Source: MTI

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Sándor Balogh had an unusual idea: we should not export our national beverage, pálinka, but produce it locally. Furthermore, the location should be Africa. The businessman – who has excellent local knowledge being the president of the African Hungarian Union – chose Uganda as the location of the first pálinka project, reports Lokál.

Because of the tropical conditions, the quality drink is not made of the well-known peach and plum, but banana, pineapple and jackfruit, at a mini farm built by the Hungarian people of Kapeke. The first bottles containing exotic but still Hungarian pálinka get in stores in the next months.

Sándor Balogh said to Lokál Extra: “We have already started the building of a larger distillation factory, which I hope to help to put a bigger amount of pálinka onto the market.”

The president of the African Hungarian Union also noted that, after Uganda, the next location of the pálinka project will be Morocco, where there might be a chance to make pálinka out of pomegranate and pineapple.

The Hungarian pálinka types, which also count as a Hungaricum, can be exported specialties in the next years – said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Moreover, the image of the country could be built with its help, which, otherwise, costs a lot of money.

The man behind the idea said that no name has been chosen for the pálinka yet, so they are happy to receive any ideas on their Facebook and Instagram profiles.

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Source: Lokál / dailynewshungary.com

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Budapest, January 13 (MTI) – Opposition Jobbik welcomes the recent inauguration of 500 border guards but repeatedly calls for reinstating a separate border guard force, the party’s spokesman said on Friday.

Hungary is the only EU country without a force like that, Adam Mirkoczki told a press conference, noting that Hungary’s Border Guard had been eliminated in 2008.

The Border Guard should consist of at least 8,000 members and patrol Hungary’s EU Schengen border sections, he said.

The first “border hunting” officers took their oath on Thursday at a ceremony addressed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

In response, ruling Fidesz said that Jobbik only “preaches” border protection while it prevented “together with the Socialists and [Democratic Coalition leader Ferenc] Gyurcsány” the passage of a constitutional amendment aimed at banning the forced settlement of migrants in Hungary.

Fidesz noted that the Hungarian government had been the first in Europe to defend the country’s borders, the party said in a statement. Source: MTI

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CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Diocese of Cleveland released a statement early Wednesday announcing the retirement of Bishop Richard Lennon.

The release cited ongoing health issues as the reason Lennon is retiring. At a Wednesday morning news conference, the diocese disclosed that Lennon suffers from vascular dementia, a cognitive impairment caused by reduced blood flow to the brain.

As of now, Lennon’s duties will be performed by Bishop Daniel Edward Thomas from Toledo.

Lennon, who was installed in May of 2006 as the 10th bishop to lead the Cleveland diocese, was hospitalized in February, 2016, for chest pains and underwent an emergency heart procedure.

The Cleveland diocese encompasses eight counties. Lennon is best known here for shuttering 30-some churches in Northeast Ohio in 2009 and 2010, a decision that sparked fervent backlash from some of the 700,000 parishioners in the diocese.

More recently, Lennon’s career in Cleveland was marked by much-needed and successful fundraising campaigns.

A Boston native, Lennon was appointed interim administrator of the Boston Archdiocese in 2002, when longtime Cardinal Bernard Law resigned amidst the sex-abuse scandal involving priests.

Lennon went on to serve as a bishop in the Archdiocese of Boston for five years before being sent to Cleveland to replace retiring Bishop Anthony Pilla.

During his tenure in Cleveland, Lennon displayed a progressive bent at times, choosing for instance to stop charging $450 for marriage annulments two years before the Vatican ordered all Catholic churches to do so.

But he could also draw a hard line. He prevented students at Catholic schools in the diocese from participating in the social media phenomenon known as the ALS ice bucket challenges that raised money to fight Lou Gehrig’s Disease because that research includes the destruction of embryonic stem cells.

Lennon also required teachers at diocese-run schools to sign a morality clause.

Local Catholics will always remember Lennon for his decision to close dozens of churches because of declining membership. His actions were met with protest and in the case of 11 churches, the Vatican reversed Lennon’s decision to close them claiming he did not follow proper procedures.

Reporter Sara Dorn contributed to this post.

By Peter Krouse, cleveland.com

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The “samurai of Pécs”, Suzuki Kimiyoshi lives in the Mecsek with his wife. The 82-year-old martial artist was born in Tokyo and moved to Hungary 24 years ago. He no longer misses Japan, and when he does go back, it is to learn new martial art techniques, which he then imparts to his students in schools and in the training hall of his house, hirado.hu writes.

After their rebellion was defeated, the age of samurais in Japan officially ended in 1877. However, their traditions lived on and continued to define the image of the country. Today there are only a few samurais left who were trained in the traditional ways. The grandfather of Suzuki Kimiyoshi was one of the samurais of the old days; to commemorate him, an obelisk was built in Japan, on the island of Hokkaido.

Starting in ‘80s, Suzuki Kimiyoshi visited Hungary many times, and, after making some friends and meeting his current wife, he settled down in Pécs, in the south of the country, in 1992. His wife is Hungarian, and he speaks the language, as well.

In the beginning, the Hungarian mentality felt strange to him. He said in the Kossuth Radio programme Közelről: “Hungarians seemed rough and violent at first, but I’ve got used to it over time, and now, whenever I visit Japan, I feel like everyone is overly nice,” he said.

According to hirado.hu, the 6-dan master, who was initially trained by one of his grandfather’s students, now teaches karate and kenjutsu, that is, Japanese swordsmanship. He has more than a dozen students in Pécs, and over a hundred in Budapest, but he is frequently visited from abroad, as well.

Out of his three katana, one is a 300-year-old original Japanese sword. The sharp katana is not used for practice; instead he uses a blunt sword, forged by a Hungarian blacksmith. “If anything happens to this, it can be fixed, which would be very difficult in the case of an original katana,” he said.

Swordsmanship used to be a deadly technique, but now it is practised with a different purpose, the building of the body and the spirit, he said.

Suzuki Kimiyoshi began training in kenjutsu when he was 6, and he is still learning. He travels to Japan once a year for this purpose. “I know almost everything, but it’s not over. It is over only when I stop,” he said.

Photo: MTI

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Source: hirado.hu / dailynewshungary.com

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There are not many movies about the First World War, at least not Hungarian ones. Few films were made during the 30’s but no one remembers or has ever seen them. During the socialist era just a few scenes about the First World War got into the movies.

And usually the Hungarian film-making industry is not famous for its combat scenes and action movies. But now a film called Szürke senkik (Grey Nobodies) is probably going to pioneer in this field.

The movie tells the story of five Hungarian soldiers who are fighting on the Italian front, behind the enemy lines. This core of the story could make the movie interesting. Everything can happen in the enemies’ territory, and trouble always follows the soldiers. Additionally, the battles are intense and realistic in the movie.

Among the characters is a professional soldier called sergeant Fodor who is interested in the outcome of the war. The others just want to get back home in one piece. The soldiers are Hungarians, Austrians and Romanians. All of them speak Hungarian and German and this is the only connection between them to feel some fellowship with each other.

(The Grey Nobodies is going to be shown on 16^th December 16 PM, and 17^thDecember 2:50 AM on Duna Television or streaming will be available on the website of Médiaklikk.hu)

via index.hu / hungarytoday.hu

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Santa Claus is relentlessly trying to enter our European households (mostly through our mailboxes rather than chimneys), but Father Christmas, Baby Jesus, Grandfather Frost, and other traditional gift-bringers have managed to fend him off so far (well, sort of).

Each country (or region) has its own traditional Christmas gift-bringer. Some of them are quite nice, such as the British Father Christmas, others are outright weird, such as the Catalan “defecating log”, but all of them are equally interesting. The following map shows the gift-bringers’ names with translations, coloured by relatedness of the concepts themselves (that is, not by etymological relatedness of the names).

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Budapest, December 13 (MTI) – The World Health Organisation’s Budapest centre was officially opened on Tuesday.

The WHO has moved some of its Geneva-based operations to Budapest, including its Collaborating Centre on Human Resources for Health Development. Its Budapest centre initially will be staffed by 20 people and it is possible that further operations could be transferred to Budapest at a later point.

István Mikola, state secretary at the foreign ministry, said at the opening ceremony that the organisation would help coordinate action to handle the big challenges currently facing the world. He said that Hungary had always closely cooperated with the WHO but “now we are much closer to each other”.

Dr Hans Troedsson, assistant director-general of the organisation, said the entire project perfectly demonstrated the effectiveness of recent months of cooperation between the WHO and the Hungarian government.

Read more at: dailynewshungary.com

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Aeronautics and cultural leaders on Thursday hailed the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the earth as a pioneer who conquered space when science knew much less about its effects on the body, and as a military hero and all-around family man.

As word spread about the death of former astronaut and U.S. Sen. John Glenn at the age of 95, those who knew him and admired him had only glowing words to share about the former Congressional representative from Ohio.

Ohio State University president Michael Drake remembered Glenn, who served in the U.S. Senate from 1975 to 1999, as “Ohio’s consummate public servant and a true American hero.” Glenn was an adjunct professor until recently at the school’s John Glenn College of Public Affairs.

“He was an authentic hero whose courage, integrity, sacrifice and achievements inspired people,” Drake said in a statement. “He leaves an undiminished legacy as one of the great people of our time.”

Before Glenn, a Democrat, was a lawmaker he was an astronaut and the world of science remembered him for his contributions there.

“Godspeed, John Glenn,” tweeted the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. “Ad Astra,” the agency continued, offering the Latin phrase that means “to the stars.”

Katherine Johnson, the African-American physicist, space scientist and mathematician who was the inspiration for the upcoming movie “Hidden Figures,” worked with Glenn while helping to fortify the space program.

“A good man has left Earth for the last time,” Johnson, now 98, said in a statement. “John Glenn’s life will long be remembered for his time in space, his courage and his service to all Americans.”

Tweeted astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, “There aren’t many heroes left: WWII Korean War Fighter Pilot. Marine Colonel. NASA Astronaut. Senator. Married 73 yrs. John Glenn RIP 1921-2016.”

Astronaut Peggy Whitson said via Twitter, “This is a tremendous loss for our nation and for the world.”

Glenn also served in the U.S. Marine Corps, completing training in 1943 and serving as a fighter pilot in World War II and the Korean War.

“The Corps lost a legend today,” the United States Marine Corps said in a statement. “Semper Fi,” the corps added, the phrase short for “semper fidelis,” the motto of the Marines, which means “always faithful.”

Tweeted Oliver North, the former U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant colonel known for the Iran-Contra affair, “John Glenn had all the right stuff.” The reference harkened back to the 1983 movie “The Right Stuff” that detailed the first manned spaceflight by the United States and the story of the test pilots involved in aeronautical research at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

The actor who will play Glenn in “Hidden Figures” that details the experiences of Johnson and her two assistants at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., honored the former astronaut on social media.

“Now THAT is how you life a life!” tweeted actor Glen Powell. “Godspeed, John Glenn. A true gentleman who humbly touched the stars and made us believe in the impossible.”

Actor Jason Alexander of “Seinfeld” fame also wished Glenn “Godspeed.” “Your legacy is eternal,” Alexander said via Twitter.

John Glenn made history February 20, 1962. A previous version of this video misstated one of Glenn’s achievements as an astronaut. He was the first American to orbit the Earth.

Source: USA TODAY NETWORK

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According to index.hu, László Oroszi invented the ultimate football shoe, but his patent was usurped by Adidas, who designed one of the world’s best and most successful football shoes theafter. The lawsuit between László Oroszi and Adidas was like the fight of David and Goliath. The story seems to have a happy end, but the Hungarian inventor lost much more than what he won, and the company barely lost anything compared to how much they have won.

The good news is that the lawyer representing the inventor and the patent agent managed to prove Oroszi’s right with endless determination. What happened was that László Oroszi invented a football shoe, which caught the eye of Adidas. The inventor was shocked to see that his idea was carried out without him. He sued Adidas, who fought hard. The final judgement was pronounced after 14 years: Adidas has to pay.

The person who invented the best football shoe ever

The Adidas Predator Mania produced from 2000 to 2003 was probably one of the best football shoes ever. It debuted at the European Championships in 2000, where Trezeguet scored the golden goal for the French national team wearing the shoes. Then, almost all of the football stars wore this shoe at the 2002 World Cup, from Zidane, Del Piero to Beckham.

The cult of the Mania shoe is so big that a used pair still cost 80-100 thousand forints online. And the limited retro series launched this year cost a similar amount of money, but they ran out of stock in just a few days’ time.

What was special about the Predator Precision and the following Predator Mania shoes was the softly corded performance of the spiral surface. This solution was worked out by László Oroszi in 1995-96 and then patented in Hungary and whole Europe, but something went wrong during the latter process, so the invention’s international protection misfired.

In 2005, patent agent Mihály Lantos took up the case when László Oroszi’s faith was already shattered. “If I hadn’t met Mihály Lantos then, I wouldn’t be anywhere today” said the inventor referring to the fact that during the lawsuit even him being the actual inventor was questioned.

It all started out great

The inventor and his team made it to the point of producing the shoes in 1998, when the product attracted Adidas’s attention. The team was stunned by the German interest as they wouldn’t have guessed that the company would simply market the shoes without a business contract. The inventors didn’t suspect anything, they trusted the company and gave them a few pairs of the shoe without signing any type of non-disclosure agreement.

From dream to nightmare

Nothing happened for a while, but Oroszi realised in 2000 that the newest football shoe of the German brand featured the solution invented by him. So he started a piracy lawsuit against Adidas Budapest, because he couldn’t sue the parent company due to the foozled European patent.

It was obvious from the first moment that Adidas took the lawsuit seriously and did everything to prolongate the procedure, hoping that Oroszi would give up sooner or later. The inventor spent all of his fortune on the lawsuit, he didn’t have enough money left to extend the patent in 2007, so he can’t partake of the price of the current retro models.

He looked up Mihány Lantos, the then leader of the Danubia Patent and Law Office Kft., in this hopeless situation, in 2005. The patent agent took on the representation for the greatness of the challenge and for moral reasons. “I could tell that he was right” said Lantos, who first saved the Hungarian patent and then collaborated with Sár és Társai Law Firm for a more effective representation.

You might win, but it will never be over

Index.hu writes that, after seven years of fighting, the Hungarian court pronounced the validity of László Oroszi’s patent in 2012. After the legally binding judgement, it was time to start the legal trial concerning the financial profit the piracy returned to Adidas Budapest Kft.

But Adidas Budapest didn’t deliver the requested data quoting saying that they didn’t have them anymore as the law only obliges keeping them for 5 years. They finally handed in the requested marketing data one and a half months after the deadline. But what kind of data was that if they allegedly hadn’t kept them?

A full field attack

The lawyers of the German company started a sudden attack adverting that Oroszi’s financial claims became forfeited during the long process. This meant two more years of litigation in practice. The case was finally brought to the Curia of Hungary, where they also decided in favour of Oroszi.

Then, they handed in the financial demands in 2014. According to Oroszi’s legal representatives, Adidas Budapest profited from Oroszi’s patent in two ways: they had a direct profit, and the outstandingly successful shoes also added to the company’s significant brand value growth (at the time Adidas put its technological development into the focus of its marketing communication).

The calculation of the share from the income should’ve been easy based on the data delivered by Adidas, but those weren’t completely right. For instance, they estimated a lot less pairs of shoes than the witnesses of the demander. Moreover, they claimed that Oroszi only invented the operator lane in itself which he put on a football shoe, not the operator laned football shoe.

No, no and no

In the April of 2016, the court of first instance stood on the side of Adidas in three aspects: they accepted Adidas’s data delivery, they didn’t accept the brand value growth argument and they made place for Adidas’s reference to “overlapping proportion” as a decreasing aspect, which decreased Oroszi’s share to 25%.

The judgement was like three heart attacks for Oroszi, but they didn’t give, they lodged an appeal juts like Adidas Budapest Kft., who wanted to further decrease Oroszi’s share, even though it should’ve been increased, as it turned out that Adidas Budapest also supplied the Romanian market.

The end game

The final judgement was announced on the 8^th of November, 2016. Regarding the overlapping proportion, the previous decision was reversed so the share was increased back to 100%. For the rest, the court of appeal accepted the calculation and justification of the court of first instance.

Furthermore, they announced that Oroszi has to take on 70% of the lawsuit cost, which he could include in the sum paid to him by Adidas, but no matter what, the remaining will be spent on old loans from his friends, acquaintances whose help he had asked for during the realization of his big dream of producing the world’s best football shoe in Hungary.

Photos: MTI, prodirectsoccer.com, facebook.com/adidas

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Source: https://index.hu/

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