Monday, September 21, 2020
Thursday, September 17, 2020
I HATE THE NEW GOOGLE BLOGGER and IT MAY EFFECT MY PUBLICATION : I REALLY TRULY HATE IT
Until this new change, I was grateful to Google for allowing so many people to blog for free - and without owning their own computers. I have posted from very many places over the very many years as what they temporarily called A LEGACY BLOGGER. However, the new innards and use of the Google Blogger is just terrible. It's frustrating. I find myself wasting so much time looking for the things I used to find in moments - such as posts that I'm still writing or researching. In the past there have been learning curves but I suspect I will never get used to this. I am turned off. I'm upset. I feel like crying.
I really care about my blog and I really care about my readers. But... If I wish to continue this blog with Google then I will probably not be posting much. I see that I will have to carry with me stacks of paper and hand-write everything out first and then transfer it over so I know where everything is.
How long have I been blogging? Since I used HTML code to slightly change the formatting so as to control the design of this blog.
There are now these big fat blocks - rather than nice slim lines with the concise and needed information. I just hate it, hate it, hate it.
Also there is an emphasis on the hits you're getting on your latest post. THE POSTS I GET THE MOST HITS ON ARE USEFUL ONES, SUCH AS ALL THE GENEALOGY ADVISORIES AND INFORMATION AND LINKS I've provided my readers. I have never chosen to reveal hits because I don't write for hits, and I don't write to get hits for myself or Google or their "ADSENSE" scheme to make money on my content.
You have to wonder what extremely well paid crazies came up with this version. My guess is that they had nothing to do, so they figured they'd screw it up good. THIS IS NOT AN IMPROVED BLOGGER. IT LOOKS LIKE A BLOGGER FOR DUMMIES, but it's plainly stupid. (And yes, I was smart enough to graduate college with honors.)
If you happen to be another Blogger reading this, and you agree with me, please send a message in FEEDBACK (oh yea, that's moved too) to GOOGLE.
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Monday, September 14, 2020
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
MY DOG IS NOW A FRAGILE LITTLE OLD LADY - HEAT SICKNESS IN DOGS
The fires raging in California have thrown ash and particulates into the air. The heat wave hit - and we didn't have the worst of it. While other places in Southern California went up to 112 - 115- 120, we were at about 93. I took my dog outside for about five minutes. It was "you can fry an egg on the hood of your car" time. I regretted it. My dog did not look good. She looked disoriented. The prior week she had thrown up. The first time a tinge of blood. A few hours later a profuse amount of clear what looked like saliva with a few streaks of white. It occurred to me that she had never thrown up like this before. It occurred to me I had done the same during a bout with food poisoning. It was clear to me that she had probably eaten something outside. I try to keep the floors clean. Unlike some other dogs, she is not adventurous about fruit. However, she has been known to be attracted to another dog's poop. Then, the next morning, to my complete upset, she tried to waken me by dancing all over my body, and when I didn't wake in time, she had diarrhea. It was stinky and all over some paperwork I had left on my bed. I cleaned it up. I had to throw away some applications I hadn't finished. I took her outside. Many times. When I got home she had made a big poop on the living room floor.
My dog has only been sick 1 -2 - maybe 3 times in all the years I've had her. She almost never poops in the house. I knew that she had just not made it outside in time. I cleaned it up.
The heat wave hit and she was panting. She was panting and her tongue did not look right. I looked a little purple and curled. She seemed disoriented. I got on the computer and researched. She had all 10 signs of heat exhaustion. The warning was it could cause internal organ damage and kill a dog quick. She was in trouble. Quickly I got her in the tub and proceeded to shampoo her with mildly warm - luke- warm water. (You can also wrap a dog in wet towels - do not use ice.) She slept. Finally her breathing seemed deep instead of shallow. The instructions said not to force a dog to drink water. For the first time I took spoons full of water and dropped in on her lips and into her mouth and she lapped it.
Thoughts were going through my head - she's going to die. She is dying. This is it.
I'm glad to report we are almost back to normal and maybe it's because the sky is so dense with smoke that the sun has been blocked and the temperature is way down. She is eating slowly. She is pooping normally. She is drinking lots of water. She is barking at the cat she puts up with and the dog who is always after her food. She is walking - slower than ever - a little limpy - but still interested in life. Other people are noticing she is old. I can't deny it. A friend called her "A FRAGILE LITTLE OLD LADY." I had to agree.
I LOVE her so much!
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My dog has only been sick 1 -2 - maybe 3 times in all the years I've had her. She almost never poops in the house. I knew that she had just not made it outside in time. I cleaned it up.
The heat wave hit and she was panting. She was panting and her tongue did not look right. I looked a little purple and curled. She seemed disoriented. I got on the computer and researched. She had all 10 signs of heat exhaustion. The warning was it could cause internal organ damage and kill a dog quick. She was in trouble. Quickly I got her in the tub and proceeded to shampoo her with mildly warm - luke- warm water. (You can also wrap a dog in wet towels - do not use ice.) She slept. Finally her breathing seemed deep instead of shallow. The instructions said not to force a dog to drink water. For the first time I took spoons full of water and dropped in on her lips and into her mouth and she lapped it.
Thoughts were going through my head - she's going to die. She is dying. This is it.
I'm glad to report we are almost back to normal and maybe it's because the sky is so dense with smoke that the sun has been blocked and the temperature is way down. She is eating slowly. She is pooping normally. She is drinking lots of water. She is barking at the cat she puts up with and the dog who is always after her food. She is walking - slower than ever - a little limpy - but still interested in life. Other people are noticing she is old. I can't deny it. A friend called her "A FRAGILE LITTLE OLD LADY." I had to agree.
I LOVE her so much!
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Saturday, September 5, 2020
THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD : MAGYAR AMERICAN FILM REVIEW
This wonderful documentary made by Joker Films, with Richard Dreyfuss as the narrator, is full of photos, art inspired by the devastating Johnstown flood of 1889, film!, and enacted testimonials sourced from books and letters - all in black and white.
This review is here at Magyar American - BlogSpot because the Johnstown, Cambria County, Pennsylvania area, especially the Cambria Iron Works, was the destination and workplace of so many immigrants from central and eastern Europe, including Magyars, Slavs, and Ruthenians.
Over 2000 people died. Poor people, who didn't know what hit them as the flood waters took them away, to be struck by logs and trees, floating houses ripped from their foundations, detached roofs, factories, and locomotives, lost their lives in minutes. Some people floated on debris a while, praying or singing hymns. A memorial cemetery, the Grandview, in Johnstown is the higher burial ground of many who were never identified.
The Conemaugh Valley was the home to 30,000 people and it was a bustling place to live and work. The Fishing Club upriver was the exclusive social club for men like Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Phipps, people you may have heard of as Robber Barons or the founders of Pittsburgh institutions such as the Carnegie Library, Carnegie-Mellon the university, or the Phipps Conservatory, owners of steel mills. The Pennsylvania Railroad ran trains all around Pennsylvania, and from Johnstown to Pittsburgh there were trains that ran like commuters - The Daily Express. One of my ancestors took this train for work in Allegheny Country before moving the family there from Johnstown.
The South Fork dam was built years earlier in 1852 of clay and earth and the lake filled with more water and was more vast than had been expected so maybe it was just a matter of time. Heavy rains pushed it to the limit and when it broke, there was near no escaping the violence of rushing waters. Cambria Iron Works was wiped out. Then caught fire. The train roundhouse and the trains in it were carried away though each weighted many tons.
The people had been warned. Men on horseback had ridden through town shouting warnings. These warning were ignored. Trains blew whistles and still, many people stayed put. Commuters got off trains that had been waylaid and ran for the hills. Entire towns were wiped out in Conemaugh Valley. Eventually Clara Barton who founded the Red Cross made a personal visit to the disaster site and it became the law to shoot and kill looters, who were cutting fingers off the dead to take the rings.
I sat glued to my seat watching this one, and I think you might too, especially if the Johnstown area was the destination of your immigrant ancestors.
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This review is here at Magyar American - BlogSpot because the Johnstown, Cambria County, Pennsylvania area, especially the Cambria Iron Works, was the destination and workplace of so many immigrants from central and eastern Europe, including Magyars, Slavs, and Ruthenians.
Over 2000 people died. Poor people, who didn't know what hit them as the flood waters took them away, to be struck by logs and trees, floating houses ripped from their foundations, detached roofs, factories, and locomotives, lost their lives in minutes. Some people floated on debris a while, praying or singing hymns. A memorial cemetery, the Grandview, in Johnstown is the higher burial ground of many who were never identified.
The Conemaugh Valley was the home to 30,000 people and it was a bustling place to live and work. The Fishing Club upriver was the exclusive social club for men like Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Phipps, people you may have heard of as Robber Barons or the founders of Pittsburgh institutions such as the Carnegie Library, Carnegie-Mellon the university, or the Phipps Conservatory, owners of steel mills. The Pennsylvania Railroad ran trains all around Pennsylvania, and from Johnstown to Pittsburgh there were trains that ran like commuters - The Daily Express. One of my ancestors took this train for work in Allegheny Country before moving the family there from Johnstown.
The South Fork dam was built years earlier in 1852 of clay and earth and the lake filled with more water and was more vast than had been expected so maybe it was just a matter of time. Heavy rains pushed it to the limit and when it broke, there was near no escaping the violence of rushing waters. Cambria Iron Works was wiped out. Then caught fire. The train roundhouse and the trains in it were carried away though each weighted many tons.
The people had been warned. Men on horseback had ridden through town shouting warnings. These warning were ignored. Trains blew whistles and still, many people stayed put. Commuters got off trains that had been waylaid and ran for the hills. Entire towns were wiped out in Conemaugh Valley. Eventually Clara Barton who founded the Red Cross made a personal visit to the disaster site and it became the law to shoot and kill looters, who were cutting fingers off the dead to take the rings.
I sat glued to my seat watching this one, and I think you might too, especially if the Johnstown area was the destination of your immigrant ancestors.
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