SICK AS A DOG? MINE IS!

I've dedicated a post to Hungarian Puli dogs, and Weight Pulling Hungarian dogs, but my dog is simply a mixed breed. 

Her medical information says her dad was a Mini Poodle and her mom was a Maltese.  She's about the size of the Mini Poodle and overall looks more like a Poodle, but with that Maltese hair ; neither breed shed which is a plus. 

Recently I went to pay her licence fee for the year after getting her yearly shots and a three year Rabies shot,  and when I got the receipt home I noticed it said she was a one and a half year old white female.  I called Animal Services to tell them that this was wrong.  My dog is overall off white and apricot and she's going to be 5.  They told me that it was just the beginning of the record, that she was actually first adopted there when she was a year and a half old, meaning that I'm her third owner and that she's been in the pokey three times; no wonder she had such bad separation anxiety and a lot of fears when I got her.  We've worked some of those out over time. I used to chase her around to give her a bath but now she comes to the tub and puts her feet up on it.  She likes the towel dry and runs around trying to help me dry her.

It's been hot and usually when I open the door it's cooler inside than out.  Then one day I came home and the dog was there to greet me as usual, but she was avoiding spots of vomit on the floor.  One spot lead to the other.  She had thrown up six times!  Let's put it this ay - the way a person would if they had food poisoning.  I realized that she had not digested her food and been violently ill while I was gone.

This dog has proven to me in the past that she will do things and not do things to please me.  She has a sense of place.  Sometimes I think she waits until I'm home to drink water, which worries me.  I notice that when I get home she races to her water bowl.  I took her to a animal shelter benefit in a small dress (she usually goes without) and the whole time she didn't pee or poo.  She waited until we were on our way home.

Immediately I wondered exactly when she had thrown so much up.  Was it soon after I left for the day?   Had she waited, sick, until I left to vomit when I couldn't see her do it?  Had she been punished in the past for being sick?

The spots were so stinky that the dog herself was avoiding them.

I took her out and she peed.  She seemed to be drinking water and peeing OK. 

Her breath was really bad. 

It was late, she was animated when she saw me.  Was she still sick?

The next morning I took her out for a walk and she chased a squirrel.  How sick could she be? 

I made her plain white rice, which she gobbled.  I stayed home, holding her to me and rubbing her tummy.  We made it to 3 in the afternoon and no vomit.  So I left.  When I returned around 8 PM, she had thrown up the rice, and it looked undigested.

Now I began to really worry.  She lay close to me and I rubbed her belly and told her I loved her and how good she was.  She seemed slightly dull to me.

Had she become allergic to her flea collar or managed to lick it?  Were there any chemicals laying around that I didn't realize were there in her range?  Had her dry dog food gotten bad in the heat? Or did she simply get a virus?

Where things stand right now is that she wants to eat treats especially Greenies and not her dog food.  She's peeing and she's pooping and her morning energy is high.  On the way home I'm going to by jars of BABY FOOD, meat. She is going to be fed baby food and white rice for a few days, unless when I get home she has vomited again.

Then it will be to the vet we go.

I wonder often about her life before me.  I wonder if she was bred more than once.  I wonder if she roamed the streets and killed birds and squirrels for her food. 

C 2013 Magyar-American BlogSpot

EDWARD SNOWDEN and ARCHBISHOP JOZSEF MINDSZENTY : HAS SNOWDEN APPLIED TO LIVE IN HUNGARY?

Link to an article from the GUARDIAN : EDWARD SNOWDEN STATELESS and
Archbishop József Mindszenty, the Catholic primate of Hungary, who spent 15 years in the US embassy in Budapest. EDWARD SNOWDEN WHERE CAN HE GO?

Like most Americans I've been keeping up on the news about the NSA and whistle blower Edward Snowden.  (I don't think what he did qualifies as espionage.)  I also agree that based on all that has been reported in the news and all the responses to it, including some people calling for his execution, that he cannot get a fair trial here, which makes me sad.

I've been thinking about the Soviet Union, and about Russia today.  I've been thinking about the fact that he applied for asylum in 21 countries, of which 6 we do not know.  Is Hungary one of the six that he has chosen not to reveal?

The United States wants him stopped.  He cannot travel over our airspace of the airspace of certain of our allies.  His passport, but not his citizenship has been revoked.

MY QUESTION IS DOES HE QUALIFY FOR CITIZENSHIP in ANY COUNTRIES BASED ON HERITAGE, such as Poland or Hungary?

RECENT HUNGARIAN HERITAGE DANCE PRESENTATION AT THE SMITHSONIAN 2013

ERDOS THE MATHMETICIAN CELEBRATED

ERDOS CENTENNIAL JULY 1-5 2013 in BUDAPEST  link

The Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematic, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Eötvös Loránd University and the János Bolyai Mathematical Society announce that a conference dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Paul Erdős will be held from Monday, July 1st to Friday, July 5th, 2013, in Budapest, Hungary.


The distinguished main patron of the conference is József Pálinkás, the President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.


The topic of the conference includes all basic fields that Paul Erdős contributed to:
Number Theory, Combinatorics (including Combinatorial Algebra, Combinatorial Geometry and Theoretical Computer Science), Analysis (including Approximation Theory and Ergodic Theory), Probability Theory, and Set Theory among others. The main goal of the conference is to explore Paul Erdős' wide ranging contributions to mathematics, and to survey the trends of development originating in his work.

REMEMBERING THE DAYS WHEN WE WANTED A TAN! A BLOGPOST MEMOIR!

Don't know about you, but I can remember the days when we WANTED a tan.  We didn't want to burn because that looked and felt terrible and peeled - icky! - but who hadn't gotten a few burns in pursuit of a tan?  Some of us only burned, some of us, like me, could slowly deepen in color until we were very dark - and we prized those tan lines!  

Laying in the sun for hours felt GOOD even if it was on the concrete of a pool side and we thought we looked good.  Better to show off those summer clothing colors like WHITE, LIME, PINK, better to show off the pink lipstick and nail polish . 

It felt healthy and athletic to be tan.  No one was worried about skin cancer.  We used lotion to make us tan like Coppertone; the smell of it still says SUMMER to me! 

We also used BABY OIL!  (Talk about treating your skin like steak!) 

Maybe we cherished tanning so much because we were indoors for 9 months of the year, in school, and in the snow belt.

Now I live in a place of ENDLESS SUMMER - Southern California and guess what?

I tan without trying to. 

I tan without going to the beach!

I don't have "tan lines."  It's as if my skin has adjusted to a different weather system!

Now I wonder, why is it that I tan but many of my family members burn?  Is it my Hungarian DNA?

YOU?

CROWS! UTNE READER WRITER LYANDA LYNN HAUPT WROTE THIS FANTASTIC ARTICLE!

UTNE : AS THE CROWS FLY 

The urban wild's most resilient creature shows us what's beautiful, what's ugly, and what's missing. By Luanda Lynn Haupt, from the book Crow Planet
November-December 2009





EXCERPT:

" I heard of a crow that accompanied a mail carrier on his daily route every day for more than two years, walking behind him like a golden retriever before inexplicably disappearing. I heard from a Benedictine nun that a crow in the woods surrounding her monastery befriended a large black, green-eyed cat named Ashford, and that the two shared in feasting on the birds that Ashford caught and killed. I heard from a friend that she was watching a crow work for some time to balance a medium-size stone atop a larger stone. “Was it making art?” she wanted to know. I heard from a pilot friend that his friend (for many crow stories spiral compellingly through some kind of lineage in this way), also a pilot, watched the Snowbirds (the Canadian Forces’ equivalent of the Blue Angels) practicing for an air show, and afterward, a crow in the trees near the airfield practiced flying upside down. Am I incredulous? Certainly, somewhat. But can I deny it? Who hasn’t seen a crow do something we do not expect of “simple” birds, or any animal, for that matter? Who doesn’t have a crow story? And the more attention we offer, the more the crow stories spring up around us, like grass..."

A MURDER OF CROWS : NATURE FILM

Crows are seen on many a Hungarian surname/family crest or shield.  The image begins with the early people of Hungary who fought against the Turks - the Muslims - and saved Hungary for Christianity. I wanted to know more about the crow.  This is why I decided to watch a film called "A MURDER OF CROWS."  The video could use a better title, though there is a reference to murder somewhere in the film.

Actually, this film is about the latest scientific research about crows, which is so revealing of their nature and aptitudes.  It made me proud to think that early Hungarians were thought of as crows.  The surname Corvin or Corwin is the Latinized version of the word crow, as in Mathias the Crow, the first King of Hungary.

Crows turn out to be one of the most intelligent animals alive3, smarter than dogs, and on par with apes!

They must be to survive because 50% of them don't make it to their second year of life, though they have been known to live up to 20 years.  Crows live in family groups and sometimes parents have help feeding their young by brother and sister crows. These days many of them get hit by cars and are killed.  Scientists believe that when a crow dies, its group holds a silent vigil for the departed!  The crows mate for lie and raise their young for up to five years.  This long period of time is thought to have aided in their mental development.

Crows recognize individual faces and inform their fellow crows if someone is a friend or enemy.

Scientist have proven that this information is transmitted to younger generations.

They are always watching and learning.  They even memorize the garbage truck routes so that they will arrive in prime time to forage from the garbage bags!

Hawks are their natural enemy.  Crows will remember a field where one of their members was attacked and avoid it for a couple years.

Perhaps most fascination was the way scientists have set up experiments to let crows prove themselves.  One of these experiments shows that a crow not only uses tools but makes them and can think ahead to a third move in using tools to get a prize piece of food.

C 2013 Magyar American

TONY CURTIS AND THE EMANUEL FOUNDATION FOR HUNGARIAN CULTURE

BOHEMIANINK : TONY CURTIS LEAVES A LEGACY IN HUNGARY link to full article and pictures...

EXCERPT:

"So saddened to hear about the death of Tony Curtis yesterday. In Budapest, Curtis, who is of Hungarian descent, is as well known for his generosity as he is for his movies.  In 1998, he founded the Emanuel Foundation for Hungarian Culture, a New York-based organization that works for the restoration and preservation of synagogues and 1300 Jewish cemeteries in Hungary.

Within the confines of Budapest’s Great Synagogue exists the Tree of Life Holocaust Memorial, funded by the Emanuel Foundation, in memory of the 600,000 Hungarian Jews who were murdered by the Nazis. The tree, which is made of stainless steel and silver, is fashioned to look like a weeping willow. The shape of the tree resembles an upside down menorah. Inscribed on its 4000 metal leaves are the names of Hungarian Holocaust victims. And on the top of the black granite double archway that sits in front of the tree, a Hebrew inscription asks: “Is there a bigger pain than mine?”

Updated February 2021  I'm sorry but I don't find the link... The name Emanual Foundation brings up a different organization.  Some years have passed.  So maybe the work has been completed.  October 2022 Since this is a popular post, I tried again to find the TONY CURTIS EMANUEL FOUNDATION and it does not appear.  From past research I know it was located in Brooklyn New York.  For those of you intent to find this foundation, perhaps Brooklyn is the place to look.  Another idea is to get in touch with Jamie Lee Curtis...

BLUE DANUBE WALTZ : JOHANN STRAUSS

BLUE DANUBE WALTZ : JOHANN STRAUSS   new video August 2022  

THE DANUBE FLOODS : EARTH CHANGES?

DANUBE FLOODING EFFECTS 10 NATIONS article

"Winding 2,850 kilometers (1,777 miles) across 10 nations, the Danube is the second-longest river on the continent, making its way from Germany's Black Forest to the Black Sea bordering Romania and Ukraine. Only the Volga in Russia is longer."

SARAH JAROSZ : BLUE GRASS DEBUTANT

SARAH JAROSZ official site

Just got the CD called "Follow Me Down" and listened to it over and over again, the way some of us used to singer-songwriter albums in the 70's.  Listed as BlueGrass, Sarah is known for her Americana.  Produced by Gary Paczosa and Sarah Jarosz, this singer-songwriter is also capable of playing several instruments.

To quote the bio on her site, "Sarah Jarosz has as rich a skill set as anybody in acoustic music. She plays, not just one instrument, but enough of them to be a one-woman string band: mandolin, octave mandolin, clawhammer banjo and guitar. She sings – in supple tones that transcend the boundaries between folk and pop – and she writes – old-timey ballads and modern singer-songwriter ruminations alike."

SZELKER-HUNGARIAN RUNES : 7000 YEAR OLDS WRITING

CHICORA VOICES CONCERT : THREE HUNGARIAN FOLK SONGS

HUNGARIAN MUMMIES DNA MAY SOLVE RIDDLE OF TB

EXCERPT FROM ABC RADIO SCIENCE SHOW ABC RADIO: Ancient DNA specialist, Mark Spigelman, biopsied 176 Hungarian mummies  link here!

EXCERPT: "What I did note was that every one of them was in a coffin made of pine and lying on a bed of pine shavings, and there is a turpinoid type material in the pine which can act as an antibacterial...This is a wonderful group, totally untried, no antibiotics, not AIDS, no nothing - the only significant reason why one member gets TB and the other one doesn't, it's strongly possible that it's due to genetic differences.

SONOMA WINEMAKER AGOSTON HARASZTHY FOCUS OF HUNGARIAN MTV FILM

HUNGARIAN TV VISITS SONOMA CALIFORNIA WINE COUNTRY - SPECIAL FILM link

"The crew from Hungary's national channel "MTV" was filming a documentary on Agoston Haraszthy, the winery's founder. The channel is not to be confused with the American "MTV" music channel, Judit Koltai, one of the crew, explained...."

PREMIER MTV HOME LINK - HUNGARIAN

"Koltai said the documentary will be called "Hungarian World Star—Portrait of Count Agoston Haraszthy...

Haraszthy was a Hungarian immigrant, who established the winery in 1857. The location is a State Historic Landmark, considered the oldest premier winery in California. Haraszthy is known as the father of the California wine industry, having brought vines back from Europe to plant here...

The documentary is due to air on TV on March 15. It will likely appear on the TV channel's website after that, so anyone in the world can see it via the Internet, Koltai said."

If anyone can lead me to the link for the show, I'll be glad to post that.  I haven't found it yet myself!