#Margit Toth

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Margit Toth (Hungary, b. 1963)

Slumbering 2, 2013

Cast glass, 15 3/4 x 17 x 8 1/8 in. (40 x 43.2 x 20.6 cm)

On display at Palmer Museum of Art 2021.40

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history | powerful women | hungary

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Hello!

This is my official writeblr introduction 

You can call me Kai that’s my tumblr pen name (K.A.I all previous posts signed K.A.I. are original works I was embarrassed over) 

I’ve been writing stories since before I could write.  I used to scribble in this star shaped Lisa Frank notebook and then read my stories out loud to my mom or anyone who would listen.  I have a crazy imagination that’s why I came to Tumblr it needed some free space to roam and as for my WIPs...

I have quite a few 

Deaf Ears to Our Cause is the only one that’s mostly complete and just going through the editing and revival phrase. It is a 50,000 word historical-fiction novel I wrote for Nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month) back in HS.  It’s basically about the relationship between two Hungarian girls on opposite sides of the world as they watch their homeland suffer under Communist oppression and it covers their involvement in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.   

List of Main Characters:

Margit Olah 

Kate Lengyel 

Lajos Toth 

Patrick O’Byrne 

The White Thread That Binds Us started as a fanfiction and then strayed so far from that world and storyline that I went back rewrote everything except some basic relationships and I guess you could call it fantasy/drama/fiction?  I need to work on world building A LOT, but essentially it’s about family ties, it explores the difference between relationships built on time and affection and the blood bonds that we cannot change or break. In a way it’s very practical and if I ever get around to finishing it, it won’t have anything close to a perfect ending.  

List of Main Characters 

Reina/Danica Chiaki 

King Evrain Lisanthus 

Prince Vanden Lisanthus

Rosalya 

Honestly? is a play I started working on last summer that I haven’t touched in a WHILE.  The idea was to mess with the concept of honesty and what it would be like to be 100% honest and say exactly what’s on your mind and whether or not any relationship could survive pure honesty.  Theoretically it seems impossible, but since it hasn’t been tested who knows right?  The issue I ran into was the setting, realistic? Fantasy? Sci-fi?  That’s a wall I haven’t gotten past...

I have to find my list of characters and character descriptions it’s on my other laptop. Sorry!

My Happy Ending or Happy Endings is a psychological horror novel where a young writer uses stories to cope with pain in his life but the tragic lives he writes for his characters begin to haunt him at night and his characters threaten to kill him unless he writes them all happy endings.  This one is just a concept I haven’t actively started working on it yet...

Eavesdropping is another play with a weird concept.  Basically it would take place on three separate levels of an apartment that has very thin walls (think dorm room thin) and the conversations in the play take place between people in the same room as well as interconnecting with overheard conversations from other rooms and floors.  A state of organized chaos where private issues overlap. The idea is to explore the fundamental connections between people as well as how every action somehow affects everyone else no matter how small it may be.    

I’ve written a BUNCH of fanfiction as well if there’s any interest I’ll make a separate post for that category of WIPs 

So yeah there’s me 

Feel free to send me any asks about any of the projects and I’m going to start posting excerpts starting next week!

I’m very excited to be a part of this awesome writing community 

-Kai 

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Seven dead, 19 missing as tourist boat crashes and sinks in Budapest

Seven people have been confirmed dead and 19 are still missing after a sightseeing boat carrying 33 passengers and two crew crashed and sank in the Danube River in Budapest.   The boat, carrying tourists from Korea with two crews from Hungary, crashed and sank on Wednesday night after hitting another vessel.   Rescue officials said seven bodies had been recovered following the boat accident while a further seven people were rescued and are now being treated in hospital. One of the people rescued was found near the Petofi Bridge, which is about two miles south of Parliament.   The sunken boat, identified as the "Hableany" (Mermaid), was located early on Thursday near the Margit Bridge, not far from the neo-Gothic Parliament building on the river bank.   Employees from the South Korean Embassy in Budapest were assisting Hungarian officials in identifying those rescued and the deceased, Metro UK reports.  

  Mihaly Toth, a spokesman for the Panorama Deck boating company, said the "Hableany" was on a "routine city sightseeing trip" when the accident happened. He told state television that the boat was serviced regularly and he had no information about any technical problems with the boat.   South Korean president Moon Jae-in has instructed officials to employ "all available resources" to support the rescue efforts in Hungary.   Mr Moon’s spokeswoman Ko Min-jung said in Seoul that Mr Moon also ordered the launch of a government task force led by foreign minister Kang Kyung-wha to deal with the accident and maintain close communication with the family members of the South Korean passengers. Read the full article

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7 dead, 21 missing after SKorean tour boat sinks in Hungary

Rescue workers scoured the Danube River in downtown Budapest Thursday for 21 people missing after a sightseeing boat carrying South Korean tourists sank in a matter of seconds after colliding with a larger cruise ship during an evening downpour.

Seven people are confirmed dead and seven were rescued, all of them South Koreans, Hungarian officials said. Hungary’s Human Resources Minister Miklos Kasler said four of those rescued have been released from the hospital, while the remaining three are being treated in satisfactory condition. Police launched a criminal investigation into the incident.

The South Korea-based Very Good Tour agency, which organized the trip, said the boat — a 70-year-old vessel built in the former Soviet Union — had been on its way back after an hour-long night tour on Wednesday when the accident happened.

Nineteen South Koreans and two Hungarian crew members — the captain and his assistant — are missing. The tour party had consisted of 30 tourists, two guides and a photographer on a package tour of Europe.

The sunken boat was located early Thursday near the Margit Bridge, not far from the neo-Gothic Parliament building on the riverbank.

Video shown by Hungarian police showed the sightseeing boat, identified as the Hableany (Mermaid), traveling closely side by side and in the same direction as a German-built Viking cruise ship as they approached the bridge Wednesday night.

The Hableany then appeared to steer slightly to its left, into the path of the 135-meter (443-feet) long cruise ship, which continued to sail on at the same speed. The two collided and the sightseeing boat was then seen tipping on its side between the bridge’s two supports.

“As the Viking comes into contact with (the Hableany), it overturns it and in about seven seconds, as it turn on its side, it sinks,” Police Col. Adrian Pal said.

Pal said it’s unclear what caused the Hableany to steer into the path of the Viking. He said several people aboard the Hableany fell into the water after the collision. The South Korean government said none of those on board was wearing a life jacket.

Police said rescue operations were hampered by the rain and the fast flow of the rising Danube. The search for the 21 missing extended far downstream, even into Serbia, where the Danube goes after leaving Hungary.

The river, which is 450 meters (500 yards) wide at the point of the accident, was fast-flowing and rising as heavy rain continued in the city. Water temperatures were about 10 to 12 degrees Celsius (50-53 Fahrenheit).

Hajoregiszter.hu, a local ship-tracking website, lists the Hableany as having been built in 1949 in the former Soviet Union.

CCTV footage recorded on Wednesday night showed that the river was busy with boats of different sizes traveling in both directions.

Budapest has enjoyed a boom in overseas tourism in recent years. Long-haul flights from as far away as Dubai and Beijing increasingly fly visitors from Asia and the Middle East to the Hungarian capital, a relatively affordable but history-rich European destination.

Earlier, the news website Index.hu said one of those rescued was found near the Petofi Bridge, which is about 3 kilometers (2 miles) south of Parliament.

Police have questioned the Ukrainian captain of the Viking ship, but no details have been released. Authorities said both vessels’ captains are experienced, with many years of service with their companies. South Korean officials said the tourists were not wearing life jackets.

Relatives and a team of 25 official rescue workers were on their way from South Korea to Budapest Thursday. The team of fire, navy and coast guard workers includes some who had been involved in rescue operations for the 2014 South Korean ferry disaster that killed more than 300 people — one of the country’s worst maritime accidents.

Seoul’s presidential Blue House said President Moon Jae-in has called Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to discuss rescue operations. Moon thanked Orban for the Hungarian government’s rescue efforts, and requested further support for efforts to find the missing, treat the survivors and recover bodies.

The Blue House said Orban told Moon that more than 200 divers and medical staff are involved in the rescue efforts and that officials are planning to locate and hoist the ship.

Employees from the South Korean Embassy in Budapest were assisting Hungarian officials in identifying those rescued and the deceased.

Budapest’s Disaster Management Office Chief Col Zsolt Gabor Palotai said the Hungarian army is setting up a pontoon near the capsized ship’s wreck and divers will go into the Danube from there.

The Very Good Tour agency said the tourists left South Korea on May 25 and were supposed to return June 1.

Most of them were family groups, and they included a 6-year-old girl. Her status wasn’t immediately clear but she didn’t appear on a list of survivors provided by the tour agency.

Senior agency official Lee Sang-moo disclosed the identities of the seven rescued South Koreans — six women and one man, aged between 31 and 66. The company is arranging for family members of the tourists to travel to Hungary as soon as possible.

The Hableany is described on the sightseeing company’s website as “one of the smallest members of the fleet.” It has two decks and a capacity for 60 people, or 45 for sightseeing cruises.

Mihaly Toth, a spokesman for the Panorama Deck boating company, said the Hableany was on a “routine city sightseeing trip” when the accident happened. He told state television that he had no information about any technical problems with the boat, which he said was serviced regularly.

The Margit Bridge connects the two halves of the city, Buda and Pest, with a large recreational island in the middle of the Danube. It is the bridge just north of the famous Chain Bridge, a suspension bridge originally built in the 19th century that, like the Parliament, is a major tourist draw in the heart of the city.

The river flows south, meaning that survivors were likely to be swept through the well-populated, historic part of the city.

Index.hu reported that other riverboats shined spotlights into the water to aid with the search, and that a film crew operating on the Liberty Bridge farther down the river directed its lighting equipment toward the Danube to assist. In recent years, Budapest has emerged as a popular destination for film, television and other commercial video production.

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Hyung-jin Kim reported from Seoul, South Korea. Associated Press writers Adam Schreck in Bangkok and Kim Tong-hyung in Seoul, South Korea, contributed to this report.

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