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BLUE BRIDGE WALK EMYVALE
17/01/2016 by borderroamer
Jack Johnston, President William Carleton Society, at the Blue Bridge Emyvale Photo: Michael Fisher
William Carleton's 'Blue Bridge' across the Mountain Water at Inishdevlin outside Emyvale was one of the points of note on a 5m walk this afternoon organised by the Clogher Valley Ramblers. It started and finished in Emyvale village, with cups of tea beforehand and afterwards at John's Plaice.
William Carleton, a leading Irish writer of the 19thC came originally from the Clogher area. He wrote about life's experiences and as he used to walk from his relatives' house at Derrygola to Glennan for his education at the hedge school there (beside Glennan chapel). He always rested at the Blue Bridge. He has written in his Autobiography about its beauty and about the famous Fair of Emyvale.
Mountain Water at Inishdevlin near Emyvale Photo: Michael Fisher
The Emyvale Development Association organised a festival under the Banner of the Fair of Emyvale for a number of years while money was being raised for the Emyvale Leisure Centre. On Sunday, August 4th 2013 during the annual summer school, all came alive again as Michael Fisher, Director of the William Carleton Society, unveiled a Plaque commemorating William Carleton's connections with the Blue Bridge.
This event was organised by Emyvale Development Association. In 1997, Monaghan County Council in conjunction with Emyvale Development Association erected a Plaque on the Bridge but weather conditions eventually rotted the plaque backing and it came away from the wall. A new Plaque was prepared and is now in place.
Clogher Valley Ramblers at the Blue Bridge, Emyvale Photo: Michael Fisher
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CARLETON ANNIVERSARY
Grave of William Carleton at Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin Photo: © Michael Fisher
This is the 146th anniversary of the death of the leading 19thC Irish author William Carleton on January 30th 1869. He is buried at Mount Jerome Cemetery in Dublin. I left a small floral tribute at his grave there recently.
JJ Slattery oil portrait of William Carleton in National Gallery of Ireland
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CHURCH OF IRELAND
Once again I am turning to the Reverend Patrick Comerford for today's contribution. A very interesting talk about the Church of Ireland: Church, Culture and being relevant. It was part of a series of talks on Anglicanism being delivered by him at the Mater Dei Institute of Education in Dublin.
Map of Sandford Road Ranelagh c.1850 showing Woodville, where Carleton lived (Dublin City Library)
He might have added William Carleton (1794-1869) to the list of writers who were members of the Church of Ireland, although he came from a Catholic background and wrote mainly about the poor tenant farmers in the Clogher Valley: 'Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry'. Carleton died in Ranelagh and is buried at Mount Jerome cemetery in Dublin and he spent most of his adult life in the city. This article on the Life of William Carleton was published in the William Carleton Society summer school booklet 2013 and is also included in a new publication due to be launched in Dungannon next Tuesday (19th November) on the 'Shared History, Shared Future' project involving five local historical and cultural societies.
John Slattery portrait of William Carleton from National Gallery of Ireland
William Carleton (1794 – 1869) was born the youngest of a family of fourteen children in the townland of Prolusk (spelled 'Prillisk' in his autobiography) near Clogher in Co.Tyrone, on Shrove Tuesday, 20th February, 1794. Although there is little suggestion that the Carletons were upwardly mobile, they did move house frequently within the Clogher area and were established at the townland of Springtown when William left the family home. Carleton obtained his education at local hedge schools which he was to write about, fictionalising the pedagogue Pat Frayne as the redoubtable Mat Cavanagh. From other retrospections of his home district, we learn of Carleton's delight in his father's skill as a seanachie and the sweetness of his mother's voice as she sang the traditional airs of Ireland; of his early romances- especially with Anne Duffy, daughter of the local miller; of Carleton the athlete, accomplishing a 'Leap' over a river, the site of which is still pointed out; of the boisterous open air dancing. Initially an aspirant o the priesthood, Carleton embarked in 1814 on an excursion as a 'poor scholar' but, following a disturbing dream, returned to his somewhat leisurely life in the Clogher Valley before leaving home permanently in 1817. Journeying via Louth, Kildare and Mullingar, he found work as a teacher, librarian and, eventually, as a clerk in the Church of Ireland Sunday School Office in Dublin. In 1820, he married Jane Anderson who bore him several children. By 1825, Carleton. who had left the Roman Catholic Church for the Anglican Church of Ireland, met a maverick Church of Ireland cleric, Caesar Otway, who encouraged him to put his already recognised journalistic talents to such prosletysing purposes as satirising the attitudes reflected in pilgrimages to 'St Patrick's Purgatory' at Lough Derg, a totemic site in Irish Catholicism. Further writings in the Christian Examiner & Church of lreland Magazine led in 1829 and 1833 to the publication of what is arguably Carleton's best known work: Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry. In these stories Carleton returned imaginatively to the Clogher Valley, drawing on comedy, farce, melodrama and tragedy to present a tableau of the life of the country people of the north of Ireland before the famines of the 1840s altered their pattern of existence for ever. Carleton went on to respond to the challenge of the novel, in his tirne a comparatively undeveloped genre amongst Irish writers, and published Fardorougha the Miser (1839), Valentine McClutchy (1845), The Black Prophet (1847), The Emigrants of Aghadarra (1848), The Tithe Proctor (1849), The Squanders of Castle Squander (1852). In these works he addresses many of the issues affecting the Ireland of his day such as the influence of the Established Church and landlordism, poverty, famine and emigration but does so with an earnestness that regrettably often caused his more creative genius to be swamped in a heavy didacticism. Carleton continued to write in a variety of forms, including verse, until his death in 1869, but critics are agreed that the quality of the work is uneven. Despite his prolific output, Carleton never really made a living from his writings and welcomed the pension voted to him by the government following the advocacy of such contrasting figures as the Ulster Presbyterian leader, Dr Henry Cooke, and Paul Cardinal Cullen, Catholic Archbishop of Dublin. His last project, uncompleted when he died, was his Autobiography, which was re-issued through the efforts of the Summer School Committee in 1996. Carleton was buried in the cemetery at Mount Jerome in Dublin and over his grave a miniature obelisk records the place "wherein rest the remains of one whose memory needs neither graven stone nor sculptured marble to preserve it from oblivion".
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AUGHNACLOY RACES
Aughnacloy Races at Ravella Photo: © Michael Fisher
The track might not be as sophisticated as Down Royal or Downpatrick, but the setting is ideal for this annual event. Aughnacloy Horse and Pony Races are now in their eleventh year, held on land owned by the Steele family at Ravella, close to the border with County Monaghan. But the tradition of horse racing in the town is much older: my great grandfather John McCann JP of Hilton House in Aughnacloy was Secretary of the original race committee around 1910-20 (I will have to check my records to get the exact date).
Ready for the Off at Aughnacloy Races Photo: © Michael Fisher
The races had originally been scheduled to take place on June 1st but were cancelled following one of the wettest springs on record. Work was undertaken to get the course ready for the races to be rescheduled a fortnight later, but again the weather defeated the organisers and the event had to be postponed a second time.
Jockeys line up for second race at Aughnacloy Races Photo: © Michael Fisher
This afternoon jockeys and punters converged on Aughnacloy from all over Ireland, with the highlight of the day being the famous 'Aughnacloy derby', the fifth of the seven races on the card. Traditionally, the annual race meeting has been a breeding ground for up and coming jockeys, with the likes of Martin Harley, a previous winner at Aughnacloy, having taken the horseracing world by storm.
Martin McCarron, Secretary Aughnacloy Races and Michael Fisher
The committee secretary Martin McCarron was the announcer and when he spotted my presence, called me over to the microphone to do an interview, turning the tables on me! Earlier he had introduced the Mayor of Dungannon Councillor Sean McGuigan. He told him he had already attended sixty events since he assumed office in June. At the start of the month I welcomed him to Monaghan for the opening of the William Carleton summer school along with the Mayor of Monaghan Councillor Sean Conlon.
Mayor of Dungannon Cllr Sean McGuigan and Martin McCarron, Secretary at Aughnacloy Races
Committee & Field Management Team: Chairperson Donald Magee; Secretary Martin McCarron; Treasurer Brian McKenna; President Peter McConnell; Assistant PR Officer John Morrison; Vice Chairman Eric Stansfield; Vice Secretary Stephen Watson; Vice Treasurer Benny McKenna; Joint Field Manager Des Sherry; Joe McMeel; Manuel Martins.
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CARLETON ON TOUR
Jack Johnston at Draperstown
The William Carleton story was told by Jack Johnston at The Shepherd's Rest pub near Draperstown. The well-attended event was hosted by Ballinascreen Historical Society. It include a reading by the Carleton Players from "The Party Fight and Funeral", adapted by Liam Foley. William Carleton Society is part of the "Shared History, Shared Future" project financed by the EU Peace III initiative and administered by Magherafelt District Council on behalf of the South West Peace III Partnership. On Tuesday 14th May at 6:30pm at Ranfurly House/Hill of the O'Neill centre in Dungannon we will be launching the programme for the 22nd annual William Carleton international summer school. All welcome.
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WILLIAM CARLETON
Donaghmore Historical Society in County Tyrone concluded its season of talks in The Heritage Centre on Monday, 8th April, when Michael Fisher gave an illustrated talk entitled, "From Prillisk to Beechmount: a Tyrone man's journey to Dublin: the story of William Carleton." Born and reared as a Catholic in the Clogher Valley , where his father was a small farmer, Carleton has never had the recognition he deserves, either in his native area or in the ranks of Irish novelists. He spent most of his adult life in Dublin , where his works were written, including the famous "Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry," the first such significant stories to be published in the English language in Ireland and Britain . When he settled in the capital city, he came under the influence of a Protestant clergyman, who persuaded him to change his religion in order to gain a living as a writer. His stories describe the society he grew up in, which often featured sectarian confrontation between orange and green factions, such as "The Party Fight and Funeral."
Michael Fisher Talk
Michael Fisher is Director of the William Carleton Society's international summer school. A freelance journalist, he retired from RTÉ. News in Belfast in September 2010, having joined the broadcaster in Dublin in 1979. He is a former BBC. News trainee in London and worked in Birmingham as a local radio reporter. A native of Dublin , Michael has family connections with County Tyrone as well as County Monaghan . He is a graduate of UCD. and QUB., where he completed an MA. in Irish Studies in 2001, including a dissertation on The Big House in Counties Fermanagh and Monaghan. He was introduced to the works of Carleton during his time as a student at University College in Dublin by one of his lecturers on Anglo-Irish literature, Maurice Harmon, who is now a patron of the William Carleton Society.
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Those who remember Michael's soft modulated, dulcet tones from his days on our television screens will have a chance to see and hear him in person in The Heritage Centre on Monday night at 8 o'clock, when he will be telling the story of a County Tyrone writer, who, surprisingly enough, is virtually unknown in this part of the county.
Carleton's Cottage, Springtown
William Carleton 1794 – 1869
William Carleton was born the youngest of a family of 14 children in the townland of Prolusk ('Prillisk' in his autobiography) near Clogher in Co.Tyrone, on Shrove Tuesday, 20th February,1794. Although there is little suggestion that the Carletons were upwardly mobile, they did move house frequently within the Clogher area and were established at the townland of Springtown when William left the family home. Carleton obtained his education at local hedge schools which he was to write about, fictionalising the pedagogue Pat Frayne as the redoubtable Mat Cavanagh. From other retrospections of his home district, we learn of Carleton's delight in his father's skill as a seanachie and the sweetness of his mother's voice as she sang the traditional airs of Ireland; of his early romances- especially with Anne Duffy, daughter of the local miller; of Carleton the athlete, accomplishing a 'Leap' over a river, the site of which is still pointed out; of the boisterous open air dancing. Initially an aspirant o the priesthood, Carleton embarked in 1814 on an excursion as a 'poor scholar' but, following a disturbing dream, returned to his somewhat leisurely life in the Clogher Valley before leaving home permanently in 1817. Journeying via Louth, Kildare and Mullingar, he found work as a teacher, librarian and, eventually, as a clerk in the Church of Ireland Sunday School Office in Dublin. In 1820, he married Jane Anderson who bore him several children. By 1825, Carleton. who had left the Roman Catholic Church for the Anglican Church of Ireland, met a maverick Church of Ireland cleric, Caesar Otway, who encouraged him to put his already recognised journalistic talents to such prosletysing purposes as satirising the attitudes reflected in pilgrimages to 'St Patrick's Purgatory' at Lough Derg, a totemic site in Irish Catholicism. Further writings in the Christian Examiner & Church of lreland Magazine led in 1829 and 1833 to the publication of what is arguably Carleton's best known work: Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry. In these stories Carleton returned imaginatively to the Clogher Valley, drawing on comedy, farce, melodrama and tragedy to present a tableau of the life of the country people of the north of Ireland before the famines of the 1840s altered their pattern of existence for ever. Carleton went on to respond to the challenge of the novel, in his tirne a comparatively undeveloped genre amongst Irish writers, and published Fardorougha the Miser (1839), Valentine McClutchy (1845), The Black Prophet (1847), The Emigrants of Aghadarra (1848), The Tithe Proctor (1849), The Squanders of Castle Squander (1852). In these works he addresses many of the issues affecting the Ireland of his day such as the influence of the Established Church and landlordism, poverty, famine and emigration but does so with an earnestness that regrettably often caused his more creative genius to be swamped in a heavy didacticism. Carleton continued to write in a variety of forms, including verse, until his death in 1869, but critics are agreed that the quality of the work is uneven. Despite his prolific output, Carleton never really made a living from his writings and welcomed the pension voted to him by the government following the advocacy of such contrasting figures as the Ulster Presbyterian leader, Dr Henry Cooke, and Paul Cardinal Cullen, Catholic Archbishop of Dublin. His last project, uncompleted when he died, was his Autobiography, which was re-issued through the efforts of the Summer School Committee in 1996. Carleton was buried in the cemetery at Mount Jerome in Dublin and over his grave a miniature obelisk records the place "wherein rest the remains of one whose memory needs neither graven stone nor sculptured marble to preserve it from oblivion". (Summer School handbook 1998)
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CARLETON AND IRISH
The historian John Paul McCarthy immediately caught my attention in his column in the Sunday Independent p.16 10/02/13 with his mention of William Carleton in the sub-heading. He is writing about the poet Liam O Muirthile from Cork. Under the heading "Language of love and friendship", he says that Liam's latest collection of peoms is in the humane Carleton tradition. He goes on to make a very interesting comparison of the works of both men. I am therefore publishing his comments here because of my interest in Carleton.
It is good to see the work of Liam O Muirthile getting recognition. I worked with him in the RTÉ newsroom in Dublin, where he was part of the Nuacht team. After he left RTÉ, he devoted his time to literature and he used to have a regular column in The Irish Times.
Liam O Muirthile, file (poet)
Liam's latest work is called An Fuíoll Feá – Rogha Dánta or Wood Cuttings, new and selected poems, published by Cois Life and there's more about it on their blog. Gabriel Rosenstock has translated the poems. The book is available in harback and softback (€30/€20). It also comes with a CD of O Muirthile reading some of his work.
Here is an edited version of what John Paul McCarthy has to say on the subject:-
"In his essay on Irish swearing, the great Victorian chronicler of Gaelic Ireland, William Carleton, said "the Irish language actually flows with the milk and honey of love and friendship". Irish for him was the medium of prayer and domestic tranquility. That aspect of Irish has struggled to get a hearing in our time, if only because of the relentlessly political focus that has disfigured large parts of modern Irish letters. The introspection of the Gaeltachtai has not helped matters either. Liam O Muirthile's latest collection of poems, An Fuioll Fea-Wood Cuttings (Cois Life), is very much in the humane Carleton tradition though.
O Muirthile's Irish is the Irish of the city street, the factory floor and the urban tavern. His focus is on what Patrick Kavanagh once called "ordinary plenty"….
Like Carleton again, O Muirthile found politics to be inescapable. He translates parts of Wolfe Tone's diaries in a series of poems before tending to the Guildford Four. The Firing Squad suggests some fundamental ambivalence about revolutionary aristocrats, especially the ones who plague people with their consciences in pubs.
The last poem of this collection then, Thuaidh (or North) draws these disparate threads together. The poet is commemorating an ancient IRA ambush, and proceedings are rather hijacked by an abrasive northerner. "'Daoine boga sibhse theas,' arsa cara. 'Muidne thuaidh cruaidh.'" (You lot are soft down south, we're hard in the north)".
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Bedtime Story About A Magical Warrior Raised By Dragons – For Kids and Grown-Ups (8+): "Henrik The Defender" Chapter 10 by Adam Oakley
Posted byAdam Oakley Books July 12, 2021 Posted inBedtime StoriesTags:Bedtime Stories, bedtime story, bedtime story podcast, dragon bedtime story, middle grade bedtime story, warrior kids book, warrior kids story
Chapter 10 – The Plan
Henrik slowly and very carefully placed the two hairs from Trabernikus's head inside the small ball he had made from Tarla leaves and Bindenvines.
After he added the hairs, he took a few more leaves from his pocket, asked Boevill to lick them, and he used them to seal the gap in the top of the ball.
Now he had a bomb.
"The only way it can be detonated is to request it from the Witches of Algairtha." Henrik said.
"You're sure you trust these witches?" Trabernikus said, relieved he had his hairs back. "Will they definitely do what you want?"
"Yes," Henrik said. "In fact, I can ask them now. Stand watch for anything nearby."
Henrik was kneeling down. He closed his eyes, and he felt himself travel to the minds of the Witches of Algairtha, who were sitting around a fire, staring into the flames. None of them wore hats. They were all quite beautiful, had long dark shining hair and always wore long dark robes.
"Dearest witches," Henrik said. "I have used your advice to create a bomb made from Navigation Troll hair, to prevent the Marauders of Derdark from attacking the Kingdom of Argad. When the bomb is planted, I will request that you detonate it, since Algairtha creations can only be detonated by Algairtha minds. Will you do this?"
The witches were all now staring at Henrik with bright eyes that reflected the flames in front of them.
"We will do this," the group of witches all said in unison. "Give us the signal."
"Thank you," Henrik said. "There is another quandary that I am still hesitant about. I have been told that the young prince…"
"Kill the boy!" all the witches said in unison. "Kill the boy! Kill the boy! Destroy the magic of the Terradarks! Destroy destroy destroy!"
Henrik could not stay with the witches, but they were standing and beginning to move towards him.
"The boy must be destroyed, and the Terradarks along with him! Destroy! Destroy! Destroy!"
Henrik was being called away, as he struggled to find any memory of anything called a Terradark in his mind. Something was pulling him away from the witches, but he could see the keenness in their eyes, the hunger they had within them for Henrik to bring an end to this young boy.
"You must do it! No more hesitations!" he heard one of the witches cry out as their image faded into white, and Henrik opened his eyes, with Trabernikus prodding him on the shoulder.
"Marauders are coming this way, Henrik. They are coming!"
Henrik looked beyond the enormous tree they were hiding behind, and he saw two Marauders trundling along, in a very similar way to how he had seen Goblins from Guntharp moving. But Marauders had emptier faces. They had dark eyes and small mouths and small noses that made their faces look almost blank. Their noses were more like holes in the middle of their faces.
Henrik could hear them speaking to each other, but it was in a dark language that he did not want to understand.
Henrik covered Boevill's mouth to stop him from growling, and as the Marauders walked past the three, they sniffed at the air. They were about to turn, when Boevill leapt on top of one and Henrik grabbed another, and as the Marauders struggled, Henrik strangled one of the creatures until it stopped moving. Boevill had clamped on to the other one's neck, until it too was still.
"They can smell better than they can see," Trabernikus said. "Here, give me the bomb."
Trabernikus held out his hands, but Henrik did not hand it over.
"Why?" Henrik said. "I have to plant it inside."
"How in the hell will you, a giant bearskin-covered man, make it into that mountain without being seen? I cannot reach it underground as I would like to. The Marauders have poisoned the land around it so much that I can not travel through it. At least they do not see me as a threat. I will take the bomb to them, above ground, and I will plant it."
Trabernikus was still holding his hands out.
"How?" Henrik said. "The bomb is too obvious. You cannot hide it."
"I don't need to. Marauders trust their noses more than their eyes. I will smear this bomb with the scent from those two Marauders you just strangled. That will be enough to get it inside before they realise what it is. Are they still alive?"
"My one is," Henrik said. "I'm not sure about Boevill's. Release it, Boevill."
Boevill opened his mouth. There was no blood.
"Yes, I think they are alive," Henrik said.
"You two get out of sight," Trabernikus said. He was trying to jump up to take the bomb from Henrik. "I will rub the bomb over their bodies before they wake up, and when they do, I'll be holding this ball of leaves that smells like their own kind. I'll say it's a gift from Marauders from another land. They'll be confused, and they'll take me into the mountain to meet with whoever is in charge. Then I'll escape, leaving the bomb inside the mountain for you to detonate."
Henrik did not like the plan. It was too complicated. Too risky. He did not like sending Trabernikus into a dangerous situation.
Henrik took a step away from Trabernikus, who was still trying to grab at the bomb. As Henrik looked more closely at the mountain through the trees, he could see yellow-tinged smoke leaving the top of the mountain.
"What's the smoke?" Henrik said.
"It comes from where they are making those monsters," Trabernikus said, putting his arms down. "The caves are around the other side of the mountain, but they let some of the fumes escape from the top. Toxic stuff, those monsters are made from, toxic stuff."
"Well that's it," Henrik said. "All we have to do is drop the bomb in from above. It will drop down into the cave, and I will ask the witches to detonate it."
Trabernikus sniffed. "Well that sounds easier. But how will we drop it in?"
At that moment an Arganbird fluttered up through the trees and landed on a branch behind them. It was a bird that was acting as a spy, perhaps ready to go back to the Kingdom of Argad and report what it had found, to the one man in the kingdom who knew how to communicate with birds.
Henrik smiled at it. "I think I know who would like to drop the bomb," Henrik said.
Story written and read by Adam Oakley, Copyright © Adam Oakley
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HomeLifestyle'Systemic' failings with 999 call-handling service criticised
'Systemic' failings with 999 call-handling service criticised
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South East Coast Ambulance Service said it had changed its call-handling systems since the three deaths
A woman who died after waiting almost two hours for an ambulance was let down by "systemic" failings with a computer call-handling system, a coroner said.
Daisy Filby, 90, was one of three people who died after delays in receiving care from the South East Coast Ambulance Service (Secamb).
Coroner Alan Craze said a human would have "realised what was going on" and prioritised the calls differently.
Secamb said the system was a national one and that it had made changes.
A spokesman for the ambulance service said: "We are very sorry for the service they received.
"We have listened very closely to the coroner throughout and we are committed to making further improvements where necessary."
'Medical knowledge'
Mrs Filby, from Seaford, died in June 2017 as a result of an "accident contributed to by neglect," Mr Craze concluded at the Hasting's Coroner's Court inquest.
"The lady fell and wedged herself into a position from which neither she nor her daughter, who was very seriously disabled, could get herself out of."
"If an ambulance or anybody with or without medical knowledge had been able to reach this poor lady before her death, the situation would have been different," he added.
Mr Craze said: "The problem is not the actions of any one individual in Secamb Trust.
"The problem is ultimately systemic and at the heart of the call-taking and decision-making system.
"The fundamental problem is you can't now make a computer to make decisions.
"Only a properly trained human being could have listened to those calls and realised what was going on."
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Maurice Goodwin had to wait more than three hours for medical assistance
The same inquest, also heard how on 31 August 2017 Barbara Goodwin dialled 999 for her husband Maurice, 87, when she found his catheter full of blood.
She was told an ambulance would not be coming and her husband had been referred to the community team.
When nurses arrived more than three hours later, he had stopped breathing and was pronounced dead.
Mr Craze concluded he died as a result of "natural causes contributed to by neglect".
Special measures
The coroner also concluded Anthony Harding, 84, from Wivelsfield, died of natural causes after waiting for medics for more than an hour.
He collapsed twice on 21 August 2017 after he suffered an aneurysm and his abdominal cavity filled with blood.
Mr Craze said the 999 call at 18:32 was triaged as a minor medical issue and assistance did not reach him until 19:45.
The ambulance service which covers Kent, Sussex, Surrey and north east Hampshire, was put into special measures in 2017 after being rated "inadequate" by the health watchdog the Care Quality Commission.
It was taken out of special measures in August 2019 after being rated "good", but admitted, although it had made "significant improvements", more could be done.
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My friends lived in a house on High Street. They said it was haunted, and they felt that the energy was demonic. You could have walked out of that house and see the intersection you're speaking of.
On the corner of Thompson and high there have been multiple sightings of a spirit or demon of some sort that shows up at seemingly random times. It shows up in the middle of the intersection as a cloudy apparition that is definitely human looking.
I didn't believe it until I saw it myself last year and now I'm a believer.


One big change for developers to realize when using the latest EsriJS beta is that maps don't do very much. If you look at the docs, you'll see that a map is simply a container for data. It essentially just manages layers. It's not even in charge of how things are drawn, that task is left up to the View. If you want to render information in 2D, you would use a MapView, or you can render the same map in 3D using a SceneView. So really, the map is just a container of information, it's up to you do decide how you want to shine the light on it.
If you look at the events of a Map, all you get is stuff related to the layers. You don't even get a load o ready event, but this has more to do with promises in the API and Accessors than anything else. But look at the methods and properties for the map. There is nothing for navigation or refreshing the map. All these types of operations are now handled in the Views.
So let's say you had a single map and you wanted to display that map in both 2D and 3D… well it's very simple.
You can see a demo this here.
See, one map, multiple views. You could even take advantage of the Accessors in the API to do some other cool stuff, like a ghetto overview map.
In this case, you are watching for the center to change in one view and sync it to another. You can see a demo of this here.
Ok, so there's no lions in the API, but I think you get the basic idea that Views are the workers in the Map-to-View relationship. The map is the keeper of the data, the views are the canvas you stick it on or the globe you drape it over. Once you get used to this simple concept in the API, I'm pretty sure you'll be able to go out there and make some awesome applications! Remember, the map is your box of goodies, the views are your looking glass.


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package users;

import java.util.List;

import users.reporters.doctor.Doctor;
import users.reporters.patient.Patient;

public class UsersController {
	static UsersDB udb;
	public static void setType(String i) {
		switch (i) {
		case "file":
			udb = new UsersDBFile();
			break;

		default:
			udb = new UsersDBPersistent();
			break;
		}
	}
	public List<Doctor> getAllSpecials(){
		return udb.get_doctors_by_name("", false);
	}
	public List<Doctor> search_special_doctor(String name, String specialty){
		return udb.searchSpecialDoctors(name, specialty);
	}
	public static void save(Users user) {
		udb.save(user);

	}
	public static Users getByUserName(String username) {
		return udb.getByUserName(username);
	}
	public static boolean login(String text, String text2) {
		return udb.login(text, text2);
	}
	public static List<Doctor> get_doctors_by_name(String string, boolean b) {
		return udb.get_doctors_by_name(string, b);
	}
	public static List<Patient> search_patients_by_name(String string, boolean b) {
		return udb.search_patients_by_name(string, b);
	}
	public static void merge(Users rm) {
		udb.merge(rm);
	}
	public static List<Users> search_users_by_name(String string, boolean b) {
		return udb.search_users_by_name(string, b);
	}
	public static List<Patient> get_my_patient(String username, String query) {
		return udb.get_my_patient(username, query);
	}
	public static List<Doctor> searchSpecialDoctors(String text, String text2) {
		return udb.searchSpecialDoctors(text, text2);
	}
}

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Abstract: Alfalfa leaf curl virus (ALCV), which causes severe disease symptoms in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) and is transmitted by the widespread aphid species, Aphis craccivora Koch, has been found throughout the Mediterranean basin as well as in Iran and Argentina. Here we reconstruct the evolutionary history of ALCV and attempt to determine whether the recent discovery and widespread detection of ALCV is attributable either to past diagnostic biases or to the emergence and global spread of the virus over the past few years. One hundred and twenty ALCV complete genome sequences recovered from ten countries were analyzed and four ALCV genotypes (ALCV-A, ALCV-B, ALCV-C, and ALCV-D) were clearly distinguished. We further confirm that ALCV isolates are highly recombinogenic and that recombination has been a major determinant in the origins of the various genotypes. Collectively, the sequence data support the hypothesis that, of all the analyzed locations, ALCV likely emerged and diversified in the Middle East before spreading to the western Mediterranean basin and Argentina.


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Orthocentrus fulvipes är en stekelart som beskrevs av Johann Ludwig Christian Gravenhorst 1829. Orthocentrus fulvipes ingår i släktet Orthocentrus och familjen brokparasitsteklar. Arten är reproducerande i Sverige. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Summary: Spock is betrayed by an old, and valued friend.
Calamities come in many sizes. Read how an inquisitive girl triggers a chain of events that damages relationships and reputations. This story was written for the February "Overcoming Calamity" challenge and rightly belongs after "Times of Trouble" in the Star Trek: Beyond series.
Summary: Two years after the Genesis Incident, Carol Marcus returns to the scene of the incident and her greatest calamity.
This is a follow-on to my free write 'Sink or Swim – Young McCoy' and takes place a few weeks later. Lenny and Joss were so different, so just what did he do to win her heart? To his mind it was the events of this, their first date, that sealed the deal.


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Playtonic Games
Yooka-Laylee's Game Worlds Will Be Contained Within "Magical Books"
by Liam Doolan Mon 18th May 2015
Playtonic's spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie and popular Kickstarter project, Yooka-Laylee, aims to recreate the magic of the 3D platform titles of yesteryear with charming characters and classic level design.
With development well underway, creative lead Gavin Price has recently discussed the team's approach to level creation in Yooka-Laylee and how magical books will act as foundations for the game's worlds.
This time around, the worlds will all be contained within these larger magical books and we'll have quite book-ish names for the levels as well...Sometimes they'll sound more like titles of books when you go into the levels and you'll explore them that way by collecting Pages as well. So you can go into a world, and it'll start off similar to a Banjo level in terms of scope, size and complexity, but then you can spend your Pages expanding the current world or use them to unlock a future world as well.
Balance is a primary concern for Playtonic when it comes to Yooka-Laylee's level design. The team wants to draw inspiration from the open-worlds of modern-day sandbox titles while maintaining the level variety and freshness featured in classic games. At the same time the team is striving to create a less linear experience.
We actually wanted to make it so that if players want to go through into one world and then go ahead and see the next word, but still come back later on, they can do that. We're 'de-linearising' the experience.
Let us know in the comments if you like the idea of the level design planned for Yooka-Laylee.
[source gamesradar.com]
Yooka-Laylee (Wii U eShop)
About Liam Doolan
When he's not paying off a loan to Tom Nook, Liam likes to report on the latest Nintendo news and admire his library of video games. His favourite Nintendo character used to be a guitar-playing dog, but nowadays he prefers to hang out with Judd the cat.
TheHumbleFellow
Mon 18th May 2015
"A novel idea."
Extreeeme
I like good linear games. Don't understand why everything has to be "de-linearised".
DrMatta
I only hope it's not DK levels of backtracking..
Koapa
I'm also not a big fun of going back in leves for collecting.
They should make some side quest in already finished levels.
OorWullie
Sounds good but if I'm being honest I'd rather not hear any more news about this for a while,it's release is so far off.They should just disappear for a few months and give us a big update when they've made substantial progress.I understand with the way it's funded they can't really do that though.
MrRandomHero
I was going to get this on the X1, but will probably end up with the Wii U version. It just seems like the right choice for this game.
MadAdam81
@TheHumbleFellow Except, pun aside, it's been done before.
SEGATA_DREAMCAST
Maybe gonna be somethin like DK64, how you needed x amount of golden bananas to unlock the next world, and sometimes multiple worlds were available to unlock at the same time. And also how you could go back to previous levels and use new skills you got to get things you couldnt get before on the older levels. And i actually like DK64 more than super mario 64 (not to say i dont like super mario 64), but for some reason people gotta keep complaining about how "bad" it was.
Dpullam
I definitely like what they are doing with the games so far. Now if only they would incorporate something similar to Cheat-O in Banjo Kazooie where you could get secret bonuses if you know the code. I loved that feature in the original Banjo-Kazooie and would love to see it returns in a similar form. Of course, it'd only make sense if the game they are envisioning could use something like that. It's smart to make your OWN game rather than just take what made older games successful. This Is just off the top of my head though. Nostalgia overload is getting the best of me.
Keeps sounding better all the time!
@Yoshis95 Some people didn't like there being separate bananas to collect for each Kong but I personally agree with you, that game was quite possibly better than Mario 64. Such an underrated gem of a game along with Jet Force Gemini.
SpriteMaster
I was a bit uncertain about the whole expanding worlds idea, but this makes all the sense in the world now!
I love the idea of each world being a "book" and the separate levels/ sections of those worlds being the "pages" within these books.
I'm also a keen collector, so retreading old ground to unlock new ones doesn't bother me in the slightest, in fact it makes me even more excited!
Just a shame it's a year and a half away still...
@NintyMan That's not what he said, though. You can expand the current world from within or unlock new worlds (books) from the hub world. At least, that's how I understand it. It wouldn't make much sense, if the different worlds, that are supposed to be books, would be interconnected with each other. Books are not interconnected.
mystman12
So, Myst books?!
EarthboundBenjy
@Yoshis95
I like DK64, the only problem I have with it is that you have to complete a stupid minigame before you are allowed to collect most Gold Bananas, which was definitely NOT the case with Power Stars in Mario or Jiggies in Banjo.
ThanosReXXX
This whole pages of a book idea comes across as a variation of the puzzle pieces in Banjo Kazooie/Banjo Tooie and there was also a hub there, so that's also similar. In the whole design and planning of Yooka-Laylee they're doing more and more to truly make this the real successor to Banjo Kazooie and I like it. Can't wait...
ITAFTRS
The hype just keeps on growing for this title:D Need to show some support for this amazing team and donate some money.
@EarthboundBenjy I can see the mini games being annoying, some of them were quite agitating.
RegalSin
Tue 19th May 2015
Yoshi story. I just hope this is not going to be another Banjo and more like an Conker.
Seanmyster6
@RegalSin "I just hope this is not going to be another Banjo and more like an Conker."
It could end up being a little of both, in terms of gameplay. (just don't hold your breath for the inclusion of gross-out humor, crude language, and movie parodies XD)
OMC79
I got the pun, but it is really not that "novel". Conker's Twelve Tales was going to within fairy tale books or something like that too. From the 3 funded "spiritual successors" (ack, I hate that phrase!) this is the only one I consider is necessary, why? Because we only had two true Banjo-Kazooie games and they let us waiting for 15 for the third one only to get something that was not B-K. As for the other two, with over 30 games on each of the franchises, one more is not really that necessary, especially if it doesn't keep the name.or characters. I never bought Inafune-Man or Igavania, I bought Mega Man and Castlevania and I bought a lot.
This one is one I'm really looking forward to see even if it doesn't "bear" the name.
Wed 20th May 2015
@Seanmyster6 the original Banjo including the sequel without reading any of the gibberish the characters was saying just felt so pointless in my opinion. Those jokes were an huge point of the game itself. Getting past that; Banjo never had an real ending at all.
The true ending was the hidden bad ending. I mean they are bears and should look like bears. So what if she sucked out the "beauty" of that one bear. People eat bear meat and they still hunt bears as I type this.
Conker on the other hand was more like "Beyond Good and Evil". It is an game you can not stop playing no matter what. Even the multilayer was awesome. Conker was also censored as well. Banjo vs Conker dev team is funny as well.
The funny story about Conker is the devteam wanted their game to beat the other devteams work. So they said okay this game is going to be an game everybody wants to play. Not the other way around. In fact let me go and play Conker Right now. That is how awesome this game is.
I love Conker that much. Banjo just seems kinda pointless to even finish, or romp through. I keep going back but everything seems more like an degraded version of Conker. I just wish whatever these people are planning is not another picnik.
They have to do something extreme to make this game worth something.
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Danny Strong
Years active 1997-present
Name Danny Strong
Role Actor
Full Name Daniel W. Strong
Born June 6, 1974 (age 41) (1974-06-06)
Occupation Actor, screenwriter, producer
Awards Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries or Movie
Education Mira Costa High School, University of Southern California
Nominations NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture
Movies and TV shows Empire, The Butler, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Game Change, Sydney White
Similar People Lee Daniels, Terrence Howard, Taraji P Henson, Jussie Smollett, Trai Byers
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Daniel W. "Danny" Strong (born June 6, 1974) is an American actor, screenwriter, and producer. As an actor, Strong is best known for his roles as Jonathan Levinson in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Doyle McMaster in Gilmore Girls. He also wrote the screenplays for Recount, the HBO adaptation Game Change, Lee Daniels' The Butler, and the two-part finale of The Hunger Games film trilogy, Mockingjay – Part 1 and Mockingjay – Part 2. Strong also is a co-creator, executive producer, and writer for the Fox series Empire.
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Strong has won two Emmy Awards, two Writers Guild of America Awards, a Producers Guild of America Award, and a NAACP Image Award.
Strong grew up in Manhattan Beach, California. He was raised in a Jewish family (of Lithuanian, Russian, and Polish origin). He began acting at a young age. Strong rented videos from Video Archives, and became friends with Quentin Tarantino, who worked there as a clerk. "I would just literally sit and chat with him for 45 minutes, an hour at a time about movies, and he got me turned on to all these different movies that 10-year-olds don't see." Strong attended Mira Costa High School, and then studied film and theatre at the University of Southern California.
Strong is known for playing Jonathan Levinson on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Paris Geller's boyfriend Doyle McMaster on Gilmore Girls, but he has also appeared in films such as Pleasantville, Dangerous Minds, Seabiscuit, the spoof Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday The Thirteenth, and was in the film Sydney White as the Grumpy dork, Gurkin. Strong has also had guest parts in sitcoms such as Seinfeld, Clueless, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Over the Top, Grey's Anatomy and How I Met Your Mother and has also guest-lectured in acting classes on finding a job as an actor. Most recently, Strong appeared in the popular AMC series Mad Men as Danny Siegel, a young man with no talent, trying to break into the advertising industry, later making a career in Hollywood. Strong also appeared on the HBO series Girls in the third and fourth seasons; and appeared on the fifth and sixth seasons of Justified as Albert Ferkus, a rapist prison guard.
At 25, in the hopes of being the lead actor in his own film, Strong wrote a dark comedy about two men who kill an elderly man for his rent-controlled apartment. The film never materialized, but it sparked his desire to become a full-time writer. His first successful script was Recount, a film about the 2000 US Elections, produced by HBO and directed by Jay Roach. The film starred Kevin Spacey, Laura Dern, Denis Leary, John Hurt and Tom Wilkinson and premiered on May 25, 2008. The script had been voted number one on the 2007 Hollywood Black List, a list of the "most liked" but unproduced scripts as voted on by the Hollywood community and insiders. Strong was nominated for a 2008 Emmy Award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special for Recount. The film was nominated for Best Television Miniseries or Film at the 66th Golden Globe Awards and won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Made for Television Movie as well as the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay for a Television movie.
Strong followed up Recount with the 2012 film adaptation of Game Change, based on the book written by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. The film starred Julianne Moore and aired on HBO on March 10, 2012. In 2012, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special for Game Change. The film was also awarded a Peabody Award, which recognizes distinguished and meritorious public service by radio and television stations, networks, producing organizations and individuals.
In February 2012, he was hired to write the screenplay for the film adaptation of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol, whose production has been stalled since 2013.
Strong wrote the screenplay for the film The Butler. Oprah Winfrey and Forest Whitaker starred in the film and it was directed by Lee Daniels. The script was voted on to the 2010 Hollywood Black List. It was released in August 2013 and grossed over $100 million in the US box office. He also had a cameo in the film.
In December 2013, Strong signed on to pen the new screenplay for the film adaptation of the musical Guys and Dolls, which originally premiered on Broadway in 1950.
Strong also co-created the TV series Empire with Daniels in 2014, for which he has written and directed multiple episodes.
Strong co-wrote the two-part Mockingjay, the finale of The Hunger Games series. Part 1 was released on November 21, 2014, and Part 2 was released on November 20, 2015.
Strong is making his directorial debut with the biographical drama film Rebel in the Rye.
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Afton and I have been busy collecting acorns outside.
Now what will we do with them?
I say she is lucky, because look at the gorgeous party that her momma put together. Now this is a Crafty lady!!
She made mermaid tails for all the little girls to wear.
The boys got homemade scuba tanks.
A table of treats for the little guests.
The backyard was filled with 'mermaid themed' activities.
A sand box filled with treasures, each child was given a special bucket to collect them in.
A treasure chest filled with jewels and pearls.
Sand art and decorating sparkly fish too!
Thanks so much for sharing your 4th birthday with us- what a wonderful, Crafty party!


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Stamps Wheel, Treworlis Mine, Lowertown, about 1959
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Lowertown (Treworlis Tin Stamps, near Trenethick Barton) Cornwall United Kingdom
Trades and Professions Mining Helston
The water driven tin stamp wheel at Treworlis Mine, Lowertown, demolished in 1959. Information from: www.cornwallinfocus.co.uk/mining/treworlis.php - Treworlis mine sett lies about a mile northeast of Helston near the site of Trenethick Manor. It worked a solitary lode from New Engine Shaft, Old Engine Shaft and Tremenheere Shaft, producing medium grade copper ore as well as black tin. The mine commenced working in Spring 1859 after a lease was granted by the mineral lords - The Duchy of Cornwall. Production was 353 tons of tin between 1860 and 1874 as well as 704 tons of 5.25% copper ore between 1860 and 1864 and also in 1868. Thomas Spargo writes in his 'The mines of Cornwall and Devon; Statistics and Observations' (1865) that Treworlis '... in the parish of Wendron, about a mile east of Helston, was set to work in April, 1859. The dues, l-18th are paid to the Duke of Cornwall. There is only one lode worked on. The depth of the mine is 43 fathoms. 55 men, 4 females, and 20 boys, employed on the works (in 1861). The water is pumped by a 26-inch cylinder engine. Purser, Mr. H. Rogers, Helston; manager, Captain John Burgan, Helston; agent on the mine, Captain Bennet Dunstan. The company are now working in a spirited manner, with good prospects of success. There is some copper-ore in the lode, but tin predominates'.


My Life As A Chronically Ill Young Adult : Music Monday "Bring on the Rain"
Music Monday "Bring on the Rain"
This week the song I chose is a country song by Jo Dee Messina and it is titled "Bring on the Rain". In some of the past songs I have posted, I have high lighted certain parts that really speak to me, but in this song, every single verse has meaning to me. But I love the whole over all message of this song. Just like last week's song that was about holding on when times got tough, this one is similar to that and I hope that this song will give you strength to pull through whatever you may be going through; and in the future when things get rough again, pull up this song again and re-read it to help give you strength.


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"I just wanted to take the time to thank you for posting your article. As a new practitioner I have struggled with muscle checking. As I read your article I realized that I do that very thing! Ending up frustrated and lacking confidence in my ability as a practitioner or wondering if the session made sense. Reading your article brought it into my awareness and now I look forward to my next session to practice the technique you suggested. I just wanted to say thank you for contributing and giving me the opportunity to grow and become better."
"I just read your article in the IBA newsletter and found it very helpful. Thank you!"
"I just wanted to thank you for the piece you wrote for the latest BodyTalk newsletter on yes/no muscle checking. It was the exact advice I needed to hear at the exact time I needed to hear it. I have been a certified BT practitioner since last year, started taking my first advanced module this year, and still had felt like muscle checking and feeling confident in my responses was a challenge, and I kind of felt like I must be the only one with issues at this point because no one else talks about it. Your suggestions gave me great confidence and my last several sessions, although going a little slower, have had deeper impact and I walk away feeling so much more confident in what was happening in the session. So again, thank you very much!"
"Brilliant post on muscle checking invaluable. Thanks for taking the time to share this. I've known a few who walked away for this very reason! Very sad."
Others, however, just about brought me to tears as people shared their frustration and despair in their endeavours to get their muscle check secure. I have since worked with all of these people via Skype video to observe them in action and advise where necessary. Everyone I have worked with in this way has responded magnificently and I am so thrilled to report that a 100% result on surety and security with their muscle check has been the outcome - a complete turnaround.
One aspect did hit home to me though that I forgot to include in the original article. It is extremely important and the purpose of this addendum. As a graduate, or if you are a CBP who feels insecure with your muscle check, another helper is that of exaggeration. When calibrating the muscle check, ensure that your 'yes' action is very big and your 'no' action is rock solid with your other hand stopping any movement. Do this several times before asking 'show me a 'yes'/'no''. This big action gives you such a very clear distinction between the two that if you continue using it for a good while you will never have to doubt or second guess your checking ever again. Of course, eventually as you become more fluent and confident, your action will become smaller and smaller but by then you will be a real pro!
I just want to add that if there are any others out there in BodyTalk land who would like some help with their muscle checking I would be happy for you to email me at rosilyn@carlyleclinic.com.au to set up a time. There is no charge. You will need to be connected with Skype and have a camera facility. You will also need to have someone willing to be on the table.
Thank you so much to all of you who felt moved to respond to the original article. Your emails were warmly welcomed and it has been my great pleasure to help/advise where I've been able.


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Q: Ubuntu 16.04 freezes when I use libreoffice writer When I use libreoffice writer, every now and then my entire system freezes.  Usually when selecting more than a few words of text, but it does not happen every time I select a paragraph (have not been able to reproduce the bug when I tried, but it happens often enough on important documents to be very annoying). EDIT: I am not talking about huge and complicated documents here: This has happened to files with less than one page of text, only a few formatting options (bold text and bullet points I think) without any pictures or graph or anything!
In the frozen state I can only move the mouse and interestingly the sound keeps playing, but I can't click anything or enter the console. (It's not the typical "libreoffice turning grey because it's overwhelmed" where you just wait until it passes. It's a complete freeze, and the only option is to press the power button.
I'm using Libreoffice version 5.1.6.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (kernel version 4.13.0-36-generic), with a Lenovo Thinkpad 13 (Intel i3 core, 16 GB RAM).
I've found similar problems described e.g. here...
However, the solutions mentioned in the previous threads don't seem to help me. I don't think I can "turn off transparency" in the writer (I'm not drawing any transparent areas there), and I don't think I have a NVIDIA graphics card. I tried to figure out the later:
lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Sky Lake Integrated Graphics (rev 07)

What do you recommend? I would highly appreciate your help!
EDIT: I have the little system monitor running and as far as I remember, CPU was never too busy when the freeze occurred, probably below 15-20%. (Of course that display also stopped showing me more recent results when the system had frozen - but CPU-usuage definitely did not go up visibly right before the freeze).
UPDATE 1: I tried out the following:
Under System settings - Software & updates - Additional drivers, my only listed item is "Unknown:Unknown". The tag is, by default, on "do not use the device". I changed it to "Using Processor microcode firmware for Intel CPUs from intel-microcode (open source)".
I just worked half an hour on a libreoffice writer document and nothing froze so far! :)
UPDATE 2: Seems like the driver change is not really a solution yet. I worked another hour or so on a libreoffice writer document without problems at first. But then I selected two rows that I wanted to move in a table, and had a new type of crash: This time, the system only froze for a short time (same symptoms as above, could only move the mouse) but then it logged me out automatically and threw me back to the log-in screen. I suppose that's a bit better than having to shut down the computer via the power button... Still not solved though.
UPDATE 3: Working on libreoffice writer (same document with the tables in it that crashed yesterday) all day - no problems so far! So I definitely count this as an improvement!

A: One alternative to launching a full blown word processor to edit a "simple text file" would be to use a lightweight simple text editor. There are several of these and examples are included with every Ubuntu release.
Notable GUI members of this class include gedit and leafpad and for the CLI include vi(vim) emacs(e3) and pico(nano)
Depending on what you are actually doing in the background it can make good sense to save resources by using more lightweight alternatives. I had an issue once where nautilus wouldn't start under a heavy system load using a slightly lighter weight file manager solved the problem for me.

A: In my experience with either LibreOffice5 or LibreOffice6, the size of the document or the particular operations within LibreOffice don't seem to matter much; the freezing of the software and/or system happens randomly.
To diagnose the problem, find out what process is guilty for the frozen graphics: I open a terminal (CTRL-ALT-F2) and run "Table of Processes", with command "top", to see what is running.  At the top of the list, during the GUI freeze, Compiz is clearly shown hogging resources, at 100% or even 106%, sometimes relinquishing resources after 2 or 3 minutes lag.  (For me, after a long delay when Compiz finally drops down to 10% CPU or even 0%, the fan audibly changes to a lower speed.)
If you want to wait, you may see the Compiz process drop off the list of the Table of Processes running.  At this point, switch back to your GUI (ALT-CTRL-F7), and you may be able to continue working in LibreOffice.  Basically, there's an interminable lag in Compiz, not a problem with LibreOffice, AFAIK.
If you want to kill the Compiz process, in the hopes it will re-start and restore without the freeze, you can try the "kill" command using the terminal and apply it to the Compiz PID. Get the current PID for the Compiz process from the left-hand column in TOP, then from the command line, run "kill -9 PID" then get back to the GUI (e.g. CTRL-ALT-F7).  Sometimes a Compiz re-start in this manner will recover and make LibreOffice usable again (Eureka!), sometimes Compiz re-start will blank out the Launchbar icons (but LibreOffice will still be usable > save your work > reboot your system) ; more likely, Compiz re-start will freeze the whole system, requiring reboot e.g. switch back to terminal, run "sudo shutdown -r now"
(If you have to reboot, hopefully LibreOffice saved your work > recover your work on the next session of LibreOffice).
The lag in Compiz is confirmed (for me) using different software: LibreOffice 5, LibreOffice 6, Firefox, etc.  So again, it's not a problem specific to LibreOffice, IMHO.
There are many complaints about the latest CompizConfigSettingsManager (CCSM) update on AskUbuntu:
Ubuntu 16.04: Compiz uses way too much cpu
2/15/18 compiz update broke unity
Unity Top Bar and Launcher disappeared Feb 24/2018
I tried switching to LOWGFX mode, using CCSM, but the problem with Compiz persists, e.g. when using LibreOffice5.

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Asian Paintings Make A Splash in Singapore
By Eileen Kinsella
Eileen Kinsella
Following Suits
Rauschenberg Eagle Ruffles Feathers
Art Fairs Join Forces With 'Virtual' World
NEW YORK—As the demand for modern and contemporary Indian and Asian art continues to soar (see ANL, 10/11/05), the Sotheby's sale of Southeast Asian paintings, on Oct. 9 in Singapore, realized S$11.2 million ($6.6 million). The auction was 90 percent sold by value and 85 percent by lot.
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Binding the Dragon for the Empress Chapter 58
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Ning Zhiyu thought he was hallucinating from thinking about Yan Yuan, so he opened his eyes and looked into the empty hall.
Except for the palace maid by the bed, there was no one in sight.
"You can't see this honoured one..."
"This honoured one is inside you..."
The voice appeared again.
It was so close that it was as if it was spoken close to Ning Zhiyu's ear, low and rustling, causing a chill to run through his bones and his throat to tighten as he asked, "Who are you"
The palace maid froze, forgetting even to cry, "Your Majesty, what's wrong with you..."
"Qingmei, you can go away first, I am tired and would like to be alone for a moment." Ning Zhiyu calmly shook his head and closed his eyes, while listening to the voice in his head say:
"It doesn't matter who this honoured one is...
What matters is whether you want to have Yan Yuan love only you."
For some reason, the voice seemed to gnash its teeth extra hard when it said the words 'Yan Yuan'.
When Qingmei went out, the panic under Ning Zhiyu's eyes couldn't help but show up, and his thin hands silently clenched the bedding over his body: "Why are you inside me..."
"Are you a devil"
"Devil" The voice sneered.
"Stupid human, this honourable one is a demon."
"Demon..." Ning Zhiyu's heart was in shock.
"You don't need to be afraid, this honourable one resides within you and lives in symbiosis with you, and will not harm you."
Ning Zhiyu suppressed his panic and asked in a low voice, "Why do you want to reside inside me, what is the benefit to you"
"A spiteful soul has nowhere to go, so it has to find a host."
Ning Zhiyu: "Why me..."
"You are a pure and virtuous person, your soul is fresh and sweet, which suits my taste, and your body is so compatible with mine.
Besides, you are that person's empress."
Ning Zhiyu thought of something almost immediately and tightened his grip and said, "My illness...
is because of you."
"On the night of my wedding, I suddenly fell ill because of you."
That voice echoed with an odd note: "A little clever."
Ning Zhiyu figured out the reason and his eyes turned red, momentarily forgetting his fear: "It was you...
who did this to me.
If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have gotten sick, and if I hadn't gotten sick, A'Yuan wouldn't have gone to seek the dragon for me, not to mention fallen in love with him."
"It was you who harmed me..."
"You think that without this honourable one, Yan Yuan can love you forever" The voice interrupted him.
The words were mocking.
"Don't be stupid.
He didn't hesitate to give up his position as Heavenly Emperor for the sake of Xuan Long and willingly fall into the mortal world to suffer from reincarnation just to love a mortal."
"He has searched for Xuan Long for ten thousand years, but now he has fallen in love with the wrong person.
When he comes to his senses, do you think there will still be a place for you beside him"
Ning Zhiyu was dazed and said, "What are you talking about..."
"He and Xuan Long were an immortal couple in a previous life.
Ten thousand years ago, Xuan Long led the celestial soldiers in battle against the demon race in the body of a divine general, and died in that bloody battle when he won a great victory.
In order to avenge Xuan Long's death, Yan Yuan went on a killing spree, slaughtering all the demons and giving up his position as Emperor of the Nine Heavens to enter reincarnation as a mortal to find him.
The search took 1ten thousand years.
Do you think that Yan Yuan's relationship with Xuan Long in his previous life was deep, or just the few years of affection with you…"
"If he hadn't drunk that bowl of Mengpo soup when he was reincarnated, would he not have recognized the wrong person..."
"But...
it's better to be mistaken...
it's better to be mistaken..."
Ning Zhiyu heard his madness and elation and asked, "How do you know this...
and why should I believe you"
"On the basis that I belong to the demon clan that he drove to extinction." The voice gritted its teeth, and the sudden rise in volume shook Ning Zhiyu's eardrums.
A feeling of nausea welled up in his chest, and his face turned white.
It took a long time to find his voice: "...
What do you want to do"
"This honourable one wants to take revenge–"
"Let him know what it is to repent and wish for death...
hahahahahaha...
hahahaha...
Ning Zhiyu fought back the churning in his stomach and spoke with difficulty, "...
You want to kill him."
"No, this honourable one will not kill him."
"Death is such an easy and pleasant thing to do, living in pain is more pleasing..."
"In order to avenge Xuan Long, he slaughtered tens of thousands of beings of my demon race, so this honourable one will make him kill the lover he has been seeking for ten thousand years with his own hands, and make him watch Xuan Long die in front of him..."
"Think about it, the day he regains his memory, what kind of wonderful expression will appear on his face..."
"He will definitely be worse off than dead, and will kill himself so he can join Xuan Long in the ground.
Where is the need for this honourable one to do anything"
"Hahahahahahahahaha-hahahahahahahaha-"
Ning Zhiyu covered his ears in pain and collapsed into a ball on the bed: "No...
I won't help you...
I won't help you..."
"No, you must help this honourable one."
"Otherwise, the day Yan Yuan completely falls in love with Xuan Long will be the day you leave the palace."
"He loves Xuan Long so much, do you think he will allow you to stay with him at that time After you leave the palace, where can you go..."
"Back to your father's Prime Minister's mansion"
"He is willing to look at you and think highly of you now because his cowardly, incompetent, lowly son has become a phoenix overnight, but everything you have was given to you by Yan Yuan.
Once you lose your status as Empress and the shelter of Yan Yuan, you will be back to the old Ning Zhiyu that everyone scorned.
Even the subordinates in the Prime Minister's mansion will be able to step on you when you fall down..."
Ning Zhiyu closed his eyes, and tears slid down his fair cheeks.
He covered his ears tightly, yet the voice still penetrated his brain and stung his heart, so he pleaded, "Stop it...
stop it..."
"Did this honourable one say something wrong" The voice asked lightly in return.
"The former Ning Zhiyu was so lowly, and the abolished Ning Zhiyu will be a dog in the water that everyone will shout at.
Do you remember the winter when you were five years old and you were forced by your first-born brother to jump into the water to show him how to do it...
If you didn't jump, he would have beat up your nanny.
A five year old child can't swim...
You were drowning and were rescued when you were dying.
Your health started to deteriorate then, right...
When you were eight years old, the only nanny who took pity on you and was willing to love and cherish you fell ill and died.
In fact, she was poisoned by the Prime Minister's wife who hated you, her husband had only one woman in his life, but because your mother broke her vows, she gave birth to you, a filthy, sinful child.
You knew all that, but you didn't dare to say anything because no one would stand up for you.
When your nanny was alive, you had someone to look out for you, and when she died, it was even harder for you… You grew up like duckweed in that Prime Minister's mansion, sinking when anyone stepped on you."
"When you were sixteen, your noble brother forced you to climb a tree to collect a kite, and you fell down and cracked your head open.
No one cared about you...
except for Yan Yuan, who appeared and asked if you were in pain, bandaged your wounds, and took you back to the palace."
"Your life was favoured from that moment...
but who would have known that everything you have now, you stole from someone else."
"When he looked at you, he was actually thinking of his lover from his previous life, of Xuan Long, and all the good he did for you was because of another person."
"But even if you know that now, what can you do..."
"A'Yu, in this world, no one will want you except Yan Yuan.
You can only cling to him firmly like a piece of cowhide, otherwise, you will end up in a miserable situation." The voice became gentle, like a lover's mumbling.
"No..." Ning Zhiyu said with tears streaming down his face as he covered his ears and shook his head desperately.
"He loves me...
he loves me..."
"It's not because of someone else..."
"Don't fool yourself." The demon burst out laughing.
"Haven't you already felt it yourself He's being drawn to Xuan Long.
In their previous life, they formed an immortal couple and made a love contract in front of the Three Life Stones with the iris as a contract; that love contract is engraved on their souls and whenever they meet, they will be uncontrollably in love with each other."
"His heart will only grow farther and farther away from you.
If you don't think it through, once he falls completely in love with the Xuan Long of this life, this honoured one will not be able to help you."
"While he still has guilt and scattered vague feelings for you now, you still have a chance to turn the tables."
Ning Zhiyu's eyes were deathly silent as he looked up and muttered, "I won't let you have your way...
I won't let you hurt him..."
"It's not like the honourable one is asking you to hurt him."
"This honourable one only needs you to join hands with this honourable one, and make Yan Yuan kill Xuan Long with his own hands and dig out his heart...
Don't worry, mortals who drink Mengpo soup will not regain their memories of their past lives, and when Xuan Long dies, you will be able to spend the rest of your life in harmony with Yan Yuan.
With this honourable one has a dragon heart to reshape his physical body, you will then be completely free of this honourable one."
"Such a good thing that kills two birds with one stone...
What reason is there not to do it"
"When Yan Yuan regains his memory, it will be in his next life at the earliest.
You don't even know where you will be in your next life, so why should you care if he is better off dead"
"You have to plan for your present life."
Ning Zhiyu spoke woodenly, "Aren't you afraid that I will find a monk to drive you away"
"You can try, although this honourable one needs your body now, a mere mortal monk can't do anything to me."
"This honourable one advises you...
not to act rashly, otherwise this honourable one dares not guarantee that this honourable one will not be in a bad mood and kill Yan Yuan."
"If he dies, you can't even have this life of his."
"No...
don't..." Ning Zhiyu didn't even notice that the other party was lying.
If the demon was really capable of killing people, why would he need to bother talking to him here "You said you wouldn't hurt him."
"Humph.
" The demon said.
"So how about it Have you considered it"
Ning Zhiyu: "You have the ability to kill… if you want Xuan Long's heart, you can just go dig it out yourself."
"What's the point of that The soul of this honourable one relies on the power of your soul.
It is indeed possible to kill someone, but it will take a lot of spiritual energy, not to mention digging out the heart of a dragon.
Why should this honourable one do it myself when this honourable one has a ready-made labourer to use"
"This honourable one will give you three days to think about it, if you still can't decide, then this honourable one will have to choose someone else."
"There are many other bodies that are suitable for this honourable one to reside in."