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What You'll Study
English with Music Studies at Aberdeen gives you the unique experience of exploring literature, language and creative writing inspired by internationally acclaimed authors and poets, while also learning alongside world-renowned composers and musicologists. You will grow your academic, writing and performing skills, kick start a sparkling career across the arts and creative industries, or use your sought-after transferable skills as your passport to many other options.
This programme is studied on campus.
Aberdeen is a leading centre for the study of literature, language and creative writing, rated second in the UK for its research output. You will study poetry and prose through the dynamic relationship between author, reader and literary text, covering every period from Chaucer to contemporary English, Scottish, Irish, European and American writing and the cultural and critical impact of powerful and controversial modern works.
You will be inspired by enthusiastic teachers and researchers, themselves acclaimed authors and poets and be encouraged to develop your own creative writing skills.
Aberdeen is also the perfect environment and location in which to study music, with 500 years of musical history and heritage and a vibrant cultural identity which celebrates the traditional while embracing the modern.
Music Studies at Aberdeen means studying, composing and performing with established and up-and-coming composers and musicologists, working in all genres, styles and periods with unrivalled opportunities to grow as a musician and performer. You will study performance, composition and theory, musicianship and a broad overview of music history.
This subject combination prepares you for a wide variety of careers not specifically in music but also in education, media, business, publishing and widely across arts and heritage.
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Academic Writing for Language & Literature (AW1008)
This compulsory evaluation is designed to find out if your academic writing is of a sufficient standard to enable you to succeed at university and, if you need it, to provide support to improve. It is completed on-line via MyAberdeen with clear instructions to guide you through it. If you pass the evaluation at the first assessment it will not take much of your time. If you do not, you will be provided with resources to help you improve. This evaluation does not carry credits but if you do not complete it this will be recorded on your degree transcript.
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Professional Skills Part 1 (PD1001)
This course, which is prescribed for level 1 students and optional for level 2 students, is studied entirely online and covers topics relating to careers and employability, equality and diversity and health, safety and wellbeing. During the course you will learn about the Aberdeen Graduate Attributes, how they are relevant to you and the opportunities available to develop your skills and attributes alongside your University studies. You will also gain an understanding of equality and diversity and health, safety and wellbeing issues. Successful completion of this course will be recorded on your Enhanced Transcript as 'Achieved' (non-completion will be recorded as 'Not Achieved'). The course takes approximately 3 hours to complete and can be taken in one sitting, or spread across a number of weeks and it will be available to you throughout the academic year.
This course, which is prescribed for level 1 students and optional for level 2 students and above, is studied entirely online and covers topics relating to careers and employability, equality and diversity and health, safety and wellbeing. During the course you will learn about the Aberdeen Graduate Attributes, how they are relevant to you and the opportunities available to develop your skills and attributes alongside your University studies. You will also gain an understanding of equality and diversity and health, safety and wellbeing issues. Successful completion of this course will be recorded on your Enhanced Transcript as 'Achieved' (non-completion will be recorded as 'Not Achieved'). The course takes approximately 3 hours to complete and can be taken in one sitting, or spread across a number of weeks and it will be available to you throughout the academic year.
Acts of Reading (EL1009) - 15 Credit Points
This course introduces students to the study of English by exploring the dynamic relationship between author, reader and text in a series of classic works of fiction and poetry. It covers a broad historical range (from Folk Tales and ballads to 21st century postmodernity) and offers a basic grounding in key elements of literary theory, literary history and the varieties of literary form.
Controversial Classics (EL1513) - 15 Credit Points
Literature can provoke, offend and disturb as well as entertain. This course considers some of the most powerful and controversial works of modern literature. It examines the circumstances of publication, the nature of the controversy, and the cultural and critical impact of each work. The course shows how poems, plays and novels can raise searching questions about national, racial and personal identity, and looks at the methods used by writers to challenge their readers, as well the responses of readers to such challenges.
Introduction to Music Theory and Harmony (MU1037) - 15 Credit Points
This course will begin with the fundamentals and quickly move to a higher standard. Early weeks will cover key concepts such as note names, clefs, octaves and note values. This will lead on to governing concepts of Western tonal music - primary triads, cadences, chord progressions and basic voice leading. The course will progress on to the beginnings of more complex harmony, counterpoint and stylistic study. At all times these fundamentals will be accompanied by contextual information - both historical and cultural - aiming to create an initial appraisal of musicology and its place in musical study.
Optional Courses
At least two of the following are required for MA with Music, subject to pre-requisites and diagnostic tests:
Key Moments 1 (MU1035)
Performance 1 (MU1051)
Introduction to Music Theory and Harmony (MU1037)
Music, Theory and Harmony (MU1038)
Key Moments 2 (MY1535)
Plus, select further credit points from courses of choice to a total of 120
Key Moments 1 (MU1035) - 15 Credit Points
This course covers five key moments from Western music history, giving students both a clear and broad grasp of the shape of musical, cultural and intellectual history along with much more detailed studies of individual musical works.
The coverage will not be encyclopaedic and will instead seek to help students develop a sense of a musical period through more engaged explorations of a small number of key musical works.
Performance 1 (MU1051) - 15 Credit Points
MU1051 is structured to develop, in tandem, students' individual instrumental/vocal and ensemble skills.
Entry to the course for non BMus students is by audition.
MU1551 is structured to develop in tandem students individual instrumental/vocal and ensemble skills. Entry to the course by audition for non BMus students.
Encounters with Shakespeare (EL2011) - 30 Credit Points
So you think you know Shakespeare? This course invites you to think again. Studying a range of plays we get behind the mythology of Shakespeare, and rediscover the dynamic inventiveness of the Elizabethan theatre. Shakespeare and his contemporaries were the principal players in a period of literary experimentation that reinvented the possibilities of literature. Encounters with Shakespeare is your chance to find out more.
Introduction to Musicology (MU2023) - 15 Credit Points
Students will explore a range of elementary issues in musicology relating to some of the following: music history, theory and analysis, sociology of music, psychology of music, aesthetics, ethnomusicology, world music, early music, opera, concert music, jazz, popular music, music in film and television, musical performance, composition, music technology and the economics of the music business.
The course will consider a range of music taking into account the kinds of methodologies and discourses in which this music is discussed.
Analysing Music (MU2523) - 15 Credit Points
Students will develop a critical awareness of form and structure in music both aurally and by means of studying various approaches to musical analysis which will draw on a range of analytical methods and musical genres. The analysis of musical scores will be related to music as experienced aurally in performance.
The Tragedy of Knowledge (EL2512) - 30 Credit Points
This course traces the use of key Western myths from antiquity to the present to examine the way knowledge is often presented as both dangerous and compelling. As well as introducing students to a range of historical, social, and formal variations on the theme of knowledge, the course also highlights the role of storytelling and adaptation in the formation of knowledge and understanding.
Select a further 30 credit points from courses of choice
Select a total of three courses from the following groups, each from a different group:
Group 1: Medieval/ Renaissance Literature courses:
EL3008 Writing Revolt: Literature and Politics in the 17th Century
EL30CP Page and Stage: Renaissance Writings 1500-1600
EL35DQ Knights, Virgins and Viragos: Chaucer and Medieval Writing
Group 2: Romantic/Victorian Literature courses:
EL3009 American Innovation
EL30GK Mind and Monstrosity: Realism and Gothic in the Long 19th Century
EL30HK American Insurrections: Writing, Self and Nation1776-1865
EL30QA Sympathy for the Devil: Scottish Short Stories
EL35XR Romanticism
Group 3: Contemporary/Modern Literature courses:
EL30FF Modernism: Make it New
EL35KM Perversion of the Interior: Women's Fiction 1925-1975
EL35KN Haunted Texts
EL35UT Art and Atrocity: Representations of Violence and Trauma
Group 4: One course from the following:
EL30JS Anglo-American Children's Literature
EL35EH Classical Epic
EL35YB Creative Writing: Creativity and Craft
Plus, select a further 30 credit points from level 3 courses in Music
Knights, Virgins and Viragos: Chaucer and Medieval Writing (EL30DQ)
Page and Stage: Renaissance Writings 1500 - 1640 (EL35CP)
Mind and Monstrosity: Realism and the Gothic in the Long 19th Century (EL30GK) - 30 Credit Points
Exploring connections between Gothic monstrosity and psychological realism, this course investigates an exciting range of texts and contexts from the long nineteenth century. Focusing on novels from 1789-1914, with some attention to other genres and adaptations, we ask what it means to be human, and how cultural anxieties and scientific/technological developments have affected literature (and vice versa). From doubling to degeneration, madness to the metropolis, villain to vampire, empire to the threat of extinction, we examine the work of writers such as Mary Shelley, Dickens, Poe, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, Bram Stoker and H.G. Wells.
American Innovation (EL3009) - 30 Credit Points
This level-three course offers an introduction to American literature and culture between 1850 and 1950, a century in which the United States was transformed from a rural economy to an industrialised super-power. You will learn about the key writers of this period, the issues that sparked their imaginations, and the literary strategies which they adopted, or at times invented, to express their response to the changing world around them. This course is delivered through a combination of lectures and seminars.
Romanticism (EL35XR) - 30 Credit Points
The Romantic movement swept Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and produced some of the most innovative and exciting literature that has ever been seen. This rule breaking art helped shape the way that we consider art today and underpins many of our ideas about imagination, originality, creativity and self-expression. This course will explore the ways in which the Romantic movement manifested itself across Britain and Ireland and will consider writers such as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Austen and Byron.
States of Mind: Contemporary Irish and Scottish Writing (EL30IH)
Anglo - American Children's Literature (EL30JS) - 30 Credit Points
From the picture book to the fairy tale, literature for children offers a wide range of literary modes of engaging with questions of human becoming. This course explores American and British children's literature from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first century. We will look at a range of genres including poetry, the school story, the adventure story and fantasy, as well as examining the construction of children's literature as a genre of its own. We will engage in close reading, and consider historical and social context and questions of gender, race and sexuality.
Modernism: Make IT New (EL30FF) - 30 Credit Points
The early twentieth century was a time of great literary experimentation as literary modernists rose to the challenge to make it new. We will explore modernism's stylistic experimentation while also considering the social contexts and changes that shaped this literature. The course will examine a range of writers, genres, movements and locations which prompt us to consider what, when and where was modernism.
Perversion of the Interior: Women's Fiction 1925 - 1975 (EL35KM) - 30 Credit Points
Gothic, Romance, Autobiography: these are the central topics of mid-twentieth-century fiction by and for women, and yet have often been critically neglected. Looking at a range of women's fiction in this period, including popular and middlebrow titles as well as literary classics, this course looks at what women wrote, what women read, and who deemed these works important. This course especially focuses on the relation between physical space (the home, the village) and psychological space (including representations of mental illness) in order to discuss the space of women's writing.
Art and Atrocity: Representations of Violence and Trauma (EL35UT) - 30 Credit Points
How is the artist to respond when the virtual becomes the real and when words cannot carry the weight of trauma? How can an author avoid the accusations of voyeuristic prurience or crass opportunism when he or she attempts to re-present events of public violence? This multi-disciplinary course examines work from a wide range of modes, including fiction, poetry, film and graphic art, and looks at the difficulties of inscribing trauma and the ethics and praxis of remembrance. Key events covered include the Holocaust, the Sabra and Shatila massacre, 9-11, the Gulf War and the conflict in the Balkans.
English Dissertation (EL4502)
Select a further 30 credit points from level 4 courses in English (listed below)
Select a further 60 credit points from level 3 and 4 courses in Music Studies
Dissertation in Music (MU4049)
English Dissertation (EL4502) - 30 Credit Points
Students will have the opportunity to write a dissertation on a topic of their choosing within English literature.
Dissertation in Music (MU4049) - 30 Credit Points
This course will entail research work which will contribute to musicological understanding (at undergraduate level). Students will research a topic of their own choice (subject to approval), demonstrating knowledge and understanding of their chosen subject matter in the form of a 10,000 word dissertation.
Staging the City: Renaissance Urban Drama (EL40AD) - 30 Credit Points
Drama was the entertainment phenomenon of the early modern period: a popular art form that developed swiftly and attracted mass audiences. London was both the city that played host to this new cultural form, and the subject of much of its output. The course will examine the relation between life in the early modern city and the great flowering of drama by celebrated authors of the period. Using works by well-known writers such as Middleton, Jonson and Shakespeare, as well as lesser known authors, we will explore how the plays of the period engage with key concerns of urban living.
Controversy and Drama: Marlowe to Revenge Tragedy (EL40CT) - 30 Credit Points
This course begins by considering the theatre that gave us Marlowe and Shakespeare, among other major dramatists, as an institution actively engaged in the controversies of politics and religion of the age. Part 1 of the course focuses on the plays of Christopher Marlowe, whose controversial life is unusually well documented and whose plays starkly anticipate later tensions in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama . Part 2 considers how those tensions in politics and religion developed in later drama, giving particular attention to the genre of revenge tragedy.
The Short Story as A Literary Form (EL40DR) - 30 Credit Points
This course examines the development of the short story during the last two hundred years, e.g. from Washington Irving, Hawthorne, and Melville, through Hemingway, Joyce, Lawrence, Woolf and Mansfield, to Raymond Carver and a selection of contemporary writers. The course will consider the distinctiveness of the short story as an art form, its techniques and applications, and the factors that have influenced its evolution.
Spenser (EL40ES)
Writing in A Free State (EL40FI)
Horrible Histories: Violence and Trauma in the Scottish Novel (EL40QV) - 30 Credit Points
Scotland's history is one of violence, bloodshed and trauma. This is reflected in its literature, above all in the fiction of the nineteenth century. Focusing on pivotal moments of upheaval in Scotland's past such as the Covenanting Wars and the Jacobite Risings this course will explore the ways in which these violent events are reflected in the works of writers such as Walter Scott, James Hogg, Robert Louis Stevenson and those in the modern period who have inherited their legacy. Exploring key concepts such as how the novel might approach and engage with the past, the extent to which it may operate as a form of commemoration and the limits which traumatic events place upon forms of narration, the course will examine the ways in which we can comprehend and remember a nation's violent history through the form of the novel.
Amensty, Amnesia, Archive (EL40UU) - 30 Credit Points
From 1968-1994, Northern Irish writers and visual artists found themselves addressing key questions: what is the role of the artist in a divided society, and must s/he engage with political events? This course considers how the artists framed these dilemmas and how they have been framed by them. Following the outbreak of peace in the province, the role of artists changed: their work now focused on the victims of violence and to demand justice. This course examines the different approaches taken to remembrance by writers/artists and explores the ways in which memory and trauma are framed in their work.
All for One: the Politics of Love and Friendship in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (EL40WH) - 30 Credit Points
This course focuses on the emphasis on sameness in conceptions of love and friendship within medieval and early modern literature, exploring its implications for the history of sexuality, and its impact on political ideology.
Creative Writing: the Writer's Voice (EL40YL) - 30 Credit Points
Creative Writing: The Writer's Voice will focus on the crucial and often complex role of voice in fiction and poetry, considering both theoretical and practical aspects. It offers students the opportunity to develop their creative processes and practical literary skills in a supportive, constructive learning environment. Teaching consists of carefully targeted critical advice and guidance from the class tutor and peer evaluation from class members in a workshop environment. Examples of writing by recognised authors and class members will be used to enhance students' awareness of the key role of voice in imaginative writing, leading to practical application in their own creative work.
The Gilded Age: American Literature 1865 - 1929 (EL45BT)
All too Human: Animal and Posthuman Relations (EL45KP) - 30 Credit Points
The question of the human is at the forefront of contemporary philosophical and cultural enquiry. Looking at a range of popular and literary texts, as well as recent theoretical writings, this course investigates the relation between the human and animal and the representation of human transformation and adaptation in order to study contemporary approaches to the body, language, and suffering.
A Tale of Two Thomases: the Poetry and Prose of Dylan Thomas and R S Thomas (EL45SU)
We will endeavour to make all course options available; however, these may be subject to timetabling and other constraints. Please see our InfoHub pages for further information.
How You'll Study
Learning Methods
Individual Projects
Students are assessed by any combination of three assessment methods:
Coursework such as essays and reports completed throughout the course;
Practical assessments of the skills and competencies they learn on the course; and
Written examinations at the end of each course.
The exact mix of these methods differs between subject areas, years of study and individual courses.
Honours projects are typically assessed on the basis of a written dissertation.
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How the programme is taught
The typical time spent in scheduled learning activities (lectures, tutorials, seminars, practicals), independent self-study or placement is shown for each year of the programme based on the most popular course choices selected by students.
How the programme is assessed
The typical percentage of assessment methods broken down by written examination, coursework or practical exams is shown for each year of the programme based on the most popular course choices selected by students.
scheduled: 57%
independent: 43%
placement: 0%
written: 21%
coursework: 71%
practical: 8%
practical: 25%
scheduled: 7%
Why Study English with Music Studies?
Why English
Rated second in the UK for the quality of Aberdeen research in English language and literature in the 2014 REF national assessment of research quality at UK universities.
Scotland's top centre for creative writing in the Complete University Guide rankings for 2017.
An international profile through major literary projects such as the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen and the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels of Sir Walter Scott.
The WORD Centre for Creative Writing, promoting creative projects in fiction, non-fiction and collaborative mixed-media in all the languages of northeast Scotland (from Doric to Polish).
The spectacular, award-winning Sir Duncan Rice Library, home to literary treasures collected over 500 years, charting the power of the written word from ancient papyri and medieval manuscripts to contemporary e-books and other media.
Historic collections including rare printed books, the 12th century Aberdeen Bestiary, MacBean Stuart and Jacobite Collection, the novels of Sir Walter Scott, and an exceptional collection of Charles Dickens' first editions.
A packed campus programme of student and public events, exhibitions, seminars, invited speakers and the annual May Festival which welcomes internationally acclaimed authors to campus every spring to discuss literature, including European writers.
Research centres include the nationally recognised Centre for the Novel, the Centre for Modern Thought, and the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies.
Why Music
Our academic staff are internationally recognised experts in composition, performance, musicology, music education and music and communities, including royal composer Paul Mealor and other rising stars.
The University has a full Symphony Orchestra, Chamber and Chapel choirs with growing international reputations, Choral and Opera Societies, and consorts and ensembles across all instruments.
Specialist facilities include state-of-the-art studios for electroacoustic music, as well as a collection of historic instruments including a 1771 Kirkman harpsichord.
Excellent performance venues and opportunities, with our early sixteenth-century Chapel often used for services and performances of sacred and concert music, with a magnificent Aubertin organ - the first in the UK.
Opportunities to perform at ceremonies, graduations, recitals, and the annual May Festival for talented students in Scottish traditional and classical instruments, and vocalists.
The prestigious Ogston Music Prize, and a range of scholarships and special support for students with outstanding talent.
Three state-of-the-art Electroacoustic Composition studios as well as a number of Music Technology workstations.
Aberdeen city known as a lively centre for music, with links to the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Aberdeen City Music School, North East of Scotland Music School, and the region's growing Sound festival.
Masterclasses with leading musicians and the annual May Festival which showcases Aberdeen talent welcomes internationally acclaimed choirs, orchestras and musicians to campus every spring.
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General Entry Requirements
2019 Entry
Standard Offer: AABB - BBB
Applicants who have achieved between AABB - BBB are encouraged to apply and will be considered. Good performance in additional Highers / Advanced Highers may be required in order to receive an offer of admission.
Adjusted / Access Threshold: BB (or below)
Applicants who have achieved BB, and who meet one or more Widening Participation criteria, are encouraged to apply and will be considered. Good performance in additional Highers / Advanced Highers will be required in order to receive an offer of admission.
More information on our definition of Standard, Adjusted and Access Threshold entry qualifications.
Standard offer: BBB
32 points, including 5, 5, 5 at HL.
5H with 3 at H2 AND 2 at H3 OR AAABB, obtained in a single sitting. (B must be at B2 or above)
Standard: AABB
Applicants who have achieved AABB (or better), are encouraged to apply and will be considered. Good performance in additional Highers/ Advanced Highers may be required.
Minimum: BBB
Applicants who have achieved BBB (or are on course to achieve this by the end of S5) are encouraged to apply and will be considered. Good performance in additional Highers/Advanced Highers will normally be required.
Adjusted: BB
Applicants who have achieved BB, and who meet one of the widening participation criteria are encouraged to apply and will be considered. Good performance in additional Highers/Advanced Highers will be required.
More information on our definition of Standard, Minimum and Adjusted entry qualifications.
Standard: BBB
Minimum: BBC
Adjusted: CCC
5H with 3 at H2 AND 2 at H3 OR AAABB, obtained in a single sitting. (B must be at B2 or above).
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To study for an Undergraduate degree at the University of Aberdeen it is essential that you can speak, understand, read, and write English fluently. The minimum requirements for this degree are as follows:
IELTS Academic:
OVERALL - 6.0 with: Listening - 5.5; Reading - 5.5; Speaking - 5.5; Writing - 6.0
TOEFL iBT:
OVERALL - 78 with: Listening - 17; Reading - 18; Speaking - 20; Writing - 21
PTE Academic:
Cambridge English Advanced & Proficiency:
OVERALL - 169 with: Listening - 162; Reading - 162; Speaking - 162; Writing - 169
Read more about specific English Language requirements here.
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The Other Half: A Look Back at Ten (Officially Released) Jim Fusco Rarities – PART TWO
Posted on December 18, 2015 by Chris Moore
By Chris Moore:
Last week, I brought you the first five in a list of ten Jim Fusco rarities in preparation for the release of his new album Halfway There this "new music Tuesday," April 7th, 2009. After all, there's no better way to anticipate an upcoming release than to go back and enjoy all previous releases in a series.
In the case of Fusco, there has been quite a variety of musical projects over the course of the past eight years. There have been six solo studio albums, three band albums, four releases (of 20 tracks each) in the Laptop Sessions acoustic mp3 series, a single, a greatest hits disc (with accompanying music video DVD compilation), and assorted demos, covers, and other tracks. Now that I've officially finished listening to all the Bob Dylan tracks in my collection (almost 700!), I've embarked on my "Jim Fusco Catalog" playlist.
Clocking in at "only" eleven hours or so, this should be much easier to tackle than my Bob Dylan playlist!
For those of you Jim Fusco faithfuls, I hope you'll enjoy the final five tracks on this second installment of "A Look Back at Ten (Officially Released) Jim Fusco Rarities" worth remembering…
A Look Back at Five More (Officially Released) Jim Fusco Rarities…
6) "The Red, White, and Blues" – This is yet another album starter that I love. It is Fusco's first foray into direct protest songwriting. Indeed, his March 2008 Laptop Sessions version stirred up some controversy in the form of comments left on the site. It was nice to see that at least some people listen to the lyrics, even if they misread and/or disagreed with their message. As he wrote in the blog post, this was the first and last "protest" type song of its kind.
7) "The Second Time" – All I have to say is: this better be at the wedding reception! In 2003, Jim recorded and released Formula, an album whose material was clearly inspired by his now-fiance Becky Daly. She joins him near the end of this track, offering up a preview of 2/3 of the Chris, Jim, and Becky trio that would go on to perform around the state and release a "live in the studio" album. While this isn't necessarily one of my favorite Jim Fusco songs, it's always been one of my favorites from Formula and — if it's not "best of" material, then — it's "top ten rarities" material.
8) "Sideshow" – There are so many different tracks that were up for inclusion on this list of rarities — there's the simple, piano-based vulnerability of "My Angel" or the folky storytelling style of "Vision of Cobblestone Town," to name just a couple. "Sideshow" earns a spot in the top ten for its unique sound. There's something about this track that is controlled and yet sort of wild; it's one of those songs whose sound truly meshes with and contributes to the meaning conveyed by the lyrics. In addition, as the penultimate track on What About Today?, it's truly the point at which the recurring instrumental section comes to a climax before the first chords of "Harmony" and the close of this concept album.
9) "Never Taking Your Chances" – This is one of those songs that benefits from my memories surrounding its conception, recording, and release. I vividly recall my conversations with Jim about the situation that resulted in the writing of this song, and I recall the then-groundbreaking recording methods that he was pioneering. This is a clear example of early blending between vocals and distortion guitar. With each album, Jim's use of guitar effects has become more effective and more interesting, and I can't wait to hear his latest leap forward on Halfway There.
10) "Another Backwards Day" – Speaking of guitar effects, "Another Backwards Day" is a track that I always felt was left forgotten about, sandwiched between the live favorites "Can't Count on Words" and "Sometimes." This song is every bit as upbeat and rocking as the other songs around it, and it boasts a Frampton-esque series of guitar solos and riffing. If "She Waits" (another favorite and one that ALMOST made the list!) demonstrates Jim's softer, piano-driven side, then "Another Backwards Day" pulls out the stops and allows him to flex his electric muscle.
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"Forever Young" (Bob Dylan Cover)
Hello and welcome to my second to last Laptop Session of 2008! For my selection tonight, I've gone back to the formidable catalog of Bob Dylan. Specifically, I've chosen a song that I think everyone should hear — around this time of the year, especially.
"Forever Young" is a fairly simple and straightforward song, one about wishing someone health, happiness, self-confidence, and an overall high quality of life. I think it's really interesting that Dylan recorded two versions of this song. Now, you may be wondering why this is out of the ordinary, as Dylan is well-known for recording multiple versions of the same song, often with various arrangements and different lyrics. However, in this case, both versions (each very unique) were included on the same album, 1974's Planet Waves… Back to back!
I hope you enjoy my cover of this great song, and I hope you'll accept it as a blessing extended from me to each one of you, each of you that has taken and continues to take the time to listen to my cover songs. It's been quite a year with some great videos, some mediocre videos, and a few that stretched the range of what I'm able to do. And, at the end of this noble experiment we like to call "session-a-day," I find myself being able to sing a song — this one, "Forever Young," — that I wasn't able to sing and play comfortably as recently as a year ago.
Before I leave you to watch the music video I've posted on YouTube for today, I'd like to thank Jim's cousin Sarah for having us over tonight. Jim, Becky, Sarah, and I went to see Jim Carrey in Yes Man (and it was excellent fun!), eat at Luigi's (where I had delicious scallops over ziti), and even got to play Wii tennis, dodgeball, and volleyball. Sarah and I were an unstoppable team, but Jim did beat me mercilessly in the gladiator event. It was good to get out.
And, as a final note, I just finished reading Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower, which was a Christmas present from my sister Jaime. It was an excellent book, and as I mentioned to her, I wish I had read it in high school, as I was trying to figure out some essential things about myself. That was in large part what the novel was all about — learning to understand and be confident about yourself before you can properly fit other people into your life. Now, I'm 25 pages into Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five and really enjoying it. Vonnegut is great; his final novel, Timequake, really impressed me, and I have no doubts that I'll be equally amazed with this one by the time I've finished reading it.
Okay, but this is enough for now. You should go watch my video, and I'm going to go back to watching episodes from the eighth season of ER, one of my favorite shows of all time. I forgot how much I cared about these characters — Greene, Carter, Lewis, and others.
Hurry on back, now, for Jeff's video tomorrow. Then, it's one last time through the batting order before 2009!!
See you next and last (for 2008) session!
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"Stage Fright" (The Band Cover)
I'm proud to present the first in a week-long event here at http://LaptopSessions.com entitled "Title Tracks Week"!! Each day this week, we'll unveil a new session devoted to a song whose title is the same as the album it was on. For instance, I chose a song from the Band's 1970 album Stage Fright called — well, you may have guessed it already — "Stage Fright."
This is an interesting song to me, as I've heard and read rumors over the years that this song was written by the Band's Robbie Robertson in reference to Bob Dylan. If anyone would know, it would be someone like Robertson, who has played many shows with Dylan over the years, most often as his lead guitarist. (He's particularly well-known for being the electric guitarist that powered Dylan's sound in the mid-60s, when he first "went electric.")
For anyone who's seen Dylan play on stage, it does make sense that he might suffer from a form of stage fright…
So, without further ado, here's the first of seven title tracks this week — even Original Wednesday this week will be a title track. I hope you'll check back tomorrow for Jeff's installment!
See you next session!
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"Solitaire" by Wilco – Chords, Tabs, & How to Play
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(Capo I)
Intro: E F#m7 E F#m7 E
Once I thought the world was crazy,
F#m7
Everyone was sad and chasing
Happiness and love and
I was the only one above it.
Once I thought, without a doubt,
I had it all figured out.
Universe with hands unseen;
I was cold as gasoline.
E G F#m7
Took too long to see
F#m7 C F#m7 E F#m7 E F#m7 E
I was wrong to believe in me only…
Once my life was a game so unfair
It beat me down and kept me there.
Unaware of my naysaying,
F#m7 E
Solitaire was all I was playing.
INSTRUMENTAL: G F#m7 C F#m7 (x3)
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After the latest ESA ministerial conference, UK Space Agency confirms continued involvement and five-year spending plan
The UK is to continue its active role as part of ESA, industry secretary Andrea Leadsom confirmed following the ministerial council meeting in Seville this week. As ESA is not part of the European Union's organisations, the UK's involvement is not affected by Brexit.
https://www.theengineer.co.uk/uk-investing-esa/
Airbus Defence and Space has invested in US-based battery technology company Amprius, to boost the development of new generation batteries based on silicon nanowire anode technology. The investment will help drive the development of higher volume production capacity, and cells with higher energy density for programmes such as the Zephyr high altitude pseudo satellite and Urban Air Mobility innovation initiatives.
https://www.theengineer.co.uk/airbus-amprius-zephyr/
Angloco the UK's oldest manufacturer of fire engines has secured a major deal to replace and service most of the UK Ministry of Defence exists fire fleet.
The £30m order comes as part of the Defence Fire and Rescue Project a significant outsourcing contract recently awarded to Capita Plc.
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Weinberg freshman Kasey Brown creates pop culture-inspired spirit wear. She has donated more than $2,000 to charity.
Before Weinberg freshman Kasey Brown even stepped onto campus in September, she was already bleeding purple.
Brown is the designer and business owner of NU Wave, which specializes in offbeat, pop culture-referencing clothing for Northwestern students.
The original shirt, which can be seen on the NU Wave website, features baby North West, with purple block letters spelling "-ern" following.
Brown said she made the North West design because she believes people like referencing pop culture all the time.
"There isn't other NU wear that is cool and pop culture-y, and that's what our generation is all about," she said.
Currently, the NU Wave website sells the North West-ern design as a T-shirt and crew neck sweatshirt. Also featured is a T-shirt with a print of Martin Luther King, Jr. flashing a peace sign and wearing a purple Northwestern polo, in honor of Black History Month. All the profits for the shirt are donated directly to charity, and so far, she has donated over $2,000 to organizations including the Black Youth Project.
Brown says she runs her entire business online, from orders to customer service emails. Through her website, she's been able to talk to not just current NU students, but also alumni.
"Alums have emailed me really cool ideas, so it's cool to get support from alums who graduated in 2006 or 2008 when I'm just a freshman," Brown said.
Brown said the hardest part of running the business is finding the time for it. She's on a pre-medical track, and she's also a member of various campus organizations, including For Members Only and UNITY Charity Fashion Show.
Moving forward, Brown said that she doesn't see fashion as her primary focus, despite her love for it, but that she enjoys running the business now. In the spring, she'll have new T-shirt designs available on her web site.
"With the T-shirts, I get to be myself and own something," she said.


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McDonald's Manager Gets $100k For Help Catching Tampa Serial Killer
This heroine did the right thing. May her tribe increase
TAMPA, Fl. – A McDonald's manager who gave police a loaded gun that led to the arrest of a suspect in a series of killings in Tampa will receive a $110,000 reward.
Delonda Walker's tip led to Tuesday's arrest of a man who police said killed four seemingly unconnected people in October and November in the city's Seminole Heights neighborhood. The killings terrified residents, and police swarmed the area for weeks amid an intense search for the killer.
Police and victims' families have praised Walker, the manager of a McDonald's in Tampa's Ybor City neighborhood, but there were questions over what the size of her reward would be.
But those questions were put to rest Friday.
Walker has already received about half of the $110,000 reward, according to Christina Barker, an assistant to Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn.
Police said Howell Donaldson III, an employee at the same McDonald's, had put a firearm in a food bag and gave it to Walker for safekeeping on Tuesday. At about 2:40 p.m., Walker gave the firearm to a police officer in the fast-food restaurant, who then called for backup and detained Donaldson.
She also told police that Donaldson had expressed his intention to leave the state, according to a criminal affidavit.
That firearm was used in all four of the fatal shootings in Seminole Heights, according to the criminal affidavit. Donaldson admitted that the gun belonged to him, leading to his arrest, the affidavit said.
Donaldson is accused of killing Anthony Naiboa, Monica Hoffa, Benjamin Mitchell and Ronald Felton. He faces four counts of first-degree murder.
Tampa Police Chief Brian Dugan said the gun was a big break in the case that led to the arrest.
"We've had other guns, but we knew this was the one," he said Wednesday.
Dugan added that the employee who came forward did the right thing.
"The person who called us — I cannot thank them enough for standing up and doing the right thing and saying, 'This doesn't seem right, why does this person have a gun in a bag?' "
'She's a hero to all of us'
In a statement to CNN affiliate WFTS, Walker said she was "overwhelmed and surprised" by the events leading to Donaldson's arrest.
"At this time, I am speaking exclusively with police and am appreciative that they were nearby and quickly acted upon the information I discovered and shared with the police officer," she said. "I am also appreciative of the outpouring of support from the community. My thoughts are focused on the victims and their families and out of respect for them and the active investigation, please direct inquiries to the Tampa Police Department."
Monica Hoffa's family told WFTS that Walker was a hero for helping solve the case.
"She took all of that worry that was out there away, and she made us all whole again," said Kenny Hoffa, Monica's father.
"She's a hero to all of us and our family. She's part of our family now."
A number of groups had offered rewards for anyone who provided tips that led to the suspect's arrest.
The $110,000 reward comes from several of these organizations, including $50,000 from the FBI, $20,000 from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and $10,000 from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Crime Stoppers of Tampa Bay initially said Walker was not eligible to receive its $5,000 reward money because she did not actually call the tip line, although the group later put out a statement saying the money would be paid out, according to WFTS.
However, local businessman Richard Gonzmart personally delivered a $9,000 check to her Thursday, making good on his promise to contribute to the reward.
McDonald's manager to get $110,000 for helping catch Tampa serial killer
Filed Under: Amazing Stories, Human Interest Stories Tagged With: 000 for helping catch Tampa serial killer, Anthony Naiboa, ATF, Benjamin Mitchell, Bob Buckhorn, Christina Barker, Delonda Walker, fbi, Feel-good story, Heroine, Howell Donaldson III, McDonald's manager to get $110, Monica Hoffa, Ronald Felton, Seminole Heights, Ybor City
The truth about the Fast & the furious reveals that Eric Holder is a liar
By: Michael A. Walsh
It was all a lie. The angry denials, the high dudgeon, the how-dare-you accuse-us bleating emanating from Eric Holder's Justice Department these last nine months.
Operation Fast and Furious — the "botched" gun-tracking program run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — did, in fact, deliberately allow some 2,000 high-powered weapons to be sold to Mexican drug cartel agents and then waltzed across the border and into the Mexican drug wars — just as Sen. Chuck Grassley and Rep. Darrell Issa, who are leading the congressional investigations, have charged all along.
His stonewall crumbles: Eric Holder's explanations of the Fast & Furious operation are sounding more hollow as new documents emerge.
That's the conclusion we can draw from Friday night's nearly 1,400-page document dump, which gives us a glimpse into the inner workings of the Justice Department as it struggled earlier this year to come up with an explanation for the deadly mess — and "misled" Congress.
Now the man who supervised it, Attorney General Holder, will appears before Congress again Thursday to testify in the exploding fiasco. But there's really only one question he needs to answer: Why?
Why did Justice, the ATF and an alphabet soup of federal agencies facilitate the transfer of guns across the border — without the knowledge of Mexican authorities — when they knew they couldn't trace them properly?
The scandal erupted late last year, after at least two F&F weapons were found at the southernArizonascene of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry's murder. Grassley, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, asked Justice for an explanation.
The response was a Feb. 4 letter from assistant AG Ron Weich, who insisted, "The allegation . . . that ATF 'sanctioned' or otherwise knowingly allowed the sale of assault weapons . . . is false." The ATF, Weich went on, "makes every effort to interdict weapons that have been purchased illegally and prevent their transportation toMexico."
That letter has now been formally withdrawn. "Facts have come to light during the course of this investigation that indicate the Feb. 4 letter contains inaccuracies," wrote deputy attorney general James Cole on Friday.
Nice to finally see the government admitting what we've known all along — that according to ATF whistleblowers, Fast and Furious was an ill-advised, poorly supervised mess that was doomed from the start.
Fox News recently unearthed a Feb. 3 memo in which ATF agent Gary Styers recounted to his superiors his conversations with Grassley's investigators: "It is unheard of to have an active wiretap investigation without full-time, dedicated surveillance units on the ground," he wrote, adding that objections by agents were "widely disregarded."
Again — why? Perhaps the point was to put the onus for the Mexican drug violence on the American "gun lobby." The newly released e-mails show Dennis Burke, the since-firedUSattorney inArizonawho supervised the operation, furiously pushing back against Grassley and his staff, calling them "willing stooges for the Gun Lobby."
Holder has insisted he knew nothing about F&F, but the documents show his underlings' fingerprints. Weich's original "misleading letter, for example, was edited by Jason Weinstein, a deputy to Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, who forwarded various drafts to his boss.
But Breuer (who reports to Holder) has denied that he had anything to do with drafting or editing Weich's letter and doesn't even remember reviewing it before it went to Congress.
So who's telling the truth?
Meanwhile, Holder spins that F&F was merely a continuation of the Bush-era Operation Wide Receiver, which also lost a few weapons. The difference is that Wide Receiver's mistakes were inadvertent: That gun-tracking program was under tight surveillance and — unlike F&F — was a joint venture between theUS and Mexican authorities.
It's time for the months of lies to end — but don't hold your breath. The administration recently sealed the court records relating to agent Terry's murder and — a year later — the one man arrested hasn't been tried.
So far, three presidential candidates, a couple of senators and more than 50 congressmen have called for Holder to resign. If he can't answer the one question that matters — why — that number ought to include his boss.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/fast_furious_lies_0EAFsSpd9y1RaeAxikkGUN
Filed Under: Congress, Corruption Tagged With: ATF, Eric Holder, Fast & the furious, Obama, Ron Weich


There is little doubt that autonomous vehicles, more commonly known as self-driving cars, are set to be transformational. The market is set to reach roughly $42 billion by 2025 with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) projected at 21% until 2030. Not only will this disruption be immense, giving birth to new types of businesses, services, and business models, but their introduction will trigger similarly immense ethical implications.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says that approximately 1.35 million people around the world die each year in traffic accidents. If there was an effective way to eliminate 90% of those accidents, I don't think there's any doubt that most people would support it. This is the aspirational goal that autonomous vehicles aim to achieve: to eliminate the main source of traffic accidents, namely human error. The benefits of autonomous vehicles are certainly clear – time saved, increased productivity, improved safety, continuous service availability – but the challenges remain, and if they're not addressed, could potentially wreck the promise this technology holds.
One of the key challenges for autonomous vehicles is centered around how they value human life. Who decides who lives and who dies in split-second decision-making? Who decides the value of one human life over another? And, more importantly, how is that decision calculated? Being on a road is inherently dangerous, and this danger means that trade-offs will occur as self-driving cars encounter life or death situations. It is inevitable. And with trade-offs, you need ethical guidelines.
If an autonomous vehicle makes a mistake, it could directly lead to the loss of life. In these scenarios, the questions of who decides who lives and how those decisions are made become very important. Researchers have been grappling with this notion for years. The trolley problem was proposed by the philosopher Phillipa Foot in 1967 and has proliferated into many variants. Generally, it is used to assess what decisions people would make when asked to take an action that would, for example, kill one person vs. killing 10 people.
Let's assume an autonomous vehicle experiences a mechanical failure, its acceleration increases, and the car is unable to stop. If it continues, it will crash into a large group of pedestrians, or the car could swerve, crash into an obstacle, and kill the driver inside the car. What should the car do, who decides what the car should do, and where would liability rest for that decision? Experienced human drivers have been programmed for years to deal with split-second decisions like these, and they still don't always get it right.
Should autonomous vehicles perhaps adopt utilitarian principles when choosing who lives and who dies? Utilitarian principles, as advocated by the great English philosopher Jeremy Bentham, could offer a framework to help with the ethical decisions AIs need to make. The focus would be on decisions that result in the greatest good for the greatest amount of people. However, at what cost? How are utilitarian calculations that violate individual rights reconciled? Why should my life be less important than those of five strangers I don't know?
Or should autonomous vehicles follow duty-bound principles as advocated by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant? Under this system, a principle such as "thou shalt not kill" would ensure the car is duty-bound to maintain its course even if it harms other people so long as the driver remains safe. With duty-bound principles, prioritizing your individual safety could, in effect, cause even more harm.
I suspect the key lies in how customers eventually adopt and use autonomous vehicles and the services they offer. Would consumers be interested in owning self-driving cars that follow utilitarian principles and potentially kill us to save a bunch of strangers? Or would we only be interested in buying self-driving cars that prioritize our own safety, even though it might mean potentially killing a bunch of strangers? Who decides what ethical guidelines AI in autonomous vehicles will follow? The harsh truth is that ultimately, we as consumers do.
Autonomous vehicles will come to market and they won't be perfect. We know autonomous vehicles struggle to detect small objects like squirrels. It's quite possible that they also cannot detect squirrel-sized potholes and rocks that could cause life-threatening scenarios from tire blowouts.
As with most previous technology advancements, consumers decide what technology trend is advanced by technology providers. We do so by voting with our money. If 90% of autonomous vehicle sales are for units that prioritize our lives, potentially at the expense of others, and only 10% of autonomous vehicles are sold following utilitarian principles, guess where the focus will be for future autonomous vehicles? Yes, there might be mitigating alternatives. Autonomous vehicle manufacturers could decide to give consumers the choice of how their vehicle operates. But at what cost? And would that capability be feasibly scalable across regions and cultures?
Autonomous vehicle manufacturers could decide that in order to sell their self-driving cars, they need to develop them according to consumer preferences. In the past, regulation has been used to address this type of conundrum, but with the world of technology accelerating at an exponential rate, regulation doesn't seem to be able to keep up. And even if it did, supply and demand (as usual) will inform the design of future products.
The increased use of autonomous vehicles is ultimately premised on trust. The people who buy or use them have to trust the technology and must be comfortable using that technology for their true value to be realized. In order to build this trust and acceptance, autonomous vehicle manufacturers must ensure the technology is safe and caters to the needs of their consumers, whatever those needs might be.
In the early 1900s when elevators became autonomous, they made a lot of people very uncomfortable. People were so used to a driver being in the elevator, the idea of an elevator operating autonomously scared them senseless. No one wanted to use them. So, manufacturers invented compromises. Soothing voices were introduced, big red stop buttons were installed. Safety bumpers were introduced, and creative ads helped to dispel fears. Gradually, people accepted the change. Today, we barely give getting into an elevator a second thought.
Waiting until the technology is better is simply not a viable option. There's no guarantee how long it will take to perfect and, while we wait, millions will continue to die. Progress should be iterative because the technology of today can help save millions of lives. We should not let perfection be the enemy of good enough right now, especially considering the alternative. Is that perhaps the real ethical dilemma we are facing with autonomous vehicles?
There's also the notion that perhaps we do not have to decide how to value human life. Would it make sense to let AI determine its own outcomes, guided only by baseline moral principles that are globally accepted? Perhaps a set of principles similar to Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics? The challenge is that ethics differ, just as values differ. The way they manifest culturally differs across countries and regions. What is acceptable in Japan might not be in Europe. How we value life in the East could be different in the West. This diversity has its benefits, for sure, but it also provides massive challenges when trying to design systems that can function universally.
Today, advanced technology is developed under the purview of the leading technology institutions and not under the purview of governments. An example of this is evidenced in the amount of money spent by the top five U.S. defense contractors on research and development. It comes to less than half of the total research spent by any of the major technology players like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, and Uber.
A key takeaway is that policymakers do not govern advanced technology in the commercial world; ultimately, technology providers do. Some consequences can be anticipated and are linked to the promises made on behalf of the technology, while some consequences, unfortunately, remain unforeseen.
My hope is that we strive not to be surprised by unintended consequences that could derail the promise that breakthrough technology offers just because we didn't take a moment to anticipate how we could deal with them. Right and wrong are, after all, influenced by factors other than just the pros and cons of a situation. If we ask the hard questions now, we can drive our world in the direction we want it, not just for us today, but for our children tomorrow.
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Margherita, Archduchess of Austria-Este ( Princess Margherita of Savoy-Aosta, 7 April 1930 – 10 January 2022) was an Italian princess, the first-born child of Amedeo, 3rd Duke of Aosta, and Princess Anne d'Orléans.

Biography
Margherita, born in the Royal Palace of Capodimonte, Naples in 1930, is the eldest daughter of Prince Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of Aosta, and Princess Anne d'Orléans, first cousins married in 1927. She has a younger sister, Marie Christine (born in 1933). The princess was baptised in the chapel of the Capodimonte Palace on 28 May 1930 with the names Margherita Isabella Maria Vittoria Emanuela Elena Gennara. Her godfather and godmother were the King of Italy Victor-Emmanuel III and her paternal grandmother Hélène d'Orléans.

Her father, the Duke of Aosta, was appointed Viceroy of Ethiopia on 21 December 1937, and Margherita spent part of her childhood in Africa. In 1940, she returned to Italy with her mother and her younger sister, Marie Christine, shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. Her father, taken prisoner by the British, died prematurely of typhus in captivity, in Nairobi, on 3 March 1942.

At the beginning of the Second World War, Margherita lived with her sister and mother in a flat in the Pitti Palace in Florence. In 1943, Germany invaded Italy. In July 1944, the Duchess of Aosta and her two daughters were arrested by the Germans and deported to Austria, before being released in May 1945 and returning to Italy on 7 July. The fall of the Italian monarchy in June 1946 forced Margherita, her mother and her sister to leave the country and settle in Belgium, where they stayed for just over a year, before moving to Switzerland.

Marriage and issue
Margherita's family announced her engagement to Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este on 20 October 1953. They married on 28 December 1953 in Bourg-en-Bresse, Ain, France (civilly) and 29 December 1953 (religiously), in Royal Monastery of Brou. He was the second son of former Emperor Charles I of Austria and Zita of Bourbon-Parma. Robert was 38, and Margherita was 23. As the royal couple arrived for the first ceremony, hundreds of Austrians and Italians stood outside the town hall where the marriage was held. The wedding was also attended by former King Umberto II of Italy  and Robert's older brother Otto of Habsburg, the claimant to the Austrian throne. At six feet tall, Margherita was, according to some witnesses, an impressive sight. She wore an ivory gown made out of satin with a long train hung from a diamond tiara.

The couple took up residence in Paris, where Robert was a bank clerk. They had five children:

 Archduchess Maria Beatrice Anna Felicitas Zita Charlotte Adelheid Christina Elisabeth Gennara (11 December 1954). Married Count Riprand of Arco-Zinneberg, a great-grandson of the last Bavarian king, Ludwig III, and has issue. They have six daughters, including Olympia von und zu Arco-Zinneberg, who is married to Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon.
 Archduke Lorenz Otto Carl Amadeus Thadeus Maria Pius Andreas Marcus d'Aviano (16 December 1955), created Prince of Belgium on 10 November 1995. Married 22 September 1984 at Brussels, Princess Astrid of Belgium (b. 1962). They have five children.
 Archduke Gerhard Thaddäus Anton Marcus d'Aviano Maria Umberto Otto Carl Amadeus (30 October 1957) who wed Iris Jandrasits (1961) in 2015;
 Archduke Martin Carl Amadeo Maria (21 December 1959). Married Princess Katharina of Isenburg-Birstein. They have four children.
 Archduchess Isabella Maria Laura Helena Antonia Zita Anna Gennara (2 March 1963). Married Count Andrea Czarnocki-Lucheschi. They have four children.

Death
Margherita died on 10 January 2022, at the age of 91.

Ancestry

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1930 births
2022 deaths
Austrian princesses
Austria-Este
Nobility from Naples
Italian princesses
Princesses of Savoy
20th-century Italian women
21st-century Italian women

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SERWAT, Henry Joseph Passed peacefully on November 5, 2012 in Nashville, TN. Hank was born on April 24, 1939 in Chicago, IL. He lived an amazing life and was a loving husband to Hannah for 22 years. A graduate of Northwestern University, Hank served his country in both the Navy and the Air Force - achieving the rank of Major. Hank was a fighter pilot, international airline captain and ship captain who traveled the world. Hank was a Mason for over 25 years, and achieving the rank of 31 degrees. His kindness and generous spirit will be remembered by all who knew him, and he will be dearly missed by loving wife, Hannah; daughters, Jana (Kelly) and Amber (Tony); step-children, Lauranna and Jason; grandchildren, Cameron, Kendall, Austin, Ashley and Jensen; brother, Richard; sister-in-law, Beth (Jim) and brother-in-law, Holt (Ed); nephews, Ladd (Rita), Alan (Cari) and David (Angie); as well as many dear friends and his devoted dog, Luckee. He touched us all, leaving an indelible mark, which will live beyond his time on this earth. Private Interment at Nashville National Cemetery at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, November 13th, followed by an Open House Memorial at his Franklin home. Memorials to Alive Hospice of Nashville, where he received impeccable and compassionate care.
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End of an era, as the Great One goes
Although not unexpected following the prayer request for his health, issued last week by Bishop Peter Kohlgraf, the death of Cardinal Karl Lehmann, early yesterday morning, is a sad conclusion to a long lifetime of service to the Church, one that coincided with and shaped the past decades of her life and development.
Cardinal Lehmann had been bedridden since suffering a stroke last September, weeks after consecrating his successor, the aforementioned Bishop Kohlgraf. After serving for 33 years at the helm of the Diocese of Mainz, it seems sad that his well-earned retirement was so short.
The life of Karl, der Grosse
Karl Lehmann was born in 1936 in Sigmaringen, the son of a teacher and his wife. After his school years, which partially overlapped with the Second World War, he went to study philosophy and theology in Freiburg and Rome. In 1963 he was ordained to the priesthood in Rome by Cardinal Julius Döpfner, then the archbishop of München und Freising. In the 1960s, Karl Lehmann earned two doctorates in philosophy and theology, but his most noteworthy work in that time was as assistant of Fr. Karl Rahner at the the universities of Munich and Münster, and also as the Second Vatican Council. At the age of 32, in 1968, he was appointed as professor in Mainz and three years later also in Freiburg im Breisgau.
Karl Lehmann became bishop of Mainz in 1983, vice-president of the German Bishops' Conference in 1985 and president of the same body in 1987. He was re-elected as such three times and stepped down, for health reasons, in 2008. In 2011, he was named a cardinal with the title church of San Leone I. Cardinal Lehmann participated in the conclaves that elected Popes Benedict XVI and Francis. He submitted his resignation as bishop of Mainz to Pope Benedict XVI in 2011, but this was only accepted upon his 80th birthday by Pope Francis.
He held numerous other positions as a priest and bishop of Mainz as well. A short list:
1969-1983: Member of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK)
1971-1975: Member of the General Synod of German Dioceses
1974-1984: Member of the International Theological Commission in Rome
1986-1998: Member of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
1993-2001: First vice-president of the Council of European Bishops' Conferences (CCEE)
1997-2011: Member of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See
1998-2012: Member of the Congregation for Bishops
2002-2011: Member of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
2008-2011: Member of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications
2008-2014: Member of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches
In his lifetime, Cardinal Lehmann received eight honourary doctorates, the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the honourary citizenship of the city of Mainz.
Over the course of yesterday the tributes to the late cardinal poured in, from bishops, priests, prelates of other churches, lay faithful and politicians alike. Bishop Peter Kohlgraf, who broke the news on social media, remembered Cardinal Lehmann as "a great personality, a great loveable human being." Later on the day, after the Vespers of the dead had been prayed at Mainz cathedral, he commented: "I am grateful for the many meetings and conversations, his warmth and affection. He gave me a lot of courage for a difficult task."
On Monday, Pope Francis sent a telegram to Bishop Kohlgraf:
"What sadness I received the news of the passing of Cardinal Karl Lehmann. I assure you and all the faithful of the Diocese of Mainz of my deepest sympathies and my prayer fort he deceased, whom God the Lord called to Him after serious illness and suffering. In his many years of work as theologian and bishop, as well as president of the German Bishops' Conference, Cardinal Lehmann has helped shape the life of Church and society. It was always his concern to be open to the questions and challenges of the time and to give answers and direction based on the message of Christ, to accompany people on their way, and to find unity across the boundaries of confessions, convictions and countries. May Jesus, the Good Shepherd, grant His faithful servant the completeness and fullness of life in His heavenly Kingdom. A gladly grant you and all who mourn Cardinal Lehmann, and remember him in prayer, the apostolic blessing."
Cardinal Reinhard Marx, currently president of the German Bishops' Conference, characterised Cardinal Lehmann as a "great theologian, bishop and friend of humanity." He added, "The Church in Germany bows its head to a personality who has significantly shaped the Catholic Church worldwide.' Archbishop Heiner Koch of Berlin shared Cardinal Marx's comments: "I bow my head to a great bishop and theologian, who has always been an example to me."
The passing of Cardinal Lehmann is something of an end to an era, as Bishop Felix Genn of Münster also acknowledges. "After the death of Joachim Cardinal Meisner last year, the death of Karl Cardinal Lehmann equally marks the end of an ecclesiastical era, which he significantly helped to shape." Considering the cardinal's personal history, Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck saw him as "a walking and commenting lexicon of [the Second Vatican] Council."
Cardinal Lehmann is also seen as a major player in ecumenism. Limburg's Bishop Georg Bätzing said: "With him the Catholic Church in Germany loses a great bridge builder. The bridges that he has established are solid and can be strengthened further. Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, the chairman of the Evanglical Church in Germany, shares these thoughts, saying, "In the past decades he was a very important partner for the evangelical church and co-advocate for ecumenical cooperation."
Chancellor Angela Merkel also reacted to the death of Cardinal Lehmann, saying, "I am greatly saddened by the death of Karl Cardinal Lehmann. Today, I think with gratitude of our good conversations and meetings over the course of many years. He has inspired me with his intellectual and theological strength and always also remained a person full of eartly vitality". Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier characterised the cardinals as "a man of clear words who, despite his thoughtfulness and conciliation, did not shy way from political controversy." It was clear to people who met him, the president added, that the cardinal did not only rely on his own strength, but also on the grace of God.
Another important thread in Cardinal Lehmann's life was Europe. Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, lauds the cardinal as a "true friend of Europe". He showed us the way as a moral compass and reminded us of the values that make Europe special."
The many faithful who visited Mainz cathedral to share their condolences unanimously remember "our Karl", as he was affectinately known in his diocese, as "sympathetic", "human, open […] and with his humour", "a fine Christian", "a man who acted what he preached".
Cardinal Lehmann will be buried on Wednesday 21 March. The spiritual testament he has left behind will be read out on that day, Bishop Kohlgraf said yesterday.
Photo credit: [1] Bistum Mainz
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