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CHICAGO -- The government's largest-ever study of Hispanics' health may help answer why they live longer than other Americans but the first results suggest that for some, the trend might be in jeopardy.
Overall, high rates of high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes and pre-diabetes were found, especially among older adults. But troubling signs were seen among younger Hispanic adults.
They were the least likely to have diabetes under control, and the least likely to eat recommended amounts of fruits and vegetables.
Hispanics from Puerto Rico were among the least healthy, while those from South America, who tend to be more recent arrivals, were among the healthiest.
The landmark study is the most comprehensive effort to document the health of U.S. Hispanics.
It has followed more than 16,000 Hispanics aged 18 to 74 since 2008.
The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute released initial results Monday, revealing a diverse group whose health habits depend partly on their age and country of origin.
Mexican-Americans are the largest and oldest Hispanic group nationwide, but there has been more recent growth among Dominicans and those from Central and South America.
"With the changing face of the Hispanic population, we need more current information about their health," said Dr. Larissa Aviles-Santa, the institute's project director for the study.
Researchers in four cities are documenting prevalence of chronic disease and risk factors, and trying to determine how adopting U.
Aviles-Santa said the results may provide a better understanding of what some call the "Hispanic paradox" -- longer lives than non-Hispanic white Americans despite some known health risks.
Hispanics are the nation's largest, fastest growing ethnic group and make up about 15 percent of the population.
Their life expectancy exceeds whites' by about two years and blacks' by about seven years.
Diabetes and obesity are more common in Hispanics than in whites, but they're less likely to have heart disease, previous data show.
Some experts believe that advantage suggests that the healthiest Hispanics migrate to the United States.
But the researchers said that advantage may vanish as unhealthy risk factors accumulate in groups who've been in this country the longest, and in younger adults born in the United States who may be more likely to abandon cultural customs.
"We already know that the longer that people live in the United States, the worse their health becomes," said Neil Schneiderman, the lead investigator for the study's site at the University of Miami.


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Cactus and Succulents
Drought-tolerant; suitable for xeriscaping
Average Water Needs; Water regularly; do not overwater
Suitable for growing in containers
under 6 in. (15 cm)
3-6 in. (7-15 cm)
6-9 in. (15-22 cm)
USDA Zone 9a: to -6.6 �C (20 �F)
USDA Zone 9b: to -3.8 �C (25 �F)
USDA Zone 10a: to -1.1 �C (30 �F)
USDA Zone 10b: to 1.7 �C (35 �F)
USDA Zone 11: above 4.5 �C (40 �F)
Full Sun
Sun to Partial Shade
Light Shade
Plant has spines or sharp edges; use extreme caution when handling
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Mid Spring
From seed; winter sow in vented containers, coldframe or unheated greenhouse
From seed; direct sow after last frost
Allow unblemished fruit to ripen; clean and dry seeds
Unblemished fruit must be significantly overripe before harvesting seed; clean and dry seeds
Properly cleaned, seed can be successfully stored
This plant has been said to grow in the following regions:
Phoenix, Arizona
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This Day in Entertainment History - November 7th, 1975 - Wonder Woman TV Pilot Premieres
Posted: 11/07/2014 - She was a comic book hero that first debuted in 1941, and would hit the TV airwaves for a TV pilot in 1975.
Posted: 11/07/2014 - She was a comic book hero that first debuted in 1941, and would hit the TV airwaves for a TV pilot in 1975.
Posted: 11/07/2014 - The new "Star Wars" film has a title.
Updated: 11/07/2014 - It's Food Friday on News 4 This Morning!
Updated: 11/06/2014 - Memes typically take a picture, usually one of a funny expression or action, and add humorous text to it.
Updated: 11/06/2014 - A video of a six-month-old shows she's engrossed in a local newscast!
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Updated: 11/06/2014 - China's completing its bid for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games.
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Updated: 11/06/2014 - Duck Hunt, a classic shooter that launched with the original Nintendo in the US, will soon be available again.
Posted: 11/05/2014 - The Internet Archive at Archive.org has collected many classic arcade games, which replicate the feel of a classic arcade machine, without the need for quarters.
Posted: 11/05/2014 - Every Wednesday, News 4 This Morning takes a look at an assortment of the stories from our show that viewers and readers are talking about on our webchannel and related social media.
Updated: 11/05/2014 - News 4 This Morning broke down dozens of results of races that took place on November 4th, 2014.
Posted: 11/04/2014 - Move over Grinch -- Grumpy Cat is making a Christmas movie.
Posted: 11/04/2014 - Every Tuesday, News 4 This Morning takes a look at the major and notable DVD & Blu-Ray releases of the week!
Posted: 11/04/2014 - It was an early test to make way for the first American space, but this early Project Mercury launch was only a partial success.
Updated: 11/04/2014 - Tuesday, November 4th marks 50 days until Christmas!
Posted: 11/04/2014 - It was an add-on that allowed gamers to control their characters without the need for a physical controller—the Microsoft Xbox Kinect.
Posted: 11/04/2014 - Hurricane Vance is beginning to weaken as it swirls in the Pacific off the coast of Mexico.
Posted: 11/04/2014 - Workers putting in odd hours on the job are more likely to lose memory and brain function than those who work nine-to-five.
Posted: 11/04/2014 - The popular online streaming video service, Netflix, frequently adds new movies and television shows for its customers to watch.
Posted: 11/04/2014 - Every Tuesday, News 4 This Morning asks its viewers for feedback regarding various genres, styles, and elements of television and television programming.
Updated: 11/03/2014 - The 20th Cape Town International Kite Festival commenced on Nov. 1 in the suburb of Muizenberg, attracting participants from around the world.
Posted: 11/03/2014 - In this week's edition of WTVY News 4 This Morning's Movie Monday, we're letting our viewers write and direct a film featuring your hometown news leader!
Posted: 11/03/2014 - A family sitcom involving a rich businessman and two adopted kids would debut on this day in TV history and become a hit that would last several years.


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This thing is called the Fliz, and it's all kinds of wrong.
It's a sorta-bike, but not really. Rather than pedaling, you kind of scoot along. And instead of sitting on it, you sort of hang from it, with part of the frame encircling your neck (!), and straps under your groin (!!).
Because whenever I think of new technology and progress in the area of personal transportation, I imagine crotch trauma, almost-certain spinal injury, poor line of sight, and looking like a complete twit all in one hideous yellow European package.
And it's not even new! It's a throwback to a precursor of the bike called the Dandy Horse, but with added benefit of crushed testicles.
The bicycle is good, plain tech that remained fundamentally unchanged for a couple hundred years for a solid reason. It works.


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Kimihiro Watanuki
Voiced by: Jun Fukuyama (JP), Todd Haberkorn (EN), Miquel Ruiz (Spain, series), Jordi Pons (Spain, movie)The story's main protaganist, Kimihiro Watanuki is a high school student constantly plagued by his ability to see and attract spirits. One day while running from his latest crop of supernatural perusers, he wanders into a strange shop where he's given the offer to be rid of his problem, at the price of becoming the owner's part-time servant. So begins his life working for the wish-granting shop, encountering people, spirits, and strange situations alike while also growing and changing along the way.
- Adorkable: He's this all over at least, until Yuuko dies. The fact Todd Haberkorn is his voice actor in the dub especially increases this factor.
- The Ageless: After he takes ownership of the wish shop.
- Alternate Self: To TRC!Syaoran. Specifically, to the R!Syaoran, not C!Syaoran or Syaoran Li
- Animal Motifs: Watanuki is often associated with or represented by cats, foxes, and birds. Later he selects the bird to be his symbol. This is particularly meaningful if you recall that in an early chapter when Yuuko was using a tracking spell that turned a handkerchief into a butterfly, she mentioned that if it had to go a farther distance, it would've turned into a bird. When you consider that Yuuko is represented by the butterfly, Watanuki's choice signifies he's destined to not only succeed, but surpass her.
- Anguished Declaration of Love: He doesn't say "love" exactly, but when he comes to the realization that Yuuko's dying, his composure devolves until he's just standing there sobbing about how important she is to him and pleading for her not to go.
- Become a Real Boy: An interesting case. Watanuki IS human, but his existence is unstable because the universe generated his birth as a replacement for someone else. It turns out a majority of the story was Yuuko trying to get him to form enough relationships and go through enough Character Development that he'd be grounded in reality.
- Berserk Button: Doumeki's mere presence can set Watanuki into dramatic fits, never mind when people try to imply they get along. Yuuko ordering him around to do absurd amounts of tasks causes similar reactions.
- Blind Without 'Em: Averted, after receiving half of Doumeki's right eye Watanuki's eyesight becomes better in that eye than what he started with, and then after his magic powers increase his eyesight in both eyes becomes completely corrected so he doesn't need to wear glasses all the time. He even goes nearly three entire volumes without glasses, but once he procures another pair he continues to wear them out of habit.
- Break the Cutie: In the beginning he's a pretty cheerful - albeit spazzy - guy, and his misfortune is played for laughs. Then the situations he encounters start escalating in seriousness... Just one look at who he's become come volume 16 after the Time Skip and its patently obvious that he has broken.
- But Not Too Foreign: It isn't explicitly mentioned but with his heritage and the fact the very Japanese-sounding "Watanuki" is not his true family name revealed, it's easy to deduce that Watanuki's half Chinese.
- Butt Monkey: Poor Watanuki never seemed to catch a break; he's constantly chased by monsters that are Invisible to Normals and try to eat him, he has to deal with Yuuko's teasing and slave-driving work, his crush Himawari is utterly oblivious to his advances, and he has to get his life saved by Doumeki who he hates.
- The Cameo: While CLAMP has an extensive history with crossing over their works, as of late Watanuki seems to have become the go-to character for this, with him having had an appearance in three of their series.
- Chick Magnet: For all that Watanuki acts and initially seems like he's an Unlucky Everydude, almost every character he has significant interaction with ends up loving/attracted to/loyal to/interested in him to some degree. Granted, roughly half of these individuals are spirits which inherently are drawn to him, but still.
- Conveniently an Orphan: The fact he lives alone makes it very easy for Yuuko to ask him to do late-night jobs or have him stay over, since there's no one at his home to worry about where he is. Later revelations prove this overlaps with an Orphan's Ordeal, when it's revealed that the reason he so strongly attracted spirits to himself was because on a subconscious level he blamed himself for his parents deaths and was basically suicidal over it. The spirits could pick up on his desire to make himself "disappear" and were oh-so willing to help him do just that.
- Determinator: Watanuki has proven to have a very strong stubborn streak. This goes into full effect in his refusal to ever stop waiting for Yuuko, even after 100 years pass and he knows it's almost certain he'll never see the Yuuko he knew ever again. His will is so great that even when he gets seriously injured he makes the claim that he won't die, because he still needs to wait for her.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: VERY easy to annoy. Much of the comedy in the series comes from his over-the-top yelling and complaining about the crazy things he encounters or is forced to do against his will. It doesn't help that it some of his peers intentionally try to do things to set him off for their own amusement.
- This eventually diminishes as his character mellows out, though he remains easy to put into an irritated mood.
- Ill Boy: Winds up in need of strict bed rest multiple times during the series, usually because of his tendency to put himself in harms way.
- In Touch with His Feminine Side: He cooks, he cleans. He can even knit, and once makes gloves to give as gifts to all of his friends.
- Irony: a flashback showed that prior to the series start, Watanuki lamented that he believed that he would die alone. The story seems to try to change this in having Watanuki form bonds with a lot of people. Unfortunately, the choices that Watanuki takes to try to preserve the life that he'd come to so dearly love lead him to becoming immortal, ultimately creating something of a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy sort of situation where he will end up being left behind by his mortal loved ones as they age and eventually pass on. Of course, He will never be truly alone due to having ageless spirits and his friend's descendants as company, but the path he has chosen is certainly one that can be considered lonely.
- I See Dead People: Comes with his ability to see otherworldy creatures in general.
- I Will Wait for You: Swears to do this for Yuuko when he makes a wish to see her again.
- Keet: At times. Though he can switch to the opposite depending on the situation. And ceases to be one altogether after Yuuko dies.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia:
- He can't remember chunks of his early life beyond basic facts, and can't remember his parents names. He also is incapable of ever remembering tasting or eating anything he cooks with his own hands, and it isn't until he took notice of that fact that he realized something wasn't right with his memories.
- Watanuki admits he fears that he will one day lose his memories of Yuuko just like most of the world did after her death. It's because of this he tries to keep her belongings, like her pipe and some of her clothes, in regular use to ensure that he doesn't forget, or at least has a means of remembering
- Large Ham: Definitely has his moments, usually when he's either trying to a) impress Himawari or b) get Doumeki or Yuuko to praise him for things like his cooking ("bow before your Watanuki-sama before you partake!").
- Last Name Basis: Practically no one ever calls him "Kimihiro", except for Kohane.
- Love Triangle: During the first half of the series he believes himself to be in a love triangle with Himawari and Doumeki and thinks he's fighting Doumeki for Himawari's affections. Turns out he is in a love triangle of sorts, but he's the object of affection.
- Martyr Without a Cause: Watanuki has shown a dangerous inclination with putting his life in danger for other peoples sake. It takes being called out and scolded for it several times before he finally learns that being so self-sacrificial does more harm than good since it causes people he cares about to worry about him.
- It's later revealed that Yuuko specifically wanted to change this aspect of him, as it was his deep lack of self-worth that was causing most of his problems in the first place and if it weren't corrected, he really would be dead sooner or later.
- Meaningful Name:
- The name "Watanuki" means April 1, which also happens to be his birthday. April 1 is a special date to CLAMP because it was when the group was founded, and to date several characters created by them also share this birthday.
- "Watanuki" is also that of a custom done on April 1 to create a substitute that would draw malignancies like disease and evil spirits away from children, which is reflective of Watanuki's nature. After all, he is, in a sense, Syaoran's "decoy"
- Kimihiro is a name made up of the words meaning "you" and "look for", and was given to him as a promise by his parents to one day see him again. It also means "prophet", which is fitting now that Watanuki appears to have latent powers related to that of a dream seer.
- Mr. Fanservice: If he wasn't one already, he certainly became one after inheriting Yuuko's shop. Check him out (spoilers, obviously)!
- Oblivious to Love: He's observant about other people, but he's pretty terrible at picking up on when someone's affections are directed at himself. Examples include mistaking that the Zashiki-Warashi had a crush on Doumeki rather than himself, never fully realizing why Doumeki stays by his side, and failing to notice that Kohane loved him until he's told about it to his face.
- Really 700 Years Old: He stops aging when he takes over the shop and by the end of the series is over 100 years old.
- Say It with Hearts: When talking to or talking about Himawari.
- Single-Target Sexuality:
- He's head-over-heels infatuated with Himawari, and his eyes never really wander to any of the other girls he encounters, human or otherwise.
- The target eventually switches to Yuuko, but this still applies considering that he throws away any life he would've had in the outside world to wait indefinitely for the chance to see her again. At one point, the Spider Queen Joro-gumo crawls into his lap in an attempt to seduce him and he doesn't even bat an eye.
- Supreme Chef: Chief among his talents, seems like everyone can't get enough of his cooking. One of the common ways to annoy him is to give him ridiculous meal requests. That being said, he does actually enjoy making food.
- Ironically one aspect of his messed up memories is being unable to remember what his own cooking tastes like.
- Tsundere: Completely towards Doumeki. Watanuki angrily blushes red like a tomato while struggling to force out even the slightest thank-you directed at him, even for something as big as saving his life. To a lesser extent, he also acts this way towards Yuuko in how he grumbles about the stuff she has him do but clearly grows to be fond of his new life. Contrast with his full-stop deredere behavior around Himawari.
- Uncanny Family Resemblance: He's distantly related to Clow Reed, but it's been pointed out by several characters that he bears a strong resemblance to how Clow looked when he was young. This is rather curious since neither of Watanuki's parents nor his what for lack of a better term can only be called twin brother looked anything remotely like Clow.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: He will deny it to hell and back but he is definitely this with Doumeki.
- Weirdness Magnet: the whole reason why the story even starts.
- Who Wants to Live Forever?: Subverted. Watanuki may have his occasional moments of melancholy over his situation but he doesn't seem to have any regrets in his decision to become immortal for the sake of waiting for the day he can meet Yuuko again.
- Work Off the Debt: He spends the entirety of the series paying the price for a wish. Although, the wish he's paying for at the end is different than the one he started with.
Yuuko Ichihara
Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara (JP), Colleen Clinkenbeard (EN), Marga López (Spain, series), Azucena Díaz (Spain, movie)The Dimensional Witch, and Watanuki's employer. An eccentric but powerful woman who runs a shop that exists to grant wishes to those who need them... For a price of course. She offers to grant Watanuki's wish that he may stop being chased by demons and as a result effectively turns him into her slave-boy. While she enjoys making Watanuki's life difficult, she does prove to care about him, especially as she starts to take on more of a mentor role rather than that of a demanding master towards him.
- Absolute Cleavage/Impossibly-Low Neckline: A large majority of her outfits are of the boob revealing sort.
- The Ageless:
- Animal Motifs: Yuuko's signature is the butterfly, which also serves as a symbol of many of the overlying themes in the series, such as change, destiny, and the cycle of life and death.
- Even more fitting now that Yuuko's near-death existence has been brought to light.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: She often appears to be more than a bit off her rocker, but her reputation as a powerful witch is completely justified and she is incredibly insightful about matters pertaining to relationships and the human heart.
- Cheshire Cat Grin: Her default facial expression. If she's making a different face, it's usually a cause for concern.
- The Chessmaster: She's a major player in manipulating events that happen both in Holic and Tsubasa to meet a certain end.
- Cool Big Sis: When she's out and about and not playing the part of mysterious shop owner, she fills out this role rather nicely.
- Dead All Along: An accidental wish made by the magician Clow Reed for her to open her eyes again while she was dying caused her time to freeze, trapping her in a state between life and death for centuries. She finally dies when her time begins to move forward again.
- Deadpan Snarker: Loves to make snarky comments.
- Does Not Like Shoes: As most of her apparitions are in doors.
- Dragon Lady: She wears a plethora of asian outfits, and comes off as dark, sexy, and mysterious, therefore suiting the description of one, but she subverts it by being very much a good person.
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Granted the art style has made most human characters in the series to be this, but Yuuko is without a doubt the palest of them all.
- Equivalent Exchange: For every request she grants, she always demands equal payment, even if it's for little things. It turns out that the owner of the wish shop is pretty much contractually bound to live by this principle, to the point it's like an inconvenient Power Limiter; no matter how much power she has, she can't do anything for others without a price. For example, during Watanuki's birthday she mentions that the only thing she can give him without compensation is a "happy birthday", and the look on her face tells she's not exactly happy about that.
- Expy: She can arguably be considered one of fellow CLAMP work's Kaho Mizuki, being another Mysterious Woman with magic powers in a mentor role who has connections of some sort with Clow Reed.
- Hard-Drinking Party Girl: This woman loves her alcohol. Sake, wine, beer, you name it, she will drink it without hesitation. Sort of overlaps with Wine Is Classy when you factor in the glamorous image she portrays.
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- I Have Many Names: She's known under a number of titles, including The Time-Space Witch, The Dimension Witch, The Far-East Witch, The Girl Witch, and even just The Witch (which is a favorite of Kurogane's). Incidentally, the name "Yuuko Ichihara" is also stated in her introduction to be an alias.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: The universe, save for close friends and relations, have Yuuko wiped from their memories when she dies and the universe is reset to be as if she had not continued existing for the past few centuries.
- Last Request: Yuuko's only wish before her death is for Watanuki to go on existing.
- The Lost Lenore: She becomes this for Watanuki, as her death triggers him to make the drastic decision to take over and be made unable to leave the shop, and also results in a great change in his personality. He's left in a state of longing for her for the remainder of the series, and reminders of her former presence pop up at every turn in the form of her possessions or the symbols that represented her.
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- Really 700 Years Old: While her true age is never mentioned, she knew the magician Clow Reed personally, and he's been dead for hundreds of years so that's a pretty good indicator that she's this. See also the Dead All Along entry.
- Schrödinger's Butterfly: Aside from being her symbol, Yuuko herself is likened to a dreaming butterfly, mirroring the famous quote that spawned this trope.
- Series Mascot: Along with Larg, more merchandise for her are available than anyone else and Clamp fans who haven't watched/read the series often recognize her on an instant. Even people not into Clamp admit seeing her (or her overall character design) before.
- Sexy Mentor: She even plays it up by occasionally flirting with Watanuki or stroking his face, and once even offered to striptease for him. He's not amused by this.
- Shipper on Deck: She is undoubtedly a Doumeki/Watanuki fangirl considering how much she enjoys making teasing remarks about their relationship.
- Smoking Is Glamorous: She sure makes it seem that way, what with the beautifully elaborate looking smoke that comes out when she's using her signature kiseru pipe.
- Sugar and Ice Personality: She can come off as cold and cynical, especially when on the job granting wishes to people who don't fully understand the consequences. But she can also be surprisingly warm and kind, a side which starts coming out more often around Watanuki in the later chapters.
- Third-Option Love Interest: Watanuki shares some sort of unbreakable bond with Doumeki and has exchanged genuine "I love you's" with Himawari, but that matters little when it turns out Yuuko had become so important to him that he vows to spend an eternity waiting if that's what it takes for him to see her again.
- Trickster Mentor: She's cryptic and often withholds facts from Watanuki about some of the tasks she entrusts to him or the customers that enter the shop, on the surface for no other reason than to make things harder for him and/or give him grief. In reality, it's mostly because there are things that she wants him to discover and learn for himself.
- Unlimited Wardrobe: Yuuko never wears the same outfit twice except when an important plot point is happening. In fact, anytime Watanuki notices her wearing an outfit he'd seen her wear before causes him to worry that something's amiss. He's right.
Shizuka Doumeki
Voiced by: Kazuya Nakai (JP), J. Michael Tatum (EN), David Navarro Rojas (Spain, series), Ramón Hernández (Spain, movie)A classmate of Watanuki's, Doumeki was brought up in a shrine and has knowledge of the spirit world due to the stories he was told when he was young by his spirit-seeing grandfather. While Doumeki himself is unable to see the supernatural, he has the ability to repel and exorcise them because of his heritage. Watanuki bears an unreasonable hatred towards Doumeki, but despite this fate seems determined to throw them into situations together.
- Badass: Not only is he the most stoic character in the whole eries who is literally calm in situations that would terrify even the bravest of men such as seeing your hand bleed out of nowhere or falling from the sky hundreds of stories high to the ground, but he also has the power to kill demons and spirits with a bow alone.
- Birds of a Feather: With his wife Kohane. Both are reserved, quiet individuals with a exposure to the supernatural starting at a very young age. Both are also Love Martyrs for Watanuki.
- Chick Magnet: Doumeki is noted several times to be very popular with the girls. It's one of many reasons Watanuki gets irritated with Doumeki. Especially when the shop gets a customer who's Yandere for him.
- It crosses into Clueless Chick Magnet territory because while Doumeki is aware of the fact he attracts plenty admirers, he doesn't seem to be able to catch onto when someone likes him unless they outright say it or someone else points it out to him.
- Generation Xerox: It's looking like the entire Doumeki family line is destined to watch over Watanuki, starting with Shizuka's deceased Grandfather who meets Watanuki in dreams. By the end it's Shizuka's great-grandson who's taking on the job, and it looks highly probable that his son and grandson also did so.
- Identical Grandson: Doumeki is identical to how his grandfather Haruka looked when he was young. Haruka also used the bow and arrow as his weapon. The only ways to tell them apart is that Haruka smokes, and actually smiles.
- And 100 years later, Doumeki's great-grandson is also identical in appearance. Watanuki comments that it just may be a quirk of their family.
- Legacy of Service: It's implied his descendants dedicate themselves to keeping Watanuki company.
- Last Name Basis: Similar to Watanuki, no one calls him by his first name except for his family members and Kohane.
- Actually, Doumeki himself never calls anyone by their first name except for Yuuko. Not even his eventual wife.
- Love Martyr: The nature of it is arguable, but there's no denying that Doumeki's loyalty to Watanuki knows no bounds. Doumeki's saved his ass multiple times, restored the sight in his right eye, given him blood, and continues to visit him after he gave up the right to leave the shop, and while their relationship does eventually improve somewhat, Watanuki never completely stops treating Doumeki like a thorn in his side.
- Meaningful Name: His first name, "Shizuka" means quiet, reflecting his stoic nature.
- Perpetual Frowner: There is literally only one instance in the whole series where he clearly cracks a smile.
- Protective Charm: Doumeki is a living protective charm. While he's not completely immune to the supernatural, he acts as spirit repellent and his presence can even negate curses. Which is why Himawari likes having him around.
- Real Men Wear Pink: Doumeki was made to dress in a girl's kimono when he was young because of an old custom that stated a weak child would grow up strong if they did so. Also related, Doumeki is born on March 3 which is the date of the doll festival, aka girls day. Watanuki gets a huge kick out of learning these facts, but because of Doumeki's masterful deadpan stoicism, utterly fails at trying to use them against him.
- The Stoic: This guy pretty much only has two facial expressions: bored and irritated. And that's even when he's under stress. To top it off he also speaks in a monotone voice
- Sugar and Ice Personality: With his ever-blank face, Doumeki can give the impression of not caring one whit about anything. But Doumeki most certainly can care, and he cares deeply. It's obvious in the way he comes in to save Watanuki, or in his interactions with Kohane.
- Tall, Dark and Snarky: He's tall, never smiles, and is a master at snarking at Watanuki.
- Unknown Rival: Watanuki will take any chance he can get to loudly antagonize Doumeki, who he thinks is his rival in love with Himawari and also views as infuriating for no adequate reason. Doumeki on the other hand clearly doesn't take Watanuki seriously and early on just starts plugging his ears to mute the noise.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With of course, Watanuki. The vitriol is almost entirely on Watanuki's end but Doumeki's snark doesn't help.
Himawari Kunogi
Voiced by: Shizuka Ito (JP), Cherami Leigh (EN), Silvia Sánchez (Spain, series), Berta Cortés (Spain, movie)Another of Watanuki's classmates. Himawari is a cheerful girl who Watanuki claims is the cutest girl in school and also has a massive crush on. She often joins in on gatherings with Watanuki, Doumeki, and Yuuko, and is easily accepting about the existence of the magical and supernatural. Despite not having any apparent powers, mysteriously, bad things tend to occur when she's around.
- Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: After Watanuki becomes magically confined to the shop, Himawari is only able to see him only once a year. Ultimately, she marries someone else,but Watanuki issupportive and accepting of her decision, and it doesn't stop her from giving Watanuki phone calls or religiously visiting him on his birthday.
- Doom Magnet/TheJinx: From the minor injury or unpleasant discovery to the extreme accident, bad incidents seem to happen whenever Himawari is around. She's cursed to cause this no matter how much she doesn't want to. Only her parents, Doumeki, and later the pet bird she receives from Watanuki, named Tanpopo, are immune to it.
- Empathy Pet: The little bird Tanpopo is highly expressive and responsive towards both Himawari and Watanuki, which makes sense, as he was born out of Watanuki's desire to grant Himawari true happiness.
- Heroic Sacrifice: After influencing him to experience a near-fatal accident, Himawari chooses to take on any of the scars Watanuki would've otherwise received from his injuries. The action is especially poignant given that unfortunately, in Japan there does exist some stigma against girls who are scarred.
- Important Hairstyle Change: Her default hairstyle changes to a half-up-half-down style so that she can hide the scars on her back that she received as payment for saving Watanuki's life.
- Meaningful Name: Himawari means "sunflower" and indeed, her cheerful personality is the opposite of Shrinking Violet. She's a Stepford Smiler though.
- Mega Twin Tails: The most prominent example in the series.
- Obfuscating Obliviousness: Himawari seems to be oblivious to the fact that Watanuki has a severe crush on her and might sometimes want to do things together without Doumeki tagging along. She also doesn't seem to be aware of the fact that bad things tend to occur in her presence. This isn't true, on any of the accounts. She tries to keep her distance because she doesn't want to hurt Watanuki, and deliberately invites Doumeki along when Watanuki wants to do things with her because she knows Doumeki will cancel out her bad luck.
- Put on a Bus: her presence in the story is reduced to flashbacks and occasional phone calls after Watanuki takes ownership of the shop. It's explained that her misfortune makes being at the shop dangerous to her, and she and Watanuki made an agreement that the only day she can come see him is on his birthday.
- Satellite Love Interest: Initially appears to be one for Watanuki, and then her backstory comes out and blows this accusation out the water.
- Shipper on Deck: Like Yuuko she seems to like commenting about what great friends Watanuki and Doumeki are! Cue Watanuki devolving into protesting sobs and denial.
- Stepford Smiler: Turns out to be one when she reveals that she's noticed that bad things inexplicably happened to the people around her from the age of four, and any time something happened to someone she liked or cared about, was left to wonder if it was her fault. Her smile finally breaks and she's reduced to tears when Watanuki tells her that despite the truth of her nature, he doesn't intend to stop being her friend, and that he was glad to have met her.
Kohane Tsuyuri
- Abusive Parents: Kohane's really unpleasant Stage Mom essentially forces Kohane to take on exorcism jobs and we are up front shown that uses the money to buy extravagant gifts for herself. She also refuses to let Kohane touch, eat food prepared by, or even interact with, anyone she deems to be "unclean", out of fear that Kohane lose her supernatural abilities because of it. She hasn't even called her daughter by her name in years. The kicker is that she won't let herself touch Kohane either, indicating she also thinks of herself as "unclean"
- Birds of a Feather: With her husband Domeki. Both are quiet, dependable, principled individuals who have been exposed to the supernatural since a young age. Both also love Watanuki
- Broken Bird
- Cassandra Truth: Kohane tells the brutal truth to her clients. This eventually get her into trouble.
- Cry Cute: You just want to give the poor girl a hug when she breaks down in tears.
- I See Dead People: Just like Watanuki, she has the ability to see spirits, and it's one reason she and him form a bond. She doesn't attract them to herself like he does, though.
- Love Martyr: For her mother. The main reason she endured her mother's terrible treatment of her was because she on some level blamed herself for why her mother became the way she did, and really wanted nothing more than to make her happy.
- Also arguably for Watanuki, when she and Doumeki end up married to each other seemingly for no other reason than to produce offspring that will keep Watanuki company in his long, unaging life. Doumeki makes a point of stating that Watanuki is indeed the person Kohane loves the most.
- Oracular Urchin
- The Stoic: She speaks in a relatively quiet and mature manner, and her default facial expression has a dreamy quality to it.
- Not So Stoic: She finally lets her mask break after the ordeal with her mother comes to a head. Afterwards, while she remains a soft-spoken person, we get to see her smile much more often.
- When She Smiles
- Will Not Tell a Lie
Black Mokona (Larg)
Voiced by: Mika Kikuchi (JP), Mar Cortés (Spain, series), Roser Vilches (Spain, movie)
- Big Eater: Can quickly gulp up whole serving plates of what Watanuki just cooked!
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Implied during the Water Cat incident where he offers Watanuki assistance in carrying heavy glass jars from the well and a comic panel is even shown where he carries two jars when Watanuki considers the Mokona's offer. Note these jars are so heavy that even the strong Doumeki can only hold one with both hands while coming back to Yuko's house.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: Hey its Mokona so what can you expect.
- Series Mascot: There are far more merchandise for him than any other character in the series aside perhaps from Yuuki and all ending songs of the TV adaptation even feature him in the spotlight.
- The Alcoholic: On equal levels with Yuko!
- Cargo Ship: To the point the Clamp fandom agrees that the only universally accepting pairing is Larg X Saki.
Maru and Moro
Voiced by: Kazuko Kojima and Hisayo Mochizuki (JP), Leah Clark and Brina Palencia (EN), Silvia Sánchez and Carme Serrano (Spain, series), Carmen Ambrós and Victoria Ramos (Spain, movie)Yuuko Ichihara's aides, two artificial beings who keep Yūko's shop in existence. They guide shop visitors to their mistress, and also perform various other tasks. Because they are souless bodies, they cannot leave Yuukos shop. Their complete names are Marudashi and Morodashi.
- Artificial Human
- Does Not Like Shoes
- Finishing Each Other's Sentences: One of their speaking patterns.
- Genki Girl
- Meaningful Name/Theme Twin Naming: "Marudashi" and "Morodashi" are theme related words to public nudity, in the line of "flashing" and "streaking". Yeah, Yuuko finds it cute.
- Odango Hair: Moro.
- Rapunzel Hair: Maru.
- Series Mascot: Downplayed and not to the extent of Black Mokona, but many ads and artwork referencing to XXX Holic features Moro and Maru and the second ending even features them as the spotlight along with Larg.
- Synchronization: Often speak in unison.
- Trickster Twins: Downplayed as they never do anything truly malicious and most of their pranks on Watanuki are extensions of Yuuko's teasing or Mokona's horseplaying.
- Twincest: The opening of the anime plays with his, with the two being shown about kissing before stopping and looking to the camera.
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Blue for Maru and pink for Moro.
Kudagitsune / Mugetsu
A kudagitsune or pipe fox spirit given to Yuuko by Ame-Warashi as payment. It is later named Mugetsu by Watanuki.
- The Big Guy: Sometimes plays the role against evil spirits.
- Clingy MacGuffin: It becomes very attached to Watanuki, even showing hearts when clinging to him.
- Familiar
- Kitsune: Its true form.
- Living MacGuffin
- Loyal Animal Companion


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We're PCSing soon to NAS Jacksonville (Florida) and I'm curious if anyone has delivered there before or is there now. We're currently in south Texas and the hospital here on base does not have an OB department so I've been going off base - and absolutely love it!
Curious what the NAS Jacksonville Naval Hospital is like, I know they have an OB department. We should be there soon, by the end of June hopefully...
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Three ancient pyramids have been discovered in the Antarctic by a team of American and European scientists. Two of the pyramids were discovered about 16 kilometers inland, while the third one was very close to the coastline. An expedition to the bizarre structures should answer the intriguing question whether they are artificial or natural.
The first reports about the pyramids appeared in western mass media last year. A few pictures were posted on some web-sites with a commentary that the strange structures could serve evidence that the ice-covered continent used to be warm enough to have had an ancient civilization living there.
At the current moment little is still known about the pyramids and the team continues to keep silent about the discovery. The only reliable information provided by the scientists was that they were planning an expedition to the pyramids to research them more thoroughly and determine for sure whether the structures were artificial or natural. No details about the time frame of the expedition were offered.
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Lois Mulrooney, president of Resident Lending Group answered questions from about the housing market in Salem on Aug. 17. Read the chat at StatesmanJournal.com/chat.
Q: We are thinking about refinancing, but we have a couple of houses on our street that are either in foreclosure or a short sale. How will this affect our appraised value?
A: Great question! Because they have yet to close they are not yet considered comparable sales data, however, they most certainly may be included on the appraisal as supporting data to reflect the current market trends in your neighborhood.
They are not given weight in determining the value, however they support indicators for trends in values. You may qualify for a HARP 2.0 loan if your loan was purchased by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac and originated prior to June of 2009. Over 80% of these qualified loans are assigned a market value by Fannie or Freddie and this value can be used in lieu of an appraisal.
Eligible loan to values, depending on lender and program can range anywhere from 100% to 150%. Often times 2nd mortgages are in place and these can be subordinated behind a HARP refinance. You can check and see if your loan is owned by fannie or freddie by going to the website www.makinghomeaffordable.gov and clicking on the tools button to drop down the link Is your loan owned by Fannie or Freddie. ...
Q: What advice would you give a homeowner who is underwater?
A: If you can stay in your house and can afford the payments, ride it out! There has never been a time in history that values went down and never ever came up again. They may not hit their record highs from 5 to 7 years ago but they will come up. If you are underwater and you cant afford your payment you have several options. Look into refinancing utilizing the HARP 2.0 program, VA Interest Rate Reduction program, FHA Streamline refinance program, USDA refinance program etc. ... If you dont qualify for any of these programs and forsee that in the near future you may have to stop making payments, then be proactive and contact a real estate agent to see if they can help you work with your existing lender to negotiate a short sale of the home vs. a foreclosure. Another option is to contact the existing lien holder and request the loan modification department to see if there are any options to modify your loan. Modifications are most often approved when three things have happened: an event that created the hardship, proof that youve exhausted every option to remedy the situation and lastly proof of the exit strategy for the hardship by a you have in place to maintain ownership of the property and means to make the payments. Otherwise the lender will feel that modification would be fruitless if you still cant afford to own the home.
Q: When does it make sense to refinance when your rate is 4.5 percent on a 20-year mortgage. We already refinanced, and were 1.5 years into the loan.
A: It really depends on several factors. Interest rates for 20-year fixed mortgages are definitely lower than your current interest rate and you are not that far into this loan. The easiest way for me to help a borrower determine if its worth it to refinance is to printout an amortization schedule of their existing. Then, I look at 3 rate options that are available- one with a buy down rate, one with a par rate and one with rebate pricing to cover the borrowers closings. Then I printout amortization schedules of these 3 options to determined how long it would take to recoup the costs with interest savings and also how much we will save in 5 and 10 years and ultimately over the life of the loan. The government has placed what is called Benefit to Borrower guidelines to make sure that consumers dont refinance when there is truly not enough of a benefit with savings vs. costs.
Q: Im worried about buying a house. What evidence is there to prove that weve hit bottom?
A: Heres the best evidence I can provide from WVMLS: Total sales for July were 195 units compared to 165 units in July of 2011. 46% of the sold listings received 100% or more of their asking price compared to a year ago when that figure way only 36%. When I start to hear Realtors say we need more inventory it tells me that the market is starting to shift.


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It would be good to specify precisely what "hierarchical" means.
In RFC 3986, the distinction does not exist anymore.
For instance, for
IE8 returns
as pathname, which intuitively seems to be the right thing, given the URI grammar.
In a document with URL "data:text/html,aa/bb/cc", how is a relative URL "../" supposed to be processed?
I'm not sure what the answer is; but it does not depend on the scheme. Section 5 of RFC 3986 should have all the details.
It _did_ depend on the scheme. As far as I can tell, implementations still think it depends on the scheme, and thus RFC3986 is incorrect. I think the right solution here might be to refer to the previous versions of the RFCs (specifically 2396) for the definition of "hierarchical".
If you seriously believe there's a bug in RFC 3986 then by all means report it (rfc-editor errata page, or on the URI mailing list).
(In reply to comment #3)
> It _did_ depend on the scheme. As far as I can tell, implementations still
> think it depends on the scheme, and thus RFC3986 is incorrect. I think the
> right solution here might be to refer to the previous versions of the RFCs
> (specifically 2396) for the definition of "hierarchical".
- If HTML5 makes it depend on the property of being "hierarchical", it either needs to define that term, or reference the definition somewhere else. Currently it doesn't, and that's why I raised the bug.
- The definition can not hard-wire specific scheme names, because that would make it impossible to deploy new schemes; so it needs to be sufficient to inspect the given base URI, given the fact that the scheme may be unknown.
- That being said, the example given above (IE8 parsing data URIs) seems to indicate that implementations do not uniformly special-case non-hierarchical URIs; thus it should be considered to drop the distinction here.
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Status: Partially Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below. I went with something more like what webkit does, basing it on the characters after the scheme.
Rationale: The URL specs changed in a non-backwards-compatible fashion, so the HTML5 spec had to either reference the older drafts or change how it used them. The latter seemed easiest.
Checked in as WHATWG revision r4965.
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How to start small business in dubai?
Posted in Dubai forum
I'm a UAE national and offering to be a local service agent who you need to start your own business in UAE so if you have any question let me know.
or you can visit
posted by WebJunky 80 in Dubai forum
by local service agent do you really mean a silent partner who will get paid under the laws for simply being a name on a paper?
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that's it !!! unless you got a big amount of money to keep it in the bank for months and you can use it later then you do not need a silent partner like me:)
find out...
posted by WebJunky 80 in Dubai forum
take a trip to dubai and try the trade shows. that is your best bet in attracting the right investor
posted by abdullah alamry in Dubai forum
Hay Angel i could not open your web page maybe it's me.....any way i think you really should do a lot of research in the market you could even visit the champers of commerce site in Dubai and I'm sure you will get a better answer .
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The nationwide poll asks African-American women about their own views.
The Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation recently conducted a nationwide survey and interviewed more than 800 African-American women in the U.S. for a look into what Black women are experiencing when it comes to religion, relationships, careers and self-perception.
"Black women haven't really defined themselves," author Sophia Nelson tells the Washington Post. "We were always defined as workhorses, strong. We carry the burdens, we carry the family. We don't need. We don't want."
Nearly three-quarters of African-American women believe that now is a great time to be a Black woman in America, but about the same amount also worry about being able to pay their bills. Eighty-five percent say they're satisfied with their lives, but one-fifth say they feel like they get less respect than other people. On the upside, Black women have a great view of themselves: 67 percent of Black women say they have high self-esteem compared to 43 percent of white women.
The results also show that:
Forty percent of Black women say getting married is very important, compared with 55 percent of white women, 67 percent would be willing to marry into a different race, and 63 percent of Black women say it's acceptable to have a child without being married (about the same percentage as white women). Nearly 60 percent worry about providing their children with a good education.
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The earlier restriction in which a tourist to India could not return within a period of two months has been lifted.
The gorgeous Red Panda can be seen at the popular Darjeeling Zoo.
Seed seller on the lakes of Kashmir
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Mother Teresa's ashram and tomb, Kolkata.
Learner monks at a Himalayan Buddhist monastery.
Whether it's an old bent monk in red robes feeding pigeons in a hilltop monastery, women in jewel-coloured saris moving rocks and boulders by hand from landslides blocking the mountain roads; whether it's the unique beauty of the Taj Mahal; priceless paintings, traffic-choked streets, gracious colonial hotels and house-high dumps of roadside rubbish – they all add up to the almost indescribable magic of India.
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News about University of Arizona, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Chronology of Coverage
Mar. 29, 2015
University of Arizona fans suffered through watching their second-seeded Wildcats fall one victory short of NCAA tournament's Final Four for third time in four years; difference in 2015 is that the loss to Arizona came quickly and surely, with Wisconsin dropping 12 3-pointers in the game. MORE
Mar. 29, 2015
Wisconsin defeats Arizona, 85-78, in NCAA men's basketball tournament Round of 8. MORE
Mar. 28, 2015
Arizona, led by senior guard T J McConnell, is preparing to face Wisconsin in NCAA men's basketball tournament round of 8; McConnell and Arizona coach Sean Miller, both Pittsburgh natives among other background similarities, share a special bond. MORE
Mar. 22, 2015
College Basketball Men's NCAA Tournament Roundup; Arizona defeats Ohio State, 73-58, in third round of NCAA tournament. MORE
Mar. 20, 2015
NCAA Tournament Roundup; University of Arizona beats Texas Southern University, 93-72, in NCAA men's basketball tournament round of 64. MORE
Nov. 29, 2014
College Football Roundup; Stanford defeats UCLA, 31-10; Arizona defeats Arizona State, 42-35, to win Pacific-12 Conference South Division title; other college football scores and news noted. MORE
Nov. 25, 2014
College Basketball Roundup; No 2 Arizona wears down Missouri for a 72-53 victory in the opening round of the Maui Invitational in Lahaina, Hawai; other scores noted. MORE
Mar. 31, 2014
Fifteen people are arrested in Tucson when fans riot after Arizona men's basketball team loses to Wisconsin in overtime in NCAA tournament. MORE
Mar. 30, 2014
Wisconsin beats Arizona, 64-63, in overtime, to advance to the NCAA men's basketball Final Four. MORE
Mar. 29, 2014
NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Notebook; relationship between Arizona coach Sean Miller and Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan goes back to the 1970s, when Ryan was an assistant coach and Miller was a 9-year-old basketball prodigy; other men's tournament news noted. MORE
Mar. 22, 2014
Arizona beats Weber State, 68-59, in second round of the NCAA men's basketball tournament; other NCAA tournament results noted. MORE
Mar. 21, 2014
Arizona guard Nick Johnson was taught by his father, a celebrated leaper, to cultivate the all-around abilities that took his uncle, Dennis Johnson, to the NBA Hall of Fame; he and his team enter NCAA tournament as the top seed in the West Region. MORE
Mar. 17, 2014
Florida lands No 1 overall seed in NCAA men's basketball tournament field that is light on midmajors; Arizona, Wichita State and Virginia join Florida as top seeds; chart shows men's bracket. MORE
Mar. 17, 2014
Duke forward Jabari Parker, Kansas guard Andrew Wiggins and center Joel Embiid, Arizona forward Aaron Gordon and Kentucky forward Julius Randle are five freshmen stars to watch in the NCAA men's basketball tournament. MORE
Mar. 17, 2014
Arizona, seeded first in the West, will take big-name talent to the NCAA men's basketball tournament, but if it wins its first national title since 1997, it will be on the strength of its man-to-man defense. MORE
Mar. 16, 2014
College Basketball Men's Tournament Roundup; UCLA defeats Arizona, 75-71, to win the Pacific-12 championship; Louisville claims the American Athletic Conference title with a 71-61 victory over Connecticut; other men's and women's tournament news noted. MORE
Feb. 15, 2014
Louisville routes Temple, 82-58; other men's college basketball news noted. MORE
Feb. 7, 2014
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Organ concerto
An organ concerto is a piece of music, an instrumental concerto for a pipe organ soloist with an orchestra. The form first evolves in the 18th century, when composers including George Frideric Handel, Antonio Vivaldi and Johann Sebastian Bach wrote organ concertos with small orchestras, and with solo parts which rarely call for the organ pedal board. A few Classical and Romantic works are extant. Finally, there are some 20th- and 21st-century examples, of which the concerto by Francis Poulenc has entered the repertoire, and is quite frequently played.
The organ concerto form is not usually taken to include orchestral works that call for an organ used as an extra orchestral section, examples of which include the Third Symphony of Camille Saint-Saëns, Gustav Holst's The Planets or Richard Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra.
- 1 List of organ concertos
- 1.1 G. F. Handel (1685–1759)
- 1.2 Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741)
- 1.3 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
- 1.4 Michel Corrette (1709–1793)
- 1.5 Thomas Arne (1710–1778)
- 1.6 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788)
- 1.7 Antonio Soler (1729–1783)
- 1.8 Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (1839–1901)
- 1.9 Alexandre Guilmant (1837–1911)
- 1.10 Marco Enrico Bossi (1861–1925)
- 1.11 20th and 21st centuries
- 2 References
List of organ concertos[edit]
G. F. Handel (1685–1759)[edit]
Handel wrote organ concertos as interludes for his oratorios—playing the organ part himself while directing the orchestra. Some are arrangements of his earlier works, or of works by other composers. For more details see the list of Handel's concertos. Many alternatives exist, so it is difficult to precisely number his organ concertos, however it is generally accepted that he wrote 16:
- HWV 289 - Op. 4 No. 1 in G minor: larghetto, allegro, adagio, andante
- HWV 290 - Op. 4 No. 2 in B flat major: tempo ordinario, allegro, adagio, allegro ma non troppo
- HWV 291 - Op. 4 No. 3 in G minor: adagio, allegro, adagio, allegro
- HWV 292 - Op. 4 No. 4 in F major: allegro, andante, adagio, allegro
- HWV 293 - Op. 4 No. 5 in F major: larghetto, allegro, alla siciliana, presto
- HWV 294 - Op. 4 No. 6 in B flat major: andante, allegro, larghetto, allegro moderato
- HWV 306 - Op. 7 No. 1 in B flat major: andante, allegro, largo, adagio, allegro
- HWV 307 - Op. 7 No. 2 in A major: overture, tempo ordinario, tempo ordinario II, allegro
- HWV 308 - Op. 7 No. 3 in B flat major: allegro, fuga, spiritoso, minuets 1 & 2
- HWV 309 - Op. 7 No. 4 in D minor: adagio, allegro, adagio, allegro
- HWV 310 - Op. 7 No. 5 in G minor: allegro ma non troppo, adagio, andante, minuet, gavotte
- HWV 311 - Op. 7 No. 6 in B flat major: pomposo, adagio, tempo ordinario
- HWV 295a - F major (No. 13): largo, allegro, larghetto, allegro
- HWV 295b - second version: larghetto, allegro, larghetto, allegro
- HWV 296a - A major (No. 14) : largo e staccato, organo ad libitum: fuga – allegro, andante, grave, allegro
- HWV 296b - second version, Pasticcio Konzert: andante, adagio, grave, andante allegro, a tempo ordinario
- HWV 304 - D minor (No. 15) : andante, organo ad libitum: adagio – fuga, allegro
- HWV 305a - F major (No. 16) : concerto, allegro, andante, andante allegro
- HWV 305b - second version: overture, allegro, andante, andante allegro
Organ concertos arranged from Concerti Grossi, Op.6:
- HWV 297 - D minor, after HWV 328: overture, air, allegro, allegro, allegro moderato
- HWV 298 - G major, after HWV 319: a tempo giusto, allegro, adagio, allegro, allegro
- HWV 299 - D major, after HWV 323 : larghetto e staccato, allegro, presto, largo, allegro, minuet un poco larghetto
- HWV 300 - G minor, after HWV 324 : largo e affettuoso, a tempo giusto, musette larghetto, allegro, allegro
Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741)[edit]
- D minor for violin, organ and strings, RV541
- F major for violin, organ and strings, RV542 (allegro, lento, allegro)
- C major for violin, cello, organ and strings, RV554a
- F major for 2 violins, 2 organs and double orchestra, RV584 (incomplete)
- C minor for violin, organ and strings, RV766
- F major for violin, organ and strings, RV767
- C major for violin, organ and strings, RV774 (incomplete)
- F major for violin, organ and strings, RV775 (incomplete)
- C major for 2 organs and strings, RV793 (incomplete)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)[edit]
There is no clearly named "organ concerto" (i.e., for organ and orchestral ensemble) by Bach, but several cantata movements contain extensive organ solo parts. One example is Cantata 146, whose first and second movements are adapted from the keyboard concerto BWV 1052. [1]. Cantata 35 contains two instrumental Sinfonias with organ solo, the first of which agrees with the fragmentary keyboard concerto BWV1059. [2]. (A recording of a reconstruction of this as an organ concerto was made by Ton Koopman. [3]
Bach's admiration for Vivaldi and the Italian style led to several transcriptions of instrumental concertos for solo organ, without an orchestra:
|G major
|after Johann Ernst von Sachsen-Weimar
Transcription of a concerto for violin, strings and continuo
|allegro, grave (E minor), presto
|A minor
|after Antonio Vivaldi
Based on Op. 3 No. 8 for 2 violins and basso continuo (RV 522)
|allegro (or Tempo Giusto), adagio (D minor) senza pedale a due claviere, allegro
|C major
|after Antonio Vivaldi
Based on Op. 7 No. 5 for violin and basso continuo (RV 208)
|allegro, adagio (A minor), recitativ, allegro - cadenza - allegro
|C major
|After Johann Ernst von Sachsen-Weimar
|Uses the first movement only.
|D minor
|after Vivaldi
Based on Op. 3 No. 11 - RV 565
|allegro - grave - fuga, largo e spiccato, finale allegro
|E flat major
|unknown composer
Michel Corrette (1709–1793)[edit]
The French organist-composer Michel Corrette wrote six concertos.
- Concerto No. 1 in G major: allegro, aria I, aria II, allegro
- Concerto No. 2 in A major: allegro, adagio, allegro
- Concerto No. 3 in D major: adagio, aria, andante, adagio, allegro
- Concerto No. 4 in C major: allegro, aria, allegro
- Concerto No. 5 in F major: allegro, aria, allegro
- Concerto No. 6 in D minor: allegro, andante, presto
Thomas Arne (1710–1778)[edit]
The English composer Thomas Arne composed six concertos.
- Concerto No. 1 in C major: largo ma con spirito, andante, allegro, minuetto
- Concerto No. 2 in G major: allegro, lento, moderato, allegro, con spirito
- Concerto No. 3 in A major: con spirito, con spirito, minuetto, moderato
- Concerto No. 4 in B flat major: con spirito, minuetto, giga moderato
- Concerto No. 5 in G minor: largo, allegro con spirito, adagio, vivace
- Concerto No. 6 in B flat major: allegro, moderato, ad libitum, allegro, minuetto
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788)[edit]
The German composer C. P. E. Bach wrote examples, including the following.
- Concerto for organ and orchestra No. 4 in B flat major: con spirito, minuetto, giga
- Concerto for organ and orchestra No. 5 in G minor: largo, allegro con spirito, adagio, vivace
- Concerto for organ and orchestra No. 6 in B flat major: allegro moderato, minuetto - variations
- Concerto for organ, strings and basso continuo in G major: allegro di molto, largo, presto
Antonio Soler (1729–1783)[edit]
The Spanish composer Antonio Soler wrote six concertos for two organs (without other instruments):
- Concerto No. 1 in C major: andante, minué
- Concerto No. 2 in A minor: andante-allegro, tempo di minué
- Concerto No. 3 in G: andantino, minué
- Concerto No. 4 in F: afectuoso, andante non largo, minué
- Concerto No. 5 in A: cantabile, minué
- Concerto No. 6 in D: allegro-andante-allegro-andante, minué
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Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (1839–1901)[edit]
- Organ Concerto No. 1 in F major [4] Carus-Verlag
- Organ Concerto No. 2 in G minor [5]
Alexandre Guilmant (1837–1911)[edit]
Félix-Alexandre Guilmant Alexandre Guilmant, [6] wrote two of his organ sonatas in two versions [7], one as a symphony for organ and orchestra:
- Sonata No. 1 in D minor / Symphonie No. 1 in D minor for Organ and Orchestra: Introduction et Allegro / Pastorale (Andante quasi allegretto) / Final (Allegro assai)
- Sonata No. 8 in A major / Symphonie No. 2 in A major for Organ and Orchestra: Introduction et Allegro risoluto / Adagio con affetto / Scherzo: Allegro vivace / Andante sostenuto / Intermède et Allegro con brio
Marco Enrico Bossi (1861–1925)[edit]
- Concerto in A minor op. 100 for Organ, String Orchestra, 4 Horns and Timpani (Bossi wrote this Concerto in two versions, the first in B flat minor with a different orchestration but with the same opus number)
- Konzertstück in C minor op. 130 for Organ and Orchestra
- Fantasia Sinfonica Op.147 for organ & orchestra
20th and 21st centuries[edit]
- Joseph Jongen (1873–1953): Symphonie Concertante for Organ and Orchestra op. 81 (1926)
- Marcel Dupré (1886–1971): Concerto in E minor Op. 31 (1931)
- Hans Gál (1890–1987): Concertino for Organ and String Orchestra Op. 55 (1954)
- Paul Hindemith (1895–1963):
- Kammermusik No. 7, concerto for organ and wind band, Op. 46 No. 2 (1927)
- Concerto for organ and orchestra (1963)
- Howard Hanson (1896–1981): Organ Concerto (1923)
- Francis Poulenc (1899–1963): Concerto for organ in G minor (1938)
- Jón Leifs (1899–1968): Organ Concerto, op.7 (1930)
- Flor Peeters (1903–1986): Concerto for Organ and Orchestra, op.52
- Normand Lockwood (1906–2002): Concerto for Organ and Brasses
- Jean Langlais (1907–1991):
- Concerto No. 1 for organ or harpsichord and orchestra (1949)
- Concerto No. 2 for organ and string orchestra (1961)
- Concerto No. 3 Réaction for organ, string orchestra and timpani (1971)
- Samuel Barber (1910–1981):
- Toccata Festiva, for organ and orchestra Op. 36
- Sir Malcolm Arnold (1921 - 2006)
- Concerto for organ, trumpets (3), timpani and strings
- Boris Tchaikovsky (1925–1996): Six Etudes for organ and string orchestra (1976)
- Arthur Butterworth (1923-2014): Concerto for organ, string orchestra and percussion, Op. 33 (1973)
- Charles Chaynes (b. 1925): Concerto for organ, strings, timpani and percussion after the Spiritual Canticle of St. John of the Cross (1973)
- Jean Guillou (b. 1930):
- Invention for organ and orchestra (concerto No. 1) Op. 7
- Concerto Héroïque for organ and orchestra (concerto No. 2) Op. 10
- Concerto No. 3, for organ and string orchestra Op. 14
- Concerto No. 4, for organ and orchestra Op. 31
- Concerto No. 5, Roi Arthur for organ and string quintet Op. 35
- Concerto 2000 for organ and orchestra Op. 62
- Concerto No. 6 for organ and orchestra (triple woodwind, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, tuba, percussion, strings) Op. 68
- Concerto No. 7 for organ and orchestra Op. 70
- Thierry Escaich (b. 1965):
- Concerto for organ and orchestra (Concerto No. 1, 1995)
- Concerto for organ, string orchestra percussions (Concerto No. 2, 2006)
- Daniel E Gawthrop (b. 1949): Concerto for Organ and Orchestra (premiere 2004)
- Stephen Paulus (1949-2014):
- Concerto for Organ, Chorus and Orchestra
- Concerto for Organ, Strings and Percussion (1992)
- Grand Concerto for Organ and Orchestra (2004)
- Double Concerto for Piano and Organ with Strings and Percussion (c. 2010)
- Michael Gandolfi (b. 1956):
- Ascending Light for organ and orchestra (2015)
- Leonid Karev (b. 1969):
- Mots Interrompus for Organ and Orchestra (2007)
- Eugenio Maria Fagiani (b. 1972):
- Concerto for Organ and string orchestra Op. 98 (2009)
- Frederik Magle (1977):
- Concerto for organ and orchestra "The Infinite Second" (1994)
- Valentin Villard (b. 1985):
- Concerto for Organ and string orchestra Op. 46 (2009)
- Concerto pour orgue See the French Wikipedia page for a more complete list.
- Bouquet-Boyer, Marie-Thérèse, Vivaldi et le concerto, Paris, Éditions des Presses Universitaires de France, coll. «Que sais-je ?», 1985.
- Orgues Nouvelles no 5, été 2009, Lyon, juin 2009. Dossier concertos orgue et orchestre.
- Richard H. Satorius, Bibliography of Concertos for Organ and Orchestra, Evanston (IL), The Instrumentalist Co., 1961.
- Pipedreams Selected Repertoire for Organ and Orchestra par Michale Barone (2008).


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It's an election year and that means exciting debates, loaded campaign promises and more. The nation's economy has been slowly recovering over the past four years and so it should come as no surprise that the economy is a hot topic in this year's Presidential election. If you'd like to find out more about how Republican front-runner Mitt Romney's economic plan may affect you should he win, then take a few minutes and check out the articles and video highlighted below.
Mitt Romney's Tax Plan in 5 Charts
If you're a visual learner then the Center for American Progress has an article tailored to you. The organization presents Romney's proposed tax plan in five easy-to-read charts. The charts focus on these central ideas:
- More tax cuts to the rich than Bush's tax plan
- More tax cuts geared at the nation's wealthiest individuals
- The tax changes would not balance the budget
- Middle class and working families would face a tax increase
- Current corporate tax loopholes and breaks would remain
Romney's Tax Plan Would Add $600 Billion to Deficit
The Center for American Progress isn't the only outlet reporting that Romney's economic plan would not balance the budget. A study conducted by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center reveals that the Presidential hopeful's tax plan would add $600 billion to the deficit in 2015 alone.
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June 7 2012, 09:48 AM
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Today, I received the first season of
in the post. The first season (1972) was hosted by Edward Woodward, later seasons by John Pertwee. John Pertwee it seems appeared as one of the panel on at least some of the first season episodes.
I am now going to watch a couple of episodes, pen and paper in hand to write down clues. Hopefully I might be able to solve at least one or two of the Whodunnits during this season.
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