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"Man is not the creature of circumstances
Circumstances are the creatures of man."
Macbeth, throughout the play, is presented as one much above the ordinary beings, and, as such, he fulfils the basic -requirements of being a tragic hero. Shakespeare, introduces him as a brave general, a bold, resolute man of action who through as also referred to "Valor's minion", "Bellona's bridegroom'', the king's ''valiant cousin'', a very "eagle'' among ''sparrows'', a ''lion'' among ''hares''. It is a play, which is depicting a complete destruction, wrestling with creation. It is a study of the disintegration and damnation of a man. And yet, Macbeth is a 'tragic hero'.Here presents, the hero's complete symbolic life-journey in a reflective pattern to ensure the only operation of evil in this world.
'Macbeth: "Come, let me clutch thee:
I have thee not,fatal vision,sensible
To feeling as to sight?" '
In the third scene of the first act of the play though the hero accepts evil overtly, there is a suggestion that, even before the commencement of action of the play, he has fallen under the influence of evil.
'Banquo : .."Merciful powers,
Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature
Gives way to repose."
The Witches, merely prophecy certain things for Macbeth. They do not influence him in any concrete manner, but the effect of the prophecy is to make Macbeth, start as if he were already guilty of harboring dangerous ideas. It is a fact that his ambition impels him towards "the swelling act of the imperial theme", though his conscience fills him with horror at the idea that has come to him about how to gain the throne.
'Macbeth: "Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day." '
Macbeth, is the starkest and the least discursive of Shakespeare's tragedies as Granville-Barker has pointed out. The deterioration of Macbeth's character illustrates the theme of conscience and its decline. From a brave soldier and noble person Macbeth reaches a state when he is a soulless man, a beast chained to a stake like a beast!
'Second Witch: "By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes;
Open locks, whoever knocks." '
The forces of evil are always ready to ensnare man; but they have their limitations. They do not, indeed cannot, force man into evil; they can merely tempt man to choose to follow evil ways. Macbeth, deliberately choose- not once, but several times in the play-the evil path. At every stage of Macbeth's degeneration we witness the choice being made deliberately, at the same time there is a sense of inevitability, about Macbeth's choices.
'Macbeth: "How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!
What is't you do?
All the Witches: A deed without a name." '
Much more, than the other elements, the Witches introduce an element of supernatural mystery and fear into Macbeth. According to Charles Lamb," They are foul anomalies, of whom we know not whence they are sprung, or whether they have beginning or ending. As they are without human passions, they seem to be without human relations. They come with thunder and lightning and vanish to airy music."It is significant that the play opens with a brief meeting of the Three Witches.
'Old Man:"Threeescore and ten I can remember well;
Within the volume of which time, I have seen
Hours dreadful and things strange, but this sore night
Hath trifled former knowings." '
The opening scene, in fact is important, in that which makes a complete sense of mystery, strikes the keynote of the play:
..' Second Witch: "When the hurly-burly's done,
When the battle's lost, and won.
Third Witch: That will be the ere the set of sun.
First Witch: Where the place?
Second Witch: Upon the heath.
Third Witch: There to meet with Macbeth.'' '
When we meet the Witches again in Act I, Sc.iii, we get to know of their physical aspects. They are withered and not dressed like earthly beings; their fingers are choppy and lips skinny. They look like women, and yet they are bearded. They can at will vanish into air, can foresee the future, and possess more than mortal knowledge. They are by no means the ordinary witches of popular super -station; they are more powerful beings, resembling rather the "Goddesses of Devine "as Holinshed calls them. Shakespeare has endowed they may have power over Nature, but that power is not -absolute. They may have power over a man's soul but that power is not absolute either. It is when a mortal mind is tainted that they can have an influence on it. Their prophecy only gives a definite shape to the dark thoughts that have already been smoldering in Macbeth's mind. The thought of assassinating Duncan occurs to him independently of 'them'-without any hint from 'them'. Macbeth reads into the prophecies a "supernatural soliciting", to murder and, Lady Macbeth looks upon them as "metaphysical aid." The Witches in Macbeth never solicit nor aid- this is nothing -but a wishful thinking.
'Macbeth: ''Why sinks that cauldron? And what noise is this? " '
The most- distinct suggestion, of the supernatural in Macbeth comes from Banquo's Ghost. There is no doubt that we can see with Macbeth the uncanny apparition, the blood blotched ghost. Banquo's Ghost plays an important role in the action of tragedy. The horror of its sight compels Macbeth to make many a comprising disclosure. As Coleridge points out them, "as true a creation of Shakespeare's as his Ariel and Caliban" and "wholly different from the representation of Witches in the contemporary writers, and yet presented a sufficient of witches in the contemporary writers, and yet presented a sufficient external resemblance to the creatures of vulgar prejudice, to act immediately on the audience."
'All the Witches: "Double, double toil and trouble,
Fire burn and cauldron bubble." '
Though the Witches here do not have a direct share in its action they are a very important part of the play. The play from its very beginning continues under their evil shadows until the shadows are finally lifted in the last scene with Macduff's entry with "the usurper's cursed head." The tragedy would lose all its magnificence without its strange atmosphere and the atmosphere would amount to nothing without the presence of the Witches.
'All the Witches: "Fair is foul, and foul is fair,
Hover through the fog and filthy air."
Lenox describes the 'unruly' night in some detail:
"Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say
Lamentings heard i' th' air; strange screams of death,
And, prophesying with accents terrible
Of dire combustion, and confused events,
New hatch'd to th' woeful time, the obscure bird
Clamour'd the live long night; some say, the earth
Was feverous, and did shake."
In the next scene, Ross and the Old Man discuss of similar events that have taken place during the fateful night:
'Old Man: 'On Tuesday last
A falcon tow'ring in her pride of place,
Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd." '
The portents suggest a topsy-turvy situation in Nature and emphasize the naturalness of Macbeth's heinous deed in murdering Duncan who is at once his king, kinsman and guest.
'Ross: "And Duncan's horses, a thing most strange and certain,
Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race,
Turn'd wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out,
Contending 'gainst obedience as they would
Making war with mankind." '
The accounts of these supernatural happenings hence are helping towards the atmosphere of horror in the play. - 'An owl shrieks
Lady Macbeth: ..''It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman
Which gives the stern'st good-night." '
King Edward, the Confessor was thought to be inspired with a gift of prophecy and also to possess the gift of healing infirmities and some incurable diseases. Though one motive of the references may have been to flatter JamesI, another valid justification on dramatic grounds, is that the good supernatural described here is a contrast to the evil supernatural of the witches. Man's actions are, therefore, not isolated but closely connected to various forces operating in the universe. At the same time, it is made to clear that effect would be different if Man did not succumb to the evil within him.
'Lady Macbeth: "Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here
And fill me from the crown to the toe topfull
Of direst cruelty." '
It is noticeable that Macbeth himself never blames the Witches for his sinister actions. The supernatural elements contribute to the play a rich texture, raise the tragedy to a cosmic dimension to a sense of Fate, operating in man's life in Macbeth. Macbeth's failure to utter the word 'Amen' is also accepted only as a psychologic. The air-drawn dagger is not strictly a part of the supernatural. The visionary dagger that Macbeth perceives just before committing Duncan's murder has been interpreted more as a projection of Macbeth's heated mind than as a concrete reality to be felt and known. It is he who makes it possible for Birnam Wood to come to Dunsinane Castle shutting himself up inside. It is he who senselessly murdering Macduff's family rouses Macduff who is "none of woman born"- to revenge. Before his end, he simply blames the juggling fiends as they, "keep the word of promise to our ear and break it to our hope."
"Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;
Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun."
- Shakespeare's Art, therefore, is evolving from a Deep Understanding of the Complexity of Human Nature!
(References, words, sentences, ideas, settings and elaboration from 'William Shakespeare's Macbeth- A critical evaluation', Dr. S. Sen, and other.)


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Yeah, that is where I got my info, as that is also a place where a few Chinese fan translators is active in and I believe it ond of the first place they release new chapter.
As for other site have mixed order, I might be because the file names are scrambled in that site so who ever take picture from there and didn't both to re-name them, the order is going to get messed up.
An "S" is short for sadist. As in S&M. Except in East Asia, it's not as heavily suggest on the physical side but more on a mental side. In real life and ACG term, and S-character mean character that likes to mess other people's head or pressure them into submission and had no remorse or even take pleasure in doing it. It works effective well with haraguro-type characters and usually every character can be categorical into either an S or M though it could change depend on the people they interact with.
For example, Taichi is mostly an M, Chihaya on the other hand would be an hidden S. Shinobu would be an S normally,m but it seem she turns into an M when interacting with Arata.
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Spoiler for thoughts:
Are there three years of high school in Japan and they are in 2nd year? Does anyone have any idea how many months could be left before that scene which appeared in the first chapter of first volume comes?
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They should be at mid-point tight now. Japanese high school typically starts in March/April (hence all the graduation song release during this time.)
Inter-high like other school sports usually happens during in summer vacation. so they should be effectively at mid-point, half year left in 2nd year and have 1st half of year to play with before it crunch time for college entrance exams.
Though depend on school some might prohibit 3rd years from entering competition as we seen in various sport manga.
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I am an Arata Fan
Well, so far in shipping war, I was shipping Arata and Chihaya because I love the notion of love transcending time. I am a romanticist. But now I am giving up the shipping war and just being an Arata Fan because, whenever he shows up in the manga is when it just sizzles. Not only that he is the "spark" that everyone is trying to catch up to, though his spark is driven by the meijin title so presently, his goal is Suo. Everyone else in my arrogance is a stepping stone for him to rise for the challenge. His brief moments usually have more impact than any one's character besides Taichi's inner monologues. But then his inner monologues are always screaming his affections for chihaya so that we all know where his lovelorn yearnings are for. Even when we got a back story from Arata we didn't get his personal feelings, just point of view on things, we get a third person summary of the events. He's like a bit out of reach. Chihaya's has no other thoughts than Kurata and besting her rival so again we don't see much personality from her even though the manga is about her. They should rename this to Taichifuru. Because almost everything personal and thought monologues are always in his perspective. Not only that hes the only one who has grown from when he is a grade schooler.
Here's an example:
Chihaya: Simpleminded and goal is to be queen and meeting Arata who she considers a rival and god in a match since they are separated from grade school.
Arata: He has always been the same person since he was in grade school. Nice, level headed, determined to be meijin. That has not change since his friends came to see him in fuikui.
Taichi: Spoiled snot nose that everyone hates. has now changed to who he is now currently in highschool fueled by his love for Chiahya and a renew goal to rival Arata and get the meijin title.
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And 91 is out
I think its in Japanese
And I think its the first chapter completely dedicated to Arata(and Shinobu to boot)
Summary for chapter 84-91
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Oh my god. I love Shinobu... Getting sick because she's looking at the matches like a creeper in the rain.
Arata is such a sadist.. n.n'''
But Chihaya.. Throughout the last 2 chapters, her mouth seems to be opened all the time... Pretty dumbfounded. Makes you want to slap her a bit. o.o;;;
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by David Herring
September 10, 1999
What if we could simultaneously observe the production of green vegetation by land plants all over the world? We can't, but if we could, what would we learn about how land plants respond as meteorological conditions change every day? And what would the response of land plants teach us about where, when, and how much carbon dioxide is being exchanged with the terrestrial ecosystem?
Because we cannot directly observe these things, forest ecologist Steven Running and his research team at the University of Montana constructed a computer model of the Earth's terrestrial biosphere that he expects will teach us a great deal about the dynamic interactions between land plants and the lower atmosphere. The model enables him to watch as changes in the biosphere literally ripple across continents in response to meteorological changes (Ford et al. 1994).
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According to Levine, scientists don't have enough information about the Earth's processes to understand how they function as a whole, integrated system over time. We know that ecosystems vary greatly from local to global scales. Yet, in order to characterize how these ecosystems function, scientists need to generalize across each region (Weishampel et al. 1999). Scientists put the information they know about a system--as either numerical measurements, or theoretical estimates--into a model and in turn the model tells them two things: (1) how the inputs respond to each other, and (2) where there are gaps in their knowledge that need to be filled.
Levine works with two types of models: (1) simulation models and (2)
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The second type of model uses observed measurements that scientists have collected across the globe to generalize real processes and properties seen in nature. Levine uses Geographic Information System (GIS) software tools to combine maps and other types of data from satellite sensors (such as land cover, soil types, and climate data). Then, she applies models that use techniques such as statistics or "neural networks" to interpret the real relationships between each of the different layers of data. [A neural network is a system of multiple computer processors connected together so that they share information via a common program that enables them to "learn" by trial and error in a manner similar to the way the human brain works.]
For example, Levine uses satellite images of land surface overlain on soil data and, together with the GIS software and a neural network, relates soil properties with the spectral signatures from the satellite image. These signatures are colors of light that are reflected (both visible and infrared light) by the vegetation and other objects on the ground. Using the relationships that are derived from this information, Levines model can make predictions about soil carbon and other properties for areas where there are little or no data (Levine and Kimes 1997).
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DOVE VALLEY — Move over, Birdman.
Yes, the Nuggets' fan favorite has a challenger in the tattoo department here at Dove Valley in Lonie Paxton, the Broncos' new long snapper. Every inch of Paxton's right arm is tattooed in colorful ink, all the way to his wrist. His left arm is covered, too, down to the elbow. No wings, though, although he'll take the comparison to the man who currently owns this city's most famous arm artwork.
"California boys," Paxton said, laughing. (Paxton is from the Anaheim area. Chris Andersen grew up about 30 miles away Long Beach.)
But despite the flashy ink, Paxton prefers to be unheralded — fitting for a position that generally only makes news for mistakes. Or, in Paxton's case, a surprising free agent signing.
Paxton replaced Mike Leach as the Broncos' long snapper in February, a move that surprised just about everyone in Broncoland (including Leach, who was still on the roster at the time). Even Paxton said he never considered Denver as a possible destination when his agent began looking for a new deal for him after his contract with New England expired.
"I never thought Denver," Paxton said. "I thought Mike was really a consistent guy and you kind of look at the jobs that are open or the guys that may have had problems in the past, so I didn't look at that, just kind of kept an open mind."
If you believe the hype from Josh McDaniels — who overlapped with Paxton for eight years in New England — this might be the last you read about Paxton for a while, since the word around Dove Valley is that Paxton hasn't botched a snap in longer than anyone can remember. And surely that's OK with Paxton.
"For me, as a long snapper, I just try to be seen and not heard, just do my job," Paxton said. "Sometimes, not even be seen. Just be consistent and make that part of the game that the guys can count on every time."


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Journeyman Brandt Jobe can breathe a little easier this week, having made next week's U.S. Open field. Just 10 days ago, Jobe was getting ready to play his sixth consecutive week on the PGA Tour and was tired.
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"The last three and a half years have been pretty slow," Jobe said. "But the process for me has been working. I'm getting better. I'm getting results and that's good."
Jobe had one more hurdle to climb as he tried to qualify for the U.S. Open on Monday in Columbus, Ohio. After a first-round 62 in the 36-hole qualifier, Jobe was in the driver's seat. He finished as co-medalist with Chez Reavie and will be making his first appearance in the U.S. Open since 2008, before his injury.
"I'm not getting any younger," said Jobe, 45. "But at the same time I am hitting the ball far enough and I'm doing the things I to play out here."
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PHOENIX (AP) -- An Arizona serial killer says it's too stressful to appear in court on his request to skip further appeals so he can be executed quickly for six murders and other shootings that terrorized the Phoenix area several years ago.
In a handwritten letter disclosed Tuesday, Dale Hausner told a judge that other inmates tried to assault him during his trial, resulting in tight security procedures.
"The process I am going through is high stress, and it would be easier for everyone involved if I could do a telephonic appearance," Hausner said in the Aug. 9 letter to a Maricopa County Superior Court judge.
Hausner was convicted of six murders and numerous other crimes in a series of random shootings in 2005 and 2006. Victims included pedestrians, bicyclists and animals.
The Arizona Supreme Court on July 10 upheld his convictions and death sentences in his only automatic appeal.
Hausner was not in court Tuesday when Judge Roland Steinle scheduled a hearing starting Feb. 28 to listen to experts discuss Hausner's mental competency. Steinle said he'll also want to hear from Hausner himself.
"I have to assure myself that he's competent," the judge said.
Hausner's court-appointed lawyer waived Hausner's appearance at the start of Tuesday's hearing, through Hausner apparently tried unsuccessfully to get through by telephone from prison soon after the start.
The call could not be connected after court personnel belatedly realized beeps from the courtroom's sound system were an attempt to connect a call.
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The letter to Steinle was the latest of several sent by Hausner to various officials regarding his case. The judge agreed to a request from Hausner's lawyer to order Hausner to communicate through her.
Attorney Julie Hall said she'd told Hausner not to communicate directly with judges or prosecutors. "But I can't guarantee that won't happen again," she said.
Steinle said he would forward any further letters unread to Hall to decide what action to take.
"That way, I will work on this matter not being tainted by any further communication from Mr. Hausner," the judge said.
Hausner's requests also included that he be allowed to represent himself. Another judge appointed Hall until a ruling is made.
Hall was a lawyer for another death-row inmate who was executed in 2007 after fending off arguments by Hall and other death-penalty defense lawyers that he wasn't competent and was coerced by harsh prison conditions to withdraw previously filed appeals.
Hausner didn't acknowledge guilt during his trial, but he said before being sentenced that death should be his penalty to help the surviving victims and victims' relatives heal.
Hall declined to comment after Tuesday's hearing.


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Once again I have been asked to arrange a series of away runs on summer Tuesdays largely when we are excluded from the tennis club and there are no conflicting club events. All the runs are off-road on good tracks. All abilities are welcome, as long as you can run the distance you will be okay. Pace is slow and the emphasis is on the social side of running rather than training. After each run some of us grab some fish and chips and go to the pub in either Otley or Skipton. A week before each run I will post more details on here.
We meet at 7.00 pm . There is ample free parking at all start points. Dates and venues as follows:
May 30th - Meet at Swinsty Reservoir Car Park, this is the one at the south side of the dam between Fewston and Swinsty.
The run goes round the back of Swinsty res over on to Jack Hill Lane and down to Dob Park bridge, returning along the west side of the reservoir.
Approx 6 miles.
June 20th - Dob Park - Meet at the lay-by just off the Otley/ Blubberhouses road. We run across the fields to Lindley Bridge then through Lindley Woods
Norwood Bottom and lovely Dob Park Hill for the finish.
Approx 6 miles.Tennis Club is closed to us on this occasion.
July 11th - Sharp Haw from Skipton - Meet in the Coach Street canal side car park in Skipton. It's a there and back run over the golf course on to Brackenly Lane
and then a direct ascent returning through Tarn House caravan park and White Hills.
Approx 8.5 miles. Tennis Club closed to us tonight.
August 1st - Meet at Halton Heights near the cattle grid on the Barden / Embsay road. If the weather is kind we run over Barden Moor, if it's not so nice we'll
run down to Bolton Abbey returning round Lower Barden Res.
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NEW YORK – It wasn't the tumultuous ovation that went on into the night following the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's first Carnegie Hall concert under then-music director Georg Solti back in 1970, but it was loud and it was instantaneous.
Wednesday night's performance of Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" under Riccardo Muti's direction gave the CSO's tour to New York and Mexico not only a roaring send-off but also gave the dressy patrons who packed Carnegie Hall a season opener to remember.
More than a week earlier, the threat that a musicians strike in Chicago could scuttle all three of the CSO's scheduled Carnegie concerts reportedly had Clive Gillinson, the hall's executive and artistic director, making frantic calls around the world so he could have a replacement orchestra waiting in the wings. No wonder he was all smiles when greeting the orchestra at its morning rehearsal.
Carnegie's famously warm, embracing acoustics make almost any orchestra sound good, but in the case of the CSO, they cushion its world-class music-making with a luxuriance that Orchestra Hall cannot match. At the afternoon rehearsal Muti had cautioned his musicians, along with the Chicago Symphony Chorus and Chicago Children's Choir, that they didn't need to push their sound to the degree they were used to doing back home. At the concert there was no forcing, and the built-in bloom of the hall sonics took care of the rest.
Muti made his podium the command post from which to marshal a performance as musically sensitive as it was viscerally exciting. Even as the maestro gave himself over to the Dionysian side of this cantata in praise of wine, women and gambling, the Apollonian part of him insisted on tight choral-orchestral formations, carefully observed dynamics and rhythms, and precise enunciation of the text from the orchestra, choruses and vocal soloists. There was nothing half-way about any of it.
The maestro's view of "Carmina Burana" as a deeply tragic work (the very opening refers to this "hateful life") did not preclude his giving full rein to the music's earthy colors and lusty sensuality. What a pleasure to hear the opening and closing "O Fortuna" choruses resounding to the back of the hall with a physical impact more potent than in Chicago.
When it came to projecting the text of "In Taberna" clearly, at top speed, the male chorus really outdid itself. Add to this the clear, shimmering women's voices and you had another reason why director Duain Wolfe deserved his ovation at the end. The children's chorus — the bambini, as Muti affectionately called them at rehearsal — sang angelically from a perch at the right edge of the first tier. In the purely orchestral sections, the CSO musicians gave Muti the flashing colors and elemental harmonies he asked for.
The vocal soloists — soprano Rosa Feola, countertenor Antonio Giovannini and baritone Audun Iversen — fit Muti's belief in the appropriateness of beautiful, lyrical voices for this work. An irresistible sweep of erotic longing in the "Veni, veni, venias" double chorus ushered in Feola's rapt and caring song of submission, "In Trutina." Her high notes appeared to float above the flower-bedecked stage.
Iversen had the lion's share of solos, and he delivered them with acute sensitivity to text, even if his warm, pleasing sound didn't always cut through properly or carry the bite others bring to this music.
The pathetically funny roasted swan solo can be done either by a tenor singing in falsetto or a countertenor. Muti prefers the latter voice type, citing Orff's late wishes as his authority. Giovannini made the most of his cameo.
At the end, the throng rose to its feet to award Muti and company a storm of cheers and applause. Two more concerts remain at Carnegie before the CSO road show heads to Mexico.
And speaking of Mexico … my curiosity about how the CSO transports its touring equipment between Chicago and New York, then from New York to cities south of the border, prompted me to seek out Heidi Lukas, CSO director of operations, for a briefing.
Roughly 15 tons of equipment, borne by two 53-foot tractor-trailers from Chicago, were unloaded backstage at Carnegie on Tuesday, in advance of Wednesday's tour opener. Cargo included wardrobe trunks and heavier instruments such as the raft of percussion needed for the performances of Mason Bates' "Alternative Energy" here on Thursday and Respighi's "Feste Romane" on Friday.
The player roster for this tour numbers 112, including supplementary musicians used in the Respighi. The adult and children choristers taking part in "Carmina Burana" numbered 143; their portion of the tour is over, and they were due to return home Thursday.
An orchestra of 88 musicians is performing Thursday's concert at Carnegie as well as the concerts in Guanajuato on Monday and Mexico City on Wednesday.
Each fall Guanajuato hosts arts organizations from all over the world, and the CSO will play its 40th anniversary Festival Internacional Cervantino.
The biggest logistical challenge, Lukas admitted, will be getting everything to and from Mexico.
A charter cargo jet carrying all equipment is scheduled to leave JFK Airport here late Friday and is to arrive early Saturday in Guadalajara, about 181 miles west of Guanajuato in north central Mexico. Once there, it will be loaded onto large trucks for the 31/2-hour trek to Guanajuato. Outside the town, the cargo will be transferred to smaller trucks better equipped to navigate the small roads in the mountainous region. If all goes as planned, the cargo will arrive there and be loaded into the Teatro Juarez by Saturday afternoon.
"We are doing it early because there won't be so much traffic," Lukas said.
Finding room for everything, and everyone, will be an added challenge: The backstage of Teatro Juarez is cramped, and 88 CSO musicians will fill the stage. The hall seats only 800.
How it will all work, time will tell. And we're not even talking about what it will take to get the CSO and its stuff the 277 miles that separate Guanajuato and Mexico City. Stay tuned.
Read dispatches from John von Rhein as he travels with the CSO this week and next at chicagotribune.com/vonrhein.
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Differentiated Problem Share Out - Unit Review
Lesson 20 of 21
Objective: This lesson is designed to allow the students share out their findings connected to the applications of logarithmic and exponential functions problems. The 5 different problems that have been previously rolled-out each provide a unique challenge for the students. Today is when the students get to take center stage of their group and showcase their results and strategies!
Problem Wrap-Up
As the students enter, instruct them to sit with their partners from the previous day's investigation.
To set the tone for the start of class, I pull up an online timer on my projector screen and display 15 minutes. http://timer.onlineclock.net/ With this displayed, the students hardly need any pep-talk to get themselves going! Typically most of the groups already have, or are approaching, their solutions. The students usually use this time to organize their work and prepare with their partner for the share-out session. As the self-sufficient groups wrap things up, I focus on the group or two that is struggling through the problem. It is important to emphasize that wrong answers and wrong approaches are GREAT in this activity! Although we desire the correct answer, allowing the students the latitude to present failed attempts at solving the problem is equally important. I make a big deal in front of the class about the groups who persevere through the problem, and learn from failed attempts. Students need commended for stepping up and talking about dead ends and mathematically incorrect attempts at a solution! This creates an awesome classroom culture! As I rotate the room during these 15 minutes, I work hard to convey this message to the group or two that is frustrated because they have not found the correct solution. I tell them that they still have SO MUCH to share out!
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Share Out
Once the timer has expired, it is time to group the students into larger groups of 4-5 pairs (8-10 students total). In my classroom, it only takes me about 60 seconds to move the desks around to accommodate a discussion setting. I have even purchased whiteboard easels for my classroom and days like this – they are well worth the money, and you can even write a grant for them!
Prior to class, I have pre-determined the share out groups. This ensures a smooth transition between work time and share out. A few key elements about the share out and group structure:
1) Group pairs together who have different problems. No group should have students in it who attempted the exact same problem as themselves.
-Keeping a list of what students are attempting a particular problem is quite helpful
2) Display the stop watch on the projector screen
-5 minutes per group MAX – continue to reset the timer after each 5 minute session
- Allows them to summarize their Know's/N2K's, talk about their process, and list any other key details they discovered
- What challenges and difficulties did you face?
- Allow the "audience" to interact and ask questions at any time!
3) Teacher Behavior and Grading
-Keep a journal log of key conversations to bring up for debrief at the end of class
-Highlight student conversations about the mathematics, problem solving strategy and/or teamwork
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The conclusion of the lesson is all about giving shout-out's and emphasizing classroom culture! Too many times in math class this important debrief time is scratched or overlooked. After an intense mathematical investigation it is very rewarding and worthwhile to take a few extra minutes to celebrate successes – not just correct answers! As you debrief with students, do not be afraid to open it up to them. I commonly as my students what they enjoyed about the activity, and what they would do differently for next time. All in all, my students really loved this activity and especially liked seeing a wide variety of problems! They felt that the time limits that I gave them were sufficient to brainstorm about the problem and they said that they enjoyed how I valued "problem solving process" over just getting the correct answer. The students especially seemed to like the "Seismologist" and "Chef's Delight" problems because they provided them with the opportunity to research and compare their own earthquakes/foods. One group even made no-bake-cookies to illustrate Newton's Law of Cooling! They even had a data chart of temperatures they had taken – IT WAS OUTSTANDING to see them motivated to do this all on their own time!
Please Note: As class concludes, remember to mention to the students what was talked about in the Strategies Folder video. As a teacher, it would be impossible for you to catch every second of every conversation during the share-out time. Tell the students that if they feel the grade that they receive is inaccurate, then they can schedule a time to come in and demonstrate their knowledge. My kids love (and understand) why I do this!
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The end of the unit has arrived! I circulate the test review sheet at the end of class (if I have not done so already) so that the students have a day to look over it prior to asking questions in class.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a bipartisan spectacle, one served up for Americans craving cooperation in an era of divided government and persistent gridlock.
From one end of Pennsylvania Avenue to the other, President Barack Obama and Republicans in Congress made what seemed like an attempt to work together. Republicans dined at and a few blocks from the White House and the president visited Capitol Hill, each side essentially on the other's home turf. Talk — in public at least — focused on areas of possible collaboration. The phrase "grand bargain" was tossed around as if big, across-the-aisle deals were in the works.
If only it actually had meant a sea change. But in reality, the past few weeks simply shone the spotlight on the tension of this nation's say-one-thing-do-the-other politics.
Both Obama and House Speaker John Boehner tempered expectations — and put the onus on others to find common ground.
"We've had good conversations. But ultimately it's a matter of the House and Senate, both caucuses, getting together and being willing to compromise," Obama said, a measured prod as he left Capitol Hill after three days of meetings last week that, like the bipartisan meals of the week before, he had initiated.
Boehner was blunt: "This is going to take more than dinner dates and phone calls. It's going to take the president and Senate Democrats rolling up their sleeves, making tough choices about how we solve our nation's problems."
At the same time, Republicans and Democrats did the very opposite of reach for the middle. Each side offered up competing budget proposals filled with ideas drawn narrowly from their ideological wings. Both sides dug in on their positions.
Obama also spent time bucking up his biggest backers, who had huddled to plot how to help his agenda through Congress. Fighting for the middle class was the phrase of choice — as they gathered for two days in the posh St. Regis hotel. Organizers sought to appear nonpartisan, promising to work with people of all political stripes, albeit those who wanted to help enact "a progressive agenda." That's essentially code for Democrats who back Obama's proposals.
"What we want is to make sure that the voices of the people who put me here continue to be heard," Obama told the gathering.
Meanwhile, the Republican Party's leaders of yesterday and tomorrow courted conservative activists during an annual conference that was both a pep rally for the GOP's most ardent backers and a three-day skewering of Democrats even as questions about the party's direction hung heavy. So-called red meat — sound bites, refrains and slogans served up to energize supporters and demonize opponents — topped the menu.
"Don't tell me Republicans are out of ideas when the entire Democrat agenda was articulated during the Truman administration," the top Senate Republican, Mitch McConnell, said. "Don't tell me Democrats are the party of the future, when their presidential ticket for 2016 is shaping up to look like a rerun of the 'Golden Girls.' We've got Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan and a slew of smart, young and energetic governors ready to take America into the future. They've got Hillary and Joe Biden."
The lesson: The pressures of a system dominated by the far wings of their political parties — where liberals hold the power among Democrats and conservatives hold the power among Republicans — cause leaders to speak out of both sides of their mouths. This has become the case all too often, even though the general public says it wants collaboration and some politicians truly want to collaborate.
So is the system itself preventing it?
For both sides, the mirage of bipartisanship is a political necessity. Polls show that Americans are deeply sour on the Republican Party. Now people are turning on Obama, too; he has lost his postelection bump in surveys. So, with their actions of comity, they're both trying to send a message: We get that you want us to work together.
But, as is usually the case in politics, the show obscures the truth.
Both sides feel intense pressure to rile up their core supporters, perhaps even more than the pressure they feel to address the nation's problems. Here's why: Those who are the most polarized in America are also the most passionate, motivated to raise money, knock on doors and spread the message of their favored candidates. That means those are the people who wield the most influence over politicians — the ideological and the involved.
Not so much for the rest of the country. Centrist America is not at all homogenous in its views. It's certainly not passionate about the middle of the road. And because of that, it's much less willing to spend its time working for it. Nobody in this group marches en masse to chant, fervently, "We want common ground" — which by definition means all sides bending a bit in their beliefs.
This is not a new phenomenon.
In May 1968, Richard Nixon spoke of a "silent center" — "the millions of people in the middle of the American political spectrum who do not demonstrate, who do not picket or protest loudly."
With polarization and disgust with Washington at a high level — common wisdom in recent years has suggested that the public's appetite was ripe for supporting politicians focused on the middle ground. Yet even when conditions are ripe for compromise, and people are willing to compromise, our nation struggles with it.
Even when the center of the electorate does get a burst of passion, often there's nothing for it to stick to because — in this system, at least — no candidate who takes the middle ground makes it very far. Efforts to draft like-minded candidates, through groups called Unity08 and Americans Elect, fizzled. And No Labels — described as Democrats, Republicans and "everything in between dedicated to the politics of problem-solving" — has generated little, if any, traction.
Despite this cantankerous environment, recent weeks have brought moments of true compromise.
Three times in as many months, Congress passed laws with bipartisan support: expanding the Violence Against Women Act, extending Superstorm Sandy aid and avoiding a "fiscal cliff" of automatic tax increases and spending cuts that economists said would have set back the slow-growing economy. Democrats drove the train on all three; Boehner, recognizing the perilous politics for his party should he block votes, agreed to break his usual stance that he wouldn't bring a measure to the floor without most Republicans supporting it.
What's more, Republicans and Democrats also are showing signs of coming together to overhaul the immigration system, if not other matters like cybersecurity.
Such developments may suggest the starting point of a period of increased compromise — the conflicting images of the past few weeks, and Washington's history of speaking out of both sides of its mouth, aside. Silent though it may be, the center still pulls.
EDITOR'S NOTE — Liz Sidoti is the national politics editor for The Associated Press. Follow her on Twitter: http://twitter.com/lsidoti


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Jindal said he believes the legislative resolutions that have received support requiring budget committee backing of the lease agreements don't carry the force of law.
He said lawmakers would need to change state statute to get such approval authority, citing an attorney general's opinion, issued before the resolutions were filed, that said the legislative backing isn't required under current law.
"There is an existing statute that specifically tells us how to proceed, and we'll certainly comply with the law," Jindal said.
The Republican governor is pushing to privatize all but one of the university-run hospitals that care for the poor and uninsured around the state and train many medical students.
This week, the Senate adopted a resolution by state Sen. Ed Murray, D-New Orleans, that includes a requirement that the hospital deals get approval from the Senate Finance Committee.
"I think the majority of senators believe it now requires Senate committee approval," Murray said. "This is a really big issue, and a majority of those members think it should require committee approval, and that's what the resolution seeks to do."
Meanwhile, the Louisiana House agreed to a joint resolution by state Rep. Jared Brossett, D-New Orleans, which also needs backing from the Senate, that broadens that requirement to direct the LSU Board of Supervisors to submit the lease arrangements to the joint House and Senate budget committee for approval before they could begin.
The resolutions have received broad, bipartisan support in the House and Senate.
Lawmakers who supported the resolutions said they believe the Jindal administration must follow the approval requirements outlined in the legislation. It's unclear, however, whether lawmakers will try to enforce the approval authority they are seeking to gain through the House and Senate resolutions.
The privatization effort largely came after Louisiana received a steep cut in its federal Medicaid financing rate. Jindal levied most of the cut on the LSU public hospital system, rather than on private health care providers in the Medicaid program.
Lawmakers have raised concerns about the arrangements, saying they worried the rapid push for privatization could jeopardize care for the uninsured and damage medical training programs.
Leases for most hospitals are under negotiation, with final agreements approved by the LSU governing board only for its hospitals in New Orleans and Lafayette. Those are scheduled to be presented to the legislative budget committees next week for discussion — but not approval, according to the governor.
Jindal attributes the legislative approval efforts to people trying to slow privatization efforts, which he said would improve services and education programs. He said if lawmakers want to delay, they need to offer a substitute plan to shrink hospital spending.
"What we've not heard from anybody that wants to slow down this process is what their alternative solution would be to continue these services, to enhance these services, to reduce spending for Louisiana's taxpayers," the governor said.
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|2004-07-14, 14:27
|Link #64
Bishoujo Goodness Galore!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Stuck Between Reality and Fantasy
The promise girl is...
There is no second season of Love Hina, there will never be a second season of Love Hina
the OVAs take place a short time after the spring special, though they basically cut out an entire volume (where Naru, Mutsumi, and Keitaro go to Okinawa...again, disappointing because it was kind of an important volume -_-)
and: there are 24 episodes aired on TV, one that only made it to DVD, 2 specials, 3 OVAs, and 14 manga volumes
buy the manga, it's worth it
|2004-07-15, 00:27
|Link #65
Senior Member
well after watching what really is love hina again
things seemed to be cleared up but lol now it's wierd.
Ok- this is where I think you guys might be off- may the spoilers start.
wow, anyone should go watch all of love hina cuz this is a great mystery.
|2004-07-15, 00:29
|Link #66
Senior Member
short note Kyuven- ummm, maybe u shouldn't have mentioned that about the manga. I mean at the begening of the thread it was clear i've only seen the anime.
not a big problem because I don't own the Manga but that line about
oh wells, crap its fine. As long as you don't spoil Naruto I can let it go without taking a life.
thx for the other parts of your message though.
(don't let the politeness think this will go un done....grrrrrrr )
|2004-07-15, 00:58
|Link #67
Bishoujo Goodness Galore!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Stuck Between Reality and Fantasy
in the manga, "Moe-chan" doesn't exist, btw.
the anime of Love Hina killed all chances of continuation after the spring special, unfortunately:
|2004-07-15, 02:01
|Link #69
Senior Member
well let me just say
[spoiler] THE CONFUSED N00B WAS RIGHT! At first it makes you believe it's Naru but IT'S NOT. I knew there was a 3rd chick. In love Hina Again you almost believe it's Keitaro's little sister but it turns out she was the reciever of another promise.
LIKE Mutsume said(*cough* and I reffered to so many times)
Naru: So who's the girl in his memories?
Mutsume: There are alot of them. We are in his memories too.
Also if you watch the flasback that goes with it to me it looks like there are 3 girls. Mutsume and Naru watching.
also- how do you know the dreamcast game is correct? Honestly I think the writers did all this to confuse the audience as all hells and made it unclear on purpose(an excuse or honest reason who knows).
I'm still thinking no body knows. but Moe-chan how come the charactars acted like they recognized her?
*oh and I knew they'd get together. But getting married is one of those obvouis things you'd rather atleast be happy to see/somewhat shocked.
It's just one of those things you want to see for the first time.
|2004-07-15, 08:26
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Location: Stuck Between Reality and Fantasy
the anime, manga, and game are three different worlds:
1) Miduho doesn't exist in the anime or manga
2) in the anime, Keitaro, Naru, and Mutsumi never go to Okinawa a second time
3) Moe-chan doesn't exist in the manga
4) Kaolla's siblings don't visit during the manga (which was pretty much the only section of development that would have worked in the manga as well)
5) (this should be the most obvious) Shinobu starts living at Hinata house BEFORE Keitaro in the manga, and AFTER in the anime
6) Nyamo isn't an orphan in the manga, and Pararakelse is QUITE inhabited
7) Keitaro doesn't seem to have his pot fascination (i.e. digging up pots during plot points...) in the anime
|2004-07-16, 00:24
|Link #71
Miduho is actually an original Akamatsu creation, so I guess that makes her pretty much legit, unlike characters like Kentaro Sakata and the Motoko Fan Club. She was a treat for the Dreamcast gamers who purchased Love Hina.
As I said, it's a shame she does not appear in the manga or the anime, as she is pretty cool (she is even close to replacing Mutsumi as my favourite character, she is that good).
I guess you are right, the anime, the manga and the game are three completely different stories. But the issue of Keitaro's promise is only solved clearly in the game.
|2004-07-29, 20:29
|Link #73
Just another anime fool
ok... i saw love hina about 6 months ago.... i left it in Love Hina Again eps 3... where there any more releasings ?? or all the other stuff u mentioned are in the manga???
About the promise girl.. i really thought it was Naru.. :S she did had the stuffed pet after all.... :S but oh hell doesnt matter
|2004-07-30, 18:19
|Link #74
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Antwerp area, Belgium, Europa
Age: 42
2. There will be no more episodes of Love Hina, if you want more, I suggest you read the manga.
|2004-08-06, 03:15
|Link #75
Just another anime fool
Just finished the manga today... like 5 mins ago... kool way to fill in the blanks.... but i stillw ant more.. (guess im obssed?).. well back to may plain old life without more LH thx for the tip about the manga =D
|2004-08-06, 10:35
|Link #76
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Austin, TX
Age: 36
Fool! Read it again. After I finished it the first time I immediately started over from the beginning and read thru my second time.
|2004-08-06, 11:06
|Link #78
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Antwerp area, Belgium, Europa
Age: 42
And the DVD's as well
and the action figures
and the resin statues
and ...
I need a life
|2004-08-06, 11:59
|Link #79
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Looking for his book...
Aside from the three complete versions of the manga, I also have:
The DVDs...
The complete set of SD resin figures...
- http://www.e2046.com/trade/productview/3372
- http://www.e2046.com/trade/productview/425
- http://www.e2046.com/trade/productview/446
A couple non-SD resin figures...
- http://www.e2046.com/trade/productview/2489 *
- http://www.e2046.com/trade/productview/629
- plus a couple not listed on that site
The North American released figure set...
All the OSTS and Drama albums...
And a wierd CD-rom that came with a limited edition reprint of the first volume.
*I'm actually working on trying to make her look more demonic... I liked the way she looked when she went all out on Motoko. ^^;
|2004-08-06, 12:11
|Link #80
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Antwerp area, Belgium, Europa
Age: 42
Nice collection
This is the pride of my (small) collection : the Motoko statue (as if you couldn't guess that one )
Spoiler for And i also have this one from Kitsune, I like it alot too but Motoko is still my favorite :):
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Fighting cancer begins in our own backyard, according to Pam Ackerman, event chairperson of the 20th Annual American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Dawson County.
There are so many ways anyone can fight cancer.
"Make a donation on our easy to find web site, purchase a luminaria, attend one of many Relay For Life fundraisers planned throughout the year or host a fundraiser of your own," Ackerman said. "Our goal is $80,000 this year. If you host a fundraiser, I promise to walk all night for you!"
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People interested in giving to the fight against cancer are encouraged to visit www.relayforlife.org/dawsoncone to make a donation to the local event. When visiting the site, donors can make a general donation or support a specific team or individual. The process is quick and easy.
Fourteen teams at are currently registered at this online Web site to seek community support. "This is an easy way for everyone to join the fight against cancer," said Ackerman. "Cancer has touched so many lives in our community. We want to find a cure and stop the anguish this disease can cause."
Luminaria candles light the way through the night as Relay For Life team members continue to walk. Each white bag has a name in honor of a person who has survived cancer or in memory of one lost to cancer. This year Relay offers green bags to recognize the strength and support of caregivers. Each luminaria is $10. Candles will be lit during the Relay For Life event at 9:30 p.m. on Friday, July 25, at Lake Helen in Gothenburg.
Fun fundraisers
June 7—Decorate The Dirt hosted by Hailey Wagener at 75746 Rd 440 in Lexington. $10 to decorate a pot and plant a flower.
June 6 and 7—Garage Sale and Bake Sale at Christ the King Parish Hall in Cozad. Hosted by FCCLA Pink Ladies. Tamales and baked goods will be available.
June 7—Hamburger Feed at Sonny's Super Store in Cozad hosted by RSCS/Kool Kids
June 14—Yard Sale at 403 W 14th in Cozad hosted by Clara Case with the RSCS/Kool Kids team.
June 21 and 22—Take A Swing Against Cancer ball tournament at Optimist Field in Lexington. Hosted by Randy Reinertson of Lexington.
June 28—Fourth Annual Car & Bike Show For a Cure at Ehmen Park in Gothenburg. Registration 9 a.m. to noon. Relay teams will sell food and host game fundraisers at the park. Prizes will be awarded. Hosted by April Headley, Warriors of Hope, of Eustis.
June 29—W.C.S.G. Garden of Hope annual Pork In The Park, 4-7 p.m., at Arbor Park on South Washington St in Lexington. Free will donation for bbq pork sandwich and all the fixings.
July 10—Cork Meets Pork at Macs Creek Winery, 43315 Road 757, Lexington. Great atmosphere, bbq pork ribs and favorite wine will be served at 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. Hosted by Grace Lutheran Church team.
On-Going Team Fundraisers include floating lockets and charms from Holy Walkamolies team in Gothenburg (team captain Stephanie Ricely); wristbands from Walkin' the Plank's team in Gothenburg (captain Karla Ricely); pork loin tickets and 20 Years of Relay commemorative tshirts from W.C.S.G. Garden of Hope in Lexington (captain Pam Ackerman); and homemade quilt tickets from RSCS/Kool Kids team in Cozad (captain Chris Barnes).
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Memorial donations to the American Cancer Society can easily be directed through the Relay For Life of Dawson County. For information, contact Ackerman at 308-324-2230.
While everyone is encouraged to attend and participate in Relay For Life, sometimes the obligation of forming a team and walking all night cannot be fulfilled. A fundraiser like a yard sale, bake sale, block party, ball tournament, etc. can still be counted in the fight against cancer. Contact Ackerman for more information.


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Is the county safe from nuclear disaster?
Explosions and fires rocked the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan just days after the country was devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in mid-March.
Weeks later, a large-scale nuclear disaster was avoided, for now. The near-catastrophe drew worldwide attention to nuclear power and the potential dangers of radioactive materials. The United States government recommended a 50-mile evacuation zone around the site to avoid harmful radiation in Japan.
Parts of Catawba County are within 10 miles of Duke Energy's McGuire Nuclear Station, leaving many to wonder what county residents should do if and when a nuclear disaster occurs.
What is McGuire Nuclear Station?
McGuire Nuclear Station, located in Huntersville, is one of three nuclear facilities operated by Duke Energy in North and South Carolina.
Duke Energy has about 2.2 million customers in the Carolinas, and about half of that energy is generated through nuclear power. About 1,200 employees work for the McGuire Station, as part of a total Duke Energy workforce of 18,000.
The facility started energy production in 1981 and will celebrate 30 years of operation this year, said Duke Energy communications manager Valerie Patterson.
During that time, the facility hasn't had any major nuclear disasters like the one reported in Japan.
"Certainly over the years, we've had some operational challenges," Patterson said. "We are an industrial organization. We do produce electricity, but those certainly haven't been challenges we haven't been able to overcome."
McGuire Nuclear Station uses pressurized reactors to produce power, unlike the facility in Japan, which uses boiling reactors. Duke Energy doesn't have any boiling-water reactor facilities, but those facilities exist other places in the country.
The difference in reactor design, however, won't stop Duke Energy from learning from the nuclear plant event in Japan.
"Events in Japan are still unfolding, so we are certainly in no position to point to where things went wrong," Patterson said. "In the nuclear industry, we are keen and extremely focused on learning from each other. Whatever operational experience will come out of the events in Japan, we are watching very closely so we can learn from what happened there."
How is Catawba County involved?
The Sherrills Ford area in Catawba County is part of the McGuire plant's 10-mile radius. Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln and Mecklenburg counties are also included within the 10-mile radius, also known as the Emergency Planning Zone (EPZ).
Catawba County's specific EPZ is bordered by N.C. 150 on the north, the Catawba County line on the south, Lake Norman on the east and N.C. 16 on the west.
What to do during an emergency
Patterson said Duke Energy nuclear facilities, as well as other nuclear stations in the country, are built with "redundant, but physically separated, safety features" to withstand natural disasters and other emergencies.
Duke Energy plants are built to withstand the largest-known earthquake to hit the area surrounding the plant. That means Duke Energy's facilities will withstand a repeat of the 7.3-magnitude, Charleston, S.C., earthquake of 1886, Patterson said.
According to the United States Geological Survey, the 1886 quake is the most damaging earthquake to occur in the southeastern United States.
"Public health and safety is able to be maintained even in the unlikely event that we deal with hurricanes, earthquakes and tornados," Patterson said.
Although the likelihood of a nuclear disaster is rare, Duke Energy has procedures in place to ensure safety of employees and residents.
The response to an emergency situation varies depending on many factors, including the type of emergency, as well as weather conditions, Patterson said.
Nearby residents are notified of a problem at McGuire Nuclear Station in several ways to ensure all people, regardless of where they are, know about the potential dangers.
Station officials sound sirens to alert people who are outdoors when the emergency happens. When a siren sounds, people are encouraged to turn on their televisions and look for news alerts about an impending nuclear situation.
Catawba County has one site, Patterson said. The county also acts as a "host county," where residents of nearby counties can seek refuge in the event of a disaster.
Duke Energy partners with other government agencies to make recommendations about what actions should be taken during a disaster.
Government officials then decide the course of action for residents, whether that is evacuation, staying indoors or taking potassium iodide tablets.
Potassium iodide (KI) is a non-prescription drug similar to iodized table salt and can prevent the body's thyroid from absorbing radioactive iodine. KI tablets are available to residents in the EPZ at no cost through each county's health department. Catawba County distributed free KI tablets in September to residents living within the 10-mile EPZ. That was the first time the tablets were distributed to residents and businesses since 2002.
"It's a well-coordinated effort between Duke energy, state officials and the federal government," Patterson said. "We're going to be in close contact and working very closely with state and county and federal officials."


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