1. I plan to discuss the possible relationship between the properties of
the act
ive regions at their emergence
and the flare/CME activity of the regions.

2. Events and active regions for study.


 * AR 8210 (May 1998)
 * AR 10229 and 10228 (Dec 2002)

  For both regions, CMEs were associated with the eruptions of the
  transequatorial loops (TLs). In my opinion, it would be interesting to
  understand how these TLs became unstable. There are
  EIT/MDI/TRACE/ISOON data for 19 Dec 2002 event. Here is an excerpt
  from our poster given at the SHINE 2003:

  Analyses of multi-wavelength data sets on 20002 December 19 at
  approximately 2150 UT show evidence of a large-scale, transequatorial
  coronal eruption associated with simultaneous flares in active regions
  in both hemispheres. The coronal manifestations (based on EIT, LASCO,
  and TRACE images) include a large coronal dimming, an
  opening/restructuring of magnetic fields, the formation of a transient
  coronal hole, and a halo CME. In the chromosphere, ISOON H-alpha
  images show distant flare precursor brightenings and several
  sympathetic flares. Originating near the main flare is a rapidly
  propagating (800 km/s), narrowly channeled disturbances detectable as
  a sequential brightening of numerous pre-existing points in the
  H-alpha chromospheric network. This disturbance is not a chromospheric
  Moreton wave, but it does produce a temporary activation of a
  transequatorial filament. This filament does not erupt not do any
  other filaments in the vicinity. MDI magnetograms show that the
  brightened network points are all of the same polarity (the dominant
  polarity among the points in the disturbance's path), suggesting that
  the affected field lines extend into the corona where they are
  energized in sequence as the eruption tears away.