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Leagues See Bloggers in the Bleachers as a Threat

By KEN BELSON and TIM ARANGO

A growing number of professional and college teams have tried to restrict how their games are covered while also creating their own thriving media divisions.

Accordions across Germany as part of "Akkordeonale 2009"

Five renowned accordion players from three continents have joined forces
for the Akkordeonale 2009.

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As soon as the game began, so did the coordinated cheering. Led by cheer captains in the outfield bleachers, the batting team’s fans chanted, sang and rhythmically banged plastic bats for every pitch to every batter. Their deafening, synchronized roar dominated the dome. Each hit ignited a burst of still louder cheers and frantic towel waving.



bleachers
plural noun US
a sloping area of seats at a sports ground which are not covered and are therefore not expensive to sit in
 n.
A portable wind instrument with a small keyboard and free metal reeds that sound when air is forced past them by pleated bellows operated by the player.
adj.
Having folds or bends like the bellows of an accordion: accordion pleats; accordion blinds.

• 自動
• 蛇腹式｛じゃばら しき｝に開く［折り畳める］

• 他動
• ぺしゃんこに押しつぶす

• 名
• 《楽器》アコーディオン,

• 〔戸・カーテンなどが〕アコーディオン式の、蛇腹式｛じゃばら しき｝の、折り畳み式の

Definition of piano accordion

noun

an accordion with the melody played on a small vertical keyboard like that of a piano.

Brooklyn native Charlie Pigott says his "connections" helped him score seats for the Mets on opening day this year, and in the field box for Games 4 and 5 of the 2001 World Series. But after calling a dozen people -- politicians, clergy and a source at City Hall -- he says he can't get his mother into the bleachers for New York's hottest event.

bleacher

(blē'chər)
n.

1. One that bleaches or is used in bleaching.
2. An often unroofed outdoor grandstand for seating spectators. Often used in the plural.

[Sense 2, from comparing a person's exposure to the sun when sitting on them with the exposure of linens bleaching on a clothesline.]

n. - 漂白業者, 露天看臺, 漂白劑
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 漂白する人, 漂白剤, 屋根なし外野席

Line-drying

Are electric clothes dryers really harmful to air quality? With every load of clothes, the average electric or gas clothes dryer throws about four pounds (or two kilograms) of greenhouse gas into the air; most detached single-family homes in the US have a clothes dryer. If you live in one of the communities that currently bans outdoor clotheslines, you may find the winds changing. There is a growing international "right-to-dry" movement. Several US states and two Canadian provinces have passed legislation to overturn bans on clotheslines. At the same time, a renewed industry has sprung up: clotheslines are being manufactured to meet the growing demand. The first week in June is International Clothesline Week, a time to consider reducing your carbon footprint by hanging your clothes out to dry.

Wooden bleachers

Bleachers is a term used to describe the raised, tiered stands found by sports fields or at other spectator events in the United States and Canada. Bleachers are long rows of benches, often consisting of alternating steps and seats. They range in size from small, modular, aluminum stands that can be moved around soccer or field hockey fields to large permanent structures that flank either side of an American football field. Bleachers are hollow underneath, aside from their support structures. Some bleachers have locker rooms underneath them. In indoor gymnasia, bleachers can be built in so that they slide on a track or on wheels and fold in an accordion-like, stacking manner. The seats of these bleachers are often made of wood.



Spotlight:

Playing the Accordion

How is a chromatic accordion different from a diatonic one? Diatonic accordions came first; they produced different notes when the bellows were opened or closed. Chromatic accordions produce the same note, no matter which way the bellows are being moved. June is National Accordion Awareness Month, a time to pay some attention and give recognition to an instrument that doesn't always get the appreciation it deserves. Like its cousin the harmonica, the accordion sends air around free-standing reeds, which then vibrate to make the accordion tones. In America, the accordion was in its heyday in the first half of the 20th century; since then it has declined in popularity, but is still heard from time to time in classical ensembles and on pop music albums.

Quote:

"Welcome to heaven; here's your harp. Welcome to hell; here's your accordion." — Gary Larson, The Far Side