In my home State of Louisiana several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita literally dozens across the entire State.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck like getting across the street.

All my dreams are coming true all across the board for some reason.

Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children to grow and pursue dreams.

Men don't come up to you to just talk. We come up to you with a plan. We're looking across the room at you and we don't care about your hopes and dreams. We don't care about what your future holds. We saw something we wanted.

I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.

My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.

He was a manager one of the singers I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in a lot of my buddies.

Now my dad is with me traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it but I'd stop if it's not possible.

In the old days a TV sync was perceived as not so cool or whittling away at your indie cred. Now it's seen as much more of an opportunity than a sellout as a way to find fans who wouldn't have ordinarily come across their genre of music.