1.   At midnight, children scampered to front porches, shouting in high-pitched voices and banging pots and pans in a noisy, homespun welcome of the new year.

2.   A standard solution to this problem is to terrify the dog with noisemakers, such as banging pots and pans together or the blast of an airhorn.

3.   Pet owners can start by softly banging pots and pans together and escalate the noise gradually.

4.   This they express by banging pots and pans at Buenos Aires landmarks and calling for the resignation of those government officials responsible for the disaster.

5.   In a new tactic tested Wednesday, they plan to create enough noise by banging pots and pans to drown out state-controlled Serbian television.

6.   Thousands of Argentinians protested his election by banging pots and pans through the streets.