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Homonyms are hard :-P - manor =/= manner Here's a handy little site for your favorites: http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym_list.html (Insert MayDay's "The More You Know" icon...) Mixing up homonyms is also a pet peeve of mine (for example, when somebody uses "peak" when they mean to say "pique".

It means something, it just sounds terrible. I guess it shows the English language's shortcomings. There are no shortcomings to the English language... just shortcomings amongst the vast majority of English speakers who are unable to express their thoughts and must resort to irritating nonsense like "It is what it is". Wayne State University "Word Warriors" has launched a project to advocate for wider use of the countless beautiful words in the English Language. http://www.wordwarriors.wayne.edu/ "English includes more words than any other language, and this glorious variety gives speakers of English an unparalleled capacity for nuance and precise expression. But sometimes this gift can be difficult to discern. Too often we limit ourselves to words that are momentarily popular or broadly applicable, and so rob ourselves of English’s inherent beauty and agility. Alarmed by this tendency, the Word Warriors of Wayne State University propose to help rejuvenate the language we love by advocating for words of style and substance that see far too little use." ... I just about puked when my sixty-something parents used the phrase "It is what it is" multiple times over Xmas.

"It is what it is." - the phrase means nothing

USC is much better than Texas.

take an early look at Pittsburgh's new North Shore subway station http://kdka.com/video/[email protected]

welcome to the AFC North, Man-Genius. Hope you enjoy getting smacked by the Steelers twice every season!

UncleRando rules... great shots

Looks nice... and Larry Flynt lived there... whoa!

nothing :(

i see nothing :(

can't see anything

Disgusting... the photo of Wooster is nice though. No major highways? I'm just as pessimistic about Mansfield as you... but it's along I-71 exactly halfway between Cleveland and Columbus... and along a relatively important stretch of US-30. It certainly has major highways. Interestingly, when I lived in Wooster (30 miles east of Mansfield)... I never heard anyone mention Mansfield.

Looks like a grand neighborhood.

yes... the magic hour... that threatre appears to be more art-moderne

I hate the ACC.

E. 55th was my introduction to Cleveland the first time I visited

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/business/s_604326.html PNC, National City shareholders OK $5.6 billion merger By Thomas Olson, TRIBUNE-REVIEW Wednesday, December 24, 2008 When PNC Financial Services Group completes its government-assisted acquisition of National City Corp. next Wednesday, it will have an extra $3 billion to play with. PNC could stuff the holiday leftovers into lending, other acquisitions or reserves to ride out a recession bound to include loans going sour, analysts said Tuesday. "They will be cautious initially and keep some of those funds in reserve for potential losses from bad loans," said Frank Barkocy, research director at Mendon Capital Advisors in New York. PNC and National City expect to close their $5.6 billion merger Dec. 31. Shareholders of each bank voted yesterday to approve the deal "by a substantial margin" in special meetings Downtown and in Cleveland, the banks said. Final regulatory approval was given Dec. 15 when the Federal Reserve blessed the merger. National City, one of the nation's largest subprime lenders, agreed to be sold Oct. 24 after losing more than $3 billion since mid-2007 and suffering an 85 percent drop in its stock price this year. PNC will pay for the deal using $8.8 billion it will receive from the Treasury Department in exchange for preferred stock and warrants in a transaction that will take place at about the time the National City deal closes Dec. 31, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. PNC is the first bank to use money obtained under the federal government's $700 billion bailout program -- the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP -- to make an acquisition. Some proceeds could used for up to $200 million in payments to National City executives. PNC is obligated to pay the money to nearly 50 executives if PNC terminates them over the next three years, in accordance with "change in control" provisions in the executives' employment contracts with National City. "There's no restrictions whatever from paying them. TARP has nothing to do with change in control agreements," said Gerard Cassidy, an analyst for RBC Capital Markets in Portland, Ore. "These contracts were in place at National City going back years." PNC spokesman Fred Solomon said the National City perks were "existing obligations that are part of the sales agreement." Cassidy said PNC and nearly 200 other banks "are taking as much TARP money as possible as insurance against the recession." But as the economy improves, PNC is more likely to plow the money into lending or select acquisitions, he and other analysts said. Barkocy said once the economy improves, PNC might use the extra TARP money for smaller acquisitions to fill in spots in existing markets. They could include Philadelphia, Chicago or Cincinnati, he said. "We don't have the (government) money yet, so I'm not going to speculate about its uses," said PNC's Solomon. The National City merger will make PNC the nation's eighth-largest bank by assets ($288.5 billion), fourth-largest by branches (2,747) and fifth-largest by deposits ($180 billion). James Rohr, PNC's chief executive, yesterday called the National City deal "a truly transformational opportunity." PNC plans to integrate the two banks over 26 months. Some National City holders, however, voted against the deal at their meeting. "It doesn't strengthen Cleveland at all," shareholder Melanie Deutsch told The Associated Press, calling yesterday "a sad day for Cleveland." PNC will have the largest or second-largest share of deposits in nine metropolitan markets and become the largest bank in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky. The bank will control 53 percent of the deposits in the seven-county Pittsburgh region. Because PNC will have such a commanding deposit share here, antitrust regulators ordered the bank to divest 50 branches in the Pittsburgh area, consisting of 33 in Allegheny County and 17 in neighboring counties. The branches must be sold to a single buyer, said regulators, in an effort to foster competition for PNC. Those branches, as well as 11 offices in Crawford, Warren and Erie counties, are likely to be sold within two months, said PNC spokesman Brian Goerke.

Yes, the 600,000 sq. ft. green PNC FirstSide Center (built in 2000) houses PNC's back-office operations. http://www.post-gazette.com/magazine/20000926pnc2.asp

stark difference between Penn State and Ohio State... one of the reasons I've always loathed the Buckeyes program... though it does seem to be making strides toward academic respectability under Tressel most of my most hated programs (Florida, Oklahoma, Texas) occupy the bottom of this ranking...

a small set taken from Mt. Washington at about 7AM this morning... it was quite cold Three PNC Plaza (green) nearing completion National City is not long for this world... headlights on parade along the Monongahela snow-covered rooftops of the South Side the Slopes the LRT racing to the South Hills the overlooks along Grandview Ave.

thank you for the kind words, David

I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3354flS1KJs

Three PNC Plaza under construction in Downtown Pittsburgh taken from Mt. Washington this morning around 7AM... it was cold

Don't take it personally, FrqntFlyr... just some playful "trash talk"... I have nothing but respect for Browns Backers