| AC360°: Flirting with disaster
There were supposed to be pictures tonight to give you a view of the control room from the back row. The photos didn't happen because of late word from Chicago that a decomposed body, which could be that of Stacy Peterson, had been found at an industrial site in Chicago. However, If you had gotten those pictures you would have seen: - our satellites coordinator, Brooke Turnbull, with multiple phones plastered to his ears, making sure that the two late guests and two late phoners actually made air at the top of the show - our video coordinator, Ashley Corum, frantically cutting new video of investigators at the site that was being fed in from the field - our line producer, Jenny Blanco, doing rundown aerobics to make sure the hour did not become a 90 minutes showIn the end, Brooke got us the guests, Ashley got us the pics and Jenny got us out on time.
2 top realty firms merge
Lansing's two dominant residential real estate firms decided Tuesday it's a merger market. Officials from Delta Township's Coldwell Banker Hubbell Real Estate Co. and Okemos-based BriarWood Realty Co. said Tuesday they are combining their sales teams, creating a titan real estate firm in the Lansing area. Based on 2007 figures, the new Coldwell Banker Hubbell BriarWood will have a 38 percent market share in a region that is largely made up of the tri-county area, with $536 million in sales. .
NY Fed issues subprime mortgage figures
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The subprime mortgage meltdown is taking a toll in New York, with New York City and Long Island feeling the brunt, according to data released Friday. Overall, the average rate of subprime mortgage foreclosures throughout the state is 9.7 percent, according to figures from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. That's about 2 percentage points above the national average, said Richard Deitz, a senior economist at the bank's Buffalo branch. However, with the exception of certain pockets -- including the mid-Hudson Valley and the Capital District -- the foreclosure rate in upstate has generally been about 2 percentage points below the national average. That includes the major metropolitan areas of Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse, Deitz said. "Upstate just didn't have much of a housing boom," Deitz said.
Blog: Software Assassin's Creed Will Stealth Kill Your PC
Keyboard, mouse, optional controller (Xbox 360 Controller for Windows recommended) *Supported Video Cards at Time of Release: ATI RADEON X1300-1950 / HD 2000 / 3000 series NVIDIA GeForce 6600-6800 / 7 / 8 / 9 series Laptop versions of these cards may work but are NOT supported. These chipsets are the only ones that will run this game. NOTICE: This game contains technology intended to prevent copying that may conflict with some disc and virtual drives. Ouch. Something is definitely wrong here. While I won't pretend to know all the dirty details behind porting Xbox 360/PS3 to the PC, and I do realize that working with a closed system has some distinct optimization advantages, it's pretty hard to swallow that the PC version of Assassin's Creed needs 2GB of RAM and 256MB of VRAM to do what the consoles did with 512MB total for both.
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