FILE - In a Saturday, October 2, 2010 file photo, Soledad O'Brien attends Comedy Central's 'Night Of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Concert For Autism Education' at the Beacon Theatre in New York. CNN is remaking its morning lineup, returning Soledad O'Brien to a prominent role. The network said Thursday that O'Brien will be host of a conversational ensemble show from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)
FILE - In a Saturday, October 2, 2010 file photo, Soledad O'Brien attends Comedy Central's 'Night Of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Concert For Autism Education' at the Beacon Theatre in New York. CNN is remaking its morning lineup, returning Soledad O'Brien to a prominent role. The network said Thursday that O'Brien will be host of a conversational ensemble show from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)
NEW YORK (AP) ? CNN announced on Thursday it is remaking its morning lineup and will bring Soledad O'Brien back as host of a "conversational ensemble" show beginning next year.
O'Brien's program is set to air on weekdays from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. ET.
Ashleigh Banfield and Zoraida Sambolin will be hosts of a news show that will air from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m., the network said. Banfield, most recently at ABC News, played a prominent role at MSNBC a decade ago. Sambolin has worked in local news in Chicago.
CNN's "American Morning," where O'Brien worked from 2003-2007, has struggled competitively. Conversational shows "Fox & Friends" on Fox News Channel and "Morning Joe" on MSNBC do better in ratings and buzz, and CNN is often eclipsed by its sister channel HLN with Robin Meade in the morning.
Since former co-hosts John Roberts and Kiran Chetrey left "American Morning" in the past year, the network has experimented with other approaches and anchors, adding more business news and a greater story count.
"There's a real opportunity to do a show that has more thoughtful conversations," O'Brien said on Thursday. She said her model is less the type of talk featured on the other cable morning shows, and more the topics that she's covered in documentaries on topics like education and race.
O'Brien will be the host, with a combination of regular and occasional or one-time panelists, said Ken Jautz, CNN's executive vice president in charge of the domestic network. Although other cable networks have conversational shows, Jautz said they've left enough room for CNN to do something different.
"We think there's an opportunity in the morning to be more broad in the news we present and not narrow-cast on domestic political conversations," he said.
The earlier show will likely be faster-paced with a greater concentration on the news of the day, he said. The new shows will launch sometime next year.
Besides her work at "American Morning," O'Brien spent time at the "Today" show on NBC.
Shannon High, who has worked at "Morning Joe" and "The Dylan Ratigan Show" on MSNBC, will join CNN to be executive producer of both morning programs, the network said.
CNN also said that Ali Velshi will begin hosting a daily business hour on its international network, as well as contributing reporting for the domestic channel.
Contact: Susan Gawlowicz smguns@rit.edu 585-475-5061 Rochester Institute of Technology
RIT professor co-authors Nature article and Gemini Observatory's 1,000th paper
The discovery of 13 diffuse interstellar bands with the longest wavelengths to date could someday solve a 90-year-old mystery.
Astronomers have identified the new bands using data collected by the Gemini North telescope of stars in the center of the Milky Way.
Nature reports on its website today findings that support recent ideas about the presence of large, possibly carbon-based organic molecules"carriers"hidden in interstellar dust clouds. The paper will also appear in the Nov. 10 print issue of the journal.
"These diffuse interstellar bandsor DIBshave never been seen before," says Donald Figer, director of the Center for Detectors at Rochester Institute of Technology and a co-author of the study. "Spectra of stars have absorption lines because gas and dust along the line of sight to the stars absorb some of the light."
"The most recent ideas are that diffuse interstellar bands are relatively simple carbon bearing molecules, similar to amino acids," he continues. "Maybe these are amino acid chains in space, which supports the theory that the seeds of life originated in space and rained down on planets."
"Observations in different Galactic sight lines indicate that the material responsible for these DIBs 'survives' under different physical conditions of temperature and density," adds Paco Najarro, scientist in the Department of Astrophysics in the Center of Astrobiology in Madrid.
The low-energy absorption lines Figer and his colleagues discovered provide constraints for determining the nature of diffuse interstellar bands. Future theoretical models that predict wavelengths absorbed by these mysterious particles now must accommodate these lower energies, Figer notes.
"We saw the same absorption lines in the spectra of every star," Figer says. "If we look at the exact wavelength of the features, we can figure out the kind of gas and dust between us and the stars that is absorbing the light."
Diffuse interstellar bands have remained a puzzle since their initial discovery 90 years ago. The 500 bands identified before this study mostly occur at visible and near-infrared wavelengths. The observed lines do not match predicted lines of simple molecules and cannot be pinned to a single carrier.
"None of the diffuse interstellar bands has been convincingly identified with a specific element or molecule, and indeed their identification, individually and collectively, is one of the greatest challenges in astronomical spectroscopy," says lead author Thomas Geballe, from the Gemini Observatory. "Recent studies have suggested that DIB carriers are large carbon-containing molecules."
The newly discovered infrared bands can be used as probes of the diffuse interstellar medium, especially in regions in which thick dust and gas obscure observations in the optical and shorter wavelength bands.
Studying the stronger emissions in the group may lead to an understanding of their molecular origin. Some day laboratory spectroscopy could be used to identify the infrared diffuse interstellar bands. No one has been successful yet at reproducing the interstellar bands in laboratory, Figer notes, due to the multitude of possibilities and the difficulty of reproducing the temperatures and pressures the gas would experience in space.
In addition to Geballe, Najarro and Figer, co-authors of the paper included Najarro's student Diego de la Fuente and former Gemini science intern Barrett Schlegelmilch.
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About the Center for Detectors: Imaging detectors reaching the edge of outer space and deep into the inner space of the human body inspire scientists and engineers in the Center for Detectors at Rochester Institute of Technology's College of Science. Research at the center extends the possibilities of photon sensors in fields as diverse as astrophysics, biophotonics and defense.
About RIT: Rochester Institute of Technology is internationally recognized for academic leadership in computing, engineering, imaging technology, sustainability, and fine and applied arts, in addition to unparalleled support services for deaf and hard-of-hearing students. RIT enrolls 17,500 full- and part-time students in more than 200 career-oriented and professional programs, and its cooperative education program is one of the oldest and largest in the nation.
For two decades, U.S. News & World Report has ranked RIT among the nation's leading comprehensive universities. RIT is featured in The Princeton Review's 2012 edition of The Best 376 Colleges as well as its Guide to 311 Green Colleges. The Fiske Guide to Colleges 2012 includes RIT among more than 300 of the country's most interesting colleges and universities.
About the Gemini Observatory: The Gemini Observatory is an international collaboration with two identical 8-meter telescopes. The Frederick C. Gillett Gemini Telescope is located on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, (Gemini North) and the other telescope on Cerro Pachn in central Chile (Gemini South); together the twin telescopes provide full coverage over both hemispheres of the sky. The telescopes incorporate technologies that allow large, relatively thin mirrors, under active control, to collect and focus both visible and infrared radiation from space.
The Gemini Observatory provides the astronomical communities in seven partner countries with state-of-the-art astronomical facilities that allocate observing time in proportion to each country's contribution. In addition to financial support, each country also contributes significant scientific and technical resources. The national research agencies that form the Gemini partnership include: the U.S. National Science Foundation, the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council, the Canadian National Research Council, the Chilean Comisin Nacional de Investigacin Cientifica y Tecnolgica, the Australian Research Council, the Argentinean Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientficas y Tcnicas and the Brazilian Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientfico e Tecnolgico. The observatory is managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc. under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation, which also serves as the executive agency for the international partnership. For more, go to www.gemini.edu.
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RIT professor co-authors Nature article and Gemini Observatory's 1,000th paper
The discovery of 13 diffuse interstellar bands with the longest wavelengths to date could someday solve a 90-year-old mystery.
Astronomers have identified the new bands using data collected by the Gemini North telescope of stars in the center of the Milky Way.
Nature reports on its website today findings that support recent ideas about the presence of large, possibly carbon-based organic molecules"carriers"hidden in interstellar dust clouds. The paper will also appear in the Nov. 10 print issue of the journal.
"These diffuse interstellar bandsor DIBshave never been seen before," says Donald Figer, director of the Center for Detectors at Rochester Institute of Technology and a co-author of the study. "Spectra of stars have absorption lines because gas and dust along the line of sight to the stars absorb some of the light."
"The most recent ideas are that diffuse interstellar bands are relatively simple carbon bearing molecules, similar to amino acids," he continues. "Maybe these are amino acid chains in space, which supports the theory that the seeds of life originated in space and rained down on planets."
"Observations in different Galactic sight lines indicate that the material responsible for these DIBs 'survives' under different physical conditions of temperature and density," adds Paco Najarro, scientist in the Department of Astrophysics in the Center of Astrobiology in Madrid.
The low-energy absorption lines Figer and his colleagues discovered provide constraints for determining the nature of diffuse interstellar bands. Future theoretical models that predict wavelengths absorbed by these mysterious particles now must accommodate these lower energies, Figer notes.
"We saw the same absorption lines in the spectra of every star," Figer says. "If we look at the exact wavelength of the features, we can figure out the kind of gas and dust between us and the stars that is absorbing the light."
Diffuse interstellar bands have remained a puzzle since their initial discovery 90 years ago. The 500 bands identified before this study mostly occur at visible and near-infrared wavelengths. The observed lines do not match predicted lines of simple molecules and cannot be pinned to a single carrier.
"None of the diffuse interstellar bands has been convincingly identified with a specific element or molecule, and indeed their identification, individually and collectively, is one of the greatest challenges in astronomical spectroscopy," says lead author Thomas Geballe, from the Gemini Observatory. "Recent studies have suggested that DIB carriers are large carbon-containing molecules."
The newly discovered infrared bands can be used as probes of the diffuse interstellar medium, especially in regions in which thick dust and gas obscure observations in the optical and shorter wavelength bands.
Studying the stronger emissions in the group may lead to an understanding of their molecular origin. Some day laboratory spectroscopy could be used to identify the infrared diffuse interstellar bands. No one has been successful yet at reproducing the interstellar bands in laboratory, Figer notes, due to the multitude of possibilities and the difficulty of reproducing the temperatures and pressures the gas would experience in space.
In addition to Geballe, Najarro and Figer, co-authors of the paper included Najarro's student Diego de la Fuente and former Gemini science intern Barrett Schlegelmilch.
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About the Center for Detectors: Imaging detectors reaching the edge of outer space and deep into the inner space of the human body inspire scientists and engineers in the Center for Detectors at Rochester Institute of Technology's College of Science. Research at the center extends the possibilities of photon sensors in fields as diverse as astrophysics, biophotonics and defense.
About RIT: Rochester Institute of Technology is internationally recognized for academic leadership in computing, engineering, imaging technology, sustainability, and fine and applied arts, in addition to unparalleled support services for deaf and hard-of-hearing students. RIT enrolls 17,500 full- and part-time students in more than 200 career-oriented and professional programs, and its cooperative education program is one of the oldest and largest in the nation.
For two decades, U.S. News & World Report has ranked RIT among the nation's leading comprehensive universities. RIT is featured in The Princeton Review's 2012 edition of The Best 376 Colleges as well as its Guide to 311 Green Colleges. The Fiske Guide to Colleges 2012 includes RIT among more than 300 of the country's most interesting colleges and universities.
About the Gemini Observatory: The Gemini Observatory is an international collaboration with two identical 8-meter telescopes. The Frederick C. Gillett Gemini Telescope is located on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, (Gemini North) and the other telescope on Cerro Pachn in central Chile (Gemini South); together the twin telescopes provide full coverage over both hemispheres of the sky. The telescopes incorporate technologies that allow large, relatively thin mirrors, under active control, to collect and focus both visible and infrared radiation from space.
The Gemini Observatory provides the astronomical communities in seven partner countries with state-of-the-art astronomical facilities that allocate observing time in proportion to each country's contribution. In addition to financial support, each country also contributes significant scientific and technical resources. The national research agencies that form the Gemini partnership include: the U.S. National Science Foundation, the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council, the Canadian National Research Council, the Chilean Comisin Nacional de Investigacin Cientifica y Tecnolgica, the Australian Research Council, the Argentinean Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientficas y Tcnicas and the Brazilian Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientfico e Tecnolgico. The observatory is managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc. under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation, which also serves as the executive agency for the international partnership. For more, go to www.gemini.edu.
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Long before middle school girls made 'frenemy' a household term with their three-way phone calls and backhanded insults, Raphael and Michelangelo were having an old-school frenemy showdown in the Vatican. The love/hate relationships described below could only occur between two types of people: hormonal pre-teens and great artists.
What exactly is a frenemy? Someone who you spend your days hating intensely but would never get rid of. Someone who inspires you even as they sicken you. It's a hatred stronger than all of your loves, locked in an epic saga that brings out the best (and worst) in both of you. Take a look at the artists who kept their friends close and their frenemies closer.
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When 12-year-old Herzog first saw Kinski he recalls that he "knew at that moment that my destiny was to direct films, and that he would be the actor." Cute!
Herog directed Kinski in five films, after which Kinski wrote in his autobiography that Herzog was a "nasty, sadistic, treacherous, cowardly creep." Not cute.
Herzog later made a fim called 'My Best Fiend,' about his relationship with Kinski, in which he explained the two found the adjectives above together to create more drama for the book. You two...
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Warner Herzog + Klaus Kinski
When 12-year-old Herzog first saw Kinski he recalls that he "knew at that moment that my destiny was to direct films, and that he would be the actor." Cute!
Herog directed Kinski in five films, after which Kinski wrote in his autobiography that Herzog was a "nasty, sadistic, treacherous, cowardly creep." Not cute.
Herzog later made a fim called 'My Best Fiend,' about his relationship with Kinski, in which he explained the two found the adjectives above together to create more drama for the book. You two...
MONROVIA, Liberia ? Liberia's main opposition party says it will take part in next week's presidential runoff vote after threatening a boycott.
The party ? whose ticket includes soccer star George Weah ? said Monday though it still wants to be assured of better access to the vote-counting process.
The agreement to participate in the Nov. 8 ballot comes a day after the chairman of the National Elections Commission resigned following allegations he favored the incumbent president.
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is Africa's first democratically elected female leader and a Nobel Peace laureate. She won the first round but failed to reach the threshold needed to avoid a runoff.
'I want to shoot it in Harlem, because that's just the young, fly place to be,' Tyga tells MTV News. By James Montgomery, with reporting by Nadeska Alexis
Tyga Photo: MTV News
Tyga is still putting the finishing touches on his Young Money debut, Careless World, but now, he's less focused on finalizing the track list than getting his timing right. Because, from the sound of things, there's no shortage of material for him to choose from.
"I have productions from Cool & Dre, Pharrell; I actually produced a lot with my in-house producer, Jess Jackson," Tyga told MTV News backstage at Philadelphia's Powerhouse 2011 on Friday. "As an artist, you just know what you want to hear; it's just better to make your own sound rather than try to find a sound and add a story to it."
And despite all that, Tyga knows what's up next: shooting a video for "Still Got It," his collaboration with Drake that appeared earlier this month. But as is the case with most things these days, he's already thinking about his next move too. It's sort of an embarrassment of riches, actually.
"We're about to shoot that ['Still Got It'] video next week with Drake, and I've got another single I'm going to drop after that, with Nicki [Minaj]," he laughed. "I have a lot of good singles right now, it's just about timing."
So while he's very much looking toward the future, we had to ask Tyga about the present too — namely, that video with Drake. So what can fans expect from the clip? Well, he wasn't about to reveal all the secrets, but Tyga did say it will reflect his Young Money status by being "young and fly."
"I want to shoot it in New York ... in Harlem, because that's just the young, fly place to be in New York," he said. "I don't want to give [the plot] away, but you know, it's going to be young and fly, you feel me?"
What are you expecting from Tyga and Drake's video? Let us know in the comments!
EA Games gives MTV News an exclusive preview of German house duo's remix for 2012 reboot of classic video game. By Akshay Bhansali
EA Games' "Syndicate" Photo: EA Games
EA Games is gearing up to reboot its super successful video game franchise "Syndicate," and this time it'll be set to a pumped-up electronic dance music soundtrack. Skrillex's remix of the "Syndicate" theme song has already surfaced on the game's Facebook page, and on Tuesday, German electro-house outfit Digitalism's take on the track is set to drop as well.
For the non-gamers, next year's "Syndicate" release is a return to the classic video game series that first emerged in 1993, which allowed players to engage in assassinations and other diabolical adventures — all in an effort to advance their syndicate to the #1 spot. The upcoming 2012 version, due on February 21, will shift the point of view from fixed isometric style to first-person shooter.
And given Digitalism's origins, it seems only fitting the duo would be involved in the project: Jens "Jence" Moelle and Ismail "Isi" Tüfekçi (a.k.a. Digitalism) cite now-classic Commodore 64 video games and French house among their early influences.
" 'Syndicate' is a game classic, which is now being brought back to life," Digitalism told MTV News via email. "For us as electronic music-lovers, who grew up with games and love soundtracks, there was no way around reinterpreting the 'Syndicate' theme!
"So what we did in our WWII bunker [recording] studio was imagine being in the game, creating a fast-paced atmosphere, turning all the compressors up and mixing classic soundtrack elements with techno. We wanted to make sure it sounds dangerous, et voila, here we go."
Fans can download Digitalism's remix of the "Syndicate" theme for free on the game's Facebook page Tuesday. And you can catch Digitalism on the road again soon. After headlining the HARD Festival over the summer, the pair are set to return to the U.S. on a North American tour at the end of November, where they'll showcase cuts from their sophomore album, I Love You, Dude.
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