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SeedCamp alumni, SocialBro, which offers a web app for the management and analysis of Twitter communities, has scored ?500k (approx. $638k) from a syndicate of angel investors from the UK and Spain. The round was led by "serial tech angel investor", Stephen Bullock, and Chris Underhill, who has a background in digital marketing. Both Bullock and Underhill will join the SocialBro's Board.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/hJJ8a1QyioU/
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Jonathan (Jon-Jon) Williams, Sydni Davis and Christina Green all signed to play basketball and Johnny Slater signed to play baseball, in a heavily-attended ceremony held in the school?s library and media center.
Williams, one of the top boys basketball players in the state, signed with the University of Toledo and Davis, one of the best girls hoopsters in the state, inked with Stetson down in Florida.
Green, the Chargers? captain on the hardwood, signed with Wayne State and Slater, a dynamic threat on the diamond, signed to play in the Big Ten Conference with the University of Michigan.
?I?m very excited to become a Michigan Wolverine,? said Slater after penning his letter of intent. ?I focused on improving my skills every year since I was a freshman and that focus paid off. I?ve made a big jump in my play and I intend to keep making further jumps over the next year, prior to getting up to Ann Arbor.?
Slaters? versatility might be his most appealing attribute. A smooth and savvy lefty, Slater is a specimen, terrorizing opponents whether pitching, hitting, running the base paths or on defense in centerfield.
Last season, he sported a whopping .576 batting average.
Darren Mosley, the Chargers? skipper, can?t say enough about his star player.
?Johnny is a great kid, a great baseball player and a great student, what more can you ask for?,? he said. ?He?s incredibly humble and he leads by example. We?ve put a lot of pressure on him these past couple of seasons and he?s always delivered.?
Williams returns to the basketball court this season after averaging almost 30 points, six assists and seven rebounds per game last year as a junior, establishing himself as one of the most exciting backcourt prospects in the area with his well-rounded game.
?It feels good to get everything wrapped up,? said Williams following the ceremony. ?Now, I can just worry about finishing out my senior year and making it count in every way.?
While Williams committed back in the spring, Slater, Green and Davis made their commitments during the fall.
This will be Davis? first year in a Chargers? uniform, after playing the past three seasons at West Bloomfield.
Davis and Green, teammates on the AAU circuit with the Michigan Storm since they were little, will head a Lathup girls basketball squad this winter that will be a favorite to win a league title and in the hunt for the program?s third straight district championship.
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Provides Tax Relief to Small Businesses, Prioritizes Spending, Bolsters Savings, No Tax or Fee Increases
JACKSON ? Presenting his second Executive Budget Recommendation as governor, Phil Bryant provided a balanced budget plan for the state that also provides tax relief to more than 1,700 small businesses throughout Mississippi.
Bryant?s budget calls for changes to the way Mississippi collects taxes from some small businesses. Under a 2002 law, certain small businesses are required to pre-pay a portion of their tax liability at the close of the state fiscal year each June, allowing Mississippi to count tax revenues that actually belong to the new fiscal year that begins each July.
?Small businesses are our number-one job creators, and this tax practice hurts them by basically requiring them to pay extra taxes each June,? Gov. Bryant said. ?In 2007, the Legislature realized this practice hampered business in the state, and a measure was passed?but repeatedly suspended?to exempt businesses with smaller tax liabilities from the pre-payment requirement. This year, we have identified a special fund surplus that will allow us to return to the 2007 exemption standards, providing tax relief to 67 percent of Mississippi businesses.?
Bryant?s budget maintains his commitment to spending only 98 percent of available revenues and builds the state?s reserves to protect against the potential effects of a struggling national economy.
?We are continuing to save and budget conservatively, finding more efficiencies and relying on less one-time money to fund recurring expenses,? Gov. Bryant said. ?We are also funding Mississippi?s highest priorities? investing in our children by improving our education outcomes, protecting public safety, continuing our economic development efforts and ensuring the basic function of critical government systems.?
Bryant?s Fiscal Year 2014 budget utilizes a total of $5.8 billion in revenue and reserves nearly $100 million of Mississippi?s revenue as savings for fiscal year 2015.
?I thank the Legislature for heeding my call to return to saving two percent of our revenues, and my budget continues this commitment,? Gov. Bryant said. ?As a result of our discipline, Mississippi had about $96 million to start the fiscal year we are currently in. In previous years when the savings law was not obeyed, we often started with nothing.?
Economic forecasts for Mississippi indicate slow growth, and Bryant?s budget reduces appropriations to most state agencies by 1.5 percent. The governor prioritized state spending, concentrating resources in public safety and economic development and directing new funds to education improvement.
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?Budgets, ultimately, reflect priorities, and this budget represents how I believe we can best use our resources to continue moving this state forward,? Gov. Bryant said. ?By opening the doors to opportunity through an improved public education system, safeguarding our communities, and encouraging investment in sectors most likely to bring lasting economic growth, Mississippians will rise together, in the coming fiscal year and beyond.?
For a copy of the Executive Budget Recommendation click here.
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Source: http://www.governorbryant.com/bryant-releases-budget-recommendation-for-coming-fiscal-year/
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ScienceDaily (Nov. 14, 2012) ? Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope have identified a body that is very probably a planet wandering through space without a parent star. This is the most exciting free-floating planet candidate so far and the closest such object to the Solar System at a distance of about 100 light-years. Its comparative proximity, and the absence of a bright star very close to it, has allowed the team to study its atmosphere in great detail. This object also gives astronomers a preview of the exoplanets that future instruments aim to image around stars other than the Sun.
Free-floating planets are planetary-mass objects that roam through space without any ties to a star. Possible examples of such objects have been found before [1], but without knowing their ages, it was not possible for astronomers to know whether they were really planets or brown dwarfs -- "failed" stars that lack the bulk to trigger the reactions that make stars shine.
But astronomers have now discovered an object, labelled CFBDSIR2149 [2], that seems to be part of a nearby stream of young stars known as the AB Doradus Moving Group. The researchers found the object in observations from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope and harnessed the power of ESO's Very Large Telescope to examine its properties [3].
The AB Doradus Moving Group is the closest such group to the Solar System. Its stars drift through space together and are thought to have formed at the same time. If the object is associated with this moving group -- and hence it is a young object -- it is possible to deduce much more about it, including its temperature, mass, and what its atmosphere is made of [4]. There remains a small probability that the association with the moving group is by chance.
The link between the new object and the moving group is the vital clue that allows astronomers to find the age of the newly discovered object [5]. This is the first isolated planetary mass object ever identified in a moving group, and the association with this group makes it the most interesting free-floating planet candidate identified so far.
"Looking for planets around their stars is akin to studying a firefly sitting one centimetre away from a distant, powerful car headlight," says Philippe Delorme (Institut de plan?tologie et d'astrophysique de Grenoble, CNRS/Universit? Joseph Fourier, France), lead author of the new study. "This nearby free-floating object offered the opportunity to study the firefly in detail without the dazzling lights of the car messing everything up."
Free-floating objects like CFBDSIR2149 are thought to form either as normal planets that have been booted out of their home systems, or as lone objects like the smallest stars or brown dwarfs. In either case these objects are intriguing -- either as planets without stars, or as the tiniest possible objects in a range spanning from the most massive stars to the smallest brown dwarfs.
"These objects are important, as they can either help us understand more about how planets may be ejected from planetary systems, or how very light objects can arise from the star formation process," says Philippe Delorme. "If this little object is a planet that has been ejected from its native system, it conjures up the striking image of orphaned worlds, drifting in the emptiness of space."
These worlds could be common -- perhaps as numerous as normal stars [6]. If CFBDSIR2149 is not associated with the AB Doradus Moving Group it is trickier to be sure of its nature and properties, and it may instead be characterised as a small brown dwarf. Both scenarios represent important questions about how planets and stars form and behave.
"Further work should confirm CFBDSIR2149 as a free-floating planet," concludes Philippe Delorme. "This object could be used as a benchmark for understanding the physics of any similar exoplanets that are discovered by future special high-contrast imaging systems, including the SPHERE instrument that will be installed on the VLT."
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[1] Numerous candidates for these kinds of planets have been found before (with corresponding press releases and papers, e.g. from Science, Nature, Royal Astronomical Society). These objects started to become known in the 1990s, when astronomers found that the point at which a brown dwarf crosses over into the planetary mass range is difficult to determine. More recent studies have suggested that there may be huge numbers of these little bodies in our galaxy, a population numbering almost twice as many as the main sequence stars present.
[2] The object was identified as part of an infrared extension of the Canada-France Brown Dwarfs Survey (CFBDS), a project hunting for cool brown dwarf stars. It is also referred to as CFBDSIR J214947.2-040308.9.
[3] The team observed CFBDSIR2149 with both the WIRCam camera on the Canada France Hawaii Telescope on Hawaii, and the SOFI camera on the ESO New Technology Telescope in Chile. The images taken at different times allowed the object's proper motion across the sky to be measured and compared to members of the AB Doradus Moving Group. The detailed study of the object's atmosphere was made using the X-shooter spectrograph on ESO's Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory.
[4] The association with the AB Doradus Moving Group would pin down the mass of the planet to approximately 4-7 times the mass of Jupiter, with an effective temperature of approximately 430 degrees Celsius. The planet's age would be the same as the moving group itself -- 50 to 120 million years.
[5] The team's statistical analysis of the object's proper motion -- its angular change in position across the sky each year -- shows an 87% probability that the object is associated with the AB Doradus Moving Group, and more than 95% probability that it is young enough to be of planetary mass, making it much more likely to be a rogue planet rather than a small "failed" star. More distant free-floating planet candidates have been found before in very young star clusters, but could not be studied in detail.
[6] These free-floating objects can also reveal their presence when they pass in front of a star. The light travelling towards us from the background star is bent and distorted by the gravity of the object, causing the star to suddenly and briefly brighten -- a process known as gravitational microlensing. Microlensing surveys of the Milky Way, such as OGLE, may have detected free-floating planets in this way (for example, a Microlensing Experiment published in Nature in 2011).
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This research is presented in a paper, "CFBDSIR2149-0403: a 4-7 Jupiter-mass free-floating planet in the young moving group AB Doradus?" to appear in Astronomy & Astrophysics on 14 November 2012.
The team is composed of P. Delorme (Institut de plan?tologie et d'astrophysique de Grenoble, CNRS/Universit? Joseph Fourier, France [IPAG]), J. Gagn? (Universit? de Montr?al, Canada), L. Malo (Universit? de Montr?al, Canada), C. Reyl? (Institut UTINAM, CNRS/OSU THETA Franche-Comt?-Bourgogne/Universit? de Franche Comt?, France), E. Artigau (Universit? de Montr?al, Canada), L. Albert (Universit? de Montr?al, Canada), T. Forveille (Institut de plan?tologie et d'astrophysique de Grenoble, CNRS/Universit? Joseph Fourier, France [IPAG]), X. Delfosse (Institut de plan?tologie et d'astrophysique de Grenoble, CNRS/Universit? Joseph Fourier, France [IPAG]), F. Allard (Universit? Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France), D. Homeier (Universit? Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France).
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