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ALEXANDRIA, Ky., July 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ ? Summer is an exciting time of year for the staff at Mike Castrucci of Alexandria. Everyone is enjoying the nice weather and planning family getaways almost every weekend. It also means that the new crop of 2014 Ford models have started showing up in the Mike Castrucci of Alexandria which means they have to start clearing space of the remaining 2013 Ford and Lincoln models. Currently, there are deep discounts being offered on selected models of the 2013 Ford and Lincoln inventory. To help customers narrow down the choices that will be best for them, Mike Castrucci of Alexandria has put together a new online tool learn more about their 2013 vehicle inventory.
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By Alexei Oreskovic
SAN FRANCISCO | Fri Jul 12, 2013 2:58am EDT
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp's sweeping re-organization on Thursday creates a company that, more than ever, bears the stamp of Chief Executive Steve Ballmer.
The face of Microsoft since he took the reins from co-founder Bill Gates in 2000, Ballmer stressed the importance of improving internal collaboration and eliminating redundancies when he released the company's new organizational blueprint.
But some analysts say the changes also mean less leeway for Microsoft's individual businesses to set and pursue their own agendas, as the company imposes a more streamlined, top-down approach to its strategy and operations.
For all the changes promised, the move reinforces Ballmer's grip on the company's direction and further muddies the succession picture.
"There's still no heir apparent or any succession strategy that has become apparent," said David Smith, an analyst with industry research firm Gartner. "It sounds like he wants to run it in a more centralized style."
That Ballmer, 57, who presided over a decade of share price stagnation and was deemed slow to respond to mobile computing, remains more entrenched may worry investors and spur concern that the reorganization will truly effect change.
"In theory, it's a great idea. The key question will be can Ballmer deliver this in new model and can it be successful," said Channing Smith, co-manager of the Capital Advisors Growth Fund, which does not own Microsoft shares.
"With his track record, it will be question mark for investors going forward."
Microsoft is the world's No.1 software company, whose $74 billion in annual revenue is powered largely by its dominant role in the PC business via its flagship Windows and Office software. But the company has been caught flat-footed by new trends such as mobile computing, where software by Google Inc and Apple Inc lead the pack, as well as by Web-based "cloud" services.
Investors credit Ballmer for expanding the Windows and Office franchises and growing Microsoft into one of the world's largest technology corporations.
But they also fault him for missing out on technology trends. And despite the success of the Xbox - the leader in a declining videogames industry - the company has cranked out a string of failed devices from the Zune media player to the Kin phone.
"It's been a rocky road. There's definitely been a lot of optimism around certain products, which have not met expectations," said Daniel Ives, an analyst with FBR.
STEP ASIDE?
The challenges have led to sporadic calls for Ballmer to step down, including from activist hedge fund investor Dan Loeb two years ago.
That possibility became more remote with the reorganization however, which BGC Partners analyst Colin Gillis said shored up Ballmer's control over the sprawling organization of 98,000 employees that he runs.
"If you're investing on the thesis that the CEO is going to change soon, you need to reconsider your thesis," he said.
Rob Helms, an analyst with the consulting firm Directions, said, "What this reorganization has done is taken away a lot of functions in principle from people who were reporting directly to Steve Ballmer," said .
That makes the post-Ballmer succession plan, long a concern among investors, even less clear. Under the previous structure comprised of mini-business units "there was a job short of the CEO's chair that was very much like a CEO," said Helm.
"So if you wanted to develop your career, the skills and the credibility to be Microsoft's next CEO there was a place to land. Now there really isn't."
(Reporting by Alexei Oreskovic; Editing by Leslie Gevirtz)
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UK engineers have tested a projectile technology that they believe could be used to explore the Solar System.
The steel penetrator was fired at a 10-tonne cube of ice to simulate the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa.
It hit the block at a speed of 340m/s and decelerated rapidly, but its structure remained intact, as did its interior components.
Researchers say the penetrator would be a robust and inexpensive way to land instruments on other worlds.
These might be seismometers to study the interior of Mars, or a miniature organic chemistry laboratory to check for microbial activity on icy Jovian satellites.
Scientists envisage several penetrators being deployed at once, carrying perhaps a network of sensors to widely separated locations in the sub-surface.
Being able to get just a few metres down is key, because if life exists anywhere else in the Solar System, it is likely to be buried away from harsh space radiation.
Thursday's test was certainly spectacular.
The full-size, 20kg projectile slammed into the ice block at just under the speed of sound, producing a huge plume of snow.
Space 'ploughshare'The probe experienced a peak deceleration of 24,000g. To put that in context, an ejecting fighter pilot might experience 12-14g.
Its paintwork was scuffed a little after coming to rest against the roof of the concrete holding box, but the projectile was otherwise unaffected by the violent encounter.
"It was really successful because the entry velocity was higher than expected and all the systems we've looked at so far have survived," Marie-Claire Perkinson, the programme's industrial leader from Astrium UK, told BBC News.
The latest demonstration was conducted at Pendine in West Wales. This is where defence company QinetiQ operates a long rocket track on which objects can be accelerated to high speed before impacting a target. Normally, this would be a new type of missile that needed to be tested before entering military service.
"It's a classic case of swords to ploughshares," said QinetiQ fellow Phil Church.
"This is a civilian project where we are applying a lot of our technical capabilities in simulation, experiments and materials, but which we wouldn't be able to do without the Ministry of Defence research over the past 30 to 40 years underpinning it all."
The space penetrator has itself been in development for almost 10 years, and was originally proposed for a British lunar mission called Moonlite.
That venture was eventually shelved, but the idea of a "hard lander" was so compelling, the European Space Agency decided to pick up the concept.
It now wants to take the technology through to full maturity.
"Penetrators offer a number of advantages over 'soft landers', which have to slow down to reach the surface safely," explained Esa project manager Sanjay Vijendran.
"They would enable you to get deep into the sub-surface essentially for free, up to three metres without having to drill. And being light means you can deploy a few at once from a single spacecraft orbiter."
Thursday's demonstrator carried accelerometers and data loggers to help engineers better understand the forces of impact.
In addition, it incorporated a special spring mechanism to isolate the interior payload compartments from the outer skin of the projectile.
If the penetrator is sent into ice such as exists on Europa or in a shadowed crater on the Moon, it will have to survive not only the collision but also extremely low temperatures, down to minus 200C. Batteries and electronics will quickly stop working in these conditions.
But the team has designed a suspension system from a Torlon polymer. This material will collapse under a high deceleration but then push back to maintain a 2mm insulation gap around the sensitive payload casing.
The post-impact inspection revealed the springs had done precisely what was expected of them.
The test penetrator also carried a mini-drill that on a real mission could push out into the surrounding ice to grab samples for onboard analysis.
On this occasion, the drill was not operated but the developers, Rapid Space Technologies, should get a lot of feedback on how their equipment coped with the huge loads from the impact.
Ultimate testFuture work will now concentrate on battery and communications capabilities. A penetrator will likely live for only a few weeks once in place, and it will need sufficient power to run its experiments and then radio the results to the spacecraft that deployed it for onward relay to Earth.
Engineers believe they should have a flight-ready system before the end of the decade.
As yet, no mission opportunity for a penetrator has been identified.
Esa has a spacecraft called Juice going to Europa in the next decade, but there is no space onboard for this technology.
Nonetheless, the British team is hopeful an attractive opportunity will arise soon.
"We will need to demonstrate it all, end-to-end," Alan Smith, the director of the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, told BBC News.
"This will involve firing one of these demonstrators into an ice target, get it to sample the ice and transmit the data from the target without human intervention.
"That's the ultimate demonstration - a real penetrator doing its job. We're about three years away from that position."
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23281423#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
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Overall leader Christopher Froome of Britain, with yellow helmet, goes for a training ride with his teammates on the rest day of the Tour de France cycling race in La Baule, western France, Monday July 8 2013. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
Overall leader Christopher Froome of Britain, with yellow helmet, goes for a training ride with his teammates on the rest day of the Tour de France cycling race in La Baule, western France, Monday July 8 2013. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
Overall leader Christopher Froome of Britain prepares to leave for a training ride with his teammates on the rest day of the Tour de France cycling race in La Baule, western France, Monday July 8 2013. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
Overall leader Christopher Froome of Britain jokes as he has his picture taken by cycling fans outside his hotel on the rest day of the Tour de France cycling race in La Baule, western France, Monday July 8 2013. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
SAINT-NAZAIRE, France (AP) ? Five things to know as the Tour de France enters its 10th stage on Tuesday:
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1. ZZZZZZZZZ ? And on the 10th day they rested. In hotels in and near Saint-Nazaire on France's western coast, the 182 riders who survived the Tour's bruising first nine days were sleeping, eating, and sleeping some more Monday to recharge their batteries for the middle section of three weeks of racing. Smart riders know that to stop riding altogether is a recipe for stiff legs, so many wheeled out their bikes for a few hours to keep their engines ticking. How times have changed. Three-time winner Greg LeMond recalled in a recent interview with French sports newspaper L'Equipe that he used to play golf on a rest day. Perhaps the most legendary rest day episode involved Jacques Anquetil. The story goes that he overindulged on roast mutton and booze after crashing a radio station's barbecue party during the 1964 Tour, and paid the price the next day. He initially struggled on a mountain ascent, but with some prodding from his team and a little luck ? his top rival had a flat ? Anquetil went on to win his fifth Tour, a record since matched but never beaten.
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2. BACK IN THE SADDLE ? You can bet Chris Froome will not have been so devil-may-care as Anquetil. The Kenya-born Briton will wear the leader's yellow jersey in Tuesday's 10th Stage. It shouldn't be too rude an awakening for riders as it's a mostly flat 122.4-mile ride across Brittany from Saint-Gildas-des-Bois to Saint-Malo. The next test to Froome's grasp on the leader's shirt comes Wednesday with the first individual time-trial, up to the majestic island citadel of Mont-Saint-Michel.
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3. TIGHT-LIPPED BRAILSFORD ? Dave Brailsford, the manager of Froome's Sky squad, insists his riders won't collapse again in the mountains like they did in Sunday's ninth stage. Paris-Nice winner Richie Porte and several other Sky riders were dropped on the first big climb. That left Froome, the pre-race favorite, to fend for himself for the next 78 miles and over three more monster ascents. But he held on, solo, to keep the yellow jersey. "(Using) a boxing analogy, he's taken the biggest right hook he could face, and he didn't flinch," Brailsford said. "You learn more from adversity." Asked what Sky's plan would be to avoid a repeat scenario, he said: "I'm not going to spell it out. I'm not going to go into the details of the changes we're going to make."
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4. DUELING MANIFESTOS ? The candidates to run cycling's governing body used the Tour's rest day to publicize their visions for the future of a sport trying to move beyond its doping past. UCI boss Pat McQuaid, who is seeking a third four-year term, insisted the sport has changed for the better during his tenure as he unveiled his manifesto for cycling's future. He wants to "preserve the new culture and era of clean cycling," develop women's cycling, and authorize an independent audit to look into the UCI's actions between 1999 and 2005, the period when Lance Armstrong won seven Tour titles before they were stripped for doping. Brian Cookson, the head of British Cycling who put out his own manifesto last month as part of his own candidacy, retorted Monday in a statement that he believed people will "ask why those things haven't been done in the last eight years" under McQuaid.
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5. RIDERS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN? ? Cyclists know about pain, sweat and hard work. The Orica GreenEdge riders prove they know how to have fun too. The Australian squad and some filmmaking-savvy helpers have put together an online video tribute to legendary rock 'n' roll band AC/DC in which the riders don wigs, strum on floppy toy guitars and even play air guitar on a Tour podium to the tune of the Australian band's classic, "You Shook Me All Night Long." Simon Gerrans and Daryl Impey do their riffs while in the yellow jersey that they both wore last week. Others played along, too. BMC's Philippe Gilbert and fellow Belgian Eddy Merckx, a five-time Tour champion, get cameos. You can see it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAl1-mBhFpU
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AP Sports Writers John Leicester and Jerome Pugmire contributed to this report.
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