| Extremely Cool Lotus Cortina
Ford's 1960s profile-raising competition program included recruiting Lotus boss Colin Chapman to give the new Cortina a sporting makeover. Chapman's brief was to develop a Group 2 competition version; Lotus would then build the 1,000 cars required for homologation. Launched in 1963, the Lotus Cortina featured the Elan's Ford-based, DOHC, 1.6-liter engine in the two-door bodyshell. Lotus Cortinas dominated saloon racing's 2-liter class, often challenging for outright honors. Works cars were driven by Jim Clark, Graham Hill, Peter Arundell, and Jackie Ickx, while Sir John Whitmore, driving an Alan Mann-entered Lotus Cortina, was European Touring Car champion in 1965. The Lotus Cortina offered here is one of the original Works racing saloons campaigned during the mid-1960s by legendary Formula One World Champion Jim Clark, while touring car champions Sir John Whitmore and Jack Sears also competed in this same car.
Dream Alliance ready for Coral Welsh National
For some time now, Dream Alliance has been the talking horse in Cefn Fforest, an old Welsh mining village in the valleys north of Newport, and in particular in the local working men's club. On Thursday, though, when he 'comes home' for the Coral Welsh National, he may well become the toast of Wales. .
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IBM Improves SameTime Telephony and Collaboration
IBM just announced and demoed new advanced group collaboration and enterprise telephony capabilities for SameTime here at its Lotusphere conference in Orlando. The two will be delivered as new SameTime releases, SameTime for Unified Telephony and SameTime for Advanced, due out later this year. SameTime for Advanced extends the group collaboration capabilities of SameTime, adding persistent chat and screen sharing. SameTime for Unified Telephony will help reduce the cost of supporting and maintaining mixed PBX environments by providing a common interface to all real-time collaboration within the SameTime client. While this won't enable users to access some advanced features specific to a given PBX, they will be able to access 80% of the core features that remain common across most PBXs, Bruce Morse, IBM Lotus's vice president of unified communications, told me after the keynote.
Two men plead guilty to drug charges
Bolton admitted to possession with intent to distribute 64 grams of cocaine, 28 grams of crack cocaine and one pound of marijuana during his part in the conspiracy between July 25, 2006 and Feb. 19, 2007.Fridge admitted to possession with intent to distribute 85 grams of cocaine and 100 pounds of marijuana during the same time period.In total, 14 people were indicted on July 27, 2007, plus six more people were indicted on March 16, 2007 for their part in the same distribution conspiracy.According to Letten, Bolden, Carter, Dorian T. Hart, Charles E. Prewitt and Edwin J. Salinas entered guilty pleas to the conspiracy. Another suspect, Shane P. Bossier, pleaded not guilty and will go to trail on March 24 in District Judge Sarah Vance's courtroom. Four other defendants will go on trial on March 17 in front District Judge A.
IRS: Folsom Man Behind $12 Million Fraud
The alleged promise to investors was a 24 percent return on their money. Instead, federal investigators believe a Folsom man who ran a fund called Christians In Crisis used the money as his own piggy bank, buying a million-dollar Folsom house, a Lamborghini and a yacht.
Armed with a search warrant Friday morning, federal agents raided Stephen K. Wilson's house on Glen Mady Way and his office on Park Shore Drive, both in Folsom. Wilson has not been arrested.
"We don't think he's going anywhere," said a source close to the investigation, who said they believe as many as three dozen investors lost a total of $10-to-$12 million.
The warrant affidavit describes what an Internal Revenue Service investigator believes is a Ponzi scheme in which investor money is lost but the losses are covered up by payments gleaned from new investors.
Sharapova ousts Davenport
Maria Sharapova looked in ominous form as she blasted former champion Lindsay Davenport out of the Australian Open on Wednesday. The Russian fifth seed never let her opponent settle in the second round match, giving up no break points on the way to a 6-1 6-3 success. Davenport, who came into the championship on the back of three tournament victories since her return from giving birth early in 2007, was made to look pedestrian by a player 11 years her junior. The 2000 champion never got into an error-strewn first set but found her range in the second, firing winners in typical style from the baseline to hold Sharapova at 3-3. However, the Russian got the crucial break in the seventh game and with Davenport unable to put enough pressure on the Sharapova serve, was able to break for a second time to close out the match.
Man finds trouble after losing bag of marijuana
Take him to the station and show him the procedure. Get his first criminal photo taken. But then what? Obviously the police need a rock video of that small percentage of each years youngsters coming of age in petty crime and working their way to the big house. It is so nice to see that the prisons will not need to close from lack of criminals. Every year a new group, hip-hip hurray for puberty. Remember to keep the legalize marijuana rhetoric going. We certainly do not want anyone to think he is at risk and run some kind of dopey brainwashing program on him. That would be far too logical and a definite threat to our courts and prison system as we know it. " .
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