Days after blonde tennis goddess Maria Sharapova was pampered with a huge engagement ring, fiancés are again going for broke knowing that diamonds are a girl’s best friend. Nick Lachey gave wife-to-be Vanessa Minnillo the perfect ring on her 30th birthday.
Vanessa Minnillo could not stop grinning as she flashed the enormous diamond as she celebrated her birthday in Mexico. When single lad Nick Lachey decided to put a ring on it, he sure was not miserly.
The duo of TV presenter 30-year-old Vanessa Minnillo and Jessica Simpson’s 37-year-old ex husband …

After the furore over parts of the Indian mainland being allocated to sub-continental neighbours on Google Maps, there is again a debate regarding accuracy after a Costa Rica-Nicaragua border dispute.
Google Maps has now been pulled into a controversy after a Nicaraguan general brought attention to a Google border map which he said was an ” after-the-fact justification” of a certain raid in a sensitive border zone.
The two Central American countries have not been the best of friends, and the map dispute was first reported in La Nacion, a Costa …

After MSNBC peremptorily sacked star anchor Keith Olbermann for donating money to three candidates in the 2010 elections, there is widespread sympathy for him and more than 50,000 MSNBC viewers have thrown their weight behind him in a bid to put him back.
Viewers are signing a petition asking that if the channel wanted them to tune it, they better re-instate the anchor who made the MSNBC network a success in the first place. The Campaign Committee for Progressive Change too is organizing the people in a bid to …

Oakland was tense after Johannes Mehserle, a former white BART police officer who shot down unarmed black youth Oscar Grant, got off easy with just a seven months sentencing to jail.
Johannes Mehserle was to be tried for murder but the case was watered down to one of involuntary manslaughter. Judge Robert Perry of the Los Angeles Superior said that the 28-year-old cop had bungled his gun with his Taser , and when he thought he was aiming the Taser at Oscar Grant he actually shot him in the back. Hope …

This year’s 84th Annual Macy Thanksgiving Day Parade is set to be a real treat for a crowd of over 3.5 million spectators and 50 million viewers. Reason? The inaugural appearance of Po, the much adored Kung fu master who will mark the debut of DreamWorks Animation’s Kung fu Panda.
It will not come as a surprise if Po, a creation of the geniuses in Macy’s Parade Studio, steals the show. He is, after all, made of about a mile of fabric and made up with 17 gallons of paint; resulting …

DS Technology, Birmingham, has through a France-based group member, Berthiez, unveiled a vertical turning lathe (VTL) in its St. Etienne factory.
The VTL is dedicated to produce large work pieces by being programmed to milling and grinding capability, automatic pallet change, robotic tool exchange, among other cutting-edge features. The lathe is a welcome innovation in the aerospace industry as it can be used for turning jet-engine components as well as in the manufacture of wind turbines plus valve-production in the oil industry.
A thermo-symmetrical cast-iron structure that is compact and stiff is …

The Allied Gardens School of Martial Arts has been closed down by its owner, Eric Protas. This closure has occurred in the wake of a court case against the 38-year old martial arts instructor for sexually abusing a teenage boy who was a student at the Martial Arts School.
Protas, charged with twenty-four counts of taking part in sexual acts with the boy since he was thirteen, was freed on an $800,000 bail. The criminal trial against the accused is taking place in El Cajon court where he was ordered to …

The Microsoft Corporate campus in Redmond played host to the ninth Microsoft Vendor Program Vendor Excellence Awards. The Ms Vendor Program outlines its primary objective as fostering world-class procurement by providing the organization’s staff with a global, fast and straight-forward strategy to target and interact with pre-qualified vendors. This allows for cost cutting as well as rendering numerous advantages to the vendors.
The Vendor Excellence Awards seek to acknowledge members of the Microsoft Vendor Program who have demonstrated innovation, impeccable service and excellent performance. The award-recipients are decided on by a …

Science meets art, seems to be the tagline for Oakley’s new line of state-of-the-art sunglasses. The firm, based in Foothill Ranch has designed a new line of sunglasses made from aerospace aluminum alloy.
The line, dubbed ‘Jury’ is said to not only meet, but also surpass the standards required by the American National Standards Institute on clarity and precision due to its high definition optics. It is also above par as regards high mass and high velocity impact resistance.
The Jury sunglasses incorporate lenses that keep out all UVB, UVA, UCA and …

Working for a luxurious state-of-the-art hotel like Hilton is definitely a lucrative source of income as a summer job. Well, a number of Memphians working for this renowned hotel have been laid off duty only a day after the new designs of the new downtown hotel were revealed. Approximately 101 Memphis Tennessee Hilton Hotel employees have said goodbye to their summer jobs.
The elimination of summer jobs is due to the famous outsourcing, which provides quality services and great performance. The company restructuring has also contributed to the lay off. Thirty-six …