Venky And Nag In Childhood

To all those who were wondering how the handsome hero Nagarjuna and victory Venkatesh looked when they were kids, here is the view. Sporting a flowery shirt is Venky with his trademark smile while the boy on the right with the intense yet romantic expression in eyes is Nagarjuna. Sources say this was taken at a family function and take your guess and say who is that gracious lady in between, having the future superstars of Tollywood by her side. These are one of those nostalgic days that even Venky and Nag themselves would relish. Hope they are watching this one.

Hrithik Roshan In Childhood

This is Hrithik Roshan, the hot stud from the past 10 years. Ever since Kaho Na Pyar Hai, he has been the heart throb of millions of girls across the nation. Today’s hot man was a cute little boy like anyone about 20 years back. See, this is one of his childhood pic. Looking lovely but tired, right!

Mahesh Babu Crying In Bathroom

To those who thought that prince Mahesh Babu never cries and is a good boy, here is something. This is the picture of our prince when he was a little boy and he looks quite upset with what is being done to him. Well, for one, the maid is trying to give him a bath and Mahesh is being a crybaby. On a lighter vein, it looks like Mahesh is posing like Superman and is showing his muscles while the woman is measuring his biceps. All in all, this is one of those rare photographs of this rather private superstar and that too with some real tears.

Victory Venkatesh With Family

It is often said that victory Venkatesh is one actor who keeps his personal life away from the entire publicity. So, it is a hard task to see any memorablia of his. But here we are with a picture of his photo when he was a growing teen. Venky is seen with folded hands while his brother Daggubati Suresh stands tall with authority. Next to Venky is his sister while the couple needs no introduction. This was one of those Black and White era pictures when the beard and moustache were just growing on Venky. Enjoy this folks!!!

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Pawan Kalyan in Israel for Aditya Productions Movie

Chiru & Venky attend Suhasini's 'Reunion'

The time of 1980 is a golden period to Film Industry. To once again share their memories, Lissy Priyadarshan has started a concept of ‘reunion’ of Evergreen 1980’s last year where in many of the 1980’s South Indian artists were flown to Chennai to attend the get together. This year, it was the turn of Suhasini Manirathnam to host the same party and the event of ‘reunion’ took place on August 29 in Chennai where in actors of all four South Indian languages of that golden era of 1980’s attended. Stars like Chiranjeevi, Rajinikanth, Mohanlal, Sarath Kumar, Suman, Ambarish, Prabhu, Venkatesh, Bhanuchander, Naresh, Suhasini, Ramya Krishna, Khushboo, Ambika, Sumalatha, Radhika, Radha, Lissy Priyadarshan and others attended the party. A huge cake with ‘Eighties Party’ was cut down and everyone enjoyed the occasion thoroughly after paying homage to their best friend Late Dr. Vishnuvardhan. Even these stars promised that every year this ‘reunion 1980’ will be held in different states of South India.

Vintage Internet Ads

I saw these posters on Unplggd and they made me laugh. They were designed by a Sao Paulo ad agency calledMoma. Won’t it be fun to be grandmas and grandpas and see vintage ads for things like the iPhone and feel nostalgic?
P.S. — Thank you for all the internet love yesterday (here on Design Mom, on twitter and on facebook) — I’m still grinning ear to ear!

The Minnesota State Fair 2010 Food Tour

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The Minnesota State Fair is a gastronomic minefield, comprising gimmicks, classics, overpriced garbage, brilliant local fare, daring mishaps, and once-a-year indulgences that seduce as they kill. In an effort to ferret out the best of the mess, the Heavy Table barnstormed the fair with a group of seven hand-picked food assassins; the following is the sum total of their discoveries over the period of a punishing six-hour gastronomic obstacle course.
And if you’re wondering about the identities of the martyrs who sacrificed their time and stomachs in the name of State Fair comprehension, wonder no longer — we can all thank: Katie Cannon, Becca Dilley, Maja Ingeman, Aaron Landry, Kate NG Sommers, and Alyssa Vance.
And now, the best of the Fair, as determined by the Heavy Table.
The Terrific Ten
10. The Vegie Fries stand sells, surprise, Vegie Fries ($5), a tempura-like accretion of batter-dipped vegetables on a stick floating above a lake of ranch dressing. In short, it’s the Hidden Valley Ranch dressing commercial in a little cardboard boat — in order to make vegetables palatable, all you need is some kind of deep-fried coating and a fatty white sauce. But palatable they are. The cauliflower in particular had a great depth and freshness, and the batter was of a (relatively) high quality.

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9. The taste of Lynn’s Potato Lefse in the Food Building passed muster with our resident Swede, who thought that the flavor of potato could be a bit more prominent, but was otherwise satisfied with the taste of these traditional Scandinavian treats. Relatively cheap ($2.50 with butter and sugar, and $3 with lingonberries, whipped cream, and butter) these traditional flatbreads were delicate without being insubstantial.
8. What better to wash down your lefse with than Granny’s Apples Strawberry Lemonade, also in the Food Building? Six dollars bought a giant glass of the stuff, with a high-octane strawberry flavor (featuring floating strawberry seeds to really nail home the authenticity) and a fresh-squeezed citrus brightness.
7. Original Cheese Curds (the one with queues called “Mouse Holes”) are still the best, even at $5.50 — they’re brought in fresh from Ellsworth, WI, and are warm and pleasingly lactic. The “still $5″ Mouth Trap cheese curds aren’t quite as good — they tasted less fresh, saltier, and oilier.
6. Check out the International Bazaar when thirst strikes — beyond the still-charming Summit beer-on-a-stick schtick, there are Mango, Hibiscus, and Mediterranean (i.e., mint) Lemonade drinks available at Holy Land for $4 (three photos down, left). The finely ground ice in these things makes them highly refreshing, but brain freeze is an ever-present threat. The Mediterranean mint is the best of the bunch, herbal and profoundly refreshing. Provided, of course, you can avoid freezing your brain.

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5. If you go to Moe and Joe’s, make sure you get the amazing, sweet, balanced, powdered sugar-coveredmarshmallow creme, chocolate, and banana sandwich ($4) and budget some time. This is because the woman making the sandwiches creates them using a time honored method called “being the slowest sandwich maker in the history of creation,” which means spooning on marshmallow fluff one agonizing teaspoon at a time, drizzling on chocolate at roughly 1 cc per minute, and slicing the bananas — slowly — to order, waiting until all sandwiches are ordered before putting them on the grill. Not for the impatient, or anyone from the East Coast.

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4. The Blue Moon Diner Roasted Corn and Bacon Pizza ($5 for a big slice) is more like flatbread than a proper pizza per se, but it’s still flavorful, well balanced, surprisingly light, and pleasant. Even better, at the same diner, are the Korean BBQ Tacos ($3 or two for $5), which feature deep char, good flavor, nice (and not oversweet) BBQ sauce, and an aggressive hit of cilantro.

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3. The $6 Giant Juicy Turkey Sandwich from Turkey To Go has moist, full flavor, a soft but substantial bun, and all the soothing comfort of Thanksgiving on a bun. One of the best savory treats of the entire fair, for sure.

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2. The Peaches and Cream at the Salty Tart ($7, above center) may be a little upscale for the typical Fair experience, but, screw it, this parfait treat is amazing. It features ice cream made with Greek yogurt and coconut water, plus copious fresh peach slices, crumbled ginger snaps, and lemon. It’s refreshing, cool, elegant, and delicious. Worth seeking out.
1. Wine Ice Cream (above, right) could go wrong in so many ways, but this Izzy’s creation for 21-years-or-older Fair patrons in the Agriculture Building is just kickass. Ruby Red had raspberry seeds, a rich but not crushing flavor, smooth taste, and just a gentle touch of wine. Apple Cinnamon was well balanced and had no harsh cinnamon bite — it was fresh and milky. Chocolate Raspberry was deeply chocolate up front with a nice raspberry finish, and well balanced. All three of these flavors ($3 a scoop or two scoops for $5) were gorgeous works of gastronomic art.

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A Bunch of Other Stuff
Many of the other things we tried were flawed but ambitious, or good but pedestrian, or just plain flawed, or just plain awful. Here’s our account of the rest of the rest.
The Tejas Express Beergarita ($6.75) was neither cheap nor particular beery — you’d need a microscope to find the Leine’s Honey Weiss reputedly used to spice up this beer cocktail. But the lime / citrus flavor was strong, and the refreshment quotient high — this wouldn’t be a bad choice on a hot day.
Spaghetti Eddie’s Cannoli Cream-Filled Zeppoles ($3 for 2) divided the group — these ricotta-ish stuffed pieces of fried dough were either too tart, perfectly balanced, or too sweet, depending upon whom you asked. Everyone seemed to agree that they made a nice sweet hit of dessert.

Becca Dilley / Heavy Table

Deep Fried Spam Curds ($5) are better than you’d think — a little smoky, tender, and good with BBQ sauce. But they’re not fantastic — think breaded hot dog sections.

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Luigi’s Hot Dago on a Stick ($5.75) is not the finest example of its kind (for that, leave the Fair and visit DeGidio’s, or Brianno’s, or the Dari-ette) but it’s not bad, either. It’s a skewer of mini-breadsticks and adequate meatballs, served with decent marinara and a generous pile of real hot peppers on the side.

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The Chocolate Tornado ($5) at Tornado Potato is an odd duck — somewhat soggy, not very salty potato chips with a chocolate dipping sauce that somehow manage to taste pretty decent. The chips are floppy but delicate, and quality of chocolate sauce is relatively high.
Famous Dave’s always does something interesting, and this year they’ve got Pig Ear French Fries ($5), which are chewy, over seasoned, chicken wing-esque bits of fried pig ears with a barbecue dipping sauce. One to two were plenty for everyone who tried them. Interesting, though, so points for being interesting.

Katie Cannon / Heavy Table

Smokin’ Joe’s Smoke House makes pretty decent Beef Jerky ($4) — no gristle, deep meaty flavor, not too salty.
The Oven Fresh Brownies place does a decent job with its Brownies ($3, above center). You won’t get addicted, but they’re competent and have a nice cocoa hit to them.
The $3 Big Fat Bacon Piece of Bacon (above right) on a stick was more like a little pork chop on a stick — nothing to write home about, but not horrific, either. Can’t somebody at the fair just do plain old bacon bacon? Bacon’s good. Stop monkeying around with… Oh, wait, what’s this?

Becca Dilley / Heavy Table

Some seriously monkeyed with bacon, in the form of  the much-touted Giggles $5.50 Chicken Fried Bacon. The bacon was chewy, and the fried aspect swamped the bacon flavor. The dipping sauce? Basically irrelevant — neither awful nor much of a gain. Stick to the Boatload of Sunnies fried sunfish option at Giggles.
For $4.50, you’d expect more from the Kiwanis Malt (above left), which tastes suspiciously like a Wendy’s Frosty. Next time we’ll try the pointedly “real ice cream”-based Gass Station malt.

Becca Dilley / Heavy Table

Green Mill made kind of a hash of its Chipotle Chicken Footlong Pizza on a Stick ($4), which, as pizza expert Aaron Landry put it, was basically a breadstick on a stick. When you finally get through to the cheese and meat, a fake aftertaste really makes the experience less-than-charming.
The Beignets ($4) at the Ragin’ Cajun are more like dough-based turd simulations. Heavy, oily, and unpleasant, these things utterly miss the point of the beignet, which is to be a light, pillowy, transcendent delight. It’s easy enough to make real beignets at home if you care to try — they really aren’t that difficult to execute.
The $8.75 Minnekabobs Buffalo on a Stick may be the Fair’s worst value — the buffalo is both chewy and hopelessly adulterated with an overly sweet terikyaki marinade. And, seriously — one tiny kabob for almost $9?
Less malicious but even sadder is the Leg of Lamb Sandwich ($7) from the Lamb Shop. It’s dry and funky, gamey, and unpleasant. It looks so sad and dour that you’d hope for some kind of saving grace, flavorwise, but no such luck.
But for the worst possible food experience at the Fair — and don’t say you weren’t warned, because you were, in detail, by both the vendor and us — check out the Girvan Grille’s Ghost Pepper Wings ($5.50 for six). The slightly fatty and somewhat unpalatable wings are beside the point here — all you’ll feel is the awful, terrifying assault of the hell-hot bhut jolokia pepper, which strips away the interior of your mouth as you howl in protest. These things provoked a fit of swearing from one of our normally mild-mannered photographers, Kate, while another, Katie, noted that “everything’s immediately burning” after making the mistake of ingesting one. Still, some people dig this sort of thing — if that’s you, you’ll really like this.
Hungry to know still more about the Fair Fare? Check out our story from last year: It’s got details on still-relevant goodies including the $1 Cider Freeze, Sunnies in a Boat, and Summit on a Stick. And also see our story from last year on State Fair breakfast options.

Kate NG Sommers / Heavy Table

MIT unveils autonomous, oil-skimming robots

Yesterday, MIT showcased an oil-skimming, autonomous robot dubbed the Seaswarm. As the devices site explains, “Seaswarm uses a photovoltaic powered conveyor belt made of a thin nanowire mesh to propel itself and collect oil.” The robot, which is meant to hunt oil in packs (hence Seaswarm), costs around $20,000 and is powered by solar cells on the top of the device. Multiple robots can self-organize their swarm, without human support, using GPS and Wi-Fi. The device, which CNN describes as, “a treadmill conveyor belt that’s been attached to an ice cooler” drags around nanowire mesh that can absorb 20 times its weight in oil without absorbing any water. When the material is saturated with oil, it can be rolled up and left in the ocean for later pickup (it floats) or can be burned off using a heater located in the robot’s body. The nano-material used releases oil when heated to the proper temperature; which will allow skimmed oil to be recycled and repurposed. MIT estimates that 5,000 skimmers, running 24-hours a day (which they are designed to do), could have cleaned up an oil spill the size of the Gulf of Mexico in one month. MIT plans to continue researching and improving the robot over the next year before looking for a potential buyer. Not exactly mobile technology, but pretty cool technology nonetheless. We’ve got a video explaining how the device works queued up for you after the break.

Pawan Kalyan fixed Komaram Puli’s release date as september 9th

Pawan Kalyan left to jerusalem to participate in a multi language movie which is being made onJesus Christ under Singeetham Srinivasa Rao’s direction.
He was spotted at mumbai airport before leaving the country.
He talked with Komaram Puli’s producer singanamala ramesh babu before leaving and asked him to fix the release date as september 9th.
Movie’s first copy will be ready this week and it will go for censor immediately.
More movie stills and posters will be released as birthday special on september 2nd.
So watchout for more updates..

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Mahesh taking all the pains for 'Khaleja'

It would be every ones fear to loose the image and following that is achieved with all the hard work done from years. Prince mahesh babu seems to be in the same situation. Knowingly or unknowingly, Mahesh has wasted fruitful three years of time during the most valuable period in his career. Now, he seems to be repenting for the flaw. The pace with which ‘Khaleja’ is getting finished up in a hurry with re-recording and remaining song picturizations going on in parallel, mahesh babu seems to be taking a heavy toll of stress. Looking at his comments in Twitter like ‘For me the most nerve racking period of all,’ describes all the pain that he is taking in post production work for the best output to please his Fans and general audience. Yes, mahesh babu too knows that ‘Khaleja’ is like a ‘savior’ to his career and obviously needs to give something even more than 100%. That's Prince Mahesh and his 'Khaleja' for you folks...

Pawan Kalyan is 'Tollywood Aamir Khan'

The glowing star of Bollywood who has become the new name for versatility is Aamir Khan. Every time he comes up with a movie, audience can easily expect a new element and innovative concept that is going to strike the BO. Now, Studio N claims that Power Star pawan kalyan also falls into the same category and he makes entire Andhra to wait for his movie with versatile stories and impressive acting; that is why Studio N called pawan kalyan as 'Aamir Khan of Tollywood.' If Aamir tries to offer a social message with his each and every movie, Pawan too follows the same of inserting patriotic or social responsibility either in the form of a song or a scene. Now, ‘Komaram Puli’ is totally filled with Patriotic fervor and a unique National feeling that is to boil our blood with powerful dialogues from Power Star. Going by the version of Studio N, of course it is left for each one’s discretion but let us wait till the release of ‘Komaram Puli’ for offering universal acceptance of pawan kalyan as ‘Tollywood Aamir Khan.’

LG PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD

Help Your Favourite Cricketer Win

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continued to play an important role in Australia's success in all three formats of the game in the past month. His 60 not out off 24 balls against Pakistan in the ICC World Twenty20 2010 semi-final was one of the greatest T20 innings of all time, while he also struck two half centuries in Australia's successful ICC Champions Trophy 2009 campaign.

News on mahesh khaleja songs

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Jiyo Utho Badho Jeeto by A.R Rahman Download link

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Rahman’s song for Common Wealth Games Released

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Akkineni Nagarjuna turns 50

It will be surprising to know that the ever young and dynamic actor Nagarjuna Akkineni actually ages, and amazing that he’s actually turned 50!

Born to one of the greatest actors of Telugu film industry Akkineni Nageshwara Rao, Nagarjuna may not be as versatile an actor his father is, but he makes it up with his other skills – choosing films in different genres, finding fresh and young talents, and taking care of the family business empire.

Nagarjuna, has had a calm year with his film ‘Kedi’ turning out to be a dud at the box office. But he hopes that next year turns out to be good as he has as many as 4 releases.

His wife Amala is known for her association with the animal friendly association Blue Cross, social cause ventures, and also with Vipassana meditation centre. His elder son Naga Chaitanya has made entry intoTelugu films and found big success with ‘Ye Maya Chesave’. Younger son Akhil is still young, and might take up Cricket as his career.

Yet Nagarjuna’s family isn’t as small as it sounds. Nagarjuna belongs to a large family with number of siblings, nephews, cousins etc. He has no competition with any other big star, making him friends with almost every one – old and new. 123telugu.com wishes Nagarjuna a very happy birthday

Bollywood stunned by Rajini's Robo trailers

Since the past 15 days, huge number of Robo trailers appeared in many Hindi channels. And guess what, it is learnt that the trailers have become a huge hit among the noth audience!!

Hindi dubbed version of the film Robot’s 2 minute trailers are being shown at regular intervals on all Hindi channels. Music channels like MTV, B4U, ETC and others have made the trailer very popular.

Last week the trailer was voted the second most popular promo on Hindi channels after Salman Khan’s Dabangg It must be sweet music for Rajinikanth, ARR, Shankar and Kalanithi Maran, that the trailer has become a rage in the Hindi belt

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Mahesh Babu - Pawan Kalyan multistarrer movie!

Can you imagine a multi-starrer Telugu movie starring Mahesh Babu Pawan Kalyan? Perhaps it might be a touch optimistic, but how about going with that idea…? After Pawan Kalyan Komaram Puli, it's now Mahesh Babu's Mahesh Kaleja to grace the South Scope Cover for September 2010 Edition. And in this process, South Scope has interviewed Mahesh Babu about his reel life and other real life activities. One of those questions to Mahesh Babu includes how about featuring in multi-starrer movies? And it seems that Mahesh Babu said yes and is open to such movies. In fact, Allu Sirish tweeted, "The best part.. Mahesh said he's game 2 multi-starrers. We asked who would be his ideal co-star? Guess who it is.." And who do you think is Mahesh Babu's ideal costar, its Pawan Kalyan! And Allu Sirish expressed optimism that this Mahesh Babu Pawan Kalyan movie, if any, would be on Geetha Arts. Sirish tweeted, "I really, really wish these 2 superstars come togather for a film. Will be total fireworks! And may that film be on Geetha Arts.. Haha.." Multi-starrer Telugu movies in contemporary Telugu cinema are a rare combination. Lately, Radhakrisha Krish has delivered 'Vedam' starring Allu Arjun and Manchu Manoj. But it would be really encouraging to have many such movies, but in a different movies.